"Pick of the Day" - Max Burst and 1965 Fender Bassman
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- Опубліковано 11 лют 2020
- So, we're going to keep the text description here brief, but we'll say what this guitar isn't... It is NOT a Gibson, it is NOT a Les Paul, and it certainly isn't from 1959, but it walks and talks like one! What we have here is a "Max Burst", and Trevor will explain to you what that is in the video. Just know, its a fantastic guitar in both playability and sound, as you'll hear when Dan Phelps plugs this one into a great 1965 Fender Bassman head and cab.
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Music: The Hollers "Zeb" (Instrumental)
When I was 13, and my brother Max was 16. He was in band, and he started smashing his guitar like Pete Townsend,then he would go into our Dad's workshop in the garage and carve out another guitar.
I guess this eventually evolved into building the '59 Burst replicas.
Hahahaha. Somewhere along the lines that amp had the be removed to say "assman!!" Rock and roll
That amp sure has a nice bottom end...
Motörhead had some funny Marshall logos, eg. 'Morals',' Moo'
We just gonna say the same lol
It had been previously owned by a multi-millionaire PROCTOLIGIST..😁😂😂😂💯😂
I've been a user of bassmans for 35 years and vintage vox ac 30s . I specialize in vintage euro and American hi quality fully tested and guaranteed vacuum tubes and vintage speaker restorer and custom cabinet builds. I build fender style reproduction 1-12s and 2-12 simi open back using old reclaimed pine , Birch, and mahogany wood.
Love this version of the Bassman. Lotsa gain and more mids than other ‘60s Fenders.
Yeah! And the best part is you can mod the bass channel to be a tweed spec 5f6a circuit, that the jtm45 was based off of. It has earlier breakup and yet more mids. Still able to jumper the 2 channels and either or both still sound fantastic with bass (in studio) or guitar.
Had a 1977 200 watt studio bass amp, MUCH prefer my 1967 black panel bassman!
@@kosmicwizard What would you do that? Some people seem to think you just got to modify every damn thing or it is no good.
@@michaelcraig9449 hindsight is 20/20, my friend. I was never truly happy with my blackfaced Bassman, even with the tweed mods on the bass channel. After acquiring a well built JTM45 clone (which I also modified) I moved the Bassman on, I didn't get extra for the amp, but since the mods are 100% reversible (and the buyer actually liked them) they didn't hurt the value of it either. The JTM45 with master volume is perfect for my needs, but I didn't know that before going on this journey. Thanks for your feedback. Cheers.
God, I love those blackface Bassman heads.
My guitar buddy had one with a 15" JBL cabinet .... Awesome .. and there's recordings to prove it.
The finish fade is perfect. Come on, Powerball.
Gibson always takes great interest in replicas, and yet their custom shop has never built something as good as a Derrig, a Max, or even a really high end Tokai from the 80's. They look the part but they must have regulations on the wood they can use, where as a luthier can actually find old light dry Honduran and real Brazilian
I actually think it’s market strategy.
Gibson knows that the holy grail of electric guitars bears their name, and for decades have been making a fortune selling custom shop guitars purposely chasing that spot on 59-60 era Les Paul. They know every minute spec, glue used, pickup reading, material, measurement etc, so I know they could make a perfect copy of a golden era guitar (especially with today’s technology), but there’s far more money to be made in incrementally getting closer every year so people need to keep buying the “new and improved”version.
It’s like “the 2020 custom shop 59’ is great, but for 2021 they got the dye to bleed into the binding more like the original” or “this years top carve is so much deeper than the 2018 version” etc.
It’s like the the carrot and the stick, only the carrot is a $7-8k+ version of a guitar that normally only costs $2-3k
I have a ‘81 Tokai burst replica and it’s fabulous
@@literallyshaking8019like a tedious foreplay that never ends.
Tokais are great. Gibsons custom shop has built much better.
I have a 1964 Bandmaster, the thing is amazing! Gonna be with me forever :)
65' Bandmaster here, and extremely satisfied with this underrated, underestimated fire-breather.
Didn't Max Baranet start making Les Paul copies in the early 80's? His apprentice, Kris Derrig, is the guy that made Slash's famous AFD Les Paul. Slash then purchased a Max Burst that he used on the AFD tour. You can see him play at the Ritz show in 1988. He's switching between the Derrig LP and the Max Burst.
cool guitars..and the production value on your videos always is killer!
I have a Bandmaster, same year. I run an LP Custom through it and sounds very close to this, definitely in the same family.
RIP Max
Man, wish this vid was nothing but Dan playing. Sounds incredible.
This is so sick!!!!!!
I just acquired a pristine 65 Bassman belonging to one of my mentors Mats Bjorklund who passed a couple of months ago. An original Swedish Version with the applications as modified by the then official importer Hagstrom. A Grrrreat Amp….
And I checked it with my 58 Burst…..Suuuper…
My '65 Bassman is the perfect bass amp for me. So much range of intonation. It made me a better player. Sound guys always try and DI into it tho. Always shits out during the gig. Just mic it like a guitar amp and it shreds!
Why do they do that, seems kind of stupid to do that
What camera are you using bro.
The finish looks badass, but not quite like an old burst. I've been getting into making replicas. Nailing that finish is tough!!!
What kind of Weber speakers were in that?
por fin alguien hablando honestamente de una copia de les paul 59, son algunas excepcionales! sino preguntele a SLASH!
Nice demo! Wanna listen to Gibson CS R9 with the amp.
Liking the recent opening shots
You all should do the "Guitar Trader" Les Paul's of the early 80's About 15 had NOS PAF's.
@Daniel Doran Robb Lawrence seems to disagree with you.
Cool guitar.
I don’t know if it’s the camera angle, but it looks like the three bass strings don’t line up so well from the bridge to the tailpiece.
Gary Crosby I saw that, too, I'm not sure if it was actually like that or a weird shadow situation.
What is the song at the start of the video? I can't quite place it and it's driving me nuts!
The Hollers "Zeb"
@@emeraldcityguitars Thank you! :)
Damn, that Les Paul Bassman combo is heavenly
Hey guys that ab165 bassman is capable of sound much better clearer and detailed in the midrange and not so low mid and tubby in the mids and less buzzy if you had met me first . Dave Bird of Bird house vintage audio up her in Michigan. I'm also a 23 year employee of Gibson guitar and 2 year employee of fender custom shop and 3 year builder at heritage guitar in the old Gibson factory .
sound is actually so so, imho.. soRRY !
7:16
I have that amp down to the Weber 12's... Guess I need a LP now...
You sure do
Could've fooled me ! Even better than the real thing ?
Franco Vani close but better than the custom shop vos reissues
Sounds better than an actual LP
you're crazy
Lots of guitars do. They’re not all they’re cracked up to be.
As cool as that was, he was playing into the wrong channel!. :)
TONES 7:15
What is the asking price?
Les Paul in early 80's in Max Shop California showed a les paul 79 to give the spec of how they were to be built, Kris Derrig took the wave (இ д இ;)
If you want to know what not to buy watch Bonamassa's expose with Norms Rare Guitars he recently told us 2020 was a year of buying only good guitars! My take was he has bought and flipped some bad ones..... who does his dirty work hear?
Was that his Burst he had Gibson repair with a twisted neck and they then replicated the rod dimensions ??
Mark Agnesi is going to be pissed off again...
Forget that guy, Lemmo is far better 😀
I love Mark. People who didn't see his show enough don't realize that he talked up a lot of counterfeit guitars in his life. He had a lot of good things to say about the "lawsuit era" Ibanez
Darren Johnson “Hides behind delay”. You mean REVERB? He *rarely* uses delay in Guitar of the Day videos. Most of the time it’s just reverb and a looper pedal. Sometimes he does an organic delay effect with his hands - which he can do because he’s a GREAT guitar player.
Did Hendrix “hide behind a wah and univibe”?
Did Gilmour “hide behind echoplexes”?
Just because YOU don’t like effects doesn’t mean that people who use them are doing so to hide a lack of talent. That’s such an incredibly stupid attitude. ..especially coming from someone who can’t even seem to tell the difference between bare hands, delay, and reverb. 😆
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We were warned about this 👀
Thats not an early one. I was witness to a really early one that GC Hollywood got dinked with that was sold to Japan in the mid 90's that had almost all original parts. and original case. That is a later one that had mostly re-issue reliced parts. I owned one of his very early ones. Have pics with Max himself.
A on the hush Dave Johnson Replica is FAR better and more accurate than that MAX!
I designed a custom guitar and had Peter build it...in 1979. PRS copied it. Peter 'Max' Baranet and I both got pissed. I tried the Pauls he made, but wanted something different. That PRS peghead is MINE!!!! If you ever saw the white guitar neck on the wall that he used to tell people came from Townshend...it was mine. From my '69 SG...LOL! Last I heard Peter was in Japan.
@@TheDogPa The PRS headstock was stole from a Gibson Acoustic in the 70's?
A Max burst and a Liz Taylor Bassman.
In that point of view, Gibson custom shop made not the real deal too with their r4-r6-r7-r8-r9. I had a 2007 r7 vos and it was a crap. I sold it few years later.
My r8 from 2008 is my favorite guitar and I have a few!
Looks really nice, although there are Tells that it's not a real 59-ish Gibson.
The immediate clue is the slightly incorrect alignment of the knobs with the tailpiece. This is closer to a modern Gibson than an original issue piece. Still.. SLASH brought back these guitars.
It looks the same as a 1959 article.
Man... Bashing Max Baranet in a video, a person doing better work than Gibson has done since late 1969.
The Boones tend to be the cork sniffiest of cork sniffy when it comes to vintage gear... ESPECIALLY Gibbys
spent a lot of energy calling things wrong, still prices it at 27grand. lol
@@iwillnevergetone5 haha yep. If I had that money I’d take in a heartbeat.
Max has come into a shop I work at super nice guy very humble sad to see people bash him
He wanted to humblebrag about how easy it was for a “shop of their caliber” to spot a fake.
In realty I’d take a Max over any “official” Gibson custom shop 59’
Love the look, a bit underwhelmed actually by the sound.
Definitely not worth the $30K i have seen them sell for!
Actual playing is at 7 minutes. Dude likes to talk to hit that 10 minute mark . FYI
Hey if you need one let me know.
Hey, Slash used to have a couple of his guitars. That is why Max is so known!
Trevor, talking over 7 minutes? Come on bro, you know better than that
When it's a video on instruments/amps & it's 90% yapping
thats just an early one. the later ones are more accurate
Mark Agnesi is just now hopping on his Harley, leather jacket flowing in the wind. 😂
Joking aside, it's one thing these copies exist in the market, but the way how blatantly this was copied infringing on protected trademarks and designs is troubling. So seeing this in a shop whose inventory and concept I admire, is somewhat troubling to me, as someone who values intellectual property.
I agree. I think it is troubling to celebrate these forgeries.
@@joenorah Exactly. Calling this super cool, where it is actually a serious trademark infringement. I mean it looks pretty legit and there's quite a lore around these, but it's a fake. I'm okay with all these inspired by Fender or Gibson models, but this is a step too far.
The thing should be cut in half with a saw.
@@ParadNorthProd yeah Saw the neck off 😈
Gibson have made dog shit guitars for years!!!
THAT is a meeean Les Paul
not a gibson officially, but it's clearly a les paul
Why not show the price ,, my guess is 30k .
Fast forward to 7:15 :-)
Really cool anybody know what they go for my guess is there outrageous for a fake
25k+
GIBSON LES PAUL GUITAR!!!
By "kinda stop it at the door" he means they bought it and intended to sell it too.
There’s no way | I’d let someone else play sorry nope. *^Oh yeah what’s the price of that.. not A GIbson Badass guitar.
Call it whatever you like. You know I do!”
I've seen CHIBSON's that are far more accurate than that particular Max. Put that thing in a good/great players hands and LISTEN to the Magic happen.
This guitar refretted very bad 😢😢
Gibson should definitely send their employees to the Gil Yaron's workshop, Gibson would increase drasticaly its overall quality...
That's sad to see all the Les Paul experts, the real ones, are not part of the Gibson team!!
alex Aragorn nah..
at 5:45 "we only have so much time" haha. its youtube
I remember in the early 90’s I went to buy a Les Paul from my local dealer.
But I needed a credit check because no young player can afford one...
So while waiting for the reply on my ZERO credit rating...
I nearly sliced my fingers off on the piss poor fret job on the Gibson guitar...
Meanwhile my credit was declined thankfully.
So I bought a 75 Strat and a ‘69 reissue thinline tele.
And a 65 Bassman head.
All 3 cost LESS than the Les Paul.
F Gibson.
Period.
End of story.👍🥃
Ps...
I still own both guitars.
But last year some idiot offered me $1750 for the ‘65 Bassman head that I paid $150 for...
Obviously it paid off better than that 80’s Gibson could ever imagine.🤣👍🥃
How much is the fake?
I remember buying one thinking it was a bass amp. What was fender thinking . I should have known better with the 2 x12 inch speakers but I was young . Everyone told me I can,t hear your freekn bass. I wonder how many other bassists fender fooled but calling this a bassman. I later sold it and bought a Peavy 400 series bass with 2x15s and blew everybody away if I felt like it. I still pisses me when I think back .It took me 2 years to pay for that amp/
man, you shoulda just bought a larger cab! I had a bassman they are excellent. the old tube ones, anyway.
Ummmm he made Slash the AFD les paul. And yea the guys at Gibson couldn't even make a burst as good as Peter Max.
George Mueh Is it really the same guy that did the slashes Les Paul on that album? That was the first thing I was wondering, Slash said he liked it more than the real thing.
@@pabdiary yea he is the guy 👍
Slash had 2 replica Les Pauls from that era one Max Burst and one Derrig. The "AFD" guitar is the Derrig, not the Max. The Max was either stolen or sold, don't remember the exact story behind it.
@@Jim-zv7jv this is true but the Max guitar is the one that the Slash signature model was made from. The max guitar became his main LP over the other one.
Even more mysterious story about his AFD sound is the Marshall he played thru. Check that out.
@@georgemueh3273 The AFD is the Derrig, here is the history of the guitar with an quote from slash... as well as a picture of the Derrig and the Max next to each other. The Derrig has the Zebra pickups (just like the AFD copy) and the Max has solid black pickups. www.premierguitar.com/articles/The_Legend_of_Slashs_Appetite_for_Destruction_Les_Paul
I thought the Max sounded pretty good...
Holy Hipster!
so ..... how much for the fake ? The level of reproduction is astounding
Prefer the Derrig replicas.
Because you've tried them all and you have such a decerning preference? Or because you are just trying to project to other people that you are a somebody in the vintage Les Paul world?
@@TempoDrift1480 My preference for Derrig replicas is based on nothing other than the satisfaction of winding up idiots on the internet :)
Less talk more playing
Jesus Loves You
7 minutes of bla, bla, bla... 3 minutes of glory!!!!
Shit!!!
This is a really curious video and the tone is extremely off-putting. The entire time you criticise the guitar as being “counterfeit” and “wrong” and don’t tell us anything about how the guitar feels and plays...then you list it for sale anyway. Is it a good guitar or not? Is it well made or not? You just appear to want to show everyone how much you know but you actually display very little knowledge in this video (and I’ve seen you in others when you do provide interesting and useful information). I normally enjoy the Emerald videos. Not this one. The older guy with glasses cones across really genuinely, as if he loves guitars and wants to share that (even if he is still trying to name a sale). You don’t. A shame.
@@joywolfe. No. You have completely missed my point. Read my post again. It’s this video that comes across as critical of the guitar. He keeps pointing out that the guitar is a fake and has things wrong with it, as if he is showing how clever he is. He spends hardly any time talking about what is good about the guitar, even though it’s a copy by one of the most respected burst luthiers.
@@andrewkemp1882 he's most certainly right that by today's standards, it wouldn't pass as a genuine '59. that's just a fact of the guitar, and it's worth pointing out to show how far we've progressed in our abilities and expertise. nothing wrong with that. Going in, any potential buyer would know it's a good playable guitar, that's why they sell for tens of thousands. Plus, I can't begrudge a shop for emphasizing how well they can spot a counterfeit when they're expected to be able to spot and sell real ones. If he came onto the video saying "yeah its a really fantastic fake, it would've slipped right under our noses," it wouldn't do well for the shop's reputation
@@joywolfe. That’s fair enough. I just think the tone of the video - as I said originally - is quite off. It’s needlessly snobbish. The guy hardly plays a compliment yet they still put the guitar on sale for a lot.
@@andrewkemp1882 it didn't really stand out on my first watch, but that is quite true!
If anyone knows anyone that can build me an old les paul replica let me no im not picky like this guy is saying Im not crazy about the real deal like these koo koos out here are
If you’re not picky just buy a Gibson historic. Good replicas are 7k+ and a lot of rigamarole to obtain.
Through a BF Fender ??? WTF use a Marshall duhhhhh
please don't play it upside down
Gibson has fallen off so bad in the last 20 years that you'd be better off with a quality replica.
Did you lose common sense. That guitar was not made by Gibson but has the Gibson logo on it. You can't sell that guitar or have it in your store. Come on guys.
BS .... to you
WOW, you can talk all day long, I guess...expert, you are not born 1959 when Gibson make guitar, OK? We know is famous Chibson guitar....🤣☹
A on the hush Dave Johnson Replica is FAR better and more accurate than that MAX! Anyway to hear the MAX and 65 Bassman jump to 7:15