back in 2000 ,complete noob i met my luthier first time. he was playing a lp thru a vintage plexi, dropped it in my lap. i was shocked, light acoustically loud, responsive, open bright, fat, more like a tele on steroids. fat neck, notes jumped out blooming, feedbacking... played smells like teen spirit on it. he smirked. a real 58. compared it to my studio i was bringing in(today supposed to be a great vintage). nothing like it. shocking difference even for a beginner. worth 500k? nah.
Thanks for continuing to document these Bursts! Most of us will never get to touch one much less own one. At least we get to see them in these beautiful quality videos played by an amazing player. Cheers
I touched one once. It was almost exactly 30 years ago and I was about 16 and had no earthly idea what I was touching. I don't care for Les Pauls and was likely unimpressed with the story that went with it, but I did have it in my lap for a few minutes. Of course at the time they weren't fetching the astronomical sums they are now.
I have played two 59’s, a 58, and a 1960. The stuff Gibson Custom Shop is putting out will get you close enough to the vibe and feel without spending six figures. The 1958 I played was the best IMO in terms of feel and tone
@@Harvard_Fairway Not to mention that occasionally you'll come across a relatively inexpensive guitar that can get you there as well. With the newest wave of Custom Shop guitars Gibson finally figured out that half the battle was slightly unevenly wound pickups with no wax potting, the Custombuckers. That's the juice. That's why those old PAFs sound the way they do. With no wax to hold the windings in place they loosen over time making them slightly microphonic. That's the vibe, and why players spend lots of money on boutique pickups with those characteristics. Sure, the wood, glue, construction methods, wiring/pots and all that stuff matters, but it matters a hell of a lot less when the pickups are caked in wax and essentially can't breathe for lack of a better term.
@@maxpeck4154I have a similar experience from the late 90’s. I had an opportunity to play a 59’ burst at a music store in St. Paul, MN. I’m not much of a player if at all lol. But I will say it sounded excellent thru a Fender DR and it felt unlike any Les Paul I’ve played since which is many. I tend to find that people who say there’s no difference then and now or the CS’s being built today are just as good have never even seen one much less played one. There’s a difference!
If Mike Hickey was involved in this I think I know who bought it. His initials are JB. Another 'burst, Joe? Ain't ya got enough? Well, at least we know it will be used on stage soon. JB always takes them out on the road with him.
Nice to see some good amps and such a raw recording. So many people selling these guitars try to make them sound super warm and even muddy, to make a sale.
@@pperejma Easy. You go listen to say Eric Clapton on the Mono Beano album and his guitar sounds warm, right? Well it wasn't, and none of them are. You're listening to recording studio engineers killing off any harsh treble and messing with the EQ to get a pleasing sound. You're not hearing reality, you're hearing engineering art. So, dealers want you to spend more than half a million dollars on an old Les Paul and they are afraid to let you hear how incredibly bright PAF's ARE. ESPECIALLY, if the PAF's in are the typical 7.5K range that the official winding count of 10,000 total winds will give you. In bridge position a 7.5K PAF will break glass and clean your ears out :-) So what they do it drag out an old muddy Tweed Deluxe that has zero headroom and no treble. OR, they will use a pedal, so all you hear is the pedal, not the guitar. Also beware when you see them miking the amp, which means its going into a DAW where you can clip any uncomfortable frequencies OUT of the audio, so again, you're not really hearing the guitar. When it comes to huge money, watch your back, I've seen some really horrific demos of vintage LP's using every trick in the book.
@@SDPickups this is fascinating. I have a 65 es 335 with pat numbers that are very bright, but I love that tone. That to me is the classic sound of the 60s.
Please notice the amount of checking present on this model. Barely none.. the light aged lab models are a lil overkill. That’s what a genuine well kept guitar looks like.
Beautiful guitar and it sounds fantastic. That also shows how close the modern Custom Buckers pickups are to the originals in terms of brightness, openness and dynamics. My R8 sounds almost identical. Personal taste here : I would have rolled the tone knob down just a bit through that amp.
@mattrogers1946 obviously lol. A porta shitter cost around 90 grand in that state. I'd never live in that state. Rural town in the midwest is where I'm stuck
Wonderful tones. Thanks for sharing this beauty to our delight. Who knows, some day I"ll earn the cash... I would rush right away to purchase it. I'm single now.😎🤞
Shame these cannot be replicated exact in sound at the Custom shop price😢 Gibson did good enough looks wise on the Re-issues but they fall really short in tone when compared to a old one!
Sounds good to me but think the guy doesn’t do it justice with amp and tone choice. These are guitars of tonal quality using the knobs but too tinny. Uncle Larry or Bonamassa would have pulled it’s soul out
Thank you for showing us a rich guitarist’s guitar Going to another rich guitarist . Shouldn’t everyone get to play the guitar ? I thought Seattle was for the little guy?
Huh. It didn't sound $399,000 better than the one I checked out in the local store last month. That vibrolux though? Shit. It's clear why it's the amplifier of choice for these demos.
@@philbert006 its a piece of guitar history. hence the price. its like buying a playable piece of art. Do you think a 2 million dollar Stradivarius sounds 2 million dollars better than a professional level newer violin?
@@strawsparky33 I do not have any personal experience with violins, so I can't say for sure. But that's not exactly the same thing. I'm more than 500-year-old violin handmade by a guy that didn't share his processes or any of the materials that he used to make those violins and even the wood to make them as so scarce if it can even be found at all that it kind of puts those in a whole different ball game. They still make The Les Paul, with the same materials, and the very same processes that they did 70 years or so ago when they started. I'm not going to say you're not even in the same ballpark with that analogy, it's the same sport, just not the same league. Just not what I would call historic. An early '50s gold top? That's historic. A 1950 broadcaster? Definitely historic. After all that being said, it's whatever. Is somebody wants to pay that for guitar that does something for them for whatever reason, that's a okay. Is it unique? Well I'd argue that every guitar is unique no matter what. To be honest, the value of an item is whatever a: the seller is willing to part with it for and b: whatever the buyer is willing to pay for it. Whether either of those correlate with with the market is irrelevant. It might be what you would consider significant historically. But does it do something special? Does it do something that all the other guitars don't? Not really. I feel like a lot of it depends on the purpose as well. If you're buying it is a work and instrument, looking for a specific sound or style, you could certainly find a better guitar for whatever those purposes may be in every way possible that makes a whole lot more economic sense. If you're buying it just a museum piece or a physical thing to retain the value of your money or even if it's just something you want to hang up and enjoy on your wall, well if that's the one you like then that's the one for the job and it's worth whatever you're willing to pay. Do not really a matter of black and white, even if I did make it kind of sound that way. It's just like everything in life, a million shades of gray and it's all about trying to figure out which one is best for you.1
@strawsparky33 I agree. If these instruments didn't possess something newer guitars don't have, no one would pay these exorbitant prices. If a present day German or Italian luthier made violins as good as they did in the 17th century owning a Strad wouldn't be such a big deal.
Disclaimer. This is also perhaps my subjective opinion, but I think many who know would agree. You can’t really make comments on vintage guitars if you have not experienced them in your own hands . Thats also assuming your skills and ears are developed to get the most out of it. There is something hard to translate or describe. When it comes to old acoustic guitars, forget about it, you’d have to be an idiot not to sense it, but it’s true for electrics as well IMO. It is annoying that the price is driven so high by collectors. It is likely this guitar won’t end up in the hands ace player, but rather a collection. Perhaps preserved and loaned to good players. Perhaps simply hidden away.
.... hm alles schön und gut... aber was soll ich als Player mit so einer Gitarre es gibt genügend andere Gitarren die gut genug sind... entscheidend ist... was du mit so einem Instrument anstellst... ich hatte zufällig ein Video von Thomas Blug bei einem Workshop auf der Messe in Mannheim gesehen.... dürfte 2... 3 Jahre her sein da hatte die Bank eine "Burst" zur Verfügung gestellt und ein Sammler seine Murphy Copie.... wenn so jemand wie Blug in die Saiten greift dann ist da auch entsprechend was zu hören aber so Leute wie hier was soll ich da sagen der hätte auch irgend eine andere Gitarre spielen können ..... da hat einer der folgenden Kommentatoren schon recht klingt eine wie die anderen... liegt aber an dem der sie spielt
OK, now I’m gonna watch this again.
No shit man lol!!!!
The old ones worth $500k are always the best sounding ones they’ve ever heard. No one pays $500k and says, it sounds bad.
of course. after paying that much you wouldnt wanna say that.
back in 2000 ,complete noob i met my luthier first time. he was playing a lp thru a vintage plexi, dropped it in my lap. i was shocked, light acoustically loud, responsive, open bright, fat, more like a tele on steroids. fat neck, notes jumped out blooming, feedbacking... played smells like teen spirit on it. he smirked. a real 58. compared it to my studio i was bringing in(today supposed to be a great vintage). nothing like it. shocking difference even for a beginner. worth 500k? nah.
I love the up close, high-def slow rolls over the surface of the guitar! So cool to see these guitars at the micro level like that.
The new owner must be very glad to see his jewel documented with such class in this video.
Thanks for continuing to document these Bursts! Most of us will never get to touch one much less own one. At least we get to see them in these beautiful quality videos played by an amazing player. Cheers
I touched one once. It was almost exactly 30 years ago and I was about 16 and had no earthly idea what I was touching. I don't care for Les Pauls and was likely unimpressed with the story that went with it, but I did have it in my lap for a few minutes. Of course at the time they weren't fetching the astronomical sums they are now.
I have played two 59’s, a 58, and a 1960. The stuff Gibson Custom Shop is putting out will get you close enough to the vibe and feel without spending six figures. The 1958 I played was the best IMO in terms of feel and tone
@@Harvard_Fairway Not to mention that occasionally you'll come across a relatively inexpensive guitar that can get you there as well. With the newest wave of Custom Shop guitars Gibson finally figured out that half the battle was slightly unevenly wound pickups with no wax potting, the Custombuckers. That's the juice. That's why those old PAFs sound the way they do. With no wax to hold the windings in place they loosen over time making them slightly microphonic. That's the vibe, and why players spend lots of money on boutique pickups with those characteristics. Sure, the wood, glue, construction methods, wiring/pots and all that stuff matters, but it matters a hell of a lot less when the pickups are caked in wax and essentially can't breathe for lack of a better term.
@@maxpeck4154 they are selling "greenybuckers" on the gibson page now
@@maxpeck4154I have a similar experience from the late 90’s. I had an opportunity to play a 59’ burst at a music store in St. Paul, MN. I’m not much of a player if at all lol. But I will say it sounded excellent thru a Fender DR and it felt unlike any Les Paul I’ve played since which is many. I tend to find that people who say there’s no difference then and now or the CS’s being built today are just as good have never even seen one much less played one. There’s a difference!
Holy mother of god... What guitar! What tone! What playing!
God damn... that sounded good. That dirty sound was killer. Thanks for sharing.
Thats the sound of Rock and Roll that beautiful hoarseness what a beautiful Burst.
That one is special for sure!!!
Proof that old les Pauls can be kept in amazing condition. It sounds fantastic!
Thank you for sharing!! Every angle was beautiful!!!
Beautiful playing Aaron! I so appreciate you demonstrating in a short amount of time all the clean and overdriven tones this guitar has! Thanks!✌️❤️
thanks for the demo, amazing instrument, inspired Aaron just to the top, our pleasure to watch it.
Now I get it........that was the most beautiful edge of tone I have ever heard.. thank you..
Great sounding guitar
Yup...it's all that.
Got that "big" sound.
Awesome!
A privilege to watch that.
Great tone machine!
GOOD GOD!!!! IT SOUNDS AWESOME!! thnx for the upload.
Best one yet.
Good lord, your demo guy killed it!
Aaron is simply the best tamer for these B……. …. .. ..
B…. … .. ..
Beasts !!!!
Stunning!
Great playing.
That's a great sounding burst!
Great guitar and playing 💙
Yes a full show
We've got a lot of projects going on in addition to these, but I'm trying to the right balance of these and short demos for you guys! -Ken
Excellent, as always! 😎
Damn those were a ĺot of perfect tones I ever heard!
Guitar sounds great but there’s a lot of the player in those tones, not just the instrument. Cheers on the amazing riffs!
I’m not really a Les Paul guy, but I literally cried within seconds of hearing him play this thing.
Oh my goodness. If I only had the money. EXCELLENT video.
Insane condition on this one. Gorgeous tones too of course.
I hope it gets played and not stuck in a vault forever.
2:53 when you feel the urge to play black dog but afraid of getting copyrighted
lol getting a little close to Led Zep there I was thinking.
So how did Mark and Gibson end up with that beautiful piece of history and very impressive instrument?
If Mike Hickey was involved in this I think I know who bought it. His initials are JB. Another 'burst, Joe? Ain't ya got enough? Well, at least we know it will be used on stage soon. JB always takes them out on the road with him.
So good.
He is so good.... I wish that I could sit down with him and take lessons.
What song is he playing from 3:54?
Nice to see some good amps and such a raw recording. So many people selling these guitars try to make them sound super warm and even muddy, to make a sale.
Why would someone wanna make their les paul sound more muddy?
@@pperejma Easy. You go listen to say Eric Clapton on the Mono Beano album and his guitar sounds warm, right? Well it wasn't, and none of them are. You're listening to recording studio engineers killing off any harsh treble and messing with the EQ to get a pleasing sound. You're not hearing reality, you're hearing engineering art. So, dealers want you to spend more than half a million dollars on an old Les Paul and they are afraid to let you hear how incredibly bright PAF's ARE. ESPECIALLY, if the PAF's in are the typical 7.5K range that the official winding count of 10,000 total winds will give you. In bridge position a 7.5K PAF will break glass and clean your ears out :-) So what they do it drag out an old muddy Tweed Deluxe that has zero headroom and no treble. OR, they will use a pedal, so all you hear is the pedal, not the guitar. Also beware when you see them miking the amp, which means its going into a DAW where you can clip any uncomfortable frequencies OUT of the audio, so again, you're not really hearing the guitar. When it comes to huge money, watch your back, I've seen some really horrific demos of vintage LP's using every trick in the book.
@@SDPickups this is fascinating. I have a 65 es 335 with pat numbers that are very bright, but I love that tone. That to me is the classic sound of the 60s.
i bought this same Gibson Les Paul guitar from AliExpress for $249
you should really play this over a boss katana so we have some reference how glorious it sounds!
Or a Line 6 or a Roland Cube
Please notice the amount of checking present on this model. Barely none.. the light aged lab models are a lil overkill. That’s what a genuine well kept guitar looks like.
Nice playing but you should have explained some things about the guitar. I was looking for info on this model.
Beautiful guitar and it sounds fantastic.
That also shows how close the modern Custom Buckers pickups are to the originals in terms of brightness, openness and dynamics. My R8 sounds almost identical.
Personal taste here : I would have rolled the tone knob down just a bit through that amp.
I’ll be there next week to pick it up with 6 briefcases full of cash.
Too late!
What was the first amp?
Even he couldn’t resist some zeppelin on that guitar 😂
I wish I had a couple of these to sell lol. This thing costs more than my house and the 2 other houses on my street combined
In the 80's, they were 10K or less!
@@jault69 a wad still, even in those days but definitely not as crazy priced as they are nowadays
Really? You obviously don't live in California...
@mattrogers1946 obviously lol. A porta shitter cost around 90 grand in that state. I'd never live in that state. Rural town in the midwest is where I'm stuck
@@alexwoolridge94aw Sorry to hear that...
What's the signal chain?
so is the first year of les paul guitars?
1952
🔥 🔥
Wonderful tones. Thanks for sharing this beauty to our delight. Who knows, some day I"ll earn the cash... I would rush right away to purchase it. I'm single now.😎🤞
Dude..........wow.
how did yall get the tone for the intro?
Karl Van Der Velden > 1958 Fender Strat > 1966 Vibrolux Reverb > Shure SM7B close + Zoom H6 XY room mic (120 degrees).
Thanks!
@@emeraldcityguitars Thanks, that's why I tune in!
How much does it weigh?
Не знаю, сколько она стоит, но звучит как бриллиант !
He is also good ˋlaying bursts
Mike is my friend too...
The top carve of these old bursts is amazing - the Custom Shop can't reproduce it for some reason. Loved the Jimmy Page homage in the beginning.
Thats a tone rocket, a Satern V of tone vehicles!!!
It sounds ok 😋
Lucky customer.
Sorry,i missed the Powerball...next time!!!🙊🙉🙈
Me likey
What product do you use to clean the flame maple top?
Everyone would be stoked if this LP turned out to be a forgery.
Shame these cannot be replicated exact in sound at the Custom shop price😢
Gibson did good enough looks wise on the Re-issues but they fall really short in tone when compared to a old one!
Rick Beato knows a guy who builds pickups like those but, he won’t just build them anyone. Imagine that.
Wait untill i get new 0,9 stringset to my Harley Benton!?!? 😂
Heard a brief appearance by suicide solution…👍🏼
💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰🎵💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰🎵💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰🎵💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰🎵💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰
I bet Bonamassa copped it 😂
😅
Doubt it,these babies are real money nowadays.Musicians even on joes level aren’t the buyers.
Sounds good to me but think the guy doesn’t do it justice with amp and tone choice. These are guitars of tonal quality using the knobs but too tinny. Uncle Larry or Bonamassa would have pulled it’s soul out
I thought it sounded really harsh on the bridge pickup when he cranked the volume.
I'd like to see a blindfold test with someone who spent 500K... up against every copy from $100 upward. Bellyaching laughs assured.
And some tears i imagine 😂
Tones in the fingers not a 6 figure price tag
I’ll take that challenge. Give me whatever guitar, amp cord and a vintage tube amp. Nothing else, you’ll hear the difference, best believe that.
Poor guy just wants to play Black Dog without getting sued
Chasing the Rainbow with the reissues can get expensive...
the subreddit r/guitarcirclejerk is SEETHING at this demonstration
I have that sub on Reddit but did not see it. Have a link?
💵💵💵💵💵💵💵
Thank you for showing us a rich guitarist’s guitar Going to another rich guitarist . Shouldn’t everyone get to play the guitar ? I thought Seattle was for the little guy?
It’s a killer guitar. I’m glad to get to see it.
Wuhuuu😍🥵
Sounds completely ordinary with whoever was doing the demo. Just the truth.the fender amp showed a lot more depth but still.
Huh. It didn't sound $399,000 better than the one I checked out in the local store last month. That vibrolux though? Shit. It's clear why it's the amplifier of choice for these demos.
I agree. It’s sounds exactly like my Heritage loaded with Throbak Pickups.
@@maxwellblakely7952 probably doesn't play as well. Guarantee it has an uncomfortably fat neck, at least for me it would. And sorry frets.
@@philbert006 its a piece of guitar history. hence the price. its like buying a playable piece of art. Do you think a 2 million dollar Stradivarius sounds 2 million dollars better than a professional level newer violin?
@@strawsparky33 I do not have any personal experience with violins, so I can't say for sure. But that's not exactly the same thing. I'm more than 500-year-old violin handmade by a guy that didn't share his processes or any of the materials that he used to make those violins and even the wood to make them as so scarce if it can even be found at all that it kind of puts those in a whole different ball game. They still make The Les Paul, with the same materials, and the very same processes that they did 70 years or so ago when they started. I'm not going to say you're not even in the same ballpark with that analogy, it's the same sport, just not the same league. Just not what I would call historic. An early '50s gold top? That's historic. A 1950 broadcaster? Definitely historic. After all that being said, it's whatever. Is somebody wants to pay that for guitar that does something for them for whatever reason, that's a okay. Is it unique? Well I'd argue that every guitar is unique no matter what. To be honest, the value of an item is whatever a: the seller is willing to part with it for and b: whatever the buyer is willing to pay for it. Whether either of those correlate with with the market is irrelevant. It might be what you would consider significant historically. But does it do something special? Does it do something that all the other guitars don't? Not really. I feel like a lot of it depends on the purpose as well. If you're buying it is a work and instrument, looking for a specific sound or style, you could certainly find a better guitar for whatever those purposes may be in every way possible that makes a whole lot more economic sense. If you're buying it just a museum piece or a physical thing to retain the value of your money or even if it's just something you want to hang up and enjoy on your wall, well if that's the one you like then that's the one for the job and it's worth whatever you're willing to pay. Do not really a matter of black and white, even if I did make it kind of sound that way. It's just like everything in life, a million shades of gray and it's all about trying to figure out which one is best for you.1
@strawsparky33 I agree. If these instruments didn't possess something newer guitars don't have, no one would pay these exorbitant prices. If a present day German or Italian luthier made violins as good as they did in the 17th century owning a Strad wouldn't be such a big deal.
beautiful～( ノД`)…
Bonamassa gets another one!
Haha, that's actually what I thought when Mike Hickey was mentioned. I assumed he could have been trying it out on behalf of Joe
This same guy did a demo on a 60 burst in another video. I thought the 60 sounded better than this one.
Disclaimer. This is also perhaps my subjective opinion, but I think many who know would agree. You can’t really make comments on vintage guitars if you have not experienced them in your own hands . Thats also assuming your skills and ears are developed to get the most out of it. There is something hard to translate or describe. When it comes to old acoustic guitars, forget about it, you’d have to be an idiot not to sense it, but it’s true for electrics as well IMO. It is annoying that the price is driven so high by collectors. It is likely this guitar won’t end up in the hands ace player, but rather a collection. Perhaps preserved and loaned to good players. Perhaps simply hidden away.
Jo Bo
-doesn’t plug it into a Marshall 😑
Probably just wanted to be modest ;p
The more I listen to 59 bursts the more I noticed les Paul’s aren’t my thing
Good for you
What do you like better?
@@jsbobek teles jazzmaster harmony rockets
Ok $300 plus my tele ,come on 🤡😊
The 58 is better tone
.... hm
alles schön und gut...
aber was soll ich als Player mit so einer Gitarre
es gibt genügend andere Gitarren die gut genug sind... entscheidend ist... was du mit
so einem Instrument anstellst...
ich hatte zufällig ein Video von Thomas Blug bei einem Workshop auf der Messe in Mannheim
gesehen.... dürfte 2... 3 Jahre her sein
da hatte die Bank eine "Burst" zur Verfügung gestellt
und
ein Sammler seine Murphy Copie....
wenn so jemand wie Blug in die Saiten greift dann ist da auch entsprechend was zu hören
aber
so Leute wie hier
was soll ich da sagen
der hätte auch irgend eine andere Gitarre spielen können
..... da hat einer der folgenden Kommentatoren schon recht
klingt eine wie die anderen...
liegt aber an dem der sie spielt
People, stop fooling yourselves. This guitar sounds like all the others.
What is the other guitar? I wanna know
Stop fooling yourself
Okay 😆😆😆
Lol my squire tele sounds better than that lmao
Trust me I wish they did !
You should present this guitar clean ...and then preferably by someone who can play ...😂
no nibs? no tone! (just kiddin')
looks fake
Please stop the noodling. We want to hear classic rock!
They would get copyright striked. Just appreciate the tone
There was a bit of Black Dog and Simple Man in there if you were listening. I'd call that classic rock.
Ok boomer
@@pperejma Ooooo, that's original 🥱😴
for sale?
I've played my Les Paul tribute so much that it looks like a 58. I got the tobacco burst and it is breaking in