Young's Fender Deluxe sits at left, with the Whizzer atop it. Old Black, his modified 1953 Gibson Les Paul Goldtop, is on a stand in front of it, next to his Martin D-18. | Credit: Stefan M ...

Neil Young's live rig is famously as ragged and one-of-a-kind as the man himself, and at its center sits Old Black, a modded-to-high-heaven 1953 Gibson Les Paul goldtop. The mods in question are a ...