Just another comment..the filming,the locations,the content...wow!...you need to send this to tv companies..documenting YOUR history and cultural past is such a pleasure to view. Amazing work🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🇺🇲
I came for the guitars but really enjoyed the tour of Cleveland as well. Your enthusiasm is very uplifting. Not only are you a great guitarist but your video production is top class. I
Wow! That really made my day - thank you so much Damian! I was born in 1955, which some say is the beginning of "rock'n roll" music (?), although the phrase supposedly goes back to the great "Bosley sisters", who also supposedly coined the term "groovy"? 1955 was also the beginning of the US military's involvement in Vietnam, which influenced music and culture during my teenage years. My favorite rock music has become the earlier music, which this channel focuses on. That earlier music is groovier and more compelling to me than what came later, the music I listened to during my teenage years. I didn't understand how much more I loved the earlier music until decades later, thanks to the internet and channels like this. I greatly enjoyed my first tour of the R&R museum, and city of Cleveland. Thanks again for that fun and educational vlog brother Damian...............!
Always a good day when you release a historical video..i love these as much as your tutorials..Ill watch it now though. Greetings from the UK🇺🇲❤️🇬🇧❤️🏴
Nice! I went in 2022 on my way moving to Iowa, I was hoping to see Eddie's 6120, it wasn't on display at the time but still enjoyed the day and everything else there. Wish I knew about the Arcade, maybe I need to visit again soon.
Damian thank you for this. I am an Irish dude in Spain and would love to go the RnR Hall of Fame to see all these amazing guitars! One day! You are a legend! Thanks for all the videos!
Your Cleveland video was amazing. Your vast knowledge of Rock and Roll artists and their instruments is so wonderful to hear about. Thank you so much and keep on rockin'.
I so want to go here .. There are so many wonderful items to see. Being a Huge Eddie Cochran fan..would love to see those items... Maybe one day i can hop across the Pond and Pay a Visit
I love and appreciate what you do, Damian! The guitars were wonderful but seeing Cleveland was too! I had no idea it was such a stunning city! I look forward to your videos every month. Please keep them coming!
Muito bom Damian !! Sensacional!!! As guitarras são históricas, maravilhosas, olhar para elas é ver os ícones do Rock N Roll tocando para nós!!! Belo vídeo! Saúde e sucesso amigo! (Montoya from Brasil)🤘🏼😉
Such a GREAT video, Damian, thanks so much for bringing us along with you. Wow, would LOVE to see someone back you or sponsor you to travel the world to all sorts of interesting music locations and shoot videos like this. You are so perfect for it. PS -- I'm with you: I absolutely love art deco style architecture!
I went to Cleveland a couple of year ago. It’s a beautiful city the architecture of the buildings were amazing. So sad that pretty much all the shops are gone and there’s hardly anyone around the city. It’s got to be hard on their economy
Great video Damian! Can't believe you just posted this. I'm traveling to Cleveland this afternoon (from Buffalo) for a check up at the Cleveland Clinic (nothing too serious). Was there back in December for a procedure and was able to stop by the Christmas Story house. Very cool! Was thinking about the R&R Hall of fame and now will definitely be stopping by.
Awesome video! Thank you for sharing another road adventure. This video is a good way to follow up the great Carl Perkins video. Looking forward to the next trip... Memphis... Nashville...? Keep making these fun videos and thanks again.
Early rockabilly took a lot from swing, bebop, and archtop jazz guitarists. As a teenager, I traded my 53 telecaster, my 68 Princeton, and $125 for a 1950ish L7 with a DeArmond on a monkey stick. The underground British Blues vibe was then about to crumble, and I had fallen in love with vintage jazz, big bands, bebop, and jazz guitarists. So, I appreciate any reference away from the solidbody guitar craze that hit like a tidal wave around 1969 and dominated almost everything since.
Rad! This made my day! I’ve always wanted to go to the R&R HOF - thanks for sharing! Plus the bonus of A Christmas Story house plus all of the other cool stuff. 🤘🤘🤘
Excellent video, I'm a massive Eddie cochran fan and I have the Getsch 6120 EC model I love it😊 and often wanted to see his guitar he died not that far from where i live after the car crash, bless you my friend! Best wishes.
Damian, great job (as always) with this video, the HOF is on my Bucket List for sure! I also appreciate architecture and you definitely have a keen eye for spotting some beautiful examples of 19th and 20th century elegance. As for my all-time favorite Christmas movie, I was wondering if you noticed the radio in Ralphie's house, it looks like a 1939-43 Philco console - I love those old tube radios. Anyway, thanks so much and keep up the great work!
Welcome to the rust belt. A city of 3 nice blocks and the rest of the city is on fire. (I grew up in Toledo Ohio. Now live in Kenosha Wisconsin. The biggest shock to me going to Florida recently was all the stores and shops that were not only open but had stuff in them. lol. How lucky is deke to actually own that long horn and how generous is he to loan it out. The guy seems like a class act.
Thank you so much for watching. I played in Toledo a few times back in the late 90s. I always enjoyed playing shows in the midwest. I always thought the people were so welcoming :)
Thanks for this video Damian, i got goosebumps when i saw Eddie's Gretsch ( life long fan here) any chance of a video lesson on Eddie's Blues in the future?. Keep up the good work my friend.🎸✌️👍👍
I love your content Damian! I always learn something new whether it's a lesson or a video like this. I wasn't familiar with Fast Freight by Ritchie Valen, now that's some juicy playing. Thanks for all of your great stuff, I can personally say that your videos and the rockabilly dvd I downloaded have really taken my playing to the next level. Your teaching is engaging and easy to take in and you really have gotten me looking at my instrument different after having felt in a rut for a long time. So thanks again Damian, great stuff here! I'll pick up the Jump Blues dvd here soon, looking forward to that one.
While you were at Mike the Hatters you should have checked out Mr. Albert’s menswear. It’s where I get most of my cool suits! Come back during the summer and hit up Cedar Point in Sandusky. Glad you had a good time!
Thanks for the video… Every Year in Sandwich England at the 50’s festival they have an exhibit called Eddies locker… It’s an awesome collection of Eddies personal items and family photos. Last year I treated myself to an original fan club pack from 1959. It’s framed and in my music room. I don’t know if the exhibit ever goes to the United States? They are putting out a book with the photos and other stuff
I am so very pleased for you boss, I am certain that I would have been overwhelmed, ✨️. Thank you for sharing, glorious. The mall wasn't too bad either 😂, 🔥. Like deployed 👍
Thank you very much, Damian. Really cool visit. I just dream to see Rock n Roll Hall of Fame, and I know that I never will, but I can say I did thank to you :-) Before ending that post, I have a question which I am sure you can answer : through some RU-vid videos I’ve learned that the guitar of Ritchie Valens (a green one) was gave to the place where Ritchie did his last show, few hours before dying in a plane accident, in Clearlake, Iowa. And I also know that the house of the mom of Ritchie was destroyed by a fire in the 80s I think (I’ve read it in the very awsome book “The Day the Music Died” by Larry Lehmer - which I suggest you to read if you never did - but I don’t remember the time of the fire. The thing I know for sure is that all the Ritchie’s stuff (clothes, intrument of music, etc) was completely destroyed. My question is : is one of the guitars exposed in the Hall of Fame or in Clearlake was not one of his but a model like him ? By the way, in your video you also said that everybody knows “Johnny B. Good” : Not only I know it, but I’ve learned it on guitar thank to you ! And mastered it there’s only 3 days ago. It took me three months to know it just like perfect. It’s not easy as we could think, but if we practice an hour a day, work is always rewarded ! Thank you very much once again and Take Care of Business, my friend ! :-)
Thank you so much for watching. Glad you enjoyed the video. The Stratotone in Clear lake, Iowa in The Surf is a re-issue Valens signature model. The story of Ritchie's Stratotone was that it was lost or stolen for many years and was somehow returned to the family. So that can explain why the guitar wasn't in the fire.
I visited the RRHOF some 10+ years ago when they had a special George Harrison Bangladesh exhibition. At that time there was a strict no photography/video rule. Just wondering if that rule changed or did you have to get special permission? Thanks for the info, Mark
I don't think Bill Haley played the solo on hit hit record "Rock Around the Clock," rather Danney Cedrone, who was perhaps the first to play an electric guitar rock solo and also meet an untimely death.
When Bill Haley came to Europe in 1957 he crossed the Atlantic by ocean liner and arrived at Southampton- and took the special Pullman boat train to Waterloo station in London- where the kids went wild. This can be seen on YT but sadly there is no sound: BILL HALEY ARRIVES - NO SOUND
I believe Ritchie's death was as bad as Buddy's. In only eighteen months Ritchie had: La Bamba Ooh, My Head Donna C'mon, Let's Go Boney Moronie Five stone-cold classics in only eighteen months.
Sorry Damie.. I personally hold so much distain for the, Joke N roll.. Oops? I mean "the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame" (even a little more than I have for Cleveland, Ohio it' self) Anyway I wouldn't visit that place even I lived across the street and admission was free? Regardless of what exhibits they might have to view? Now days ..Well for the past several years anyway. I feel strongly that "the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame" Is an affront to the meaning of Rock & Roll and the true spirit how where and why those words were coined And have appropriated and twisted the culture and true meaning ..Of "Rock & Roll. Sorry for the gripe and long diatribe.. But the place is a cultural fraud.
