I bought a 20$ Strat copy in 1970 at a pawnshop and started learning about electric guitar.. it was a great instrument! It had strings on it for 50 years and the neck is straight and solid!! It was stolen last year and I could never replace it for the feel! 1989 American standard is trying to take its place!! That old 60s copy(Apollo) was one killer guitar! Love your show and slide ! Great work
this year i discovered the Allman Brothers sound with Stateboro Blues, and that blew my mind and i knew that i need to learn more about the slide universe, i'm a another guitarrist since that, and your videos are helping a lot! Thankssss, saudations from Brazil!!
Thanks for putting into words that strange, inexplicable phenomena about “bonding” with a guitar…only guitarists get it…everyone else thinks we’re insane👍
I’ll never forget my legs shaking while driving my car home with my new les paul in the trunk. I couldn’t barely keep my foot on the gas pedal. I’m a Les Paul freak for life. I got bit 37 years ago and never looked back.
A few months ago I took a trip to Nashville to look for a Les Paul, my *dream* guitar. I had only ever owned Epiphones up until then. I tried a few out at various shops and just wasn't feeling any of them. I started to have an existential crisis, thinking that the guitar that made me fall in love with music wasn't actually as great as I thought. Luckily I took one last trip to the Gibson Garage and picked up a 50's in heritage cherry and I immediately fell in love and knew it was the one. I had never experienced that feeling before and now four months on I still absolutely love it and can't wait to get home and play it. I totally get what you're saying. Sometimes you lust after something and it just doesnt live up to the hype you created, just gotta move on and you will eventually find "the one".
I totally get it man. Good Les Pauls do indeed live up to the hype, but you gotta find “The One” that really speaks to you, regardless of model/price. Stoked to hear you persevered and found it, I think I should’ve just done some more looking/trying before I jumped on this one!
Totally get what you're saying. There's a lot of things that make an instrument what it is, some intangible. But that outro you did with it...just beautiful.
After playing for many years I've come to appreciate the disconnect between some of my favorite guitar tones as a listener and what sounds and feels good when I'm playing.
I bought my Les Paul in 1984 and never connected to it or liked the tone! A year ago I played an epiphone that was the same model and color of my Les Paul and it blew me away! I can't explain it
Totally understand about bonding with guitars. I had a perfectly good PRS and just didn’t bond with it. I really enjoy your content. The few videos you’ve posted about slide playing are awesome - keep ‘em coming!
I appreciate you being able to do your thing with almost any guitar. Tone is a real thing. Feel is a real thing. The more I play with a guitar, the more I learn to love it. But that said, there have been many guitars that have been sent down the river. There are guitars that are GREAT guitars, but just don’t keep you coming back? Sometimes I fall out of love with a style of pickup and then come back when I want something different to stimulate creativity.
Ive got a 1992 Gibson Les Paul 1960s Classic and its considered one of the 1st reissue guitars and considered higher end than the Standards. Beautiful flame top and a red wine color.
I used to play a fair amount when I was younger, before life got in the way. I had a ‘70 Tele and a ‘71 Sigma GCR7, a Martin D-28 knock off. Both fit my hand well, but I later played a ‘67 Gibson ES 135 TDC whose neck felt exactly like my Sigma’s and fit my hand very well. I got rid of the Tele in anticipation of buying the 125 only to find it gone when I got to the store. I’ve played other 125’s and none have had the same effect on me. I’ve missed a guitar I never owned for more than 40 years now. So, yeah, I can relate to what you say.
Sometimes, it's easy to get bored with the old while you're playing with the new. I hope you don't regret this decision later. You make that red LP sing and it's still my favorite of your arsenal. I hope it gets a quality home!
I completely understand what your going through with this. I got back into playing electric guitar from years of bluegrass guitar in 2018. Always wanted a 50’s style strat, my first electric guitar was a 98 Squier strat made in Mexico, maple board and all. Fast forward to March 2019, I found a AVRI ‘56 reissue strat. Kept it till ‘22 and by that time had refretted it with jumbo wire, new pickups and wiring, but still couldn’t fully connect with it. While it was bittersweet, I sent it on its way and found a Tele that I connected with more than it. All that being said, I really enjoy your music and your playing, no matter what guitar you have in your hands! 👍🏻
I hear ya, it’s always a bummer when the guitar you were sure would be “the one” doesn’t do it for you after all. Glad to hear you found your Tele though (I went down a similar path to realizing I was a Tele guy), and thanks so much for the kind words!
that opening was great ! Nice playing . I have 2 strats one the tone is insane a 2000 american standard . I bought another 2012 american standard looks like jeff becks the tone sucks it is very metallic and harsh BUT the neck action and playability is insane but like you Im still getting rid of it . I have a 1979 Les Paul custom i bought brand new I love it . Your playing is great my friend refreshing hearing something melodic tasteful and not one swept arpeggio or altered scale LOL
Humbly and respectfully, I think you’ll miss it later. I play ‘60 Les Paul Custom Shop and it’s amazing. I wonder if you changed amps it would be the magic fix? I play through old blackfaces (concert & deluxe). Gets clean or dirty all day long w just the volume knob. Also, Red looks sick on stage. Wish ya well, your playing is ferocious.
I hear you Dylan. My first electric was a 1978 Les Paul classic that I bought in 1978. It sounded pretty good but had all these quirky issues including the finish coming off at the base of the neck. I sold it. Don’t really regret it, but in hindsight maybe I should have just had some work done. Off Topic: You got a shout out on That Pedal Show Viewer Questions and Comments on Monday for your slide playing and RUclips channel. Well deserved.
Luckily this guitar doesn’t have any quality issues like that, but I’ve had that experience with others and it’s definitely a bummer. Thanks for the heads up about TPS by the way, they’ve mentioned me a couple times and it’s always an honor!!
I haven't owned a stock branded guitar in years. I prefer to 'grow my own' through various third party bodies and necks. Partscastors, Les Pauls , Ibanez RG style etc, etc, sometimes from unfinished bodies that I have a vision for a certain finish and body mods. You never know, after spending possibly months finishing every aspect, the chance that after strapping it on, that it might become a total blah moment, knowing maybe one out of three might become that invaluable attachment, the others languishing in a gig bag in a closet. But, boy howdy, when you find 'the one'. As stated below, I have a couple made from 'leftovers' and cheap components that my heirs will have to figure out what to do with. Funny how the price of building these things has absolutely nothing to do with the connection we have with playing our guitars, period, those moments when it is about the tone and the guitar sort of just disappears in your hands, does that make sense?
I hope your new guitar turns out to be "the one". Oh yea, hope it has P90s. Love the sound of your LP jr in the vids you made with it. Hard to beat the sound of a gibson P90.
I've wrestled with this on one of my HH guitars too. I've only had one set of pickups in it, but I can never get the bridge pup to sound like that fat, chewy PAF, that in my head, is what a good vintage style bridge humbucker should sound like. Not sure if it's the pup, the rest of my rig or the guitar itself, but alas, the journey continues! Looking forward to seeing what you get next and what killer music you make with it. Cheers man
Yeah man it’s a tough call, I went back and forth for a good while with this one... I’d say if you love the guitar itself then a pickup swap is definitely worth trying, otherwise may be time to find another one. Thanks for watching!
Not sure if you have tried them or not but I think the Duncan Antiquity is a great PAF style pickup. Also, and this is a big factor for that vintage PAF tone, is how it’s wired. 50’s style makes a huge difference. Good luck with whatever you do!
@@chrislestermusic Interesting, I tried 50s wiring in this guitar at first, but I felt like it made the bridge pickup too thin and spikey sounding. Ended up switching the bridge back to modern wiring and that helped fatten it up some, but I still have to dial the tone back to 5-7 to take away some of the thin top end. Hoping I can get this guitar that chewy PAF sound eventually cause I do love everything else about it. Thanks for the advice guys, cheers!
It sounds great in your hands, but I can totally relate. I'm very particular myself. Funny, I tend to be a neck pick up guy. I can't seem to find the sweet spot with the bridge pick up.
I understand this as someone who loves the Gibson acoustic sound I must of played ten brand new dreadnoughts and was so underwhelmed until finally finding a 2018 J35 and just immediately I knew it was good en
If you don’t connect, you don’t connect, it’s an intangible thing. I had a similar experience a while back when I bought a small producer’s P style bass and it was a great instrument, but never felt at home on it (funnily enough it was red too) and that went pretty quickly. Conversely, I bought an off the peg Mustang bass (my first short scale) and it’s now my go to bass, there’s just something right about it. Looking forward to seeing your new guitar soon; PRS Singlecut (I like a bit of controversy)?
I have several guitars that I really like the way they look, the way they sound, or the way they play, but they just don’t really do it for me overall. I probably should sell some! However, I have trouble selling them because each does something a little different either in terms of pick ups, visual (that’s you Flying V), output, level, etc. so I have difficulty selling them because I always said to myself “I never know when I might want that particular sound”. You know?
Thanks man, I am indeed programming the grooves myself in Logic Pro! For all of the videos I use the same kit preset that I modified and saved. I think it started as the “Motown Revisited” preset that comes with Logic, but I went in and messed with the settings for each individual drum in the kit until it had that tight/fat early 70s type sound. I can’t play real drums to save my life, but I’m obsessed with drummers/grooves/drum sounds haha
Thanks! My current favorite is my Mulecaster (hollow steel-bodied Tele) made by Mule Resophonic Guitars, felt an instant connection to it and have played it nonstop since I got it about 6 months ago!
I was gonna say that would probably be my favorite of yours the tone is just immaculate! But thanks for all your videos man! You have inspired me and probably so many other in recent months its pretty cool man😎
isn't that guitar the one that got you noticed in the first place in the Rhett vid? I think you owe a debt of gratitude to it regardless of bonding with it! You'll regret it
Nothing, they call it “Custom Shop” but the majority of the guitars they put out are their high-end vintage reissues built to the specs of exact model years. ‘59 Les Paul, ‘64 ES-335, etc. Mine’s a limited edition color but otherwise is just a ‘58 Les Paul replica. They can make custom-order guitars but it’s mainly just a designation.
I was raised on Vintage Les Paul's, owned few bursts, the real ones even if Gibson Custom Shop Les Paul's don't do it right. The McCarty 594 does it right. I am now a convert
My 2 cents.. have you really given the guitar enough 'time'? If I were you, I would hold onto it for another year.. pick it up every couple of months, play it for a couple of hours, and at the end of a year, if you feel the same way. sell it! Why would I say this? Because.. It Sounds Freakin' Great! And that's just coming over my PC speakers! It's not easy to find something that sounds that good! Like I said.. my 2 cents.
I highly doubt that. I never sell guitars because that I've bought for my personal use (I've sold hundreds purely bought to flip). I have always feared the regret of letting a _good one_ go. I finally found *_the_*_ one_ and traded in many guitars in order to be able to afford it. As much as I honestly thought I would regret letting go of most of those guitars, I can now barely even remember what I gave up to get the single best guitar I've ever laid hands on in 33 years. Without that bond, it's simply another guitar, no matter what the price.
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I bought a 20$ Strat copy in 1970 at a pawnshop and started learning about electric guitar.. it was a great instrument! It had strings on it for 50 years and the neck is straight and solid!! It was stolen last year and I could never replace it for the feel! 1989 American standard is trying to take its place!! That old 60s copy(Apollo) was one killer guitar! Love your show and slide ! Great work
this year i discovered the Allman Brothers sound with Stateboro Blues, and that blew my mind and i knew that i need to learn more about the slide universe, i'm a another guitarrist since that, and your videos are helping a lot! Thankssss, saudations from Brazil!!
Thanks for putting into words that strange, inexplicable phenomena about “bonding” with a guitar…only guitarists get it…everyone else thinks we’re insane👍
I’ll never forget my legs shaking while driving my car home with my new les paul in the trunk. I couldn’t barely keep my foot on the gas pedal. I’m a Les Paul freak for life. I got bit 37 years ago and never looked back.
A few months ago I took a trip to Nashville to look for a Les Paul, my *dream* guitar. I had only ever owned Epiphones up until then. I tried a few out at various shops and just wasn't feeling any of them. I started to have an existential crisis, thinking that the guitar that made me fall in love with music wasn't actually as great as I thought. Luckily I took one last trip to the Gibson Garage and picked up a 50's in heritage cherry and I immediately fell in love and knew it was the one. I had never experienced that feeling before and now four months on I still absolutely love it and can't wait to get home and play it. I totally get what you're saying. Sometimes you lust after something and it just doesnt live up to the hype you created, just gotta move on and you will eventually find "the one".
I totally get it man. Good Les Pauls do indeed live up to the hype, but you gotta find “The One” that really speaks to you, regardless of model/price. Stoked to hear you persevered and found it, I think I should’ve just done some more looking/trying before I jumped on this one!
Totally get what you're saying. There's a lot of things that make an instrument what it is, some intangible. But that outro you did with it...just beautiful.
After playing for many years I've come to appreciate the disconnect between some of my favorite guitar tones as a listener and what sounds and feels good when I'm playing.
I bought my Les Paul in 1984 and never connected to it or liked the tone! A year ago I played an epiphone that was the same model and color of my Les Paul and it blew me away! I can't explain it
Totally understand about bonding with guitars. I had a perfectly good PRS and just didn’t bond with it. I really enjoy your content. The few videos you’ve posted about slide playing are awesome - keep ‘em coming!
Nice guitar buddy. Can't wait to see what's next
great slide playing. sounds great!
I appreciate you being able to do your thing with almost any guitar. Tone is a real thing. Feel is a real thing.
The more I play with a guitar, the more I learn to love it. But that said, there have been many guitars that have been sent down the river.
There are guitars that are GREAT guitars, but just don’t keep you coming back? Sometimes I fall out of love with a style of pickup and then come back when I want something different to stimulate creativity.
Ive got a 1992 Gibson Les Paul 1960s Classic and its considered one of the 1st reissue guitars and considered higher end than the Standards. Beautiful flame top and a red wine color.
If ya don't dig it, ya don't dig it. I get it. Can't wait to see what you're getting. ☮️
Can't wait to see the new one.
I used to play a fair amount when I was younger, before life got in the way. I had a ‘70 Tele and a ‘71 Sigma GCR7, a Martin D-28 knock off. Both fit my hand well, but I later played a ‘67 Gibson ES 135 TDC whose neck felt exactly like my Sigma’s and fit my hand very well. I got rid of the Tele in anticipation of buying the 125 only to find it gone when I got to the store. I’ve played other 125’s and none have had the same effect on me. I’ve missed a guitar I never owned for more than 40 years now. So, yeah, I can relate to what you say.
Lovely outro....relating to guitars and in the words of a band that I can't stand ' I still haven't found what I'm looking for'.
Sometimes, it's easy to get bored with the old while you're playing with the new. I hope you don't regret this decision later. You make that red LP sing and it's still my favorite of your arsenal. I hope it gets a quality home!
I completely understand what your going through with this. I got back into playing electric guitar from years of bluegrass guitar in 2018. Always wanted a 50’s style strat, my first electric guitar was a 98 Squier strat made in Mexico, maple board and all.
Fast forward to March 2019, I found a AVRI ‘56 reissue strat. Kept it till ‘22 and by that time had refretted it with jumbo wire, new pickups and wiring, but still couldn’t fully connect with it. While it was bittersweet, I sent it on its way and found a Tele that I connected with more than it.
All that being said, I really enjoy your music and your playing, no matter what guitar you have in your hands! 👍🏻
I hear ya, it’s always a bummer when the guitar you were sure would be “the one” doesn’t do it for you after all.
Glad to hear you found your Tele though (I went down a similar path to realizing I was a Tele guy), and thanks so much for the kind words!
Great vid and overview. Would love to see a vid on your live rig at current? Bit of a walkthrough perhaps. Keep it up! Killing it.
that opening was great ! Nice playing . I have 2 strats one the tone is insane a 2000 american standard . I bought another 2012 american standard looks like jeff becks the tone sucks it is very metallic and harsh BUT the neck action and playability is insane but like you Im still getting rid of it . I have a 1979 Les Paul custom i bought brand new I love it . Your playing is great my friend refreshing hearing something melodic tasteful and not one swept arpeggio or altered scale LOL
Humbly and respectfully, I think you’ll miss it later. I play ‘60 Les Paul Custom Shop and it’s amazing. I wonder if you changed amps it would be the magic fix? I play through old blackfaces (concert & deluxe). Gets clean or dirty all day long w just the volume knob. Also, Red looks sick on stage. Wish ya well, your playing is ferocious.
I hear you Dylan. My first electric was a 1978 Les Paul classic that I bought in 1978. It sounded pretty good but had all these quirky issues including the finish coming off at the base of the neck. I sold it. Don’t really regret it, but in hindsight maybe I should have just had some work done. Off Topic: You got a shout out on That Pedal Show Viewer Questions and Comments on Monday for your slide playing and RUclips channel. Well deserved.
Luckily this guitar doesn’t have any quality issues like that, but I’ve had that experience with others and it’s definitely a bummer. Thanks for the heads up about TPS by the way, they’ve mentioned me a couple times and it’s always an honor!!
All it needs are burstbucker 1 and 2.
Nice chops dude.
Thanks man!
Best of luck.
I haven't owned a stock branded guitar in years. I prefer to 'grow my own' through various third party bodies and necks. Partscastors, Les Pauls , Ibanez RG style etc, etc, sometimes from unfinished bodies that I have a vision for a certain finish and body mods. You never know, after spending possibly months finishing every aspect, the chance that after strapping it on, that it might become a total blah moment, knowing maybe one out of three might become that invaluable attachment, the others languishing in a gig bag in a closet. But, boy howdy, when you find 'the one'. As stated below, I have a couple made from 'leftovers' and cheap components that my heirs will have to figure out what to do with. Funny how the price of building these things has absolutely nothing to do with the connection we have with playing our guitars, period, those moments when it is about the tone and the guitar sort of just disappears in your hands, does that make sense?
I hope your new guitar turns out to be "the one". Oh yea, hope it has P90s.
Love the sound of your LP jr in the vids you made with it. Hard to beat the sound of a gibson P90.
I've wrestled with this on one of my HH guitars too. I've only had one set of pickups in it, but I can never get the bridge pup to sound like that fat, chewy PAF, that in my head, is what a good vintage style bridge humbucker should sound like. Not sure if it's the pup, the rest of my rig or the guitar itself, but alas, the journey continues! Looking forward to seeing what you get next and what killer music you make with it. Cheers man
Yeah man it’s a tough call, I went back and forth for a good while with this one... I’d say if you love the guitar itself then a pickup swap is definitely worth trying, otherwise may be time to find another one. Thanks for watching!
Not sure if you have tried them or not but I think the Duncan Antiquity is a great PAF style pickup. Also, and this is a big factor for that vintage PAF tone, is how it’s wired. 50’s style makes a huge difference. Good luck with whatever you do!
@@chrislestermusic I have Antiquities in my SG and agree they are great, and I prefer 50s wiring in most guitars! Thanks man 🤙🏻
@@chrislestermusic Interesting, I tried 50s wiring in this guitar at first, but I felt like it made the bridge pickup too thin and spikey sounding. Ended up switching the bridge back to modern wiring and that helped fatten it up some, but I still have to dial the tone back to 5-7 to take away some of the thin top end. Hoping I can get this guitar that chewy PAF sound eventually cause I do love everything else about it. Thanks for the advice guys, cheers!
It sounds great in your hands, but I can totally relate. I'm very particular myself. Funny, I tend to be a neck pick up guy. I can't seem to find the sweet spot with the bridge pick up.
I understand this as someone who loves the Gibson acoustic sound I must of played ten brand new dreadnoughts and was so underwhelmed until finally finding a 2018 J35 and just immediately I knew it was good en
If you don’t connect, you don’t connect, it’s an intangible thing. I had a similar experience a while back when I bought a small producer’s P style bass and it was a great instrument, but never felt at home on it (funnily enough it was red too) and that went pretty quickly. Conversely, I bought an off the peg Mustang bass (my first short scale) and it’s now my go to bass, there’s just something right about it. Looking forward to seeing your new guitar soon; PRS Singlecut (I like a bit of controversy)?
After hearing that outro I'm thinking you ought to keep it!
It’s also hard to connect when you have 20 geetars.
hahaaa
I have several guitars that I really like the way they look, the way they sound, or the way they play, but they just don’t really do it for me overall. I probably should sell some! However, I have trouble selling them because each does something a little different either in terms of pick ups, visual (that’s you Flying V), output, level, etc. so I have difficulty selling them because I always said to myself “I never know when I might want that particular sound”. You know?
Where do you get your drums for your backing tracks? They usually sound phat as hell. And are you programming the grooves yourself?
Thanks man, I am indeed programming the grooves myself in Logic Pro! For all of the videos I use the same kit preset that I modified and saved. I think it started as the “Motown Revisited” preset that comes with Logic, but I went in and messed with the settings for each individual drum in the kit until it had that tight/fat early 70s type sound.
I can’t play real drums to save my life, but I’m obsessed with drummers/grooves/drum sounds haha
I’ve got a heritage H150 I am trying to bond with right now 😰
Great video man! Do you have a favorite guitar or found “the one”?😂
Thanks! My current favorite is my Mulecaster (hollow steel-bodied Tele) made by Mule Resophonic Guitars, felt an instant connection to it and have played it nonstop since I got it about 6 months ago!
I was gonna say that would probably be my favorite of yours the tone is just immaculate! But thanks for all your videos man! You have inspired me and probably so many other in recent months its pretty cool man😎
isn't that guitar the one that got you noticed in the first place in the Rhett vid? I think you owe a debt of gratitude to it regardless of bonding with it! You'll regret it
dude found a real one
So where are you listing it?
Already have a local buyer
Breaking up is hard to do....
What is "custom" about this guitar? Except that it came from the Gibson Custom Shop.
Nothing, they call it “Custom Shop” but the majority of the guitars they put out are their high-end vintage reissues built to the specs of exact model years. ‘59 Les Paul, ‘64 ES-335, etc. Mine’s a limited edition color but otherwise is just a ‘58 Les Paul replica.
They can make custom-order guitars but it’s mainly just a designation.
PRS McCarty 594 incoming
Shhhh….
I was thinking PRS! But I don’t know about 594. Maybe, maybe not. But definitely PRS
I was raised on Vintage Les Paul's, owned few bursts, the real ones even if Gibson Custom Shop Les Paul's don't do it right. The McCarty 594 does it right. I am now a convert
594 is the only way
I can't bond with any PRS due to the thick poly finishes.
$500.00 right now
My 2 cents.. have you really given the guitar enough 'time'? If I were you, I would hold onto it for another year.. pick it up every couple of months, play it for a couple of hours, and at the end of a year, if you feel the same way. sell it! Why would I say this? Because.. It Sounds Freakin' Great! And that's just coming over my PC speakers! It's not easy to find something that sounds that good! Like I said.. my 2 cents.
well, if you "need" to give it away, I'm more than willing to help you out.
It's Rhett isn't it? You sold it to Rhett. lol
Haha good guess, but no. Somebody here in Jax
@@dylanadamsguitarAs in Jacksonville, FL? Lived there for 27 years before moving to AL in the summer of 2021.
@@yargnad yup, I’ve lived here for most of my life!
You’re gonna regret selling it….
almost always
I highly doubt that. I never sell guitars because that I've bought for my personal use (I've sold hundreds purely bought to flip). I have always feared the regret of letting a _good one_ go. I finally found *_the_*_ one_ and traded in many guitars in order to be able to afford it. As much as I honestly thought I would regret letting go of most of those guitars, I can now barely even remember what I gave up to get the single best guitar I've ever laid hands on in 33 years. Without that bond, it's simply another guitar, no matter what the price.