Lotus Les Paul

A self-portrait I took about 1981. I was showing off my new guitar which I had just purchased. It was probably a lawsuit model that was so good, Gibson sued the companies that were making knock-offs of their Les Paul guitars.

In the official chronology of my musical instruments, this would have been my fifth guitar. I had a toy one, a little 4-string model, a student-sized Kay acoustic and then an inexpensive electric guitar given to me by the husband of a friend of my Mother's.