I lost it when the video started right with the host acknowledging that it's an ordinary Les Paul. If you think about it, worshipping guitars is such a bizarre part of the music industry. It's the strangest kind of fetish. It's like worshipping brushes and paint Leonardo used to paint Gioconda with. It's an instrument after all. Someone told Chet Atkins, "Man, that guitar sure sounds good!" Chet set the guitar down on a chair and asked him, "Ok, how does it sound now?"
Worship the art, not the artist. Worship the sounds, not the instruments. I'll be happy tomorrow when this thing is finally over and all these guitars will be sold to collectors. No particular feelings about it. The best part about it is that we have a great catalogue with (unfortunately) not the biggest part of the instruments Mark used to create his music with, their fate after the fact doesn't concern me in the slightest.
