R.J. always a pleasure hearing you playing. I've played guitar all my life and just developed brain cancer as a Firefighter Lieutenant in Portsmouth, Virginia. Got to play with some of guys we play w after duty. Hope I will improve after treatment. Just wanted to say how much excellent and inspirational a player you've been to me for many years. peace brother.
Brain trauma can be healed with "lions mane" tincture (or whole mushroom fungus fruit, which looks remarkably like a brain! I also use medicinal cannabis, preferably high-CBD strains, so I can think logically during the day, and remember what I'm doing (ha ha ha!). I love getting "stoned" too, but not during the day when I'm trying to life. Breathing in smoke from fires is EXTREMELY bad for your health, so detoxing and healing is very important. RJ is like medicine for my soul when he's playing his best. He plays so many different instruments, so its interesting to watch and listen, to suss what he likes best. I prefer his playing on hollow body guitars, in general anyways, but he sounds great on solid body guitars too. The hollow body Eastwoods with "P-90" looking pickups, like his signature guitar, sound the best to me. A hollow body changes the tone, giving it another dimension it seems to me. Semi-hollow sounds great too though. I love the ES-335 style Gibson guitars, but slightly smaller, like Dean Parks plays. He played the same guitar with Steely Dan that I saw him playing with Madelyn Peyroux a few years ago at the Aladdin Theater, here in Portland. I got there early, so I got to pick my seat - it's "stadium seating" at the Aladdin, so the earlier you get there, the better seat you can claim. So I picked a seat about a dozen rows back, front and center, with the great Dean Parks playing right in front of me. He was playing that same Gibson he played with Steely Dan, on some of his famous solos with them. It looks like a 335, but slightly smaller, and with a solid carved top, so it has more tone. Dean Parks is like the new Tommy Tedesco apparently, being the first guitar player they contact for jingles, and such, although that was ten years ago, and now things have morphed considerably. Now we have all these genius level guitar players showing their talent online, putting commercial musicians to shame!
R.J. killing it 🔥 🎸 Eastwood makes great guitars. This design was a 1967 Guyatone guitar which came in 2,3 and 4 pickup configurations. This one with 4 pups is very versatile and I love it!
Good ol RJ. Proving yet again you don't need a bucket of chicken on your head of a fancy name on the headstock to be a top notch player. Being a lefty (who uses his videos as a mirror to snag licks) I am a big fan of Eastwood as I am RJ cause they have a huge line of left handed models. Unfortunately If I got one, it'd just wind up being exhibit A in my wife's murder trial. So I'm stuck with my starfire, my king pin and my old ass flipped over greco. and some assorted righty crap I have laying around. Unless I win the lottery, one more axe and I'm a dead man. Fortunately, I live down the road from South Paw guitars and they'll let me play on the ones they have.
Love your channel RJ. Found you via the Eastwood site due to another player's lefty demo of the same guitar. Your skills are mondo cool and I may be ordering a lefty Eastwood because of your demos of their guitars. Do you ever tour in Canada, Montreal more specifically? Love the surf guitar stuff you do! Peace bro.
