I liked GIbson Les Pauls when I was a kid...
My first real guitar, when I was a kid was a new '78 Gibson Les Paul Custom, black with gold hardware. Purchased from Brian Guitars in New Haven, CT.
My guitar teacher at the time worked there, and when I was there in the store looking at guitars, some dude with long black hair came into the store, my guitar teacher asked if I knew who that was, I said no; he said, that's Paul Stanley from Kiss, wanna meet him?
IDK if I had my future custom or another guitar when I met Paul, who asked what's your favorite Kiss song or something like that, I said Hotter than Hell, he took the guitar and played a riff from the song and said he had to run...
No more Gibsons for me since then; my choice for a two humbucker, hardtail, solid body electric guitar: Ibanez PS models.
Coincidence?
My PS10 on the right, with one of my PS 60: