Steve, I salute you. If that is the first time you've picked up a Fly that is a ripping first try out. The lack of mass is disconcerting at first but the resonance of the thing is amazing. Stayed in tune, no locking nut. I love my Parkers and I adore Steve's playing. The owner of that guitar must have had a mile wide smile. What a jem!
@bluglass7819 He's a remarkable luthier. He is also very personable and often responds to comments on his Archtoppery TH-cam channel. That's how I discovered that Reeves Gabrell was the first to suggest a gold Fly Deluxe like mine but that he wanted the only one. Ken is also not a fan of calling gold antique. He prefers "gold sparkle" as hold doesn't age!
Seeing this almost brings tears to my eyes. I miss my Fly Deluxe like you have no idea. I have the serial number, still looking to find it and buy it back from whoever owns it now. Was my favorite guitar of all time and I had to sell it long ago to a pawn shop during a hard time I was going through.
@@marioguti9887 Well I would venture to say that Strats outnumber emerald green Parker Fly Deluxe editions by about 100,000/1 at least. I see what you’re saying but there were not that many of those made and they all have the serial number clearly stated on the head. I’ve heard people locating muscle cars they once owned 30+ years in the past and I’m sure it’s going to be a tough find, but I’m gonna continue to put it out there until I do.
@@ChrisTopheRaz : you surely can find a 2nd hand Fly Deluxe... Don't be too affective with guitars : "Real" Parker's (1993-2003) as Ken Parker sold the company in 2003 are high-end guitars, the quality is very regular, you can absolutely take ANY Fly Deluxe and be as satisfied you were by your ex-guitar, even if it's not an emerald-green one! BTW, I prefer the Fly Classic an old buddy of mine owns but the shock was when s.o. showed at the caf'conc' my buddy owned until 2015, with a P44pro which sounded better than both the Fly Classic and the Deluxe!!!! Any way, both the Classic and the P44pro can't fit in my collection : I self-iimit to two guitars by main wood, and I already have 2 'swietenia' mahogany guitars from late luthier Xavier Petit (who used to make acoustics for Vai, Satriani and Patrick Rondat), he used century old 'Honduras' mahogany for these... No way I will part from these sound marvels... There is no emerald-green ones available in my country, but a wine and a red ones are looking for their new owner : www.zikinf.com/annonces/annonce-1971745 California Music is a well known guitar-shop in Paris www.zikinf.com/annonces/annonce-1934489 and there's also a Fly Classic www.zikinf.com/annonces/annonce-1972488 ALL are "real" Parker's. You're lucky I don't have €2200 to dilapidate It's very likely that my future poplar guitars will be a Fly Deluxe and a MM Steve Morse : I mainly go for artisan-luthiers' guitars, or little companies doing high-end gear (I'm very into Vigier guitars which are also very innovative)
@@harounel-poussah6936 it’s not about that. I know they are everywhere, I just want mine back. It was soooo hard parting with it and I’m going to search or it patiently till I find it.
The Parker Fly was so far ahead of its time. Absolutely incredible piece of musical history - sonically, esthetically, the use of materials... I've looked for a nice early one, but there's not that many of them in Europe - mostly you'll find the bolt-on neck types, and that's not what I'm after.
@@guitarz333I've owned plenty of fly's .. including the nitefly .. Find yourself a pre-refined deluxe and you'll never need another guitar ... the nitefly's neck has a tendency to warp and needs maintenance .. not the Fly .. I've had mine for 20+ years & all I do is change strings & clean them
@@EliBleu lol dude I had an endorsement before they left Massachusetts. I know all about them, and I've never heard of a NiteFly neck warping. That's absurd.
@@EliBleu I guarantee you don't know what you're talking about, but what do I know, I only had them build me a custom shop Deluxe as they let me tour the factory. Dumb fuck 😂😂😂😂
James Kaant Because is the birthday of a millionaire kid. The one that you see in the video at 1:10 and that is his guitar, the Parker Fly. The kid ask Steve to play with his guitar.
You'd be surprised at about all those you may see on Guitar World's front page may tour in small venues... Holdsworth was rarely playing in front of more than 300 people... Make no mistake, there are Guitar-World front-pagers who even live under the poverty threshold! Vai makes MUCH more money from endorsement contracts than thru records sales and touring! Usually, such acts will gig in venues like The Bataclan or the New Morning in Paris, Den Atelier in Luxembourg, Yoshi's in Oakland (and frankly, if you put 500 ppl in the New Morning and 1200 in Den Atelier, they all will feel like being in a sardine can!!! When Steve played Den Atelier, the audience was similar to when Weather Report played there : about 300
if a guitar starts sounding anything other than what it is, that's Steve Vai playing... guitar is the one instrument that can do anything... with Steve Vai playing, that is!
If only he picked up a Parker when they launched, the company would probably still be here. My '96 Nitefly pissed all over my '88 Jem, no matter the whammy abuse.
I know this is totally unrelated to how amazing Steve Vai and Parker guitars are..... But this jam session definitely gives me some EVH vibes. Steve is obviously a better technical player than Eddie, but it's amazing how the influence of Eddie's rhythm playing can be heard everywhere
The one thing I'd say, having seen Steve a bunch of times and having played Parkers and Ibanez' for years, is that, to me, Steve's repeating licks during the solo (starting at about 4:35) sound appreciably cleaner on the Parker in that one live moment than they typically do on either FLO or EVO in a live environment - and that's kind of a big deal, considering his muscle memory is going to be more specific to Ibanez than the very different neck shape and feel of the Parker. There's any number of reasons that could be true, but I think it says a lot about what Parkers used to be before production was shelved.
EVH used a Parker fly in the 90s but he messed up and left the Piezo pickup on but it still sounded amazing , They are great guitars but some players get put off by all the little switches
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Parker Flys are guitars like none other. I wish the company was still around.
People seem to be totally polarised on Parker guitars, it's crazy. I have a Parker P-38 from 2000 and I wouldn't dream of changing it. Nothing beats a Parker!!!
Agreed, but the p series is missing everything that makes a parker special. Carbon wrapped, ss frets, the piezo system, and the best bridge and neck ever made. I prefer niteflys but give one a try. You will ditch your p series
@@micemr76 luckily the piezo is preserved in the p-38 model! and the neck and bridge and standout as they are, it's not to be underestimated. I havent tried a nitefly as they seem to be a little hard to track down in my area but im sure they would be great... if i could afford one!
I'd love to see him play all those iconic vintage guitars he owns in a show and telling stories about how he got them between the tunes. I mean Steve is such an icon that I can hardly imagine him having a Tele or a Paula in his hands...
He'd lose his Ibanez contract which pays much bigger than records sales... Do you know that Steve's contract stipulates he shall not get in touch with anyone of Vigier Guitars by any mean? Hoshino dudes are paranoid : Vigier builds 500 guitars a year! If the boss really likes you, e.g. like with Shawn Lane or Bumblefoot, you'll get a few free guitars, maybe some signature model, but forget about making a nice living on endorsement, it's a little family owned mum'n'dad company, not a multinational
Just as a personal comment, I have 2 parker guitars, one Parker NiteFly, and one Parker PDF 105, it seems to me like Parker guitars are not made with the same materials or technology as before, curiously I paid about $ 450 for the used NiteFly, but it is a hell of a guitar, I think it was the best deal I ever made, however, I paid $ 900 for a new Parker PDF 105, and the first issue I had with this guitar was the tremolo system, the parts are not as good in quality as the NiteFly's parts, it is lighter than the NiteFly, but the NiteFly is way more meticulously built
please make a 27 fret version like caparison and put better pickups.i have a black one but i did not like the pickups so i put an evh with a gravity storm but i will have to change the gravity storm sometime because i don't like that pickup either. the guitar is really cool otherwise and it is among my favorite of what i have.
Luvs it?? “I’ll pass” first words. All the knobs in the wrong places. So cool he did it anyway. Like parkers. So few guys that ca actually play use one. Strange eh?
Yeah not enough people know about or even give Parkers a chance since they just think it looks weird and that it's "plastic" or something. They are amazing guitars, which is why I have 2 of them and settled on using mostly Parkers after owning tons of other guitars, including a couple EBMMs. First thing you want to do with a Parker is relocate the pickup switch because it is in a terrible location, like a lot of guitars tend to be for some reason. That also looks to be one of the newer Parkers after they were bought out and they have cheaper parts and different pickups. Not a fan of the newer ones like my Mojo, but the Fly Classic is awesome.
@Sepp : ever gave a try to such guitars? So few users of the likes of... Adrian Belew, Vernon Reid, Reeves Gabrels, Eddie Van Halen, Dave Navarro, Trent Reznor, Lou Reed, Joe Walsh, but guess what, I basically don't give a FUCK about who uses this or that, some of my guitars and even basses are one of a kind models, some are extremey rare instruments with about 50 or 100 built... The best Ibanez guitar I've ever tries was a commercial fiasco, only 200 built... I won't point the name as I don't want more dudes to look for these little marvels that were a bit different from your usual guitars, as well from a shape POV as for unusual woods... Note that I can only blame myself for not having one since I entered a hard negotiation to drive the price under €750... If you're unable to select tools that will suit YOUR needs on other grounds of other dudes that don't share YOUR hands, YOUR fingers, YOUR morphology, YOUR ears, YOUR brain and nerve-net, let me tell you that I pity you. BTW, how do you know the pots are poorly placed without having ever used any guitar where they're placed this way? And which pot? Those for the magnetic PUs? or for the Piezo? The only rant you could provide about a Ken-era Fly is about playing while sitting, since you'll have to find a position to avoid the upper horn's angle hitting your plexus, or some way to cushion it as it will soon become a serious discomfort if you don't... At the contrary, if you have to play while standing for hours, at the contrary of the 18 lbs sapele guitar I own, the Fly will be a true bliss!
@@harounel-poussah6936 hehe. Thx for the rant. For me the pots were in the right places. Was just quoting steve. Your right about the horn. Played a parker nightfly 2 for years. Heavy as a truck. Never had another guitar with that lower mid oomph. Made myself a double strap system to survive 4 hour sets. 1 one of a kind crackle finish by parker. And Those stainless frets. Butter. Miss them. Slapped 3 p90s in it. What a sound. The tremolo awesome. Never went out of tune. We were touring and after a couple of gigs i noticed that i hadnt tuned the fucking guitar since we went on the road. Never was happy with the passive piezo. Sold it . Bummer. Saw vai play live 3 times. HE is the instrument. He would sound like himself playing on a broom stick. Goodmluck to you hunting those crypto ibanezes… still got a destroyer kicking around…. All the best!
parker should contact rockin roy to make a rockin roy signature model with a special 28 fret design and only using a bridge pickup that is better and a special floyd rose type design i have in mind.
I always loved the Parker design, especially back when they used wood, I think they should not have phased out wood because I think that drove off new customers, not that I believe it makes a difference, if you look into the science and what Les Paul went for, you understand that the intention of a solid body is to isolate the vibration of the strings between the nut and the bridge, to keep an undisturbed vibration, whereas on Acoustic guitars, it was important that the wood would have a clean transfer of vibration into the wood itself like an drum, which is completely opposite on Solid, so even if it is Carbon filter, if it's properly solid, the strings will have a clean sound. (WHY shitty guitars with shitty wood sounds bad, because the vibrations will bounce back into the bridge and then cause a small disturbance in the strings) But a lot of people like wood man, so do i, especially without a paintjob, just clean wood, some like the paintjob so. Parker was too early out with Carbon, or shouldn't have phased out wood but had to series.
@@endezeichengrimm Didn't they? That is what I heard, I remember faintly it first started with the neck, then later I remember people complaining that the wood is gone and now their Carbon fiber.
No. Belew has had two different signature Parker models - based upon the the Fly (the guitar in this video) and DF842 models. Both have a Sustainer fitted (Vai might have felt more at home there...). The original Fly Belew also had Variax technology installed.
Steve clearly wasn't loving the Fly. Very different guitar to the Jem. I own and love both. They are very versatile but have completely different strengths... ...and tones
Don't be too sure he didn't loved it, but his contact with Ibanez makes that he won't tell about this... Remember, he once let go that his favourite guitar was his old Strat from the Zappa era! Patrice Vigier once e-mailed Steve to propose him to test the Excalibur, he ended with Steve's lawyer answering him that Steve's contract with Ibanez barred him from getting in touch with anyone from the Vigier company by any mean! The Hoshino guys are too paranoid : Vigier is a family owned company that makes about 500 guitars a year, at best, endorsees will get some free guitars and, when it comes to getting paid, they will be for doing demos at the NAMM, the Musikmesse, etc... Steve gets pad very well to play his JEMs, AFAIK, he was already receiving about $50k+ a year when he recorded Passion & Warfare more than 30 years ago... Actually, the Ibanez contracts that impose exclusivity are not the most clever way to go : Fender or Gibson are more vicious : you have to play their instruments for 2 thirds of the concerts... So, what do people think? That there is no contract and the guy choses Fender or Gibson because he prefers 'em... Nope, he's getting paid for! Let's make things clear : by the end of the 60's, Frank Zappa already declared he was making more money from endorsement contracts than through records sales... Now, when it comes to JEMs, there are some that are really great, others, including expensive ones like the Bad Horsie, that don't sound better than a €250-300 Cort! When it comes to the Ken Parker control over the company, it was just like the Vigier guitars : true high-end gear only... After the company was sold, well, it became a bit like the JEMs : some were great, some not so great, some others you really could do without...And you could have surprises, e.g. a buddy of mine owns a Korea-built P-44pro... This one is absolutely EXCEPTIONAL, and there are no composites, it's an all-wood one... Although it's the only P-44pro I tested, I wouldn't bet they all sound this way I own mainly luthiers' guitars, and the mahogany ones are also considered exceptional, no surprise, the swietenia mahogany was cut before WW1 and is more than 110 years old now, so, let's say that I wasn't really impressed by some highly sought Gibson's that sell at insane prices... When I heard this P-44pro, my reaction was the same as with my 1st contact with my own mahogany guitars : "WOW!!!!"... Mahogany is really picky : In most of the cases, I'm not getting bonkers with it, but sometimes, some industrially produced ones end with a really great wood... Getting smth in this range is usually only available from artisans who will individually select blanks or slabs for their sound, sometimes even using wood from old furniture, you simply can't do this at industrial level
Right...Vai has been playing with Ibanez for almost 3 decades and suddenly he tries a new guitar and gets in love with it, I doubt it, I got in love with a Parker, they are beautiful guitars, but there is one guitar kind for every guitar player and for Vai it is the Ibanez
1. There’s no attack on the Parker guitar. It’s almost like you need to turn the treble up Compared to the Jem. 2. You can’t change the frets like you normally can on a regular guitar. That makes me nervous about these things
1. Depends on the model and the pickup onboard... The mahogany-body Fly-classic with the DM PUs is more reactive than the poplar (crate-wood) ones with SD PUs. You have JEM made of alder, other ones made of basswood crate-wood, these are different kind of things too, and they don't sound the same at all... BTW, the expensive JEM Bad Horsie sounded like if they made the guitar with cardboard!!! And I wasn't the only one thinking that the Bad Horsie sounded like a cheap $250 axe 2. There are licenced repair centers as well as many independent luthiers able to change the Parker frets, e.g., in Europe, the 1st independent one to propose such a service was master-luthier Christophe Leduc. Note that Parker pioneered the use of stainless steel frets, so even under heavy use, you won't have to change the frets anytime soon, unlike nickel ones. 3.) I wouldn't go either for a JEM or a Fly : the [Vigier] Excalibur rules them all, but, any way, my preferred guitar is the [Vigier] Passion III-90/10 (only 52 built, good luck to find yours. The two I own won't hit the market before my last breath...
@@harounel-poussah6936 I think the Jem bad horsie was a Steve Vai signature, was it not? I can see those things turning out to sound like crap because you’re paying Steve Vai for his name on everyone of those guitars so, I can see them cutting corners. I just got my frets changed here in California in the states, and it was a pain in the butt to get fender to do it within a three week time period. Just looked up Vigier guitars… Wow! That’s one of the most aggressive sounding guitar as I have ever heard! One of those rare occasions where the aggressive price tag matches the quality of the sound you get from it. 3600 US… Very impressive
@@shaunkellison1761 zupimages.net/up/21/24/deha.jpg I'm an ex Strato-man. Since I own my Excaliburs, well, I knew well the recently retired Fender diamond dealer here, he tried to get me back as a client for the brand by making me try many CSMH and proposing me prices on par with my Vigier guitars (2006 = €1800 for an Exca Supra) for a CSMH with any option I wanted, choice of the luthier and he'd have taken the guitar straight from Corona for me... Well, except a 1970 Strat I knew, these were the best Fender guitars I ever touched, these CSMH were even better than some L-series I know, but, you know the Excalibur from Wayne's World? Vigier named his guitar Excalibur before the movie was issued, hehe!!! There are several Vigier models, some are no more built. In the actual line, I own an Excalibur Supra SSS, which is the best "Strat" I touched in 35 years, an Excalibur Original which is more in the line of an alder-JEM due to the Floyd Rose. Note that the trem-bars are mounted on needle bearings used for Airbus landing gear that take 10,000RPM... Ibanez tries now to copy using ball bearings since the Vigier system is patented. I didn't went for the GV since my hands are too big for the 24.75" scale (Gibson-like), so is it for the Excalibur sig. Shawn Lane which has 24.75" instead of regular 25.5", any way, I self limit to 2 guitars for the main wood. Vigiers can be aggressive or not!!! It will highly depend on the way you play, the gear you use, how you tune your gear (Stanley Jordan uses Vigiers for 35 years, he has done a lot of jazz standards, now he uses them doing some impressive Hendrix tribute). AFAIK, he owns an Arpège-II with the carbon neck/walnut body, and an Arpège-III : 90/10 neck, alder body. I swore that if I can get an Arpège-III, my Excalibur-Original goes... Unlikely to happen : only 30 were built, AFAIK, none was re-sold, at least in France or... She'd be in my collection, or I'd knew about it since we're not many lurking about the Vigier-Vintages, from the time they were only two at the workshop, and we all know why... Prepare yourself to something different from what you know with the actual series, then... The older ones were way much high end than this, these were no-compromise high end, if you don't like these, there is nothing that can be improved, she just doesn't wants you, or you're not able to appreciate... Same thing with Leduc since he abandoned any industrial wishes, or for Patrice Blanc. I'm even happy that I found a damaged Arpège-I and that the red-burst Passon got some poks : this gear is so well crafted you fear damaging in any way... In 1983, the Arpège-I used to cost... 5 months of minimum salary in France (!!!). In 1991, the Passion III-9/10 was 1.5x more expensive than the most expensive Fender you could get, and you have to consider the customs' taxes, the importer's % and transport over 7000km+ in the equation, so it's likely to have been 2-2.5x more than the price you would have got in Cali... Now, if your thing is having an Excalibur do Strat job, go either for the Supra, the Expert or the Indus (if you want the cheapest...She's painted with anti-scratch/anti-tag paint used in our subways to avoid paint-can spraying), then, as all are routed HSH, have a pickguard made for your preferred type of Strat PUs. Note that since the trussrod is replaced by a carbon-graphite bar, instead of having steel "eating" the vibrations in the neck, carbon-graphite will improve their conductivity into the body, so you can expect that it will behave more like a neckthru rather than like a bolt-on neck... Now, my personal advise : have custom PUs wounded if the onboard kit is not your thing as the most common buyers are dudes wanting something better than a JEM, so the most common is HSH config, and the most interesting way to go, at least for me, is pseudo-humbucks... Let's say that you like Nile Rogers/Hendrix sounding, consider a handwound Strat kit in this range, then... Today, it's feasible to have a single-coil sized alnico-2 PAF (e.g. SD Pearly Gates For Strat), I also love the Exca-Supra SSS kit's DM FS-1 in neck posn, as well as the DP-185 Half Track in bridge... Since I didn't wanted to ruin the value of my Excas, I had pickguards cut, and custopm PU made, two FS-1+"Hendrix" for neck, two "Hendrix" for mid, one Hendrix+DP185 and one Hendrix+PAF-alnico2/8.5k for bridge, so I keep the FS-1 and DP-185 which are wonderful on the Supra, get the 2,4 posns Strat Sound instead of the DiMarzio one, and can go Jimi. For the Excalibur-Original, despite these are very good PUs, the SD SH-5/SSL-1/TB-5 has never been my thing, so, I do get the Jimi sound, the FS-1 in neck, then, the 8.5K PAF alnico-2 in bridge = EVH's Frankenstein which is a great fit with the Floyd-Rose. Selection is made thu the SD Triple-Shot PU rings and the 5 posn selector, let's say that... maybe will I consider the wireless-MIDI pickguard (classic manual action automatically takes over) in the future) but, well, 400€ per guitar is not really welcomed now, and nonetheless I don't have a band, but I'll probably never jump on a stage again. If not, I'll have to sit just like Fripp, and I'll need roadies
Poor sound quality.. I have a friend that owns a few of the real expensive Parker Flys and was never impressed with their tone.. They're light weight and you can get the action ultra low on a Fly with no issues but there's something missing.. anyway they've gone outta business and now they're asking upwards of $3k or 4k for them puppies .. Not worth it to me ...
Wrong!! They sound great !I have three of them one refined and 2 original Ken parkers. If they're set up correctly they can't be beat but yes, they are very expensive!
@@sunpapa9107 It's very subjective,- one man's trash is another man's treasure .. I can think of 10 or 20 of the top guitarist but The best players on the planet don't play Parker Fly's .. I know some folks play them but I've never seen Allan Holdsworth, Guthrie Govan, Matteo Mancuso, Greg Howe, King Fish, Eric Gales, Andy Timmons, Jeff Beck(rip), Joe Bonamassa, Eric Johnson, Steve Vai, Tosin Abasi, Randy Hansen, Frank Marino, George Benson, Wayne Krantz, John Mcglaughlin, John Mayer, Brian May, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Frank Gambale, Pat Metheny etc.. I could go on forever and really can't think of any famous guitarists in any genre that exclusively play Parker Flys.. and I'm talking about the best known guitarists on the planet.. Greg Koch ... I could go on an on and can't think of any of the top players that play them.. Most of the folks I've listed are collectors, cats with hundreds of guitars and don't ever see Parker Flys..😝
when are you going to make a 27 fret parker fly??????????? with a floyd rose and a headstock lock??? single dual rail pickup and a humbucker at the bridge....by the way vais rig sucks. it is time to trade it in.
better tone from his own fer sure. seriously doubt he'll switch. very muddy and weak sound. no real depth or definition to the notes. that good of playing deserves better.
It is much warmer than his Jem, darker and mellower top end. The definition is all there still. Just a couple eq tweaks on the Legacy away from perfection
@@JasonMcFly his sound is not as warm as a LP-SG, strat neither a JS too so he should never try another guitar ! i like my js but i am sure another guitar like a hss strat will sound better especially for the clean tones, alder- vs basswood etc. nothing's perfect
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He's never quite recovered from losing to Ralph Macchio.
I wounder what it was like to party with David Lee Roth
@@jefffredenburg7231 David Lee Ruth? Who's that, David Lee Roth's grandma?
@@Deathshuck my bad, thank you
@@jefffredenburg7231 : nose decay?
Who could?
Steve, I salute you. If that is the first time you've picked up a Fly that is a ripping first try out. The lack of mass is disconcerting at first but the resonance of the thing is amazing. Stayed in tune, no locking nut. I love my Parkers and I adore Steve's playing. The owner of that guitar must have had a mile wide smile. What a jem!
I see what you did there 😄
@@r0bophonic well…not quite a jem but apparently does the job for Steve 😁
On the lack of weight. I would like to try the prototype so bad. Ken Parker’s Archtop work has been a huge influence on my building.
@bluglass7819 He's a remarkable luthier. He is also very personable and often responds to comments on his Archtoppery TH-cam channel. That's how I discovered that Reeves Gabrell was the first to suggest a gold Fly Deluxe like mine but that he wanted the only one. Ken is also not a fan of calling gold antique. He prefers "gold sparkle" as hold doesn't age!
@@Gorbyrev I learn something from every Archtoppery video.
so much fun with Parker Fly. I love this jewel!
that trem bar took a beating from Steve and its still in tune! Imagine if he is an Endorser, it could take parker guitars into a whole new level
First time I played one, I fell in love:) Of course I'd have to install my pups:) The neck and access are unparalleled.
The tone is everything .... and here there is so much tone that is frightening
Seeing this almost brings tears to my eyes. I miss my Fly Deluxe like you have no idea. I have the serial number, still looking to find it and buy it back from whoever owns it now. Was my favorite guitar of all time and I had to sell it long ago to a pawn shop during a hard time I was going through.
Hate to break it to ya but that guitar is long gone. Same happened to me with a Strat, gotta let it go, bro.
@@marioguti9887 Well I would venture to say that Strats outnumber emerald green Parker Fly Deluxe editions by about 100,000/1 at least. I see what you’re saying but there were not that many of those made and they all have the serial number clearly stated on the head. I’ve heard people locating muscle cars they once owned 30+ years in the past and I’m sure it’s going to be a tough find, but I’m gonna continue to put it out there until I do.
@@ChrisTopheRaz Cool, I hear you, never know I guess...good luck!
@@ChrisTopheRaz : you surely can find a 2nd hand Fly Deluxe... Don't be too affective with guitars : "Real" Parker's (1993-2003) as Ken Parker sold the company in 2003 are high-end guitars, the quality is very regular, you can absolutely take ANY Fly Deluxe and be as satisfied you were by your ex-guitar, even if it's not an emerald-green one!
BTW, I prefer the Fly Classic an old buddy of mine owns but the shock was when s.o. showed at the caf'conc' my buddy owned until 2015, with a P44pro which sounded better than both the Fly Classic and the Deluxe!!!! Any way, both the Classic and the P44pro can't fit in my collection : I self-iimit to two guitars by main wood, and I already have 2 'swietenia' mahogany guitars from late luthier Xavier Petit (who used to make acoustics for Vai, Satriani and Patrick Rondat), he used century old 'Honduras' mahogany for these... No way I will part from these sound marvels...
There is no emerald-green ones available in my country, but a wine and a red ones are looking for their new owner :
www.zikinf.com/annonces/annonce-1971745
California Music is a well known guitar-shop in Paris
www.zikinf.com/annonces/annonce-1934489
and there's also a Fly Classic
www.zikinf.com/annonces/annonce-1972488
ALL are "real" Parker's.
You're lucky I don't have €2200 to dilapidate It's very likely that my future poplar guitars will be a Fly Deluxe and a MM Steve Morse : I mainly go for artisan-luthiers' guitars, or little companies doing high-end gear (I'm very into Vigier guitars which are also very innovative)
@@harounel-poussah6936 it’s not about that. I know they are everywhere, I just want mine back. It was soooo hard parting with it and I’m going to search or it patiently till I find it.
The Parker Fly was so far ahead of its time.
Absolutely incredible piece of musical history - sonically, esthetically, the use of materials...
I've looked for a nice early one, but there's not that many of them in Europe - mostly you'll find the bolt-on neck types, and that's not what I'm after.
dont be afraid of the nitefly, they're excellent guitars!
@@guitarz333I've owned plenty of fly's .. including the nitefly .. Find yourself a pre-refined deluxe and you'll never need another guitar ... the nitefly's neck has a tendency to warp and needs maintenance .. not the Fly .. I've had mine for 20+ years & all I do is change strings & clean them
@@EliBleu lol dude I had an endorsement before they left Massachusetts. I know all about them, and I've never heard of a NiteFly neck warping. That's absurd.
@@guitarz333well now you have .. the nitefly sucks compared to a Fly. Get over it
@@EliBleu I guarantee you don't know what you're talking about, but what do I know, I only had them build me a custom shop Deluxe as they let me tour the factory. Dumb fuck 😂😂😂😂
I can't believe steve vai is playing on a stage that small. Dude clearly loves what he's doing.
This ones cool too...
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James Kaant Because is the birthday of a millionaire kid. The one that you see in the video at 1:10 and that is his guitar, the Parker Fly. The kid ask Steve to play with his guitar.
@@xjuane Wrong. This is from Vai Academy 2015 - Steve's annual 4 day residential clinic. The owner of the guitar is one of the students.
You'd be surprised at about all those you may see on Guitar World's front page may tour in small venues... Holdsworth was rarely playing in front of more than 300 people... Make no mistake, there are Guitar-World front-pagers who even live under the poverty threshold! Vai makes MUCH more money from endorsement contracts than thru records sales and touring!
Usually, such acts will gig in venues like The Bataclan or the New Morning in Paris, Den Atelier in Luxembourg, Yoshi's in Oakland (and frankly, if you put 500 ppl in the New Morning and 1200 in Den Atelier, they all will feel like being in a sardine can!!! When Steve played Den Atelier, the audience was similar to when Weather Report played there : about 300
Yeah but if you love playing guitar you play for yourself not for others
Playing starts at 1:40
The Man.... The machine..... The Steve vai
That is a sick guitar
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U can’t say it’s the guitar that sound bad. Listen tot that kit. The whole recording sounds bad. Parker’s are awesome and so is vai
if a guitar starts sounding anything other than what it is, that's Steve Vai playing... guitar is the one instrument that can do anything... with Steve Vai playing, that is!
that stevie vai. what nice little boy
This is my whammy bar, and its going to be loud....
And people giving out comments to the sound of the guitar when the video has poor sound quality probably recorded from a mobile phone
+1
So nice to hear this song without that annoying ass teacher screaming while the band plays
If only he picked up a Parker when they launched, the company would probably still be here. My '96 Nitefly pissed all over my '88 Jem, no matter the whammy abuse.
Cause it's got a better bridge, neck, fret board, ss frets. Niteflys are the best guitars made
I know this is totally unrelated to how amazing Steve Vai and Parker guitars are..... But this jam session definitely gives me some EVH vibes. Steve is obviously a better technical player than Eddie, but it's amazing how the influence of Eddie's rhythm playing can be heard everywhere
The one thing I'd say, having seen Steve a bunch of times and having played Parkers and Ibanez' for years, is that, to me, Steve's repeating licks during the solo (starting at about 4:35) sound appreciably cleaner on the Parker in that one live moment than they typically do on either FLO or EVO in a live environment - and that's kind of a big deal, considering his muscle memory is going to be more specific to Ibanez than the very different neck shape and feel of the Parker.
There's any number of reasons that could be true, but I think it says a lot about what Parkers used to be before production was shelved.
EVH used a Parker fly in the 90s but he messed up and left the Piezo pickup on but it still sounded amazing , They are great guitars but some players get put off by all the little switches
Parker Flys are guitars like none other. I wish the company was still around.
People seem to be totally polarised on Parker guitars, it's crazy. I have a Parker P-38 from 2000 and I wouldn't dream of changing it. Nothing beats a Parker!!!
Agreed, but the p series is missing everything that makes a parker special. Carbon wrapped, ss frets, the piezo system, and the best bridge and neck ever made. I prefer niteflys but give one a try. You will ditch your p series
@@micemr76 luckily the piezo is preserved in the p-38 model! and the neck and bridge and standout as they are, it's not to be underestimated. I havent tried a nitefly as they seem to be a little hard to track down in my area but im sure they would be great... if i could afford one!
The Parker Fly tremo bar passed in the test!
if you give him a boat paddle, he will be him again :)
I'd love to see him play all those iconic vintage guitars he owns in a show and telling stories about how he got them between the tunes. I mean Steve is such an icon that I can hardly imagine him having a Tele or a Paula in his hands...
I know not quite the same, but Joe Bonamassa has some videos like that. He’s a great player
He'd lose his Ibanez contract which pays much bigger than records sales...
Do you know that Steve's contract stipulates he shall not get in touch with anyone of Vigier Guitars by any mean? Hoshino dudes are paranoid : Vigier builds 500 guitars a year! If the boss really likes you, e.g. like with Shawn Lane or Bumblefoot, you'll get a few free guitars, maybe some signature model, but forget about making a nice living on endorsement, it's a little family owned mum'n'dad company, not a multinational
That is when the Parker Fly flew high.
Just as a personal comment, I have 2 parker guitars, one Parker NiteFly, and one Parker PDF 105, it seems to me like Parker guitars are not made with the same materials or technology as before, curiously I paid about $ 450 for the used NiteFly, but it is a hell of a guitar, I think it was the best deal I ever made, however, I paid $ 900 for a new Parker PDF 105, and the first issue I had with this guitar was the tremolo system, the parts are not as good in quality as the NiteFly's parts, it is lighter than the NiteFly, but the NiteFly is way more meticulously built
It almost sounds like Ken Parker having a chuckle around 0:20
The song is: The audience is listening, for the interested :P
thanks
Good bless you hahahahaha
Ohhh these crazy kids
please make a 27 fret version like caparison and put better pickups.i have a black one but i did not like the pickups so i put an evh with a gravity storm but i will have to change the gravity storm sometime because i don't like that pickup either. the guitar is really cool otherwise and it is among my favorite of what i have.
I think Villex pickups would suit the Fly.
can't believe vai has never played a parker fly
Vai my condolences...
"It's very light!"
Lighter then Jems?
Steve Parker Fly Vai
Luvs it?? “I’ll pass” first words. All the knobs in the wrong places. So cool he did it anyway. Like parkers. So few guys that ca actually play use one. Strange eh?
Yeah not enough people know about or even give Parkers a chance since they just think it looks weird and that it's "plastic" or something. They are amazing guitars, which is why I have 2 of them and settled on using mostly Parkers after owning tons of other guitars, including a couple EBMMs. First thing you want to do with a Parker is relocate the pickup switch because it is in a terrible location, like a lot of guitars tend to be for some reason. That also looks to be one of the newer Parkers after they were bought out and they have cheaper parts and different pickups. Not a fan of the newer ones like my Mojo, but the Fly Classic is awesome.
@Sepp : ever gave a try to such guitars?
So few users of the likes of... Adrian Belew, Vernon Reid, Reeves Gabrels, Eddie Van Halen, Dave Navarro, Trent Reznor, Lou Reed, Joe Walsh, but guess what, I basically don't give a FUCK about who uses this or that, some of my guitars and even basses are one of a kind models, some are extremey rare instruments with about 50 or 100 built... The best Ibanez guitar I've ever tries was a commercial fiasco, only 200 built... I won't point the name as I don't want more dudes to look for these little marvels that were a bit different from your usual guitars, as well from a shape POV as for unusual woods... Note that I can only blame myself for not having one since I entered a hard negotiation to drive the price under €750...
If you're unable to select tools that will suit YOUR needs on other grounds of other dudes that don't share YOUR hands, YOUR fingers, YOUR morphology, YOUR ears, YOUR brain and nerve-net, let me tell you that I pity you.
BTW, how do you know the pots are poorly placed without having ever used any guitar where they're placed this way? And which pot? Those for the magnetic PUs? or for the Piezo?
The only rant you could provide about a Ken-era Fly is about playing while sitting, since you'll have to find a position to avoid the upper horn's angle hitting your plexus, or some way to cushion it as it will soon become a serious discomfort if you don't...
At the contrary, if you have to play while standing for hours, at the contrary of the 18 lbs sapele guitar I own, the Fly will be a true bliss!
@@harounel-poussah6936 hehe. Thx for the rant. For me the pots were in the right places. Was just quoting steve. Your right about the horn. Played a parker nightfly 2 for years. Heavy as a truck. Never had another guitar with that lower mid oomph. Made myself a double strap system to survive 4 hour sets. 1 one of a kind crackle finish by parker. And Those stainless frets. Butter. Miss them. Slapped 3 p90s in it. What a sound. The tremolo awesome. Never went out of tune. We were touring and after a couple of gigs i noticed that i hadnt tuned the fucking guitar since we went on the road. Never was happy with the passive piezo. Sold it . Bummer. Saw vai play live 3 times. HE is the instrument. He would sound like himself playing on a broom stick. Goodmluck to you hunting those crypto ibanezes… still got a destroyer kicking around…. All the best!
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wow, he got a decent sound out of a parker. genius.
Flo was not happy about this betrayal moment ^^
parker should contact rockin roy to make a rockin roy signature model with a special 28 fret design and only using a bridge pickup that is better and a special floyd rose type design i have in mind.
Parker company has folded in 2016.
Maybe if he endorsed Parker, they might have still been around.
I always loved the Parker design, especially back when they used wood, I think they should not have phased out wood because I think that drove off new customers, not that I believe it makes a difference, if you look into the science and what Les Paul went for, you understand that the intention of a solid body is to isolate the vibration of the strings between the nut and the bridge, to keep an undisturbed vibration, whereas on Acoustic guitars, it was important that the wood would have a clean transfer of vibration into the wood itself like an drum, which is completely opposite on Solid, so even if it is Carbon filter, if it's properly solid, the strings will have a clean sound. (WHY shitty guitars with shitty wood sounds bad, because the vibrations will bounce back into the bridge and then cause a small disturbance in the strings)
But a lot of people like wood man, so do i, especially without a paintjob, just clean wood, some like the paintjob so.
Parker was too early out with Carbon, or shouldn't have phased out wood but had to series.
@@birdsteak9267 Even the carbon fiber models had wood. Did they make 100% carbon guitars as well?
@@endezeichengrimm Didn't they? That is what I heard, I remember faintly it first started with the neck, then later I remember people complaining that the wood is gone and now their Carbon fiber.
@@birdsteak9267 As far as I know, the bodies were wood with a carbon backing. Which was the appeal of Parkers anyway.
@@birdsteak9267 No. It was a wood guitar with a carbon backing.
Is that the Adrian Belew model?
The deluxe yeah.
I think Belew might have another one a notch up but same guitar
No. Belew has had two different signature Parker models - based upon the the Fly (the guitar in this video) and DF842 models. Both have a Sustainer fitted (Vai might have felt more at home there...). The original Fly Belew also had Variax technology installed.
Love me some Adrian !
Steve clearly wasn't loving the Fly. Very different guitar to the Jem. I own and love both. They are very versatile but have completely different strengths... ...and tones
I think that given some time he would have warmed up to it. I think he was mostly missing his scalloped frets
Don't be too sure he didn't loved it, but his contact with Ibanez makes that he won't tell about this... Remember, he once let go that his favourite guitar was his old Strat from the Zappa era! Patrice Vigier once e-mailed Steve to propose him to test the Excalibur, he ended with Steve's lawyer answering him that Steve's contract with Ibanez barred him from getting in touch with anyone from the Vigier company by any mean! The Hoshino guys are too paranoid : Vigier is a family owned company that makes about 500 guitars a year, at best, endorsees will get some free guitars and, when it comes to getting paid, they will be for doing demos at the NAMM, the Musikmesse, etc... Steve gets pad very well to play his JEMs, AFAIK, he was already receiving about $50k+ a year when he recorded Passion & Warfare more than 30 years ago...
Actually, the Ibanez contracts that impose exclusivity are not the most clever way to go : Fender or Gibson are more vicious : you have to play their instruments for 2 thirds of the concerts... So, what do people think? That there is no contract and the guy choses Fender or Gibson because he prefers 'em...
Nope, he's getting paid for!
Let's make things clear : by the end of the 60's, Frank Zappa already declared he was making more money from endorsement contracts than through records sales...
Now, when it comes to JEMs, there are some that are really great, others, including expensive ones like the Bad Horsie, that don't sound better than a €250-300 Cort!
When it comes to the Ken Parker control over the company, it was just like the Vigier guitars : true high-end gear only... After the company was sold, well, it became a bit like the JEMs : some were great, some not so great, some others you really could do without...And you could have surprises, e.g. a buddy of mine owns a Korea-built P-44pro... This one is absolutely EXCEPTIONAL, and there are no composites, it's an all-wood one... Although it's the only P-44pro I tested, I wouldn't bet they all sound this way I own mainly luthiers' guitars, and the mahogany ones are also considered exceptional, no surprise, the swietenia mahogany was cut before WW1 and is more than 110 years old now, so, let's say that I wasn't really impressed by some highly sought Gibson's that sell at insane prices... When I heard this P-44pro, my reaction was the same as with my 1st contact with my own mahogany guitars : "WOW!!!!"... Mahogany is really picky : In most of the cases, I'm not getting bonkers with it, but sometimes, some industrially produced ones end with a really great wood... Getting smth in this range is usually only available from artisans who will individually select blanks or slabs for their sound, sometimes even using wood from old furniture, you simply can't do this at industrial level
@@harounel-poussah6936 That was very informative of you. Thank you much.
Right...Vai has been playing with Ibanez for almost 3 decades and suddenly he tries a new guitar and gets in love with it, I doubt it, I got in love with a Parker, they are beautiful guitars, but there is one guitar kind for every guitar player and for Vai it is the Ibanez
The tone was horrible to my ears, but the guitar wasn't dialed in, obviously. Or maybe the mic on the smartphone/camera was dogshit, or a combination.
Parker fly to the moon
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Pheww....close call. Almost broke the trem spring. Those are pretty fragile in Parker Flies, you know...
Vai, are you out of your mind!?
1. There’s no attack on the Parker guitar. It’s almost like you need to turn the treble up Compared to the Jem.
2. You can’t change the frets like you normally can on a regular guitar. That makes me nervous about these things
1. Depends on the model and the pickup onboard... The mahogany-body Fly-classic with the DM PUs is more reactive than the poplar (crate-wood) ones with SD PUs.
You have JEM made of alder, other ones made of basswood crate-wood, these are different kind of things too, and they don't sound the same at all... BTW, the expensive JEM Bad Horsie sounded like if they made the guitar with cardboard!!! And I wasn't the only one thinking that the Bad Horsie sounded like a cheap $250 axe
2. There are licenced repair centers as well as many independent luthiers able to change the Parker frets, e.g., in Europe, the 1st independent one to propose such a service was master-luthier Christophe Leduc.
Note that Parker pioneered the use of stainless steel frets, so even under heavy use, you won't have to change the frets anytime soon, unlike nickel ones.
3.) I wouldn't go either for a JEM or a Fly : the [Vigier] Excalibur rules them all, but, any way, my preferred guitar is the [Vigier] Passion III-90/10 (only 52 built, good luck to find yours. The two I own won't hit the market before my last breath...
@@harounel-poussah6936 I think the Jem bad horsie was a Steve Vai signature, was it not? I can see those things turning out to sound like crap because you’re paying Steve Vai for his name on everyone of those guitars so, I can see them cutting corners.
I just got my frets changed here in California in the states, and it was a pain in the butt to get fender to do it within a three week time period.
Just looked up Vigier guitars… Wow! That’s one of the most aggressive sounding guitar as I have ever heard! One of those rare occasions where the aggressive price tag matches the quality of the sound you get from it. 3600 US… Very impressive
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I'm an ex Strato-man. Since I own my Excaliburs, well, I knew well the recently retired Fender diamond dealer here, he tried to get me back as a client for the brand by making me try many CSMH and proposing me prices on par with my Vigier guitars (2006 = €1800 for an Exca Supra) for a CSMH with any option I wanted, choice of the luthier and he'd have taken the guitar straight from Corona for me... Well, except a 1970 Strat I knew, these were the best Fender guitars I ever touched, these CSMH were even better than some L-series I know, but, you know the Excalibur from Wayne's World? Vigier named his guitar Excalibur before the movie was issued, hehe!!!
There are several Vigier models, some are no more built. In the actual line, I own an Excalibur Supra SSS, which is the best "Strat" I touched in 35 years, an Excalibur Original which is more in the line of an alder-JEM due to the Floyd Rose. Note that the trem-bars are mounted on needle bearings used for Airbus landing gear that take 10,000RPM... Ibanez tries now to copy using ball bearings since the Vigier system is patented. I didn't went for the GV since my hands are too big for the 24.75" scale (Gibson-like), so is it for the Excalibur sig. Shawn Lane which has 24.75" instead of regular 25.5", any way, I self limit to 2 guitars for the main wood.
Vigiers can be aggressive or not!!! It will highly depend on the way you play, the gear you use, how you tune your gear (Stanley Jordan uses Vigiers for 35 years, he has done a lot of jazz standards, now he uses them doing some impressive Hendrix tribute). AFAIK, he owns an Arpège-II with the carbon neck/walnut body, and an Arpège-III : 90/10 neck, alder body. I swore that if I can get an Arpège-III, my Excalibur-Original goes... Unlikely to happen : only 30 were built, AFAIK, none was re-sold, at least in France or... She'd be in my collection, or I'd knew about it since we're not many lurking about the Vigier-Vintages, from the time they were only two at the workshop, and we all know why...
Prepare yourself to something different from what you know with the actual series, then... The older ones were way much high end than this, these were no-compromise high end, if you don't like these, there is nothing that can be improved, she just doesn't wants you, or you're not able to appreciate... Same thing with Leduc since he abandoned any industrial wishes, or for Patrice Blanc. I'm even happy that I found a damaged Arpège-I and that the red-burst Passon got some poks : this gear is so well crafted you fear damaging in any way... In 1983, the Arpège-I used to cost... 5 months of minimum salary in France (!!!). In 1991, the Passion III-9/10 was 1.5x more expensive than the most expensive Fender you could get, and you have to consider the customs' taxes, the importer's % and transport over 7000km+ in the equation, so it's likely to have been 2-2.5x more than the price you would have got in Cali...
Now, if your thing is having an Excalibur do Strat job, go either for the Supra, the Expert or the Indus (if you want the cheapest...She's painted with anti-scratch/anti-tag paint used in our subways to avoid paint-can spraying), then, as all are routed HSH, have a pickguard made for your preferred type of Strat PUs. Note that since the trussrod is replaced by a carbon-graphite bar, instead of having steel "eating" the vibrations in the neck, carbon-graphite will improve their conductivity into the body, so you can expect that it will behave more like a neckthru rather than like a bolt-on neck...
Now, my personal advise : have custom PUs wounded if the onboard kit is not your thing as the most common buyers are dudes wanting something better than a JEM, so the most common is HSH config, and the most interesting way to go, at least for me, is pseudo-humbucks... Let's say that you like Nile Rogers/Hendrix sounding, consider a handwound Strat kit in this range, then... Today, it's feasible to have a single-coil sized alnico-2 PAF (e.g. SD Pearly Gates For Strat), I also love the Exca-Supra SSS kit's DM FS-1 in neck posn, as well as the DP-185 Half Track in bridge... Since I didn't wanted to ruin the value of my Excas, I had pickguards cut, and custopm PU made, two FS-1+"Hendrix" for neck, two "Hendrix" for mid, one Hendrix+DP185 and one Hendrix+PAF-alnico2/8.5k for bridge, so I keep the FS-1 and DP-185 which are wonderful on the Supra, get the 2,4 posns Strat Sound instead of the DiMarzio one, and can go Jimi. For the Excalibur-Original, despite these are very good PUs, the SD SH-5/SSL-1/TB-5 has never been my thing, so, I do get the Jimi sound, the FS-1 in neck, then, the 8.5K PAF alnico-2 in bridge = EVH's Frankenstein which is a great fit with the Floyd-Rose.
Selection is made thu the SD Triple-Shot PU rings and the 5 posn selector, let's say that... maybe will I consider the wireless-MIDI pickguard (classic manual action automatically takes over) in the future) but, well, 400€ per guitar is not really welcomed now, and nonetheless I don't have a band, but I'll probably never jump on a stage again. If not, I'll have to sit just like Fripp, and I'll need roadies
Parker frets are stainless steel. You probably won't have to change them.
He sounds like Vai even with an Aria Pro guitar
Can’t believe this guy doesn’t know what a Parker Guitar is.
Yeah I think I'd prefer the Jem if I was Steve.
ES UNA LUCHA . EL BATERO POR UN LADO EL SEGUNDA VIOLA POR OTRO Y ESTEVI BEY DISCONFORME A PLENO
He can try a js now
Ya..No some people just try too hard to be...oh never mind lol
seems he's working hard to get sound out of that Parker guitar. to bad I was really planning on buying a used. i think I'll stay with Ibanez
Adrian Belew never has trouble getting sound out of his Parker.
Big mistake. At least find one and try it out. Everyone I know that has a Fly loves them above all others, including me. Best guitar I've played.
@@azieran100 I bought one it is a great guitar.
He could have picked up and played a washing machine and still would have made it sound great!
Just not at home here.
In fact, quite a torturing experience.
If he picked Parker Guitar in 2002, the story might be different...
Needs hotter pickups, Steve likes his hot.
always found Vai's style way to hectic...
Lol he hates it
Sorry the Parker lacks bite and clarity to my ears. A Telecaster would blow it away.
Noise pollution
My dream is to afford a Parker Fly one day
NOT SO MUTCH
Poor sound quality.. I have a friend that owns a few of the real expensive Parker Flys and was never impressed with their tone.. They're light weight and you can get the action ultra low on a Fly with no issues but there's something missing.. anyway they've gone outta business and now they're asking upwards of $3k or 4k for them puppies .. Not worth it to me ...
Wrong!!
They sound great !I have three of them one refined and 2 original Ken parkers. If they're set up correctly they can't be beat but yes, they are very expensive!
@@sunpapa9107 It's very subjective,- one man's trash is another man's treasure .. I can think of 10 or 20 of the top guitarist but The best players on the planet don't play Parker Fly's .. I know some folks play them but I've never seen Allan Holdsworth, Guthrie Govan, Matteo Mancuso, Greg Howe, King Fish, Eric Gales, Andy Timmons, Jeff Beck(rip), Joe Bonamassa, Eric Johnson, Steve Vai, Tosin Abasi, Randy Hansen, Frank Marino, George Benson, Wayne Krantz, John Mcglaughlin, John Mayer, Brian May, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Frank Gambale, Pat Metheny etc.. I could go on forever and really can't think of any famous guitarists in any genre that exclusively play Parker Flys.. and I'm talking about the best known guitarists on the planet.. Greg Koch ... I could go on an on and can't think of any of the top players that play them.. Most of the folks I've listed are collectors, cats with hundreds of guitars and don't ever see Parker Flys..😝
drummer is way off
when are you going to make a 27 fret parker fly??????????? with a floyd rose and a headstock lock??? single dual rail pickup and a humbucker at the bridge....by the way vais rig sucks. it is time to trade it in.
Never. The company is long dead and unlikely to ever be revived
Parker 👍, Steve👎
Why didn’t they get a proper guitarist to demonstrate it?
better tone from his own fer sure. seriously doubt he'll switch. very muddy and weak sound. no real depth or definition to the notes. that good of playing deserves better.
I think it's the recording problem, the thin body and carbon fiber back and fretboard makes Parker notorious for their high pitched tone.
It is much warmer than his Jem, darker and mellower top end. The definition is all there still. Just a couple eq tweaks on the Legacy away from perfection
@@JasonMcFly his sound is not as warm as a LP-SG, strat neither a JS too
so he should never try another guitar !
i like my js but i am sure another guitar like a hss strat will sound better especially for the clean tones, alder- vs basswood etc.
nothing's perfect
"Seems to love" O how wrong you "seem" to be. Lol, he clearly does not like it at all. The Jem is superior to all Parkers.