i've been playing this guitar for the past ten years. i bought it when i was 15 simply because i have always been a huge courtney love/hole fan. wasn't sure what to expect but to this day it is still my favourite thing i've played. would really like to get my hands on the mercury after which courtney had the venus made. the mercury is similar to this but more in the style of a rickenbacker. nice video!!
I actually have one of these! Used to be sunburst but now it's a sparkly metallic purple. Still the original pickups, did swap out the volume pot and the switch. Thinking of swapping out the pickups and re-doing the whole wiring. Definitely a sweet guitar!
Great demo and nice blues licks! I have a Vista Venus, in black, just like yours....I got mine out of a pawn shop for peanuts....Love it! They are really fine quality! You really showed the versatility of these guitars!
Hey Caro, yeh they are great guitars, I got mine about 3years ago from a guy in NZ off of the gumtree website but I had to pay 1000 bucks for it, I was thinking of selling mine. Cheers.
Caro Coughlan did you end up getting one? If not, I hope you get one soon! I just found out about them today and I'm in LOVE *wink, wink!*. They sound and look So good!
I just picked up one of these on 25th May 2019 at local op shop in Auck NZ. The bridge pickup does not work atm I re-soldered all the pickups and switches but still nothing from bridge.
hey this is my channel but I cant log in as I created it with a Yahoo account ages ago and it wont let me log in so I can't upload anymore videos. These guitars are great and quite rare now, nice and easy to play. What color is yours and is it s 6 or 12 string? Cheers. Dave
@@alexgreenwood6297nope: the one she played at the 1995 MTV VMAs was the Fender custom shop Venus that they made for her based on the Mercury guitar. It only has a neck pickup and no control knobs so it stands out a mile.
i've been playing this guitar for the past ten years. i bought it when i was 15 simply because i have always been a huge courtney love/hole fan. wasn't sure what to expect but to this day it is still my favourite thing i've played. would really like to get my hands on the mercury after which courtney had the venus made. the mercury is similar to this but more in the style of a rickenbacker. nice video!!
Courtney Love guitar 🎸❤
I actually have one of these! Used to be sunburst but now it's a sparkly metallic purple. Still the original pickups, did swap out the volume pot and the switch. Thinking of swapping out the pickups and re-doing the whole wiring. Definitely a sweet guitar!
Great to see your review mine cost me neatly £900 as they are now very collectable,mine in foam surf green
Thanks for your review
Great demo and nice blues licks! I have a Vista Venus, in black, just like yours....I got mine out of a pawn shop for peanuts....Love it! They are really fine quality! You really showed the versatility of these guitars!
jockeydeuce what a find! They're beautiful, if ever you stop loving it, I'd be happy to take over for ya, haha! :D
Thanks I really enjoy playing mine, has a nice smooth neck
Neck binding on a strat-style guitar looks hot. Superb cleans.. sounds great!
Hey Caro, yeh they are great guitars, I got mine about 3years ago from a guy in NZ off of the gumtree website but I had to pay 1000 bucks for it, I was thinking of selling mine. Cheers.
Cool guitar.
The original humbucker pickup stopped working so I replaced it with a Seymour Duncan
Hey man sweet video! I want a Venus soooo bad and I am in New Zealand too and it's quite a mission to track one down. Where did you get yours?
Caro Coughlan did you end up getting one? If not, I hope you get one soon! I just found out about them today and I'm in LOVE *wink, wink!*. They sound and look So good!
I just picked up one of these on 25th May 2019 at local op shop in Auck NZ. The bridge pickup does not work atm I re-soldered all the pickups and switches but still nothing from bridge.
hey this is my channel but I cant log in as I created it with a Yahoo account ages ago and it wont let me log in so I can't upload anymore videos.
These guitars are great and quite rare now, nice and easy to play. What color is yours and is it s 6 or 12 string? Cheers. Dave
@@davidrobertson9501 turns out courtneys custom shop models only have a neck pickup and no volume control so your good to go :-)
Does it come stock with seymour Duncan screamin demon pickups?
hey dave, I have the same model and I really like it! but why did you chage the bridge pickup? wich one do u use? thanks!!
which strings do u use?
Actually wasn't this the guitar she used on the 1995 music awards?
Bo88y Beretta nah that was a guitar by a company called Mercury who went out of business and she took the design for this
@@alexgreenwood6297nope: the one she played at the 1995 MTV VMAs was the Fender custom shop Venus that they made for her based on the Mercury guitar. It only has a neck pickup and no control knobs so it stands out a mile.
Bad Guitarrist!!!!
Not at all