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Guitar World
Guitar World
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Matt Owen

“I called looking for advice. He tells me, ‘Just wait, I’ve got a surprise for you’”: Gibson’s mystery Metallica-inspired Explorer hasn’t gone to James Hetfield – it’s been gifted to a Hollywood superstar

Jason Momoa with his son holding the Gibson CEO2 Explorer, and a picture of Gibson CEO Cesar Gueikian playing the guitar.

Last week, Gibson CEO Cesar Gueikian shared the latest progress update on a long-term project he’d been teasing on his Instagram over the past number of weeks – a mystery electric guitar dubbed CEO2, which bears a striking resemblance to James Hetfield’s ‘So What’ Explorer.

At the time, we theorized that CEO2 was being created as a gift for the Metallica frontman – a theory that was further supported by the fact that Gueikian himself was engaging with comments suggesting that would be the case.

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