Chords for A Tour of Vince Gill's Vintage Guitar Collection

_ _ _ _ _ _ Hey everybody, I'm Vince Gill.
I'm here at my house in Nashville, Tennessee, knocking
around [C] looking at some old guitars and having some fun.
This guitar right here is probably
the _ most important guitar in my life.
This was my father's guitar that I learned to play
on _ as a little boy. _
We had a flood in Nashville [E] not long ago, back in 2010.
[G] This guitar was
in the flood, but thank God it was up just high enough that it didn't get [C] in the water.
_ This is what I _ _ _ learned to play on as a little boy.
It was probably the first song I learned,
_ Wildwood and Fly Away.
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_ _ I need to work on that one a bit. _
[G] _ _ [D#] This is an old Martin.
[Bm] It was built
in 1942.
It's a D28 Herringbone.
They're kind of the most sought after bluegrass guitars.
_ As a young guitar player, about 18 years old, I'd left [N] home.
Right after I left home, I
found this guitar at a bluegrass festival.
_ _ This _ guy _ was carrying it around an old case
at the festival and it had a sign on it that said $2,500.
I said, man, I don't know.
I
asked him, can I look at that old Herringbone?
He said, sure.
_ _ He says, you think you can
afford it?
I said, no, probably not, but I'd sure like to play it.
I picked it out and
played it.
This thing was in just immaculate condition to be 70 years old.
_ _ I told him I
would like to try to get it if he would consider a trade.
I had a newer Martin from the 70s
that was just average.
He did.
He traded me $1,500 or $1,600.
That $1,500 or $1,600 was
all the money I'd made up to that point in my life that I'd save for my future, whether
I was going to go to college or anything.
_ I completely emptied my bank account out to
buy this guitar as a young kid.
I still have it to this day.
I just can't believe that
I've been _ lucky enough and smart enough to hang on to some of these first guitars like
my dad's and this one.
_ _ _ I _ was lucky enough to buy a great guitar when I was a kid and
found one much better than this in all those years. _
_ _ _ _ _ I _ have a love for Martin guitars like probably nobody else in the world.
_ I've just picked
them up from time to time. _ _
_ I've turned down a lot of great guitars just because they
didn't speak to me and they didn't feel good in my hands or sound good to me or whatever.
Every guitar I've ever acquired has been because I love the way it played and I love the way
it sounded.
I don't think I've ever bought anything that didn't sound great to me.
This
is a recent purchase. _ _
These are the rarest of the rare.
This is a 1928 00045.
They're
called pearl top guitars and they're probably the most sought after by players and collectors.
Collectors probably more than _ _ players but they didn't make very many of these.
This
is a _ 1928 [E] 00045 that just sounds like a bell.
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_ You hear so much wood in the way these great
old Martins were made.
_ Listen to how long that's going to ring.
It's still ringing.
Still [A#] sustaining.
_ It's beautiful.
_ _ _ [C#] _ This was a gift from Amy.
_ _ I love that my wife has good
taste.
This is an OM45 from [C] 1930 and they only made I think 41 of these in history. _
I happen to have a couple of them. _ _
This was for my 50th birthday and I saw the case and
I knew it was something good.
_ [G] I'm just grateful to be _ [Em] _ married [D] _ [G] _
to a kind woman.
[C] _ _ _ [A] I could use
some tuning.
[E] Couldn't we all?
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_ Just [G] _ _ [N] a smattering of what's great about old guitars.
This is
_ a really rare piece.
This is a 00028.
_ It's made with a herringbone trim like the other
one I showed you earlier but it's got what they call a shade top.
There's very few shade
tops that Martin made.
I guess back in the day Martin and Gibson would kind of rival
each other and if Gibson would do something Martin would try it and if Martin would do
something Gibson would try it.
There weren't a whole lot of shade tops made so if you can
find an old pre-war Martin that's sunburst finish you've really got a rare bird.
In the
collectible world their _ value is twice what just a regular natural spruce top guitar would
be.
This was also a gift from my bride.
She knows what I like. _ _ _ _
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When I put this studio
in here it was right after we had this flood and I lost a lot of guitars in the flood.
Probably 50 guitars and a bunch of some neat great old stuff.
A bunch of great amps and
all that.
I tried to find a way to bring a lot of these guitars into the studio where
I could have them _ accessible to play.
I always felt like guitars were meant to play so I
came up with this idea to build drawers that are kind of almost like a guitar case.
_ _ _ This
is an old _ 61-335 like my first red one that I got.
_ This one's a little bit better than
that one so it gets played a little more.
This is an old Strat that I bought off a guy
named Bob Brett who's a great guitar player here in Nashville.
He was _ kind of going through
a little bit of a struggle _ financially and I told him I said, man I hate to see you lose
your guitar but I'll buy it if you want it back.
I said it'll be here.
I've had a few
cases where I've rescued a few guitars for some old friends and _ that's one of them.
I
just love, you know, what's funny about all these different guitars is _ maybe somebody
would look at that and say well why do you have so many of the same kind of guitar but
every one of them plays different, sounds different and has a completely different voice.
This is a great piece I got from Tom Bukovac, a great guitar player here that does a million
sessions.
It's a 60 slab board Stratocaster and it's an amazing sounding guitar.
I'm on
a lot of records.
This guitar's been on a lot of records. _ _
_ _ _ _ It's kind of crazy.
I opted
for buying guitars instead of bass boats and second homes in the Hamptons and things like
that so I have a pretty extensive and beautiful collection of a lot of really neat old guitars. _ _
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