"Pick of the Day" - 1962 Gibson SG 'The Fool' Replica and 1969 Marshall 'Bluesbreaker'
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- čas přidán 28. 08. 2024
- Today we've got another special instrument for you, a replica of the famous guitar named 'The Fool'! A dead-on recreation of the paint job on a 1962 Gibson SG loaded with Patent Number pickups, straight out of Brian Ray's collection! A few minor changes including a refret, tailpiece and tuners, this guitar is a real eye catcher and a great player as well. Today we have Aaron Hiebert on the demo through the 1969 Marshall Model 1961 Tremolo 50w 'Bluesbreaker' 4x10 combo you saw yesterday!
For more information on the guitar or amp, please give us a call or check out:
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Music: The Hollers "Zeb' (Instrumental)
Guitar to amp, straight in. Million dollar sound. That is an exceptional Gibson.
More amp than guitar...
The sound is weak to me . Kinda disappointing
Honestly, the stolen guitars Clapton doesn’t go after is insane.
I had the pleasure of checking out your store while on vacation over Labor Day weekend. Loved seeing all the classic guitars. I hope to come back someday.
Amazing
I just can’t personally imagine having guitars like this come and then go.
The licks are fiery today 🔥
The original is owned by the Hard Rock Cafe.
lame.
that Marshall, wow🎸
Hiebert. Always enjoy hearing him.
Wow. Several weeks ago I requested a video on an SG Standard, and hear it is! I am impressed. Cannot get over how those humbuckings ring like a bell in places ... just knockout. Incredible rig. Great playing. Thank you for posting this!
all that build up to a mediocre guitar player? disappointing.....
That Bluebreaker is Epic.
Comment, I watched the Fool paint the side of the Aquarius Theater back in 69 while Hair was being played there. Anyone remember those days?
Well, close! My brother just opened a small music store in Tallahassee Florida and had a guy psycho-paint the front in similar fashion! He had to paint the part above the door, upside down, while standing on the roof! Looked fabulous. And yes, THOSE were the daze!
Oh meu god, Amazing! iconic guitar 🎸
Todd Rundren owned it for a bit my friend played it at Todd’s place in Philadelphia
I had an SG when I was 17 (1980) ...and was always worried that the neck to body joint would snap - & I still think this every time I see a photo of one...plus they can cast a shadow a little bit like Batman's . I do have Gibson style 3 way switch / 2 humbuckers on every electric guitar I play though ...
The original is much more sloppy, as far as the painting. As a replica, this is painted too well. The lines are too crisp. If you saw them next to each other, the differences would be very obvious.
Problem is most people wouldn't know or think this. So when people see a replica that would be painted exactly like the original they wouldn't be as impressed and they wouldn't sell as well.
I got to see Cream in Denver in October, 1968. That was two months before he "loaned" it to Jackie Lomax. I was somewhat (not much!) disappointed that he wasn't playing it. Instead, he played a Gibson Firebird. Lomax later sold it to Todd Rundgren!
My first Clapton gig was summer 1969. EC used his sweet sounding red 335 for most of those shows but I think the Firebird showed a few times too.
George Harrison actually sold “The Fool” to Todd Rudgren for $500 in 1975.
I myself saw them original at the Museum of Modern Art as well under glass and it truly I saw a work of art with sounds on many a vinyl in the day.Todd R is a lucky owner..
THE FOOL WAS SUPER CREAMY ✌🔥
Sick demo
I just learned one of those nasty riffs. Love the playing and the guitar a lot of fun too.
Painted by Simon and Marijke from Holland. You can always hang the guitar on the wall. There are paintings more expensive.
Epic rig.
The original Fool just sold for 1.27 million to Jim Irsay to add to his massive collection
The original has a Gibson (vertical) Vibrola tailpiece with nylon bridge saddles for the lower three strings.
Emerald City Guitars - thanks dudes nice video. Unusual riffage your guy with glasses is playing.
Does this guitar have less pickup windings than a 'normal' SG with the same pickups?
Saw Todd Rundgren who owned the fool in a video. He says the original had less windings lending to it a shriller tone.
Amazing guitar!
Good guitar playing
You're killing' me, brother. Wow.
Repro's aren't uncommon but i love this.
Todd sold The Orig for tax reasons but was gifted a repro from a fan in Japan.
Look up "Black Mariah" for Todd. I was like 14.....guit needed a neck semi replacement.
The fool is a really cool guitar 🎸👍🏻🤘
Jezz, what a cool intro
There are a couple of inaccuracies in their video. This was not the first one painted by Ian Wilkie. He painted a total of TWO that I'm aware of, and mine was painted first in 1989. It's a '64, like Clapton's. When Ian sent it back to me he included a hand-written note that stated, among other things, that had he known how much paint and work it would entail, he would have charged me a lot more. I don't think he would have written that for the second Fool replica. From what I can see in the video, this guitar is the same guitar that was owned by someone named Brian Goff, as the back of the headstock was deliberately altered in the design so that the guitar could never be mistaken for the original. Ian did not do that for mine. I actually have photos of Brian and my guitar together. Brian Goff either sold it to Brian Ray or Brian Ray acquired it from another owner subsequent to Brian Goff. As for Ian's stunning artwork, it is simply unparalleled in my not-so-humble opinion. It is better than the original as it exists now, although there are photos of the freshly painted guitar The Fool took in their studio in 1967 and in them you can see that the artwork looks markedly better. Lines are crisper, colors brighter. The original looks crappy now because a crappy artist did the retouching on it.
Holy cow!
came too late to this party!
Wow man, what a cool channel - Instant sub from the UK!!!
Blacktooth Fox, I know your name from Mad Malco I just started watching him about 2 weeks ago
@@frankperricone2065 Ah he's an absolute gem! Love his channel. Bought an amp off him the other week - the guy is a total straight-shooter, real nice guy. I'll be livestreaming from my rabbit-hutch-sized studio later today; come stick your head in if you like. All the best mate, stay safe out there
I was kinda expecting this demo to cover some Cream era Clapton, maybe thru a plexi era stack. Oh well..
Boy I wish I the cash for that rig. Nice combination
40.000 dollars? Hmm let me talk this to my wife...
While you are talking with the "Missus" I will fire up my lawn mower and start lining up yards ...
Todd Rundgren has owned it for the last 40 or so years of my memory
Yes that’s my understanding also
Damn I hate guitarists who do a shitty SRV impression when they pick up an axe clearly not meant for it. Where’s the woman tone dude?!
Exactly, I was expecting too hear quite a bit less treble.
Totally agree- neck pickup and roll the tone knob down.
I was waiting for it but...
I saw the original at the hard rock in San Francisco
Sweet !!
Wikipedia has all the answers to any questions you have about “The Fool”. Bottom line is Todd bought it from Jackie Lomax and then had it restored. He then auctioned it in order to settle a tax bill with the Internal Revenue Service. Part of the proceeds went to Clapton‘s Cross Roads foundation. It has since been re-auctioned at close to four times the amount Todd got for it. We’re talking a half million dollars here. The current owner remains unknown.
Using an original 1962 to make a fully painted replica? Bit of a waste IMO
Interesting saddle adjustment.
Whatever it needs.
That guitar sounds nothing like Claptons ‘64 . Maybe it’s the amp ?
Also , if it were me . . The very first thing I would have played would have been “ Sunshine of Your Love “ without question
A 62? Then it's a Les Paul, no?
5:30
According to Todd Rundgren, who owned the original for many years, Clapton gave it to Jackie Lomax, who sold it to Todd. What he did with it is not clear…
A lot of extensive work was done to it when todd got it because it literally was a piece of shit at that point, years later in the late 80s I believe todd got a replica from someone in japan and that was the one he continued to use
The original was owned by Todd Rundgren for awhile.
Send it off to Derek Trucks then it'll really be amazing.😁
NOT WITHOUT AN EVERTUNE
Clink caja!!
You need a Japanese tuner pegs to keep em in tune yeah.
Machine heads have very little, if any, bearing on tuning stability.
You either have machine head problems or a nut issue.
@@Rich6Brew Make up your mind mate. Make up your miiiiiinnnnddddd
I thought they were still PAFs in 1962?
That's what he called them.
@@Rich6Brew I heard patent number. DidI mishear that?
I thought that Todd Rungren owns the original.
Who's signature is this ?
Eric Clapton on his créam era
@@thirdworldneet923 oh this is great. Thanks
"100% all original...except, a majority of the guitar"
Just the tuners, 22 of the frets , the bridge and the tail piece😂 so just all the metal parts on the guitar !?
The pickups and pots are original😉
@@auntjenifer7774 the beautiful cherry red too
That amp…oof!
Omg omg omg
Todd has the original! Unless he dismissed it? It's said that a Asian guitar Luther built one for him that he admitted?
Wikipedia has all the answers to any questions you have about “The Fool”. Bottom line is Todd bought it from Jackie Lomax and then had it restored. He then auctioned it in order to settle a tax bill with the Internal Revenue Service. Part of the proceeds went to Clapton‘s Cross Roads foundation. It has since been re-auctioned at close to four times the amount Todd got for it. We’re talking a half million dollars here. The current owner remains unknown.
Clapton is Clapton
the others play like the others
so it's not the amp-the guitar-the pickups who make you unique
only a few guitarists are unique in this world
All guitarists are unique.
e string tuned way back?
this is out of tune bigtime
Totally original but... :D
So IT'S NOT totally original.
all that build up to a mediocre guitar player? disappointing.....
SG has the ugliest body shape of well-known guitar models.
Would not use it - even if got one for free.
It sound as good as LP, tho, so it’s not garbage.
The way I look at it, the Les Paul looks "Classy-Cool" and the SG looks "Aggressive-Cool".
I think it’s the almost symmetric shape that makes the guitar look like a boring beetle.
And guitar should NOT look boring at all!
Yours is no popular opinion. And the SG has more to it than what meets the untrained eye: the shape is not symmetrical.
I much rather the Tele or the LP, but maybe give it a second thought some day. It may surprise you.
@@andreborges2881 My opinion? How about the opinion of the man who created SG? Even he hated the pointy horns and the neck that had worse sustain than LP-model.
If the creator thinks it’s bad. It’s bad..
How many times did you see Mr. Les Paul playing SG-model in his gigs?
@@pelimies1818 Les Paul and Mary Ford used the "much hated" new SG many a time, even appearing in promotional photos of the new model. They stopped promoting it because the contract with Gibson ended.
Les Paul never even used the Les Paul Standard model, really, but the Les Paul Recorder.
Again: go read. I wasn't being condescending. Now? Stick some hard ass facts up your hat and get a move on.