"Pick of the Day" - 1959 Gibson ES-345 and Friedman Smallbox 50

[@90sPunkRockCovers]

Out of all the guys you bring in to demo, this dude is my favorite. Great tone, great playing. Cheers.

[@ArkyMalarkey]

I'm not saying it's the greatest invention since sliced bread, but contrary to what Trevor Boone implies at around 1:10, the ES-345's Varitone had nothing to do with its stereo wiring.

[@Tonetwisters]

Other than that it feeds into two separate output channels.

[@thefraish2660]

The Fool and Me! Trower quote. Nice, Karl.

[@tootiegrigio713]

Wow, that sounded so good!! Great playing, gave me a lot of different tastes!

[@vincentboucher8726]

Beautiful and sound amazing !

[@johnladdsmusic]

That Karl fella should do more demos....just beautiful

[@Tonetwisters]

Nice sounding rig!!

[@brownsfan7753]

Nice! All the way around!!

[@spacegoat77]

Awesome equipment and fantastic playing. Thank you for not just going to full overdrive. It’s beautiful hearing just the subtle breakup! Love your videos thanks!

[@bluesysamurainao4557]

Nice play! I wanna record in this fabulous store!

[@94Shredder]

That’s the best I’ve ever heard a Friedman small box sound!!!!!

[@augustschmid3893]

Great gear and demo! Just curious Karl, for the slightly "gainier" parts, was that 2nd channel of the smallbox or a pedal in front of the plexi channel?

[@karlvandervelden3373]

2nd channel, yes. I had a little footswitch in front of me that I stepped on to go back and forth. Super cool little amp!

[@augustschmid3893]

@@karlvandervelden3373 Cool. Thanks for the info. :)

[@davidkieltyka9]

Not sure if Gibson put together matched pickup sets in 1959, with the narrower polepiece spacing for the neck pickup, but they sure did so later on. So this pair could both be original.

[@blackhawk-editsandmore3654]

Another Grail right there! Thanks for this amazing footage :)

[@toddflowers8052]

OMG ! This is my #1bucket list guitar ! 😎🎸👍❤

[@elliottsmith7173]

Sounds awesome, I can stand by Friedman amps ive got the Dirty Shirley and it sounds phenomenal no pedals played with my Les Paul R8. they cost a lot of money but sound like a lot of money.

[@TheNohcim]

Dirty Shirley is the one I’d want, I think..! Someday

[@iainfreeman5112]

I love these guitars. I have a mono reissue. I personally would keep the varitone and just make it mono.

[@luapnoguob9828]

No!!! Leave it original and just plug into two amps or into two different inputs with the stereo cable !

[@jcsk8]

Two of the saddles screws were changed. The beveled ones.

[@TybudX]

I'm not afraid to say that you should let Karl out of the bag more often!

[@iainfreeman5112]

Covert it to mono, but keep the Varitone, it some cool tones in it. I have a 2014 reissue of this, and love it. Gibsons done the right thing and made the reissues mono. If only I can get to play an original.

[@Marshall-q4p]

I thought he was gonna make it sound good? Brittle tone and no flow at all. I own this amp and it is amazing!! You guys made it sound like a peavey

[@tonireimer3839]

I have a 1968 Gibson ES345TD that belonged to my deceased brother, its been in its case close to 43yrs, I take it out once in awhile to clean it but otherwise its it almost perfect condition. Beautiful guitar

[@edrowley1]

Enjoy it, play it, love it.

[@thenut1212]

Holy Shit!

[@rickhuepers5161]

Hey, let's pay full price for an iconic guitar because some guy thinks the first thing we should do is rip it to shreds.............................yep, let's do that. :-(

[@jessehudson7113]

No shit rubbed me the wrong way also

[@projectmoon13]

I’m gonna say that I believe that this is three tones sunburst not tobacco sunburst. It’s got way too much red in it. I own one of these and it’s listed as a three tone sunburst. You said it was tobacco and I disagree. Respectfully.

[@embreesmith7613]

fast talker !!

[@blackace4999]

Fuyooooooo

[@Mistershredd]

He's not very knowledgeable, is he?

[@um9272]

The player is a miss ‚

[@ehchicomx]

Great equipments, terrible guitar player... More blues, please!

[@karlvandervelden3373]

Francisco...what possible good can come from your unkind comment about my playing? On the other hand, I suppose one good thing is that we can all see what kind of human being you are.

[@eriksvensson5820]

Nah, I prefer this type of playing in guitar videos when it sounds like "music" being played rather than random blues noodling. That's also what makes Andy's demos enjoyable imo.

[@ryanfulldark2775]

It’s fantastic playing! What’s your deal, man? Jealous? This demo displays the sweet tone this guitar is capable of and Karl executes this masterfully.

[@jcsk8]

Dude. Shut up.

[@cardbored_]

@@karlvandervelden3373 don’t sweat it man, playing sounded great through that amp! Ignore the negative haters.