"The main guitar I play live is one of two Les Paul Standards I bought in 1987. This one has always been my main stage guitar. It just sounds good and feels right to me."

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Kirk Hammet exchanged a remake of Greeny with Jack White on Jan. 6, 2025. source: Guitar World.

Also, at 37:29 in this interview with Dean Delray, when asked if he used Greeny on a record, Kirk responded by saying:

It's all over Hardwired to Self Destruct. And it's really funny because when we started doing tracks for that I thought, you know, I know Greeny sounds great, but is it just me or what? So what we did is we got this one track and I played four different guitars, basically my best four sounding guitars and Greeny, and we did the Pepsi challenge. We did a blind test, and we trucked in four different people, and I picked out Greeny every single time, and so did everyone else, as the best sound.

Details start at 16:50 in the video interview. This is a single-owner 1959 Gibson Les Paul that Dan Auerbach bought in 2019. "I had no intention of buying a 'burst'", says Auerbach. "I've never even seen one before I walked into that guitar store and bought it from the owner's sister." According to November 2022 Guitar World interview, Auerbach used the guitar while recording the song "Good Love".

According to this article from Gibson:

"Even some ardent Gibson Les Paul fans forget this, but Keith Richards was the first big-name guitarist to tote a Sunburst Les Paul. His most fabled was an original 1959 Les Paul Standard. The guitar was bought new in 1961 from Farmers Music Store in Luton (U.K.) by John Bowen, who played with aspiring English popsters Mike Dean & The Kinsmen. Bowen had a Bigsby vibrato fitted at Selmer’s music store in London before trading it for another guitar in 1962. Soon after, a young Keith Richards, playing guitar in a little-known band called The Rolling Stones, walked in to Selmer’s and bought it.

Richards used the ’Burst extensively in the Stones’ early days. It was seen regularly from 1964 to 1966 when Keith began to favor Les Paul Customs. Appearances on TV show Ready Steady Go and classic songs like 'The Last Time' and 'Satisfaction' were all played on this ’59 ’Burst.

Keef sold the guitar to Mick Taylor in 1967 – the future Stone had replaced fellow Les Paul maestros Peter Green (and before him, Eric Clapton) in John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers.

There are photos of Mick Jagger with the ’59 Burst at some 1970 recording sessions – by which time Taylor was in The Stones – but it then disappeared. Rumor has it that the guitar was stolen in 1971, either from London’s Marquee Club after a gig, or from Nellcote in southern France during the recording of Exile on Main St. Whatever the truth, it did end up in the hands of Cosmo Verrico of the Heavy Metal Kids who were signed to Atlantic Records (alongside The Stones).

Verrico owned the ’59 until 1974, when he then sold it to Bernie Marsden (later of Whitesnake). Marsden kept the guitar for a little over a week before, perhaps rashly; he sold it to a U.K. collector. The fabled ’59 was sold again to another collector in 2006, 'somewhere in Europe' according to auctioneers."

Mark Knopfler is confirmed to use a Gibson 1959 Les Paul Electric Guitar, which he purchased from New Kings Road Vintage Guitar Emporium on March 23, 1999. This guitar serves as a backup for his '58 Les Paul and is noted for its distinct red color on the edges, which are less faded than the '58 model. It has been used live for performances of "Song for Sonny Liston," "Why Aye Man," "Pyroman," and "Brothers in Arms." The guitar was later auctioned at Christie's in London on January 31, 2024, where it was sold for £693,000. This information is supported by the source "Mark Knopfler and his guitars."

I give you “The Big Al Burst “ 1959 Gibson Les Paul 9-0917 purchased from the original owner Al Bosco this morning in Melbourne, Florida... Thank you Al ! I will give it a great loving home. ????????

"Well there’s the King of Kings, the 1959 Gibson Les Paul that I love and cherish. I was very lucky to find it from Danny’s Music in Everett [Washington] about 17 years ago. Right around the time of the Mad Season record actually. It was ridiculously priced back then, it was like $25,000 or something. I’m probably not going to take it out as much coming up but it’s hard because nothing sounds or plays that good. I use it for “Alive” when we’re out there. I can’t get the tone from any other Les Paul that that thing gets. I mean to be Spinal Tap about it, with the sustain I can hold it, have a bite and come back. [Laughs] It’s totally true though, the thing just plays like butter and it’s beautiful, a little dinged up. That being said, I’ll probably bring it out on the road this year. I probably shouldn’t but guitars are meant to be played. I don’t want to hold it and be precious with it to the point that I don’t enjoy it and it makes the songs sound better to me when I use that guitar."

Gary Moore frequently used the Gibson Les Paul Standard 1959 Lemon Burst, known as "Greeny," throughout his career. In a 1994 interview video, you can hear him playing this iconic guitar during his rendition of "One Day."

While with GnR buckethead used a Sunburst Les Paul with no fret markings.

Steve Lukather uses an original 1959 Gibson Les Paul electric guitar, as noted in Vintage Guitar® magazine by Wolf Marshall. The article mentions that this guitar likely once had a Bigsby vibrato system.

“Supposedly, the ’59 Les Paul I bought before recording my [1978] solo album is now up to $350,000 or more,” he says. “That was the biggest regret. It was after I quit KISS; I was still getting fucked up and I wanted to go to Atlantic City because I love to gamble.

“So I booked the helicopter on the West Side [of New York City], where they have those helipads, and I stopped at Richie Friedman’s We Buy [Guitars] and sold it.”

Frehley purchased the guitar for $4,000, and – as he has previously explained to Guitar Player – managed to recoup $18,000 when he later sold it. A fairly sizable mark-up, but one that absolutely pales in comparison to the guitar’s current value.