REAL BURST 1959 Gibson Les Paul Standard - Tone Twins TV tests The Richrath Burst

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5 жыл бұрын

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In this video Ed and Huw have the pleasure of a stunning 1959 Gibson Les Paul Standard for company.
Vintage 1958-1960 Les Pauls are often referred to as Bursts. This particular guitar is known as the “Richrath Burst” as it used to be owned by Gary Richrath of the band REO Speedwagon and it is currently for sale at Lucky Fret Music Co in London.
“The Richrath Burst is well known in the Burst dealer community having been owned by some of the most prolific names in the business; Jacques Mazzoleni who initially acquired the guitar from Gary's girlfriend around 1990, then passing through the hands of Richard Friedman, Kosta Kovachev and Gil Southworth, only to return to Jacques in 1998 from whom Andrew purchased the guitar. It was also given a thorough workout by the one and only Joe Bonamassa during his show at the Cardiff Motorpoint Arena in 2018, used on the song "Breaking Up Someone's Home." - www.luckyfret.com
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Huw and Ed discuss put the Richrath through its paces demonstrating a wide range of tones using a range of vintage amps and take an in depth look at this heavily flamed, double white PAF loaded Burst!
In this episode:
1959 Les Paul Standard
1964 WEM Custom 15
1964 Fender Deluxe Reverb
1951 Fender 5A3 Deluxe
Amp audio recorded with Beyerdynamic M160 into a Telefunken/Siemens V72 into UA Apollo Quad into Logic - no Compression or EQ.
Room audio recorded with a Neumann CMV563 into Telefunken/Siemens V72 into UA Apollo Quad into Logic.
Key timings:
Intro audio Burst into 1964 WEM Custom 15
Clean finger picking Burst into a 1959 Bassman
Bluesy solo Burst into 1964 Fender Deluxe Reverb
Rocking solo into 1951 Fender 5A3 Tweed Deluxe
For a detailed look at this guitar please check out Huw’s Vintage Bench Test article in The Guitar Magazine also available online at Guitar.com
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@randychapman9527 4 жыл бұрын

RIP Gary....kind of sad watching this... Gary was a monster player. Attitude and swagger

@jamesseverin 4 жыл бұрын

Gary Richrath was a fantastic guitarist!!!! R.I.P Gary

@VacantCityDrifters 4 жыл бұрын

Straight into a dimed Marshall and crank out "Roll With The Changes" !! RIP Gary Richrath and thanks for all the killer jams

@These_go_to_eleven_1959 Жыл бұрын

Most do not understand what it is like when the 1959 burst bug bites you. For years i did not put much thought into Les paul's let alone the holy grail one, the 1959 burst. Then a few years later the bug bite me and i have been infected since! Now i love everything about the old 1958-60 LP's. The look of a old original 59 is just magical to me. The one you guy have here is no exception! That is gorgeous!

@breekolean2758 2 жыл бұрын

I played Gary's guitar back in the 70's it's just a Les Paul the magic was Gary's love

@jonnybeck6723 Жыл бұрын

I just loved/enjoyed the playing and tone(s) conjured UP with the 5A3 ''TV" front Deluxe...

@lilipearl1 5 жыл бұрын

Great video guys. Keep up the great work.

@tonetwinstv2863 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your support

@These_go_to_eleven_1959 Ай бұрын

This 59 was for sale on Reverb 5 years ago for$329,000. The pickups are the ones that were always In the guitar they just took the covers off.

@jaymax3201 Жыл бұрын

I want to know about the Burst he used to play on stage. My favorite is the understated Flame Top Burst with Grover tuners and pickup covers.

@steveg219 4 жыл бұрын

Very nice instrument- I would say though that the clean tones are where it stood out the most

@tommy2z2z 5 жыл бұрын

Sweet! It is understood that this is one of many Pauls that Gary would have owned?

@tonetwinstv2863 5 жыл бұрын

Yes it seems he was quite the collector. Thanks

@jimmyjames9752 3 жыл бұрын

Dave Amato of REO Speedwagon said that Gary owned 18# 1958 ,59 and 60's Les Paul's

@lukenicholsonoriginalmusic5475 4 жыл бұрын

Great video guys. Does anyone know how much it sold for?

@MK-ig3ng 4 жыл бұрын

Amazing video. I'm curious of all the amps in the collection of yours, which would you keep if you could only have one?

@tonetwinstv2863 4 жыл бұрын

Hi KA - Huw here and my answer has to be the 5A3 tweed Deluxe. But I'm pretty partial to that Custom 15 and those mid 60s WEM amps really aren't very expensive at all.

@daniellewis4506 2 жыл бұрын

Great video lad’s. You sound probably Welsh . Well i live in Colwyn Bay and my cat has just been kidnapped and the ransom note said that if I want my cat 🐈 back then you’d have to send that exact guitar to an address which I will Email to you. P.s : keep the cat!

@tonetwinstv2863 2 жыл бұрын

So sorry Daniel, it sold already. Would a Watkins Rapier suffice?

@Strato13 2 жыл бұрын

Like Richrath, I keep t simple Marshall dsl40 all tube Amp, a reverb pedal set on plate, and a klon copy of pedal up front. I get great tones on ether my Les Paus, or beloved 2009 Fender Stratocaster. No rack fx, or anything else.

@JFigueroaGuitar 4 жыл бұрын

Not Rickrath, but Richrath. I want that guitar, btw.... take a hundred bucks? 😥😄

@j_drichmond 3 жыл бұрын

That treble pickup sounds like a sweet slightly compressed Tele’.

@RalphSmole 4 жыл бұрын

RICHrath.

@anthonytye2591 4 жыл бұрын

So why if the PAF's are not ex factory Gibson would have no reason not to use covered coils I think Gibson have used other pick ups at players demands there something Is there something odd about the control cavity route?

@dmarker21 3 жыл бұрын

What is the source on the statement that DiMarzio owns the rights to the double white look? I'm confused as to how this is possible from an intellectual property standpoint. I can't imagine that it would be possible to trademark double white bobbins as some sort of brand "trade dress" especially when many guitar manufacturers use white pickup bobbins or white pickup covers. Thanks.

@ryans9029 2 жыл бұрын

Dimarzio owns the rights to double cream bobbins. Not white or parchment. It's been this way for 30 plus years. And it's 100% verified fact. All stemming from jimmy pages uncovered PAF in his #1... People started imitating it... Then dimarzio trademarked the color bobbin configuration.

@kenwhelan3003 2 жыл бұрын

What is the asking price in US dollars at the gtr shop?

@tonetwinstv2863 2 жыл бұрын

Hi Ken. The guitar was sold a few years back so we can't really help you with that one.

@kenwhelan3003 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the reply

@Mr.56Goldtop 2 жыл бұрын

No doubt this is a muscle tone guitar! Gary owned several 59s so it's hard to say which one this is. The one(s) he played on stage always seemed to have more cherry burst than this one.

@ryans9029 2 жыл бұрын

Very likely would have lost much of its cherry in the last 35 years.

@numb41 4 жыл бұрын

Does this belong to Bonamassa now?

@ryans9029 2 жыл бұрын

Lol probably

@MattSmithMe 4 жыл бұрын

Larry DiMarzio patented double cream bobbins back in the 70's. It is indeed quite possible that the guitar left Gibson with double whites. Gary bought that guitar from a fan here in Chicago during the Hi Inidelity tour. When Gary bought the guitar, remember that it was a 22 year old guitar and not quite the mythical guitar that it is now.

@ryans9029 2 жыл бұрын

Double creams still Happen from other companies... They must be sold with covers attached so the bobbins aren't visible. Many original PAFs had double creams. And many aftermarket companies have put them out before the trademark.. And after.

@okiwatashi2349 5 жыл бұрын

Ffs, Richrath!

@artheriford 2 жыл бұрын

RICH-rath, not RICK-rath.

@beeps123 4 жыл бұрын

What excellent marketing talks. Take a chill pill guys. The only folks watching this are serious Reo fans and Les Paul people. Try knocking on kirks or slash’s door. On another note.. the guitar is stunning and there’s a lot I’d do to just touch it.

@cbrugh 3 жыл бұрын

Richrath's playing was every bit as good as Kirk's or Slash's. I would argue that serious guitar players would KNOW this.

@gtbones 4 жыл бұрын

P. A. F...three separate letters spoken as....wait for it....three..separate...letters....not paf....paf is not a word!! .....a bit anal of me I know but it's like fingers on a chalkboard to me....LOL....carry on boys.

@tonetwinstv2863 4 жыл бұрын

O......K......! ;-) thanks

@gtbones 4 жыл бұрын

@@tonetwinstv2863 - LOL.....love your channel..... :-)

@ryans9029 2 жыл бұрын

Most say P A F... But paf isn't uncommon, especially in Europe/uk.. Lighten up. Neither is particularly correct.. Did you say G I F or gif? Jpeg or J P E G?

@jpalberthoward9 2 жыл бұрын

It's funny isn't it? Our way of life requires a culture of planned obsolescence in order to sustain the corporate bottom line. It also requires a marketing system to constantly push "NEW! NEW! NEW!" every five minutes so that we all are in a constant state of dissatisfaction with what we have. "When it goes out of style, toss it on the pile!" Then, just like Joni Mitchell sang about, we don't know what we've got till it's gone. You trade your '55 Chevy in on a '73 Pinto, and soon you realize your mistake, but then it's too late because the brokers have grabbed all the '55 Chevy's and run the price of them to the moon. Same thing with the guitars. The odds are pretty good that some billionaire will lock this thing in a vault where it will never be played, or even seen by another musician for perhaps hundreds of years, possibly never. You could argue that it's the same as a Stradivarius violin, too rare and beautiful to be in the hands of one of the great unwashed, but to silence this voice in the interest of the bottom line is also a sad state of affairs. It kind of misses the whole point of even building quality instruments in the first place. It's like it's become some kind of weird, twisted idolatry. Rock and roll, just like the blues and the country music that came before it, was "The joyful noise of the ten cent beer joint" to quote Jack Kerouac. Those guitars, and the amps that went with them, defined the form. It's just sad to see the kind of elitism that prevails today over products that were built to what was just the standard of quality for that time. It shows how far we've slipped.

@scotthancock5335 4 жыл бұрын

@9.43 I see a poorly fitted neck joint and neck binding over sprayed binding at the neck join...oh that's right its a vintage guitar no quality control back then !!! or has this neck been off the body ????????