It always good to have home...but Great players can play anything...and some instruments/guitars have a different sound or feel..like if I need a Floyd l have one and I have stratsc without
I made the choice to have a tele, a strato, a Les Paul, a hollowbody and an offset rather than just one expensive Fender! Did I think I'd play better? No, I just thought I'd have more sonic possibilities.
Happy to be part of your sangha/dojo brother. It’s not the guitar, nor how many one does or doesn’t own. May all earnest musicians have the tools they require to be happy and bring happiness to others. 🙏🏻
Hey John, First of all, I'm a bit wordy, so I apologize for the length of this post in advance. Secondly, it may not be particularly helpful, but I'll put in my 2 pence anyway. This is something I've grappled with regularly. I don't have a lot of gear, (9 guitars, including 2 accoustics, and a dozen or so pedals) but the idea of pairing it down to one guitar and one amp and the minimum number of pedals I need to get through a gig, is appealing to me. But I don't have one guitar that can "do it all". The one that gets closest is my Sire T7 FM, but it isn't the guitar I love to play the most. Also, there's something inspiring about picking up a guitar you haven't played in a while, and getting reacquainted. The bottom line is, people don't come to hear me play guitar in a cover band. I'm not that good. They come to hear the songs that they like. As long as we don't butcher them, the punters go home happy. If ever I decide to play my own music again, I think it will be most important to have my own voice on the instrument then. Maybe knowing your #1 intimately, and worrying less about "doing it all" may be a better approach. Anyway, on and on it goes, back and forth. Thanks for all the work that you do. Best regards, Nigel.
Regardless of the amount of guitars, 95% of my time goes to just one of them. That means that, by the time I want to play any other it probably needs new strings or some maintenance. Which puts me off.
"The most music from the least gear." I thought that was brilliant. I still do. I bought into that concept so much that instead of a dozen guitars, I now have 4; One Les Paul. One Strat. One semi-hollow electric. One acoustic.
What John Mayer and Keith Urban said regarding bonding with a guitar...and or limiting the number of guitars so that you can bond with it is spot on ! I am finding spending a few days each with 4-5 guitars you truly don't know the instrument. You're not as comfortable with the instrument switching as much as I have trying to justify the purchases. Different feel necks, different fret radius's, different weights, or how the electronics are laid out on the body...just many things as you mentioned John....all spot on ! If that blue K line Strat's frets are really wearing, I'd have it re fretted with stainless steel frets. Especially if that's your #1 ~!
1st thing I thought of was a Bill Frisell interview talking about why he keeps replacing his DL4. Because he knows it so well and what sounds he can get with the knobs.
It's true. The more guitars I buy, the worse my playing gets ... 🙄 My rationale is that, as an old git 🧙♂, if I don't get to experience these things I want to experience soon I risk running out of breathing privileges. So - I Do It Now Worry about it when I'm dead innit ☠
I like to master each guitar and amp for the sake of finding more tones to sit in different mixes so my songs don’t all sound the same. It inspires me to play differently.
This is brilliant! I used to have 1 guitar and a JMP1/8008/4x12 set up that o gigged and played for years….no gear distraction and I knew that guitar inside out. Fast forward a few decades and I ended up with lots of guitars and amps. About 18 months ago I stripped back to 1 Strat (Kauffmann) a Klon and a Tone Master Imperial mkii. (And a Martin 000). That’s all I need and now I’m playing better than ever. I know my guitar and amp well and am back to being ‘in the zone’
I have two different type guitars I play every day, though I have about a half dozen othe types I could play. I wish I could do everything on just one guitar. I use one "Pedal" every day - An HX Stomp I've had for four years. I love that it can do everything I want and need, but learning how to do that well also consumes a lot of time. It's a thousand kicks to use, but it's a thousand kicks to learn.
Fun thing to do with your DR (totally safe....will not hurt your amp). Pull out the first preamp tube. (furthest to the left). That's the preamp tube for the Normal channel. By pulling that tube, there is more voltage supplied to the Vibrato channel. This will make that Vibrato channel more gained up without being nasty....it's like you're using a light overdrive pedal. I know you seem to like the Normal channel but this is a cool sound. BTW, I'm not sure whether it works the other way (pulling the second tube).
For me I have a few guitars I love and a few guitars I rarely play. I find with the guitars I don't play as much, I spend more time and money trying to "fix them up" where I ought to just play the guitars I already love. One thing I noticed recently is that a really good Tele into a clean amp (or clean tone) is fantastic for practice, it's no frills just a good basic sound. Fewer options seems to mean less time fussing and even just having fewer pickup/switch options can be a really good thing.
Mmmm, whatever inspires you to play. I have a medium collection, many of which fulfil a role in a recording context, each one inspires me to play, and play Certain ways. Each one creates tone differently. I also ‘built’ several during lockdown mainly Strats and teles with differing pickups and wiring etc. I challenge myself every day to play 2-3 of them when not recording. As always there’s no right or wrong, just what works for you
I mainly play one guitar: a professional Strat (first version, SSS) with jumbo stainless steel frets. I spent hours trying out many others before choosing this one, and I always come back to it. The two others I own are backups, though I occasionally use them for their differences (a luthier-made HH and an HSS). Sometimes I think a Jazzmaster could be cool, but I don’t really need another guitar. Besides, all the other professional models I’ve tried didn’t quite feel the same-some were too punchy or too glassy for my taste. Thank you for your videos :)
I had a ton of gear until last year, then wrote a cull list. After killing the GAS monster I sold everything off. Now it’s 4 guitars, 2 amps, 5 pedals. That’s it. Much better for it.
A major fret dressing (leveling, shaping/dressing, polish) can make a guitar feel and play "different". Not necessarily a bad thing, but could require some re-learning of technique. A refret can change all the above and even make the guitar sound different.
It’s weird but I do feel the same way. Specially in our place where I don’t think the luthier is good enough to make it feel as close to how it originally felt. More like trust issues you know.
I have 5 electric guitars: 1997 Heritage H535 (es335), PRS S2 Singlecut, PRS SE McCarty 594 Standard, Schecter PT Special (tele) and Yamaha Pacifica 612. I play the PRS SE McCarty 594 90% of the time. PRS S2 Singlecut next and the Heritage H535 next. I occasionally pull out the Yamaha Pacifica if I want single coil sounds for a change and I hardly every play the Schecter PT Special. I probably should sell the Schecter and the Yamaha and get one single coil guitar that I really like and be done with it.
Along this same line of thought... I use the Tomo Fujitsu challenge to refocus.... On my Strats for 30 days i can only use the middle pickup all needed sounds have to be sourced from the vol,tone, and amp. Kinda like using a telly, forces you to focus on tone and what fits in the mix.
Stunningly beautiful intro piece, with great tone and playing, but there’s a moment in the loop where a note kind of honks out and sounds a little out of place to me!
I have 6 electrics and one nice acoustic. I tend to rotate to play all my guitars consistently. I tend to gravitate to certain ones for certain things. I think one single coil guitar and one humbucker guitar is all you need unless you’re playing in a bunch of different tunings.
The flip side is ... well, I had this one PRS I exclusively played from like 1991 to 2006, and there was always a problem when I picked up someone else's to check it out or whatever. I couldn't play. I felt hobbled on anything else. When I started picking up more instruments on the regular, I was able to appreciate other instruments, and it stopped mattering what the shape of the neck was, or the scale length so much. Maybe it was just me being a crap guitarist, but I think there's a value to having a breadth of expierence, or whatever you want to call it.
I have about 12 guitars, including acoustic and Bass, been trying to sell at least half the last year to no avail, it’s been a ghost town for sales on my end and I can’t even go any lower than I’m currently at. I have a rule. Nothing comes in unless two go out.
@@teslacoil3286 dang that is too bad. im a low dough individual so i end up buying low end stuff only when it reaches a price i can flip it for when im broke, same with my vehicles. lol. cheers
It's a struggle to reduce the number of guitars I have. This is in great part to being left handed and their rarity. They're not expensive just rare. I try to give each time out of the cupboard at home and it's fun. Each has its own personality. Could i tell them apart off a recording? Nope! I only gig one of my basses, a couple of acoustics and a couple of my electrics. I have accumulated quite a few pedals since I ran out of space. Theyre fun to play with at home. Outside i use my Zoom B3 or G3n.
I have a Tele, a Strat, and an Epiphone Casino. Acoustically, I have a mahogany Takamine and a Guild DV52 with Indian Rosewood. Since I'm not in a band, I can't see the point of buying more guitars and possibly ignoring the ones I already own. I'd love to get a Boucher or Collings acoustic but then I'd never play my Guild, which I really enjoy.
The main thing is, every minute spent playing the guitar makes you a better guitarist, whereas no minute spent messing with gear makes you a better guitarist. Thus: wait until you have really mastered the instrument before wasting minutes on things like gear or switching guitars. I.e. give me a guitarist who has spent 1000 hours with the same axe and amp before giving me one who's spent half those hours faffing with gear.
I think to some extent, and somewhat unfortunately, the valid and valuable search for new musical ideas and directions and the search for one's own tone and sound, can be supplanted by the search for, and acquisition of, new gear. There's always an excuse for what you've decide you need to buy ... under those circumstances. However, where gear has a genuine role in the process of finding your own musical identity there is no shame in having multiple styles of playing on different instruments if it's working for you, or multiple kinds of tones you are getting from different gear, IF it's resulting in the creation of something you believe has genuine value to you and/or others. Identifying where the line is between is between the two conditions is very very hard imo
I went from 1 to 18 in 18 months, solid body to semi to hollow.body. In my mind, examples of music styles I enjoy. Finding now,I could probably have way less but every time I try to sell I always find reasons to keep
Goody gumdrops. Another video where someone who has gone through fifty guitars in the last few years pontificates about why we shouldn’t do what they did. The Mayer and Urban conversation keeps coming up. Do you think there might be other reasons, other than the number of guitars, they felt like they weren’t as “in touch” with their instruments? I feel like maybe just maybe they are both living slightly different lives than they were at that stage where they had fewer guitars and there might be other factors at play here!
I have two guitars a main and a backup. I always have a thought that I need another guitar that is different but when I want to grab a guitar I always go for my main. Amps I think you need a different one for different kind if gigs
I feel like it kinda depends. I've got 4 cause I play a lot of classical too, then I have an 8 string, a semi hollow and the latest addition was a strat style guitar. I could do without the latter but it does have a whole new sound and I usually end up playing totally different things when I pick it up. So yea, I wouldn't really understand the need of having like 5 guitars of the same type, but I feel like very few people are actually like that, most of the guitarists I've met have like 2 or 3 different guitars, and maybe kept the one they started on
Hey John, been watching your content from a long time. A small request, can you play something like you played in the first ibanez joe satriani guitar review video you made ? much love
Just need a mini tube screamer, a compressor, a eq pedal, and a expression pedal for my stomp. Other than that i just haver One main guitar and i do not need guitars. My ibanez Prestige is enough, maybe some new Pickups, other than that i am good.
I own 5 electric guitars. Which is 4 too many. However I have to have 4, as I’m in two bands and they use two different tunings, I could possibly get one band to drop by a semitone and get a 2nd 7 string and have just my main and a spare. Does anyone want to buy my other guitars so I can buy a new 7 string? Anyone?
I’m trying to reduce everything again and feeling good about that process, but John you really are overthinking the refret… get a good luthier and it will come back as good as it ever was (and better than it is now if the frets are worn) and you will kick yourself for not having done it sooner.
I’ve been saying that forever although I’m always gassing for new gear. Sticking with the same scale length, neck profile and amp flavor helps but where’s the fun in that?😂
If you got the money spend it on whatever the f you want. I will say though wasting uncountable hours on chasing tone is just that wasting a lot of time. Your tone is right there in your fingers.
as far as gear.2025 Im waiting for a new line 6 helix updated modeler.Thats it im done!!! I have some much styff that I dont need at all,I dont gig lol,I just like learning how things work but after getting the tonemaster pro and its ease of use im done with modelers.I have them all but I want something to be like tonemaster as far as how easy and fast it is to use.I have my helix lt,tonex into the efx loop along with opus into efx loop m2 another tonex going into hx effects along with nano cortex going into 2nd hx effects loop ,a booss gt1000 core with a tonex one going into effects loop and another tonex 1 as an overdrive pedal.oh and a katana lol.Yeah im done!!!!I almost got axe fx but the choice on it are so overwhelming I dont me personally need it im just home.If i was in a big multi band cover band then yeah.
Limitation fuels creativity, too much gear is a distraction. Also seeing guitar heroes auctioning off their massive collections is depressing. Most of their excessive gear looks dusty, unmaintained & probably hasn’t been played in years.
BruceLee & Guitar playing...What's next Cordy? I know you have kids to feed, but... :) You'd be better off with creating content teaching skills you posses, rather than creating click bait videos. Think about it!
Mmmm, whatever inspires you to play. I have a medium collection, many of which fulfil a role in a recording context, each one inspires me to play, and play Certain ways. Each one creates tone differently. I also ‘built’ several during lockdown mainly Strats and teles with differing pickups and wiring etc. I challenge myself every day to play 2-3 of them when not recording. As always there’s no right or wrong, just what works for you
For what it's worth...I read Bruce Lee's autobiography. He owned 15 guitars, several amps and a landfill of pedals.
😂😂😂
It always good to have home...but Great players can play anything...and some instruments/guitars have a different sound or feel..like if I need a Floyd l have one and I have stratsc without
Word! 🤣
I thought he played the accordion? I guess he could do both
I don’t fear the man who has played 10,000 guitars. I fear the man who has played one guitar 10,000 times!
I made the choice to have a tele, a strato, a Les Paul, a hollowbody and an offset rather than just one expensive Fender! Did I think I'd play better? No, I just thought I'd have more sonic possibilities.
Gotta have a strat/tele and a Les Paul!
Happy to be part of your sangha/dojo brother. It’s not the guitar, nor how many one does or doesn’t own. May all earnest musicians have the tools they require to be happy and bring happiness to others. 🙏🏻
Hey John, First of all, I'm a bit wordy, so I apologize for the length of this post in advance. Secondly, it may not be particularly helpful, but I'll put in my 2 pence anyway.
This is something I've grappled with regularly. I don't have a lot of gear, (9 guitars, including 2 accoustics, and a dozen or so pedals) but the idea of pairing it down to one guitar and one amp and the minimum number of pedals I need to get through a gig, is appealing to me. But I don't have one guitar that can "do it all". The one that gets closest is my Sire T7 FM, but it isn't the guitar I love to play the most. Also, there's something inspiring about picking up a guitar you haven't played in a while, and getting reacquainted. The bottom line is, people don't come to hear me play guitar in a cover band. I'm not that good. They come to hear the songs that they like. As long as we don't butcher them, the punters go home happy. If ever I decide to play my own music again, I think it will be most important to have my own voice on the instrument then. Maybe knowing your #1 intimately, and worrying less about "doing it all" may be a better approach. Anyway, on and on it goes, back and forth. Thanks for all the work that you do. Best regards, Nigel.
“9 guitars and a dozen pedals” isn’t a lot?? Man guitar players’ mindset is crazy
Regardless of the amount of guitars, 95% of my time goes to just one of them. That means that, by the time I want to play any other it probably needs new strings or some maintenance. Which puts me off.
"The most music from the least gear." I thought that was brilliant. I still do. I bought into that concept so much that instead of a dozen guitars, I now have 4; One Les Paul. One Strat. One semi-hollow electric. One acoustic.
What John Mayer and Keith Urban said regarding bonding with a guitar...and or limiting the number of guitars so that you can bond with it is spot on ! I am finding spending a few days each with 4-5 guitars you truly don't know the instrument. You're not as comfortable with the instrument switching as much as I have trying to justify the purchases. Different feel necks, different fret radius's, different weights, or how the electronics are laid out on the body...just many things as you mentioned John....all spot on ! If that blue K line Strat's frets are really wearing, I'd have it re fretted with stainless steel frets. Especially if that's your #1 ~!
1st thing I thought of was a Bill Frisell interview talking about why he keeps replacing his DL4. Because he knows it so well and what sounds he can get with the knobs.
I swear I will always have less guitars than Joe Bonnamassa..
It's true.
The more guitars I buy, the worse my playing gets ... 🙄
My rationale is that, as an old git 🧙♂, if I don't get to experience these things I want to experience soon I risk running out of breathing privileges.
So - I Do It Now
Worry about it when I'm dead innit ☠
This almost old git agrees ❤️🕊️🤘🏻
"It's like a finger pointing a way to the moon. Don't concentrate on the finger or you'll miss all of that heavenly glory." (Bruce Lee)
Play like water my friend 😂
I like to master each guitar and amp for the sake of finding more tones to sit in different mixes so my songs don’t all sound the same. It inspires me to play differently.
You need a strat type, Tele type, super start type and a les Paul type and that's enough
And you can play almost anything on every one ;)
This is brilliant!
I used to have 1 guitar and a JMP1/8008/4x12 set up that o gigged and played for years….no gear distraction and I knew that guitar inside out.
Fast forward a few decades and I ended up with lots of guitars and amps.
About 18 months ago I stripped back to 1 Strat (Kauffmann) a Klon and a Tone Master Imperial mkii. (And a Martin 000). That’s all I need and now I’m playing better than ever. I know my guitar and amp well and am back to being ‘in the zone’
Probably meant tone king*?
@ aye, Tone King lol
in an ideal world i'd just have one guitar and an hx stomp. full respect to anybody that can do that.
The fact that you semi retired a guitar cos you were worried about needing a fretjob is exactly why all guitars should have SS frets.
I have two different type guitars I play every day, though I have about a half dozen othe types I could play. I wish I could do everything on just one guitar. I use one "Pedal" every day - An HX Stomp I've had for four years. I love that it can do everything I want and need, but learning how to do that well also consumes a lot of time. It's a thousand kicks to use, but it's a thousand kicks to learn.
Nice shirt John! Styling it. Love the 5th chords on the beginning. Beautiful piece. You are a master of clean tones.
Fun thing to do with your DR (totally safe....will not hurt your amp). Pull out the first preamp tube. (furthest to the left). That's the preamp tube for the Normal channel. By pulling that tube, there is more voltage supplied to the Vibrato channel. This will make that Vibrato channel more gained up without being nasty....it's like you're using a light overdrive pedal. I know you seem to like the Normal channel but this is a cool sound. BTW, I'm not sure whether it works the other way (pulling the second tube).
Life is unforgiving at time and difficult to navigate. You want something, go get it.
For me I have a few guitars I love and a few guitars I rarely play. I find with the guitars I don't play as much, I spend more time and money trying to "fix them up" where I ought to just play the guitars I already love. One thing I noticed recently is that a really good Tele into a clean amp (or clean tone) is fantastic for practice, it's no frills just a good basic sound. Fewer options seems to mean less time fussing and even just having fewer pickup/switch options can be a really good thing.
Mmmm, whatever inspires you to play.
I have a medium collection, many of which fulfil a role in a recording context, each one inspires me to play, and play Certain ways. Each one creates tone differently.
I also ‘built’ several during lockdown mainly Strats and teles with differing pickups and wiring etc. I challenge myself every day to play 2-3 of them when not recording.
As always there’s no right or wrong, just what works for you
i really liked you editing the topic and then going into playing. nice
I agree with everything of Bruce Lee... truth
I mainly play one guitar: a professional Strat (first version, SSS) with jumbo stainless steel frets.
I spent hours trying out many others before choosing this one, and I always come back to it.
The two others I own are backups, though I occasionally use them for their differences (a luthier-made HH and an HSS).
Sometimes I think a Jazzmaster could be cool, but I don’t really need another guitar. Besides, all the other professional models I’ve tried didn’t quite feel the same-some were too punchy or too glassy for my taste.
Thank you for your videos :)
I had a ton of gear until last year, then wrote a cull list. After killing the GAS monster I sold everything off. Now it’s 4 guitars, 2 amps, 5 pedals. That’s it. Much better for it.
And why do you fear a fretjob? I don't get it. You mentioned it few times in the past and I just don't get the point...so you'll have new frets...and?
A major fret dressing (leveling, shaping/dressing, polish) can make a guitar feel and play "different". Not necessarily a bad thing, but could require some re-learning of technique.
A refret can change all the above and even make the guitar sound different.
It’s weird but I do feel the same way. Specially in our place where I don’t think the luthier is good enough to make it feel as close to how it originally felt. More like trust issues you know.
I have 5 electric guitars: 1997 Heritage H535 (es335), PRS S2 Singlecut, PRS SE McCarty 594 Standard, Schecter PT Special (tele) and Yamaha Pacifica 612. I play the PRS SE McCarty 594 90% of the time. PRS S2 Singlecut next and the Heritage H535 next. I occasionally pull out the Yamaha Pacifica if I want single coil sounds for a change and I hardly every play the Schecter PT Special. I probably should sell the Schecter and the Yamaha and get one single coil guitar that I really like and be done with it.
Along this same line of thought... I use the Tomo Fujitsu challenge to refocus.... On my Strats for 30 days i can only use the middle pickup all needed sounds have to be sourced from the vol,tone, and amp. Kinda like using a telly, forces you to focus on tone and what fits in the mix.
I’ve been doing this for years. On the neck pickup. 😅
Stunningly beautiful intro piece, with great tone and playing, but there’s a moment in the loop where a note kind of honks out and sounds a little out of place to me!
the goose strikes!
This is like a mechanic having a my little pony tool set. 😅 we need tools for each job.
I have 6 electrics and one nice acoustic. I tend to rotate to play all my guitars consistently. I tend to gravitate to certain ones for certain things. I think one single coil guitar and one humbucker guitar is all you need unless you’re playing in a bunch of different tunings.
The flip side is ... well, I had this one PRS I exclusively played from like 1991 to 2006, and there was always a problem when I picked up someone else's to check it out or whatever. I couldn't play. I felt hobbled on anything else.
When I started picking up more instruments on the regular, I was able to appreciate other instruments, and it stopped mattering what the shape of the neck was, or the scale length so much.
Maybe it was just me being a crap guitarist, but I think there's a value to having a breadth of expierence, or whatever you want to call it.
I have about 12 guitars, including acoustic and Bass, been trying to sell at least half the last year to no avail, it’s been a ghost town for sales on my end and I can’t even go any lower than I’m currently at. I have a rule. Nothing comes in unless two go out.
not lowering the price is an indicator of how hard you have been "trying" lol
What part of I can’t go any lower did you not understand? That means I’ve been lowering it. “lol” …. See, I can do that as well
@@teslacoil3286 ok sorry man i just dont get the "cant", seems kinda subjective.
Fair enough, been lowering it a lot over the year and I’m losing money all around if everything is sold today, but it is what it is. Cheers 🍻
@@teslacoil3286 dang that is too bad. im a low dough individual so i end up buying low end stuff only when it reaches a price i can flip it for when im broke, same with my vehicles. lol. cheers
It's a struggle to reduce the number of guitars I have. This is in great part to being left handed and their rarity. They're not expensive just rare.
I try to give each time out of the cupboard at home and it's fun. Each has its own personality. Could i tell them apart off a recording? Nope!
I only gig one of my basses, a couple of acoustics and a couple of my electrics.
I have accumulated quite a few pedals since I ran out of space. Theyre fun to play with at home.
Outside i use my Zoom B3 or G3n.
I have a Tele, a Strat, and an Epiphone Casino. Acoustically, I have a mahogany Takamine and a Guild DV52 with Indian Rosewood. Since I'm not in a band, I can't see the point of buying more guitars and possibly ignoring the ones I already own. I'd love to get a Boucher or Collings acoustic but then I'd never play my Guild, which I really enjoy.
My No. one? I only have one to choose from. Guess that makes it my go to.
The main thing is, every minute spent playing the guitar makes you a better guitarist, whereas no minute spent messing with gear makes you a better guitarist. Thus: wait until you have really mastered the instrument before wasting minutes on things like gear or switching guitars. I.e. give me a guitarist who has spent 1000 hours with the same axe and amp before giving me one who's spent half those hours faffing with gear.
Oh my word! He’s brought out the K-Line !! 🎉
Play your guitar! Play with as many people as you can. Listen! Have fun!
I think to some extent, and somewhat unfortunately, the valid and valuable search for new musical ideas and directions and the search for one's own tone and sound, can be supplanted by the search for, and acquisition of, new gear. There's always an excuse for what you've decide you need to buy ... under those circumstances.
However, where gear has a genuine role in the process of finding your own musical identity there is no shame in having multiple styles of playing on different instruments if it's working for you, or multiple kinds of tones you are getting from different gear, IF it's resulting in the creation of something you believe has genuine value to you and/or others.
Identifying where the line is between is between the two conditions is very very hard imo
where does the bass and drums come from on your loop. Do you have a looper that fills it in?
I went from 1 to 18 in 18 months, solid body to semi to hollow.body. In my mind, examples of music styles I enjoy. Finding now,I could probably have way less but every time I try to sell I always find reasons to keep
Did you rob a bank? lol
@ no I robbed myself. …hahahaha
The UFC commentator that we didn’t know we had ❤
before i watch the video... i agree...But I'm torn between a super strat or a les paul. Superstrat is practical, but les paul has style
Goody gumdrops.
Another video where someone who has gone through fifty guitars in the last few years pontificates about why we shouldn’t do what they did.
The Mayer and Urban conversation keeps coming up. Do you think there might be other reasons, other than the number of guitars, they felt like they weren’t as “in touch” with their instruments?
I feel like maybe just maybe they are both living slightly different lives than they were at that stage where they had fewer guitars and there might be other factors at play here!
Great sweatshirt bud 👍🏻
I have two guitars a main and a backup. I always have a thought that I need another guitar that is different but when I want to grab a guitar I always go for my main. Amps I think you need a different one for different kind if gigs
I feel like it kinda depends. I've got 4 cause I play a lot of classical too, then I have an 8 string, a semi hollow and the latest addition was a strat style guitar. I could do without the latter but it does have a whole new sound and I usually end up playing totally different things when I pick it up.
So yea, I wouldn't really understand the need of having like 5 guitars of the same type, but I feel like very few people are actually like that, most of the guitarists I've met have like 2 or 3 different guitars, and maybe kept the one they started on
Hey John, been watching your content from a long time. A small request, can you play something like you played in the first ibanez joe satriani guitar review video you made ? much love
Just need a mini tube screamer, a compressor, a eq pedal, and a expression pedal for my stomp. Other than that i just haver One main guitar and i do not need guitars. My ibanez Prestige is enough, maybe some new Pickups, other than that i am good.
I own 5 electric guitars.
Which is 4 too many.
However I have to have 4, as I’m in two bands and they use two different tunings, I could possibly get one band to drop by a semitone and get a 2nd 7 string and have just my main and a spare.
Does anyone want to buy my other guitars so I can buy a new 7 string?
Anyone?
I have always been a "Main Axe" kinda guy. Do I have a backup? Sure. Do I play it? No.
If you don’t like that Bad Cat, I’ll take it 😂
I’m trying to reduce everything again and feeling good about that process, but John you really are overthinking the refret… get a good luthier and it will come back as good as it ever was (and better than it is now if the frets are worn) and you will kick yourself for not having done it sooner.
There is a difference between a collection and a selection of guitars.
being good at fighting says nothing about how good one is at epistemology.
I’ve been saying that forever although I’m always gassing for new gear. Sticking with the same scale length, neck profile and amp flavor helps but where’s the fun in that?😂
Mike Stern - one guitar on stage for years.
If you got the money spend it on whatever the f you want. I will say though wasting uncountable hours on chasing tone is just that wasting a lot of time. Your tone is right there in your fingers.
as far as gear.2025 Im waiting for a new line 6 helix updated modeler.Thats it im done!!! I have some much styff that I dont need at all,I dont gig lol,I just like learning how things work but after getting the tonemaster pro and its ease of use im done with modelers.I have them all but I want something to be like tonemaster as far as how easy and fast it is to use.I have my helix lt,tonex into the efx loop along with opus into efx loop m2 another tonex going into hx effects along with nano cortex going into 2nd hx effects loop ,a booss gt1000 core with a tonex one going into effects loop and another tonex 1 as an overdrive pedal.oh and a katana lol.Yeah im done!!!!I almost got axe fx but the choice on it are so overwhelming I dont me personally need it im just home.If i was in a big multi band cover band then yeah.
Is this channel just for moments of pondering while getting paid, but then ultimately going back to what you've been playing all along?
Great guy, great player, it just all becomes impossible to take seriously after a while sadly.
@@emcg.9655 "all" meaning online stuff?
More guitars....less Money 😅
I guess I must be horrible!
The people who say you need a strat, a tele and a les Paul are stupid. I’m sorry.
Namaste
Limitation fuels creativity, too much gear is a distraction. Also seeing guitar heroes auctioning off their massive collections is depressing. Most of their excessive gear looks dusty, unmaintained & probably hasn’t been played in years.
So apparently I’m a better guitarist than Steve Vai huh 🤔
BruceLee & Guitar playing...What's next Cordy? I know you have kids to feed, but... :)
You'd be better off with creating content teaching skills you posses, rather than creating click bait videos. Think about it!
Guy who does gear GAS infomercials for a living is talking about gear minimalism?
Lmfao
Keep churning out the vids…
He’s still a musician first and just talking “guitar” like the rest of us do. As far as making money off it, more power to him.
@ yep- gotta keep that dopamine flowing!
Mmmm, whatever inspires you to play.
I have a medium collection, many of which fulfil a role in a recording context, each one inspires me to play, and play Certain ways. Each one creates tone differently.
I also ‘built’ several during lockdown mainly Strats and teles with differing pickups and wiring etc. I challenge myself every day to play 2-3 of them when not recording.
As always there’s no right or wrong, just what works for you