“The owner saw something in me. He said, ‘You know what? Just pay me back for it later’”: Jake Kiszka on the time he walked out of Chicago Music Exchange with a $25,000 guitar – which would become his Number 1 SG

Jake Kiszka of Greta Van Fleet performs onstage as Metallica Presents: The Helping Hands Concert (Paramount+) at Microsoft Theater on December 16, 2022 in Los Angeles, California.

Jake Kiszka has looked back on his love affair with The Beloved – the 1961 Gibson Les Paul SG that has been at the core of everything he’s done with Greta Van Fleet.

Kiszka, who also stuck to the electric guitar in question for his recent collaborative project with Chris Turpin, Mirador, is synonymous with the cherry red SG, which itself is a vintage example lifted from the design’s earliest era when it still bore the ‘Les Paul’ name.