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Epiphone Reveals the Billie Joe Armstrong Les Paul Junior

Epiphone Reveals the Billie Joe Armstrong Les Paul Junior

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 www.epiphone.com.


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."

Billie Joe Armstrong Les Paul Junior

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."

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