Chicago Music Exchange | 2 years ago
Can you believe there were two of the most coveted Gibson Custom Shop guitars ever under CME’s roof at one time? Just when we thought we’d seen it all, a select few of us at CME had a chance to behold for ourselves not one but two of the Collector’s Edition Kirk Hammett “Greeny” 1959 Les Paul Standard guitars side-by-side less than a month after sales of this limited run began! And incredibly low, single digit serial numbers at that!
Perhaps one of the most storied 1959 Les Paul Standard guitars Gibson has ever produced, the original “Greeny” guitar now owned by Metallica lead guitarist Kirk Hammett was first owned by Peter Green, who used it on the first four Fleetwood Mac albums—which included some of their earliest hits, like “Oh Well,” “Black Magic Woman,” and “Albatross”—until Green met Gary Moore in 1970 and eventually offered to sell Moore his Les Paul. Moore went on to use that guitar throughout his career, on songs like “Waiting For An Alibi” and “Parisienne Walkway,” both as a solo artist and during his time in bands like Thin Lizzy. But, after Moore sold “Greeny” in 2006, it changed hands among several private collectors until Hammett bought the guitar in 2014 and has since used the guitar live and in the studio.
Each Collector’s Edition Kirk Hammett “Greeny” 1959 Les Paul Standard was hand-made at the Gibson Custom Shop to recreate the legendary guitar, including the immediately recognizable fade (now referred to as a “Greeny Burst”), as well as its distinctive sound, featuring two Custom Greeny Humbuckers, which use Alnico 2 magnets that are out of phase with each other to achieve that middle position sound the original guitar is so famous for.
Hear it here, and come see some of the other highly sought-after Gibson Custom Shop and actual vintage guitars when you shop CME any day of the year!
More about the Greeny on our blog! - https://www.chicagomusicexchange.com/blogs/news/two-kirk-hammett-greeny-collector-s-edition-1959-les-paul-standards
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