Nice slide playing by Bonamassa

[nybergh]

Not on a resonator but very nice!!!

Funny looking Gibson too.

And I must agree, Feeling bad bluse is a nice one!

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Love the sound of that guitar. Single coils not humbuckers! Really sharp.

[honeyboy]

Very nice video. As a player he has always had a great 'natural' touch.

Guitar looks (and sounds) like a 58/59 Korina bodied Gibson EH - 500 Skylark lap steel but made into a normal guitar shape..

I've never seen one like that before.. Anyone any idea what model Gibson it is?

(I've just found this to answer my own question - He's playing a Gibson Skylark prototype that never went into production :-( )



Here's a video of a 12 year old Joe Bonamassa jamming with Danny Gatton's band (using Danny Gatton's Telecaster) in 1989...

[Michael Messer]

That is a good looking machine.

Shine On
Michael.

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What effects pedals do you think he was using or was it clean??

[honeyboy]

Quotes from a recent Bonamassa interview

"My rig now consist of a Marshall silver Jubilee 100 and a 1972 Marshall super lead 100 and a Two Rock custom signature reverb and a Fuchs ODS 100 run through a Boss DD 3 delay, a carl martin hot drive and boost and a ts 808 tube screamer and a Vox wah wah .. thats it for now.. been pairing down and getting back to playing straight through..

Thats all. I rarely use them. Its mostly amp overdrive



That guitar is a prototype Gibson Skylark guitar from the Gibson Custom shop.. I believe there are two or three total that they made. Its Korina and made in the style of the old 50s skylark lapsteels.. I think they might put them into production but Im not sure.. My job is to play it and give them feedback on it. It really is quite cool and sounds very good. That "middle" knob behind the bridge is actually a blend knob that allows you to roll in the second coil (the neck side coil). It will go from single-coil to full humbucking and everything in-between.

I should actually explain my home practice low volume rig.. I live in LA at a condo complex. Very Hollywood types live here.. They have no interest in hearing the bluesboy crank up the jams late at night so I devised a rig for my house ..

1 1987 Marshall Silver series Marshall 50 watt 1X12 combo..
2 1965 Fender Princeton Reverb or a 1957 Fender Vibrolux with a Kendrick reverb unit
3 THD Hot Plate ( for Princeton Only)
4 paired down pedal board (spare) with AB/Both switch, Vox Wah , TS 808 RI , Fuchs Audio prototype "Creme " pedal and a boss DD-3 delay.

I get a pretty good approximation of my big rig at TV volume.. You know watching a Law and Order Marathon and playing guitar at the same time kinda thing. Can hear the TV and guitar at the same time.. No Broom sticks from below..( been there done that). Anyway.. There is always another way to get your tone.. "

I think the sound you are hearing is basically the guitar through a couple of cranked Marshall amps. The usual 'trick' with a two channel Marshal valve amp is to connect your guitar to an A/B/Y box then have one output into a clean (just breaking up) channel and the other output running through some kind of overdrive pedal - typically a tube screamer or some variant thereof. You can then flick into the kind of tone you are hearing by one press of the A/B/Y pedal.