Holiday Hoser Posted August 17, 2019 Share Posted August 17, 2019 {youtube} {/youtube} 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leonard McCoy Posted August 17, 2019 Share Posted August 17, 2019 Fantastic condition, fantastic sounding. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fortyearspickn Posted August 17, 2019 Share Posted August 17, 2019 Wow. That one touches all the bases! Might be gone already - couldn't find it on his website. Just as well. Walk Away From The Light! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jinder Posted August 17, 2019 Share Posted August 17, 2019 Beautiful guitar. I'm normally suspicious of pristine guitars of that vintage, but that one sounds VERY similar to my very beaten up '67 which is one of my very favourite instruments, and among the very best sounding J45s I've played. I hope this one found a home where it might actually get played! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
62burst Posted August 17, 2019 Share Posted August 17, 2019 The one J-45 to have, when you're having more than one. A cherry burst that strong, and one with an adjustable saddle at that, can be an acquired taste, but Michael Lemmo's playing fattens the mids nicely with those thick chords (the required chatter can be skipped by going right to 4:20). Thanks for passing that along, Holiday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrairieSchooner Posted August 21, 2019 Share Posted August 21, 2019 My first Gibson; brings back some memories. In those days my budget dictated one in/one out. Too bad; shoulda kept it. Traded it on a new J-50 which got swapped for a Heritage Custom soon after. Loved the Heritage, didn't like the J-50 much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zombywoof Posted August 22, 2019 Share Posted August 22, 2019 Johnny Cherry Picker might be a better name given the finish. For me though, the combination of the skimpy 1960s neck carve and mid-1960s narrow nut width make it a no starter. After watching the vid though it really hit home that I need to stop farting around and teach myself to hybrid pick. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
E-minor7 Posted August 22, 2019 Share Posted August 22, 2019 Heps, this is mint - put on some silk'n'steel and you have Donovan's start-guitar right there (it's mellow and yellow as well). I think we can hear it hasn't been used too much. Still kind of tight. And I would like to lower that saddle into some top-contact, then adjust the tr to check the difference. Like it - but have heard 45s from that period which were considerably better. 1960 to 64 are my favorite J-45 years (the width), but this one is from the same wave. PLAY away - the old shiny slope needs it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zombywoof Posted August 22, 2019 Share Posted August 22, 2019 I always figured if I had the hankering to play a 1960s J45 I could just remove a bunch of strings on my '61 B45-12. Funny but with the next string change I was planning to initially ad only the octave G and see what developed - kind of a Gibson version of the Martin McGuinn 7 string. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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