Glen Kuykendall circa 1981 live with "RAVEN" Pt.1

[georgesorosisgay1]

dam glen awesome! you nailed that tone i cant beleieve this was 81!!! how old are you man? you look 30

[gunsnrosescovers]

Thanks for the Video

[tapper45]

awesome glen!!!

i'm watching this cranked on a 60" plasma right now!

[deprimir]

The guitar sounds great, beautiful - exactly like Les Paul should. Of course, SOUND comes from your fingers mainly - even in your younger days you have had that something. Superb.

It's a pity that you didn't have a keyboard player in that band. Your soloing and the girl's voice often 'hang' in the air without downchords to back 'em up. Good hammond and piano would do miracles there.

[zzacksback]

whos the singer?

[GlenKuykendall]

Julie Jewell. Not sure what she is up to these days in the musical world, but hopefully she is keeping busy singing.

[EnragedSlash]

Great player!! Just a question: in this video your 59 has grovers, but in your latest videos it seems to have its original tulip tuners.. Did you replace them?

[GlenKuykendall]

Good eye! Yes I reamed it out slightly for Grovers in the late 70s as the original tuners were falling apart plastic wise. Somewhere in the mid 90s I put repro klusons on it for a few years, and just recently I retipped the original tuners that are now back on it for good. Luckily I didn't need to dowel up the holes. I just used some Fender spec bushings which look the same, but have a slightly bigger O.D. and fit tight enough.

[theguitarczar]

i have one question, glen. how many times has "She" hit the floor? i've had a couple very choice Les Pauls myself, playing out, and it was inevitable. i would literally get the feeling of vertigo until i discovered they were ok.

tonesage

[GlenKuykendall]

Owned it for 30+ years and it has never hit the floor! It did slide down off a guitar stand one time many years ago. The bottom slid out of one of those stands with the rotating lower cradle, but the neck was still in the top. This happened onstage when I was playing another guitar and I looked back and whoa! Anyway I never put it in a stand these days period. I always had some sort of washers under the strap buttons back in the day, and these days it has straplocks.

[theguitarczar]

hey i think that's some great stuff glen! you guys were tight, bro! TIGHT! God/dess bless the internet or i'd have never heard this stuff.

tonesage

[cwalker67]

Great stuff. Thoroughly enjoyed watching these videos.  You kicked butt even back then.

[GlenKuykendall]

Thanks! GK

[flexkill1]

I can't watch videos like this!!! It's just to painful to watch and relive the great great memories of the early 80's!!!! These where "THE" days folks!!!!!! Feels like another lifetime or a dream when I see stuff like this!!!!

Glenn you are one lucky guy to have such great documentation of your youth my friend!!!! Great job guy! ;)

[metalcore929]

This is some pretty tight playing!

[fzappa007]

Do you remember good old Maxims??

[GlenKuykendall]

Sure do! We would usually play there wed-sat once a month or so. The place probabley held 150 people and I always had the full Marshall stack and the '59.

[fzappa007]

Hey Glen, I played in the DC area back then w/ Dixie-Suite.. Did Matt Abts play drums with Raven for a time or am I confused.?..

& damn, Glen did you realise back then the value of what you had in your hands w/the '59 lp?

BTW I do know of a small box 50wt from that time frame... dont know if its yours, i'll check the #s

[GlenKuykendall]

I remember that name "Dixie-Suite" for sure! No, we never had a drummer by the name of Matt. Yep, the '59 was quite the guitar to have even then. I bought it from a dealer, and knew enough about them to not get taken. However they weren't crazy valuable then, and were worth maybe 5-6 times what a new one cost back then. Our modest PA and lights actually cost us way more at the time than that guitar.

[GlenKuykendall]

I actually found that exact Marshall 50 earlier this year and someone here on Youtube (with a bunch of guitar amp videos) owns it! We haven't done a deal yet to get it back but we'll work out something eventually!

[SilverSkyline92]

my teachers were telling me about seeing some band called "Raven" back then, i live up in silver spring maryland, did you guys ever come to md back then?

[GlenKuykendall]

Yes we did quite a bit. However at the time we learned of another band called "The Ravyns" out of Baltimore so that caused some confusion. Later on we had to change the name.

[yayabebo]

that was fantastic. thanks for uploading your video.

[zbaby82]

Real nice playing. I enjoyed it. I love that era of music.

[L8dgodiva]

I was there! This was at the Reston Festival, down on Lake Anne Plaza, right??

[GlenKuykendall]

Yep!

[funkyjones]

Just discovered you Glen. (Trainwreck/59 vid)

You deserve that guitar and had the good sense to get something you really wanted at such a young age.

You were a great player even then.

This was a treat.

Singer is good. Where did she end up?

[mysteryguitarplayer1]

Dude! You guys rock. Is that Ronnie Roth on the drums? You guys look so young. Raven Rocks!!!!

[GlenKuykendall]

Yep! Ronni on drums. Thanks! GK

[RotarySMP]

Fantastic that that 59 landed with a guy like you, and not in a glass case of some hedge fund manager

[dudekh]

I miss you guys! :-(

[GlenKuykendall]

It's a '70 metal panel 50, stacked on top of a '75 50 as a spare. The cabs are mid 70s.

[jallstars]

dude you were like 18 when you bought the '59? Were you like rich or something?

[GlenKuykendall]

I inherited $3000 when I was 18, the guitar cost $3725.

[birdiejoehoaks]

I would have done the same thing.

[funkyjones]

Good investment.

[LambadLambadLambda]

Fuuunkae!!!

[StowBurst]

That some great tone Glen! The sustain is great.. you got the licks. I like the singers voice

[sp37064]

Dude, you rock! This is great!

Sutton

[pjmverhagen]

Hi Glen, your 1959 les paul, trainwreck amp clip is definitely the best tone you can find on you tube, but this clip is very nice as well, I actually looked at the entire clip, something I can't say about most clips here. Anyway the band sounds great, and your hair is huge. Have a good one.

[EDOGG62]

Great to see the old stuff Glen... even then we all knew...

Hope things are still going well for you down in TN.

Elliott (HHS)

[originalDimer]

Great times back in the daze, Glen. Thanks for posting. Who and why did so much camera work?!? Seems abit unusual for the day. Mark C.