1965 Gibson ES-345 with Fender Vibrolux Reverb plus Okko Diablo Overdrive Pedal

[Rowlandph]

Mike Bloomfield is smilin' down on you, buddy!.... EXCELLENT!...

[pedrooficina]

e essa unha pintada, hummm boiola

[mojostrat58]

Light Vibrato! NO DIVE BOMING...Very Subtle...I'm used to Fender Vintage Tremolos and I can get them working Great Floating...ofcourse, the guitar has to be right...

I've never used a Bigsby, that's why I ask. I would either have it on my SoCo or my 360...probably the SoCo...Greg, you had sent me a You Tube request some time ago stating you wanted to be friends and I just didn't get back to you until recently... Doc

[mojostrat58]

Greg, after use of the Bigsby will the Gibson stay in tune?

[GregsGuitars]

@mojostrat58 it depends how you use it....

[325Chuck355]

THAT IS SOOOO AWESOME! You are like... AMAZING!! I want one now =D and hopefully I will play just like you did!! =D

[E21R]

sounds great!

[Catfisheyeballs]

Inspiring. I must practice!

[JustinSandercoe]

very nice playing dude!

[mistercurns]

really  noice, beautiful tone.

[RINCONI7]

Impressive and awesome sound. I congratulate a great skill... impresionante y un sonido espectacular. lo felicito una gran destreza

[luit13]

Hi Greg,

Again, awesome playing and awesome sound. When you play on the bridge pickup you still seem to manage to keep your sound full of harmonics and not to trebly. Do you turn down the volume and/or tone knob for the bridge p.u.? Or is the adjustment of the amp and/or drivepedal? If it is just your fingers, can I buy them?

[sm1164]

Is it possible to play 'stereo' through one amp? A 'Y-cord' into two channels?

[redrocker1055]

I would think you would need some kind of splitter to allow for the two different signals at the same time... I'm not sure thou, I don't have one!

[jamg53]

Yes you can...

[mejoetone]

Maybe you can help me? I have a 1970 es-345 in cherry and I love the guitar but hate the stereo thing. When I jumpered the jack to mono all the pickups work but it is out of phase in the middle position. Have you encountered this and if so what did you do?

[GregsGuitars]

one of the Pickups is out of phase - you have to give the guitar to a pro guitar tech he can wire the pickup normal. He has to open the Pickup and change the wire. But the out of phase sound is kind of nice (i like it!)

[FredTheBlue]

@mejoetone: no really need for a pro with your problem. Just change the polarity of one of your PUs. Therefore you must solder off one of the PUs and resolder the two wires in the opposite positions. BTW: I install a push-pull-poti on all my guitars to switch between phase and out-of-phase..

[mejoetone]

These older Gibsons are not really true two wire pickups, just one wire with ground shielding so that won't work, It's not like a strat.

[FredTheBlue]

It works. The two wires ARE the inner one and the ground shielding. One of them is connected in the wrong way. You could test, if there is an connection between the pickup-cap and the tip of a connected guitar-cable. If so, you found the wrong connected pickup. If not, you really have to open one pickup and change the polarity inside.

[mejoetone]

do you notice a large difference between the stop tailpiece model and the bigsby/trapeze ones?

[GregsGuitars]

A little bit! Trapeze is a bit smoother and stop tail has a bit more attack. Both is great!

[pilotbutterfly]

@GregsGuitars stop tail is awesome! You get more attack and more of a "pop" when you strike a note, puts more emphasis on the twang

[soricinae]

Just wanted to say many thanks, your tone and phrasing is totally knocking me out. I have a '66 345, never done any modifying to it. Just curious, did you pull the cover plate off your humbucker and switch the phasing around? I've been tempted to mess with my guitar but don't have much clue about where to start and don't want to screw the pooch, as they say. Thanks again for the great playing.

[GregsGuitars]

since a lot of ES-345 from the 60ths are wired out-of-phase I don't need to do it on this guitar

[soricinae]

Got you, thanks. Nice to hear this guitar played so well.

[wpDM34]

I`m a bit confused about the guitar

Harry Vanda/ Easy Beats are using in the

intro of Friday on my mind, can you tell?

[telecasterman18]

What exactly does wiring them out of phase do to the tone? The only guitar I have that is wired differently is my Thinline Tele. It has the 4-way switch wiring. *Bridge; Bridge-Neck in Series; Neck; and Bridge-Neck in Parallel.*

[opdev]

Did you remove the varitone from this guitar?

[GregsGuitars]

no problem - this was easy to copy and paste from the title... :-)

[GregsGuitars]

on this guitar: yes

[opdev]

HA, I should have read the title!!!!

[opdev]

are you using any overdrive on this?

[GregsGuitars]

Okko Diablo Overdrive Pedal

[northrocks1283]

FAB

[AEjdlfh]

I love this guitar

[avivashke]

I really like your playing! I saw a lot of your vidios and your really good!

[Merbeck0327]

nice tone dude!

[zelissen]

Very very good. I loved it!

But the guitar is still better then you ;)

[GregsGuitars]

Thanks man, your boogie woogie style in your video on your site is kind of awsome too...

[Octopusbeak]

You are SO good, I never saw this video before. I aspire to play like you. Someday, baby after a whiiile... :)

[skate44448888]

Hi Greg!

Tell me pls.! Where can I find back tracks?

[GregsGuitars]

this backing track is a playback track from a title from my Album"Golden Voice Blues". But you can find many good tracks at guitarbackingtrack

[chefdux]

Hi Gregor!

I love your style, your feeling, and your guitars! If you have too much of them, you can send some to me :p!

And well where did you find your back track please?

Excuse my english, i'm french.

[tompa345]

hi gregor...just wondering if you have any experience of duesenberg guitars?

your opinion would be apreciated.

[GregsGuitars]

not really

[arsenalfanforlife]

man... what do u work as... u have like the best guitar collection i have ever seen

[sliffer234]

agree ^^

[jcote1974]

May I please buy one of your ES-345's? I am down and out but can scratch up $500 for you...

[ArtDonna84]

Outstanding my man, outstanding, you got that BLUES feeling

[ruotze]

fine playing on a fine instrument,....yeah!

[FanGunk]

that's sick!!!!!! pro?

[raibowmoonstone]

You have such a great feeling and tone.

Do you set your amp clean? What is the orange box right next to your Fender amp?

Thanks.

[GregsGuitars]

Thanks! Yes the amp is clean and the overdrives comes out of the orange Okko Diablo Overdrive

[papyslapet]

I think this one is particulary bluesy, a very very great sound !!! You are a good musician with the "feeling" for this guitar. I think MR BB king shoud play on this one! Excuse me for my engish i'm French...

[Musikus]

Thanks!

Everytime when I play a couple of old ES-Guitars in a row I try to find out wich I like best. But every guitar has his own voice and it is hard to tell wich one is "better"... The Johnny A. is great too

[leftystrat62]

Man, that is one fabulous looking guitar,and it souns as good as it looks. All your ES 335 type guitars sound equally great,do you prefer any one in particular? I'm still waiting to see a video with that Johnny A guitar,bet it sounds sweet.

[GregsGuitars]

Yes I really like my 1964 ES-335 wich I got from Bernie Marsden