What a treat that Norman shares with us Joe's visits. It's a win win for everyone. I am not a guitar player but enjoy learning about them. Thank you, Norm and Joe for all you do to keeping the blues alive.
Yes, Bluesboynate, I completely agree. In the beginning, CBS kind of went downhill with Fender but since Fender was purchased by their employees, you are getting a better guitar, and I think, better than the old ones. Having an older guitar doesn't mean you have a better guitar, it just means you can find people to pay a lot more for something that you might be able to purchase for cheaper and get the same quality new. Rickenbacker, still making the same guitar, so I agree with you, but I am sure Bonamassa could care less. Some think they are the final say so on things. There is a pal of mine, Mike Lipe, makes incredible guitars. You should check him out. Lipe Guitars.
To be fair, Joe has freely admitted a lot of his interest in older guitars has to do with the fact that he enjoys them as antiques and pieces of musical history. That said, he does also own and play a lot of more modern gear, those just generally aren't the pieces from his collection that draw the most attention compared to the older, rarer stuff.
I think the phrase 'inform Joe' is hilarious in that context. If you know great golden-era guitars, you probably know a great newer one when you see it. 😉
I'm feeling Joe B. and I share a lot of things (except the talent of course). Same passion for same music and instruments, same lick patterns we affectionate, similar blues feelings and also the way we don't feel very confortable with people unless we're forgetting everything around, playing all the rage out. When I train, I train on Joe's tracks mainly. I love this guy's music and energy.
Sold Joe two of my guitars and hung out with him at his house, real great guy! I am a younger guy and I use to buy and sell vintage guitars and equipment when I was in my mid teens. He was in love with my truck I was driving too and we talked about cars and I was telling him about my new vette I bought at the time, it was winter and I told him when the weather broke I'd let him take it for a drive.
This one is in GREAT shape. One sold recently on REVERB for $115,000! Joe Bonamassa probably paid close to that or more, because he's holding one that's as close to mint as you can get. PLUS the original case and paperwork from what it looks like.
There are many guitars on here I am like “I wish I could play one!” Well, this is one guitar I have actually played. I don’t know about the reproduction models, but the original Mary Kay Strat is hands down one of the best strat I have ever played in my life. Seeing it in pics or in video doesn’t do it justice and the sound is so creamy and smooth
You are right. I played one and it was magic. I think the ash body and that era pickups make up the killer tone these have. They even ring better acoustically than regular strats
It is not just vintage instruments that are scary to take on a gig. I own a 58 reissue Gibson Custom Shop that I saved up for about four years and traded in all most all the gear I owned to get it. It is a 2014 model but with a price tag of $6110 I cannot make myself take it out! We played the Stacked Pickle last week and we do a cover of Just Got Paid and that guitar is PERFECT for that tune, and my drummer was begging me to bring the 'Paul. Nope. My Epiphone Les Paul + is as good as I got to bring out. But $6k for these guys is nothing. It is all I got!
I would love a Les Paul like yours. I play my black '60 Strat and '64 Vibroverb everywhere, watch em like a hawk when i'm off stage. I could use cheaper stuff, but i would know the difference, and that means everything to me. Play that Paul brother!
***** That combo you got isn't nothing to sneeze at either, especially the Vibroverb. I have played with the Custom Shop before and between sets I took it to the bathroom with me. It is fun to play, but the worry takes a lot of the fun out of it. And my bassist had his bass stolen last year from a gig. No, it stays at home. The guitar I do use is covered in beer, sweat, tar, nicotine and that shit we use to generate fog. I would have kittens if my Paul got that filthy!
The Strat is worth far more than the amp but ya, i hear you about things being stolen, i've had a mint "62 Bassman and my favourite Strat stolen never to be seen again. I tried reaching out to get them back but to no avail. A friend of mine has an unreal amp and guitar collection like Joe, he plays reissues and a little silver face Princeton on gigs. Seems he would rather just lock em up and keep em that way.
Oh, and my friend had a '59 Sunburst Strat with a slab board and gold plated hardware, how rare are would that be? Made a ton of money off of that deal.
John Kaye is her nephew. John's father was Norman Kaye, I/3 of the Mary Kaye Trio. My uncle played trumpet for them for many years. She taught me my first chords when I was twelve. Made me sit on her lap behind her big D' Angelico. Don't remember her with the Strat.
First thing I do with a new strat is to hard-tail it; I love the strat for positions 2 and 4, but Leo Fender decided to cut a huge chunk out of the wood body for the tremolo. If you don't hard-tail, get a custom brass tremolo block, the heavier the better.
flip3213 why they treat must oriole like shit unless you're famous. It's true. I guess it depends on whose working that day. Look up Yelp reviews and hidden ones. They have horrible reviews in customer service.
Wish I could Visit that store !!! It sort of reminds me of the days of Manny's Music in Manhattan !!!!! I bought my 1965 Olympic White Jazzmaster with a Fender Deluxe Reverb amp at a store that use to be across the street from Manny's original location. The store was called Jimmie's, which is now the Exxon Building !!!! I have 3 JCM800 Heads (1x50 watt & 2x100 watt) !!!
Gerry K it's nothing like Mannys or any other store. Sure you have your miserable workers but they're notorious here for poor treatment. You better be either famous or rich.
Jim Ryder I Understand !! Sad !! I'm neither Famous or Rich. I've Got Some Nice Guitars (they please ME)! 5 Gibsons, 2 Parkers, 5 Fenders, Ovation, Taylor, Washburn Mesa Boogie Dual Rectifier (100W), Two Marshall 4x12" cabinets, Crate 4x10" cabinet Fender: Hot Rod Deluxe, Pro Sonic Combo, Blues Jr.
It's the only addiction that my mom agrees with, and encouraged. She never told me not to blow money on guitars or amps. Weed and alcohol she is very against. Cars lose value, so she doesn't encourage my mini truck purchases, but amps and guits, shes almost as happy as i am when i get them. My girlfriend not so much.
Mary Kaye was a famous singer and guitar player in the 60's. She was endorsed by Fender guitars and a limited number of white Stratocasters with gold hardware were made back then. These guitars are now highly collectible.
Ok biff......dont make smart comments...you can watch Joe Bonnermassage play a Tit tar on the youby too ,plugged in anywhere ,anytime....this was jus mo' less a "Talk" more than'a show off showing off
It's spelled Kaye....and that's not a 50's "Mary Kaye" guitar, because there is no such thing, except for the re-issue. Fender made this series of white with gold hardware, they asked Mary to appear in the ad, Mary played the guitar in a movie (but regularly played a different brand of guitar), but the guitar was never branded as the Mary Kaye until it was re-issued more recently. Being referred to as the Mary Kaye stuck because of that original ad, but Mary herself didn't know her name was used in reference to the guitar until later in her career. :) Beautiful guitar either way.
According to wiki from fender.com (article is now gone): Only a few were produced in 1956, but the color has been re-introduced to the Fender line after the strong international demand for the Mary Kaye color scheme. A limited Custom Shop series Mary Kaye Tribute Strat was issued in 2005. In 2007 a 57 Reissue Mary Kaye Strat was released for the 50th anniversary of the Stratocaster. The Custom Shop release can be seen in the 2005 Fender Frontline Catalog along with her personal history as interviewed by Fender.
Everything on that strat is original from '58 because I'm the guy that sold it to him. If you could see it close up, you would see that the end of the truss rod is also gold plated. Only the true Mary Kaye strat's were gold plated. Besides the neck under the finish says '58.
Ian Thomas Absolutely true AND turns around using that very instrument to earn more money! Bonamassa said that he will buy an expensive guitar before he'd buy a house....they are his "children".
in around 1992 or so we allways traded guitars an plexis an old fenders..somehow i got a 63 s g,an baby humbuckers on it,i could care less about it,i like strats cause of attack,the guy begged me for the guitar back,very lightweight like a toy,it was mahogany,an i traded for an ibanex flyin v,which of course the wife hated,but years later the s g aloung with a p a deal in a suitcase was stolen..just tragic..every time i see an s g i think of how low some people can go to steal someones stuff..............
I think they sell new stuff as well. pretty sure they have new epiphone gretsch and squier at least. not sure about new high end stuff. I know norm probably thinks high end new stuff next to vintage used is going to hurt those sales. also costs a lot of money invested to be a new dealer in expensive brands.
Seth Seiden they have some New Guitars , but you may be able to Order thru Norms with Certain Guitar Companies , some of their older Vintage Guitars Look New ! ! ! !
It is translucient blond not white. If you look close, you can see the wood grain through the finish. I know because I bought it in 1958 when I was 15 years old and sold it to Joe. That's a pic of me when I had it about a year.
I'm not into his playing, especially his singing. I preferred his younger self. He played in a band called bloodline I believe. Imo he was much better then.
ed king had a good closeup video on here of him an his friend playin mary kaye and some sg an some strats,aint much on joes playing gimme blackmore a few years ago,an zz top,skynyrd also,...spirit..randy california was really good an way underrated,manny charlton from nazareth also.............
He doesnt even take the tele out of the case.... fucking hell thats why i hate guitar collectors so much. They buy these great instruments so others cant have them, and dont fucking play them!!!
elitemathlete mate, they're not related!! It was a joke norm made. Joe first came to that store when he was like 13 and met norm and people like jimmy vivino.
It's Mary Kaye. She was a 50s and 60s performer. The term Mary Kaye is also used for a 50s (maple neck) Strat that has an Ash body with the blonde finish.The blond is translucent , so shows-off the Ash grain well. Gold hardware was a rarity.
yes its the rarest production model fender ever produced. one just sold over a hundred k. pretty cool, they have remakes too for folks that cant pony up that kind of scratch
The rich guitar players like Joe B and Steve Vai are hoarding all the vintage guitars. Meanwhile rich guys like Jay Leno and Billy Joel are hoarding vintage cars.
well joe i just thought i would tell you was i have been scammed by these so called musicians that took all my money on a lie claiming to be my freind and comming to surport me but instead i probly payed for their party or some shit they started claiming to own my fucken money now i will never own another real guitar and no one has ever helped me find these theives and i look and see no real strat in my guitars that dosent matter because i can t afford the strings on a disabled pension so i guess the dream has finished now for a real player like me who plays like you and gim hendrix or stevie ray vaughn but that dosent matter because its all in the fingers hard work and the creators design of me and how im never getting my chance because here in australia a musician is like a surposed rich person that has a truck full of money and help well let me tell you about the drug epademic here and that new music that they try and brainwash us with here its claiming a shop here and all the guitars in it billy hydes sale is a closing down sale in the valley in brisbane australia which i cant afford to go to or help them i do hope you all keep playing real music love and peace from me howie somwere in the world they dont help
Norm seems to forget everyone he calls a good buddy or friend has paid large amounts of money to him for guitars & amplifiers. That is a business association Norman. You don't get to make money off people and call them 'friends' as well. Not if you have any self worth.
My dad couldn't afford a new Strat for me in 1968, so we had to get a used Strat -- a 1958 Mary Kay. Still have it.
What a treat that Norman shares with us Joe's visits. It's a win win for everyone. I am not a guitar player but enjoy learning about them. Thank you, Norm and Joe for all you do to keeping the blues alive.
If I was an old guy with an old classic axe, I could think of no one better to pass it along to than Joe Bonamassa...
A Fender Mary Kay, the stuff dreams are made of.
Someone should inform Joe that there actually have been great guitars produced after 1973.
He buys reissues too, He owns an 81' reissue of a Korina v to name one, but in the late 70s and into the 80s guitars weren't great to be fair
Yes, Bluesboynate, I completely agree. In the beginning, CBS kind of went downhill with Fender but since Fender was purchased by their employees, you are getting a better guitar, and I think, better than the old ones. Having an older guitar doesn't mean you have a better guitar, it just means you can find people to pay a lot more for something that you might be able to purchase for cheaper and get the same quality new. Rickenbacker, still making the same guitar, so I agree with you, but I am sure Bonamassa could care less. Some think they are the final say so on things. There is a pal of mine, Mike Lipe, makes incredible guitars. You should check him out. Lipe Guitars.
To be fair, Joe has freely admitted a lot of his interest in older guitars has to do with the fact that he enjoys them as antiques and pieces of musical history.
That said, he does also own and play a lot of more modern gear, those just generally aren't the pieces from his collection that draw the most attention compared to the older, rarer stuff.
@@froggatt24 In the 80's the great guitars where named IBANEZ CIMAR Strat.
I think the phrase 'inform Joe' is hilarious in that context.
If you know great golden-era guitars, you probably know a great newer one when you see it. 😉
That's a gorgeous guitar. I'd take that over a Gibson any day.
I am born 1958. I think it must be a GREAT guitar.
What a great video. Joe is a great ambassador for guitars and music.
absolutely.
Brahahahaha😂
Joe makes us all proud, back here in Utica... Love you guys.
Joe is the most unassuming guitar God that one could ever meet. Supremely talented and a guitar history/technology buff.
beautiful color for a solid single color strat my personal favorite, suits the curves soo well
Wow, those are rare - and in THAT condition too!??!! Wow.
Another to the collection Bluesman 👍
I'm feeling Joe B. and I share a lot of things (except the talent of course). Same passion for same music and instruments, same lick patterns we affectionate, similar blues feelings and also the way we don't feel very confortable with people unless we're forgetting everything around, playing all the rage out. When I train, I train on Joe's tracks mainly. I love this guy's music and energy.
Sold Joe two of my guitars and hung out with him at his house, real great guy! I am a younger guy and I use to buy and sell vintage guitars and equipment when I was in my mid teens. He was in love with my truck I was driving too and we talked about cars and I was telling him about my new vette I bought at the time, it was winter and I told him when the weather broke I'd let him take it for a drive.
That's nothing. I had a PB&J sandwich a little bit ago.
What?
This one is in GREAT shape. One sold recently on REVERB for $115,000! Joe Bonamassa probably paid close to that or more, because he's holding one that's as close to mint as you can get. PLUS the original case and paperwork from what it looks like.
That's a beautiful guitar and Joe Bonamassa, a brilliant musician, appears to be down to earth.
The most familiar Strat to TV viewers of the 1950’s. Beyond iconic.
There are many guitars on here I am like “I wish I could play one!” Well, this is one guitar I have actually played. I don’t know about the reproduction models, but the original Mary Kay Strat is hands down one of the best strat I have ever played in my life. Seeing it in pics or in video doesn’t do it justice and the sound is so creamy and smooth
You are right. I played one and it was magic. I think the ash body and that era pickups make up the killer tone these have. They even ring better acoustically than regular strats
That strat has the perfect home now....Good for Joe!!!
Joe!!! What are those pants!? Those things HAVE TO GO my dude! Lol
wow !! what a great find. ...i bet Joe is really a great guy. ...can't wait to see him reunite with Black Country Communion
I'd love to see Joe bring out & play those guitars that he is too scared to touch or even look at :)
I’ve so so gotta visit that shop!
Hopefully next year. I play like crap. But my love of ‘especially’ fender guitars is outa this world! ✌🏼🤪
I have it too Joe i go with that it’s a healthy addiction 🎸🎸🎸👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Sound hole sniffing in the background.
1:27
Always a necessary when choosing an instrument
Haha
And still so much more holes to sniff.
Jerry Morgan JR LMAO!!
Whoks hole?
Love to see Joe at Norm's :)
That is just too funny!! HAHA Love this guy, I have to meet you
It is not just vintage instruments that are scary to take on a gig. I own a 58 reissue Gibson Custom Shop that I saved up for about four years and traded in all most all the gear I owned to get it. It is a 2014 model but with a price tag of $6110 I cannot make myself take it out! We played the Stacked Pickle last week and we do a cover of Just Got Paid and that guitar is PERFECT for that tune, and my drummer was begging me to bring the 'Paul. Nope. My Epiphone Les Paul + is as good as I got to bring out. But $6k for these guys is nothing. It is all I got!
I would love a Les Paul like yours. I play my black '60 Strat and '64 Vibroverb everywhere, watch em like a hawk when i'm off stage. I could use cheaper stuff, but i would know the difference, and that means everything to me. Play that Paul brother!
***** That combo you got isn't nothing to sneeze at either, especially the Vibroverb. I have played with the Custom Shop before and between sets I took it to the bathroom with me. It is fun to play, but the worry takes a lot of the fun out of it. And my bassist had his bass stolen last year from a gig. No, it stays at home. The guitar I do use is covered in beer, sweat, tar, nicotine and that shit we use to generate fog. I would have kittens if my Paul got that filthy!
The Strat is worth far more than the amp but ya, i hear you about things being stolen, i've had a mint "62 Bassman and my favourite Strat stolen never to be seen again. I tried reaching out to get them back but to no avail. A friend of mine has an unreal amp and guitar collection like Joe, he plays reissues and a little silver face Princeton on gigs. Seems he would rather just lock em up and keep em that way.
Oh, and my friend had a '59 Sunburst Strat with a slab board and gold plated hardware, how rare are would that be? Made a ton of money off of that deal.
***** Nice. Don't see those very often.
Cavern club is 10 minutes from me it's a brilliant place on a brilliant street full of rich music history
joe is one fucking cool Kat. rock on bro. what a sic beauty that 58 is goddamn!
HER SON JOHN KAYE - IS A GOOD MUSICIAN AND VOCALIST FROM LAS VEGAS... BEAUTIFUL GUIAR
John Kaye is her nephew. John's father was Norman Kaye, I/3 of the Mary Kaye Trio. My uncle played trumpet for them for many years. She taught me my first chords when I was twelve. Made me sit on her lap behind her big D' Angelico. Don't remember her with the Strat.
I'm looking for one of those these days
the rocker aesthetic is hurt
Elegant!
I love these guys. Sadly they do not do too many videos together anymore...
First thing I do with a new strat is to hard-tail it; I love the strat for positions 2 and 4, but Leo Fender decided to cut a huge chunk out of the wood body for the tremolo. If you don't hard-tail, get a custom brass tremolo block, the heavier the better.
i gotta check this store out one day!
flip3213 why they treat must oriole like shit unless you're famous. It's true. I guess it depends on whose working that day. Look up Yelp reviews and hidden ones. They have horrible reviews in customer service.
That's because the woods can never be replicated. 60 year old growth wood is way better than today's farm quality growth!
Dam I was t the store wednesday, I may have missed Joe for a few hours
Im reminded of Elliott Smith when I see Joe just some mannerisms.
Beautiful guitar. Do you have any info on the pickups?
What a tease , why didn’t you plug it in ?
I wanted Joe to plug it in , I wanted to Hear that Axe Wail
& in walks Diamond Dave Amato.......what a store Huh?
Too kool... 😎
The best of all time just ask Joe 😂😂😂no soul!!
Wish I could Visit that store !!! It sort of reminds me of the days of Manny's Music in Manhattan !!!!!
I bought my 1965 Olympic White Jazzmaster with a Fender Deluxe Reverb amp at a store that use to be across the street from Manny's original location. The store was called Jimmie's, which is now the Exxon Building !!!! I have 3 JCM800 Heads (1x50 watt & 2x100 watt) !!!
Gerry K it's nothing like Mannys or any other store. Sure you have your miserable workers but they're notorious here for poor treatment. You better be either famous or rich.
Jim Ryder
I Understand !! Sad !!
I'm neither Famous or Rich.
I've Got Some Nice Guitars (they please ME)! 5 Gibsons, 2 Parkers, 5 Fenders, Ovation, Taylor, Washburn
Mesa Boogie Dual Rectifier (100W), Two Marshall 4x12" cabinets, Crate 4x10" cabinet
Fender: Hot Rod Deluxe, Pro Sonic Combo, Blues Jr.
It's the only addiction that my mom agrees with, and encouraged. She never told me not to blow money on guitars or amps. Weed and alcohol she is very against. Cars lose value, so she doesn't encourage my mini truck purchases, but amps and guits, shes almost as happy as i am when i get them. My girlfriend not so much.
Norm, How can i get some photos of Mary kay guitars ? I hope you could help me. thankyou
Norm flipped off Joe's parents at 2:34. How mean!
Kevin Wilson he crossed his fingers
Joe's parents were angry for a long time.
I would! Fuck them and him!
Luv those women's jeans he's wearing
Why is this guitar called the "Mary Kay"
Mary Kaye was a famous singer and guitar player in the 60's. She was endorsed by Fender guitars and a limited number of white Stratocasters with gold hardware were made back then. These guitars are now highly collectible.
Brian Drewry
It's designed for a lady named Mary Kaye
It's not white.
It's blonde.
Not white. Transparent single piece of ash.
She was married to les paul
Norm, next time you come across one if ever and sell it, put me down for layaway.
Isnt that the guitar Phil X played years back on the Fretted-Americana channel?
Good grief, does it not have an input jack?
Ok biff......dont make smart comments...you can watch Joe Bonnermassage play a Tit tar on the youby too ,plugged in anywhere ,anytime....this was jus mo' less a "Talk" more than'a show off showing off
When is the gig at the cavern and how do enter into the lottery for tickets????? 🙈
did any one else receive Joe's email and have it come up malicious when you clicked on the video or the pick box?
Yep, me too.
yes
no
Does it have a gold trussrod?
Fuck yeah it does
Gold all in my truss, don't believe me just watch
Sometimes I wonder if Joe Bonamassa lives in the shop.
It's spelled Kaye....and that's not a 50's "Mary Kaye" guitar, because there is no such thing, except for the re-issue. Fender made this series of white with gold hardware, they asked Mary to appear in the ad, Mary played the guitar in a movie (but regularly played a different brand of guitar), but the guitar was never branded as the Mary Kaye until it was re-issued more recently. Being referred to as the Mary Kaye stuck because of that original ad, but Mary herself didn't know her name was used in reference to the guitar until later in her career. :) Beautiful guitar either way.
According to wiki from fender.com (article is now gone): Only a few were produced in 1956, but the color has been re-introduced to the Fender line after the strong international demand for the Mary Kaye color scheme. A limited Custom Shop series Mary Kaye Tribute Strat was issued in 2005. In 2007 a 57 Reissue Mary Kaye Strat was released for the 50th anniversary of the Stratocaster. The Custom Shop release can be seen in the 2005 Fender Frontline Catalog along with her personal history as interviewed by Fender.
a fifties is a mary kaye, she did a photo op back then with one and her name stuck
@@johnsmith-bk4ps did you even read the post you commented under?
@@maxwellbrand yes you said they dont exist and they do exist.
@@johnsmith-bk4ps yes…there was no guitar from the 50’s officially named the Mary Kaye.
the neck on the strat looks modern as its filled in at the neck tensioner i thought it was on the bottom under the scratch plate
Everything on that strat is original from '58 because I'm the guy that sold it to him. If you could see it close up, you would see that the end of the truss rod is also gold plated. Only the true Mary Kaye strat's were gold plated. Besides the neck under the finish says '58.
@@williampage4734 whos the fool that ripped the neck off of it?
He wouldn't know the difference between this and a relic from last week in a blind test.
Nice to be filthy rich
Robert Schmitt ..... Hear, hear. Truth be told, if I had the money I'd buy it too.
No, nice to be that talented.
Robert Schmitt perhaps he's filthy rich because he earns it?
Ian Thomas Absolutely true AND turns around using that very instrument to earn more money! Bonamassa said that he will buy an expensive guitar before he'd buy a house....they are his "children".
Learn something and learn to do it well, and maybe you'll be filthy rich. Lazy ass.
Joe is funny! When Norman tells about Joe's mom asking for a psychiatric, Joe gets a flushed face!
Hahahhha I can't see the great strat. Cuz my eyes are fixated on the stupid shirt and hat. Lots of love joe. From Boston
in around 1992 or so we allways traded guitars an plexis an old fenders..somehow i got a 63 s g,an baby humbuckers on it,i could care less about it,i like strats cause of attack,the guy begged me for the guitar back,very lightweight like a toy,it was mahogany,an i traded for an ibanex flyin v,which of course the wife hated,but years later the s g aloung with a p a deal in a suitcase was stolen..just tragic..every time i see an s g i think of how low some people can go to steal someones stuff..............
Bonamassa vive ahí!🙊
how do you really know if someone is a great guitar player
what he mean nephew? like honorary nephew?
Does Norman's rare guitar's sell new items or just vintage?
I think they sell new stuff as well. pretty sure they have new epiphone gretsch and squier at least. not sure about new high end stuff. I know norm probably thinks high end new stuff next to vintage used is going to hurt those sales. also costs a lot of money invested to be a new dealer in expensive brands.
Seth Seiden they have some New Guitars , but you may be able to Order thru Norms with Certain Guitar Companies , some of their older Vintage Guitars Look New ! ! ! !
Lmao "shake buddy"
Promises in Malibu…
Is this Greg Koch at 3:53?
I had the same question...
No Greg doesn't have that much hair lol
Dennis Hem Dave Amato.
Dennis Hem no doesn't r Em look like him. Dave Amoto.
What kind of necks did they have
Plastic
Dean botts guitar
How this dude afford all these 100K+ guitars?
I thought Mary Kaye strats were blonde with gold parts not white.
It is translucient blond not white. If you look close, you can see the wood grain through the finish. I know because I bought it in 1958 when I was 15 years old and sold it to Joe. That's a pic of me when I had it about a year.
For Christ-sake, stop yackin', plug the guitar in and play it!!!!!!
I'm not into his playing, especially his singing. I preferred his younger self. He played in a band called bloodline I believe. Imo he was much better then.
ed king had a good closeup video on here of him an his friend playin mary kaye and some sg an some strats,aint much on joes playing gimme blackmore a few years ago,an zz top,skynyrd also,...spirit..randy california was really good an way underrated,manny charlton from nazareth also.............
He never wants to pay what they're worth.
He doesnt even take the tele out of the case.... fucking hell thats why i hate guitar collectors so much. They buy these great instruments so others cant have them, and dont fucking play them!!!
Joe is Norms nephew?
+elitemathlete I did not know this!
I'm pretty certain that it's a joke between the two of them since Norm has known Joe since he was a kid.
+elitemathlete Didn't Joe grow up in the East coast
+elitemathlete dude, it was a joke, joe didn't work there when he was 9. Joe was still in school when he was 9 obviously.
elitemathlete mate, they're not related!! It was a joke norm made. Joe first came to that store when he was like 13 and met norm and people like jimmy vivino.
Why is it called a Mary Kay? Is it because of the gold hardware?
Because Mary Kay was a famous singer/guitarist from the 60's
It's Mary Kaye. She was a 50s and 60s performer. The term Mary Kaye is also used for a 50s (maple neck) Strat that has an Ash body with the blonde finish.The blond is translucent , so shows-off the Ash grain well. Gold hardware was a rarity.
Tiny frets....rip 'em out! Ha!
7 figure guitar possibly ???
yes its the rarest production model fender ever produced. one just sold over a hundred k. pretty cool, they have remakes too for folks that cant pony up that kind of scratch
Who is mary kay?
Hywel 4 she was a well know guitarist who played that color guitar so
they named it after her.
Joe probably lowballed Mary Kaye.
“Well it’s a girls model so there’s 75% of the market right off the top so at 50% cost I’m still losing 25%”
chicken picking foster children I want the Jerrys kids
They're like his girlfriend s
100k guitar
Sorry, but Mary Kay like the skin products? Or not?
told this guy right it's not in B lik wow man wow people do use guitar better yet talk to spectre sounds
I expect to hear guitar sound not empty talk
Joe Bonamassa: the name most frequently mentioned when someone wants to claim that another blues guitarist is comparatively better.
I guess you have never heard of B.B. King, Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, Albert King, T-Bone Walker, John Lee Hooker just to name a few.
Nice keeping your wealth in something than dollars.
The rich guitar players like Joe B and Steve Vai are hoarding all the vintage guitars. Meanwhile rich guys like Jay Leno and Billy Joel are hoarding vintage cars.
well joe i just thought i would tell you was i have been scammed by these so called musicians that took all my money on a lie claiming to be my freind and comming to surport me but instead i probly payed for their party or some shit they started claiming to own my fucken money now i will never own another real guitar and no one has ever helped me find these theives and i look and see no real strat in my guitars that dosent matter because i can t afford the strings on a disabled pension so i guess the dream has finished now for a real player like me who plays like you and gim hendrix or stevie ray vaughn but that dosent matter because its all in the fingers hard work and the creators design of me and how im never getting my chance because here in australia a musician is like a surposed rich person that has a truck full of money and help well let me tell you about the drug epademic here and that new music that they try and brainwash us with here its claiming a shop here and all the guitars in it billy hydes sale is a closing down sale in the valley in brisbane australia which i cant afford to go to or help them i do hope you all keep playing real music love and peace from me howie somwere in the world they dont help
He's nuttier than squirrel shit. I've seen him posting elsewhere. Hopefully he's using the wifi at a nut house somewhere.
What the fuck are you trying to say?
Norm seems to forget everyone he calls a good buddy or friend has paid large amounts of money to him for guitars & amplifiers. That is a business association Norman. You don't get to make money off people and call them 'friends' as well. Not if you have any self worth.
Its probably a copy fake....people with big money can do anything