VS: Robben Ford on the Telecaster - "The Ugliest Musical Instrument?" (S3: E18)
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- Опубликовано: 30 сен 2024
- In this episode of the Vault Sessions, @RobbenFordofficial talks Mickey Baker, the importance of Paul Butterfield Blues Band, his desire to be jazz player, and the day that he realized he didn’t know any chords. Robben was selected as one of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of the 20th Century" by Musician magazine. He also was a member of the L.A. Express and Yellowjackets, and he has collaborated with Miles Davis, Joni Mitchell, George Harrison, Larry Carlton, Rick Springfield, Kiss, and more. He plays one of our 1958 Gibson Les Paul Goldtop "Darkback" and a one-of-a-kind Natural Red Mahogany Fender Telecaster. He also plays his 1960 Telecaster and Epiphone Riviera.
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the telecaster is like a gorgeous woman....the more you look at it.....the more you fall in love
He seems so down-to-earth type of person, really genuine and no fluff.
He is
I really love Robben's smooth attack on each note ... not like the ice picky sound. He's really gifted in many ways.
The moral of this long story is “never buy strings in a music store”, buy them on line. My last set of strings cost me 900 bucks. I will say though that I still have my nice sounding tele, whereas the strings are long gone.
I went to a pawn shop for a ring and got an $80 Mexican '94 Tele which had been left out in the rain. New Fender noiseless pickups, rewiring, a Babicz full contact bridge and some custom blue rose artwork on the headstock made it my sleeper. I love it so much it's gone through a couple of refrets...no regrets.
Seems like..these days.....everytime Ford opens his Pie Hole...he's Promoting something...I like his music..but I'm sick of all the Promo advertising......... and he's a Grumpy guy now....if you've seen live shows in the last couple years...they are not the same... On stage , play 8 songs, leave just as grumpy as the moment he steps on stage......
Where did you buy strings for 900 bucks..I need to avoid that place LOL
@@joeguerra7869 lol I think he meant he went in for strings and left with a tele
@@john-zw9rw Get a safe space
I like how his eyes lit up when he said " I can have it? " , trurly a very easy-going and humble gentleman, I'm so glad he has had a wonderful career and has been able to enjoy a life of making music.
Robben was a hero of mine back in the 90's. I'm probably around the same age. Its weird to see our faces age like this, but our spirits are undimished and our souls are ageless. He is the same guy, same voice, same amazing talents. So good to see him here talking about our times and the incredible guitar music we all were exposed to back then. Love you Robben.
he sure has a great voice
I discovered him in 73 or 74, on the album "The Charles Ford Band". A fellow guitar player whose band I was in turned me onto him. I like him a lot, he's very cool and not egotistical. I still count him as one of my main influences though he's light years beyond my own style.
@benicecunt o.k. If you don't look at the man, and just listen to the music, you manage to go beyond the realization that he no longer looks like he did before. I too was very shocked by the way he looks now. I never got that he was a lot older than he appeared before.
But his playing has not changed. He is just so smooth and articulate in his music....
Robben's voice hasn't changed at all from his younger days, still clear and strident.
@@arthurblackhistoric That's true too; for a virtuoso guitar player, his voice is just in par with everything else.
Amazing player, incredible human and spectacular player. What a terrific video.
Indeed. What a terrific video! What a treat!
Robben is an easy-going, humble guy who happens to be a great musician.
He’s a great musician, who happens to be an easy-going and humble guy. This man has paid his dues and has spent 10,000 hours practicing his instrument. He’s a master. You don’t just ‘happen’ to be a great musician. Dangerous misconception.
He is a class act indeed as well as being a great musician.
Heard him live in 95 in Buenos Aires as a warming for Robert Cray and let me tell you.. after him nobody wanted to hear Robert.
@@dgdg6143 Have you ever heard Robben's playing on the first Yellowjackets album? The solo he did on "Rush Hour" is one of the best I've ever heard.
@@tomgiles1484 I remembver driving and hearing a yellowjacket lead gfuitar and HAD TO KNOW who that was? Followed Robben ever since!
It doesn't matter the guitar ... when your sound is in your head and in your hands, any guitar will speak your language! In this Robben is unique!
Micky Baker! Jerry Garcia turned me on to those books when I took several lessons from him at a Palo Alto music store at age 13 in 1963 before he became famous with the Grateful Dead. Still have them!
Micky Baker: That's a great story, The only famous Musician I ever met was in passing, I was working a small Best Western in Moscow, Idaho at the time (Mid Eighties) A short shirtless gentleman with a long beard ask me "Hey man where's the ice machine" I replied "right down here sir on the corner of the hall way" He replied thanks" . As soon as I turn away, I said to myself realizing "Shit that was Dusty from ZZ TOPP".
Dana Morgan's
My jazz teacher had the Mickey Baker book. I borrowed it from him and photocopied every page. My teacher told me it was college level material.
best decision I ever made for my guitar playing was listening to a gentleman playing a beautiful chord progression in a guitar centre when I asked him where he learned it he said I needed get this book, I immediately went home & found the book & learned everything I could about Mickey Baker
@@UncleTerry At least he thanked you. That must be the Texan manners shining through. New Yorkers and others don't even say goodbye when they hang up the phone let alone thank you for your help. It's like they've got an entitlement to it. Fuck that.
I wouldn't mind sitting down with Dusty Hill and picking his brains about the early ZZ Top days. Man they're a great band.
The headstock of the Tele is the most beautiful thing.
Agree!
I wouldn't call it beautiful but I love the simple shape of it.
I think it’s the sound..
@@ss_whole same
For me the perfect headstock is a 1961 Fender Stratocaster. 😍
This is one of the best guitarist & guitar interview I have ever seen.
Thanks!! We had a blast.
Robben is the player i’ve always wanted to be.
Us too!
Me too and I didn't even know it for a long time.
Me too!
ha, me to and just for shits and giggles throw in Larry Carlton, Lee Rit, Matt Schofield and Mike Stern
yeah and his words about how he learned those harmonic and jazz chords are insane I wish I could get near 1% to it.
Count me as a new Robben Ford fan. Especially enjoyed hearing him discuss how he taught himself.
Regardless of which guitar he's playing, the sound he gets is really similar... I think his character really comes through. Thanks for another great video!
True. He can make a clean les paul sound live and snappy and a tele sound fat.
Robben Ford - such a humble and gentle soul. Love his attitude and playing. The Tele is such a legendary guitar, pure with no where to hide. If you can play it will give you everything you'll ever need be it Ash / Maple or Alder / Rosewood or Mahogany / Rosewood it still sounds every inch a Tele.
Thanks for all the folks who made this happen, love Robben Ford, and his almost apologetic fascination with guitar & music. Such a humble guy, a rare quality these days but so worth aiming for.
Independently of the guitar, Robben Ford always sounds like himself.
You can say that about literally every single guitarist...
@@alexwr Any guitarist with their own style/touch/sound.
If you only follow the lit path, you know exactly where you end up. It's when you venture in the darkness on your own that you find yourself.
clapton sound like clapton santana like santana hendrix like hwndrix fruciante like fruciante what ur point lol
The Tele is everything you need and nothing you don’t need.
@William Harvey I dunno, I can think of a lot of things that Tele's don't do which I need.
I get what I need from a telecaster or Les Paul jr. For that matter a Les Paul special tv yellow is great too !
Agreed! 👍
I need a tremolo arm
NAH YOU NEED A WHAMMY A MIDDLE PICKUP
I've just found this. Great to hear. I saw Robben playing with Miles Davis at the Lincoln Center in June 1986 and will always remember the concert ... the the best concert I've ever been to to this day.
Been a fan of Robben ever since.
And, I also prefer the tele over the strat.
And also, great to hear Robben is self taught out of books which is encouraging for all of us amateurs.
Robben Ford is My all time Favorite Musician, his style, his Timing, and His phrasing is Impeccable. That is Why Miles Davis Talked So Highly of him. A true Legend...Thanks for the post..
I could listen to Robben talk about music and guitars all day.
Me too. Such a kind soul and a wealth of information
Oh hell yes me to 🤙❤
On the other hand, in terms of influence, he forgets the founders of the blues, the black American legends who really founded the blues of today, the King, Muddy, Buddy, etc etc
@cirimaxg651 I don't think he's forgetting or downplaying them, just citing his personal influences. I love Robert Johnson, Bukka White, Lightning Hopkins, etc. But if someone asked me my biggest influences (guitar), I would cite Clapton, Buddy Guy, and Albert King because my style of playing comes from trying emulate them and John Lee Hooker more than the others of any era.
Robben, I'll always idolize you man. I grew up worshiping Eddie Van Halen (and still do), but you are my primary guitar hero. You've taught me so much at your clinics. THANK YOU ROBBEN!
NEVER IN YOUR ADULT LIFE............IDOLIZE A DUMB ASS MUSICIAN........ coming from a older musician.....
@@john-zw9rw exactly, you can really be inspired by some players, but you should aim to make your playing your own
So he came to the store for strings and came out with a guitar. I came for guitar and came out with a guitar's pick.
Ha!
I just love Robban Ford! Also for giving credd to Bloomfield....
Love those tele sounds at the start! Robben is the reason I bought my 63' CS Tele. Can't quite afford an original!
Nice to see someone pay homage to the great Mike Bloomfield's playing and also Epiphone's glorious past.
Hi Robben, I don't know if you will have time to read this comment, but I'm maybe a few years older than you, and there I was trying to play like Hendrix with a semi-hollow body guitar and a solid state Amp, and later with les Paul and a twin, so we are the same in that respect! Ha! Also I was gigging in Boston when I saw you do a seminar at Berklee around '74, I think, and people were starting to get massively into effects. I loved your reply to the student's question, "What about effects?" Robben, "Well I use a tube Amp, and I like adding a little reverb." Loved it!
Robben is so cool, jet smooth and musical! This video has inspired me to try to find a good book of jazz chords to combine with my quest to be a good blues player. Those two styles seem to work very well together.
Robert Whitfield The Mickey Baker is excellent... lots of ‘jazz’ chords and progressions... helps you understand how to put them together
Mickey Baker Jazz Books are phenomenal
..there are many which include chord substitutions, books 1-4, I believe, soloing and comping. It was an epiphany to hear that Roben approached his playing like the blues even after learning Jazz substitution chords and scales beyond typical pentatonic. I do the same...great affirmation!!
Robben, I’ve been following you since I first saw you with George Harrison’s Dark Horse Tour at Madison Square Garden. You have never failed to inspire me. Your playing, your singing, your choice of songs, your choice of notes … Thank You!
Felt the same about Teles, for 20+ years, then I got a thinline and it totally changed my mind even toward the solid bodies.
Yeah I agree. Always thought I didnt need one since my Strat forfilled al my needs. That was untill I tried one from a friend of mine.
I too always felt that the Tele was oddly ugly. I always thought the headstock was out of proportion and it made the guitar look like a mistake..... I have always had a Strat and always thought they were the prettiest guitars ever. Now I think the tele is beautiful in it's simplicity..
Hello
When you say to thinline you mean humbuckers?
@@dimitrisaivaliotis5616, wasn't the sound for me, it was the overall aesthetics of the 62-72 Thinline that encouraged me to try a tele. Wouldn't have minded if was an SS config, just happened to be the model I like was HH stock.
@@ReeWebster
I suppose the aesthetic appeal can't stay a long without.. the sound!!
RF is a badass masterful player; incredible touch, feel, swing vocabulary and what a great tone. But i say the Jaguar and Jazzmaster are much much 'uglier' instruments.
Crazy how warm his tone is with the tele. Awesome player
@Ben Hackett yep just like the late great Roy Buchanan and his Telecaster..all done with volume swells and nob twisting no pedal dancing.
@Ben Hackett even as a Strat guy it blows my mind when someone says Tele's are ear piercingly bright. I'm like, dial it back a little and you'll have one of the most beautiful sounds on earth🎸
The best clean tones ever - right there.
Obviously a very nice guy
Mickey Baker book .
A good place to start
Very interesting talk. Very interesting guy.
The older I get the more I want to sounds and play like Mr. Ford
Hasn't everyone used the Mickey Baker books! I still use the Blue one and some tunes out of the Orange one
I still have the orange or yellow one, book 1 I think. I've had it since 1973. I still have only gotten through the chord charts and the first 5 or 6 exercises. I still can't read music after 50 odd years of playing.
Are these for learning jazz guitar? Could you provide a link?
I had the blue one for years. Kept dipping into it, but couldn't make any sense of it, so it went to ebay. Some of us just don't 'get' how to play jazz, even if we enjoy listening to it.
As much as I love, cherish and adore a vintage Les Paul Custom (1959 is my favorite) I do love and appreciate the beauty and simplicity of a Telecaster
I’ll forever appreciate supporting Robben on a couple shows. Seeing him work his mastery on those nights was classroom in itself. Try hitting the stage knowing Robben Ford is following you 💪 .
That would however definitely be preferable to hitting the stage following Robben Ford 😁
Saint Music
If he's following you, play his set....( read that somewhere.)
Chance'd be a fine thing. Good for you - I'm sure you gave him hell!
Yup, I checked all of those boxes too. Mickey Baker, emulate Bloomfield, Clapton and Hendrix. Never got as good as Robben though.
He,s right. That's why Dylan called on him because he said Mike was the best he had heard at that time.. I love Robben,s sound for many years an d got to see him close to 20 years ago when Gregg Allman used him on lead. I said to myself What" as i didn't know if he could play that particular genre. Shoulda known better as he nailed it!
When I Leave Here was the first song I ever heard him an d i was hooked. Right about the telecaster to. He'll, Roy Buchanan played it an d you know the rest of the story..Interview is just too cool!
The Telecaster's simplicity, is its beauty,. Amazing the wide range of tones to be had form what seems at 1st glance, a "simple" guitar. I LOVE Robben Ford's' clean tone with just a touch of reverb.That Epiphone is gorgeous too.
Same applies to all guitars with volume and tone knobs
He uses a little delay as well. Epiphone is an old one, P90s are nice and clean with more body than a single coil but they have noise at volume and feedback if you step close to a valve amp - so not so great live.
Tele is plain for sure, but it's the all-around champ. Danny Gatton got twang and a jazz organ out of it.
I always thought of a tele as a "country guitar" until I learned Page used it on Zeppelin 1 and part of 2. Now we hear Robben doing beautiful jazz chords and licks - this is a plain looking but extremely versatile instrument.
Robert Whitfield Yep. He also recorded the Stairway to Heaven solo on it.
that's why it's so cool.. cos it's the 'working mans guitar'.. no frills.. all function
There isn’t much that can’t be done on one.
Anybody know anything about that ‘57(?) goldtop that he’s playing in the intro? Telecaster tone is fantastic but man, that Les Paul...
For me, one of the stand out moments is the live solo Robben plays with the Yellowjackets at Montreux.
A total genius! Nice guy too :)
Robben is one of those players where you want to focus on his picking hand as much as you do his fretting hand.
Even Robben Ford has troubles playing stuff sometimes??! Mind blowing
A non-stop dispenser of wisdom. And I don't even think he's doing it deliberately.
We agree!
A guitarist's guitarist. It's rare to hear a contemporary musician solo and offer the listener so many surprises. Robben is that kind of player.
Talks about the "ugly" at 3:50 in
What a cool guy...He tears into Lovin Cup, is even a bit camera shy, and nail it beautifully. This is the guy that played on Miles Of Aisles as part of The LA Express. Enough said.
Robben is an immense guitarist always in melodic research and dazzling resonances .....
He constantly explores, never satisfies himself and is in permanent creation exploring the neck of the instrument as if he discovered it the first time ....
I am in awe of such a musical genius, an authentic and profound artist, all in humility.
I also had the Mickey Baker book #1 and studied it for several years with a great teacher. (Somebody I'm sure you know him.) He loved Eddie Lang & Fats Waller. I tried to integrate it into our song list Didnot work. I do still use it when I sit in with jazz guys. They love it, especially horn players. My original songs are based heavily on the Mickey Baker exercises. What I was shooting for was that Jeff Beck "Blow by Blow' feel. Love Robben have several of his CD's. He's one of the few that my Emy Lou Harris/Lucinda Williams/Chrissie Hynde/Bonnie Raitt loving wife will listen to. Thank you this was good.
This is my favorite tele. That tone, that color. It’s perfect.
Got the same story, I went into a local music shop looking for guitars and ended up buying new strings instead
I always think I like the sound of a Les Paul... until the Tele comes out and then it's all over.
That's why I used to bring an SG or ES-139 and a Tele to pretty much every gig.
Neither was a backup, switching back and forth for different songs was so much fun and inspired me to play differently over 4 hour cover shows.
@@shawnmcvey7789 I have a 335 style guitar that is a close second to my Tele. Tele is more versatile IMO but not by much.
Tyler Angle - It’s a fine line !
like the hotel california solos. the Les Paul sounds epic and then the Tele comes in and sounds even better.
"East/West" by P. Butterfield Blues band is an awesome record...Elvin Bishop and Bloomfield just tearing it up...
I bought this record 50 years ago. It is still among my favourites.
@@Marnigato I just discovered them earlier this year, after watching a documentary on Paul Butterfield. I mean, I had always heard of them, but didn't get around to listen to them...but what a find. Thank god for Spotify...
I feel like a telecaster makes you a more honest guitarist, especially those with an ash body and maple fretboard. It's like it highlights your mistakes if you play sloppy. If you put in the time on it, it will really sing (listen to Danny Gatton, Ted Greene, Ed Bickert, Julian Lage and other tele masters).
That little bit you sang and played sounded great!
Gosh, he is so sympathetic! Legend
"I never heard a guitar sound and saw the guitar and thought 'I should get that guitar to sound like that' "
I think a lot of players would be better off with this attitude. They concentrate too much on the gear side of things.
I have owned over 50 guitars and completely agree with you GAS is a bad problem....(Guitar Acquisition Syndrome). Having said that having a good acoustic does help improve your sound.
@@stevemorse108 G'day Steve & supermashriq
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Old school pro keyboard player here. While there's sorta kinda a GAS equivalence for keys players, I totally 'get' the whole GAS thing. Along with the tonal characteristics of various guitars, I very much enjoy the aesthetic component of various non statically tuned instruments.
Being a somewhat frustrated guitar player, I have over the years, found myself in possession of WAY too many guitars..hehe.
Fun fact (for me)
The only smell/aroma/vibe that beats a roomful of guitars & amps, is a room with a C3 & two 122 Leslies...switched on!!
So! who wooda funk that there could be an olfactory component of enjoyment in the playing process??
Happy dayz...Cheers...Cj in Oz
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Very true. I still have an old Guild Starfire lll myself, but I realized it was me, and not the guitar that was shaping the sound.
@@stevemorse108 I would not say it is a "bad" problem, per se. It only becomes an issue when you purchase a guitar to "sound" like somebody else. It took me a long time and a lot of money spent to realize that no matter what instrument, pedal, amplifier I would use, I would only sound like myself.
I kept buying guitars that I liked, but at least, I have no more expectations they will make me a better musician.
That made me laugh, because I went to Guitar Center in Los Angeles, I think it was in the 90's, just after he had released the "Talk to your daughter" CD, and there was that Fender "Robben Ford", that I am still sore to not have purchased; but I was from Europe, and I was afraid it could get damaged in transport.
I went back to the store several days in a row, played it again and again. I was heart broken to let it go. I remember it was black...
I am surprised that he never mentioned some of the people like Freddie King, Buddy Guy, T-bone Walker, and Hubert Sumlin, and such.
Reciting the list of great guitarists would take longer than this video...
Hey Robben I remember that 65 Super Reverb! I served as roadie and helped get it out to your car after our Master Class in Ojai years ago. Always appreciate your grooves man!
Lovin' Cup is an awesome song. Paul Butterfield Blues Band was one of the first groups I saw at the Fillmore. And, yes, Mike Bloomfield (RIP) was our guitar hero. Their version of Work Song (Adderley) & East West blew me away... In March of 1968 at Winterland the Electric Flag (Mike Bloomfield) opened for Cream's Wheels of Fire tour and I was there for Clapton vs Bloomfield (as I saw it at the time).
Tele is ugly, for sure!!! I have a thinline, but it's really ugly!!!! hahahaa... Sounds great though!
Robben Ford is my default go-to guitar player on RUclips. I’ve played for 53 years, and have seen hundreds of concerts by the greatest guitarists.
Robben Ford has an authenticity, a joy for the instrument that is quite refreshing to me. I learn something every single time I watch and listen to him.
Great player & cool soul. Nice seeing veteran musicians who literally would play for nothing but love of sound & keep it together (& truth, many greats played for little reward, w no bitterness).
That's a very *gold* looking "burst".
Right?
Came here to say the same
i agree too
Ha, yep not a burst at all! It originally had p90’s and Robben had them changed for humbuckers. Some people think that sorta thing is wrong but he said it’s the only way he’ll get to a ‘59 with buckers.
Nick Granville is there any other videos of the goldtop? I can’t seem to find anything about that guitar anywhere.
nice to hear somebody playing with feel and heart...rather than speedscaling...nice one
I don’t care who is being interviewed. There is nothing ugly about a tele. It is one of the most perfect and beautiful guitars out there.
Yeah, I'd say there are really ugly guitars with 10 pickups and stuff (like the 1960s cheap Italian & East Europe models) , even the Mosrite or Explorer was a strange shape, but the Telecaster is a well balanced shape & quite comfortable.
1000% agree! Got three of them
I hate the small head. The fatter Versions are awesome. I own the white Tele Ultra and i am so in love with it.
Beato album? a Freudian slip? Rick may be pleased. Tele into a Super Reverb - my personal all time fave tone. He's amazing to listen to.
He's for real. I like him. That Epi sounds really creamy,,,a lovely thing.
Creamy, that's the word I was looking for!
When they showed the shot of the headstock, I said, "I love this guy!". I have an Epi 335 pro, and it's always fun to see the heavy hitters playing Epiphones. I love Robben's playing.
@@danielgrove8341 I think that's a 60's era Riviera-made in Kalamazoo.
@@freddymclain I went to college in Kalamazoo (WMU), and took a tour of the Gibson factory with some friends. Wish I'd known then what I know now! Thanks.
@@freddymclain Thanks for the comment. Do you know the exact model of the Epi? When i was a kid i stuck with Epi for years but never had one of their US made electrics. Had 2 US made acoustics. The epi Robben plays in this video is just.. Perfect. That guitar, and a Gibson 3 pickup nighthawk, are the only two guitars i would want right now.
HAHAHA! I felt exactly the same about telecasters when I was a kid. Damn ugly HEE HAW guitars...
One of my favorite guitarists and I got to see him in my home town (7,000 people). I was about 15 feet from the stage.
I understand your approach, my grandmother played piano and she could hear any tune and play it by ear. I aspire to be like her 🎉
It's great watching anyone play when you see that point that there diving into what there playing
Yes. He starts playing that Bloomfield line and says " I don't know why I'm having trouble playing that". Then he dials in, and at 2:54 he turns it up a few notches. He does the same thing later in the video. Becomes a "Stone Cold Killer" - as Tom Bukovac would say.
Super was the best fender amp... But you didnt want to carry it around! 👍
2:40 plays 1000 times better than me then says “don’t know why I’m having trouble playing it right now” #sellingmyguitars
I always thought the Telecaster was ugly too, and then I played one, and loved it.
One of my guitar heroes. A gentleman through and through.
I've seen him twice, both times in Petaluma, California.
Saw Robben tear it up many times at the Cellar @ DeAnza College. The most impressive performance however was as a session player with Jimmy Witherspoon @ Keystone Corner,SF. Blew my mind playing that Super 400 but what most impressed me was his sax and piano chops!
I love the "yeah" and "right" in the background :))
Don't forget Elvin Bishop with Butterfield.
That 1960 tele sounds incredible. I've always been chasing the blackguard sound but that guitar is a killer.
Pickguard makes no diff. You can take any 10 guitars of the same time era year make and no 2 will sound the same i guarantee you no 2 people have the same print etc said enough no model either 2 in a row .its just a fact in the old days you walked in there would be 5 precbs strats youd playvthem all buy the superior sounding one same now some suck some magick. Very rare magick not model guitar.pre cbs 200 450bucks a lot of hype quality control 20% on.a lota expensive stuff well call it aging after 20 yrs molecular structure change magnets weaken bugs worked out by playing them out fix fix fix until nothing left bugs gone nice played in instrument .buy a new one play it in if its good (to your liking) when purchased itll get better .end hope you guys get it . Girl s included with guys .have a great day .
@@davidkenneth3983 I'm not talking the actual pickguard! I'm talking about the ERA of early Fender Broadcaster/Telecaster/Nocaster known as early Blackguard guitars! And Yes, individual guitars of each era vary for sure with some being killer and some dogs, but, you definitely can group guitars in general categories based on time period.
I worked in guitar stores for a long long time, including stores dealing in vintage guitars, I am not wothout direct experience. I have played dozens of CBS and pre-CBS strats and teles. The sound of an early blackguard pickup say in a Broadcaster or Nocaster sound is as a generalisation, very different to that made say in 55 or the early 60's, Similarly an Rosewood board, Alder bodied guitar sounds different to an Ash/Maple combination. Both great sounds but different. Both before and after ageing of timbers and de-gaussing of magnets.
The man is a humble legend. Thanks.
His playing gives me the chills
Anyone else just wish he would have kept playing on that LP? Man that tone was sweet.
Robben is under rated
I've been playing 35 years, I still don't remember anyone just giving me a Telecaster as yet....but there's always tomorrow, lol.
2:48 it’s nice to know that even the greats are sometimes stumped by something they’ve played 1000 times
Hendrix TICK
Clapton TICK
The Paul Butterfield Band Um... got to fess up and say I missed this one! Checkin' out now. Lovin it. Big thanks RF!
You won't be disappointed.
God bless that Mickey Baker chord book, it has helped so many players, me included, good on ya Mickey wherever you may be.
Michael Gorman “complete course in jazz guitar”?
Well another guy was doing cool stuff on guitar back in the mid 50s sounding like a steel guitar was Roy Buchanan He was WAY ahead of his time! As far as Jazz, Joe Pass is the man!!
man that spring reverb sounds great
In the last year or so, lots of players have been giving Bloomfield shoutouts, from GE Smith to Mick Mars of Motley Crue. They all say, "He was the first".
The Telecaster is the most versatile guitar and probably my favorite sounding. As far as ugliness goes, I’d have to say that the Fender Jazzmaster tops it.
agree on the Tele part
absolutely disagree with the Jazzmaster remark
JMs and Teles are both beautiful guitars, sounds and looks
guitar designs of the 40s, 50s and 60s are hardly ever ugly
as far as ugliness goes it´s hard to beat monstrosities like the Gibson Firebird X
that´s one ugly MF
@@witnessingobscura952 Haha, yes, that´s what i´d call really ugly guitars.
Seems like Gibson have that going for them
Got to see Robben at Tampa Bay Blues Fest in like 06’. He brought the house down with a little tweed amp. He’d go back and tweak some knobs for each song.
When i heard Manage a trois with the Yellow Jackets i just loved your tasteful chops then i got a chance to see you at Clearwater Jazz and blues fest. You used possibly that telecaster. Certainly one of the All time Guitar Virtuosos.🎸🤗
I regret selling my Gibson CS LP whenever listening to crazy tone.
Triple humbucker LPs are the ugliest guitars to me.
Ha, that's funny the first guitar I lusted after was the White Les Paul SG triple pick up, gold hardware. It just looked incredible up there on the wall. Fast forward many many years when I'm grown and one comes into our store. We couldn't agree on a price for the store, so we passed and then I bought it from him personally. I absolutely couldn't stand the guitar and I couldn't even play it, the middle pickup is right in the way of where I pick. The strings were too low to the body, same problem I had with my '52. I got around the 52 with some modifications, but I found a buyer for that SG LP within a couple weeks.
Agreed. Also a Bigsby on smaller guitars like the LP. Looks so ugly.