1 Guitar, 3 Legends.

[@armichaarambona8034]

It's quite funny to see Pat speaking of Wes with the same reverence I speak of him (Pat). 😀

[@tonyb9864]

Wonderful wonderful video! Pat and George both made me smile.

[@rissawarner]

Great story, incredible guitar! Happy to see Pat and George!

[@jaywonderful1477]

Great stuff 🎉🎉🎉🎉❤

[@miguelcontreras3953]

What an incredible story, specially being told from George Benson! Thanks for keeping Wes Montgomery memory alive.

[@JukeboxerWes]

Thanks for watching.

[@craigpurdie3528]

Hi Kevin...I subscribed when you did the earlier piece. I'm glad I did and I SOOOOO appreciate your devotion to my earliest jazz "messenger". No, not the group, but the message of soul that Wes sent me when I was in high school in the mid-60's. One that is engrained in my heart forever.

[@JukeboxerWes]

Our pleasure. Thanks for watching and for the kind words.

[@billhatcher9303]

Jerry Byrd lived in atlanta. One day he called me and asked me to refret his guitar……this L5. Jerry told me that Wes had given it to him. Funny story he told was that Wes didn’t want to give him the case! Lol. Anyway, I refretted the guitar. It had quite a forward bow in the neck. I was able to get it playing good. I also replaced one of the machine heads using one that I had from a 62 j smith gibson. Later I worked on the L5 that Jerry traded the Wes guitar for. It was just ordinary, and I thought Jerry didn’t make such a good deal. I still have the frets I took out of the Wes L5. The very ones he played on…. I don’t remember seeing any bullet holes.

[@pallhe]

Wow, amazing!

[@insidejazzguitar8112]

Yeah, incredible!

[@Cars512]

Jerry played for my grandfather Freddy Cole.

[@billhatcher9303]

@@Cars512 I saw them play many times. Jerry was a good match to Freddy cole.

[@pallhe]

Great stuff! Pat could do a duet project with Bruce Forman playing Barney Kessel's old Gibson and Pat playing this one. Anyway, both guitars are in great hands!

[@JukeboxerWes]

That would be fun to watch.

[@Cars512]

Jerry Byrd who George mentioned use to play for my grandfather Freddy Cole.

[@travelingman9763]

Wes gave Jerry Byrd that guitar.. Benson bought and gave Jerry an L-5..GB sold it to Pat.

[@finnmcginn9931]

Pat Metheny looking like an afghan hound on a particularly humid day. I kid because mine fell out long ago. Great channel.

[@paulgibby6932]

Too bad nobody surfaced who knows where the holes came from.

[@nobody_gtk]

George is quite a character

[@insidejazzguitar8112]

Wow, great story!!

[@j.p.7708]

I thought that the Wes L-5 model only had 1 neck pick up??

[@billhatcher9303]

This was not a Wes model….just a standard issue Two pickup L5. The “Wes” models came later.

[@donmilland7606]

Gibson made two custom models with the single pickup with extra pearled on the body. One int the shape of a pick and the other one had his name. These were not the Wes line of guitar that came out many years later.

[@jimtakahashi4638]

Nah, I can see only 2 legends here. The other one just can't play straigh-ahead jazz with tons of groove.

[@davidbaise5137]

I was at a Metheny show years back, it was right after Stanley Turrentine passed. And Metheny played a song for Stanley. He sounded like a successor, the real McCoy. He could play like that always, but chooses not to.