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ELECTRIC GUITAR
V100MRPGM
‘LEMON DROP’
ELECTRIC GUITAR
PETER GREEN
TRIBUTE
Review By Dave Celentano
STREET PRICE (MAP): $649
G
uitarists have been chasing after
Peter Green’s elusive tone for
decades and now Vintage Guitars
has made it available to everyone for
an extremely reasonable price. Whether
you’re a fan of relic guitars or not this
instrument is worth checking out, and
once you hold it up close and drop a
few choice licks, you’ll be sold. Vintage’s
V100MRPGM ‘Lemon Drop’ is modeled
after the one Green bought second-
hand for about $300 bucks and used
during his time with John Mayall and the
Bluesbreakers and early Fleetwood Mac.
Since then, Green’s magical Les Paul
(with reversed neck pickup) has been
passed around the guitar block quite a
bit. Following his time with Fleetwood
Mac, Green sold it to Irish six-stringer
Gary Moore for the same price he
originally paid for it, and subsequently
using it for much of his stint with Thin
Lizzy and solo recordings. Currently
Kirk Hammett of Metallica is the proud
owner of Mr. Green’s guitar for a rumored
$2,000,000. Ouch!
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