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Matt from Matt's Guitar Shop shares the incredible history of Lenny Kravitz's very first Gibson Les Paul. This 1973 Deluxe model was toured extensively for the 'Let Love Rule' album, becoming an iconic part of his early career.

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00:00Hey everybody, Matt from Matt's Guitar Shop and you know today I'm very proud to show you
00:05legendary guitar that has been owned by our friend Lenny Kravitz. That's the very first Les Paul
00:12Lenny bought when he had to you know to tour with Let Love Rule and that's what we call it
00:17the Let
00:18Love Rule Les Paul because Lenny really took care of that guitar for a number of years in very early
00:23on in his career and as you can see this is a 1973 Gibson Les Paul Deluxe. It has been
00:30played quite a
00:32lot as you can see by Lenny on tour and on stage and at some point Lenny was touring and
00:38the headstock
00:39you know got broken in Germany and you know that's where the the destiny of this guitar and Lenny's
00:45career just split it back then and we were lucky enough to find it a few years ago and to
00:52show it
00:52back to Lenny after all those years but that was one of Lenny's main guitar in the late 80s when
01:00you
01:01know it got started and for me this is a legendary instrument that defined a new genre of rock and
01:08roll and music history and that was the guitar he played on so you know that's the Let Love Rule
01:15Les Paul.

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