If youre loving Gary check these out: I love you more than youll ever know - studio version Empty rooms live at stockholm 87 Actually, do the whole stockholm 87 concert 😂 Blues career Still got the blues Oh pretty woman Rock career Shapes of things live Cold hearted End of the world You can not go wrong with Gary. He covers so many genres and styles. Thats why i think hes the 🐐. Looking forward to Moore!
Gary Moore was one of the best and one of my favourites. I saw him live, both in his heavy rock days, then with his blues band. The guitar is a Gibson Les Paul Standard, custom built to mimic the design of 'Greeny', the Les Paul he bought from legendary, original Fleetwood Mac guitarist, Peter Green. There are quite a few performances you can see on RUclips of him playing the original, which he bought in 1973. At the time, he told Green he couldn't afford the 1959 LP, which even then was a sort after guitar, but Green told him, "Sell your guitar and give me what you get for it.". So, Moore sold his Gibson SG (a good guitar but worth considerably less than the '59 Standard) and got 'Greeny'. He sold it in the the 2000s when he needed the money and it is currently owned (and often played live) by Metallica's Kirk Hammett. There is some dispute over the value, but Hammett certainly paid in the region of $1 million for it, from a collector. The guitar is unique in that following a repair (under Green's ownership), the neck pickup was rewired 'wrong', and had an out of phase sound, especially on the middle position (both humbuckers) very different from a normal Les Paul. Although a great guitar, Moore had another late 50s Standard that I believe he preferred to 'Greeny', so, though he probably sold it reluctantly, musically it wasn't such a loss. The guitar here is a copy as it has a clean, shiny nitro finish (no relicing, though you can now get a relic version of Greeny as both a Gibson and sister company, Epiphone). It has a more 'figured' maple top (Greeny has faded with age and exposure to light), none of the dings and marks - Gary Moore's frenetic picking left a through-to-the-wood patch just below and in front of the bridge pickup, but you will notice that the neck PAF pickup cover is fitted back to front, as it was on the original guitar after the bodged rewiring job. If you want that guitar, assuming Hammett isn't interesting in selling, for somewhere north of 1-2 million dollars, you can get the Epiphone for around $1,000-1,500, or the Gibson version for a few grand.
Ok, this is not, as you said in your intro, the performance from Montreaux in 2010, which is actually better than this one, but this one is from a few years earlier at the Monsters of Rock in 2003! But it’s still absolutely amazing of course, as always with Gary!
Yeah that is always touted as his best but I really didn't like his tone at that gig. There are half a dozen live versions at least as good as the 2010 one.
The 🐐
The greatest guitarist ever to walk this earth!
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Legendary performance, legendary song, legendary guitarist, legend. R.I.P. Gary.
Try listening to Gary with Albert Collins at Montreux , " Further on up the road" 2 guys just having fun with each other.
If youre loving Gary check these out:
I love you more than youll ever know - studio version
Empty rooms live at stockholm 87
Actually, do the whole stockholm 87 concert 😂
Blues career
Still got the blues
Oh pretty woman
Rock career
Shapes of things live
Cold hearted
End of the world
You can not go wrong with Gary. He covers so many genres and styles. Thats why i think hes the 🐐. Looking forward to Moore!
This song was co written with Phil Lynott from Thin Lizzy
Gary Moore was one of the best and one of my favourites. I saw him live, both in his heavy rock days, then with his blues band. The guitar is a Gibson Les Paul Standard, custom built to mimic the design of 'Greeny', the Les Paul he bought from legendary, original Fleetwood Mac guitarist, Peter Green. There are quite a few performances you can see on RUclips of him playing the original, which he bought in 1973. At the time, he told Green he couldn't afford the 1959 LP, which even then was a sort after guitar, but Green told him, "Sell your guitar and give me what you get for it.". So, Moore sold his Gibson SG (a good guitar but worth considerably less than the '59 Standard) and got 'Greeny'.
He sold it in the the 2000s when he needed the money and it is currently owned (and often played live) by Metallica's Kirk Hammett. There is some dispute over the value, but Hammett certainly paid in the region of $1 million for it, from a collector. The guitar is unique in that following a repair (under Green's ownership), the neck pickup was rewired 'wrong', and had an out of phase sound, especially on the middle position (both humbuckers) very different from a normal Les Paul. Although a great guitar, Moore had another late 50s Standard that I believe he preferred to 'Greeny', so, though he probably sold it reluctantly, musically it wasn't such a loss.
The guitar here is a copy as it has a clean, shiny nitro finish (no relicing, though you can now get a relic version of Greeny as both a Gibson and sister company, Epiphone). It has a more 'figured' maple top (Greeny has faded with age and exposure to light), none of the dings and marks - Gary Moore's frenetic picking left a through-to-the-wood patch just below and in front of the bridge pickup, but you will notice that the neck PAF pickup cover is fitted back to front, as it was on the original guitar after the bodged rewiring job.
If you want that guitar, assuming Hammett isn't interesting in selling, for somewhere north of 1-2 million dollars, you can get the Epiphone for around $1,000-1,500, or the Gibson version for a few grand.
Miyako of LOVEBITES does a couple covers of this. One on guitar 🎸 and one on piano 🎹 . Gary Moore is Miyako's favorite guitarist 🎸
Thanks so much though this was not Montreux.
sunburst les paul recently sold for £250,000
Not correct, its not the greenie he uses here
Ok, this is not, as you said in your intro, the performance from Montreaux in 2010, which is actually better than this one, but this one is from a few years earlier at the Monsters of Rock in 2003! But it’s still absolutely amazing of course, as always with Gary!
Technically, he was the greatest. On natural ability, I think Jimi Hendrix and Rory Gallagher share that title. But that's just my opinion...
montreaux 2010 version way better, 6 months before his death...
@razvant63 No, it isn't
@@razvant63 I personally hate that version. The best one is at the one night in Dublin concert
Yeah that is always touted as his best but I really didn't like his tone at that gig. There are half a dozen live versions at least as good as the 2010 one.
Watch this funny Erlend & Steinjo parody song of Gary Moore: ruclips.net/video/T84wPmGvqG8/видео.html 🤘🤘