Cheers for having me along guys! I’ve had worse days…!

If Chris doesn’t own a ‘59 burst, he most certainly will one day. Dude is pure badassery.

I'm a simple guy, i see chris buck, I watch!

Ha, Chris swearing with his Welsh accent still has a musical quality! 😂😂🎶

I love Chris' intellect as much as his playing.

The most superb clean tone, right up there with the finest classical guitars. No trace of listening fatigue. The tone caresses the ears like a woman whispering in your ear her love for you. Few joys in life can match this.

Chris is one of the tastiest players out there today. Lovely choice for this guitar!

Hats off to Andrew Raymond for giving us a peek into a world we may never get to see.

Great video. So good to have Chris Buck demonstrate these fabulous instruments.

Guitarist, you really knocked it outta the park by having Chris Buck do this videos... the guy is one of the best out there.

Chris Buck is one heck of an awesome player. Definitely, has his own sound!!!

Sorted Jamie.. all.you have to do to make this a fabulous series of to get Chris to do all of the playing. Mr Buck is simply the greatest... the greatest and most expressive player but also a fabulous man to listen to.. I could listen to him talk and play for days

Thank all of you Gents very much for a fun and very informative video! I was so pleased to actually hear the clean tones from these gems. And a big thank you for NOT using bleeping pedals or overdriven amps.

Great little documentary. Loving the content.

Brilliant idea in terms of content. Great info and detail. More please. There were so many interesting guitars in that room. Keep er lit !!!

They are the stratovarious of guitars...I'm 60 years old and I have played two 59s... actually I could have bought one in 1981 while stationed at Davis Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson Arizona...a guy had posted a add in the local for sale ads which I would get every week...it read...old Les Paul for sale...I met him at a local guitar store that I hung out at on a regular basis... unfortunately he worked at the store and knew what he had...the asking price was 5,000 dollars...well it might as well been 5 million dollars because for an airman first class it was way way out of my reach...but at any rate I was able to sit and play it for a half hour or so....it was by far the best guitar that I have ever played....if I would have been smart I would have ran to my credit union on base and got a loan for it...I saw it recently in the beauty of burst book...I cried...just thinking about the day I got to play it in a little guitar store in Tucson Arizona.....

Great series. Keep it coming.

You don't buy the guitar, you buy the history - Bonamassa

I couldn’t stop looking at the daphne blue Strat with the slab board on the couch. That is a rare guitar. Not that the bursts aren’t but that Strat would be the first one I picked up to check out

lovely vid and playing... But would have been much nicer seeing one continuous play through rather than 10 sec interrupted snippets of Chris' playing! Please post the whole chunk of his play-through vid !

Of the 1700 made only 17,000 still exist.

Brilliant, loved it. Could we have an edit of this with nothing but all of Chris' playing... no voices over, just Chris?

The one thing that almost all the really good 59s have is that horn like quality to them....in the hands of a really great player they sound alot like a saxophone....🎸🎸🎸

As good as the Murphy replicas sound in all the recent demoes, it's great to actually hear the real thing. What awesome pieces of history.

Love the series idea and this video keep them up boys! 58's 59's 60's vs each other. Dumbles, Marshalls, Fenders etc etc Keep them coming babe!!!

Love this guitar.. someday just want my hands on one..

That burst from Minnesota was my grandpa's! My dad played it for years too. We've got family photos of him playing it on stage.

Very cool 😎 & extremely interesting.. And some great guitar playing .. 😎

Nice video. Also, kudos for bringing Chris Buck into it!🙂

How many times do you reckon our Chris went for a bit of neck bending on that 59 and then restrained himself?

Great post.

Chris' playing is so mature.

Only a few made but we get to see a new one all the time!

I love a clean Les Paul 😎. P90 and vintage PAF humbuckers sound fantastic plugged into a clean fender amp. So many people miss out on it. Do yourself a favor and try it sometime

You know you could hand a great guitar player the best sounding Burst and they cannot handle the accuracy. That is not a problem for the sublime Chris Buck. He can coax all of the idiosyncrasies out of a guitar.

No disrespect to those phenomenal bursts, but Chris Buck would sound incredible even on a 2021 plastic ukelele

Lower power, unpotted pickups give that. You don't need a sixty year old guitar to have defined, articulate note definition. Seymour Duncan Seth Lovers...Gibson Burstbucker 1 and 2. Those are the same as the original PAFs. They also don't have the same number of turns for each coil...that gives the "bite". P.S. nice to see younger generations carrying it on this well!

Guitar guys always credit Clapton for making the Les Paul famous while completely forgetting to mention Les Paul himself.

A well built guitar that feels good to play and the right set of pickups is the key imo. Alnico magnets are a massive part along with the coil wind/wire. That and lots of practice. These old gems are amazing but for most people the things I just said will be more than enough to feel and sound great.

Nice gee-tars are the Ley Pauls, but I have to admit the sonic blue L-series Strat on the couch caught my eye 🧐

I would rather see ......or hear , Chris playing that Dolphine blue Strat!

I love hearing Chris haunt those old bursts.

Loved this video. Where's Part 2?

Very cool....I'm thinking about getting a new standard Only 24 hundred but I'm having a serious Standard itch Do have a couple knock offs but man they are heavy The one I'm looking at is 8.4 lbs and that's lighter than all the Murphy aged ones I've seen Not an exotic burst but not quite a plain top I've heard people state the plain top's are some of the best sounding I sub'd guy's like what your doing

Great video, Chris is a fantastic player. Never having played a genuine ‘59 ( I’m a lefty...), I must say I’m super fortunate to have 2014 Gibson Custom R9 that has EXACTLY the same tones on tap, stock and right out of the box. Just to say you don’t have to sell your limbs to get that tone. That said, it doesnt make me a better player, allas.... :-)

Clean tone 🙏 ! Thank you....Those Marshall drive channel are boring !!!!

Vote for a blindfold test. The difference can't be that big between a 2k model and a 59' model. Andertons did a blindfold test where they missed an Epiphone LP and a Custom Shop LP.

That’s funny cause I have one of the new original p90 gold tops and the neck pickup is my favourite position….I also love the middle position…and the bridge Amazing absolutely amazing guitars and playing

Probably the only person that feels this way, but this made me like Gibson less. They sound so good and the modern Gibsons are just so average unless you spend crazzzzzzy money 💰

I'm also agreeing with the other comments on here about the Strats on the couch!

Please do a vid on vintage Fender amplifiers and Fender guitars 🎸

Ha, this is timely for me! 😊👍

There are more counterfeit 59 Les Pauls than real ones.

Ya, he could make a $100 guitar sound great.

Yee-haw ⚡⚡⚡

I know this video is about the Les Pauls but that sonic (daphne?) blue Strat in the background is the best looking guitar in that room

No, "Beano" was not the neck pickup, c'mon...The amp was aimed up against the wall to keep it from ringing the cymbals and bleeding into all the mikes. Eric didn't have the volume pot on full all the time and he also used the tone pot.

Chris buck is a great guitarist

Those ‘59s are ultimate but give me any Strat any day of the week and twice on Sunday. BTW, nice Rolex on Chris Buck’s wrist

I want to see (hear) a blind test and see if anyone can discern between a real ‘59, a custom shop, a newer standard, heck throw in Epiphone standard into the mix. I’ll bet it would be hard to pick out the real ‘59.

Next part is coming out when?

Question is, did the guitars loose highs and lows over time or was the sound always like that? ❤

Is there a part2?

Where is Part 2 to this? i looked and there is no second part?

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I was nervous watching that watch the whole Time.

I mean gives us the part2 with some crunchy Marshalls already!!😅

So many people talk about 'those' Les Paul's having much more clarity and less wooly, muddy tones than future incarnations. I always wonder how come they haven't tried to get closer to maintaining those characteristics if that is what is so desired by people. Especially with modern technology, can it be down to cost?

So, what happened to part 2 of this?

When is part 2 out

Great video! I kinda wish he would’ve dug into the strings a little.You guys know what I’m saying,play it like it’s been bad hahaha

Please demo the vox UL amp behind you

I wonder what they look like under the pickguard. I would take them off before causing any damage!

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Was he implying that the Gib Les Paul should be carried with support to the body and not lifting it by the neck? I had no idea I needed to treat it delicately.

Where is part 2?

Where is part 2??

59 lp aren’t close to the holy grail, they are the holy grail . They’re all different or at least vary way less then guitars that are made today.

where's part two?

Upgraded the steinhart to a real sub ey

It looks like hes selling the Graniger burst just saw it up for auction

I would add Floyd Roses and EMG pickups to those guitars

Is there magic or is it a myth. Just like any vintage guitar made in certain eras there are, I’m sure, good ones and bad ones. Are the ones with underwound pups better than overwound? Amp/guitar combos? There has to be a psychological component to all this as well. It’s been confusing me for a while but I’m easily confused 😄

Chris Buck is a fantastic player with a technique and a tone of his own - simply great. And those are awesome guitars. Are they worth the money? They are worth what people are willing to pay for them! But I am tired of hearing a good Les Paul should sound like a "Telecaster on steroids". NO! A Les Paul should sound like a Les Paul. If I wanted a "Tele on steroids" (which I don't), I would buy a Tele and put hot pickups in it.

Chris buck has the opposite of what you call a light touch. I'll bet he took a good bit of those frets down playing that guitar for just 15 minutes. Even when he's playing quietly, he's grinding the frets.

The reason Gibson Custom shop do come close to the sound of 1958, 1959,1960? Simple, all that real old wood is gone. There are builders that seek out old wood that build Les Paul they very close to that sound. Not cheap

Woohoo

There were bad ones too. That’s why guys ditched them and moved on. Some guys ditched them for an unfancied mid 70’s strat or something and they did it because it sounded better. In truth a burst is nothing but a 57 goldtop with a different finish. Literally that’s what it is. I have played in 5 in my life (in the 80’s and 90’s) before they were completely outrageous. One was probably the best guitar I’ve ever played. Two of them I wouldn’t have even gigged on (not because of value they just sucked). Absolute dogs. And two of them were really good. If you go buy a custom shop, then send it to historic makeovers or something for the Brazilian board and throw a set of Throbaks or something on there, upgrade the bridge and tail and put in real paper in oil caps you will have a guitar that will outperform over half of the real ones out there. Wood dries out over time and becomes more resonate. That’s true. However they’re using hood light wood again that doesn’t kill your shoulder and resonates well (as if that’s a huge thing with an electric guitar anyway). But aside from the wood being more dried out look at this logically. Who would make a better guitar a housewife with a piece of sandpaper on a Friday afternoon in the Kalamazoo factory or somebody or some company like those I’ve mentioned using the same actual equipment and processes but in a much more refined and learned way. It’s just no stoic bullshit and the image of Jimmy Page with it slung low and we here things that aren’t there. Don’t get me wrong I’m a Les Paul guy and I have several reissues of the type I described and I can tell you a real good old one probably is better, but I’d put a modern one (with all the bells and whistles) up against an old one and win more than half the time. Fact

Was hoping to get some dirt out of that 68 JMP, especially when he said he was into Slash. I mean, 68 JMP, 59 Les Paul... You kind of have to, it's the rules.

I just don't get it. I love guitars. I know that some are better than others, and in fact some are really great. But a solid body electric guitar is really quite a simple instrument. There is absolutely nothing that gibson we're doing in 1959 to make their les Paul's, that they can't do today. I'm sure they are great, but the hype over these is ridiculous. They are only going for this kind of money because enough guys who idolised jimmy page and whoever else as kids, have now got the money as middle aged guys and are willing to spend absurd sums of cash on one. In fact, pretty much any electric guitar can be made to sound almost like any other when played through the right amp. I don't understand it, and I play guitar myself and absolutely love it. But guitarists generally are such a strange bunch

Joe Bonamassa WILL find you…

Where are the dirty tones?

I wonder if Chris would be my brain donor...

Don't even look at it....

SOOO BRITISH.

I really wanna enjoy buck but he kinda gets old and doesn't really have any technique,pop or ever change key ,he sticks to a very common melody path. I wish "musicians" today were as tasteful as the legends they compare themselves too

doesn't make such a hype about old guitars. you just want the prices to go up. they are no better than made in japan or the jungle. 😊

Again...finger picker... Use the plectrum if you got one in your hand!!! Somehow everytime I watch this kind of vintage guitar demo videos, it's played by finger. Why?? If you want to show us how good you play, that's absolutely fine. But if you want to show us how good "this guitar" sounds..Maybe you need to play in the way most of us do. I do fingerpick occasionally, but I do think 90% of the electic guitar sounds from the records we listen to today.. They're played by plectrums.

Great guitars, but hell no they're not worth the money. You give Eric Clapton a 2021 Gibson and he sounds like Eric. It's primarily in the fingers and technique. What's a real shame is how the market has made it to where these will primarily belong to Doctors and Lawyers, or collectors who sit on it a few years rather than in real musicians hands. Oh well, that's life. Disappointing.

There are much better sounding demos of ‘59 bursts around, not really impressed with this.