Listen to Jason's Rig Rundown video. He says that he couldn't sleep for days after doing this demo. Because of just how mind blowing "Red Eye" was to him. Ended up haggling with his manager and getting him/her to book him some high end corporate/private events just so he could even remotely afford to get it. This video, quite literally, shows the moment that changed Jason's life
It's going to be known at Jason Isbell's Les Paul from now on. Best singer and songwriter on the planet, and an amazing guitar player. He just keeps getting better, which would seem impossible.
“I don’t think that you’ll beat that guitar.” - Jason Isbell in the background as the video is ending. That was the moment knew he had to buy it.. Awesome stuff 😎
Yep. Got to see him play it last night. Great set, though he only played it on a couple tunes. Also played what I assume was a 56 reissue with a bigsby. No ES this show.
A great sounding LP Burst and up there with Bernie Marsdens 'The Beast' for pickup growl. Ed King could sure pick em when it came to owning good guitars ... miss that dude
Didn't see Ed at my first 3 Skynyrd live shows on Nov 4th 1975 Cardiff (there's an authorized bootleg CD: Live - Cardiff Capitol on Amazon of this one), Feb 10th 1976 Bristol and Jan 31st 1977 Bristol) as he'd quit the band by that time but got to see him back with the boys in early Feb 1992 at The Kentish Town & Country Club, London promoting their Lynyrd Skynyrd 1991 revival. By the time I saw them again in Cardiff 2010 the line up was very different from the original 70's band but still had that Southern mojo.
Chris66JTM45 I guess it’s a cool true story my former guitar teacher knew Ed. He lived on the east coast for a time. So did Seymour Duncan when he was growing up.
A '59 LP, who wouldn't want at least one of those in their collection!?!?!?!?!!!! And this Guitar has some extra mojo, so, there! Look forward to JI playing this on album or stage soon!????!
Wow , I didn’t know he could solo , makes me like him even more. I recently learned cover me up , because I’m trying to learn how to sing and play because I’ve been mostly a guitar player but I’ve always wanted to be able to sing and play .
He has said he considers himself a guitar player first and foremost, but because there are so many amazing guitar players, you’ve got to learn to do something else, too, so he started writing songs.
I just listened to this for the first time with my new DA interface and decent headphones......................... I finally get the obsession with these old Gibsons. Dang that is an amazing sounding player, guitar, amp combo.......
The history of this guitar is amazing. Stolen from Ed King and then returned to him. This guitar always had a distinctive midrange "spank" to it's tone that sets it apart from other '59s.
A great guitarist can make any guitar sound great with the right amp. Once heard a 73 yr old man playing sweet home Alabama on a pos strat copy from jappakistan or somewhere, sounded like a 59 burst not kidding blew my mind.
The guitar David Rawlings plays is a cheap Epiphone scrounged from somebody's attic. I heard Gillian strum it for a bit and it sounded like crap. But for the style he does it sounds amazing.
Underground Frenchy This “rage against the millennials” thing is so fascinating to me. WHO TF DO YOU THINK CREATED THEM? (Most likely YOUR generation.)
LfunkeyA Yeah, a normal person can't really hear the difference in a live performance or recording. Being right there in the room with just that guitar playing, though, there's an audible difference (whether it's for better or worse is up to the listener/player), but in all practical ways any set neck Gibson scale mahogany/maple guitar with PAF-style pickups will sound just like a real Burst. I have to believe that the knowledge of the history and significance of the guitar, however, would very likely bring out more creativity and therefore sweeter music in the player, don't you? It's absolutely criminal what these things cost these days, and they ARE NOT worth it, but I suppose if you can afford it there's no harm in owning what brings you joy.
Alex Doty Yeah, there's no explaining how incredible they are. I play bass and mandolin in old-time and bluegrass settings quite a bit, a lot of the more serious guys in that scene play old (some pre-war) Martins. To hear and feel those instruments compared against my 2000-something 000-15M or even like a 60s Martin or Gibson, you wouldn't even know it's the same family of instruments.
Children should be seen and not heard! You have no idea what you’re talking about. Your new Gibson overpriced trash reissue guitar will never sound like that real 59 burst ever! I’m sorry to tell you. I can hear the difference instantly!! and people that have never owned a real Burst just don’t know what they’re talking about! Not sure what Burst you played? but I’ve never played any new Gibsons that ever even came close to a real 59. I’m sorry you didn’t get a real one, but you don’t know what you’re talking about and you should just refrain from making negative comments! Red eye sounds better than any guitar you’ll ever buy in a store. Could you imagine how Red eye would sound through a trainwreck or Marshall? That guitar really sounds special and the fact that it was owned by the legend Ed King puts it over the top in my opinion as $1 million guitar! Lynyrd Skynyrd was one of the great bands of all time. Ed King wrote Sweet home Alabama. He was a serious guitar player. I loved the stuff he did with Skynyrd.
That middle position sound is something that modern Gibsons just cannot do. Even the 10k ones. But.. My Greco does though lol. Interesting the neck isn't super chunky I can tell by looking at it. Definitely another thing CS got wrong.
if you don't bring that red eye over to Charlie's of blackberry smoke and let him play it through his rigg you're doing yourself and the guitar a disfavor, someone should put Richraths red eye in Charlies hands as well, his rigg.. IMHO there's this les paul, Garys, Greens, and Moores, top 4 les paul in the world... PERIOD! JB be damned... :-)
5th oddly enough I feel is Skynyrd's own Gary Rossington, I will say this right now, Rossingtons is/was the most played Les Paul in the world at that level, fact is it's still not retired as of today 10-18-21.. a Les Paul Gary R. has been whailing on strong to large sold out crowds coming up on 50 years now.. all the others are retired far as I know..??? no? Kossoff's would be 5th or maybe even higher but where the hale is it? plus its been refinished original parts replaced so forth and authenticity may be somewhat sketchy IMHO? however, if I had Pauls Les Paul today I would play it every single day and worship Paul and the ground he walked upon directly before picking it up and thrashing it... RIP, Paul.. missed, all you fellas are.. and sadly with PEer leaving us last year they are all gone now save Gary R. and he is health issues on/off as of late, fact may be the tour is on hold again? not sure? man, if you could add up all the hours on those 5 guitars, play out every song ever played, and every word spoken near them... MAN and of course folks are going to say Jow B, welp Joe is a youngster, altho he has many fine LP's with history he is a hoarder, and its because of him there are no good vintage Les Pauls on teh market today, he has em all! sorry joe, had to... its true tho.. dangit! :-)
I love it when "guitar players" want to shit on artists they never heard of playing guitars they will never be close to affording and don't even know what real tone sounds like or how to get it. Keep on keepin' on, shred masters, keep on keepin' on
Eric Hart no, Red Eye was not used on Swamp Music. Ed himself confirmed that he acquired this guitar long after his tenure with the band’s original lineup.
I can assure you there are no pedals involved. Amp is a Trainwreck (not sure which model) going through what looks like a Marshall 1x12 cab of some kind. I would think it's either a Celestion or Jensen speaker most likely. Can't see what they mic'd it with but I know Carter has used Fatheads in the past (among others), and it certainly sounds to me like there's a room mic of some kind as well.
Hey now refers to as "THE GUITAR" on twitter an such. And judging by his recent posts he truly appreciates owning it. This piece of wood had gone to a new home that loves it and will give back to Isbells fans. I'm really happy for him. One can tell it's a big deal for him.
@@robertwellington2616 A great sounding instrument, for quite an investment ! 400 K would have already been a nice price tag... Hope he subscribes a good insurance now ;-)
Actually, I came to the comments to try to find out what amp was used .... full marks for that entire signal chain from brain to fingers to pickups to amp to speaker(s) to ear to brain to ...
I’m more obsessed with amps than guitars so I definitely care. I’m sure it is a Vibroverb. There was a Vibroverb Reissue in the collection of gear they sold from Ed King. This is probably that amp. For what it’s worth, it was reasonably price and sold quickly.
Since the 1970's, airports and bus stations haven't had lockers because of potential terrorists planting bombs. So, if I sold my house to buy one of Carter's vintage guitars, where could I store it to get to it when I needed it for a gig? It's over 100 degrees here for several months a year, to hot to keep it in my car. Maybe in a bank lockbox? Without a home I would maybe save money on electricity that I could use for a bank locker. An amp might survive in my car if i kept it parked in a safe place. To control scalpers by raising interest, the FEDs waited 40 years to long. And my 20 years of saving just hasn't been been a tenth enough to buy one of these guitars. Collectors, scalpers and hoarders with money to keep these prices rising also keep these guitars out of almost all players hands. It is illegal to buy stocks on credit, but I never considered the possibility 20 years ago of buying a vintage guitar on credit (possibly because i didn't understand the scalpers' game). But maybe a savvy Chinese company will do like many valve gear emulators and nail some really terrific guitars for the price of digital gear. I hate made in China and have since day 1. But Gibson, despite its success as an American company, has failed to make affordable American made vintage copy guitars. They flunk at technology. They flunk at analytics. And its not their crafts people's fault. Becoming a billion dollar company just to have the money but not the goods is sad, sad, sad. Anyway, so much for Carter's and so much for even a decent and affordable Gibson vintage-copy.
Robert Frias I’ll tell you exactly why... many guitarists with a true passion for playing form a familiarity with a special guitar which develops into a kind of personal intimacy with the instrument. At that point, the sound of it, the way it plays and the way it looks gains a personality, so to speak, and names are born as a result. Sometimes, there is a unique characteristic that lends its significance to the name - like “Red Eye” in this video. There is a distinct red patch above the neck pickup that extends to the neck and pickup selector switch inspiring the name to Ed King of Lynyrd Skynyrd, the original owner.
To further the “personal intimacy” point, I can play good on any guitar I pick up, but never as good as I play on MY guitars. It’s comfortable and it becomes an extension of me when I play it. Hope this explanation isn’t too hokey or mystical sounding. lol
@@user-ex4jc1ug6y I guess so. I've owned my 85 Explorer from new , played 100's of shows with it over the ensuing years but never found the need to name it. Of course it's not a 50's LP, but it is rather special for me since I've now owned it for 35 years.
@@NitroModelsAndComics It's named Red Eye because of the red spot by the pickup selector. It was originally a sunburst, with a red fade that went around the entire body, but many Les Pauls of the day (including this one) were put in shop windows for long periods of time before they sold, and the red fades quicker than the yellow part of the burst (I used to know the precise reason, but the long and short of it is that there's something in the red dye that breaks down when exposed to UV light for long stretches). Anyway the price tags were often hung from the switch, so the bit of wood that was shielded from the sun by the tag preserved that small patch of red, while the rest faded. Hence, Red Eye The other reason in this case is because Les Pauls from 1959 in particular are viewed as essentially the gold standard of that model, and additionally they are incredibly rare and valuable (under 700 sunbursts were made, and they sell in the mid-6 figures), so many of them have names a) because some guitar players like naming their guitars, b) it's easier to identify them on tour when you might carry 10 or more guitars with you and so it's sometimes simply a logistical thing so it's easy for the guitar tech to hand the player the correct guitar for a given song, and c) in the case of these very rare pieces, it's for identification, instead of just saying ""59 Les Paul serial number 97283442" or whatever.
Dagger 323 IT'S A GUITAR IT WAS MADE TO PLAY JAZZ SO A FEW STRUMS WOULD CERTAINLY BE IN ORDER DAG IT 'S A GREAT ANYTHING BOX I USE MY LES PAUL ON ANY KIND OF GIG EXCEPT C&W IT'S AS OLD AS THIS GIBSON ARE YOU IN LOS ANGELES? CARLOS GUITARLOS 90042
Yeah, I saw an interview he did, and he admitted that there were kids in Nashville that could play circles around him. But he's still a damn fine guitar player in my book.
Ed King from Lynyrd Skynyrd owned it for many years (you can see the road case in the background). It is a legit one. What makes you think it would be fake? Especially being handled by a store as well regarded as Carter?
I didn't think it was that impressive. But compared to a modern Gibson, yeah its WAY better than anything they make now. BUT, there are some guys making replicas that make Gibsons look like toys to be honest. I got a replica couple months ago, made the way they used to be made, made the way Gibson just CAN'T do it. Urea formaldehyde glue holding the top on, hide glue in the neck, long tenon neck joint and REAL Brazilian fret board and way more than that. You can improve a Gibson LP by junking their harnesses and hardware and using much closer materials and wiring and it will vastly improve even their most expensive guitars, but still, the independent small builders who took the time to learn how to build them like they did back then, it can be done way way closer than what Gibson is willing to do. I would put my replica up against this one any day. And the cost was lower than their VOS models. But you see, guys like this person aren't exposed to anything but factory mass produced "pretty" guitars that look great but don't cut it. Sure, its a collectible guitar and will probably gain in value, but for playing, they just don't know about guys like me and the small underground builders who do what Gibson can't. There is such a thing as science and reverse-engineering. I put 20 years into actual materials high end tech labs with help from mentors in analyzing all the materials in hardware and pickups; nobody has ever done that before in such a deep dive way as I did, so the pickups are not a mystery to me, I know them inside and out and why they sound the way they do, and this also translated into the hardware where I did the same thing. There is no "magic" about it, what can be known is now known. Big corporate companies are interested in one thing, MONEY. They are too big to do the things that a single driven research/builder can do. They have hit the peak of what can be done in a corporate restrictive environment where decisions by committee dilute everything into profit margins. Gibson of the 50's were master craftsmen, who had autonomy in making masterful instruments in small volume. They didn't really make a lot of guitars, but they made few guitars and made them wonderfully by hand and a few machines. Heritage is still doing that in Kalamazoo....
" guys like this person aren't exposed to anything but factory mass produced "pretty" guitars that look great but don't cut it" You could not possibly be more wrong about Jason Isbell and you clearly have no idea who you're talking about.
@@adamcoe Its simple. You play any modern Gibson, then play a hand made vintage Les Paul, the difference is going to be huge. So, yeah he's going to be massively impressed by the old guitar, but that doesn't mean a guitar like that can't be closely built in our times, but you won't get it from Gibson, you have to locate individual guitar builders who put decades into learning every possible thing about how they were built, how the tenon neck joints were made, the actual real lacquers, etc. etc. and you'll get a guitar thats really super close to the vintage ones. So, what I'm saying is these musicians will buy a pretty Les Paul, just for the top alone, without a thought about it being even close to a real vintage 'burst, and they are not. They buy on looks alone. But there is the third option and yes, guys like these have never played a historically accurate replica, so they mistakenly think only a vintage original can sound like this. Gibson is a huge corporation, they make corporate guitars. The replica builders are largely guerilla underground builders, sounds like you have never heard of this, go look up Tom Bartlett, and Steve Hague. You play one of those and you see the Light. Gibson "Authentic" is anything but.
gringopig I tend to agree, which is why I love listening to Mark Knopfler playing either his ‘58 or ‘59, you really hear the actual tone of the instrument
Listen to Jason's Rig Rundown video. He says that he couldn't sleep for days after doing this demo. Because of just how mind blowing "Red Eye" was to him. Ended up haggling with his manager and getting him/her to book him some high end corporate/private events just so he could even remotely afford to get it. This video, quite literally, shows the moment that changed Jason's life
Saw that as well. REALLY makes me wonder.....how much?
lol, one of the better music industry stories I've ever heard
Boyhood dream comes true!
Matt....Absolutely nothing of 500k!
Jason's doing alright...he didn't really have to book "weird private birthday parties' ya'll...
"Hey yeah, get me some private, corporate parties, big money VIP events. I'm going to need Ed King's '59 LP like, yesterday."
🤣😂🤣
I need it too to perform for the corporate managers who can only afford murphy labs.
Couldn’t have gone to a man more worthy.
Who purchased it? What was the final sticker?
Jason Isbell bought it in the end @@metalcavy33
Amen to that
R.I.P. Ed King. Glad this one went to such a deserving artist. It's a player no doubt.
Joe B. was right when he said this was one of the best sounding original bursts around. Glad it went to a good home
This video should be renamed "I'm going to get lost driving home later today."
Ed King woud be proud of his new owner for sure
RIP Edd King. Wonderful guitar
It's going to be known at Jason Isbell's Les Paul from now on. Best singer and songwriter on the planet, and an amazing guitar player. He just keeps getting better, which would seem impossible.
Maybe by the younger crowd. When Jason writes and plays his first Sweet Home Alabama then maybe.
I highly doubt that, it will always be the Ed's Red Eye.. bet that
Jason is no doubt one of the best songwriters but no one has ever accused him of being the best singer lol. Calm down, guy
“I don’t think that you’ll beat that guitar.” - Jason Isbell in the background as the video is ending. That was the moment knew he had to buy it.. Awesome stuff 😎
Wow! Good ear. I listened back for it. Sure enough 🔥
It went to the right home and he says he will be playing it out! I am glad to hear that.
Glad red eye wound up in the hands of the guy we see playing it instead of some over the hill banker or dentist.
Yep. Got to see him play it last night. Great set, though he only played it on a couple tunes. Also played what I assume was a 56 reissue with a bigsby. No ES this show.
Mike V. I bet it was the 1953 Goldtop with a bigsby, check out his latest rig rundown video.
i have this fight all the time, you had the option to become a banker or dentist so you could afford things like this quit being a fucking democrat
@@babayaga1767 democrat? You mean steal it.
@@babayaga1767 A lightweight libertarian or whatever making consumerist arguments on a music video. Can't say I'm surprised.
My god his tone and phrasing when he pulled out the slide was ethereal
That slide guitar was magic
Such a cool story behind that guitar, glad it's in Jason's possession now
Those opening notes with the guitar in the middle position, is that classic Mike Bloomfield tone that only a vintage Sunburst Les Paul can get.
Jason is a Beast of a player. The 59 LP is in good hands.
A great sounding LP Burst and up there with Bernie Marsdens 'The Beast' for pickup growl. Ed King could sure pick em when it came to owning good guitars ... miss that dude
Not a day has gone by since he passed where he hasn’t been on my mind in some way
Didn't see Ed at my first 3 Skynyrd live shows on Nov 4th 1975 Cardiff (there's an authorized bootleg CD: Live - Cardiff Capitol on Amazon of this one), Feb 10th 1976 Bristol and Jan 31st 1977 Bristol) as he'd quit the band by that time but got to see him back with the boys in early Feb 1992 at The Kentish Town & Country Club, London promoting their Lynyrd Skynyrd 1991 revival. By the time I saw them again in Cardiff 2010 the line up was very different from the original 70's band but still had that Southern mojo.
ED KING IS A FUCKIN BEAST
Chris66JTM45 I guess it’s a cool true story my former guitar teacher knew Ed. He lived on the east coast for a time. So did Seymour Duncan when he was growing up.
A '59 LP, who wouldn't want at least one of those in their collection!?!?!?!?!!!! And this Guitar has some extra mojo, so, there! Look forward to JI playing this on album or stage soon!????!
So excited that he wound up with this. I didn't even realize years ago watching this that there was a Trainwreck sitting there too.
Beautiful guitar
This guitar is just adorable. So sweet.
Good god, man. That's about as righteous as it gets.
Wow , I didn’t know he could solo , makes me like him even more. I recently learned cover me up , because I’m trying to learn how to sing and play because I’ve been mostly a guitar player but I’ve always wanted to be able to sing and play .
He has said he considers himself a guitar player first and foremost, but because there are so many amazing guitar players, you’ve got to learn to do something else, too, so he started writing songs.
Exceptional. Thanks Walter and Christie and Jason. Really wonderful.
I'm just listening😊😊😊.That sound is incomparable
Such an inspiration, plz keep them coming!!
There’s some beautiful playing right there! :)
Nice and very open sond, not so heavy as the most of LPs can be. I love the woodines in the sound too.
what a gorgeous looking thing.
It’s an instrument. It’s meant to be played. And played some more. And broken. And fixed. And played again. Glad he picked it up and gave it life.
I just listened to this for the first time with my new DA interface and decent headphones......................... I finally get the obsession with these old Gibsons. Dang that is an amazing sounding player, guitar, amp combo.......
I was going to buy this, be he got to it first....
This one is so gorgeous.
If i was rich i would buy it and give it to J.D. simo i love all the videos of he and ed king hanging out . He deserves it.
Michael Bennett Jason Isbell’s equally deserving imo
The history of this guitar is amazing. Stolen from Ed King and then returned to him. This guitar always had a distinctive midrange "spank" to it's tone that sets it apart from other '59s.
that slide is where you hear that guitar shine
My friend Ed is Happy in heaven!
A great guitarist can make any guitar sound great with the right amp. Once heard a 73 yr old man playing sweet home Alabama on a pos strat copy from jappakistan or somewhere, sounded like a 59 burst not kidding blew my mind.
The guitar David Rawlings plays is a cheap Epiphone scrounged from somebody's attic. I heard Gillian strum it for a bit and it sounded like crap. But for the style he does it sounds amazing.
A good Les Paul, Strat, and Telecaster- the holy trifecta of tone
"I don't think that you'll beat that guitar," Isbell says in the last seconds of the video LOL
Ed took care of it, clearly.
Regret to have sold Gibson CS whenever I listen to stunning slide tone.
Couldn’t have went to a more worthy caretaker than Jason.
That is a greal sounding les paul. Someday I will own an original burst. Probably when I retire in another 25 years. But I'll get one.
You break it you buy it!
Awesome playing and great guitar!
Who in TF could watch this video and then give it a thumbs down?!
Maybe if we gave it enough thumbs down people would think the guitar is shit and I might be able to afford it?
@@millsmillsmills203 I cant see how that would go wrong?!
Underground Frenchy This “rage against the millennials” thing is so fascinating to me. WHO TF DO YOU THINK CREATED THEM? (Most likely YOUR generation.)
Someone put nickel covers on it. Amazing guitar.
Yikes. Looks like no belt buckle scratches on the back. That's amazing.
With all due respect...Ed's guitars rested on his belly. Far from his belt buckle
Ed King's Red eye!
you can always know malcom young licks when you hear them.
that mary kaye on the right...
My Harley Benton lemon drop sounds like this .
great guit, but you can get this tone with any reissue (and lower value LPs) and a good amp. pretty sure most of the feel is there too.
LfunkeyA Yeah, a normal person can't really hear the difference in a live performance or recording. Being right there in the room with just that guitar playing, though, there's an audible difference (whether it's for better or worse is up to the listener/player), but in all practical ways any set neck Gibson scale mahogany/maple guitar with PAF-style pickups will sound just like a real Burst. I have to believe that the knowledge of the history and significance of the guitar, however, would very likely bring out more creativity and therefore sweeter music in the player, don't you?
It's absolutely criminal what these things cost these days, and they ARE NOT worth it, but I suppose if you can afford it there's no harm in owning what brings you joy.
I’ve played a 59 burst before. It was good but didn’t blow my mind. Play an old martin though......
Alex Doty Yeah, there's no explaining how incredible they are. I play bass and mandolin in old-time and bluegrass settings quite a bit, a lot of the more serious guys in that scene play old (some pre-war) Martins. To hear and feel those instruments compared against my 2000-something 000-15M or even like a 60s Martin or Gibson, you wouldn't even know it's the same family of instruments.
Children should be seen and not heard! You have no idea what you’re talking about. Your new Gibson overpriced trash reissue guitar will never sound like that real 59 burst ever! I’m sorry to tell you.
I can hear the difference instantly!! and people that have never owned a real Burst just don’t know what they’re talking about! Not sure what Burst you played? but I’ve never played any new Gibsons that ever even came close to a real 59. I’m sorry you didn’t get a real one, but you don’t know what you’re talking about and you should just refrain from making negative comments! Red eye sounds better than any guitar you’ll ever buy in a store. Could you imagine how Red eye would sound through a trainwreck or Marshall? That guitar really sounds special and the fact that it was owned by the legend Ed King puts it over the top in my opinion as $1 million guitar! Lynyrd Skynyrd was one of the great bands of all time. Ed King wrote Sweet home Alabama. He was a serious guitar player. I loved the stuff he did with Skynyrd.
That middle position sound is something that modern Gibsons just cannot do. Even the 10k ones. But.. My Greco does though lol. Interesting the neck isn't super chunky I can tell by looking at it. Definitely another thing CS got wrong.
It was so good he had to buy it.
this thing sounds like a les paul should sound
if you don't bring that red eye over to Charlie's of blackberry smoke and let him play it through his rigg you're doing yourself and the guitar a disfavor, someone should put Richraths red eye in Charlies hands as well, his rigg.. IMHO there's this les paul, Garys, Greens, and Moores, top 4 les paul in the world... PERIOD! JB be damned... :-)
5th oddly enough I feel is Skynyrd's own Gary Rossington, I will say this right now, Rossingtons is/was the most played Les Paul in the world at that level, fact is it's still not retired as of today 10-18-21.. a Les Paul Gary R. has been whailing on strong to large sold out crowds coming up on 50 years now.. all the others are retired far as I know..??? no? Kossoff's would be 5th or maybe even higher but where the hale is it? plus its been refinished original parts replaced so forth and authenticity may be somewhat sketchy IMHO? however, if I had Pauls Les Paul today I would play it every single day and worship Paul and the ground he walked upon directly before picking it up and thrashing it... RIP, Paul.. missed, all you fellas are.. and sadly with PEer leaving us last year they are all gone now save Gary R. and he is health issues on/off as of late, fact may be the tour is on hold again? not sure?
man, if you could add up all the hours on those 5 guitars, play out every song ever played, and every word spoken near them... MAN
and of course folks are going to say Jow B, welp Joe is a youngster, altho he has many fine LP's with history he is a hoarder, and its because of him there are no good vintage Les Pauls on teh market today, he has em all! sorry joe, had to... its true tho.. dangit! :-)
How does one go about playing these guitars ? I’m going to this town in May!!
The slide sings man!"
My dream guitar right there. I'm not sure it's worth me selling my R7 and R8 to fund one of the Collectors Choice ones though!
Awesome. What amp is he playing thru here?
I wonder how it sounded clean.
I love it when "guitar players" want to shit on artists they never heard of playing guitars they will never be close to affording and don't even know what real tone sounds like or how to get it. Keep on keepin' on, shred masters, keep on keepin' on
😍😍😍😍
This has to be the guitar Ed recorded “Swamp Music” with.
Ed did not own this guitar when he was in Skynyrd. He obtained this much later.
Thanks! The tone just sounds so similar.
Yes, Redeye was used on Swamp Music
Eric Hart no, Red Eye was not used on Swamp Music. Ed himself confirmed that he acquired this guitar long after his tenure with the band’s original lineup.
Eric Hart he bought it around 1982 long after he left Skynyrd
That's one way to sell a guitar ;-)
the guitar is one part - what technical devices were here in between? amp? pedals? TX for being honest
I can assure you there are no pedals involved. Amp is a Trainwreck (not sure which model) going through what looks like a Marshall 1x12 cab of some kind. I would think it's either a Celestion or Jensen speaker most likely. Can't see what they mic'd it with but I know Carter has used Fatheads in the past (among others), and it certainly sounds to me like there's a room mic of some kind as well.
‘Cupid, draw back your bow and let your arrow go,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,’
What a gee tar!
Joe bomamassa will probably buy it
Jason Isbell bought it.
@J J Scott Ok I never heard of him
@@granvillefriel1877 Well, now you have
Does anyone know how much it sold for?
Craig Arsenault I do. $600,000 is what I heard.
Jack Wilson They had it listed on the their website for $250,000.
What amp is he using and what settings pls and pedal settings if any thank you carter
Wich guitar is that double white pafs in the left?
I only have eyes for Mary Kaye
Wow 😳nough said….
Nice one #mrhnp
Ed king didn’t have pickup covers on the pickups. I’m surprised to see they were put back on.
Heavy Bells are you sure it was this one or was it the 1958 darkburst he had with exposed pickups?
So does anyone know who bought this? I'm thinking maybe Joe B.
@Werner Voss Thanks!
Hey now refers to as "THE GUITAR" on twitter an such. And judging by his recent posts he truly appreciates owning it. This piece of wood had gone to a new home that loves it and will give back to Isbells fans. I'm really happy for him. One can tell it's a big deal for him.
jaguarsharkman Jason bought it. $600,000 I heard.
@@robertwellington2616 A great sounding instrument, for quite an investment ! 400 K would have already been a nice price tag... Hope he subscribes a good insurance now ;-)
Ed king
Gringopig was right about the fretboard.
Put a Floyd Rose on that puppy and it will be perfect!
as well as EMGs!!
Don't forget to scallop the board
Chris Elswick and you gotta relic. Most importantly of course is to put every sticker you own on it.
An Evertune Bridge should fix tuning issues once and for all 🙃
Not that anyone gives a rat's ass about the amp, but can someone tell me if that was a Vibroverb?
Actually, I came to the comments to try to find out what amp was used .... full marks for that entire signal chain from brain to fingers to pickups to amp to speaker(s) to ear to brain to ...
I’m more obsessed with amps than guitars so I definitely care. I’m sure it is a Vibroverb. There was a Vibroverb Reissue in the collection of gear they sold from Ed King. This is probably that amp. For what it’s worth, it was reasonably price and sold quickly.
I am not shure the sound is so hollow....is that the 60 years? Sometimes it sounds fizzy.....that fizzy vintage
Wonderin what strings were on this ol' "junky" guitar?! Lol!!
Made it fuckin' TALK to him. I mean God damn. I play guitar WELL. I don't play guitar like fucking THAT.
Since the 1970's, airports and bus stations haven't had lockers because of potential terrorists planting bombs. So, if I sold my house to buy one of Carter's vintage guitars, where could I store it to get to it when I needed it for a gig? It's over 100 degrees here for several months a year, to hot to keep it in my car. Maybe in a bank lockbox? Without a home I would maybe save money on electricity that I could use for a bank locker. An amp might survive in my car if i kept it parked in a safe place. To control scalpers by raising interest, the FEDs waited 40 years to long. And my 20 years of saving just hasn't been been a tenth enough to buy one of these guitars. Collectors, scalpers and hoarders with money to keep these prices rising also keep these guitars out of almost all players hands. It is illegal to buy stocks on credit, but I never considered the possibility 20 years ago of buying a vintage guitar on credit (possibly because i didn't understand the scalpers' game). But maybe a savvy Chinese company will do like many valve gear emulators and nail some really terrific guitars for the price of digital gear. I hate made in China and have since day 1. But Gibson, despite its success as an American company, has failed to make affordable American made vintage copy guitars. They flunk at technology. They flunk at analytics. And its not their crafts people's fault. Becoming a billion dollar company just to have the money but not the goods is sad, sad, sad. Anyway, so much for Carter's and so much for even a decent and affordable Gibson vintage-copy.
....and
Why is there a need to name these fiddles? Asking for a friend.
Robert Frias I’ll tell you exactly why... many guitarists with a true passion for playing form a familiarity with a special guitar which develops into a kind of personal intimacy with the instrument. At that point, the sound of it, the way it plays and the way it looks gains a personality, so to speak, and names are born as a result. Sometimes, there is a unique characteristic that lends its significance to the name - like “Red Eye” in this video. There is a distinct red patch above the neck pickup that extends to the neck and pickup selector switch inspiring the name to Ed King of Lynyrd Skynyrd, the original owner.
To further the “personal intimacy” point, I can play good on any guitar I pick up, but never as good as I play on MY guitars. It’s comfortable and it becomes an extension of me when I play it. Hope this explanation isn’t too hokey or mystical sounding. lol
@@user-ex4jc1ug6y I guess so. I've owned my 85 Explorer from new , played 100's of shows with it over the ensuing years but never found the need to name it. Of course it's not a 50's LP, but it is rather special for me since I've now owned it for 35 years.
@broomsterm I didn't say there was an issue. I asked why.
@@NitroModelsAndComics It's named Red Eye because of the red spot by the pickup selector. It was originally a sunburst, with a red fade that went around the entire body, but many Les Pauls of the day (including this one) were put in shop windows for long periods of time before they sold, and the red fades quicker than the yellow part of the burst (I used to know the precise reason, but the long and short of it is that there's something in the red dye that breaks down when exposed to UV light for long stretches). Anyway the price tags were often hung from the switch, so the bit of wood that was shielded from the sun by the tag preserved that small patch of red, while the rest faded. Hence, Red Eye
The other reason in this case is because Les Pauls from 1959 in particular are viewed as essentially the gold standard of that model, and additionally they are incredibly rare and valuable (under 700 sunbursts were made, and they sell in the mid-6 figures), so many of them have names a) because some guitar players like naming their guitars, b) it's easier to identify them on tour when you might carry 10 or more guitars with you and so it's sometimes simply a logistical thing so it's easy for the guitar tech to hand the player the correct guitar for a given song, and c) in the case of these very rare pieces, it's for identification, instead of just saying ""59 Les Paul serial number 97283442" or whatever.
HMMM
IT DOESN'T PLAY CHORDS
If does
A Les Paul will do anything. But for a demo, simply playing chords is a waste of a guitar of this caliber.
Dagger 323
IT'S A GUITAR
IT WAS MADE TO PLAY JAZZ
SO A FEW STRUMS WOULD CERTAINLY BE IN ORDER DAG
IT 'S A GREAT ANYTHING BOX
I USE MY LES PAUL ON ANY KIND OF GIG EXCEPT C&W
IT'S AS OLD AS THIS GIBSON
ARE YOU IN LOS ANGELES?
CARLOS GUITARLOS 90042
GuitarlosCarlos then next time you do the demos and quit the complaining. The rest of us loved it.
Dagger 323
IT WASN'T A COMPLAINT
IT PROBABLY HAS GREAT TONE WHEN IT'S CHORDED
CARLOS GUITARLOS USA
Too bad they couldn’t find an actual guitarist that knows how to play the guitar really well for this. Jason gets by but he’s just not very good
Yeah, I saw an interview he did, and he admitted that there were kids in Nashville that could play circles around him.
But he's still a damn fine guitar player in my book.
are you kidding? aaron lewis never could play guitar., and thats a fact.
Not convinced that is real tbh. Provenance?
Why do you think that? This was Ed Kings guitar.
LOL. Yea, Jason is totally playing a random reissue.
heres your provenance. www.savingcountrymusic.com/legendary-lynyrd-skynyrd-ed-king-guitar-now-in-custody-of-jason-isbell/
Ed King from Lynyrd Skynyrd owned it for many years (you can see the road case in the background). It is a legit one. What makes you think it would be fake? Especially being handled by a store as well regarded as Carter?
I didn't think it was that impressive. But compared to a modern Gibson, yeah its WAY better than anything they make now. BUT, there are some guys making replicas that make Gibsons look like toys to be honest. I got a replica couple months ago, made the way they used to be made, made the way Gibson just CAN'T do it. Urea formaldehyde glue holding the top on, hide glue in the neck, long tenon neck joint and REAL Brazilian fret board and way more than that. You can improve a Gibson LP by junking their harnesses and hardware and using much closer materials and wiring and it will vastly improve even their most expensive guitars, but still, the independent small builders who took the time to learn how to build them like they did back then, it can be done way way closer than what Gibson is willing to do. I would put my replica up against this one any day. And the cost was lower than their VOS models. But you see, guys like this person aren't exposed to anything but factory mass produced "pretty" guitars that look great but don't cut it. Sure, its a collectible guitar and will probably gain in value, but for playing, they just don't know about guys like me and the small underground builders who do what Gibson can't. There is such a thing as science and reverse-engineering. I put 20 years into actual materials high end tech labs with help from mentors in analyzing all the materials in hardware and pickups; nobody has ever done that before in such a deep dive way as I did, so the pickups are not a mystery to me, I know them inside and out and why they sound the way they do, and this also translated into the hardware where I did the same thing. There is no "magic" about it, what can be known is now known. Big corporate companies are interested in one thing, MONEY. They are too big to do the things that a single driven research/builder can do. They have hit the peak of what can be done in a corporate restrictive environment where decisions by committee dilute everything into profit margins. Gibson of the 50's were master craftsmen, who had autonomy in making masterful instruments in small volume. They didn't really make a lot of guitars, but they made few guitars and made them wonderfully by hand and a few machines. Heritage is still doing that in Kalamazoo....
" guys like this person aren't exposed to anything but factory mass produced "pretty" guitars that look great but don't cut it"
You could not possibly be more wrong about Jason Isbell and you clearly have no idea who you're talking about.
@@adamcoe Its simple. You play any modern Gibson, then play a hand made vintage Les Paul, the difference is going to be huge. So, yeah he's going to be massively impressed by the old guitar, but that doesn't mean a guitar like that can't be closely built in our times, but you won't get it from Gibson, you have to locate individual guitar builders who put decades into learning every possible thing about how they were built, how the tenon neck joints were made, the actual real lacquers, etc. etc. and you'll get a guitar thats really super close to the vintage ones. So, what I'm saying is these musicians will buy a pretty Les Paul, just for the top alone, without a thought about it being even close to a real vintage 'burst, and they are not. They buy on looks alone. But there is the third option and yes, guys like these have never played a historically accurate replica, so they mistakenly think only a vintage original can sound like this. Gibson is a huge corporation, they make corporate guitars. The replica builders are largely guerilla underground builders, sounds like you have never heard of this, go look up Tom Bartlett, and Steve Hague. You play one of those and you see the Light. Gibson "Authentic" is anything but.
Why does everyone use terrible fuzz. I can't remember ever hearing an old les paul that wasn't drenched in distortion. And lose the slide please arrgg
gringopig I tend to agree, which is why I love listening to Mark Knopfler playing either his ‘58 or ‘59, you really hear the actual tone of the instrument
There's no fuzz box here, he's just plugged into a turned up amp. Sounds awesome. So does the slide.
That's what a cranked tube amp sounds like.