I think the Tele, Strat, and Les Paul should absolutely get their own episode. I really like how you try to give everyone due credit rather than tearing any of them down. They are all very important and they don't need to be ranked.

@BubbleWrapPerson

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Shout out to 5 Watt World. He has basically already done this.

@SakariKempas

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@@BubbleWrapPerson I second this. They're great episodes. There are also so many books on these wonderful solid body guitars =)

Hey Josh, hope you see this. For the Telecaster episode, I have had the pleasure of talking with George Fullerton in person at an event at the Museum of Making Music in Carlsbad, CA back in 2004. When there he gave his own narrative of the history of Fender and G&L guitars. One tid bit, the reason the Telecaster has such a thin head stock is so they could get two necks out of one blank, purely a cost saving measure. Also the Stratocaster was a refinement of the Telecaster based on the player feedback on the Telecaster. The recessed jack would eliminate jack breakage at the edge, three pickups were also requested and the trem was a new thing all in itself (though you alluded to its origins). You mentioned the telecaster referencing television as the inspiration, same with the Stratocaster, they like the idea of being able to project into the stratosphere. The later G&L products did some of the same, the ASAT is Anti Satellite, of course the Broadcaster was a trick from Dale Hyatt to get their name on the board. Another fun fact, George used to sneak into Leo's lab and tune his prototypes to a chord. Otherwise Leo would be strumming on dissonance as he had no musical ear. This especially happened at the G&L plant on Fender Ave as Leo's hearing started to fail him and it would ring throughout the factory.

Details, details, details. Can't get enough!

Another big up-vote here for historical deep-dives in PODCAST form! (Thanks so much for this content, Josh.)

Looking forward to the next episode.

I like the format of the morning show rather than a podcast. I also like going over lots of stuff, AND focusing on one thing at a time. So whatever tickles your fancy for the format is 👍

I would be interested in deeper dives from here on out. This has been fascinating. Thanks.

As a guitar nerd, am loving this series - enough detail, without getting ridiculous.

I look forward to these every Monday! Thanks. I don't listen to podcasts, but I think I'm more the exception than the rule.

YES PLEASE! A Podcast would be the best thing to happen this quarter. Haha

YAAAAAS! One episode per evolutionary step would be awesome!

I listen at work, phone is Bluetoothed to a speaker. So I have something to do, but I enjoy the educational value. It gets me through my day. And yeah, podcast would work.

I've noticed that Josh's video quality seems to get better every week on these Monday Monologues. Grateful to see this segment being treated with the value it deserves.

No Podcast needed! LUV this series!!

I'm literally begging to make this a podcast

I'm really enjoying this series and hope it continues. And the telecaster definitely deserves its own episode.

I just realized I was a terrible student in high school because there was no guitar topics thanks for attending to our attention spans with this great lecture series 😉 🎸

Yes, PLEASE make this a weekly podcast! The hour long format is perfect for commutes and it opens JHS media to a whole new audience of people that don’t use KZread (they do exist 🤣)

Jhs pedals been crushing it for years. 👍🤘

This is such an amazing series Josh. I’m 54 and been playing for more than 30 years … and you have taught me loads in these 3 shows. Thank you for all this amazing research.

Thank you Scott. This series has been outstanding.

I'm so flooded I'm hung up on the Bigsby not having a Bigsby vibrato. Thank you for this, and yes, please do podcast, and, Yes, please post vids with various amps and/or rigs Again, thank you for all your contributions and adjacent possibles

Great series. Don't forget The Nilsen guitar made from march 1950 - several hundreds were made with a patented pickup. Prototypes made from 1947 onwards.

Making a podcast out of this makes sense. I “watch” these videos while walking around with the phone in my pocket.

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I use KZread premium with Bluetooth headphones. That allows me to lock the phone or change apps and listen, so a popcast wouldn't help me. That said, I essentially listen to half of these as if they were a podcast.

I listen to at least 3 whole podcasts every day.

I really like this series! Suggestion: Interview TK Smith in conjunction with this era. Amazing engineer / luthier true to the Bigsby history and a great player.

I love that you've got The Invisible Band back there.

It's not too early for me, so I'll have some bourbon as i listen. I really love this series. Cheers!

Guitar history is *sometimes* cooler than the music!

@ryangunwitch-black

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Nope. Lol

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@@ryangunwitch-black Kramer has a pretty cool history if you’re into that kind of stuff (EVH, etc). But there’s also a ton of boring history too lol.

I knew I should had watched this, listen to this earlier. Work, but love you all.

I’m a born and raised Wisconsin guy. Been here for 28 years, and I never knew Les Paul was from Wisconsin and his grave is in Wisconsin! Found my weekend activity this week

That Les Paul grave photo looks crisp man! Love Ilford films, my fav and go to is the HP5. Glad to hear you still like film photography

Mr.Scott , podcasts would be wicked. Thank you sir.

The three guitars side by side was crazy awesome to see. Clear lines/style...

I like watching/listening to these when doing guitar tech work. Could easily see them as a podcast. I may just do it myself

Thanks again, Josh - another great and edifying episode. The story of Les Paul, Paul Bigsby and Leo Fender being all together illustrates a corollary to the "innovation is really evolution" idea. One view is that it is a fortuitous coincidence for the history of guitar that the those three particular men were together. Another view is that it was always going to be the case that the evolution of the guitar was going to move forward - it's just that any evolution of technology is sped up when differing talents are in close contact. By the way, you are posing your question about podcasting to the wrong people. You need to pose it to the potential audience of podcast listeners who are currently unknown to you because they aren't watching this. ;)

Josh, i will watch whatever content you put out. It doesn't matter how nich or boring it is. I will watch it.

Yes,Podcast please! ✌🏻

Great series, very informative

I would love this as a podcast

spread it out Josh, loving it!

I've been really enjoying your History of Guitar series, particularly for getting a more accurate view of when key inventions and innovations were made, and who actually made them. I'm not a fan of false histories, and how some people take or are given credit for the work and genius of others. A history of pickups, designs, single or multiple, placement, parallel or angled, etc. and their relationship to the development of electric guitar stings could be worth a video or two. Thanks

Enjoying these history lessons! Thanks, Josh! 🙏

Another really interesting episode, thank you very much. You know, there are o many things that I have heard about before but it's really good to see the loose ends being tied together. Putting things into perspective on the time line.

Deep dives, timelines, old gear demos - it’s all good! Really enjoying this series, it combines three things dear to my heart - guitars, music and history. I loved the story of the three innovators hanging out on the patio, alongside the photo of the Strat, Bigsby, and Les Paul. That seemed to be a real pivotal moment in guitar evolution. Looking forward to more of these, many thanks Josh.

Enjoyed this series, thank you.

Thank you for these videos. Very interesting.

Josh, it's not necessarily that I have nothing to do, but that I have nothing else I'd rather do while I'm doing this. Keep doing this so I can do nothing else while this is being done. I do have other things to do while podcasts are being done. I hope this helps.

This is great! I would really like to hear more specific stories of every model from now on. Thanks!!!!

Hey, totally enjoying this type of live show. I been looking forward to Monday mornings

Thanks for that Josh, really interesting and informative. Looking forward to the next one - go deep!

Yes yes yes yes yes to podcast form!

Podcasts. I like 'em. 100% sure I'm not alone.

I want to watch you show off an old piece of gear on Monday mornings!

I'm really enjoying this topic. I've enjoyed all the Monday shows, haven't missed one yet. Have a great week Josh.

Great series and I would totally watch demos of old gear!

There focused topic items are really great. Love the candid insights about equipment history.

I like the detail trivia, great series.

I too would love to listen to these episodes as a podcast, but I also love watching the episodes to see the photos and support add revenue for the channel. Thank you very much for making such wonderful historical discussions! I have learned much!

Yes, please consider making this a podcast! These have been super cool to listen to! A humble thank you for the great and cool content

A podcast would be great! I listen to podcast all day while I work. These shows would be perfect, because 90% of the content I don’t need to see anyway.

Yes! Podcast, please!

Hey Josh, I watched all of the Monday Monologs and I really like the content and the format. Now maybe, for the next part of the History of Guitar episodes I like the idea of the next few focusing on each of the Guitars individually. Then return to overview/timeline format to introduce the next idea/topic. As far as podcasts, not sure about that, because I like seeing the pics and text to contextualise the content. Oh yeah gotta release an Adjacent Possible T Shirt.

I totally agree on the Merle Travis being the, "first" electric guitar looking at it as we see and think of today. Nobody will ever know who made the literal first guitar period and most likely it would still be in contention because of the way we all see things a bit differently so, yeah the Merle wins my vote, check that fretboard how it meets the body too- looks like a modern bespoke boutique acoustic in the style.

The Bigsby Travis guitar looks suuuuuper cool.

loving this series !!

This series is really interesting, I wrote a paper during my Masters on Future Studies - looking at the world today and modelling where we go to next, this is like the exact opposite, seeing where we are today with rock music, and tracing the branches back to the trunk. Looking forward to Tele next week Josh!

Super cool episode! It seems like you're now into five watt world territory where you could hyperfocus on specific topics, but some more general episodes might still make sense too. And I would absolutely watch the heck out of you playing some old or otherwise interesting gear!!

I love this Josh, I look forward to each Monday for the new episodes. You can and should absolutely do a series on demonstrating your old amps, obviously they played a huge supporting role in the development of the electric guitar. 👍🏻👍🏻 Also I want to commend you on your academic commitment to the topics you cover. You clearly enjoy these discoveries and you present them with genuine enthusiasm and passion, unsullied by any prospect to gain financially. Keep it going!! ❤

These are great!

A deep dive into the tele would be great. I really love this history series that you're doing

where is next episode? Loved this one :)

Cool, lots of good info

RE: Podcast discussion - I think running the monday shows as they are now (livestreaming) is really good for the chat interaction, but it would be great if the podcast version was simply the audio from the video uploaded onto a podcast platform. I understand that would take time and money, so understandable if you guys don't want to start a whole other 'media production' which doesn't pay for itself for a long time.

You aren’t alone. Ilford PAN 50 was my favourite high dynamic range B&w film. Great episode thank you

Yes singular talks in specific guitars, brands! Please include Gretsch!!!!!!!!

Breaking down the next series into individual segments on each guitar is fine. But I would still love a brief 20 minute year by year synopsis every 4 or 5 videos to show how the previous segments made each other better by innovation, etc.

- Yes on podcast-ification - Yes on deeper dives on specific models/etc - Yes on hauling out old gear, talking about it and playing with it--would be a nice contrast for the endless stream of KZreadrs showing off the latest & greatest

Love these Monday episodes. On the Wondery “Business Wars” podcast about Gibson & Fender, they mention that Paul Bigsby and Leo Fender met at Les Paul’s house during some jam sessions. If true, all three of these guys were talking about the solid-body ES guitar. But Paul Bigsby was first and Wondery said he brought it over to Les Paul’s house. Leo then borrowed it from Merle Travis to make some notes.

Gotta save this for later. Reading "The Birth of Loud" currently. This will be nice to follow up with

I like the chronological order of these chats. If Leo and the Broadcaster / Telecaster take an entire Monday morning, then so be it. The following week you can continue the saga with subsequent subject matter.

The Monday show is my favorite show on KZread. Yes to individual shows, like the 1949 Telecaster! I hope there's some 53 Gretsch Jet talk as well. Thanks!

I would totally listen to a podcast of this.

Good to hear that Ilford still exists and it is used.

Yep, all telecaster next week would be really great! I like specific when it can be.

I would love to see an episode just on the development, introduction, and evolution of the Telecaster. This series is amazing. Thank you!

What you do is PERFECT podcasts. History of music or music theory or gear is worth "listening to". Gear demos are for KZread. But what you've been doing IS a podcast and that format makes WAY more sense!!!! DOO ITTTTTT.......(please).

15:56 "You get one pickup, do you want it in the bridge or the neck position?" "Yes."

Would love this as a podcast

Too early for whiskey? What has the world come to!! Loving these talks. Please do not stop.

Yes! Do a podcast Josh!

I reckon that it's Eli Whitney that gets credit for making interchangeable gun parts, I always admired the Ford assembly line in the Model T days, and whenever I think about replacing the funky neck on my Strat that picture comes to mind.

Thanks, Josh. I am with you on splitting it into singular subjects from this point on. The hollow body alone has a lot to be said.

Thanks!

Great series, Josh. I'd love to hear more about the development of some of the specific components of the electric guitar. E.g. the pickup, amp, etc. I was fascinated to hear pickups were fashioned from scrap ford model t parts for example. I know the basic science of how a pickup works but the nerd in me wants to know more about the design, development and materials used.

Just: thank you!

I got to see Les in NYC in 2005. He was an amazing player even in his 90s, and a great entertainer to boot!

I have a picture of myself at Les Pauls grave site, In Waukesha Wi. His boyhood home was torn down to make way for a Walgreens.

I love these talks. A podcast format would be dope!

I really enjoy these. Graveyards are a somewhat tangible way to connect to the past. I usually try to stop at the Buddy Holly crash site whenever I am in the area. Standing by the memorial and looking out into the field gives me pause.