“I just wasn’t ready to spend $250,000 on a guitar at that stage in my life and my career”: Butch Walker turned down the opportunity to buy the Greeny Les Paul before Kirk Hammett bought it

Butch Walker and Kirk Hammett comp.

Butch Walker says he was offered the chance to buy the legendary ‘Greeny’ Les Paul before it ended up in Kirk Hammett’s hands, but couldn’t stomach the quarter-of-a-million dollar price tag.

The 1959 LP was made famous in the hands of Fleetwood Mac founder, Peter Green, but when he retired from music in the early ’70s, Irish bluesman Gary Moore bought it off him for next to nothing.