Bloomfield 59 in June Vintage Guitar

[Stowburst]

The Bloom burst is THE burst for me.. cant wait to see pics!

 

[The Stumble]

what all the fuss was about

 

[bp-plickner]

Hey Stumble
That's pretty rude, ignoring other people's intellectual property rights. Unless of course you have permission from Mr Bride..

 

[Rhye]

Thanks Stumble

 

[skyeking69]

what all the fuss was about

I always love looking at that photo...not because of the guitar..
cause of the very young John Bride!

 

[jwinger]

what all the fuss was about

Words cant do that justice. Beyond beautiful

 

[nicolasrivera]

hey stumble
that's pretty rude, ignoring other people's intellectual property rights. Unless of course you have permission from mr bride..

s.t.f.u

 

[nicolasrivera]

I just got an email from Ward Meeker in response to my questions about other photos and my request to post some photos from the article and he said NO. It is copy righted stuff!

Here is his response to my email

Richard,
I tried - several times - via John Picard to have John Bride send more photos, but he was pretty adamant about keeping the others to himself.


And sorry, but posting the photo in your forum would be a violation of copyright, both John's and ours.
Thanks,
Ward

With Respect and Peace

Dude, what is your problem, really?? are you trying to be mr, i do the right thing..... come on.......

 

[bp-plickner]

Dude, what is your problem, really?? are you trying to be mr, i do the right thing..... come on.......

What's wrong with that? Respecting some one's wishes? F*ck civilization. Eh?

 

[snaredrum]

i'm totally confused, now. it's a killer pic, but were you allowed to post it, or is this a different pic, or whut?

 

[bp-plickner]

i'm totally confused, now. it's a killer pic, but were you allowed to post it, or is this a different pic, or whut?

That's the VG Mag pic. About any one having the right to post it, don't Know, but this thread sure got off track.

Still a cool bit bit history

Peace

 

[MacLoud]

Mr Rivera

I do not know you but telling someone who posted a legitimate concern about copyright issues to "STFU" is just plain damn rude.

You may have many posts but I get the impression that English is not your first language, am I correct? This may have lead to this clumsiness on your part.

Maybe you should moderate your responses to your fellow forum members, in the light of your unfamiliarity with English, no matter how many or how few posts they have.
MacLoud

 

[Stowburst]

what all the fuss was about

Amazing, this burst beats any other burst imo.. the tone that came out of it is just wonderful I love that fact that its been treated like a bag of nails... now who is the current owner? I wanna buy it

 

[Kevin James]

Amazing, this burst beats any other burst imo.. the tone that came out of it is just wonderful I love that fact that its been treated like a bag of nails... now who is the current owner? I wanna buy it

I may be wrong but I could swear I read somewhere that Carlos Santana owns it now????

 

[EasyAce]

I may be wrong but I could swear I read somewhere that Carlos Santana owns it now????

Santana once played the guitar---on Mike Bloomfield's own offer. It was before Santana became well known and in fact may have helped set him on the path. Here's what Santana himself said, introducing the Bloomfield bio If You Love These Blues, including a suggestive comment:

The first time I played with Michael was at a jam session at the Fillmore West. I was just a cat who came from Tijuana, and I played guitar. It was a Sunday afternoon jam. Jerry Garcia was there. Jack Casady on bass. And Michael Bloomfield on keyboards.

I saw Mike's guitar. A friend of mine said to Bill Graham, "Listen, Bill, this Mexican kid from Tijuana loves B.B. King and loves Michael Bloomfield. Do you think you'd let him play?" Bill said, "I'm not in charge. Go ask Michael Bloomfield." And my friend asked him. Michael looked at me, and he looked at his guitar, and said, "Go ahead, man. There's my guitar."

And it was like---I felt like somebody had just given me a key and opened a huge door for me. I picked up his guitar, put it to my ear to make sure that it was tuned, and when everybody said what they had to say, they let me play. Bill Graham liked it and he asked me, "Would you like to open up for the Grateful Dead and Steve Miller?"

So Michael opened the door for me to be in the field that I'm in today. That was my first connection with Michael Bloomfield. I have that guitar---it's a Les Paul. I've seen a lot of pictures of him in the early days with it.

Whether it was the Bloomfield Burst or a different Les Paul Bloomfield might have owned concurrently (I have seen photos of Bloomfield with a Les Paul Custom; could that be the guitar Santana "has," since nobody else seems to know the actual whereabouts of the Bloomfield Burst?) is difficult to discern.

Santana also related in the same piece that he once told Bloomfield to his face, "Man, one of these days, I'm going to cut you," and regretted it immediately: "I felt awful saying that to this beautiful, kind man." Bloomfield graciously parried, "Oh, that's okay, I want you to, man. One of these days you'll be better than me." A few years later, Santana bumped into Bloomfield at the closing of the original Fillmore West and apologised again for that blurt. Again, Bloomfield was gracious: "Man, don't worry about that. We all do that, man. I know where it came from. Don't worry about it."

 

[Gaetano]

Santana once played the guitar---on Mike Bloomfield's own offer. It was before Santana became well known and in fact may have helped set him on the path. Here's what Santana himself said, introducing the Bloomfield bio If You Love These Blues, including a suggestive comment:



Whether it was the Bloomfield Burst or a different Les Paul Bloomfield might have owned concurrently (I have seen photos of Bloomfield with a Les Paul Custom; could that be the guitar Santana "has," since nobody else seems to know the actual whereabouts of the Bloomfield Burst?) is difficult to discern.

Santana also related in the same piece that he once told Bloomfield to his face, "Man, one of these days, I'm going to cut you," and regretted it immediately: "I felt awful saying that to this beautiful, kind man." Bloomfield graciously parried, "Oh, that's okay, I want you to, man. One of these days you'll be better than me." A few years later, Santana bumped into Bloomfield at the closing of the original Fillmore West and apologised again for that blurt. Again, Bloomfield was gracious: "Man, don't worry about that. We all do that, man. I know where it came from. Don't worry about it."

This just shows how much of a player and man we've lost.

I love Bloomfield's playing, it's very inspirational to me as it has been with hundreds of players in the world.

That pic is awesome! What a great instrument, it has a great personality. That's one of those guitars that give me the idea that you're playing "together" with the guitar, that the axe is not a passive object and makes a great role in creating the tone.

What a great burst, i wonder what the heck did the finisher did smoke before spraying it...

 

[planks]

There's an interesting read on LPF So, who's got the Bloomfield 'Burst? - Les Paul Forum on the Bloomfield Burst. The thread is 5 years back and sadly most of the pics are gone from it now, but some info there anyway - including posts from Dan Erlewine .

 

[JJ Blair]

I love that we post youtube videos of music with impunity here, where artists don't receive public performance publishing royalties, etc. and now everybody is concerned with the intellectual property of somebody's photo.

Not that posting the photo is right, but I find the uproar a little hypocritical.

 

[chinbb]

Somehow I have a feeling Gibson will release a new version of Bloomfield signature LP to ensure all those extra wears and tears are captured...and they will be signed by John Bride.

 

[snaredrum]

i know the contrast and saturation are all off, but the bloomfield burst on the gibson reissues looks bugger all like that pic