Thank you Bob. I love everything about your collection and your willingness to share them with us. I found this video too short....LOL, I can never get enough.
Thanks for another awesome video---your collection is amazing and love hearing the stories and history behind some of these gorgeous instruments---keep up the great work, cheers!!
lovely les Paul collection Bob I have a 2017 les Paul standard and would be a dream of mine to some day acquire a few old vintage les Paul's beautiful guitars
It's a real treat to see a collector who is not only willing to share his collection, but who actually plays his guitars and who is enthusiastic about the differences in sound and playability of these vintage instruments. Have u ever photographed your burst inside the pickup cavities and inside the switch and controls cavities? Have u found the carve on the top is more violin like than later LP's? This would make a great video showing the differences from what is being produced now.
This was a nice surprise today ! Interesting how you said the double cut is not at its best at home practice volume ; a Gibson "student" model ... The original owner probably only ever played it through a tiny valve amp , I imagine. Lovely guitars and always a pleasure to see & hear you play them . Thanks Bob 👍
@13:05- Well crank it up then!I certainly aint gonna tell you to turn it down !Love that collection! I intend to buy the epiphone 2020 goldtop just to have a slight taste of one!
Bobby you're the man what a beautiful collection of of Les Paul's prime eara do you think you could do a little show with some acoustic Gibson guitars there my favorite I have two Epiphone acoustic guitars and I bet you have a great collection of acoustic Gibson's don't make Short videos all we have is time now a days thanks buddy hope you and your family are staying safe 🙏 God bless
Joe Cooper thanks, Joe, and yes, which is making them a bit harder to access so freely at the moment. Your point about collectors is interesting - I know a number and most of them play, some pretty well, but I know at least as many who can hardly play. Always intrigues me, I guess they just like the look (and capital appreciation)!
I always think the same , Joe. I remember reading accounts in the 90's of Japanese businessmen paying astonishingly inflated prices for 50's Sunburst Les Paul models from American dealers and then just dumping them in a bank vault with the Samurai antiques & Van Gogh paintings. It's their money , but it just seems a shame non players hoard them .
Thank you Bob! You've chosen quite an excellent range for your Les Paul collection, thank you for sharing. I am saving my money for an early LP Jnr as we speak. All the best from Canada.
@The Guitar Show -- I'm proud to announce I finally got my Jnr, it's well played but totally original (aside from the Mojoaxe tailpiece). It's a 59 double cut :) Thanks for posting these videos.
I might have made the cabinet of that 633 Engineering amplifier, as Cliff outsources the case building to a tiny shop out in Cambridgeshire called Vanquish Guitars. A couple of years back I did work experience there and mainly worked the CNC machine, producing those cases.
Im writing this before i even watch it because, seriously its great to have the history and stories of Bob's deservedly amazing collection as i digital record....unless you publish books✌
Another great vid Bob... and you never talk too much. Also my compliments on your levels as I never have to muck around turning guitar down or vocal up Thanx so much for that . And finally do you have any plans to hook up (conditions permitting) with your bandmates and do some more gigs? thanx and cheers
David McFly With pleasure. Andre Duchossoir’s Gibson Electrics and Gibson Electrics - The Classic Years; Walter Carter & George Gruhn’s Electric Guitars are a great place to start; and The Beauty Of The Burst if you want to dive deep into ‘bursts. (There’s one for Strats too). Also the cheaper UK book The Gibson Les Paul book by Paul Day and Tony Bacon. All of these and many more are on the shelves behind me in the video. Enjoy and thanks for watching!
I have a ‘55 Junior myself, but mine was pretty rough when I got it. But your right, it’s one of my best playing and sounding guitars. A coworker used to keep it in his locker at work and played it on his lunch breaks. He was asking about $600 in the want ads, he sold it to me for considerably less. This was back in the late ‘90’s.
Fantastic collection of Vintage LP's... I have to say LPs are my main weakness. Do you have any of the Florentine hollow-body LP's? I have a custom shop one from around 20 years ago.... great for jazz...I kinda like an old 71 LP Recording I have too.... A lot of guys don't care for them but I like them in certain situations. Very quiet, clean guitar. Love all your guitars and knowledge of the instruments.
Your P90 '54 is louder than my pickup's output , which have ( maybe obviously ......... ) less hum possibly due to less windings . This model has good mechanical connection of bridge to body that gives it a wonderful acoustic-ish sound transmission . I've attached a compensating wraptail , which is noticeable in the upper register .
Hello Bob. On Ramon's video on Clapton and The Beano album (and other vids on the same subject as well) there was some debate as to whether Clapton actually did (as according to legend) use a Dallas Rangemaster Treble Boost between his Les Paul and his Marshall. I suggested that if YOU ever work another Crossroads Guitar Festival, that you should simply ask Clappers. Good idea? (I too was introduced in 1952, by Edward and Jacquelyn.)
Really like your guitars Bob. I owed a LP Gold Top of an unknown vintage. The guy I got it from wanted to swap guitars while jamming. I had a 76 Gibson SG Deluxe which once it went into his hands he wanted to straight up trade! I liked his Les Paul and it immediately felt right in my hands, heart and ears! That Les Paul had natural sustain and like your Jr's and special it loved the high gain. It would sometimes sustain for over a minute. I asked my buddy where he got this guitar. He said he got it from a guy running down an alley with it for $60 bucks and a half ounce of weed! He was a young guy at the time and paranoid about owning a hot guitar so he gouged out the serial numbers in the back of the headstock and put in his own with wood filler. He admits it look terrible and ruined the collectability of the instrument but not the sound. He believes it was a 66 to 69? Years later while in the depths of my drug addiction I pawned the guitar at a place called Lawndale Pawn in Lawndale,Ca. I use to go into the store to pay my $20 pawn ticket which was due each Wednesday. When I walked in the store the last time the owners son was sitting there playing my guitar. He turned to look back at the clock which was 11:45am and said, "boy the day you don't come back here this baby is mine"! I didn't make it back and lost my beloved Gold Top! He got an almost mystical guitar that I miss to this day! If your struggle with drugs and you own guitars like this. Find someone you can trust and leave them there with instructions to not give it back until your clean and in recovery!
Nice video, very enjoyable, so please don´t make them shorter. But I have to make one comment: According to A.R.Duchossior´s book "Gibson Electrics Vol.1 this particular model 13:30 changed to the SG name already in 1960, so technically it´s not a Les Paul, and thus of course no Les Paul Special decal on the headstock
IrishBog No to a Custom. I do like the cool look of the early ones with Alncio and P90 pickups, not so keen on three gold humbuckers of the paddle headstock, bit more important, I don’t enjoy playing them much somI never bought one. Same goes for the v cool white Les Paul SG Customs 👍
Your playing certainly renders justice to the quality of those instruments.. Really nice jazzy chords and phasings btw... I'd be curious to see you play blindfolded let's say a very good quality alternative, but a lot less expensive and after that, one of those vintage ones to hear the difference.. I am sure we would end up thinking: hmm as far as tone is concerned, perhaps the player is the most important part of the gear chain.. Mind you it's common sense, but I realize as time goes by, that it's not that common with many folks after all..LOL..
If I didn’t know any better (and I don’t) I think I know where Bob got his Burst from. I’m about 50/50 that Tom Keifer used to own that axe. I could be wrong but I know Tom‘s more of a player than is publicly thought and I also know he’s had a few bursts over the years. Bob made reference to it coming from the singer of a hair band and Tom’s been in Nashville for a while now. Those seem like Bob‘s circles. I’ll offer my detective service if any of you have a cheating spouse or something lol.
You said Tommy keifer had a few bursts? i did not know that. Why do players get rid of these originals? Other than emergency financial hardship i would never part with one once i got it.
Is it wrong that when i see someone that owns a old 1958-60 LP standard i hate them with a venomous hatred? 😁JK On a serious note it would be great to have one of these owners with me to pick out a CS Murphy lab. I will never own a original so the ML is my only option at this point.Gibson should offer a service where actual owners of the old standards are available for hire to hand pick a CS Murphy for the customer. I mean who better to rate one of the ML Les 'Paul's against a old one than a owner of a original? Having never played one i would have no clue which one is closer to a old original.
He's a player with a excellent vinyl collection! Norm hoarded as many guitars as he could to sell to bankers, lawyers, and rock stars. He basically took thousands of guitars out of circulation to sell for obscene prices in his retirement years. Truth be told though. It's not the guitar that makes the player. And all those great rock stars were playing relatively new instruments. So if vintage is your thing and you have serious bank behind you go right ahead. The rest of us will play off the shelf gems that can be had for a fraction of the vintage market. The LP is short scale which makes it exceedingly comfortable in the hand.
I think I’m watching this for the 4th time? So awesome! You’re a man of impeccable taste, Bob!
Love your beautiful stash Bob, hope we meet again sooner rather than later, still love that 54
I suspect longer videos are quite alright for most of us here, Bob. Thanks so much!
Thanks Bob, never seen such a beautiful TV yellow color like this, Cheers!!
Lovely LP 🎸collection Bob and nice playing , looking forward to the Strat video.
Bob is awesome.
Thank you for sharing your beautiful collection!! Fantastic!!
Thanks Bob just great..........anytime you happen down my way(NZ) bring your '54...........too good.
Thank you for sharing this, very interesting. Beautiful collection!!!
Great job Bob.
Thanks.
Thank you Bob. I love everything about your collection and your willingness to share them with us. I found this video too short....LOL, I can never get enough.
Thanks for another awesome video---your collection is amazing and love hearing the stories and history behind some of these gorgeous instruments---keep up the great work, cheers!!
Bob - another excellent video, I enjoy them so much. Thank you!
That last TV yellow guitar is the one that would suit me. Thanks for the demo.
Thank you for posting another great video Bob ! Always a pleasure for the eyes and ears !
Beautiful collection Bob
beautiful....thanks bob !
Bob should be on the History Channel. This was fantastic, thanks for sharing!
We agree!
A lovely collection... I just have two Gibson, one BR9 from 1951 and one black 335 from 2010...but l love them!
Thanks Bob!
lovely les Paul collection Bob I have a 2017 les Paul standard and would be a dream of mine to some day acquire a few old vintage les Paul's beautiful guitars
Much appreciated Bob. Keep 'em coming.
Very nice collection! And I love your playing. Cheers!
You got some beauties there Bob The 58 standard and the single cut burst junior especially 😃
It's a real treat to see a collector who is not only willing to share his collection, but who actually plays his guitars and who is enthusiastic about the differences in sound and playability of these vintage instruments. Have u ever photographed your burst inside the pickup cavities and inside the switch and controls cavities? Have u found the carve on the top is more violin like than later LP's? This would make a great video showing the differences from what is being produced now.
Good to see the finger is healed .
This was a nice surprise today ! Interesting how you said the double cut is not at its best at home practice volume ; a Gibson "student" model ... The original owner probably only ever played it through a tiny valve amp , I imagine. Lovely guitars and always a pleasure to see & hear you play them . Thanks Bob 👍
Great video, Lovely collection. Thanks for sharing!!!!!
Very Nice Collection Congratulations!!
Lovely collection.
Love the 58. Tea burst!
Thank you Bob these are my favourite guitars
@13:05- Well crank it up then!I certainly aint gonna tell you to turn it down !Love that collection! I intend to buy the epiphone 2020 goldtop just to have a slight taste of one!
Bob is a legend.
Thank you Dr Bob ; )
Bob content = instant thumbs up
Great stuff as always. And I'm guessing that's The Cars Heartbeat City LP on the shelf next to Bob's right elbow
Sweet playing as per usual...
ipsurvivor Appreciate that, thanks!
Bob has an amazing guitar collection, and his vinyl collection is also looking pretty stellar as well.
Bobby you're the man what a beautiful collection of of Les Paul's prime eara do you think you could do a little show with some acoustic Gibson guitars there my favorite I have two Epiphone acoustic guitars and I bet you have a great collection of acoustic Gibson's don't make Short videos all we have is time now a days thanks buddy hope you and your family are staying safe 🙏 God bless
awesome guitars Bob! Great playing too!!
Very, very cool.
Nice playing and even nicer guitars. I just subscribed.
You are exactly the guy who should own these things
Because of what they mean to you and the people who appreciate them.
Nice guitars!
Great post great guitars thank you for sharing very cool 👍
Thanks
Thoroughly enjoyed that love Les Pauls would kill for a double cut dogeared P90 wraparound tailpiece Junior
Wonderful video, going to check out the one you did on your 335, thanks!
YES another Bob video!
Great collection, thanks.
Fabulous collection Bob. Nice to see a collector who actually plays his guitars. Hope you've got somewhere safe as Fort Know to keep them ;-)
Joe Cooper thanks, Joe, and yes, which is making them a bit harder to access so freely at the moment. Your point about collectors is interesting - I know a number and most of them play, some pretty well, but I know at least as many who can hardly play. Always intrigues me, I guess they just like the look (and capital appreciation)!
I always think the same , Joe. I remember reading accounts in the 90's of Japanese businessmen paying astonishingly inflated prices for 50's Sunburst Les Paul models from American dealers and then just dumping them in a bank vault with the Samurai antiques & Van Gogh paintings. It's their money , but it just seems a shame non players hoard them .
Not a fan of vintage Les Pauls for my money, but always rad to learn about them.
Thank you Bob! You've chosen quite an excellent range for your Les Paul collection, thank you for sharing. I am saving my money for an early LP Jnr as we speak. All the best from Canada.
@The Guitar Show -- I'm proud to announce I finally got my Jnr, it's well played but totally original (aside from the Mojoaxe tailpiece). It's a 59 double cut :) Thanks for posting these videos.
Amazing guitars!! You are a lucky man, Bob. Happy 4 u ;-P
I might have made the cabinet of that
633 Engineering amplifier, as Cliff outsources the case building to a tiny shop out in Cambridgeshire called Vanquish Guitars. A couple of years back I did work experience there and mainly worked the CNC machine, producing those cases.
Great video
Thank you for your effort! Loved it 👍
Im writing this before i even watch it because, seriously its great to have the history and stories of Bob's deservedly amazing collection as i digital record....unless you publish books✌
Great video!
Thanks for sharing.
I just love the DC Specials. It’ll probably be the first vintage Gibson I buy.
Hi Bob, loved the video. Great collection, I could listen to you talk about guitars all day.
Love the 1960 Jr TV model.
Another great vid Bob... and you never talk too much.
Also my compliments on your levels as I never have to muck around turning guitar down or vocal up Thanx so much for that . And finally do you have any plans to hook up (conditions permitting) with your bandmates and do some more gigs? thanx and cheers
Jonny Beck Cheers. You bet, we soooo want to play. We’ve been trying to rehearse online but some of the guys aren’t too techy 😱
Awesome video!! Bob is a living encyclopedia. Could he recommend some books to learn more about these vintage Gibsons?
David McFly With pleasure. Andre Duchossoir’s Gibson Electrics and Gibson Electrics - The Classic Years; Walter Carter & George Gruhn’s Electric Guitars are a great place to start; and The Beauty Of The Burst if you want to dive deep into ‘bursts. (There’s one for Strats too). Also the cheaper UK book The Gibson Les Paul book by Paul Day and Tony Bacon. All of these and many more are on the shelves behind me in the video. Enjoy and thanks for watching!
@@Rockbeareguitars thank you very much!
I have a ‘55 Junior myself, but mine was pretty rough when I got it. But your right, it’s one of my best playing and sounding guitars.
A coworker used to keep it in his locker at work and played it on his lunch breaks. He was asking about $600 in the want ads, he sold it to me for considerably less. This was back in the late ‘90’s.
No need to keep the vids shorter! Loved the detail and anecdotes on the longer vids too!
That awkward moment someone compliments your amazing vintage guitar.. that you bought new. 🤣
Fantastic collection of Vintage LP's... I have to say LPs are my main weakness. Do you have any of the Florentine hollow-body LP's? I have a custom shop one from around 20 years ago.... great for jazz...I kinda like an old 71 LP Recording I have too.... A lot of guys don't care for them but I like them in certain situations. Very quiet, clean guitar. Love all your guitars and knowledge of the instruments.
Your P90 '54 is louder than my pickup's output , which have ( maybe obviously ......... ) less hum possibly due to less windings . This model has good mechanical connection of bridge to body that gives it a wonderful acoustic-ish sound transmission . I've attached a compensating wraptail , which is noticeable in the upper register .
Hello Bob. On Ramon's video on Clapton and The Beano album (and other vids on the same subject as well) there was some debate as to whether Clapton actually did (as according to legend) use a Dallas Rangemaster Treble Boost between his Les Paul and his Marshall. I suggested that if YOU ever work another Crossroads Guitar Festival, that you should simply ask Clappers. Good idea? (I too was introduced in 1952, by Edward and Jacquelyn.)
Interesting thanks Bob.
Love the 3rd guitar..
Great video, thanks!
That DC yellow jr honked like a strat
agreed!
Good insights and well informed guy but, play the guitars more! Didn't hear even a note out of the '58 LP Standard which broke the sonic flow for me.
Really like your guitars Bob. I owed a LP Gold Top of an unknown vintage. The guy I got it from wanted to swap guitars while jamming. I had a 76 Gibson SG Deluxe which once it went into his hands he wanted to straight up trade! I liked his Les Paul and it immediately felt right in my hands, heart and ears! That Les Paul had natural sustain and like your Jr's and special it loved the high gain. It would sometimes sustain for over a minute. I asked my buddy where he got this guitar. He said he got it from a guy running down an alley with it for $60 bucks and a half ounce of weed! He was a young guy at the time and paranoid about owning a hot guitar so he gouged out the serial numbers in the back of the headstock and put in his own with wood filler. He admits it look terrible and ruined the collectability of the instrument but not the sound. He believes it was a 66 to 69? Years later while in the depths of my drug addiction I pawned the guitar at a place called Lawndale Pawn in Lawndale,Ca. I use to go into the store to pay my $20 pawn ticket which was due each Wednesday. When I walked in the store the last time the owners son was sitting there playing my guitar. He turned to look back at the clock which was 11:45am and said, "boy the day you don't come back here this baby is mine"! I didn't make it back and lost my beloved Gold Top! He got an almost mystical guitar that I miss to this day! If your struggle with drugs and you own guitars like this. Find someone you can trust and leave them there with instructions to not give it back until your clean and in recovery!
I'll take that double cut special and you can keep the rest. Thanks!
🤘😷 🥁 🎸 🥁 🎸 🥁 🎸 🥁 🎸🤘😷
Nice video, very enjoyable, so please don´t make them shorter. But I have to make one comment: According to A.R.Duchossior´s book "Gibson Electrics Vol.1 this particular model 13:30 changed to the SG name already in 1960, so technically it´s not a Les Paul, and thus of course no Les Paul Special decal on the headstock
"in 1954 they came on a piece of tail.But once they got a reach-around tailpiece,they enjoyed it much more".
Would be really interested in seeing that fender strat you were talking about... 🎸 🇬🇧 👍
I think Bobs next video is exactly that, thanks Lee
@@TheGuitarShow Great stuff,
Awesome thanks! How bout some cool amps!!!!
Do you have any vintage fender amps?
do Angus young history of guitars please
Okay he is on the list!
No custom!? I’m not sad ....just disappointed. Love these videos. Has bob ever visited the stores in Japan?
IrishBog No to a Custom. I do like the cool look of the early ones with Alncio and P90 pickups, not so keen on three gold humbuckers of the paddle headstock, bit more important, I don’t enjoy playing them much somI never bought one. Same goes for the v cool white Les Paul SG Customs 👍
Your playing certainly renders justice to the quality of those instruments.. Really nice jazzy chords and phasings btw... I'd be curious to see you play blindfolded let's say a very good quality alternative, but a lot less expensive and after that, one of those vintage ones to hear the difference.. I am sure we would end up thinking: hmm as far as tone is concerned, perhaps the player is the most important part of the gear chain.. Mind you it's common sense, but I realize as time goes by, that it's not that common with many folks after all..LOL..
Bertrand Dugas That’s a good idea. I’ll see if we can set a blindfold play-off some time 👍
If I didn’t know any better (and I don’t) I think I know where Bob got his Burst from. I’m about 50/50 that Tom Keifer used to own that axe. I could be wrong but I know Tom‘s more of a player than is publicly thought and I also know he’s had a few bursts over the years. Bob made reference to it coming from the singer of a hair band and Tom’s been in Nashville for a while now. Those seem like Bob‘s circles. I’ll offer my detective service if any of you have a cheating spouse or something lol.
You said Tommy keifer had a few bursts? i did not know that. Why do players get rid of these originals?
Other than emergency financial hardship i would never part with one once i got it.
Can you do a fender episodes
So, when do I move in?
@Lookup2Wakeup I'll let him touch me like one, in exchange for access to them
Is it wrong that when i see someone that owns a old 1958-60 LP standard i hate them with a venomous hatred? 😁JK
On a serious note it would be great to have one of these owners with me to pick out a CS Murphy lab. I will never own a
original so the ML is my only option at this point.Gibson should offer a service where actual owners of the old standards are available for hire to hand pick a CS Murphy for the customer. I mean who better to rate one of the ML Les 'Paul's against a old one than a owner of a original? Having never played one i would have no clue which one is closer to a old original.
Thanks for the comment - we will try to do a comparison soon
...and you would have thought he could afford the CDs to replace those old albums.
Way to flex Flexo .
I keep wondering where these pristine guitars have been all this time. Unplayed, but why???????
Mic the amp, not the room
Bob's videos are really good now
So who is this guy with the big wallet again?
Good example of what my parents told me . Study hard , get a good education , earn lots of money and buy outstanding guitars .
HE’S BOB......SAYS SO RIGHT IN THE TITLE !!!!!!
Joe Bonamassa
He's a player with a excellent vinyl collection! Norm hoarded as many guitars as he could to sell to bankers, lawyers, and rock stars. He basically took thousands of guitars out of circulation to sell for obscene prices in his retirement years. Truth be told though. It's not the guitar that makes the player. And all those great rock stars were playing relatively new instruments. So if vintage is your thing and you have serious bank behind you go right ahead. The rest of us will play off the shelf gems that can be had for a fraction of the vintage market. The LP is short scale which makes it exceedingly comfortable in the hand.
not as fun to watch if you don't play them.