"Pick of the Day" - 1959 Gibson Les Paul and 1966 Marshall JTM45 MKIV

Oh what a combo we have today! Pretty much the holy grail to quite a few out there, a 1959 Gibson Les Paul "The Son of The Preacher Man" through a 1966 Marshall JTM45 MKIV... otherwise known as the Bluesbreaker! Additionally, since our friend Phil Hurley was still in town for his last day before heading back to Texas, we though he might like to take this combo for a spin! We only have the amp in the shop for a very short period of time, so we wanted to at least give it some screen time!
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[@philtron1969]

Such an honor to be a part of this. I hope I did this amazing paring justice. Not many guitars make me nervous, but this one did.

[@imannonymous7707]

Phil Hurley great job you are worthy

[@imannonymous7707]

Damn that amp makes it scream n grind

[@benediktschlereth6070]

tasty playing Phil!!!

[@4Gunzo]

Wait does it sound as good as your goldtops

[@intoit1074]

Likes your gold top vid as well Phil. Nice work on this beast. Cheers

[@AllanOlinares]

and here i am having a shitty day, opened youtube , watched this video..fuckin made my day! now i'm practicing my chops. to hell with all the shit that was bothering me earlier. thanks for this man!

[@Oilid]

Thanks for sharing the beauty!!! This is my favourite '59 finish. My mouth is watering right now... my ears too...

[@davidcaro8217]

Outstanding combination of player, guitar, amp and tasty-as-hell chops! Win!

[@philtron1969]

Much appreciated!

[@antonioalejandrohernandezp6727]

Just PERFECT! What a combo, what a tone! If someone put a pedal between the 59 and the Marshall I would condemn him / her to play a crappy nylon guitar trough a cranked line 6 spider (insane channel) the rest of his / her life. I'm just kidding (or not ...), in my opinion this is the best "pick of the day" so far. Cheers from Spain!

[@caiof.apparicio7279]

Such tone... extremely complex, each string sounds and vibrate making nuances like a cosmic dance...omg!

[@christianmarchan6577]

The perfect combination for a really nice and cool tone

[@paulj0557tonehead]

Also perfect combination for a nicely tooled clone!

[@leedelray5947]

Regarding the "I don't get it and it sounds like shit commemts" ... What I don't think you're getting is that a JTM45 is not necessarily a "Play by itself" kinda amp... Yes it sounds like its falling apart on bottom. Thats because it kind of is. Like with a Princeton reverb, the bottom "falling apart" creates these amazing harmonics in distortion that is absolutely incredible in a band mix and on a recording. Go listen to a Dumble. They do the same thing on bottom. And people go nuts over those. It took me years and owning 3 JTm45's to realize what thus sound was all about. But once you get it... You get it. Rock on!! 😎

[@darwinsaye]

That’s just the usual JCM hair metal fans. They love tight bottoms, lol

[@markmcmyn8967]

Beautiful.

[@rustymacneil3227]

Probably the ultimate marriage!! Such tone!!

[@ryeyanmatthew]

holy smokes what a combo!

[@adambond589]

I think thats the best distorted guitar tone I've ever heard on video just that 1st chord.....damn

[@ferox965]

Stunning sound. Great chops too.

[@bandapedregal6022]

Jeeeeeesus :o the original tone and thats it !!!

[@mack1mus]

Great vid guys!! Really enjoyed it👍

[@imannonymous7707]

Did yall hear hideaway ??? Whoa!!!!

[@qualityisrare]

That was really amazing tone. But, honestly, I'm happy with my sound. I really do love my amp, and I do not find its' tone any bit inferior to what's presented here. It still sounds amazing with my cheap messed up guitar plugged into it. P.S. My amp is a modded JTM1C with a Jensen P10Q speaker. My only electric guitar is a Guitar Fetish ES335.

[@amritjanardhanan]

If it sounds good, it is good!

[@mariozamprogno1654]

Holy crap love that 59

[@rveurope]

What a set n sound, double thumbs up!!!

[@costabotes9107]

I am the same age as that guitar. Wish I looked and sounded as fine.

[@irvinghoke3591]

I like the guitar and amplifier both of them sound great I wouldn't mind having a less the Les Paul and I wouldn't mind having it now and it sounded great I mean Distortion sound Manny play that guitar real good guitar was in excellent condition it look great in that Marshall and had that Marshall sound I love Gibson guitars

[@MikeSmith-sm4zz]

Love to see slash or jimmy page on that thing! Wish I had it

[@stanesposito2664]

Love this combo! Great playing!

[@88Gibson1]

Sounds great and a great player

[@LotharOfTheHillPeople]

About time you guys put a Gibson through a Marshall. These things are meant to be overdriven. Leave the clean shit to the Fano fans.

[@glennevans5824]

Greatest combo....59 burst 60’s Marshall combo.....Beano...revisited close

[@robertallen6710]

...I just took some Beano tablets...didn't work...

[@ixvit]

Best Pick of the day, so far. Good one!

[@mattbortz10]

Phil reminds so much of the trivago dude

[@stevencancel1727]

interesting how the pinstripe material effects the tone coming from the greenbacks compared to later salt and pepper and basketweave checkerboard

[@bobboitt3126]

Sounds like Fn Heaven!

[@glenkepic3208]

Here for the amp.

[@DrChevChelios]

Great. Just great. Makes me want to be back in Seattle. Cheers, guys!

[@danpeabody5687]

Me too. Stuck in the desert fall is just not the same...

[@Chris66JTM45]

Great video guys. Is that MKIV combo still the 30 watt spec JTM45 ? I have a MKII JTM45 KT66 powered gold script logo plexi 30 watt head also with cream back plate and single speaker out just like this combo (but no trem circuit). For their size they have a killer tone when driven.

[@petal.4334]

ChrisBuck66JTM45 🎸 Hi ! Sure is ! Mk IV is Super tremolo version , I have a JTM45 Mk IV Supertremolo amp top ( 1966 ) modded before I got it ( 35 years ago !!!! ) for Master Volume , loaded with EL 34's !!!! Loudness knobs say it all !!!! 😎 🎩 Cheers from Andy 🎸

[@Chris66JTM45]

@@petal.4334 Haha yes love the use of Loudness rather than Volume ... it seems totally the right term to use given they were from the then small London based workshop of The Father Of Loud. My plexi head is also early 1966 according to Marshall who I contacted to help me verify and remains stock from new to this day ...got it second hand as a teanage kid back in 1976. So your JTM45's tremolo is presumably Valve/Tube driven via a 4th ecc83/12ax7 ?

[@petal.4334]

@@Chris66JTM45 Indeed -Tremolo driven by Ecc83 tube , serial # 7050 🖖 Cheers for reply 🎸 Andy 🎩 😎

[@Chris66JTM45]

My non trem JTM45 MkII is serial # 5246 and just love it ... a piece of Marshall history

[@petal.4334]

@@Chris66JTM45 Absolutely !!! Classic Vintage Tones - Feel those Harmonics !!! 🎸 Cheers 🎩 😎

[@richtfingers]

Two observations: those pickups are set well down in the body. And if it were a real good ‘59, would JoeB have let it go?

[@allthings1150]

richtfingers when your talking about $3-400,000 and him having a few of them and having one that looks and plays almost the same but a little better condition; yes I could see someone like JB selling this one. With the the way joe has his money tied up with so many guitars and amps, and the caliber of musician he is, $3-400,000 is most likely still a good amount of money.

[@quindariouscooch9888]

My inner Led Zeppelin fan is satisfied

[@9imack]

Where's the dirt? Great demo but with that guitar through that amp I'd have loved to hear those PAFs growl a bit more.

[@dumbdickler670]

Where's the dirt? It's in the entire video?

[@darwinsaye]

Dumb Dickler Just another ultra high gain fan. He must’ve wandered over from the JCM900 demos by mistake.

[@cobowe]

I’d prefer to hear it through a JTM 50

[@amritjanardhanan]

KT66s > EL34s any day

[@2204JCM]

Yeah I love the sound of les Paul’s though Marshalls but this isn’t it…

[@dimidoul8166]

The guitar is $10.000 less worth because one pickup ring is broken :D

[@nerfnerfification]

Lovely guitar and amp but somehow it does not sound quite right - tuning or old strings????

[@OnTheFritz602]

Silly question. What sets the 59' above the 58'? I know they slimmed the neck in 60' , but why is the 59' so highly regarded? Is there any real difference from the 58'?

[@jeffhudson2346]

The neck shape is in-between the 58 and the 60 and many players consider the 59 neck just right, while I don't have a 59 my LP has a modern version of the 59 neck and I agree with that sentiment.

[@kardRatzinger]

Wicked

[@michaelcraig9449]

Do they make 1959 re-issues? Do they make re-issues of the JTM-45 combo amp like this? Is this what is known as a plexi? I know the head and cab ones are plexis, just wondering if this one will deliver that plexi tone, without having to crank the volume so high that no one can stand it.

[@Wyatt42069]

Michael Craig Yes, Gibson makes lots of ‘59 Reissues out of the Custom Shop. They’re getting really close, the new 2019s are fantastic. A JTM45 isn’t what people are referring to when they say “Plexi”, that would be the late 60’s Super Lead models. A JTM45 combo amp like this is what people call a “Bluesbreaker”, cause Clapton used one on the John Mayall Bluesbreakers album and thats what they’re known for. Marshall does make Bluesbreakers reissues that are super nice, but they’re usually just as expensive as a Plexi. Go watch Johan Segeborn’s videos on yt, he does a lot of Marshall stuff

[@michaelcraig9449]

@@Wyatt42069 Does Gibson make re-issues that are not real expensive custom shop ones? A 60's super lead one would be a 1959 model. I see Johands videos a lot. He has cool stuff. Do they make a 1959 plexi type model, or some other plexi type, in a combo, does anyone know?

[@Wyatt42069]

Michael Craig Kinda, the new LP Standard’s have a fair amount of historical accuracy. ABR1, Kluson, 50s wiring, etc. I don’t know if they have the long neck tenon, true nitro lacqeur, etc though. Marshall has slapped the Super Lead name on some combos before, but none of them were a true “Plexi”

[@rudymikula7129]

What power tubes did the Bluesbreaker have?

[@scubbarookie]

Natural breakup and incredible tone! Why not! Lol

[@122Music1]

Cool video, nice work.. Funny though... As taste would have it, I would never play full time with the sounds this rig offers...Not my bag.. However;Thanks for the video. Very cool to see and hear the real deal gear... So glad I don't like vintage sound or else I'd be broke. 8))

[@rickenbacker40011]

bold to NOT have the guita rin the thumbnail hahaha

[@srh361]

Sorry but I guess my hearing is broken cause I just didn't get into it.

[@metalcavy33]

Do you guys have payment plans? Haha. Jk. Love the videos. Keep it up.

[@jeffbeck6501]

I like the guitar better than the amp. The amp sounds a bit distorted but still great. The guitar sounds perfect. The player is great.

[@FerrariMarchini]

Jeff Beck Are you Geoffrey Arnold Beck?

[@tommieberggren3324]

My wife: - You watching porn again ? Me: - Yea...kinda.

[@richardelson3261]

Oh Lordy. That’s enormous and seductive

[@iagobroxado]

When it became fashionable to give names to all '58-'60 Les Pauls? Since Bonamassa started buying all of them?

[@electricritual4197]

They started to have names before Bonamassa was buying them. It was nothing more than a clever sales pitch. Name your guitar. Then the unknowing would think, oh it has that name. It must be something special. Remember a lot of people who bought these guitars. In the 90s when they're price skyrocketed. We're doctors and lawyers that didn't play guitars. You give it a name and now it all the sudden has credibility.

[@johnmirabile3535]

ALL GOOD, BUT I RATHER PUT A LES PAUL THROUGH FENDER RIG ANYDAY....THERES A CERTAIN TONE I PREFER AND THE MARSHALL TO MY EARS IS TOO BASSY....AND GOES TO FAR INTO HARDER ROCK FOR ME....LOVE DIRTY BLUES TONES, BUT ITS SUCH A SMALL PARAMETER FOR ME, TILL IT STARTS GETING TOO MUSHY....PHIL DID A GOOD JOB KEEPING IT IN THAT ZONE...

[@fedup3449]

But i can make these noises on my 2012 LP with a 500 quid DSL40. So why pay more, as they say?

[@paulj0557tonehead]

Are you sure that Les Paul isn't 500 years old?

[@zmartian9173]

That amp tho...

[@simon01ize]

Creamy,creamy goodness!

[@tonyshoe3131]

the thing is.... there are so many amps on the market today , tubes & non tubes that can get you that exact same tone for a lot less $$$.

[@Liysrigede]

and why is my '90 1962 pair with my 96LP std sounded better to me? must be the tube, the vid recorder or my mobile phone speaker.

[@JH-yk5se]

2:31

[@Acducec]

My Ibanez and Line 6 smoke them ..kidding . .. Lol Nice rig giver a good dusting hehe

[@robertallen6710]

....Trevor is super nice guy, making the vid much more enjoyable to watch...ty...but then...HATE seeing guys finger pick an electric...

[@HomoChomsky]

Hate seeing guys hating guys who finger pick an electric. Seriously.

[@darwinsaye]

That’s a lot of hate for Jeff Beck and Mark Knopfler. But let me guess; you hate them too...

[@richfiryn]

Call for price on the 59?

[@Mfkfjdnsks]

i think they are asking 340,000 USD

[@stephenmcdonald1648]

Holy hell. You could buy 50+ brand new custom shop '59 RIs for that price. ..Or one 59 RI, a new car, and a nice house.

[@IHATEYANKS41]

Rather hear this through an AC30, saying that a les Paul really does nothing for me, give me a Rickenbacker !

[@whimpypatrol5503]

By making LPs weigh a ton and finishing them with gold tops, Gibson designers foresaw better than anyone what these guitars would eventually be worth on the vintage market.

[@dumbdickler670]

I don't see the correlation

[@allthings1150]

Ummm, no they didn’t; and they put hold on them because Les Paul thought it looked good and nobody was doing it on any guitars.

[@dumbdickler670]

@@allthings1150 I think it was a joke based on these guitars being worth their weight in gold

[@osidejosh87]

Maybe it’s the one you left behind? Lol

[@davidfellows6250]

But does it sound like a half a million dollars? I'm still pissed I spent 3k on my l.p. especially when I play my sg I built for around 600$ in the end some rich dummy will buy that stuff for resale and it will never get played.

[@jimmyc5438]

I agree, just another old guitar and old amp. Old = Best Ever apparently. I'm no expert but I would like to see a blindfold challenge with a new Les Paul played thru some custom patch in studio against this old combo, and ask the listener which one sounds 600 thousand dollars better.

[@davidfellows6250]

@@jimmyc5438 yeah I've got a new lp (2014) and a relatively new Marshall and I think the combo always sound good even more so than some of the old stuff. Also I was watching Kempler videos and I just might be a stubon old guy that thinks tubes make a huge difference. Either way 2500$ buys you a real nice tube head

[@ro307805]

A patch? Lol. A guy put his Kemper and patch against my JTM50t(1967) and was embarrassed so much he went outside. When he came back he wanted to “profile” the amp. When he made the profile it sound3d good as a digital file, but live it just didn’t have the presence , warmth, or Girth of the real thing. A huge waste of thousands of dollars. Even this video can’t reproduce that “girth” a real bluesbreaker has.

[@davidfellows6250]

@@ro307805 thats how i feel about trans stuff. It doesnt breath and the feel is so different. That said i havent tried any of the new stuff but i have five really cool amps. So i dont need a profiler and if i had 3k for another amp hughs and kettner or something retardedly high gain. Just caz .

[@jerrymorganjr]

Supply and demand. That's why it's worth a half million. In a time when Norlins were all you could get, you bet these sounded like a million bucks. Nowadays we've got tons of stuff to choose from.

[@maatias.herrera]

Put some heavy metal content on the channel

[@mrflipperflopper3495]

Sorry.... it sounded muffled woofy...I know what that amp can sound like and I KNOW it can be dialed in to where that les Paul can sound god like !

[@LysanderLH]

Almost 2020 and people are still playing 1920s blues riffs.

[@joshmuz9018]

Darryl of Sussex can’t beat the best no matter what year it is and those licks are 60s mostly

[@TheRicokilla]

Abit too muddy

[@petrabonnet9664]

Not the money worth. Close your eyes and i bet 50% can't here whats a squire strat and whats a 250t dollar les pauls.....

[@kevinrichardson14]

Sounded a lil to muddy and fizzy for my preference I think it would have sounded better to my ears if it was played through fender tweed twin or blackface

[@johncartelli]

bluesbreakers are rather dirty...

[@darrenc8776]

You tube doesn't do stuff justice. Plus this guys missing more notes that he's hitting

[@jimmyparris9892]

I like Gibsons and Marshalls, but this just sounded like crap to me. Maybe this particular guitar just doesn't like this amp or vice versa.

[@johncartelli]

sound is so much a matter of opinion....i think it sounds better like this then all high endy like thru a new marshall,,but much of what you hearing is the old blues breaker too

[@Drogers8675]

This comment proves the point that some people will never be happy

[@whuseman1881]

Sorry but there wasn't anything amazing about this tone. The tone sounds flat, dead and sterile. Like it's "flubbing out" Funny how people say "wow that's amazing tone" because it's a vintage Marshall and 59 Burst but if this same exact tone was coming from a Crate amplifier and a pawnshop Johnson, they would say "man...that really sounds like shit" #Truth

[@richardhenley817]

You're so right ! 😂

[@ttswan]

Those speakers are tired man, and sound like it. Nice playing tho. Not the most impressive '59 Burst I've heard either.

[@mca1960]

a very muddy sound......

[@reddsshaker3477]

Nice playing, but that sounds like a wet fart. I’ll never understand the fascination with these brittle, buzzy tones. Just not a pleasant tone imo. Just me I guess.

[@need2knowblue]

Thanks for never playing the neck pickup

[@philtron1969]

I believe that's the neck pick up at about 4:15

[@robertallen6710]

...absolutely HATE neck pups...and I spent a fortune on one for my 72 LP deluxe...

[@allthings1150]

Robert Allen anyone who knows what True Tone is loves the neck pickup in a Les Paul. That’s where that beautiful creamy sound comes from you hear like 75-80% of the time on songs. Most people use the neck pickup more than the bridge pickup, watch Alman Brothers Band and Slash just to name a cpl; they use the neck WAY more than the bridge pickup.

[@waynepayne864]

imagine spending 300,000 dollars to play a dozen eric clapton songs

[@Dagger_323]

Imagine thinking that's all this rig can do.

[@waynepayne864]

@@Dagger_323 imagine thinking the market for this gear isnt 99% people who arent artistic enough to do anything else

[@Dagger_323]

@@waynepayne864 That's still about 99% more artistic talent then you likely have so I'll take it.

[@edgarp66]

And a couple jimmy page tracks lol

[@firebrandbrigade]

@@waynepayne864 Hmm, I don’t recognize your name. You in a band or play anything yourself? Your channel looks conveniently empty…

[@capitanvonchickenpants8492]

Don't know what all the fuss is about, heard teles through bandits sound as good it's all snake oil to me

[@HomoChomsky]

Snake oil, or lacklustre sense of hearing?

[@cerbertschmeuwler3234]

I love the guitar. Aside from 60’s EC recordings, these amps don’t do it for me. The drive sounds ratty and the bass is woofy. I had a reissue bluesbreaker for a while and really wanted to like it but couldn’t get on with it. To get it to break up like this, the reissue had to be way beyond a reasonable stage volume, feeding back all the vocal mics. Tonewise, it was a one trick pony, didn’t take pedals well, and clean tones had the typical Marshall butteryness I don’t like. It always seemed I had to fight this amp and the attack was sluggish- like it gave back about 50% of what I gave it, as opposed to Fenders which are spot on and Voxes almost come alive on their own in the upper harmonics. I remain convinced that the popularity of the SM57 is due to how well it imposes itself upon dull-sounding amps like Marshalls.

[@whynottalklikeapirat]

... and then it's not even about picks :(

[@Schlumbucketreturns]

My SG sounds better than that.

[@DENIEL381]

TERRIBLE PLAYING .....WOW

[@bastardbus]

That sounded like absolute poop.....might as well been an Epiphone through a Hot Rod Devillle.

[@chrisbradshaw159]

Another Fender ripoff! This comes from a Brit from Manchester UK. Maybe you should give a listen to Selmer or Watkins amps? Great playing though,thank you.

[@guitarocd9984]

Too much vibe.

[@rorycunningham5457]

Good guitar(maybe)crappy amp it just farts sounds terrible.