@@derkommissar785 he is playing it on stage and plays it well, don't see anything wrong with kirk owning it and actually using it instead of putting it in a museum or something like that. A guitar like that needs to be played for millions of people and right now it is, so...
I've never been lucky enough to see or play a real one of these, but in a music shop a week or two ago someone let me have a go on a custom shop [recent-ish] '59 style instrument. It was a magical and sublime sounding guitar that seemed 'to play itself'. Probably the best electric I've come across in 50 years of playing. A bit too pricey though for me I'm afraid.
I kept waiting for him to say " and the volume knob goes to 11" or "You can go get a cup of tea and it will still be sustaining" or something else Nigel would say.
Love this video because there's no need to go into the technical details of the guitar. Any guitarist knows when they pick up a guitar that just feels right. Its about what works for you. (Although playing an original '59 would be fun as hell)
I believe the guitar he's playing in this clip is The Beast, owned by Bernie Marsden, not one of Joe's. I have the collectors choice no 8 version of this guitar and the cracks in the finish around the volume and tone knobs are identical.
@@joepasco1420 not only that. After buying the pre-damaged guitar that they pay much much more than for a new guitar, they put it in a case to prevent any damage happening to it… go figure..
@@danteyoutu But this madness can sometimes work for you. I have an ancient (1957) Hofner archtop that I bought in the UK for peanuts, decades ago, and restored myself. I was using it as my jazzbox, but it needed a pickup. Turns out people now buy a $2,500 archtop guitar, then swap out the floating neck pickup it came with, as it isn't good enough for them. So I bought one, also for peanuts, and put it on my Hofner. Turns out to be good enough. for me.
Has anyone mentioned Les Paul being a monster on his namesake guitar ? Playing stuff on it back then, that today leaves guitar players speechless along with their mouths hanging open!
Well, others have commented on the acoustics of the room in which this was recorded but I liked the open feel and sound. A dry sounding, small room with carpet is never my first pick for listening to a guitar. Joe was certainly channeling some great blues vibe when demonstrating this guitar!
That big empty room does nothing for the sound here. However, when I had a crappy (but loved) Fender copy and shite amp, I played this little combo in a big empty room (the house was being renovated) it sounded like a huge wall of sound, just massive. That was the day I felt like a guitarist. The day I knew this would be my career. That was the first day I had that spine tingling moment of "yes, this is what I will do forever". I'm still at it and it's bought the house, holidays and it's a great way to spend my working days. I wish for that for everyone who starts the guitar.
I'm pretty sure no-one would be able to tell the difference between a real Gibson 1959 LP and an Epiphone if they had the same pickups. But then again, I don't believe that you can hear a difference between different types of wood in a solid electric guitar either and certainly not if the pickups are wax potted
Saw joe at the malibu inn among many other places around los angeles in the early/mid 2000's. Smaller venues. I have tons of pics of him 2ft away. Dude just straight jammed. Years later when i saw him i noticed him signaling the audience to cheer/praise him after some runs. Huh? Then again and again. Even videos here. I can't even watch the dude anymore. Now he is a 59 les paul scientist/salesman 😁. He would sell a rock off of the ground if it had his initials on it too lol
Not that I disagree with Joe. I own three LP’s myself but I would just like to ask the question, why did so many of the “greats” Gilmore, Beck, Clapton, Harrison, Jendrix, Trower, Robin Ford, etc, etc. etc. move to the Fender Stratocaster. Precious few players can afford a 59 Les Paul. I would argue that more of the iconic guitar players have opted to play the Fender line of guitars. Fender has been a stable platform for so many years. It’s simplicity and elegance has stood the test of time. Whereas one (according to the experts)must travel back in time to the first few years of Gibson’s iteration of the Les Paul can one pickup the best of the lot. I love my LP’s but I PLAY my Fender Stratocaster!
Sounds like this is being recorded in a garage. Maybe '59 Les Paul is awesome, maybe it isn't, but kind of hard to tell one way or the other based on this.
And I believe the genius is mostly in THE DESIGN folks! Thats why so many LesPauls Sound so good!! Even Some, of the Copy's can crank! , Because the DESIGN is the same, even when the wood is different ,,, the Hardware can be different... but 95% of guitars that follow that design Sound Good!!! Thats my 2 cents.
Taco Conch hahaha totally! I always found interesting when I see guys playing 10k guitars (in this case 500k) just to say at the end “the tone is at the hands”, the hands holding all that cash!
True tone is 50/50...half you, half the guitar and amp. If you already have the ability, you should be able to play a $10 guitar or a $10,000 guitar and still sound good, and sound like YOU...has anyone ever seen the video of a guy that went to Walmart and picked up a toy Cars guitar and played SRV on it, and he sounded awesome? There's the proof right there...
Before Cream, Clapton recorded two other versions of Steppin' Out. He recorded the definitive version with John Mayall's Bluesbreakers on the 1966 Beano Album. He also recorded an earlier version with the Powerhouse. This version ended up on an Elektra records sampler titled "What's Shakin'". The very first recording of the song was in 1959 by Memphis Slim with Matt Murphy on guitar.
These guitars were ahead of their time. These were pricey in the 70s because there was not many of them made. So everyone needs to quit bitching because they can't afford a real one. People don't appreciate them because there's a way bigger selection of guitars these days. Besides, anything old and collectable is going to be expensive.
Les Pauls are not ahead of their time. The Fender Strat's design was ahead of it's time; the Gibson Les Paul is just a jazz box guitar shrunk down slighter smaller, with an acoustic guitar neck and tuning layout.
Just wanted to point out that the frets on this era of Gibson electrics felt great - smooth, low-wide frets that bar chords can just slide over on their way up the neck. Not the bumpy ride today's little narrow frets provide.
theres no actual reason the 59 is so special, its just self made hype to justify absurd prices, its not anymore special than a 58 or 60 standard, even les paul standards from this century, the ones that were not chambered, or the 2013 traditional which is full solid body, are as special as a 59, the escence is the same, the model has changed nothing
I own 4 Gibson Les Paul's... Love them all.. However, can somebody tell me how much more guitar a $300k original burst brings to me versus a more recent LP Standard that costs $1800-$3k???
@Nintariz Very cool to own. So what if you could buy a house with that money? Everyone has houses. Does everyone own a 59 Burst? How cool would that be?
1) build quality across the board is higher today then the 1950's 2) a CNC machine makes a better and more consistent guitar then a "hand built" one as would have been in the 1950's. Even with all the bitching people do about modern Gibson's, they're still more consistently manufactured then 70 years ago. 3) the availability of high grade mahogany (used in the body and neck) was easier then. The maple available now is essentially the same. NEITHER of those make a bit of difference in a sold body electric guitar tone as a pickup is not transducing the wood. This has been convincingly and objectively shown many times by engineers and physicists
@@droliver Most of the maple tops were three unmatched pieces of the most boring wood in the workship, crudely stuck together. Gibson used the good maple for their archtops (which the company and craftsmen actually cared about). No comparison with a modern PRS SE, or many 'non'brand' Asian guitars.
@@johnwinward2421 you're talking about the aesthetic of the maple not any acoustic property though. Yeah, they certainly would take the less figured and flamed maple cuts and paint them solid gold or black.
@@droliver Sure, but I meant the 'bursts', with maybe a few exceptions.Yet the 'busts now cost hundreds of thousands more than the concurrent goldtops.
People get obsessed with gear and tech and I find it truly IRONIC that The Beatles TOOK OVER THE WORLD with a couple cheap (by todays standards) 4 Tracks, maybe that's because when you sing great, have great background singing, write great songs and have great arrangements the talent shines through the excuses for lame talentless people!!!
And, they played cheaper guitars...Epiphone! Epiphones are great guitars, but they routinely get shit on by the Gibson headstock snobs who think that owning a $5000 guitar and that name on the headstock rather than a $500 one with a different name on the headstock, yet that's owned by the same company, by the way, will make them play and sound better...all prestige and no substance. I've heard people playing, or trying to, an expensive Gibson and they totally suck ass...
This video is so full of involuntary humor! On the one side it´s snobby with that guy trying to tell us, that his piece of wood with some strings on it is so special, on the other side it shows that every guitar sounds like shit, when you record it in the wrong room with the microphone catching up mostly reflections from that empty hall he is playing in. 😅
New ones are just as good if not better once there set up and fret levelled. As for the sound alot of it's down to the magnets loosing there magnetism. All the hype for these old guitars is the placebo effect nothing more. Having sold vintage guitars as a pro guitarist I'd say buy 2 new Les Paul's and a house. The prices are ridiculous nowadays for collectors and people like Joe. Dont forget the reason Clapton, Page and Green bought these is because they were going cheap at the time. Rock on.
The only thing I know about guitars is how they sound and who's playing them. They all sound good when put through the right amplifier, if played by Clapton, Beck, Betts, etc. If you can't play, ain't know way in hell that guitar is gonna do anything but screech.
Joe does not own Clapton`s stolen burst. Although Joe has seen it and he knows where it is, he may or may not have informed Eric. It`s also conceivable that Eric is no longer concerned. Regardless of the current owner of the guitar, it should be rightfully returned to Eric. Plain and simple. Don`t take or keep what does not belong to you.
@@stevenbrown9495 Yes, that is correct. In addition to and knowing that fact, the guitar should be returned to Eric with no explanations from either side except on a voluntary basis.
But … he didn’t answer the central question, i.e. “Why is it that the ‘59 is considered über-special, above other LPs?” Naturally, part of it is rarity - Gibson just didn’t make that many, that year. But isn’t there something about the angle at which the neck is set, or other things that make a ‘59 unique? The pickups are standard for the era, used in several year-models, not only 1959. Great tone, naturally, but that’s true of a lot of LPs. Hmmm …
"Modern day Stradavarius". . . I think that's a REALLY apt comparison, given that in blinded tests, professional violinists have been show to prefer the sound of modern instruments that cost a fraction of the price. Current production instruments may not have the mystique nor scarcity, but they're every bit as good in terms of sound or playability.
To be a good guitarist (I don't have you among my favorites) I saw you in Madrid and I want to tell you that you have no idea and you are ashamed to talk about Peter Green and his '59 Les Paul Standard that, due to a factory failure, 13 guitars came out with the pickup of the neck with the magnets reversed, which gave the sound out of phase in the second position. Gary Moore had it, who played all Peter's songs, and Kirk Hammet bought it for $ 2 million. Just a bend and his unique tone and his talent that is inimitable, I already liked BB King, he is the only one that gives me chills, the tini mad dukce that I have heard and it was the unuco who did not go to kiss the shoes of Hendrux tenua nas category I finally stayed at ease and opposed Peter instead of you not even lying
Joe recently bought Eric Clapton's fart gas in a bottle on ebay. Eric had played the Isle of Wight festival in 69' & had way too many chili-dogs & Schlitz....the rest is cork sniffer history!
Keep on doing what you're doing Joe. Love you keeping up with tradition and at the same time taking it to the next level. Try that naysayers? My only complaint is this music industry sucks, you should've had a Grammy by now. But they give it to the flavor of the year illuminati puppet. Good to see you took on the recording industry.
I always wondered what a 1959 Les Paul sounded like when being played in a bathroom stall in a cave. Now I know.
i was thinking along the same lines horrible sound in that room
or the Grand Canyon
@@derkommissar785 he is playing it on stage and plays it well, don't see anything wrong with kirk owning it and actually using it instead of putting it in a museum or something like that. A guitar like that needs to be played for millions of people and right now it is, so...
@@derkommissar785 poop
Sounds like when I go to the toilet
Sounds like he's playing out of a super Reverb in a bathroom
I love the way joe ALWAYS forgets to mention Peter green and Danny kirwan!!!
For real man! The Best!
Ron Gillespie don’t cry 😢
@FalconerPhoto lol what makes you say that?
do a blind test with Bonamassa between this and a custom shop and a reissue etc, would be interesting
I'm beginning to believe that over the years I've seen more '59 Les Pauls on videos than the number actually produced by Gibson.
The saying goes they only made about 600 bursts and there's only about 1200 left
One of the coolest bursts..Bernie Marsden's "the Beast"
I've never been lucky enough to see or play a real one of these, but in a music shop a week or two ago someone let me have a go on a custom shop [recent-ish] '59 style instrument. It was a magical and sublime sounding guitar that seemed 'to play itself'. Probably the best electric I've come across in 50 years of playing. A bit too pricey though for me I'm afraid.
A 59 reissue is around £5000. That doesn’t seem to bad considering what your getting. It will last you a lifetime.
Just bought a CS VOS 64’ 335. Things amazing.
alliexpress 59 replica, stewmack Parsons street pickups, vintage taper cts pots. 😊 done deal.
To those that didn't Catch it Joe is playing Bernie Marsden's 59 "The Beast" here.
Would sound way better with a boss metal zone in front.
Jaded cynical 77 better yet.. two of stacked
Ha
With some nice James hetfield emg pickups
Gregory Z - Anyone stupid enough to put EMGs in a genuine 59 Les Paul Standard should be lobotomized immediately!
@@damionchrist Woooosh
I kept waiting for him to say " and the volume knob goes to 11" or "You can go get a cup of tea and it will still be sustaining" or something else Nigel would say.
Love this video because there's no need to go into the technical details of the guitar. Any guitarist knows when they pick up a guitar that just feels right. Its about what works for you. (Although playing an original '59 would be fun as hell)
“I’ll try to explain it by playing for you in this bathroom”
I believe the guitar he's playing in this clip is The Beast, owned by Bernie Marsden, not one of Joe's. I have the collectors choice no 8 version of this guitar and the cracks in the finish around the volume and tone knobs are identical.
Dunsfold Dave. It is indeed The Beast. Lovely instrument.
Same guitar on the cover of 'The Burst'. Looks to be, but not sure.
Never could understand why someone would buy a guitar with fake damage.
@@joepasco1420 not only that. After buying the pre-damaged guitar that they pay much much more than for a new guitar, they put it in a case to prevent any damage happening to it… go figure..
@@danteyoutu But this madness can sometimes work for you. I have an ancient (1957) Hofner archtop that I bought in the UK for peanuts, decades ago, and restored myself. I was using it as my jazzbox, but it needed a pickup. Turns out people now buy a $2,500 archtop guitar, then swap out the floating neck pickup it came with, as it isn't good enough for them. So I bought one, also for peanuts, and put it on my Hofner. Turns out to be good enough. for me.
Has anyone mentioned Les Paul being a monster on his namesake guitar ? Playing stuff on it back then, that today leaves guitar players speechless along with their mouths hanging open!
Well, others have commented on the acoustics of the room in which this was recorded but I liked the open feel and sound. A dry sounding, small room with carpet is never my first pick for listening to a guitar.
Joe was certainly channeling some great blues vibe when demonstrating this guitar!
That guitar is probably worth half a million USD nowadays in good condition. Even the body stripped of parts could fetch 70 grand. Insane.
The voice of Kermit finally revealed it was joe all along
today we remember....koss the great...we loved you!!
I'm guessing that the 59 Les Paul was made famous by songs written in the 70's. Therefore, around a 2007 Les Paul should be the Holy Grail today.
is that how math works?
Your math... it ain’t it.
That big empty room does nothing for the sound here. However, when I had a crappy (but loved) Fender copy and shite amp, I played this little combo in a big empty room (the house was being renovated) it sounded like a huge wall of sound, just massive. That was the day I felt like a guitarist. The day I knew this would be my career. That was the first day I had that spine tingling moment of "yes, this is what I will do forever". I'm still at it and it's bought the house, holidays and it's a great way to spend my working days. I wish for that for everyone who starts the guitar.
The upper mid range is unmatched on a real 59.
The newer ones sound young but they still sound good.
I'm pretty sure no-one would be able to tell the difference between a real Gibson 1959 LP and an Epiphone if they had the same pickups. But then again, I don't believe that you can hear a difference between different types of wood in a solid electric guitar either and certainly not if the pickups are wax potted
good description on the range of the 59 less Paul. I use mine to get all those tones and more. 😊
Saw joe at the malibu inn among many other places around los angeles in the early/mid 2000's. Smaller venues. I have tons of pics of him 2ft away. Dude just straight jammed. Years later when i saw him i noticed him signaling the audience to cheer/praise him after some runs. Huh? Then again and again. Even videos here. I can't even watch the dude anymore. Now he is a 59 les paul scientist/salesman 😁. He would sell a rock off of the ground if it had his initials on it too lol
whatever, you haters are all the same. Joe is awesome and successful and you hate him for it.
@@sixslinger9951 He has a point tho
@@melodica5407 what point?
Not that I disagree with Joe. I own three LP’s myself but I would just like to ask the question, why did so many of the “greats” Gilmore, Beck, Clapton, Harrison, Jendrix, Trower, Robin Ford, etc, etc. etc. move to the Fender Stratocaster. Precious few players can afford a 59 Les Paul. I would argue that more of the iconic guitar players have opted to play the Fender line of guitars. Fender has been a stable platform for so many years. It’s simplicity and elegance has stood the test of time. Whereas one (according to the experts)must travel back in time to the first few years of Gibson’s iteration of the Les Paul can one pickup the best of the lot. I love my LP’s but I PLAY my Fender Stratocaster!
This sounds exactly like my Vintage V100 , and anyone who owns one knows it as well 👍
Joe, in your opinion what year is the better custom shop reissue year made for the 59?
Sounds like this is being recorded in a garage. Maybe '59 Les Paul is awesome, maybe it isn't, but kind of hard to tell one way or the other based on this.
And I believe the genius is mostly in THE DESIGN folks! Thats why so many LesPauls Sound so good!! Even Some, of the Copy's can crank! , Because the DESIGN is the same, even when the wood is different ,,, the Hardware can be different... but 95% of guitars that follow that design Sound Good!!! Thats my 2 cents.
Joe can make any guitar sound good! As Danny Gatton told me, the man behind the guitar is the most important element!
He can even make an old '59 sound good.
It's the Beast !
Insert annoying and unoriginal comment about the tone being all in the hands here.
Taco Conch hahaha totally!
I always found interesting when I see guys playing 10k guitars (in this case 500k) just to say at the end “the tone is at the hands”, the hands holding all that cash!
@@azt3ca If people think tone is the hands, they should listen to Eddie Van Halen's demos produced by Gene Simmons! The Tone SUCKS!
The guitar can only take you so far, You have to carry it across the finish line.... with your hands! ✌️🤪🎸🎶.
True tone is 50/50...half you, half the guitar and amp. If you already have the ability, you should be able to play a $10 guitar or a $10,000 guitar and still sound good, and sound like YOU...has anyone ever seen the video of a guy that went to Walmart and picked up a toy Cars guitar and played SRV on it, and he sounded awesome? There's the proof right there...
ruclips.net/video/hhHRp2NxmFU/видео.html Here you go, I'll just leave this here...
What is the riff he plays at the begining
The Les Paul Joe is playing is Bernie Marston's THE BEAST.
The musician is always more important than the instrument
🎸"Hear that"? ´Nuff said" 🎸 🤣
The best guitar ever
Guaranteed 100% if you buy one you will play and sound exactly like Joe Bonamassa
The room reverb renders this demonstration obsolete. what were they thinking?
1:54 exCUSE ME? That run is ridiculous
Never ask a guitar nerd/but this question. "XXX musician": OMG OMG OMG it's just soooo coool!!
anyone know the name of the blues tune he was playing in the beginning? I think its from the Blues Breakers
Steppin' out
Hugues Thibault thanks
flint lock Steppin' Out - Cream
Before Cream, Clapton recorded two other versions of Steppin' Out. He recorded the definitive version with John Mayall's Bluesbreakers on the 1966 Beano Album. He also recorded an earlier version with the Powerhouse. This version ended up on an Elektra records sampler titled "What's Shakin'". The very first recording of the song was in 1959 by Memphis Slim with Matt Murphy on guitar.
Ritchie Blackmore stole that riff when he wrote "Lazy".
These guitars were ahead of their time. These were pricey in the 70s because there was not many of them made. So everyone needs to quit bitching because they can't afford a real one. People don't appreciate them because there's a way bigger selection of guitars these days. Besides, anything old and collectable is going to be expensive.
Les Pauls are not ahead of their time. The Fender Strat's design was ahead of it's time; the Gibson Les Paul is just a jazz box guitar shrunk down slighter smaller, with an acoustic guitar neck and tuning layout.
I'm going to start a crowd funding campaign, so I can get a 59 les paul.
If you were in the room with him, you'd understand the point.
So... did they decide to make a lesser quality Les Paul in 1960. ?
Lol!
Is the , sort of, recent reissue as special? Did they do a good job ?
Joe's right, Gibson double pickup guitars from Kalamazoo have the right stuff. Thanks for your explanation.
Just wanted to point out that the frets on this era of Gibson electrics felt great - smooth, low-wide frets that bar chords can just slide over on their way up the neck. Not the bumpy ride today's little narrow frets provide.
You are the man
sounded gooood
That cork smells great indeed!
Unless I am mistaken that is the Bernie Marsden "The Beast".
Nice guitar joe where did you get that
Very cool video
Sounds exactly the same as my Mexican made Fender Strat!
theres no actual reason the 59 is so special, its just self made hype to justify absurd prices, its not anymore special than a 58 or 60 standard, even les paul standards from this century, the ones that were not chambered, or the 2013 traditional which is full solid body, are as special as a 59, the escence is the same, the model has changed nothing
Finally, someone said it. Thank you.
Sometimes agumented...never diminished...😎
What kind of capacitors did they come with?
Is that Bernie Marsdens guitar? Looks like The Beast
It is
Wow the fire never demenishes. Great for us
Joe Bonamassa is such a showman....
I own 4 Gibson Les Paul's... Love them all.. However, can somebody tell me how much more guitar a $300k original burst brings to me versus a more recent LP Standard that costs $1800-$3k???
#1 Hits.
@Nintariz Very cool to own.
So what if you could buy a house with that money?
Everyone has houses. Does everyone own a 59 Burst?
How cool would that be?
? What was the first song he played? Need the tittle to learn it
Anybody out there got my old '58 Black Beauty, 8-2017?
Richard Neubauer 😂
It's the build quality (they were virtually hand built then), the woods and the genuine ageing, also they were very consistent
1) build quality across the board is higher today then the 1950's
2) a CNC machine makes a better and more consistent guitar then a "hand built" one as would have been in the 1950's. Even with all the bitching people do about modern Gibson's, they're still more consistently manufactured then 70 years ago.
3) the availability of high grade mahogany (used in the body and neck) was easier then. The maple available now is essentially the same. NEITHER of those make a bit of difference in a sold body electric guitar tone as a pickup is not transducing the wood. This has been convincingly and objectively shown many times by engineers and physicists
I wouldn’t say consistent. Every cut of wood slightly differs (naturally) but even the pickups varied a bit. Same goes for those old Marshall amps.
@@droliver Most of the maple tops were three unmatched pieces of the most boring wood in the workship, crudely stuck together. Gibson used the good maple for their archtops (which the company and craftsmen actually cared about). No comparison with a modern PRS SE, or many 'non'brand' Asian guitars.
@@johnwinward2421 you're talking about the aesthetic of the maple not any acoustic property though. Yeah, they certainly would take the less figured and flamed maple cuts and paint them solid gold or black.
@@droliver Sure, but I meant the 'bursts', with maybe a few exceptions.Yet the 'busts now cost hundreds of thousands more than the concurrent goldtops.
People get obsessed with gear and tech and I find it truly IRONIC that The Beatles TOOK OVER THE WORLD with a couple cheap (by todays standards) 4 Tracks, maybe that's because when you sing great, have great background singing, write great songs and have great arrangements the talent shines through the excuses for lame talentless people!!!
And, they played cheaper guitars...Epiphone! Epiphones are great guitars, but they routinely get shit on by the Gibson headstock snobs who think that owning a $5000 guitar and that name on the headstock rather than a $500 one with a different name on the headstock, yet that's owned by the same company, by the way, will make them play and sound better...all prestige and no substance. I've heard people playing, or trying to, an expensive Gibson and they totally suck ass...
At the time, Epiphone wasnt owned by Gibson yet. Epiphone was on its own as a great brand. Not the more affordable Gibson line as we know it today.
I once saw one or two Joe Bonamassa vids. Now my whole feed is full of it!?
He sounds like John C. Reilly
This video is so full of involuntary humor! On the one side it´s snobby with that guy trying to tell us, that his piece of wood with some strings on it is so special, on the other side it shows that every guitar sounds like shit, when you record it in the wrong room with the microphone catching up mostly reflections from that empty hall he is playing in. 😅
New ones are just as good if not better once there set up and fret levelled. As for the sound alot of it's down to the magnets loosing there magnetism.
All the hype for these old guitars is the placebo effect nothing more.
Having sold vintage guitars as a pro guitarist I'd say buy 2 new Les Paul's and a house.
The prices are ridiculous nowadays for collectors and people like Joe.
Dont forget the reason Clapton, Page and Green bought these is because they were going cheap at the time.
Rock on.
Its all in your head Joe
sounds like my guitar but mine was half a million dollars cheaper!
Why has this guy got the world's supply of them?
He should sell a few.
The only thing I know about guitars is how they sound and who's playing them. They all sound good when put through the right amplifier, if played by Clapton, Beck, Betts, etc. If you can't play, ain't know way in hell that guitar is gonna do anything but screech.
It's a beautiful guitar, no doubt. The thing that surprises me, with JB, is how such a talented player can sound so sterile.
Pete Wizzle watch his solo on id rather go blind with Beth hart. Not sterile at all.
Sterile is Tim Henson.
I'm the 59th to like this vid ! Awesome....
Because you can go get a bite to eat and comeback and it would still be ringing
That's the Marsden Beast. Why is he smothered in grease?
The room needs just A SKOUCH MORE REVERB
the customs are just as special.
Why did they stick him in such a large room if they were going to have him play?
Use “close” mics guys. Jeeez!
When’s he finally going to admit to owning Clapton’s stolen burst?
Joe does not own Clapton`s stolen burst. Although Joe has seen it and he knows where it is, he may or may not have informed Eric. It`s also conceivable that Eric is no longer concerned. Regardless of the current owner of the guitar, it should be rightfully returned to Eric. Plain and simple. Don`t take or keep what does not belong to you.
@@stevenbrown9495 Yes, that is correct. In addition to and knowing that fact, the guitar should be returned to Eric with no explanations from either side except on a voluntary basis.
I think the real question is.... How “Can’t” the 1959 les Paul be so special.
But … he didn’t answer the central question, i.e. “Why is it that the ‘59 is considered über-special, above other LPs?”
Naturally, part of it is rarity - Gibson just didn’t make that many, that year. But isn’t there something about the angle at which the neck is set, or other things that make a ‘59 unique? The pickups are standard for the era, used in several year-models, not only 1959.
Great tone, naturally, but that’s true of a lot of LPs. Hmmm …
Great tone is in the ears of the beholder. IMHO.
-Why is so great?
-High mojo instrument.
0:48 contours...HI
"Modern day Stradavarius". . . I think that's a REALLY apt comparison, given that in blinded tests, professional violinists have been show to prefer the sound of modern instruments that cost a fraction of the price. Current production instruments may not have the mystique nor scarcity, but they're every bit as good in terms of sound or playability.
I think some of jimmy pages best stuff was played on a tele.
Needs more reverb.
Once in a while it happens, then it does.
Let Me LOVE YOU BABY!
Was the amp in a fucking elevator shaft during recording?
If this has bbc logo in the top, what on Earth did this segment come from?!? I wanna know.
To be a good guitarist (I don't have you among my favorites) I saw you in Madrid and I want to tell you that you have no idea and you are ashamed to talk about Peter Green and his '59 Les Paul Standard that, due to a factory failure, 13 guitars came out with the pickup of the neck with the magnets reversed, which gave the sound out of phase in the second position. Gary Moore had it, who played all Peter's songs, and Kirk Hammet bought it for $ 2 million. Just a bend and his unique tone and his talent that is inimitable, I already liked BB King, he is the only one that gives me chills, the tini mad dukce that I have heard and it was the unuco who did not go to kiss the shoes of Hendrux tenua nas category I finally stayed at ease and opposed Peter instead of you not even lying
What is the name of the first song Joe plays?
Eathan Straker steppin out
Off course Eric Clapton cheers
I would like to say i dropped my les paul 59 and it the coating cracked. Not the wood
More reverb PLEASE
LOL this reminded me that room reverb isn't always the best!
Joe recently bought Eric Clapton's fart gas in a bottle on ebay. Eric had played the Isle of Wight festival in 69' & had way too many chili-dogs & Schlitz....the rest is cork sniffer history!
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Keep on doing what you're doing Joe. Love you keeping up with tradition and at the same time taking it to the next level. Try that naysayers? My only complaint is this music industry sucks, you should've had a Grammy by now. But they give it to the flavor of the year illuminati puppet. Good to see you took on the recording industry.