Billie Joe's Guitars
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| Sherlock Board Parasite  Age: 39 Gender: Female Posts: 35331 | Billie got his first electric guitar, the infamous "Blue" (a Fernandez Stratocaster), when he was 11. Billie still uses Blue to this day and has several replicas of it. He has a Seymour Duncan humbucker added to Blue.   He also made a guitar he call's "Frankenstein" because it is a combination of several different parts purchased at a Fender shop. Electric Guitars: ~Fernandes Stratocaster (Blue) ~Fender Stratocaster ~Fender Stratocaster Custom Shop ~Gibson ES 135 ~Gibson Les Paul Junior ~Gibson Les Paul Special 59' ~Gibson Standard SG ~Gibson Les Paul Junior TV 59' ~Fender Telecaster 68' ~Fender Jazz Master ~Fender Telecaster Custom Shop Acoustic Guitars: ~Guild D-55 ~Taylor 514C Amplification: ~Marshall Super Lead 100 WATTS ~Fender Bassman ~Hiwatt Custom 100 Additional: ~Duplex Tortex .76 - .88mm Custom Plecks ~Ernie Ball Super Slinky Strings (hehe...I use those strings!) xD    Billie Joe Armstrong, lead singer for Green Day, stopped by Gibson USA in Nashville recently where he checked out the plant tour. Billie Joe watched how each Gibson guitar is handmade by world-renown craftsman. The MTV VMA winner also went over details for his upcoming Gibson signature guitar model. Armstrong and members of the band and his family spent most of the day at Gibson USA and are featured in the three press photo's you can find on the right side of this page. Songs from Green Day's 'American Idiot' could be heard throughout the halls of Gibson USA as Armstrong practiced in one of the showrooms. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Billie say's a lot of his sound comes from strumming. "I use my thumb. It's that half-pick and half-thumb that gives it that thwack. Also, I don't play with my wrist, I play with my shoulder and hit it really hard." The amp he uses on Dookie is most commenly reffered to as the 'pete' amp and can be seen most noticably at the Woodstock concert, it has 'pete' written across it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From Guitar World: "I looked at my guitar playing as more as a tool this time (on Nimrod). I didn't want to go outside of what I can do, but I also didn't want to keep only playing powder chords. I wanted to noodle around a bit and write these nice little leads and just add stuff that made sense to the song. I'm more of a rythm player than a lead player. The stuff that I do play that is more like a solo is a rythmic kind of thing that blends in with the melody. I'm just into getting a good powerful sound. Whatever benefits the song is what I try to play. Mike is a great bass player and Tre's a great drummer, and it's about letting them play. I'm more of a back-up. We are a very tight unit, and I work with them to enhance the song rather than go off on long, pretentious guitar solos. I'm not a guitar player's guitar player. I'm a songwriter. I come from that Pete Townshend tradition: let the song take it's course and build a sound around it. It's hard for me to talk about. One of my limitations is that it's hard for me to talk about guitar playing. I just do what I am capable of, which is not much." credit to GDA and gibsoneurope.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gibson has now released its "Billie Joe Armstrong" guitar, modelled on BJ's own 'Floyd', with extra specs, designed in close partnership with the man himself. The guitar is available in ebony, classic white and vintage sunburst.   see http://www.gibson.com/Products/GibsonElectric/Gibson%20Electric%20Guitars/LesPaul/Billie%20Joe%20Armstrong%20Les%20Paul/# for more details.  |
| iamkiller Basket Case  Age: 35 Gender: Female Posts: 19586  | HE HAS THE SICKEST GUITARS! I love 'Blue'. He's a hottie  |
| RPattz Board Parasite  Age: 35 Gender: Female Posts: 38824 | BLACK BEAUTY  BOOTY  FLOYD  |
| iamkiller Basket Case Age: 35 Gender: Female Posts: 19586 | Black Beauty?  |
| RPattz Board Parasite Age: 35 Gender: Female Posts: 38824 | iamkiller: Yup Yup thats what he calls it lol |
| Reality Is Due Post Whore  Age: 31 Gender: Female Posts: 24633 | iamkiller: Pssh racist...  . |
| iamkiller Basket Case Age: 35 Gender: Female Posts: 19586 | greendayjunkie: Oh. LOL |
| Sherlock Board Parasite Age: 39 Gender: Female Posts: 35331 | |
| iamkiller Basket Case Age: 35 Gender: Female Posts: 19586 | Reality Is Due: NO WAY! |
| iamkiller Basket Case Age: 35 Gender: Female Posts: 19586 | pearlyfrets: Oh darn  I thought he was getting creative with ponies. |
| Sherlock Board Parasite Age: 39 Gender: Female Posts: 35331 | BLUE:       |
| Sherlock Board Parasite Age: 39 Gender: Female Posts: 35331 | HAHA!! He wanted to "noodle around a bit." |
| iamkiller Basket Case Age: 35 Gender: Female Posts: 19586 | Add it to the first post  |
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| iamkiller Basket Case Age: 35 Gender: Female Posts: 19586 | |
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| iamkiller Basket Case Age: 35 Gender: Female Posts: 19586 | |
| Sherlock Board Parasite Age: 39 Gender: Female Posts: 35331 | Okay!  |
| Smart-Ass Playing Dumb Idiot Age: - Gender: Female Posts: 512 | |
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