Gary and Rory Gallagher were proper friends. Gary went and visited Rory near the end of his life when he was going through a hard time while living in a hotel in London. RIP to both of them. I started playing guitar because of Rory.
@@TheGuitarShow It's nice to see and hear some of the back stories of them starting in the clubs around Belfast. You should check out the Rory Gallagher Festival in Ballyshannon. It's always a great time!
I was lucky to see Rory live in Toronto at Massey Hall as a young kid. It was brilliantly awesome. Only saw Gary Moore on the TV...Great songs ! He is still brilliant. Sometimes astonishingly great !
I remember watching Gary Moore for the first time on ‘the Tube’ TV show with his red Strat, the tremolo arm spinning wildly. The man was so determined to produce an awesome performance putting heart and soul into it; which i thought was clear in his 2003 live Sheffield gig.
very cool video, I was fortunate to see Gary when he toured the USA, after Victims of the Future I saw him using the white reissue Strat and the Junior that was 1984, then when Wild Frontier came out he toured through NY in 87, he used the white and red single p.u. Charvels only. Then in 1992 at The Beacon in NYC, he used mostly "Stripe", white Strat reissue and "Greenie". Thanks for sharing, appreciate all that you do!
@@TheGuitarShow oh most definitely, I forgot to add that I saw Gary with Greg Lake too at the Palladium in NYC, he was using his salmon strat and the leopard spotted Charvel, which he threw straight in the air and it crashed to the floor at the end of the show!
Those 2 Charvels do something to me. The tone he got with them. Based on the footage of the various live gigs from the end of the 80’s you find here on TH-cam. That extra long version of the loner just gets me every time and of course empty rooms. Some serious emotion in both those tracks
Thank you for putting this together Goose! ! Was in Atlanta Ga 1992 new wife new baby, playing my 74 Les Paul Custom thru a FULL 74 SL Marshall stack, w/a Korg A3 as a od pedal, In an APARTMENT....nailing STill got the Blues tone.. :) How we made it out alive was a divine appointment! :)
And the white PRS Custom 24, from the ''Wild Frontier'' music video is now owned by Thommy Johanson ( Majestica/ Ex-Sabaton), he actually recorded a couple of Gary Moore covers with it for his TH-cam channel.
One of my all-time favorites! Saw him a bunch of times and met him once at an autograph signing at Tower Records in (I think) 1986 in Stanton (or Buena Park) California. He and the band all signed my Ibanez Roadstar RS-440 and my "We Want Moore album. Both hang on the wall right above my head as I type this. :)
I bought this „wan‘t Moore Album“ in the Year 1985. Gary and Band on the Olymp! I was 15 year old and a Greenhorn, too! This Epic Album became my holy grail
Saw Skid Row supporting Atomic Rooster with support by Genesis at Exeter Uni' In the early 70's, Gary did a solo slot playing Drums and Guitar at the same time, also saw him promoting Grinding Stone at Killerton Gardens where after me and a couple of mates had invaded the stage he got us to "sing" backing vocals on Mama tell your Daughter. Happy daze.
Gary moore is the person who made me love guitar, in my eyes he is the best in the world I grew up with Gary's albums I've never cried for someone I do not know personally but when Gary died I cried ,i have actually cried 2 times The first was Gary second was Nick Menza drummer .The world has lost the best gutsrist RIP GARY MOORE
Saw Gary play with Skid Row in 70' and it changed me, it was a great gig and Gary for the most part had his eyes closed, all I could see was these fingers flashing up and down the fretboard whilst his head was bobbing about with his eyes shut, I was gone, and the crowd were silent for a change with their jaws hanging down. From that night I have always tried to find how Gary played so well and get the tone. It's been a great journey.
As old as I am. I can clearly remember the New Zealand Tour of Thin Lizzy. Feeling privileged to attend the sound check. Lynott and Moore, truly great performing artists and musicians. Great detailed history about Gary’s Axes. Thank you.
I can remember breaking a B or E string as a kid and tying a square knot to mend the break and hope that it held while I tuned it up. A new single string was 25 cents that none of us could scratch up at the time, but we never gave up!
someone taught me in the late seventies to9 leave the length on the string, and then re tie it through hole in the brass ring and in a minute you were good to go...not a bad trick to know.
I met Gary Moore in the eighties he bought a house in shiplake Henley I was the plumbing and heating engineer who done his house a very quite person did not say a lot
I'm a lefty that my mom turned into a "righty", and I play right handed. It may have been an advantage, especially early on, I advanced rather quickly.
Most people associate Gary Moore with the 59 Les Pauls,but totally ignore that he played vintage Strats just as much. He recorded the "Corridors of Power" album,almost exclusively with the "Salmon Pink" Strat,which is nowadays owned by his son,along with the 59 "Still Got The Blues" or "Stripe" L/P. Not to mention during the 80s,he used lots of Superstrats and was one of the first famous players,using PRS Cu 22/24 models. He was also an avid user of the Floyd Rose bridge system,during this period.
Gary Moore is a big Influence on me I'm a 21 year old left handed Guitarist from the South Wales valleys and RIP Peter Green and Gary Moore RIP. You can a video on Phil Lyontt's bass guitar and you can do Sott Gorham from Thin Lizzy please he's AWESOME Guitarist.
The red strat was used on "Blues for Jimi" and Live in Stockholm on some of the songs, "Empty Rooms" for example, I believe. Absolutely love the sound. By far my favorite Gary's sound with the Greeny Les Paul. Just floors me.
@@TheGuitarShow Thank you for this awesome video. Great job. Loved hearing about Gary’s guitars. Been a huge fan of Gary since I was a teenager and always wondered about the guitars he used. This is a great synopsis for Gary’s fans.
I can't tell you how awesome I think this video is!! A couple weeks back, you posted that you would be doing this video. And I have been really anxious to see this. And it exceeds all I have anticipated! Gary was a force of nature on the guitar. He had so much fire and passion and yet could play a ballad so delicately and beautiful that it was hard to believe it was the same person. And as we know, he could play so many styles of music. Once I heard Corridors of Power when it came out, I was hooked for life. But he was also a great writer, great vocalist and live player. You have shown quite a few guitars I was not aware he owned. I was particularly interested in the details on the '61 Fiesta Red Straotocaster. I am very fortunate to own one of the Fender Masterbuilt Gary Moore tribute versions of this guitar. There were only 60 made and because my favorite music store: The Music Gallery Inc in Chicago IL knew how much I love Gary Moore, they gave me the chance to buy it. More importantly right now is - Thank You for this awesome documentary! You are creating some of the finest guitar videos on TH-cam. Thank you Roman!
Yes, it is one of those guitars made by John Cruz that came with the red flight case with Gary Moore and the logo he was using around the time of Victims of the Future. It included a white Dimarzio guitar strap like he used with various memorabilia and even included some of this actual guitar picks! As much as I really love his blues work, his early Thin Lizzy and solo hard rock albums are the ones that are my favorite! BTW, the story on the guitar case on the cover of Back on the Streets you told is amazing!@@TheGuitarShow
I think this is the most comprehensive history of Gary Moore and the Greeny guitar that I have ever seen!!!! Thank you so much. I have had to favourite this video because I will need to see it again. Probably tomorrow morning. Edit: This is probably the best piece of musical journalism I have ever seen. Kudos to you, Sir. I have learned more about Mr Moore in your video than I have even learned before. Thank you.
Not only an excellent history of his guitars but of the great Gary Moore I've noticed through out my life: People either loved him or didn't. So called "musicians" I've met. Even fans who really didn't understand what he was all about. Great video, Ty!!!
I just bought a 61 SG and never knew Gary played one. I have all heavy Les Pauls but the SG I just bought blows them away! It weighs 6 pounds and I love it
I’ve heard it said that Peter Green only intended Gary Moore to borrow the burst but I’m not sure that adds up. You wouldn’t tell somebody to sell their own guitar, give you the money for it and in turn I’ll let you borrow my guitar. That doesn’t add up with anyone much less Peter Green and the state he was in. It’s far more likely that the commonly known story of him having Gary Moore sell his SG and take the money for the burst is correct. It almost has a cynical feel to it that the other story would surface. Basically using Peter’s illness to make Gary out to seem like a scumbag, or perhaps to add an element of doubt whether he is/was the lawful owner of the guitar. It just feels scummy to me.
I now own the Gibson Les Paul Double Cut (30 mins 37 seconds) I bought it around 2007 from GAK in Brighton. It had huge strings on it that has twisted the neck a little but it does sound good.
I've heard the red charvel actually had an EMG 58 rather than an 81 initially, but was later swapped to the 81 to match the while one. From what I've seen online, he auctioned it off for charity sometime in the 90s. I think the estate may still have the white one. The two of those are definitely my favourite guitars of Gary's :)
I want those guitars so much. I wish Charvel(Fender) would do an exact reissue of both of them. I’m in love with those guitars. I was very lucky once that Jack replied to a message of mine and told me he was pretty sure one of them was sill with the family somewhere
Yes, for most of the recorded shows of the red one it had a 58 in it. He did auction it some time in the mid 90's. If memory serves it went for about £500!!! If only I had known!
@@MrMalq if you want a replica let me know. Look up Nicholas Guitars on facebook or instagram and you"ll see the white one...and I'm finishing a red one right now.
Had to pause the video just to say thanks a lot for making this video. It was a very good source of information for this legendary guitar player and his iconic guitars.
@@TheGuitarShow there was also a '59 double cut Jnr (cherry) that he owned at one time; it was featured in a video by Guitarist some years back alongside Stripe and the stripped '63 Strat (as well as a prototype of CC#1 Greeny)
Gary's tech said his 61 was stolen either on the way to or while on tour in America. Gary sent him to pawn shops along the tour to buy a few guitars including a replacement strat for the 61. He found a reddish 84 strat that Gary really liked and it was that 84 that he played Red House with at the fender strat 50th anniversary concert. What a performance! If Jimi Hendrix could stand and shout he would have.
The one live gig I really loved was the monsters of rock gig 2003 and then of course I saw him play the red Strat at the Strat pack gig in 2004. I was also lucky enough to get tickets for the Brighton Dome 2 years running...2008/2009 I think!
Well, that was a trip. Black Rose first. The modded Melody Maker. on the sleeve Aus shots (Vid of Sydney here) saw Gary for Wild Frontiers. WolfGangs, SF Place burned down days later. Lore among locals, "GM lit it up". sad for the venue. KILLER show !
great video. I believe the Les Paul Jr was left at Gary's one night when he was partying with Steve Jones..Apparently drunk, he threw it against the wall and left it. The red Charvel started out with an EMG 85 (gold logo) and they have a cleaner sound than the EMG 81 in the white Charvel. (I believe the changed the red one to an 81 towards the end of the rock "era"). The original pickguard on the white one was mirrored.
I've got an old Guitarist magazine from about 1992 where they had an article on his guitars and one of them was a 1957 gold top, which I don't think you mentioned.
Its true I know about that one but he didnt play it live as far as I know so I had to make a call as I ran out of time. But thanks for mentioning it...
A red , Chuck Barry Red. Guitar mentioned sounds like it must have been a 345 or 355 according to the switches you described, after the removal of those features it may had been similar to a regular 335... thank you for your attention to details and your post are excellent.... JD
I'm trying to find a photo of Gary using or even a shot of the guitars with his Pink Strat with EMGs and a Floyd Rose, it was a partscaster built out of a few guitars and mainly used as a backstage/rehearsal instrument I believe. I still have it here as his tech sold a 335 and this strat in or around 1993-94 and i bought it before it even made it to the guitar shop floor.
First there was an SG then came along a SG later he switched to an SG which he eventually got tired of so he got a SG instead. He then discovered SG's and started playing those.... Does anybody know wtf he plays now?
Incredible, ireplaceble Man in the world music history. Just adore his Blues Alive album of 1993. Empty rooms, Midnight blues, Still got the blues, Parisienne walkways, The story of the blues, Separate ways and mаny other songs...
ok, i'll be back but Gary was a lefty ? So was Steve Morse. all killer, no filler ! Fan since Black Rose. Saw him for Wild Frontiers Gots a Epi LP Std Plus and just acquired a Jr. RIP, Gary Moore. 26:30, Fire Alarm Blues. yep.
I had a Hamer Gary Moore special back in the day... 1980s. These days I have a vintage lemon drop, a vintage 62 icon red Strat fitted with Hendrix guage strings , a sunburst tokai Firebird V with Gibson mini's, also a red Korean Firebird VII with vibrato and all gold hardware, also a vintage SG junior and a Marshall DSL 5 combo for the bedroom😎🤘👍🌈
The original Gibson signature was Lemon Burst.. I had one. The black fender in DDIP was a model called Hot Rod, original floyd rose and a dimarzio paf pro, I had one.
Just 2 (important) notes: 1 neck pickup was checked in mid ‘80s and the interior of it was factory stock, so they did see how the out of phase thing came from the magnet polarity. 2 The ‘Gary preferred the other Les Paul’ thing isn’t true. And it’s a thing which started when he sold Greeny, before giving interview in which he explains that he was forced to sold it to repay the tour deleted dates due to his July 2003 left hand tendon injury gone bad into an infection. People looked at the thing and did say ‘oh, he sold Greeny, not Stripe, he likes Stripe the best’. Not at all, the only reason is that Greeny had more historical appeal, obviously, and worth more. Gary always remember how much he loved Greeny after he sold, and always told he was forced to sell it.
The white charvel pictured in the group photo and on the dirty fingers album cover is not the same one used on WF tour etc. The one on dirty fingers cover / group photo only has 21 frets. The white one used as the donor had a mirrored pickguard and matching matching white headstock. The red and white charvels were modified in 1985 which is when he started using them. He was using both of them by September 1985 as he used them at the Manchester gig for Run For Cover.
Wow that was a great piece of work. So much amazing info but I have to tell you about the one you missed out, which has a great story. It was a Gibson Les Paul, 59 Standard Reissue 2004 that a fan ( i would love to know his name) bought him as a personal gift and according to guitar tech, Graham Lilly, Gary used it as a dressing room warm up. He must have had a great affection for it, taking it with him to Korea, Japan, Russia and I believe the Ropetackle Centre at Shoreham by Sea to guest with his old pal Buddy Whittington. See TH-cam Buddy Whittington featuring Gary Moore....All Your Love. Crosscut Saw. That Ain't Right. Night Life. Grits Ain't No Groceries. This wasn't an official gig for Gary and my theory is that, living nearby, he just took this guitar to jam with Buddy. If anyone can add more facts i would be most grateful because on 29/06/2016 I had the unbelievable good fortune to have my bid for £5k accepted at Bonhams, and become the very proud owner of this wonderful instrument. Just to hold it sends a shudder down my spine, the strap smells of Gary's perspiration and I feel connected to the greatest, by far, all round guitarist that ever existed. God bless you Gary and thank you for the music.
Great video, I would like to point out one little detail. Ibanez RS530. As I tried to observe photage from Out in the fields video clip, you can actually see that he wasnt using that pro rocker tremolo, I think he throw it out and put a set of floyd rose system, except you can clearly see that string lock was original part and they didnt changed it.
Gary Boyle told me that Gary could play any guitar , without batting an eyelid ,even with bad setups ,unlike he himself ,who was hampered unless he had his own specific guitar.
There's a video of him playing an SG Junior with a zebra humbucker, Dust my Broom I think. It sounds amazing, but there's no mention of him owning it that I have found
Very well researched Ramon! A couple of points just to add for info - Gary also used another guitar on tour with Greg Lake - a metallic red Charvel (?) Strat type with 2 humbuckers, tremolo and a maple neck (l have some photos). Also, the leopard print guitar finish was definitely fabric, not painted - l remember Gary saying that it stank (!) after using it on stage when G-Force supported Whitesnake on the UK tour. I didn’t see any of the shows but do remember seeing a live photo when a gig was reviewed (probably in Sounds) and reading his comment later :).
That's a '61 Les Paul that remained until Les Paul himself had his name removed from the line and then after they officially became known as the SG in 1963... very informative video.
Gary borrowed that guitar from Bernie Marsden of Whitesnake and kept it for a couple of years! according to an interview between Bernie and Lee Anderton.
Amazing research, well done. One guitar not mentioned here was another Charvel, a dark green Strat type thing with one (bridge) pickup that he used on the first Greg Lake tour. Unfortunately my ticket stub for the night that I went (Hammersmith Odeon in London) has the date 30th October then the year got torn off! I would assume that this in 1981 as that is the year Grey Lakes LP came out and I know they were on tour that autumn. Now this guitar sustained a bit of damage that night as after hitting the last chord of the gig Gary threw the guitar into the air and walked off stage leaving the guitar which came crashing down on the exact spot he'd only just been standing on. I spent the entire gig leaning on the stage so was only about 30 feet away and had already deduced by this time that Gary was in a very angry mood by this time for whatever reason? The guitar didn't break but would have sustained at least a nice big dent at a minimum. Gary played gloriously that night, using mainly the green Charvel but also the Salmon Pink Strat for Parisienne Walkways etc. the only non Greg Lake/King Crimson number they played that night. A very nice and interesting video, many thanks.
This is so thorough, thank you. I didn't know the Peter Green Les Paul was in a car accident and put back together. Then Gary bought another 59 Les Paul in 1989? Which of these two Les Pauls was famously bought by Kirk Hammet?
A friend of mine Phil Brown has a prototype of one Gary's guitars! Phil is now in Little Rock Arkansas. That guitar may be up for sale. Phil is on Facebook, but we've known each other for close to 50 years
Hi Ramon. I'm thinking that perhaps the Les Paul Greeny had the headstock break during the Colosseum years as opposed to during the 1980s. Bernie Marsden has stated that he lent Gary his cherry SG/LP Standard for a couple of years and that it was during the Colosseum period. This was because he'd broken the neck on his Les Paul. I found this out during one of the Captain Lee interviews with Bernie, posted here on TH-cam.
Amazing Will - thanks for this Ill have to check this out - I heard that Gary was in a petrol station off the motorway late at night and a lorry ran into his parked car.
Why so many guitars? He must have kept his tech busy! I have 6 and it's all I can manage! Great player. Great video. Love the 61 in the Jack Bruce video.
The SG special is a fantastic guitar. I have one and I'll never part with it Extremely versatile and just a superb tone. Best guitar I have ever played or owned used to have a les Paul standard . I don't even miss it. I've never loved a guitar as much as I have my SG. Very top heavy. But just gorgeous sounding .
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My influences were also the Beatles and the Beatles.
Arghhhhhhh!!!!! 😭😭😭 Well spotted!!!
@@TheGuitarShow i thought you said that on purpose.. either way it sounds kool to say the Beatles first and last. Nobody will catch it.
@@jwhite1016aol thanks well spotted!
They we're a BIG influence
Funny thing for me is that is how I would describe my influences also.
Gary played in my group The Deltones in 1966 and he bought my Guild guitar, before leaving to go to Dublin.
Amazing, thanks Michael!
WOWZA..!
Gary and Rory Gallagher were proper friends. Gary went and visited Rory near the end of his life when he was going through a hard time while living in a hotel in London. RIP to both of them. I started playing guitar because of Rory.
Great comment thanks 🙏🙏🎸
@@TheGuitarShow It's nice to see and hear some of the back stories of them starting in the clubs around Belfast. You should check out the Rory Gallagher Festival in Ballyshannon. It's always a great time!
@@MK_2023. You haven't lived until you have spent the weekend in a tent at the campsite for the RoryFest! It Rocks!
@@MK_2023. I have not heard of this festival but it So pleases me that Rorys name lives on. One of my heroes as a kid and just love his playing.
I was lucky to see Rory live in Toronto at Massey Hall as a young kid. It was brilliantly awesome. Only saw Gary Moore on the TV...Great songs ! He is still brilliant. Sometimes astonishingly great !
The 'Greeny' Gibson was offered to Snowy first who returned it stating he wasn't worthy. I interviewed Gary 3 times - always fun ,up, and a gent.
Thanks for this Bob
It's really humble of him being an amazing player himself - his solo on "Slabo Day" is out of this world.
G'day mate ! Do you know the answer to my question above ? Did Gary gift an "old" Goldtop LP to Henrik Freischlader ?
Ah man , outstanding musician and I love everything ive heard from Gary Moore. Great video love it. Thanks
Thanks Jimmy
There will never be another guitarist to play with such emotion and power!
I remember watching Gary Moore for the first time on ‘the Tube’ TV show with his red Strat, the tremolo arm spinning wildly.
The man was so determined to produce an awesome performance putting heart and soul into it; which i thought was clear in his 2003 live Sheffield gig.
Great comment Ian - thanks!
My favorite guitar of Gary's is the 1984 Hamer explorer at 17:48 what a gem, beautiful guitar
I agree - big Explorer fan here!
very cool video, I was fortunate to see Gary when he toured the USA, after Victims of the Future I saw him using the white reissue Strat and the Junior that was 1984, then when Wild Frontier came out he toured through NY in 87, he used the white and red single p.u. Charvels only. Then in 1992 at The Beacon in NYC, he used mostly "Stripe", white Strat reissue and "Greenie". Thanks for sharing, appreciate all that you do!
Thank Mark and thanks for the info... Great that you remembered his gear... A true guitar nerd like me! 🎸🙏
@@TheGuitarShow oh most definitely, I forgot to add that I saw Gary with Greg Lake too at the Palladium in NYC, he was using his salmon strat and the leopard spotted Charvel, which he threw straight in the air and it crashed to the floor at the end of the show!
Those 2 Charvels do something to me. The tone he got with them. Based on the footage of the various live gigs from the end of the 80’s you find here on TH-cam.
That extra long version of the loner just gets me every time and of course empty rooms. Some serious emotion in both those tracks
malcolm quiney he played Loner on the white one when I saw him. Totally amazing
Thank you for putting this together Goose! ! Was in Atlanta Ga 1992 new wife new baby, playing my 74 Les Paul Custom thru a FULL 74 SL Marshall stack, w/a Korg A3 as a od pedal, In an APARTMENT....nailing STill got the Blues tone.. :) How we made it out alive was a divine appointment! :)
Pleasure James - I'm sure you had a majestic tone with that rig!
It‘s worth mentioning that the white „We want Moore“ strat now belongs to John Norum who in my opinion is very much Gary‘s musical successor.
Thanks!
And the white PRS Custom 24, from the ''Wild Frontier'' music video is now owned by Thommy Johanson ( Majestica/ Ex-Sabaton), he actually recorded a couple of Gary Moore covers with it for his TH-cam channel.
@@greekfreak1980damn I didn’t know that. That‘s awesome though, love Tommy.
One of my all-time favorites! Saw him a bunch of times and met him once at an autograph signing at Tower Records in (I think) 1986 in Stanton (or Buena Park) California. He and the band all signed my Ibanez Roadstar RS-440 and my "We Want Moore album. Both hang on the wall right above my head as I type this. :)
Thanks for the comment!
You are such a lucky man!!
@@CelticSaint I second that
I bought this „wan‘t Moore Album“ in the Year 1985. Gary and Band on the Olymp! I was 15 year old and a Greenhorn, too! This Epic Album became my holy grail
Saw Skid Row supporting Atomic Rooster with support by Genesis at Exeter Uni' In the early 70's, Gary did a solo slot playing Drums and Guitar at the same time, also saw him promoting Grinding Stone at Killerton Gardens where after me and a couple of mates had invaded the stage he got us to "sing" backing vocals on Mama tell your Daughter. Happy daze.
Thanks for a great comment
Outstanding work. A monumental loss.
Thank you kindly
Gary moore is the person who made me love guitar, in my eyes he is the best in the world I grew up with Gary's albums I've never cried for someone I do not know personally but when Gary died I cried ,i have actually cried 2 times The first was Gary second was Nick Menza drummer .The world has lost the best gutsrist RIP GARY MOORE
Me too.. love Gary.. RIP
Saw Gary play with Skid Row in 70' and it changed me, it was a great gig and Gary for the most part had his eyes closed, all I could see was these fingers flashing up and down the fretboard whilst his head was bobbing about with his eyes shut, I was gone, and the crowd were silent for a change with their jaws hanging down. From that night I have always tried to find how Gary played so well and get the tone. It's been a great journey.
As old as I am. I can clearly remember the New Zealand Tour of Thin Lizzy. Feeling privileged to attend the sound check. Lynott and Moore, truly great performing artists and musicians. Great detailed history about Gary’s Axes. Thank you.
Many thanks for your memories and for watching!
I can remember breaking a B or E string as a kid and tying a square knot to mend the break and hope that it held while I tuned it up. A new single string was 25 cents that none of us could scratch up at the time, but we never gave up!
someone taught me in the late seventies to9 leave the length on the string, and then re tie it through hole in the brass ring and in a minute you were good to go...not a bad trick to know.
I met Gary Moore in the eighties he bought a house in shiplake Henley I was the plumbing and heating engineer who done his house a very quite person did not say a lot
Thanks Adrian - thanks for the memory!
Fantastic!!!!
I'm a MASSIVE Gary fan. Think you've done a truly fantastic and very thorough job, enjoyed every minute!
Now do Gary's amps ;-)
Pleasure Gary! Amps coming! Great idea!
That’s the guy that makes me rock the blues every night
Thanks Gary ❤️
Gary Moore is my favourite guitarist of all time. He was a lefty playing guitar right handed. I am right handed playing lefty guitar (for 40 years)
I'm a lefty that my mom turned into a "righty", and I play right handed. It may have been an advantage, especially early on, I advanced rather quickly.
Most people associate Gary Moore with the 59 Les Pauls,but totally ignore that he played vintage Strats just as much.
He recorded the "Corridors of Power" album,almost exclusively with the "Salmon Pink" Strat,which is nowadays owned by his son,along with the 59 "Still Got The Blues" or "Stripe" L/P.
Not to mention during the 80s,he used lots of Superstrats and was one of the first famous players,using PRS Cu 22/24 models.
He was also an avid user of the Floyd Rose bridge system,during this period.
Great comment, thanks!
It's depressing hearing about all the stolen guitars
How you found all this out is quite amazing. Talk about knowing your stuff. Well done Sir.
Fantastic! Quite possibly the best history of Gary's guitars, thanks.
Many thanks indeed Steve
Gary Moore is a big Influence on me I'm a 21 year old left handed Guitarist from the South Wales valleys and RIP Peter Green and Gary Moore RIP. You can a video on Phil Lyontt's bass guitar and you can do Sott Gorham from Thin Lizzy please he's AWESOME Guitarist.
The red strat was used on "Blues for Jimi" and Live in Stockholm on some of the songs, "Empty Rooms" for example, I believe. Absolutely love the sound. By far my favorite Gary's sound with the Greeny Les Paul. Just floors me.
Thanks Marek
@@TheGuitarShow Thank you for this awesome video. Great job. Loved hearing about Gary’s guitars. Been a huge fan of Gary since I was a teenager and always wondered about the guitars he used. This is a great synopsis for Gary’s fans.
The red Fender strat was not used in the 1987 Stockholm gig, that was a red Charvel with a single EMG pickup.
I can't tell you how awesome I think this video is!! A couple weeks back, you posted that you would be doing this video. And I have been really anxious to see this. And it exceeds all I have anticipated! Gary was a force of nature on the guitar. He had so much fire and passion and yet could play a ballad so delicately and beautiful that it was hard to believe it was the same person. And as we know, he could play so many styles of music. Once I heard Corridors of Power when it came out, I was hooked for life. But he was also a great writer, great vocalist and live player. You have shown quite a few guitars I was not aware he owned. I was particularly interested in the details on the '61 Fiesta Red Straotocaster. I am very fortunate to own one of the Fender Masterbuilt Gary Moore tribute versions of this guitar. There were only 60 made and because my favorite music store: The Music Gallery Inc in Chicago IL knew how much I love Gary Moore, they gave me the chance to buy it. More importantly right now is - Thank You for this awesome documentary! You are creating some of the finest guitar videos on TH-cam. Thank you Roman!
Pleasure John and thanks the great comment! Tell me did you guitar come with the red gary moore flight case? Those look amazing guitars!
You, my dear sir, have great taste.
Cheers
Yes, it is one of those guitars made by John Cruz that came with the red flight case with Gary Moore and the logo he was using around the time of Victims of the Future. It included a white Dimarzio guitar strap like he used with various memorabilia and even included some of this actual guitar picks! As much as I really love his blues work, his early Thin Lizzy and solo hard rock albums are the ones that are my favorite! BTW, the story on the guitar case on the cover of Back on the Streets you told is amazing!@@TheGuitarShow
I think this is the most comprehensive history of Gary Moore and the Greeny guitar that I have ever seen!!!! Thank you so much. I have had to favourite this video because I will need to see it again. Probably tomorrow morning. Edit: This is probably the best piece of musical journalism I have ever seen. Kudos to you, Sir. I have learned more about Mr Moore in your video than I have even learned before. Thank you.
Not only an excellent history of his guitars but of the great Gary Moore
I've noticed through out my life:
People either loved him or didn't. So called "musicians" I've met. Even fans who really didn't understand what he was all about. Great video, Ty!!!
I just bought a 61 SG and never knew Gary played one. I have all heavy Les Pauls but the SG I just bought blows them away!
It weighs 6 pounds and I love it
I go out of my way for light guitar's My LP is 8.4 and my hard tail strat is 6.7 lbs Haven't weighed my 66 Jr but would say well underneath 7 lbs
@@paulcowart3174 I have a 77 custom Lp that weighs 13.5
@@precisionbrown6829 OMG.....yeah I had a couple of late 70's early 80's that were the same but sounded fantastic for sure
@@paulcowart3174 sounds great but kills my shoulder and back.
I’ve heard it said that Peter Green only intended Gary Moore to borrow the burst but I’m not sure that adds up. You wouldn’t tell somebody to sell their own guitar, give you the money for it and in turn I’ll let you borrow my guitar. That doesn’t add up with anyone much less Peter Green and the state he was in. It’s far more likely that the commonly known story of him having Gary Moore sell his SG and take the money for the burst is correct. It almost has a cynical feel to it that the other story would surface. Basically using Peter’s illness to make Gary out to seem like a scumbag, or perhaps to add an element of doubt whether he is/was the lawful owner of the guitar. It just feels scummy to me.
I now own the Gibson Les Paul Double Cut (30 mins 37 seconds) I bought it around 2007 from GAK in Brighton. It had huge strings on it that has twisted the neck a little but it does sound good.
I've heard the red charvel actually had an EMG 58 rather than an 81 initially, but was later swapped to the 81 to match the while one. From what I've seen online, he auctioned it off for charity sometime in the 90s. I think the estate may still have the white one. The two of those are definitely my favourite guitars of Gary's :)
I want those guitars so much.
I wish Charvel(Fender) would do an exact reissue of both of them. I’m in love with those guitars. I was very lucky once that Jack replied to a message of mine and told me he was pretty sure one of them was sill with the family somewhere
Yes, for most of the recorded shows of the red one it had a 58 in it. He did auction it some time in the mid 90's. If memory serves it went for about £500!!! If only I had known!
@@StewRoberts Oh god! THAT little?! I've paid more for bog standard off the shelf Charvels :(
@@MrMalq if you want a replica let me know. Look up Nicholas Guitars on facebook or instagram and you"ll see the white one...and I'm finishing a red one right now.
Had to pause the video just to say thanks a lot for making this video.
It was a very good source of information for this legendary guitar player and his iconic guitars.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Wonderfully in-depth as usual, Ramon! Thank you for posting
Pleasure Will 🙏
@@TheGuitarShow there was also a '59 double cut Jnr (cherry) that he owned at one time; it was featured in a video by Guitarist some years back alongside Stripe and the stripped '63 Strat (as well as a prototype of CC#1 Greeny)
Saw Gary a few times brilliant he was very interesting story of his guitars over years rip gaz
Thanks Raymond!
Gary's tech said his 61 was stolen either on the way to or while on tour in America. Gary sent him to pawn shops along the tour to buy a few guitars including a replacement strat for the 61. He found a reddish 84 strat that Gary really liked and it was that 84 that he played Red House with at the fender strat 50th anniversary concert. What a performance! If Jimi Hendrix could stand and shout he would have.
God help who came on after that....
Guitars, guitars, and moore guitars. Great stuff. Love the in-depth history of the guitars that have passed through this man’s musical hands. 👍✌️
Thank you
The one live gig I really loved was the monsters of rock gig 2003 and then of course I saw him play the red Strat at the Strat pack gig in 2004. I was also lucky enough to get tickets for the Brighton Dome 2 years running...2008/2009 I think!
The Late Gary Moore (R.I.P), was a brilliant guitarist and vocalist.
agreed
Gary Moore is my favourite guitarist, I'm lucky enough to have seen him live quite a few times.
Well, that was a trip.
Black Rose first. The modded Melody Maker. on the sleeve Aus shots (Vid of Sydney here)
saw Gary for Wild Frontiers. WolfGangs, SF
Place burned down days later. Lore among locals, "GM lit it up". sad for the venue. KILLER show !
great video. I believe the Les Paul Jr was left at Gary's one night when he was partying with Steve Jones..Apparently drunk, he threw it against the wall and left it. The red Charvel started out with an EMG 85 (gold logo) and they have a cleaner sound than the EMG 81 in the white Charvel. (I believe the changed the red one to an 81 towards the end of the rock "era"). The original pickguard on the white one was mirrored.
Good to hear from you, Ramon. From your last video I thought we wouldn't be hearing from you for a while.
Many thanks indeed, good ro be back! 🙏🎸
Thanks, Ramon. Big Gary fan here. This was awesome.
Cheers
I've got an old Guitarist magazine from about 1992 where they had an article on his guitars and one of them was a 1957 gold top, which I don't think you mentioned.
Its true I know about that one but he didnt play it live as far as I know so I had to make a call as I ran out of time. But thanks for mentioning it...
A red , Chuck Barry Red. Guitar mentioned sounds like it must have been a 345 or 355 according to the switches you described, after the removal of those features it may had been similar to a regular 335... thank you for your attention to details and your post are excellent.... JD
Thanks for the info!
Outstanding video! Thank you for sharing this with us!
I'm trying to find a photo of Gary using or even a shot of the guitars with his Pink Strat with EMGs and a Floyd Rose, it was a partscaster built out of a few guitars and mainly used as a backstage/rehearsal instrument I believe. I still have it here as his tech sold a 335 and this strat in or around 1993-94 and i bought it before it even made it to the guitar shop floor.
You should do a Tony iommi history of his guitars
Great idea! 🎸❤️
First there was an SG then came along a SG later he switched to an SG which he eventually got tired of so he got a SG instead. He then discovered SG's and started playing those.... Does anybody know wtf he plays now?
@@kellyjackson7889 he started on a strat that broke halfway through the first sabbath album then switched to an sg
I love Black Sabbath
@@kellyjackson7889 Probably an SG.🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄
Thank you for your hard work and dedication!
pleasure Daniel
Incredible, ireplaceble Man in the world music history. Just adore his Blues Alive album of 1993. Empty rooms, Midnight blues, Still got the blues, Parisienne walkways, The story of the blues, Separate ways and mаny other songs...
Great albums there!
Gary was amazing ,always in my heart.amazing guitarist.Great video👍Thank you
Thanks for watching!
So happy/lucky to have found your channel. Great history 🍺
Thanks!
ok, i'll be back but Gary was a lefty ? So was Steve Morse.
all killer, no filler !
Fan since Black Rose.
Saw him for Wild Frontiers
Gots a Epi LP Std Plus and just acquired a Jr.
RIP, Gary Moore.
26:30, Fire Alarm Blues.
yep.
Thanks Glen - Mark Knopfler was always a leftie playing right handed
I had a Hamer Gary Moore special back in the day... 1980s. These days I have a vintage lemon drop, a vintage 62 icon red Strat fitted with Hendrix guage strings , a sunburst tokai Firebird V with Gibson mini's, also a red Korean Firebird VII with vibrato and all gold hardware, also a vintage SG junior and a Marshall DSL 5 combo for the bedroom😎🤘👍🌈
The original Gibson signature was Lemon Burst.. I had one. The black fender in DDIP was a model called Hot Rod, original floyd rose and a dimarzio paf pro, I had one.
Just 2 (important) notes:
1 neck pickup was checked in mid ‘80s and the interior of it was factory stock, so they did see how the out of phase thing came from the magnet polarity.
2 The ‘Gary preferred the other Les Paul’ thing isn’t true. And it’s a thing which started when he sold Greeny, before giving interview in which he explains that he was forced to sold it to repay the tour deleted dates due to his July 2003 left hand tendon injury gone bad into an infection. People looked at the thing and did say ‘oh, he sold Greeny, not Stripe, he likes Stripe the best’. Not at all, the only reason is that Greeny had more historical appeal, obviously, and worth more. Gary always remember how much he loved Greeny after he sold, and always told he was forced to sell it.
Great info thanks!
MY #1 PLAYER OF ALL TIME , ALFRED NYC/PR
I saw Skid Row in 72/73. Gary played a Les Paul , presumably Greenie, and a white strat for slide. Amp was a Hiwatt combo.
The white charvel pictured in the group photo and on the dirty fingers album cover is not the same one used on WF tour etc. The one on dirty fingers cover / group photo only has 21 frets. The white one used as the donor had a mirrored pickguard and matching matching white headstock. The red and white charvels were modified in 1985 which is when he started using them. He was using both of them by September 1985 as he used them at the Manchester gig for Run For Cover.
I think the majority of us Guitar players modded our guitars in the 80’s, unfortunately
precision Brown still modifying mine in 2020 lol
Wow that was a great piece of work. So much amazing info but I have to tell you about the one you missed out, which has a great story. It was a Gibson Les Paul, 59 Standard Reissue 2004 that a fan ( i would love to know his name) bought him as a personal gift and according to guitar tech, Graham Lilly, Gary used it as a dressing room warm up. He must have had a great affection for it, taking it with him to Korea, Japan, Russia and I believe the Ropetackle Centre at Shoreham by Sea to guest with his old pal Buddy Whittington. See TH-cam Buddy Whittington featuring Gary Moore....All Your Love. Crosscut Saw. That Ain't Right. Night Life. Grits Ain't No Groceries. This wasn't an official gig for Gary and my theory is that, living nearby, he just took this guitar to jam with Buddy. If anyone can add more facts i would be most grateful because on 29/06/2016 I had the unbelievable good fortune to have my bid for £5k accepted at Bonhams, and become the very proud owner of this wonderful instrument. Just to hold it sends a shudder down my spine, the strap smells of Gary's perspiration and I feel connected to the greatest, by far, all round guitarist that ever existed. God bless you Gary and thank you for the music.
Thanks Alan, Wow many thanks Alan for this wonderful story! You the man!
I resenty got a Epiphone Les Paul for Christmas It's got a great Sound on it.
Nice Will
I got gold top epie & sg pro epie love them both
I am a huge Gary Moore fan thank you very much for this well researched presentation.
My pleasure Steve!
Great video, I would like to point out one little detail. Ibanez RS530. As I tried to observe photage from Out in the fields video clip, you can actually see that he wasnt using that pro rocker tremolo, I think he throw it out and put a set of floyd rose system, except you can clearly see that string lock was original part and they didnt changed it.
Thanks for this Danielis
I really miss Gary Moore.
Gary Boyle told me that Gary could play any guitar , without batting an eyelid ,even with bad setups ,unlike he himself ,who was hampered unless he had his own specific guitar.
He was raised in Belfast, Northern Ireland
Yup I’ll second that
When he was younger you could hear his heavy accent but later years he lost the accent
There's a video of him playing an SG Junior with a zebra humbucker, Dust my Broom I think. It sounds amazing, but there's no mention of him owning it that I have found
Thank you for this! It answered some questions I’ve had for a long time!
Very well researched Ramon! A couple of points just to add for info - Gary also used another guitar on tour with Greg Lake - a metallic red Charvel (?) Strat type with 2 humbuckers, tremolo and a maple neck (l have some photos). Also, the leopard print guitar finish was definitely fabric, not painted - l remember Gary saying that it stank (!) after using it on stage when G-Force supported Whitesnake on the UK tour. I didn’t see any of the shows but do remember seeing a live photo when a gig was reviewed (probably in Sounds) and reading his comment later :).
Thanks Derek for watching 🙏and thanks for your extra info!!
The Guitar Show You’re very welcome! I’ll be tuning in again (!) ☕️
Peter Green apparently never like his '59 Les Paul and wasn't a fan of the neck shape.
Thats very true
That's a '61 Les Paul that remained until Les Paul himself had his name removed from the line and then after they officially became known as the SG in 1963... very informative video.
Gary borrowed that guitar from Bernie Marsden of Whitesnake and kept it for a couple of years! according to an interview between Bernie and Lee Anderton.
Amazing research, well done. One guitar not mentioned here was another Charvel, a dark green Strat type thing with one (bridge) pickup that he used on the first Greg Lake tour. Unfortunately my ticket stub for the night that I went (Hammersmith Odeon in London) has the date 30th October then the year got torn off! I would assume that this in 1981 as that is the year Grey Lakes LP came out and I know they were on tour that autumn. Now this guitar sustained a bit of damage that night as after hitting the last chord of the gig Gary threw the guitar into the air and walked off stage leaving the guitar which came crashing down on the exact spot he'd only just been standing on. I spent the entire gig leaning on the stage so was only about 30 feet away and had already deduced by this time that Gary was in a very angry mood by this time for whatever reason? The guitar didn't break but would have sustained at least a nice big dent at a minimum. Gary played gloriously that night, using mainly the green Charvel but also the Salmon Pink Strat for Parisienne Walkways etc. the only non Greg Lake/King Crimson number they played that night. A very nice and interesting video, many thanks.
Thans Sir Bill and thanks for the amazing memories - I knew there were 1 or 2 I could not feature - mainly due to time constraints!
Fascinating and very in-depth...
Pleasure Jerome.
Great great archive digging... excellent 👍🏼❤️
Gary gave me the idea, to buy a guitar in my older days. 😢
Gary Moore is Guitarist I would love to have met. And I love to have a Guitar lesson off him RIP Gary Moore. Legend.
Very cool :) Thanks :)
Thank you too!
Super interesting video bro good job i bet ur mom real proud of her special little boi
Thanks - yes my mum is proud of me :)
This is so thorough, thank you. I didn't know the Peter Green Les Paul was in a car accident and put back together. Then Gary bought another 59 Les Paul in 1989? Which of these two Les Pauls was famously bought by Kirk Hammet?
Pleasure Chris - it was the Peter Green one (damaged in the car)
@@TheGuitarShow Greeny -Green/Moore LP.
Some incredible research here. Great job fella. 👍
Many thanks indeed
Amazing stories bro also deep research as usual so full of info , proud to be watching the great show always 👌
A friend of mine Phil Brown has a prototype of one Gary's guitars! Phil is now in Little Rock Arkansas. That guitar may be up for sale. Phil is on Facebook, but we've known each other for close to 50 years
Very cool Richard! Ill check it out thanks
A superb, very well researched video, thanks!
16:58 actually, he had these two charvel guitars in his run for cover tours in 1985
Thinking back at Gary's music... He was left-Handed?!💥😎🙏
Wow ! lots of hard work in this ..
Hi Ramon. I'm thinking that perhaps the Les Paul Greeny had the headstock break during the Colosseum years as opposed to during the 1980s. Bernie Marsden has stated that he lent Gary his cherry SG/LP Standard for a couple of years and that it was during the Colosseum period. This was because he'd broken the neck on his Les Paul. I found this out during one of the Captain Lee interviews with Bernie, posted here on TH-cam.
Amazing Will - thanks for this Ill have to check this out - I heard that Gary was in a petrol station off the motorway late at night and a lorry ran into his parked car.
@@TheGuitarShow it was in the 80's...Neil Carter was in the car with him when it happened.
@@nicholasguitars5527 Many thanks Nicholas for this info
seems as though Gary was best of to stick with the vintage Fenders and Les Pauls and marshalls
Agreed
Fantastic video. Thank you so much for posting
Very thorough and informative video
Thanks George 🎸🙏
Fantastic detail on this,Ramon ! Thank you so much [again !]
Pleasure Graham 🙏🎸
Why so many guitars? He must have kept his tech busy! I have 6 and it's all I can manage! Great player. Great video. Love the 61 in the Jack Bruce video.
Thanks so very much for sharing all this with us. And very best wishes to you from County Antrim Northern Ireland 🌌💕🌠👍
I’m pretty sure Gary’s Leopard Print Charvel is NOT a “paint job” but is actually covered in acrylic fur!
You beat me to it. And it's clearly visible in the pics too.
i agree
So Gary used the 'Greeny' Les Paul to record the legendary solo on the song 'Still in Love With You' that appears on Thin Lizzy's 'Nightlife ' album ?
The SG special is a fantastic guitar. I have one and I'll never part with it
Extremely versatile and just a superb tone. Best guitar I have ever played or owned used to have a les Paul standard . I don't even miss it.
I've never loved a guitar as much as I have my SG. Very top heavy. But just gorgeous sounding .
I own a Vintage SG Copy
As always - brilliant. Thanks Ramon.