Aside: Guitar history-wise, this scene is pretty interesting. It's not just the terrible things he just did to that guy's guitar (and the priceless look on his face we see here), at the time it was basically an accompanying instrument and expected to be polite (and the first guitar solos, such as they were, were JUST appearing, e.g. Rock around the Clock). The Les Paul (not pictured), unbelievable as it seems now, in fact was intended to be upscale and for jazz players. Which it failed at miserably, due to double whammy of a) unapologetic high cost due to target market and b) solidbody slab tone. It was out of production through most of the 60s, but after blues/rock players (Richards, Clapton, Beck, Page...) discovered it....
(Slash's famous LP is a ghost build, but that's yet another tangent....)
Aside: Guitar history-wise, this scene is pretty interesting. It's not just the terrible things he just did to that guy's guitar (and the priceless look on his face we see here), at the time it was basically an accompanying instrument and expected to be polite (and the first guitar solos, such as they were, were JUST appearing, e.g. Rock around the Clock). The Les Paul (not pictured), unbelievable as it seems now, in fact was intended to be upscale and for jazz players. Which it failed at miserably, due to double whammy of a) unapologetic high cost due to target market and b) solidbody slab tone. It was out of production through most of the 60s, but after blues/rock players (Richards, Clapton, Beck, Page...) discovered it....
(Slash's famous LP is a ghost build, but that's yet another tangent....)