Spotted: Peter Green's Les Paul

Alterlifeson

Skip to 6:50
https://youtu.be/k8xipvEWQjc?t=6m49s

Also note the use of 3 wahs at 7:45

Panama_Jack666

That makes me sad and I'm not sure why. I love Metallica and Peter Green. I just doesn'tm seem 'right' whatever that is.

imalrightjack

A bunch of tw@s.  Lars being the biggest of them all.

UTTER TW@.

To think, how great they once were and how much I loved them. This is embarrassing. The lyrics are worse than Spinal Tap.

Bucket

Great vibrato at 7:15 though.

ICBM

I think it's brilliant that he owns it. I can't think of anyone I'd rather see with it - the natural tone of it actually suits that odd nasal sound he likes, and it's being used not stuck in a glass case or a bank vault. And most importantly it really pisses off the blues snobs .

Jez6345789

Hopefully that cursed guitar will either send him insane or cause a massive heart attack whilst banging a German bird half his age.

pretentious

Vaiai

I like KH - I don't like his playing but he knows what he has and he's using that guitar rather than it being sitting in a vault with some collector's other guitars.

sweepy

Well he obviously formatted the Les Paul and erased all the good notes that Peter Green and Gary Moore programmed into it

roberty

I agree with @ICBM - it's great to see it being used and its long history being added to

If you FF to 22:22 on this there's story about how its headstock was snapped off:

FelineGuitars

We gave it workout before Kirk got it

My colleague Tom....

@axisus 20th anniversary Lion in good company

monofin

That poor poor guitar. Really sounded like it was in pain

Flink_Poyd

He owns it, he bought it, he's using it. It's doing exactly what a guitar is made for, being played. Lars has always been a knob so nothing new there, Kirks using a wah, nothing new there either. Roll on the album so we can slate it or rate it 

Gassage

Flink_Poyd said:

He owns it, he bought it, he's using it. It's doing exactly what a guitar is made for, being played. Lars has always been a knob so nothing new there, Kirks using a wah, nothing new there either. Roll on the album so we can slate it or rate it 

Second Floor. Coffee waiting.

stonevibe

They're making music and having fun. So can't really see any problem with it. Good luck to them.

DrCornelius

Yup, quite enjoyed that !

ICBM

Just watched it again on my proper computer with big speakers…

That guitar sounds *amazing*. I think I would have recognised it just from the sound at 6'35", before you even seen what it is - it's a real "now you have my full attention" monent. It just sounds so much better than all the other ones it's funny.

Tone is not *just* in the hands. It's a magical thing, the Peter Green/Gary Moore/Kirk Hammett Les Paul .

ourmaninthenorth

I've had a couple of hours with that guitar... it's got a life of it's own. 

richardhomer

ICBM said:

Tone is not *just* in the hands. It's a magical thing, the Peter Green/Gary Moore/Kirk Hammett Les Paul .

True - even erstwhile plant-hire specialist Phil Harris got a reasonable sound out of it when he played it at the North West Guitar Show a couple of years ago.

Believe me - he was no Peter Green....

Flink_Poyd

Gassage said:

Flink_Poyd said:

He owns it, he bought it, he's using it. It's doing exactly what a guitar is made for, being played. Lars has always been a knob so nothing new there, Kirks using a wah, nothing new there either. Roll on the album so we can slate it or rate it 

Second Floor. Coffee waiting.

I'm only cover on that route.

siraxeman

Not seen the video yet I'm on mobile data...will view when back home on wifi....who owns it kirk or lars? Sohave they got it fully loaded with EMGs and a floyd yet? :-)  

Jalapeno

Thought it was ok TBH, and Kirk was indeed on fire.