Gibson ES Made in Nashville With Dave Cobb

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3 жыл бұрын

Mat Koehler, Gibson's Head of Product Development, visits with six-time Grammy Award-winning producer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Dave Cobb at the historic RCA Studio A in Nashville, Tenessee, to discuss ES series guitars, musical influences, and notable Gibson ES series guitar players. Gibson has moved the production of the ES series from Memphis to Nashville. From body contours to pickups and wiring, Gibson USA and the Gibson Custom Shop have revitalized the entire Gibson ES line of guitars to make them even more historically accurate. In this video, you'll learn more about the improvements to the ES series, and Dave's favorite ES models; find out which guitars he vibes with and why they appeal to him, and hear about the one that got away.
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@juzzybassgrove4354 3 жыл бұрын

This wasn’t long enough. Such an iconic guitar and Producer. This deserves more please

@JDWH Жыл бұрын

Yeah this could have easily been an hour or two long

@onenotesolo256 3 жыл бұрын

I had a 335 Warren Haynes edition sitting unloved in a case for a few years, and then started recording some originals at home during lockdown. Pulled out the 335 and threw some new strings on, and it immediately became my #1 recording guitar because it’s such a fat recorded tone. Also inspirational for songwriting. Love it now.

@marcoscamillo6606 3 жыл бұрын

Nice, Dave is a hell of a producer. It's very cool to see you guys from Gibson trying to nail all the little details of vintage guitars.

@JS-nf1sn 3 жыл бұрын

Dave Cobb!!! The best producer by a mile. Seems like a great guy too.

@yestoES355 3 жыл бұрын

My custom shop ES-355 is my absolute favorite guitar.

@jjdillon2007 3 жыл бұрын

My biggest 335 influence was Lee Ritenour, and then Larry Carlton, and many others. I love my Memphis made 2005 dotneck.

@eddiejr540 3 жыл бұрын

Ooh, Larry Carlton...one of my all time favorites!!!!

@rylieriley 11 ай бұрын

Gibson Custombuckers provide me with the sound I've been looking for all my life. Excellent work, Gibson!

@reddikken 2 жыл бұрын

I just bought my first 335. I'm so excited!!

@graemero5532 3 жыл бұрын

One day I will own a 345, love the inlays

@RockHardRiffs 3 жыл бұрын

I think it was Les Paul who built the first semi hollow body. The “log” was a solid piece with 2 hollow wings attached 🎸

@liorauf 3 жыл бұрын

Please continue with this AMAZING videos!!! Love you Gibson!!! ❤️🤘

@rw2806 3 жыл бұрын

I love my new Gibson Custom '64 ES-335 reissue. It's my first ES guitar, and my new number 1. So versatile.

@stevehughes1510 3 жыл бұрын

What a great interview and video..........I've got a M2M 335 in the pipeline at the moment and this is really an eye opener as to what's happening at the CS..........thanks Gibson most appreciated!!

@dylanmontgomery2287 3 жыл бұрын

Glad to see Matt in a video finally. Great guy. THE gibson expert

@danielktdoranie 3 жыл бұрын

Great video guys!

@BenderMohawk 3 жыл бұрын

Marty McFly played an ES-345 with a Bigsby in BttF, which was rented from Norm’s Rare Guitars for more than Norm would have charged them to buy the damn thing.

@MrMickey519 3 жыл бұрын

I just received my ES335 1961 reissue in cherry. The fit and finish is “exactly”. A true vintage feel and sound. I am more of a vintage guitar player but I must say, I am impressed! A spectacular instrument. If the reissue ES models are any indication..... Gibson is back!

@MattyBEightyThree 3 жыл бұрын

My next purchase for sure. Love these and if Gibson does the ES as well as they did the 60th Anniversary LP, it’ll be a monster.

@Bryantkh13 3 жыл бұрын

Very interesting about the presses changing over time from wearing down.

@GoYardBabe 3 жыл бұрын

Awesome Dave. Listening to NASHVILLE BOOTS by Dennis Callahan.

@MrMedtech1437 3 жыл бұрын

Beautiful guitar. The closest I could come to these is an Epiphone model. So versatile in that you can play blues , country , rock , jazz and to some extent, metal.

@davidharding200 Жыл бұрын

Just like a Tele- and a Tele will do all of them better as well.

@m1garandisthebest Жыл бұрын

@@davidharding200 A 335 does a lot of things a tele cannot do

@scoobydoo936 3 жыл бұрын

ES 355 of stock everywhere in Europe, waiting time is several months, price is about 5.800 Euro, thats 6.800 USD. 1959 Custom Shop In black with the diamond on the headstock and block inlays, with gold hardware and preferably a Bigsby, omg, just to die for.

@ahiwalter9153 3 жыл бұрын

i sold all my guitars, all but one of my amps & all my pedals so I can get my 86 Dot Neck in time for my birthday in November, not an ounce of regret I can’t wait to bring it home

@genuinemaehem 3 жыл бұрын

Such beautiful guitars

@geoffforduk 3 жыл бұрын

I wish I had an ES335 that could miraculously change to Trini Lopez and back again! Keep an eye on that 335 1:25 and 2:01 it's back again. Actually, I just wish I had a regular 335.

@jarcidiacono1 3 жыл бұрын

I am selling a 2008 beauty of a vintage sunburst 335, loaded with 50’s wiring, 2019 Gibson custombuckers and a reversed magnet neck pickup yielding the out of phase Peter Green middle position, lmk if interested!!

@jameslaird1213 3 жыл бұрын

THE Crossroads recording is on the SG.

@nikolaibarbarich7887 Жыл бұрын

Just got myself a 2020 59 historic Nashville made 335 , hands down the nicest 335 I've ever played. Gibson have done great ! Looks and sounds amazing, neck fits my wimpy hands perfect and quality is perfect. Well done Gibson!

@BartDietvorst 3 жыл бұрын

Awesome watch!

@shreve38 2 жыл бұрын

Loved the video! That T. Lopez is a CANNON!!

@louderthangod 3 жыл бұрын

I’ve got an amazing 137. I tried 2-dozen es’s that day and it was the best. Took awhile to find the perfect pickups but it’s amazingly toneful. The 137’s don’t get a lot of live but I’ve always preferred the 175 shape and to marry it with the 335 semi-hollow structure is awesome.

@riviecc 2 жыл бұрын

I have both 137 and 335 . I prefer the 335 as its much lighter and better build , but the 137 has its own sound . I prefer the 137 for more jazzy tone . Ironically it also has a good heavy rock tone

@louderthangod 2 жыл бұрын

@@riviecc Heavy rock and jazzy is my thing. My experience of trying out so many taught me that the difference between them can be really significant even the same model with the same pickups. They’re all super light to me. My main guitars have aluminum necks so the 137 feels like a toy compared to those.

@silverfr3ak 3 жыл бұрын

Red ES-355 is my second dream guitar (first is a black Les Paul Custom with 2 pickups). I finally had the chance to get the LP custom. Now it’ll take some time, but I hope to get the 355 someday.

@giulioluzzardi7632 Жыл бұрын

Do check as many as you can as the neck can get very narrow near the nut depending on what year they based it on.

@GavinMcLeod 3 жыл бұрын

The best producer on the planet in my opinion. Love just hearing him chat about shit. Great video Gibson!

@lanrenault2876 3 жыл бұрын

100% agree, produced Jason Isbell ......enough said ,

@toddflowers8052 3 жыл бұрын

Never knew the Trini headstock was pre-Firebird ! 😮 Great interview ! 😎🎸👍❤

@martywilkinson6722 3 жыл бұрын

It's neat how that 335 just magically changed into the Trini Lopez model in the blink of an eye! 1:42

@giulioluzzardi7632 Жыл бұрын

Well spotted, the continuity should have spotted a totally different model. It did'nt get past your eagle eye. The Gibson man should be embarrased .

@topografer Жыл бұрын

Great video

@JB19504 Жыл бұрын

I just got a Cherry 345. Beautiful great sounding guitar!

@gbaren 3 жыл бұрын

Please know that Mat is the real deal…His love and knowledge of guitars is true long before he was with Gibson. No BS

@lespaulhardrocker 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, great to hear JD Simo helped you out in getting it right!

@laitysblues 3 жыл бұрын

I feel like Gibson hasn’t focused on the 335 in quite sometime. Maybe until now. The fact that your showcasing this gives me inspiration for the future. I played a few and owned one but it was my great white buffalo (the one that got away). Greates guitar I ever played. Bought it new in 1998. Black Dot. Anyway quite a few years now I wanted another and keep passing and getting Les Pauls cuz the 335’s you’ve has their wasn’t one under $3,500 that had all the features combined I wanted where the Les Paul’s did.

@ivanmontalvez7337 3 жыл бұрын

Oh man, that magical Es-335 transforming into Triny Lopez in your very own hands

@mitchellmelloy13 3 жыл бұрын

I rewound, I thought I was trippin

@michaelruthrof1582 3 жыл бұрын

At 1:42 i also noticed this transform ... haha

@user-my2nj3jz4p 3 жыл бұрын

My ES-339 is made in Memphis, I love to have one made in Nashville

@polski1683 3 жыл бұрын

I love 335s but god they are so expensive

@steveg219 3 жыл бұрын

What was the black one at the end? It sounded amazing, I think it was the best sounding of all of them

@HiHello-ku1fl 3 жыл бұрын

Man that was good. I was hoping to hear about that Supro and Orange Matamp behind them. Maybe a collection video with Mark and Dave Cobb is coming?

@jambajoby32 2 жыл бұрын

4:34 !

@androidrobot8809 3 жыл бұрын

I will get one once I get good enough :)

@jarcidiacono1 3 жыл бұрын

@sirwinston2368 2 жыл бұрын

My first electric guitar was a mid-60's ES-335 12-string. Bought on July, 3, 1976 at Richard's Guitar outside Detroit for $300 (you never forget your first Gibson). I just played it earlier this evening thru a little Vox practice amp in my living room. Never had 12 strings on it in 45 years (man, I am getting old!). I love my 335. By the way... they still make guitars in Kalamazoo at the old Gibson factory, 225 Parsons Street. Not Gibson... Heritage. I have an H-575 (an ES-175 style gitfiddle - a beauty).

@michaelrafferty5441 3 жыл бұрын

Very informative. Have you considered featuring Lee Ritenour?

@Ziraffe2 4 ай бұрын

Great film and conversation. The thing about the 'ears' was a surprise. I definitely thought it had to do with stream-lining the shape a bit - updating it, so to speak. You guys should zoom in on pups next time. We'ld loVE to hear your experience regarding that endless maze of sonic mystery. Hi there. .

@darrylcole5575 3 жыл бұрын

It's the shape of the neck and heel joint that makes each year different. That's a big thing when picking out a reissue custom shop gibson guitar.

@znmcg 3 жыл бұрын

Dave Cobb is the coolest

@stevengood6434 2 жыл бұрын

For me a 335 has got to be cherry. And the Trini has always been my favorite with the dimond holes and inlays. The headstock really makes that look right. I wish I could afford one.

@gr328 3 жыл бұрын

Is the center block really solid or does it have the cut out like the original 345 had?

@heavy_70s70 Жыл бұрын

I been looking at this Orange Matamp the whole time

@megachillin2282 3 жыл бұрын

Is the bridge on bushings?

@brandonhuff336 3 жыл бұрын

Cobb legit looks like a young clapton😂😂

@andrewcruz7595 3 жыл бұрын

Fr except more American

@iamryanman 3 жыл бұрын

But why is that funny ?

@brandonhuff336 3 жыл бұрын

@@iamryanman it was a funny similarity that Dave looks like my Hero, chill out chief

@giulioluzzardi7632 Жыл бұрын

Words of wisdom; "What's the point if having a great sounding guitar if it do'nt look cool"? The Man is hip cos does'nt hide the fact that the guitar has to look good and sound good to make it complete. Cool.

@justinguitarcia 3 жыл бұрын

My 2017 Memphis 335 is definitely one of the best instruments I own, gets used 80% of the time whether a rock, blues, rnb, motown, hip-hop, it pulls it off

@guitarnlax36 3 жыл бұрын

Awesome video. Although Clapton did actually play his Fool SG on Crossroads.

@James_RC 3 жыл бұрын

Albert Hall Cream farewell concert was 335

@MP40meatballTR 3 жыл бұрын

I have wet dreams about that '64 ES-335

@rjlong89 3 жыл бұрын

Put a les paul jr double cut in the original collection for 2021. Itd be a hit. Id buy 2

@jimbonacum8917 Жыл бұрын

The 335 is the emperor of all electric guitars. It can do anything you want from jazz to rock to country and back again. For anyone who hasn't had a chance to play one they are surprisingly heavy. I have owned an ES 125 for many years (yet another incredible instrument from Gibson) which is a fully hollow body and light as a feather. The key to the 335 is the maple center block which adds a bit of weight. Mine is as heavy as a Les Paul which can be sort of surprising. They look like a hollow body but they combine the best aspects of a hollow body and a solid body which is the reason they are so versatile.

@petertiffany8096 Жыл бұрын

They are not all that heavy. Mine is a 2020 and is 7 1/2 pounds. Awesome guitar! I agree that they are the emperor. My favorite electric by far. Teles are my second favorite.

@allrequiredfields 2 жыл бұрын

"It's always the wood." Thank you.

@dep1001 3 жыл бұрын

I so need a 335 in my life! Such a beautiful and classic guitar! "It will be mine. Oh yes, It will be mine." ~ Wayne. Gibson let me know if you wanna help me out here ;)

@jarcidiacono1 3 жыл бұрын

@nickm.9474 3 жыл бұрын

Weird how they say something about bringing the old contours back but according to the tour I went on In Memphis they said they were still using the original presses. Somebody is lying.

@motorcyclemark2889 Жыл бұрын

Dicky Bets played a red 335 that's what got me on them

@stevedangerslifemusic8323 3 жыл бұрын

Hi, what about the 2019 figured blue burst with MHS2 pickups ? I was about to buy it and then it disappeared from all shops all of a sudden , I am so frustrated and even not able to find it on second hand. Any plan to rebuild some nice blue burst ES335 with triple A maple and good pickups ? How sound the T-Calibrated versus MHS2 ? Thanks

@yestoES355 3 жыл бұрын

Steve D’Angers just wait if you really wanted that. I know they were on sale a lot since Gibson was going to relaunch.

@ebathurst9216 3 жыл бұрын

this guy is definitely super cool, but I find it hilarious he’s wearing the same outfit as his rig rundown from 3 years ago

@jakemguitarist 3 жыл бұрын

I mean what a badass outfit

@jonlee1236 3 жыл бұрын

I think that makes him even cooler

@ebathurst9216 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah when I posted that I was wearing the same band shirt and jeans I’ve worn for the past 3 years

@misterknightowlandco 3 жыл бұрын

They filmed it the same day... 😆

@chrispuckett8855 3 жыл бұрын

The rings banging on these guitars is killing me

@trevormekelburg3773 3 жыл бұрын

I knew he would bring up the one Isbell bought hahah. This dude has a good attitude but I can tell he regrets letting it go.

@cruedevil71 3 жыл бұрын

I have been wanting a 335 for 10 years so recently I purchased a Japanese 335 style but its not quite there due to the construction, mainly because its not a laminate where the Japanese copy (Guitar Co. shall remain nameless, think a "sixth sense" sister company. Wink, wink) is solid maple. I believe the tone I hear missing is in the laminate process. So next time I have an extra grand I'll sell the Japanese version to help fund the real deal. Until then I will make due but hear me now folks there is no substitute for a genuine Gibson 335 if you take your tone as serious I I do.

@jarcidiacono1 3 жыл бұрын

@cruedevil71 3 жыл бұрын

@@jarcidiacono1 Oh man that's right up my ally but its gonna be a year before I have the funds for something like that. Maybe if congress gets their act together I would def use a stimulus for that beauty.

@connorcampbell144 3 жыл бұрын

I need an es335 my favourite guitar players who use them at Kelly Jones from stereophonics and Caleb followill from kings of Leon

@smelrod 3 жыл бұрын

Caleb is your favorite player!?

@fabianaguilar1358 3 жыл бұрын

Try seeing Albert Lee

@allstopblue5717 3 жыл бұрын

Caleb may not be a “great” player, but Kings of Leon is a badass band and the 335 or whatever model he has looks so freaking cool on stage playing those songs.

@fabianaguilar1358 3 жыл бұрын

@@allstopblue5717 technically he plays a 325

@stephenwright4307 2 жыл бұрын

I can hear his Jean jacket buttons hitting the back of the guitar. I'd tell him to take the motorcycle outfit off before he touched MY es345😃 great video!

@milliesdad8322 2 жыл бұрын

There’s a finish bleed on the binding of my ‘64 Trini Lopez reissue. Has nothing to do with the tone of the guitar, but just something noticeable when I play it.

@Terribleguitarist89 3 жыл бұрын

Out of the ES guitars, I've been dying to get an ES137.

@jambajoby32 3 жыл бұрын

Sweet! I just got one of these! Gibson, can I send it in to get the double trapezoid inlays instead of the dots?

@Deteroblix 3 жыл бұрын

Mat Koehler, when you say Gibson has refactored how you develop the ES 335's for 2020 that match the originals, do you mean only for the ES 335 'Custom Shops', or all new Gibson mass produced 'production line' ES 335's?

@dirtbikerplay11 2 жыл бұрын

Not me simping over a guitar 😍 my dream guitar is a Gibson ibanez hollow body guitar ohhhh one day

@judeappetite 3 жыл бұрын

You can tell why Dave and Scott Holiday get on well, they're very similar cats.

@tonyfdesign 3 жыл бұрын

Sometimes you see the strings “up and over” the tail piece. Other ESs have the strings run through the tail piece. Why the difference?

@JohnnyD31 3 жыл бұрын

Anyone else blame the current ES craze on Little Tommy?

@johnshanesyandtheaccommoda1189 3 жыл бұрын

Fellow lad, good day to you.

@JohnnyD31 3 жыл бұрын

You’re a sweet man, John Shanesy.

@nikolaibarbarich7887 Жыл бұрын

Haha I'm assuming little tommy bukovac?

@MrLarryhoward1 3 жыл бұрын

Hello!!! If I am not mistaken! Ted Nugent played and still does play the ESS 335!!

@JB54379 2 жыл бұрын

Miss the Memphis 335's. The Memphis Gibson plant excelled with the 335's since that is what they did!

@jjdillon2007 3 жыл бұрын

With all due respect, I think Ted McCarty may have been inspired by Les Paul's log guitar, the hollow body Epiphone, with the 4x4 solid center section, and the two hollow wings, when it comes to the ES-335. So Ted McCarty invented the Les Paul guitar (or designers under his watch), and Les Paul kind of created the semi-hollow concept.

@giulioluzzardi7632 Жыл бұрын

Yes, they seem to neglect mentioning that les had made that Guitar(The Log) which is obviously the "Original " feature that the 335 was based on..just thinner. I suppose they think Les paul has had enough time in the spot-light ?

@1777DK 3 жыл бұрын

Did a big guitar company representative just state, that the vast majority of an electric guitars tone, comes from the pickups and harness? But what about the tone wood debate then ... Just today, I read a KZfaq comment, from an apparently highly skilled listener, who was not able to “hear the Honduras mahogany” (or actually not hear it) in the guitar, demoed in the video. Through the processed high gain amp, harness, pickups and playing, he was questioning weather or not, the mahogany used for the guitar, was actually Honduran, because to him, it might have sounded like maybe African mahogany, or god forbid sapele. And now, this guy, from one of the largest guitar manufacturers in the world, is saying that the maybe there wouldn’t necessarily be a noticeable.

@vernonhoover1387 3 жыл бұрын

I need a trini

@strangebirdsir 3 жыл бұрын

Wouldn’t Les Paul’s “The Log” be the first solid center semi hollow? Didn’t he bring that to Gibson and get laughed at? Maybe I’m wrong with my story, but this just seems like a thinner double cut version of The Log.

@pierrederesistance 3 жыл бұрын

Are we not supposed to notice when it switched from the 335 to the trini and back again?

@tonewheelz 3 жыл бұрын

Mine has been on preorder for 3 months now. ;(

@user-og782 3 жыл бұрын

Mark agnesi nobody in Sicily sells the new Gibson and the new Epiphone inspired by gibson, why? I think they are excellent guitars but we do not have the way or the pleasure to try them, and we are a land full of great musicians, thank you. 🙂👋

@Tonetwisters 3 жыл бұрын

So what happened to the Marcus King model?

@chrisbeall5702 3 жыл бұрын

Anybody notice the Trini Lopez that accidentally showed up at around 1:50??? It’s in the background before and after

@matevigh8418 2 жыл бұрын

Two weeks ago I ordered an ES-335 (60s cherry, plain top). Inside the case I found many small wooden flakes and a washer next to the guitar. I could not find the original place of the washer, but it could easily scratch the guitar. The instrument had one ding on the headstock, and it had lacquer chipping at various places along the neck binding and residue of polish material here and there. I found tooling marks on the fretboard but what frightened me the most was the unsanded/unchiseled maple centerblock inside the body - probably that is the place the small wooden flakes came from. If I was a luthier, I surely have sanded down the centerblock before using it (it takes at most 10 minutes). We are talking about a 3000 EUR guitar, not a cheap knockoff from China. I sent it back and I am discouraged to buy another Gibson.

@TraneFrancks 3 жыл бұрын

Stop. I just bought a Les Paul Special Tribute P-90 two weeks ago. The wife isn't ready for another case to walk in the door. 🤣

@matiassalvadorpizarrohigue9289 3 жыл бұрын

Guipson forever

@TheLionEatingPoets 3 жыл бұрын

ES-330??

@silvestrovirdis2315 15 күн бұрын

ES le chitarre più belle !!!!

@jessefillmore 2 жыл бұрын

Gibson , do you focus on the points of contact ? Are the metals used in the vintage the same as the reissues ? My 2007 Gibson SG had a heavy bridge and tailpiece . I switch out for a Faber/Corsa bridge and tailpiece and it made my guitar ring like a bell . I believe what the string is sitting on is just as important as wood and pick ups . The tuners , nut , saddle , bridge , bridge post , tailpiece , tailpiece screws . If those are not resonate then you are losing tone . Those great vintage guitars had resonate hardware .

@nickm.9474 3 жыл бұрын

OK. I posted before I watched the whole thing. hahaha.