Phil Harris On The 1959 Les Paul Greeny Part 1

[@Bansidhe]

Say what you like about Kirk Hammett, respect to him for actually taking this thing on the road and playing it in front of millions of people. It'd be such a waste for it to just be locked away in a case somewhere or just hung on a wall as a museum piece.

[@arthurias7693]

There's nothing bad to say about Kirk at all. He's a great guitarist and a good guy..

[@michaeldean7220]

Absolutely this! Criminal to have it locked away.

[@ericnootebos5855]

I am not saying i do not respect him, he seems a very nice guy to me though..

[@TheMichaelseymour]

@wildcatter63 hammett should give it to green for his lifetime -and have it insured in case of loss ....let green play it out ...and then once green passes on ...take it back .

[@matthias7455]

Kirk's great. Still wish Metallica were still using real tube amps live, though.

[@moose6676]

Phill, absolutely brilliant, so many thanks 🙏🏻

[@charlesrocks]

Kirk Hammett owns this guitar now, and he is sharing it with the world playing Metallica riffs. Amazing.

[@christopherorman5769]

I dont know that playing Metallica riffs on this guitar constitutes sharing with the world. If this was in Derek Trucks' or Bill Frisell's hands -- or several others -- it would make sense and represent the tone and history of the instrument.

[@pacman1789]

@@christopherorman5769 I think you're missing the point. It's being played, like it was meant to be, not just locked away in someone's collection.

[@christopherorman5769]

@@pacman1789 nah, you are missing the point. It deserves to be played right or not at all. Why play something with that sound if you cant maximize it? That is the point.

[@pacman1789]

@@christopherorman5769 That's the beauty of art, music, and an instrument of any kind. It can be played however the artist sees fit, however the mood strikes him to play it. There is no right or wrong style or way to play it.

[@christopherorman5769]

@@pacman1789 I'll disagree. Duke Ellington noted there is good music and bad music. There are similarly well schooled and brilliant artists and there are those who make a living as animators. The point being: there is plenty of art and not all of it is good or high purpose art. In fact, from technical standpoints, some is downright awful. If you are into Bob Ross style paintings, then KH is your jam. However, if you dig Picasso or Rivera or Kahlo or Monet, you probably want something closer to Wes Montgomery, Zoot Sims, Uri Caine, Brad Mehldau, Monk, Coltrane, Ayler, Frisell, Cedar Walton, or even Keith Jarrett. Now, we could sit here at our computers and you could argue that Bob Ross art is just as moving as Picasso's work. Fine. But if you don't see the differences in a Picasso and a Ross painting from a technical, compositional, and taste point of view, then I think you are being naive. That, is the point. KH has made his living making reproductions of Bob Ross paintings. Why he would work with Picasso's or Monet's brushes and easel doesn't make much sense.

[@manfredwei4015]

Thank you so much...your Guitar playing really touches my heart!!! This is the reason why I love British Blues so much!!!

[@missiontotransition641]

THis was awesome, thanks for sharing. THE HOLY GRAIL of rock n roll guitars!

[@bobbyosborne2375]

That out of phase sound in the middle position. Never heard a les Paul sound like that, and people, you never will again. Even in this man's hands this thing has a tone that just melts like butter. Greeny just has "it".

[@ishatype2764]

It does sound great, doesn't it? I found videos on KZbin that show you how to modify your neck PU to get them out of phase.

[@ronnie5129]

Peter Green made me want to play guitar, May he R.I.P. his music will be heard forever,.......great vibrato in your fingers here, that was half of Peter;s Sound, along with the Neck pickup, that had a reversed magnet in it then put in backwards, made that very Creamy sound, there are many stories on how that pickup came to be, I did this to my Les Paul Neck Pickup, and it comes close to that sound, Cousin Figel

[@garyshepherd9226]

It was a thrill to see Kirk play it up close - and he uses it for a lot of numbers. So all respect to him.

[@bluesewitz]

Nope in every way! Ist's a real catastrophy like THIS video in any way!

[@tommurrayGTR]

@@bluesewitz I suppose you think it should be in a museum, Or with some "better" player. I highly doubt most guitar players would play the guitar live. It's meant to be played... kirk does the guitar justice. Move on.

[@bluesewitz]

@@tommurrayGTR I agree with you. Every instrument is meant to be played. A museum is like a prison. But THIS guitar has so much Blues. I'd like to hear her singing in a Bluesmans hand.

[@craigusselman546]

All these people dissing Phil are just jealous that hes a lifelong friend of a bad ass guitarIi like phils playing and damn those guitars are gorgeous.

[@roscoepcoltrane23]

Craig Usselman I agree. Still can’t believe Kirk Hammet ended up with it. Respect for him actually using it.

[@craigusselman546]

@@roscoepcoltrane23 Kirk has not only used it but has let young people play the little guy as well as guys like Phil he consideres it the peoples guitar and that it needs to be played! he just owns it. Besides Greeny has to be the most adorable lp ever if not the most historic for sure.

[@martijnverweij8687]

True

[@bigtorrisi]

It is a huge irony that Gibson dropped the Les Paul in 1960 because no one was buying it, then Fender was making plans to drop the stratocaster in 1968 and replace it with the Jaguar again because no one was buying it. These two icons nearly bit the bullet.

[@BlindTom61]

Not '68, '62.

[@b.rodclark7349]

I recently rewired my LP-X w/a G&B Golden Age Parsons Street neck pickup and its Alnico 2 magnet was accidentally flipped before I ordered it 2yrs ago; i grew up on that sound on Fleetwood Mac appearance on the 'Blues Jam In Chicago Volume 2' album from 1969 and i was more convinced around the time I rewired my guitar when I heard the original 'Black Magic Woman' for the very first time that I had to go all the way back to the John Mayall bluesbreakers album from 1967... I tell you that tone is NO joke; R.I.P. to Peter Greenbaum and Gary Moore.

[@marcelpacheco7878]

God bless both Phil and Kirk.

[@rgbplumbinghilton]

sounds incredible..... even the bad note sound great!!

[@terryharrison5185]

Absolutely superb 😎

[@stephenfarmer3908]

Love the sound of that beautiful guitar dreamey

[@chrisnichols4077]

Phil your a legend my friend… ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

[@LRD113]

Gary Moore and Scott Gorham was the reason I’ve started playing guitar in late seventies

[@pmac2740]

tasteful playing, nice one

[@scarcam]

Anyone know who the secret luthier is?

[@5150show]

Thank you 🙏

[@iamjhunelleph215]

THANK YOU!

[@folkestonehorror2723]

Thank you Phil. And thank you Kurt for sharing this wonderful guitar with the world. “Greenie” is more like a person than a thing.

[@NovaPrime5012]

That's not the real one. If you look there like 3 of them. This was a reissue.

[@aquilarossa5191]

The tone of the second tune he played reminded me of Billy Gibbons on Blue Jeans Blues for some reason. Pearly Gates out of phase in the middle position too?

[@Rainyman63]

Rumours are, Blue Jean Blues was a Telecaster. (Billy G always used more than one guitar in studio and live)

[@JudgeFredd]

Sounds beautiful with lot of taste

[@hydeane]

NO one plays that guitar like Gary Moore!

[@calvinking8586]

hydeane Gary Moore was the greatest .

[@jp1234..]

Peter green is the god

[@BenJayToken]

Gary was all scales, Peter was all soul

[@jbojoify]

LOL how about peter green idiot

[@shawnmcvey7789]

@@BenJayToken That's the thing about Gary Moore: he wasn't all just scales. Watch the video in Germany of Gary and B.B. King where he has one of the best "conversations" ever recorded by 2 guitarists on the blues. I'm a huge B.B. King fan and that was the video that convinced me to look beyond Thin Lizzy for Gary Moore. I thought he was just a shredder but B.B. King's face says it all. There's also audio of Gary Moore playing on While My Guitar Gently Weeps with George Harrison where he just brings the goods. It's not shredding but it's not noodling either😇 Harrison himself was a big Gary Moore fan after Still Got The Blues. He apparently loved Moore's vibrato, bending, and melodic sense. Peter Green was cool as fuck, but he wasn't even the best guitarist in Fleetwood Mac when he fronted it. Danny Kirwan was. Green was a very mysterious package deal with a fantastic voice, original songwriting, completely unique guitar sound/style, and he was quite the handsome man at that point. If anything all 3 guitarists were really cool and different in that lineup but when people say Clapton or Green are the greatest guitarist ever I really wonder if they learned a few of their licks and then stopped trying to get better. Even Freddie King, who predates british blues, could play circles around most of those british guys pretty much until Jeff Beck came along. There is no hierarchy, and any guitarist that can connect with people, no matter how few, is doing their job. Like I said before, Green was more of a package deal than a guitar hero. Clapton falls into this category too IMHO.

[@johnperiard9594]

All the great guitars should be shown and played for audiences not in private collections stored away. This is gold. Jimmys, Jimi's, Gilmore's, Lennon, Richrath,

[@joshgarland9085]

6:00 min what's he playing?

[@tonekilltech]

Need Your Love So Bad - Fleetwood Mac from Pious Bird of Good Omen. A Peter Green classic.

[@gkkes]

@@tonekilltech Shame the bassist wasn't! Blimey....

[@MARTINA-gc3tq]

Who turned the neck pickup on Greeny?

[@petermalezewski4022]

I rather see that guitar in a museum Gary's Soul is the guitar

[@cobowe]

Which pickup company is Phil talking about?

[@craigusselman546]

PS he said he was nervous playing Greeny but i think phil was meant to play him why would it be in his life so often.

[@BeesWaxMinder]

Was this in Aintree Liverpool?

[@SalvadorDantes]

11:20 odd is where he hit that peter green mojo. FairPlay man, that was nice. So jealous though.

[@barryb90]

Wow, Imagine being the original owner of Stripe and looking after Greeny.

[@dzjc01]

What an incredible guitar! Too bad that first jam was a train wreck. Not sure the bass player was even paying attention to the chord structure.

[@johno6590]

Kirk can and does play like this, on his own time, for kicks. Problem is, he is often quite busy playing to 50-100,000 fans in sold out stadiums on every continent on earth.

[@pablofichaje]

Is this the Phill Harris who played Baloo in The Jungle Book?!?!?! That's impossible, but dreaming is free

[@lfscrazy]

That wobbling around at the start. Ah well, it's already had a neck break!

[@johnperiard9594]

The sustain

[@mladenvukojevic3530]

Najgori svirac sa najboljom gitarom na svetu...hvala bogu pa je sada u rukama pravog majstora

[@iklimhunianrumahbordil9375]

the radius dont look like 12

[@lucakaluso3257]

14:31 ...I was sweating.

[@andrewtate8303]

Sounds great to me

[@bluesewitz]

Nope.

[@schou1170]

7:08 Fucks up sooo bad 😂

[@Tanner_Sparrow]

its sad to imagine the wall-hanging fate of some amazing vintage guitars at auction, glad that kirk picked up greeny.

[@teamokra]

Yep. Glad the Kossoff Burst gets played daily. 😉

[@raymondvaughan6262]

Nice to kirk still using it take care of it very pressus les paul pete was a brilliant guitarist but gary could make that thing sing brilliant rip pete and gary both great musicians 👍

[@malcolmadams2105]

But does it come with the original case??” Het

[@jonathangoldrick8279]

lol at all the six string heroes in the comments, the bass player was pobably a ring in, but it doesn't matter because it's a gear showcase. not a concert.

[@toneyisaiah408]

Vintage guitar v. modern guitar.

[@vincentvalkiers5587]

The way he picked up the guitar made me uncomfortable.

[@jeffdelaney8934]

Gibson and Fender both distributed these guitars in the US and Canada from the beginning.I took alot of guitars across the border but nobody cared back then.Canadians were never lacking availability to these instruments.

[@martijnverweij8687]

Its The original peter green sound !!!

[@WesW3187]

Gee that tone sounded like Peter Green.

[@markburrows1563]

What a guitar .. while I hate the concept of amazing guitars being locked away I just can't get my head round this guitar playing metal licker riffs .. sorry but there it is.

[@sugarkitty4777]

24 mins of my life I can't get back.

[@keithagnew5934]

I'm yours forever baby.

[@URSoulSurgeon]

Phil is a much better player than this. The bas player is putting him off. I could find much better bass players at my local jam night...rookies.

[@toneyisaiah408]

Fender called Gibson stodgy old guitar company.

[@AndyBartoshGuitarExperience]

A great example that it doesn´t help if you own one of the most legendary guitars in the world.

[@AndyBartoshGuitarExperience]

@@EDDIE.EDDISON Nope, just ears. 😀

[@beannie60]

Phil Harris is no Peter Green and no Gary Moore that's for sure, and if Phil played like this at that time, I know why Gary ripped it from him Gary didn't want that bad mojo going into the guitar!

[@Peter-sk5vg]

Try tuning it

[@wiseguy9202]

You mean my $2600 Les Paul does the same exact thing? I saved some money apparently!

[@nethbt]

That's Kirky

[@georgecenteno4711]

Hendrix made anything six string work for him, so it's just not the instrument itself that gives you your mojo.

[@fredriksvard2603]

Bend bend feel feel. Guitar must be bored out of its mind.

[@brianhitchmough6628]

Jeezus that was painfull

[@The123tanner]

Tony Soprano can play guitar lol

[@stickylizardbabyangel]

The band is a plain disaster. It's unfair to the guitarist, really, doing the best he could. Tasteless bluesless drumming, and a bass player who could lead you to sleep.

[@jamessullivan300]

Kirk Hammett rules, HE made it famous in my opinion. Metal forever!! 🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼

[@johnquigleyartist]

Go learn your music history buddy.

[@jacoblevy0217]

You've got some problems man

[@DanielRodriguez-eh1qd]

Kirk is my favorite guitar player but no he didn’t make it famous. The reason Kirk bought is because it was already famous from all the players who’ve either owned it or played it. I will say Kirk did add more fame to it since many people who didn’t know the story behind the guitar now do.

[@bobolsen8067]

Thats the dumbest thing i ever heard.Anyone that knows anything about music history knows that Peter Green played that guitar on John Mayalls Hard Road album and all the early Fleetwood Mac stuff.And then Gary Moore had it for 30 years and used it on basically all his albums including Thin Lizzy etc.So Kirk Hammet is a tiny little ant in the history of this guitar.And he sucked back in the 80,s-90,s and he sucks now.And its not”a matter of taste”its a fact!So learn something bonehead.

[@surinaam1186]

Thing is your opinion is objectively false.

[@Mouse.___.]

5:36, 6:53👍😂

[@URSoulSurgeon]

Totally? What a bedshitting experience

[@Mouse.___.]

@@URSoulSurgeon This is called free play

[@modali034]

Garry Moore wouldn't be this boring. do yourself a favor and listen to Django Reinhardt

[@eneaplatania6105]

Non te la meriti sta chitarra

[@Dr.Fiendish]

Horrible to this the guitar abused in this way.

[@pascalcucchi6918]

His playing is just 🤮🤮🤮 Poor Gary's Les Paul 😔

[@ambmainman]

Sorry but Phil or Hammett.....are not worthy!

[@starchild6347]

Sounds like shit in the wrong hands though, doesn't it?

[@starchild6347]

Michael Bataska See post above...then listen again. Now fuck off.

[@waynedeadder664]

Yikes. The band is a mess and this guy doesn't even know a diminished chord. He sounds like every wannabe blues guitarist in every music store

[@jimtherevoltor]

Wayne Deadder that’s harsh why is the band a mess? phils playing is spot on and tasteful, not sure what guitar shops you go to they must have a bloody high standard of players!

[@waynedeadder664]

jimtherevoltor he's not playing the right chords. There's a diminished chord he treats as a #4. It's basic Blues knowledge

[@jimtherevoltor]

Wayne Deadder since when has the blues been about sticking to the rules? whichever way he plays it, the band and him are most definitely not a mess.

[@waynedeadder664]

jimtherevoltor since he's covering an actual song with actual chords....which he plays incorrectly

[@colinpadley1897]

@@jimtherevoltor you must be joking, he cant even bend a string in tune.

[@ericnootebos5855]

From Gary to Kirk.....Poor greeny..Anyway"s good it"s not locked away somewhere in a safe though..

[@fredriksvard2603]

Eric Nootebos it moved up in the world

[@ericnootebos5855]

@@fredriksvard2603 Moneywise yes. But respect he takes it out to play, it could have been worse than this right? And basicly it's just a piece of wood with strings..;), so all is good.

[@fredriksvard2603]

Eric Nootebos i think its awesome, i aldo think kirk is a great showman and that hes written some great stuff in his time. The guy in this video though, ugh.

[@DougHinVA]

awful and tedious

[@markjovanelli2607]

terrible rough dry playing to me.

[@ajpeagle]

What awful playing.

[@colinpadley1897]

I agree, Gary must be turning in his grave, on another video he states that the guitar was taken off him as he was stealing Gary's thunder!! deluded aint the word, massive ego but why?

[@joshmuz9018]

Horrid

[@enlightenedchristian3183]

That bass sound is woeful and out of time .

[@enlightenedchristian3183]

@@colinpadley1897 I've heard him play worse he's getting better late in life.