Epiphone:
Announces Billie Joe Armstrong Les Paul Junior and
Epiphone Creates the 5X GRAMMY Award-Winning Green Day Frontman’s Go-To Les Paul Junior in Striking Classic White
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Above: the Epiphone Billie Joe Armstrong Les Paul Junior with a leopard faux fur lined custom hardshell case.
Epiphone Billie Joe Armstrong Les Paul Junior photos: HERE, and spec sheets: HERE and HERE.
NASHVILLE, TN (November 16, 2021) Epiphone the accessible brand for every stage, presents the new Billie Joe Armstrong Les Paul Junior electric guitar, now available worldwide. As the go-to guitar from the five-time GRAMMY Award-winning frontman for Green Day, Billie Joe Armstrong and Epiphone collaborated to bring to life his beloved Les Paul Junior guitar. The Epiphone Billie Joe Armstrong Les Paul Junior is available worldwide and a Les Paul Junior Player Pack version, is available in the U.S. only. For more information visit any authorized Epiphone dealer and:
Watch and share the new video for the Epiphone Billie Joe Armstrong Les Paul Junior, HERE. Shot on location at Broken Guitars, in Oakland, CA, the clip features Gibson Generation Group player Charlotte Milstein and Michael Mininger performing Green Day’s “Basket Case.”
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Epiphone is proud to present Billie Joe’s instantly recognizable Epiphone Les Paul Junior–in the striking Classic White finish–which has shared the stage with him across the globe for decades. The Billie Joe Armstrong Les Paul Junior features a slab Mahogany body and a set neck, and Indian Laurel fretboard with 22 medium jumbo frets, a powerful PRO P-90 pickup, and master volume and tone controls with CTS potentiometers, making it rock-solid choice for pros and beginners alike. The Billie Joe Armstrong Les Paul Junior has Billie Joe’s autograph as an emblem on the back of the headstock and comes with a deluxe leopard, faux fur-lined custom hardshell case.
The Les Paul Junior Player Pack version is ready to plug in and play and features the Epiphone Billie Joe Armstrong Les Paul Junior guitar with a bolt on neck, without signature, as well as a 15 watt Epiphone 15G amplifier with 2 channels (clean and overdrive), full 3-band EQ, an aux input for your phone or other media player (a headphone outlet is included for silent practice), so you can immediately play your favorite songs –or while learning with the Gibson App. The soft gig bag includes an Epiphone guitar strap, cable, electronic clip-on tuner with three Epiphone picks.
“Working with Billie Joe Armstrong over the years has been an absolute honor for our team,” says Aljon Go, Epiphone Product Manager. “The new Epiphone Billie Joe Armstrong signature guitars will help inspire a whole new generation of guitarists with an accessible, quality instrument to blaze their path in making music, just as Billie has throughout his Grammy Award-winning career.”
Compare the specs on the new Epiphone Billie Joe Armstrong Les Paul Junior, HERE, and the Epiphone Billie Joe Armstrong Les Paul Junior Player Pack HERE.
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Above: the Epiphone Billie Joe Armstrong Les Paul Junior Player Pack with Epiphone Amp and gig bag case.
Originally hailed as punk revivalists blindsiding the mainstream from the margins, Green Day has become one of rock’s sturdiest institutions, a band whose sound threads the three-chords-and-a-head-rush excitement that runs through everything from East bay punk, power pop, 60s garage and hard rock. The band, inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2015, has released thirteen studio albums to date including the Diamond-selling Dookie, punk rock opera album turned Broadway musical American Idiot and their latest album Father of All, which debuted at #1 on the Billboard Top Rock Albums and #4 on the Billboard 200, resulting in the band’s 11th U.S. Top-10 album.
Outside of Green Day, Billie Joe also fronts The Foxboro Hot Tubs, The Longshot, and The Coverups. In 2013, he teamed with jazz singer and pianist Norah Jones in a project to re-create the classic 1958 Everly Brothers album Songs Our Daddy Taught Us that they titled Foreverly. Last year Armstrong launched The No Fun Monday’s series. The series saw Armstrong putting his signature melodic-punk spin on the songs that have formed the soundtrack to his life, including classics by John Lennon, Billy Bragg, and Johnny Thunders.
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Billie Joe Armstrong. Photo credit: Scott Nagelberg.
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Above: The Epiphone Billie Joe Armstrong Les Paul Junior.
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Above: The Epiphone Billie Joe Armstrong Les Paul Junior features Billie Joe’s autograph as an emblem on the back of the headstock.
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Above: the Epiphone Billie Joe Armstrong Les Paul Junior Player Pack in Classic White.
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For over 140 years, Epiphone has been a leading innovator in instrument design with models like the Casino, the Texan, and Masterbilt Century Archtop Collection. Epiphone began as the “House of Stathopoulo” family business in Sparta in the 1870s and rose to fame during the jazz age in Manhattan before joining Gibson brands in 1957. Today, Epiphone
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