Orianthi gets a 1966 Gibson Super 400 from Bobby at Norman's Rare Guitars

[@Zanthxs]

What a gorgeous, glowing piece of craftsmanship that deserves no less than to be in gifted, masterful hands of Orianthi.

[@johne1599]

That guitar and Orianthi sound Heavenly together!

[@loganpass]

She's an incredibly skilled artist. This is the perfect place for this beautiful instrument!

[@SebaRutini]

She is amazing... and that guitar is from beyond

[@BlueRidgeKat1]

Man she can play. Had the pleasure of getting to see her on stage in Knoxville TN once.

[@ralex3697]

She’s absolutely amazing

[@FrisellFan01]

Being a huge Gibson Fan.....from very young around 1974 I was lucky enough to take possession of my Dad's L-5 and I only had it ....maybe a year and 1/2 but it was the start of my love for Gibson guitars ..later in life I worked in Music retail and I was able to work some guitar shows around the Midwest. Gaining knowledge along the way meeting a bunch of fine people and also a chance to play an endless supply of vintage guitars in that time. That Super 400 is quite the gem....I have played a few in my day.....and it was a joy.

[@abacus813]

I think you should show more videos of helping people like Roberto ...really sets a great example!

[@geraldhenrickson7472]

I must agree. That was heartwarming. Brought a tear to me eye.

[@VonBluesman]

Bobby, Bobby, living proof there are still great loving, kind, compassionate, people in the world. Congratulations to both of you and I wish you all the best in life.

[@andybasic1761]

That guitar deserves to be in the hands of a great and appreciative artist like Orianthi!

[@robteaster2446]

Ssoooooooo very much talent in his heart, mind, voice, and hands. This lady is far, far too underrated.

[@pompa04]

Orianthi is not only a multitalanted musician she´s the sweetest person ever !!

[@hughbean6785]

Bobby you are a special person to do this to keep musicians Rockin with great instruments my hat is off to you sir ❤️

[@jonmars9559]

Great to be in a position to connect a great instrument with a great artist. A guitar is just a thing without someone playing it. Then it comes to life.

[@terryterrell5267]

She seems like a truly sweet person.

[@stratostatic]

Some people are so lucky to have a friend like Bobby. Most of us ain't so lucky. And some of us don't even have friends..

[@geraldhenrickson7472]

Oh Jeez Stratostatic...all together everyone..group hug!

[@stratostatic]

😪

[@tyronejoihnson7046]

Bobby is a special human blessing to our planet!

[@paulhewson4600]

Man I wanna meet Bobby!! I need a Friend like that!

[@J_Beazy223]

Ori is Dynamite! gotta be my favorite female blues player. This is such a great channel and such great people at NRG! Bobby knows how to get to a womans heart. I can't believe he bought that guitar for her before I could. How can a guy top that? Thats better than diamonds!

[@princequestly2218]

What an amazing gesture, some people are just class acts with kind hearts. She’s gonna make some beautiful music on it I’m sure. It’s a such a beauty.

[@garykeenan3724]

Orianthia such a beautiful lady, awesome guitarist; one of my favorites!!!

[@scottakam]

Pretty cool gift! Good to see cool guitars going to people that can and will actually play them.

[@DaveLynchJazzGuitar]

I need a Bobby in my life to give me that same exact guitar. I'm a jazz guitarist who plays a lot of bebop, blues, chord melody

[@mariorabottini5687]

A lovely present for a truly lovely humble lady! You rock Orianthi! From Melbourne Australia!

[@nt.fuel.truckie]

Adelaide? Could be wrong

[@barryriddle883]

Definitely Adelaide, South Australia. Nice she still sounds like an Aussie.

[@darylclifford]

@@barryriddle883Glad you noticed too! My son at age 16 started a Sydney band in 2011 called 5 Seconds of Summer (aka 5SOS) with mates from school (one was only 15). They now live in LA and a couple of them sound more American then actual Americans!! When I hear a forced accent going from bogan type Aussie to complete Yankee it makes me cringe. Thank god my son sounds mostly neutral. He says you have to adopt a part accent to be understood, which Orianthi seems to have done also.

[@latonyahemingway3752]

Beautiful guitar!! Great player!! Well done Bobby!!

[@waynedavis5137]

Bobby seems to be a true Renaissance patron of the arts man

[@LarreeHollywood]

Wow. That is one of the coolest guitars on the planet! I saw Robben Ford play one of those with Jimmy Witherspoon at the Ash Grove many, many years ago! I can't wait to hear what Orianthi does with it! Spectacular! Bobby is one rockin' fan! :)

[@juniorthornton3819]

Cost more than most people make in a life time I have es335 100.000

[@valuedhumanoid6574]

Damn, I always forget how talented she really is. Natural talent combined with hard work is always a winner

[@lailaphelan6319]

That guitar is the most beautiful guitar I've ever seen.

[@bunkerman99]

What a lovely gesture. Very kind and yes she can really play.

[@1000foxtrot]

One of the best Guitars Gibson ever made .... and she can use it to the limits of what this guitar can sound like .... Congrats ....

[@mrDCunningham]

She talks about Elvis using one for the 1968 comeback special then she plays one of the songs that he did with that guitar on that show. I love her.👍🏻😎

[@rocknroller77]

🙄

[@mrtryfive]

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[@stevenfrederick2315]

Awesome! There's no Guitar in the World like a "Gibson Classic ES400 or any Gibson Guitar, Period, The Gibson Les Paul"! Steve, Man to me the Gibson Classic ES 400 Guitar is the Ultimate of all! Praise God, it's the only Guitar for Jazz or the Early Country & Rock n Roll sound!

[@briansmythe3219]

Now thats a guitar ,Unreal I loved the preformace too verry cool

[@ganaorganador]

Well,... she deserves it. What a great gesture of generosity, Bobby. Ultrakudos for that!!

[@StephenOshea]

im glad to see that Orianthi is playing and enjoying such a great guitar . great video

[@palidiciovermingagurainia1760]

great person too…life of fame and fortune isn’t all success, parties and shows- l think if things happed differently she would be a household name

[@likeakite]

What a lovely thing to do....there are some wonderful people in the world....nice one Bobby !

[@donaldholman9070]

Orianthi is amazing! Great musician.

[@joemusic2882]

What a great sounding guitar

[@porkbelly0713]

I just saw her play two days ago in a vid with Billy F Gibbons and Kenny Greenburg a Nashville studio guy, they were great together. I had no idea she could play blues like this, she is super talented

[@001USA001]

Awesome. Well done Bobby! Great guitar and that playing! Wow!

[@JohnOhkumaThiel]

Hearing her amazing playing, first thought was I’ll never be that good. And then I recalled the same feeling, pretty much all the time, when I’m doing lessons on TrueFire with some absolute legend, and the material is way over my head; I’m thinking this is where I plateau and just stay there for the rest of my guitar playing life. And then I practice, a lot, every day, and in two weeks it’s simple, even boring. It becomes something I do as I warm up or while noodling. I modify and mess with it until it’s my own. Then I go to the next lesson and it starts all over again with thinking, “This is impossible. I’ll never be able to do that.”

[@hughbean6785]

Love that so happy for you Orianthi that is a classic ❤️🎸

[@crash921]

‘68 comeback special was the best 1:31

[@stevenfrederick2315]

Norm, also you're an awesome Friend to us all to young musicians, like this young lady! It's wonderful to see a young musicians receive a Dream guitar like this Beautiful Gibson Classic ES400 Guitar is though a Friend of yours, Mr. Norm! Mr. Bobby is a very nice person! Thanks for making many watchers, like myself happy to see that are wonderful people still in this wild world in which we live! Steve! God Bless All!!!

[@railcar123]

A truly spectacular instrument.

[@jreagle58]

The guitar is HUGE in her hands!

[@hoffy1003]

When I was at Norm's 3 years ago, I was looking for that very guitar.

[@papadelta1791]

So very cool.....thanks. Nothing like clean through a proper Fender amp

[@tortillasarenotbiceps7622]

She's amazing.

[@fireside007]

Smoke’n!! . . . YOU ~ ROCK ! !

[@glenkepic3208]

Nice pick and Super nice gift. yep, Elvis '68 Comeback Special was pretty bad ass.

[@deepspacetheater]

In which Elvis admitted that he never knew more than about three chords. ;)

[@glenkepic3208]

@@deepspacetheater Yep, sold alot of guitars, tho :)

[@mrDCunningham]

@@deepspacetheater lol. He said that but he knew alot more than just 3 chords. He was much more than people think. He really was.

[@EvilUnderTone]

Lovely to see someone with that generosity. Orianthi is a phenomenal artist and comes across as a genuinely lovely person. Nobody more deserving! I'd say that guitar has landed on it's feet!

[@yourbuddygabe3735]

I heard her absolutely SHRED Voodoo Chile on stage. I had the pleasure of driving her to the airport in Vegas several years ago. She didn't say a word to me, but man....it's hard to express just how good she smelled.

[@BrianOboylemusic]

That’s why I play guitar because there are people that are just so good hearted and I like Yep Oriani needs that gutter that Mike Lambo needs a guitar get it for him like it’s a great culture and I’m really privileged to be a part of it …play in great health ORI

[@mademepickaname]

Incredible tone

[@altonwilliams7117]

Wow! She went there🎵 I can’t believe my ears. That’s way before her time. She’s got good taste in music. 🎵

[@randyfrieberg1706]

Don't know who Bobby is but ... u rock buddy .... thnk u for being so cool ....

[@TheChicagoTodd]

She's fabulous!

[@bernadetteapps9303]

Orianthi is a beautiful, humble & talented woman.

[@OakLawnSpeedShop]

Definitely the complete package. And that accent.....WOW

[@monaural2.988]

If she loves Elvis’ ‘68 Comeback, that guitar is in loving hands with her. I hope she’ll explore some 50s Rockabilly styles in the future. She already has the skill.

[@f1s2hg3]

Norm that very very special and I love that true story of gifting music that’s good love!

[@michaelcrowhorse-chavez6582]

Ori is a Phenom Always Has been before MJ discovered here. Love here always Will.

[@jamro217]

Well, that is a novel approach to playing a full hollow body with a rosewood bridge. I was expecting more of a Joe Pass or Wes Montgomery direction. Bravo.

[@PragmaticDany]

You can play anything on any guitar. See: Gretsch White Falcon, Malcom Young. See: Gretsch White Falcon, John Frusciante.

[@jamro217]

@@PragmaticDany Yes, but certain instruments are geared towards different genres of music. The pointy heady gothic style Jacksons aren't made for country and western. You can make country music using one, though. Hollow body electrics like the Super 400 were designed in the 1940s and 1950s before rock and roll existed. They weren't designed for that genre. They were meant for the musicians of that era, most of whom played jazz. The term "jazz box" is synonymous with those instruments for a reason. Archtops with wooden bridges have the warm tone needed for jazz.

[@GerhardDaghoul]

❤ such a shredder! ❤

[@whatposterman1222]

Stuff like that happens to me a lot as a banjo player. Why just last week, I was up in Nashville with my banjo in the car. I forgot it was there when I left the windows down for quick walk down Broadway and beer at Tootsies Orchid Lounge, which is near the old Opry. Anyway, got back later than I expected and realized what I’d done when I saw a crowd gathered near my car with open windows. Cops had lights flashing and looking around, keeping crowd back. Inside.....were 23 banjos, a jug of moonshine, and a photo of Roy Clark picking banjo.

[@allenellsworth5799]

😂 I love it

[@bunkerman99]

How can 49 people give this a thumbs down? You all gotta problem with generosity? Shame on you.

[@alphasxsignal]

Glad she got one

[@jonmaclennan]

Amazing! 🤘🎸

[@SB-eq7jz]

Amazing 👍🎸😎🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧

[@robertrohrs9195]

Great talent right there.

[@StevenRosenberg]

There are a lot of different sounds in a Super 400, that's for sure. She's a great player.

[@gaveller]

Beautiful guitar!

[@jomamma1750]

Ori, write a song on that ax for Bobby. That would be a pretty cool thank you.

[@joezambrano9651]

Beautiful guitar great playing Ori great camera work jen

[@alkennedy1124]

👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍there you go all of them back , nice , thanks BigAl California.

[@pyyktodd]

I had to sell all my guitars because of covid. Maybe Bobby can send me a gift. That guitar is sweet.

[@Tonetwisters]

It's bigger than SHE is! But beautiful. Top model of this line. Well said, Mr. Norm. "What a blessing." Proud of ya!

[@TonyfromBham]

56 people downvoted one person being generous to another and the other person being thankful and humble. Thanks hard for me to understand.

[@realtalk5931]

That thing has some amazing tones wow

[@lionheartmerrill1069]

😁😁ORIANTHI😁😁 keep smiling

[@boss123400]

Bobby, I'm over here 👋 play acoustic, your choice, I'm not picky...love you long time...;-)~

[@barrysoetoro8452]

you got purddy lips boy lol

[@BuckyCrittenden]

Another great episode! 👍

[@jamesmoon5632]

She is an amazing guitarist

[@leechap3]

Amazing sound to that axe!

[@smokeyb_nz4665]

Nice bro - this girl deserves this axe - thanks for sampling for us goo sounds

[@GEAUXFRUGAL]

That's a beautiful thanks Bobby .

[@raymondharrisoncomposer]

Awesome talent Awesome Super 400 I’m buying a Super 400 too!

[@Guitarmachine115]

That’s a really nice guitar

[@Sabrina-ic3ox]

Wow nice blues❤

[@georgezamora1490]

Bobby, I have always wanted a '65 hummingbird

[@dananthony6258]

That guitar is amazing.

[@pierheadjump]

Thanks Ori., Jen, Bobby, Norm!!! Watch the transition from pick to finger picking. ⚓️

[@izaklitwar1509]

She's the only guitarist I know, who does it in seamless way. Ori is a phenomenal gitar player!

[@pierheadjump]

@@izaklitwar1509 😎Chris Buck is really good also. Watch Chris’ ‘Friday Fretworks’. Something to marvel at. ⚓️

[@peterward9446]

*_Ori is a preternaturally gifted guitarist - originally aussie I believe, such a shame she's not better known here, Downunder ...come back & tour awhile Ori - bring that supersized 400 with you!!_*

[@pietrodiprima6350]

Stupenda e bravissima orianthi

[@santiagobluerain9370]

What a great guitar wonderfull

[@randy1randy1]

Hello norm ,, so happy for her ! All I ever wanted was a Frank Stallone signed guitar ..... lol

[@vtwinaddicted5852]

I was 6 yrs old when that Elvis come back special was aired that Orianthi was talking about, hail yeah!!!

[@tymeryder7264]

Orianthi is a delightful talented lady. Great guitar.

[@mikegreen2417]

I should have married Ori when I never had the chance.

[@glenkepic3208]

One of those better with age examples. Always cute, Beautiful now.

[@ricardotijerina886]

😁😁😁😁😁

[@joecrowaz]

I didn't see her first!

[@luish777]

Robert Krieger from Doors wow nice to here that collab,she's such a doll and she can a mean guitar

[@davidkellymitchell4747]

Cool! Nice guitar! She can do some Grady Martin and Hank Garland licks now. She's got all the talent!