Posted on 02/02/2026 7:24:01 AM PST by Yardstick
Beautiful version of Misty played by Joe Robinson for the Carter Vintage Guitars shop in Nashville. He's demoing a 1954 ES-175 they were featuring for sale but the star of the show is his amazing take on the iconic jazz standard, which he plays in Chet Atkins finger style taken to the next level.
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You rock!! 😉
Thanks for the ping. WOW!
He had me singing along, striving for adequate.
For sure. I played with a guy who traded a 1959 175 for a 71 SG. I thought it was a bad move, still do.
Steve Howe, of Yes has been one of the players who has popularized the ES-175. This is from a ‘show how to play it’ video from Steve Howe.
Nice.
Awesome! Cool harmonics in the beginning.
Thx for posting!
Pat Metheny was another ES-175 guy back in the day.
Never though I’d say it but Joe is as good as Chet.
Very nice.
I saw him perform in Lynn, MA a few years ago.
It was a terrific concert!
If he’s from Australia, Gauranteed, he grew up listening to Tommy Emmanuel! Especially with that base work and those harmonics.
SUPER - thanks for posting!!!
Very warm tone
Didn’t Chet usually play Gretsch?
I love the old hollows
What did they call those pickups
Patent applied for?
Les Paul sound preference fan
It’s just got more going on but Strats shine too Beck for example
And Teles
No Waylon without them
Not only did Chet play a Gretsch, but he even had his own model, the most famous in their lineup — the 6120 C.A.
The pickups on Gretches (post ‘57) were called Filtertrons. Tone is somewhere between a Tele single coil and a Gibson PAF humbucker. Versatile.
The pickups on the Gibby 175 played by Robinson in this vid are P-90s, my personal faves.
Beautiful playing by Joe. And a nice warm woody tone. Steve Howe played a later model 175 with PAFs. Not many rockers played full-depth hollow-bodies. Mostly jazzers use them.
Back in the day Ted Nugent played a Gibson Thinline hollow body — a Byrdland. Not meant for rock, but Nuge didn’t care. Sounded good to me.
In the very early days of the Dead, Jerry Garcia played a hollow Guild Starfire. So many greats played either hollow or semi-hollow axes.
He can make a Les Paul sound pretty good too...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-e4DgmF9Ok&list=RDm-e4DgmF9Ok&start_radio=1
He’ll yeah
Hollows prone to feedback is that right at high volume?
I’ve had musicians tell me I prefer nominally les Paul or similar tone because I’m a non player and the tone is more palpable to folks like me
Is that true?
I watch Beato and Otis Gibbs and others cause I enjoy the stories and learning about guitars and song structure
I really like guitars like tools but art and history too
Charlie Starr going to see Hetfield when he bought one of Duane guitars for millions was interesting and I think some YouTube guy filmed it
I’d really like to understand the structure of Little Feats rambling numbers
The build up then pull back then kick up usually following by several more accelerations
Cold cold cold tripe face boogie medley live really runs that way
I know there are terms writers and musicians have for all these song sections
Little Feat was such a tumultuous hot mess of talent
College music for me
Waiting For Columbus always on the platter after bars closed in Oxford
Pile of early sensemilla on a frisbee and a mirror with at least an 8 ball of high quality washed cocaine too nearby
People sit up all night blabbing meaning nothing nobody listening making plans they’d never do next day lol
Good thing I had palpitations from it so I kept my use to moderate
The herb now that was different
And the girls were there which at ole miss meant pretty high quality looks wise especially if u like sorority blondes lol
Even though I was a long hair “freak “
I spoke the language and had the pedigree to navigate it well enough
The mid to late 70s this was likely a typical after hours scene many college towns back when folks thought coke fairly harmless
Crazy
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