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I met Chris this week purely by chance. We chatted for an hour over a drink. I can confirm that the guy is absolutely as nice and thoughtful as he seems on his videos. His passion for the instrument is so inspiring and of course he’s a masterful guitarist. I suspect there is no guitarist out there who has a better touch when it comes to passing notes. Please keep the content coming and I’m so excited to see what is next for this guy
Cheers Killian! Lovely to meet you mate. Hopefully see you in Manchester in September 🙂
@@ChrisBuckGuitar Greatest guitar design? Fender TC-90. A set-neck, thinline double-cutaway Telecaster with P-90's & a stop tail. Prove me wrong...
Zzzzzz... @@gchampi2
An ES 335, and a Telecaster. That is all I need for an electric guitar.
That’s what I have and a mesa boogie and katana amplifier
That's all anybody needs. After years of trying to figure out what my guitar preferences are (and owning almost every guitar type there is), I finally came to the conclusion that the Tele and the 335 (or equivalent semi-hollow with humbuckers) are what speak to me the most. Of course, I own other guitar types, but if I had to pick only two, it would be a Tele and a 335.
I’m beginning to see a theme here, since I’m of the exact same mindset. 🤘🏾
@Luthiart ^ tongue firmly in cheek ^
Truly, play whatever the hell you feel like
just don't assume that you know what anyone else _should themselves be playing_ without getting an eyeful/earful backatya ! ☮
Alex Lifeson's a big fan who was, when I was growing up, my hero. He's just sold his 355 at auction (£380,000). His first main guitar was a sunburst '68 335 which was damaged at a gig. I think he still has it. I once got to play a chap's early 70's 345 through a Roland space echo. La Villa Strangiato was first, of course!
You can thank Hank Garland for the design and especially the playability of the 335. He’s the guy who worked with McCarty to design the 335 and also work the bugs out of the original design. Hank ended up with the prototype.
Always plays some of the tastiest licks on the web, never disappoints😀
526 to 719 is some of the most tasteful tuneful playing i have heard. on level with all the masters
Ditto.
Great vid. And yes, to me the 335 is the best guitar ever. Great tone, versatile, extremely comfortable to play, not too heavy, gorgeous looks. A 355 with Bigsby is still on my wishlist 😀.
I absolutely love your playing, so vivid and creative. A pleasure to watch!
@5:27 that's one of the best demos I've ever seen of having a flexible approach to right hand technique, using and not using the plectrum. Top Stuff. and yes I'm a 335 fan,
Different guitars I know, but I have always preferred 335s to LPs. I consider them to be more versatile and richer sounding. I love teles for their simplicity, but I think the 335 is in many ways the pinnacle of electric guitar design
I've owned a 1980 Gibson ES 347 for roughly 23 years. I love this guitar.
I have other toys too.
Yes i had one. An unbelievable guitar. Match it up with a Messa Boogie amp with SRO speaker it was great!!
That guitar solo at 5:26 was sublime!
Clapton always at his best with a 335 in his hands!
That second solo on the red 335 was to my ears way better than the intro part. Much more melodic which is what I prefer personally. It’s not how many notes you play but which notes you play. This is not a criticism of your playing which is always amazing, just my personal preference. I have a 335 (1980), LP (1979) and SG (1972) and love the sound of the 335 but I don’t really get on with it for reasons I can’t figure out. Weight is certainly one factor but not really the reason. I bought it second hand really cheaply and am loath to part with it. Oh well I guess my kids will inherit it. Love the channel - please keep them coming.
Happy Friday
My personal favourite guitars are my Epiphone Casino and my Squire Strat. They feel excellent by my taste and both work for everything I want to make. I mean I've made stuff from Stoner Metal to Black Metal to Beatlesesque stuff, and pretty much everything I've made on those 2 guitars. I honestly have no real complaints about either of them.
Great video and playing - time to rethink the 335 . . . never really considered one back in the day. Got my LP Custom in 1974 and just stayed with it, adding a Strat 10 years later. Thanks for the music!
So I packed up my gear for the weekend last night, including the 5 guitars I’m taking to the gigs this weekend. I decided to give my 335 a weekend off (which it NEVER gets!), and to take a Gretsch instead…and then this video! Now I’ve gotta rethink my decision! I had this same problem with your Melody Maker video and my ‘63 Melody Maker! Your playing is fantastic, and very persuasive! So maybe it’ll be the Gretsch and the 335 (and Strat, and 2 Pauls…) and I’ll give the Firebird the weekend off….decisions decisions! Great video, great playing as always! Cheers ✌🏼
my friend if you even play a rubber band stick you will sound like the greatest guitarist in the world .its in the fingers.👍👍👍👍👍
I do agree with your statement for the most part which you hear all the time , but if the “tone is in the fingers’ concept is 100 percent accurate , then why do all these other great players like Bonamassa, etc collect and play the finest vintage guitars and amps to achieve their “tone”?
Why don’t they just play the crappiest guitars from upper Mongolia?
@@SlavicSon for the same reason that a good big guy always beats a good little guy. That and they can afford it and probably enjoy it like the less talented of us
@@SlavicSon ask Clapton
@@juancarlosgonzalezconde6958 Ask him what? Why he plays expensive vintage guitars to get his tone which are auctioned for millions of dollars and who currently has dozens of them up for sale at Gruhn Guitars in Nashville? In addition to the newer custom shop fender and Martin pieces that cost thousand in their own right?
@@SlavicSon whatever
I have a 335, a les Paul, and a tele and the 335 is the one I grab most often. I love the tele twang, but the Gibson scale length is easier to play in my view, and compared with the Les Paul, it's roughly the same weight and a very similar tone, but again easier to play because the fretboard is so accessible right the way up the neck. So it's become my default choice. Quality of Gibson finish not as good as my PRS or my Ibanez JSM, but it has mojo and that great tone.
An ES-335 with a Bigsby ...just gorgeous. Am also surprised they aren't as revered as much as Bursts seeing as they also have the PAFs and the vintage mojo.
Bursts were used by guitarists in the 60s because they were cheap and you could use them live an loud. The use of them by guitar heroes in the 60s/70s made them popular with the fans of those guitar greats. Jimmy Page, Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top, Duane Allman and Dickey Betts of the Allman Brothers, Lynyrd Skynyrd and so many others in that era...the baby boomers bought and popularized the guitars of their heroes. The 335, which I happen to love, was popular, but not to the same degree, for the same reason. You go to a concert, and they weren't usually playing them.
It's the greatest when you're playing it bro, quality 😂
Just realized I'm not subscribed. I've been watching your vids for years! Shame on me. Subscribe people, this mans a master of his craft.
If you hadn’t seen that Chris Buck was the one soloing at 9:41 you would be forgiven in thinking it’s Larry Carlton on a Steely Dan tune. Nice
That solo starting at 9:44 is amazing! So smooth and in the pocket and I honestly cannot figure out how he developed his fingerstyle technique. Buck is one of my favorite players on RUclips.
Supurb review. And melodic playing!
The song in the middle reminded of Doves.... but with shredding. Great stuff ✌️
What an amazing sound. Those jams were a great way to round my Friday off. The last one was super hot like the weather today
I have a 335 with block and ebony fretboard. Brighter sounding than rosewood. 57 humbuckers. Can’t be beat. Played though single ended 6l6 amp controlled feedback is spectacular.
As I always say. I watch his videos primarily to be allured by his playing the rest is just a bonus.
I like the darker tone of the black one. Nice guitar!
Bill Nelson - Bebop Deluxe great 335 player
I've put my Aria Pro Il TA30 Made in Korea up for sale and have taken it down so many times. After watching this video, I think I will keep it and change the pick ups in the future. It has burstbuckers in there at the moment. Your playing sounds amazing.
Damn that got me :) Thanks Chris for the marker :)
That live clip just blew my mind.
Okay, ,, back to the rest of the film. .
I only ended up with a 335 because my friend needed money, but I must say, it's really great in a lot of situations and genres. My greatest of all time is the Strat, but you could definitely make a case for the 335. Thanks! 🎸
your playing is hypnotic! 😍🔥
I had the opportunity to play a couple of '59 ES335's a number of years ago. The PAF mystique is well deserved. Never heard such a wonderful balance of warmth, air and chime. Not especially loud pickups, just especially beautiful sounding. No doubt the 335's structure and its combination of woods helped the PAF's deliver that sound.
IBZ AS73 here....close enough (don't need a Bigsby).
This bought in '06, just before my 50th BD, seeing EC.
Blues Jr, Bad Monkey and the 73 for GoodBye's Sitting On Top Of The World, stereo jam.
Pretty great. show was good, too.
fantastic track .. ur playing is something mesmerizing !!
Love it Chris !!!!
Chris Buck might be my favorite modern guitarist.
You can't spell Friday without tagging on the word Fretworks anymore! The easiest 'Like' of the week!
I've been learning the guitar for over half a century. Frankly I'm crap, but I love the instrument. Quite a few electics have passed through my hands, for me the best most/versatile
of all is the Epiphone es 339 (with coil splitting). Seems it does most of the 355 and Les Paul tricks plus a bit of the Fender single coil stuff too. Love mine anyway. Rgds P
I think Chris Buck can make every guitar sound like the 'greatest guitar design ever'... His command over blending his playing style at every moment with how the guitar already happened to sound on any spot on the neck is (the English language needs a new word for this, combining 'impressive' and 'divine' and yes for all us 'normal' guitarists, it IS a little 'depressive')
Chris, another wonderful video, informative, packed with facts, and - for me at least - impossible to switch off, thanks to your playing. Hats off!
One of my favorite guitar players I grow up with and seen in concert in 73, played a Gibson ES335 and that was the great Peter Banks. Peter of Yes, then later Flash and Alex Lifeson of Rush were the only ones that knew how to use a lot of effects tastefully in my opinion.
Nice video Chris, I have 4 different versions of the ES-335 style. Gibson dot 335, Gibson Trini lopez, Epiphone Riviera and a casino. Looking to add a 355 to the collection soon.
If you could only keep one which one would it be ?
@@benallmark9671 that is a tuff one, it would be between the dot 335 and the Trini. The dot is 32 years old, sounds amazing. The Trini lopez has a lovely neck, un-potted pickups and the G string never slips with that string through Firebird headstock.
@@Fretter18 nice. I’ve been eying up the 335 dot’s , I’d prefer a 60’s for a slimmer neck but it’s fairly significant price jump from the 58 re issues to the 60’s. That’s new , here at Long & McQuade in Canada.
@@Fretter18 I checked the prices to make sure and ya the 58 re issue is $4500 CDN and the 64 335 VOS ( whatever the means ) reissue is $7600. The 58 has a rounded C neck and the 64 has a medium C. You know what the difference is between those two necks ? I’m not huge fan of the fat 58 style neck.
The Trini Lopez is by far the best 335 I have ever played …..
I find the 335 as my favorite guitar. It also is my favorite bass, the semi hollow eb-6! id love to see a custom style version of the eb-6
Your videos have been suggested for a while now. But I finally clicked and I’m glad I did. Great playing, and great video. Subbed.
Got an Epiphone Sheraton Pro II. Based off of the 335. Invested in a pair of Seth Lover Seymour Duncans. It's amazing.
For electric guitars a player only needs two, a Tele and a 335. Chris has them both covered with his 'GOAT' videos 😉
I think you are pretty much dead on but I would throw in a jazzmaster for when you are feeling a bit offbeat
I've got them both as well and love them both. I say a Tele is the best Fender guitar and a 335 is the best Gibson guitar. I adore my 335 and I'm a "Fender guy" overall. I've got 3 Strats, 2 Teles, and a 335 and love them all equally but still say the Tele is the "best" from just an objective perspective. There are things a Strat can't do. There are things a Les Paul can't do. There are things a 335 can't do. There is nothing a Tele can't do.
@@SimpleManGuitars1973 I have to agree with this entire statement.
Your accent/voice is very very similar to Paul Hindmarsh from Line 6 /HELIX videos. Your videos are very interesting and entertaining and full, full of good knowledge, Cheers from a Englishman living in Southern California. subscribed mate!
Love your talks 👍. Great fella . Full of information, always interesting. Loved seeing you in lin Liverpool with Buck&Evans. … Top lad 🎸❤️👍
Always loved the look and sound of the ES. Also that was among my favorite playing of yours. Especially loved the second playing part from 5:30 on.
My first guitar was a red 2009 ES-335 (bought used off of Craigslist 2013). Having been just a 5-string banjo player - I removed the high E-string - and played it happily for 7 years as a 5 string guitar - till last year - I sold the ES-335 - and bought a butterscotch pine American Pro II Telecaster. Removed the high E-string as well, and have been playing that happily the past year. I like em' both. Prefer the smaller Tele body size, I suppose. It's also a bit lighter being a pine body.
Interestingly: I sold the the Es-335 (on Reverb) set up as a 5-string guitar - with a nut cut for 5 strings..and buyers were cool with that. Sold fast! I did not change the nut on my Tele - just removed the string. (I use banjo tunings for guitar).
Incredible playing!! And nice watch :)
I love the 335, but man a set of P-94 pickups by gibson just sonically wakes them up. Completely changes the way you play the guitar
My first electric, that I bought in 1970, was a 335. Just bought a new IBG Epi 335. Very close to the Gibson, but I may change the pick ups. Seems a bit too bright on the neck pick up, but I’ll see out it goes for awhile.
damn Chris.. that first solo at 5;18 is killer man.
I have sold my dot 335 from 1999 because I needed money. But nothing is better than a 335 in a Deluxe Reverb with a delay effect
Damn that was good!
I love the 335 - but if I were friends with Mr Yamaha I'd take a long hard look at the SA2200 (and siblings) - try one, you might like it.
Here's Nikolay doing a back to back comparison.
Thanks - looking forward to next episode
Link ruclips.net/video/_WyRKcHAjuI/видео.html
I have the Yamaha SA 2200 its a joy to play
Have to agree that I love a great 335 or 335 style. My latest venture and first purchase of the type was Carlton's new signature model from Sire and I have to say, the tone and feel is quite astounding. Cheers!
Thanks chris you are a truly a great guitarist
Great vid, and I like your points on the Ed 335 or similar. Iconic!
The ES-335 is in fact a refined form of Les Paul's famous 'Log', think about it: A hardwood center block in which the pickups/bridge is installed, followed by two acoustic 'wings' that do not provide any contribution to the sound (from a physics point of view, this is rationally true-humbuckers cannot collect acoustic energy) So, the 335 is in fact the true 'Les Paul' in the earliest sense of that term.
Why does a 335 sound different to a Les Paul, and an ES 175 with humbuckers even more so?
While the debate on whether conventional guitar pickups can/do or can't/don't pick up sound other than the frequency generated by the strings continues, it cannot/should not be overlooked that unpotted (and to some degree potted) pickups act as microphones as well as a transducer. The microphonic nature of a specific pickup, in my humble opinion, will to some degree amplify the acoustic properties of a guitar. I think this what largely influences the reason why one model guitar sounds so great while another "identical" one sounds different because the wood on one is older, denser or tighter grain etc. In the same way the microphonic nature of a pickup could pickup the acoustic properties of a 335 style guitar. Gibson had many years where they did not pot their pickups which, as I have already most probably overstated, has led to some of those guitars that are special. Certainly other factors contribute to the acoustical properties of a guitar such as style and material of bridges, nuts, tailpieces etc., again potentially picked up by a somewhat microphonic pickup.
great playing Chris love to see you man as much as I miss my Gibson 335 which was a beautiful and lovely sounding instrument I must say I'm very pleased with my Ibanez as73 which I find to be an equally quality instrument and much more affordable and less valuable for traveling with and since my Gibson was stolen I'm just as happy with my Ibanez frankly
One thing I have found with semi hollowbodies, is that most of the ones from companies other than Gibson, sound closer to a solidbody when they have a stop tailpiece, but Gibsons sound more in between the two.
When they have trapeze tailpieces they all sound closer to hollowbodies.
If I were to get one though I would prefer a trapeze tailpiece as it is more different than my solidbodies
I love my 335 and the players I most associate with it are Eric Clapton and Dickey Betts. They are two of my favorite players ever and I'm a big time Clapton devotee and consider his best tone ever to be his tone he got from his 335. The Clapton tone I love the most besides his Cream days is the From The Cradle tone. His live tone during that period was on a totally different level. There is just something about a 335 that brings out an absolute beastly quality in his playing.
Love my 335 so much that I'm constantly thinking about selling my Les Paul.
Love my Riviera, same idea. Covers a lot of ground in one guitar
I felt the 335 too big and unwieldy so I found a slightly smaller 336 - and love it...Just discovered Jon Herington does too...so it can't be bad can it?
I SOOOOO love mine.
Awesome as always!! Hey, what's the harmony of the second tune (the one with the red 335)? Love it!
To hell with the guitar - the playing is just mind blowing!! No, definitely one of the best guitars ever made.
I used to have an Epiphone 335 and i was never in love with it.
I now own a 335 style by Peerless with gibson P-90s and also an Ibanez 335 style with their high end PAF humbuckers.
Those two are my favorite guitars, but kind of show off that a 335 with low end or average pups just aren't going to overcome average pickups, which is a thing that single coils are known for. You can get a lot of mileage out of a cheap tele. The same cannot be said fir the 335, whee you have to lay out some bread to get a good sound.
I bought a epiphone Sheraton in 1988 and I still have it out of the guitars I have , Gibson Les Paul, Gibson sonex , fender strat American the Sheraton has the best feel and sound
The dynamics of your GuitarRig performances in your videos are glorious/different than your live performances. I suggest thinking about that a little bit.
Recording in a studio environment with headphones and a monitor mix you can tweak infinitely vs a live gig with a loud drummer, loud amps, variable monitor mix etc. The two scenarios couldn’t be further from each other. Of course the results are different. It’s the nature of the beast.
Very nice Orville by Gibson! Tele, Strat, LP...ect are great guitars and have their own uniqueness depending on what you want at that particular time.
For semi-acoustic my choice is always my Aria Pro-II TA60, very similar to the ES330 (no woodblock) and it can handle anything from jazz and blues to full-on rock....
Can’t say I have a 335 but my Heritage H535 is pretty dern close…most versatile guitar I own.
It does not matter but I was annoyed/ pleased with how they painted the sunburst on the back, much preferring the around the edges and not a big tear drop.
Hands down the Swiss army knife of guitars is the telecaster.
Wondering if you have played a 72 Tele thinline...not exactly a Hollywood, but with wide range humbuckers, a unique tone.
Another very good FF, thank you Chris!
Point taken about vintage 335s though... I had a cherry '66 (like yours I think) and honestly the boutique McKay 335 I bought a few years ago is just a better guitar... so I sold the '66 and kept the McKay (Made in Michigan USA... they're fabulous guitars).
I also agree that, as much as I love the 335, the Telecaster is the most versatile guitar of all!
I find the 335 body a bit large, I tried a 339 & a Casino Coupe for smaller bodies, but didn't love them. Finally got a PRS SE Hollowbody, which I find very comfortable, light and versatile. I guess it's kind of a derivative of the 335 (but fully hollow). Anyway it's my favourite thinline guitar.
I sold my 73 , being a slight framed person, it was just too big. Was fun for feedback though...:)
I’ve found that rosewood necks with dot markers can be hard to “read” in some stage light situations. Will therefore buy a 335 block neck
336 ... Jon Herrington ... Totally agree with Him ... prefer it to the 335!
Could have got a red 335 for my first electric. Wish I had but with the Strat I was able to get a case and an amp too.
Hi Chris, great vid. So was the 339 giving you the goods without the size or did it fall short?
Idk about the greatest guitar design ever but its hands down the greatest Gibson guitar design ever. It's well balanced whether played sitting down or standing up. It arguably looks the best of all gibsons. And depending on the pickups and electronics, it can cover all genres of music fairly well. Only major downside is the electronics are a pain in the ass to work on cause of where they're located and the lack of easy access. But still amazing guitars.
Many of us can't afford a real Gibson ES335 but the Epiphone "Inspired By Gibson" Series has come closer to the real thing than ever before... There are other alternatives but for my money I'll take the Epiphone 24/7 365!
I'd like to try an es-325. I bet with mini humbuckers it would be even more versatile.
best design may have been the first guitar type thing produced way back in history? Prob beastly to play!
why do i keep repeating 5:27 - 7:30 - awesome. Gonna have to buy one now lol
I have a 335 and it’s a tone machine, but I find it bit big in the body, and I have to fight neck rise. I much prefer the slightly smaller 339’ which sounds equally as good.
I've had my ES339 since they first came to the UK. It's a beauty but I'm sure it's sounding better and better as the years pass. I wish they'd have not put so much nitrocellulose on to try and emulate PRS's. I reckon that's why it's sounding better as the lacquer thins with all my polishing !
Great video Chris...and as always phenomenal playing. How'd you compare the 335 with its Gretsch equivalent?
I've had the same debate for two years now. 335, or G6636Tg? Today I think i'd take the gretsch, tomorrow it'll be the 335.
"thoracic surgery" haha, very good! 😁
Tom Bukovac is the reason I want a 335