Legendary guitarist John 5 tears it up on Brian Jones’s actual Vox Mk. III “Teardrop” guitar at the Hard Rock Vault in Orlando, FL. For the full video featuring 7 iconic instruments, click here: • John 5 Plays 7 unbelie...
I was the maintenance engineer for the Hard Rock on 57th street back in the '90's. Back then, this guitar just hung on the wall with all the others and the cleaners would wipe off the hamburger grease with Windex and lemon pledge at night. Occasionally, I'd take it down and bring it over on the subway to East Village Guitars to be worked on. I would tell the powers that be in the company that this, and others, were valuable and historic guitars, but they didn't care all that much. I'm glad the Hard Rock takes better care of guitars like this now.
watched this like 5 times. I love Brian Jones, one of my first heroes as a kid. He did so much for the Stones in the early days, the sitar in paint it black, the piano parts the xylophone in under my thumb. wish he never got so heavily into drugs like he did and he could still be with us. Obviously the same goes for so many we've lost. That teardrop guitar is pretty as hell too!! love hearing John 5 play it!
@@claudioperotti9439 Mona ( I need you, baby). I Wanna Be Your Man, I Just Can't Be Satisfied, Tell Me, Little Red Rooster,The Last Time,Get Off Of My Cloud. Brian Jones taught Mick how to play harmonica. He taught Keith guitar. He named the band, booked the gigs,hired Mick and Keith. Then he hired Bill and Charlie. He did all the heavy lifting in the beginning. No Jones,no Stones.
the look on John 5's face when he held Brian Jones guitar, was genuine. for that moment he wasn't a celebrity, he was a straight-up music fan like the rest of us!
I've read the reminisces and stories of Brian's struggles and demons. Regardless as a person who grew up during the Stone's rise to prominence I cannot conceive their existence without Brian Jones. I'm grateful they are identified with my generation. Such an unforgettable ensemble of artists of which Brian Jones is an inseparable part. RIP Brian, RIP.
@@TheBigMclargehuge Again, it’s a historical artifact and it should be left alone. The only fucking person who should be playing this guitar is Brian Jones, and he’s been dead for 52 years
Some of the comments on here goes back to the old saying ,,,,, How many Guitar players does it take to change a light bulb 100 one to do it the other 99 to go Mmmmm I wouldn't have done it like that
A lot of Eddie Cochran's gear went on the seven winds. It was in an L.A. storage unit and after his mum died and payments stopped, it was sold off in a storage auction...signed items, instruments, personal posessions etc...all went for peanuts and then later ended up in auction rooms. Sad.
John 5 will be long forgotten. Brian Jones started the ROLLING STONES! Wasn't Johnny 5s most popular band playing with Manson..who can't write a hit song, so he does (not gonna lie) pretty cool covers to get hits. Manson has a good live show too, but the Stones will still out play those guys at close to 80.
Yeah. John's that guy at the band practice. "Stop playing for one minute so I can talk to Bob here about the organ solo on "Hold Your Head Up"! Good gawd!
Last time i saw it was at a Stones show Montreal late sixties, after a couple of songs a riot jumped the stage, the show ran and the guitar left on somebody's shoulder.
Legendary guitar. The Last Time played in the wrong position. No offense. I believe It’s All Over Now Brian played a 12 string Vox. Pics of him miming to it on RSG with his custom two pickup Vox teardrop 12 string is the proof. Bill also stated it was a 12 string.
promerops Good question. I’m sure Bill knows. He knows everything. Yet another mystery in the world of Brian Jones. Bill is the one who confirms that Brian played 12 string on It’s All Over Now. Keith and Brian at their finest. One of the best two guitar part songs the Stones ever did. Both guitars are prominent throughout. Especially Brian’s. His guitar gave the song its distinction and feel.
@@bertlindsay The 7th fret position of E I assume. I play it like that but never looked at a tab or studied the Stones playing it live with Brian so I might be wrong
Awesome! Brian Jones's tear drop guitar! I want it! Rather have Keith's blonde tele, though...but Brian's tear drop really stood out and as a life long Stones fan, if I think of Keith, I think of the blonde Tele and Brian's tear drop as the Stones most notorious guitars.
Brian Jones was without a doubt one of the best people in the world, hands down, including England. That's how good he was. His brain could spin out very clever things, I'm talking musical stuff and inventing marvellous things to play on the songs. Those early English guys were the best ever, with Elvis Presley of course Buddy and the great Chuck Berrie, included, cos let's face it, you can't leave out the king of rock n roll, even if he never wrote a single musical note in his life. With that said remember to kneel on the floor a pray that hat Brian is forming some well constructed blues licks behind the gates of heaven looking down on us and thinking boy those were the days. Sitting alongside sharp dressed Charlie Watts.
Are you talking about that lick from The Last Time? That was Brian playing that lick, both on record and on TV shows. Keith played acoustic guitar on The Last Time, as well as the guitar solo. Keith said he used his red Les Paul on that and on Satisfaction.
Good thing you weren't around to criticize (as I'm sure you would have) Brian Jones who dressed and wore his hair flamboyantly. He made history with that guitar.
I dont think Brian was with them when they recorded that song. He only played on a few cuts on Let It Bleed from what Ive heard. When Brian left it wasnt the same band anymore..
He was The Rolling Stone. I wager the name was something that either his parent's called him or the parents of his baby mamas. He was too clever to have not thought extensively about the name of the band. I bet it was his revenge name - you call me nothing but a a rolling stone? Yeah? Well, watch what this Rolling Stone can do! But the others robbed that off him like they did everything else. Did any of his estate go to his family? Or did they take everything the day of his funeral? His guitars didn't seem to have gone to them as they should have done.
@@doitnowvideosyeah5841 That is the 'official story'. However, it doesn't make sense. It was originally Brian's band. Brian had wanted to form a band for a long time. Do you think, a.) he gave the name of the band zero thought before hand, and genuinely named the band by a random glance at a record? or, b.) thought about it as much as he thought about the band itself? Logic says, b. Then, given that Rolling Stone was probably an insulting term given to him by his baby mama's parents - because he was a bit of a rolling stone, that would have been the perfect name for his band, do you think he would wish to go into detail with the other members of the band who would have undoubtedly taken the mick (ha, no pun intended), or do you think he would have come up with a causal story for the others? Well, whether you still believe the 'official' version, I still think that is the more likely scenario. I believe he was The Rolling Stone and they, as his band, were The Rolling Stones. It's a crime he has been almost erased from their history by Mick and Keith. Thankfully there are books and the internet to keep his memory alive! No Stones, with no Jones.
@@biancabeavis7198 Didn't Brian's first band have a different name? Elmo Lewis and the Blue....Perfect band names usually just hit you in the head. I believe Brian had a badass record collection and could have got the name from the Muddy song. Probably not when the booker was on the phone but..
Exactly. The open string notes !!! Almost everyone I see plays it like John 5 did and it's wrong !! Doesn't even sound right. And what was that nonsense in the middle of this video ?
Who is yhis guy? I mean, that was really embarrassing. There's no sliding on the last 6 notes of The Last Time riff. And yeah, not even at the right place. Drives me crazy when people cant hear things correctly. He thinks he nailed it
I agree. It would have been nice if he played the riff correctly. Also, I don’t think Brian plays this guitar on It’s All Over Now. There is some debate as to whether he plays a 12-string or a 6-string on that song.
I love that guitar!! I would have it cut left-handed! I hate playing it right-handed. People asked why I play left-handed. It is because I cannot play it right-hannded.
don't knew who the hell this guy was (legend??), so i did my wikipedia research.... now I have the same feeling than before, they should of use someone who else than him to show this guitar..
I am still intrigued by the spec of the guitar. Anyone knew the Scale length Nut width Radius and fret type? Electronic is easier to find tho. Scourging the net kinda gave me unclear answer.
Couple things & I believe may need a correction. - But first, the comments here have been mostly spot on, & often hilarious. The original owner - of course, BrIan Jones. But, per a Guitar magazine article as well as other sources, Brian’s guitar is one of 5 prototypes. It’s a 2 pickup version of the Vox Mark VI. The tailpiece is a copy of a Stratocaster bridge without the vibrato. Also, the pickguard is metal. Any corrections or additions to this post are welcome. And, yes....I wish Mark VI had instead been the guitarist :-)
The bridge is not a copy, it's a real early 60's Fender Stratocaster bridge,the side where the whammy bar goes in was chopped off,I played it in 2011 and it played great, also the pickups have a bite of a tele, richness of a strat and not thin sounding like later Vox guitars made after 64.
vox made more than one of these. brian was givin the first prototype to play and advertise it for vox guitars. nobody knows what happened to brians origional!
