Baxter and Jonathan discuss why 1950-1960 were the most transformative years for the guitar. The things invented and adopted during that time are still alive and well today!
Steven Tyler and Joe Perry are known as the 'Toxic Twins'. Johnathan and Baxter are the 'Tangent Twins'. The title of their videos gives a basic description of what might be said in the first minute or two, then its anyone's guess where it will go.... lol. Great viewing
I was born in 1967 and growing up all I ever wanted was a little TV that could fit in my pocket, take it everywhere and watch stuff all day long, whenever I wanted to. I win.
I've been playing since late 1970s & the times REALLY changed for me around 2000-2010... that's when USEFUL modeling really helped me out . The Black Box with the Linn drum machine enabled me to write and arrange my song ideas SO much better. Home recording took a huge jump then as well. Now, I have been liberated by GETTING RID OF PEDALS. THAT is a godsend- wait until it happens to you and you will agree. Also - so many guitar companies came out with AFFORDABLE axes with modern technology. For myself , getting a cheaper Squire Strat(those things are SO versatile) that I didn't have to worry about getting beat up/ nicked up on gigs was another godsend. Here I am in my late 50s and getting inspired with guitar playing like it's 1983 again... times are good.
Been there got the T-shirt. I'm 75 and still at it. I owned all those 50's guitars that I bought cheap as at the time they were simply used guitars. A Goldtop with P90's. a LP Custom, a V, a Firebird, a 63 Strat, a '59 ES 335, first year SG with P90's they sold about $150 to at the most $350 for the LP's. They were all good except the PU's on the '59 were muddy. The Gold top had a chunky neck but it felt great.The LP Custom sounded the best but had very horribly low frets. As I said they were used guitars and simply the best of what was available but very, very few were exceptional. They were just no big deal. They were not 'precious'. There weren't any aftermarket parts other than a few unusable PU's from DeArmond. Gibson would only sell a part as a replacement and you got that by taking your guitar to one of a very few warranty repair guys that took out and kept a bad part and slapped in a new one. Most of those old guitars were actually badly flawed. On many Fenders you could stick a pick between the heel of the neck and the neck pocket. Most of what has caused the myths are guitars that were the exception not the rule. Some are still around because they were great from day one. The others eventually ended up at thrift stores But get this in your head ...the great ones were the exception. In the early 80's I was a product specialist for Ibanez. As such I new all the others that I met and hung with at NAMM. One thing everyone said was that the motto on the shop floor when making a guitar was 'Make It In A Hurry'. Today you can get guitars made for a few hundred that even out of the box are better. What's more you can always get a great PU with a choice of a few hundred. Anything unfixable like the 'fit' of the parts is non existent because a computer cut out all the wood. The good old days are right now!
I'm 53 and agree! The brand new guitars of all top brands are way better than the brand new guitars I had access to in the late 70's/80's. The computer precision used in building alone makes them better. Plus, I can get a gig-able axe for under $1,000 thats built great from many brands/sources. I don't have to spend over $2,000 in Cali or Tennessee. They're great, but WE have way more options today. Lastly, I stay away from GC! Accountants and Lawyers have NO business running a music store. God bless you, dear brother.❤☺🎸
The Murphy ad was "Buckwheat Sings" on SNL. "Wookin' pa Nub in all the Wong Paces." Along with "Unce... Tice... Fee Times a Maydee." Hilarious! Agreed - the 50's creations were profound. Another instrument of note would have to be the ES-335 in 1958.
Listening to you guys talking about not knowing what people looked like and only knowing their voices reminds me of when Charlie Pride was on a talk show in the 80s (?). He said he was at some venue in the South and people were clapping and cheering as they introduced him before the stage lights came up and when they did it went dead silent. He and the band just played and by the end of his set he'd won most all of them over.
1987: Jonathan was 6. I was attending Musicians Institute in Hollywood. Life was indeed good when your private instructor was Paul Gilbert, Joe Pass taught just up the hall and the job board contained open auditions for Ozzy’s band. You missed the party Jonathan!
Frequencies do vibrate through different woods at different effifiencies, it's just that none of those vibrations go through the pickups and the amp. Tone wood is only really a thing for acoustics, where the wood is moving the air that makes the sound rather than a speaker. The difference in the vibration in the wood does affect the way playing the guitar feels, but that is synesthesia which affects people's emotional reaction to the tone. Also, any vibrations leaving the guitar through the wood and your arms aren't leaving through the string/pickup relationship. The pickups only respond to metal, not the wood they are screwed into.
Seems we’re always looking to recreate our past- never knew at the time how cool it was. Guess you had to be there… Btw- routing out perfectly good guitars to install a Floyd Rose marks when guitar changed. Great video guys
All I got to say about tone wood is the old Boston Garden. Try bouncing the ball on that old Parquet floor. Different density in the delaminating flooring causes the ball to bounce differently. It matters.
came to say the same thing! I got to meet Larry Bird when he came to my high school to speak and afterward he shot around in our OLD gym and he mentioned how it reminded him of The Garden. He hit a one hand bounce shot from half court lol. I actually knew it affected basketball courts before I knew it affected guitar tone lol.
The 50’s unapologetically barrelled toward the future trying to innovate never looking back. Today we try to improve the past, rather than scrapping a tired idea in favour for a radical new direction.
The guitar player in Mississippi Mike's band in 1955's "Tight Spot", is the earliest I know of, that a FENDER STRATOCASTER is captured on film. Pretty cool.
Not to mention the Flying V, Explorer, Es335,Es345,Es355 and many other iconic guitars the 50s was the best I still chase the iconic Burst Les Paul tone.
Hey guys Brian here, (The guy who bought the super 15 a while back) here is a topic for you, Stainless frets. Not necessarily from a utility standpoint but from a standpoint of being able to enjoy an expensive piece of gear vs just looking at it and being afraid to touch it. Regular nickel frets wear and wear noticeably to someone who actually plays their guitar vs having an expensive piece of wall art (which is also fine lol). I have a Tuttle Tele with stainless frets and every day I cant wait to pick it up. If not for Stainless frets, each time I play it would represent a small useage of its goodness or lifespan if not for the stainless frets. Of course you could refret it if needed but who needs that whole ordeal. The fact that it has the stainless frets I think allows me to actually let go and connect with the instrument vs my ocd taking hold and constantly looking behind the 3rd and 5th frets of the D and G string to look for developing fret wear. This is my personal experience and yes I may be weird but just wanted to run it by you guys and get your thoughts
Only a real man can openly say "I love you." Baxter and Jonathan, I love you guy's. I can't go a day without getting a good cup of dark roast and listening to the two of you discuss whatever hot topic, guitar/music-wise. Especially Harley Benton and Guitar Center issues. I agree completely with ya'll(Texas thang) on those 2 issues specifically. I really hope to visit Casino Guitars there in S Pines, NC one day. Everyone I talk to here in Texas loves your channel. God bless you awesome brothers-in-music. God bless your families too. BTW: Jonathan, I watched the entire gig. Even the first few minutes of goofin' and sound-checking. Dude's name is Johnny Lee from the Urban Cowboy soundtrack which was about Gilley's(R.I.P.) here in H-Town(Houston), Texas. Yes! I rode the original mechanical bull around 30 years ago when Gilley's was still open. The Book Of Boba Fett is awesome! Moon Knight too. Love and blessings from Texas! ☺🙏💜❤💛💜❤💛💜❤💛🎵🎶🎸🎼👍
I love you, Joe, & also love brother's Jon & Baxter too as well also anyhow... even tho Baxter is so good a guitarist he is according to Jon 'disgusting'. He sickens me fully that freak! Grammy to boot... FREAK!!! Mentally-guitarded guitarcheologist since '79 and fair dinkum 100% real man who knows how to love & I plan to stay like this as long as humanly possible. 🎸Didjabringyabongalong Station, 455,000sq./a, Central Queensland, Oz.🦘
@@matthewtayloryowieresearch1912 ...and I LOVE you brother Matthew. You ARE a real man! You're also a real badd-ass! Hope I get to jam and have coffee with ya someday. God bless you, dear brother. We need more like you in the crazy world.❤☺💯👍
@@heavyjoechipman3594 thanx a million Joe bro, you made this guitarcheopteryx smile sincere, subscribed without delay mate! Proud to say I Love You Sans-Macho-Toxicity-Egotism-Freudian damages or any funny business - Haters I can only pity em. They miss out on all the fun and nobody loves em in fact either sad they make themselves unlovable they love not & they are emotionally socially & intellectually unable to remedy this let alone see hate for the drag it is on all, including the hater!?. what's not to love, luv ya Joe.
Yep, playing all those Lubbock High talent shows was the real game changer. He and the Crickets didn't appear on Ed Sullivan until 1957. That was the year he really changed things.
You mean that Jimmy Page bought a sunburst Les Paul off of Joe Walsh, and started using that instead of that painted Telecaster of his, surely... The big game changer for electric guitar in the sixties was Hendrix, when he moved to London in the autumn of '66, and promptly gob smacked absolutely everybody. No point in disputing that, I think...
Drink the Kool-Aid actually means something to those around in the 70's. Edit: Not at all saying anything about these guys. Love them and their funny jabbering. Please keep it up.
My pops was born in 1936 and I was born in 1980. So, I was raised in a style very similar to that of the late 1950’s. I had a little crew cut and looked like a Kansas Johnny Cash. As a result, I’ve always felt as if I was living in the wrong decade. It’s been especially difficult in 2023, when you can get cancelled for literally nothing and anything. Few have a backbone anymore or the work ethic to carry the weight. This is why I appreciate the team at Casino so much and do business with them. Y’all put out a great video at least three to four times a week AND work the shop all day. (Yes, these gentlemen do work incredibly hard.) That’s dedication rarely seen anymore. Remain steadfast.
I remember seeing Strats in the mail order catalogue when I was growing up in the 80s, and I didn't realise then that the Strat was a 50s guitar. It just looked so *new*. The Les Paul looked more like an old-fashioned guitar but the Strat seemed space-age as the name was meant to suggest.
Lookin' for Love? I'm going with the Oak Ridge Boys. And I would love to have a '59 Vibro-Lux and matching Strat. Then stand on the Stage in '59 with Buddy Holly and have a head chopping contest with my post Jimmi/ Stevie Ray chops. On second thought, I'd probably get dragged off stage and sent to Arkham.🤔
That's Johnny Lee. He and Mickey Guilley did most of Travolta's Urban Cowboy movie soundtrack... (My Mom made me learn this). LOL "Hookin Pa Nub" - BuckWheat
@@gordonhuskin7337 I'll give them a consolation price. I thought of Blue cheer. Not sure the difference, but Black Sabbath seems the actual change. Maybe it's combined with their chord progressions and choice of notes.
@@gordonhuskin7337 Hendrickson's distortion was never quite that saturated. And even if it was on occasion, that wasn't his main sound. I can't think of any Hendrix that sounds like sabbath.
It's interesting how we as humans judge anything digital (audio, video, and photography) by how close we can get to being indistinguishable from the original analog. I feel like the 80's music embraced digital pretty hard and somehow we took this hard nostalgic turn backwards. I mean, I do the same thing. I just find it interesting.
@@scottgibbs5903 oh yeah..... born (on the drawing board and just into production in 60s --- but made the name and image in 70s - that's why you posted it - I have no doubt
I know that my approach to tonewood is inconsistent and illogical so I'm not going to get into any arguements, because I know that I believe in some stuff but can't really justify which ones I believe. Like I'd tell you that it's not possible to tell the difference between ash and alder, but I'd insist that flat sawn maple vs quarter sawn maple is night and day.
The great Johnny Lee! "Lookin' for love in all the wrong places" My father had the opportunity to play on stage with Johnny Lee and felt the world of him. BUT-don't mess with the Killer!! As a good Memphis boy, I have to defend the immortal Jerry Lee Lewis.
@@benlogan430 women knew their role and weren't only fans thots, gays were in the closet and not grooming kids in the classroom and the black family unit had never been stronger, but ok
@@benlogan430 Everything you said is the truth plus there is the fact that the rest of the developed world was still rebuilding from the destruction of WWII. It was only a utopia for a select few people.
Honestly, I do love some of the stuff that came out of the 50's (I've had the privilege of playing a handful of guitars and amps from that era), but they were far from being without quirks or issues. This sensation that "everything was better" feels like it's driven only by rosy-eyed nostalgia. If we as musicians can constantly be improving, there's always a way that we can improve the tools we use *cough cough, output tubes.
1958 when Link Wray released "Rumble" Guitar was great before then but that song made people have children because of a guitar, no loving lyrics were necessary. Hop into my gas guzzling Ford, listen to Rumble, 9 months later a child is born.
1991 was the year that broke guitar; it was the year that grunge became popular. 2018 was the year that the Silver Sky released, forever known as the guitar that broke the internet. Twice.
Very true but the late 60's - early 70's were a pretty crazy time too. Corporate money machine trying to make profits from Fender, Gibson screaming at musicians to stop buying 1950's guitars and buy something modern. The huge wave of far eastern companies making exact copies of US guitars. Transistor amps with stage level power appearing and being ignored by professionals.
Tone woods.... they matter vastly more for acoustics than electrics. LOL So I believe in tone woods, just don't care when it comes to electric guitars. Esthetics and general quality of parts and construction matter more to me. Cheers!
Is wood real? Yes. Does wood affect the sound of a guitar? Yes. Is tone wood real? No. Wood can only have a negative impact on the vibration of the stings.
It’s amazing that the electric guitar tone wood myth still persists in the age of the internet So many videos of guitars made out of concrete, laminated woods, hardened epoxy coated pencil crayons etc etc and so many people still think the tone of the wood body has an effect lol
@@lomoholga wood can have an affect. This is why sometimes an individual guitar sounds terrible. The wood vibrates. If it vibrates well the natural vibration of the stings through the pickups comes through and it sounds good. If the wood absorbs the vibrations the guitar won't sound good. Tone woods are just more likely to vibrate well.
@@jefft7085 lol what about the guitars made out of concrete that sound indistinguishable from regular wooden one’s with the same pickups? This myth will die eventually, but it will obviously die hard
@@lomoholga I agree with you. In general terms any stiff and hard material will sound the same. But on a case by case basis, the material might matter. Tone wood is a myth, but every guitarist knows that from a baseline for a given guitar, some sound better and some worse and the only variable is the slabs of wood
Except for the cold war, cult of domesticity (and all of the misogyny that went with that), segregation and rampant racism, and the general sense of ease which any person who was not a white christian could be oppressed… the 50’s were, well, something. But you’re right, the guitars were AMAZING! 🎉 (it was a great video as always!)
Steven Tyler and Joe Perry are known as the 'Toxic Twins'. Johnathan and Baxter are the 'Tangent Twins'. The title of their videos gives a basic description of what might be said in the first minute or two, then its anyone's guess where it will go.... lol. Great viewing
I love it -- hope it never stops... one day the world will catch up to these two.
I was born in 1967 and growing up all I ever wanted was a little TV that could fit in my pocket, take it everywhere and watch stuff all day long, whenever I wanted to. I win.
Lightbulbs, tube amps, a Tele and and Strat...all the technology I've ever needed! Cheers Baxter and Jonathan!!
I've been playing since late 1970s & the times REALLY changed for me around 2000-2010... that's when USEFUL modeling really helped me out . The Black Box with the Linn drum machine enabled me to write and arrange my song ideas SO much better. Home recording took a huge jump then as well. Now, I have been liberated by GETTING RID OF PEDALS. THAT is a godsend- wait until it happens to you and you will agree. Also - so many guitar companies came out with AFFORDABLE axes with modern technology. For myself , getting a cheaper Squire Strat(those things are SO versatile) that I didn't have to worry about getting beat up/ nicked up on gigs was another godsend. Here I am in my late 50s and getting inspired with guitar playing like it's 1983 again... times are good.
Been there got the T-shirt. I'm 75 and still at it. I owned all those 50's guitars that I bought cheap as at the time they were simply used guitars. A Goldtop with P90's. a LP Custom, a V, a Firebird, a 63 Strat, a '59 ES 335, first year SG with P90's they sold about $150 to at the most $350 for the LP's. They were all good except the PU's on the '59 were muddy. The Gold top had a chunky neck but it felt great.The LP Custom sounded the best but had very horribly low frets. As I said they were used guitars and simply the best of what was available but very, very few were exceptional. They were just no big deal. They were not 'precious'. There weren't any aftermarket parts other than a few unusable PU's from DeArmond. Gibson would only sell a part as a replacement and you got that by taking your guitar to one of a very few warranty repair guys that took out and kept a bad part and slapped in a new one.
Most of those old guitars were actually badly flawed. On many Fenders you could stick a pick between the heel of the neck and the neck pocket. Most of what has caused the myths are guitars that were the exception not the rule. Some are still around because they were great from day one. The others eventually ended up at thrift stores But get this in your head ...the great ones were the exception. In the early 80's I was a product specialist for Ibanez. As such I new all the others that I met and hung with at NAMM. One thing everyone said was that the motto on the shop floor when making a guitar was 'Make It In A Hurry'.
Today you can get guitars made for a few hundred that even out of the box are better. What's more you can always get a great PU with a choice of a few hundred. Anything unfixable like the 'fit' of the parts is non existent because a computer cut out all the wood.
The good old days are right now!
I'm 53 and agree! The brand new guitars of all top brands are way better than the brand new guitars I had access to in the late 70's/80's. The computer precision used in building alone makes them better. Plus, I can get a gig-able axe for under $1,000 thats built great from many brands/sources. I don't have to spend over $2,000 in Cali or Tennessee. They're great, but WE have way more options today. Lastly, I stay away from GC! Accountants and Lawyers have NO business running a music store. God bless you, dear brother.❤☺🎸
The Murphy ad was "Buckwheat Sings" on SNL. "Wookin' pa Nub in all the Wong Paces." Along with "Unce... Tice... Fee Times a Maydee." Hilarious! Agreed - the 50's creations were profound. Another instrument of note would have to be the ES-335 in 1958.
I enjoyed the fifties but I didn't start playing until the sixties. God I'm old!
And getting old SUCKS! BTW, I couldn't tune my guitar in the 60s, so I quit for quite a while. LOL
I thought I was - you've got me beat.... keep on rocking !
Listening to you guys talking about not knowing what people looked like and only knowing their voices reminds me of when Charlie Pride was on a talk show in the 80s (?). He said he was at some venue in the South and people were clapping and cheering as they introduced him before the stage lights came up and when they did it went dead silent. He and the band just played and by the end of his set he'd won most all of them over.
1987: Jonathan was 6. I was attending Musicians Institute in Hollywood. Life was indeed good when your private instructor was Paul Gilbert, Joe Pass taught just up the hall and the job board contained open auditions for Ozzy’s band. You missed the party Jonathan!
wow !
It was like a little comedy show this .morning. Thanks for the smile today guys
Lol What is this video even about?! I love it. Ultimate rambling. Keep it up, guys. I'll be here.
With the advent of new tech and gear we have I ask a simple question "Did Hendrix and co have it at Woodstock?"
If they had it back them they sure as hell would have used it. I see no doubt about that. They were using the newest tech available at their time.
Man I love this channel.
Frequencies do vibrate through different woods at different effifiencies, it's just that none of those vibrations go through the pickups and the amp. Tone wood is only really a thing for acoustics, where the wood is moving the air that makes the sound rather than a speaker. The difference in the vibration in the wood does affect the way playing the guitar feels, but that is synesthesia which affects people's emotional reaction to the tone. Also, any vibrations leaving the guitar through the wood and your arms aren't leaving through the string/pickup relationship. The pickups only respond to metal, not the wood they are screwed into.
if the pickup is vibrating, does that not impact the sound it is producing in combination with the strings?
So are you saying the sound is the same for solid body, semi-hollow body, hollow body, and electrified acoustic guitars?
Seems we’re always looking to recreate our past- never knew at the time how cool it was. Guess you had to be there… Btw- routing out perfectly good guitars to install a Floyd Rose marks when guitar changed. Great video guys
All I got to say about tone wood is the old Boston Garden. Try bouncing the ball on that old Parquet floor. Different density in the delaminating flooring causes the ball to bounce differently. It matters.
came to say the same thing! I got to meet Larry Bird when he came to my high school to speak and afterward he shot around in our OLD gym and he mentioned how it reminded him of The Garden. He hit a one hand bounce shot from half court lol. I actually knew it affected basketball courts before I knew it affected guitar tone lol.
The 50’s unapologetically barrelled toward the future trying to innovate never looking back. Today we try to improve the past, rather than scrapping a tired idea in favour for a radical new direction.
It was Johnny Lee from the Urban Cowboy soundtrack. I played a gig with him one time at an Elks Club
very cool.
14:38...Thanks so much for that visual image I won't be able to get out of my mind all day!
The guitar player in Mississippi Mike's band in 1955's "Tight Spot", is the earliest I know of, that a FENDER STRATOCASTER is captured on film. Pretty cool.
there is something rare & obscure....... I'll check it out . the first feedback I can find is on a Beatle record.
great video as always. Got a smile out of it :)
Not to mention the Flying V, Explorer, Es335,Es345,Es355 and many other iconic guitars the 50s was the best I still chase the iconic Burst Les Paul tone.
get a strat..... you can get all tones with those.......
Love the yellow cup! Sick design.🐍
Great job guys, love the banter!
Johnny Lee. The Eddie Murphy version is actually called Wookin Pa Nub.
Actually, it was Buckwheat 😉
@@DavidHBurkart buh-wheet
@@csnide6702 👌Oooooohtaaay Pankie! 😂
@@DavidHBurkart oootay Buh -whee..... 🤣
Hey guys Brian here, (The guy who bought the super 15 a while back) here is a topic for you, Stainless frets. Not necessarily from a utility standpoint but from a standpoint of being able to enjoy an expensive piece of gear vs just looking at it and being afraid to touch it. Regular nickel frets wear and wear noticeably to someone who actually plays their guitar vs having an expensive piece of wall art (which is also fine lol). I have a Tuttle Tele with stainless frets and every day I cant wait to pick it up. If not for Stainless frets, each time I play it would represent a small useage of its goodness or lifespan if not for the stainless frets. Of course you could refret it if needed but who needs that whole ordeal. The fact that it has the stainless frets I think allows me to actually let go and connect with the instrument vs my ocd taking hold and constantly looking behind the 3rd and 5th frets of the D and G string to look for developing fret wear. This is my personal experience and yes I may be weird but just wanted to run it by you guys and get your thoughts
well there's another 15 min. of my life I will never get back........... cant not watch you guys !!
A fun episode. I can't decide if you guys need more coffee or less coffee! Lol!
Only a real man can openly say "I love you." Baxter and Jonathan, I love you guy's. I can't go a day without getting a good cup of dark roast and listening to the two of you discuss whatever hot topic, guitar/music-wise. Especially Harley Benton and Guitar Center issues. I agree completely with ya'll(Texas thang) on those 2 issues specifically. I really hope to visit Casino Guitars there in S Pines, NC one day. Everyone I talk to here in Texas loves your channel. God bless you awesome brothers-in-music. God bless your families too.
BTW: Jonathan, I watched the entire gig. Even the first few minutes of goofin' and sound-checking.
Dude's name is Johnny Lee from the Urban Cowboy soundtrack which was about Gilley's(R.I.P.) here in H-Town(Houston), Texas. Yes! I rode the original mechanical bull around 30 years ago when Gilley's was still open. The Book Of Boba Fett is awesome! Moon Knight too.
Love and blessings from Texas! ☺🙏💜❤💛💜❤💛💜❤💛🎵🎶🎸🎼👍
I love you, Joe, & also love brother's Jon & Baxter too as well also anyhow... even tho Baxter is so good a guitarist he is according to Jon 'disgusting'. He sickens me fully that freak! Grammy to boot... FREAK!!!
Mentally-guitarded guitarcheologist since '79 and fair dinkum 100% real man
who knows how to love & I plan to stay like this as long as humanly possible.
🎸Didjabringyabongalong Station, 455,000sq./a, Central Queensland, Oz.🦘
@@matthewtayloryowieresearch1912 ...and I LOVE you brother Matthew. You ARE a real man! You're also a real badd-ass! Hope I get to jam and have coffee with ya someday. God bless you, dear brother. We need more like you in the crazy world.❤☺💯👍
@@heavyjoechipman3594 thanx a million Joe bro, you made this guitarcheopteryx smile sincere, subscribed without delay mate! Proud to say I Love You Sans-Macho-Toxicity-Egotism-Freudian damages or any funny business - Haters I can only pity em. They miss out on all the fun and nobody loves em in fact either sad they make themselves unlovable they love not & they are emotionally socially & intellectually unable to remedy this let alone see hate for the drag it is on all, including the hater!?. what's not to love, luv ya Joe.
Shortround! he was in Goonies too. He is also playing Michelle Yeoh's husband in her latest movie.
Hey!! I have a 2014 Gibson LP with robot tuners. I refuse to take them off because I’m hoping that someday it will be the only one left.
It will be the only one left
@@kalkidasofficial I hope so!!
Nope, my 2015 Les Paul Studio will still have them.
1952 when Buddy Holly hit the scene was a definite Game changing year!
Yep, playing all those Lubbock High talent shows was the real game changer. He and the Crickets didn't appear on Ed Sullivan until 1957. That was the year he really changed things.
@@JeffSealePhD 👍😂
The golden era of guitar ! And amps and cars !
Post war prosperity.
“Looking for Love”- Johnny Lee
Johnny Lee is the country artist that sang "Looking for Love". You guys are awesome.
Not to be confused with Buckwheat, who sang "Wookin Pa Nub"
In ‘87 I was a Senior in high school, I was cranking (rocking ) REO and playing air guitar! LOL
Looking For Love, Johnny Lee
Those time life comp commercials are the soundtrack to my childhood. Especially the 70s ones… “bayyybah come to me”
"I do not believe in wood!" My wife runs in and performs the Heimlich maneuver to remove the sandwich from my throat. Thanks guys, Love you, Babe.
Guitar changed in 1969 with the release of the first Zeppelin album
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You mean that Jimmy Page bought a sunburst Les Paul off of Joe Walsh, and started using that instead of that painted Telecaster of his, surely...
The big game changer for electric guitar in the sixties was Hendrix, when he moved to London in the autumn of '66, and promptly gob smacked absolutely everybody. No point in disputing that, I think...
I believe that Mickey Guilley sang "Looking for Love" and it was part of the Urban Cowboy soundtrack.
Drink the Kool-Aid actually means something to those around in the 70's.
Edit: Not at all saying anything about these guys. Love them and their funny jabbering. Please keep it up.
Jim Jones gives this a thumbs up
I remember the front cover Of Time magazine, like it was yesterday
It was Flavor-Aid, not Kool-Aid.
@@vorpalblades okay
My pops was born in 1936 and I was born in 1980. So, I was raised in a style very similar to that of the late 1950’s. I had a little crew cut and looked like a Kansas Johnny Cash. As a result, I’ve always felt as if I was living in the wrong decade. It’s been especially difficult in 2023, when you can get cancelled for literally nothing and anything. Few have a backbone anymore or the work ethic to carry the weight. This is why I appreciate the team at Casino so much and do business with them. Y’all put out a great video at least three to four times a week AND work the shop all day. (Yes, these gentlemen do work incredibly hard.) That’s dedication rarely seen anymore. Remain steadfast.
Johnny Lee did lookin for love! Damnit Baxter
Love your guys vibes
I remember seeing Strats in the mail order catalogue when I was growing up in the 80s, and I didn't realise then that the Strat was a 50s guitar. It just looked so *new*. The Les Paul looked more like an old-fashioned guitar but the Strat seemed space-age as the name was meant to suggest.
"Wookin por nub" Eddie Murphy as Buckwheat on SNL. Classic hit!
Buckwheat did a cover on an SNL skit with Eddie Murphy as Buckwheat, it was called ‘Woopin’ Pah Nub’
O tay!
En ow da Wong paces
Can we talk about J's "don't tread on me" tumbler?!?
Johnny Lee. It was used in Urban Cowboy as well
Lookin' for Love? I'm going with the Oak Ridge Boys. And I would love to have a '59 Vibro-Lux and matching Strat. Then stand on the Stage in '59 with Buddy Holly and have a head chopping contest with my post Jimmi/ Stevie Ray chops. On second thought, I'd probably get dragged off stage and sent to Arkham.🤔
I danced at Gilley's on Spencer highway in Pasadena Texas in the 70's
That's Johnny Lee. He and Mickey Guilley did most of Travolta's Urban Cowboy movie soundtrack... (My Mom made me learn this). LOL
"Hookin Pa Nub" - BuckWheat
First Black Sabbath album changed the sound of the guitar from jangle and some crunch, to full on yummy distortion.
Blue Cheer did it before black sabbath
@@gordonhuskin7337 I'll give them a consolation price. I thought of Blue cheer. Not sure the difference, but Black Sabbath seems the actual change. Maybe it's combined with their chord progressions and choice of notes.
@@216trixie hendrix did it before black sabbath as well
@@gordonhuskin7337 Hendrickson's distortion was never quite that saturated. And even if it was on occasion, that wasn't his main sound. I can't think of any Hendrix that sounds like sabbath.
@@216trixie Ron Asheton had a heavy saturated fuzz tone in The Stooges and their first record came out before Sabbath even recorded their debut
Ol Ronnie ,stuck in the fifties today guys!…I always mix him and Eddie rabbit s music 🎶 up…Ronnie is another North Carolina artist 🎸✌️
⚓️ Thanks Casino 😎
Machines that will squeeze it?
Sounds like I need to upgrade my gear!🤠
Lookin' For Love.... George Straight
Evertune? Love mine!!
I was in the Army, and stationed in Germany.
It's interesting how we as humans judge anything digital (audio, video, and photography) by how close we can get to being indistinguishable from the original analog. I feel like the 80's music embraced digital pretty hard and somehow we took this hard nostalgic turn backwards. I mean, I do the same thing. I just find it interesting.
In the 80's and 90's were alright. But I was born in the early fifties and sixties and seventies were outrageous.
50’s are the best because I was born in the 50’s! Actually, 70’s we’re the best. Think Roadrunners, Mustangs, Malibu SS’s, Barracudas!
those cars were born in late 60s
@@csnide6702 Still a 70’s car. That’s the period they stick in my mind.
@@scottgibbs5903 oh yeah..... born (on the drawing board and just into production in 60s --- but made the name and image in 70s - that's why you posted it - I have no doubt
Fun watching closed captioning try to keep up with you guys and make any sense out of what your saying!
Just watch the Jim Lill vid 'Tested: Where Does The Tone Come From In An Electric Guitar?' quite interesting!
pickups, volume and weight---- there - saved you a half hour.... you're welcome.
I think it was Johnny Lee who sang looking for love….
Could Baxter make a video about his hair? I'm really curious
Idk I think digital effects. Mainly delays changed guitar the most. turned guitar into way more than just a guitar.
I know that my approach to tonewood is inconsistent and illogical so I'm not going to get into any arguements, because I know that I believe in some stuff but can't really justify which ones I believe. Like I'd tell you that it's not possible to tell the difference between ash and alder, but I'd insist that flat sawn maple vs quarter sawn maple is night and day.
Those boats are above my pay grade ! 🖖🏼
What came first - electric guitar or guitar amp?
That's it! Ol' Bill Bopper!!!!
I lost it laughing!!!!
The name is Johnny Lee
The great Johnny Lee! "Lookin' for love in all the wrong places" My father had the opportunity to play on stage with Johnny Lee and felt the world of him. BUT-don't mess with the Killer!! As a good Memphis boy, I have to defend the immortal Jerry Lee Lewis.
The 1950's were a utopia. A literal paradise on earth. It's truly sad how far we have fallen
Unless you were a women, gay or a minority. Segregation, the Cold War and The Korean War were not quite utopia. But, ya in some ways.
@@benlogan430 women knew their role and weren't only fans thots, gays were in the closet and not grooming kids in the classroom and the black family unit had never been stronger, but ok
Except for women, minorities, and anyone with health problems eh
@@benlogan430
Everything you said is the truth plus there is the fact that the rest of the developed world was still rebuilding from the destruction of WWII. It was only a utopia for a select few people.
@@charlesbolton8471 We're talking about America. Who cares about the rest of the world? lmao. Cope!
“we don’t take prisoners, we make wives.” I laughed so hard at that
i'm using that......😅
Honestly, I do love some of the stuff that came out of the 50's (I've had the privilege of playing a handful of guitars and amps from that era), but they were far from being without quirks or issues. This sensation that "everything was better" feels like it's driven only by rosy-eyed nostalgia. If we as musicians can constantly be improving, there's always a way that we can improve the tools we use *cough cough, output tubes.
1958 when Link Wray released "Rumble" Guitar was great before then but that song made people have children because of a guitar, no loving lyrics were necessary. Hop into my gas guzzling Ford, listen to Rumble, 9 months later a child is born.
best singer ever Elvis,1957 Chevrolet,1954 Stratocaster1959 les Paul 1959 baseman the list goes on and on John Wayne movies. I love Lucy
Johnny Lee sang Looking For Love
the guitar changed pt. II : when CNC, Full Automation, and the builds/parts from china became the standard.
1991 was the year that broke guitar; it was the year that grunge became popular. 2018 was the year that the Silver Sky released, forever known as the guitar that broke the internet. Twice.
February 9th, 1964.
Looking for love by Johnny Lee off the Urban Cowboy soundtrack.
@Baxter Is it Bobby Womack?
Johnathan make sure Baxter stays away from the Jonestown kook-aid lol
Also give me tubes or give me Death lmao
The first Van Halen album.
I would love a guitar with robot tuners, cos i play grunge.
It would need an app to programme all that Superunknown weirdness.
It’s interesting, for sure. Sometimes we get it right the first time. Other times, there’s Line 6.😳
Johnny Lee
The Jazzmaster … 1958 … gentlemen, as always, you are correct.
I think Baxter would be more of a basque man than a push-up bra ;)
Very true but the late 60's - early 70's were a pretty crazy time too. Corporate money machine trying to make profits from Fender, Gibson screaming at musicians to stop buying 1950's guitars and buy something modern. The huge wave of far eastern companies making exact copies of US guitars. Transistor amps with stage level power appearing and being ignored by professionals.
Good Morning! 56th viewer haha
Tone woods.... they matter vastly more for acoustics than electrics. LOL So I believe in tone woods, just don't care when it comes to electric guitars. Esthetics and general quality of parts and construction matter more to me. Cheers!
I wanna see how long brands like Stranberg and Abasi Concepts last and what their lasting effects are years from now
Tone wood, ya didn’t talk about tone batteries. 😂
Is wood real? Yes. Does wood affect the sound of a guitar? Yes. Is tone wood real? No.
Wood can only have a negative impact on the vibration of the stings.
It’s amazing that the electric guitar tone wood myth still persists in the age of the internet
So many videos of guitars made out of concrete, laminated woods, hardened epoxy coated pencil crayons etc etc and so many people still think the tone of the wood body has an effect lol
@@lomoholga wood can have an affect. This is why sometimes an individual guitar sounds terrible. The wood vibrates. If it vibrates well the natural vibration of the stings through the pickups comes through and it sounds good. If the wood absorbs the vibrations the guitar won't sound good. Tone woods are just more likely to vibrate well.
@@jefft7085 lol what about the guitars
made out of concrete that sound indistinguishable from regular wooden one’s with the same pickups?
This myth will die eventually, but it will obviously die hard
@@lomoholga I agree with you. In general terms any stiff and hard material will sound the same. But on a case by case basis, the material might matter. Tone wood is a myth, but every guitarist knows that from a baseline for a given guitar, some sound better and some worse and the only variable is the slabs of wood
11:31 My chick is like "Black Krrsantan can get it!" Lol lol lol
At my level of hearing loss, tonewood doesn’t matter.
Except for the cold war, cult of domesticity (and all of the misogyny that went with that), segregation and rampant racism, and the general sense of ease which any person who was not a white christian could be oppressed… the 50’s were, well, something. But you’re right, the guitars were AMAZING! 🎉 (it was a great video as always!)