The way he changes the pick attack and makes use of the guitar's controls is absolute magic. I truly wish more guitarists nowadays would play as dynamically as JD does ;)
Man, your tone around the 3 minute mark is animalistic raunch at its best! Who wouldn't want to have that tone at their fingertips! You are really, really good!!
I'd invite anyone who claims that Gibsons don't stay in tune to watch this vid. All that fierce bending and vibrato and yet Ol' Red is still good to go!
Its all in how you string your guitar. Stretch your strings and tune again. If you can't keep your guitar in tune. Perhaps you should try the keyboard. 😆
Thank you JD, for a lovely demo of this historic piece of gear. btw, it's really nice to see younger players who have an "old school" vibe about them, who like to work their gear rather than having the gear work them. Really enjoy your touch and technique. All the best.
This has got to be one of the best sounding marshalls I've heard... It sings. I love _THIS_ era of marshall... Doesn't compress or eat the transient of the attack too much. My marshall gobbles up the transients unless I push the volume and keep the gain low. * shrug *
Yeah Simo is great a real natural. I dig the way he attacks the instrument and beats it into submission. Joe Walsh has that take no prisoners right hand.Too many young players are all displaying the exact same technique.They are all polished and practiced and hopelessly bland and generic.
@willdenham loud as a jerk, once you got it hitting right for the Marshall distortion it's feeding back and the bass is too powerful as well as the highs but turn it down on the bass it has too thick mids and then you can't turn the highs up to compensate... You just have to kinda play around With those old amps to see how you like it.
Other worldly people really have no clue until they see his videos I try to explain it to them, and they don't understand until out comes to the phone then the dilemma is picking a video because they are all so good.
A hundred watt Marshall with all controls maxed can actually hit 170 watts through the 4 ohm tap, hopefully that’s a 16 ohm cabinet. These amps are meant for stadiums
I watched this video for years many times before I realized it was JD. anyone know if this is Red that he's playing here? haha was it really that clean just 8 years ago?
No, when a tube amp is cranked it produces a lot of bottom end hence the rule of thumb to turn the bass down when the volume is turned up. (depending on taste and gear obviously)
RooseveltMckinley Hey, what pre-amp and power tubes do you use in that 1967 Marshall Super Lead? Amazing tone. Also, what kind of mic was this recorded with? Thanks.
Hello everybody, im a guitarist and a current student at Berklee. in the context of a seminar i have to get an interview with a musician who inspires me, and JD has definitely been one of my models for the past year and a half. I would love to contact him but i cant find any website or contact... any ideas?
I thought the fact that he's using no bass would make it overly bright..but I tried this on my 59 bassman on 6 n I had noticed on the low strings it'd sound farty but I lowered the bass & it was full yet clear. By the way this guitar sounds great is it a early or late 62?
beautiful tone mate. well done. great player to. i have a 100 wat super lead from 1993. my bright channel sounds super bright. i like your bright channel. any advice? cheers
Aaron Bean Sorry about the keyboard; My "inner child" made me do it !$# BTW; I have some baby wipes (gently used), I could send to you to help clean it up, if you want?? Thanks for the great comment; I would have spit my Coke all over my screen, when I read your comment, if had some in my mouth.
@@willdenham Please look up JTM 100, there is both the JTM 45/100 and JTM 100 black flag. The black flag is nearly identical to the SuperBass except for some filtering differences, and a different brand output transformer, all else being exactly the same
@@taggmanibanez I'm aware there is a 100 watt JTM. It's not what I was referring to. I had 'JTM'45/50 on my mind at that time. I'm used to people saying JTM in common parlance usually in regard to the 45 or 50 unless the person denotes 100. I think Superbass 100's, especially 69' onward sound very different from JTM45's/50's and different than earlier JTM100's, especially the 45/100, considering it had a double radiospare transformer and not the later 100 wt. dagnall or drake. As I've never heard him play a JTM (45, 50 or 100) I am therefore curious.
@@willdenham you're good, just a communication breakdown, typically I hear people refer to every Marshall that's pre 67 as a bass circuit, (because it technically is), while there were differences in power tubes, output transformer, and different filtering, in particular the screen filtering, they are all essentially bass circuits (modified Tweed Bassmans). As soon as they changed the cathode bypass cap on the first gain stage (late 1967), and split the cathodes to make the superlead design, I kind of bundle those together as their own series, and everything else is some variation of the bass circuit (JTM). There are a few videos of him playing early JTM circuits. He really likes headroom, so as he went along through his Marshall phase, he kept looking for more headroom, that's why he ended up with the 69 superbass.
Average typical sound nothing new or special its kind of an annoying sound actually.His an ok player but no Bonamassa not even close just like Joe is not even in the same ballpark as the late Gary Moore but no one is or will ever come close.
Dagger 323 And you do?How old are you 12?After 40 years of playing i totally agree that its a pretty crappy sound but JD is just a kid here and he has come along way since he did this clip he sounds very good now.I think if he would look back at this now he would probably agree that this is just an average standard 100 watt Marshall sound in other words nothing special but if he would have had a 50 watt from 67 cranked with a"proper"eq dialed in i think he would have liked it.There is nothing"singing"about this sound.
