I was falling sleep with RUclips playing around and as soon as I heard this intro I opened my eyes and was like: woah what is this!! Killer intro, killer player.
I have to be 'frank' Chris - the playing is (as usual) sublime, the guitar sounds great and I bet the DeMarino twins, both Ron and Frank, are delighted with their name-checks......
The video just ended.. It's time to watch it like 50 times again LOVED the video. I always wanted to know more about that Les Paul. The guitar playing and tone are just mind blowing.
Oh, man... that Mike Douglas performance with Lennon and Berry is a real trip. Someone decided it was a good idea to give Yoko a mic and she just goes full-tilt Yoko and Chuck's like "what in the actual f***?" Eventually, someone had the good sense to finally shut Yoko's mic off. (BTW, that trem effect on Because is freaking haunting)
For a player who mainly plays rhythm/harmony/accompanyiment behind his singing or other lead/solo guitarists, I think John Lennon's mods on the guitar make a whole lotta sense
With all due respects to the Greats. Hendrix SRV... this world of guitar players are the best weve ever seen. and Chris you are up there. Love thank you for sharing your craft with us
PlayMoreGuitar i’am livin in a house i don’t now How you live but Yea he’s awsome don’t get me wrong but i mean Hendrix is the best of all time best ever so not near him but he’s near other guitar players!
@@alexskywalker664 was/is Hendrix 'better' than Guthrie Govan? I love Hendrix, probably the most influential yes... but best? Not in this life. you read too many magazines. He didn't even play in tune half the time ;) anyway. Cheers.
Utterly sublime interpretation of I Want You SSH. Did they use a LP on that track? I know they had Harrison/clapton's Lucy knocking about the studio around that time.
The neck pickup is mounted the wrong way around. The notch in the PU blade is supposed to be under the B string (which is louder than the others - therefore the notch which helps the balance - on a string set with a wound G).
John knew that, but I don't think Ron (aka Frank) was up to speed with his zany word-play and British humour... Engelbert Humperdinck played a part in Beatles' history, in that his awful single 'Release Me' kept the Beatles brilliant double A-sided single Strawberry Fields/Penny Lane from reaching No 1 in the British charts. One of life's mysteries right there.
All in all a fantastic video. Great playing too! However, I just wanted to point out a small correction about the finish. These replicas are finished in NITRO lacquer. Gibson have never used anything but nitro. You can also find photos of the original guitar when it was shown at the John Lennon Museum in Tokyo over a decade ago (when these replicas were made) which show it with a relatively glossy finish.
I think the debate lies in the fact that when the original guitar left the Gibson factory in 1956 it was a tobacco burst, with a single P-90 p/up and a wraparound bridge. John gave it to luthier Ron De Marino to have it routed for a humbucker at the neck position. DeMarino - for reasons lost in the mists of time - chose to fit a Charlie Christian p/up instead of the requested humbucker, and it's in that guise that the guitar appeared when John (and a screeching Yoko) played alongside a slightly bemused Chuck Berry on the Mike Douglas TV show. Following the show, John returned it to DeMarino to have the body sanded back to the bare mahogany, and the wraparound bridge replaced by a modern and standard Gibson Stop Bar Tailpiece, which is how it appeared at the Madison Square Garden gig in 1972. Following that John had DeMarino stain it cherry red, but it was left in a matt state... no-one seems certain if a thin matt lacquer was applied, or a minimal matt seal, or no finish at all, just a wood stain, with possibly a finishing polish. The original guitar seems to display (in the very few detailed photos available) a 'sheen', but certainly not the high-gloss finish as worn by the custom-shop replica. John's also had his Gibson J-106E sanded down and it has no finish whatsoever, just bare wood. His famous 'rooftop' Epiphone Casino (also sanded down) may have a subtle layer of sealer applied over the bare wood, but again, is not lacquered. It remains a mystery..... and to be honest, John cared little for these details, so even if he were still alive, I doubt if he'd know! Ron DeMarino would be the man to ask, but he didn't even take detailed photos of John's original Rickenbacker 325 (the Hamburg one) before sanding off the black coat to take it back to its original maple/natural. That 325 is the Holy Grail of Beatles' guitars, so why Ron didn't photographically record the restoration is not only a mystery, but alarmingly unprofessional. uniqueguitar.blogspot.com/2012/09/john-lennons-les-paul-junior-modified.html
@@LennyJohnson5 back then guitars didn't have the same aura or mystique they have now. There wasn't anything special about John's Rickenbacker back then, it was just another regular guitar he bought early on, and they were thinking well if you want to see one just go buy another one. It's only decades and decades later did people start to really care about "vintage" guitars and the word "vintage" was even used to describe guitars at all, and that many models stopped being produced or started being produced with very different specs (like with all the kinds of Gibson Les Paul Standards that exist from over decades, with people going after very specific years of them like they're wine or something). Nobody even took rock music as a serious art form yet when they did that to John's rickenbacker, it was not realised how vital it was to have taken documenting the history seriously.
Nitro-Gibson rarely uses poly, and never on custom shop runs that I’ve eve heard of. Sounded fabulous. Charlie Christian pickup was sweet. Always haven’t wanted to try it. Prices are through the roof. Shocking!
Hey Chris, I was as confused as you as to Gibson's reasoning for the finish. It turns out after the NYC concert, Lennon had it refinished with a cherry stain. Info courtesy of 'The Guitar Show - John Lennon History of his Guitars'
gmt124 - I've read that John had it stained cherry red after appearing at Madison Square Garden with it in it's bare mahogany state, but that was it - a stain, and there was no finish put on top of it, so it appears today in a matt 'bare wood' state, with no varnish, poly or seal.
I was so confused by the intro - it SOUNDED like proper White Album outtakes, but I knew that couldn't be John playing, could it? Tasty playing, very tasty...
@@throttlebrah "SOUNDED like proper White Album OUTTAKES..." You do know what an outtake is don't you? Good on spotting the tune, which I didn't, but his solo is centuries away from how the song actually goes, which is why I said outtake. And the smug bit giving me the title and telling what the song is about...competing to show how much you know. If you'da been civil about it...cool - two people who dig The Beatles connecting on the internet, that 's awesome, but you're a schmuck on the internet trying to score points...and it's fucking boring. Everything's not a competition, and I'm here cause Buck is such a great player, for the music. Get your mind right, it's not always about you and what you know, sometimes it's about appreciating other people and their skills. Or maybe I've got it wrong and English isn't your first language, so there are subtleties in tone that you missed?
Dude when you play and you cup the pic with your index finger and your thumb?.. the way your right hand moves &the way you attacked the strings with your right hand,really BIG TIME remind me of Derek Trucks. You sound very similar to him.
Hey there, I have a predicament, in that I have my no name beginner strat, a decent epiphone lp, and I am looking for my next upgrade. I have found a great deal on an American strat from a few years ago, and I am wondering whether to pull the trigger. I am just debating whether it's worth having a great strat sound and a good les Paul sound, or an OK strat sound, a decent les Paul sound and a good tele sound (like a player series tele, which is a similar price to the strat). First World problems am I right? Anyway, all replies greatly appreciated! Thanks.
What is the chord after bass (F)? I can hear G# but you are fretting whit first finger on D# and leaving free the G string. Also u’re fretting D making the chord a seven but I can’t hear that D. Incredible playing by the way...
wayback playback You do realise that that intro is definitely not on the song? There’s nothing like that solo on any Beatles song - this guy just improvd it/made it up
6:20 Gibson only ever use nitrocellulose lacquer on their guitars. The Custom Shop stuff especially use a much thinner finish with less plasticiser in it
He kept calling him “Frank” Demarino” because THERE IS A Frank Marino, a Canadian Icon and Legendary Gibson SG guitar player. The leader and founder, with his brother ,Vincent, of Frank Marino and Mahogany Rush.
See the video of John playing Cold Turkey live. He has the same grinding tone as the studio recording and it's with this guitar with the Charlie Christian pick up mod.
I make that mistake all the time, thinking about my 2nd favorite Canadian power trio Ron Marino and Swamp Ash Rush. My favorite Canadian power trio? Well of course that would be Triumph. 🤔
The very early SGs were badged by Gibson as Les Pauls (as the company's replacement for the original shape); Les Paul had nothing to do with the design and didn't like the guitar, so demanded his name was removed. He was also in the middle of a messy divorce and asked for his $1 royalty per guitar to be withheld by Gibson. Hence they were rebadged as the 'SG' for Solid Guitar by the end of 1963.
Juniors were built as Les Pauls until the SG replaced the Les Paul as the flagship model, then the Juniors went to the SG shape, but were still called "Les Pauls" until 1963
John famously asked Ron (Frank...) DeMarino to fit a 'humperdincker' p/up in the neck position. Ron thought this was a sign of John's ignorance of guitar terminology (as if a professional musician of John's experience had never heard of a humbucker...), whereas it was quite obviously John using his normal wordplay to take the piss out of British crooner and grannies' favourite Englebert Humperdinck. I don't think Ron had ever read one of John's books....
Just who are the trolls thumbing down Chris? Get a life. Or shove off, you're not a ..... Oh forget it. Nice. I put a Christian in the neck position of a Telecaster. It's a very good result as is this, but about 25% of the price. Nice low output, throaty. Elegant looking. I'd recommend Vintage Vibes Christian pickup, Peter will wind to spec.
My late friend Don White played one , it always sounded great. With a WEM Copycat, a sound most can only dream of. But his singing was better than both.
That intro is exactly why Frank Buck was voted blues guitarist of the year!
I bet he appreciates your frankness! 👍
Thats a nice modification to "I want you (she's so heavy)"
Agreed. Well I'm sold on the Les Paul Jr. and after watching that intro, I hardly even need to watch the rest of the video (although I will ;-))
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that intro has gotta be some of the best, most tasteful lead playing I have ever heard on RUclips
What an incredible intro!
Chris does the Beatles justice with that intro... fantastic interpretation and playing. Mesmeric.
Check this out. From 91’
ruclips.net/video/k_M0KuNqXUM/видео.html
I was falling sleep with RUclips playing around and as soon as I heard this intro I opened my eyes and was like: woah what is this!! Killer intro, killer player.
I have to be 'frank' Chris - the playing is (as usual) sublime, the guitar sounds great and I bet the DeMarino twins, both Ron and Frank, are delighted with their name-checks......
Excellent moi!🌠🎶🎸
Wow, had to play that first 1.12 minute solo 'bout 10 times, just brilliant.
So glad you chose all the Abbey Road tunes to demo! Not temporally accurate, but sooo good.
That lick at 0:35 is just sublime
Jesus christ that intro was insane
The guitar has an amazingly haunting sound.
The video just ended..
It's time to watch it like 50 times again
LOVED the video.
I always wanted to know more about that Les Paul.
The guitar playing and tone are just mind blowing.
I think that intro answers the question. It is indeed worth the hype.
I love how smoothly you go from fingerpicking to picking with a pick in the beginning of the video!
Oh, man... that Mike Douglas performance with Lennon and Berry is a real trip. Someone decided it was a good idea to give Yoko a mic and she just goes full-tilt Yoko and Chuck's like "what in the actual f***?" Eventually, someone had the good sense to finally shut Yoko's mic off.
(BTW, that trem effect on Because is freaking haunting)
Man, I love your solo playing, but your rhythm playing equally fabulous! What a pleasure to hear!
For a player who mainly plays rhythm/harmony/accompanyiment behind his singing or other lead/solo guitarists, I think John Lennon's mods on the guitar make a whole lotta sense
Awesome tone. Pure inspiring dynamic playing. Thanks for making my day.
Your tone is so unique and refreshing
That was a savage, inspirational and completely electrifying intro. Holy fuck.
great vid , gibsons are usually always nitro ; especially vintage reissue guitars ...Fender is the Poly king Pam
That intro was just OMG 😮
With all due respects to the Greats. Hendrix SRV... this world of guitar players are the best weve ever seen. and Chris you are up there. Love thank you for sharing your craft with us
Yes he’s Good but not near Hendrix and Srv i mean come on be realistic
@@alexskywalker664 he is being g realistic, and I kinda agree. Don't live under a rock
PlayMoreGuitar i’am livin in a house i don’t now How you live but Yea he’s awsome don’t get me wrong but i mean Hendrix is the best of all time best ever so not near him but he’s near other guitar players!
@@alexskywalker664 was/is Hendrix 'better' than Guthrie Govan? I love Hendrix, probably the most influential yes... but best? Not in this life. you read too many magazines. He didn't even play in tune half the time ;) anyway. Cheers.
PlayMoreGuitar ok i understand and i respect your opinion and have a great day and after all we are all guitar players hav e a awsome day man!
Utterly sublime interpretation of I Want You SSH. Did they use a LP on that track? I know they had Harrison/clapton's Lucy knocking about the studio around that time.
The Because intro sounded amazing
Love your stuff! Especially how you include gear info with playing. Rock on.
That intro maaaan, he broke his nail and everything woah
The neck pickup is mounted the wrong way around. The notch in the PU blade is supposed to be under the B string (which is louder than the others - therefore the notch which helps the balance - on a string set with a wound G).
Can't believe I missed this video until now! I always admired this, it was the first modded guitar I noticed that seemed useful.
Man that playing at the start... Gary Moore would have been proud of that! Gorgeous phrasing and tone dude
That intro kicked some serious A$$! Well done...
You could make a cigar box with a broom handle and rubber bands sound phenomenal. It ain’t the guitar, it’s those hands and that heart.
I think it was more likely a pun, the Gibson large pick ups are called humbuckers.
John knew that, but I don't think Ron (aka Frank) was up to speed with his zany word-play and British humour... Engelbert Humperdinck played a part in Beatles' history, in that his awful single 'Release Me' kept the Beatles brilliant double A-sided single Strawberry Fields/Penny Lane from reaching No 1 in the British charts. One of life's mysteries right there.
Thanks Chris, that was really informative.Incredible playing as ever.
lmaooo when the Frank counter started i died laughing
Normally that much tension in the hands doesn’t sound good, but you sound great brother. Very musical indeed.
Chris ! that is great guitar playing, and to think that’s 60yrs old blows your mind.
Chris, you are seriously the only guitarist that can make blues interesting to me anymore. You truly are a phenomenal player.
Damn Chris you just tore into that like a pro. You’re no RUclips hack that’s for sure.
Nice video. Inspiring. Really came together at the end. Fair winds and following seas to all. Ooorah!
All in all a fantastic video. Great playing too! However, I just wanted to point out a small correction about the finish. These replicas are finished in NITRO lacquer. Gibson have never used anything but nitro. You can also find photos of the original guitar when it was shown at the John Lennon Museum in Tokyo over a decade ago (when these replicas were made) which show it with a relatively glossy finish.
I think the debate lies in the fact that when the original guitar left the Gibson factory in 1956 it was a tobacco burst, with a single P-90 p/up and a wraparound bridge. John gave it to luthier Ron De Marino to have it routed for a humbucker at the neck position. DeMarino - for reasons lost in the mists of time - chose to fit a Charlie Christian p/up instead of the requested humbucker, and it's in that guise that the guitar appeared when John (and a screeching Yoko) played alongside a slightly bemused Chuck Berry on the Mike Douglas TV show. Following the show, John returned it to DeMarino to have the body sanded back to the bare mahogany, and the wraparound bridge replaced by a modern and standard Gibson Stop Bar Tailpiece, which is how it appeared at the Madison Square Garden gig in 1972. Following that John had DeMarino stain it cherry red, but it was left in a matt state... no-one seems certain if a thin matt lacquer was applied, or a minimal matt seal, or no finish at all, just a wood stain, with possibly a finishing polish. The original guitar seems to display (in the very few detailed photos available) a 'sheen', but certainly not the high-gloss finish as worn by the custom-shop replica. John's also had his Gibson J-106E sanded down and it has no finish whatsoever, just bare wood. His famous 'rooftop' Epiphone Casino (also sanded down) may have a subtle layer of sealer applied over the bare wood, but again, is not lacquered. It remains a mystery..... and to be honest, John cared little for these details, so even if he were still alive, I doubt if he'd know! Ron DeMarino would be the man to ask, but he didn't even take detailed photos of John's original Rickenbacker 325 (the Hamburg one) before sanding off the black coat to take it back to its original maple/natural. That 325 is the Holy Grail of Beatles' guitars, so why Ron didn't photographically record the restoration is not only a mystery, but alarmingly unprofessional.
uniqueguitar.blogspot.com/2012/09/john-lennons-les-paul-junior-modified.html
@@LennyJohnson5 back then guitars didn't have the same aura or mystique they have now. There wasn't anything special about John's Rickenbacker back then, it was just another regular guitar he bought early on, and they were thinking well if you want to see one just go buy another one. It's only decades and decades later did people start to really care about "vintage" guitars and the word "vintage" was even used to describe guitars at all, and that many models stopped being produced or started being produced with very different specs (like with all the kinds of Gibson Les Paul Standards that exist from over decades, with people going after very specific years of them like they're wine or something). Nobody even took rock music as a serious art form yet when they did that to John's rickenbacker, it was not realised how vital it was to have taken documenting the history seriously.
My gosh, what an intro! Can I ask what amp and effects you are using? That is just INCREDIBLE TONE! Well done, Chris!
Holy fucking shit Chris. You've improved so much since I last saw you play. That was some serious shredding in the intro.
Nitro-Gibson rarely uses poly, and never on custom shop runs that I’ve eve heard of. Sounded fabulous. Charlie Christian pickup was sweet. Always haven’t wanted to try it. Prices are through the roof. Shocking!
I may be wrong but the Gibson finish is most likely a lacquer finish instead of poly.
If John could come back you would be in his band by special request
Your phrasing is legendary wtf man
Hey Chris, I was as confused as you as to Gibson's reasoning for the finish. It turns out after the NYC concert, Lennon had it refinished with a cherry stain. Info courtesy of 'The Guitar Show - John Lennon History of his Guitars'
gmt124 - I've read that John had it stained cherry red after appearing at Madison Square Garden with it in it's bare mahogany state, but that was it - a stain, and there was no finish put on top of it, so it appears today in a matt 'bare wood' state, with no varnish, poly or seal.
I was so confused by the intro - it SOUNDED like proper White Album outtakes, but I knew that couldn't be John playing, could it? Tasty playing, very tasty...
Lol it's not white album..it's Abbey Road
The song title is I Want You ( she's so heavy)
This song made by John for his new wife Yoko
@@throttlebrah "SOUNDED like proper White Album OUTTAKES..." You do know what an outtake is don't you? Good on spotting the tune, which I didn't, but his solo is centuries away from how the song actually goes, which is why I said outtake. And the smug bit giving me the title and telling what the song is about...competing to show how much you know. If you'da been civil about it...cool - two people who dig The Beatles connecting on the internet, that 's awesome, but you're a schmuck on the internet trying to score points...and it's fucking boring. Everything's not a competition, and I'm here cause Buck is such a great player, for the music. Get your mind right, it's not always about you and what you know, sometimes it's about appreciating other people and their skills.
Or maybe I've got it wrong and English isn't your first language, so there are subtleties in tone that you missed?
I want you (she's so heavy) all time favorite Beatles song amazing just amazing 👍
Everybody talking about the intro but nobody talking about how that guitar is SO EXPENSIVE
It's rocketed in price over the past few months; a strange phenomenon 🤷🏼♂️
Cool guitar but I suppose I should expect this from Friday fretworks your playing is truly inspiring!
Frank Marino (of & Mahogany Rush), another great guitarist.
Dude when you play and you cup the pic with your index finger and your thumb?.. the way your right hand moves &the way you attacked the strings with your right hand,really BIG TIME remind me of Derek Trucks. You sound very similar to him.
Hey there, I have a predicament, in that I have my no name beginner strat, a decent epiphone lp, and I am looking for my next upgrade. I have found a great deal on an American strat from a few years ago, and I am wondering whether to pull the trigger. I am just debating whether it's worth having a great strat sound and a good les Paul sound, or an OK strat sound, a decent les Paul sound and a good tele sound (like a player series tele, which is a similar price to the strat). First World problems am I right? Anyway, all replies greatly appreciated! Thanks.
DUDE THAT SOLO FUCKING RIPPED
Man, i just love your style! If one day you ever made a workshop or a skype lesson count me in!
Epic playing at the start that dude
What is the chord after bass (F)?
I can hear G# but you are fretting whit first finger on D# and leaving free the G string.
Also u’re fretting D making the chord a seven but I can’t hear that D.
Incredible playing by the way...
It's a reminder of just how good a player John was when you watch up close.
wayback playback You do realise that that intro is definitely not on the song? There’s nothing like that solo on any Beatles song - this guy just improvd it/made it up
Shows why they had good ideas in my opinion but were nit the great visionaries people say they were, good yes but definitely overrated.
Holy shit that take on a solo of i want you was raaaadd
6:20 Gibson only ever use nitrocellulose lacquer on their guitars. The Custom Shop stuff especially use a much thinner finish with less plasticiser in it
Exactly! Gibson always uses Nitro finishes. Its the reason I prefer Them over the cheaper epiphones.
Hype verified by 0:25 I feel bad it took me so long but I had to be sure! 0:52 hell yea I was right!
Well.. I would say the answer is yes, after that intro. My goodness
He kept calling him “Frank” Demarino” because THERE IS A Frank Marino, a Canadian Icon and Legendary Gibson SG guitar player. The leader and founder, with his brother ,Vincent, of Frank Marino and Mahogany Rush.
yayyyyyyy you dont know much how i love this les paul jr like it before i watched it
Very very nice mate!
Please come to Australia to tour or do clinics. I have a house you can live in. Your touch is great, thank you for uniqueness.
I can't understand why didn't do a natural finish on it like John's was?
PhiI93 I believe it got the cherry finish after the Madison Square concert
Cause they based it off of the current state of the guitar today. They had the real thing in front of them when they designed it
LoL. I like it when people don't take themselves too seriously. Great story.
I had no idea John played She's So Heavy. Wow.
See the video of John playing Cold Turkey live. He has the same grinding tone as the studio recording and it's with this guitar with the Charlie Christian pick up mod.
Frank actually has a nicer ring with that last name. Ciao
I think Ron has since changed his name to Frank by deed poll, as a direct result of this video!
Blown away by your elevation of ‘I want you’... will have to see if you ever tour melbourne!
Is it me, or is there an abnormal distance between the pickups, from close up shots? Bridge pu unusually close to the bridge, neck pu same.
Chris, that sounded S o o o good
Damn great playing brother!
I make that mistake all the time, thinking about my 2nd favorite Canadian power trio Ron Marino and Swamp Ash Rush. My favorite Canadian power trio? Well of course that would be Triumph. 🤔
Rush!!
Pure gold
Good god! Nice interpretation!
Chris that track has to be his casino or a les paul ( Harrison ) ?
Wow that is some hot playing!!
you're such a bloody good player mate
Sounds absolutely gorgeous!
That intro 😍
god of guitar
I have a 63 LP Jnr but it is the SG shape. What’s that all about? It looks like the 56 LP Jnr was not the SG shape.
The very early SGs were badged by Gibson as Les Pauls (as the company's replacement for the original shape); Les Paul had nothing to do with the design and didn't like the guitar, so demanded his name was removed. He was also in the middle of a messy divorce and asked for his $1 royalty per guitar to be withheld by Gibson. Hence they were rebadged as the 'SG' for Solid Guitar by the end of 1963.
Juniors were built as Les Pauls until the SG replaced the Les Paul as the flagship model, then the Juniors went to the SG shape, but were still called "Les Pauls" until 1963
Perfection... nice guitar too...
Interesting to say the least , caught ur visit to norms , pretty cool .
You are just good on guitar.
Tremendous touch.
what pickup did you say?humperdingcer?or humperdinker?
John famously asked Ron (Frank...) DeMarino to fit a 'humperdincker' p/up in the neck position. Ron thought this was a sign of John's ignorance of guitar terminology (as if a professional musician of John's experience had never heard of a humbucker...), whereas it was quite obviously John using his normal wordplay to take the piss out of British crooner and grannies' favourite Englebert Humperdinck. I don't think Ron had ever read one of John's books....
Great i want you, but he didn’t have the lp jr yet
Wow! You are an amazing guitar player.
Awesome solo, dude!
Because 😻
Just who are the trolls thumbing down Chris? Get a life. Or shove off, you're not a ..... Oh forget it.
Nice. I put a Christian in the neck position of a Telecaster. It's a very good result as is this, but about 25% of the price.
Nice low output, throaty. Elegant looking. I'd recommend Vintage Vibes Christian pickup, Peter will wind to spec.
Wow man that’s bad asssssssssssss
You sure were frank about it.
Could you talk about John Lennon’s Sardonyx?!?
My late friend Don White played one , it always sounded great. With a WEM Copycat, a sound most can only dream of. But his singing was better than both.
👏👏👏 world class Chris