Joe Bonamassa, 1950s Fender Guitars | Kentucky Collectibles | KET

Vintage instrument appraiser Mike Reeder and the Kentucky Collectibles crew caught up his longtime friend, blues guitar titan Joe Bonamassa, during a tour stop in Lexington recently. In this segment Mike and Joe talk about some very special vintage Fender guitars, a little Fender history and the state of the vintage instrument market.
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[@budgetguitaristcom]

Joe Bonamassa really won me over with his unabashed love of the electric guitar. If he didn't play a single note I'd still love the guy. The history of the electric guitar is super interesting and Joe isn't "just" the modern blues giant - he's one of the world's leading experts on vintage guitars.

[@phillyfyre]

from Joe's other videos, he's not modern, that's not his gig anymore, he's playing through antique tweed amps with vintage guitars , his pedal board is a wayhuge custom pedal and a wah pedal. He's moved away from "being a slave to the technology"

[@VonBluesman]

I love the knowledge Joe has about guitars and amps, and the way he plays and sings. Joe made the strat sound super fine and is so right about Leo Fender being a genius, in the 1950’s they produced some of the best sounding guitars and amps ever made.

[@Jammoko]

Joe's enthusiasm for the guitar is infectious... genuine guy with no edge.

[@jaycheek254]

Awesome - I'm a fellow Kentuckian that loves guitars and Joe! Great piece KET!

[@msspi764]

I love KET. I miss you all

[@transshack]

Joe ...what a cool young man...rock on

[@elijahtiner5691]

How could anyone not like this video?

[@denAlexVA]

Hello Kentucky! The first vintage Les Paul that I bought was at the Doo Wop Shop on Bardstown Rd. in early 73'. I was visting my Grandma who lived on Bonnycastle! It was a 53 'at a cheap price. 225 bucks Traded it with some cash for a 60' Sunburst 6 months later. Also got a great deal on a 52 Martin d-18 in Louisville - a hundred bucks 74'.

[@JH-yk5se]

Its cool that joe does what tons of guitarists have done for years. Collect guitars

[@phallystorm]

That Wind Cries Mary tone he got from the notched position with the Strat is Epic. Wow

[@MisterTee]

Yes, it is reasonably pleasant

[@adamwebb241]

4:53 HOLD ON TIGHT TO THAT LESTER MIKE

[@chrisscovitch7237]

YOU SHOULD HAVE BEEN AROUND WHEN THEY HAD THE " WANT-AD BOOKLET" ON THE NEWS STANDS IN THE BALTO /WASH AREA, WHEN RARE FINDS WERE SOLD CHEAP. BOUGHT A 1969 FENDER STRAT FOR 125.00 AND A LESPAUL STD. AND A ES-335 CHERRY COND BOTH FOR 300.00 IN THE EARLY 70'S . UNBELIEVABLE !

[@b.rodclark7349]

Telecaster became official in the summer of '51...oh and don't forget blues and R&B with Teles & Strats too

[@kylewschafer]

Dave’s Guitar in La Crosse, WI has an amazing selection 😀

[@xcrow0]

I liken the Strat and Les Paul to two iconic sports cars. The Strat is a Corvette, a little more sleek, not too bold but refined and fast. The Les Paul is like a Shelby Cobra, a sum of it's parts, muscle and bold.

[@evanherb5900]

Nice analogy. Not better or worse, just different shades of awesome. Cheers, friend.

[@melvynobrien6193]

You forgot the best of the lot: the TELECASTER. Those cars are for boy-racers and posers.

[@melvynobrien6193]

Yeah, I'll take a van any day, morrison.

[@thomascrow8289]

Great show in 1969 at the band shell in Nashville at centennial park , Bubble Puppy was great fix for the Summer Time Blues ! Thomas

[@darrinros1177]

Joe is awesome. Check out the way the other dude holds the Les Paul. I get it. My 60 scares the hell out of me...

[@SteeringSteel]

I would say Leo Fender was a genius, I mean just look at how many pens he has in that pocket protector :)) ✌🏼

[@pritchettdan]

Leo Fender wasn't a human. An alien for sure. Lol. Thanks, Joe.

[@evanherb5900]

We need more like him tbh.

[@davidwile1277]

Im so jealous of Joe guitars..I only have 1 1960 stratocaster I'd love more

[@benewgillian6823]

Only one is good enough ...

[@jeffreybiscoe6]

The guitars I could a bought just 10 years ago locally under a grand are all internet 3 g and up now + the local stores are gone.

[@lauramoore9659]

YOU'RE A GENIUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@lauramoore9659]

Nice Clapton & Hendrix!!!!

[@kodiakandgrizzlybears3787]

Laura Moore: Hendrix was crap!

[@evanherb5900]

Hey Bears, how bout unfucking yourself and trying again?

[@garypaquin9571]

Hendrix wasn't crap but he was a musical thief. He took the Chicago sound that he learned from Buddy Guy and sold it to the Brits as his own. Ripped off Clapton's "woman tone" and tons of Cream licks. Pete Townsend had the idea of lighting a guitar at Monterey. He told Hendrix and Jimi lit his guitar up at the end of his act before the Who took the stage Jimi had good taste but he was a magpie.

[@kungstu22]

i've never seen a strat with chicken heads. wild.

[@lauramoore9659]

NICCCCE TOOLS!

[@mandolingrass]

The Tele does the zeppelin thing well because jimmi page used a tele most of the early tracks of zep. I would've thought that Joe would know that?

[@klaa22]

That's exactly what Joe says. . He says the Tele was used on the early Zepp stuff . . even though Jimmy was generally known for using the Les Paul

[@evanherb5900]

He just meant Jimmy was known for the LP because he played it live and it became associated with his image, and acknowledged in the video that the Tele did a lot of the real work in the studio.

[@firdausHITMAN]

All the great guitar stores have gone in England

[@henribest4637]

STRATMAN firdaus There's always Guitar Village in Farnham, Surrey.

[@jedblues]

Coda music in Stevenage is the best guitar shop in uk

[@bluenoteone]

you gotta go to Norman's....right? But I think you know that already. I'm building my first, a flying v, '83 Korina reissue style. Maybe Joe would like to demo it for me.

[@johnevans9652]

His entire guitar collection alone could prob fetch a million lol

[@ebay9302]

ADD A ZERO...

[@christopherballard3560]

I know of three of his guitars that make that up.

[@owntone5]

Notice how many times Joe looks at his VERY expensive Les Paul in someone else's hands. I don't know if he is worried, admiring it or both! LOL

[@jamescarter4175]

How does he do that at 5:49?

[@lauramoore9659]

THANK GOODNESS for ARTHUR'S MUSIC STORE IN INDIANAPOLIS!!! 1 OF THE LAST FAMILY OWNED STORES... Where AMOS came from!!!!!!

[@edwardmonsariste4050]

Laura Moore. Another long lasting family owned Indiana business is Alvis Music in Vincennes Indiana. I have purchased many instruments from the Alvis family through the decades.

[@Corey_G]

That's because of the big business stores like GC etc .... killed the Ma & Pop stores .... Mass garbage just to make cash. Production for cash over quality. It's sad, but you can still find some but they are difficult.

[@e.l.norton]

That's a PART of it. Not all of it. Vintage shops like Joe talks about...they used to be fairly commonplace. I had four within ten miles of where I lived. All gone. We're talking places whose walls were lined with big ticket guitars, vintage amps stacked on the floor, and a handful of newer, affordable guitars. The internet killed a lot of those places.

[@mscottashley]

In the 1970's I met a carpet layer who lived outside Seattle. He had a 1956 Sunburst Strat that he never learned to play. It had the original strings on it, paperwork, case and a Champ Amplifier. He would not sell it just because he was a pack rat. His barn was full of "stuff". He's my be dead by now.

[@bobdeluxeandtheideals1356]

interesting

[@leonidastheking7830]

joe is a nice guy diserve all he wants

[@leonidastheking7830]

sorry bro! miss all my english class :)

[@leonidastheking7830]

sorry bro! miss all my english class :)

[@leonidastheking7830]

Ok sir! Correcting people in public is inelegant I missed all English classes. so what???? Accept that hurts less

[@evanherb5900]

Your English is fine, friend. Better than my French or Spanish by a mile. Little spelling things honestly aren't a big deal. Cheers.

[@jerrymorganjr]

4:53 Look at Mike. That made me nervous.

[@davidwile1277]

Dont be nervous he had it

[@horowizard]

Hendrix almost didn't go with the Stratocaster because it was Buddy Holly's guitar.

[@MichaelInsinger]

All Guitar History in one hand and many guitars who will never play again...and many Players who would like to play an old good guitar, but they cant, cause there are no more guitars to find.. why a man will have more guns than he can shoot? ...i know my english is terrible.. :-)

[@nj40100]

No plays 10 to 15 different classic and vintage guitars in every show and fans love it and he swaps them around each tour. He doesn't just leave them in cases he plays them!

[@austinheimark5482]

why are bonamassa's left hand finger nails so darn long!?

[@Stratblooz]

you know...

[@RS2KR]

That hair flick though…

[@thepacketnarc7634]

It don't matter who's in Austin, Bob Wills is still the king.

[@ebay9302]

I KNOW, LETS TAK ABOUT SONG WRITING?

[@ryansabin9098]

Hoards a ridiculous amount of vintage instruments.... complains that there aren't any available. Joe bonamassa bough a lap steel when he was in colorado springs that I was saving up for and I will never forget him. Just kidding, big fan, great guitars, great playing... true story though......

[@casetanner]

eldon

[@Ragnar-Viking]

There's plenty of use that just grind the pavement that know just as much.

[@williamjeffbuckleyjr.2648]

your clothes are like a passport! you have the guitars and the ephemera to prove that you have been there and done that. you are a collector, and you have my loving admiration and validation. Now play some blues that evokes that hard life that you have once lived. Go and spank that plank white boy!

[@palidiciovermingagurainia1760]

Not to be a party pooper but the Strat was designed by two players - Leo paid them as "consultants" - all of thier preferences were used- when people say Leo " designed" the strat they are rewriting history!!!!

[@LfunkeyA]

pretty sure he designed it together with them, their input being mostly feedback. also, a lot of the strat 'innovations' were already on the tele.

[@evanherb5900]

They literally said exactly that in the video, on top of it being a well-known fact...

[@jasong546]

Old video clip but in recent months the number of articles about Leo being a total jerk and not coming up with as much as he is credited with, and who actually came up with the humbucker etc has made the lore less fun. I enjoy guys playing the old ones though because I can’t even try one, so that’s nice.

[@chrisscovitch7237]

YOU ONLY PLAY ONE GUITAR AT A TIME……...

[@NathanHassall]

Stories from a ritch privledged celebrity about not being able to buy giant trunks full of expensive rare gear like you could back in the day.

[@evanherb5900]

Cry about it some more LOL

[@realtalk5931]

Sjw alert

[@earthianfriendly5708]

To joe Bon-a-massa.... A question whatsoever, what key or keys no one or seldom play in, and why, Would take the chance and even chains up...? I am sorry but this net looks like that sword that cuts in both edges, Lots of good stuff nevertheless things that waste your fractions play in the mix as well Deleted...depleted. In clear, good nice pleasing music versus bad annoying sounds, like metal for instances..... Sorry again for asking.

[@DougHinVA]

6 minutes making faces and exclaiming about old guitars before a note is played ? no .....

[@palidiciovermingagurainia1760]

Everyone knows that the strat was designed by two musicians- Leo paid them- let’s quit re-writing history

[@OO-qr1ks]

Cringe core when u know you have surpassed him in tone. Definitely got some impressive hotel luggage, although some things you can't buy you have to build yourself out of the real stuff.

[@OO-qr1ks]

Also some them things he say is it opinion or a post it card.

[@evanherb5900]

What are you even trying to say...?

[@ebay9302]

I HOPE THESE GUYS DIDN'T SPEND MUCH ON THEIR EDUCATIONS? HOW TRULY IGNORANT REALLY...

[@christopherballard3560]

Jessi Perkins Say what?!