1959 Les Paul & Trainwreck Amp - "Can You Hear It Ring?"

[@rangerdoc1029]

13 years later and this is still the gold standard on KZbin.

[@muse-mech-moda]

I am glad I am not the only one that keeps coming back for more :)

[@bowslap]

14 years on now, that status hasn’t changed.

[@wilcox6791]

True :)

[@markhorton1718]

15 years now... So Righteous!!!

[@RByrne]

15yrs later and im still hearing it ring

[@SeanPierceJohnson]

still the BEST Trainwreck tone demo on KZbin.

[@GlenKuykendall]

You made my day, thank you!!! GK

[@MisterSesek]

Glen Kuykendall still best, Glen

[@AndreAmeli]

@@GlenKuykendall hey man, what about instagram? i try to find u there and nothing

[@jamesmalamute7874]

@@GlenKuykendall Glen, I am late to the Party, but your Tone, your style, your Technique just KILLS everything. Especially your neck position on that 59 Burst.I have to learn to play with less noise, I guess its those transformers in the Trainwreck amps Such touch sensitive. Its like you had to learn how to tame the awesome Power, and you Excelled in Truck loads. Love your style so much. I have to now go to my studio, and learn how to play the guitar all over again, cause I want that tone you have Thanks so much for your inspiration. JL

[@MikeFromRLC]

I love it when 59 Les Pauls actually reside in the hands of players like this who really deserve them. It's sad when you see them just stored away in some rich guy's collection. What a great sounding amp too!

[@shayna2830]

Guitar collections of obscene sizes, in houses and units of people who can't/don't play them is just fucking disgusting. I just wish it was common to abhore and look upon it with disdain. Ideally, to such a degree that sellers don't sell them to fuckin richboy dweebs who use them for bragging and not the making of music. Now, personally, I care very very little about Les Paul's. However, I have come across, locally, 2 yuppy idiots who both have multiple Strats and Teles from FIRST AND SECOND YEAR PRODUCTION. the one has the 5th Seafoam Green Tele ever sprayed. I wanna hurl every time I drive by their McMansions. I have put together a decent plot to extract the beautiful instruments from their horrible captors. Those McMansions are absolutely swiss cheese like, in terms of ways to get in. I'd just need to be in the know of their vacations/extended times away. I would keep one of each for myself and sell the others, at a cheap price, to a player who would love and cherish it forever.

[@robertc5387]

Or used by some clown with a modern amp and 10,000 effects pedals.

[@SgtThump]

This has been one of my favorite “guitar tone” videos on KZbin since the beginning. Lol. It still rules.

[@GlenKuykendall]

I haven't used ANY pedals in any of my Trainwreck amp videos. For gain and distortion these amps work great on their own simply cranked up for dirt, and then you turn the guitar down for clean. These amps can run many types of tubes (6V6, 6L6, EL34, 6550, etc.) but I usually run EL34s.

[@ksharpe10]

Wow I thought for sure you kicked on a Distortion pedal. Really Played the AMP as much as the GUITAR. That AMP has a wide dynamic tonal spread. I am most impressed.

[@robertc5387]

Thanks for proving that you can get a fantastic sound without pedals - there’s a whole generation of players that need to learn that lesson.

[@cvo223]

It's 2023 and this video is still amazing. Can't wait to come back in 15 years.

[@gonzalooliveraalves]

My guitar teacher showed me this video like 8 years ago. First time I could hear the magic of a Trainwreck amp. From time to time I come back to this video. I've never heard a tone so dynamic and harmonically rich paired with such tasty playing.

[@FloridaManMatty]

This never gets old. Ken would be so proud to know people are still shaking their heads in awe and disbelief at the beauty of what his creations emit, especially after all these years. You really are doing his legacy justice, Glen. And while I’m sure you could play a broomstick, being able to tear it up on a Burst through a Trainwreck certainly doesn’t hurt!

[@ascensionapprehension]

This is the sound every guitar player who starts playing aspires to have but seems to never capture... You are very fortunate! You've caught the elusive unicorn of tone!! Holy Grail!!

[@paulvankesteren5934]

It Might get Loud, Jimmy Page : kzbin.info/www/bejne/j56cZ3qGe9ppnKssi=vbZPOAkv3iBbjEbg Also a Les Paul but through a vintage Marshall, he gets about the same result, albeit a bit louder when distorted and with less gain in my opinion.

[@jonesy77777]

Man that tone really is killer. Incredible.

[@skyhop]

Honestly the best tone I've ever heard. That was amazing, it really brings to light what a genius Ken really was. He will be deeply missed in musical community.

[@steverherb]

I was a customer of Ken's before he started building his Trainwrecks full-time. I could have had one in the 80s for about $1,200 if I remember correctly. I stupidly passed on the opportunity partly because I thought the wood cabinets were too beautiful to gig with in the dive bars we played at. Kicking myself to this day. He was a great guy to talk to, and tuned every amp he worked on to sound it's best!

[@timbuckxxi9690]

Great story Steve..

[@guitarbanjo1]

Man, Glen, I have watched this over and over,and I am blown away by the amp, and even the guitar, but most of all, you are the master of the volume control! The amp is tremendous, but you are the man that makes it all happen. You have really impressed an old tone junkie. Thanks!

[@Dug6666666]

What an amp. Great feel and touch playing also. This must have popped up because of a resent Pete Thorn review of this classic amp I watched. He also masterfully taps into what this amp does best.

[@davomontgomeryda3rd]

same here, watched Pete Thorns video the other day.

[@chipsterb4946]

Ah that’s why this popped up for me 😜

[@zhou_sei]

what do you have against pete thorn? (i keed, i keed)

[@NathanSGBrazil]

holy mother, the tone, and the skills... amazing!

[@shaindaman13]

This is hands down, THE BEST guitar demo on all of youtube! This is just the perfect combination of hat guitar playing should be in my mind. The tri-fecta of rock guitar. Perfect amp tone, perfect playing and definitely the best guitar ever created.

[@timmytVA]

The best damn video on all of KZbin.

[@GlenKuykendall]

Thank you!

[@darrellljennings]

Great tone. Really nice example of why this guitar and amp have the reputations that they do.

[@5150powder]

it is the best damn video on all of you tube!! ive watched it dozens of times and each time is like the first!! Killer tone and feel. Absolutey killer!!!!

[@brianschultz]

I've watched this vid countless times over the years. This is legitimately the best guitar / amp demo on YT.

[@KfirOchaion]

Great sound!

[@gattart]

If it sounds this good coming through my computer speakers what must it have sounded like there in the room! Brilliant, everything! My friends say that my playing sounds like a Trainwreck, but I don't think they mean like the amp… :)

[@shawnbell6392]

Bravo! Even after 12 years this is so inspiring and rich.

[@dgassie]

I can hear it ring alright!!! Of course, the equipment used is at the top of the heap but it takes someone who plays as well as you do to bring out the "magic". Wonderful, wonderful, playing! You got my attention at 2:08 and it was a joy ride from there! I'd KILL to get the TAB for that! Thanks for posting this video!!!!!!!

[@guitarfreek1]

jeez, the dynamic playing with all the intricacies in your bends and attack really pairs well with the dynamic abilities of the amp . amazing. bravo. thank you. super cool. match made in heaven.

[@ksharpe10]

Really Played the AMP as much as the GUITAR. That AMP has a wide dynamic tonal spread.

[@the_black_arts]

Easily the greatest tone combo I’ve ever heard. It’s not even a contest.

[@GlenKuykendall]

Made my day. Thank you!

[@geoj6491]

Amazing, three-dimensional tone. Good Lord ... the harmonics that jump out. Sounds lke it's alive. This is quite possibly the single best sounding rig I've ever heard ... Awesome demo! Thanks for posting it!

[@kjellodnebreitebakk]

Stumbled upon this video a feew weeks ago. Now I have to watch and listen every day! Amazing tone and playing! Greetings from the faraway land of Norway :)

[@GlenKuykendall]

Sadly the builder passed away last year, and he only made about 100 amps over the last 20 years or so. Brad Paisley recently got a Liverpool 30, which is similar to what I'm playing here but with EL84s. There are guys that make decent clones of these amps, though it is VERY difficult (but not impossible) to closely replicate the tone and feel.

[@everonlyallforthee]

Glen, you sound killer!! Having gear like that puts you over the top, but your chops are awesome. Super clean too. Great vid.

[@poeman333]

Holy Crap Man! That is the most amazing natural Les Paul tone I have ever heard on KZbin. I'm still a Strat man forever, but you have mastered the the L.P.

[@CusterFlux]

Glen, you ARE the Sweet, Sour & Crunchy God! Can't think of a better guy to have a quarter million dollars in killer gear - you really know how to squeeze ever ounce of musicality out of that Les Paul; you get the tone, the feel, the timing, everything - wow - very few do - glad it's in your hands: Respect!

[@minenu11]

My friend your shuflling is impeccable. You may playing a '59 with a sensational amp but they're no good if you can't use 'em. Just beautiful.

[@tatsandteles]

Frickin' right on!! That is the bomb Glen, god bless you for playing the hell out of that old guitar!! That is tone to the bone brother, keep bringin' it!!

[@teaheadQ]

Clean tone and dynamics off the charts.

[@gobbler6]

Wow, this is a great sounding amp. Excellent playing with nice feel and dynamics.

[@yoavhanuka2772]

That was just really fun to listen to and watch!!

[@GonzGunner]

Glad I stumbled on your video, Glen! You're a great player and you sure know how to milk tone out of your beautiful Trainwreck! Anyone I have ever heard playing one ( never seen one or had experience playing through one myself, however) it's tone shined through. The Trainwreck and it's reputation reminds me of a story I read about Gibson, and how they were always wondering why Fender amps were so popular back in the 60's. They had one of their buyers purchase every model of Fender amps made at the time, all the way from a little Champ up to a Twin Reverb and Dual Showman. They were taken back to the Gibson factory in Kalamazoo and put into a room set aside to disassemble each and every one of those amps, with it's own section on the workbenches, to the point of cataloguing every component, even the wiring and the wood and hardware, to figure out how they sounded so good.

[@carnivaltym]

Always a joy to witness your playing.

[@rocketaxe]

Wow! That was some amazing tone and some great playing. Thanks for sharing such wonderful sounds and techniques with us. That combination of amp and guitar is truly magic....to say the least. Cheers.

[@jordoncollins1332]

Ugh... that is tone central. So dynamic and super responsive and the natural harmonics literally jump out of it. Incredible.

[@Ferroorref]

All I can think of is...WOW. All you ever hear people talk about is their "tone"...how good their tone is....how bad their tone is...still looking for their tone. Well...THIS, my friends, IS tone. This has to be the most alive and full sound I've ever heard, coming out of a set of speakers. KZbin and desktop speakers no less. Incredible sound Glen.

[@masque1313]

incredible! it is so refreshing to see someone that plays with this much soul and also understands the total relationship between playing and TONE!! I was so impressed that I just now went and ordered your cd from ebay. Too bad I live in KY because if I lived in Nashville I would definately become a student of yours! I do have in-laws in Nashville so hopefully on one of my trips down I can check your schedule and possibly check you out live in one of the clubs! Rock on dude, you're awesome!

[@RByrne]

Wow, that sounds absolutely amazing. 15 years on, and I can still hear it ringing!

[@adamdcard]

Holy crap thats a great sounding amp!! not enough amp demo videos online using a studio instead of cheap camera mics. Its really sounds amazing!!

[@haddox81]

ridiculous how good that tone is.... great playing glen!

[@denisetaylor3725]

Wow.... simply amazing! What a beautiful tone and expressive playing!

[@djtrouserfunk]

What a wonderfully expressive player! Thanks for posting

[@MOSKII58]

this guy knows every nuance of his guitar & how to get it to do what he wants...

[@bobbyswamp]

Nice chops and tone to die for, man. Thanks for sharin' the gear, Glen.

[@Pauler23]

How have I only just discovered this! Mind blowing tone and playing. You, the guitar and the amp are just so connected and as one, squeezing out those harmonic tones and every last drop of sustain, awesome Glen! I know this will be one of my most watched on youtube in a short space of time, love every second of it.

[@GlenKuykendall]

Supply and demand. These amps are truly awesome when doing the clean to mean thing (while keeping comprable net volume levels) and few amps can touch them in this departement. That said, these amps are very rare being only about 100 total amps ever made and only about 50 of them being the Express amp such as this here. 100 amps world wide has led to very few of these ever coming up for sale at any price period. Same goes for the old Les Pauls, though not quite as rare but still in huge demand.

[@mikesedee7814]

Unbelievable, those dynamics! 💎

[@GlenKuykendall]

The amp knobs were set at: Volume about 1:00, and the bass, mid, treble, and presence all on 1/2. The amp has no master volume, so to get this tone you crank it and fully push the 35 watt output stage. For cleans you roll back the guitar knobs and/or play softer. I used no pedals on this.

[@colinheltonmusic]

What speakers in the Marshall cabinet, Glen?

[@GlenKuykendall]

Early 70s Celestion G12M 25 watters.

[@colinheltonmusic]

@@GlenKuykendall I have a pair of Scumback M75's on the way for my 'Wreck-inspired 18 watter. Excited. You have great tone, touch, and feel!

[@GlenKuykendall]

Thank you for the kind reply! I think you will really like the M75 Scumbacks.

[@kensteer191]

I have been enjoying and revisiting this video for years, since finding out about you on the old PlexiPage. Kudos again. Very expressive playing!

[@SigilPickups]

Never get tired of these vids! Hugely inspired the tone chase behind my winds. Trainwreck + PAFs and some talent = tonal bliss!

[@thebenefactor6744]

So, what do I do, just...give up? I can't unhear this! I gotta lay down; maybe re-assess some fundamental life goals. I feel dizzy. I think I heard heaven for a few minutes there.

[@johng801]

Nice....#1 in Dynamics + Frequency Response = TRAINWRECK: I worked with Amp GOD Ken Fischer in "The Basement" @ Colonia NJ...I met him through an add in the east coast rocker for amp work around 1985. He taught me everything I know & inspired me to eat tube AMPS for breakfast! He was the nicest guy you could ever want to meet. RIP HERO

[@JonathanPierceBand]

John G dude lets be friends

[@LoneRevD]

Great sound and chops Glen. Especially considering a Wreck is a non-forgiving amp, no where to hide it exposes those who can play and those who can't. You my friend definitely can. Great job.

[@kcaruso2588]

Absolutely fantastic tone and playing. Hidden gem

[@kommi1974]

2018 and even in 240p crappy KZbin compression and all - STILL the best demo of this monster. Tone for days.

[@Major00Tom]

This may be one of the best examples of comprehension of the electric guitar's language I've ever seen (30+ playing). I'm serious. No place to hide, minimal resources (the basic elements: guitar and amp), no accompanying instruments and every technique and result is particular to the instrument and its tradition. Yo do not just translate what he did to an acoustic or classical guitar, the same way you can not just translate classic guitar to the electric because of the specificity of the technique. I'm in awe.

[@RedRoo13]

The very best of the classic guitars, awesome amp (each one rare and a tribute to Ken Fischer), and a very acomplished guitarist. Glen: very nice!!!

[@AndreAmeli]

Man, ive been watching this video for 12 years by now

[@grant5603]

Same

[@brucedick1506]

count me in on that 2, andre.

[@AndreAmeli]

im back today

[@AndreAmeli]

back today

[@AndreAmeli]

15 years

[@joetube199]

It makes me happy to see this great gear in the hands of someone who really knows how to use it. Great blues, awesome sound.

[@PowMusic]

Wow, that is a great clean sound

[@cobowe]

Fantastic pure dynamics and touch. Loved it!

[@toomanylespauls]

Hi, I posted a comment for this video over a year ago and since then I have heard probably a couple of thousand guitarists on KZbin and I have just listened to you again Glen with this fantastic combination of Guitar, amp and talent. STILL THE BEST !!! in my humble opinion. Peace..........

[@AndyK243]

Glen, You are an absolute hero. The video and subsequent comments have taught me to use my guitar controls much more often, and I like the idea of having clean and dirty at the flick of the control switch, rather than on the amp. Best of. Andy

[@RunawayThumbtack]

What an amazingly dynamic amp. A real pleasure to listen to.

[@RobinStrower]

Great Guitar, great playing. Simple setup huge sound. You are rocking, Robin :o)

[@SeanPierceJohnson]

dude. the tone, the playing. tasty licks and lush chords my friend. you do both the guitar and amp proud.

[@plebriquir]

I love your playing ! You perfectly use LP's volumes!

[@tapper45]

hi glen, i'm a guitar player and metal fan. randy and dime and george and mathias and zakk etc. as i have gotten older i haven't slowed down but i have gotten more tone conscious. i have modded and remodded my jcm 800 so many times i can't remember and it has a sweet sound. your trainwreck is the sweetest, and i can only hear it through youtube's compression. your playing is no joke either, very nice vibe and flow. you're doing that amp justice.

[@GuillermoSmyser]

I can tell with the dynamics. The cleans swell, sparkle and swirl and the overdrive feels like it's searching around for that feedback squeal and it almost gets there a lot of times and that's just like teasing to the ears!

[@HalJikaKick]

His string bending was deliciously in tune.

[@ajmultimedia]

2nd that. STILL the best Trainwreck tone demo on KZbin!

[@rkteanio]

Amazing. I love when you dropped into the blues. Such a smooth transition musically and tone wise. Very nice!!

[@starnescojeffstarnesrobinw3182]

I have been watching this video on and off for like 15 years now. still as great as it ever was. :SAME AS IT EVER WAS!" ..

[@Lensman864]

Glen, you made my night! I found this clip via MyLesPaul and your guitar/amp combination sounds outstanding as does your playing, SWEET blues. It's really good to see/hear someone actually playing a 59 burst as it should be played rather than owning it purely as an investment. My 2011 R9 bows before it in awe. Phil

[@ClintDayCMD]

update: just got the cd in the mail today, jamming out right now to it. outstanding work glen!

[@ksharpe10]

Really Played the AMP as much as the GUITAR. That AMP has a wide dynamic tonal spread. Best clean tone on a way rolled back volume knob. WOW. What a light touch for the 1st bit, before Cutting Loose.

[@bingybangy]

Keep coming back and still amazing. Love the playing and tone,

[@HalJikaKick]

Some of the best blues playing I’ve heard.

[@gorilla4321]

your one of the few lucky ones to still own an origional burst great hearing it, great playing and hope you pass that beauty on throug the generations.

[@HeRoeters]

Sweet! Love the blues~ Back in the 70s', as a teen I bought a used Univox Les Paul copy, gold-top much like this look, and it was an incredibly heavy axe! My brother called it the "concrete guitar". That thing played very well, sustain of that pattern and to decent humbuckers made for a great clone! Nice licks dude!

[@rickflippin1]

Good lord fanfreakintastic thank you sir just stellar

[@TCMx3]

+1. His volume knob adjustment + vibrato at the same time is one of the coolest things Ive ever seen or heard.

[@tapper45]

that was amazing. your playing, that guitar and the tw are perfect together.

[@maxvockner]

Its really true. This really is the best guitar amp ever made! Crappy youtube sound and laptop speakers and it still sounds incredible. The guitar playing is righteous as well!

[@DANTHETUBEMAN]

i think jim marshall got it right the first time. kzbin.info/www/bejne/pJS3h6SjeJZ9idU

[@GoogleEqualsEvil]

@@DANTHETUBEMAN You mean Leo Fender. Jim Marshall was a drummer / music shop owner who didn't know anything about how guitar amplifiers or electrics / electronics worked. That's why he hired Dudley Craven and Ken Bran to make a copy of the late 50's Fender Bassman that they all loved. Fender's were expensive outside the US at the time and Jim figured they could make it in the UK for less. The result was the JTM45 and it was an EXACT COPY of the Fender Tweed Bassman *5F6-A circuit*.

[@DANTHETUBEMAN]

@@GoogleEqualsEvil they changed the negative feedback, and moved the tone stack and changed the values,, and the el34 power tubes

[@DANTHETUBEMAN]

@@GoogleEqualsEvil 56k slop resister?

[@GoogleEqualsEvil]

@@DANTHETUBEMAN The Marshall JTM45 is an EXACT copy of the Fender 5F6-A CIRCUIT, period! All they did with the NFB is move the wire from the 2 Ohm tap to the 16 Ohm tap. That is NOT a CIRCUIT change! The JTM45 Tone Stack has the EXACT same values as the 5F6-A, and it's in the same EXACT location (after the Cathode Follower). The EL34 power tubes came LATER, and again, that is NOT a CIRCUIT change!

[@shanemarcotte2062]

Goodness! Just discovered this in 2024.Bravo!!

[@VirtualWoodshed]

A masterclass in great tone. Sublime!

[@AmpliFIRE]

@glenkuykendall you still out there man??? This video still holds up after all of these years.

[@GlenKuykendall]

I've never played on in person. From the clips it sure sounds different to me. The best part about a TW is it's ability to clean up from the guitar, even when set to silly amounts of gain. Kind of like a nice Fuzz Face pedal, but with a more traditional and versatile tone.

[@dtrude000]

Insane tone and playing (WOW) !

[@xrodes]

Glen...Hi Randy Simmons here...the guy in Va. you gave lessons to in 1990 91....I believe you bought a Volkswagen from me...great to see you.Would love to see you do a video with the Martin . Great to see you my friend.

[@bodd66]

Hi Glen, your CD arrived today. Superb playing. Massive tone mate. I got my Reinhardt 50W Ampzilla head. Luuuuuuve it. Just like the Trainwreck Express, it likes a guitar - no effects - pure. Stumbling across you on the tube has been like finding treasure! Cheers.

[@MrSticksb]

I believe the Trainwreck and Matchless are the very best amplifiers I've ever heard. You are a tremendous player with much soul.

[@STORYTASTIC]

through my tiny little speakers that was probably the purest most organic most lyrical and Monstrous sound i have ever heard and i am not young!!! you are incredible ...sooooooooo tasty.....thank you Glen

[@michaelgawne4363]

Makes me happy to see an owner of legendary equipment use them as they should be :) great playing and expression bud :)

[@STORYTASTIC]

not sure whats sweeter the Clean or Gain tone..AMAZING!!! one of the best Ive ever heard! Real DEAL

[@elinair4348]

240p perhaps, still the best amp and guitar demo on KZbin.