While that's all good and wonderful, extreme longevity isn't really in my shortlist of concerns when I'm Guitar shopping. It's more like tone? Playability? Which body style? Price? Features: hb's?... FR?...Evertune bridge?...Contoured heel? Etc etc. Whether it will survive a C4 explosion in an elevator - or not - really just aint my concern!!🤷♂️ I guess if I already chose a Tele, and went ahead and bought it over all others..I would add it to my list of brag - rights, "Yay, oh yeah! My Tele will outlive your Gretsch archtop in a dynamite situation! Oh yeaaah!!" 🙁
@@davidtaylor5934 Keith Richards + Teles... I don't think that combination is coincidence. They probably used his DNA and some voodoo to create the longevity of the Telecaster. 🤣🎸😱
The Tech: "I choose a guitar that can't break." The Producer: " I choose a guitar that sounds awesome." The Player: " I choose a guitar that feels awesome." ... i think i see a pattern :)
Yup... just enjoying a cool refreshing beverage at the bar as my guitar picks up that one ambient frequency and proceeds to turn into an air raid siren across the room...😵 (Note to self: Why yes... apparently my telephone consultant at Musicians Friend was entirely correct about those “badass” Celestion speakers.)😬
ABSOLUTELY RIGHT - That's why I'd say that the Sterling AL-40 (incredible versatility) and the Hagstrom F20T (custom wound precision pickups, unique neck, flat as a classical guit and unseen comfort) are my two fav guitars
@ haha - a broken guitar can be a good percussion instrument, and ornament. So, It's like Kinder surprise : chocolate, a toy, and a surprise, wait you can't market the surprise, that's false advertising.
Perfect description of the Telecaster - a "utility knife guitar." Of course, coming of age near Washington, DC we had heard about Roy Buchanan(and there was that TV special about him around 1971, "The World's Greatest Unknown Guitar Player") and Roy(and later, Danny Gatton) could get all the weird sound effects and cool tones you can imagine from a Tele. And I knew that Muddy played one, and I had a photo of a young BB King with one, so I knew that they were good. But I always liked Strats, except for that single-coil buzz that you couldn't really get rid of. Jeff Beck, Hendrix, they must have had some reason for playing them. I would be stunned to see Jeff Beck and a 335 in his hands. Only thing I can say is, experiment and then go with what works.
The only thing guitar players like to do more than playing their guitars, is talking about their guitars.... should here me blab about my pawn shop axe's, I can go on for days
The guitar you should own is whichever one that inspires you and feels natural to play. Don’t waste your money on the name on the headstock simply because someone tells you you should.
My Squier strat is certainly not the same as a fender of the same variety, but I got it for $80 instead of $800 and I can confidently say it is way more than 10% as good
@@solarwinds5114 Personally, I don't have faith that a real Strat would sound better than the Squier. Steevie Wonder used to play sounds (all be it keyboard) that people thought ridiculously cheap like a in-built setting on a - yamaha argos catalogue keyboard with the purple pads , might not really have had such). Paradoxical insight : b) Human flavours seem heinously cartoony and unrefined to a cat.
Strat for life. I've had my Strat for almost 20 years and it's never needed a neck adjustment. It plays perfectly and sounds better than guitars that are 3x the price. Super versatile and the most iconic guitar ever. The Stratocaster headstock is the best ever made.
I love playing a strat they just feel so natural. Mine has been pretty modified it sounds great. My les Paul is also modified but it’s one of the best sounding guitars I’ve ever played, even the studio engineer was amazed by it and laughed when he seen it was an epiphone. I do hate how a les Paul feels tho I don’t like playing them. And not for nothing I leave my les Paul in the case because I’m scared it will wall and the neck will break so it never comes out! My strat never goes in a case only if I’m playing live it goes in a case! I have done a guitar flip and the strat landed on the neck and other then a small chip no damage was still in tune!
I bet you've never touched a Wild Customs. It blows Fender out of the water. The cheapest model is $4000, but it plays better than any HSS I've ever heard..
I loves me some strats too and I tinker with em, the Vintage Noiseless pups are juicy at 9 .8k . My big complaint is the truss rod adjuster being hid away at the body end of the neck which pretty much has to be removed each time to adjust. That really is a pain with the Vintage design..
yep, I used to think teles were painfully ugly too. Like so ugly that they were kind of offensive to look at. I used to think the body looked like a high school wood-shop failure, the headstock like a sawed-off Strat, and the bridge looked like some kind of weird mouse trap. I remember staring at the cover of Born to Run thinking what a strange and ugly guitar. But all that changed after my first time playing a tele. Right away all of those great rock and blues tones come so easily and unmistakably. And pretty much all of the sounds you can make are really usable, whereas the more I played Strats, the more fiddly I found them --- the bridge is too bitey, the middle kind of pointless, 2 and 4 too woody and clucky - - ok, the neck pickup is perfect, but the tele has that too. Anyway, teles got less ugly to me the more I play them - now I think they look great.
For tonal versatility and comfort, I like the HSS strat. For recording the Tele. For pure ease of playing, the SG. What do I play on the most at home for practice? A Korean made Epi Sheraton, because it's versatile enough for jazz, blues, rock, country etc.
Hmmm... not that it was ever a question, but I’m going to hang onto my G&L ASAT Tribute Junior. Mahogany tele-body with a bolt on neck and two P-90s. It was my bidget’s answer to wanting an SG Jr. and it plays fantastic. They scrimped a little in the cavity to keep it at that price point, but nothing a little time and a soldering iron won’t bring up to snuff.
I would love to hear a comparison conversation on Leo's Tele variations throughout his careers at Fender, Music Man and G&L. His magnetic field pickups with adjustable pole pieces are brilliant and seem to be revered by many.
I have to agree with you about the Tele. As a lead singer who also plays guitar, the Tele is my favorite. The simple controls, the range of tones, and the feel of it. It's caveman primitive, but I've found it so easy to play and control while also belting out lead vocals, it's like a part of my own body. I can find any tone I'm looking for, instantly, in the middle of a song, without even thinking about it. I can bang the crap out of it, which happens when I'm really singing my heart out, and it stays right in tune. Leo Fender designed the very first mass-produced electric guitar, and as far as I'm concerned, he got it SO dead-nuts-on. And the neck pickup on the Tele just gets me right down in the groin. That's where I live most of the time...
I have a Yamaha SG2000, that plays beautifully, has great sustain and Seymour Duncan replacement humbuckers for the original anaemic Yamahas which, like the originals, can be switched to single coil for flexibility using the tone knobs. A great guitar. For my 60th I finally found the nylon string of my dreams, a Godin ACS which has 22 frets and a thin fingerboard so all my thumb over grips and high neck voicing are playable (it drives Roland synths too). I have a Taylor 814-CE that sounds beautiful and stays in tune but requires strong hands to play high neck voicings with strings heavy enough to extract the tone. Adding something distinctive to this trio is interesting, maybe an Ibanez semi acoustic a la Sco, but definitely an 8 string with fan frets.
-- A strat single coils - A telecaster single coils - A Les Paul with PAF's - A Les Paul with p90 - And a Hybrid Strat with a Floyd Rose The 5 electric guitars you need in a Studio... In my opinion...
Yes , in the abstract , the P90 is the outstanding pickup . But the three single coils of a Strat have got the variety of great sound . The only thing to be added is a Tele - like combination of bridge & neck . While the Tele shape is iconic for being first , I prefer the shape of the Strat . The main advantage the Tele has for being bulletproof is the bridge design . A fixed bridge Strat should match that .
@@jakemf1 ...other than the bridge position of a strat. Gotta go with a humbucker there IMO. I usually go for a Duncan strat-size humbucker...looking to maybe use the new Red Devil in my current project.
Many people will tell you that setting up a tele is annoying, but few will tell you that once it's set up it's untouchable. Really awesome feedback from people that have played literally every possible guitar. I'm not a huge tele fan, but that feedback really made sense to me. I'm more of a Jaguar guy, so I'm a weirdo haha ...ironically it's the most annoying guitar to keep set
I think in 50 years the design of a Telecaster, a Strat, a LesPaul, a ES335 or ES175 will still be there. These guitars are icons, you can‘t make them better.
I think that in 50 years, a strat will be the most widespread. The contour body and replaceable neck combination is just about unbeatable; and you can bolt on(replace) any other part of it as needed. I have always considered a Les Paul to be the ultimate, but for some people it's just not right. Nobody can really tell what guitar is best, you have to check out the different types until you find what works for you. If you compare it to sex, you wouldn't just do it one way, or use just one position. Shopping for guitars is like grocery shopping - you'll never be able to get away from it, so(and you should do this grocery shopping, too) figure out a system, and then you'll get better results and not waste time.
The Telecaster might have been a good guitar for the time it was introduced, but the Stratocaster pushed the bar much higher with a comfortable shape, the volume immediately accessible at your fingertip, the jack in a recessed place and an extra pickup for versatility. Just saying....
I knocked my Gibson off the stand. Did the headstock break? Of course it broke! Did it break off completely? Yeah! Oh. OK. With Gibsons I would give the same advice that I gave my daughter when she got a Yamaha Xeno trumpet - "In your hand or in the case!"
Ibanez Premiun RG. The most complete guitar.. You can even lock the trem if you want it to be fixed. It's the only guitar that you'll ever need really.
PRS is now the guitar brand everybody loves to hate, like Les Pauls in the 90's. They're thought of as wallhangers so people have a hard time admitting what incredible guitars they are.
1. Double humbucker, 2. Triple single coil, 3. Everything else is bonus. With some wiring mods you can get a ton of tones out of these two guitars. I would like to have something with P90s but that's a lower priority for me
First of all, you get what you can afford. I've had several nice surprises in 'cheap' guitars. I've had Epiphones that FAR outshined their Gibson counterparts. I had a 2007 Les Paul Classic (Gibson) that was a 2200.00 dollar dud...just couldn't love that guitar, it was too light for a Les Paul, WAY too loud...no amount of adjustment would remedy that, pots weren't linear at all, while at the same time I had the Epiphone equivalent, and it was perfect. At less than 1/4 the price of the Gibson. Conversely I also had a Gibson SG Standard (2006) that was absolutely stellar, and less than 1/2 the price of the Les Paul I brought back to Guitar Center. I don't buy finished guitars anymore, I build my own. That way I KNOW what's in it, what it'll do, and not do, and while yeah, they might not be beautiful, they are functional, and suit my needs to a t.
Whatever. I own Fenders to. Not fan of trash talk. EB makes great stuff, as does Fender. Fender has not really done much groundbreaking since the Strat. But, they don’t have to, since they are the template for damn near every non-lp/335 style. The St. V guitar is unique. I am also a fan of Steinbergers (the real ones) but they are polarizing.
Can't agree, you all choose very specific and fairly limited guitars. If i was limited to one guitar, it would be something like ibanez Jem with trem, single and humbuckers. You can't beat it in versatility and ergonomics. I myself opted to have 2 guitars - LP and Strat. Coil tap on LP gives sound close to p90, strat with maple neck can sound almost like tele if i need it. So there is no need in any more guitars.
I've had many ibenez over the years. Never had one I liked.... But I have many friends who have them and they sound amazing... I have a PRS custom with a floyd and 59 Gibson pickups..... Never goes out of tune no matter the abuse and sounds out of this world
P-90’s are the most versatlie pickup. Tele’s are the most durable and widley recorded guitar and 335’s cover the most grounds genre wise. Pretty good criteria. If your going for complete and total versatility then and Ibanez with an hsh and coil splits is great but it would struggle to get the classic rock tone and feel with its higher output pickups and specs and it defines would be challenging for a 12-bar
The question was “What’s 1 guitar every guitarist needs?” not “If you could only have 1 guitar what would it be?” Funny enough the answer to both those questions is still a Tele.
I’ve got a Jem and yeah it’s an amazing guitar, plays and sounds great. I find it a bit temperamental though, it needs a lot of tweaking and it doesn’t hold tuning too well, I’m always fiddling with it.
Probably the most versatile guitar you can have is something like a HSS Ibanez superstrat. You can play almost any genre with them due to the pickup combination, they are very comfortable to play and are easy to modify. Too bad most of them look so boring.
Have many guitars, but I decided to add a used Ibanez SA160, HSS, about $150. Super versatile, can make almost any sound. I should put some good pickups and tuners on it.
Once I bought my first PRS that was it for me. I own one Strat, more for nostalgic reason then anything. All my other electrics and one acoustic are PRS.
I love all four ( I call them that ) Strats, Tele’s, LP’s and SG’s. No question have at least one with humbuckers and one with single coils is optimal. However, while you were discussing the heal joint of the LP being in the way..... why not an SG instead? That’s my preference but it is easier to get down to those higher frets on that not to mention they’re lighter too!
Music Man makes a great guitar. I bought a Sting Ray in January, it arrived in the mail and I have not touched the set up since then and it has been 11 months. super reliable, sturdy and responsive instrument. Definitely recommend this as a choice as top guitars that will last through the years. Music Man in general makes really nice instruments.
On an episode featuring 'The Fender Telecaster' it's nice to see some love for the eternally great STAX record label. After Green Onions it's not really guitar driven music, but Steve Cropper's guitar is always present.
When I was entering my teen years, I asked my parents, "What I should do in life?" My Dad said, "Why don't you learn how to play a little guitar?" So, I bought an original Steinberger 6-string. If little was good, very little was better. 🤣🤣
The Strat has always been my favorite guitar. I love Gibsons, I think Gretsch make some great guitars and I appreciate the things being done by Ibanez and Schecter, and others, but I would never be without a Strat.
Deet Cologon I _think_ I’m in the process of switching to mostly Teles (or at least “T-style” guitars) and SGs. Maybe with a 6 and 12 string strat, just for completeness. Still haven’t decided.
The whole Tele vs. LP breaking discussion is ridiculous. It's like saying a B-17 (could really take battle punishment and still get home) is a better bomber than a Stealth (needs many, many hours of ground maintenance for each hour of even non-battle flight). The idea, design, build and construction behind each guitar is extremely different. It's like comparing a Cessna with an F-35. Or a Swatch with an Omega. Kia vs. Acura... It's still all about personal preference and taste. Then throw in money availability. I personally find Teles unattractive, clunky, thin toned and NON-INSPIRING. I am barely a weekend hacker, but when I got the LP Standard I always craved I got a gorgeous work of art, ultra smooth neck/fretboard, and most importantly - A THICK, RICH AND COMPLEX TONE (because of the use of three - not two - tonewoods) that sings. But it will scream if you adjust a few knobs... The weight? GET A WIDE, PADDED STRAP! If I could play for a couple of hours that way with no problem I bet you pros can...
There are a number of 335 copies around that play and sound at the same level as a Gibson 335:. The old Yamaha SA1000 (known for its great build quality), the Ibanez Artists from the late '70’s - early '80's (not as bulletproof, but just great sounding), and my current favorite: the Peavey JF1 EX, which continually amazes me with its great sound and playability. What all 3 of these guitars share is that they are all forgiving:. Bad amp, bad acoustics, knobs dialed in all wrong...you can still play without being spooked. A number of my musician friends rave about the Peavey and I get unsolicited compliments on my playing when using it.
Those old Yamaha 335s (I think my bandmate had an SA700? ... something like that) played absolutely perfect, and it looked like if you dropped it out of a helicopter it would have been totally fine. I don't understand why they aren't more common; sounded perfect to my ears
I was also a die-hard Les Paul fan - to this day I love the way they look, feel and sound. They represent the sound of my youth. But a couple of years ago I bought an American Pro tele to complete my collection, and I have very rarely picked up any other solid bodied guitar since. I just love it in every way. And as mentioned in the video, the reliability is simply outstanding! I'm not a complete convert, but I do recognise perfection when I see it...
What a lot of people fail to realise is that Fender himself designed and made the stratocaster to be better than the telecaster. And he, as usual, was right. There is a lot of virtue signaling love for the tele, but the plain fact is the stratocaster has a far more comfortable body, a revolutionary look, a superbly designed vibrato, and 3 pickups. I have had fenders for over 40 years, and it is the better guitar. No ifs or buts. The tele is still a excellent guitar, and occasions occur where it has no peer, but overall the stratocaster and Les Paul standard (with humbuckers, guys....again Gibson designed and put them on the guitar for a reason....ie to improve upon the P90, and offer something Fender didnt) are still, even after all these years, the 2 guitars a player needs to own.
Yes. Tele's are soooooooo hip, though. When I was coming up in the '70's, No One played Teles in rock. They were looked down on. Now? Ooooooooh!!!! lololol
One guitar maybe, but if I could magically transforms 1/2 of the hours I spent in guitar shops into practice time, I know I would be twice the player I am today.
I've got a 2018 Rickenbacker 4003 and it is by far my favorite bass. It so easily cuts through the mix in my Ska band, and nothing else sounds quite like it
I have an LTD les Paul style guitar and it's a nightmare to play sitting down. It's so bottom heavy that I find myself fighting with the weight while I'm trying to go up and down the neck. Standing up it feels amazing but for sitting down I find it's a process. I wonder if the weight distribution problem is just the LTD? I've never played an actual gibson LP. I was always turned off by the cost to quality ratio with gibson personally. I'd say everyone should have a classical guitar. I know this sounds weird, but a nice nylon string classical is what I find myself picking up the most and writing on riffs on. I have a $150 yamaha classical and it's a beautiful guitar to just step back from the distortion and enjoy the simplicity of it. Learning to play with classical finger style techniques also translates beautifully on an electric guitar as well
I've played dozens of stats, and I mean dozens, but they do not come close to my LP standard and LP trad with the push pulls. Sorry fender fans, but Gibson all day and night
Guitars everyone should own? Anything but a Gibson with the exception of the 335. The Stratocaster is the "best" guitar as far as comfort and versatility.
Now that is rock. A guitar named after a religious ministerial role. That is what rock was about when it was vibrant : originality, defiance, different. Not pushing the : cheesy cliched obligatory diablo hand sign + viking boat (with skull choker on the front) a bit further in the same direction. Kudos. Further, It's not even merely the Reverend. It's The (definite article) Reverend, Double Agent (mixing intelligent yet harmless espionage). This is pioneership, this is the cutting edge of axedom. Can I get an Amen? Yes, you can, consider it done.
Gibson 175 - the neck feels just right, it's light and very comfortable to play, sounds ok for just acoustic practising and has a bit more bite than many archtops when plugged in so is very versatile.
I agree! Of course everything is subjective, but after owning Gibson's, Fender's, Tom Anderson, Grestch, Mayones, ESP, GJ2.. and the list goes on, the moment I played my Custom 22, it was a revelation. It starts singing even with the lightest touch, so it enables a huge range of dynamics and rings like a bell with amazing clarity. I threw in some Bareknuckle pickups and it was a match made in heaven. I do love my Fano JM6 as well, but it requires some beating before it starts to ring.
I build guitars, so I think some of my own will still be around 50 years from now, and just maybe enough folks might like them where they'll be worth something.
I wanted to build guitars for the longest time ... Until I learned a bit what it entailed and that I am actually not that much of a build guy. Do you build them professionally? Are there any you could share some pics of?
@@joetowers4804 I started building my own guitars for myself a couple years ago and they really are not that much actual labor. You just need to buy tons of tools and watch a lot of videos on youtube to figure out how to go about each step of the process. Your going to probably have to build a few jigs too. Guitar building really lends itself to crafty people who like customizing things who have a good amount disposable income. If that is you, then I'd say go for it.
@@banditkeithkingofduelmonsters Yeah, I would think building guitars is quite easy, it's the selling them for a profit that's probably hard to get off the ground.
@@banditkeithkingofduelmonsters Not all of what you state is strictly true. When I started building guitars, there was no TH-cam. I learned from other builders. And books. And I also learned just by doing, good old trial and error. To me, the most difficult aspect of building a custom guitar is making it look pretty, where you can justify the amount you need to charge for the finished instrument. It requires exacting attention to the smallest details. I probably spend more time on a guitar's cosmetics than I do on its structure. It's a bit frustrating, knowing that all this time spent on making a guitar look pretty isn't gonna help its sound one tiny bit. Yet folks who buy custom instruments expect them to look like a million bucks -- or at least a few thousand. As for tools, yes you need a good assortment of tools. It's possible to get into building with a fairly minimal amount of hand tools, but realistically you're looking at somewhere around an investment of at least $500 in decent quality tools. Chisels and planes and clamps and bending irons, etc. I also made a number of tools that I use for specific steps in the building process. I didn't have a lot of disposable income when I got started. In fact, my disposable income was fairly minimal. I bought tools piecemeal. It made things rather slow and difficult at the beginning, but as I added tools to my inventory, things improved.
I have a 40 year old Ibanez Joe Pass JP20 archtop. It's my only guitar that stays in tune. The other night I played a four hour gig. I tuned once at the beginning of the gig and checked after each break. Still in tune til then end of the night.
Greg Koch said something like "After the apocalypse, only cockroaches and teles will survive. And the teles will be in tune."
cockroaches, Teles and Keith Richards will survive
@@davidtaylor5934 My thoughts Exactly. Keith Forever!
I can play my tele for a week straight without having to tune it up like a half a step. I absolutely am in love with mine.
While that's all good and wonderful, extreme longevity isn't really in my shortlist of concerns when I'm Guitar shopping. It's more like tone? Playability? Which body style? Price? Features: hb's?... FR?...Evertune bridge?...Contoured heel? Etc etc.
Whether it will survive a C4 explosion in an elevator - or not - really just aint my concern!!🤷♂️
I guess if I already chose a Tele, and went ahead and bought it over all others..I would add it to my list of brag - rights, "Yay, oh yeah! My Tele will outlive your Gretsch archtop in a dynamite situation! Oh yeaaah!!"
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@@davidtaylor5934 Keith Richards + Teles... I don't think that combination is coincidence. They probably used his DNA and some voodoo to create the longevity of the Telecaster.
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"The Telecaster is the greatest guitar of all time" as all three of you sit there holding Gibsons.
Am I the one person who doesn't like the look of a Tele?
@@fireproofman watch Roy Buchanan play one and it'll start looking cooler.
haha I didn't notice that Hilarious !! LOL
@Dami Ana They all are.
They're all just wood and wire. It doesn't matter who made it where or when. It either works or it doesn't.
They commented at the beginning of the video it is just because all 3 have p90s and that was the first point they hit on
The Tech: "I choose a guitar that can't break."
The Producer: " I choose a guitar that sounds awesome."
The Player: " I choose a guitar that feels awesome."
... i think i see a pattern :)
Music video producer : I choose a guitar that looks good, preferably with the socket ripped off.
@@johnharvey4448 also can't have one of those funny wires coming out the back end
lmao great catch
Me: I choose what my wallet dictates to me 🤑
You know this Rhett's a pro cause he turns down the volume knob even though he's not plugged in.
Nicholas van tol well that makes me feel better about hitting my pickup selector switch when I’m not plugged in!
I only came to comment about that. Made me happy. Straight player move.
Does it go to 11?
Yup... just enjoying a cool refreshing beverage at the bar as my guitar picks up that one ambient frequency and proceeds to turn into an air raid siren across the room...😵 (Note to self: Why yes... apparently my telephone consultant at Musicians Friend was entirely correct about those “badass” Celestion speakers.)😬
11:45 😂
A guitar that everyone should own, is one that feels good and makes you want to play.
That's truly all you need.
That's the only answer
The best guitar is the one currently in your hands!
ABSOLUTELY RIGHT - That's why I'd say that the Sterling AL-40 (incredible versatility) and the Hagstrom F20T (custom wound precision pickups, unique neck, flat as a classical guit and unseen comfort) are my two fav guitars
@ haha - a broken guitar can be a good percussion instrument, and ornament. So, It's like Kinder surprise : chocolate, a toy, and a surprise, wait you can't market the surprise, that's false advertising.
Literally clicked on the video with a Tele on my lap haha. The ultimate utility knife guitar. Great video Rick.
Mason will love the heck out of you for building such an amazing collection of guitars that he'll be able to try out with time 🤘
Perfect description of the Telecaster - a "utility knife guitar." Of course, coming of age near Washington, DC we had heard about Roy Buchanan(and there was that TV special about him around 1971, "The World's Greatest Unknown Guitar Player") and Roy(and later, Danny Gatton) could get all the weird sound effects and cool tones you can imagine from a Tele. And I knew that Muddy played one, and I had a photo of a young BB King with one, so I knew that they were good. But I always liked Strats, except for that single-coil buzz that you couldn't really get rid of. Jeff Beck, Hendrix, they must have had some reason for playing them. I would be stunned to see Jeff Beck and a 335 in his hands. Only thing I can say is, experiment and then go with what works.
Wouln't it be even better and tonally more versatile with a semi hollow body Tele?
I'm pretty impressed with my charcoal black Modern Player Tele. The pine body is a delight to play.
@@dreyn7780 Scallops on guitars? I usually like to cook and eat them myself......
3 guitar players go 19 minutes 51 seconds holding a guitar and not noodling
The only thing guitar players like to do more than playing their guitars, is talking about their guitars.... should here me blab about my pawn shop axe's, I can go on for days
Actually, quantum mechanics forbids this. 11:41
LOL! I also noticed that lack of noodling.
Not exactly true, Rhett could not ressist!
Meanwhile Jack Pearson just dished out 20 minutes of total brilliance on a $100 chinese guitar
The guitar you should own is whichever one that inspires you and feels natural to play. Don’t waste your money on the name on the headstock simply because someone tells you you should.
My Squier strat is certainly not the same as a fender of the same variety, but I got it for $80 instead of $800 and I can confidently say it is way more than 10% as good
I can make any guitar sound bad. It’s my superpower.
I'm afraid there's strong competition on this superpower! :)
Me, playing on a Music Man Majesty:
*can hardly play Mary Had a Little Lamb*
Someone else playing on a $50 Squier:
*plays amazing shred solo*
Is any other super-power needed upon gaining the gift of the E-shape powerchord ?
@@solarwinds5114 I can't play MHALL. I don't remember the tune.
@@solarwinds5114 Personally, I don't have faith that a real Strat would sound better than the Squier. Steevie Wonder used to play sounds (all be it keyboard) that people thought ridiculously cheap like a in-built setting on a - yamaha argos catalogue keyboard with the purple pads , might not really have had such).
Paradoxical insight : b) Human flavours seem heinously cartoony and unrefined to a cat.
So if you combine all 3 suggestions, you would end up with a Telecaster Thin-line with P90's! Interesting.
Like a Chapman ML-3 semi hollow body with p90's and SS frets
I do have one just like that and love it
So basically the Fender JA-90 which is literally a thin-line tele with p90s
@@legochickenguy4938 Jim Adkins knows what's up
Can I have exactly that with a Bigsby?
I'm hoping that if I show this to my wife, she'll let me buy some more guitars.
Good luck!
Buy them and sneak them in. It’s the only way.
Oh, yeah, that ALWAYS works. :)
That never works. I tried. I got told “What are watching? Oh....that’s sad. A bunch of men talking about guitars?”.
Keep hope
I can't believe no one even mentioned the Stratocaster! Really?!!
Right man 😔
''Strat in '54'' at 10 minutes 16 secs.
Problem with the Strat is everything it does really good, PRS will do even better and more reliably IMO.
THE STRAT IS KING 🤟🙂
Strat for life. I've had my Strat for almost 20 years and it's never needed a neck adjustment. It plays perfectly and sounds better than guitars that are 3x the price. Super versatile and the most iconic guitar ever. The Stratocaster headstock is the best ever made.
I love playing a strat they just feel so natural. Mine has been pretty modified it sounds great. My les Paul is also modified but it’s one of the best sounding guitars I’ve ever played, even the studio engineer was amazed by it and laughed when he seen it was an epiphone. I do hate how a les Paul feels tho I don’t like playing them. And not for nothing I leave my les Paul in the case because I’m scared it will wall and the neck will break so it never comes out! My strat never goes in a case only if I’m playing live it goes in a case! I have done a guitar flip and the strat landed on the neck and other then a small chip no damage was still in tune!
...Leo got it right the first time...........
I bet you've never touched a Wild Customs. It blows Fender out of the water. The cheapest model is $4000, but it plays better than any HSS I've ever heard..
@@ChrisTopherBunnell You're right, I've never played a $4000 custom guitar o....o
@@000MidnightSun it's worth every penny. probably the last guitar youll ever buy
Fun fact: Dave recently put P90s in Rick Beato’s air guitar.
Too funny
I am a Gretsch gal forever
Something about the sparkley tones it produces and I find my jet can play a wide range of genres
My opinion
1. Strat
2. Les Paul or Sg
3. Something unique to make you feel special
Yep.
I was sitting here like hey that's not true but then I realized I have a LP studio, upgraded Squier standard strat, and a jazz master......
Telecasters
I've told you before not to creep my setup thanks. :P
I like Suhr and Jackson over Fender for metal and rock but Fender Tele is great for country music.
I’ve gotta throw my two cents in for the Stratocaster. Easy to mod and adjust, and sounds so great!
You could say that about every Fender
I loves me some strats too and I tinker with em, the Vintage Noiseless pups are juicy at 9 .8k . My big complaint is the truss rod adjuster being hid away at the body end of the neck which pretty much has to be removed each time to adjust. That really is a pain with the Vintage design..
Larry John the Strat does more and has more sounds. There are a stack of different mods fir Strats too.
Tried a Strat back in the 90s that had three push buttons instead of the 5 way switch....never seen one since.
Get 3 different pro's opinions and a Strat would be on the list.
I've always found the Tele's kind of ugly, different strokes. But lately, they have been growing on me.
yep, I used to think teles were painfully ugly too. Like so ugly that they were kind of offensive to look at. I used to think the body looked like a high school wood-shop failure, the headstock like a sawed-off Strat, and the bridge looked like some kind of weird mouse trap. I remember staring at the cover of Born to Run thinking what a strange and ugly guitar. But all that changed after my first time playing a tele. Right away all of those great rock and blues tones come so easily and unmistakably. And pretty much all of the sounds you can make are really usable, whereas the more I played Strats, the more fiddly I found them --- the bridge is too bitey, the middle kind of pointless, 2 and 4 too woody and clucky - - ok, the neck pickup is perfect, but the tele has that too. Anyway, teles got less ugly to me the more I play them - now I think they look great.
Everyone does at some point, even if they are just a thick plank of wood with a tube as a neck
Get one all in black
@Barton Dean I have cherry sunburst Les Paul and Texas Tea Strat. They are both beautiful.
@@peterlorenzo615
I've got a Black on Black Nashville with a roasted maple neck.
It is beautiful and the best sounding guitar I own.
Telecaster is the A-10 Warthog of the guitar world.
twoprimo that’s a great description. Well played, sir or ma’am.
Spot on, first time I've heard that analogy.
there are also both ugly as fuck and i mean that as a compliment.
more like the F - 16 do't you think ?
@@silviosantapaola2825 That would be a stratocaster
For tonal versatility and comfort, I like the HSS strat. For recording the Tele. For pure ease of playing, the SG. What do I play on the most at home for practice? A Korean made Epi Sheraton, because it's versatile enough for jazz, blues, rock, country etc.
So what I'm hearing is p90 tele...
Yep. Friedman vintage t ftw
Yep, the only guitar I don't have ! P90 Tele that is .
LP junior p90 is pretty great for recording
My next build is a twin P90 Tele...
Hmmm... not that it was ever a question, but I’m going to hang onto my G&L ASAT Tribute Junior. Mahogany tele-body with a bolt on neck and two P-90s. It was my bidget’s answer to wanting an SG Jr. and it plays fantastic. They scrimped a little in the cavity to keep it at that price point, but nothing a little time and a soldering iron won’t bring up to snuff.
didnt we realize in the 80s that you get everything with a superstrat?
I would love to hear a comparison conversation on Leo's Tele variations throughout his careers at Fender, Music
Man and G&L. His magnetic field pickups with adjustable pole pieces are brilliant and seem to be revered by many.
I have to agree with you about the Tele. As a lead singer who also plays guitar, the Tele is my favorite. The simple controls, the range of tones, and the feel of it. It's caveman primitive, but I've found it so easy to play and control while also belting out lead vocals, it's like a part of my own body. I can find any tone I'm looking for, instantly, in the middle of a song, without even thinking about it. I can bang the crap out of it, which happens when I'm really singing my heart out, and it stays right in tune. Leo Fender designed the very first mass-produced electric guitar, and as far as I'm concerned, he got it SO dead-nuts-on. And the neck pickup on the Tele just gets me right down in the groin. That's where I live most of the time...
Wow, no strats...interesting.
Fender Stratocaster. Gibson Les Paul. Fender Telecaster.
The End.
Scrolled here to write that...simple. No debate at all
Add PRS Custom 24/22
Amen, but it leaves the humbucker/P90 question unanswered
ES-335 and an SG or LP with p90s
Also a prs, any one of them
I think the Tele body shape is timeless....and also the headstock.
i love the tele headstock more so than the strat !!!!
It's crazy how the Tele shape is 70 years old and it still doesn't look outdated in any way
I prefer les paul's shape
It's just their playability kinda sucks for lead playing and small handed.
I own a tele and I hate the headstock. It looks, to me, like someone was working on an idea, got stuck and just gave up.
@@cherrysunburst828 Totally, it still looks like an old age pensioner.
@11:45 funny his muscle memory just let him turn down the volume
I have a Yamaha SG2000, that plays beautifully, has great sustain and Seymour Duncan replacement humbuckers for the original anaemic Yamahas which, like the originals, can be switched to single coil for flexibility using the tone knobs. A great guitar. For my 60th I finally found the nylon string of my dreams, a Godin ACS which has 22 frets and a thin fingerboard so all my thumb over grips and high neck voicing are playable (it drives Roland synths too). I have a Taylor 814-CE that sounds beautiful and stays in tune but requires strong hands to play high neck voicings with strings heavy enough to extract the tone. Adding something distinctive to this trio is interesting, maybe an Ibanez semi acoustic a la Sco, but definitely an 8 string with fan frets.
-- A strat single coils
- A telecaster single coils
- A Les Paul with PAF's
- A Les Paul with p90
- And a Hybrid Strat with a Floyd Rose
The 5 electric guitars you need in a Studio...
In my opinion...
Gotta have s strat, it's just what I'm the most comfortable with. Versatility, it does it all.
Yes , in the abstract , the P90 is the outstanding pickup .
But the three single coils of a Strat have got the variety of great sound . The only thing to be added is a Tele - like combination of bridge & neck . While the Tele shape is iconic for being first , I prefer the shape of the Strat .
The main advantage the Tele has for being bulletproof is the bridge design . A fixed bridge Strat should match that .
I keep coming back to Strats as well (and then mod them, lol). They are such a great platform for mods; you can really make them your own.
Single coil-cant be beat
@@jakemf1 ...other than the bridge position of a strat. Gotta go with a humbucker there IMO. I usually go for a Duncan strat-size humbucker...looking to maybe use the new Red Devil in my current project.
Yeah, HSS Strats rule the world ....
Damn Rick, that was a hefty laugh at the beginning!
Haha yep! I had to turn it down for a sec!
Beato, maybe you could do a similar video for acoustic guitars?
My Telecaster has taken about 4 hard nose dives. Still plays like new.
The Telecaster Is to guitars what Nokia used to be to cell phones.
Yeah it’s literally a slab of wood with a long piece of wood bolted on to it.
Dreyn 77
Twelve people agree with you.
The rest, not so much.
Telecaster is the A-10 Warthog of the guitar world.
If I could only have one, I'd have to keep my strat.
Many people will tell you that setting up a tele is annoying, but few will tell you that once it's set up it's untouchable. Really awesome feedback from people that have played literally every possible guitar.
I'm not a huge tele fan, but that feedback really made sense to me.
I'm more of a Jaguar guy, so I'm a weirdo haha ...ironically it's the most annoying guitar to keep set
I think in 50 years the design of a Telecaster, a Strat, a LesPaul, a ES335 or ES175 will still be there. These guitars are icons, you can‘t make them better.
What? 1952 telecaster were unplayable by today's standards. Thats why theyre so different today. They WERE refined.
RicardoDiazHimself Read again and perhaps you understand: I’m not speaking from the technical Details but the design.
I think that in 50 years, a strat will be the most widespread. The contour body and replaceable neck combination is just about unbeatable; and you can bolt on(replace) any other part of it as needed. I have always considered a Les Paul to be the ultimate, but for some people it's just not right.
Nobody can really tell what guitar is best, you have to check out the different types until you find what works for you. If you compare it to sex, you wouldn't just do it one way, or use just one position. Shopping for guitars is like grocery shopping - you'll never be able to get away from it, so(and you should do this grocery shopping, too) figure out a system, and then you'll get better results and not waste time.
same with Jackson they defined metal
You can make the ES335 better for people who are smaller by making the body smaller, like they did with the ES339. :)
The Telecaster might have been a good guitar for the time it was introduced, but the Stratocaster pushed the bar much higher with a comfortable shape, the volume immediately accessible at your fingertip, the jack in a recessed place and an extra pickup for versatility. Just saying....
Yeah, I agree. Surprised they didn't mention the Strat.
While I'm sure the tele feels good and plays great, I just don't like how the tele's look.
The telecaster is a great guitar. I don't think it is the one though! Too me, the best guitar to have would be the most versatile! PRS all day ;)
I knocked my Gibson off the stand.
Did the headstock break?
Of course it broke!
Did it break off completely?
Yeah!
Oh. OK.
With Gibsons I would give the same advice that I gave my daughter when she got a Yamaha Xeno trumpet - "In your hand or in the case!"
Everyone should try a Gretsch with FilterTrons or DynaSonics at some point.
Yeah, you are right. I think Broadkasters and the black panther is the best of both worlds, with the look of a ES and the sound of a Tele on steroid.
@@ValiRossi DM me!!
On my wishlist
Ibanez Premiun RG. The most complete guitar.. You can even lock the trem if you want it to be fixed. It's the only guitar that you'll ever need really.
Why not Prestige 🤷♂️
I'm a SG guy, but I think Paul Reed Smith guitars will be around and sought after for many years.
No, because many people find his headstocks too ugly to look at.
Just think about how many les paul Jimmy Page telecaster sold 😂
For me it's the strat. That edge in the tone 😭❤️
PRS is now the guitar brand everybody loves to hate, like Les Pauls in the 90's. They're thought of as wallhangers so people have a hard time admitting what incredible guitars they are.
Prs construction and fretwork is up there with the best. If only they could do a core model with stainless but Paul has his convictions as we know
Everyone on the planet? That would be cool. Lost African tribes all have Stratocasters.
Lol
That is literally true by the way. Lots of TWARIQ tribe local performers use strats! .. google it ..
"Quality is what matters" " I'm a Gibson guy" hahahahaha
They're not holding new gibsons
Gibson guitars are absolutely incredible quality... one out of ten times.
1. Double humbucker, 2. Triple single coil, 3. Everything else is bonus. With some wiring mods you can get a ton of tones out of these two guitars. I would like to have something with P90s but that's a lower priority for me
First of all, you get what you can afford. I've had several nice surprises in 'cheap' guitars. I've had Epiphones that FAR outshined their Gibson counterparts. I had a 2007 Les Paul Classic (Gibson) that was a 2200.00 dollar dud...just couldn't love that guitar, it was too light for a Les Paul, WAY too loud...no amount of adjustment would remedy that, pots weren't linear at all, while at the same time I had the Epiphone equivalent, and it was perfect. At less than 1/4 the price of the Gibson. Conversely I also had a Gibson SG Standard (2006) that was absolutely stellar, and less than 1/2 the price of the Les Paul I brought back to Guitar Center. I don't buy finished guitars anymore, I build my own. That way I KNOW what's in it, what it'll do, and not do, and while yeah, they might not be beautiful, they are functional, and suit my needs to a t.
The St. Vincent Ernie Ball is a move forward.
I concur. Love her. There are others of course, but she is the flag bearer IMO right now.
Dean Massalsky I think Ernie ball piss all over fender guitars
Whatever. I own Fenders to. Not fan of trash talk. EB makes great stuff, as does Fender. Fender has not really done much groundbreaking since the Strat. But, they don’t have to, since they are the template for damn near every non-lp/335 style.
The St. V guitar is unique.
I am also a fan of Steinbergers (the real ones) but they are polarizing.
@@deanmass nicely said! Agree with everytging
Classic rock of the 70s strat , the SG ,a Paul ,335 & the telecaster
Collings electrics! Insane build quality, they do some great P-90 stuff as well as fabulous 335 style guitars.
I've had a tele in a garage fire and the whole body was still playable with nothing changed, besides the neck that burned to pieces
Chris Twarowski interested in selling it? Got any pics if you are?
They don’t get a whole lot of attention but I’ve been loving what D’Angelico has been doing lately
PRS, Steinberger, certain Ibanez like the BTB I think will be looked for in 20 or 30 years.
Ibanez sound gear bass is already a timeless design IMO, good call on the BTB models
Can't agree, you all choose very specific and fairly limited guitars. If i was limited to one guitar, it would be something like ibanez Jem with trem, single and humbuckers. You can't beat it in versatility and ergonomics. I myself opted to have 2 guitars - LP and Strat. Coil tap on LP gives sound close to p90, strat with maple neck can sound almost like tele if i need it. So there is no need in any more guitars.
I've had many ibenez over the years. Never had one I liked.... But I have many friends who have them and they sound amazing... I have a PRS custom with a floyd and 59 Gibson pickups..... Never goes out of tune no matter the abuse and sounds out of this world
P-90’s are the most versatlie pickup. Tele’s are the most durable and widley recorded guitar and 335’s cover the most grounds genre wise. Pretty good criteria. If your going for complete and total versatility then and Ibanez with an hsh and coil splits is great but it would struggle to get the classic rock tone and feel with its higher output pickups and specs and it defines would be challenging for a 12-bar
The question was “What’s 1 guitar every guitarist needs?” not “If you could only have 1 guitar what would it be?” Funny enough the answer to both those questions is still a Tele.
I’ve got a Jem and yeah it’s an amazing guitar, plays and sounds great. I find it a bit temperamental though, it needs a lot of tweaking and it doesn’t hold tuning too well, I’m always fiddling with it.
Probably the most versatile guitar you can have is something like a HSS Ibanez superstrat. You can play almost any genre with them due to the pickup combination, they are very comfortable to play and are easy to modify. Too bad most of them look so boring.
Have many guitars, but I decided to add a used Ibanez SA160, HSS, about $150. Super versatile, can make almost any sound. I should put some good pickups and tuners on it.
If you could own only one guitar, a HSS strat type guitar would be it.
Once I bought my first PRS that was it for me. I own one Strat, more for nostalgic reason then anything. All my other electrics and one acoustic are PRS.
I love all four ( I call them that ) Strats, Tele’s, LP’s and SG’s. No question have at least one with humbuckers and one with single coils is optimal.
However, while you were discussing the heal joint of the LP being in the way..... why not an SG instead? That’s my preference but it is easier to get down to those higher frets on that not to mention they’re lighter too!
Music Man makes a great guitar. I bought a Sting Ray in January, it arrived in the mail and I have not touched the set up since then and it has been 11 months. super reliable, sturdy and responsive instrument. Definitely recommend this as a choice as top guitars that will last through the years. Music Man in general makes really nice instruments.
MM - sponsored by Eminem....
If you're talking headless and multi-scale/fanned fret guitars - Strandberg should come up. Those things are super cool.
Fanned fret guitars, so are these with nano-sized finger cooling system.... 'Fanned fret system, for the player who likes to remain cool'.
On an episode featuring 'The Fender Telecaster' it's nice to see some love for the eternally great STAX record label. After Green Onions it's not really guitar driven music, but Steve Cropper's guitar is always present.
1. Squire
2. V with 2 necks and 12 strings each
3. B A S S
When I was entering my teen years, I asked my parents, "What I should do in life?"
My Dad said, "Why don't you learn how to play a little guitar?"
So, I bought an original Steinberger 6-string.
If little was good, very little was better.
🤣🤣
Then I bought an original Kramer Duke 6-string.
Should've bought a Chiquita...
So why not a Strat - its graced so many epic songs and stages, and it certainly made the world go around - and into stratosphere
Because strat fanboys get pissed off and comment and help there views....like you
Great video, love the kinda "podcasty" style, could have easily watched 20 more minutes of it :)
Everyone should have a guitar they built themselves
not really, daunting task that's not for everyone
Zane - you have lead me to hereby commit to doing that at least once. Might call it The Zane.
I built my own Flying V @13 years old! Had a luthier replace the neck with a proper one 15 years later. I recommend the experience at any age!
LfunkeyA I probably should have added “or built to their exacting specifications by a luthier”
I’ve got an Rickenbacker, Gibson SG and an Fender strat, but my favourite is my ESP Eclipse.
The Strat has always been my favorite guitar. I love Gibsons, I think Gretsch make some great guitars and I appreciate the things being done by Ibanez and Schecter, and others, but I would never be without a Strat.
*gets excited by thumbnail* "I have two of those three and I agree!"
*watches video* "Tele. Tele. Yeah, Tele."
FML
Maggie McFee ha! That’s what you get for liking hot garbage.
Pre Washburn era Parker Fly's are going to be eventually recognised as a Benchmark in Style and Function
Martin D-18 is fantastic also.
Funnily enough my main guitars are both Telecasters, but one has P90s. Can't really bring myself to use anything else.
Deet Cologon I _think_ I’m in the process of switching to mostly Teles (or at least “T-style” guitars) and SGs. Maybe with a 6 and 12 string strat, just for completeness. Still haven’t decided.
The whole Tele vs. LP breaking discussion is ridiculous. It's like saying a B-17 (could really take battle punishment and still get home) is a better bomber than a Stealth (needs many, many hours of ground maintenance for each hour of even non-battle flight). The idea, design, build and construction behind each guitar is extremely different. It's like comparing a Cessna with an F-35. Or a Swatch with an Omega. Kia vs. Acura... It's still all about personal preference and taste. Then throw in money availability. I personally find Teles unattractive, clunky, thin toned and NON-INSPIRING. I am barely a weekend hacker, but when I got the LP Standard I always craved I got a gorgeous work of art, ultra smooth neck/fretboard, and most importantly - A THICK, RICH AND COMPLEX TONE (because of the use of three - not two - tonewoods) that sings. But it will scream if you adjust a few knobs... The weight? GET A WIDE, PADDED STRAP! If I could play for a couple of hours that way with no problem I bet you pros can...
There are a number of 335 copies around that play and sound at the same level as a Gibson 335:. The old Yamaha SA1000 (known for its great build quality), the Ibanez Artists from the late '70’s - early '80's (not as bulletproof, but just great sounding), and my current favorite: the Peavey JF1 EX, which continually amazes me with its great sound and playability. What all 3 of these guitars share is that they are all forgiving:. Bad amp, bad acoustics, knobs dialed in all wrong...you can still play without being spooked. A number of my musician friends rave about the Peavey and I get unsolicited compliments on my playing when using it.
Those old Yamaha 335s (I think my bandmate had an SA700? ... something like that) played absolutely perfect, and it looked like if you dropped it out of a helicopter it would have been totally fine. I don't understand why they aren't more common; sounded perfect to my ears
I was also a die-hard Les Paul fan - to this day I love the way they look, feel and sound. They represent the sound of my youth. But a couple of years ago I bought an American Pro tele to complete my collection, and I have very rarely picked up any other solid bodied guitar since. I just love it in every way. And as mentioned in the video, the reliability is simply outstanding! I'm not a complete convert, but I do recognise perfection when I see it...
Being from Memphis, I love the STAX shirt! I've had one for years.
i hear the hat every day, for 2.5 years. I love Stax so.
What a lot of people fail to realise is that Fender himself designed and made the stratocaster to be better than the telecaster. And he, as usual, was right. There is a lot of virtue signaling love for the tele, but the plain fact is the stratocaster has a far more comfortable body, a revolutionary look, a superbly designed vibrato, and 3 pickups. I have had fenders for over 40 years, and it is the better guitar. No ifs or buts. The tele is still a excellent guitar, and occasions occur where it has no peer, but overall the stratocaster and Les Paul standard (with humbuckers, guys....again Gibson designed and put them on the guitar for a reason....ie to improve upon the P90, and offer something Fender didnt) are still, even after all these years, the 2 guitars a player needs to own.
Yes.
Tele's are soooooooo hip, though.
When I was coming up in the '70's, No One played Teles in rock. They were looked down on. Now? Ooooooooh!!!! lololol
@@216trixie indeed, true!
Ibanez Universe, thank you very much. Bonamassa approved.
One guitar maybe, but if I could magically transforms 1/2 of the hours I spent in guitar shops into practice time, I know I would be twice the player I am today.
What about the same conversation but for acoustics?
I was wondering the exact same thing !
Martin D-18
D-18
D-35
000-M
A taylor you like
Hummingbird
Done
Danny Coley And a 12-string!
D-18
00-18
J-45
Guild 12 string
All used. At least 30 years old.
My Rickenbacker 330W is my favorite guitar I've ever played. Nothing compares to the build quality, comfortability and sound.
@wildcatter63 Ain't that the truth! I love the 600 series Rick's. I really want to get a midnight blue 650, those Rick humbuckers are slept on!
I've got a 2018 Rickenbacker 4003 and it is by far my favorite bass. It so easily cuts through the mix in my Ska band, and nothing else sounds quite like it
@@KreaperSlayer hell yeah! You gotta love how Rick basses growl. I find them really easy to mix!
My 330 with toasters is amazing ric 6 strings are so underused
I own a 2013 Ruby 330 . Not for everyone but they aren't the "one trick pony" they're often portrayed as either.
Strange that all of the electric guitars we love were designed over 50 years ago
I have an LTD les Paul style guitar and it's a nightmare to play sitting down. It's so bottom heavy that I find myself fighting with the weight while I'm trying to go up and down the neck. Standing up it feels amazing but for sitting down I find it's a process. I wonder if the weight distribution problem is just the LTD? I've never played an actual gibson LP. I was always turned off by the cost to quality ratio with gibson personally. I'd say everyone should have a classical guitar. I know this sounds weird, but a nice nylon string classical is what I find myself picking up the most and writing on riffs on. I have a $150 yamaha classical and it's a beautiful guitar to just step back from the distortion and enjoy the simplicity of it. Learning to play with classical finger style techniques also translates beautifully on an electric guitar as well
I've played dozens of stats, and I mean dozens, but they do not come close to my LP standard and LP trad with the push pulls. Sorry fender fans, but Gibson all day and night
Love the Fender 72 Telecaster Deluxe 💓🎸👊🏻
Everyone should own a good acoustic guitar.
be authentic... don't forget to tape that logo gentlemen!
filip hendrickx wait why
Guitars everyone should own? Anything but a Gibson with the exception of the 335. The Stratocaster is the "best" guitar as far as comfort and versatility.
What about Sadowsky? I don't think you've mentioned them at all. Thanks.
The Reverend double agent is absolutely cool and I hope mixed pickups catches on
Now that is rock. A guitar named after a religious ministerial role. That is what rock was about when it was vibrant : originality, defiance, different. Not pushing the : cheesy cliched obligatory diablo hand sign + viking boat (with skull choker on the front) a bit further in the same direction.
Kudos.
Further, It's not even merely the Reverend. It's The (definite article) Reverend, Double Agent (mixing intelligent yet harmless espionage).
This is pioneership, this is the cutting edge of axedom.
Can I get an Amen? Yes, you can, consider it done.
11:46 Did he just roll off the volume?!
Force of habit. I do that sometimes too, even unplugged.
Nah, all you need is:
Jackson Dinky
ESP Arrow
BC Rich Warlock
with Boss Metal Zone + Line 6 V
nasty
Tom Anderson guitars are the most stable and reliable I've ever played
Gibson 175 - the neck feels just right, it's light and very comfortable to play, sounds ok for just acoustic practising and has a bit more bite than many archtops when plugged in so is very versatile.
these are all great guitars ...... but then I played my first PRS. no going back now
I agree! Of course everything is subjective, but after owning Gibson's, Fender's, Tom Anderson, Grestch, Mayones, ESP, GJ2.. and the list goes on, the moment I played my Custom 22, it was a revelation. It starts singing even with the lightest touch, so it enables a huge range of dynamics and rings like a bell with amazing clarity. I threw in some Bareknuckle pickups and it was a match made in heaven. I do love my Fano JM6 as well, but it requires some beating before it starts to ring.
@@tomireunanen8033 Custom 22 sounds awse - that is from what you wrote - in ignorance of what one is.
Rick, Abasi has a 6 string they are taking orders for now. I played one at NAMM. :)
I build guitars, so I think some of my own will still be around 50 years from now, and just maybe enough folks might like them where they'll be worth something.
I wanted to build guitars for the longest time
... Until I learned a bit what it entailed and that I am actually not that much of a build guy. Do you build them professionally? Are there any you could share some pics of?
@@joetowers4804 I started building my own guitars for myself a couple years ago and they really are not that much actual labor. You just need to buy tons of tools and watch a lot of videos on youtube to figure out how to go about each step of the process. Your going to probably have to build a few jigs too. Guitar building really lends itself to crafty people who like customizing things who have a good amount disposable income. If that is you, then I'd say go for it.
@@banditkeithkingofduelmonsters Yeah, I would think building guitars is quite easy, it's the selling them for a profit that's probably hard to get off the ground.
@@banditkeithkingofduelmonsters Not all of what you state is strictly true. When I started building guitars, there was no TH-cam. I learned from other builders. And books. And I also learned just by doing, good old trial and error. To me, the most difficult aspect of building a custom guitar is making it look pretty, where you can justify the amount you need to charge for the finished instrument. It requires exacting attention to the smallest details. I probably spend more time on a guitar's cosmetics than I do on its structure. It's a bit frustrating, knowing that all this time spent on making a guitar look pretty isn't gonna help its sound one tiny bit. Yet folks who buy custom instruments expect them to look like a million bucks -- or at least a few thousand. As for tools, yes you need a good assortment of tools. It's possible to get into building with a fairly minimal amount of hand tools, but realistically you're looking at somewhere around an investment of at least $500 in decent quality tools. Chisels and planes and clamps and bending irons, etc. I also made a number of tools that I use for specific steps in the building process. I didn't have a lot of disposable income when I got started. In fact, my disposable income was fairly minimal. I bought tools piecemeal. It made things rather slow and difficult at the beginning, but as I added tools to my inventory, things improved.
Everyone knows the greatest guitars of all time... A Tele, Strat, Les Paul, ES-335, and because the power goes out sometimes a Martin. Top 5.
I have a 40 year old Ibanez Joe Pass JP20 archtop. It's my only guitar that stays in tune. The other night I played a four hour gig. I tuned once at the beginning of the gig and checked after each break. Still in tune til then end of the night.