Guitars You Thought Your Favorite Artists Played...But Really Didn't
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- Baxter and Jonathan talk about Iconic Guitars and and why many people are wrong about what guitar was actually used on a famous song or record. Leave us your favorite ones in the comment section!
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It's a common misconception that on the No Jacket Required album, Phil Collins is playing a 62 Strat. However, if you listen closely, especially on Sussudio, you can hear he's actually playing the drums.
Thats made me happier than I can say!
I love this comment
Dave wins....
lol
“Don’t just stare at it. Eat it!”
Ah yes, Jimi Hendrix and his infamous hello kitty squire
can you imagine how much money that would be now?
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@@Angel-fz8dr I have one, paid about 200, worth about 900 last I checked.... Hendrix never came near it, though.
The one that always gets me, Gilmour uses a Les Paul with p90s for the famous solo in Another Brick In the Wall Part II…
I think its Comfortably Numb not Another Brick in the Wall Pt II
Love the song, but that is one of Gilmour’s most boring solos.
@@shanewalton8888 I believe you're the only person who ever said that. Nice niche!
@@riadmiah3342 it’s definitely Another Brick in the Wall pt. II
@@kevinlittrell3407 Correct. The solos on Comfortably Numb were played on the famous black Strat, but the solo on ABITW Part II was definitely the gold top Les Paul.
Clapton also played a telecaster, most notably during the Blind Faith year (1969). He also played a Gibson Explorer in the mid 70s, which had the upper back horn chopped off.
Speaking of the Tedeschi Trucks Band / Derek & the Dominos connection. Susan Tedeschi was born the day that album released, and Derek Trucks was named after that album. Their live cover album of that album is phenomal as well ( feat. Trey Anastasio and Doyle Bramhall II, among others).
Deeper in the weeds, Otis Rush and Magic Sam tend to be associated with the Epiphone Riviera and humbucker equipped guitars, but their seminal albums, in my opinion, were recorded with Stratocasters.
He played a Tele during his Yardbirds days.
@@mitchmatthews6713 Yep! The reason I said most notably with Blind Faith is that he wasn't with the Yardbirds when they got really famous. He'd already quit and gone to Mayall because they weren't bluesy enough. Blind Faith was a huge super group at the time.
Thought of another. Billy Gibbons played a telecaster on some of the classic early ZZ Top tracks (ex: Jesus Just Left Chicago).
Otis Rush plays a left-handed Stratocaster, but it is strung right-handed. (Hendrix's upside-down right-handed Stratocasters were strung left-handed.)
If you watch the blind faith performance at hyde park in 69 it looks like Clapton is playing a tele with a strat neck
They missed the absolute BEST example of this, that wasn't just an exception, was an every time variance: Prince playing a Hohner Mad Cat Telecaster copy on everything you ever heard recorded, despite the Cloud guitar and others on stage. (To be fair, they were all just Telecasters with different shapes as well.)
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The madcats are weird because it looks like a Tele. But other than the shape it's really a 2 pickup hardtail strat
It always ends up being a Tele! I swear every time someone is known for a certain guitar…they used Teles and SGs when recording.
Simple, versatile and stayed in tune. Tho, they also just picked up whatever guitar they could find in the UK.
They record well also. There really isn't another guitar that has a pickup bolted to the guitar firmly like that. It's bolted to the bridge, which is bolted to the body, and the string through design just secures it all even tighter. Every other guitar's pickups hang from the plastic pickguard, with a couple of screws, with a large cavity below them, sort of floating there.
100% i agree i think part of Tele tone is the solid pickup mounts, even though bridge is mounted to bridge rather than body. That being said lots if modern Teles have neck pickups in the pickguard, i think they still sound like a Tele but not perfect.
Did this guy just say SG's stay in tune??? LOL if only.
@@questioneverything4633 I don't think so, no. I think he is generally speaking about Teles, and threw SGs in there as well, as a common studio instrument, unrelated to his point about Teles staying in tune.
@@Tijuanabill I don't think the way the pickups are mounted is especially important. I could be wrong, of course, but I just don't see how that is beneficial to recording.
You guys have become an addiction for me, I binge watch you all the time, Lol! 😂
I really enjoy your videos!
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@@toneyisaiah3556 They're good, just not THAT good.
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Pete Townshend’s main studio axe from the late 60s onwards was a Gretsch 6120 gifted to him by Joe Walsh. He never played it onstage because of feedback issues, but that’s what you’re hearing on many Who albums.
Yep, he played that guitar on most of Who’s Next and Quadrophenia. He did play it on stage in 1973 Top Of The Pops but at the end of the song they cut the power on his amp when he was soloing and he smashes the guitar in anger. He said he regretted it.
Lol, sure
and joe walsh also gave jimmy page his les paul
Grat stuff as always guys! Though I can barely play, if I was rich I'd get a Gibson EDS-1275 double neck just to walk past it every so often and get shivers.
Yeah, the Stratocaster wasn’t really a “Stratocaster” yet. The whole Gibson vs. Fender or Strat vs. Tele wouldn’t have made as much sense to them, at least the way we obsess about it today. Great point
Alex Lifeson, who is hard to imagine playing anything other than a Gibson, said in a pod cast that the majority of Rush songs were written using a Telecaster
To which I would add, the majority of Rush songs were written by Neil Peart. Sort that out however you wish.
He also used a Strat, even live...
@@christianhunter777 The lyrics were. Peart did not write the guitar solos. Geddy and Alex would figure out the music and then have Neil put words to it cause they hated thinking about lyrics.
@@christianhunter777 Neil wrote the lyrics Alex and Geddy wrote the music.
Rush was and remained a true band. They kept their individual egos in check for the good of music and produced some really fantastic music.
Fun facts. Much of the later Jimi Hendrix recordings (plus his later shows) we performed using a Gibson Flying V. Led Zeppelin 2 was also recorded by Jimmy Page using his Telecaster, plus the songs In My Time Of Dying & Kashmir on Physical Graffiti he recorded playing a Danelectro. Further he recorded much of In Through The Outdoor using a Fender Stratocaster. Also Eric Clapton recorded songs like Rita Mae & few others on Another Ticket using a Gibson Explorer, as he did for much of the album There's On In Every Crowd. Also for the I Still Do album Clapton went back to using a Gibson Les Paul. Did you know Ritchie Blackmore recorded a lot of Deep Purple In Rock using a Gibson ES 335, most notably Child In Time? Then there's Steve Howe of Yes. Everyone knows him for playing his Gibson ES guitar, but on all of the Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman Howe album he uses a Fender Stratocaster, as with all his work on the Yes: Union album.Everyone knows Mark Knopfler for using a Fender Stratocaster & his 1959 Gibson Les Paul. However all the electric guitar parts on the Dire Straits album On Every Street he recorded were done using a Pensa Mk 2 guitar. I'm sure there are plenty more fun facts, but I can't think of any at the mo!!!
Nicoladolby,
Steve Howe is always interesting with his guitar choices. Like you said he's known for his Gibson ES-175 D which is all over the Yes Album. Fragile though is primarily Gibson ES-5 Switchmaster. Close to the Edge is mainly Gibson ES-345 stereo. Tales he uses the Les Paul Jr and 175-D. Relayer is primarily the Telecaster. Going for the One finds Howe using the Stratocaster, Telecaster, Les Paul, Gibson L-5 CES, RIC 12 string. On the Asia album, Gibson ES Artist, Lee Paul Custom, Telecaster, Gretsch Super Chet Atkins, ES-335, Roland GR-300 and Fender Broadcaster. The solo on Heat of the Moment was on a Telecaster.
Acoustics through the years were Martin OO-18, MC-38, Khono classical guitar, Martin and Guild 12 strings, Portuguese guitar. Steel Guitars: Fender Dual Steel and Gibson Lap steel.
Amps were primarily Fender Dual Showman and Twin Reverb back in 70s through the 90s, although Vox and Marshall were used at times in the studio. Live these days Howe plays through Line 6 gear.
Led Zep 1 was the Tele. Led Zep 2 was mostly recorded on the Les Paul Page got from Joe Walsh.
I brought up Page using a Dan before seeing your comment. I mean come on, the song Houses of the Holy just drips Dan all day. Always loved that song and never could reproduce the tone as exactly as I wanted so I did a little digging along with closer listening. It became so obvious.
I saw Hendrix 3 times . All with Strats . The last was The New Years Eve show at The Fillmore East .
The Danelectro Jimmy Page used I thought was the Sitar model they made? Maybe I am wrong on this.
I can see younger people not knowing about Clapton playing Gibsons for 10+ years, but I feel most people into Zeppelin know about Jimmy playing other guitars. I got into LZ in the late 80s pre-internet and was definitely aware of the dragon telecaster and the Danelectros he played in non-standard tunings. I think less known is Jimmy using strats a lot in the late 70s but lots of concert pix of him using them for In Through the Out Door material.
You guys are great. It's become a ritual for me to have my morning cup of coffee while listening to the humor. But this morning info took the cake; Hendrix played a Tele on Purple Haze stole the show. If true, I stand by my belief - the one guitar that could rule them all is the single cut humbled Telecaster. You can do it all on that gtr
You mention the Monkees early on in the video as a favorite, and I seem to recall them coming up in videos before. (Seeing as we’re around the same age, I’m guessing you got hip to them through the ‘80s revival as well.) What are the odds of a video or two going deeper into them? I’d especially like to hear more on their gear and actual musicianship (of both band members and the studio guys who helped them) than the same stories we often hear about the band.
I didn't realise that we were getting that deeply ironic here. It sure was nice of Boyce and Hart who wrote, produced and with their band, the Candy Store Prophets, recorded the backing tracks for a large portion (virtually all) of the first season of "The Monkees" T.V. show, and their debut album, to "help" the Monkees.
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Something that adds to the confusion is when they shoot the music video with a different guitar because it looks cooler.
Buddy Holley actually used an SG with an early 50s Marshall
I know right. He was so ahead of his time that he was using gear that wasn’t created until after he died.
LOL
@@charlesbolton8471 Buddy Holly
played a Fender Stratocaster.
He died in 1959 in a
plane crash.
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No, shit Sherlock we were both just joking around with each other.
I remember being fascinated with The Steve Howe Album. pouring over the art and liner notes. each guitar and track(s) they were played on. I had no idea what the Sitar/Guitar even looked like at the time. oh, seems many leave out Clapton's Firebird phase. yeah, short lived but ... I like.
See my Firebird concert sighting comment for confirmation.
players back then used whatever they could get their hands on. I heard telecasters were used a lot in studio recordings. very reliable guitars.
A lot of folks think that Andy Summers used his Telecaster on Every Breath You Take. According to Andy, it was his red Strat.
It's such a Strat sound.
@@NewFalconerRecords it's interesting to note that Andy used the Tele less during that period of the Police.
Great topic gents! How about telling us about session musicians who played parts for our guitar heroes. I was never hurt so bad when I found out Steve Hunter played the Train kept a Rollin solo for Joe Perry on the studio album. Love & Miss you guys. Mark from FL
Not only did Steve Hunter play on Train Kept A Rollin' but Dick Wagner did as well. Wagner also plays on Same Old Song And Dance. ...no reason to be hurt, Hunter and Wagner were both amazing guitar players.
Would love to know how many records Phil X is on
A few notes, Hendrix on the Dick Cavett plays a white SG(Les Paul custom) for part of the show, and a Flying V at the Aisle Of White concert. Jimmy page coming out of the Yardbirds yes was playing his Tele through Vox and his Supro amp, but was also using a pedal, the Tonebender fuzz, and continued using it on Zep 1. Then Clapton (unlike page at the time funny enough) was Les Paul straight into a Marshall for John Mayall and Fresh Cream, no gain pedals, then started using the SG, 335 and a Firebird as well(rumored to use a strat in the studio occasionally also) He really started experimenting with the strats and fender amps during Blind Faith and almost fully switched by the Dominoes period. (I play in a Cream era tribute band so I’m really into this lol 😂) Thanks for your videos! 📺
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Aren't this videos therapy for you? I can't have my good cup of Extra espresso every morning without watching you guys. Always enjoy!.. 🎸🎸
Important stuff first (keep hair and beard) - if you had to pick one. Hair. Now onto guitars! Metallica played on cheap Gibson copies, same with Slash. Dave Mustaine (stole) & used a B.C.Rich Bich perfect 10 for the early Metallica albums and the early Megadeth albums. Slash and Joe Perry both used B.C.Rich guitars as well. Billy Gibbons was and is known for using telecasters in the early days as well as anything cheap and weird like Hagstroms, Danelectros and even weird amps like old Smokey amps. These are just the tip of the iceberg! Keep up the great work! 🤘🏻😎🤘🏻
People always think of Rory Gallagher playing his old beat up Strat., But he played a number of different guitars live and in the studio, and constantly modified them. You should do something on him sometime. People don't know how influential he was.
Amen to that Steve!
Led Zepplin used mostly Harley Benton electrics, Zager acoustics, and Bugera V5 amps in the studio didn't they? 🤟😉
Page pretty famously played a Fender champ quite a bit.
LOL
No, Zeppelin only used a First Act strat package and the amp that came with it. That's clearly where the tone in Black Dog comes from.
Duh.
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enjoyed the video as always guys. Thanks!
The thumbnail reminds me that I couldn't be prouder to have a Hello Kitty strat in the guitarmada lol😋😁 It always puts a smile on my face.
Besides, NOTHING says 'Metal!!'😎 like a lone humbucker w only a cranked volume control 🎶✔
For me it was Ritchie Sambora in early Bon Jovi. He only moved to strats later. Slippery when wet etc was apparently a mix of various humbucker superstrats including Kramer.
Most people think Brian May only plays his "red special" (or modern versions thereof). However, the solo on Crazy Little Thing Called Love is a tele. He was trying to get a tele sound out of the old girl and was struggling. The producer finally handed him a tele and said just play on this. Also, early in Queen's touring career, Brian played a Les Paul on stage as he didn't think his guitar had enough punch for live gigs. If you can imagine.
Brian said in an interview "they forced me to play a telecaster", which led me to believe that he wasn't too happy about having to play it either. Maybe it was just a bit of "showmanship" in the interview?
@@castleanthrax1833 If I recall he wasn't too happy about it since he thought he could get the red special to sound like a tele given enough fiddling. The producer basically said "just try it with the tele" and they went with the take. So maybe Brian felt "forced" but the result is perfect.
Mozart used a PRS.
Man, I remember as a kid and beginning guitar player, one hundred percent thought of Clapton as not only a strat man, but specifically blackie, not even brownie. Then I found out about the fool with Cream the 335, etc. Speaking of his signature strat, that mid-boost was specifically made because he didn't want to change guitars anymore when playing thru his catalogue live. Saw him twice this year, no guitar changes, other than acoustic, and you can definitely hear when he rolls up the mid boost.
I would love to have his signature guitar to play with his built-in trick electronics.
@@Tijuanabill it's extremely versatile
So many people think George Harrison played a gretch in all of the Beatles stuff or at least their early stuff but he used so many different guitars throughout their career
If you like Sketch Comedy def check out Shane Gillis.
Also Slash not playing a Gibson (at least on the first record) is yet another good example
You guys weren't born yet but I was there in 1966. Eric Clapton started the Les Paul craze! When the John Mayall Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton LP was released in 1966 it changed music forever! We suburban kids in the San Francisco bay area had never heard of Clapton and we weren't thinking about Les Pauls which had been discontinued in 1960. When Bluesbreakers was released everybody (even Eddie Van Halen) tried top sound like Eric Clapton and the Les Paul "hunt" was on! There are stories of people I knew getting fabulous deals on old LPs like my friend's little brother buying a '57 Goldtop with case and amp from an old lady for &125.00! Another older friend who I played in a band with came to see me after he got out of the Navy and he showed me a '59 LP flametop he bought in a pawnshop in San Diego for $125.00! Gibson started manufacturing LPs again in 1968 because of their popularity! I had a '54 Strat which at that time which I couldn't have sold for $15! I wanted a LP. Everybody wanted an LP. Eric Clapton introduced the LP craze and the guitar hero craze!
Bruce Springsteen played Strats in 1972-1978 but mostly his famous Tele. He started out on a Les Paul. And he used a 12 string Fender electric on Ties That Bind.
Les Paul never played on an SG and he hated it, so I know he never used one, but Mary played one.
Keef has an original Mary Kaye stratocaster.
Paul McCartney used a Rickenbacker often in the studio and he plays the original upright bass that was played on the early 50s Elvis Sun recordings.
Eric Clapton wasn't only a Strat and a Les Paul player, but he loved a good SG.
Finding out Pete Townsend used a Gretsch and a Fender amp in the studio blew my mind.
Good video!! I'm an old guy now and was fortunate to all those guys in the 60s and 70's. I've even got a T shirt that says I may be old but I got to see all the good bands!! Some I know most people never heard of!! I saw Mr West a lot and speaking of tone!! He had it!!! The only peace of enhancements I saw him use was an Echo Plex. And I saw him 10 feet away!! For 5 bucks!!!! DAMN I miss those days!!!!
Fun fact: all guitar parts on albums before 1985 were recorded with a combination of accordions and kazoos. In 1985 Paul Reed Smith invented tone and finally guitars could be used.
Joe Walsh has said that the James gang sound was all Fender Champ. Part of the confusion can be what guys play in the studio has nothing to do with what they used live where everyone sees them. That champ won’t quite cut through in a stadium
I swear everyone thinks I play a Custom Shop Fender, but it’s still just a Squier. 😅 Wait…I’m not famous and no one cares about my gig at the church. 😂 2:26
He gave David a rock and a sling to show where the power was really coming from.
I think it's awesome that you play in church. I do as well, and often play a Squier bass.
Well I care!
You guys never fail to elicit smiles, but this one made me LOL! THANK-YOU!!
Paul McCartney during his Beatles day played his Hoffner violin bass but afterwards during his solo career and with Wings he moved to Rickenbacker 4000 series basses (of course he still to this day plays the Hoffner on certain songs live )
Wow!!! Hendrix using a tele, makes sense. It was readily acquired!
This was possibly the best thumbnail I’ve ever seen.
Slash's appetite for destruction Les Paul. The guy that sold the Les Paul to a whole new generation and continues to sell it to people recorded his most famous album with a Les Paul that today's Gibson would probably sue over since it wasn't actually a Gibson. Really surprised this didn't get a mention at least.
There are a bunch of folks who have done videos on famous guitars but I think the most thorough are those done by @FiveWattWorld. He dives deep into this with a lot of artists.
I don’t think Layla really kicked off the jam band thing, the Dead, the Airplane/Hot Tuna, and the Allmans had already started that path. But Layla and the Allmans live at Fillmore East drove the final transition to FM album rock.
FiveWattWorld FTW!!
Also,
Keith's approach to (minimal) gear is something that I've attempted to emulate the last few years (I'm down to 6 amps... Downsizing the guitars is still a work in progress 😊😁)
Santana seems to have been a PRS guy forever but most of his early great stuff was done on a Gibson SG. And I think it was mainly with P90's. Check me on that though.
I want to say he started in the 80s but it's pre-coffee so I'm not sure. He was definitely one of PRS's first major artists.
he was sponsored by yamaha for awhile too
He used the Gibson L-6 during 70s norlin era as well ... as did several 70s rockers , it must of been promo for the road gigs ???
Carlos Santana was at woodstock. He didn't play a PRS in the 60's and 70's. LOL
Saw Hendrix in '68 - he played Red House on some semi-hollow, likely a 335? Had a kind of green transparent finish, sounded amazing.
Can't wait till you get to 50K subscribers. Waiting on that Silversky.
First two doors albums were recorded with a double cut melody maker
I believe Clapton played a Telecaster in the Yardbirds, though I could be wrong...
He did
Love you guys, never miss you. But Pagey and Hendrix? Pedals.
You two are hilarious! Keep up the good work, keep on rambling on!
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Some of the Derek and the Dominos record was recorded with an early Pignose amp, as well. Bobby Whitlock talks about it on one of his UT videos.
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If they didn't want us to sniff glue, why did Testors make the blue label that smelled like oranges?
The Red Hot Chili Peppers' 'Under the Bridge' was played by John Frusciante on a Strat, but because of the video where he's playing a Jaguar, a lot of people assumed that he used that guitar on the song. Also, Slash didn't play a Gibson Les Paul on 'Appetite for Destruction', even though he later became the most famous Les Paul player of his generation.
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I think John used the Jag to write under the bridge. He used to practice with them allot, apparently. Scar tissue is allot of telecaster and the music video is a strat.
Nope Slash has a cheaper Japanese knockoff of the LP in black. He used the knockoff LP on the first album with the brand name removed, he removed it so studios would not know he had a lesser guitar when trying to first get a contract.
iirc, the Purple Haze Tele story went something like his strat getting either lost or broken in shipping, and the studio needed to get him a lefty on short notice. The only left-handed guitar available in the nearby shops was the tele. He intended to play the strat for it, and would have if not for the chaos.
Jimi didn't play lefty guitars
@@216trixie He didn't play a left handed strat. It's well known that he would flip the nut and string them upside down so he could play them left-handed. But when you're on as tight a timeline as he had for this recording, you don't have time to do those modifications.
Also, I think I remember that Gibson deliberately made his SG and V left-handed.
I saw Cream at the Camden County (NJ) Music Circus/Fair in June of 1968. Clapton played a Gibson Firebird that night. I was fifteen at the time, and knew basically nothing about the band, but I did get to meet them briefly back stage prior to the show. I remember that Ginger Baker's appearance up close nearly scared me to death. I left the concert about a half hour after it started because my ears were ringing so much from the incredibly loud volume at that small venue . . . fun times.
What was wrong with ginger Baker?
@@JerseyMiller Think about the impact of a famous, 28 year old, flaming red-headed, long haired, bearded, full-grown Englishman on a naive, skinny 15 year old high school kid from suburban New Jersey in 1968 . . . get it?
THAT’S a story! All respect to him, but Ginger Baker is one of those guys that just always looked on the verge of death.
@@davekosla8772 What I recall thinking at the time when I first saw the three of them backstage was, "These are grown men, not kids, and I don't belong here!" I didn't have the nerve to even say hello, but Clapton and Jack Bruce did chat with a couple of my bandmates for a bit.
You know, I've been interested for a while in what sorts of guitars and gear were used on video game soundtracks around the mid-90s, right when the developers and composers had only really just gained the tools to move away from what was essentially midi data and use real instruments.
I remember that we started hearing guitars on a lot of those soundtracks all of a sudden probably because it was a staple of the music their players were listening to at the time -- you know, grunge, industrial, prog rock -- and I'd imagine also because many of the composers who were already working in the industry could already play.
But I've never been able to find much information on what sort of guitars, amps, effects, etc they were using or what it was recorded with.
...and unfortunately I'm probably not going to. Unless I get the chance to talk to someone who was there and actually remembers, I don't think the information really exists the way it does for rock bands and celebrity musicians.
Chuck Berry is known for playing Gibson ES-335, but they didn't come along until his most iconic songs were already recorded. He didn't switch to them until the 1960s. He recorded most of what you know by him on big jazz hollowbodies like the ES-350.
I know, that's getting into the weeds.
Here's one that always shocks me- Black Dog by Led Zeplin- not played through an amp. They ran the guitar directly into the board- into an 1176 compressor that was overdriving a Neve preamp. Turn the attack way down, turn the compression way up- then mix back in about 1/3rd clean signal- viola, you've got that Zepplin distortion you've been looking for in endless pedals but couldn't find. The Nyle Preamp/comp. by Vertex is an 1176 compressor and a Neve preamp in one pedal- problem solved. Plus- you can also get Stevie Ray Vaughn, John Mayer, or BB king tones out of it. Just by playing with how much you overdrive the preamp- and of course the eq settings and compressor settings- it's shocking how much this pedal can do. It was actually designed for funk and R&B- to give you that uber punchy, sort of crunchy, clean tone on guitar or the glassy bass tone you hear on funk records. And it does this wonderfully- but it also does much more.
Vertex stopped making them- and they're not cheap- about 300 bucks- but well worth it, trust me. Vertex said they costed too much to make and didn't sell enough-- I suspicion due to the high cost- so they stopped making them. But here's the thing- sure it costs 300 bucks but once I got it- it literally replaced about 5 different pedals on my board. No need any longer for my Vertex Steel String, any compressors, or eq pedals- this pedal does all that and actually sounds better than what I had before.
Back in the 50s, 60s and 70s they were the trend setters... The tone they got out of their Les Paul's, SGs, J-45s, D28s, Stratocasters, etc... on the hits they recorded with them defined what past and the current generation chase and continue to chase... You guys should know this owning a music store, but most people buy what their heros play or played. It's not always delusional, thinking the gear will deliver the skill, but I think more about owning the gear to pay tribute to and further connect with our favorite artist. Call it the mythical aspect to gear or whatever, but it's very real.... The big elephant in the room is ghost building and boutique built custom shop signature models vs production signature models. You won't dare go there... If customer Joe knew that $2500 signature guitar wasn't really hand built by the most skilled luthier in the shop like the one the artist actually plays, would he still buy it?
Made it to the end, but can't remember what you were talking about at the start, but yea Jonathan without hair would be just too scary to handle 😂
On Slash & MK+TC’s somewhat recent album Living The Dream, there were a couple moments that really sounded like a telecaster in my opinion, and it got me wondering if maaaayyvbe there was a chance that it really was.. of course, with Slash and Gibson being so symbiotic, there’s no way we’ll ever know even if it was. Really it just goes to show how much the Les Paul and the SG sound like Telecasters on steroids.
Fun fact, Slash his first Gibson LP was actually a Japanese cheap version of the instrument and the whole first album was made with that clone, just the Japanese brand name was fully removed from the instrument in early days of trying to get a recording contract just to hide he had this cheaper guitar.
Even though Jeff Beck is famous for playing a Fender Stratocaster, during the time Jeff Beck played on the record Blow by Blow, Jeff Beck used a Gibson Les Paul.
These example just prove that it’s the player will always sound like the player no matter what rig. It really hit when I was seeing the chili peppers recently and John’s tech was testing his rig and all I could think of was “wow that sounds absolutely nothing like John” lol
This is why I sold my PRS custom 24 and the Fender twin reverb for a First Act strat pack for my pro gigs. Who needs fancy gear when you can get a bargain like that?? It all sounds exactly alike.
@@questioneverything4633 not the point
My favorite guitarist is Brian May so, with the exception of two songs, I pretty much know what he played on the rest of those records lol. Johnathan would probly freak me out if the beard went. I could handle him with a bald head looking like that guy from over the top that dukes it out with Stallone at the end. If I saw him w/o the beard I’d chalk it up to another sign of the end of times.
Jimmy Page, on the acoustic parts of 'Babe I'm Gonna Leave You' was about a 1970 or so Harmony Sovereign. Nyms herself.
I just watched the Chappelle Show with John Mayer. So good!
Mike Einziger is a more modern version, he is immediately associated with PRS Hollowbodys on his first few albums. But I've seen them in concert multiple times, and he has switched to Tele's, then to SG's, and was playing a Music Man Albert Lee. You couldn't pick more different guitars, but every single time he only sounds like himself.
i think he stopped playing jazzmasters in favour of albert lees after his wrist surgery(?). also...i'm jealous you've seen him multiple times. their last couple albums have seemed phoned in to me, but he's still one of my favorite guitar players of all time.
I have see a picture of Clapton with a Fiesta red telecaster from the blues breaker days and he honestly looked like he was about to cry. He played a telecaster some in the Blind Faith days but he had a strat neck put on it .
I remember hearing Gary Moore for the first time and thinking - man why’s that dude using a ukulele? I was absolutely floored when I discovered it was a les Paul and the reason it sounded so shrill was because he was deaf and kept turning the treble up.
Moore used “Greeny”, Peter Green’s Les Paul with one upside down pickup so it’s out of phase in the middle position. Hence the quacky tone.
Tony Iommi played a strat before he started using SGs. There's one song off of their first album with him using it and that's Wicked World.
I recall a picture (maybe in the _Electric_ _Ladyland_ album?) of Jimi playing a Flying V.
He played it a lot, and an SG too... watch the Isle of Wight video, he plays the V onstage...
Makes sense. V’s and SG’s are symmetrical and, though I’m no expert, it sounds like it would most likely just be a switching of the nut and bridge saddles to make them lefty for him.
What guitars did Steely Dan use ? They were pretty nifty musicians .
Nowhere near the leagues of Page and Hendrix, but everyone associates Rivers Cuomo of Weezer with his blue strat, however the first two albums were mainly recorded on a les paul special and a fender jag.
Hendrix had style, used the Strato-Hello Kitty 😻
Brian Epstein made a deal with Vox for the Beatles. Free gear , played Vox exclusively and Vox got the best advertising.😊
Wow, that’s some cool information. Thank you 😊
J Mascis hardly ever using a Jazzmaster and a Big Muff in the studio actually shocked me 🤯
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I was just about to comment this, but I scrolled down just to see if anyone else pointed it out. I was taken aback when I found that out too. I felt like I'd been had or something.
@@hamupinhere Yep, and I was noodling on my Squier J Mascis Jazzmaster while watching the video too 😆
Clapton was well known for playing SGs until he saw Hendrix play a strat. Which is funny when you mentioned Hendrix played a tele on some of his songs.
I wanted a Les Paul because of Mark Knopfler!
Yes Jimmy played a Telecaster through an old Supro amp on the iconic lead break on Stairway to Heaven, but it wasn't just any telecaster. It was the Telecaster that Jeff Beck GAVE him from Jeffs Yardbirds days. If that guitar could speak...
Beck gained fame with his Blow by Blow album, on which he almost exclusively played a Les Paul, years before he discovered that the Stratocaster was almost designed for his personal style of playing...( Jeffs words)...
My favorite example: People obsessed for decades over the Pearly Gates Les Paul sound on the La Grange solo until the Reverend BFG put out his book and revealed that he used an old Strat to punch through the mix.
I recall hearing somewhere that Marc bolan recorded 20th century boy with a telecaster, not his les paul custom as it was assumed
Noel Gallagher is known for that Union Jack Epiphone Sheraton (?), but he only played it once at a TV show or something.
Baxter does your friend work for Vandaleigh Industry?
The fact that SRV, a staple Strat guy, started off with Jimmie Vaughan’s Tele
Keef is another one, always an open G five string tele. Over the years he‘s played just about every guitar ever made.
And Angus, just an SG guy, right?
On the Back In Black tour he played an SG Custom almost exclusively, so there.
Hendrix is the reason I own a replica Hello Kitty Strat 🤘”excuse me while I HISS this guy”
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Jeff Beck is one that comes to mind he played les Paul’s and esquires before strats
The story is that Clapton switched to the Strat after hearing Jimi Hendrix play. Now i have no idea if that's true or not- I do know Eric was in awe of Jimi and that he thought Jimi was much better than him- because I've heard him say so, but I have no idea when he switched to a Strat or if it had anything to do with him hearing Jimi. That said- I am sort of inclined to believe it because the interview I saw where he talked about Jimi he went on and on about how shocked he was that Jimi could get the sounds he was getting out of his guitar even when just playing in the back on some tiny practice amp or something. So, it makes sense that he might think it was the guitar to some degree and decide to give one a go. I'm sure he knows 99% of it is in Jimi's hands and head but- if even 1% is the guitar- I'm sure he wanted it.
Non sequitur comment... shout out to Jonathan for the Stormlight Chronicles recommendation on a video a few months ago. Doing the audiobook read of em👍 Throw out some more book suggestions in addition to the movies and TVs sidetrack reviews 😄
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Eddie Van Halen was known for the frankenstrat, but on the recording of "Hot for Teacher", (and probably a few other songs) he used a Gibson Korina V
And he played a Strat (recorded direct) on 'Finish What Ya Started'.
@@fuzzysurf1083 as well as a Kramer Ripley stereo guitar on Top Jimmy
@@REDW1NG94 Hmmm...that...I didn't know. Will need to take a look at one sometime. Ripley...you mean like in 'Alien'?
Ibanez Destroyer on everything VH1 that didn’t have a whammy.
@@davekosla8772 Eddie's Ibanez Destroyer became the "Shark" guitar seen on the cover of "Women and Children First". Eddie claimed that it never sounded the same after he hacked the big chunk out of it that made it the "Shark". Later after being disappointed with his guitar sound on the 2nd album, he borrowed another Ibanez Destroyer from his friend & former high school classmate Chris Holmes (W.A.S.P.) and used it on the 3rd album.
I've read that Hendrix did not play a Fender anything on 'Red house' (Are You Experienced?), but can't remember the make, but I wanna say Hofner.
Layla and other love songs = 10/10
This video quality is looking awesome. New cameras??
EC's yardbirds stuff is all tele too. Seems like pretty much all guitarists born before 1950 or so played a telecaster at some point