A week shy of its grand opening, the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino is putting on some finishing touches.

Including one 30-foot-tall, eye-catching final touch.

A giant Gibson Les Paul was installed atop the Hard Rock sign at the corner of Absecon Boulevard and North Virginia Avenue Thursday morning. Another, larger model is expected to go up at the resort entrance Saturday afternoon. Renderings have depicted that guitar as 53-feet tall.

The guitars are ubiquitous with the Hard Rock name, marking the cafes and hotels in locations around the world.

The resort, which has taken over the former Trump Taj Mahal, plans to include 20 restaurants, a 120,000-square-foot gaming floor featuring 2,100 slots and 120 table games and hundreds of live music shows. The June 28 grand opening will feature celebrities and guitar-smashing, rather than your standard ribbon-cutting.

The resort will open after $500 million in renovations with hopes to become the entertainment capital of the Jersey Shore.

"We really want to revitalize Atlantic City," Matt Harkness, president and general manager of the latest Hard Rock property, told NJ Advance Media last weekend. "And those just sound like words, but it really is something that is part of the philosophy. Hard Rock has done this in other communities."

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