Chords for Joe Bonamassa Gibson and Epiphone Les Paul video demo Guitarist magazine HD

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_ _ [B] Hey everybody, Joe Bonamassa here at my house.
Wow, this is a rare treat for me actually, because I never get to go home.
We're doing something today that I've never done before actually.
You know, Gibson over the last three years has been [D] nice enough to come out with not
one, not two, but three signature guitars for me.
And truth be told, I've never A-B'd them.
So I don't really know what the result's going to be, but it's always fun to kind of [Eb] experiment
in front of all you people.
This guitar that I'm playing right now is the initial prototype.
Now on the live gigs I play JB, the serial number is JB001.
This one actually predates that.
This was the very first one they sent me.
It's like written in magic marker, proto JB.
And this is the one I used on the Ballad of John Henry.
And I turned with it a bit, but it's really special.
This was the one that never, when you're a kid in your bedroom, you never thought in
a million years that you would have a Gibson with your name on it.
So this one's really, really special.
And again, thank [A] you Pat Foley and Rick Gimbar and [Bb] everybody at the Gibson Custom Shop for
getting it started and continuing on [E] with it.
So yeah, this one sounds really good.
It's really light and based on a few Les Pauls that I owned at the [B] time.
And this one sits in [Bb] my guitar room.
It's again, very special.
The second one in the gang of three is this gold top that the Gibson factory, USA factory makes.
These are the newest ones.
And it would be best to be described as like a Les Paul studio appointment.
The [C] inspiration behind this was to get something that was a Gibson guitar.
But again, keep the cost down, because not everybody has $4 [G],000 for a custom shop one.
And it's important for me to get these guitars into the hands of kids and people who want them.
I'm honored anybody to go out and play these things.
This one here is actually a good one.
I actually used it for a couple songs live on the last tour on a few shows.
And this was my main warm up, Les Paul in the dressing room.
So this one sounds [A] a bit different from the custom shop, but it's still pretty good.
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_ [Em] _ _ _ And it sounds really good.
It's a guitar, it's a working man's guitar.
You can [F] take it on the gigs, play it.
You know, the whole point of these things is to take them out, play them, beat them
up, scratch them up, make them yours.
The next one we have is _ [C] actually, in a weird way, the rarest.
This is the Epiphone.
These came out last year.
We did a limited edition model.
It was 1,000 Epiphones.
_ [Ebm] They sent me the boxed certificates to this [Ab] house right here, this position I sat.
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Have you [Bb] ever seen 1,000 sheets of paper?
Like really thin?
It was a stack this tall.
And I sat there, [B] one after the next, signing, signing, signing.
And again, I was really honored.
We did these because [F] we wanted to really keep the cost down.
And this is mostly a guitar for kids.
And when they came out, [Ab] the initial 1,000 sold out in like three or four days.
People [C] complained that they couldn't get them because they literally would go through the
music store's hands and they were pre-sold.
So that's why we're doing the USA one as well.
But this one kind of sounds like this.
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And they're all pretty consistent.
[Ab] I mean, they're all pretty consistent.
They have the burst buckers.
And all these guitars are prototypes.
This is the very first Epiphone.
This is the very first kind of Joe Bonamassa studio one.
And they probably sound a bit more matched if I bothered to actually raise the pickups
all the same.
But again, this is an experiment on camera.
But I really do dig them because they do have a really good sound.
And [E] again, I'm not a fan of the sound of the Epiphone.
But again, I wouldn't put my name on something that was kind of inferior.
And so we really took our time.
And thank you to Jim Rosenberg and everybody over at Epiphone for really working hard on it.
And thank you everybody at the Gibson USA shop and of course the Custom Shop.
So there it is.
Models 1, 2, and 3.
Who would have thought, ladies and gentlemen?
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