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About Billie Joe Armstrong
At the age of four, Billie Joe Armstrong and his brother learned to play the drums from their Vater, who played in a jazz group. Just a year later, he recorded an album that also included the interview that can be heard in the intro to the Green Day songs Maria. In 1987 he founded the band The Sweet Children with Mike Dirnt and John Kiffmeyer , which was renamed Green Day in 1989 . After Kiffmeyer left, Tré Cool became the band's new drummer. In the early 1990s, Billie Joe played live with her fellow band Rancid with. Rancid frontman Tim Armstrong offered Billie Joe to join the band as a full member, but he declined in favor of dedicating himself to Green Day . The third album Dookie made Green Day famous worldwide and catapulted the American band onto the radio as well as into the world's top punk scene . Since then, Green Day have been an integral part of the charts with songs like Basket Case, American Idiot, Wake Me Up When September Ends , which Billie Joe dedicated to his Vater , 21 Guns, Boulevard of Broken Dreams, Oh Love and Still Breathing . In recognition of his work with Green Day, Rolling Stone listed Billie Joe 93rd on the 100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time in 2015.
Billie Joe and Gibson
Billie Joe's first acoustic guitar was a Hohner, his first electric guitar was a Fernandes ST-style guitar with HSS components called "Blue", which is one of his most famous guitars and which he had copied several times. Since Billie Joe's music has been going really well, he has mainly been using high-quality Gibson guitars . When it comes to acoustic guitars, he swears by his J-45 and his signature model J-180. His collection also includes several electric guitars, but in the studio he always plays his Les Paul Junior from 1956 , his favorite guitar, which he named “Floyd”. The Gibson Billie Joe Armstrong Les Paul Jr is a detailed replica of this cult guitar and is available in a limited edition in the colors Vintage Ebony and Silver Mist.
The perfect punk Les Paul
This instrument has everything you need for great punk and rock sound , without any annoying extras. The mahogany neck features a Billie Joe Armstrong SlimTaper profile, rosewood fretboard , GraphTech nut and Billie Joe's signature on the bell. The guitar is equipped with a wraparound bridge and a P-90 DC Dogear pickup . The P-90 DC is Gibson's latest design for effective hum cancellation . It features a modernized version of the Sidewinder Dual-Coil technology, developed by Seth Lover in 1958. The pickup offers a hum-free sound and the most authentic P-90 tone to date. This preserves the classic sound of a single-coil P-90 , but without any noise. The guitar is painted with a Nitrocellulose Lacquer finish and a pink Billie Joe Armstrong Protector Series hardshell case with leopard-style lining is including .
Features
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Scale length: 24" (610 - 634mm)
Shorter scale length for easier bends. -
Technology: Solid body
Clear, focused, powerful sound with higher sustain -
Body material: Mahogany
Dark, warm sound with strong mids. -
Fretboard: Rosewood
Softer sound, warm highs and emphasized mids. -
Neck construction: Glued in
Significantly longer sustain than screw-on necks -
Fretboard radius: 12"
Better playability, especially when bending.
- Color / finish: Vintage Ebony
- Technology: Solid body
- Body shape: Single cut
- Strings: 6-string
- Neck construction: Glued in
- Frets: 22
- Scale length: 24.75" (629mm)
- Body material: Mahogany
- Neck: Mahogany
- Neck profile: Vintage '50s
- Fretboard: Rosewood
- Fretboard radius: 12"
- Fretboard inlays: Dot inlays
- Pickup: S (1x single coil)
- Bridge pickup: Gibson P-90
- Controls: 1x Volume, 1x Tone
- Bridge / tremolo: Lightning Bar Wrap Around
- Hardware: Nickel
- Strings thickness ex factory: .010 - .046
- Including: Suitcase
- Special features: Limited special model
- Country of origin: USA
The US Gibson Guitar Corporation, founded in 1902 by Orville Gibson in Kalamazoo, Michigan, was initially known for production mandolins and banjos. Today the company's headquarters are in Nashville, Tennessee and Gibson is one of the world's most well-known and renowned manufacturers of electric guitars.
The Les Paul model , named after its creator Lester William Polsfuss, is one of the most famous and best-selling electric guitar shapes of all time and founded the design of the single cut guitar, which has been copied, adopted and reinterpreted by numerous other manufacturers. The Les Paul is primarily valued for its warm and powerful sound . The humbucker pickup responsible for this, in its common design today, was also developed by Seth Lover at Gibson .
At the beginning of the 1960s, another solid body electric guitar from Gibson appeared, the Gibson SG . Initially intended as a successor to the Les Paul, it became another icon of rock history, thanks in part to Angus Young from AC/DC, and is the basis for the double cut guitar type .
With the Flying V and the Explorer , Gibson is responsible for two body shapes that were far ahead of their time at the time of their release in the late 1950s, but which also achieved legendary status over the years. To this day they also serve as the basis for a variety of heavy guitars , for example from manufacturers such as Jackson or ESP.
The Gibson custom shop produces commissioned work , high-quality one-off pieces and exact replicas of famous models and legendary vintages of their instruments. These are often subjected to an artificial aging process called relicing.
Acoustic guitars have also been produced for almost as long as the company has existed. The J-45 , the Hummingbird , the L-00 and the SJ-200 are among the most popular acoustic guitars in the world and were the instrument of choice for Johnny Cash, Elvis Presley and John Lennon.
In addition to the instruments already mentioned, you can of course also buy picks , bags and cases or merchandise from Gibson from us.
We are particularly proud to have a Gibson flagship store in our Frankfurt branch. There you will not only find a large selection and exclusive models to try out directly, but you will also benefit from the expertise of our Gibson -trained and certified employees when it comes to advice on the perfect guitar.
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