The CRAZY Story of my '64 Gibson Firebird
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- Опубліковано 1 жов 2024
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Steve was actually my uncle! He was an extremely talented guitarist and good at restoring guitars. You seem like an extremely nice guy and a good guitarist! You take care of that guitar you deserve it..
And thank you for talking about him. Made me tear up a bit haha
Matt I have some info on the Maine show - I have a books called “Jimi Hendrix - the ultimate experience” by Johnny black that catalogues all (or most) of his shows, studio events, and appearances/interviews year by year. In the 1968 section, Hendrix played on March 16, 1968 at the Lewiston Armoury in Lewiston, Maine. Unfortunately, this entry is one of the sparsest in the book and not much other info is listed other than the date and location. I hope this can help you out in determining the (potential) date and location of the show were Steve opened for Hendrix.
Thats the show. Thank you for sharing.
Great update. My uncle went to that show, I will see if he can give me any details.
Also on the bill that evening. March 16, 1968 The Experience, Soft Machine, The Hanseatic League, and Terry and The Telstars perform at Lewiston Armory in Lewiston, Maine.
That's awesome Matt that you may have a guitar that was used on stage that night!
@@stude1953 Sure someone else has posted this link but www.gratefulseconds.com/2019/02/hendrix-played-lewiston-too.html
Such a cool story. It would have been so cool if this happened a year ago and you could have met him and let him share his stories.
I think the guitar was only sold due to his passing but I could be wrong.
Ha I also know this story because I was going to buy a microphone 🎤 a shure sm58 / 57 because they said it was used to record Jimi Hendrix’s amp in a live show and that there was photos to prove.. and they look just like these photos was the story that the owner had rented gear exactly like your saying. But there was a bunch of stuff for sale I knew I felt like I knew the name when you said it. Nice huh right on right on
Steve Budesky was one of my fathers best friends.I did a double take hearing this story when you said his name. Thank you so much for honoring him after his death by making this video. It’s a beautiful thing to see.
Yes. He was local to me in Delmont and was so, so kind to me and my friends working on our instruments, letting us haggle prices, playing with blackie the dog. Good, good man.
great story!! I believe that Firebird is right were it should be. Someone who will honour and cherish it and protect its history!!!
right on my friend!
Now he has to put a Floyd Rose on it, ha ha...
I’m just a regular dude who happens to be the original owner of a red 1964 Firebird VII.
Jimi Hendrix played Lewiston Maine Saturday March 16 1968
there we go!
@@MatthewScottmusicHey it's Don again, according to the book, Jimi Hendrix: Inside the Experience written by Mitch Mitchell, the Lewiston show was the only time The Experience played in Maine. I hope this helps.
This is turning into one of those guitars you never sell
Guessed you never watched pawn stars
@@electricgypsyblues4761 That was a fake show though
No plans on selling it.
Its just another reason for someone to sell ,the more info and history comes along a good story = $$$$$
Matthew Scott Good man.
Firebirds are rare so finding the info was a stroke of luck i think. I bought a 65 Blackface Bassman head with the large 212 cab in 70 I think, and the owner had a Firebird with two Mini HB. It was the first one I had seen in person. I had the chance to buy a 63 335 cherry red, and couldn't swing it, so I called a guy from another band that had been kind enough to loan me a Gibson Melody Maker for a gig. He bought the 335 and still has it today. I paid 400 for the BF Bassman, and My friend payed 350 for the 335. This was from a small town in the midwest, so quality gear was kind of rare at that time. You had to drive over a hundred miles to get to a shop that sold the higher end Gibson or Fender equipment.
Hey Matt, I hope your fairing well in this craziness going on in our world. I had to watch your video just to get my mind off of whats happening around me. Thanks for the break. Dont let this nonsense keep you from your dreams. Its all n.s. and well get through it. It may get rough but, music from you and others will help the people of America rebound. God speed
Thank you Bryan. Thats all we can do. Im glad these videos help. And no I won't stop despite the growing list of A holes🤘🏻
Wow, just Google Stevie Budesky. All sorts of info on him.
I've been looking into Firebird's and am also from Portland, Maine so UA-cam steered me here! Cool video and research. Love those Firebird's.
Sounds like another Pawn Stars episode. This could be another million dollar guitar, man you're lucky.
Saturday 16 March 1968
Jimi Hendrix
Lewiston Armory, Lewiston, ME, US
The only gig Jimi played in Maine in 1968.
Most of Jimmy Page's guitar work on Led Zeppelin 1 was done using his Telecaster, except for one song. I remember hearing that the one song that wasn't recorded with Page's Telecaster was the song "You Shook Me". Instead, that song was rumored to have been recorded using a Gibson Firebird that was lent to him by a friend to try out. The song was recorded in October of 1968 in London though, so maybe not the same one. Just thought I'd mention it :)
Flying V
@@jon.wilson ahhhhhh, that's what it was!
@@jon.wilson my mistake lol, I remember hearing either Firebird or flying V
Hey Matthew - Reach out to me if you have any obscure Firebird questions. As I mentioned in your last video, I've owned many vintage birds, including two Firebird I's, one of which was refinished white, like yours. I have a '63 Firebird VII (only 20 made in '63), a '64 Firebird I that was routed for bucker in the bridge, but returned and never routed at the neck, and a Firebird III named Old Granddad.
I've also got a history of guitar forensics. Look up "Fender Banjoline" and you'll find a reverb listing and pics detailing my process for finding the original owner, as well as photos of that guitar with Wes Montgomery and Roger Rossmeisl (Fender luthier).
Great stuff!! Don't ever sell that Firebird, create some new stories with it.
Wow. It couldn't have wound up in better hands. Amazing find.
That intro was kickin’ edit: Sugarland by Papa Mali
You had me with the starting riff and the tambourine
thanks, was just feeling that yesterday!
@@MatthewScottmusic Sounds a lot like ua-cam.com/video/dV41v_qsptk/v-deo.html Great song
The into at the start BETTER become a song. I love it
happy guy i agree
happy guy it’s basically parachute by Chris Stapleton
The Yardbirds autographs are Keith Relf (Lead Vocals) and Jim McCarty (drums). Great story Matt
Gerry Rafferty was the guy you didn’t know.
Belief Indication: the control knobs ARE NOT factory symmetrical, this would show cusomization. Excellent documentation, should all be printed and kept in case. Great episode.+
Is The first song 0:00 to 0:52 something he made up or an actual song?
Really cool story Matthew. I'm sure Steve would be really pleased that not only will his guitar be kept alive, but his story will as well. Thanks to you.
This is awesome. The rarest thing however might be those massive pyramid tortoishell looking picks. Havent seen them in FOREVER
I have an original 1966 Gibson Catalogue it shows they were still selling a firebird 1,2 ,3 ,4 ,5,no 6,and a 7 at that time plus a firebird V-12.
Please make that intro jam into a song if it isn't already that was cool as hell!
Had a feeling it would have an interesting story behind it but didn't imagine it would be something that wild. It's great that it's in your possession, Matthew. Looking forward to the coming videos.
Newspaper article of the Lewiston Armory show 3/16/1968: www.gratefulseconds.com/2019/02/hendrix-played-lewiston-too.html
Awesome Matt《☆》Your Firebird plot thickens. Whatever you decide to do with it🤳 It's still a Firebird & that's cool🤓👍🏾in my book🗣🔊☮✌👍🏾
This story rocks. You've said it--these guitars are physical history.
Those are the best sounding mini humbuckers I've ever heard.
So it’s got a history, all the more reason to Leave it as is! Who cares about the routes! It plays and sounds great, so why run the risk of ruining all that! Everything about is perfect, especially the bridge pickup too many people put hotter pickups in the bridge , when actually the opposite was done in the factory!
What a great journey and story!
Rip Steve! Thanks for sharing brother, Be Well Matthew, Be Well All!
I think I bought a lp of the owners band. Its definitely a boot leg kind of album from the 70s. Its a live recording. Ill have to find it in storage. The guy at the store said they were a popular band in the area around the late 60s through the 70s. I bought near philly many years ago.
Let me know man!
Will do matt I started going through my records. Lol I have a pretty large collection. I'll let you know when i find it.
Stevie's youtube channel:
ua-cam.com/video/qI6yFKlxSTY/v-deo.html
"He was in bands that opened for Jimi Hendrix, The Yardbirds, Vanilla Fudge, and too many to list them all. He was in the backing band for Neil Diamond, Little Anthony & The Imperials, The Marcels, The Edsels, The Temptations, The Crystals, The Drifters, Freddy Fender, Peaches & Herb, and others. He knew hundreds of well known acts."
apparently he was a luthier too!
www.talkbass.com/threads/my-former-band-member-passed-away-friday.1423626/
In the '60s I mostly played a Firebird lll. It was very unique- a transition model- a reverse 'Bird with a non reverse headstock: It pointed down.
I'm not remembering if it had binding...
It doesn't surprise me when you say the bridge p/u is weak. I rarely used it on mine because of that.
I broke the headstock, as was a very common occurrence with them, and had it repaired a couple of times, trying to make it look better. Finding a good luthier in the '60s was not easy. I finally sold it to a repairman who wanted to restore it. A few years ago I bought another- a 2010, one of the last ones with the banjo tuners. Funny enough, it sounds a lot better than the original- at least the bridge p/u does.
Hey Matt, your videos are always super cool. You always sound great and look great!!
About this, I wonder if you can shoot a video-rig rundown to show wich camera, lenses, etc. you do use.
I think you have hands down the best images and colours around UA-cam.
Thanks a lot!!!
How many of us have caressed an old guitar and thought "if only this thing could talk"? Well Matthew, you made the Firebird squeal! Excellent bit of sleuthing.
This tour brought led zeppelin to Spokane Washington at Gonzaga 1968 and it's filmed I think. You can find it on UA-cam and Jimmy page has a wall of fender showman amps so I think those fender amps are for LED Zeppelin !
I had one just like it. Mine was refinished white as well and wondered what model it was because I couldn't find anything that described the guitar. It too has had a strange journey. I had coveted it for quite a while. It was hanging in Tulsa at Strings West 1975 next to a primo tobacco sunburst. The sunburst was $1700 the white one was going for $1100. I wasn't worried about collectibity at that time plus I had seen Johnny Winter playing a white Firebird and loved it. On my mission to obtain this wonder I brought along a Blackface Twin that was given to me. I'm not a fan of those so our association was to be brief. The twin was dead and all it took was two tubes and some cheap Radio Shack speakers with chrome domes for looks and it was good to go. So on this day I journeyed to Tulsa ( I was living in McAlester at the time) to see what kind of deal I could make. I stopped at a pawn shop in Sperry where I bought a brown Vibrolux for $75. Next stop was a corner pawn shop in Tulsa at 11th and Peoria just down from Strings West. There I traded the Twin for a 73 Strat with case. I went to Strings West to deal with Larry Briggs. I trade the Strat, the Vibrolux, pay $125 cash and the Firebird is mine. So I get the $1100 white Firebird for maybe $75 invested in the Twin so my total investment is $375! I kept it until 2012. The next part of the journey puts in in New York. I was first drawn to Joe Bonamassa and a bass player discussing his playing on a PBS show playing slide with a black Lectraslide. This was 2010 maybe. I first saw him the next year and have seen him 11 times since. During his power trio days he played the Lectraslides, (he owned 3 of them) quite a bit and you can see him on UA-cam playing them especially the performance on Rock Palast. His dad had a music store in New York in 2012 and listed two of his Lectraslide guitars for sale. I called and asked about a trade which we agreed upon me trading a 1955 Fender Deluxe amp I bought when I got out of the Army for $30 (amazing right) and the Firebird. There were amazing deals to be had back then. I had quit playing professionally in 1980 so even though the trade may not have been monetarily even for current values I felt the coolness factor of owning one of Joe's guitars he toured with for a few years outweighed the dollar value. Also Joe's dad said Joe would sign it on his next trip to OKC that year.
Big bands renting backline stuff in every city wasn't that strange. My dad worked for Spriggs House of Music in the 60's and they rented stuff to Deep Purple when they played at W&J College in Washington, PA (about an hour west of Greensburg). You need to talk to Vic Dapra about this stuff.
Matt, Great story about your Firebird. There's a guy out here in the Palm Springs, CA area named Cal David. He had a club downtown called the Blue Guitar and he played early 63, 64, 65 Gibson Firebirds. He had a about two or three. I saw him play a bunch of times at his club and one of his Firebirds had a Maestro Tremolo. He could really use that the wiggle stick and it would stay in tune. Here's some info on him. Good luck en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kal_David
Cool that you could document all this, but Jesus couldn't this mystery have been solved in 2 minutes by grabbing a screwdriver and checking the routes under that pickguard?!?
In defense of Badass bridges, I had a 1960 LP Junior double cut that really came to life with that same bridge. It was measured incredibly far off, so Gibson QC failed on that one. I know Matthew is interested in original restorations but there is probably a good reason that bridge is there.
I think your onto something..On that night March 16th Hendrix was covered by Soft Machine
Just took a look at a '63 Firebird III on Norm's Rare Guitars and it has knob/jack positioning very similar to your Firebird.
Really need you EP man!!!
Just watched you performance of "for truth" at the OKC Blues festival again... woah
Ohh man what a story, this has major history has this, your so lucky man, never let her go,
I mean jimmy page and hendrix, just incredible man, God bless you man, peace indeed, ❤from🇬🇧
Can you do a video about how you improvise, which pentatonics you use and wich tuning you use?
I think it would be very helpful, thanks
Reverse Firebirds all had a channel for the selector switch. It was very common for them to have been routed for normal Humbuckers.
My favorite guitar! I have a Epiphone Firebird, but one day I will own a Gibson!
This video is making me smile :) Really good stuff here, and that Firebird...Oh Lord
Matt, not sure if you addressed this already, how did you acquire the guitar? Did you get it from his estate or did he sell it before he passed away? Great stuff too by the way, I dig your channel.
I have been watching your videos, great job. I think you should construct a time line for this guitar, it will increase its value by documentation.
This video and this channel have perfectly shown that music was never solely about the music itself. It's also about the stories that go along with it. I've been a fan of yours for quite a while now and I always look forward to all your videos. Thank you for the music, Matthew!
The Hendrix picture looks like noel is using his usual Sunn 200s heads and 2x15s, not showmans.
Bro did you get that mug in Marble Falls? I'm from like two towns over - Lampasas.
Another thought came to mind just now. If your bridge pickup is not sounding right, it might be worth looking at both and determining whether either are original. It could be that someone moved the original bridge pickup into the neck position and it's just not right.
Yo, assuming there was additional routing for the neck p/u & knobs can you see traces of where the routing was done? ie has the white paint sunk or revealed any of the routing or patching in of new wood around the knobs? ✌️🎸
This is so freakin cool! Your page and videos make me want to dive into vintage guitars more than anything else I’ve ever seen! 🤘🏼🔥
What was Steveys last Name !!
Shawn winkelman played skins for Gerry Garcia back then Shawn was in Deer Park Washington spokane washington back in 71 he may be dead now who knows but he may have an Idea who this stevey is
Wow this is fascinating! Cheers from Italy keep up the awesome work!!!
Fascinating story. Thanks for sharing your vast knowledge.
Just thought I would suggest this, take both pickups out and look for any marks left by machinery, it is likely there is a swirl pattern from the router, measure the swirls in the bridge and then in the neck, if the neck ones are different, then it's more than like likely been added later
Hey it might be a long shot but a band called Moving Sidewalks also opened for Jimi. This was around that same time. Billy Gibbons was in that band. I bet he my have crossed paths with Steve and the firebird at some point.
Wow amazing story or mystery hope you find out more about this guitar
The sidewalks only toured with the Experience on their Texas tour.
If you want to email me any photos of Steve, even copies or just screenshots I can restore the colours for you. Very cool guitar and history well done.
Hey Matt cool story I think that's the one cuz the color in the cavity looks right b 4 the re fin it's like the sunburst color or like a gold or brown of some sort u might b on to something that would b cool
I’m so glad these guitars aren’t going to collector Bonamassa
Good old Joe. Wish I could see his collection.
@@MatthewScottmusic you've probably seen it but there's a video of him giving a tour of the bonaseum It's not that indepth but it's awesome.
@benzolekkerkaalkanaal he's preserving vintage guitars so people don't modify them. I'm glad he does it because without him this part of history would be going down drain.
Great story yeah it’s hard to find all the right documentation on this but you know what I love to believe that all that story is true Yes that is a Firebird one converted that’s the only Firebird with the unbound neck
Super Cool Story, can't wait to see the finished guitar...🎸
i dont want to rip on your treasure piece but are the pots in kinda wierd placement like out of square i dont know im just looking at it while your holding it. great find good luck Rock n Roll
Cool story Matt. That is one of my dream guitars because of Johnny. The closest I ever got was to touch Johnny's. He would only bring it out for the encore songs like Highway 61. They have such a cool tone to them and I love the reverse headstock with the banjo tuners.
Great story great pictures really enjoy your channel. Keep up the good work. 👍
Great story and thanks to all that helped Matt. I love this guitar, it's a true rock n roller!
Awesome story! I feel as though if we has still alive you would have never got the chance to own this guitar and figure all of this out!
Your firebird is bad ass I want one pretty bad did you say greensburg pa? I live in greensburg pa
well the knobs is not in a square, that gives it away. it was a firebird 1 until steve made the mod.
Beautiful sounding guitars. The best in my opinion.
Why do you say that the odds of it being a different guitar are astronomical, if it's in fact the same guitar?
Doesn't sound like any other Gibson I've ever heard. I like it.
What is that song that you're playing; sounds like you may be in a D tuning?
Incredible story. I’m gonna open up all my guitars now. lol
Very cool, as always. Greetings from Moscow.
Wow this is cool! Thanks for sharing🤘
guy in the photo with the beard looks very like Pete Townsend
Very tube Vid
You should start a podcast and tell all the stories behind all your terrific gear
ua-cam.com/video/dyMiUmrouZU/v-deo.html nice solo at the 2:00 minute mark.
Great story - well done! Thanks for sharing!
you have a new sub here,. I hv watched alot of your vids man. What an amazing story!! I agree wit the guy who said the guitar is where it should be. I am a 50yr old player, allthough not near as good as you. Always wanted to try out a bird. Have couple pauls, explorer, and strats. You have it my freind!!
Thanks for saying that and glad you are here. 👍🏻✌🏻
flexin that fender electric instruments pre cbs take over super reverb
Wow....very cool....looking forward to a conclusion
According to my definitive Hendrix 'Concert Files' book....Jimi played THE LEWISTON ARMORY, LEWISTON, MAINE on Saturday 16th March 1968.... Supported by Soft Machine, Hanseatic League and Terry & The Telstars.
Hope that adds a little more to this great story.
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soft machine were a no show apparently www.gratefulseconds.com/2019/02/hendrix-played-lewiston-too.html
damn that's a shame. Soft Machine opening for Hendrix is amazing
@@connor5669 They supported him/opened the show, all over the usa www.calyx-canterbury.fr/softmachine/chrono.html they just failed to turn up at lewiston armoury maine 16th march 1968. who knows why?
i went to the show, what we heard at time was "visa problems". they did share the same management as Hendrix. I read later that the band was in turmoil replaceing a member, with Andy Summers. who apparently toured with them later that year, rejoining the Hendrix tour.
You can tell it was a modded l due to the crocked control placement ..
The events described are based off of a true story: “The intro to Matt’s vid was so awesome,” I said to myself. “I should steal the intro.” “No I need to change it so it’s not obvious.” (3 minutes later) “Hmm maybe I’ll turn it into a slide song. Yeah just tune it to Open D and just rock out.”(2 hours later) “You know what I’m just gonna let Matt’s riff be Matt’s riff.”
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Man you like tinny tone. Fred Smiths did not sound like this.