“I JUST DIDN’T WANT ANYTHING TO HAPPEN TO IT. SO I PUT IT AWAY”
most famous Les Pauls is not a Les Paul (“I played an SG on ‘My Michelle,’” Slash reports), the Kris Derrig replica is the source of that album’s coveted guitar tones, and arguably reignited the Les Paul flame single-handedly in the ’80s. It also originally boasted Seymour Duncan Alnico II humbuckers, which were the template for Slash’s signature pickups.
