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TALES FROM NERDVILLE by Joe Bonamassa TOOLS OF THE TRADE, PART 2

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00:00 [MUSIC PLAYING]

00:01 I'm still winging at my dance, smiling at the pouring rain.

00:06 Hey, everybody.

00:10 Joe Bonamassa here in the apartment,

00:13 disturbing the neighbors once again,

00:16 healing up from a little bit of neck surgery.

00:17 So if my face looks a little out of proportion,

00:20 that'll clear up in a couple of weeks.

00:22 Today, I want to talk about the 335.

00:25 This happens to be a 1961 Dot-Neck 335.

00:30 Why do they call it a Dot-Neck?

00:31 It's because it's got dots indicating the frets,

00:34 12th fret, you know, whatever.

00:37 And after about '61, '62, mid-'62,

00:43 they went to block markers and cherry red.

00:45 And that's what is mostly associated with Eric Clapton

00:48 and creating the ends of cherry red with the block markers.

00:51 But these are cool.

00:52 B.B. King played one, you know?

00:53 Good enough for B.B., good enough for me.

00:55 So today, I'm going to go through a little bit of what

00:57 makes a 335 different from, let's say,

01:01 a Les Paul or a Firebird or any of the other great Gibson

01:05 guitars.

01:06 So check it out.

01:08 So here we go, the 1961 ES-335.

01:12 You can really hear the acoustic quality

01:13 of the instrument coming through even when plugged in.

01:16 So check this out.

01:17 [GUITAR PLAYING]

01:20 [PLAYING GUITAR]

01:24 Here's the front pickup.

01:43 [PLAYING GUITAR]

01:47 [PLAYING GUITAR]

01:50 Here, both pickups combined.

02:02 [PLAYING GUITAR]

02:06 [PLAYING GUITAR]

02:09 One for B.B.

02:30 So whenever I'm choosing an instrument for a song,

02:33 I mean, every time we revisit our blues catalog, which

02:36 is pretty vast at this point.

02:38 We've done a bunch of tribute shows

02:39 and played a lot of trad blues over the years.

02:43 Every time I want to figure out what's

02:47 the best guitar for a trad blues song, 99% of the times,

02:52 I'm grabbing the ES-335.

02:53 It just works.

02:54 It fits in the track if you're in the studio.

02:57 And live, it just bellows and really creates that vibe

03:02 and takes you there, both as a player and sonically.

03:05 You know what I mean?

03:05 Like, sometimes you look down, you're like,

03:07 this is where I want to be playing.

03:08 And you're hearing it, and sound makes you play.

03:11 So the 335, any year-- again, it doesn't

03:15 have to be a vintage one--

03:16 is a great asset and a great tool

03:18 to anybody who has a very vast variety of music and styles

03:25 that they have to pull off on any given Sunday.

03:29 [MUSIC PLAYING]

03:33 (upbeat music)

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