Vintage performance from 1965.

[patchmcg]

Wes Montgomery plays smooth as silk.... (http://www.wimp.com/proplay/)

Man this is nice! And I love how they're all dressed to play!

[drive-south]

He had a very unique picking style. It looks like he wore a hole through the finish below the pg.

I'd like to know what the amp was that was sitting right next to Wes.

[Glennwillow]

Thanks for that Patch -- very nice! What a great sound he had...

- Glenn

[Stringfellow]

Yes - thanks for posting. Great video. I'd never actually seen him play. That thumb technique is impressive and such a great 'voice' - love it when he re-enters with the theme. So much for not planting fingers on the soundboard. If it sounds good...

[Bluemonk]

For sheer musicality, no one can touch Wes as a guitar improviser, IMO.

[Bluemonk]

He had a very unique picking style. It looks like he wore a hole through the finish below the pg.

That's actually a heart that he had inlayed on the guitar. That guitar was for sale a couple years ago for, I think, half a million or so.

[architype]

He has the fastest thumb in the west.

[waveform]

Isn't it cool how a musician like this can be so timeless. No pick, just jamm'n look at how calm he is, its like he isn't even thinking. What kind of guitar is that?

[Bluemonk]

Isn't it cool how a musician like this can be so timeless. No pick, just jamm'n look at how calm he is, its like he isn't even thinking. What kind of guitar is that?

It's a Gibson L5-CES. Wes Montgomery is identified with that model, and played pretty much nothing but.

[kerrinsdad]

love Wes.....thanks

[NoPicks]

It's a Gibson L5-CES. Wes Montgomery is identified with that model, and played pretty much nothing but.

FWIW Gibson has been reissuing a small run of L-5's with those specs (it was a custom order with some significant changes from the production L-5s of the time) and it is apparently still available

Wes Montgomery L-5 CES (http://www2.gibson.com/Products/Electric-Guitars/Archtop/Gibson-Custom/Wes-Montgomery-L-5-CES.aspx)

Not exactly an "inexpensive" guitar, but like the early '30s L-5 reissue they did some years back it's still considerably cheaper than a vintage example of the original - if you could even find one

[Taylorplayer]

Just beautiful -- thanks for sharing that with us!

[terrapin]

Very cool! Thanks for sharing that. Anybody know if that is The Oscar Petersen Trio? What a band!!! And Wes makes it look SO easy!