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01x08 - The Holy Grails

Episode transcripts for the TV show, "On the Roam". Aired: January 18, 2024.*
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Jason Momoa travels across the country to meet the extraordinary individuals blazing their own path - from craftsmen, to motorcycle fabricators, musicians to athletes.

01x08 - The Holy Grails

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My grandfather had a coat

and it was completely destroyed

holes on it, and just frayed
and beat to hell, and...

I saw it, and I was like,
"Wow, that's beautiful."

It was his tool.

It helped us build our home.

It put all these hours, and time,
and love into this home

and I feel like when I look
at something that's old

I feel it in my bones

it just gets
my creative juices flowing.

And that's when I realized
that I just see things differently.

You know, I started seeing
my grandparents' floorboards

and the way that they looked

and, like, every scratch or ding,
laugh, cry

is pretty much recorded in that

and then I started feeling like

I just see art in a different way.

That's why we wanna make this show.

Are you on?

Rolling.

All right, so...

At this point,
we've brought things back to life

we've changed things over,
we've gathered the knowledge.

Now, let's do something
really, really special.

Let's find the holy grail.

Man...

I wanted to do something

after we've done everything
on this show.

I wanted to do an homage
to the holy grails.

For me

"holy grail" is the rarest
of all these finds.

It's the piece
that has traveled the furthest.


People don't part with these lightly.

I put it out there in the universe

and next day, on Instagram

I saw the Blessing Burst.

I was blown away.

I was like, "Let's get it."

This looks, not only from the outside

but from the inside, like a...

a Les Paul from 1960.

It is shown by the zero
as the first digit.

The finish was pure Sunburst
on these guitars.

They sit in the window
or exposed to light

- for very long, the red fades out.
- Yeah.

And you get this beautiful
sort of yellow burst finish.

Blessing has been appraised
a number of times


and its value just keeps going up.

Especially as original guitars
from this era


become more and more rare.

So, let's take a look first
at the pickups.

Yeah, a little decal
that says "patent applied for."

That could make a difference
of thousands of dollars in the...

in the value of the guitar.

And not only does it say
"patent applied for"

in the cavity
where the sun never shines

you can see still
the bright cherry red

of the original finish.

All the solder joints
look clean as a whistle.

So, the story of this guitar is

in the 1960s, a...

an aspiring young rock 'n' roller
named Richard Head

found it in a... in a music store

in the Cleveland area

bought it, and thought it might be

a blessing
to his career and his music

and it turned out to be.

And after everything I have learned

about Les Paul guitars

from Slash

to Billy Gibbons

to Murphy, Cesar

I knew I had to see this guitar.

And how long did you have
this guitar for, roughly?

Fifty-six years.

I bought it in 1967.

So, I flew to Orlando to meet Richard

and get to see this guitar in person.

A pleasure... A pleasure.

- Jason. Nice to meet you.
- Oh, absolutely.

- Chris Cole.
- Chris, pleasure to meet you.

Oh, my pleasure.

Tom Landwermeyer.
Homes For Our Troops.

Nice to meet you.

Plug and unplug it. Look at you!

Yeah. There you go.

Look at that.

Yeah, yeah. Let's... let's...

Let's put it up here. Damon just...
All right.

- Oh, man.
- Hold on. There you go.

- There you go. There you go.
- Right.

So, I wanna do something there.

Gotta have this on my camera
at least a little bit.

Hold on. So... so, tell me...

Tell me a little bit about it first.

- Okay. Sure.
- How is it...

Well, I... you know

former rock 'n' roller
in my teens and so forth.

Blessing and I worked
many, many hours on stage

playing every club you could imagine.

The Midwest
and down to Florida and back.

It was always my main instrument

that I was just in love with

and going to keep no matter what.

We opened for Golden Earring, Rush

Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show

and all these groups, you know.

And every time I would be playing it

the guy... the guitar player
would ask me if I wanted to sell it

- Yeah.
- and I said no of course.

And it went from 2,500

- to 5,000, you know, to 7,500.
- Yeah.

And, believe me, back then, my friend

- I coulda used the money.
- Right.

But no, I just went,
"No, this is my friend.

- Yeah.
- I wanna... I wanna hold onto it."

So, at this stage in life,
I came up with the idea that

well, what I'd like to do
is to sell Blessing

and donate the proceeds
to Homes For Our Troops.

It just seemed like
the right thing to do.

We purchased the guitar

donated all of it to this cause

and then
we're gonna take this guitar...

It's the Blessing Burst.

We're gonna call it
the Roamers Burst too

because it's gonna go on the road

and it's gonna stay on the road

and hopefully inspire many artists

and it gets to go on tour.

And I don't want it to sit and clo...
you know, in some safe or whatever

I actually want it to be, like

if Markus Keen wants
to take this thing on tour

or someone that's up and coming

like, someone
that we just literally...

"Boom, go. Record an album"

and let it just wander.
Let it go and...

Oh, I'm... I'm ex... I can't tell you
how excited I am about that.

You having it,
and you telling me that...

You know, I... I don't normally cry

but it almost brings tears
to my eyes.

I mean, it was perfect how

- it all lined up, and so I think
- Yeah.

it's wonderful that, like,
our show's designed around this

you're designed around this,
and so now let it go

let this thing go wander
and bless people

and then I'm excited for people to...

I mean, I'm excited
for it to play on albums

- to go and play for live audiences
- Yeah.

and go just tour.

Damon, how are you doing?
Are you starting to...

I'm good. I'm good, man.

All right, Daddy-o.

- You do the honors.
- My last time.

And... and...

you are looking at a...
at a lot of Blessing and a lot of me

because this is me

this is me, you know?

The wear and tear on it is me.

All right, there we go.

Man.

It's light.

Bro, this thing is insane!

I haven't been able to see
too many real ones.

I got the pleasure
of seeing Slash's, and it's just art.

That's the thing you were
just telling me, where it's you.

You know,
everything along here is you

- and that's such a special...
- You right.

And when you...
Why I love these things so much

is it takes on...

You know it's got their own energy,
you know?

And it takes these pieces of wood,
soak that up

and when you get to see something

that some musician
that you really love playing it

you'd have to just feel that energy.

Unbelievable, well...

I'm excited
for my best friend to see this

and then watch him
just wail away on that

and we'll get up there
on stage, and...

and I'd love it
if you got up there too

and said something.

I'm... I'm at your service.

Yeah. It's gonna be a f...
it's gonna be an amazing night.

Thank you so much.

- Thank you.
- It's just a massive honor, and...

it's meant to be passed on

and meant to share
the love and aloha, so...

- I mean, that's pretty cool.
- Yeah.

And I also love...
I love a good story

and I don't know
anyone else who would take it

and put it on the road, and I'm like

"My a*s will."

Next stop is tracking down a bike
as rare as the Blessing Burst.


All right.
Feel like I'm in Star Wars.

So, I found a collector in Louisiana

who specializes in the most unique

vintage motorcycles.

This is awesome!

Brian has all these pristine,
one-of-a-kind bikes.


It was honestly overwhelming.

I'll grip the ears. Pop it.

That's the on... one of the only two

Grindlay Peerless Speed Chiefs
in the world.

It has a Rudge Python engine.

They only made them for two years.

But it takes somebody as weird as me

to want one like that.

I'm so happy I found it.
This... this makes me really...

I'm so happy I found it.
It's so weird and esoteric.

- I like weird. I like weird sh*t.
- I like weird.

Look at that!

Things were just built differently
in the past


and I love that.

I feel like I'm in a...
in a past life.

I feel like I'm riding
on a time capsule

the way they sound, the way it feels.

This bike was commissioned by a man.

He hunted big game.

He knew that wildebeest,
and giraffes, and the like

wouldn't run on the sound...
on the sound of "honk."

They wouldn't run.

So, if you're trying to get
a hundred...

a hundred giraffes to run...

That's how you get


Look at that one!

Oh, my gosh. This one is amazing.

Suddenly I see this one,
and I just knew.


It was The One.

An original paint Brough Superior.

The thing about these bikes is

once you paint over them, that's it.

There's no going back
to the original.


Finding one like this,
beat up but the real deal?


It's almost unheard of.

It is so rare.

Oh, man!

sh*t!

I don't know everything
this bike has seen


but I know it has been on this Earth
for almost a hundred years


and when you touch something
with that much history


you can feel it.

That is my first time
seeing a Brough.

How do you say it? You say "Bruff"?

- Yup.
- Brough Superior.

They... they were all bespoke.

No number punched to that.

You decided what you wanted.

He built the bike to fit you.

So I'mma be the first Hawaiian
to ride a Brough!

I'mma be the first Hawaiian
to ride a Brough

at the first Cannonball and win it.

Nobody riding a Brough could do it.

I fell in love with that Brough.

So I brought it back to LA

to see if my friend, Nick,
could get it running again.


You've brought back to life
the impossibles.

The DAH, the 1930

- right?
- Yup.

And then we had you bring back Buss'

- Yup
- brat walk circus...

And that was a 1927 that's been
sitting for, like, 70 years.

But this is a 1929 Brough Superior


And it's just been...
it's just been sitting to stare at

and I just can't stand it.
I wanna set it free

and try to bring it back to life.

Broughs are English bikes
from the '20s and '30s


and they were extremely fast
and extremely luxurious.


Only about a thousand still exist.

Have you ever worked
on English bikes?

- Nah. No.
- Nothing.

Never worked on an English bike.

It's... it's weird, but you know

anything that has a motor,
I can get it running.

I... I'm very confident this'll run.

It's pretty rare
because it's an original paint

and most people don't wanna touch it.

If you guys just look at the seat,
like, everything is just...

It's a museum piece.

- But it needs to be ridden.
- Yeah.

You feel confident?

What? What do you want me...
Wanna make a bet?

I'll make a bet. I'll make a bet.

You've gotta... You've gotta bet
on how many kicks.

Oh, okay.

Under three.

- Under three.
- Under three.

Under three kicks

I'll give you five grand
and donate it.

- Do you have any idea...
- Not... not including prime kicks.

- Not including prime kicks.
- Okay, yup.

- Cool.
- Three and under.

- That's pretty good.
- All right, for three and over

- you owe me ten grand.
- Sounds good.

I mean, this is kind of the point
of the show.

It's really about
all the things that I love

that I can't do.

And it's just a real honor to watch

everyone in this show
that's just making artwork.

While I was in LA

I got hit up by a friend, Max Hazen

about another Brough engine for sale.

This one was an SS100

the first ever stock engine
to go over a hundred miles per hour.


I knew we had to do
something special with it.


It's pretty cool.

Max takes vintage pieces
and gives them a new life.


That's gonna be...
That's gonna be f*cking sick.

I adores his work.

It's something
that I've never seen before.

He builds every piece on these bikes.

It's funny, people ask me, like

"How long does it take you to build

a custom motorcycle?" And honestly

the building of it isn't

the hard part.
It's getting that perfect line.

It's big.

Creating a bike with an engine
from a century ago


to do it justice
and then to make it my size


that's a lot to ask.

You know,
they're extremely expensive bikes

and to find just the engine

especially the one that you want,
in decent shape

was a challenge, and we got lucky.

Well, yeah, now you're gonna see...

It's pretty cool.

Everything is so analog
on these old engines.

So, this is...

This spins at cam speed right here.

They're actually
two single-fire magnetos.

As these gears turn

it will sh**t a spark
to each cylinder at the exact time.

Right now, it's set at 30 degrees.

But it's pretty cool to see
how you set all this stuff.

It's pretty cool
hearing a motor breathe, too.

You know, these things were just
totally decrepit when I got it.

This was, like, so tarnished

and I just kinda shined them up
and cleaned them.

But yeah, some of this old stuff
has just got a cool quality

you can't replicate.

You know, it's like
the casting and everything, it's...

it's that certain amount of imperfect

that makes it have a bit of soul.

I don't think people can comprehend
how difficult it is


to do that Max does.

To have a vision in your head

and then get the whole machine
to function correctly


and completely handmade
in this little studio in the city


is magic.

Every detail, everything
on this bike is hand-built.

I'll never be able to do this
in multiple lifetimes, what he does.

So I'm excited
for everybody to see that

and really create
a really custom Brough Superior.

- Good?
- Yep.

All right.

- Yeah.
- There we go.

All right. We're making history.

We did one '27.

- Original paint.
- Yep.

Did the hill climber

brought it back to life

- and we're gonna do this...
- It's okay.

- It's still good.
- I was gonna do this in England

but this the...

- this is my special weapon
- Not in America?

right here.

Never worked
on an English bike before.

You know, gonna try to bring

an original paint Brough Superior
to life.

There's a lot going on

especially in such
an early motor and bike...

I mean, this is like,
you know, Rolls-Royce of the...

- Yeah.
- the motorcycle for that time.

All right,
so I cleaned the tanks out.

We got spark,
we got fuel, we've got air

and...

it should light right up.

A little ticklish.

- Let's see, full choke.
- Yeah.

- All right.
- Yeah.

I'll hold the decompression.

You kick this... Do you...
you wanna do it?

I can't do it with my right leg.
I broke... I got a rod in my leg.

- Yeah...
- I can't do both.

- All right.
- Wait, one... Pop it together.

Yup.

two...

three...

All right.

If this starts up first...

If this starts up first kick...

We'll do, like, a half a toke.

- It's gonna... it's...
- All right, a little decompression.

- Yep.
- A little bit of throttle. That's...

Kick to... kick it to win.

- Bro!
- Oh, my god.

Bro!

- Just one.
- The f*ck!

- One kick. One.
- One. It took...

- I got the bonus.
- The bonus!

Dude, I'll give you this.

Let's do this.

I mean, yabba dabba doo

Only from the English, baby.

It took me a long time
just to collect one of these.

I didn't expect it to be that easy.

He worked on it, I swear to God.
He worked on it for a very long time.

You worked on it
for like, three days, right?

Yeah.

Don't let the truth
get in the way of a good story.

- Still...
- Yeah.

First kick.

First... first kick, English bike.
You got it, bro.

You know what I mean? Damn!

So...

Do I need lights or anything, bro?

- No... It's all good. We got you.
- Oh, we're good?

It's kinda the finale, man.
This is a...

This is pretty amazing journey

we traveled from New Zealand
to come down here.

We're gonna show my friend Mike Hayes

a very special
original Les Paul Burst



There it is.

Where's Mike at? Is he in here?

- How you doing?
- 'Sup?

Mike Hayes, get your a*s in here.

All right.

Richard, come on in, buddy.

- How you doing?
- Richard. Come on here, Richard.

- Hayes, you should stand right here.
- Oh, right here?

So, tonight's a special thing,
and I don't know any...

I honestly don't know
a better guitar player in the world.

It's a very arrogant thing to say

that this man is Tommy Guitar.

There's no one that loves
Sunhouse and Red Hot Chili Peppers

more than me and him.

And it's like... and Robert Johnson.

This is my teacher. This is my...
You know, someone I look up to

and we have this special connection,
and so...

- without further ado, baby.
- Amen.

Mike Hayes, it has finally happened.

So, this is...
I want you to go up there

and I want you to blast away

'cause I don't think
you've ever played

- a... a 1960...
- Holy crap.

- '60?
- He's had it... 1960.

That is an original...
all original...

You're gonna go up there,
and you'll blast away for the troops.

You're gonna blast away for Richard.
You're gonna blast away for me.

You're gonna blast away
for On the Roam.

And that's the real deal right there.

That's the real deal.

Is this your guitar, sir?

- Fifty-six years, bro.
- It was. Yeah. Yep.

- And all those
- There's not...

- at Bonnamassa...
- You know there's not so many

- of these in existence.
- I know.

- You know.
- Yeah.

So...

I want you to just tear it up, buddy.

You never played
a real deal, have you?

I've never played...
I've never played a 1960.

- You'll be playing...
- I've never played

- a 1960, yeah.
- you're playing the holy grail.

- You're playing the holy grail.
- That is amazing.

You're gonna play it for the troops.
You're gonna raise awareness.

I can't thank you enough
for the opportunity.

- It's gonna be an amazing night.
- Thank you.

Yeah, you, too.
Thank you for being part of it.

Come on. Rock it out.

You're gonna smoke it tonight, dude.

Wait until this thing growls.
I can't wait until you plug it in.

- Okay.
- All right? Soundcheck, baby.

Okay, I'm carrying this...

Listen, you're going
out there right now.

Here, let me... let me guide him.
Let me guide him.

Hello? Hello? Hi, everyone.

I need you to do me a huge favor.

First, I need you...

of course, I need you
to put your phones down right now.

No, but it's really cool
'cause it's very personal, okay?

- Yes.
- So, before everyone gets here

I just wanted something
really special to say.

This beautiful man right here...
Come here, Richard.

This is Richard.

He's an amazing rock 'n' roll player.

He's been playing his whole life.

He has owned this guitar for...

He's owned it for 56 years.



I don't know
if any of you have seen...

I mean, unless you saw ZZ Top

- or some, you know... some...
- Yeah.

some amazing... some amazing shows.

But this is a real 1960 Burst.

So, the sound
that you're gonna hear tonight

it's... it's the most...

that is the holy grail

- Yes it is.
- of rock 'n' roll.

Yeah.

My best friend...

My teacher and my best friend

- is gonna rip it up for us tonight
- Yeah.

but you're gonna hear it
on a real Burst

the holy grail.

And not only that

our show On the Roam

is all about artistry,
it's all about handmade arts

and it's all about
paying it forward and charity

and so... all right, so,
all of your money for this

is going to our veterans

Home For Our Troops.

They paved the way for our freedom

and if these men and these women

need some help,
everyone will get help.

And we got two hours
to tear this m*therf*cker apart.

Give it to 'em. I've never met 'em.

In fairness to Mike Hayes

who's never even...
I haven't seen one

for him to see it
and blast away on this

and... and then watch
Richard watching it

it's just... like...
it's super emotional.

[...get up on the stage
if you want...]

There's so much new stuff,
when I do something like this.

It's a blow-through, supercharged,
pressurized gas tank.

There's a whole lot of stuff
happening

you know, in making a 1930s engine,
you know, work this way, but...

you know, it's like,
if you're gonna do it

you know, let's do it!

You know, let's supercharge it

and let's go as far as we can
with it.

Each Brough was custom built
and tailored to their owner


so I feel like Max is continuing
the tradition of the custom build


in the same way it would
have been made a hundred years ago.


I never thought in a millions years
I could own a Brough Superior.

Let alone have it custom,
like, made to my size.

'Cause that's the thing.
Most of the bikes that I have

are just, you know, six-four

- six-five, and 250
- I know.

and I don't fit on a lot of bikes.
I love them, but...

This is the first one that, like

you know, aside from my Choppers,
that just fits my size, so it's...

What was it like when you were
building this?

- Did you think I was gonna expect...
- We...

we hadn't met.
We... we did everything by phone.

I mean, I got to a point where

I sat on it, and the reach was so far

but the bars looked right.

That's like, you know,
set number six of handlebars

and I tried and I tried,
and I'm trying to find the right ones

and these ones
were the right ones for the bike.

When I sat on it, I'm like, "Dude...

I think it's too big.
I think I went too far."

So, I... I hit Jason up and like

"Hey, I know we haven't met.

You haven't seen the bike yet, but...

you wanna sit on this thing
and make sure it's okay

before we go any farther?"

And he sat on it, and he's like,
"Finally, a bike that fits me."

It's... it's perfect.

It came out pretty... pretty nice.

I'm happy with it.

Man, you know what's up.

Love it.

There's something
that you can't put a finger on

that you feel
when you've taken the time

to really make something that
has taken a lot from you to make.

You actually put part of yourself
into something

and took a chance and

you know, used from in here
to make something that... it's...

It's a feeling that I don't share
with many people anymore.

It's wonderful. Thank you so much.

Now, we're gonna make
the first Brough...

Brough Chopper in history, right?

Absolutely.

When we first started filming

I had six '36s built by all
my friends and artists I admire


because they are my favorite bike.

And at the time

I never thought
I would find an original.

You know, you look up to people
and see something that's beautiful

and you wanna collect that artwork.
And I don't want...

You know, to get an original one
just near impossible

and they're hard to find in general.

It's not that
they're the best motor, either.

But I don't know.

It's not even... It's...

Well, it's the evolution of Harley
when they took off

and buried everybody else, and...

Indian couldn't hang on,
you know, but...

the style of the new engine?
It was just...

It buried everybody...
all the other competitors.

What's with
the water? Special effects?

The water line broke right there.

It's nothing to do with Aquaman

or anything like that?

The first time
that I... I have to really look up

and see if it's absolutely original

but my mom works
at an insurance company in Iowa.

In her building is a '36 Knucklehead.

I remember seeing it as a little kid.

You know,
it's a black and, like, reddish one.

And it was, like, pristine.

Since I saw that bike

I've been in love
with the '36 Knucklehead.


Now here we are,
years later in London


our Jeremiah has tracked down
my dream bike.


The '36 Knucklehead,
it isn't the rarest


but it's the last bike

that the four original founders
of Harley put together themselves.


It's one of the most
sought-after bikes on this planet.


It is one of very few all green,
painted green, the fork, the frame


from Harley.

It was stored during the w*r
in Amsterdam

and it was put back together.
It's pretty surreal.

Pete, come up here
and give me some love.

This is the man. Jason. Jason, Pete.

- Hello, sir.
- You got grease on your hands now.

No... Oh, do I?

- It's a pleasure to meet you.
- Pleasure to meet you too.

Yes, this is all
my friends and family.

You know Jeremiah.
That's Liam, Larry.

- This is Dan.
- Okay.

I mean, you might show us...
just tour

- the shop.
- Yeah.

- Let's do this!
- Wanna go see it?

I'm dying to see this.

Dan, come over here
and hold my hand.

- Let's do this.
- Let's do this.

- I'll follow you in, sir.
- Yeah.

There's only two export greens
that are, I think, known of.

And to be able
to bring that back to the States

own an original paint,
which there's just none.

- Pretty insane, right?
- Yeah, that's so insane.

- Put my butt on it?
- Yeah, sure.

Oh, man.

That dash. Look at that.

You're making me wanna keep it.

Well, I hurt him. Let me...
Let me get off of it.

Oh, man!

When I first got it,
it was my everyday...

- Yeah.
- You know, and I loved that bike.

- It rode so well as well.
- Yeah.

And so...

if I was going anywhere,
I'd go out on that, and...

But it's got the stage now

that you've gotten conscious
of its original paint.

There aren't many
original-paint bikes around.

If I crash it, or it's... kicks back
and catches fire

it's gone, you know, so here it is.

It's not a pleasure
for me to ride anymore.

I'd be really...

You know, I would think,
looking at the rear chain sprocket

it's only probably done
about 25,000 mi.

I wanna give it away now.

We got you a 36... 36 mi right down
the wheel created in the back.

- You get that.
- Oh, my god!

- Yeah? What've you got over there?
- Come here. It's...

Look at that ch*nk right over there.

What was unusual
about the Dutch export bikes

they painted everything, including
the fork, the oil tank green.

It should be...

Standard for the States was black.

g*dd*mn!

The things that strike you as a kid

that you fall in love with

never really leave you.

Like, who knew back in Iowa

looking at that bike
in my mom's office


that I would be here someday.

It's beautiful.

It's a dream to find
these works of art


not to collect them
or store them somewhere


but to keep them running
and on the roam.


Yeah. Dan, I made it, baby!

Oh, man!

Good day.

- You good?
- Just...

just having a moment to say...

Just...

thank you for making
my dreams come true.

- I know it's...
- Yeah.

Thanks for breaking my heart.

But you're gonna come to California
and ride it.

It's just she has a new...
she's just gonna go...

She's gonna travel the States
a little bit

and you're gonna
come and see her, right?

Thank you very much.

- And you roll 'em in.
- Getting wet now.

- This got wet before.
- Yeah. She'll be all right.

I'm sorry I broke your heart, Pete.

That's what it's all about. It's not
putting it there in some museum.

You know, I mean, I wanna get out
and ride these bikes

wanna bring them back to life.

This guitar's gotta get out there.
It wants to be out there, so...

You know, for some of
those artists that need to retire

we can make the other ones

but I wanna... I wanna like take this

and get it out and inspire,
do you know what I mean?

This isn't made
to sit on some wall, or...

I want her out there, roaming.

You were k*lling history
with this piece of work.

You can see, it's just amazing.

Belong in the world,
just like I said.

There are no words for it, man.

Like, thank you so much, Richard, for
giving me the opportunity to play it.

I've played all those songs
in my life that I can

and I was, like... this is, like,
so inspiring, it's unbelievable.

You played the sh*t outta them.

Thank you, brother. Thank you.

You're a master, my friend.

Bro, this is what's we're...

- Yeah, it's a good friend of mine.
- You know what I mean?

I mean, I've definitely made
a connection from day...

From... from...
right from the get-go. This is...

There's magic in this guitar.

And all you have to do is talk to it

and it'll tell you these stories.

And that's what it was
up there for me.

It just... it just seemed like
it wanted to speak.

- It had a... it had a story.
- It always wanted to

- I give you that.
- Yeah.

Like, it's an inspiration to me.

It's got... it's got your sweat
in there, bro.

- Yes, it does now. Sorry about that.
- Now your story is there.

- No, no that's what we want.
- Yeah.

It's got your mana in there.

That's why it is the way it is.

Yeah.

I'll never be able to play something
like... like what those guys do

but to be able for them

to, like, take this, and take joy,
and pass it around

and then when we finish this show,
it's gonna go out

and hopefully help artists and...

and travel the world...

inspiring.

Richard could have sold it
many, many times over


and he held onto it.

And he waited for the right time.

And, you know what?

The right time is now.

Fifty-six years, you know.

Blessing and I got together
last week.

And I did some recording with it.

We said goodbye.

You know, but...

I'm definitely gonna miss it, but...

it's the right thing to do.

Definitely the right thing to do
in my opinion.

I'm excited about where it's going.

It's the Roamer, the Wanderer.

And that's it.

This show is the hardest show
that I've ever shot.

I'm not a host

but I'm showing you what my heart is.

You may not like it. You may love it.

It's exposed. It's me.

My heart's all over it.

And I don't wanna get it right.

I hope you like it.

Six '36s. We made it.

Okay, turn it off.

Well done!

Good job. It's your family heirloom.

Your son's...

until the Earth keeps spinning

it stays in the family.

Unless I mess it all up,
and you gotta sell it.

- Damn!
- Or you mess it up.