Utterly Epic Vintage Guitar Extravaganza At ATB In Cheltenham – That Pedal Show

[Applause] [Music] hey guys welcome to that pillow showdown here Mik here hello and you'll find us a little bit excited because we are ATB guitars in Cheltenham ATB guitars is a kind of high-end vintage dealer appointment only kind of thing some crazy guitars with a look at the stop list before we arrived and I think we're gonna see some nice things today yes Stratton Telly's and Gibson thin lines and Gibson solid bodies awesome nice we try it let's have a go g'day mate slow down and Mick from that publisher finally freaking come in hi Mike it's a level from guitarist magazine and guitar techniques [Music] you [Music] okay so we let it sit eventually this is Mike hi hey I do yeah mike is really kindly invited us here today and giving us free rein of the store and we're gonna play a few things Michael gave us a great analogy of the store earlier hmm about how its arranged well it's arranged a bit like Manhattan Island in New York we've got on the Lower East Side we've got the jazz arch tops the piano like with jazz clubs the Valerie's on the lower west side we have the Gibson solo projects and then on the Upper West Side me having a the vintage amps and we have a little finger in the solid bodies jazz basses okay so let's uh let's use Mike New York energy and then start on the Lower East Side the first thing I see which I think geographically speaking is the first guitar in the store you've got a really old switch master there which is saying the tile Steve having used yes very similar to only using roundabout 1957 switching on step one I tell you what what slightly if you've never been to I mean I have never been to a store like this before if you've never been to a place where there are a collection of very tidy vintage guitars it's a bit unnerving because you look around you justice use it but most of what you see is is reissued and then you start looking at the labels yeah and it's not really as original and it's in really really spectacular condition so I'm gonna carefully pull out I haven't gotten nervous for a long time I'm genuinely nervous today yeah alright when they're not like a piano 59 guitars it's like the domino thing okay 1957 Gibson es5 switch monster look how many of these do you see Mike is this a rare guitar is it it's not particularly a rare guitar we do see few but not that many it's um it's it's a guitar which has its own little niche yeah they're great for rockabilly we're grateful progressive rock yeah as well and that they have their own useless but they're not to everyone's taste yeah but that's particularly not exactly mr. was this guitar top very used the way this was a 350 here 350 yeah okay yeah I think that's the extent of my knowledge on that what a thing one two three all yes I me all is where the magic happens because when you switch it to the all selection then all of these knobs basically work so it's like you're in the building three channel mixer with volume and tone for you to pick up an infinite variety of sounds and I will just say again I mean it is it's a really odd experience to pick up the guitar that is 60 years [Music] unsurprisingly what is catching my eye Daniel so far is this don't make 335 oh yeah Wow I'm gonna guess the year because I don't know act be not correct this also okay good I did I promise you I didn't promise you a little bit so 35 comes out in 1958 yeah that's correct first few you have no net binding that's correct yeah and then net binding from 50 like 58 that's right also the first few had a very shallow neck angle survey than that they were a little bit difficult to play and the action wasn't great on them so by late 58 they'd managed to sort that out and by 59 you they managed to solve a narrative and neck angle correct and put the binding on and also by 59 he developed the classic 59 neck profile which everyone seems to love which miss one has yeah which is I think there's a lot of junk talked about 59 deck profiles because everyone assumes it's this huge hole King Thor some people assume it is this huge goblin thing yeah it's not at all really manageable so this was obviously had a weak threat you have a - yes it has yeah but everything else the original mic it's been proven which is a common thing on these as well they used by professional musicians and for a lot of professional musicians at the time the clusen tuners just didn't cut it so lots of people changed man - novus service no precise tuners I think it would be indelicate to talk about prices and stuff because this video will be on the web for a long time and price has always changed if you want to know the prices of any of these things hit Mike's website and you can see how much they are right this one yes there is exceptionally rare yeah so a casino late 66 67 so this is a great example of a blue detail that's gone green right yes because because it's sprayed in a nitro clear coat which has turned yellow in years and blue in there mixed green oh wow so most of us have a turn this amazing sort of easy Hugh I think actually and it creates a lot of the confusion down the line doesn't it especially women various fender greens yes yeah very spender if you ever watched this video this is yeah down and I think you should play casino or a330 [Music] and right beatnik not crazily there but you know it's just feels so solid this is you've seen this this was made famous by John Lennon yes he has rank you get frozen it's basically a ES 330 keeps me history Thursday which has a different design headstock and different in ways as well from the max are identical to it for 330 and they made the same place yeah they all make me say no Mizzou production violence or three services and the neck is further in isn't it obvious it's exactly the same for three Thursday's yeah yeah but that's right up until around late 67 they all have the neck joint which is further in yeah in late 67 68 they started to make the longer version yet but the problem is because this guitar doesn't have a solid center block it's completely on it it wasn't very stable yeah so they reverted back to that design done it might you're telling us this is a really rare 355 that's right yeah that's 1959 yes 355 with no varitone and mono electrics and that's a cool guitar I'm sure it's just my eyes but it feels thinner than mine yes yes they are is it yeah I didn't know that what's that for all three five five like that or just at that period about Harry they have things well would you have to play on this it's just us well this isn't now but this one it doesn't have the original finish this was refinished by historic makeovers in the States originally would have been cherry red but I like a it's when would that have been done that was done a few years ago well we like we bought it from someone who shared us the photos of winema skirt so we could tell it was originally a stock tail I was gonna say it's similar to the checking on the call wasn't it Colin so don't eat quickly this might be a question that comes up a bit later as well Mike Burton so you've been dealing in vintage guitars for years and years and years how many seconds does it take you to look at that and go that's a reefing oh that will not go pretty much straight away yeah it's the me so you just get a feel for these things you do and also you can see some overspray yeah i finalized that fascinating it doesn't only the stuff you can learn it is most true return stuff you can learn through years and years of handling yeah many hundreds of guitars genuine ones there's a slightly more 2.5 there gold cheering red three four five is that three five five three five five I'm always confused okay three five five five more it's not binding that's correct and they had an ebony fingerboard and blocking those yes parallelograms for the three four five first row - that's correct yeah okay but that's the 1964 335 which same as Captain used spec and also this one's was a really nice to talk to it as well that seems okay is that fully yeah it's reasonable price I would say well quite reasonable to door so there's no checking on this at all no sometimes that happens mr.white not from the front is just the way it's been used right be stolen that again is 64 classic neck profile yes it's medium I'm saying medium okay yeah it's it's similarity to the 59 but not quite so chunky and a lot of players do like the 64 neck profile because of that oh this is its jeepers I don't see obviously the psychology part of our brains is kicking in a big way here but immediately no guitars got something that appeals to me I guess I said it's to me it feels to him because I've got that massive great 58 you know profile on one somebody tells me I doubt they were that big now I agree a lot of the Gibson Rich's I've come across the neck is too thick [Music] [Music] [Music] oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy different territory isn't it it's how we a it's a whole different how do you find that this is I getting the way you whoa yeah but do you get used to it I mean you know those big or they call them what doggie is what the hell yes obviously a dog is the interesting thing about this is they've you can see the covers are the same but the bases are different so to lift these ones up pardons of you so that's but you know boy you wouldn't don't want to be in the shoe you wouldn't tear it out nah now that ritchie blackmore okay so now the aforementioned 59 335 i apologize to my guitar [Laughter] [Music] 50s wiring [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] just going Cowie yeah yeah that's it thanks guys for watching very quick bit of reflection on that the fruitiness of this hmm and the poise that it has hmm they're gonna be all sorts of adjectives used in this because it is a quite overwhelming to play something it's so old dynamic poise balance some of which my 58 reissue has just nothing no it's crazy nothing is not fair it's just not the same know that unless I think the the difference has become mucked when you know yeah the reissues of these instruments so well yeah you get to play the original ones I think it's also fair to say difference between original ones is marked as well of course yeah yeah yeah yeah lest we cross over that but something about I mean I have played quite a lot of all three thirty fives and one thing I notice is there for want of a better phrase the flute enos chill in the sound it's like a vocal it's like a mid-range thing that is it's very vocal yeah but you know what we could we could talk about it all day so let's see let's do that should we move on no all right what's next killer crazy killer and as if by magic two more guitars so this was the reef in the body reef in 355 the rare one so interesting me because I've just played the 59 335 so wonder what we'll be hearing by the way after today which is an original magnet own that the stereo tremolo which is that's doing the thing that vintage axe does an original five III deluxe which Kris at rift sorry Chris doesn't sound anything like the one we made so I'm gonna phone up Chris and say we need to work out why that is because that sounds the Headroom in it is surprising it's good let's rock a while vintage stuff you expected to be cranky right [Music] it was in tune when I bought it in 1959 [Music] this one says it might be even flew to you all right [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] just don't throw things at the screen it is like a semi religious experience all right just just same [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] just in case you're wondering the drive you're here is the dnm drive when it gets slightly gaining as the mix ID and when it gets gay and there's the down drive and they're on together the wobbling you heard there is the wobbly from the magnet own in the amp which is a stereo tremolo and I'll do my best to pan that so you can hear it stereo that's cool just it's stunning there's a I've always liked the that the three firefighters without the center block the 330s yes yep and then again it's the same thing with the casino there's a visit there's a Cousteau quality to it already yeah add just a stupid amount of vintage cool vibe to that and your way it's just as people say here is it with a completely Hollow yes type guitar surely massive feedback is a problem well just get it held down and see what happens here's both sides of the DN I'm driving [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] yes I turned that it's but I turned the gang on the DM Drive pretty much all the way up towards the end there so it did start howling we're pretty loud in here we were louder than a lot of people are allowed to play at gigs these days so feedback rejection done not massive problem is it not next so let's turn around shall we first thing that dancing what did you say I'd say oh like my favorite is per level if the 40th anniversary reissue and then white goes oh no no that's a real one what all right so this is and every time I'm 1955 just look at that see the it's this pickup that I'd only seen on the reissue what do they call that staple magnet or something oh that's right only go 5 second mistake yeah yeah yeah unique sound is man is it oh we should have listened to them yeah yeah I just I I don't know I just it's at that point I want to go right ok everybody open up another window in your browser call up 1955 call up 1955 and look at what happened in 1955 look at the cars look at people look at what they were wearing look at what was in the charts look at that was on the television and then look at this and consider that here we are unlesss when you tell me I'm 64 years later sorry does it look like it's 9:55 looks like it's yesterday it's in very good condition this one yeah these are called the flattest ones which my courage against you get used to them oh yeah [Music] am i right in saying that customs didn't have a vocal top yes that's correct with them yeah yeah all mahogany body well I was looking for a reissue of these okay this boy bought - Paul oh wow because this has been like of all the let's put up so Paul Stacy's got liver issues yeah there's my favorite like just the sound of it in the way they just absolutely adore yeah yeah look at you can't separate the emotion no you can't you can I'm so aware of the history and the importance that this is played in music it's stood there holding something came out of a factory 1957 just is a lovely example yes absolutely fully original nothing changed on so very talented just study very overly stainless steel pick up cones as well there were first-generation paths they don't have stickers on and they are stainless steel appearances telling what's interesting I was looking at these pickups earlier thinking that the contour on the edge of the covers was some steeper there doesn't have a curved yes there would be now they're in very early covers yeah mm-hmm it's all this stuff that you know I very small edge of vintage guitars but it's stuff when you see I was a fascination except era I mean I spend ages going through these guitars making my own notes and looking at other people's works printed works books and everything that's a fascinating subject so you learned something new pretty much every week yeah the way these were put together back in 56 pieces is quite an awesome sometimes if you can hear the text messages going off that's my wife saying please don't bother I just sent her people with the strap all right the other end of the scale guitar that's fine that's going in fact we have to thank Simon for setting this up today because he came up here in the week to look at some of these and that's the one Simon couldn't put down so this is a 53 just 1953 Wow it's been reflected it's had a life yeah as you can sleep yeah but that translates well that's what is playing get out yeah it's just it's feel back wait wait yeah this is one of the lightest ones we can do needs a nap that is crazy oh my word look at that look at that said that come on though again is something difficult to fake yeah I mean when you look at that that's genuine play where as genuine check where and especially I mean I go it's very very difficult check that out fake I bet so I misled loads of details which were already successful whereas I advice is for you Joey and it feels good as well doesn't it that's amazing all the places have actual feelings as well and so that's before we move to the I mean we've been here all day this 55 yeah yeah so we're still at the single piece now let's get this right the two nematic have stopped okay 56 that's correct yeah well late 55 because that's what that is yeah yeah and then this first appeared when they've got it wrong in the beginning that's that first appeared in 1953 yeah okay yeah that's right [Music] it's I can't put it I just I can't I can't put it into words because I don't have the mental capacity to separate my emotion emotion and I don't yeah of course learn stuff in the actual physical appearance and that's I guess that's why it works isn't it [Music] it doesn't mean something you know it means that you feel different so if you feel differently play different yeah that's just how it is right okay so five words oh yeah Mike Gibson five over seven baked it three conversions he did five eight one five eight three five eight five and five or seven as for isn't it sorry it's early in the morning yeah this is a fiber seven versus top of range yeah yeah with gold hardware and s1 which film Manson Andrea made famous in box music this was cardinal red model banjo tuners yeah Lucent battery two goes there yes reverse headstock is it the reversed through is it actually three wars that I said is that all one piece I think this one is all one piece yesterday yeah all the way through so they they make them from the top of the headstock to the bottom of the body was just one piece of mahogany do you mind me just glued on the linguist you know that was the first I don't know that's Jim look could run a thing that's one to the comments section yeah so Dave Gregory use one of these like those magnets helped in spirits for years and and everything he plugged this into it just was magical these the father pickups are so unique yeah there's not another get the sense of life of the they have all the top-end of any single pole you know they're in the clarity but may they rock they really do you know I don't I don't have any knowledge of fibers if you have to say either Chico Epiphone moriches yeah one thing they do you're right yeah they're not my game no they're not for those sort of death metal complaint but if you're into blues funk brilliant pickups yeah Junior's genius so you don't think everyone is chasing my dream which is the SG so 61 and this is 61 as well but this is a TV yellow yeah that's right so called on because T's were yellow no way true story Wow not never seen TV yellow SG shape Jenny for most people happen very yeah military hilarious white occasionally but very rare to see a TV junior there's another one here that's really surprising I think it's this one yeah yeah a maple body maple body TV junior in the mint condition as well when TV junior first introduced in 1954 they came in a three-quarter inch scale length and they're all maple body when they went to the full-size TV jeans in 1955 the very first examples for maple body not very many were made but this is one I don't think I've ever seen a mobile body guitar before and when I hadn't picked it up a lot of pictures I was expecting it to be really heavy yeah there are two piece maple booking you can see the synthesis by clearly on the back as well I've got a massive hankering for an SG currently looking around at a lot of s cheese at the moment you know new ones breach use custom shops gives us new range look at this look at the condition of that and the rest of it and you know I won't you know there's a custom shop SG isn't it clearly that's yeah well you got there as well my side no no it's all original sixty-five standard Lamar look at that look at that and is this the this is the maestro the vibe Romeo is it oh yes master of our area because there's one that goes sideways as well that's right that's the magistrate best for it yes yeah yes yeah so I'm just in case that guitar they particularly fancy there's another one here next to it in cynically spectacular condition 64 yeah that's a 64 one year earlier than 65 so this one's got nickel hardware that one's got chrome hardware which is why the table pieces in such good yeah that's right yeah all right yeah cuz this one's tarnished a bit yeah that's right yeah no way so this one's got the violent sales and service yet in 65 a change nut width Fazal from one and eleven sixteenths to one and 9/16 so that one would have a spy narrow Network this one has a wide market this is one person expected everyone likes the 64's to because George Harrison taken and mrs. who yeah like the es-335 which is captain's papers yes no actually on this well they actually would yeah this setup probably they great [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] how long before you turn it off by the way all I was doing there was saying about two sides of the dnm Drive on and off and you'll hear in the combination of a Catelyn bread Eric and a Catelyn bread belly pop deluxe and right at the end the super harmonic tremolo and we'll do a sweep over the pedal board but should be fairly obvious what song and can I say that the contrast between us do you pick up sure just clean no no overdrive no nothing you just [Music] smooth smooth isn't it ah just love it you know when I originally found well as Paul the reissue of this is what I was looking for right because I I just love that sound how do you know yeah first ones I've never heard one of those pickups wonderful wonderful one at is you know it's hard to in isolation it's kind of hard to make any comparison but it's it sounded smooth to me and kind of not as nasal maybe don't regular p90 shop don't know these are all the adjectives aren't they okay how's this 55 this is 50 1955 do you know what my dad was doing in 1955 no tell me being 12 years old running around fields in the countryside just about to hear Elvis ran through fields of wheat yeah no just couch it mate nothing else back then it was faithful about to he really I know he was about to hear Elvis that his life was about to change Wow you know I just sometimes think is good to reflect yeah definitely what was happening yeah but anyway okay so let's jump forward nine years then Harrison spec SG standard as we said before [Music] I recognize played on strap [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] took a minute to orientate mm-hmm it's very weird actually don't play little guitars just picking the next guitar up in the next guitar up in the neck you've just got a fine you've got yourself in a position where you and the guitar are having the same conversation yeah of course as opposed to the guitar going don't do that that's not for me and me going I'm not gonna do that that's not really for you but that's a that's a skill that you learn because of you if you spend a long time playing on guitar being able to move quickly between cuz like you know how far out is that neck compared to yeah I know what you used to do and the body shape and all that sort of stuff I think you know one of the things about having different guitars have be able to move easily between them it's also I think when you look in to buy a new guitar and you same thing what he just said if you're used to playing for example they strap and you pick up another guitar and you sort of asking the guitar to do all the things that strap would do mm you are sort of on a hiding to nothing aren't you sure but you need to let the guitar know let it do its thing exactly yeah exactly but that kind of the lot people even despite Angus despite turning on me despite Landau despite all the other awesome SG players down the years we could mention hmm there is still a perception among some people that s Jesus kind of thin and weedy sounding isn't that that they sound kind of shrill but that the treble of this is it's like it's trebly but it's not unpleasant no it's just no I'm just thinking yeah exactly I was just thinking then if I walked into a gig and that time was happening because that's not quiet no no I would sit in front of that and just soak it in it's so pleasing oh dear yeah this isn't doing me any fish I foresee an SG in the future but sadly not if not this one not today right as previously said in the bit of talking that you either have just heard or you are about to hear 53 57 oh this is Simon's dream guitar yeah you should play it really [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] what a dynamic guitar I kind of I'm crying out for something like a um something with a harder edge on the overdrive I think what I need is like walrus 385 or something okay [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] okay I know it's impossible to say because we're playing in a in a different room echoey room different amps everything's different how does that compare to your 58 reissue the 58 has an my ratio sorry has much thicker neck yeah it's it's not as quick as this yeah this is what do you mean by quick well this is the feedback from this when I'm playing it it's it's so instant so it's just it's like the difference between a really nice finished nitro neck and nothing there's that sponginess yeah the my our rate is spongy ER in this it doesn't it's it's so hard to put into words even though the RS yeah you know it's all night trying everything it's it's it's right but the the the feedback that you get from this just physically having it in your hands even before you even hear it just the vibrations of the way it feels yeah palpably do it is it's very very different huh the other thing is this doesn't have I don't have to control the bottom end of this ya know I mean to me it sounds if you say thinner it sounds like majority it's not a good negative no no it's just clearer yeah and more defined poise yeah I'm not I'm not fighting with overly Willie you're a man and so these are like the first issue perhaps has that right this is the first yeah yeah early ones and probably these have stainless steel covers no yeah steel covers instead of nickel which apparently features a very very early but and dark back I've as far as Les Paul's are concerned I mean it has very light strings on that yeah but it's just a dream it plays so easily you know look even am I even on my Les Paul which I know really well yeah I always have a phizzer there's a push-pull relationship with this yeah yeah I don't have that with this it's just the there's some amazing and how much of that is because it's a 1950 serene alright in 57 that costs more money than either of us can imagine um some I'm aware of the the weight of history when I play it absolutely but I mean that's that's a good thing no you know however just the physical experience of playing this it's good of it when I got into it I mean I just forgot about that I was when I started yeah I was thinking I think that's a barrier to a vintage guitar sometimes is they're scared of it yeah because it's so valuable and then you just something you need needs to just forgive yourself for playing it and play it but look at the finish on this like we've looked at it I know I know if my pick went kept salmon is the wrong way and I'm kind of doing this I would never forgive myself in which case I'm not gonna do that I'm done with this stop looking at that no that's enough of that one okay dad just have a look sit down let's go to Fender corner and all the fender wall should I say this if you give a couple give some basis there as well but it's predominantly fairly solid bodies well if the sir let's begin let's begin here my game is a bit background on this guitar before we started filming I looked at this thought oh that looks like a 59 telly custom and you say no it's not it is this in 1958 a Fender Telecaster custom but it's it's a prototype one which was featured in all the short form catalogs from 1959 through in 1966 and you know that it is because you can identify it from this yes that's right in uniquely this is the Sunburst le which is made out of an ash body and the ash brain which is very distinctive as you see here is perfectly matched to the one in the brochures yeah and there's no way though isn't it yeah that's that guitar mm-hmm isn't that crazy and you were saying that in the picture of the squire yeah they basically use the same guitar but change the pickguard to abstract exactly same guitar they've changed so we got to hear this [Music] one of the very distinctive features about this early one is is is when we're very first with the slap rosewood fingerboard and it has the truss rod plug at the top and it has a skunk stripe on the back which you don't see on normal board fenders kind of thing we should be noticing down but with your guide what I cannot get over is just the neck it just feels it feels so different then it's feels perfect right it feels amazing but it does I've not played a new mega expensive Custom Shop telling the feels anything like that there's still neck you know and it's on a relative atop of this you know yeah absolutely in fact I think that's worth reflecting on just for a second and reflecting is a good word because Oh give us a shiny yeah they're not matter they they no no and that's so another example of actual checking look at that oh yeah superb is it just Stein superfine mm-hmm well the dots which adults yeah talk briefly about the jazz masters really unusual blonde 1958 fifty years ago those areas production that's for our first year production would probably finished early 59 but the long and especially is very rare and you don't see very many of those blonde Finnish anodized guard in near-mint condition rule of League as well and it's basics I mean that the condition is just insist lovely isn't it yeah that one's now sold but we basically have people fighting for them well says no they said no undercut on this thing did it he was someone who was very keen to economize and his finishes it's very expensive back then so he he just used to spray with well what you end up with we've seen the grain and everything through that is absolutely stone we jump forward into a Jazzmaster evolution to get to the mid-60s I'm assuming this is mid 60's 66 there you go bound fingerboard they did not block inlays and so I guess that was that was later on in 1966 later 66 yeah and then the color-coded headstock I love it I don't know what it is oh that's good the triptych yeah that is really clean yeah Wow so what do we know about this it's in a square it has a round line fingerboard which makes it what done special post 63 yes that's right when was it in mid 63 they came in it 62 late 62 okay yeah so we know that it's 63 of some description at the earliest okay what else and when did they stop doing that oh they carried on doing this stuff until now really so that they haven't never stopped doing that no maybe they have stopped doing that construction technique yeah it was only the slap which they originally had from 1959 through to the basics - Oh since then and then the dots directly oh no not quite but more or less underneath the a and B strings and they move closer together in 6363 okay so we can say this is probably a 63 length what some label so 62 obviously most interesting bit to me stratum let's start with what I think is probably an earliest and we'll just have a quick flick through some of the key things is this is like torture so obviously we've got some maple neck is over here I'm feeling a soft v on the back of there so what do you actually see the thing so I know where it is but I would have said 56 but he's not in spirit so it's classic 57 profile is it yeah yeah so 56 would have been so a soft with the thicker right hmm oh wow so property yeah this yeah like where it goes off brown like this yeah my maple neck stress is not good play member that's Eric Johnson's what is no there isn't very pleasant guitar here is many levels [Music] yeah come forward a year there's a 58 there that will orange into sunburst is that correct if that was the first year at 310 some of those yeah Wow and see oh yeah so an interesting transition because we've gone to three color suburbs but we haven't gone to three pipe it good all rosewood board yet yeah and as if by magic sorry I'm glossing over the fact what a blooming fantastic analysis this guitar caught all of our minds we will do because I look at this and go look at that finish right you know that's nos yeah exactly quite blue look at the checking would would lead me to select a tiny bit of checking down there would lead me to believe that it's a bit older but but this and then look at this neck it's really crazy cuz I'm thinking it's some sort of you know and the crazy custom just unbelievable flame maple it is sensational this one probably monastic some example we've had and then check out that serial number so this is clearly not a custom guitar this is a 1959 thunderstruck yeah well original hardly used anything find and in great condition no cracks on the guard you can see it shrunk but it hasn't cracked yet mm-hmm and then that's I mean if you were gonna fake a guitar you would do that but also the thing pointing down okay yeah pick up Clippers obviously a different material than that yeah kind of quite white yeah pick up pick up covers of plastic the pick guard was in nitro yeah nitrocellulose yeah Rachel this is whether the which the ashtray thing falls off them take some facts about I've been on the way down put that back down so since we're talking about Eric Johnson mm-hmm he was saying I would be super careful with this good this is sold yes look at that so that would have been Fiesta yeah various years ago yeah and it's because they're they vary so much and that one is quite something isn't it yeah they're my favorites were they fade yeah and was that was that an original Fiesta or was a UK oh no totally original minister this this one didn't come from the UK it came from Eric Johnson's selection it's originally yesterday from the fact site this is Eric Johnson the guitar yeah well no it's mine this society's your guitar case this was Erik Jones for hmm yeah thought check that was like hearing that properly oh yes yeah no no it's not a letter from him to prove that I hadn't nicked it I mean it's got photographs of him playing it as well oh yeah he took on his used it for two years as his main guitar it was used on his grammy-nominated album bloom and to used it alive and he says him Electress one of his two fragrant rose wood boards glances at her hand it's similar to the ground of my telly that's not my poor soul is it it's it's cross song rifts or rifts Oscar cool song yeah where the grounds can't break out of that yeah yeah no that's Oscar that's where it's almost flat yeah no that's all I think it's most of most of ones you see are etched on I think yeah look at that it's grand go that way yeah yeah have you ever seen Chris Ria's pinky not not in effect no no no no as a doggy I always wondered if that was a similar sort because this is sort of salmony orangie and then some of them go really pink and some of them stay really red don't they yeah hmm in fact there was people used to say that there was actually a color called salmon pink didn't language then they never was knowing that also yes sorry probably the strats I just need to this one was finished from factory okay first of all sprayed desert sands what what's which is the undercoat and then they've been sprayed in Dakota red and then after to go to retrospective and Fiesta red ah it's a common process of history editor you often see Dakota red under coats with he doesn't sound wonder kept as well and the really cool thing about this we'll take that Gandalf there's loads of factory graffiti and little bit guards which says Fiesta rare done loads of tea color coded numbers and stuff unbelievable I can't get over the grain of this and I think he likes Victor this is stunning this this is a guitar okay this is this is pretty much exactly the guitar I would like may slab board mm-hmm actually doesn't really matter but playing where this is a 62 mm-hmm yep mid 62 and that for me in my personal world that is fantastic yeah yeah sure and a couple of observations about this point before we plug them in again this whole thing on the back of the neck if you look at the model relic they take it off from metal Burton you know with due respect to fender wheel of fender if I love classical guitar so I don't mean to be picky about it but I don't know why they do that because that's what I mean that's from super tired is that I don't know miss bring that husband over spray it yeah yes correct yeah but if you look beneath there you'll see how they do actually which is not containing the original finishes so there they of asparagus you didn't clearly see yeah and similarly you know the body gets shiny by you know it's contentiously the other thing was going to say about these but a kleenex there was for me the water stress I like the intent assault get sparked to get fatter about that right up to here whereas a lot of modern stresses are very tapir or at least the tapir is even the way it kind of but this one gets fun gets fatter than that notice it's quintessentially it is really oppose me I also think that when you take all the finish off and I think it sounds different it does it absolutely does even on the back you know you would expect it on a maple fingerboard but even on the back and I think there's a I don't know presence evil presence or something when you when the guitar is finished yeah I think box but then the bass player is taking all of their lack of ease with these guys get soggy Duke your guitars welcome all right and then attempted to sand off every bit of lacquer and they include the black on the body which just took day listen but then it fundamentally changed our guitar and a lot of that the quickness was going mmm yeah this is just a nice spongy mm-hmm and electronically is this one electronically it's gonna forward switch young pops have been changed certainly perfect guitar because I have to turn control of the bridge pickup so like a mint it would be no use to me so I got to use it but I supposed to I just I said too slow on the way up it's not good because I spent all my spare cash on and you met a boy my wife's like no guitars no guitars today but this this is it that's it that's it isn't that this is the type of guitar we do spectral credit cards and voices killer so let's start with the color this is surf green but with a nitro topcoat Natura top coat which is yellowed over the years and it's turned that normally with blue stats as we talked about before if you have a yellow clear coats blue and yellow make green but with green guitar originally yellow and green I've met a sort of yellowish yeah that was green really but when you take off the trim cavity and you look under the pick guard in the pickup cavities you can actually see the original surf green yeah which hasn't been altered by the fade of nitro and that's because nitro fades in Optra violet light yes so plastics it won't fade that's right yeah okay mm-hmm so you can also see the shielding under the pit guard there begins shrunk a little bit but not enough to break it but the really interesting thing about this guitar is a Kareena potty no mm-hmm Mike's telling me that they're they're documented they though experimenting yeah that's right Emily late 63 early 64 fender were experimenting with different types of guitar problems they made a few in mahogany of which we've had a couple and were interesting Simon details and they've also made a very very limited mounting Carina as well and if you research it on vintage guitar magazine article there's about three or four which exists don't exist and this is 95 not only is it green your body but it's earth green custom color there's no mint Kappa zero s then yeah make sure we say this we've only seen one guitar today that has six bigger price tag this is not million miles away from that well this this is my couch okay I'm being with you prices thinking could be very diplomatic well it's just you know someone watch this video in two years time and it'll be a balcony I must also say we're still in the process of authenticating this okay because it's such a rare guitar yeah we want to make certain it is what we are saying in it I have a quick question I have you know son of 64 l-series track I noticed that L was on the serial number from much earlier I just I get confused about the this year I wasn't on fenders so when when was the L Series illness 63 through 65 okay right okay just that heroic space of time sure do we know why no no no no idea that's been it nobody knows why no friend had changed their serial number mythology throughout the years and nobody knows exactly why they shifted from a normal a six digit number to an L and then they went to the F stamp of course via CBS bought them yeah in 66 details the ex damn started to yeah we've done a little history of stress there what we didn't talk about left-handed Lake Placid blue 64 with the original strings yes what Cajun theory just rings I don't know which do something looks the Chancellor set but I mean yeah yeah Wow that's massive 1/3 as well that is when it was when we received it he was still in pitch and you could barely bend up to you to all the basically tells you ever need the world the whole world ever needed up there yeah we've got a good selection varieties so this is a 51 53 53 people this a 63 P base 64 64 chars I'm guessing I'm guessing as I go I'm gonna look 66 Hey I mean yes because I've spent quite a lot of time around guitar shops that drive Center you know we could be a defender right center looking at I really could tell from this distance right but then he interesting case in point 66 we go to the big head up like that with this logo after that this is what 70 68 69 1707 then we're into the kind of Jimi era huge black logo folklore has it that they wanted that huge logo because it's visible and you could see it about more it's a lot bigger than you can see it was a Fender guitar 74 player Placid blue very rare and 70 in in the mid 70s on CBS or certainly control over a heated is very difficult to find the custom color the pretty much the only guitar I can afford water today 74 hard tail strap Wow thin headstock yeah wears nothing mmm oh my goodness that's a cool guitar I wasn't from the year of my birth [Music] man that's quite cold yeah very very cool like a Dan Smith strut is this there's something like that very this is a Eurasian shot Wow okay so after after fender nearly died and got reinvigorated mm-hmm they started making these again yeah this is one of the very very first ones with a zero zero zero Wow 82 yep what cool thing mm-hmm hell-bent on is that original it's not but that's close its close compared to what they were at the time it's British when you compare it to an original this it's not yeah that's what I find that fascinating how comfortable but then they get rid of all the dyes and you know I just if anyone's gonna make it figured on a reissue I guess so that point you know the train of thought was why does anybody want this old thing what do you want is this new thing oh boy thank you so much for showing us around living we only looked at the amps oh there's a super there which must be 1963 yes I mean six is great yeah mmm-hmm super nice brand face probably Trevor Loucks baseman an original magnitude down laughter original sucrose is so funny because we see so much I'll say this again for the last time because we see so much reissued gear you're just assuming or looking at really okay it slightly more familiar territory for both of us although no rosewood fingerboard we both got these guitars from 1958 you'll hear all about those in the other stuff just rolls off the tongue yeah think about the think about the size of the tail fin on your car in 1958 and the fact that it may well have been finished in candy apple red or Lake Placid blue yep while you're hanging out at a burger joint or surf green or you know any of those cool colors huh good question yeah you've just taken that off your yeah I'm gonna take this Attili yeah why I don't know I guess to protect it from maybe they thought that was unattractive and that was pretty maybe I don't know maybe today anyway I can't work out why they called it an ashtray though okay then no e-cigarettes let's see what happens here [Music] [Music] [Music] listen to that listen to that right middle pick up [Applause] [Music] not brush in the slightest [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] oh hi cliff so okay that and even though that's a maple board yeah so maple board really low action super super easy to play absolutely love the sound of it yeah it's beautiful the bridge pickup is killer hmm like notice factory right three three position switch yeah yeah I mean it's just not brush yeah that's a such a way I mean your experience of this might be slightly different but um you know if I think about all the American Vintage reissues I've played in Custom Shop custom shops I've played with a you know that no tone control on the bridge really kept them some of them oh I see I see I see brash yeah but this one I mean it's Trevor Lee so lead to pick up whatever you wanna call it um it's made there's two bits it's fine don't worry yeah killer so I'm gonna get my pills come on in this is the closest guitar to read in the shop even though it's not saving so many worries [Applause] [Music] that's right the crazy that position because there's no in-between position yeah okay [Music] [Laughter] [Music] [Music] you [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] nope no this his ex Eric Johnson 16 was it saying we've done lists you don't need to know here this again yeah 61 what's more interesting what I think is really interesting is this is the newest addition one she's got the Kareena body and I'm super I can't wait to hear what this sounds like compared to now there are some other differences I think that's a slab board and this is a round lamb etc so we're not it's not exactly apples for apples but if we are we use somewhere near Lee and chin together okay no effects nothing just straight through or just one here let's do the bridge pickup in the next neck pickup okay okay there correct so on I think I'm super interested to hear this okay so [Music] so I'm strumming between the kind of middle and the neck pickups just straightly major okay everything on for ya rich pickup yeah [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] there could be a whole bunch of things that are making these guitars guitars different different pickups obviously it's not interesting this Salik bells so play something that you would play this I'll put a bit of run DNN boys on ok [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] this is unbelievable [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] one final very quick thing with some slightly hi again [Music] [Applause] [Music] such an interesting mid-range yeah this is it's incredible we sell like wine box [Music] [Music] and no frets no frets people yeah I don't know if there's any conclusion to draw they're definitely different isn't it but I guess that 61 slab board 64 crazy rare we've just told the story so you don't need to hear it again man um more shaken up [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] yeah [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Laughter] [Music] [Music] stirring stirring stirring guitar takes a minute orientate this yeah it does it does because different gauge low action you know really no friends but that then this you've got the sound take you you know yeah are stunning really cool stunning italic for all the people who watched EPS and watched us struggling with the Jazzmaster when we first got it it's starting to sink in a bit for me now is it for you yeah in terms of what it's for and what it does sure and I think that was coming out just the kind of articulate articulation in the top end that yeah but doesn't sound this I mean here we are pairing it with early night 700 quid Mexican guitar the 700 quid Mexican guitar is just infinitely brusher than that isn't it I mean yeah yes which you know it's no not it's not Christmas just an observation right yeah but I still does this you broke it no still does this guitar okay as I said if I anyone that's been following TPS recently knows that I'm on a bit of a structure any and no I'm not gonna buy it I don't have that money but it was and when I have this is exactly the kind of guitar I would buy a well-used guitar that's had some modifications done to the wiring because I would need to have the bridge pick up on them tone pot so like that five voice which reflect just some of the things that take it from including the finish that take it from absolutely unattainable collectors instrument that I wouldn't want to take down a public than gig to a guitar is usable gig a gig worthy you know an instrument that would be the guitar so without building out too much too late and this is exactly the kind of thing I would I would look for it's stunning that's the sort of sunburst you like too isn't it yes you know three color sunburst yeah absolutely it's darker than a lot of sunburst I see that I don't like is it there's a there's an okay what's that dark sunset oak okra orange do you know it's well that's done in 50 late well part way through 58 I think certainly 58 59 kind of time they introduced the orange into the sunburst okay before iOS tobacco but and that's what the earlier fifties ones look like and I think when orange and then I got the three ply card then it got the Rose well three five garden rosewood fingerboard came at the same time but this is not a history lesson this is a 62 let's start there down soon as we started there let's start there - chewy that's chewy [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] we [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] honestly that was unbelievable get up welcome to our GoFundMe page boy oh boy I mean how do you how do you quantify it we've got really great guitars and well I love our guitars and very happy with them but then when you play instruments like these and these are really good ones you know there are there are some it's not a bad at being old it's about these being particularly spectacular yeah I think that's really important to say well we're you know totally drunk on the experience of having played them and being here in this environment we can't discount that because it's all part of the psychological kind of wherewithal of it all but you're right there's a lot of rubbish old guitars out there there are yeah but I think that is so I'm sorry to do this to you no I can't hear it it's like just what when you most boy okay then then I think that's t-shirts that's some of them maybe next year right but that was that was absolutely stunning okay we should say massive thank you to Mike for letting us here today yeah I just fit our boots really it's been a great privilege and a great - Oh Mike thank you thank you much and to David as well for helping us out and just just a really great day and it just decreases done it down it increases them the knowledge the learning the experience all these things that are kind of important yeah yeah yeah well there you go guys thank you very much for watching hope you enjoyed that please I'd ever get to subscribe and hit the bell boy okay massive thank you to our patrons on patreon thank you guys thank you guys so much also to ever phone retailers in the UK is and this is music of Guildford and sorry the us of a riff City guitar and in Australia pedal Empire check them out also to everyone that's gone to that pedal show store calm and grab yourself a t-shirt or why did you notice on my 1958 t-shirt I did I did I didn't want to I didn't have figured a weather girl read one I didn't want to clash oh I didn't want be twinsies on Sammy's there could have been yeah well we could have been but I feel a Catalan living second they make out of us for the rest of time yes so everyone's gone there thank you guys so much brilliant the link all the links are below any links Chen Ali so you can check them out online and follow my Instagram and all that stuff yeah yeah okay guys have a fantastic week and thank for watching we'll see you soon I'm going home to committee [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause]

Channel: That Pedal Show

Views: 215,844

Keywords: Vintage guitars, vintage STrats, 1959 Strat, 1957 Goldtop demo, 1953 Goldtop demo, 1958 Telecaster demo, ATB Guitars, ATB Cheltenham, Belle Epoch Deluxe, That Pedal Show, 1959 ES-335 demo, 1959 ES-355 demo, 1958 Jazzmaster demo, 1955 5E3 deluxe, 1959 Magnatone 280A, Catalinbread echorec, guitar gear, vintage guitar gear, guitar adventure, Dan and Mick

Id: GpJJkSBP-YQ

Length: 112min 48sec (6768 seconds)

Published: Fri Jul 19 2019