Such an awesome reverent discussion about Ed King’s LP... It’s great that it’s back out on the road making music and being taken care of by someone who cares...
Jason didn't buy Red-Eye because it was Ed Kings. He bought it because it was very, very special; which is why Ed owned it. Ed was a musician first; as is Jason and they both found a little magic in this guitar
That '59 must equate to a ton of birthday gigs! LOL! Glad to see someone actually using these classic guitars instead of just shoving it in the back of a safe. Great video!
During the last year of his life Ed established a great relationship with Carter's so it didn't surprise me to see Carters sell his collection. He shared his instruments with others when he was alive, he loved to play them. Jason will use it well, I would bet that Ed would be happy about that.
I wonder who bought the one that Ed had that he played on The Lynyard Skynyrd band with Ronnie Van Zant. I saw an interview of Ed Kings where he had it and his wife had bought it back for him and it was in bad shape and he had it repaired and he told the name of the man who repaired it for him but I can't remember the man's name.
That guitar must have been at least 500K. Its a 59 for starters, and it was Ed Kings. I saw that Ed's Strat used on Sweet Home Alabama was in Carters for 450K.....so Im guessing that LP went for a lot more. Isbell must be making some good dough these days. Hard to believe hes got it out on the road with him. Im glad its getting played and all, but the risks having it out on tour are many.
Somewhere, Joe bonomassa is laying down in a fetal position, crying because Mrs. King didn't call him to sell him that Les Paul. Stop it Joe, you've got enough!
IDK Isbell seems to be a burgeoning competitor to Joe when it comes to the acquisition of holy grail guitars. Joe has quite a head start on him, but he seems to be steadily acquiring some ridiculous high end pieces now.
Actually... Joe's in financial trouble. He's been selling A LOT of his bursts and Signature Gibson Prototypes. (Plus he's been "joking" about being broke/in debt quite a bit.) I've seen several of his well known bursts for sale online and every time he goes to Norm's, he's handing over another prototype to pay off his tab. I live out in Hawaii and just had one of his prototype Bigsby Gold Top Relics at my studio a few weeks ago.. ...if that tells you anything about how much he's flooded the market lately. Lol
@Literally Shaking it's one of those unintended consequences that create legend. If they all looked the same 60 years later, there would be no mystery to it.
Is it right that the corners of the headstock are a little bit different to each other because the template was hand-drawn and one is a tiny bit sharper than the other? I'm just thinking that it might be because when you trace around the template the pencil lead is going to face into the template on one side but because you're right or left-handed the pencil might not trace at the same angle on the other corner. A CNC machine doesn't mind but humans are a little bit one-sided.
I love Les Pauls, but the reverence and awe people have for 58-60 bursts is just absurd. They're just guitars. How many people played those things in music shops when they were new and didn't buy them? I'm not saying they aren't great guitars but they're just fucking guitars. I wouldn't even want to take one out on the road, the freaking switch tip on that thing is probably 5 grand.
Sure, but if you can afford it and are in a position where you'll likely never have to sell it, why not? It's not what I would do with that kind of cash even if I did have it to spend on a leisure item, but if somebody's into guitars and does, it's not really that different from any other kind of collecting or expensive hobby IMHO.
@@timf7413 I'm not knocking paying that much for one as a collectible, that's not my point. My point is all these people who act amazed EVERY time they see or hear a vintage burst. They're just mass produced guitars. I get thinking they're cool, I get them being valuable because of their scarcity and the fact that so many famous musicians used them....I get that they sound great......but they're not supernatural....they're just guitars. Like I said we've all heard the stories of those things sitting sometimes for years in music stores because no one wanted them when they were new. Then a few years later Clapton, Page etc use them and now people pay hundreds of thousands, even millions, for them and act like you're ignorant and tone deaf if you dare to say it's just a guitar lol.
its the wood mostly...it has cells....full of water and oils when cut....as it ages, the water and the oils dry out, creating tiny little echo chambers...tens of thousands of them...combined, they create a 'singing' tone...
@@Vichedges but only the 58 les paul had PAFs, two of them, in that combination , and the tune a matic bridge...it was the culmination of Gibsons electric guitar production and design...Flying V's and MY favorite , the 58 Explorer were all that had those pickups ....and they are ALL very expensive now.
That's so crazy that $600K is just sitting out without an armed guard to watch over it. You either have a good Insurance policy on it or you are very RICH!
Heard someone demo that Alabama strat on youtube, honestly sounded like "a strat" to me (and I've been floored by pricey vintage guitars before, I don't deny them all). And also heard Ed play parts of the song on a different Strat, of course sounded just like the recording. It's all in the fingers, but people obsess about gear mythicality, Ed probably knew than and made good money on his old guitar he didn't like to use.
its so amazing he tours with a guitar worth more than every home and car ive owned in my 55 years and a headstock break is only a little bump away devaluing it to less than a quarter its original worth. i know,i had a 69 les paul custom treated very well ,not abused,dropped or fucked with and had two headstock breaks(one break happened sitting in a case)as much as i love them i just cant spend the money.
@@angryheb1 ive been playing about that long as well, played in Nashville, three A's circuit Atlanta Austin Athens for years played with several famous ppl, played in front of thousands before. Don't ever let your talent go, you will live a miserable existance and will suffer mentally if you can't play, try other types of music if you get burnt
That guitar is in the same league as the peter green/gary moore les paul - that kirk hammet has now - cant imagine how much it cost - the last 59 i seen was getting on for quarter of a million - add in eds ownership / skynyrd !!! keep adding the zeros lol
I've heard that Hammet paid around 300k and up to 2 million for it. If I was very rich like him, I believe I would have stopped at 750k. One thing is sure, Hammett likes being seen with the guitar.
@@rokhamrr yeah good for him - not leaving it in a glass cage - playing the shit out of it live - he had to sell other things to find the money for it - yikes
@@williamgainford9332 I needed reminding, it was comic book/Sci - fi kind of stuff he sold off. I guess I overestimated his wealth. I had forgotten that he did that. All of his tax bills alone are probably enormous.
I guess it’s kind of alright since Ed wasn’t southern, but I do wish a guitar played in Skynyrd would’ve gone to somebody a little more, well, southern.
Journeys Into The Unknown I don’t know...I’m just not an Isbell fan but Skynyrd is my all-time favorite. I wish it was in the hands of a southern rocker. No offense to anyone, it’s just a southern thing.
@@andrewmoseley4029 Lol Jason's from Alabama, and played for awhile Drive-By Truckers. Think he's lived in Nashville for awhile but the dude is consummately a Southern Rocker. I promise you could name very few artists out there today that are MORE so than Jason.
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was it a burst or was it red?
was it a burst or was it red?
That's the second Ed King guitar I've seen in my notification feed in under two hours. Feeling the spirit of Ed today :)
Me too! 🎸🎸🎸
@@0megalul309 Yes, the Strat. :)
Me, too.
Trygve Heivang sane here
Today Ed King's spirit hit me twice..
Such an awesome reverent discussion about Ed King’s LP... It’s great that it’s back out on the road making music and being taken care of by someone who cares...
That's so cool that someone who cherishes it so much owns it, and he's a working musician who plays it every day and on stage.
Seems like a humble guy Jason Isbell and what a guitar. Love Ed King and the guys from Skynyrd
Jason didn't buy Red-Eye because it was Ed Kings. He bought it because it was very, very special; which is why Ed owned it. Ed was a musician first; as is Jason and they both found a little magic in this guitar
That '59 must equate to a ton of birthday gigs! LOL!
Glad to see someone actually using these classic guitars instead of just shoving it in the back of a safe. Great video!
During the last year of his life Ed established a great relationship with Carter's so it didn't surprise me to see Carters sell his collection. He shared his instruments with others when he was alive, he loved to play them. Jason will use it well, I would bet that Ed would be happy about that.
I wonder who bought the one that Ed had that he played on The Lynyard Skynyrd band with Ronnie Van Zant. I saw an interview of Ed Kings where he had it and his wife had bought it back for him and it was in bad shape and he had it repaired and he told the name of the man who repaired it for him but I can't remember the man's name.
great to see more and more Artist playing these iconic guitars out...very cool!
Got to hear Jason on this special guitar tonight in the Fox, incredible.
That's awesome that it's being played and enjoyed.
BEAUTIFUL!
Great video, what an amazing guitar!!! Lucky!!!
That guitar must have been at least 500K. Its a 59 for starters, and it was Ed Kings. I saw that Ed's Strat used on Sweet Home Alabama was in Carters for 450K.....so Im guessing that LP went for a lot more. Isbell must be making some good dough these days. Hard to believe hes got it out on the road with him. Im glad its getting played and all, but the risks having it out on tour are many.
I have a Purple Marshall JTM 45, with Jim Marshall's signature on the back. I got it to play through. The autograph is just gravy. 💜
His voice sounds like Joe Bonamassa if he was from the south instead of from NY.
no it doesnt, Joe has some kind of goofy speech impedment....and hes a total nerd....
What a nice guy. So approachable.
Guy's a class act!
That's debatable.
Somewhere, Joe bonomassa is laying down in a fetal position, crying because Mrs. King didn't call him to sell him that Les Paul. Stop it Joe, you've got enough!
Fuck Joe.
IIRC Joe has actually said this is one of the best sounding original bursts he's played.
Bonamassa will own this guitar some day, as well as yours, mine and everybody else's guitars.
IDK Isbell seems to be a burgeoning competitor to Joe when it comes to the acquisition of holy grail guitars. Joe has quite a head start on him, but he seems to be steadily acquiring some ridiculous high end pieces now.
Actually... Joe's in financial trouble. He's been selling A LOT of his bursts and Signature Gibson Prototypes. (Plus he's been "joking" about being broke/in debt quite a bit.)
I've seen several of his well known bursts for sale online and every time he goes to Norm's, he's handing over another prototype to pay off his tab.
I live out in Hawaii and just had one of his prototype Bigsby Gold Top Relics at my studio a few weeks ago..
...if that tells you anything about how much he's flooded the market lately. Lol
Looks like the pickups were changed out as well. To me, there could be no better choice than Jason Isbell as the new owner of this iconic guitar.
"Dead man's toenail " 😝🎸🤘
Such a shame that none of this 1.5 hour rig rundown contains any plugged-in instruments.
"They turn into a dead man's toenail real quick"
Sean Marshall you’ll have them someday.
Boy that was a cheap shot man
Joe Johnston haha. But it’s true. I like truth.
I don’t even know who Jason Isbell is but damn he must make a lot of money to afford that guitar
That's what I was thinking.
Clifford, Isbell is worth getting into, imo.
He's a massive bad ass and a cool cat
Isbel is a unbelievable writer, singer guitar player. Basically a triple threat! You’re really missing out.
“Southeastern” ..a masterpiece.
anyone know the scoop on the other les paul in those wide shots? it seems to possibly be a replica/backup right down to the red eye mark.
Im sure Ed would be pleased this guitar ended up in the hands of someone who appreciates it so much.
Yes it’s what I strive for. No longer just playing in a band. Now it’s to own a 59’ les Paul and a 59’ Strat
His ole daddy taught a course at Nashville Auto/ Diesel College, which I was attending around 83.
Its cool how he plays it it's like people that build cars just to drive to car shows cars are meant to be drove and guitars are meant to be played
I can say this much, that guitar is in the right hands.
...rest well Ed....🌹
My dream guitar is the redeye collector's choice model, but many don't quite get that red patch right.
@Literally Shaking it's one of those unintended consequences that create legend. If they all looked the same 60 years later, there would be no mystery to it.
If I could have a Collector's Choice Les Paul, I'd want the Blackburst, but that's just me.
What an absolute beauty!!! So god damn sexy, congrats on that find, I’m going to search now to hear this thing.
My theory is that Ed's portly midsection saved the guitar from buckle rash. All the guitars from my dad's collection showed very little as well.
59 Les Paul. The holy grail.
Awesome
Holy Shat!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Rig rundown of reel big Fish right now please
Is it right that the corners of the headstock are a little bit different to each other because the template was hand-drawn and one is a tiny bit sharper than the other? I'm just thinking that it might be because when you trace around the template the pencil lead is going to face into the template on one side but because you're right or left-handed the pencil might not trace at the same angle on the other corner. A CNC machine doesn't mind but humans are a little bit one-sided.
Peter Davies the custom shops are like that as well.
I love Les Pauls, but the reverence and awe people have for 58-60 bursts is just absurd. They're just guitars. How many people played those things in music shops when they were new and didn't buy them?
I'm not saying they aren't great guitars but they're just fucking guitars. I wouldn't even want to take one out on the road, the freaking switch tip on that thing is probably 5 grand.
Sure, but if you can afford it and are in a position where you'll likely never have to sell it, why not?
It's not what I would do with that kind of cash even if I did have it to spend on a leisure item, but if somebody's into guitars and does, it's not really that different from any other kind of collecting or expensive hobby IMHO.
@@timf7413 I'm not knocking paying that much for one as a collectible, that's not my point.
My point is all these people who act amazed EVERY time they see or hear a vintage burst.
They're just mass produced guitars. I get thinking they're cool, I get them being valuable because of their scarcity and the fact that so many famous musicians used them....I get that they sound great......but they're not supernatural....they're just guitars.
Like I said we've all heard the stories of those things sitting sometimes for years in music stores because no one wanted them when they were new. Then a few years later Clapton, Page etc use them and now people pay hundreds of thousands, even millions, for them and act like you're ignorant and tone deaf if you dare to say it's just a guitar lol.
its the wood mostly...it has cells....full of water and oils when cut....as it ages, the water and the oils dry out, creating tiny little echo chambers...tens of thousands of them...combined, they create a 'singing' tone...
Ed White so do thousands of other old LP.
@@Vichedges but only the 58 les paul had PAFs, two of them, in that combination , and the tune a matic bridge...it was the culmination of Gibsons electric guitar production and design...Flying V's and MY favorite , the 58 Explorer were all that had those pickups ....and they are ALL very expensive now.
Hold on tight
How much?
Red Eye I was wondering who got it!!
That's so crazy that $600K is just sitting out without an armed guard to watch over it. You either have a good Insurance policy on it or you are very RICH!
I get the dead man's toe nail comment, but what's with the Toyota Corolla? Were they known to crumble with age more than any other car?
No idea who this guy is, I clicked here just for Ed King Les Paul
Jason sounds like a top man to me..
It’s funny that Ed King sold his “Alabama” Strat because he didn’t like it, and now it’s the greatest guitar ever.
Heard someone demo that Alabama strat on youtube, honestly sounded like "a strat" to me (and I've been floored by pricey vintage guitars before, I don't deny them all). And also heard Ed play parts of the song on a different Strat, of course sounded just like the recording. It's all in the fingers, but people obsess about gear mythicality, Ed probably knew than and made good money on his old guitar he didn't like to use.
gryzew I also think it sounded great when I heard a demo.
its so amazing he tours with a guitar worth more than every home and car ive owned in my 55 years
and a headstock break is only a little bump away devaluing it to less than a quarter its original worth.
i know,i had a 69 les paul custom treated very well ,not abused,dropped or fucked with and had two
headstock breaks(one break happened sitting in a case)as much as i love them i just cant spend the money.
That is easily 1/2 million-dollar guitar right there
Ed said when he was alive that he wouldn't take $600,000 for that guitar! How much did you have to pay for that guitar?
This dude made $350,000 playing in a band in 2020? I made 3 free beers at my last gig last weekend.. Lol wtf?
it is still very cool to see that he booked some extra gigs to pay for this.
time to up your game,play or sing something worth hearing
trillriff-axegrinder lol good idea, 35 years playing guitar I won't give up hope!!
@@angryheb1 ive been playing about that long as well, played in Nashville, three A's circuit Atlanta Austin Athens for years played with several famous ppl, played in front of thousands before. Don't ever let your talent go, you will live a miserable existance and will suffer mentally if you can't play, try other types of music if you get burnt
What do ya think, laid out about $30 large?
X10
@@mikev.2945 and then x2 - reportedly sold for $650k
@@JasonShiplett Holy shit.
I'm glad some one like Jason now owns this and not some three piece suit executive who would hoard it away and never record or perform with it again.
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If Joe Bonamassa hadn't dumped a load of money on Tommy Bolins LP I'm sure he would have had his eye on this one.
Joe and Ed were pals. He knew about it. I have pictures of Joe's "spot" with this one "Red eye" side by side at Ed's house.
That guitar is in the same league as the peter green/gary moore les paul - that kirk hammet has now - cant imagine how much it cost - the last 59 i seen was getting on for quarter of a million - add in eds ownership / skynyrd !!! keep adding the zeros lol
I heard 1.5 million for the moore les paul
@@Jarrettguitar yeh ive heard up to 2 million - so definetely in that ballpark
I've heard that Hammet paid around 300k and up to 2 million for it. If I was very rich like him, I believe I would have stopped at 750k. One thing is sure, Hammett likes being seen with the guitar.
@@rokhamrr yeah good for him - not leaving it in a glass cage - playing the shit out of it live - he had to sell other things to find the money for it - yikes
@@williamgainford9332 I needed reminding, it was comic book/Sci - fi kind of stuff he sold off. I guess I overestimated his wealth. I had forgotten that he did that. All of his tax bills alone are probably enormous.
That guitar is worth $700k.
Expensive for sure, but likely less then 700k...
Lmao, NO. Under 100k.
@@kommi1974 59 les paul's easily fetch anywhere for 1-300k .. this one owned by ed king probably worth substantially more.
It was listed for $650k
At least 450k
Kinda hard to believe he takes that on the road
Jason must've owned a few pre-2003 Toyota Corollas lmaoooo
Pick ups have been changed or it’s not Ed’s guitar.
Lolololol ... you don't know how any of this works. Just stop.
How did this one escape the clutches of JB? 😜
That thing must be worth some major $$
Help an old guy out, who is Jason Isbell ?
Probably the best songwriter working today.
How could he afford this?
Stay at home guitar, I would never take it on the road.
Id rather have his strat.....just saying.
Here's Ed with the "original", looks like the pick ups have been changed!
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Lolololol ... you don't know how any of this works. Just stop.
"dead man's toenail".... 😮.....😂
I don't know who Jason Isbell is but there is no way he should have wound up with that guitar. If I can't have it no one should...lol
Can't believe she would even sell Ed's guitar
Some kid should have got that guitar
Why?
@@dirkdiggler13 because then he will be a happy kid lol
@@johnnybgood774 Can't argue with that logic! ;)
@@dirkdiggler13 lol 🤘🤘🤘
how ignurt
I guess it’s kind of alright since Ed wasn’t southern, but I do wish a guitar played in Skynyrd would’ve gone to somebody a little more, well, southern.
Andrew Moseley what the hell does that have to do with anything
Journeys Into The Unknown I don’t know...I’m just not an Isbell fan but Skynyrd is my all-time favorite. I wish it was in the hands of a southern rocker. No offense to anyone, it’s just a southern thing.
Alabama is southern enough?
mark sekerak Alabama is Southern for sure!
@@andrewmoseley4029 Lol Jason's from Alabama, and played for awhile Drive-By Truckers. Think he's lived in Nashville for awhile but the dude is consummately a Southern Rocker. I promise you could name very few artists out there today that are MORE so than Jason.
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Ed would have stayed alive if he knew this putz was gonna get his paul.