"Pick of the Day" - 1959 Gibson Les Paul Standard and 1992 Matchless DC-30

[@blakespurlock5322]

I could never own a guitar where I had to put a towel on my knee to hold it haha.

[@usuario296]

Your every day’s video should be: “another 1959 LP Std demo” I’d watch it every day.

[@voyager7]

That LP is INSANE!!! Super cool!

[@90sPunkRockCovers]

Mouthwatering guitar, just amazing.

[@TheInfiniteFret]

100% original "with the exception of the strings". Nice way to put it. That put a grin on my face.

[@iwillnevergetone5]

this guitar will never see another club gig again

[@jerrymckenzie6205]

Or any gig of any kind.

[@stanesposito2664]

Unless Bonamassa buys it! 😉

[@oldtimetinfoilhatwearer]

It’s a damned shame.

[@producer.james1]

Likely it'll just be on display. Sucks to be honest.

[@socialdef3]

americans worry about all the wrong things. not even "first world" problems anymore. Or first world for that matter.

[@Tellyfive]

Need to plug that into a Marshall and crank.

[@Ralphydub]

So wonder how much it sold for?

[@vernonhoover1387]

Fantastic burst.love to hear it w/ an old marshall

[@emeraldcityguitars]

Keep watching the series Vernon. We won't disappoint!

[@jeffbeck6501]

yes me too. Matchless sound dark and muddy to me.

[@TheCombatMedicBand]

Sometimes the neck pickup is underestimated 05:33

[@johnora3857]

Gil Rodriguez the relatively bright and transparent neck pickup is the point of pafs imho!!

[@jr13227]

So glad this went to a great owner that will cherish it forever

[@cpk313]

Running the Matchless with 2 5v4's instead of the 5AR4 I see. Sounds great!

[@holmes1978]

Undisputed !

[@toddflowers8052]

That is incredible ! What a treat to see ! Thanks for this "series" ! :-)

[@stevehughes1510]

A great looking '59 and thanks for the demo.

[@BellTunnel]

Awesome guitar, guys. I don’t see it online. Is it already sold?

[@kevinbecker1901]

It must be an honor to even pick it up.

[@ferraridinoman]

Double white bobbins in the bridge p/up and Double black in the neck p/up! If the covers have never been off these PAFs how do you know? X ray vision? Clark!

[@midrider335]

What a beauty, I’m going to start saving. I figure I’ll have enough scratch to buy it in about oh...nah, I won’t live that long!

[@caloricphlogistonandthelum4008]

Really nice guitar, however, I'm pleased to report, my 2015, 3-pickup Les Paul Custom Shop, through a Marshall 1974X sounds (to me) as good!

[@codywaldron2486]

Hard to believe that ones real! Such a beautifully maintained piece 👌

[@slowtrainguitars8830]

Beautiful sounds! I guess it costs so much, they couldn't fit all the numbers on the chalkboard?

[@CiaoGibson]

Speechless............

[@jeffbeck6501]

I like the treble at 6:59. The player was not warmed up. It could have been louder in the room to sing.

[@parastrat73]

Beautiful series. And great videos. Thanks. However, I have two questions : - when you're measuring the pup, they are still soldered to the pots. So your not really reading the pups resistance ? It has 500k in parallel to it. - how can you tell the color of the bobins ? By removing one of the 6 screws ?

[@jdl2180]

When did he mention the color of the bobins?😢

[@devonfelix5943]

These guitars are so amazing, but the problem is this.. they are so highly praised because of they’re feel, and especially the sound from the PAF pickups. But now the prices are SO outrageous that they have become “collectors items” which literally takes away from everything that made them cherished in the first place. It’s just kind of odd the way we idolize items. 1- we find something that is amazing 2- we make it a highly loved and cherished piece because it does what it does better than anything else 3- we drive the value through the roof so people stop “making it do what it did best to earn the highly sought after status” in the first place. Lmfao. Best SOUNDING guitar on the planet. Best FEELING guitar on the planet. Ok, I’ll buy it for $300,000 and put it in a display case so it never gets heard or felt again. EUREKA!

[@clicheguevara5282]

That Brazilian is gorgeous. Damn.

[@Twizzlemenizzle1]

How much?

[@JaimeCerrada]

Too much.

[@blackbearbear9313]

Vary nice instrument

[@davidg-oo1ox]

Sounds awesome

[@SSStinger6]

That bridge pickup really barks!

[@megatrends]

Proper tone .... yumster!

[@eglide73]

Putting all the hype aside, the truth is that the best guitars EVER MADE are made TODAY.

[@andrewgarcia3136]

There might be some truth to that but those guitars aren't being made by Gibson for the most part. It's a fact their quality control was better in the 50s.

[@jdl2180]

In china!

[@Patrick-fm5dk]

There are guitars made today that are AS GOOD as the best of vintage, but you’re just making an ignorant arrogant generalisation.

[@GazMoz78]

A beautiful guitar and a great watch. Question; You said "the pickups have never been uncovered". Yet you know that they're a double cream and a zebra, how? :-)

[@cw4744]

typically the way that's done is by unscrewing one of the pole screws and shining a light inside or using a fiber line scope camera to creep in the top. There is usually enough clearance between the pickup cover and the bobbins.

[@gabrielm.4554]

00:22 mother of god

[@BlackRob7208]

That sound 🤤

[@w1third]

I’m gonna buy it and refret it, and change out all the hardware, put some emg’s for my metal band, when we play dive bars

[@zacharycollins6548]

Oh shit... Birdseye top. Very cool. That Matchless ain't too shabby either.

[@michaelpietzsch]

Original Frets? Where are the nibs?

[@brunoberthier8872]

So much for the carved top...

[@strictlesson]

I was thinking the same thing.

[@kootenaystringworks1765]

SIX? Holy crap!

[@Lefthandman333]

He didn't show off the coil splitting!

[@VolodyaVolodenka1981]

no active preamp, no floyd rose either(

[@ericfischer996]

@@VolodyaVolodenka1981 I think he was joking.😉

[@VolodyaVolodenka1981]

@@ericfischer996 and certainly so did I)

[@ericfischer996]

@@VolodyaVolodenka1981 Okay Vlad!

[@olshov111]

From one collector to another! Lol

[@PlayItRight]

OMG What do you call that type of wood grain? It's not a burst

[@cw4744]

the term "burst" refers to the sunburst finish on the maple top, not the wood grain. Any burst can be a plain of figured top, still is a burst finish which started sometime in mid 1958 at Gibson and continued through to the end of the production in late 1960/early 1961.

[@glenkepic3208]

I think Gibson added 'iced tea' to the ri list in reverence to the 'burst. This is the real deal.

[@sharonraizor2839]

With that scratch on the back, there's no way I'm buying it now.

[@oneofthefew1777]

LOL

[@miseryparty3726]

you can’t afford it anyway?

[@dr.buzzvonjellar8862]

Well, if I sell the house…. I won’t have a place to plug in the amp…

[@Major00Tom]

5:29

[@markrushton1516]

How did these gtrs achieve their prices? back in the day they were just a guitar. There is a critical exam of the gtr but I'll bet if you look at Page's 2 LPs, Pearly Gates or Perry's Brownburst there will be wear and tear, certainly on Page's which were on every tour/album he did. No doubt any number of luthiers could build you a gtr like this that will sound like this. certainly Gibson claim to.

[@dragan4658]

Everything you said is correct Mark. It's the history, the nostalgia behind the guitar that stays with the guitar that drives the price.

[@nathanadkins2985]

My friend built a 59 reissue. It sounds better then anything Gibson is putting out. They tried several at a guitar shop and the response was nope not even close. His 59 reissue sounded better then the Tom Murphy they had.

[@zankyalbo2208]

'Niner' !!!!!!! .... Come on Powerball .... and then ... that player '60 and this one

[@richiesplayground7092]

So high end and tasteful. I'm going to vomit now. Thanks.

[@mcampbell5158]

Just listen. Do you hear that?

[@wolfbrother2474]

I'm not hearing anything

[@mattrogers1946]

@@wolfbrother2474Well you would though, if it were playing.

[@wolfbrother2474]

Can I even look at it? No, you've seen enough of that one

[@roncollins6259]

I have a beutiful 95 P.R.S. McCarty I would be willing to trade straight up!

[@yetanotherbassdude]

Love seeing these videos and hearing all these gorgeous old guitars getting played, but it does make me kinda sad that, at least at the moment, guitars like this will always be bought by wealthy collectors to be displayed rather than played. I just wish these collectors could somehow do something similar to what the owners of Stradivarius violins do, and lend their insanely expensive and beautiful instruments to famous performers so that they can be heard in performance the way they were made to be. Put a guitar like this in the hands of Marcus King or Joey Landreth or Chris Buck - players who are too young to have been able to buy them before they hit stupid money, but who have the talent to really make them sing. The thought of all these guitars just sitting in climate controlled boxes forever is just heartbreaking to me.

[@stanesposito2664]

Less talk, more playing. 😉

[@PhoenixGuitars]

Non original strings? Pfft. Not interested.

[@ios6605]

No excuse❗️ but it’s not a burst 😩

[@fugamantew]

My gawd..😵

[@nickbruni8041]

Bonamassa bound baby !

[@khalaziafaqih367]

Put a set of active emg's , killswitch, locking tuners and bigsby

[@johnnyd63]

Don't forget the wood rout-out for my used 1997 Floyd Rose.Refinish in neon green would work too.

[@jasong546]

Just don’t get it. But it’s good that it makes people happy, that’s great.

[@jamesha175]

matchless makes a great amp. this guy did not do it justice.

[@sneifert1968]

I’ll trade you my house for it ;)

[@SalvadorDantes]

sneifert1968 you must live in a really nice house!

[@cycloptical26]

You mean Bonamassa hasn't bought it yet?

[@yetanotherbassdude]

It's come from a prominent, well-connected collector in the South West US. My money is that it's Bonamassa that's selling it, though I could be wrong. I know Bonamassa's collection of old Gibsons is huge, though.

[@elvis_chen]

Is porn legal on KZbin now?

[@BlibbertyBlobberty]

Did you just use the word 'drug' as the past tense of 'drag'? American schooling ftw.

[@janofdelft]

In 1979 I took the day off with a fistful of hard-earned cash, intending to come back home with the best LP in town. I had decided on a black LP Custom and while waiting on the sales guy to ring up some strings I picked up a curious guitar - a Yamaha SG-2000. Guess which one I went home with. The Yamaha was only $6 cheaper, so a real premium guitar. Better cosmetically, better ergonomically, better sustain, better tone, and a neck that won't break if you give it a hard look. I would like to hear it through that DC-30, though, even if it is another piece of gear that ordinary mortals can't afford. And yes, the proper word is "dragged."

[@jdl2180]

What a sad story!

[@UmVtCg]

Got any new ones? Ya know, instead of that old junk.

[@snapascrew]

All original? Hardly faded finish??? Almost mint condition????? This thing is probably going to sell for half a million dollars.

[@jonadams2783]

The strings aren't stock? No thanks.

[@bluesysamurainao4557]

Nice demo! Matchless might not be suitable for vintage guitars to my ears. I like Birdseye maple.

[@PsychicOctopus]

NSFW

[@LesleyLesPaul]

Man, play an old dirty loud blues !!! Not that stuff ... LES