Duane bought his second burst, a Gibson Les Paul Standard Dark Burst, from Kurt Linhof in June of 1971 on the closing day of the Fillmore East. Although Duane never personally referred to this guitar as Hot 'Lanta, that is the nickname it picked up along the way. The headstock of Hot 'Lanta was broken off and replaced before Kurt got it so no one really knows if it was a '59 or a '60. He also reversed the bridge and neck pickups (8.7kΩ and 8.3kΩ) before selling it to Duane as they left the Gibson factory with the 8.7kΩ in the neck. These pickups rank among some of the hottest P.A.F.s we have come across, giving them some built-in nastiness... along with a fair amount of gain.

By 1959 Gibson had stopped using AlNiCo 3 magnets in humbuckers, the pickups being chosen entirely at random from a box of A2, A4 and A5 magnets. P.A.F.s manufactured in 1959 could have been any of these (or even a combination). Pickup historians, at least those studying Duane’s pickups, tend to believe the magnets in Hot ‘Lanta were A5, and we tend to agree, based on their brightness and clarity. So that is exactly what we chose to pair with the 8.7kΩ and 8.3kΩ DC Resistances for this set of clones.