Hi every one. First thing I want to say to you today, I have been quiet for a few days and so now, I am going to talk for a while. And I want you to see, I want to introduce to my newly acquired 1967 Gibson S3 standard. I know it looks like the other one, my 1968 that I have been having for a while but this actually seems to be even closer to Anglosian specs, specifications I mean, and in fact, it is a fairly different guitar although it looks the same, it is not the same at all. First of all, the earlier you go back in time with Gibson as well as with other brands, the better instruments, vintage instruments of course. We are talking about, you are going to be able to find. So, I have seen this one floating around and it had all the things I wanted to have so it has got a sling taper neck. It is a more sling neck than the other one, which makes for a fairly different tone and in fact this one is even more open. To my ears, it sounds like an acoustic.
Now, I have my other 68 lying around here with a broken sling. She did not get much love but you see it is like, just a year difference, you know, on your left actually. You are going to see the – that is my left. On your left, you are going to see a 1968, which is fairly more brown. This camera has horrible colors but it also in here, it is pretty dark. This is even heavier. This guitar is heavier due to the fact that it has got a feather neck. You can see that and even the way it joins back there. It is fairly different joint and neck that makes for very different kind of sound and tone.
Now, if unplug, it sounds great, live and then, plug in, it is something like a marvel. So, I am probably going to get rid of the 68 or just keep it as a back up. This one is out of this world, so enough with the talk. We will let you listen to a few licks. Okay, and so you would be able to hear yourself, what it means at times one year different or just another guitar, you know probably a serial number even if it was the same year which is not, but like two next serial numbers, still can make two amazingly different guitars. So you got to try them out as much as you can especially if you have a chance to go to the shops directly and pick it yourself, all right.
Not at ten even yet.
See how it takes off, you can hear that pretty much in that ACDC live early things, sound like that.
It is amazing, you know.
Since the fret chord is completely different from the other one, the frets are different, the fret chords are different, the neck is more sling and I have to say it is unfairly better condition fret-wise than the ‘68. You are going to be able to – sustains more.
It has got a voice, you see.
And it is the same settings. The amplifier has the same settings. I did not changed anything, you know. It is just that this one screams as compared to the other one. I mean, this one needs some fix-in. Of course, I always set – the fret chord need to – another fret job and all that but I mean, wow, totally different thing, okay.
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