BELL TUNNEL: don’t you mean 2000 made; 1400 exist?

There are fake bursts out there, such as retopped 50’s goldtops and other les pauls.

@@BCTGuitarPlayer Duh dude...

he mentioned on IG recently that he has 13.

60s Addict I sincerely think it’s on Joe’s “Bucket List” to be able to say that he has owned everyone that Gibson made.

@@charlesbolton8471 I bet Hammet won't sell him Greenie! ;oP

DMSProduktions You’re probably right about that, but Joe is 15 years younger so in all likelihood he will out live Kirk. Joe will also have to bring a lot of money to the table when Jimmy Page dies, and then there’s Billy Gibbons to consider.

@@charlesbolton8471 True! He WOULD bid for them for sure! But at least with JB, you know those instruments will get PLAYED!

The question is what will they be worth in 30 years when the next generation of wealthy collectors come along? The 60s and 70s are getting farther away in the rear view mirror and will the next generation care about their grandparents guitar gods or the mystique of their instruments? If they don't I wouldn't blame them. it's hard to feel nostalgic for a time decades before your birth.

@@buckodonnghaile4309tell that to any owner of a Stradivarius violin. While I agree that the crazy prices of a lot of vintage gear may not last, there's something that's just too iconic about the original Bursts that sets them apart. I just wish Burst owners could take a leaf out of the Strad owners playbook and start lending out their original instruments to musicians deemed worthy so that they can be heard in public again. There will come a time when all 1,000 or so examples will be in the hands of collectors, and if they just stay in glass cabinets, we're all worse off.

Same for old Ferrari's that never go out of the garage..Just speculation, ok, rarity and sought over raises the prices, but now it's really toooo much.

"it just is" = "you suckers aren't supposed to understand economics/markets"

I’ve got 1300 of them. Never played one. Just stroke my beard and laugh.

I bought a 2nd hand one in brand new condition for less than 3900. Which comes to 44ish cents per session (for 9000 sessions). Except if I ever decide to sell it, which I won't, I can sell it for 3900 once again. So it can be free of any costs. In which case it's a profit because I get/gain all the hours of playing for free, and then I sell it for the same price I bought it for.

Shots fired haha

he recently said on IG that he has 13 at the moment.

@@littleredguitars2 59s or just bursts?

All that 'magic' and I'm still trying to think of one great (original) JoeBo song...having trouble. Help me out here, guys.

@@shaft9000 he's better with Black Country Communion. So many roads is a pretty cool tune and the one that turned me on to him. I've seen him live and it wasn't anything to write home about. Guy's a monster player but I find his songs less than inspiring. When he's with BCC, he's much more interesting to watch.

That was a realistic and fair price for a 50s Les Paul back then. $250,000 for one today is Not.

This is very true and should be kept in mind.

very true , but i think this guitar breaks that rule and by the mid 90;s took flight of it own no matter what it going to go up and up

@@tonyscreations7904 The rule means that everything is worth what people are willing to pay for it. If they don't it doesn't worth it and the price goes down.

@@gkol69 Yes, in all fairness a beautiful guitar is priceless to someone who really wants it. I personally regret selling quite a few wonderful guitars in the past. Thinking back I really miss them. Thanks so much!

More than that. If it was just supply and demand the 58 Burst would fetch the highest price because there is less of them. It doesn't. Commodity fetishism seems to be at play in this one.

Communists can't into economics.

@@aquilarossa5191 Point well made.

oh, and NONE of the classic records of the 60s and 70s were made by insisting on 40+ yr old instruments to get the best sound. On the contrary, top players customarily had a luthier build them a new instrument. They disn't say "you luthiers working today are all worthless to me because ancient instruments are always better". The topper is that Gibson may well have been long gone since the late-80s, if it weren't for Slash's popularity. A guy that didn't even use a real Gibson (let alone a burst, lol!) on AFD. It was a mid-;80s copy. The ruse is very real. It's (almost) entirely market speculator/investor fluff. It is fueled by crap like this: "those bursts' wood is SUPER SPECIAL and won't ever return" - meanwhile advances in biotech is making it possible to engineer the structure of wood to grow however they want it to, in any density and figuring, and in a multitude of forms. Sounds weird, but In the near future we will be able to "grow a guitar" or "grow a table" without having to go through the trouble of assembling/cutting/gluing any of the wood.

They didn't spray the sunburst finish in 68 or 69 on Les Paul's though. The sunburst finishes go way way way back at Gibson though.

Gibson didn't start making Les Paul Standards again with the cherry burst finish until the1980's. They did Les Paul Customs in a burst finish in the late 1960's bt inexplicably, they never manufactured what folks really wanted until the 80's and even then they weren't great copies like they do today.. they did gold tops with P90's, LP's with mini humbuckers, but they ignored the standard with a burst finish.....No one can figure out why..

This is definitely a major part of the magic. We also need to stress the fact that after 1960, they didn't make them until the late 60's. I know he said that, but it needs to be said again

@@Megarobotsquadron Yes, they didn't restart production of the Les Paul - the model we all know and love as the Les Paul, not to be confused with the Les Paul/SG - until 1968. But due to changes in design and production methods they were never quite the same. Yet another reason the '58-'60 originals are so sought after.

@@ViddyWellBrother when did they start the two piece laminated mahogany bodies? I k ow that many of the 70's bodies were like that

And the goldtops that became bursts ☺

satinwhip proof?

satinwhip nope.

Goldtops came in plain maple top. It doesn’t have that 2 figured book matched flame maple top veneer. So stripping a goldtop into a sunburst will not recreate the same paint finish.

@@iMadrid11 doesn't matter, people still did it. Ever hear of a '59 conversion?

The original ones. These are what the video is all about. After that, the Les Paul in a sunburst finish didn't come back until 1968. And these guitars are nowhere near the same as an original 58-60 burst.

@@dansands6363 Define "Original" is that like "Play Authentic" ? The "Original Les Paul"was invented by Appleton in the 40s and Gibson stole it.

DB Cisco I see someone has been reading fairy stories again. 😜 Interesting take on the Les Paul origins though... most people who have a conspiracy theory think that Les Paul developed it all himself or that it was made by Epiphone. Nice to see that someone has picked up on a single cutaway guitar which was conceived before the Gibson Les Paul and whist it is clearly different in shape and construction to the Gibson Les Paul you’ve put two and two together and got approximately a million. The honest truth is that Gibson didn’t believe in the concept of a solid body electric guitar and it’s why they laughed both Appleton and Les Paul out of the room when they brought their ideas to them. However, when Fender started having success with the Esquire and Telecaster Gibson realised it wasn’t such a stupid idea after all, realised they needed to compete and developed their own solid body, consulting to some extent (to exactly what extent depends on whose story you believe) with Les Paul himself.

@@davidburke2132 les paul should be credited with the 335 not the paul , the log was a semi hollow the solid body was a dog bone given to les paul

tonys creations To some extent I agree, but to give Les Paul credit for the genius design that is the ES-335 would constitute a big show of disrespect to Ted McCarty who, I my view, was the true genius of Gibson in this era and widely credited with the design of the ES-335 along with overseeing the introduction of guitars like the Les Paul, Flying V, Explorer, SG, etc.

You gonna do any of the newer hitman content, man? NYC or the Maldeves one thats comin' out..

dunno, still prefer a good deal on a reissue

oh, oh, oh...but...but..."the wood they were made from was ****super-special**** and no trees can ever sound as good as those trees did ever agaaaaaaain"