Andy Wood Destroys a Couple of Vintage Telecasters and a 1959 Burst: Vault Sessions (S3: E15)

[@jamisonmp]

0:08 seconds in the guitar decided it needed both PAFs engaged.

[@jonfindlay7838]

"Let me help you out there, friend" - guitar

[@walterworrall]

Gibson's A.I. was a lot better in their earlier guitars. Today's reissue A.I. is complete garbage IMO.

[@Augenatic]

hahahhah thats so weird

[@Axional_X]

Hahahahaahahahaah, just noticed!

[@BrandonKJohnson]

I noticed too!!! . . . I was about to mention and saw you already had lol

[@gregmirr]

Tune in to Jack Pearson (Allman bros, Gov. mule , etc ) he uses a Squire strat he bought for $99. You don't have to spend a fortune to get a great sound . Spend more time wood shedding and getting your chops down .. ( but i dig old tele's too )

[@andrewbroadhead1897]

Awesome as always Andy, that last tele definitely sounded the best, beautiful guitar👌🎸.

[@90sPunkRockCovers]

Fascinating video, loved his reaction and explanation on both guitars, not to mention amazing playing.

[@lufiealice6251]

Would’ve been amazing if Danny Gatton had still been around to demo these amazing instruments using modern mics. Great demo.

[@magnusberger6762]

Yeah, and not being drenched in VHS-flutter in the KZbin videos, although there’s a charm to that as well.

[@joedonlan2979]

Nice demo. He is totally right. I think every guitar will "tell you how" it wants to be played and lends itself to having a particular voice.

[@vintagepipesnightmares]

Finally you have someone who can play more then two licks !

[@greatwhite3676]

Like jack Pearson? This guy is just a bunch of diddly diddly stuff

[@brucesguitardemos8197]

Super cool Andy 👌

[@hearpalhere]

Andy's tearing it up! I love his attitude to play parts that are appropriate to the guitar's setup/vibe.

[@emerycomputer]

Thank you! @3:00 Finally an acknowledgment of the concept of 'playability' from someone supremely qualified to make one. He diplomatically calls it 'chirp' but I get it. Some guitars just resist fast-accurate technical play, be it the radius, fret size, neck shape, wood type, neck finish, pickups, and what not. I love how Andy acknowledges this - from a personal perspective - without criticizing the instrument. And yes, Gary Moore could shred on a Les Paul but how many Garys are there in the midst of guitardom?

[@braderrick]

Yes! I love them all but it’s hard to beat an old tele. Darn near bulletproof too.

[@jettramel]

I threw all my guitars under the bed while listening to Jeff Beck, now Andy wants me to burn the rest of them. Nice licks & sound, if thats a dumble sign me up

[@RickMcCargar]

Wow, so many incredible and talented musicians now days. P.S. I liked the tone he got out of the Les Paul best.

[@johnora3857]

Me too!

[@timwalls7944]

Man, I have watched this video at least 10 times. Great playing

[@srinip]

That's all very well, and I buy everything Andy says, but let's face it - he's playing through a dang Dumble!!!

[@massimos6863]

Awesome playing

[@KennyLarvitz]

The rosewood Tele is so woody , awesome !

[@WayneMemphisMojo]

Another inspirational video ... well worthy of viewing many more times in case I missed something. Thanks for posting this for us to enjoy

[@grahammcdonald9142]

That Amos Moses lick. Love it!!!

[@andywoodmusic]

here comes Amos!!!

[@TruthSurge]

:51 ah, the ole bend it up AND down trick. Glad to see he's only human. Those kinds of vibrato make a real warbly sound because you are passing across the actual note (no bent string) faster than when you vibrato it from neutral UP or from neutral DOWN. I've done it myself but you absolutely have to make up your mind b4 hand and on the last 2 strings, you probably do well to bend UP only so you never worry about slipping off the fretboard. Like, who really cares, RIGHT? o Apparently, only me. Great picking technique!

[@andywoodmusic]

It was extremely difficult to play in the higher register, the frets were so small and worn in

[@MrKjohnson123]

@@andywoodmusic Duane was coming through ;)

[@MWallis2]

What a fucking monster this boy is! Loooooooooove his energy! Hard to be that soulful and play that many notes.

[@realgoodmind]

This was a great episode. I hope one day I am lucky enough to play a 59. They always seem magical. I do not own a new Les Paul because they do not have this sound.

[@jasonthompson1340]

One of the best videos ever

[@mcambl61]

It would be great to have a detailed amp and settings listed

[@andywoodmusic]

i dint even tweak it, i just turned it on and played :)

[@SongbirdsFoundation]

1977 Dumble Overdrive Special just turned on;) We might have a vid of the actual settings somewhere... we will try to start putting that in our vids. Thanks!

[@treehouse722]

Such an interesting observation about the fast playing not working as well on the Les Paul.

[@anthonybeers]

wonder how much of it is in the amp

[@johnpandolfino8663]

That LP is sick.......nice tone .....

[@CDW98]

1958 les paul through a dumble..... doesn’t get much better than that

[@ronfrey6639]

Great playing and what an amazing amp ! Ill be breaking my ultra out and A B ing too this recording.. I wonder is this Hoyt Axtons ODS ? He bought a set from Alex and had the Dumbleland with it which was in same suede. It sold at Emerald city....

[@TheMujiFuji]

ron frey Bonnamassa may have ended up with the Hoyt Axton ODS...

[@rosariopuzzangaro5487]

The 67 telecaster is the best!

[@babagadoush1]

Damn this boys good!

[@jimmyrecce8787]

The one thing that all of these 59s have in common is that horn like quality to them...I have played two of them and they both were completely different but alot alike if that makes sense...I have recently played a couple of true historics from the custom shop and I tell you what they are getting really close to the feel and the tone of the real deal.....

[@JackMasonLive]

Each person has their own opinion. A combo of the infamous Dumble plugged into a Gibson 1959 that lacked high mids and bright sounded to me like someone with a clogged nose trying to talk... I'll take the Dumble and the Tele any day. Sorry Gibson lovers. But Hey, no hate. At least I won't be in line to compete buying the gibson... XD

[@l8tapex]

Bonamassa?

[@J.Dove3D]

They are all great sounding guitars, but the '67 Tele has some serious mojo. Great sounding Tele.

[@andywoodmusic]

oh boy did it ever!

[@Axional_X]

It would be so nice and interesting if you could just A-B the two Telecasters, great work guys!

[@BartDietvorst]

Yeah baby!

[@projectmoon13]

No, man. The best amp and guitar combos do amazing things. Like, my Supro and lp junior have the least knobs. One on the Supro, two on the guitar. 2 volumes and one tone knob on the entire rig. I can turn the amp to ten and use the volume on the guitar and go from acoustic to heavy hard rock… just with the volume. Also, I can leave the guitar volume all the way up and play quiet finger picking and it will be quiet… then if I attack the strings it’s totally distorted. You can get the most and best sound from the least gear. No joke.

[@BrandonKJohnson]

3:25 !!!! I've always believed in that!!

[@mitcharney1]

Still don't understand how so many OVERWOUND PAF clones are sold. The original PAF was a lower powered pup.

[@frantisca]

300K$ gear has never been in better hands :)

[@zenrun2913]

Slow down there young buck. Your all hopped up.

[@johnpandolfino8663]

Nice tele too......

[@mikedenkinger9570]

Andy could make a plastic guitar with nylon strings sound fantastic....

[@oldtimetinfoilhatwearer]

The title scared me

[@MrAMF50]

The Tele's rule.

[@wjhandy]

He's copped some Eric Johnson licks along the way

[@andywoodmusic]

i probably owe EJ royalties at this point

[@frank-ski]

Andy Wood Music great response! Loved your playing and humble straight forward comments

[@wakjob961]

Dat '56...oh man.

[@johnpandolfino8663]

Danny Gatton?

[@ronshalita]

Eat your heart out Brent lol... you are awesome man!

[@edcherry9282]

would be nice to hear a tele played at low clean volume and something other than chicken pickin style..they are much more versatile than that...

[@SongbirdsFoundation]

Check out our 2018 interview with Tommy Emmanuel.

[@davestephens8033]

I don't understand why players who play an old "burst, turn the treble almost all the way off then call it "great tone." You can get that same kind of sound with a Chinese Les Paul if you also kill most of the treble response. PAF's are not warm fuzzy pickups at all. They are BRIGHT, they can cut you bright. When I play old PAF's, I turn the treble all the way up, because thats where the gold is.

[@shaswata1794]

9:23

[@umbertoferretti8124]

1:20 Led Zeppelin!

[@oliverstewart3124]

Yeah, Custard Pie, such a banger!!

[@jackflynn8616]

I’ve got an Andy Wood SIGNATURE guitar, dude! Trade you for the $500,000, 61 year old piece of wood you’re playing.

[@nigelnunes]

Stick a Klon in that chain and Andy has won the tone game.

[@andywoodmusic]

Nigel Nunes YES!!!! I wanted to try that so bad haha the cool factor to these song birds vids is that it’s just guitar cable amp.

[@nigelnunes]

@@andywoodmusic haha I just was a Burst and a Dumble and I couldn't resist commenting that! - But God knows you didn't need one man, your playing through all of those guitar/amp setups was unreal!

[@andywoodmusic]

Nigel Nunes dont sleep on the klon circuit! Bang for the buck is wampler tumnus. Fantastic to push amps and stack w other pedals

[@nigelnunes]

@@andywoodmusic Thanks so much Andy, I've been hearing nothing but props for the Tumnus so I'll check one of them out for sure! Also, I've taken your lead on using a comp as as a clean boost to further gain up a signal and dude it's a killer! So, the crispiest of high-fives to you for that too, good sir! :)

[@XxSypherxX91]

That’s a top unlike I’ve ever seen. Wouldn’t the amp dictate more what the guitar wants you to play? He plays the three notes per string clean anyway.

[@teomankarasimsek1756]

SOUNDS. VERY. VERY. VERY. GENERIC. just put alnico3 humbuckers onto a mahogany guitar mildly drive the amp aaand bring a douchebag into the room.

[@andywoodmusic]

oh man, you probably NAIL that sound then.

[@ttingley]

You must be REALLLY good to leave a comment like this. Please post a clip so we can learn from you.

[@Darrell1977]

That’s got to be the most troll shit comment out there. From the bottom of my heart stfu

[@robslater5528]

Sacrilege, I know. And I do know what opinions are like, but.... That Dumble sounds really mediocre...if that good. So many other amps that the Burst and Teles would have sounded more like themselves through. Blackface Super or Princeton. Tweed Bassman. GA 40. AC 30.

[@acecarolino101]

Nah. Hate the tone coming from the opening riff

[@jeremydrissi]

Amazing guitars but this kind of playing… « look at le I can play fast » Nothing musical right here.

[@jspic4907]

The level of sheer BS in these vintage guitar demos are through the roof. This guy is a pro and would have sounded equally well through any first rate amp and with any well setup/well made guitar today... of with there are hundreds of thousands. The guy was paid for this, its all uou need to understand in these videos.

[@FromtheSoultotheFretboard]

Interesting

[@andywoodmusic]

Wasn’t paid for this. Old guitars are cool.

[@edwardjons8684]

Andy Wood Music Nice Crossroads ref at the end!

[@godspotnow]

Sure he's a Pro player but that's what's cool is seeing a pro player geek out over playing instruments that shaped music as we know it. If I wanted to hear Jo-Schmo play a new guitar that's not a 60 year old instrument that's a copy that tries to imitate it then go to "Guitar City". Lol. I enjoy seeing someone who could own any instrument out there geek over the tone and feel of history. Love the video. Love Andy Wood and definitely love Songbirds.

[@6SL]

Ok... here comes the heritical comment although no disrespect intended: Yes, he can play. Yes, that burst (& Tele) is unbelivable. Just marvelous guitars. BUT the tone is fizzy and sounds like one of those cheap plug- in headsets. He could do an A-B demo (same rig) with an R9 or the like and I doubt any of us could tell the difference between the two. I know I couldnt and Ive been listening to these guitars for decades. I`m 68 yrs old and have played guitar since I was 13. That having been said, let him run those guitars with a little more volume, straight through a Bassman, Twin, BF Super Rvb, Deluxe Rvb, Vibro King, Victoria, JTM45, or a host of other amps (your choice) and then this demo would be of more interest. They used to burn heritics at the stake so I suppose y'all can begin gathering up the firewood. Anyway it's just my opinion in any case. Cheers.