Joe Bonamassa Shows Off His Touring Guitars and Favorite Guitar

[Ariel62073]

Hendrix Woodstock=glass case guitar

[FreddoX1]

Hey camera man! Get your shit together!

[andreastrato]

no strat = no dick :D

[NintendoSinceBirth1]

@andreastrato thems fightin words haha, i love strats but i have a mexi that just will not stay in tune anymore, i havent played in a week bc it frustrates me too much, i just ordered a new 50s gibson les paul studio goldtop and i plan on playing non stop for the next month to make up for this week =)

[andreastrato]

@NintendoSinceBirth1 yeah but we're not joe bonamassa! i think he can bring an old strat in his tour! and like the commercial says: a stratocaster is forever!

[kirkhammett110919901]

he talks about the '59 one, just like any guitar model: "yeah this is gibson, and it's called 59 or something, i love that"

[Bigbuddyandblue]

Thought I was having a stroke at 1:27

[ErebosNetherDarkness]

A '59... lucky man...

'59s need to be played by people like him... Shame to all collectors who put the best guitars ever made in glass cases.

[Falling2Grey29]

Hey cameraman...lrn2camera. All those guitars are magnificent.

[xljeraldlx]

a 59 lp is now worth over $750,000.... 0.0

[Djarra]

@xljeraldlx Depends on condition, Joe's has had a head break (before he got it) and been re fretted by him and had some replacement pots and tuners (that is what he said in an interview last year). So it's probably worth a lot less than one that is all original and has sat in a case for the last twenty years or the Green/Moore guitar which has it's own story. It's still worth a lot but it's insurable.

[xljeraldlx]

@Djarra yes things like that will decrease value but refretts are common in old vintage guitars and a artist like joe using aney guitar will always bring more value in the instrument because they used it... so in a shell. it has its ups and downs. :D

[Djarra]

@xljeraldlx Plus no '59 Les Paul comes anywhere close to the values of violins and so on used by classical players.

As for refrets vintage guitars don't need them as much because back then they used higher quality frets than they do now. PRS spent years replicating old fret stock which is why there frets last longer. You can see the difference with a standard PRS and a Grissom with Dunlop frets when they come up second hand.

[MOSKII58]

@xljeraldlx not all of them the value depends on the condition and the top, the more pronounced the flame the better, thats what i hear anyhoot, you could pick up a 59 for anywhere from @200k & up..

[xljeraldlx]

@MOSKII58 ok but the value climbs every year... but thanks

[robinelfstrom]

Where are the Strats?

[strodden]

As near as I can tell from poking around online, a '59 LP is worth about $250,000.

[goredeathrot]

@strodden Up to $400 grand in near mint condition at an auction.

[usalespaul59]

why would you tour with a guitar worth half a mil.?! come on maaan, get real! Surely it's a great guitar, but I'm sure ou can get an awesome 10k LP done from Dave Johnson (and YES it's gonna feel and play like a vintage one!)

[murfdog19]

@usalespaul59 Those guitars are meant to be played, regardless of the worth.

[DRGK9]

on the 59 the strings were wraped around the stopbar tailpiece? ive never seen that.

[murfdog19]

@DRGK9 A lot of Les Paul players do that. They didn't have light guage strings in the old days. Players would wrap the strings around the tailpiece, which made string bending much easier. Though if you use light strings, doing this will pull the string from the nut when bending.

[DRGK9]

@murfdog19 really? i always thought they did. well thanks for telling me man, that was bugging me since i saw the video lol

[sr1129]

yea plus one on the glass case guitars, there isnt too much magic in a 59 if you cant hear it or play it and you lock it away. Ultimately we love and others love the instruments we play and use to make great music.

[Gvecchi]

If I had a original 59 I would never play anything else

[soyghost1]

joes playing is not my favorite, at least for blues, but he is a great cat and anyone who has the stones to actually play their '59 and tour with it can't be too bad...a nice guy

[mike8610]

wish he was still playing strats...his strat tone was sooo gooood.

[MorroccoM13]

He should call his Gary Moore guitar the Peter Green guitar. Pissed me off when I heard that. Moore couldnt begin to get the out-of-phase tone out of that guitar the way Peter could. Plus Peter knew how to use that tone so much more effectively.

[MrCptGonzo]

@MorroccoM13

Both played the guitar, Moore didnt want to use the OOP really. Nothing wrong with calling it that. If you want to remain neutral, might aswell call it the Melvyn franks. Gibson does that.

Give tribute where tribute is due, and I think moore deserves it.

[MorroccoM13]

@MrCptGonzo > Gary Moore was a very good guitarist but lacked originality. All of his covers were copies. Bonamassa liked Moore because of his fast playing style of the blues. NO SOUL put into the blues like Peter did and that is what the blues is all about.

[thinghurlos]

Good to know that a real guitarist is actually playing those 59 LPs. Depressing that so many are just sitting in some collectors vault, away from hands that actually know what to do with them..

[NintendoSinceBirth1]

@thinghurlos and i like how he got all humbled when he pulled it out and talked about it, like he feels honored to play it

[MiniMousePoo2]

How did joe afford a 59 Les Paul? Thats like $750,000?

[ErosaScuderia]

The flame maple top is around that price, but that's a plain top. That's more so around $300,000.

[MiniMousePoo2]

@ErosaScuderia haha only $300,000, on my Christmas list then...

[ApeLikeCreature]

That's a guitar locker from heaven!

[2dum2getsocialism]

still laughing from the "ebay" experience and the 'paypal' freaks @ 1:47

[TurtleGaming2011]

He looks so different in 2009 it looks ilke he is younger. compared with the concert in 2009 in the royal albert hall.

[NintendoSinceBirth1]

"then they gave me a pair of sunglass because i didnt want to pay with paypal." what?

[custardpiekashmir]

@NintendoSinceBirth1

"mr "shades"" ;)

[Avalanche1368]

Seems like a really nice guy, but Joe stick the 59 in a custom Calder case then stick it in the vault, then hire some big ass armed guard in a really bad mood to keep watch over the vault.....just saying,,,,,,,old les pauls have a tendency to walk away from their owners. Just ask Page about his 60 Black Beauty or of course Clapton's 1960 "Beano" Les Paul an iconic guitar. both sorely missed by their owners. In an interview Clapton said it was the one guitar he missed. Jimmy offered a reward.

[kildare97]

@Avalanche1368 Heard about Pages bb Fucking beautiful guitar.

Sucks to hear about Claptons guitar

[ten8goa]

FUK PAY PAL

[willeng84]

WOW!! Did you notice the super custom guitar behind the first one he pulled out? I am a guitar freak and that my friend is questionably a 59' Les Paul Custom BUT it definitely has a Firebird headstock and only one humbucker in the bridge. Thats crazy. The flame top looks awesome but what a strange guitar. The Desert Burst one, I thought it was his 12 string but its not.....

[louisalive]

@willeng84 there's definitely no '59 custom... U'd be seeing an extra pickup, and it'd be a lot darker...

[willeng84]

@louisalive I don't know what year its a copy of just a guess but did you even see the guitar im talking about? You have to pause the video and pay attention right after the first les paul gold top comes out. Its the desert burst Les Paul body with a firebird reverse headstock and only a single pickup like the nice Les Paul Jr. they made and I thought it was in 59 that those were put out but probably wrong, seen 1 like it before but never with a fire bird head stock!

[louisalive]

@willeng84 yeah I can see it, i doubt it'll be based on anything, purely custom shop. The 59 junior is a double cutaway, with a P90, and the custom shop is that groovy lookin jimmy page one with the 3 pickups... and yeah, nothing Firebird came out untill 63, so we can only assume it's a guitar mashup

[willeng84]

@louisalive Your talking about a special and the Jr. was only started to recive the double cutaway treatment in 58 but was offered in regular. I found the guitar and its listed as a 58' Les Paul of course reissue but I saw 1 about 2-3 months ago in guitar world Guitar Price edition they put out yearly. I copied the pic then remembered I can't attach it. I am not crazy just forgot the date but the single cutaway is a remade 58' single humbucker. I swear it was noted as an upgraded Jr

[gibsonlespaul1320]

@willeng84 if you watch the track breakdown of slow train from premierguitar, he nicknamed it the bonabyrd, just a les paul and firebird headstock, one pickup.

[HearingLossProvider]

@willeng84 I once saw Rick Nielsen play a Les Paul with an Explorer headstock. That was weird, but I never expected to see one with a Firebird headstock!

[willeng84]

@HearingLossProvider Thats crazy, never saw that before! Yeah I saw the headstock and then the zoom out, I watched and paused it several times to make sure I was right, it's pretty damn cool. I like your name too, I still feel like I am recovering from gigging with 100 watt tube amps for years, now I am rocking the 50 watters.

[LandonInFlorida]

Seems like a super cool dude. Probably has Aspergers, but I could totally hang out with this guy.

[MrGuitarHack]

Thank God. He buys guitars to play them. Regardless of collectability and value. Guitars were made to be played.

[Manolian]

Great.



[strangegroovecat]

yer pal.. ebay for a guitar, thats just stupid. your a madman taking your burst on tour. I have one myself, studio and home use only as theres no way its ever going to see a plane baggage area... wonder if you've finished paying for it yet... before some c**t nicks it.

[NintendoSinceBirth1]

joe loves showing his gear haha

[PBANDSNOW]

No man should tour with a 59 burst!

[rolodexroulette]

God that 59 is a dream boat....

[stratocasterfranck]

i want that case

[GlassBulletOfficial]

the one person that dislikes this is MrShades

[ledzep468]

Something tells me he likes Gibsons.

[bluesboydude]

aw fuck. i wanna have that ES D:

[hungerstriker27]

that 59 is not the one in the video of jackson´s rare guitars? that store in Australia.... It seem identical.

[soaring138]

Sorry, I don't understand the stuff about eBay... Please help me !

[cnashrun5]

@soaring138 you can buy just about everything on it. it' s a website

[philotze]

Hes able to rock that 59, so its worth it.

[KotowTV]

I used to be jealous of this video until i got 2 Les Pauls of my own :D

[hungerstriker27]

this guy, at his 32 years old it´s already a legendary guitar player, without any doubt. he owns more than 150 guitars inccluding that 59 burst... and you hear him and it seems like the guy next door.... i really admire joe

[hungerstriker27]

I loved that 57 les pauls with black parts and that took me to Joe, now I am a huge fan. He have changed my life.

[hungerstriker27]

god damn it, im a huge joe´s fan but I have to say... lucky bastard.... That 59 burst, I could sell my soul for that one

[dokokai]

@hungerstriker27 Players like Page & Bonamassa should rightly have a '59 burst. No offense to you but it doesn't really belong in the hands of an average player.

[hungerstriker27]

@dokokai

1.- iam a huge fan of joe 2.- I never compared myself to joe or page 3.- I said I would love to have the oportunitty to play one 4.- what´s your problem?

[willem5616]

@dokokai what a complete nonsens if you have the money and want to hang him in a chicken shag....why not ?

[murfdog19]

@dokokai No offense to you, but many famous musicians are average players. You have never heard of the best players in the world. Their are many, many great players; it's a matter of who gets lucky and becomes famous.

[usalespaul59]

@murfdog19 That's exactly as you say! Allthough I think Joe is a pretty good guitarist for a star (as most of the stars IMO are just assholes, who can not play shit). Take Santana for instance... well, is he a genious..? Ok, I won't go any further :)

[sodazman]

All those guitars are just bodyguards for the 59 LP.

[spudgun05]

to be fair ,he's just doing what any guitar nut would do ..all us guitar nuts would love to play like him and have 300 guitars and have a 59 les paul ,so folks be happy for the man he's doing what us guitarists live for ,because he still loves it.

[landguitar]

Joe is an incredible guitarist and I envy his '59, but its a plain top, so not the holy grail. Just saying.

[djangolad]

@landguitar ?

"Plain tops" were used in 58.

A closer look will reveal some nice subtle flame in that 59 burst.

ANY 1959 Sunburst LP IS a HOLY GRAIL

[blackhawk1788]

holy shit... if i would be touring with a '59 les paul i would probably get some sort of an alarm system arround this thing or pretty much handcuff it to my hand or something...

just imagine: guitar stolen = at least half of the tours income stolen (but i suppose its insured)

[hungerstriker27]

@blackhawk1788

insured but irreplaceable. i would hire a hole swat to watch that guitar

[neonlittledog]

he seems to be a real down to earth nice guy, its cool

[pitsxroad]

amazing guitar container... thanks for this nice clip... :-)

[numinousbludger]

The guy is a legend, More power to your arm Joe.

[thomasmcguire1961]

Focus man, focus

[bluebrowne13]

Wow Joe tours with a '59 'burst?!

[15jonasbros15]

@bluebrowne13 He keeps it on his bus with him(:

[matthewrotherham]

@15jonasbros15 in the bunk above his. keep a good eye on it at all times

[HotDealsMadrid]

@bluebrowne13 it must be his new acquisition!

[juppheidi]

@bluebrowne13

At least this is what the Bursts are built for, right?