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Wednesday March 19th, 2003

Gibson USA hosts Japan's Les Paul Award winner

Gibson USA hosted an excited Yasuyuki "Hotrod Man" Yamaguchi, the winner of Japan's Gibson Fan Club Les Paul Photogenic Award. Over several weeks hundreds of Japan's Gibson fans submitted photographs of themselves with their favorite Les Paul for a chance to win a fiftieth anniversary Les Paul Custom and a trip to Gibson's world headquarters in Nashville, Tenn., to tour Gibson USA, Gibson Custom, OAI (Original Acoustic Instruments) and Valley Arts manufacturing facilities.

Here's an exclusive photo gallery of the USA tour:

'Hotrod Man' with Les Paul prize

Gibson's Tom Montgomery shows Yas fine points of wood selection

Yas on the production line

Yas with guitar hero Tak Matsumoto's signature Les Paul

Yas test drives a Les Paul prototype