@@guitarmovies Wow! A Flying V too, you are becoming a Gibson veteran! Way to go man, we let our guitars speak for themselves with our renewed obsession on quality. Thank you for giving them a chance. Cesar
For all the constant wailing and bashing online, your 2019 50's Standard LP has been one of the greatest things I've ever owned. I'm very grateful that I get to play it every day and I can only really pray for a raise (lol) so that I can collect even more of the beautiful instruments you've been putting out since JC rolled in. As you go from strength to strength, It's such a happy time in our big family community. To see Gibson regaining that magic that it has always inspired and been capable of puts big smiles on our faces. Thats thanks to all of you and your hard work. So thank you
Cesar Gueikian you guys also ruined my life, I haven’t removed my strat from its case and I don’t know why, it used to be my favorite, it still kinda is but I just haven’t played it in months.
@@ErraticFaith Fellow LP 50's Standard owner here and I couldn't agree more. The Gibson bashers either have never actually played one (certainly not a JC era one at least) or have no idea how much time and skill goes into crafting a Gibson guitar. Blows me away that American made Fenders with bolt-on necks and poly finishes cost virtually the same and nobody seems to think they're overpriced!!!! Long live Gibson :-)
@@comicblueswithjonygitar36 I suggest you wait until epiphone drops the 59 burst later this year, that is what I'm doing with the epiphone les Paul special tv yellow P90's, is called the inspired by Gibson epiphone guitars line and they are sweet plus they using all premium parts like cts wiring harness and alnico pro P90's and the typical grover tuners they used plus graphtech nut seems like they are really stepping up the game on these and they changed the epiphone headstock on these inspired by Gibson guitars to the old Kalamazoo epiphone headstock too so...
I already knew it was clickbait b/c I have never had a bad experience with Sweetwater... I swear that company is flipping amazing. their customer service is unparalleled.
I just bought a special and got it two days ago and Gibson hit it out of the park. I've owed several Gibson's but never new. I got the vintage cherry and love it!
Never understood it either, I listen to a lot of heavy bands and there are Gibsons everywhere. I think it might come from middle-aged guys going for the $3000 flame top models and stuff. These barebones Gibsons are hands down workhorse machines and are the opposite of “dad rock”
I totally hear ya! I'm a Fender guy. Recently got a double cut Les Paul Special with p90s and I am blown away by the power and sound. Love it! P90s are so versatile.
Did I read that right: 1.01K subscribers? Trust me, this channel has the potential to explode. The humor, writing, and production quality of this video are outstanding, and I predict great things for this content creator. Great job!
Yeah no doubt this dudes gonna kill it this year. Mike, once you hit about 15k subs it just starts to snowball so if you are able to be consistent you’ll be fine.
I really hope it does blow up! Mike - you killed it, man! Funny, informative, great video and sound quality...You hit all the marks. Got yourself a new sub, brother!🤘🏻
@@zlol_ssbm you obviously don’t have experience with these pickups, yes on full volume on the guitar you get that awesome overdriven Abraxis Santana sound but roll back the volume and you get the sweetest clean clear chimey tone a humbucker can never achieve
@@zlol_ssbm have you tried Lollar, my lollars with the volume backed off a bit have the sweetest most musical cleans I have heard. I own strats and Teles that I love but the Lollar P90 (not hottest version) can cover everything from clean country picking to Santana
@@danielbell4007 I have a Dean Palomino, which is a big hollowbody guitar. But it has 3 p90s, wired like a strat with 5 positions, and it has those in between out of phase stratty positions that remove the hum and sound a bit "quacky". I love it. It's great for playing stuff like SRV, the pickups have got that extra kick to them. But yeah I'd love a solid body version, for more clarity and treble, and less feedback issues. I'm looking to get an Epiphone Les Paul Special now they make them, and yeah that might be a modification I'll do to it, add a third p90, make it a "super" strat, just not the regular kind of "superstrat". It'd be so useful. It'd be a blues and rock monster.
Have you tried the Epi version. Watch several videos on comparisons and they were extremely complimentary of the Epi. Not better per se but for the price they couldn't believe how close it was. Any thoughts?
I've tried the new Epi SGs, Les Pauls and Specials. I think they are a lot of value for the money and great guitars. I think some of the comparisons to Gibson are overblown. You hold a guitar. You touch it constantly. There's a significant difference in the experience of playing a Gibson vs an Epiphone. But I certainly wouldn't be disappointed with an Epiphone, either. They're making great instruments.
I purchased all my guitars at Sweetwater even though they are online. I would not have guitars if wasn't for them. Straight customer service and high quality merchandise!
I bought an amp cover for my Katana 100 from Sweetwater. Did not expect what happened after I hit order. Cristian called and followed up with an email thanking me for my purchase. When the cover arrived, in the box was a thank you note along with a bag of candy. They have my business for life
I've been with Sweetwater 4 years. They follow up currently on merchandise they sell you and they match prices on reasonably priced from a 🎸 guitar pick to a guitar. They have a great hassle free tech. If Sweetwater sells it they know it. They don't sell junk. HEY CAN I GET COMPENSATED FOR THIS? 😆 LOL
I have to agree. I was super nervous about buying my 60’s Les Paul standard. It’s the first time I ever bought a guitar without playing it first. But the overall experience was great. Not trying to sound like I work for them but honestly the guitar was exactly what I wanted and customer service is excellent.
I've bought one guitar from Sweetwater so far and it was a very good experience. Josh, my sales rep, took great care of me throughout the whole process.
What tuning issues? Slippage? You need use a tie-off method, backwards loop like a knot, counterintuitive, look it up, popular, stops slipping. I also have issues with tuning pegs on L4, gears not precise bottom E tough to get in right spot, striking hard makes it sharp , wraparound also affects G strings, solution to useful wound 3rd,which i won't do. Hope that helps
Subscribed. That tear rolling down the Tele is the funniest thing I've ever seen on a guitar centric channel, just brilliant. With all the controversy that's been spreading around the community the past few years (Gibson (in general)/the Agnesi video/RobChapman, etc) it's really refreshing to find a channel with excellent production and a guy with a self effacing hilarious personality. Don't worry, cream rises & hard work pays off...dude will have 500,000 subs in no time. Be cool...
I wasn't a Gibson guy but... Randomly tested a les paul tribute at a music store and fell in love with the feel and sound. Walked out with it. I don't regret it.
I had a black 99 Gibson LP Special that I sold because I needed the money several years back. Now I’m desperately trying to track down that guitar. Worst mistake I ever made.
Hi Mike! My name is JD Cordlé and my first electric guitar was a 3 pickup black beauty. I've been professional since I was 16 and switched for some reason to a tele when I was 19 and used them primarily for the next 25 years on the road and then one day I picked up my Les Paul and did the show with it that night , the next day we had a show. In Chicago that afternoon I took down the 6 teles I had been traveling with and traded for two more Les Paul's and i have never looked back and never will. I just went home and was reminded of what I had when I started and what ill die with. Don t get me wrong Mike I love teles but they're not even close to my Paul's and teles to me limited me so much as an artist ! So in the end your Paul will always love you back hands down night after night and I cant say that for a fender! Play on Mike!
So I’m a Fender guy as well. Just sold an Epiphone ES-335 because I never really bonded with it-just not as comfortable to play to me. Yet the LP Special seems to be calling me. I need to get out to a store to play one and see how it feels.
I’m a fender guy as well recently acquired a Les Paul standard last winter and just a few weeks ago got the Les Paul Special TV yellow awesome guitar got the Demo as demo as well from Sweetwater Gibson, nailed it
8/2023: I just found this, and subscribed. I recently learned about this guitar in TV Yellow. I bought 2 amps and a Fender Ultra Strat HSS over the past 2 years. I don't know how I'm gonna get the OK from my wife (I've been a drummer since 1964 and we met when we were 15 in 1968) to buy one of these. BUT, I really want one. Looks Great, Sounds Great and IS Affordable. Thanks for posting this video. Best Regards to You.
Just be glad you weren’t walking down the lines of new shiny things at the Gibson booth lol. ‘I’ll take one of each’ is really what I wish I could of said 😆 Special shouts to the new historic acoustic line (just had to buy one!) and the return of Epiphone to USA for the Texan ...oh god so hard to not get one of those too! (Lol). Anyone who holds the right Gibson for them, certainly doesn’t forget it. Magic!
I sort of get that but a Gibson P90 is its own animal. It is a single coil but it produces a tone that sounds sort of like a cross between a Humbucker and Single coil. My PAF scatter wound Pickups in my Les Pauls kinda do the same trick.
Fun video. I’ve loved LP specials for many decades, and I’ve recently figured out how awesome Telecasters are. I think the Special and the Teie are hard to beat. I struggle to decide which is the better guitar. Ironically I am without a Special right now, but I do have it’s Gucci cousin, a Custom Shop R4...and yep..I still dream of owning a Special again!
If you can find a luthier to replace the nut with a compensated nut and also do whatever is necessary to correct the typical QC issues with these guitars it will play and stay in tune.
@@derekhand7904 The real problem is that I'm left-handed, but play with my strings upside down. I'd have to pay more for a LH model, then file a new nut. And there's still no way to re-intonate the bridge. I'm out of luck in this case.
Sweetwater customer service reps are the best I've ever had in any department. I've had the same dude since 2017. One time I tested if their emails were automated with a message, and the guy responded back very genuinely and heartfelt. Guitar Center is like haggling with pawn shop owners, the one thing they have right is the used gear market.
I agree with you %100. It's my favorite guitar hands down. Also, if you get a compensated wraparound tailpiece, it will have better intonation and stay in tune better. Mojoaxe makes a really good one.
I have the same problem. I'm so attached to my Ibanez RG Prestige. But a few months ago, I bought a PRS CE24. Every time I go to play, I grab the PRS. Who am I???
HAHA. First vid of yours I've watched. Subscribing immediately. THAT was entertaining. Very similar guitar love-arc as you. Still have and love my Tele I bought in college, but acquired a goldtop with p90s 3 years ago and ...well...you already know.
I had a similiar experience but kinda backwards. I was always a Les Paul guy and loved my Standard. Then I got a Tele Elite and it blew my mind. Enjoy!
Instant subscriber. Great video. Now trying to figure out how you got the tone at 4:25 without a pedal. Is the crunch from the Amplitude? And yeah, that guitar is my dream guitar.
Just discovered you on here. Well, actually I discovered you 10 minutes ago when I watched your 'how to relic a Les Paul..." video. Hysterical!! So I went to your channel page and saw this video. Sweetwater & Gibson Ruined My Life. Again, HYSTERICAL!! My wife bought me (after my hinting shamelessly) an LP Special. Dude, I agree 100%! My '#1' an LP Traditional I've had for a while now, is now my #3 (I got a goldtop that stole second place). But the point is, you're HILARIOUS and I'll be watching from now on. Keep up the hysterical work, buddy!
Damn! You are telling my story. I keep the Tele upstairs and the LP Special downstairs. Depending on what room I’m in, they both get played. No one gets jealous.
Hahaha! OMG. Me too! I have a guitar room upstairs with my main amp, and a practice amp in the bedroom, and one guitar is always upstairs and the other one is always down, depending. Strat and LP Special. I'm like a Mormon bigamist.
You’re supposed to shit on Gibson. It’s what all the cool kids are doing. Personally, the only thing stopping me buying another one is money. I have a 96 Casino bought new, a 97 Les Paul bought new and a 2016 SG bought new. Apart from needing to drop the action slightly on the SG, they’re all been perfect. I love Fenders, I respect PRS, I would love a Gretsch or a Rickenbacker some day, but every time I pick up a Gibson, it feels right.
Lol I’d probably slap someone if I heard any of that rubbish irl. Gibson is music dreams made real 😊 I always wanted an LP standard and was so happy to get one - some time later was playing with other people and needed an acoustic. Which I was far more unfamiliar with and didn’t know what to buy. Asked around and people were at it again online ‘shitting on Gibson’ but it made me think...why on earth hadn’t I considered listening to one of them. People kept referring to Martin as the tone that sets the standard but when I listened to them it left me a bit cold. I am sure they are as great as all the fans claim but it just didn’t really speak to me. After a few Taylor’s and other brands passed by I thought nothing was going to fit the bill, till I came to the Hummingbird. Oh my. Perhaps I just love the sound Gibson aim to make. Or maybe there’s just something about them but that was that. Saved up this year to buy the 60’s Historic and I’m so fricken excited after seeing them at the show. Eeek!
You'll end up back with the Fenders; might be temporarily confused by the nice girl in the pretty summer dress, but the hot one ,in nothing but an old XL T shirt , is still around-
I said the same thing about my Fender. I played for 35 years until I met the true love of my life. It was hard letting go, but my PRS is like that first love you let slip away after high school. She ends up divorcing later on in life and so do you and you two end up reuniting. Something you never expected. It was just destiny. A happy ending story. You think about her from time to time, but you know you've found your soul mate.
ROTFLMAO:)) That "single tear" running down the Tele was freaking priceless!! I also loved how you posted the signal path-especially with no pedals. Yup-going to add this one to my stable!! So very sorry that Sweetwater & Gibson ruined your life. If you need a therapist, I have just the Doctor for you to see- Maybe you should buy another Les Paul Special and set it up for slide! LMAO:)))
That was hysterical. Now I have to go to the Gibson website and compare the differences between the LP Special Tribute and the one you just demoed. Reason? Well there's a considerable difference in price, even though they appear to be the same guitar, and I can afford the Tribute. But If it doesn't allow you to hit an open string, go to lunch, return and find that the string is still ringing LIKE YOURS DID, then I guess I need to come up with the extra bucks. Thanks for the demo brother!
Dave Duffy My LP custom has sat for 2 years. Not played. And I’d never sell it. I’ve been on a weird run with playing my PRS and for the year before that I was into my strats. One day I know I’ll fall back to the LP. Worst mistake I ever made was selling a guitar just because I hadn’t played it .. but to each their own lol
I was a life long Fender guy. I’ve been playing for 38 years. My first guitar was a 1960’s Fender Mustang. I love Tele’s and Strats’s. I was a borderline Gibson hater. Then I decided to try them again without my prejudice guiding me. I played a lot of Gibson’s then I picked one up and it felt right. I now own 3 Gibson’s. My current favorite is a Les Paul Jr. single cut with one P-90. It immediately became my go to guitar. I agree 100% about those pickups!
Bought my Olympic White Fender American Standard Strat in 2012, still have & love it. In 2013 I made the Gibson plunge and bought a Les Paul Studio in tobbaco burst. Equally happy with both. Sweetwater is great, been a customer for years.
HAHA! I love this video. Well done. I'm waffling between a Tele and this guitar for my next purchase. I have a US Strat and LP copy today. Do I go for the trifecta (Strat, LP, Tele) or get a real Gibson with fat single coils..... Hmmm....
@@jambajoby32 The problem with Gibsons is the angle at which primarily the C & G string pass from the nut to the tuners - that's why they easily go out of tune. Gibson USA doesn't file the nut slots to compensate for this, which they should. & they should add a volute & decrease the headstock angle to just enough :)
I have a ‘57 Les Paul Special. I found it hanging in a Mom and Pop music store in Queens, NYC in 1984 for $285. ( Don’t hate me ). I had to pay an additional $65 for a non original Gibson case, so $350 all in. It’s truly a Rock and Roll machine. I think it might have appreciated a bit since I bought it. Just a bit.
Excellent point about Gibson pricing with the Ferrari example. I bought a well used 1976 Gibson explorer in 1982 as a broke college kid. It cost $400 and that was a REALLY large amount of money for me working minimum wage and going to school. It was a huge sacrifice. I still have it and it has always been the best playing and sounding guitar I have ever touched. Today I am not willing to pay Gibson prices for a new guitar. (Of course that may because I already own a Gibson that I have absolutely loved for nearly 40 years). That isn't Gibson's fault. It is their product. It is their business. They get to choose how to price their product. It is not like the federal government should subsidize Gibson guitars for low income families. This summer I replaced the motorcycle I have owned since 2003. I really wanted to get a Ducati. I have wanted one since I first saw an 851 with a lattice frame around 1990. I couldn't swing the Ducati price so I bought a really excellent Yamaha. Ducati's pricing isn't unethical or unfair. Ducati wasn't being mean to me for not lowering their price to match my budget. Some people can afford Ducatis and that's fine for those people and for Ducati's business model. I am really happy with the Yamaha. It would be silly to resent Ducati and complain about how they do their business simply because I chose not to pay their prices.
This is so awesome!! Took the words out of my mouth. I've always been a Fender guy, and even moreso a Telecaster guy. It's become part of my identity. But I've also always had this secret lust for a Les Paul Special in TV Yellow. I might have to bite the bullet and give in to temptation, too.
Careful - strats, teles. Prs at home - never even dreamed I’d like a guitar like this - played it - worked out I was a moron - now love my custom shop special - what a frikkin trip !!! It’s soooooo good.
I was ready to hate this video since I have had great experiences with Sweetwater and Gearfest is fantastic. My sales rep Codie calls me just to see how I’m doing every now and then. Well I ended up subscribing 😆🎸
as soon as you walked out of the room in my head i was thinking "now come back and grab the les paul" so you get a subscribe just for making me laugh. great video btw! ps, i went the opposite direction by starting out les paul and then going telecaster but i still love them both and in a fire i would save them both or die trying. i hear smoke inhalation is very peaceful!
I have so many nice guitars. But I always grab my Gibson Les Paul custom. After playing that thing, a Strat or my ESP feel like toys. I’ve literally contemplated selling off most of my guitars. They are all fantastic guitars. But you hit the nail on the head with “feeling” the whole guitar just come alive. You can literally feel it reverberate through your body. None of my other guitars do it to that degree. Is it as comfortable as some of my other guitars? Probably not. It’s a 10lb chunk with no comfort cuts or contours. But it’s just a beast of a guitar. And growls like no other. It’s quite empowering really. I’m hoping a full thickness USA ESP will have the same feeling. If I sell off some of my axes, I may get one. But it’ll be hard not to buy another Gibson Les Paul. Cool video. The teardrop on the tele had me in stitches. 😂
Laughed way harder at this then ANY SNL sketch I've seen this season...I need to stop watching network TV, because quirky guitarcentric RUclips channels that have honest and compelling narratives is mos definitely the next wave of quality entertainment. Or, not
Great video ! I’ve settled on the les Paul as my favorite I have a Slash standard and just purchased a p90 lp special tribute . Love Sweetwater great to do business with Matt’s my guy over there . I’m really looking forward to the p90 les Paul !
I’m in awe with Gibson, 30 yrs playing with Fender all the way until the last 3 years. Now I have 1 strat and 13 Gibsons. I want one of these now😅 great video.
@@guitarmoviesyeah. I sure did. A real addiction. I’m always buying, trading and selling. I get back about 80% at the end of it. Good justification to the wife🎉😂. I’ve traded up my collection so much from smart buying.
I am a DIE HARD Fender guy but... I have wanted this guitar for some time now. I’m a single coil guy but P90’s are amazing pickups. When I do get one I want to slap a Bigsby on it.
I love my TV Yellow LP Special. But it's not fair to compare it to staying in tune with a Tele, Teles stay in tune for weeks. I play the LP Special and a Vintera 50s modded Tele. Both are amazing instruments for the price.
Every guitar that I have owned that "doesn't stay in tune" has had one simple solution. Stretch the strings out, usually when you're changing the strings. Here is how: Lay the guitar flat. Put your fingers (both hands) under the 1st string. Stretch the string .. bending it so that your hands turn away from each other. Then turn them towards each other so that the string is getting stretched to the left and right of your hands. It is the string, not the guitar that goes out of tune. The string stretches. Get it stretched out and it will stay in tune. Don't stretch too hard or you will break the string, but you can strth it a bit before you get to that point. Getting back to the process, after you do that tune it to pitch. Now lay the guitar flat and stretch the string again. Tune it to pitch. I usually do this about 5 times for each string until it's still in tune after I stretch it. I do this for all guitars, even guitars with locking nuts. My Les Pauls give me no issues. One is 30 years old and one is 4 years old. I stretch out the strings and any necessary tuning after that is minor. I often take them out of the case and they are still in tune. One other point; Gibsons are not as forgiving as Fenders if you don't form the chord properly. Sometimes you think it's out of tune but it's how your fingers are on the fretboard. Play it right. I am a Gibson guy all the way. Les Pauls are the only electric guitars that I have performed live with or recorded with for decades.
Hi Mike, Cesar from Gibson - I am sorry we ruined your life! Enjoy your LP Special.
@@guitarmovies Wow! A Flying V too, you are becoming a Gibson veteran! Way to go man, we let our guitars speak for themselves with our renewed obsession on quality. Thank you for giving them a chance. Cesar
Cesar! Things are moving fast and you guys are nailing it! And checking the pulse of RUclips? That's also great! Hope to meeting you at NAMM.
For all the constant wailing and bashing online, your 2019 50's Standard LP has been one of the greatest things I've ever owned. I'm very grateful that I get to play it every day and I can only really pray for a raise (lol) so that I can collect even more of the beautiful instruments you've been putting out since JC rolled in. As you go from strength to strength, It's such a happy time in our big family community. To see Gibson regaining that magic that it has always inspired and been capable of puts big smiles on our faces. Thats thanks to all of you and your hard work. So thank you
Cesar Gueikian you guys also ruined my life, I haven’t removed my strat from its case and I don’t know why, it used to be my favorite, it still kinda is but I just haven’t played it in months.
@@ErraticFaith Fellow LP 50's Standard owner here and I couldn't agree more. The Gibson bashers either have never actually played one (certainly not a JC era one at least) or have no idea how much time and skill goes into crafting a Gibson guitar. Blows me away that American made Fenders with bolt-on necks and poly finishes cost virtually the same and nobody seems to think they're overpriced!!!! Long live Gibson :-)
Now THAT was fun to watch! 💛🙌❤️ Thanks, Mike!
Mike what do you suggest in Burst 59 reissue? Several models
I meant the question for Sweetwater here, looking for LP Burst
@@comicblueswithjonygitar36 I suggest you wait until epiphone drops the 59 burst later this year, that is what I'm doing with the epiphone les Paul special tv yellow P90's, is called the inspired by Gibson epiphone guitars line and they are sweet plus they using all premium parts like cts wiring harness and alnico pro P90's and the typical grover tuners they used plus graphtech nut seems like they are really stepping up the game on these and they changed the epiphone headstock on these inspired by Gibson guitars to the old Kalamazoo epiphone headstock too so...
Sweetwater ruined my life when they told me they don't finance to canadians.
@@poundtacos4006 Even after a case of Molsen imported shows up? 🍺
Next morning, enters music room. Gibson on the floor, broken headstock. Tele looking all innocent.
Tele: "What, I dunno".
Another mysterious Gibson death by suicide, and/,or , "misadventure."
It ain’t a real Gibson til you had the neck repaired. It’s like tommy john surgery.
@@jgenoese If you take of a les paul don't drop it i have a 08
I love it!! Still laughing!!
The crying tele scene was hilarious
Almost made me cry
oh I know! I actually laughed out loud at that one. 😂
It brought tears to my eyes as well. 😆
🤣🤣🤣🤣 epic
The whole thing is genius, very funny
Was expecting a story about how Gibson and sweetwater swindled this dude and I gotta say, I was baited in the best way.
I know I was like uh oh what did Sweetwater do to this man??? Just make him happier and open his eyes to the Gibson world.
I already knew it was clickbait b/c I have never had a bad experience with Sweetwater... I swear that company is flipping amazing. their customer service is unparalleled.
Glad I saw this. 1 minute in. I can watch something else now.
Me also.
My biggest problem with Sweetwater is that I live very close to them and they are eating into my budget.......a lot!
Sweetwater’s amazing for sure!
Almost spat out my drink when the Tele was crying LMAO
I just bought a special and got it two days ago and Gibson hit it out of the park. I've owed several Gibson's but never new. I got the vintage cherry and love it!
- Goes for the Dad Rock line
- Owns a Tele
Davide Mura EXACTLY
I wonder if he knows that tele is older than les pauls.
I know right?
Never understood it either, I listen to a lot of heavy bands and there are Gibsons everywhere. I think it might come from middle-aged guys going for the $3000 flame top models and stuff. These barebones Gibsons are hands down workhorse machines and are the opposite of “dad rock”
All guitars are dad rock guitars if you think about it.
I totally hear ya! I'm a Fender guy. Recently got a double cut Les Paul Special with p90s and I am blown away by the power and sound. Love it! P90s are so versatile.
Tele forever!
Did you get them on that sweet deal? I got a couple couldn't pass them up. P90's are just a special beast.....
@@j.a.s.1416 no, i got mine before the new deal, but I did get a great deal at $750. The $599 price right now is insane for the quality you get.
I got mine for $460 ! And yes it beats my Tele for real !
@@AuntAlnico4 That's an awesome deal!
Did I read that right: 1.01K subscribers? Trust me, this channel has the potential to explode. The humor, writing, and production quality of this video are outstanding, and I predict great things for this content creator. Great job!
Yeah no doubt this dudes gonna kill it this year. Mike, once you hit about 15k subs it just starts to snowball so if you are able to be consistent you’ll be fine.
And once you hit about 50k subs, as long as ppl are actively watching and engaging, that’s a reasonable living already
I really hope it does blow up! Mike - you killed it, man! Funny, informative, great video and sound quality...You hit all the marks. Got yourself a new sub, brother!🤘🏻
Up to 2.4k since this post
Read my mind! 👍🏻
Still never understand why so many humbucker guitars are purchased. P90’s are surely the best ever pickup
Because not everyone wants that untameable fizz
@@zlol_ssbm you obviously don’t have experience with these pickups, yes on full volume on the guitar you get that awesome overdriven Abraxis Santana sound but roll back the volume and you get the sweetest clean clear chimey tone a humbucker can never achieve
@@doncowie8653 I literally have never heard an acceptable clean from a P90 but our ideas of clean are probably just different
@@zlol_ssbm have you tried Lollar, my lollars with the volume backed off a bit have the sweetest most musical cleans I have heard. I own strats and Teles that I love but the Lollar P90 (not hottest version) can cover everything from clean country picking to Santana
Agreed
Specials and juniors are kinda like the teles and strats of Gibson. They’re my favourite guitars, I just think a junior is guitar perfection..
Juniors are amazing!
Simple rock machines.
You just gave me a great idea! 3 p90 double cut special. Literally a “Gibson style strat” hahaha
@@danielbell4007 I have a Dean Palomino, which is a big hollowbody guitar. But it has 3 p90s, wired like a strat with 5 positions, and it has those in between out of phase stratty positions that remove the hum and sound a bit "quacky". I love it. It's great for playing stuff like SRV, the pickups have got that extra kick to them. But yeah I'd love a solid body version, for more clarity and treble, and less feedback issues. I'm looking to get an Epiphone Les Paul Special now they make them, and yeah that might be a modification I'll do to it, add a third p90, make it a "super" strat, just not the regular kind of "superstrat". It'd be so useful. It'd be a blues and rock monster.
Have you tried the Epi version. Watch several videos on comparisons and they were extremely complimentary of the Epi. Not better per se but for the price they couldn't believe how close it was.
Any thoughts?
I've tried the new Epi SGs, Les Pauls and Specials. I think they are a lot of value for the money and great guitars. I think some of the comparisons to Gibson are overblown. You hold a guitar. You touch it constantly. There's a significant difference in the experience of playing a Gibson vs an Epiphone. But I certainly wouldn't be disappointed with an Epiphone, either. They're making great instruments.
I purchased all my guitars at Sweetwater even though they are online. I would not have guitars if wasn't for them. Straight customer service and high quality merchandise!
Sweetwater is brave also because they show the weight of the guitars. Other sites don't do that. That's one of the main reasons why I go there.
I bought an amp cover for my Katana 100 from Sweetwater. Did not expect what happened after I hit order. Cristian called and followed up with an email thanking me for my purchase. When the cover arrived, in the box was a thank you note along with a bag of candy. They have my business for life
I've been with Sweetwater 4 years. They follow up currently on merchandise they sell you and they match prices on reasonably priced from a 🎸 guitar pick to a guitar. They have a great hassle free tech. If Sweetwater sells it they know it. They don't sell junk. HEY CAN I GET COMPENSATED FOR THIS? 😆 LOL
I have to agree. I was super nervous about buying my 60’s Les Paul standard. It’s the first time I ever bought a guitar without playing it first. But the overall experience was great. Not trying to sound like I work for them but honestly the guitar was exactly what I wanted and customer service is excellent.
I've bought one guitar from Sweetwater so far and it was a very good experience. Josh, my sales rep, took great care of me throughout the whole process.
The slow-mo removal of the plastic on the pickguard is total fetish! HILARIOUS!
Like Quentin T and Uma’s feet.
What tuning issues? Slippage? You need use a tie-off method, backwards loop like a knot, counterintuitive, look it up, popular, stops slipping.
I also have issues with tuning pegs on L4, gears not precise bottom E tough to get in right spot, striking hard makes it sharp , wraparound also affects G strings, solution to useful wound 3rd,which i won't do.
Hope that helps
Subscribed. That tear rolling down the Tele is the funniest thing I've ever seen on a guitar centric channel, just brilliant. With all the controversy that's been spreading around the community the past few years (Gibson (in general)/the Agnesi video/RobChapman, etc) it's really refreshing to find a channel with excellent production and a guy with a self effacing hilarious personality. Don't worry, cream rises & hard work pays off...dude will have 500,000 subs in no time. Be cool...
I wasn't a Gibson guy but... Randomly tested a les paul tribute at a music store and fell in love with the feel and sound. Walked out with it. I don't regret it.
The Special was always the most underrated Les Paul.
I had a black 99 Gibson LP Special that I sold because I needed the money several years back. Now I’m desperately trying to track down that guitar. Worst mistake I ever made.
I have loved and played nothing but Stratocaster’s my whole life until I got a Les Paul now I can’t even look at a Stratocaster
You could always try a Tom Anderson Classic S Shorty...have your cake and eat it too. 🤣
Hi Mike! My name is JD Cordlé and my first electric guitar was a 3 pickup black beauty. I've been professional since I was 16 and switched for some reason to a tele when I was 19 and used them primarily for the next 25 years on the road and then one day I picked up my Les Paul and did the show with it that night , the next day we had a show. In Chicago that afternoon I took down the 6 teles I had been traveling with and traded for two more Les Paul's and i have never looked back and never will. I just went home and was reminded of what I had when I started and what ill die with. Don t get me wrong Mike I love teles but they're not even close to my Paul's and teles to me limited me so much as an artist ! So in the end your Paul will always love you back hands down night after night and I cant say that for a fender! Play on Mike!
Your Tele is singing “Jolene,” but you’re too far gone.
So I’m a Fender guy as well. Just sold an Epiphone ES-335 because I never really bonded with it-just not as comfortable to play to me. Yet the LP Special seems to be calling me. I need to get out to a store to play one and see how it feels.
You're too young to remember The Courtship of Eddie's Father.
I’m a fender guy as well recently acquired a Les Paul standard last winter and just a few weeks ago got the Les Paul Special TV yellow awesome guitar got the Demo as demo as well from Sweetwater Gibson, nailed it
Also see the Gibson Demo Shop to save $
Mike: in a few months you will love how good it is to be able to change from the LP to the T and from the T to the LP.
8/2023: I just found this, and subscribed. I recently learned about this guitar in TV Yellow. I bought 2 amps and a Fender Ultra Strat HSS over the past 2 years. I don't know how I'm gonna get the OK from my wife (I've been a drummer since 1964 and we met when we were 15 in 1968) to buy one of these. BUT, I really want one. Looks Great, Sounds Great and IS Affordable. Thanks for posting this video. Best Regards to You.
**plays a G**
Holy shit best guitar ever!!!
Happened to me with the D-28 😂 I wasn’t wrong
The subtle, barely in-camera grab of the Gibby at the end made me lol. Great job!
I could hear the soul of that guitar talking to you Mike. Just like it happened to me. Hands down the greatest guitar and pick up to play.
You should try to find a 24 3/4" scale MIJ Fender. I have a 1985 Squier ST-331 that has it and it feels and sounds awesome.
Strat guy for 20 years. Bought one Gibson Les Paul. Now I want the new slash one too
Just be glad you weren’t walking down the lines of new shiny things at the Gibson booth lol. ‘I’ll take one of each’ is really what I wish I could of said 😆
Special shouts to the new historic acoustic line (just had to buy one!) and the return of Epiphone to USA for the Texan ...oh god so hard to not get one of those too! (Lol).
Anyone who holds the right Gibson for them, certainly doesn’t forget it. Magic!
the tear drop on the telecaster lol
The les Paul special tv yellow P90's is the tele players les paul as far as I am concerned and i've heard that from other people too not just my dad.
I sort of get that but a Gibson P90 is its own animal. It is a single coil but it produces a tone that sounds sort of like a cross between a Humbucker and Single coil.
My PAF scatter wound Pickups in my Les Pauls kinda do the same trick.
@stricknine86😂 indeed they do !23
Can someone explain to me why, in 2020, any guitar manufacturer is using a bridge stop as an actual bridge?
Fun video. I’ve loved LP specials for many decades, and I’ve recently figured out how awesome Telecasters are. I think the Special and the Teie are hard to beat. I struggle to decide which is the better guitar. Ironically I am without a Special right now, but I do have it’s Gucci cousin, a Custom Shop R4...and yep..I still dream of owning a Special again!
If you can find a luthier to replace the nut with a compensated nut and also do whatever is necessary to correct the typical QC issues with these guitars it will play and stay in tune.
Dude, I've been a Tele player for over 20 years. No way I'm playing one of those Gibsons now. Lol. Great video. Deserves more views. Kudos.
Johnny Nowhere you try a LP special there fun
@@derekhand7904 The real problem is that I'm left-handed, but play with my strings upside down. I'd have to pay more for a LH model, then file a new nut. And there's still no way to re-intonate the bridge. I'm out of luck in this case.
Johnny Nowhere you dodged a bullet there buddy.
$15 Amazon has adjustable saddles on wraparound bridges. I have them all on my wrap-arounds. So get a Gibson and rock out! 🎸
Sweetwater customer service reps are the best I've ever had in any department. I've had the same dude since 2017. One time I tested if their emails were automated with a message, and the guy responded back very genuinely and heartfelt. Guitar Center is like haggling with pawn shop owners, the one thing they have right is the used gear market.
I agree with you %100. It's my favorite guitar hands down. Also, if you get a compensated wraparound tailpiece, it will have better intonation and stay in tune better. Mojoaxe makes a really good one.
I have the same problem. I'm so attached to my Ibanez RG Prestige. But a few months ago, I bought a PRS CE24. Every time I go to play, I grab the PRS. Who am I???
HAHA. First vid of yours I've watched. Subscribing immediately. THAT was entertaining. Very similar guitar love-arc as you. Still have and love my Tele I bought in college, but acquired a goldtop with p90s 3 years ago and ...well...you already know.
Sounds great but I hate that body overhang under the neck from 17th to 22nd frets. I’ll take the Eastman SB55DC/v
You don't like Gibson because you think it's a dad guitar but you love Teles? That's hilarious 😂
I had a similiar experience but kinda backwards. I was always a Les Paul guy and loved my Standard. Then I got a Tele Elite and it blew my mind. Enjoy!
same hahaha i was a full gibson no fender guy
I love when people ignore the crap on the internet and just try something out. Great video!
Instant subscriber. Great video. Now trying to figure out how you got the tone at 4:25 without a pedal. Is the crunch from the Amplitude? And yeah, that guitar is my dream guitar.
@@guitarmovies sounds fantastic
I think I could grab at least 3 or 4 guitars and still have room for an amp head before the fire got too bad... 🔥
Just discovered you on here. Well, actually I discovered you 10 minutes ago when I watched your 'how to relic a Les Paul..." video. Hysterical!! So I went to your channel page and saw this video. Sweetwater & Gibson Ruined My Life. Again, HYSTERICAL!! My wife bought me (after my hinting shamelessly) an LP Special. Dude, I agree 100%! My '#1' an LP Traditional I've had for a while now, is now my #3 (I got a goldtop that stole second place). But the point is, you're HILARIOUS and I'll be watching from now on. Keep up the hysterical work, buddy!
Thank you! Appreciate that.
Comedian Jack Dee was asked what would he save if his house was on fire and he said his guitar and one of the twins.
Damn! You are telling my story. I keep the Tele upstairs and the LP Special downstairs. Depending on what room I’m in, they both get played. No one gets jealous.
Hahaha! OMG. Me too! I have a guitar room upstairs with my main amp, and a practice amp in the bedroom, and one guitar is always upstairs and the other one is always down, depending. Strat and LP Special. I'm like a Mormon bigamist.
I have the same experience with my Les Paul Goltop with P90 (2019 model). Incredible guitar for the price. Great great pickups.
Romain Bertrand - Me too! (‘18 P90 Classic) I feel like I could stand on stage, strum an E chord, and receive a standing O. : )
Why do some Les Paul Specials have a bridge with saddles and some don’t?
Not gonna lie, they had us in the first half!
You’re supposed to shit on Gibson. It’s what all the cool kids are doing.
Personally, the only thing stopping me buying another one is money. I have a 96 Casino bought new, a 97 Les Paul bought new and a 2016 SG bought new. Apart from needing to drop the action slightly on the SG, they’re all been perfect.
I love Fenders, I respect PRS, I would love a Gretsch or a Rickenbacker some day, but every time I pick up a Gibson, it feels right.
Lol I’d probably slap someone if I heard any of that rubbish irl. Gibson is music dreams made real 😊
I always wanted an LP standard and was so happy to get one - some time later was playing with other people and needed an acoustic. Which I was far more unfamiliar with and didn’t know what to buy. Asked around and people were at it again online ‘shitting on Gibson’ but it made me think...why on earth hadn’t I considered listening to one of them. People kept referring to Martin as the tone that sets the standard but when I listened to them it left me a bit cold. I am sure they are as great as all the fans claim but it just didn’t really speak to me. After a few Taylor’s and other brands passed by I thought nothing was going to fit the bill, till I came to the Hummingbird. Oh my. Perhaps I just love the sound Gibson aim to make. Or maybe there’s just something about them but that was that. Saved up this year to buy the 60’s Historic and I’m so fricken excited after seeing them at the show. Eeek!
Knew this had to be a joke Sweetwater is one of the best companies I've ever dealt with
Route a Tele for P90s or get a back routed version with what ever controls you need. Which one feels better when you put your arms around and hold it?
You'll end up back with the Fenders; might be temporarily confused by the nice girl in the pretty summer dress, but the hot one ,in nothing but an old XL T shirt , is still around-
@@guitarmovies Many men have tried...
I said the same thing about my Fender. I played for 35 years until I met the true love of my life. It was hard letting go, but my PRS is like that first love you let slip away after high school. She ends up divorcing later on in life and so do you and you two end up reuniting. Something you never expected. It was just destiny. A happy ending story. You think about her from time to time, but you know you've found your soul mate.
Ok but does the damn thing stay in tune with the wraparound tail piece
ROTFLMAO:)) That "single tear" running down the Tele was freaking priceless!! I also loved how you posted the signal path-especially with no pedals. Yup-going to add this one to my stable!!
So very sorry that Sweetwater & Gibson ruined your life. If you need a therapist, I have just the Doctor for you to see- Maybe you should buy another Les Paul Special and set it up for slide!
LMAO:)))
That was hysterical. Now I have to go to the Gibson website and compare the differences between the LP Special Tribute and the one you just demoed. Reason? Well there's a considerable difference in price, even though they appear to be the same guitar, and I can afford the Tribute. But If it doesn't allow you to hit an open string, go to lunch, return and find that the string is still ringing LIKE YOURS DID, then I guess I need to come up with the extra bucks. Thanks for the demo brother!
Don't feel bad about your Tele. Our tastes and sounds we hear change as we go on. If it sits for over a year unplayed, sell it. You have moved on.
Dave Duffy My LP custom has sat for 2 years. Not played. And I’d never sell it. I’ve been on a weird run with playing my PRS and for the year before that I was into my strats. One day I know I’ll fall back to the LP. Worst mistake I ever made was selling a guitar just because I hadn’t played it .. but to each their own lol
I was a life long Fender guy. I’ve been playing for 38 years. My first guitar was a 1960’s Fender Mustang. I love Tele’s and Strats’s. I was a borderline Gibson hater. Then I decided to try them again without my prejudice guiding me. I played a lot of Gibson’s then I picked one up and it felt right. I now own 3 Gibson’s. My current favorite is a Les Paul Jr. single cut with one P-90. It immediately became my go to guitar. I agree 100% about those pickups!
Mike Richeson Cool!
‘’Tele Tears’’.. gotta love it. 😪😂😥
Bought my Olympic White Fender American Standard Strat in 2012, still have & love it. In 2013 I made the Gibson plunge and bought a Les Paul Studio in tobbaco burst. Equally happy with both. Sweetwater is great, been a customer for years.
Man, I had the exact same experience with my SG and now I can't put the damn thing down!! Damn you Gibson!!!
HAHA! I love this video. Well done. I'm waffling between a Tele and this guitar for my next purchase. I have a US Strat and LP copy today. Do I go for the trifecta (Strat, LP, Tele) or get a real Gibson with fat single coils..... Hmmm....
Tough call, but either choice will be great.
2:38 that headstock angle is treacherous
jambajoby32 it’s great because you don’t need string trees to keep the pressure on the nut as with a Fender.
L O agreed because the Gibson’s have more than enough tension and stress on the neck and strings as it is
@@jambajoby32 The problem with Gibsons is the angle at which primarily the C & G string pass from the nut to the tuners - that's why they easily go out of tune. Gibson USA doesn't file the nut slots to compensate for this, which they should. & they should add a volute & decrease the headstock angle to just enough :)
L O agreed except for the c string may be a D
Lessen angle, straighten break angle both vertically and horizontally
I have a ‘57 Les Paul Special. I found it hanging in a Mom and Pop music store in Queens, NYC in 1984 for $285. ( Don’t hate me ). I had to pay an additional $65 for a non original Gibson case, so $350 all in. It’s truly a Rock and Roll machine. I think it might have appreciated a bit since I bought it. Just a bit.
You NEED to try a Reverend GristleMaster!!!if you like "T" style guitars. It's Awesome!!!
How do you adjust the intonation with that bridge?
The crying Tele ACTUALLY made me sad lol
Excellent point about Gibson pricing with the Ferrari example. I bought a well used 1976 Gibson explorer in 1982 as a broke college kid. It cost $400 and that was a REALLY large amount of money for me working minimum wage and going to school. It was a huge sacrifice. I still have it and it has always been the best playing and sounding guitar I have ever touched. Today I am not willing to pay Gibson prices for a new guitar. (Of course that may because I already own a Gibson that I have absolutely loved for nearly 40 years). That isn't Gibson's fault. It is their product. It is their business. They get to choose how to price their product. It is not like the federal government should subsidize Gibson guitars for low income families. This summer I replaced the motorcycle I have owned since 2003. I really wanted to get a Ducati. I have wanted one since I first saw an 851 with a lattice frame around 1990. I couldn't swing the Ducati price so I bought a really excellent Yamaha. Ducati's pricing isn't unethical or unfair. Ducati wasn't being mean to me for not lowering their price to match my budget. Some people can afford Ducatis and that's fine for those people and for Ducati's business model. I am really happy with the Yamaha. It would be silly to resent Ducati and complain about how they do their business simply because I chose not to pay their prices.
This is so awesome!! Took the words out of my mouth.
I've always been a Fender guy, and even moreso a Telecaster guy. It's become part of my identity.
But I've also always had this secret lust for a Les Paul Special in TV Yellow.
I might have to bite the bullet and give in to temptation, too.
Careful - strats, teles. Prs at home - never even dreamed I’d like a guitar like this - played it - worked out I was a moron - now love my custom shop special - what a frikkin trip !!! It’s soooooo good.
The moment you took the plastic off was like putting on a condom...
More like taking it off
i know. i needed to go to porn sire right away when i saw that. fuck!
Are you able to get Tele tones from the bridge? Like twang or Chick'n Pick;n?
Give it some time, you’ll be coming back to your tele....
Then after awhile, you’ll be back with Les. I know what your going through lol!
I bought a Gibson tv yellow special and my 12 other guitars are all crying from not being played anymore
I was ready to hate this video since I have had great experiences with Sweetwater and Gearfest is fantastic. My sales rep Codie calls me just to see how I’m doing every now and then. Well I ended up subscribing 😆🎸
Yup. GC failed at almost every order I placed with them. Sweetwater comes through no prob.
Lol, just bought this in red last night. I was a Fender lover... until last night. Damn You guitar Gods!
as soon as you walked out of the room in my head i was thinking "now come back and grab the les paul" so you get a subscribe just for making me laugh. great video btw!
ps, i went the opposite direction by starting out les paul and then going telecaster but i still love them both and in a fire i would save them both or die trying. i hear smoke inhalation is very peaceful!
It's the p90 pickups......
How do you adjust intonation if needed on Gibson special guitars?
Boys grab your certificates of authenticity, as tonight we ride.
I have so many nice guitars. But I always grab my Gibson Les Paul custom. After playing that thing, a Strat or my ESP feel like toys. I’ve literally contemplated selling off most of my guitars. They are all fantastic guitars. But you hit the nail on the head with “feeling” the whole guitar just come alive. You can literally feel it reverberate through your body. None of my other guitars do it to that degree. Is it as comfortable as some of my other guitars? Probably not. It’s a 10lb chunk with no comfort cuts or contours. But it’s just a beast of a guitar. And growls like no other. It’s quite empowering really. I’m hoping a full thickness USA ESP will have the same feeling. If I sell off some of my axes, I may get one. But it’ll be hard not to buy another Gibson Les Paul. Cool video. The teardrop on the tele had me in stitches. 😂
Laughed way harder at this then ANY SNL sketch I've seen this season...I need to stop watching network TV, because quirky guitarcentric RUclips channels that have honest and compelling narratives is mos definitely the next wave of quality entertainment. Or, not
Lost my TV remote control a year ago. Don't give a shit
i have a 1990 version of this and it stays in tune forever. it's an absolutely killer guitar
Tele is wayyyy more of a dad rock guitar than a Gibby 😂😂
Yup. Gotta have both
Tell that to Keith Richards, Jimmy Page and Keith Urban.
Ocean Hedonist And there you have it, all great grandfathers 👴🏻😬
@@sixbladeknife44 Keith Urban? You're a idiot.
Omg Killer 🤙🏿
Ty for the fun and informative commentary Subscribed..😊 cheers from Newport Beach, CA. 🌊🤙🏿
i kept coming to finish watching this while working, so fun! also, great video when youre thinking about buying a pl special.
How are you getting zero hum with the gain up that high on p90’s?
Noise gate
@@guitarmovies which one?
Great video ! I’ve settled on the les Paul as my favorite I have a Slash standard and just purchased a p90 lp special tribute . Love Sweetwater great to do business with Matt’s my guy over there . I’m really looking forward to the p90 les Paul !
How do you adjust the intonation without bridge saddles?
I’m in awe with Gibson, 30 yrs playing with Fender all the way until the last 3 years. Now I have 1 strat and 13 Gibsons. I want one of these now😅 great video.
Dang, you got after it! Sounds like a great collection.
@@guitarmoviesyeah. I sure did. A real addiction. I’m always buying, trading and selling. I get back about 80% at the end of it. Good justification to the wife🎉😂. I’ve traded up my collection so much from smart buying.
Great video! Whats the name of the song while the close up footage at the beginning??
Exactly how I feel about my new Revstar RSS02T 😎👍
Mine NEVER stays in tune 😭
I am a DIE HARD Fender guy but... I have wanted this guitar for some time now. I’m a single coil guy but P90’s are amazing pickups. When I do get one I want to slap a Bigsby on it.
I love my TV Yellow LP Special. But it's not fair to compare it to staying in tune with a Tele, Teles stay in tune for weeks. I play the LP Special and a Vintera 50s modded Tele. Both are amazing instruments for the price.
Every guitar that I have owned that "doesn't stay in tune" has had one simple solution. Stretch the strings out, usually when you're changing the strings. Here is how: Lay the guitar flat. Put your fingers (both hands) under the 1st string. Stretch the string .. bending it so that your hands turn away from each other. Then turn them towards each other so that the string is getting stretched to the left and right of your hands. It is the string, not the guitar that goes out of tune. The string stretches. Get it stretched out and it will stay in tune. Don't stretch too hard or you will break the string, but you can strth it a bit before you get to that point. Getting back to the process, after you do that tune it to pitch. Now lay the guitar flat and stretch the string again. Tune it to pitch. I usually do this about 5 times for each string until it's still in tune after I stretch it. I do this for all guitars, even guitars with locking nuts. My Les Pauls give me no issues. One is 30 years old and one is 4 years old. I stretch out the strings and any necessary tuning after that is minor. I often take them out of the case and they are still in tune. One other point; Gibsons are not as forgiving as Fenders if you don't form the chord properly. Sometimes you think it's out of tune but it's how your fingers are on the fretboard. Play it right. I am a Gibson guy all the way. Les Pauls are the only electric guitars that I have performed live with or recorded with for decades.