@@MIKE-TYTHON when you look only it's about 3-4k, but if I remember correctly Kiedis wrote in this biography that John once showed up in the studio with a 30k white falcon, so maybe the one he has is a very special one. Or my memory is really wrong, which is also a strong possbility
I knew that also . I remember Anthony talking about it in his Biography book ,which I owned in hardcover but foolishly loaned to a friend and never saw it again , and haven't heard from the dude in years. I have to find another used copy somewhere ,as it is a really good read !
About the 1962 Strat: Dave Lee, who worked as John’s guitar tech on tour from 1998 to 2007, argues that they were just basic Fender pickups found in the American Standard Stratocasters. I remember reading that and realizing John was wrong in that interview (I never told him). We were experimenting with a number of different pickups at the time. And he must’ve gotten confused. The actual pickups we settled on (and John never knew this) were stock, brand new, Fender Strat pickups. [JF Effects Interviews: Dave Lee (Guitar Tech)] I'm working on my own 1962 replica btw😎
4:21 That guitar John gave to his “at the time” girlfriend Emily Kokal. She’s in a band called Warpaint. And it’s her mind guitar. They are actually pretty good and John produced some of their records.
Actually he didnt swap them strat pickups for ss1's. There was some sort of confusion when it was stated at the time but Johns tech verified that theyre actually Fender pickups.
I recently discovered that John has more than one( possible 3) 1962 sunburst strats by looking at live performances. He likes to play some softer songs or warm-up on the other 2. And no. John doesn't have ssl-1 pickups in any guitar according to Dave Lee- his guitar tech back then and man who takes care of all this guitars now.
Fun fact, Dave Lee, John's guitar tech, said that John was confused about the Seymour Duncan pickups. They needed to replace the vintage pickups and tested out a few different options, including the Duncan's. They actually settled on Fender stock pickups from the 2000s. 👍
Here's the quote: In Guitarist Magazine, june 2003, you said you tried to convince John to play Fender's replicas of its old models, but he liked the "life" that his old instruments had. Besides the original tuning pegs (replaced by Klusons) and straplocks (replaced by Schallers), is there any other modification that you made in the guitars? He said in a interview that he replaced his '62 Strat pickups for Seymour Duncans SSL-1 (like in his '55 Strat). Is there anything else besides that? When did that occured? "I remember reading that and realizing John was wrong in that interview (I never told him). We were experimenting with a number of different pickups at the time. And he must've gotten confused. The actual pickups we settled on (and John never knew this) were stock, brand new, Fender Strat pickups. The same ones Fender was putting in their brand new American Fender Strats at the time (I'll bet you weren't expecting that)."
It's hard to find quality content but I think this totally is... Even if it's a top 10 list, you can notice you've put effort into this, so great video, I'm subscribing :D
John and his guitar techs were messing around with different pickups and such, and the ones John chose were the '98-'99 American Standards. For years JF thought these were SSL-1's but Dave later said that John was incorrect.
I played a lot of Vintage strats and yea, I agree - 1962s are also my fav. Even better than the ones of the 50s. One day I m gonna get one. Hopefully....
the jaguar in the “Under the Bridge” was actually a Sherwood green finished jaguar. I agree it looks very sea foam green due to the lighting. people also confuse it with his lake placid jaguar that (from most sources i’ve read) burned in the house fire. Id kill for a lake placid or sherwood jag.
i read in interview with johns tech that they didnt actually use SSL1s, john got confused. he said they used whatever the newest noiseless pickups were at the time
He gave his white Jaguar to Emily Kokal of Warpaint, its her main guitar. Pretty sure the red mustang Theresa Wayman uses was John's aswell but not sure.
John used a guitar that looked a lot like that Gretsch White Falcon on stage at a concert at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas. And a Sunburst Strat that looked a whole lot like your number one guitar in the video. I was in the third row center.
The Yamaha SG 2000 is probably one of the best sounding electric guitars one can get. Pair it with a Mesa Boogie Mark 1 or a Mesa Boogie with an Altec speaker and you can get one heck of a tone.
That under the bridge Jaguar isn't seafoam green. I'm pretty confident in saying its ocean turquoise metallic, there is a chance its aged lake placid blue as well cause that goes greeny/turquoise. I've heard some people say its sherwood green but sherwood green is a proper dark green colour.
I'm pretty sure the 1962 strat is actually Chad Smith's. in an interview with Josh Klinghoffer's gear guy he showed the same guitar and stated that Chad would always lend it to them for touring
I could have missed it but I'm surprised the Gretsch White Falcon isn't on here considering both Californication and Otherside were written and performed on it, maybe not an iconic guitar relative to his use of it but definitely one of the most iconic guitars in the world generally, either way, I enjoyed the video, good job!
Great video. I don’t expect to reply to this considering the video is seven years old, but did he use the Jaguar to record under the bridge in the studio or is it a Stratocaster? Can’t seem to find that anywhere…
hey there ! for the last fender model that is mentionned did you mean the Stratocaster did all his way to now,or is it a reissue ? thanks to have dug up the nice information !
Wrong info on the 62 strat. According to dave lee, his guitar tech, the pickups installed on that strat were just fender standard, John didn’t know about this in a long time and the thought they were SD pickups.
Big question, did he ever use the Jags on an actual recording? I had read that he did actually use it on Under The Bridge, but I sounds like the neck pickup of a Strat to me.
He used it to record Around the World. Switches the tone circuit on verse/chorus. He did this at Woodstock (the only time I've seen him play a Jag live), but the second volume circuit was a 0, so he completely cut out. His tech had to run on stage to switch it. I think that stopped him using it live
I mean to be fair, with EQ adjustment a jaguar neck pickup and strat neck pickup are going to be basically indistinguishable. For that particular song ive tried the into out with a jag neck and a strat neck out of curiosity both got the sound just fine, the strat was a bit brighter on the same setting but i found bringing the tone knob down a touch made it pretty equal field. Its also worth noteing jaguars are kind of all over the place, some sound very bright borderline shrill like a telecaster, some are actually very warm sounding. The japanese ones tend to be a bit bright by default.
1966 Sherwood Green Jaguar; the bound neck with dot fret markers gives the year away. The color is harder to make, at a quick glance you'd think oxidized Lake Placid Blue, but most likely Sherwood Green.
Nice Video, but one more Mistake. In the video of Under the brigde, he´s playing a 1966 Fender Jazzmaster in sherwood green, not a Fender Jaguar in sea foam green.
Love these vids! Any chance you could try, Metallica's James Hetfield/Kirk Hammett? (Cliche I know). Don't think anyone on here has picked up on there rig that well without jumping straight to Mesa and ESP Guitars... Cheers!
It was sold for drug money. He walked into guitar center disheveled and wearing no shoes and sold it for a pittance. The person who worked at guitar center actually sold it to them and the Hard Rock asked if he could sign a card to place with it.
The myth of SSL-1 was debunked by his guitar tech Dave Lee. Quote: "I remember reading that and realizing John was wrong in that interview (I never told him). We were experimenting with a number of different pickups at the time. And he must've gotten confused. The actual pickups we settled on (and John never knew this) were stock, brand new, Fender Strat pickups. The same ones Fender was putting in their brand new American Fender Strats at the time (I'll bet you weren't expecting that)." Still SSL-1 is a great set of pickups.
Just because he plays a guitar in a video that doesn't mean he owns it. The toronado in the Can't Stop video for example was just a guitar given to him to play because the director liked the colour.
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that white falcon is something to die for
But its expensive af
How much did John frusciante pay for his
@@MIKE-TYTHON when you look only it's about 3-4k, but if I remember correctly Kiedis wrote in this biography that John once showed up in the studio with a 30k white falcon, so maybe the one he has is a very special one. Or my memory is really wrong, which is also a strong possbility
@@theIbean no, you're right. His is an all original 55 with the earliest Filtertron pickups. And yes, it is to die for
Frisciante says it’s a 55 but people have said it’s no earlier than 58. If it was 55 it would have dynasonic pickups which gretsch started using in 58
that iconic strat was gift from Kiedis
Crazy never knew that idk how I got to this video but lil pieces of info like that is so interesting vs the bigger pictures.
I knew that also . I remember Anthony talking about it in his Biography book ,which I owned in hardcover but foolishly loaned to a friend and never saw it again , and haven't heard from the dude in years. I have to find another used copy somewhere ,as it is a really good read !
Nope, the 55 is
Anthony bought him the 62
Honourable Mention: Red SG of Fortune Faded :)
Was thinking about that hehehe
About the 1962 Strat: Dave Lee, who worked as John’s guitar tech on tour from 1998 to 2007, argues that they were just basic Fender pickups found in the American Standard Stratocasters.
I remember reading that and realizing John was wrong in that interview (I never told him). We were experimenting with a number of different pickups at the time. And he must’ve gotten confused. The actual pickups we settled on (and John never knew this) were stock, brand new, Fender Strat pickups. [JF Effects Interviews: Dave Lee (Guitar Tech)]
I'm working on my own 1962 replica btw😎
Very cool. Thanks for sharing.
Indeed. it is actually his '54/'55 that has the SSL-1s installed.
Which pickups are those fenders? Fat 50s?
This stuff is quality youtube content. I cannot imagine the time you must have spent to research and make this video. Thank you so much for this!
well, lists of John's guitars have been all over the internet a long time...
4:21 That guitar John gave to his “at the time” girlfriend Emily Kokal. She’s in a band called Warpaint. And it’s her mind guitar. They are actually pretty good and John produced some of their records.
Love to discover new music through such coincidences. Cheers
John frusciante ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Actually he didnt swap them strat pickups for ss1's. There was some sort of confusion when it was stated at the time but Johns tech verified that theyre actually Fender pickups.
I recently discovered that John has more than one( possible 3) 1962 sunburst strats by looking at live performances. He likes to play some softer songs or warm-up on the other 2.
And no. John doesn't have ssl-1 pickups in any guitar according to Dave Lee- his guitar tech back then and man who takes care of all this guitars now.
Fun fact, Dave Lee, John's guitar tech, said that John was confused about the Seymour Duncan pickups. They needed to replace the vintage pickups and tested out a few different options, including the Duncan's. They actually settled on Fender stock pickups from the 2000s. 👍
Here's the quote: In Guitarist Magazine, june 2003, you said you tried to convince John to play Fender's replicas of its old models, but he liked the "life" that his old instruments had. Besides the original tuning pegs (replaced by Klusons) and straplocks (replaced by Schallers), is there any other modification that you made in the guitars? He said in a interview that he replaced his '62 Strat pickups for Seymour Duncans SSL-1 (like in his '55 Strat). Is there anything else besides that? When did that occured?
"I remember reading that and realizing John was wrong in that interview (I never told him). We were experimenting with a number of different pickups at the time. And he must've gotten confused. The actual pickups we settled on (and John never knew this) were stock, brand new, Fender Strat pickups. The same ones Fender was putting in their brand new American Fender Strats at the time (I'll bet you weren't expecting that)."
It's hard to find quality content but I think this totally is... Even if it's a top 10 list, you can notice you've put effort into this, so great video, I'm subscribing :D
Really good video, but the jaguar, which is used in under the bridge has the colour ocean turquoise
The pickups in the 1962 Stratocaster are not SSL-1, but the '98 or '99 American Standard Strat pickups.
Source: Dave Lee.
www.jfeffects.com.br/2017/01/dave-mail-10-what-pickups-were.html
only us brazilians know that thanks to JF effects! lol
holy sh.t ! I installed ssl 1 on my strat because I thought JF was playing them!
(well they sound like Hendrix, anyway....)
John and his guitar techs were messing around with different pickups and such, and the ones John chose were the '98-'99 American Standards. For years JF thought these were SSL-1's but Dave later said that John was incorrect.
Platina Official Not according to the guy that actually cared for the guitar. Dave Lee.
I played a lot of Vintage strats and yea, I agree - 1962s are also my fav. Even better than the ones of the 50s. One day I m gonna get one. Hopefully....
the jaguar in the “Under the Bridge” was actually a Sherwood green finished jaguar. I agree it looks very sea foam green due to the lighting. people also confuse it with his lake placid jaguar that (from most sources i’ve read) burned in the house fire. Id kill for a lake placid or sherwood jag.
This is really good thank you so much
Bartholowmeo Booce my pleasure. thanks for your support! :)
Great job, keep the frusciante stuff coming!
i read in interview with johns tech that they didnt actually use SSL1s, john got confused. he said they used whatever the newest noiseless pickups were at the time
do flea :D
YohAquino2 Modulus, Stingray.
cutlass ii, stingray, fender precision, stingray, alembic, wal, stingray, modulus, fender jazz (in chronological order)
John uses a couple cool fenders in the Can't Stop music video, especially an orange Toronado
He gave his white Jaguar to Emily Kokal of Warpaint, its her main guitar. Pretty sure the red mustang Theresa Wayman uses was John's aswell but not sure.
Very comprehensive, thanks. Love the guitars, and the man!
John used a guitar that looked a lot like that Gretsch White Falcon on stage at a concert at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas. And a Sunburst Strat that looked a whole lot like your number one guitar in the video. I was in the third row center.
Honorable mention: Fender Toronado, it was in the Can't Stop video lmao
Only for video... And John was pissed on the director for that...
The editing on these videos is awesome! :) Thanks!
Cheers!
Can you do a rundown of Omar Rodriguez Lopez?
Here it is! th-cam.com/video/NzISgB2FxyE/w-d-xo.html
Future Sound Music nice
awesome list I think you missed the sg that appears on the fortune faded video
not was seymour Duncan, Dave Lee (guitar technician of john) said that was de fender caps pattern
The Yamaha SG 2000 is probably one of the best sounding electric guitars one can get. Pair it with a Mesa Boogie Mark 1 or a Mesa Boogie with an Altec speaker and you can get one heck of a tone.
That under the bridge Jaguar isn't seafoam green. I'm pretty confident in saying its ocean turquoise metallic, there is a chance its aged lake placid blue as well cause that goes greeny/turquoise. I've heard some people say its sherwood green but sherwood green is a proper dark green colour.
i'd love to see something like this for Alice in Chains with Jerry Cantrell
mats severe crippling depression Get ready to see Les Pauls and G&L Rampages....
I'm pretty sure the 1962 strat is actually Chad Smith's. in an interview with Josh Klinghoffer's gear guy he showed the same guitar and stated that Chad would always lend it to them for touring
We've heard that a few times now. Interesting stuff
His Duncans are antiquities, not SSL1s. Other than that, damn fine list bursting with good information.
The white falcon can also be seen in the music video to "going inside"
I could have missed it but I'm surprised the Gretsch White Falcon isn't on here considering both Californication and Otherside were written and performed on it, maybe not an iconic guitar relative to his use of it but definitely one of the most iconic guitars in the world generally, either way, I enjoyed the video, good job!
Ah, yes, it is on there, cool cool, probably should have paid more attention lol.
Well done. I'd love to see something like this for Metallica. Keep it coming FSM.
nice video! brilliant actually :) u need more recognition! keep it up!
The 62 strat thing is really messing with me. I always thought he used stock pickups. Where did you find that? I love to read the article or whatever
never heard about him swapping the pickups out, thought he was a stickler for using only vintage stuff!
Great video - thanks for putting in the work.
Thank you.
It would have been cool if John used the Fender Jaguar on one of their albums, it has a more heavy sound instead of the Stratocaster or a Telecaster.
The Jaguar in Under the Bridge is a Sherwood Green and not as Quote on this vid “Seafoam Green”
Hard Rock Cafe have it now.
Your videos are awesome! You should do more rigdowns, from other guitarists. I just suscribe to your channel. Greetings from Canary Islands!
This is so nerdy and I fucking love it!
Great video. I don’t expect to reply to this considering the video is seven years old, but did he use the Jaguar to record under the bridge in the studio or is it a Stratocaster? Can’t seem to find that anywhere…
He had 2 tele's one with the fender F spaghetti logo on the scratchplate and one without and I think thats where the two ages come from.
hey there ! for the last fender model that is mentionned did you mean the Stratocaster did all his way to now,or is it a reissue ?
thanks to have dug up the nice information !
do one of this but with dave grohl
Wrong info on the 62 strat. According to dave lee, his guitar tech, the pickups installed on that strat were just fender standard, John didn’t know about this in a long time and the thought they were SD pickups.
Big question, did he ever use the Jags on an actual recording? I had read that he did actually use it on Under The Bridge, but I sounds like the neck pickup of a Strat to me.
ianA He didn't use it on Under The Bridge, he mainly used it for overdubs and solos on BSSM. It's also used for his solo work.
He used it to record Around the World. Switches the tone circuit on verse/chorus. He did this at Woodstock (the only time I've seen him play a Jag live), but the second volume circuit was a 0, so he completely cut out. His tech had to run on stage to switch it. I think that stopped him using it live
I mean to be fair, with EQ adjustment a jaguar neck pickup and strat neck pickup are going to be basically indistinguishable.
For that particular song ive tried the into out with a jag neck and a strat neck out of curiosity both got the sound just fine, the strat was a bit brighter on the same setting but i found bringing the tone knob down a touch made it pretty equal field.
Its also worth noteing jaguars are kind of all over the place, some sound very bright borderline shrill like a telecaster, some are actually very warm sounding. The japanese ones tend to be a bit bright by default.
Pretty sure that last burst strat was given to him by chad. Think i saw that in the stadium arcadium commentary
Jessie not by chad, it was Anthony who bought it as a gift
Resently I have heard that the Pickups of the Fender Stratocaster from 1962 where origninal Pickups, not the Seymour.
1966 Sherwood Green Jaguar; the bound neck with dot fret markers gives the year away. The color is harder to make, at a quick glance you'd think oxidized Lake Placid Blue, but most likely Sherwood Green.
Yamaha sg 2000 is an awesome guitar!
4:30. Its not seafoam green but a sherwood green Jaguar.
I always thought the under the bridge jag was lake placid blue !?
I would be inclined to agree, LPB guitars tend to go a bit green with age
Cool video! Soooo... Josh Homme next?
The under the bridge jaguar was Sherwood Green
love the little frusciante choir there
That under the bridge jaguar is not a seafaom green, it is a Sherwood green. There are a lot of wrong information in this video
Very nice video..
Can you make the guitars by Slash and Jimmy Page please ?
Which guitar did he play on Niandra LaDes?
They aren’t Seymour Duncan’s in the 62 strat, they are vintage standard fender strat pickups
do josh klinghofer who is now the guitarist of the red hot chili peppers
Josh sure does have an interesting collection!
Do a video on Jack White's white stripes rig
He also used the Blue Jaguar on the Under the Bridge official clip.
Love to see him with the big old sunburst strat
What guitar is the "The Fool" impostor on the video for Dani California ?
do mike from Incubus! or chad smith from New Found Glory!!
Where can I find that photo of John at 5:22?
Thanks man, i really love your content.
He bought his sunburst strat with seymour already in them. He did not swap them out.
Though, I'm pretty sure his blue Jaguar is Lake Placid Blue Jaguard ratgr than the sea foam, am I wrong?
I think it was the Sherwood Green Jag.
It's far from Sherwood Green
It’s lake placid blue and the clear coat has yellowed giving it a green tint. Yellow+blue=green
Cool video all this time I thought he was using a Ibanez artist and not a Yamaha sg u learn something everyday if ur lucky
that iconic Kiedis was a gift from the strat.
Nice Video, but one more Mistake. In the video of Under the brigde, he´s playing a 1966 Fender Jazzmaster in sherwood green, not a Fender Jaguar in sea foam green.
Love these vids! Any chance you could try, Metallica's James Hetfield/Kirk Hammett? (Cliche I know). Don't think anyone on here has picked up on there rig that well without jumping straight to Mesa and ESP Guitars... Cheers!
The one he uses in the video for "under the bridge" is ocean turquoise, not seafoam green!
The green jag is Forrest green or hunter green. Not sea foam green.
This video was hilarious and informative! Subbed
Cheers :)
I love that Carvel bit there😂
please make one from pat smear or fromThe Edge ( U2 ) pleaaase
We'll add them to the list. Next one will be Omar Rodriguez Lopez.
who the FOOOK is that?
Do more bass rig rundowns!
We might do Flea next.
PLEEEEASE! As a bassist, I'd be sooo doown!
Hell yeah, as a guitarist I'd be down to watch that too. This shit is fascinating
I think he was using the Yamaha SG's in tribute to John McGeoch and his sound
Very Nice. Good video. Congratulations
Thank you :)
:)
Johns 62' is a mexican strat since it only has 21 frets?
Is not it Andy from Andy guitar..? Voice seems so familiar!
The 1963 tele was hij back up He giften it to Josh the 1965 was his main tele
Really loved number 9
Doesn't the sunburst one that he plays the most actually belong to Chad Smith?
Conor No. The one Josh uses is Chad's.
They're not SSL-1 pickups they're Fender pickups taken from and American Standard Srartocaster his guitar tech said it himself #endthemyth
1:23 nope. They producer and engineers couldn't get a good tone out of the ibanez so they got him a Les Paul to use
What the song the soundtrack???
The last jaguar isn't seafoam green, its lake placid blue.
Elephantricity I'm fairly sure it was Sherwood Green. Sadly, Hard Rock Cafe now owns that guitar.
Elephantricity That's exactly what I was going to say...
XXRAWIRONXX only us dedicated fans know this stuff!
***** lol probably!
It was sold for drug money. He walked into guitar center disheveled and wearing no shoes and sold it for a pittance. The person who worked at guitar center actually sold it to them and the Hard Rock asked if he could sign a card to place with it.
Royal Blood? Did you do it? Thanks!!!
It's on the list.
What about the squire?
Really good video man ;-)
Thank you :)
The myth of SSL-1 was debunked by his guitar tech Dave Lee. Quote:
"I remember reading that and realizing John was wrong in that interview (I never told him). We were experimenting with a number of different pickups at the time. And he must've gotten confused. The actual pickups we settled on (and John never knew this) were stock, brand new, Fender Strat pickups. The same ones Fender was putting in their brand new American Fender Strats at the time (I'll bet you weren't expecting that)."
Still SSL-1 is a great set of pickups.
wow nice guitars
Just because he plays a guitar in a video that doesn't mean he owns it. The toronado in the Can't Stop video for example was just a guitar given to him to play because the director liked the colour.