I have a sterling cutlass and love everything about it. I changed the 5 way switch because it was a bit scratchy, but it wasn't really necessary. Well worth what I paid for it. And I don't constantly bang the volume knob like when I've played strats.
im 61 and have worked retail from late 70s til mid 90s and collected bought/sold traded more guitars than l can remember. l kept my USA Steinbergers and my 2nd year EBMM eddy V. l cant tell you how many offers lve had on that guitar. lts very heavy but has incredible playability and tone. lt literally has never needed to be reset-up. Perfect intonation and tuning stability.
Greetings fellow USA Steinberger owner! Mine is approaching 30 years old now and was my main guitar for many, many years, until I got my Majesty. Nothing feels like an EBMM.
Mine's a Dime tribute ml. Had it since 06 and it's been through hell and nothing's ever moved on it. Been perfect since the day I bought it. Been a long while since I've played it and I could tune it up right now and I'm guaranteed satisfaction.
I love watching you two come around on these newer, modern appointed guitars (particularity in the “metal/prog” space like the Kaizen). The interviews with Aaron Marshall, John Browne, etc. are super informative, very unique and masterfully conducted. Right on 🤘🏼
@@KenithCopeland Hey been interested in the Valentine for a while now but can't really buy any here in Europe, I am mainly a HSS strat guy but wanted to get something different in the future so that I have two main guitars for live use, one HSS/maybe HSH with a good trem and a hardtail guitar that is a different to the one I mentioned. What guitars did the Valentine replace, what genres do you play with it, what is it good for, etc?
I have a majesty. Jp6 and a valentine. For some stupid reason I was looking for more single coil sound and bought a squier tele and a prs bluesky se. The Valentine blows them away on both sound and feel. The valentine neck is perfect and so easy to play.
@@markcarter5438 We play everything from pop to heavy rock music so not sure if I ever see the Valentine sold here in the EU to spend the big bucks on it or better to buy a really nice HSS strat.
I can’t afford a Kaizen anytime soon…but badly want one because it’s the most innovative blend of new & traditional that I’ve seen in decades. And the craftsmanship & tooling to build these is impeccable!
The Kaizen sculpture carve is beautiful and you guys should also get your hands on some Parker guitars. The contour would blow anything else out of the water. You'd get the feeling it just wrapped itself around you.
I agree with Pete, I typically go for very classic-styled guitars and avoid the pointy, super modern styled stuff, but there's something about the Kaizen that is so sweet! Crossing my fingers for an eventful Sterling version though because I don't have 4 grand to drop on one guitar 😅
I have to say, I agree with Pete's sentiment on the Kaizen. Such an incredibly cool guitar. Same thing for the St Vincent, more specifically the Goldie models. Killer guitars and incredibly unique
The Luke has always had commentary about the neck, but I have no problem swapping between it and a Strat, Tele, Les Paul. Don't let the neck profile put you off, you'll get used to it - incredible guitars!
If I was in the market for a new guitar at that price point, then it would definitely be a Music Man. I don't own one but they are on my guitar to buy list :)
The Silhouette is a key part of EBMM history and should be more celebrated, I agree, not least because it's a fantastic guitar in its own right. I love my Strat and my LP but my Silhouette Special is my most playable guitar. Best neck I've ever played.
That said, I do wonder if EBMM is slowly phasing it out. The Cutlass and Sabre must be cutting into Silhouette sales, and there's definitely an overlap between all 3.
@@cchuvan Very true. I guess they're trying to cater more to Fender fans instead of pushing their own designs, and reissuing the pre-Ernie Ball designs is a cool move too. Even the Luke 3 has abandoned the bevelled body horns of the Silhouette range and the Stingray 5 and is moving away from their earlier design language.
Yeah. It's cool that a company patented a design that was in production for over a decade before they even existed and several before they used it. Very cool.
I bought a Squier CV Jag & a Sterling Cutlass to shoot them out. (I know they are very different but I could only buy 1). They were both on sale and I kept the Jag cuz I had been wanting one. But I’ve regretted returning that cutlass ever since. It played, looked, and sounded so good. Chunkiest neck I’ve ever played. (It really does make chords easier but shredding slower). I would love to try a USA MM Cutlass.
Its a shame the Silhouette lineup is dead,I think it was the best MM guitar ever made, that silhouette special with the dimarzio hss configuration was so versatile!
Always loved the look of the Axis’s, Silhouette, the Majesty and JP. I had a lot of time with a JP15 and for the hands it’s awesome, but the pickups are too dark and hot. If you could get more traditional pups with the piezo and all I’d be dreaming about them now. Only dreaming because their high priced high end guitars.
I love my Jems and Parker Flys but I've always wanted a Majesty in 'Majestic Purple' or 'Enchanted Forest'. Might have to add a Kaisen in 'Kryptonite' to the shopping list - it IS uber cool... 🤤
I have five in my collection and a few sterling’s as well . I have little hands so I’m in love with these necks . Some of my friends like them as well but with larger hands it takes some getting used to . I wear medium gloves at the factory so yes small hands . The sound of each guitar is very unique in a good way of course.
That blue Luke 4 does not have regular pickups. Those are the new Ernie Ball Music Man HT pickups... hence why the guitar comes with SSS configuration for the first time.
Love my kaizen and about to pick up another EBMM and want it to be very limited. Going to get either the 6 string Majesty purple nebula or the 8 string majesty crystal amethyst. Need an 8 string and love the low production of the 8, but that purple nebula finish is just nuts and I think I’d find myself playing a 6 more vs an 8 despite having many 6’s. Great guitars!
Way out of my budget but those 8 string Majesties look awesome...the amethyst finish in particular. And Pete's little demo here really showed how useful the piezo is when you can blend it in with the magnetic pickups...even nicer in coil split mode. Similar sound to an acoustic guitar but so much easier to play! I saw Tosin playing a Kaizen at an AAL show recently. He used it on a few songs including The Woven Web but I think he shifted the heavy riff that goes down to the low F# up an octave as I don't think the Kaizen is going to go down to drop E. Interesting to see how he changes things up a bit...I've never heard them use trems in their music but now both Tosin & Javier have signature models with trems it's cool to see them add in these little embellishments live. He also pulled out an Abasi with some 8 string Fishman single coils. I suppose when you're at that level you can ask for whatever you want and companies will make it for you.
I do love my EBMM dark ray, but I’ve yet to play one of their guitars. I’d love to get a kaizen but that $$$$ is quite the investment. Need Bea to come out with some more fun colors too so I can support him by getting his sig.
finally you have something good to say about MM unlike those times when rob chapman always had something snarky to comment on MM, not to mention how badly he plays them and how bad the tones he dialed for them.
Haven't tried a Majesty, but my JP6's is basically the same width as my Ibanez Prestiges, just not as flat. The fretboard on my Axis feels tiny! Too bad the prices on the MiA EBMM guitars has pretty much doubled in the last 10 years. Such awesome instruments, but just too pricy for me to buy another.
mm is a weird market. i have one. quality is obviously there, but i think their demograph is really small. i never hear anyone talking about them. doesn't seem to be a go to guitar for many players
Maybe I missed it, but are all these guitars going through pedals into an amp? If so, what amp, or are you using the Headrush as the amp in 4CM? If that's the Headrush, it sounds better than I remember!
I must stop watching this,( but I can’t help it) I have enough guitars already, and will be getting complaints from my ‘other half’ if I get yet another one.
@jamespitman3357 idk. I only know him from chatting about the government and how we can go forward in life without it. I, however, have an Ibanez KIKOSP3, a customised Gretsch g5410t with Brian Setzer Signature pickups, and a semi acoustic headless with Off Kiltertrons and a Bar-Belle being build for me as we speak.
Yep, without him we never would have saw how the military killed dozen's of civilians... These video files where important to see how fast a wrong decision is made on a screen, that kills real live people... How should we learn otherwise...? And for that they wanna jail him for life... Sad...
A Cutlass vs Stingray vs Sabre video would be awesome! Yes please!
Totally agree
I have a sterling cutlass and love everything about it. I changed the 5 way switch because it was a bit scratchy, but it wasn't really necessary. Well worth what I paid for it. And I don't constantly bang the volume knob like when I've played strats.
@@donbishop6994I was gonna say did you try contact cleaner?
im 61 and have worked retail from late 70s til mid 90s and collected bought/sold traded more guitars than l can remember. l kept my USA Steinbergers and my 2nd year EBMM eddy V. l cant tell you how many offers lve had on that guitar. lts very heavy but has incredible playability and tone. lt literally has never needed to be reset-up. Perfect intonation and tuning stability.
Greetings fellow USA Steinberger owner! Mine is approaching 30 years old now and was my main guitar for many, many years, until I got my Majesty. Nothing feels like an EBMM.
What's your point?
Mine's a Dime tribute ml. Had it since 06 and it's been through hell and nothing's ever moved on it. Been perfect since the day I bought it. Been a long while since I've played it and I could tune it up right now and I'm guaranteed satisfaction.
@@NeungViewto not come make super douchey comments?
I love watching you two come around on these newer, modern appointed guitars (particularity in the “metal/prog” space like the Kaizen). The interviews with Aaron Marshall, John Browne, etc. are super informative, very unique and masterfully conducted. Right on 🤘🏼
Don’t sleep on the EBMM Valentine model. That is a great and also unique model!
agreed, i sold a bunch of guitars after getting my valentine, it handles so much
@@KenithCopeland Hey been interested in the Valentine for a while now but can't really buy any here in Europe, I am mainly a HSS strat guy but wanted to get something different in the future so that I have two main guitars for live use, one HSS/maybe HSH with a good trem and a hardtail guitar that is a different to the one I mentioned.
What guitars did the Valentine replace, what genres do you play with it, what is it good for, etc?
I have a majesty. Jp6 and a valentine. For some stupid reason I was looking for more single coil sound and bought a squier tele and a prs bluesky se. The Valentine blows them away on both sound and feel. The valentine neck is perfect and so easy to play.
@@markcarter5438 We play everything from pop to heavy rock music so not sure if I ever see the Valentine sold here in the EU to spend the big bucks on it or better to buy a really nice HSS strat.
@@markcarter5438 agreed on that. The valentine neck is superb
The Kaizen looks futuristic, but retro futuristic. A sort of Jetsons vibe.
The fact that Danish Pete loves Kaizen is beyond astonishing. Really vibing the color. I matches with purple - another fav color of Pete.
That green one is unbelievably cool.
I can’t afford a Kaizen anytime soon…but badly want one because it’s the most innovative blend of new & traditional that I’ve seen in decades. And the craftsmanship & tooling to build these is impeccable!
The Kaizen sculpture carve is beautiful and you guys should also get your hands on some Parker guitars. The contour would blow anything else out of the water. You'd get the feeling it just wrapped itself around you.
The two of them stroking the necks kills me lol😂
It's slightly naughty isn't it!😅
"It's a feel thing."
Neck strokers! : )
"it just feels so nice!" *eyes roll into back of head*
I agree with Pete, I typically go for very classic-styled guitars and avoid the pointy, super modern styled stuff, but there's something about the Kaizen that is so sweet!
Crossing my fingers for an eventful Sterling version though because I don't have 4 grand to drop on one guitar 😅
That Majesty guitar had a sweet sound.
Gotta try and get Luke on the show at some point. Absolutely incredible player
I have to say, I agree with Pete's sentiment on the Kaizen. Such an incredibly cool guitar. Same thing for the St Vincent, more specifically the Goldie models. Killer guitars and incredibly unique
The Captain has really became a fantastic guitar player. I liked his introduction ! Beautiful guitars. They sound great! Leo was the man !
Wow, captain is rocking in the beginning there!
You are right Pete. The Kaizen has an appeal to it.
Silhouette is still their best body shape. Don't know why they don't make more. Sabre isn't as pretty. Damn they're expensive.
My local music store had a Sterling Majesty 7 for just over half off because of a small spot of finish damage so I had to get it.
Would love to see a comparison of Music Man guitars versus their Sterling counterparts 👍
The Luke has always had commentary about the neck, but I have no problem swapping between it and a Strat, Tele, Les Paul. Don't let the neck profile put you off, you'll get used to it - incredible guitars!
The Captain is killing it in the intro! 🤘🤘😄
Amazing his progress !
If I was in the market for a new guitar at that price point, then it would definitely be a Music Man. I don't own one but they are on my guitar to buy list :)
I have 5 of them. You won’t be disappointed
No love for the Silhouette range? Those have been around for over 30 years, and they're great guitars! Love my Silhouette Special!
The Silhouette is a key part of EBMM history and should be more celebrated, I agree, not least because it's a fantastic guitar in its own right. I love my Strat and my LP but my Silhouette Special is my most playable guitar. Best neck I've ever played.
That said, I do wonder if EBMM is slowly phasing it out. The Cutlass and Sabre must be cutting into Silhouette sales, and there's definitely an overlap between all 3.
@@cchuvan Very true. I guess they're trying to cater more to Fender fans instead of pushing their own designs, and reissuing the pre-Ernie Ball designs is a cool move too. Even the Luke 3 has abandoned the bevelled body horns of the Silhouette range and the Stingray 5 and is moving away from their earlier design language.
Even though some shapes of MMan guitars are kind of strange, this guitars are another level,
The wider neck is absolutely fantastic!!!!!!!!!!... Again... Like the red special!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh my Danish Pete channeling Beck too, Love you dudes.
I LOVE my Kaizen 7! A very unique and versatile guitar. It’s now the one I reach to by default. My other axes are getting jealous.
That neon Guitar Pete used takes me back to CC Devil in Poison and other 80’s hair bands.
Yeah. It's cool that a company patented a design that was in production for over a decade before they even existed and several before they used it. Very cool.
I have a pair of L3's. Best build quality I've ever seen.
I bought a Squier CV Jag & a Sterling Cutlass to shoot them out. (I know they are very different but I could only buy 1). They were both on sale and I kept the Jag cuz I had been wanting one. But I’ve regretted returning that cutlass ever since. It played, looked, and sounded so good. Chunkiest neck I’ve ever played. (It really does make chords easier but shredding slower).
I would love to try a USA MM Cutlass.
That green guitar is amazing.
Man I wish EBMM guitars had more lefty models - I'd buy a Luke in a heartbeat if it was available
I can't agree with you more. I'd buy a lefty Majesty in a heartbeat.
MINT.. the whitesnake chord just brilliant
Best thing I've seen and heard from you both really good. the jam
That know one wants to end.
Its a shame the Silhouette lineup is dead,I think it was the best MM guitar ever made, that silhouette special with the dimarzio hss configuration was so versatile!
Kaizen is basically 'Continuous Improvement' in Japanese. Seems pretty appropriate. Lambo green is cool as well.
I love my music man luke 3! I sold the first one a few years ago trying to change a little but I always return to them haha
Always loved the look of the Axis’s, Silhouette, the Majesty and JP. I had a lot of time with a JP15 and for the hands it’s awesome, but the pickups are too dark and hot. If you could get more traditional pups with the piezo and all I’d be dreaming about them now. Only dreaming because their high priced high end guitars.
Capt.. you are growing.. your playing is almost there.. relax and loosen up.. commit and rock!..
Joe Bonamassa played a Music Man Majesty at the Royal Albert Hall May 2009 , im pretty sure he used it for the 2nd song 'The Ballad Of John Henry '
I love my Jems and Parker Flys but I've always wanted a Majesty in 'Majestic Purple' or 'Enchanted Forest'. Might have to add a Kaisen in 'Kryptonite' to the shopping list - it IS uber cool... 🤤
I ❤ Pete’s good vibes 🙏🙏🏽🙏🏻
5 string Kaizen bass would be really cool
I have five in my collection and a few sterling’s as well . I have little hands so I’m in love with these necks . Some of my friends like them as well but with larger hands it takes some getting used to . I wear medium gloves at the factory so yes small hands . The sound of each guitar is very unique in a good way of course.
That green one. What a cool shape.
Here's a jam idea: Pete on Petrucci 's majesty and JP on Pete's purple Tele. The Pete-trucci jam!
The Captain literally plays G, A, D and the same little licks every single time lol props to him though!
Want to see Pete playing more rock or metal style on the high gain guitar
That blue Luke 4 does not have regular pickups. Those are the new Ernie Ball Music Man HT pickups... hence why the guitar comes with SSS configuration for the first time.
I’d love a music man specially the St Vincent model.
The best 1974 - 1980 Fender guitars are Ernie Ball Music Man’s Should Andertons expand into that exciting end of the market.
Love my kaizen and about to pick up another EBMM and want it to be very limited. Going to get either the 6 string Majesty purple nebula or the 8 string majesty crystal amethyst. Need an 8 string and love the low production of the 8, but that purple nebula finish is just nuts and I think I’d find myself playing a 6 more vs an 8 despite having many 6’s. Great guitars!
Way out of my budget but those 8 string Majesties look awesome...the amethyst finish in particular. And Pete's little demo here really showed how useful the piezo is when you can blend it in with the magnetic pickups...even nicer in coil split mode. Similar sound to an acoustic guitar but so much easier to play!
I saw Tosin playing a Kaizen at an AAL show recently. He used it on a few songs including The Woven Web but I think he shifted the heavy riff that goes down to the low F# up an octave as I don't think the Kaizen is going to go down to drop E. Interesting to see how he changes things up a bit...I've never heard them use trems in their music but now both Tosin & Javier have signature models with trems it's cool to see them add in these little embellishments live. He also pulled out an Abasi with some 8 string Fishman single coils. I suppose when you're at that level you can ask for whatever you want and companies will make it for you.
I do love my EBMM dark ray, but I’ve yet to play one of their guitars. I’d love to get a kaizen but that $$$$ is quite the investment. Need Bea to come out with some more fun colors too so I can support him by getting his sig.
... Sparkly and chimey, whatever they're playing it through, sounds like a Vox AC30, with a treble booster!!!!!!!!!!!
$4000.00 for the green Kaizen! Yikes, I'm not that good.😂
finally you have something good to say about MM unlike those times when rob chapman always had something snarky to comment on MM, not to mention how badly he plays them and how bad the tones he dialed for them.
Please could you do a comparo with standard Cutlass and StingRay vs their HT versions?
Haven't tried a Majesty, but my JP6's is basically the same width as my Ibanez Prestiges, just not as flat. The fretboard on my Axis feels tiny!
Too bad the prices on the MiA EBMM guitars has pretty much doubled in the last 10 years. Such awesome instruments, but just too pricy for me to buy another.
mm is a weird market. i have one. quality is obviously there, but i think their demograph is really small. i never hear anyone talking about them. doesn't seem to be a go to guitar for many players
I get the same vibe from G&L, another Leo Fender company. And interestingly enough, G&L is also known to have narrow nut widths up until recently
ive never seen or heard anyone with a music man guitar
first music jam on this video is a cracker...thanks!!!!
Eddie's musicman had a gotoh floyd rose copy because floyd rose was exclusively licensed to fender during the 90s.
fab vid guys ,bravo.
Maybe I missed it, but are all these guitars going through pedals into an amp? If so, what amp, or are you using the Headrush as the amp in 4CM?
If that's the Headrush, it sounds better than I remember!
Any Equpiment informations to the tone at 14.50? Sounds great!!
Always surprised by the apparent lack of interest in the Axis. The ORIGINAL Wolfgang!
"Turn it down, it's clipping!"
*ETHEREAL EDDIE VAN HALEN LAUGHING*
Probably love them because Rabea rules would be my guess
Is there any chatter about a Sterling version of the Kaizen?
do you have a Bass 6 video of different choices?
Will there be a video about PRS SE CE 24 standard satin?
first time I hear the Captain with a better sound than Danish P
If only those necks were wider... I'd be a Music Man aficionado!
Love these guitars but they are getting way too expensive 😫. And No I don’t want a Sterling 😅
lee on fire
The new black and white rug and softer lighting looked loads better with the new backdrop. This studio lighting is way too bright.
I’d be nice to see the Music Man Mariposa not get left out
Was Pete drunk the whole session? 😂 there are times where even the Cap looks concerned.
A Whitesnake jam at the end?
4+2 headstock is really a EBMM brand and no one's else. On the other hand, who makes the most outrageous headstock? BC Rich is who.
Music Man seems to have always had proprietary pickups, from the start, including the original Eddie Van Halen model!!!!!!;!!
When Lee does bends, he doesn’t bend the string. He bends the world around him.
Gretsch invented the 4 2 tuners
I love music man's
That kaizen probably costs more than my entire 11 guitar collection. 😂
EBMM - Please, please PLEASE make the Axis left handed. PLEASE!!!
They used to, I have one and it's the best guitar I own.
@@Adamjski71 Awesome. I've seen a few Super Sport models, but never a Floyd Equipped Axis as per EVH, which is the one I want.
It's friggen hillarious whatching Lee do his best to ignore Pete's perverted jokes.
Extra spicy licks in today’s jam. Very tasty.
I almost died at 33:10
The long lost kaizen guitar as played by the evil green ranger in power rangers.
ANYWAAAAY
first one?
I must stop watching this,( but I can’t help it) I have enough guitars already, and will be getting complaints from my ‘other half’ if I get yet another one.
FREE JULIAN ASSANGE!
Kidnapped in UK
Free that SOB
what guitar does his play
@jamespitman3357 idk. I only know him from chatting about the government and how we can go forward in life without it.
I, however, have an Ibanez KIKOSP3, a customised Gretsch g5410t with Brian Setzer Signature pickups, and a semi acoustic headless with Off Kiltertrons and a Bar-Belle being build for me as we speak.
Yep, without him we never would have saw how the military killed dozen's of civilians...
These video files where important to see how fast a wrong decision is made on a screen, that kills real live people... How should we learn otherwise...? And for that they wanna jail him for life... Sad...
Great company, SUCKS when it comes to left-handed offerings!!! That is Music Man
This green guitar looks like a lamborghini
Lee, love yah, but you interrupt too often. BTW, I love my music man cutlass
Lee has a share in these!
And they only cost as much as a used car... or new motorcycle....
Might as well face it.