Axes & Artifacts - 1968 Gibson Trini Lopez & 1962 Ampeg Reverberocket
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- Опубліковано 20 вер 2024
- When it comes to vintage guitars, few places on earth can even hope to compete with the expertise and inventory of George Gruhn’s (www.guitars.com) mainstay shop in Nashville. Gruhn's Guide to Vintage Guitars is one of the most referenced books you can find on the subject, and the crew at Gruhn Guitars is second to none at the history, inspection, certification, repair, and upkeep of fine guitars. They’ve also got a pretty stellar collection of vintage amps. So stellar, in fact, that we’ve decided to partner with Gruhn Guitars to give you an opportunity to hear notable guitars and amps from their collection, as played by Premier Guitar’s own John Bohlinger, as well as to learn what makes the rare specimens special from repair shop manager Greg Voros. So without further ado, we give you the debut of our latest video series, Axes & Artifacts.
OMG what an intro. Unbelievable playing, John.
Beautiful visually and tonally.
Love the idea of featuring some older & classic gear. Love those early/mid '60s Ampeg amps too. One suggestion for future installments: more playing!
where has this channel been all my life?!?!?
Wow... pure guitargasm!
It was fun to see this old guitar. With the nice close-ups I could almost smell the guitar. And I really enjoyed the beautiful guitar playing.
Beautiful! Nice axe there. I like the diamonds better than the f holes. I live where that thing was made. I have a 62 Reverberocket, made in 61 for the 62 model year with the blue tolex. it came with a 1961 les paul jr cherry dbl cutaway.
What a great combination of guitar/amp!
I have a late 60's early 70's non reissue Ampeg reverberocket r12r, and i Love it!
I dont think i would sell it for any price.
GREAT one JB…ultra groovy gear,discussion,and of course steller playing…:-)
You have the coolest job ever…must be a blast doing these…!!!
I have a reissue Ampeg Reverberocket. I swear, best damn versatile amp ever.
FANTASTIC sounding amp! Any idea about how much these guys weigh? Looking at getting one to take to and from rehearsals.
Please do more of these!
I use a 67 Rocket II almost exclusively. Great amp.
Beautiful tone and looks, but most importantly, great playing!
This is SPARTA!!
beautiful playing john
Really great playing John.
John, you are really sounding great, how about another "Bohlinger Plays", maybe you could just use your intro here. If not this one I know about three others from past reviews that would be great. I'm pretty sure it needs to be a monthly thing you do... Don't you agree? 🎸👍🏼
McCullin Culkin grew a beard and is a fantastic guitar player, I didn't know he was so good!
i knew it was Johnny playing before i saw him 🤙🏽
Dont forget about the black ones that are super rare also..
Cool rig, sounds great.
Sounds like my '67 335 in sparkling burgundy. Those T-Top and PAF pickups were bright for humbuckers. I find a lot of humbuckers these days aren't, which is a shame.
MuscleDad420 Because they are wound so freaking hot. All the sound of the meticulously crafted instrument goes down the shitter.
Tom Pernal Yes, and it's a shame as it's no longer the 70's and we have a variety of pedals, amps with drive channels, etc with which to distort our amp. Impurities in the copper wire are said to have had an effect on the sound as well.
MuscleDad420 Yeah did you notice how a player like Eric Clapton when he played Gibsons with Cream, would roll the tone down, creating what we now call "Woman Tone"
My guess is that he did that to keep the guitar from screeching at the volume levels Cream used to play. Because let's be honest, those guitars weren't made with heavy rock in mind, let alone with Distortion.
This might sound strange what I'm about to put down but listen to the tone Metallica has going, which is EMG pickups into Mesa Boogie amps, and then take a note how bright and clear, yet not icepick ear piercing bright their sound is. EMG humbuckers are very bright and have a lot of definition going even with monstrous amounts of distortion.
I want it..on my wishlist
Voros is great. His info and vids are the best that's out there. The other guy, not so much. Looks like he was sleeping in the back seat of his car and they woke him up.
Greg knows his vintage axes, but he's inaccurate in his description of Grohl's signature model. Although Grohl records his guitar parts on the Foo Fighters records with his vintage cherry Trini (he also owns one in Pelham), his signature model has a modern TOM/stopbar, not the trapeze tail like the originals. (Fun fact: in his live rig, the blue is set up in standard tuning, but when he switches to the gold one, it's a drop-D, so expect to hear "Monkey Wrench," "Everlong," or if they're in a mood for deep cuts, "Alone + Easy Target" or "Live-in Skin." But I digress.)
It makes sense. It keep those vintage Trinis pristine. Also, the TOM/stopbar is a little less feedback-prone, and probably a little more stable in tune, which his sound crew and guitar tech probably appreciate.
I won't win any awards, but I bought my first Gibson at Gruhn's in Nashville, TN. (Howard Roberts Fusion 91') Love that place, and you never know who's gonna walk in there. According to the owner, I had just missed Eric Clapton the day before..Said he dropped a cool 44k while he was there. lol. Oh, it's a little pricey in there..Lowest price guitar starts around $1500, and goes up,up from there into guitar porn territory. :)
I have a 66'
WAS EXPECTING IF I HAD A HAMMER AND INSTEAD I GOT THIS SHEET !
Why does Dave Grohl need a Gibson Trini Lopez so he can take it on the road, drop tune it to c# and play with all that high gain. He could just use a Ibanez or ESP which would suite his stlye better if you ask me. Oh, don't listen to me, I'm just jealous.....lol. He puts on a good show though, I just haven't like any of his records since "The Color and the Shape".
But a awesome guitar and amp.
Chris Adkison Actually he owns several Trinis at least two red ones and three blue ones and he doesn't take them on tour, actually never did either.
The Dave Grohl signature model differs from a Trini by it not having a trapeze tail piece and binding in the sound hole, Also the Grohl model has pickups that can cope with high gain and loud volume as those sixties humbuckers tend to be rather microphonic and brash.
RastaSaiyaman Okay, that makes more sense. I like Dave. Seems like a great guy, but I just haven't cared for his last few records. The Foo Fighters have gotten sort of stale for me, even though I loved his first two records. Seemed like when I seen the Foo Fighters he was playing a explorer.
CDA Cadkison His sound live and in studio seems pretty different. He uses/has used the vintage Trini standards in studio as his main guitar and his general tone in studio is usually not that high gain. As of late Pat handles most of the dirt and Chris handles the gain and high end on record. He has two cherry ones, at least one vintage pelham blue one, a black one with a bigsby, and a sparkling burgundy one that's yellowed to a gold color- that's what his latest DG-335 model got the color from. He also has a Trini Lopez Custom- which is similar to a Barney Kessel.
Live is a different story, the DG-335's he uses cover all the bases, so it can sound like anything from an old Gretsch (check out "For All the Cows" he did the other day), to a Gibson RD through Mesa's. As said, the DG-335's are different from the Trini's in that they are made to be more road worthy and be able to handle high endurance rock show's: stop tailpiece, Grover tuners, etc. Prior to them he was using Firebird Studios, Dan Armstrong's, Les Paul and SG Customs, and Explorers live.
Careful John! U gonna get A bad case of G.A.S.
FUGLY! But sounds SO sweet!