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Hope to meet you someday and drinl some tea or something, you are a great influence to me greetings from panama🎉❤

What is the importance of this guitar?

Was it with or without the neck when they put it under the dumpster? Thanks.

I was playing cricket with my school when I was a kid; they broke the handle of a really nice bat and threw it in the dumpster. I could not bear to see such a beautiful, high dollar bat be thrown aside like that. I rescued it and took it home, hoping to one day have the money to replace the handle. Some years went past and I went to get it fixed. Turns out my brother stole the bat from me while I was several hours away building a career in another town. Not the happy story this Gibson is, but I see similarities. Of course my brother went on to steal over $100k from me and tarnish my name with my family. I haven't spoken to that prick for over 10 years now.

Tell me the story of this guitar. "It's stolen"

I think we've all shoved a body under a dumpster

What a story!

I actually love the grain imperfection between the pots. Makes it even more unique and special. What a great story behind this beautiful labor of love and friendships! -Brent

Hey John, just found your channel. And what a great episode to start with! I love the Bad Cat Hot Cat, and really appreciated the way you and Steve made those Bad Cat's sing. I was fortunate enough to see PT twice in the early 2000's and you guys were amazing live. Great intro on this amp followed by a nice demo. Look forward to seeing and hearing more from you on this channel.

Always been curious about these. Does the big transformer make it stiff to play? That’s been my experience with a lot of large-transformer amps.

Funny how similar our stories are, with the exception of the whole Porcupine Tree gig thing 😅 I had a Sampson-era Hot Cat 30 around 2008 that I had purchased second hand. As things go, I ended up selling it, but that sound stuck with me. Haunted me for years, actually. A couple of weeks ago, I was able to acquire a Sampson-era Hot Cat 30R. So happy to have that sound back. Nothing like it.

Really enjoyed this one. I recently dusted off my black Hot Cat from the same era. I 'm looking at different ways to attenuate or re-amp it because it's so freaking loud. Here is a great demo of this amp ua-cam.com/video/DIiwz--tbmc/v-deo.html.

I think new gear is important for us as guitar players. It inspires us to explore new sounds. Even going back to something we haven't played in a while can give us a new approach to finding a good sound.

You gonna capture it into the Quad Cortex?

I worked for them at that time, excellent amps!!!

You just made my day John. Be blessed :)

I bet the qaud cortex sounds better!!?

I played a BadCat last week and was totally Smoked ... You have to play it to be a believer.. I want a High End BadCat Set Up

Excellent!

Awesome Wes! 👍

"Sparkles" sounds like she could have worked at Mons Venus in the 80s...😊

I really wondered where the tone for arriving somewhere live came from, absolutely loved it. I prefer the tone from this over the full head cab tone you guys had after 07

Fantastic sounding amp 👏

I know what you mean JW guitars keep following me home it just keeps on happening those darn things won't stop 👏👍🤘

Really great to see this . Was thinking about doing the exact same thing and was going through the same process of looking for a guitar to do so. That Charvel caught my eye too! BTW Afterimage at Bubba Bash '24 was epic.

Excellent!

Nice sunburst!

Wes IS THE MAN! If you don't know his work, you need to spend some time

Right Now!

Great video. I'm in college and I'm saving to buy one of those lerxst loaded pickguards.

Great to see you told this on the series. I remember you telling this long ago over drinks and how emotional it was for you and it was so easy to see how very much it all truly meant to you down to your core

This is the way I discovered

Tremendous way to give back and share the music. Be safe.

Is that Blackwing 602 Box on the rack from Sean Malone?

Awesome guitar. Can we hear it?? Please? 🙏 lol

What immediately struck me was your vocals on Porcupine tree. Incredible harmonies. You are Blessed John. From a 55 year old guitarist who wished he’d sung a lot more.

Beautiful.

Great story!!! I have the first Custom Shop guitar that Tom built when Gibson gave the keys to the official Custom Shop for the 1993 model year, an R7 Goldtop, which also has aged to perfection. I bought it from a touring guitarist from Mississippi, who convinced himself that an "off the line" Standard would sound just as good and save him a $600 bucks over what he sold me the Goldtop for... Three weeks later he emailed me asking to buy back the guitar for $500 more than I paid, as he was convinced he had made a huge mistake. I turned down the offer, and a subsequent one a little bit higher

Dan Erlewine had a video back in the 80's called " Duplicating vintage finishes " , he showed a technique where you spray shellac over the color coat and then spray it with lacquer and then use auto refridgerant to crack the shellac under the lacquer to duplicate an old finish . I had a friend in a guitar repair shop who refinished several old Gibsons that way and you couldn't tell that it was a new finish .

Fantastic video. These special guitars are born from special people, no doubt! Thanks for sharing.

The Amp looks suspiciously close to a Marshal Silver Jubilee 😂

What a Awesome guitar! That’s one folk lore story

Fantastic instrument. The best guitars are the ones that come with great stories. Not many have a better one than Christine.

What a great story! Thx guys!

1983 they did reissue type with flame tops..very desirable these days..I had one awesome.. way before officially doing reissues

That was awesome!!!! I was a junior in High School when The movie Christine came out..... Love this story!!!!

Thats a BURST!

I really love these guitars, this one in particular have two volumes two tones, and just when you think it can’t get any better they added two pickups and guess what… they are humbuckers. 🤦‍♂️ there is so much new here specially when compare it to any Les Paul ever made, that is mind boggling. Two volume two tones wow! If you build it they might come! Lol

Les Paul’s are boring and not special sounding to me. The myth of the Les Paul continues. It literally looks and sounds like every other LP to me with some flaming maple. What am I missing?

I have an '02 R8 that was refinished by Tom at his Guitar Preservation (when he was not at Gibson) . That signature teaburst is stunning, especially in combination with a heavily flamed top.