UPDATE - 1/21@10:01AM: Here are some great closeup pics that were posted over at the Mike Portnoy forum (thanks hermy).

UPDATE - 1/17@12:07PM: Guitar International has posted a bunch of closeup photos of the guitar on their website (thanks hermy).

The 2011 Winter NAMM show is underway this weekend at the Anaheim Convention Center and yesterday Gibson Guitars unveiled the new Alex Lifeson Les Paul Axcess pictured here. Alex spoke a little about this guitar in an interview from late last summer:

... I've been working with Gibson on putting together a Les Paul Axcess model, which would be an Alex Lifeson signature guitar. It'll have the Floyd Rose, the piezo pickup in the bridge and single-coil taps in the volume pots. Basically, we've taken everything you could want in a guitar and we're putting it into a really true utility instrument in a fantastic platform. ...

Thanks to Power Windows for the image and the heads up.

As I'd mentioned in last week's Friday update, Neil Peart's Time Machine Tour kit is also on display at the NAMM show. Reader hermy sent me some awesome pics which you can check out by clicking on the thumbnails. There's also this video and this video.

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