I worked at EB/MM 1999-2001, and probably cleaned up that amp when it was Sterlings - the Manual Phase Frequency Sweet spot trick is the big MM HD130 secret - always enjoy watching your vids! ( Steve Conrad)
Johnny seems like the most honest and open, friendly, regular guy in the world. What a treat to share that time with him. He's a legend. Thanks for sharing Brad.
It is a blessing just to see Johnny's light shine. If he couldn't play, he'd still be shining. That's the kind of example this world, and especially me, need most.
I saw Johnny at 3rd & Lindsley playing with a group of studio guys. They launched into a jazz number, and all of the sudden Johnny was playing like Barney Kessel and Howard Roberts. He can do anything.
Johnny is one fine human being being. Speaks Ill of no one, humble despite being guitar royalty, and his absolute joy seeing all the things that amp can do was so enjoyable. Thanks for sharing this. Unguarded and off the cuff conversations are so refreshing.
Johnny is a great guy! Last talked to him in person when he played at the Prairie Home Companion Show in Downtown St. Paul, MN. I ran into Johnny and his Mgr. outside during a smoke break Johnny was taking near the Ticket office. He’s such a kind and humble man! I’d first met him at The NAMM Show. God bless this wonderful guy and guitar picker!
When Danny Gatton played with the towel.. blew my mind! I was ready for the beer bottle slide, but the towel caught me of guard an I seen this first time early 2024
That was great, I never knew he was blind. He is an incredible guitarist and seems to be very humble and down to earth. I think he was impressed with your guitar skills, you are an awesome musician yourself. Thanks Brad I really liked this video. God bless
He is one of the most underrated guitar players alive. He can play any style with speed, precision, and some of the best tone/feel of any player in the world. I wish he had more content out. More people need to watch him play.
Thanks so much Brad! I have been watching the first vid with Johnny over and over ,wishing there was more. That amp tone and this amazing encounter is youtube gold brother.
I knew Johnny many years ago. Him and my brother were great friends in Nashville. At my brother's birthday party all these guys got together and brought the house down. Man this fella can play!
How come I've never heard of this man? Seriously.. I thought I was fairly knowledgeable about the long line of guitarists but damn!!. He's awesome.. So clean..
Really cool video. That's definitely cool you got to hang out with Johnny. Guys like this just make me wish I took guitar seriously when I originally started back when I was 12. I'm 40 now and really only started playing with daily practice a few years ago. I still consider myself a beginner.
Johnny just simply noodling around is face-melting. What a monster (and yet always manages to seem like the nicest guy on the planet). I just love watching him play (as I burn my own guitars and cry).
Thanks A LOT for sharing this Brad. I don’t even remember the last time I had a smile in my face for more than a hour straight like I did watching this video! ❤
This is what greatness looks like. Not only a masterful talent, but also a humble, God-fearing man. I remember when you did this Brad. Just crazy that it was that long ago. Years are just zippin right on by.
Yeah, this guy is definitely Masterful, and suprising. Not only can he rip some country, he can fucking rock out hard too! Incredible ears on that feller.
A long time ago the band I was in got to open for Bachman Turner Overdrive when they were reastblishing themselves. Randy was using two of the same Musicman amps as the one I had. And switching between the 2, 2×12 cabs and a 1x12 cab. When I saw Him play and heard his rig I thought to myself. Good enough for him... Then it's not my amp making me sound like the proverbial POS. Changed my musical life. Went on to get the best sounds I've ever had from that amp. On another note. Johhny. Wish I could touch anywhere close to what you can do with your picking and fingering skills. Thanks guys. Good Stuff!
Johnny is a monster! Great to see him sit down and just run through even a small fraction of his bag in such a casual setting. Thanks for sharing this, Brad!
What a cool guy, I love these type of story telling videos with guys like that. He has stories for days on end. Great stuff. Thank you… made my day. 🎸🤓🙏🌎☮️🥓
I watched Danny Gatton at DAR Constitution Hall in DC when he opened up for Robert Cray. Danny played slide with a full beer and was spilling beer all over the place. Then he started wiping the neck down with a towel and played through the towel. It blew my mind back in the day. Danny was special. Back in 1985 I talked to him on the phone about taking lessons because we were both from Maryland, but he was way down in Southern Md and it was too far for me to go. Had I known he wouldn’t be with us for too much longer would have tried harder. He was a special guy and left us far too soon.
Johnny is truly one of the best. We lived together during his early Don Kelly tenure and he sure stirred the git-pickin' community up! All the cats would sneak in to Roberts to watch the boy wonder. Great vid. Subscribed.
I saw a video of Johnny promoting a tremolo system and liked his playing a lot. Then I saw the video back when Brad fixed his amp and decided to get an album of his and now have four. I was going to get another one yesterday and didn’t so I’m going to pause this video and do it now. His guitar playing and personality are both incredible. He inspires me. Edit; got two albums!
I'm amazed how it seems that his body is independent of what his hands are doing when he plays. I still stare at the fretboard to make sure my fingers are doing what I tell them. They don't always listen to me.
I know. I thought I'd check out a couple minutes and just kept watching. I don't actually have a compliment eloquent enough. Great work Brad. Thanks a million.
This video is pure GOLD!! I WOW ! So many blazingly hot licks, too many even to count, the hours it must have taken just to figure out let alone develop the technique to play them, then speed them up to dizzying levels! I knew Johnny was great, but this is otherworldly greatness!.
Wow! What a master! Not only is he phenomenal at simply (haha... yeah right...) playing; he has the tone/song-choice recognition too. So often I see pros demoing amps as the maker fiddles with his knobs and they, the two guys... player and maker, just never seem to align. Johnny knew exactly how to use ALL of the tones you dialed-in for him - perfectly! So great.
First time I saw him was in person down on Broadway in Nashville. He was playing orange blossom special on a good old fashioned blackguard butterscotch tele. He INSTANTLY became one of my all time favorites. He sounds mind-blowingly great in this video. What a sweet guy too!
You can run into that guy at a diner or store and never know you were around greatness. Players like him can make a great living and avoid the trappings that come with the entertainment business and have a great life. God bless
I've been eye-balling the ISP Decimator for months now (noisy P90s), just to see one of my heroes have it on his board. Awesome content, Brad! Thanks dude.
I glued some nails on a few pickers. I was the monitor engineer and a guitarist so my man purse always had, nail clippers, super glue, 2 tiny screwdrivers that were most popular sizes for microphone adjustments and intonation. I never got real into finger picking. I do a little but I love country music and Marty Stuart is great!!! the whole band is great. See them in a few weeks.
And I used to have a Music Man amp too. Mine was a 410HD-130, had tremolo instead of the phaser, and 4-10” speakers. Sort of a Super Reverb on steroids, and it weighed as much as a small car. (Not really-it was 75 pounds.) I had castors on it, and being somewhat top-heavy it would often try to run away with me! I bought it new in 1975. It was a pig to move, but sounded great.
I have acrylics on my toe nails... will that help me play faster? My wife does'nt like it much but I have'nt seen any improvement in my guitar playing as of yet.
Oh man, that was someting else! Those chops and his hands are hardly moving, unreal! and when he started shredding - that was way heavier and more impressive than 99% of metal guitarists as he really plucks and gets real tone into the strings. I was thinking "Noooo - he's lett'in the unholy in!" though LMAO. Thanks for uploading this Brad, I must watch this again, bless you brother!
At around 29 minutes or so while messing with the phase tone, he played this Waylon thing that was pretty bad ass. Was it an actual Waylon song or just noodling?
I got to meet Johnny at a small venue in England called the Boiler House many years ago when he played there and he has a great vibe- as well as awesome guitar skills.
He is amazing!! I’ll check out the other video, this looks amazing. So I don’t normally like this style, but I love this guy, he just plays incredibly well. And technically amazing.😂 that point when you said something about the nails, at my job ppl,used to say stuff, I’m like, I’m just growing em out to play classical or flamenco. It gets like a thing, ppl always judge, I didn’t care. 😂 I should have shorted nails for my job, but we wear gloves anyway, so just looking into the grey area. 😅
Hey Brad... I played a show here in Maine with Johnny and he had that music man amp on stage.. other than Ted Nugent, I've never heard anything so loud !!! 😂 It was a great time and Johnny is one of the nicest, down to earth people you'll ever meet. I've known him and his mom for years. Sadly, we lost her a few years ago. I live in Johnny's home town of Baileyville Maine. Been a fan of your channel for years.
Johnny's one of the smoothest players ever and a fine fellow to boot. I got my Kiesel JH 2 1/2 years ago and I'll tell you, those are some awesome American made guitars.
I worked at EB/MM 1999-2001, and probably cleaned up that amp when it was Sterlings - the Manual Phase Frequency Sweet spot trick is the big MM HD130 secret - always enjoy watching your vids! ( Steve Conrad)
I thought this was a HD150?
Johnny seems like the most honest and open, friendly, regular guy in the world. What a treat to share that time with him. He's a legend. Thanks for sharing Brad.
It is a blessing just to see Johnny's light shine. If he couldn't play, he'd still be shining. That's the kind of example this world, and especially me, need most.
I saw Johnny at 3rd & Lindsley playing with a group of studio guys. They launched into a jazz number, and all of the sudden Johnny was playing like Barney Kessel and Howard Roberts. He can do anything.
Johnny is one fine human being being. Speaks Ill of no one, humble despite being guitar royalty, and his absolute joy seeing all the things that amp can do was so enjoyable. Thanks for sharing this. Unguarded and off the cuff conversations are so refreshing.
Johnny is such an upbeat man and has some stories for sure. I thoroughly enjoy hearing him talk.
Oh yeah, and he can play too! I'm just sayin'
Johnny is a great guy! Last talked to him in person when he played at the Prairie Home Companion Show in Downtown St. Paul, MN. I ran into Johnny and his Mgr. outside during a smoke break Johnny was taking near the Ticket office. He’s such a kind and humble man! I’d first met him at The NAMM Show. God bless this wonderful guy and guitar picker!
Brilliant. Most interesting video on youtube for months. I suspect, not just for me.
When Danny Gatton played with the towel.. blew my mind! I was ready for the beer bottle slide, but the towel caught me of guard an I seen this first time early 2024
You should do more interviews, Brad. You're good at it. You're close enough to Nashville to hook up with people.
I would agree!
Anyone with your background, and the proximity you have to these musicians, well, you owe it to the rest of us'ns tah do thayet!
That Gent is amazing, I wished I had a 1/4 of his talent. That was a fun video.
That was great, I never knew he was blind. He is an incredible guitarist and seems to be very humble and down to earth. I think he was impressed with your guitar skills, you are an awesome musician yourself. Thanks Brad I really liked this video. God bless
One of the best guitarists to ever play! Johnny is freaking awesome!
Man that Johnny can play, like he's got a level of skill beyond what most can only dream of.
He is one of the most underrated guitar players alive. He can play any style with speed, precision, and some of the best tone/feel of any player in the world. I wish he had more content out. More people need to watch him play.
Glad to see Johnny continue to get healthier! We need him to stay around for a long time!
Wow, that man can play. Really nice guy it seems as well. Thanks for this video sir.
"Im a husband so I wash dishes" relatable.. great guy, great amp, great interview thanks Brad
Thanks so much Brad! I have been watching the first vid with Johnny over and over ,wishing there was more. That amp tone and this amazing encounter is youtube gold brother.
I really like Johnny. And that amp sounds fantastic . Glad you posted this, thanks.
Johnny is like the nicest dude ever.
What a great intimate interview. He instantly honed in on the phaser.
I truly enjoyed every minute of the hour spent with Johnny just now. And he really enjoyed your company. Thanks, Brad. Great stuff.
Awesome! I can't wait to watch this. Johnny is a superhuman guitarist and a super human human. You're very lucky, Brad. THX for sharing.
I knew Johnny many years ago. Him and my brother were great friends in Nashville. At my brother's birthday party all these guys got together and brought the house down. Man this fella can play!
That Magnesium tube he uses for slide is going to catch-fire and explode if the playing gets any faster!! What a grear video!! Thanks Man.
Thanks for the video, super cool glimpse of Johnny's guitar styles. God bless all.
I had a zoom lesson with him about 6 months ago. so cool. everyone should do it.
How come I've never heard of this man? Seriously.. I thought I was fairly knowledgeable about the long line of guitarists but damn!!. He's awesome.. So clean..
Me too! I was shocked to be ignorant of this colossal talent! Brad, thanks man for submitting this once in lifetime Johnny Hiland talent highlight!!
Johnny Hiland, one of, if not my number one favorite guitarist. Disciple of Danny Gatton.
He plays the solos on a song called Gatton by Glenn Proudfoot. Great uptempo country jam
Really cool video. That's definitely cool you got to hang out with Johnny. Guys like this just make me wish I took guitar seriously when I originally started back when I was 12. I'm 40 now and really only started playing with daily practice a few years ago. I still consider myself a beginner.
another thing to reduce buzz.... turn that compressor DOWN. Also, find some noiseless single coils. Nice country tone and sweet looking tele.
I could seriously just hang with this guy and definately listen to him play for hours. I dig diwn to earth folks
I wish i was 1/10th the player this guy is.... WOW! SO DAMN GOOD!!!
Wow what an incredible humble player and human. His skills are off the charts. Brilliant interview.
Aw that was amazing! I’ll be watching this video over and over for a while. I saved it in my Guitologist playlist.
What a great and graceful player ... and a super nice guy too!
Thank you Brad for sharing this! Enjoying it very much :) What a wonderful historical documentation.
He’s a jewel of a person! The Lord is a perfect master of offering his LOVE to everyone! Thanks Johnny!
God bless you brother.
Johnny just simply noodling around is face-melting. What a monster (and yet always manages to seem like the nicest guy on the planet). I just love watching him play (as I burn my own guitars and cry).
What a fantastic interview. Johnny is truly an accelerated being on guitar..
That was unbelievable!
What an incredible player!
What a fantasric interview Brad, Thanks so much.
Thanks A LOT for sharing this Brad. I don’t even remember the last time I had a smile in my face for more than a hour straight like I did watching this video! ❤
This is what greatness looks like. Not only a masterful talent, but also a humble, God-fearing man. I remember when you did this Brad. Just crazy that it was that long ago. Years are just zippin right on by.
Too fast, man. We just got to thank God for every day at this point. They're all a blessing.
I remember this Brad. Some awsome footage
Yeah, this guy is definitely Masterful, and suprising. Not only can he rip some country, he can fucking rock out hard too! Incredible ears on that feller.
This sitdown jam with Johnny is pure gold. I could listen to him all day. Thanks Brad!
This interview really warmed my heart. Thanks guys.
Nice interview Brad and a good moment with guitarheads!
Johnny is just so natural, I can’t see a mean bone in him anywhere. Thanks for sharing your interview.
This guys is such an amazing artist. He always blows my mind when he plays.
A long time ago the band I was in got to open for Bachman Turner Overdrive when they were reastblishing themselves. Randy was using two of the same Musicman amps as the one I had. And switching between the 2, 2×12 cabs and a 1x12 cab. When I saw Him play and heard his rig I thought to myself. Good enough for him... Then it's not my amp making me sound like the proverbial POS. Changed my musical life. Went on to get the best sounds I've ever had from that amp.
On another note. Johhny. Wish I could touch anywhere close to what you can do with your picking and fingering skills.
Thanks guys. Good Stuff!
Johnny is a monster! Great to see him sit down and just run through even a small fraction of his bag in such a casual setting. Thanks for sharing this, Brad!
I love it when he's entering into thrash territory :). Awesome dude.
He is a very genuine, very nice guy.
He played metal like he invented it and sounded better than anyone in the genre. So musical😊
What a cool guy, I love these type of story telling videos with guys like that. He has stories for days on end. Great stuff.
Thank you… made my day. 🎸🤓🙏🌎☮️🥓
Man what a treasure this video is,love Johnny,great interview Brad.
This is astonishing- thank you so much for sharing it! 🙏🏻
My pleasure!
I watched Danny Gatton at DAR Constitution Hall in DC when he opened up for Robert Cray. Danny played slide with a full beer and was spilling beer all over the place. Then he started wiping the neck down with a towel and played through the towel. It blew my mind back in the day. Danny was special. Back in 1985 I talked to him on the phone about taking lessons because we were both from Maryland, but he was way down in Southern Md and it was too far for me to go. Had I known he wouldn’t be with us for too much longer would have tried harder. He was a special guy and left us far too soon.
Awesome as Always This is so cool great content Thankyou from the UK
Johnny is truly one of the best. We lived together during his early Don Kelly tenure and he sure stirred the git-pickin' community up! All the cats would sneak in to Roberts to watch the boy wonder. Great vid. Subscribed.
Dude, YES!!! Bravo you boys jus made my day.
Glad you enjoyed it! Imagine being lil' ol' me and sitting there across from Johnny.
Great guitar player. Outstanding. Seems like a cool dude as well. And man, that music man amp sounds amazing! Wow!
This gives me so much joy! So much fun in one place!
I saw a video of Johnny promoting a tremolo system and liked his playing a lot. Then I saw the video back when Brad fixed his amp and decided to get an album of his and now have four. I was going to get another one yesterday and didn’t so I’m going to pause this video and do it now. His guitar playing and personality are both incredible. He inspires me. Edit; got two albums!
I'm amazed how it seems that his body is independent of what his hands are doing when he plays. I still stare at the fretboard to make sure my fingers are doing what I tell them. They don't always listen to me.
Good God, that was such a great and refreshing video.
I know. I thought I'd check out a couple minutes and just kept watching. I don't actually have a compliment eloquent enough. Great work Brad. Thanks a million.
@-Thunder I was the same way, was just going to watch a couple minutes then carry on. Nope! Watched the entire video.
@@-Thunderyeah me too, Johnnys whole deal is infectious!
This video is pure GOLD!! I WOW ! So many blazingly hot licks, too many even to count, the hours it must have taken just to figure out let alone develop the technique to play them, then speed them up to dizzying levels! I knew Johnny was great, but this is otherworldly greatness!.
Glad to see Johnny back with a Tele style guitar instead of the PRS. Incredible picker.
PRS all the way
I thought he played Ernie ball guitars
@@TheBlackHarrington u mean ernie ball strings
Watching Johnnie play is transcendent. Such god given talent and he makes it look easy.
Wow! What a master!
Not only is he phenomenal at simply (haha... yeah right...) playing; he has the tone/song-choice recognition too.
So often I see pros demoing amps as the maker fiddles with his knobs and they, the two guys... player and maker, just never seem to align.
Johnny knew exactly how to use ALL of the tones you dialed-in for him - perfectly!
So great.
God! That guy is good I’m not into country music so I didn’t know him but now! He is one of the best
Thanks for this Brad! This is so awesome. Johnny is truly a treasure of a human being.
I'm also visually impaired like Johnny, and I can appreciate that very light colored/bright fretboard. Love it.
First time I saw him was in person down on Broadway in Nashville. He was playing orange blossom special on a good old fashioned blackguard butterscotch tele. He INSTANTLY became one of my all time favorites. He sounds mind-blowingly great in this video. What a sweet guy too!
Thanks for sharing Brad and hope you are well brother!!
You can run into that guy at a diner or store and never know you were around greatness. Players like him can make a great living and avoid the trappings that come with the entertainment business and have a great life. God bless
I've been eye-balling the ISP Decimator for months now (noisy P90s), just to see one of my heroes have it on his board. Awesome content, Brad! Thanks dude.
I glued some nails on a few pickers. I was the monitor engineer and a guitarist so my man purse always had, nail clippers, super glue, 2 tiny screwdrivers that were most popular sizes for microphone adjustments and intonation. I never got real into finger picking. I do a little but I love country music and Marty Stuart is great!!! the whole band is great. See them in a few weeks.
Absolutely killer! Johnny’s an amazing player. I met him at NAMM in probably 2004. Heckuva nice guy too. Great video! I’m saving this one!
And I used to have a Music Man amp too. Mine was a 410HD-130, had tremolo instead of the phaser, and 4-10” speakers. Sort of a Super Reverb on steroids, and it weighed as much as a small car. (Not really-it was 75 pounds.) I had castors on it, and being somewhat top-heavy it would often try to run away with me! I bought it new in 1975. It was a pig to move, but sounded great.
I won't post a link because TH-cam will probably flag, but a Danny Gatton Doc is starting to have showings.
I have acrylics on my toe nails... will that help me play faster? My wife does'nt like it much but I have'nt seen any improvement in my guitar playing as of yet.
The opening barrage of licks made Danny Gatton pop into my head and I knew at that he was an influence
Great video. I heard that name before, Kesel guitars. That tele looks great with the BC Rich 6 inline headstock and diamond inlays.
Ive got a mm rd100 head so this caught my eye… he is definitely a stellar player!
Oh man, that was someting else! Those chops and his hands are hardly moving, unreal! and when he started shredding - that was way heavier and more impressive than 99% of metal guitarists as he really plucks and gets real tone into the strings. I was thinking "Noooo - he's lett'in the unholy in!" though LMAO.
Thanks for uploading this Brad, I must watch this again, bless you brother!
At around 29 minutes or so while messing with the phase tone, he played this Waylon thing that was pretty bad ass. Was it an actual Waylon song or just noodling?
Great Video Brad! Love to hear Johnny do his thing, phenomenal player.
His first licks on the phaser, that's just perfect
I got to meet Johnny at a small venue in England called the Boiler House many years ago when he played there and he has a great vibe- as well as awesome guitar skills.
Where is the BoilerHouse?
@@johnbuell8035 It is the Boilerroom- I got the name wrong: The Boileroom Music and Cultural Arts Space, 13 Stoke Fields, Guildford GU1 4LS
Good share, Brado, so much honesty in his playing, also you are no shulb when it comes to laying it out there
Hi Johnny. You look moore slim now. Continue like this! and god bless you. Love from Italy.
Jimi Hendrix would love listening to this guy play. He's amazing.
His chet/Shawn Lane picking game is on point.
He is amazing!! I’ll check out the other video, this looks amazing. So I don’t normally like this style, but I love this guy, he just plays incredibly well. And technically amazing.😂 that point when you said something about the nails, at my job ppl,used to say stuff, I’m like, I’m just growing em out to play classical or flamenco. It gets like a thing, ppl always judge, I didn’t care. 😂 I should have shorted nails for my job, but we wear gloves anyway, so just looking into the grey area. 😅
wow this one was really neat Brad...thanks for posting this!
Hey Brad... I played a show here in Maine with Johnny and he had that music man amp on stage.. other than Ted Nugent, I've never heard anything so loud !!! 😂 It was a great time and Johnny is one of the nicest, down to earth people you'll ever meet. I've known him and his mom for years. Sadly, we lost her a few years ago. I live in Johnny's home town of Baileyville Maine. Been a fan of your channel for years.
Johnny's one of the smoothest players ever and a fine fellow to boot. I got my Kiesel JH 2 1/2 years ago and I'll tell you, those are some awesome American made guitars.