FIRST PLAY EPIPHONE KIRK HAMMETT ‘GREENY’ 1959 LES PAUL STANDARD
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One of the worst kept secrets of 2023 was this Epiphone ‘Greeny’. “The Gibson USAs are great,” Kirk Hammett told us back in issue 499, “but my favourite version of Greeny is probably the Epiphone.” Except no-one outside of Gibson knew anything about it!
For some, that marketing blip – which came just at the time Gibson was actually launching its USA production version of Greeny – might have been a bit of a PR disaster, but it’s just another footnote in the continuing story of this 1959 Les Paul that was once owned by Peter Green. They say guitars have stories, but there’s a War And Peace-sized book in this one. And probably a second volume, too.
Yet even though the far-from-secret launch of this guitar has barely passed, our forum friends got into quite a lather. At £1,499, it might be half the price of the USA production guitar, but in terms of Epiphone, that’s pretty
