Les Pauls work out real well for me because I'll beat the hell out of them and they'll still work. The only trouble with them is finding good ones.

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• Tommy Shaw:

  I'm not the kind of guy who deserves to play a vintage guitar because I'm too rough on instruments.

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  Once you start thinking about it in a mercenary frame of mind, then you're finished. You're a joke,

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