Chords for Show and Tell with Joe Bonamassa's 1965 Fender Stratocaster at Norman's Rare Guitars

_ _ _ _ Everybody, Norm over here with my buddy Joe.
Joe has come in to torture us, showing us
another ridiculously clean vintage guitar.
Well, yeah, this is under the, I have a couple of Fenders from this era that I call it, they're
just too, I'm even scared of them.
I've played some nice guitars in my day.
This guitar is
one of them, and the Tuxedo Telecaster that you sold me a year ago, that's another.
This
guitar came to me through the daughter of the original owner [G#] who bought it in 65 [C] and
recently passed on and [Cm] it was time to sell dad's old guitar.
And it's a Fiesta Red [N] 65,
the neck's never been off I don't think, nor am I going to attempt it.
It's an [B] American [A] one, because I mean, Hank Marvin was really popular in England, and
a lot of guitars were sent over there in [E] Fiesta Red or [C] they were finished in Fiesta
[A] Red in England [N] over at Sunburst or over other colors, just because Hank Marvin was so popular.
So it's rare to see them over here that were an American Fiesta Red.
This came from Missouri, and you know, a lot of times, and I know in a lot of, in the vintage
world, especially Custom Colors, I have photos of the original owner in 69 in color, and
I can tell you one thing that sticks out in those photos is the red guitar.
And you know,
sometimes when you pull the neck off too many times, you'll get chips around the sides,
and it doesn't need to come apart every time.
So I mean, it's been together, it's stayed
together for all these years, and it's a beautiful strat.
I love, I've been getting
into [A#] colors lately, and I just, I_
This has the hang tags with the number [Am] on the hang tag, by the [C#m] way, which is also more
[A] verification [F#] that the thing is what it is.
It's stayed together.
[N] You know, a lot of times, when I look at a guitar like this, _ it comes
together, you know, everything has to make sense as a total.
You know, the aging on not
only the body and the neck, but the metal parts as well, down to the magnets on the
pickups, the screws, the saddles, [Am] the tuners.
You know, if something, the backplate, you
know, if you have a mint guitar and a [F#] rusty backplate, you're going_
[E] These guitars are interchangeable, so when you see [F#] a lot of wear on the neck and no wear
on the [E] body, that's [F#m] a red flag.
Yes.
So you [E] want to see uniformity [A] all the way around.
Absolutely.
And, well, [A#] speaking of no wear anywhere at all_
Yeah, this is [E] my chance for show and tell here.
This is a guitar that we just [F#] got that's
a little on the ridiculous side here.
And [N] so I can torture Joe a little bit.
And this
is a really messed up, crappy Blackguard over here.
Yeah.
One of the nicest ones I've ever seen.
[E] Maybe the cleanest one I've ever owned.
It's stunning.
And, well, 53 or 52 or whatever.
And [D] it's, [E] well, it's [A] light and resonant, which is [G#m] what
you want to find, but it's scarily clean.
And the best part is this little ad [N] that was
in the case.
And I know a few memorabilia collectors that would love this.
Notice, and tell them what that is, that black line.
The black line, if you're standing really close to it or looking at it, it would say
in quotations, broadcaster, which then goes to reckon Leo must have had a bunch of these laying around.
Didn't want to throw them away.
Didn't want to throw them away.
So he just blacked them out.
Blacked them out.
Put Telecaster on there.
And it's got like a squeaky clean fitted case.
The original rag.
Key.
Key to the case.
Yeah, it's like one of those ones when you open [Em] the case it squeaks a little bit.
Yeah, this is one of those.
And also like these big like [C] guards generally, [G] you know, there's generally [C] some type of a
wear that's some reaction from [A#] sweat or whatever.
This thing's got _ _ _
_ [E] _ [A] virtually_
_ [E] _ [D] _ [A] _
[C] _ _ _ _ [A#] _ [E] _ _ _
_ _ [D] _ [G] _ [E] _ [D] _ [E] _ [D] _
[Bm] _ [A] _ [E] _ _ [A] _ [E] _ _ _
_ [A] _ _ _ _ [D] _ [D#] These are wired like, you know, [A] almost like a governor on the guitar to, _ for your jazz
stuff.
And then when you go to league_
Well, you know, I recently [F#] found out from my friend [N] Kirk Fletcher, which as many Telecasters
I've owned, there's actually four sounds in this switch.
[A] There's dead.
There's the front pickup only, which is in the center. _ _ _
_ _ The lead, you know. _ _
But if you get a fresh enough [Am] switch, just like on a three position [A] strat. _
Now it's in the middle.
You get both.
Here's the original strat. _
[D] _ [C] _ [A] _ _ _ [G] _ [D] _ _
[C] _ [A] _ _ _ _ [E] _ [Am] Go [A] back on the road.
Yeah, he needs [Em] practice.
And I've tried to teach him, but he's so slow at learning all this stuff.
But, you know, he's coming [E] along.
I have to say, Joe, you know, those lessons [C] I wrote out for you.
I'm almost a Mel Bay book, too.
[N] _ _ Does anybody remember who Mel Bay was?
Everybody back when I started learning, everybody had a Mel Bay.
And and it was the first time you saw a one [C] fingered C chord.
_ _ _ And [A] a D'Angelico, because [N] Mel would always put his D'Angelico on the cover of the book.
Yeah, that was his, you know, his guitar.
And actually, when they had the photos of the fretboard and everything,
he was playing on the D'Angelico.
Exactly.
And I believe the truss rod cover did say Mel Bay.
Yeah.
And anyway, that's what everybody, you know, first, you know, introduction to D'Angelico
and the one fingered C chord was Mel Bay book one.
I'm still working on the one fingered C chord.
That's right.
So but anyhow, the great Joe Bonamassa.
Thanks.
I love it when you come in and show us the new acquisitions.
And I was glad I could show you one today to torture you a little bit.
This is crazy good.
_ Beautiful.
Joe Bonamassa right here at Norm's. _ _ _ _ _