Kris Derrig
Kris Derrig (April 6, 1954 – May 14, 1987) was an American luthier and musician from Greenfield, Massachusetts. He is best known for building Slash's recording guitar, used on Guns N' Roses' debut album Appetite for Destruction, and for making many replica 1959 Gibson Les Paul guitars. Derrig died on May 14, 1987, from cancer. He didn't live to see how his Les Paul copies helped shape Slash's signature sound on Appetite for Destruction.
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