A 60s GIBSON for less than a new one?! | Friday Fretworks

[@JDODify]

Fuck sake, Chris! I actually spoke to ATB about that on Monday. You've just sent the price through the roof

[@rafalskydog8028]

Holy crap……that intro was the best I’ve seen, I reckon!

[@johnbartorelli2922]

Pat Travers played MMs pretty extensively especially early on in his career. Always made them sound great.

[@robbievangeenenNL]

I say Mr. Buck is there anything you can't make sound great?!

[@souloftheage]

This is stunning play!

[@paultrombetta]

Geez, that outro is positively ill!

[@Fede80Lt]

In all honesty, you have a crazy dynamic in your fingers. I love when a guitarist can use all the potential of an instrument using fingers and volume knob. You are one of the best out there.

[@MisterTMH]

Yes, He could play a tennis racquet and it would sound good.

[@my3pups153]

Hey Chris, your creative skills and unique style keep getting better and better. Hard to imagine that’s possible. Thanks for blessing us all.

[@ghost79ish]

Jeeeez! Those first 2 notes speak more than some artists entire catalog!

[@r4ttlech4n44]

This guitar has a weird dreamy tone but that might be Chris doing his ChrisBuck-thing. Amazing playing but this guitar sounds strangely special.

[@8calm8]

Great guitar ? Well it is in the hands of Chris Buck Who would make 2 elastic bands tied to a broom handle sound good . If Gibson had Chris promoting it then maybe it would still be selling today , a feat no other guitar player managed to achieve . Is that the guitar players fault or the guitar`s for not being good enough and not very good generally ? I lean towards the latter .

[@daddysasquatch4970]

That opening jam, what!?! I had to listen to it twice and then go lay down for a little while. So good.

[@arsethehorse]

Great playing Chris - so good to see such a creative original style rather that the virtuosic shredding and cliches blues rock I'm so tired of.

[@larsscholz3762]

What an intro solo! Well done!

[@larsscholz3762]

... and a great, informative video as well!

[@vintagetone22]

nice one.ive being trying to find one for 1 year now.all in states are good one.but shipping and vat is high.wish me luck.great video .and your playing is out of this world.🎵🎸🎸🎵🎵👍👍

[@deanoguitarguy2171]

Thanks. Now everybody will be buying them and the prices will go up! 😎✌🏻

[@trfgod3095]

What an intro !

[@mitch5699]

Chris you've got the most killer attack I've seen in a long time , aggressive but accurate, while still cool and chilled, I've known you were awesome for a while and know what else , I think that guitar really likes you ! it's got that look like a cute girl gets when she's crushin 🍺😎🤟

[@PabloMollAN]

Such a monster guitar player. It’s crazy.

[@thezerosky]

Chris, you could play a tennis racket and it would sound good.

[@tonythue8113]

Chris, I have a 59 with the fat neck and larger 7/8 pickup. It's a monster. If you're ever in the SF Bay Area you're more than welcome to come give it a play and use it in a show. I also have a 57 and 60 LPJ that you're more than welcome to take for as spin too. Thanks for all the great content and keep the spirit alive. Cheers my friend.

[@tomfitzsimmons6535]

There must be a thousand highly accomplished guitar players on youtube. You're the only one who's never boring. You have the mostly indefinable extra ingredients that make a guitarist great.

[@alexandergriboedov4319]

Thank you. You are incredible guitarist!

[@rasmichael]

Dude you should have been born in the fifties. You'd have been living large come the seventies!

[@tswrench]

Pat Travers was big on Melody Makers in the mid to late '70s. Travers' 1977 release of "Putting it Straight," on Polydor, shows him playing a MM on the cover.

[@arottie4097]

Boom Boom out go the lights! Ha! Mr Travers had some shredding guitar players in his band back then!

[@DunsysGuitarWorld]

I have a ‘63 and a ‘65 MM - both heavily modded (including humbuckers) long before I got them. I love them (esp the ‘65). However, I freely admit that they sound nowhere near as good as this fine instrument in your hands, Mr Buck. 👍

[@SchmaexiMcMaexi]

I really hate to be the bearer of bad news, but it's probably not the guitar mate. He could make a 2x4'' with rusty nails sound great.

[@DunsysGuitarWorld]

@@SchmaexiMcMaexi 100% true that 👍

[@malcolmhardwick4258]

Dunsy !

[@RupesMcDGuitar]

Sounds flipping fab

[@larryfouch6113]

I have a 65 Epiphone Olympic built on the same factory floor as the Melody Maker. Same woods, unsure of any difference in the electronics. It is still even less expensive than the Gibson variant.

[@briansherman355]

Love this! I have a 1967 and the pickup is very underrated. I get it out frequently and have a hard time putting it down.

[@virgilgiordano4582]

Where are you shopping ? I can't find one In that kind of shape for under $4000 on this side of the pond

[@Mr3DBob]

In my high school band, I had a MM - another guy in the band had the two pickup version, and another band member had the SG-shaped MM. I can't even remember where we got them, but it was before guitars were hoarded and old ones worshipped. I traded mine for a Strat, which didn't suit me at all, and I got the bridge all out of adjustment. I traded that toward an ES 330, which I kept until I got the strange notion that I was finished with electric guitars. I might add that I graduated high school in 1967.

[@juyanine]

when will you release your intros/outros turned into full songs?? Right now I would listen to that a lot more than any band

[@dr.buzzvonjellar8862]

Jeez, nail a string to a saw horse and CB will make it sound heavenly.

[@kitano0]

I really thought that guitar was going to explode during that opening! Jesus!

[@jonnybeck6723]

Only you Chris, could make that horrible pickup sound so good... In mid '70's my DC Melody Maker with that anemic pup inspired me to have a humbucker mounted amidships... Cheerios

[@jimcampbell2673]

Excellent video as always Chris. I have a '67 melody maker SG 2 pickup which can be summed up in two words "bloody awful" hate the skinny neck, hate the tone the one working pickup produces. Still probably never sell it though.

[@benzirkle2817]

My main guitars are a 64 and a 65 Melody Maker. They are incredible guitars and, thankfully for my wallet, underrated.

[@acevedoa89]

Dude, just killer feel.

[@Splattle101]

Your outro solo was off the chain, mate. Well played! (as usual).

[@scottmcdade4007]

Dude that guitar sounds sick!

[@billkeaveney1526]

Cheers Chris i loved this sound very tele to my ears.

[@mttmtmmt5701]

Impressive intro! Of course, you could make ANY guitar sound fantastic...

[@mantashaft]

Taught myself to play on an old melody maker and a fender Bronco amp.

[@andrewfindlay9698]

Chris?!! WTF...stunning intro piece...speechless!

[@nlumby]

...these aren't so cheap either, especially the vaguely 'Les Paul Junior' one - if it's got the wider neck (at the nut) ...have always like the pick-up they used which is somewhat less 'shrill' than a Stratocaster, lol ...and quite good definition ...somehow the current headstock just doesn't look as nice as the earlier versions ...wouldn't say no to one

[@nlumby]

...lol, 'toy'? ...you didn't try a 3/4 size version :)

[@ryanlinfoot]

Loved the passion in the intro, absolutely fantastic playing! Came here via Tomo Fujita then Radioshop pickups....subbed 👍👍🎸💥😘

[@arnarne]

The Melody Maker is the only vintage Gibson model that is still fairly cheap to buy. It is a great sounding and looking guitar though and very good value for money!

[@billkallas1762]

I had a 65 Cherry dual pickup, dual cutaway, I bought used in 1969. Sold it after I started a family.......Big Mistake. (Same type of pickups)

[@leelossi1257]

Great review of the MM. I think the Duo Sonic had one of the best sounds ever. I love all of your reviews.....fabulous playing.

[@bryancollins6796]

Gary Moore also used one fitted with a humbucker. You can see him at the tail of the Sydney Opera House with Thin Lizzy video. Think of that. A modified Melody Maker backed up Greeny.

[@twenty3electronics]

The pickups in these sound terrible. But you can’t put a Strat pup in there without modding it. All of the Gibson, and Epiphone, models with these pickups are comparatively affordable

[@PetePuma25]

Take a 2by4, some piano wire, a cheap p90, and tuners from a kids ukulele. Now assemble it all to resemble a guitar. Chris Buck would make it sound like a thousand dollar instrument.

[@iamkennymartin]

It’s kind of a useless review, tbh. Because you could plug into a taco and make it sound unreal. 😀 I’m curious what gauge strings you use, given that you can bend them into next year.

[@stickman55100]

Thanks for another great installment of FF. So funny; I bought a Melody Maker in 1976 at a Pawn Shop in Lubbock, TX for $125, when I was touring with a cheesy show band. Got back to L.A. and sold it for $1,100. Vintage guitars are always a good investment!

[@AROSFC]

G Moore played one wirh Thin Lizzy in 78 I believe, in Australia during the tour

[@mattcacioppo2502]

Incredible playing as usual. 63’ Bassman in the background?

[@TheStiefmeister7]

1:36 seems like you ....made a nice melody...with that guitar... ;-)

[@soul_headshot]

Bro chris buck can fucking get down. Man. I just now seen your stuff, excellent. You have given this instrument many thousand hours. I love that

[@sharkman4928]

Great little guitar!!! Lets not forget....these Melody Makers were made from the same batch of mahogany that the "Bursts" were made of. ;)

[@TooBarFoo]

One the best intro's yet !

[@Angel-fz8dr]

Have you ever listened his 55 all gold Les Paul intro? It is by far my favorite. Absolute fire!

[@roycallahan2114]

You truly ROCK Chris!!! Thanks for all your incredible skills and awesome knowledge!

[@jamesshaw476]

Another great video Chris!🤘

[@glaubergarcez5182]

Man, melody maker into a Vox ac30, sometime with a mxr micro amp thats my desert island rig.

[@OssianEMills]

So, yeah, I really thought you were going to smack us in the face with the headstock on that Outro jam.

[@katking9246]

Unfair that one man has so much talent lol...shades of Jimmy Page in his playing, that can only be good

[@boboplex]

You could make a bottom of the line Squire sound great, incredible skills bro

[@Kris-P343]

Sweeeet! I’m glad you featured the MM! I own a 1960 with a patent sticker T - Top on the bridge. Mine has the 50’s profile neck, it fills my large hands nicely. Peace!

[@alexscott7226]

fantastic playing again - great tones

[@marknachmias423]

I had a melody maker as a10 year old kid. Unfortunately, when I went away to University, my Mom sold it. Wish I still had it. It was my first electric guitar.

[@theyearsshallrun6641]

That last tune was worthy of Richie Sambora at his 90s peak.

[@lueysixty-six7300]

It sounds great...but damn, it looks like so much work, playing with dynamics like that! As a high gain shredder mostly, it is so much simply to have it set to "flamethrower" all the time! But hey..I love to listen to your way.

[@samj.6867]

I bought a Special for budget, but I did consider the Melody Maker. I was surprised by it's tone.

[@gardoramirez]

My very first guitar was a 1959 3/4 scale with a very crudely installed set of humbuckers off an early 70's Gibson. Quickly outgrew it though. Guitar is gone but those humbuckers are still in use today! Nostalgia drove me to buy a 1963 double pickup model. Not the easiest guitar to play, but it looks cool as hell and will easily outlast me. Thanks for the vid!

[@brandonbussell5544]

Melody Makers are now 7k... the Chris Buck effect

[@OKtunes]

As soon as I hear “Hi I’m Chris Buck,” I know I about to be embarrassed with my guitar skills. Nice job as always.

[@jimmyjames2022]

Esquire, LP Junior or Melody Maker, the Hobson's Choice for a one pickup guitar.

[@dinohuss9054]

Back in the Thin Lizzy days Gary Moore also used to play a Melody Maker

[@scottdunbar4898]

Come for Gibson, stay for the juicy riffs. Thanks for the video, brother.

[@jurgenk.9867]

Stunned and stunned again. You are easily the best lead guitarist to have ever lived. "Best" in the sense of bringing together craftmanship + art, playing skills and taste. I hope you will be lucky and bring a band together that helps you to create some signature pieces that bring your work where it belongs: in the rock'n'roll hall of fame. There is enough time for it.

[@SeekerGoOn2013]

Love the outro

[@hallucinati]

Dude your playing comes from my soul. Thank you! Love you, super-bro

[@Deliquescentinsight]

The single pup models have a mystique, Leslie West was noted as a player the 'Junior' you need some skills to get the most from them

[@stapeld]

Really reminds me of all the Epiphone Les Paul Specials you see these days. Thinner slab mahogany body with single volume and tone controls and the same sunburst finish.

[@Hbomb731]

Dear Mr. Buck, I’m new to your channel so forgive me if you’ve already covered this but I would love to hear you play and evaluate the Gibson The Paul, 1978. Yes I have one but I haven’t gotten to know it yet as I have only recently had it repaired and set up to play. Curious to know your thoughts on that guitar. I believe 1978 was the first year of production. Thanks so much. I find your channel to be VERY inspiring! Harold, down south GA

[@cosmicrevival7105]

Love the outro solo

[@alexprice3428]

This is my actually guitar (although now on hold) and it’s a lovely guitar. Thanks Chris for showing what it could really do. The new owner will be chuffed im sure

[@stevekannes89]

This is a sleeper. This is the first time checking it out. Thank you from across the pond in upstate NY. USA

[@CraigHollabaugh]

Chris, do you restring these unique guitars for these FF videos? If so, what strings do you use? Thanks for the video, I look forward to it every Friday morning.

[@banjomandan7199]

Dang! Kicking myself now for trading in my early '60's MM for a Fender Mustang, but we all had to have the surfer look then. Never would have imagined the astounding tones you have exacted from one! Thanks for doing your homework on the interesting history, too!

[@daveshaw7953]

Love these in depth editions of Friday Fretworks. Got to mention (again) I’d love to see a Neil Young Ol’ Black edition and also some episodes that delve into acoustic players like Nick Drake, Nic Jones, Bert Yansch etc. keep up the good work Chris. 👌🏼

[@bobdekett]

...thanks for doing this guitar Justice Chris:)

[@grene1955]

Hey Chris! It's high time you did an instrumental album! And I recommend SRV's Riviera Paradise for you to cover!

[@reghudson5444]

When I was 13 I asked my parents for an electric guitar. That Christmas I had a double cut Melody Maker in an alligator skin case under the tree, along with a Gibson tube amp. About 2 years later I needed some money and very stupidly sold the MM and amp for $50. Yeah, I was stupid. I started playing guitar again as an adult, and there hasn’t been a single day I haven’t wished I still had that Melody Maker.

[@JamesWilliams-en3os]

Your playing of this guitar using clean tones in the middle section was evocative of Roy Buchanan… really, really sweet. Thanks for another great listen, Chris.

[@stratmagic6893]

When I was in college in 1971-1972 one of the guys on my floor who I used to jam with had a Melody Maker. I loved that guitar and used to beg him to sell it to me but he wouldn't give it up. It was a double cutaway model in Cherry and was probably a mid 60's model.

[@seanverdi9236]

Mate honestly love your style of play it is INSANE! Plus your videos are so in depth and genuinely a pleasure to watch

[@paulwagner6439]

Great Solo! So Different from anyone I’m ever Heard you Play….So Sweet…

[@RichFranks]

I like the way you let the guitar know who is the boss!

[@bigmoviesify]

Another incredible video, Thanks!

[@Dweedo18]

Leslie West used one too, in Mountain. He really make it growl.