As a seventy year old grandmother, I needed to scratch an itch I’ve had since I was a teenager. So, a couple of weeks ago, I bought myself an Epiphone Les Paul 50s with the beautiful cherry sunburst finish and am delightedly following your videos. Got a lot to learn. Got a beautiful guitar.
Oh that is a wonderful thing to hear, I'm so happy you are pursuing your interests regardless of age, as so many mistakenly thing they are "too old". I'm sure you are playing beautifully!
What Paul inspired me is, not just the tech or the mindset of playing guitar, but maybe more important, attitude. I don't know why, just whenever you get tired of playing or learning how to play better, this kind of video just inspired me, made me feel like, "oh yeah the instrument I love is actually so beautiful and lovely" things like this.
Production year: 2009 Model: 1959 reissue Sequence number: 79 Manufactured in Nashville for the les paul! like this comment so paul will see it, like deze comment zodat paul het ziet!
Eh. Maybe. But everyone has their preferences with their guitar. One thing Paul might not like about the feel or sound of a guitar might be something someone else enjoys
Your playing is amazing (as everyone clearly agrees) but I have to also say that your video production is fantastic - with all the subtle inserts and edits - you obviously are as precise and clever with your video editing as you are with your playing and teaching. I just wanted to be sure you knew this does not go unnoticed. Thanks for the quality content and keep 'em coming!
I’ve got an 86 Les Paul sunburst, a 91 Strat plus ultra, and an 89 Ibanez Sabre, the Frank Gambali body style one. All I need is a tele that can talk back to me when I play it!
Love it when he talks about the certificate from the Les Paul so coveted like, then when he’s ready to move on, just throws it on the floor like a piece of trash.
Every Guitarist needs a minimum of six guitars. Strat, Tele, a single cut Les Paul type, a semi hollow ES-335 type and two acoustics, steel and nylon string. I currently only have two 😞
Knew you were Dutch the second I heard your voice. Spent some time in Netherlands about ten years ago. Wonderful people that really made me feel at home. Really miss it sometimes.
My dad had a bunch of guitars and equipment when I was growing up so when I had my teenager playing rock music phase I was sorta spoiled. I got to play a 69 Strat and a 1974 Yamaha SG-175. I also got to plug them into an early 80s Mesa Boogie. Definitive experience for me not having to thrash away on a crap cheapo guitar so that when I finally picked one of those up for myself I felt the difference immediately. Luckily my dad has all of those things still so I can still totally play them anytime I want.
I’m pretty sure it isn’t a 50th anniversary model, since the certificate and booklet isn’t gold, and the 50th anniversary model was only produced in 500 exampels, so the certificate should state what number his guitar is. But they did produce a regular R9 in 2009 outside of the 50th anniversary line. So that’s most likely what it is. But I’m not sure, maybe his is some other thing I don’t know about. He should try and look at the other side of the certificate and see if Gibson put something there, they sometimes do.
Stormy Rainbow .-. Nothing wrong with squire. The Fender Custom shop guy found one in a shop and couldn’t believe how nice it played the production quality.
Nothing wrong about a old squire man. I got my 2008 classic vibe and I literally cannot let it go. Made some mods over the decade but the sound, the feel, the memories and sentiments... it's just worth way more than the $200 sombody would may for. It's a lifer guitar for sure.
@@SG-wj2qj it's not always the price tag that makes a good guitar. I have 2 epiphones that I realy love a 2004 Dot I bought off ebay for about 200 bucks, sure I swaped the pickups for a pair of (quite affortable) teslas and put on a bigsby vibrato (yes a 160 bucks vibrato for a 200 bucks guitar with a 120 bucks set of tesla pickups xD) and it's my most played guitar after my acoustic. And a 1995 korean Epiphone Sorrento I found in a stores farest corner (I guess the store owner didn't want to give it away) it's the best quality electric guitar I have ever seen and it's all original (exept for the bigsby... yeah I'm a bigsby guy xD). I do have a Gibson ES 335 made in 2016. same issues as Paul mentioned. I still have it but I don't play it that often because it just doesn't feel as right as the other two... so if you feel comfortable with your old squire keep it. never sell a guitar you realy love to play! It's not about the name tag :)
I have a Hohner Gruhn Design acoustic which my dad bought back in the 80s. It was a "budget" acoustic which was supposed to be launched as a collaborative effort between Hohner and master guitar-builder, George Gruhn. The deal, for some reason, turned sour before they had even launched so they never actually hit the shelves. A good friend of my dad's, Trevor (who used to work on Johnny Marr's guitars) managed to get his hands on one (luckily) when my dad was looking to buy a new acoustic. I have never found another guitar which plays so nicely or sounds as great when played acoustically. Easily the most important guitar to me.
Meh. Single coil, humbucker, acoustic. Your choice which ones exactly. That's it. Everything else is being a guitar geek. Not that I only own 3 guitars but at least I'm not lying to myself about it :-D
@@EnterJustice i like this one , i have a gibson les paul , american fender strat ,martin 000 road series , yamaha silent nylon, i sing and play so for me i can cover any song... tele would be nice tho so i dont have to bring the les paul as often as it is the most expensive one haha
I have five I can't live without 😁 1. My Fender Strat (it was sold to me without description so I'm not sure whether it's the American Professional or performer but it's one of the two) it's white with a Tortoise shell guard and plays and sounds like a dream. When I pick that thing up, I can't put it down. 2. My Epiphone Les Paul Standard in Desert Burst. I put some Gibson burstbuckers in it, pair it with a Vox AC4-C12 (I live in an apartment so the larger models were not an option) and it sounds like a million bucks. 3. My Epiphone SG I call "Red" I truly do like Epiphone guitars, and though many will look down on you if you own one because the general consensus is that a Chinese guitar can't be any good, I've NEVER played an Epi above 300 bucks that I didn't like. Red has all the sustain, and it's so versatile. Sparkly cleans to hard rock or metal. 4. My Schecter PT Special Tele. It's not your average Tele, it's got a P90 in the neck, and has a different sound to it, but I was blown away by this guitar the minute I player it. It can twang with the best of them, but it also gets some really high gain tones that your average Tele can't. I love not having to switch between guitars, I can play country, rock, and metal on just the one guitar. And the guitar is just a beauty 😍 5. My last baby is my cheap acoustic-electric by brand of "Ashthorpe" I don't really care what brand a guitar is or how much it costed, if it sounds good that's all I need to know. That said, this is one of the best sounding acoustic-electrics I've ever played. I've played expensive Martin's, Gibsons, and Taylor's, and this one comes very close. I'm not lying. And those are my five children I'd run into a burning building to save.
My 1976 Gibson L6-S Deluxe is my prize possession. I spent a long while trying to find a guitar that spoke to me and this one just feels so right. It makes me want to play more. It's quirky and twitchy, the pickups are hot and it sounds absolutely FILTHY with distortion and some compression. It's mine and I love it.
Maybe my monitor needs to be calibrated, but they look Orange to me. I am not a big Red guitar fan either but I just bought one yesterday. It does look very nice though.
My roots were in Strats but I played a Les Paul for years. Finally went back to Fender Strats when I tried a Jeff Beck model. It spoke to me and I'm glad I picked it up. It covers all the styles I play (Rock, Jazz, Country, Blues, R&B). I love the way I get different textures based on how hard or soft I hit the strings or roll off the guitar volume/tone. Definitely my go to guitar.
I have just 4 ( ha ). … Early ‘70’s Yamaha 300 ( had since then- Humming Bird copy .. very good ) Bought new an early’90’s Strat. MIJ - 57 re-issue Tobacco Sunburst - shop put on Lace Sensor Pickups .. also very nice ❤ Picked up CBG - 3 string for a bit of fun 😂 Then … after watching Eric Johanson Live in Oregon, supporting Samantha Fish - he was playing a white Phonic Dusenberg Starplayer - never heard or seen one before ( he’s pretty good ) - was impressed. Got back to Australia, did a bit of Homework and ended up treating myself for Xmas - Starplayer TV Still getting the hang of it 🎵 But jeez , it’s a beautiful guitar .. and yes the wood was crafted in Croatia 🇭🇷 - I was sold 💕
Geoff Morrissey imagine if someone who bought a guitar from Paul tuned in- ‘ooh, I bought a guitar from that guy once, I wonder if it’ll get a mention... oh 😐’ 😂😂
Paul, I really love your work. You're a gem in the (oftentimes) wastelands of TH-cam. I apologize in advance for this long message but I feel you will understand my query: Right now I play Squier 50s Classic Vibes, both the Telecaster and Stratocaster. I have no frame of reference for owning such lovely guitars as you do, but I do enjoy both of these lower-end guitars well enough, I guess. However, I have a thought: In 2024, I will turn 50 years old. My first idea was to buy a vintage guitar from my birth-year. Not an original idea, but I could save and have one (hopefully). My thought was Tele, but I wouldn't know til I played a few '74 Teles, Strats, Les Pauls, etc. I don't feel I'd be too precious with a vintage guitar, it wouldn't be a wall-hanger. I would play it, and I would leave it for my kids to fight over after I'm gone. It would be played. Then I thought maybe, instead, and for probably the same money (or close), I could get a Custom Shop guitar, brand new, and start with it at 50 years old myself. That could also be very lovely. I wouldn't (maybe) worry so much about nicks and dings with a relic job. My third thought was to just try guitars until one spoke to me. Maybe 'The One' would be cheaper than vintage or Custom Shop, I should just play them all until I found the one that felt like I was *home*. But that could take forever, potentially, and in these Covid times right now, I do not get to be in guitar shoppes very often (we only have one in my small city, and it's a chain store) and I live 3 hours from Toronto, which is off-limits to me right now anyway, virus-numbers-wise. Maybe by 2024 it will be all back to whatever normal will be... Lastly, I could just stay with my Classic Vibes, let this whole idea go. Really, they're quite OK. And maybe I could put some money into a better amp than my Boss Katana 50 Mk.1 and my Yamaha THR5. But, guitar-wise, I'd always have that lingering thought in my head... what if... What would you do? Just find one that speaks to me, whether it be vintage, Custom Shop, or whatever else (if I can ever get somewhere to try them out)? Or is there one clear choice? I don't feel like it's an easy answer, but perhaps I am over-thinking this. Thanks again for all that you do. Keep up the amazing work!
I owned a strat most of my life and gave it to a friend when I moved and basically went full acoustic. Was shopping around and that it might be cool to own a Les Paul... but I realize that in every video, the Strat is always my favorite. Les Paul’s are cool for heavy, fuzzy riffs, but I like Strats.
Hi Mark I know this comment is old. I was wondering what was your reason for going mainly acoustic? I had the opposite journey as a child when I went from mainly acoustic to electric. I've seen a few online discussions recently about going full acoustic so I'm just curious on why someone might want to do that.
I have five guitars and three are each special for their own reason. 1st - Martin DM - First real guitar I owned. Gifted to me for my 16th birthday and my main guitar for 15+ years. 2nd - 2008 Fender Custom Shop 1958 Heavy Relic Telecaster - First electric guitar I owned. My mom bought it for herself (second hand return to original shop) at a massive discount somewhere around 4 years ago. She couldn't work out playing guitar that well, so I received it more or less. I didn't really play it much though until I got a proper amp this year. 3rd - Gretsch G6659TG Player's Edition Broadkaster Jr - First guitar that I purchased with my own money. I too was actually looking for a Gibson ES-335 but came across the Gretsch at a local shop on heavy discount and bought it as the shop was closing for the night. I didn't even test it in shop, it was calling to me! Very happy with the purchase in every way.
I like it when you say ‘electrical’ instead of electric. It’s a trend I’ve been trying to spread for years 😃 Thanks for another interesting video! My favourite is my 1997 LP Classic fitted with Saturday Night Special pickups. I also have a Jeff Beck Strat from 2007 which is lovely. I have got a ‘52 Tele reissue like you had, that I have never really grown into, so I’m thinking of selling it. Cheers!
My favorite two guitars are the only two I own. My acoustic is a 2019 Taylor 414ce-r special edition v-class and my first ever electric, an Epiphone Les Paul Standard. Learning with you my friend. Keep up the good work.
Almost the same for me: 1st is a Fender Tele S-S MIJ, 2nd is a Gibson Les Paul Standard H-H, 3rd is a Fender Strat S-S-S MIJ and 4th is a Gibson SG Special (P90-P90) I also have a Yamaha FS5 acoustic that I carry out/travel with, as well as a Yamaha Pacifica 112V (H-S-S Super Strat) that I still use for learning.
My favourite guitars are my 64 Strat, 68 ES335, 68 Tele, 72 Harmony H671, 63 Gibson Southern Jumbo and a 1992 Les Paul Standard. These are the ones that just have a thing that inspires and are so addictive to play as all of them have had a lot of play on them and the necks are naturally worn down so amazingly smooth.
I never thought I'd own a tele. However one day I went into sweetwater and a guy brought out a daphne blue sandblasted telecaster made exclusively for sweetwater by fender. I must of sat and played it a hour in the store I could not put it down. After having the luthier there lower the action ,put a different pickup in the bridge and a set of locking tuners I took it home. And out of all 11 guitars I own that is the one I'd keep if I had to sell every last one!!
My Rickenbacker 370 and I will never part. Modified by a Dutch lutiher near Maastricht as it happens! Bypassed the "Ric-O-Sound" and each of its 3 pickups has an individual on/off switch. Love it.
2 months ago I got my first Haar Trad T guitar, custom-made to my specifications - Amber 59 CP neck pickup and Kloppmann BC 49 bridge pickup, surf green, aged, locking tuners. The guitar is simply gorgeous in every relevant aspect and if I could only keep one guitar, this would be the one I keep.
Is there a comparable Dutch Guitar Manufacturer, who offers the same build quality ? I`m German, not Dutch, it´s an entirely different thing, and i also don`t like the comparison ;-) Great and my favourite neighbours, the Dutch ;-)
Paul was undoubtedly made familiar with the period 1940-1945 when he was of school age, in particular the period Oct 1944 - Ap 1945. What the Dutch people were subjected to after the failure of Operation Market Garden - the 'Bridge Too Far' op..... Look it up.
Austin Powers’ father: “ There’s only two kinds of people I don’t like-people who are intolerant of other cultures...and the Dutch!” Not me, I like the few Dutch people I’ve ever come across, but it’s funny.
I guess our habit of raiding small neighbor countries didn't come across as the nice thing we always thought it would be. Seems it has caused some hard feeling. On a serious note: Great channel! And if it comforts you: nobody in their right mind can take your accent for German.
It sounds like a Saddle is loose on the bridge. But then again what do I know Ive not touched my guitars in 4 years now and I might be losing my trouble shooting touch.
Someone put guitars on earth to enjoy for a reason. You enjoy the best and I thank you for inspiring those of us to do the best we can. We would be in in a hopeless space without music and those who make it.
A few days back I got a present from my wife, which totally blew my mind. She got me a Gretsch G5124 White hollowbody. She told me that she searched a very long time to find it, since only 200 pieces worldwide were produced in white. I completely fell in love with my G5124. I’ll put up a video and soundsample soon. Great video and beautifull guitars! Cheers from ‘s-Hertogenbosch
It’s really cool how different people’s tastes can be. I went out of my way to buy an American Vintage 52 reissue tele and it is by far the best guitar I’ve ever played. I love everything about the design, sound, and the look
Yep! Quality control on guitars, is pretty objective, but which guitars speak to individuals, is infinitely subjective. I had an American made strat, that I never played, because I only enjoyed playing my 50’s classic vibe Tele lol 🤷🏼♂️
Paul, check the headstock side of the nut slot the high E is sitting in. It’s a common spot for buzz or bad contact. Usually just pushing a tad on it and plucking the string will let ya know if it’s there. The buzz should stop when a little pressure is applied right behind the slot on the string. Cheers
Spose it could be the body side of the slot also! But basically the nut slot is the likely culprit when fret buzz is ruled out. More common than bridge saddle buzz even. Or so I’ve found.
For variety, I have a '62 Martin D21, a '79 LP standard, a '97 Ric 330/12 and an '07 US strat. The Mrs said 'it's me or the guitars'. I really miss her.
Hi Paul, I got an acoustic guitar in Morelia, Mexico that sounds great. For $20 USD, it sounds way better than $500+ guitars I’ve tried out. It’s a Gilb guitar. The action is maybe a little high for me but I love it😊
"It's not the price that makes a good guitar" - Chris Leduc, master luthier. Some of the world's very best guitarists and bassists are his clients. Have you seen Blackmore's "OFR" (Only For Ritchie) "Strat" made of 250 years old woods? She's his daughter. Abe Laboriel never goes to any session without his 4 Leduc basses... In fact, his instruments are rarely seen on stage as... Don't expect endorsement from an artisan who only builds 25-30 guitars or basses a year! But they end being heard on many big productions. When Peter Gabriel's sound engineer says he prefer the Leduc basses over any others, what does it means? Does Tony Levin owns some too?
My obsession right now is the 'Gretsch Streamliner' which is a bit like the Duesenberg. Ohh I looooove it😍 the tremolo system is just awesome (it's bigsby) and the pickups and everything is absolutely wonderful 😍😍 Yeah... You need to have dreams so.. maybe one day I'll have it in my collection 🙃
Can I also say, I bloody love the sound of that strat. It’s very warm, mid scooped. Love that sound. I actually think it was hearing your strat in several videos that inspired me to build a custom strat. We bought an unfinished, licensed neck, but we made the body ourselves out of huge piece of ash (hot piece of ash it was too lol) and put a lot of focus on playability. Turned out really nicely and it plays great! Yosemite pups so a slightly different sound but not far off, especially that neck pup. Mmmmmm. Nothing beats a strat neck sound. Pure sex.
I was just about to write that I actually don't like the strat as it just sounds generic too me when I stumbled upon your comment. Les Paul just doesn't do it for me, they all just sound muted. I kinda like the tele, but I'd say that it is probably not a guitar for me ergonomically. I guess I am a 335 or maybe a 355 man, judging by the sound and looks, although I never played one, which may completely quench my interest with them when I do. Where I am based there are no guitar shops nearby, so I cannot really try them all. Maybe someday.
Nobody told me when I was learning to play THE guitar that it means I will never have enough guitars. 😅 I’m already up to 6 and I’m just six months into this journey.
the high E on the tele has a nice sitar sound ;-) My guess its that the nut is the culprit. When the slot is unevenly filed or the angle is not steep enough the string can buzz in the nut... groetjes uit België
Super cool to hear you talk about the deusenburg! I’ve been playing it for a while and fell in love, but couldn’t find that much information on them. Absolutely gorgeous guitar and so versatile too!
Duesenberg - White; wow, I thought it was a beautiful guitar with great tone. The Les Paul was awesome and the Dutch Tele sounds great. I choose the Duesenberg as the overall choice for me.
Im in love with my 1977 Stingray II Musicman guitar. Purchased it used, body was cracked, light blue paint was like if someone pulled a fork back n forth on it, but after few moves I've made- she sings so sweet.
Oh, to choose my top 4. Sticking with my electrics, my # 1 is my 2018 Amer. Professional Tele Deluxe. It has a 2019 Fender Elite neck and Lollar Imperial humbuckers. It plays like butter. #2 is my 2018 Fender Elite SSH. Love the neck and tone. #3 is my Gretsch G5135GL. It’s a signature Corvette with TV Jones Power’trons and a soft profile neck. Finally (so hard to choose here) a 2018 Tele. I took Fender Pro parts, mastery bridge, SD pickups, a B16 Bigsby, and locking tuners to my luthier. She assembled an amazing Tele; great weight, balance, tone.
@@beenmicrophone5817 Oh, yes. But .13 (his most used gauge) on Eb, and bending like he did it is really hard..., in my experience :( But yes, sometimes even he took .12. Even his carasteristic sound was influenced by his gauge.
Brandon Ardila lol I can never play his guitar,with or without fingers 😅😅 he's a God tier level guitarist while I'm a beginner but just the feel you can have by trying a guitar that belong to such a guitarist is an honnor and it's a great experience (like Lucille of bb king for example) ps:sorry for my bad english I speak french also sorry for the late replay
Hi, Paul! Nice vid, as always! Thanks for sharing! My favorite guitars are: my standard fender strat 2007 MIM, but with customize locking tuners, pickups and hipshot tremolo and stock epiphone rock bass 1998 made in South Korea. They are both my favorite and amazing!
The one guitar I can´t live without is the PRS SE Hollowbody II Piezo. Changed everyhting in my guitarplaying. Most of time I use the bridge PU with a little bit of piezo sound. I play it fingerstyle (if my nails are not broken) clean on a Acus Akoustic Amp. Now I found the sound what I was looking for a livetime. And with the sound came the insperation. May be, I am the happyest man in the world.
Thank you , first of all, for all your videos,. After many years and very many guitars, I've settled on the following keepers, all of which I cherish: Fender Player Plus Strat., Gretsch G5622T, Epiphone Sheraton II plus, and A PRS Se hollowbody II. The Gretsch, Epi and PRS wiped out my 50's Les Paul which was returned to the store last Saturday, for a substantial refund after restocking fee. Thanks again
What a statement, "This the best Les Paul I've ever played." I don't own the best of anything I've ever played. But someday I hope to be able to say that. Good on you mate :)
My four best guitars - a black Vintage V100 les Paul copy, a Squier classic vibe Tele (50s Butter scotch), Epiphone Dot (red of course) and a custom Tele I built from a plank of wood that washed up on the beach.............
I love the improvised authenticity you present with. The humility balanced with the confidence…The personal quirks that you don’t understand. Very easy to relate to. You also sound like a badass in your brief samples. I don’t usually sit through many instructional vids without speeding them up. 🤦🏽♂️. Never has occurred to me with yours.
Sometimes that tinny buzz that you hear on the high e string of your Telecaster can be cause by the contact point on the string tree (on the headstock)
Dear Paul, nice to watch that you never put guitar you owned as granted tools but part of your music identity. Most guitarist i know would just boast the brand & the type without knowing what they mean. Respect
@@777sicilia Exactly, G&L in Fullerton uses the Fullerton Red color, and Vintage Strats had a HOT ROD Red (same color) while Fender uses the name Fiesta Red. In the videos though two of the guitars sure look orange. I'm glad the Strat is a relic, I thought it was a bit worn. Now BLUE has many colors including Daphne blue, Himalayan blue, Sonic blue...and VINTAGE WHITE is slightly yellow but I couldn't find one yellow enough so I bought a custom G&L YELLOW FEVER strat. Man, that sucker is YELLOW.
John Germain LMAO!!!!! Now I'm starting to wonder what kind of red my 50's reissue Fender Strat is? Maybe it's the fiesta red, which would make it orange?
@@777sicilia Why do they have the ACID ETCH the fretboard or whatever they do, I think relic customs are way overdone. Your guess is as good as mine on the color outcome but I don't see an orange there.
Human perception of color is a strange thing. The cones in the retina respond to light (the "signal") however they do (they've got some filtering built into them, apparently), and then the rest of the brain -- the optical cortex but probably other parts of it too -- do some processing of their own on top of that. We tend to perceive any color in relationship to what other colors are next to it. Many musicians claim to have "perfect pitch" but I don't know anybody who has "perfect hue." Color is always, as humans perceive it, relative. Ever notice how much more orange an orange looks when it's in one of those mesh bags in the supermarket than how it looks when you take it out in your kitchen? The eye/brain blends the color of the orange skin with the color of the mesh and we see a deeper shade of orange. Supermarkets also play tricks with the lighting to make meat look redder (and thus fresher) when it's in the display case. It's all relative. I think there's far less trickery going on with guitar finishes than with supermarket produce and meat, but I think the human brain is subject to some biases based even on what some marketing genius chooses to name a color -- Fiesta, Fullerton, Hot-rod, Candy-apple -- that sort of thing. But in the end (with apologies to Gertrude Stein), an orange is an orange is an orange.
I'm sure you know, but you can significantly reduce the noise from those Strat pickups by installing the Illitch backplate. It doesn't alter the sound of the pickups, it just reduces the noise to almost nothing. I have a CS Strat with the Illitch and can now record without problems.
I don't own a guitar, I don't even know crap about music theory. I have no idea about half the thing you say. So.. why am I still subscribed and watch almost every video you put out? Awesome skills, music and presentation. Also I really like your style of.. well, everything. From music to video editing to humor.
I know I’m late, but that sound on the Tele is definitely a low nut slot. The string doesn’t have to visually touch a fret to make that noise, what your hearing is the string vibrations getting cut off by the 1st fret; you’d only hear it when you’re playing that string open.
Hi Paul. About the high E-string problem on your lovely Tele. Sometimes it's because there is not enough string tension on the nut. Try holding the string down behind the nut with light pressure and see if it goes away. It may be worth a try. The Duesenberg sounds great!
The nut slot might not slope down towards the tuner enough as well. The string needs to make as little contact with the nut as possible. If there is too much contact, you get that weird ringing overtone sound. I've had two guitars that have had that problem. One on the A string and one on the high E string. I didn't know what it was until I watch a video of Phillip McKnight talking about it.
My collection for no reason.. 2007 Fender MIM Tele in Wine Red 2011 Martin SWDGT ( my first "REAL" guitar) 1980 Martin D-35 1968 Harmony H162 1990 Guild D25-12 :)
(2000 ish schecter diamond series 38 special p rails dual push pulls locking tuners tusq nut) - (2017 american profesional series strat in sonic grey) - (randomly thrown together partscaster) - (chinese nk headless from ebay) a tele will be next, im not a big fan of gibsons but maybe someday or if i find a deal
My Favorite I own is a Fender Troy Van Leuwan Copper Jazzmaster, I named it mojo within 2 hours of owning. Thing is flawless. Thanks for your guitar course! I am learning so much every week!!
I have an accoustic guiatar (Aria Elecord) since five Years from my dad. Since on e year i play a fender stratocaster 2006 mexico in blue. The fender has a nice sound and plays nice. The aria is the guitar, that i love
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As a seventy year old grandmother, I needed to scratch an itch I’ve had since I was a teenager. So, a couple of weeks ago, I bought myself an Epiphone Les Paul 50s with the beautiful cherry sunburst finish and am delightedly following your videos. Got a lot to learn. Got a beautiful guitar.
Oh that is a wonderful thing to hear, I'm so happy you are pursuing your interests regardless of age, as so many mistakenly thing they are "too old". I'm sure you are playing beautifully!
absolutely made my day reading this, so happy for you!! keep at it!!
This comment just made my day. Stick with it it takes time but is one of the kost rewarding hobbies ive ever had.
Since my earlier post 70 has become 71 and I’ve added a Stratocaster to my mix.
@@eileenmacarthur1951 late happy birthday! i hope you have fun with the new guitar
Paul, You are the Bob Ross of the guitar world. "Pretty noisy as well but thats just how guitars are." Beautiful
"Learning how to play guitar? Wait! Don't touch the skip button, this is gonna change everything!
Me: *skips*
yeap. they have 5 seconds and use it just to say "... don't skip". Immediately skipping!
My one started with: "don't you hate it when...." ironic
Nicolò Sciacca I hate those ads
Argh is there a way to change the goddamn algorithm? I’m never gonna use one of these apps
I clicked on one of those ads only to discover that they were teaching me some watered down blues turnaround that I already learned 4 years ago.
What Paul inspired me is, not just the tech or the mindset of playing guitar, but maybe more important, attitude. I don't know why, just whenever you get tired of playing or learning how to play better, this kind of video just inspired me, made me feel like, "oh yeah the instrument I love is actually so beautiful and lovely" things like this.
Production year: 2009
Model: 1959 reissue
Sequence number: 79
Manufactured in Nashville
for the les paul!
like this comment so paul will see it, like deze comment zodat paul het ziet!
The 5 is for the decade after the creation of the Les Paul?
Life lesson: don't buy guitars from Paul Davids, he knows which ones to sell. Excellent video nonetheless.
He probably knows which ones to buy too. I bet his rejects are by and large lovely guitars, he just keeps the absolute cream of the crop.
One man's trash is another man's treasure
@@lemfandango one mans hole is another mans retreat
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Eh. Maybe. But everyone has their preferences with their guitar. One thing Paul might not like about the feel or sound of a guitar might be something someone else enjoys
Paul's hands: *shreds
Paul's guitar: *screams
Paul: "yeah"
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I don't get those random reddit copy posts, this one doesn't make any sense
Basically, 3:09, 4:32, 5:29, and so on. He shreds, his guitar screams, and then he says, "Yeah." There's really nothing to understand.
Yeah
“Yeah… so”
Your playing is amazing (as everyone clearly agrees) but I have to also say that your video production is fantastic - with all the subtle inserts and edits - you obviously are as precise and clever with your video editing as you are with your playing and teaching. I just wanted to be sure you knew this does not go unnoticed. Thanks for the quality content and keep 'em coming!
mate i just shed a tear over that comment lol wtf
I’ve got an 86 Les Paul sunburst, a 91 Strat plus ultra, and an 89 Ibanez Sabre, the Frank Gambali body style one. All I need is a tele that can talk back to me when I play it!
Yeah, what you said.
Love it when he talks about the certificate from the Les Paul so coveted like, then when he’s ready to move on, just throws it on the floor like a piece of trash.
Every Guitarist needs a minimum of six guitars. Strat, Tele, a single cut Les Paul type, a semi hollow ES-335 type and two acoustics, steel and nylon string. I currently only have two 😞
Knew you were Dutch the second I heard your voice. Spent some time in Netherlands about ten years ago. Wonderful people that really made me feel at home. Really miss it sometimes.
My dad had a bunch of guitars and equipment when I was growing up so when I had my teenager playing rock music phase I was sorta spoiled. I got to play a 69 Strat and a 1974 Yamaha SG-175. I also got to plug them into an early 80s Mesa Boogie.
Definitive experience for me not having to thrash away on a crap cheapo guitar so that when I finally picked one of those up for myself I felt the difference immediately. Luckily my dad has all of those things still so I can still totally play them anytime I want.
Paul, ask Austin at Trogly's guitar channel about your les paul, he knows everything about gibsons
Correct, Austin will most likely be able to answer that question.
Pot Dates and pickup types will help narrow down which decade it was built.
Yeah, Trogly is amazing with knowledge of 1970s-present Gibsons, especially the niche runs and the reissues.
Just wanted to say that. He's the one to go to with all Gibson-related question!
I’m pretty sure it isn’t a 50th anniversary model, since the certificate and booklet isn’t gold, and the 50th anniversary model was only produced in 500 exampels, so the certificate should state what number his guitar is. But they did produce a regular R9 in 2009 outside of the 50th anniversary line. So that’s most likely what it is. But I’m not sure, maybe his is some other thing I don’t know about. He should try and look at the other side of the certificate and see if Gibson put something there, they sometimes do.
The guitars I can’t live without:
my old ass squier stratocaster cuz i’m broke af
Stormy Rainbow .-. Nothing wrong with squire. The Fender Custom shop guy found one in a shop and couldn’t believe how nice it played the production quality.
Nothing wrong about a old squire man. I got my 2008 classic vibe and I literally cannot let it go.
Made some mods over the decade but the sound, the feel, the memories and sentiments... it's just worth way more than the $200 sombody would may for.
It's a lifer guitar for sure.
It’s spelled SQUIER 🤦♂️
@@SG-wj2qj by squier he probably meant bullets or smth
@@SG-wj2qj it's not always the price tag that makes a good guitar. I have 2 epiphones that I realy love a 2004 Dot I bought off ebay for about 200 bucks, sure I swaped the pickups for a pair of (quite affortable) teslas and put on a bigsby vibrato (yes a 160 bucks vibrato for a 200 bucks guitar with a 120 bucks set of tesla pickups xD) and it's my most played guitar after my acoustic. And a 1995 korean Epiphone Sorrento I found in a stores farest corner (I guess the store owner didn't want to give it away) it's the best quality electric guitar I have ever seen and it's all original (exept for the bigsby... yeah I'm a bigsby guy xD).
I do have a Gibson ES 335 made in 2016. same issues as Paul mentioned. I still have it but I don't play it that often because it just doesn't feel as right as the other two...
so if you feel comfortable with your old squire keep it. never sell a guitar you realy love to play! It's not about the name tag :)
I have a Hohner Gruhn Design acoustic which my dad bought back in the 80s. It was a "budget" acoustic which was supposed to be launched as a collaborative effort between Hohner and master guitar-builder, George Gruhn. The deal, for some reason, turned sour before they had even launched so they never actually hit the shelves. A good friend of my dad's, Trevor (who used to work on Johnny Marr's guitars) managed to get his hands on one (luckily) when my dad was looking to buy a new acoustic. I have never found another guitar which plays so nicely or sounds as great when played acoustically. Easily the most important guitar to me.
The four guitars I’ve always said I need not want, are a les Paul, a 335, a tele, and a strat. I love this video :)
Agreed but I would also add an SG
I'd replace the tele with a shred style guitar, probably an Ibanez
Meh. Single coil, humbucker, acoustic. Your choice which ones exactly. That's it. Everything else is being a guitar geek.
Not that I only own 3 guitars but at least I'm not lying to myself about it :-D
@@EnterJustice i like this one , i have a gibson les paul , american fender strat ,martin 000 road series , yamaha silent nylon, i sing and play so for me i can cover any song... tele would be nice tho so i dont have to bring the les paul as often as it is the most expensive one haha
"Had to be a Strat and it had to be Red!" - Has Mark Knopfler said...
I bought my first guitar last week, so I guess that’s the one I can’t live without.
It’s a Gretsch 2622TG P90 Special Edition
The tone on that strat is heavenly
2:26 bro I freaken died when you dropped that thing 😂
The most likable person in the guitar world ever! How can you NOT like this guy? 179 haters what the hell?!?
The Duesenberg on clean would be soooo perfect for a slow dancing in a burning room cover.
I have five I can't live without 😁
1. My Fender Strat (it was sold to me without description so I'm not sure whether it's the American Professional or performer but it's one of the two) it's white with a Tortoise shell guard and plays and sounds like a dream. When I pick that thing up, I can't put it down.
2. My Epiphone Les Paul Standard in Desert Burst. I put some Gibson burstbuckers in it, pair it with a Vox AC4-C12 (I live in an apartment so the larger models were not an option) and it sounds like a million bucks.
3. My Epiphone SG I call "Red"
I truly do like Epiphone guitars, and though many will look down on you if you own one because the general consensus is that a Chinese guitar can't be any good, I've NEVER played an Epi above 300 bucks that I didn't like. Red has all the sustain, and it's so versatile. Sparkly cleans to hard rock or metal.
4. My Schecter PT Special Tele. It's not your average Tele, it's got a P90 in the neck, and has a different sound to it, but I was blown away by this guitar the minute I player it. It can twang with the best of them, but it also gets some really high gain tones that your average Tele can't. I love not having to switch between guitars, I can play country, rock, and metal on just the one guitar. And the guitar is just a beauty 😍
5. My last baby is my cheap acoustic-electric by brand of "Ashthorpe"
I don't really care what brand a guitar is or how much it costed, if it sounds good that's all I need to know. That said, this is one of the best sounding acoustic-electrics I've ever played. I've played expensive Martin's, Gibsons, and Taylor's, and this one comes very close. I'm not lying.
And those are my five children I'd run into a burning building to save.
That intro... I've been playing for 20 years+, I started out wanting to play like that and I still can't.
My 1976 Gibson L6-S Deluxe is my prize possession. I spent a long while trying to find a guitar that spoke to me and this one just feels so right. It makes me want to play more. It's quirky and twitchy, the pickups are hot and it sounds absolutely FILTHY with distortion and some compression. It's mine and I love it.
A very under-rated guitar. I loved them, but couldn't afford one
* got two red guitars *
"I don't like red to be honest"
And a red amp
@@sandervandenbroek5813 and a red ish les Paul
Maybe my monitor needs to be calibrated, but they look Orange to me. I am not a big Red guitar fan either but I just bought one yesterday. It does look very nice though.
@@RGMDG it's "fiesta red"
Same I have like 3 red guitars but don't like red at all but the play so great so I deal with the color.
That feeling when you only have 1 guitar... *cries in corner*
(Edit: Chill people! it's a f*cking joke!)
That feeling when you do not have any guitar...
The feeling whit just acustic guitar haha
One is all you need. Think of Angus Young or Tony Iommi who barely use any other guitar than their #1s.
One guitar is all you need!
It's ok to have only one guitar. Especially if it's one that feels comfortable to you.
My roots were in Strats but I played a Les Paul for years. Finally went back to Fender Strats when I tried a Jeff Beck model. It spoke to me and I'm glad I picked it up. It covers all the styles I play (Rock, Jazz, Country, Blues, R&B). I love the way I get different textures based on how hard or soft I hit the strings or roll off the guitar volume/tone. Definitely my go to guitar.
I have just 4 ( ha ). …
Early ‘70’s Yamaha 300 ( had since then- Humming Bird copy .. very good )
Bought new an early’90’s Strat. MIJ - 57 re-issue Tobacco Sunburst - shop put on Lace Sensor Pickups .. also very nice ❤
Picked up CBG - 3 string for a bit of fun 😂
Then … after watching Eric Johanson Live in Oregon, supporting Samantha Fish - he was playing a white Phonic Dusenberg Starplayer - never heard or seen one before ( he’s pretty good ) - was impressed.
Got back to Australia, did a bit of Homework and ended up treating myself for Xmas - Starplayer TV
Still getting the hang of it 🎵
But jeez , it’s a beautiful guitar .. and yes the wood was crafted in Croatia 🇭🇷 - I was sold 💕
The moral of this story- never buy a guitar from Paul!
“You can sell it for what you paid for it... if you do it right.” Classic
Geoff Morrissey imagine if someone who bought a guitar from Paul tuned in- ‘ooh, I bought a guitar from that guy once, I wonder if it’ll get a mention... oh 😐’ 😂😂
hahahah!!! Yeah!!!
flipper2gv so true
😂
Your guitar tones are my favorites out of all the TH-camrs. Sounds great every time.
Paul, I really love your work. You're a gem in the (oftentimes) wastelands of TH-cam.
I apologize in advance for this long message but I feel you will understand my query:
Right now I play Squier 50s Classic Vibes, both the Telecaster and Stratocaster. I have no frame of reference for owning such lovely guitars as you do, but I do enjoy both of these lower-end guitars well enough, I guess. However, I have a thought:
In 2024, I will turn 50 years old. My first idea was to buy a vintage guitar from my birth-year. Not an original idea, but I could save and have one (hopefully). My thought was Tele, but I wouldn't know til I played a few '74 Teles, Strats, Les Pauls, etc. I don't feel I'd be too precious with a vintage guitar, it wouldn't be a wall-hanger. I would play it, and I would leave it for my kids to fight over after I'm gone. It would be played.
Then I thought maybe, instead, and for probably the same money (or close), I could get a Custom Shop guitar, brand new, and start with it at 50 years old myself. That could also be very lovely. I wouldn't (maybe) worry so much about nicks and dings with a relic job.
My third thought was to just try guitars until one spoke to me. Maybe 'The One' would be cheaper than vintage or Custom Shop, I should just play them all until I found the one that felt like I was *home*. But that could take forever, potentially, and in these Covid times right now, I do not get to be in guitar shoppes very often (we only have one in my small city, and it's a chain store) and I live 3 hours from Toronto, which is off-limits to me right now anyway, virus-numbers-wise. Maybe by 2024 it will be all back to whatever normal will be...
Lastly, I could just stay with my Classic Vibes, let this whole idea go. Really, they're quite OK. And maybe I could put some money into a better amp than my Boss Katana 50 Mk.1 and my Yamaha THR5. But, guitar-wise, I'd always have that lingering thought in my head... what if...
What would you do? Just find one that speaks to me, whether it be vintage, Custom Shop, or whatever else (if I can ever get somewhere to try them out)? Or is there one clear choice? I don't feel like it's an easy answer, but perhaps I am over-thinking this.
Thanks again for all that you do. Keep up the amazing work!
I hope you went out and got one, man.
@@gundamnitpete Thanks, but not yet. I'm still working on it!
I owned a strat most of my life and gave it to a friend when I moved and basically went full acoustic. Was shopping around and that it might be cool to own a Les Paul... but I realize that in every video, the Strat is always my favorite. Les Paul’s are cool for heavy, fuzzy riffs, but I like Strats.
Hi Mark I know this comment is old. I was wondering what was your reason for going mainly acoustic? I had the opposite journey as a child when I went from mainly acoustic to electric. I've seen a few online discussions recently about going full acoustic so I'm just curious on why someone might want to do that.
I have five guitars and three are each special for their own reason.
1st - Martin DM - First real guitar I owned. Gifted to me for my 16th birthday and my main guitar for 15+ years.
2nd - 2008 Fender Custom Shop 1958 Heavy Relic Telecaster - First electric guitar I owned. My mom bought it for herself (second hand return to original shop) at a massive discount somewhere around 4 years ago. She couldn't work out playing guitar that well, so I received it more or less. I didn't really play it much though until I got a proper amp this year.
3rd - Gretsch G6659TG Player's Edition Broadkaster Jr - First guitar that I purchased with my own money. I too was actually looking for a Gibson ES-335 but came across the Gretsch at a local shop on heavy discount and bought it as the shop was closing for the night. I didn't even test it in shop, it was calling to me! Very happy with the purchase in every way.
I like it when you say ‘electrical’ instead of electric. It’s a trend I’ve been trying to spread for years 😃
Thanks for another interesting video!
My favourite is my 1997 LP Classic fitted with Saturday Night Special pickups. I also have a Jeff Beck Strat from 2007 which is lovely.
I have got a ‘52 Tele reissue like you had, that I have never really grown into, so I’m thinking of selling it.
Cheers!
Geetar2112 the coolest guitar I’ve personally ever seen is my uncle’s 1960 Stratocaster. It’s not a reissue. It will be 60 years old next year.
Saying electrical as opposed to electric is a Dutch thing
So by definition, does "acoustic" become "acoustical"? Love Paul, his music & his videos.
Also in Afrikaans, annoying, but no harm.
@@TheBlade4X4 dat is het zeker maat
My favorite two guitars are the only two I own. My acoustic is a 2019 Taylor 414ce-r special edition v-class and my first ever electric, an Epiphone Les Paul Standard. Learning with you my friend. Keep up the good work.
I wonder how this list stacks up today. Revisit this one!
Almost the same for me: 1st is a Fender Tele S-S MIJ, 2nd is a Gibson Les Paul Standard H-H, 3rd is a Fender Strat S-S-S MIJ and 4th is a Gibson SG Special (P90-P90)
I also have a Yamaha FS5 acoustic that I carry out/travel with, as well as a Yamaha Pacifica 112V (H-S-S Super Strat) that I still use for learning.
My favourite guitars are my 64 Strat, 68 ES335, 68 Tele, 72 Harmony H671, 63 Gibson Southern Jumbo and a 1992 Les Paul Standard. These are the ones that just have a thing that inspires and are so addictive to play as all of them have had a lot of play on them and the necks are naturally worn down so amazingly smooth.
I never thought I'd own a tele. However one day I went into sweetwater and a guy brought out a daphne blue sandblasted telecaster made exclusively for sweetwater by fender. I must of sat and played it a hour in the store I could not put it down. After having the luthier there lower the action ,put a different pickup in the bridge and a set of locking tuners I took it home. And out of all 11 guitars I own that is the one I'd keep if I had to sell every last one!!
How much did you pay?
As French i really appreciate « le plat de résistance » nice accent Mr Paul Davids ! By the way, amazing guitars and video ! Thanks for your work 👍
Every note this guy ever plays sounds amazingly good to me...i guess i probably oughta buy his album
My Rickenbacker 370 and I will never part. Modified by a Dutch lutiher near Maastricht as it happens! Bypassed the "Ric-O-Sound" and each of its 3 pickups has an individual on/off switch. Love it.
2 months ago I got my first Haar Trad T guitar, custom-made to my specifications - Amber 59 CP neck pickup and Kloppmann BC 49 bridge pickup, surf green, aged, locking tuners.
The guitar is simply gorgeous in every relevant aspect and if I could only keep one guitar, this would be the one I keep.
Man, that Haar Guitar sounds amazing.
How would a Haar strat be in relation to say a Westfield Strat ?
“I’m not German, I am Dutch. It’s an entirely different thing, and I do not like the comparison.” 🤣
I agree as a german, but i really like dutch people and the country
Is there a comparable Dutch Guitar Manufacturer, who offers the same build quality ? I`m German, not Dutch, it´s an entirely different thing, and i also don`t like the comparison ;-) Great and my favourite neighbours, the Dutch ;-)
Paul was undoubtedly made familiar with the period 1940-1945 when he was of school age, in particular the period Oct 1944 - Ap 1945. What the Dutch people were subjected to after the failure of Operation Market Garden - the 'Bridge Too Far' op..... Look it up.
Austin Powers’ father: “ There’s only two kinds of people I don’t like-people who are intolerant of other cultures...and the Dutch!” Not me, I like the few Dutch people I’ve ever come across, but it’s funny.
I guess our habit of raiding small neighbor countries didn't come across as the nice thing we always thought it would be. Seems it has caused some hard feeling.
On a serious note: Great channel! And if it comforts you: nobody in their right mind can take your accent for German.
6:55 “ringing” That’s a unique... same with me on my strat first string 😄
It sounds like a Saddle is loose on the bridge. But then again what do I know Ive not touched my guitars in 4 years now and I might be losing my trouble shooting touch.
Someone put guitars on earth to enjoy for a reason. You enjoy the best and I thank you for inspiring those of us to do the best we can. We would be in in a hopeless space without music and those who make it.
A few days back I got a present from my wife, which totally blew my mind. She got me a Gretsch G5124 White hollowbody. She told me that she searched a very long time to find it, since only 200 pieces worldwide were produced in white. I completely fell in love with my G5124. I’ll put up a video and soundsample soon.
Great video and beautifull guitars!
Cheers from ‘s-Hertogenbosch
It’s really cool how different people’s tastes can be. I went out of my way to buy an American Vintage 52 reissue tele and it is by far the best guitar I’ve ever played. I love everything about the design, sound, and the look
Yep! Quality control on guitars, is pretty objective, but which guitars speak to individuals, is infinitely subjective. I had an American made strat, that I never played, because I only enjoyed playing my 50’s classic vibe Tele lol 🤷🏼♂️
This guy is an excellent guitarist! Wow!
11:01 best part haha. Love your vids btw!!
Paul, check the headstock side of the nut slot the high E is sitting in. It’s a common spot for buzz or bad contact. Usually just pushing a tad on it and plucking the string will let ya know if it’s there. The buzz should stop when a little pressure is applied right behind the slot on the string. Cheers
Spose it could be the body side of the slot also! But basically the nut slot is the likely culprit when fret buzz is ruled out. More common than bridge saddle buzz even. Or so I’ve found.
For variety, I have a '62 Martin D21, a '79 LP standard, a '97 Ric 330/12 and an '07 US strat. The Mrs said 'it's me or the guitars'. I really miss her.
Hi Paul, I got an acoustic guitar in Morelia, Mexico that sounds great. For $20 USD, it sounds way better than $500+ guitars I’ve tried out. It’s a Gilb guitar. The action is maybe a little high for me but I love it😊
"It's not the price that makes a good guitar" - Chris Leduc, master luthier. Some of the world's very best guitarists and bassists are his clients. Have you seen Blackmore's "OFR" (Only For Ritchie) "Strat" made of 250 years old woods? She's his daughter. Abe Laboriel never goes to any session without his 4 Leduc basses... In fact, his instruments are rarely seen on stage as... Don't expect endorsement from an artisan who only builds 25-30 guitars or basses a year! But they end being heard on many big productions. When Peter Gabriel's sound engineer says he prefer the Leduc basses over any others, what does it means? Does Tony Levin owns some too?
My obsession right now is the 'Gretsch Streamliner' which is a bit like the Duesenberg. Ohh I looooove it😍 the tremolo system is just awesome (it's bigsby) and the pickups and everything is absolutely wonderful 😍😍
Yeah... You need to have dreams so.. maybe one day I'll have it in my collection 🙃
Can I also say, I bloody love the sound of that strat. It’s very warm, mid scooped. Love that sound. I actually think it was hearing your strat in several videos that inspired me to build a custom strat. We bought an unfinished, licensed neck, but we made the body ourselves out of huge piece of ash (hot piece of ash it was too lol) and put a lot of focus on playability. Turned out really nicely and it plays great! Yosemite pups so a slightly different sound but not far off, especially that neck pup. Mmmmmm. Nothing beats a strat neck sound. Pure sex.
BOTTLE OF WATAH
I was just about to write that I actually don't like the strat as it just sounds generic too me when I stumbled upon your comment. Les Paul just doesn't do it for me, they all just sound muted. I kinda like the tele, but I'd say that it is probably not a guitar for me ergonomically. I guess I am a 335 or maybe a 355 man, judging by the sound and looks, although I never played one, which may completely quench my interest with them when I do. Where I am based there are no guitar shops nearby, so I cannot really try them all. Maybe someday.
Most of these are guitar types I'm not typically drawn to but I love the sound and look of every single one of these guitars
Nobody told me when I was learning to play THE guitar that it means I will never have enough guitars. 😅 I’m already up to 6 and I’m just six months into this journey.
the high E on the tele has a nice sitar sound ;-) My guess its that the nut is the culprit. When the slot is unevenly filed or the angle is not steep enough the string can buzz in the nut... groetjes uit België
Super cool to hear you talk about the deusenburg! I’ve been playing it for a while and fell in love, but couldn’t find that much information on them. Absolutely gorgeous guitar and so versatile too!
Duesenberg - White; wow, I thought it was a beautiful guitar with great tone. The Les Paul was awesome and the Dutch Tele sounds great. I choose the Duesenberg as the overall choice for me.
Had a number of guitars but now i'm staying with a modified Heritage Les Paul and a Partscaster and i love them both.
Vintage 1968 Les Paul Custom Black Beauty. Plays like an absolute dream.
The tones on all 4 guitars are amazing, congratulations! 👍🏼👍🏼
Great show, Paul! My favorite guitar is a 1963 Strat I own since 1976. Still plays beautifully (had to re-fret it though...)
Jan Cabri love a vintage Strat, I got a 1974
Good collection, my dream guitar is a Les Paul standard. In the future I would like to have: my dream guitar, tele, strat and a SG.
Im in love with my 1977 Stingray II Musicman guitar. Purchased it used, body was cracked, light blue paint was like if someone pulled a fork back n forth on it, but after few moves I've made- she sings so sweet.
Oh, to choose my top 4. Sticking with my electrics, my # 1 is my 2018 Amer. Professional Tele Deluxe. It has a 2019 Fender Elite neck and Lollar Imperial humbuckers. It plays like butter. #2 is my 2018 Fender Elite SSH. Love the neck and tone. #3 is my Gretsch G5135GL. It’s a signature Corvette with TV Jones Power’trons and a soft profile neck. Finally (so hard to choose here) a 2018 Tele. I took Fender Pro parts, mastery bridge, SD pickups, a B16 Bigsby, and locking tuners to my luthier. She assembled an amazing Tele; great weight, balance, tone.
My favourite guitar??🤔🤔
SRV's guitar
Paul,your collection is a door to heaven,I wouldn't ask more if I hade your collection
But you can't play SRV's guitars without his fingers (and the fact that he used
@@brandonardila8868 yeah but he tuned down so theres less tension
@@beenmicrophone5817 Oh, yes. But .13 (his most used gauge) on Eb, and bending like he did it is really hard..., in my experience :(
But yes, sometimes even he took .12. Even his carasteristic sound was influenced by his gauge.
Brandon Ardila lol I can never play his guitar,with or without fingers 😅😅 he's a God tier level guitarist while I'm a beginner
but just the feel you can have by trying a guitar that belong to such a guitarist is an honnor and it's a great experience (like Lucille of bb king for example)
ps:sorry for my bad english I speak french also sorry for the late replay
How on earth do you do all this amazing video editing?? It must take aaaaaages!!! It's definitely worth it tho!
Hi, Paul! Nice vid, as always! Thanks for sharing! My favorite guitars are: my standard fender strat 2007 MIM, but with customize locking tuners, pickups and hipshot tremolo and stock epiphone rock bass 1998 made in South Korea. They are both my favorite and amazing!
The one guitar I can´t live without is the PRS SE Hollowbody II Piezo. Changed everyhting in my guitarplaying. Most of time I use the bridge PU with a little bit of piezo sound. I play it fingerstyle (if my nails are not broken) clean on a Acus Akoustic Amp. Now I found the sound what I was looking for a livetime. And with the sound came the insperation. May be, I am the happyest man in the world.
Thank you , first of all, for all your videos,. After many years and very many guitars, I've settled on the following keepers, all of which I cherish: Fender Player Plus Strat., Gretsch G5622T, Epiphone Sheraton II plus, and A PRS Se hollowbody II. The Gretsch, Epi and PRS wiped out my 50's Les Paul which was returned to the store last Saturday, for a substantial refund after restocking fee. Thanks again
From now on, I will call them “electrical guitars”.
"Geetaurz"
I won’t
paul: “i don’t like red”
THATS JUST THE WAY IT ISSSSSSS, SOMETHINGS WILL NEVER CHANGEEEEEEE
What a statement, "This the best Les Paul I've ever played." I don't own the best of anything I've ever played. But someday I hope to be able to say that. Good on you mate :)
I haven't played anything I haven't owned..
My four best guitars - a black Vintage V100 les Paul copy, a Squier classic vibe Tele (50s Butter scotch), Epiphone Dot (red of course) and a custom Tele I built from a plank of wood that washed up on the beach.............
I love the improvised authenticity you present with. The humility balanced with the confidence…The personal quirks that you don’t understand. Very easy to relate to. You also sound like a badass in your brief samples. I don’t usually sit through many instructional vids without speeding them up. 🤦🏽♂️. Never has occurred to me with yours.
Hey Paul, to fix the sound of yoyr tele's e string you'll need to lower your magnets from that side.
Sometimes that tinny buzz that you hear on the high e string of your Telecaster can be cause by the contact point on the string tree (on the headstock)
mike.is.guitar don’t be a dick. Maybe Julian was specifying in case someone was scrolling the comments who was new to guitars and didn’t know that.
The vintage tuners on mine started to have lash in the gears. Had to replace two of them because of a buzz.
Julian Sherwood
I suggested the headstock side of the nut slot but your suggestion could also be it. Both are common spots for weird contact.
The buzz I hear on my guitar is on the b string
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Every time I hear a Strat it reminds me of 1970 and Jimi at the I. O. W. Festival I had the great privilege of being there. Great time great memories.
Dear Paul, nice to watch that you never put guitar you owned as granted tools but part of your music identity. Most guitarist i know would just boast the brand & the type without knowing what they mean. Respect
Am I color blind or is the strat actually orange?
That's some"fiesta red" kind of thing, I too at first thought it was orange
I could swear he plays differently with that strat to any of his others. They’ve got that connection...
I noticed that too, that one is his voice for sure.
Fiesta Red, Fullerton Red, Hot Rod Red, same same, it still looks orange
John Germain lol!! I thought the same thing as I was watching. Are we color blind or something?
@@777sicilia Exactly, G&L in Fullerton uses the Fullerton Red color, and Vintage Strats had a HOT ROD Red (same color) while Fender uses the name Fiesta Red. In the videos though two of the guitars sure look orange. I'm glad the Strat is a relic, I thought it was a bit worn. Now BLUE has many colors including Daphne blue, Himalayan blue, Sonic blue...and VINTAGE WHITE is slightly yellow but I couldn't find one yellow enough so I bought a custom G&L YELLOW FEVER strat. Man, that sucker is YELLOW.
John Germain LMAO!!!!! Now I'm starting to wonder what kind of red my 50's reissue Fender Strat is? Maybe it's the fiesta red, which would make it orange?
@@777sicilia Why do they have the ACID ETCH the fretboard or whatever they do, I think relic customs are way overdone. Your guess is as good as mine on the color outcome but I don't see an orange there.
Human perception of color is a strange thing. The cones in the retina respond to light (the "signal") however they do (they've got some filtering built into them, apparently), and then the rest of the brain -- the optical cortex but probably other parts of it too -- do some processing of their own on top of that. We tend to perceive any color in relationship to what other colors are next to it. Many musicians claim to have "perfect pitch" but I don't know anybody who has "perfect hue." Color is always, as humans perceive it, relative. Ever notice how much more orange an orange looks when it's in one of those mesh bags in the supermarket than how it looks when you take it out in your kitchen? The eye/brain blends the color of the orange skin with the color of the mesh and we see a deeper shade of orange. Supermarkets also play tricks with the lighting to make meat look redder (and thus fresher) when it's in the display case. It's all relative.
I think there's far less trickery going on with guitar finishes than with supermarket produce and meat, but I think the human brain is subject to some biases based even on what some marketing genius chooses to name a color -- Fiesta, Fullerton, Hot-rod, Candy-apple -- that sort of thing. But in the end (with apologies to Gertrude Stein), an orange is an orange is an orange.
I'm sure you know, but you can significantly reduce the noise from those Strat pickups by installing the Illitch backplate. It doesn't alter the sound of the pickups, it just reduces the noise to almost nothing. I have a CS Strat with the Illitch and can now record without problems.
My dream guitars:
Electric:
59 Gibson Les Paul cs reissue, 52 Gibson Les Paul reissue, 60s fender Strat reissue.
Acoustic: Gibson J200, Martin D28.
I don't own a guitar, I don't even know crap about music theory. I have no idea about half the thing you say.
So.. why am I still subscribed and watch almost every video you put out?
Awesome skills, music and presentation. Also I really like your style of.. well, everything. From music to video editing to humor.
I loved the sound of that duesenberg fullterton. Sounds like my strat, but in a domesticated way. I may get one of that
2:22 It has a sticker on the back of the COA paper that says "NEW GOLDEN AGE 50 ANNIVERSARY"
I know I’m late, but that sound on the Tele is definitely a low nut slot. The string doesn’t have to visually touch a fret to make that noise, what your hearing is the string vibrations getting cut off by the 1st fret; you’d only hear it when you’re playing that string open.
Hi Paul. About the high E-string problem on your lovely Tele. Sometimes it's because there is not enough string tension on the nut. Try holding the string down behind the nut with light pressure and see if it goes away. It may be worth a try. The Duesenberg sounds great!
The nut slot might not slope down towards the tuner enough as well. The string needs to make as little contact with the nut as possible. If there is too much contact, you get that weird ringing overtone sound. I've had two guitars that have had that problem. One on the A string and one on the high E string. I didn't know what it was until I watch a video of Phillip McKnight talking about it.
My collection for no reason..
2007 Fender MIM Tele in Wine Red
2011 Martin SWDGT ( my first "REAL" guitar)
1980 Martin D-35
1968 Harmony H162
1990 Guild D25-12
:)
Jonathan Dean Nice quiver of gear
(2000 ish schecter diamond series 38 special p rails dual push pulls locking tuners tusq nut) - (2017 american profesional series strat in sonic grey) - (randomly thrown together partscaster) - (chinese nk headless from ebay) a tele will be next, im not a big fan of gibsons but maybe someday or if i find a deal
The Les Paul does it for me. The Duesenberg in 2nd place, then the Tele then Strat.
You're a worthy successor to your countryman, Jan Ackkerman.
My Favorite I own is a Fender Troy Van Leuwan Copper Jazzmaster, I named it mojo within 2 hours of owning. Thing is flawless. Thanks for your guitar course! I am learning so much every week!!
I have an accoustic guiatar (Aria Elecord) since five Years from my dad.
Since on e year i play a fender stratocaster 2006 mexico in blue.
The fender has a nice sound and plays nice.
The aria is the guitar, that i love