You think Garry Moore was the biggest twat In music then you haven't seen Justin Bibber you dick he was a good guitarist and always will be you york cunt now shut you fucking face.!
gibson have brought out a copy of this guitar for sale, on the gibson site it doesn't mention PETER GREEN once, they call it the gary moore les paul, WHAT A FUKIN DISGRACE.
@EPIPHONE82 More people know who Gary Moore is, and they want to sell guitars. I can guarantee that if more people knew about early Fleetwood Mac, Moore’s name wouldn’t be mentioned.
@PBANDSNOW GARY MOORE WAS SCUM HE TRET FANS LIKE SHIT AND HE WAS NOT EVEN A GOOD PUB PLAYER I SAW HIM LIVE ABOUT 90 TIMES HE WAS SHIT ALL THE TIMES I SAW HIM . I WAS A SUBIE DRIVER FOR EST IN THE 1970s AND 80s ON LIZZY TOURS I DID 3 HE WAS RUBISH
@PBANDSNOW well you fucking asshole if you read what i put you would know what i said . i drove trucks on trucks on tours and did 3 lizzy tours so now you get why i saw him about 90 times i pulled the trailers with gear in it asshole you fucking yanky want to be GARY MOORE THE BIGGEST TWAT IN MUSIC
@yorkshiretractors Ok bud. Your swearing for no reason. I don’t care if he is a “twat”. Hes a talented musician who was probably only mean because his touring truck driver was such an ignorant, arrogant, well, twat.
@PBANDSNOW thats not how it works i am a Yorkshire man and we say what we think so if you dont like it dont fucking read it . SO JUST FOR YOU GARY MOORE WAS THE BIGGEST TWAT IN MUSIC HE TRET FANS LIKE SHIT . HE NICKED PETER GREENS LES PAUL AND SOLD IT FOR £2 MILLION AND HE SAID HE WROTE SONGS HE NEVER DID .
@yorkshiretractors No were not. We have a better country than America, we don't have rampant gun crime, one of our cities was voted the number one place in the world to live, are political parties don't hate eachother, our people aren't divided on every important issue, we have less polution, and the parties we vote for aren't voted for because of their stand on religion.
@yorkshiretractors I knew Gary personally he was an amazing person you i dont which makes you a twat you made it apparent we can judge people we dont know.
@MrDontsingitbringit well i bet i knew him better than you ever did . i pulled trucks for Edwin Shirley Trucking on 2 lizzy tours which he played and he was scum , HE WAS A PISS UP ASSHOLE MOST OF THE TIME SWEARING AT EVERY ONE ALL OF THE TIME so stick to sheep shaging in New Zealand and dont butt in if you dont know what the fuck you talking about tosser .
@MrDontsingitbringit you lieing asshole your in New Zealand how the fuck dose a sheep shaging asshole know anyone but sheep your an art school tosser who knows fuck all about music so piss off read your books . well we do all the work. you middle class dick head
Some things in this world are just right to do, regardless of all your conventional little-minded 'rules' and regardless of sheer profiteering - Peter wrote and played some of the most important, inspirational and influential music in history on this one guitar, so yes, as others have said, do the right thing...He is still alive and he is still playing, give him back his guitar..God knows he deserves it more than anyone else and it should be where it belongs, with the man himself.
i dont know the facts about who got screwed by who over this guitar, but when moore sold it, it was his to sell and not greens(dont go mental, id like to see green play it again)but if moore didnt want to sell it back to him then fair enough, when he sold it to moore it no longer belonged to green, end of.
truth about the sound,,,,my own experience you dont have to do anything but wire the connections of one of the p/us the opposite of how youd ordinarily wire it,plus vintage p/us especially old gibson humbuckers are very inconsistantly wound I believe for instance if you switch the red and green on a dimzo p/u when paired with another you can get a similar sound when wired with a similar p/u wired correctly,try it
I heard the finest music imaginable come out of this guitar on 3 separate occasions in 1968-69 in LA and San Fran. I see now the sunburst is completely gone........
It is my belief the neck pick up was not rewound.The unique sound came from the BRIDGE pick up having one of the magnets accidentally being placed in the actual humbucker the wrong way round at point of manufacture giving an out of phase sound. Any one can reverse the way the neck pick up (or bridge pick up for that matter) is set in the guitar body, but it will not give the Peter Green sound.
@mark22160 Only half correct. The pickup with the reversed magnet is indeed the neck pickup and not the bridge. The fact that the pickup is installed in the guitar wrong way round is purely cosmetic as you say, but that neck pickup DOES also have the magnet flipped which in fact gives the out of phase sound. The pickups are wired normally and the guitar gets its out of phase sound purely from the flipped magnet.
The pickup wasn't rewound it was merely replaced in the guitar the wrong way round , reversing the polarization . You can see that the neck pickup screws should be near the nck and the opposite to the bridge pickup , but they're both fasing the same way
You should all see my Greco Les Paul Personal M.I.T from the seventies. I'm sure it would kick some balls off of you! I'ts in practically mint condition and got dodays all over it!
@helluvagun what you mean so special? it probably doesnt differ in technical aspects compared to any other gibson like it, however the fact that it was owned by two guitarists whom created music I'm sure you've heard of, I'd safely say it was 'special'. Peter Green alone was in my opinion the greatest guitarist to have ever graced this earth, and being able to see the instrument he used is a joy, thanks for the upload micawber52
@sguggles Special because of the way the neck pickup was "rewounded" here's an extract of the wiki page
"its neck pickup had been accidentally rewound in reverse using Fender-style wire, by a young repairman, Sam Lee, who had never worked on a Gibson humbucker before. The result was a unique out-of-phase tone that could be more nasal or full depending on volume-knob settings."
And I agree that Greene is one heck of a great guitar player!
If you just reverse the pickup you won't get the out of phase tone. You gotta open the pickup and flip the magnet. Then you'll have the out of phase sound. Reversing the pickup is just an aesthetic thing :)
Shhhh!!!.. don't tell anyone, but I'm the current owner of that guitar. I stripped away that lousy paint job you see and had it painted pink and black in honor of my hero C.C Deville of Poison. Then I put glow-in-the-dark lightning bolt stickers on it so when you turn off the lights, it looks like lightning bolts are shooting out of the guitar. Cool, huh? I had a real Ace Frehley pickup in it specially wired to smoke, but I had to take it out because it caught fire and damaged alot of the wood.
I bet that guitar is now really great for pick slides and well placed tapping licks. It is ASSuring to know such classic instruments are being updated to at least the mid-80's! Maybe you could have Mistress Cleo bless some long dangling things to hang on it! I do hope it's more pink than black, though.HAHA
peter does not play anymore u dumbies .he lives in london and has not played in years and does not talk to any one.his fingernails are over 2 inches long when we asked him what would you do if mick fleetwood said we are doing an album we really need a guitar solo /he said i just don't want to cut my nails and have not played in so long and have no desire to
If he dosen't play anymore who was the dude I seen in concert in Belfast 3 months ago who look like Peter , sounded like Peter and wait for it goes by the name of Peter Green ? He's still doin it man !
@12345678941964 > In fact if you look up Santana/ Peter Green You will see them playing BMW together. He still has a two inch thumbnail on his left hand, The rest are cut.
Think twic before you call people who are better informed than you, Dummies!
If you really get under the skin of "the facts" I believe that the Munich incident where not only 2 of the Mac received the LSD, but this German Cult also summoned up demons which later plagued Green,
this LP was played by Jimi Hendrix though it was strung right-handed, on a new years eve at a Mac gig at the Marquee, London. Jimi played Olde Langsine.
Also that this LP once thought cursed by Green, later was involved in a road accident in which the neck was snapped-off and I think this was the accident that Moore sadly received the facial scarring he has.
he did the deal , its up to the cat who owns it now to decide whether he should offer it back. ya see if peter was all fucked up at the time then i guess he was taken advantage of i guess its up to the cat that owns it now, be nice to see him play it though
@vdbdg well, your comment is 1 year old and i'm sure you are better informed since then but I'll say this anyway: if I sell something, it is no longer mine...it belongs to the person it was sold to. simple as that
When I saw The Splinter Group a few years back it was Nigel Watson doing all the playing and Greenie was just sitting there strumming every now and then....
@vdbdg he doesn't want it he said so himself he doesn't use les pauls anymore because this one broke his heart. I agree with the sentiment but I think it should be passed on to the next great bluesman were about due one aren't we?
@nintendonut100 Unless the next bluesman can afford paying way upwards of $500k to Melvyn Franks, the current owner, it'll just become a museum piece at this point since Gary sold it for a mad price. He sure didn't have much time to enjoy the hefty profit.
@vdbdg ah I see the issue then. Still it would be nice wouldn't it? both for the next great young bluesmant o get it and for there to be a next great young bluesman lol
eh notice the neck pickup is the wrong way round, peter green put it in the wrong way by accident and is what gave him his unique sound..liked it so much he left it...
gary moore is a complete tosspot who isnt fit to touch this beautiful thing........
saw gary moore in april what a fucking tosser he is to the fans he can play a bit but he needs to learn how to talk to fans how he dint get twated that night i dont know
SeattleSparker, thank you for your comments. It is really tough to read the internet at times as there are so many false stories and distorted facts. Thank you for trying to inform people. Whether they want to be informed or not is up to them.
Man this guitar's a beauty... It would be hard for me not to just pick it up and run for the nearest exit.... I'd play it everyday for the rest of my life if I had it rather than just sitting in a case
What's of more concern is the alledged possibility that a greed driven Moore may have tricked the mentally ill Green out of his prized guitar. ? All unproven of course, but a nice little earner for Moore none the less ! "Oh Greeny, I really love you so much Greeny, ...now hand over the guitar and have another tablet, there's a good chap, and I'll flog it for every penny I can get." Nice one !! A lovely fitting tribute to his "hero " .! WHAT A CHARMING PERSON ! I do hope it's not true
He was the best at his peak,.Gary Moore said that he was approached by Green about his guitar. Peter took some cash and a couple of other guitars.That's from Moore straight up. He did a tribute album to Green "Blues for Greeny", in the liner notes he claims to have used the Les Paul for those songs. What made it special? Green had it cleaned once and the guy cleaning it reversed the pickups. But nobody can match Greens technique from that period.
it was more than simply reversing the front pickup. I was also wound incorrectly by a guitar tech inexperienced with Gibson PAF pickups. A perfect mistake as it turned out.
What did Gary get for it? Anybody know. How do you know it's a wreck, did you play it, I'm sure a good luthier could do a refret and a setup and having top notch in no time. I'll bet I could pick it up as is and wail away. A real guitar player can play killer blues on anything.
I believe he said he got a bit less than $900,000 over a year ago. He said he used the cash to settle lawsuits filed against him for breach of contract because he was unable to compete playing gigs with a broken hand.
(seems a bit harsh, suing him for a broken hand in my opinion)
I understand he's using the remainder of the money to produce his own shows so he's not a risk again.
Lizard said: "I'm sure a good luthier could do a refret and a setup and having top notch in no time. "
I'm not so sure.
Remember this was a *working* guitar, not an exhibit in a museum.
I understand that the neck had been broken at least once, and that Gary had swapped out many of the 1950s parts with 70s parts. The good news is that most of the repair techs have been VERY careful to not mod the pickup polarity or do anything to alter the tone. Supposedly... again according to Moore.
Moore is a fine guitarist. My only regret is that he won't gig in the US. He can play a cigar box guitar and still get a great tone. I'm baffled why he and Watson are the targets of such fan anger
If you listen to Greeny and Moore talk, they're totally cool with each other. Not surprising considering Greeny mentored both Kirwan and Moore.
Bloody Bastard....but, the guitar looks alot more worn than Peter Green...I don't know sometimes it's the guy playing it...Gary Moore was close butt no banana...and Peter Green, if you are a true Green God Freak, can be heard in his stuff today...and what's with all the negativity with Watson?
Green is God. No one could ever touch him. Not even Moore. Moore completely misses the point when redoing Green's work like "Drifting". Only God can do that one right!
i reckon it was gibson th people who made it, so now its not greens guitar, it was moores guitar, now it belongs to the guy who bought it from gary!! so shut the hell up about green!!!! he dont own the guitars of the world!!!!
He might not own the "guitars of the world", but he is a Man of the World... the reason that this guitar is such a big deal to everyone is because this guitar was GREEN's guitar, it gave his masterful playing a sweet sound to accompany it. He sold it to gary for dirt cheap as a favor, in the 80's green tried to buy it back but gary wouldn't sell it to him. The guitar was then bought by a private collector for $2,000,000. Now, this wonderful slab of mahogany lay lonely on a shelf. WHAT A WASTE!!!
Green didn't sell it as a favour - he sold it after he became pretty much sick and tired of the music life he'd been living. Green never tried to buy his guitar back (during much of the 80's he was living as a vagrant. There's a story that Moore & Green played together on stage at a much later date and Green didn't even remember the guitar (from a Gary Moore interview on British TV)
Barry Jenkins (Lukes Guitars in Ramsgate, ex-Nashville Teens/Eric Burdons animals etc) told me he went around Peter Greens flat in London in the late 60's and there were all these black guys doing voodoo and all this weird shit with Peter.
No wonder he got so fucked up.
Then some German scumbags ply him with acid.
Then he meets Nigel Watson.
Then his so-called "freind" Gary Moore sells his guitar for a million dollars.
How about the Les Paul that Clapton played on the Beano album that got stolen? Where is that now? somebody ought to come forward and say 'I stole it' I wonder if Eric would pay to have it back? although I bet he didnt even know the serial # to verify its authenticity.
My guitar player can kick your guitar players butt...try and play Gary Moores legato climb in "Victims of the Future". Lots of skill to do those runs. Sure,He overplays and his tone is ... large . But to say he sucks or whatever is kinda...stupid, really, and an emotional comment, not a musical one. Grow up kids...
I don't really know why people slag off Gary Moore. It's quite strange I think, considering he is a brilliant guitarist. Even Peter Green said so himself.
Oh well, I'll guess I'll still enjoy listening to both of them! :D
Let's start the 'Give Peter his guitar back campaign', 1st rule of the campaign 'no debate'. If it hadn't have been Peter's it would be worth a damn sight less.
You think Garry Moore was the biggest twat In music then you haven't seen Justin Bibber you dick he was a good guitarist and always will be you york cunt now shut you fucking face.!
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yorkshiretractors 2 months ago
GARY MOORE WAS JUST A PISS UP ASSHOLE
yorkshiretractors 2 months ago
@tomthefunky thats extremely retarded. ps poison is a joke
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Peter couldn't afford to buy it back if he wanted it!
superbeavo 4 months ago
gibson have brought out a copy of this guitar for sale, on the gibson site it doesn't mention PETER GREEN once, they call it the gary moore les paul, WHAT A FUKIN DISGRACE.
EPIPHONE82 5 months ago
@EPIPHONE82 More people know who Gary Moore is, and they want to sell guitars. I can guarantee that if more people knew about early Fleetwood Mac, Moore’s name wouldn’t be mentioned.
PBANDSNOW 5 months ago 3
@PBANDSNOW GARY MOORE WAS SCUM HE TRET FANS LIKE SHIT AND HE WAS NOT EVEN A GOOD PUB PLAYER I SAW HIM LIVE ABOUT 90 TIMES HE WAS SHIT ALL THE TIMES I SAW HIM . I WAS A SUBIE DRIVER FOR EST IN THE 1970s AND 80s ON LIZZY TOURS I DID 3 HE WAS RUBISH
yorkshiretractors 4 months ago
@yorkshiretractors Your point is? And fail exageration, why would you see someone you didn't like 90 times?
PBANDSNOW 4 months ago
@PBANDSNOW well you fucking asshole if you read what i put you would know what i said . i drove trucks on trucks on tours and did 3 lizzy tours so now you get why i saw him about 90 times i pulled the trailers with gear in it asshole you fucking yanky want to be GARY MOORE THE BIGGEST TWAT IN MUSIC
yorkshiretractors 4 months ago
@yorkshiretractors Ok bud. Your swearing for no reason. I don’t care if he is a “twat”. Hes a talented musician who was probably only mean because his touring truck driver was such an ignorant, arrogant, well, twat.
PBANDSNOW 4 months ago
@PBANDSNOW fuck off posh boy gary moore the biggest twat in music
yorkshiretractors 4 months ago
@yorkshiretractors So, I listen to his music, no one cares about his, or your, opinions.
PBANDSNOW 4 months ago
@PBANDSNOW thats not how it works i am a Yorkshire man and we say what we think so if you dont like it dont fucking read it . SO JUST FOR YOU GARY MOORE WAS THE BIGGEST TWAT IN MUSIC HE TRET FANS LIKE SHIT . HE NICKED PETER GREENS LES PAUL AND SOLD IT FOR £2 MILLION AND HE SAID HE WROTE SONGS HE NEVER DID .
yorkshiretractors 4 months ago
@yorkshiretractors hahahaha . . bullshit!
MrPocketGuitar 4 months ago
@PBANDSNOW YOUR IN Canada YOU LOT ARE JUST YANKY WANT TO BEEs
yorkshiretractors 4 months ago
@yorkshiretractors No were not. We have a better country than America, we don't have rampant gun crime, one of our cities was voted the number one place in the world to live, are political parties don't hate eachother, our people aren't divided on every important issue, we have less polution, and the parties we vote for aren't voted for because of their stand on religion.
Nice try though,
PBANDSNOW 4 months ago
@PBANDSNOW WELL I HAVE BEEN TO Canada AND YES YOUR RIGHT IT IS NICE BUT GARY MOORE WAS STILL THE BIGGEST TWAT IN MUSIC
yorkshiretractors 4 months ago
@yorkshiretractors I disagree.
PBANDSNOW 4 months ago
@PBANDSNOW WHY IT IS BLACK AND WHITE WHAT A TWAT HE WAS
yorkshiretractors 4 months ago
@yorkshiretractors well you have never ever listened to a ledgend then you twat grow up ffs grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
1470john 4 months ago
@1470john i saw him live thats how i know gary moore was the biggest twat in music
yorkshiretractors 4 months ago
@yorkshiretractors I knew Gary personally he was an amazing person you i dont which makes you a twat you made it apparent we can judge people we dont know.
MrDontsingitbringit 2 months ago
@MrDontsingitbringit well i bet i knew him better than you ever did . i pulled trucks for Edwin Shirley Trucking on 2 lizzy tours which he played and he was scum , HE WAS A PISS UP ASSHOLE MOST OF THE TIME SWEARING AT EVERY ONE ALL OF THE TIME so stick to sheep shaging in New Zealand and dont butt in if you dont know what the fuck you talking about tosser .
yorkshiretractors 2 months ago
@MrDontsingitbringit you lieing asshole your in New Zealand how the fuck dose a sheep shaging asshole know anyone but sheep your an art school tosser who knows fuck all about music so piss off read your books . well we do all the work. you middle class dick head
yorkshiretractors 2 months ago
Gary Moore was a Super-human guitarist and put out some KILLER albums,among them,
Corridors of power,Victims of the future. I cant remember that awesome second albums name?? R.I.P Gary
RickGLucas 7 months ago
how much did gary sell it for?
dunnes 8 months ago in playlist Gary Moore
@dunnes $1.300.000
skanjohnny 8 months ago
Melvyn, give it to Greenie if you're into RnR
socrates1818 8 months ago
It WAS Peter Green's guitar, then it WAS Gary Moore's guitar, then it'll be someone's else's guitar...
I just hope it's someone who's plays with the same fire and passion they both did!!! Yeah, ok, give it to me...
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KTEELKTEEL 10 months ago 2
I got to meet Gary and watch him play this guitar thru 3 Marshall stacks at a
rehearsal studio in Hollywood in 1979....
Utubestir 11 months ago
I got to meet Gary and watch him play this guitar thru 3 Marshall stacks in a rehearsal studio in Hollywood with the band G force in 1979.....
Utubestir 11 months ago
Some things in this world are just right to do, regardless of all your conventional little-minded 'rules' and regardless of sheer profiteering - Peter wrote and played some of the most important, inspirational and influential music in history on this one guitar, so yes, as others have said, do the right thing...He is still alive and he is still playing, give him back his guitar..God knows he deserves it more than anyone else and it should be where it belongs, with the man himself.
mamaumunga 11 months ago 2
@mamaumunga i believe that peter should get his guitar back but he has been offered it and refused he said it "broke his heart"
daviejtube95 11 months ago
i found out that schecter chandler guitar gary played on wild frontier is on sale for amazing 25 000 $
danijelpesic 11 months ago
peter green lent his 1959 les paul to gary moore then insisted that gary bought that guitar from him as he knew it would go to a good home
sueyahoo 11 months ago
i dont know the facts about who got screwed by who over this guitar, but when moore sold it, it was his to sell and not greens(dont go mental, id like to see green play it again)but if moore didnt want to sell it back to him then fair enough, when he sold it to moore it no longer belonged to green, end of.
handspeedsteve 11 months ago
RIP Gary last saw you a few years ago at Sheffield arena appearing with BB King - you were great as ever
cragsmonster 11 months ago
the guy in the background is just itching his balls off to do smoke on the water. lol.
Gonzoidzz 1 year ago 5
@Gonzoidzz
That made me spit soda out of my nose. lol
jenton70 1 year ago
was surprised at the great condition of the neck, then i remember that is not the original. gary moore broke the original neck in a car crash.
SomeBlueKind 1 year ago
Respectfully PLEASE DO NOT HANDLE. This guitar is insured in the high seven figure region.
EuropeFactor 1 year ago
This is most fucked looking 59 ive ever seen
MrMalarky1 1 year ago
2:36, L.Z.'s Heartbreaker project
ppericodelosppalotes 1 year ago
who's playing SWLABR in the background?
bobmango54 1 year ago
truth about the sound,,,,my own experience you dont have to do anything but wire the connections of one of the p/us the opposite of how youd ordinarily wire it,plus vintage p/us especially old gibson humbuckers are very inconsistantly wound I believe for instance if you switch the red and green on a dimzo p/u when paired with another you can get a similar sound when wired with a similar p/u wired correctly,try it
fraterlucifer888 1 year ago
guitar pornography
dldbug 1 year ago 2
I hope that guitar gets played and doesnt sit there like a wallflower
mandaltby 1 year ago
lmao that guy who is is playing heartbreakerr sucks
amast3rMind69 1 year ago
I heard the finest music imaginable come out of this guitar on 3 separate occasions in 1968-69 in LA and San Fran. I see now the sunburst is completely gone........
jdubbiyou 1 year ago
It is my belief the neck pick up was not rewound.The unique sound came from the BRIDGE pick up having one of the magnets accidentally being placed in the actual humbucker the wrong way round at point of manufacture giving an out of phase sound. Any one can reverse the way the neck pick up (or bridge pick up for that matter) is set in the guitar body, but it will not give the Peter Green sound.
mark22160 1 year ago
@mark22160 Only half correct. The pickup with the reversed magnet is indeed the neck pickup and not the bridge. The fact that the pickup is installed in the guitar wrong way round is purely cosmetic as you say, but that neck pickup DOES also have the magnet flipped which in fact gives the out of phase sound. The pickups are wired normally and the guitar gets its out of phase sound purely from the flipped magnet.
danakerman 1 year ago
The pickup wasn't rewound it was merely replaced in the guitar the wrong way round , reversing the polarization . You can see that the neck pickup screws should be near the nck and the opposite to the bridge pickup , but they're both fasing the same way
malcolmcjcc 1 year ago
@malcolmcjcc - good observation
regularguy00001 1 year ago
insured "to the high seven figure region"!
Theloniousfunkk 1 year ago
You should all see my Greco Les Paul Personal M.I.T from the seventies. I'm sure it would kick some balls off of you! I'ts in practically mint condition and got dodays all over it!
helluvagun 1 year ago
Such crap!
What's so special whith this Gibson!?????
helluvagun 1 year ago
@helluvagun what you mean so special? it probably doesnt differ in technical aspects compared to any other gibson like it, however the fact that it was owned by two guitarists whom created music I'm sure you've heard of, I'd safely say it was 'special'. Peter Green alone was in my opinion the greatest guitarist to have ever graced this earth, and being able to see the instrument he used is a joy, thanks for the upload micawber52
sguggles 1 year ago
@sguggles Special because of the way the neck pickup was "rewounded" here's an extract of the wiki page
"its neck pickup had been accidentally rewound in reverse using Fender-style wire, by a young repairman, Sam Lee, who had never worked on a Gibson humbucker before. The result was a unique out-of-phase tone that could be more nasal or full depending on volume-knob settings."
And I agree that Greene is one heck of a great guitar player!
LegacyRiff 1 year ago
@sguggles It's different, this guitar's neck was "hand made, by a Master Craftsman" who was at the peak of his trade.
evanfrmheaven 1 year ago
He turned over the coil, not the magnet...... geez
superdeathbang 1 year ago
It's my most favorite guitar on the planet, but it sure is UGLY! lol
ejlister 1 year ago
Amazing guitar! I might try the reversed neck pickup one of these days myself. Check out the video titled simply "Gary Moore" to see him playing it.
SenecaHighlander 2 years ago
If you just reverse the pickup you won't get the out of phase tone. You gotta open the pickup and flip the magnet. Then you'll have the out of phase sound. Reversing the pickup is just an aesthetic thing :)
EnragedSlash 1 year ago
Yeah, I recently found out about that. I'm going to try to get a pair of pickups from Seymour Duncan to do it. Thanks!
SenecaHighlander 1 year ago
Shhhh!!!.. don't tell anyone, but I'm the current owner of that guitar. I stripped away that lousy paint job you see and had it painted pink and black in honor of my hero C.C Deville of Poison. Then I put glow-in-the-dark lightning bolt stickers on it so when you turn off the lights, it looks like lightning bolts are shooting out of the guitar. Cool, huh? I had a real Ace Frehley pickup in it specially wired to smoke, but I had to take it out because it caught fire and damaged alot of the wood.
tomthefunky 2 years ago 7
I bet that guitar is now really great for pick slides and well placed tapping licks. It is ASSuring to know such classic instruments are being updated to at least the mid-80's! Maybe you could have Mistress Cleo bless some long dangling things to hang on it! I do hope it's more pink than black, though.HAHA
carlsaigon 1 year ago 2
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tomthefunky 1 year ago
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carlsaigon 1 year ago
@tomthefunky YOU MUST BE JOKING. this would make the ugliest guitar in the whole world
stefrules1 4 months ago
@stefrules1: No, I bought one of the most valuable electric guitars in the entire world and did all of those things to it.
schmuck
tomthefunky 4 months ago
peter does not play anymore u dumbies .he lives in london and has not played in years and does not talk to any one.his fingernails are over 2 inches long when we asked him what would you do if mick fleetwood said we are doing an album we really need a guitar solo /he said i just don't want to cut my nails and have not played in so long and have no desire to
12345678941964 2 years ago
If he dosen't play anymore who was the dude I seen in concert in Belfast 3 months ago who look like Peter , sounded like Peter and wait for it goes by the name of Peter Green ? He's still doin it man !
malcolmcjcc 2 years ago 2
@12345678941964 > The documentary you are referring to is almost 20 years old. He has been back at it again for the past 12 or 15 years.
allabouttheink 2 years ago
@12345678941964 > In fact if you look up Santana/ Peter Green You will see them playing BMW together. He still has a two inch thumbnail on his left hand, The rest are cut.
Think twic before you call people who are better informed than you, Dummies!
allabouttheink 2 years ago
If you really get under the skin of "the facts" I believe that the Munich incident where not only 2 of the Mac received the LSD, but this German Cult also summoned up demons which later plagued Green,
dofnad 2 years ago
this LP was played by Jimi Hendrix though it was strung right-handed, on a new years eve at a Mac gig at the Marquee, London. Jimi played Olde Langsine.
dofnad 2 years ago
Also that this LP once thought cursed by Green, later was involved in a road accident in which the neck was snapped-off and I think this was the accident that Moore sadly received the facial scarring he has.
dofnad 2 years ago
he did the deal , its up to the cat who owns it now to decide whether he should offer it back. ya see if peter was all fucked up at the time then i guess he was taken advantage of i guess its up to the cat that owns it now, be nice to see him play it though
KIWIBLUES 2 years ago
MMMMMM! MMMM! Saucy!
moleman1961 2 years ago
Peter deserves a little bit more, he should back this beauty...
ezerlab 2 years ago
A peace of heaven
Sammerick 2 years ago 2
Peter should have his gibby back man... wrong
Topunga81 2 years ago 5
sie sind aus Gold, sie sind aus Silber, sie sind aus Stein. Götzen dieser Welt
Kicknicker 2 years ago
O_OU
Oh...
javiceres 2 years ago
I heard Judas Priest in the background.
themodernguitarist 2 years ago
Green is alive and playing on stage, give him back his guitar
vdbdg 2 years ago 48
i hear he only plays a strat these days.
LPcustom76 2 years ago
@vdbdg Peter doesn't want it. When Gary was thinking about selling it he spoke with Peter who only asked that Gary give a percentage to his charity.
Djarra 1 year ago
@vdbdg
he seems to prefer to play on stratocasters nowadays,unfortunately
:-(
vinosteve1 1 year ago
@vdbdg
It's not his guitar – fact.
KTEELKTEEL 1 year ago
@vdbdg well, your comment is 1 year old and i'm sure you are better informed since then but I'll say this anyway: if I sell something, it is no longer mine...it belongs to the person it was sold to. simple as that
heavenhelp1982 11 months ago
@vdbdg
When I saw The Splinter Group a few years back it was Nigel Watson doing all the playing and Greenie was just sitting there strumming every now and then....
frontman62 10 months ago
@vdbdg he doesn't want it he said so himself he doesn't use les pauls anymore because this one broke his heart. I agree with the sentiment but I think it should be passed on to the next great bluesman were about due one aren't we?
nintendonut100 9 months ago
@nintendonut100 Unless the next bluesman can afford paying way upwards of $500k to Melvyn Franks, the current owner, it'll just become a museum piece at this point since Gary sold it for a mad price. He sure didn't have much time to enjoy the hefty profit.
vdbdg 9 months ago
@vdbdg ah I see the issue then. Still it would be nice wouldn't it? both for the next great young bluesmant o get it and for there to be a next great young bluesman lol
nintendonut100 9 months ago
@vdbdg He sold it a long time ago when he was playing too... once it's been sold it's been sold!
danstortion 7 months ago
@vdbdg He doesn’t want it back, he considers it “the guitar that broke my heart”.
PBANDSNOW 6 months ago
i dont understand why gary moore not hes give the guitar back to green when he was better this make,s me piss of
norwayfinland 2 years ago
idol adoration?
RootsinBrooklyn 2 years ago
haha you bunch of girls stop hitting eatchother with your handbags haha
totosmeels 2 years ago
Take a picture it lasts longer
wjombat 2 years ago
Ahh
XXXMoodiboyXXX 2 years ago
is that a gold top?
XXXMoodiboyXXX 2 years ago
No, it is a lemon burst.
LesPaulKLO 2 years ago 2
PG would be disgusted with this crap!
EclecticDiscus 2 years ago
Well, it´s just a guit , it´s all up to who´s playin it , right ?
Hemulen40 2 years ago
Doesn't matter how long you stand there man, you're not gonna get as good as Peter Green just by lookin at it.
gogogadgetspoon 2 years ago
did they ever take it off any sweet jumps?
v2vroth 2 years ago
a sledge hammer... Lucky
lespaulx1979 2 years ago
eh notice the neck pickup is the wrong way round, peter green put it in the wrong way by accident and is what gave him his unique sound..liked it so much he left it...
gary moore is a complete tosspot who isnt fit to touch this beautiful thing........
offal 2 years ago
It's just a guitar !
A body is just a shell when you die !
Think about it !
diskmusic 2 years ago 3
Big deal, you gonna play it or just drool on it?
elducko1951 2 years ago
id steal that summa bitch
louieguitarist 2 years ago
saw gary moore in april what a fucking tosser he is to the fans he can play a bit but he needs to learn how to talk to fans how he dint get twated that night i dont know
tractorlad1 2 years ago
The story I always heard is that Gary Moore obtained this guitar from Peter by questionable means. Like when Peter was "not in his right mind"
JamOutFilms 2 years ago
There is a Gary Moore Les Paul on Ebay right now.. BIN $295,000..
PA28140 2 years ago
holy shit!
RedGuitars94 2 years ago
Who changed the volume and tone knobs? was it Green or Moore?
RobPic914 2 years ago
GRAB IT AND RUUUN!! xD
espltdviper400 2 years ago 41
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SeattleSparker, thank you for your comments. It is really tough to read the internet at times as there are so many false stories and distorted facts. Thank you for trying to inform people. Whether they want to be informed or not is up to them.
Peace...
Satch0922 2 years ago
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Satch0922 2 years ago
I have read alot of comments on youtube , but the comments on this vid are the most uninformed i have seen.
Everyone is an expert on this guitar .
peterm3964 2 years ago
Peter Green and Gary Moore! 2 of Britons best!!!!!!!!!!!
sportsportsport 2 years ago
wooow (drooling)
Madnessthisis 2 years ago
Man this guitar's a beauty... It would be hard for me not to just pick it up and run for the nearest exit.... I'd play it everyday for the rest of my life if I had it rather than just sitting in a case
JRR951 2 years ago
I'd hold the doors open if you let me play it once in a while.
ejlister 2 years ago
You've got yourself a deal
JRR951 2 years ago
What's of more concern is the alledged possibility that a greed driven Moore may have tricked the mentally ill Green out of his prized guitar. ? All unproven of course, but a nice little earner for Moore none the less ! "Oh Greeny, I really love you so much Greeny, ...now hand over the guitar and have another tablet, there's a good chap, and I'll flog it for every penny I can get." Nice one !! A lovely fitting tribute to his "hero " .! WHAT A CHARMING PERSON ! I do hope it's not true
stratking69er 2 years ago
So, this is a million dollar guitar, huh? Staggering. I'm suprised Gary let it go. Anyone know how that happened?
ejlister 2 years ago
heard he had money problems
bigb934 2 years ago
zplapplap yea, makes sense. Knew it was to simple to have just reversed the pick up.- Thank-drspalsh60
Kmag61 2 years ago
He was the best at his peak,.Gary Moore said that he was approached by Green about his guitar. Peter took some cash and a couple of other guitars.That's from Moore straight up. He did a tribute album to Green "Blues for Greeny", in the liner notes he claims to have used the Les Paul for those songs. What made it special? Green had it cleaned once and the guy cleaning it reversed the pickups. But nobody can match Greens technique from that period.
Kmag61 2 years ago
it was more than simply reversing the front pickup. I was also wound incorrectly by a guitar tech inexperienced with Gibson PAF pickups. A perfect mistake as it turned out.
zplapplap 2 years ago
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ibanez 4ever!!
DaRKdAngerSinger 2 years ago
Les Pauls are built like a brick wall. They always sound good to the last drop.
mor54 2 years ago
Imagine just the history behind that guitar
Anthonylp2 2 years ago
This Guitar stands for the respect of a Man's outstanding artistry...it should be back in this Man's hands.
evanfrmheaven 2 years ago
I don't think Peter cares anymore; says he prefers single coil pickups now.
SeattleSparker 2 years ago
What did Gary get for it? Anybody know. How do you know it's a wreck, did you play it, I'm sure a good luthier could do a refret and a setup and having top notch in no time. I'll bet I could pick it up as is and wail away. A real guitar player can play killer blues on anything.
lizarddeceight 2 years ago
you talk bullshit!!! if you as good as gary, get on here and show us all????
bullshitdetective1 2 years ago
I believe he said he got a bit less than $900,000 over a year ago. He said he used the cash to settle lawsuits filed against him for breach of contract because he was unable to compete playing gigs with a broken hand.
(seems a bit harsh, suing him for a broken hand in my opinion)
I understand he's using the remainder of the money to produce his own shows so he's not a risk again.
(he was interviewed in Vintage Guitar magazine)
SeattleSparker 2 years ago
Lizard said: "I'm sure a good luthier could do a refret and a setup and having top notch in no time. "
I'm not so sure.
Remember this was a *working* guitar, not an exhibit in a museum.
I understand that the neck had been broken at least once, and that Gary had swapped out many of the 1950s parts with 70s parts. The good news is that most of the repair techs have been VERY careful to not mod the pickup polarity or do anything to alter the tone. Supposedly... again according to Moore.
SeattleSparker 2 years ago
Peter Green tried to buy it back in the 80's Gary would not sell it to him
retardedjoe12 3 years ago
iS THIS THE GUITAR THAT GREEN GAVE AWAY TO SOMEONE IN A LIFT, THEN THE GROUP RETRIEVED IT FROM A PAWN SHOP,?
redmach3 3 years ago
Nah that was another early Les Paul, maybe a 58 do not remember.
haha good old greenie.
sam19851 3 years ago
At age 21 Peter Green was B. B. King's equal on the guitar. Very impressed.
LarryRickenbacker 3 years ago 2
No he wasn't
DONDIVA1969 3 years ago
correct. Green was much better. Listen to the Supernatural. Out of King's league.
kuei1248 2 years ago
People who think Gary Moore is a great guitarist - Albert King, Peter Green, BB King,
People with no clue as to the circumstances of this sale and insult Moore because of it - Keyboard Warriors.
Hmmm...now which will I listen to?
DesertEagle404 3 years ago 6
Moore is a fine guitarist. My only regret is that he won't gig in the US. He can play a cigar box guitar and still get a great tone. I'm baffled why he and Watson are the targets of such fan anger
If you listen to Greeny and Moore talk, they're totally cool with each other. Not surprising considering Greeny mentored both Kirwan and Moore.
SeattleSparker 2 years ago 3
It is what the original colour
Thank
cricro18 3 years ago
Bloody Bastard....but, the guitar looks alot more worn than Peter Green...I don't know sometimes it's the guy playing it...Gary Moore was close butt no banana...and Peter Green, if you are a true Green God Freak, can be heard in his stuff today...and what's with all the negativity with Watson?
Beeza60 3 years ago
Green is God. No one could ever touch him. Not even Moore. Moore completely misses the point when redoing Green's work like "Drifting". Only God can do that one right!
kuei1248 2 years ago
To hear this guitar watch Gary Moore and Thin Lizzy playing "Dont Believe A Word" on Whistle Test!Sounds amazing!Peace ye`all!
auto4union 3 years ago
damn straight.
ThieleM 3 years ago
bellfartwarts is wrong, Peter Green's Guitar was sold for a profit, to me thats a little bit disrespectful.
evanfrmheaven 3 years ago
who owned this guitar b4 peter green then??
i reckon it was gibson th people who made it, so now its not greens guitar, it was moores guitar, now it belongs to the guy who bought it from gary!! so shut the hell up about green!!!! he dont own the guitars of the world!!!!
bullshitdetective1 3 years ago
This is not about a guitar, or the all mighty $, it is more than that.
evanfrmheaven 3 years ago
He might not own the "guitars of the world", but he is a Man of the World... the reason that this guitar is such a big deal to everyone is because this guitar was GREEN's guitar, it gave his masterful playing a sweet sound to accompany it. He sold it to gary for dirt cheap as a favor, in the 80's green tried to buy it back but gary wouldn't sell it to him. The guitar was then bought by a private collector for $2,000,000. Now, this wonderful slab of mahogany lay lonely on a shelf. WHAT A WASTE!!!
americanstrat123 2 years ago 2
Green didn't sell it as a favour - he sold it after he became pretty much sick and tired of the music life he'd been living. Green never tried to buy his guitar back (during much of the 80's he was living as a vagrant. There's a story that Moore & Green played together on stage at a much later date and Green didn't even remember the guitar (from a Gary Moore interview on British TV)
Mindfreak5150 2 years ago
Barry Jenkins (Lukes Guitars in Ramsgate, ex-Nashville Teens/Eric Burdons animals etc) told me he went around Peter Greens flat in London in the late 60's and there were all these black guys doing voodoo and all this weird shit with Peter.
No wonder he got so fucked up.
Then some German scumbags ply him with acid.
Then he meets Nigel Watson.
Then his so-called "freind" Gary Moore sells his guitar for a million dollars.
Jesus!...who needs freinds like that lot!
beachhutblues 3 years ago
LOL - you heard wrong from a bitter old rocker!
fracturedminds 3 years ago
oh that guitar? i have it
augfive 3 years ago
How about the Les Paul that Clapton played on the Beano album that got stolen? Where is that now? somebody ought to come forward and say 'I stole it' I wonder if Eric would pay to have it back? although I bet he didnt even know the serial # to verify its authenticity.
twoslices 3 years ago
towslices....interesting point,you've got me wondering about that now.
68blues 3 years ago
Yep a guitar of that historical significance could well be the most valuble guitar out there.Somebody is sitting on a goldmine!
twoslices 3 years ago
That guitar was bought by Peter Green in Selmers,Charing cross road in 1966 for I believe something like 200 pounds.
twoslices 3 years ago
My guitar player can kick your guitar players butt...try and play Gary Moores legato climb in "Victims of the Future". Lots of skill to do those runs. Sure,He overplays and his tone is ... large . But to say he sucks or whatever is kinda...stupid, really, and an emotional comment, not a musical one. Grow up kids...
lilnetty2 3 years ago
The best guitar ever!
pascalsantana 3 years ago
I don't really know why people slag off Gary Moore. It's quite strange I think, considering he is a brilliant guitarist. Even Peter Green said so himself.
Oh well, I'll guess I'll still enjoy listening to both of them! :D
sooperkula 3 years ago
agreed, I mean none of us know the facts do we. I dont remember ever hearing Gary give his side of the story
dannyfrench 3 years ago
Let's start the 'Give Peter his guitar back campaign', 1st rule of the campaign 'no debate'. If it hadn't have been Peter's it would be worth a damn sight less.
jimmypinch 3 years ago 9
Gary Moore snapped off the neck and put 70's parts on it, tut tut. 40 years from now they'll still remember Peter's music.
jimmypinch 3 years ago 4
I had my Les Paul modified like Greeny's several years ago - Crazy Tones!
The greatest British blues artist of all time.
fightingmongooses2 3 years ago 3
Ever heard of a guys called Albert King? Or Albert Collins? Or Otis Rush? Or Buddy Guy?
NielsOhlsen 3 years ago 2
there not british (but all very great)
sgdan143 3 years ago
I'd grab that guitar and have two double albums done before they grabbed me..
mikekorz 3 years ago 5