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    ROBBY KRIEGER

    May 01, 2020 4 minutes
    [RB]
    “I don’t have a lot of guitars just sitting around in a warehouse; I use them”

    What was the last guitar you bought and why?

    “I didn’t really buy it, I traded it. I was doing some recording with Alice Cooper and the guitar player had a ’61 Les Paul Junior. I always liked those. I’d just had a [Gibson] signature model made of my SG, so I traded him for that. It had the wide, flat neck of a Les Paul Junior from ’61. Gibson did a run of 100 of those. It came out good. They also did my ’54 Les Paul Black Beauty.”

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