G&L L-1000 CLF Unboxing and First Impressions- Checking out the FIRST G&L!- LowEndLobster Fresh Look 

Leo's final gift to the world of bass: it's a thing of beauty :)

Leo Fender has done it again. I like it’s tone low down too. Can’t wait for the review on this G&L legend.

Quickly showing my appreciation for the cool vids before the big crowd rolls in. Keep up the amazing work Lobster!

Lobster, the smile when you first held it says it all.

I can’t wait to see the full review. Always wanted to try one after owning various forms other Leo’s other bass children. This just seemed to be the finial destination for 30+ years of bass innovation

Thanks for reviewing a G&L. I have the L2000 and absolutely love it even though the neck is chunkier than my Jazz bass. It can sound just about like most anything out there, single or double coil, active or passive. These G&L humbuckers are hot!

That is one beautiful looking bass I am in love! even as a 62 year old beginner

Good ol' Leonidas, what a dude! I lost track of how many times I went into funk-face watching this video.

L1000 Wunkay owner/operator since 1981. I used it for straight Country of the time. With flatwounds, in OMG setting, bass pot on about 8, volume up or real close, hit a few notes and dial up the treble pot until it clanks a little in the room you're in, then dial it down just a little for solid bottom and nice top with no harsh. "Just the way I did it", Music Man HD 130 head with MM 1-15 folded horn cabinet, Gauss driver.

So nice seeing the smile this bass brought you!

G&Ls are superb instruments! I miss my L-2000 so much, but will have one again. Thanks for the video🥂

what a face of satisfaction! g&l make incredible instruments.

Man, what an absolutely gorgeous instrument. Your smile said it all. I didn't exactly hate the old headstock but this new headstock looks great and is definitely an improvement on the old design.

Beautiful, intense, solid instrument!! I’ve been a Fender Jazz fan for years, I see that ol’ Leo was keeping the tradition of quality craftsmanship going with this line!! Definitely on my, “I gotta grab one,” list!!!!

As soon as I heard you say "never G&L'd before" and saw the L1000 I went *oh he is gonna LIKE this*

Excellent review and fun as always. When a player makes faces like that you know the bass is good and the playing is hip.

great tone!!! good to see you so gleeful mister lobster!!

That sounds amazing! I have an SB-2 from 1983 that I'm repairing. G&L makes a great product.

I love this bass. To me it’s the culmination of all Leo’s thoughts and designs. My main is a G&L JB. Such a great company to deal with. Obviously I’m a huge fan boy. HA! Jason at fret nation is also great. Righteous shout out.

Man, i've been wanting one of the g&l basses for soooo loooong!!!

Bout time you got a “better fender”. Also I heard once the little nipple was Leo giving the finger to fender for suing him on using a similar headstock to fender on early g&ls.

You instantly bonded with this bass.

09:23 more or less i thought..I used to like this man...now he s in a new category a living Legend ..G&L makes awesome basses , l 1505 its awesome too..

Own one in Okoume, and I’ll never be flipping it. So much versatility. Love the G&L legacy.

The versatility in sound is impressive but Leo was a genius so no surprises there. I normally am not a fan of the P Bass slap tone...but this one is smooth, rich and fat enough to change my mind. Great add to your Lobster Museum of Low Frequency Exhibition. Still keeping my fingers crossed that a Serek bass will show up some day. No wait ...that would make this a bass porn channel.

I kinda dig passive basses. And this one has some tone-shaping options, too. Impressive! OMG mode was nice: thicc, with some growl.

Love the sound. Great review😎

G&L's are amazing instruments from the tribute line to the USA made in Fullerton. Leo's genius MFD pick ups sound so freaking good.

Thanks for another great review! So this is a mix of P-Bass and Stingray with respect to the pickup position?

What a great reaction video . I would like the gold version but this is stunning

i had one along time ago to this day I regretted rid the earlier models where heavy now thinking about buying another one day thanks for sharing this vid.

P bass on steroids? That is what I call my Musicman Sabre especially switching to the neck pickup. When I was in high school, I was able to borrow a G&L bass for a gig. I absolutely loved it. That was before the internet and I never could find one locally. I found the MM and knew it was made by Leo so grabbed it. But listening to you that’s definitely piqued my interest in a G&L. Great tones!

Another great demo/review. Love the tone of this one.

You had us change your claw to a hand to open the box? Gee, that's one time the claw would have come in handy! Great video!

That is the tone I'm looking for. Such a great bass :)

Presently I play a G&L LB 100 P- bass, 6 bolt neck sunburst ash body, Caribbean rosewood fretboard. Love it!

my first and only G&L was a tribute 2500 5-string a monster of a bass, huge neck but was a great player, tone was top notch and sustained well.

My brother had one of these basses, I used to watch him play when he was in high school and saw him literally blow up an amp, that thing was mighty lol

G & L basses are the most slept on basses out there, they should be played by more bassists. If the headstock is the only thing putting you off getting one then you need to get over that quickly. I own three G & L’s.....L-2500, L-2000 and a LB-100. My L-2500 is has been my workhorse for the last 20 years and my LB-100 has one of the best necks I’ve ever played.......probably the the best P basses out there in my opinion. Would love to get my hands on one of these CLF basses too, sounds amazing

Yeah, I want that thing!

the grin you held from 2:56-3:07 says it all

Sounds like a hybrid of Stingray and P-bass.

Awesome looking and sounding bass! What would look really nice is a mahogany back with a swamp ash top body. The shadow on the contours makes it look like it has a mahogany back. Love the look of it

Tops my “Desert Island” list!

Wow!! What I meant to say was WOW!!! This is one cooool bass ! I've always liked G&L and have owned several. They're built solid as granite and always sound fantastic. Because of your review I think I'm going to have to cop one. Every setting on the pickup selector switch was Phenomenal ! And every style; slap, fingerstyle, and I even heard a few really nice chords in there ( I'd Like to hear those more often because your're great at it ) I imagine playing every genre on this bass : Jazz of all kinds, Classic rock, Country-and-western, Motown and Stax soul, Gospel, The standards ala Tony Bennett, Nat King Cole, ZZ Top, Joe Sample, Aerosmith, McCoy Tyner, Stanley Turrentine', etc, etc..... What's your signal chain? Once again , superb job Lobster !! This thanks and GOD BLESS !!

That's some lovely wood grain there @lobster

Great looking and great sounding! I like this one

smart move bass is awesome

on this one, i love the position of the pup it's in a sweet spot

Oh yeah that is a groove machine! Dig it 🦞! 😊👍

I'm a lefty and I had been looking for a pre-EB G&L for over 20 years. Finally found a '80 lefty L1000 last year, and it's amazing. G&Ls are criminally underrated/undervalued, IMO. They're way better made and have better QC than Fender. This is an excellent, faithful reissue of a classic Leo creation.

Ever looked into the G&L Kiloton? It would be interesting to see a head-to-head comparison with a Musicman

Lobbo - your physical reaction tells me to buy one of these. Pronto!

Way to go Leo and Lobster 🦞. What a Bass ! Also interested in the USA Kiloton. ⭐

Mazal tov on trying your first G&L! Great basses. The headstock looks a bit oversized to me. I really like the bridges on these things.

Great Leo Fender vintage Sound, G&L was and is the better Choice for Quality Sound and craftsmanship. I heard the instrument as 4str. Bass in a Funk band some 40 years ago , but could not afford it as a student. It's on my to have list now!

I've used original era L1000 it has basically p-bass tone but at the same time there is a MM stingray tone...really nice and interesting bass...Thanks Leo

Is that headstock a new design? I personally never liked the nipple either, but this headstock seems pretty nice! Also I'm a new sub and I really like your content, keep it up my man :D

Love the tone/ sound your getting with the l1000, what are you running it through,thanx for the cool vid

Nice LEL! :) I have a USA L2000 Custom. One of my favorite basses! I hope you enjoy yours!- Best wishes- Brent

This thing is a beauty!

I follow them on fb, all of their basses are sooo beautiful

Just got one in Blue with maple fretboard... 8lbs 10 oz! Hurray for me!!

Nice tone 💪💙

That’s a cool one!!

Loving this bass, and can’t wait for the full review. The colour and grain remind me of my custom ‘Telenbacker’. What wood is it?

That's gorgeous,Lobby,at times it gets that MM sound?

Lobster: your influence spreads wide and far. I saw Bully's video today and....ready for this?....grew a lobster hand!! I bet it came from touching the box, like a virus, the mutation took ahold. Thank God we hit that "like" button and that saved poor Bully! Lmao. Kidding aside, this G&L is really beautiful. I never owned one either but I had a 6'6" friend in Virginia who collected and played them in the 1990s, needless to say they looked small on him lol. One day I will add it to my collection, along with a Music Man Stingray. Keep on pinching! Take care, Patrick.

I always like your accent when you say "let's check it out".

Yo Lobsta!!! It’s me again - that Brooklyn A-hole living in Virginia... So I am definitely a G&L fanboy - slightly more so than an EBMM fanboy. I have a 1996 L2500 (1st year production version with original 4+1 headstock, my first 5-string) which I have purchased brand new - I actually traded a 1994 Stingray Fretless plus $250 for it in Spring of ‘97. It is an L2500 Custom model, which was around for only one or two years featuring an Alder body with book matched Ash top. Mine has a wonderful 4-piece Flame Maple neck. I’ve never seen another G&L like it. It came wired from the factory with Parallel and Series with Coil Tap (which is actually OMG), but not straight Series like the current models. I later added straight Series wiring, but don’t really like it - way too much nasal midrange. Anyway, the point of my ramblings is to bring to light what this OMG thing is... If you’re familiar with how a 4-lead humbucker is wired in Series (you should be after looking at the Sterling Ray24 Classic pickup), if you take those Red and White wires that are tapped off and touch them to ground, you cancel out that coil and have Split coil (basically Single Coil). Now OMG takes that same principle and adds a .1uF capacitor in between those leads and ground. The capacitor allows for high frequency cut off, just like a passive tone set up, while keeping the low end of that coil. So what you have is the bottom end of a Series-wired humbucker and the sweet top end of a Single Coil. You may experience some SC noise in OMG mode. I may just get rid of Series on my L2500 and just do Single Coil along with Parallel and OMG. In my opinion, the L1000 (and L2X) neck pickup in OMG will do the absolute best P-bass tone without being a P-bass. If I am correct, on the L1000, with the switch Up is Parallel, Middle is Split (single) Coil, down is OMG.

Excellent review,😊 Liverpool UK

I wish I had three hands so I could give three thumbs up!

Would love to see a video comparing a G&L Tribute L2000 or Kiloton and a Ray34HH? Just curious how the fit and finish and overall build quality compare? The Ray34 and L2000 tribute are both in that same price range, just curious what's the best bang for your buck!

After watching your 2 or 3 vids spotlighting the L-1000.....I just ordered one about an hour ago (in Blueburst).....way more bass than I was going to get, originally....but hey...if you do it, and do it right, maybe you'll only have to do it once.....right? ;-)

Nice bass 👍

nice bass, liked

I’m interested in it’s pickup. Thanks! 😎

Nice! Wonder what it would sound like with flats?

This was Leo's best. A blend of single coil Pbass, split coil Pbass And a Stingray. All in one Bass.

I thought I wanted a jazz.. but this thing makes one of those look like a freakin toy haha wow incredible.

What amp are you using with this demo? That's a good thing to mention while reviewing a bass or guitar,so people know what is running through thanx

This is a nice one

nice bsss. l fancy the fools gold colour.

Best sounding bass l ever owned was a G&L l hated the way it looked but it made my bad playing sound better, no string buzz I'm playing chords with just beautiful, I was having some money problems and I sold it to my friend and told him I was going to buy it back and before I could get it back yet already sold it one of the biggest mistakes of my life

I had one in Blue with Maple neck back in 1982 great bass, i Traded a Rickenbacker 4001 for it

Looks very nice. What really interests me, are there basses with a large distance between the strings and with a lot of space for slapping?

I like it..it's like a P ray....I also like the glossy fretboard ..... and the burp riff @ 9:24🤣🤣🤣

Nice video and great bass. P on steroids 😃? I quite like it.

Damnit, now I want one.

Alas,a G&L in the armory. What thinkest thou??

Could you do a review of the Yamaha TRBX304? I have one, and I have only been playing for a year and a half but I really like mine. PS- The natural finish is great on that G&L.

There's no split coil mode. You've got parallel, single coil and OMG (basically series but with 0.1μf capacitor across one of the pickup coils, drastically cutting the high frequencies).

how would you describe the tone ? is it more like musicman ?

Its Funny Lobster , I've have G&L for years , never had a music man . Today I'm looking at probably going to buy a Sterling Ray 34 .

So does the L-2000 have the same front pickup spacing just has an extra bridge pickup ?

How big is the body compared to a P bass or Stingray?

This is the only G&L that I would like to own . Well unless they bring back the El Toro!🙏🏾

G&L uses treble and bass roll off.

You should definitely try the Kiloton!

Wow, you totally hurt my feelings with your G&L headstock slam. 😂😂😂