yeah, kind of weird the way they say it. He says "Hi, I'm Joe Glaser". Robben Ford: "This is an Epiphone Riviera set up by Joe Glaser" :D

Great Interview... not pretentious, not afraid of silence... time to think, time to listen. I’m very grateful.

@@SorinPopovici985 yeah, remember what we did yeh and we did .......

seems like a

Joe is a super nice guy I’ve known him 30 years treats everyone like they are a “ big” star - very cool

+Tobias Wilken Agreed. Very humble.

+PhiI93 Dumble, even.

i met him once; very gentle guy.

Tobias Wilken. Agreed.

Plays for the love of music

Do you what guitar and amp he used on Imerial Strut? From the first Yellowjackets album?

Think he used a Dumbloid-Special🤘

And he shared none of it.

Ok.. uh huh.. mm hm

Lol

😕 😂

now turn your head and cough

Madcap Laughs I myself have recently went down the Robben Ford KZfaq rabbit hole! I agree-I love his playing but there is something overly satisfying about hearing the interviews. The recent Rick Beato interview video got me searching for anything Robben related.

Because he’s beside Andy Timmons the most humble guitar musician I know.

What's the problem with that?

@@TMillsMusic nothing, I just like the contrast

Joost Dohmen If it sounds good, it is good 🎸

Yes its brilliant my first robben ford album i bought in 1988 i still play it so much brilliant musican love that song help the poor off that album.

Yes but the majority of Epiphone's are no longer made in the United States as they were from 1957 through the 60s

drellimguitar Joe Glaser

+drellimguitar absolutely correct. Yes sir. If people would listen they might learn something.

drellimguitar his name is Joe.

Too many of these Rundowns have a young starry-eyed kid in awe of just being backstage. Sure, this is more like a coffee table discussion, where knowledgeable folks share good information. I will take it, thank you.

And don't forget him starring in Starsky & Hutch..... thanks for the education...!!

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/h9KjabOgxJfMZac.html

uh huh uh huh uh huh.....

Omgggg huh huh

Yes, and those same pickups sound different when in a Les Paul Deluxe or Firebird. They wouldn't sound that good if I played that same guitar, though! Robben really knows how to extract tone from a guitar. I had an old Gibson made early 60's Epi Casino in that same "Royal Tan" finish although I can't say I really like it. Royal Tan always looks, to me, like it has faded down from something else. I suppose that, for many people, that would be cool in itself.

Actually, I wish a lot of interviewers WOULD use notes....ask your question and then shut up!....let the interviewee talk. That said, I thought Joe Glazer did a great job....as did Robben and his tech/co-producer.

I had a very similar experience with Joe. Absolute gentleman. Very approachable and more than willing to share his immense knowledge about guitars.

idiot, he works on robben's guitars. he knows more about robben's guitars than robben does. he didn't research. are you completely stupid?

So he shared... 'm happy about that. U are better than him I hear. I am allso happy you are well and above me then.... Cheers.

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@@jamesmaxwell5415 Robben's stories always change over time. I've been to numerous clinics where he professes to not know some aspect of music theory and others where he shows a complete mastery of it. Same with gear. He'll claim not to know what was used on a track and at some other point he'll say that it was this guitar. And at some other point he'll say that it was a different guitar. Or claim to not know what an I/O is. The man is much deeper than he lets on. Partly because he's humble, and partly because he want's to divert focus from gear toward music. His own magic ears and hands can tell the difference with gear and he finds the special stuff (he once spent a couple days going though every Les Paul GC had in the Bay Area with a couple buddies, one who worked there at the time and another who was a gear geek and knew all the in's and out's of different models, in a private room). And so he's playing the cream of the crop. Just think how many people try to get him to play their stuff. But in the end they're tools for him to make music. And he want's people to focus on the music. Like the old story where someone told Chet Atkins that his guitar sounded great and he pointed to it sitting idle in a stand and said "Yeah, it sounds great doesn't it". The guys at Black Market told me the story of the Tele. Robben and his then tech Jeff Rivera walked in one day and while browsing around asked if there was anything cool. The store had taken in a vintage Tele and kept it in a room they had behind the counter (the main room was huge and the ceiling and walls were packed with guitar hanging, but they kept special stuff "in back"). They brought it out, Robben played it and had the bonding experience he described here. And it's been his main road axe every since. Both for the expression it has and probably some degree of durability compared to the '54 Goldtop he recorded so much with (which eventually did get the headstock snapped but in a studio, not on the road).

+Jerry Davis Any conversation with Robben ford about music, like the late Ted Greene, was/is indeed educational. From my first introduction to Robben Ford back in the '80's (an REH video 'The blues and beyond' ) and Ted Greene at the same time ( his book 'Chord Chemistry') I have learnt so much, and now with the interweb thingy, and this is one of it's better uses, continue to do so. Your brevity is something that I unfortunately do not possess. Keep playing and learning

Soul Drive : They can't do either, you're wasting your time.