1964 Gibson Firebird V played by Julian Lage
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
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This '64 Firebird V has a powerful bite that gave Johnny Winter his classic tone. Slim neck with great playability. With a Gibson vibrato system.
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Videos are shot by Jon Roncolato with Nikon D750 cameras. Audio is captured via a Zoom H6N. Video editing is done by Zach Broyles in Final Cut Pro.
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Never would have expected to ever see Jules play a Firebird. Very cool.
I don't know if Julian is the best guy to sell a guitar...Listening to him play is just a reminder that the guitar doesn't really matter. It's all about the playing. That motivates me to stop looking at gear and get to work.
Wow. Lage never ceases to impress, so creative!
I really dig his music, he's a very capable musician but he is clearly more into the jazz world. His acoustic playing is unreal. I think it's cool he didn't whip out Johnny Winter licks....nice to hear something different and unusual.
Genius of this era, love his music so so much
Christ, folks are so conservative in these comments. Julian is one of the greatest guitarists of all times, and when he takes a pigeonholed guitar and recasts it, folks call for Cream or Gov't Mule riffs. (Do not get me wrong: I love both of those bands dearly.) Nevertheless, guitar players use to be pioneers, e.g. Jimmy Bryant, Les Paul, Frank Zappa, and Hendrix, but now they are as backwards and nostalgic as most Civil War re-enactors I know.
Joshua Parsons Well said. I'm a huge blues rock fan. No need for me to list the greats. But this was a great clip because it shows the Firebird has another voice. It was refreshing to hear someone play something other than second rate Clapton and Johnny Winter licks.
Julian one of the greatest guitarists of all time? who the fuck is he? :D
Jeremy Johnston I guess you're perfectly right here. I admit, my first reaction to this clip was: What the hell has Julian Lage to do with a Firebird? It just seemed so unappropriate... But then: Why not, after all? He IS a great guitarist in his own right as any unbiased(!) listener will readily acknowledge, so why not broaden our horizons here a bit? We HAVE heard Johnny Winter and others back in the day doing the trademark stuff this guitar is known for, haven't we?
moreorlesslikeso Thats the great thing about music man; there's room for everyone
@@massimofamularo1976 name one better living guitarist
And that was just one voice of the versatile, multi toned wonderful Firebird. They are massive instruments, multitudes as one might say.
This man is a MONSTER of a musician
He's great! Cool to see him with that Firebird!
I thought it sounded Irish or jig inspired. Mountain music through Julian's mind. Brilliant.
Sweet, Julian there's many more guitars to play.
Personally I loved this video. I thought it was really awesome. I want to see Julian jam with Chris Thile .
Do a search I'm sure it has happened more than once..
They did a tour together this year. (Punch Brothers, I'm with Her, and Julian Lage)
You’re in luck! Julian is joining Thile’s masterclass on May 2nd
Love it. Great counter-programming for a Firebird
now I wanna see Julian play a Flying V
Doing an amazing job with your videos, I love it :-)
Unreal playing!
So hoping he would grab that vibrato arm at the end!
This Julian is always surprising 🙏
The firebird is a balls to the wall kind of guitar and then Julian gets a hold of one!
Since I'm reading a lot of comments about Firebirds being ugly-looking, sterile-sounding guitars, let me just add some weight to the other side of the scale. In my opinion, not only does the Firebird represent the epitome in guitar design (and design, period), it is also the best-sounding solid body electric guitar Gibson has ever made. Keep in mind that in 1961, two years prior to the introduction of the Firebird, the sunburst Gibson Les Paul Standard, now considered the "holy grail" of all electric guitars and selling for up to a half a million dollars, was taken out of production because everyone (including me) thought it was a stuffy-looking, muddy-sounding boat anchor. In fact, I can remember seeing unsold sunburst Les Pauls hanging on music store walls for $200 a pop and walking straight past them to drool over an array of custom colored Firebirds suspended from the ceiling like a fleet of spaceships. The Firebird was Gibson's attempt to latch on to the popularity of Fender's Stratocaster and Mosrite's Ventures models with their Jetsons looks and clean, bright tone. And man, did Gibson succeed! GM car designer Ray Dietrich's radical upside-down neck-through-body construction and pre-Jimi reverse headstock with banjo tuners took the Firebird even further into space than its competition, while its shiny metal mini humbuckers provided unmatched hum-free hi-fidelity. Unfortunately for Gibson (and Fender) the Beatles landed and wiped surf music off the face of the earth. On February the 10th 1964, the day after Ed Sullivan, everyone (including me) ran to the music store to swap their St.George, Fender or Mosrite for a Rickenbacker, Gretsch or Höfner. The reverse-body Firebird fluttered around for a mere three years before meeting the same fate as the Les Paul. Seven years later, in 1972, Gibson released a limited run of 366 Firebird V's, of which I own one. I also own a reissue '59 and vintage '60 and '62 Les Pauls, absolutely great sounding guitars, but when I put them down and plug in the Bird, it's like going from an upright to a grand piano. The neck pickup especially is pure magic, and it's beyond me why Julian Lage chose to stay on the neck pickup for this rather enjoyable but otherwise unrepresentative muted banjo imitation. On the other hand, it does show what this most versatile of all guitars is capable of. You can conjure any sound you want out of a Firebird: Les Paul, Strat, Tele, Gretsch or Rickenbacker, but it also has a distinct voice of its own. Be warned though, I'm talking about the vintage birds with the old pickups. Later models from 1976 and up sound totally different.
For those who think Firebirds sound sterile: ua-cam.com/video/WRA06VKyGzg/v-deo.html
Allen Collins used one on all the Skynyrd songs up he played on until the Street Survivors album
hilarious comment👆🏻👌🏻
Agree completely.
Guitar players are notorious for being stuffy traditionalists. The biggest forward advances in guitar design were made by Ned Steinberger in the 1980s, but guitarists almost unanimously panned it because it looked too different from their notions of what a guitar is supposed to *look like*. I love Firebirds, but as you said, I wouldn’t bother with any modern one, because they don’t get the pickups right anymore.
@@darwinsaye I believe the current Custom Shop guitars have traditional Alnico V Firebird (NOT mini humbucker) pickups but the Standard models are the ceramic razor blades. It's easy to swap them out. I have Lollar Firebird pickups in mine which are traditional Firebird construction. They're fantastic.
A very cool Fender looking Gibson
Only Lage could get such a creamy tone on his last chord on a Firebird bridge pickup... I'm starting to believe the whole "it's all in the hand" thing!
Beautiful..
I'm sure Johnny Winter would have loved that...
More notes and really fast ones-excellent!
This video made me buy a firebird
That's sound remembering me about dayak music in borneo fussion with jazz
beautiful playing .....senegal meets sonoma ....
This cat is ridiculous!✌️
Que genio por favor!!!!! Asombroso
2 bars of Stairway to Heaven at the end would of been hilarious!
or some classic smoke on the water lmao
Christian Enmon Ha yes with a grimacing rock face! Music or guitar specifically has been long overdue skilled loving musicality. I was so pleased to see and hear this guy. Bill Frisell has been a long championing of music over athleticism.
superb
clip is too short, we need more :)
tone and a half
Wowww!
wooohoooo
The last chords tone.........
What amp is that?
fender champ
@@rosettag7292 definitely a princeton
Stop that! ...repetitive blues noodling is the ONLY way to demo a guitar, guess THIS dude just don't get it ;)
Who is this guy? I bet he doesn't even know one Johnny Winter lick!
I think he confused that poor guitar. It just wanted to rock some bar chords and maybe a minor pentatonic.
Sounds like Indonesian music.
Whew, even Julian can't make that harsh Firebird sound sweet. Those are odd guitars, lovely to look at though. And they certainly have their fans.
I love Julian Lage's playing, but it's too bad that it's in the service of selling vintage guitars to guys with money who probably can't play worth shit.
Kyle Smith jealous much
Jealous of what dude? Guys with money who can't play? Not really. Sam Clayton need get life.
Kyle Smith "Sam clayton get life"
For the love of god that firebird needs some rock n roll
K E , perhaps you should be the one to provide that R&R? No? Didn't think so. You're words are weak.
Clifford Delbridge that sounds like something a Frenchman would say
That's Julian Lage. He is super! I bought his Arclight album and it was mesmerizing.
so 3string power chords then?
You dream of being able play as good as this man.
i've never really liked firebirds. it sounds sterile
yeah, they seem to only come alive through an overdriven amp.
Buff... thanks to hear i thought i was the only one thinking that :)
Fantastic playing, mediocre guitar -- Lage sounds much, much better on his usual Tele.
Great guitar, wimpy player.
Lage could outshred pretty much anyone on earth if he chose to do so -- but he has too much restraint and taste to waste his time proving it to those who find real musicianship "wimpy."
I suspect if they heard the same playing through a dimed Marshall they'd be over the moon with admiration. To be fair, that guitar is just not the right instrument for subtle virtuosity played clean -- Lage's Tele sounds good at any volume in pretty much any style, and IMO that's what makes for a truly good electric guitar.
Sorry, repetitive new age blah... and Firebirds are by no means mediocre.
Learn how to listen, sonny -- it's not repetitive at all. Firebirds are ugly, awkward-looking slabs and this one is unexceptional tone-wise when played clean IMO -- it might be OK if turned up enough a la Johnny Wnter, but it's just not the right instrument for what Lage is doing.
Grear playing but the guitar sounds like cardboard
Like, idk, overdrive or something my dude 🤔😕
Or, you know, class and musicianship. Whatever floats your boat
Go take that Berklee school of music to Smalls and play it on your victor baker hollow body with Gilad and the rest of those robot guitarists and give this axe to someone who doesn’t play like a rich over educated white dude
Julian lage is a great guitarist but this guitar wants to smacked around, not be petted like a newborn cat.
This guy plays like a robot... cool to watch, but no feeling whatsoever.
theaceofspadesjl Fair enough if that's what you got from this video, but watch his stuff with Chris Eldridge. Lots of feeling there! I think these demos are more about him just having a bit of fun and putting the guitars through its paces.
What, how is there no feeling here? He's a beautiful, subtle guitar player.
There are other feelings in the world than sad blues bends.
To each his own I suppose. I can't say I agree with you.
What bullshit :-D
It's Sure thing possible to dislike his playing, but no feeling? Open your ears or stop judging others.
it's my opinion, which isn't changing