@bill_graham Jack Pearson loves Squire Strats by Fender. I think they are all made in southeast Asia.
A friend in the Nashville area told me a little earlier that Jack isn't feeling well according to a friend of a friend. That is several hoops out so hopefully Jack is feeling better than how it sounds.
Here is Jack on his G & L Strat with the ABB playing Stand Back. Jack really rocks on the end solo so watch to last part.
@bill_graham Thanks for the Squire vs Fender Stratocaster article Bill. The big music store here is okay with a customer taking an Epiphone version of a Gibson Les Paul or SG or ES-335 if they don't have the money for the Gibson version. They told me Gibson won't allow Epiphone to cut too many corners.
But the big store here doesn't recommend Squire to someone unless it's granddad buying his grandson a guitar that the grandson may only play a little for a few months. They claim Squire is just too cheap and risky for a gigging musician. They said Squire was the name of a string company Fender bought years ago. Later when Fender decided to flood the market with cheap versions of their most popular instruments, they used the Squire name for the cheap guitars they would build in southeast Asia in an attempt to chase off these cheap illegal copies pouring into the US and Europe from Southeast Asia.
Back when Fender sued some builders, the headstock design was the ONLY thing the judge would protect.
I've noticed on the $300.00 guitars the headstock reads "Squire by fender". Fender in small letters.
Here is Jack Pearson with a $125 Squire out of Singapore. I've read Jack will make a few upgrades such as putting in better tone and volume knobs and maybe a little fret filing to get rid of sharp ends but very little changes.
BTW I've heard from a friend in the Nashville area the word is Jack is sidelined now with some health problems. Hope he gets better if this is true. I've read more than once Jack is a very nice man.
Thanks for the clips of Jack playing his Squire. It just goes to show a talented guitar master can make any cheap guitar sound great.
I posted this in an earlier post but this is a great article on the history of the Fender Squire Strat.
The Squier was initially Mfg in Japan back in the early 1980's to compete with the other Japanese Strat copies and the quality was considered better than the US made Strat back then as the quality of the Fullerton US made Strat's went downhill while CBS owned Fender. Those vintage Japan made Squiers were 1/2 the price of a US made Strat and equal in quality according to the article.
https://www.guitarworld.com/features/40-years-squier-fender
Interesting the original Japanese made Squiers had a large Fender script name on the headstock and Squier in small script. Shortly after they changed that around with the Squier name in large text.
@bill_graham You know Bill when the suites ( executives with a business or law background) become the leaders of any business, guitars, Harley Davidson motorcycles, Norfolk Southern Railway...you name it, always put profit and the bottom line as job number one and staff is cut, cheaper ( more efficient is their word) ways to produce the product or service is implemented with the lie they are increasing shareholder value. Often they say " We want to do more, sell more with less which makes us more efficient thus profits and shareholder value increases!!
Walt Disney Company had that mind set that the shine of their business in the 90's and Roy Disney led a shareholder revolt until the CEO was fired and the quality in their products was restored.
So many companies have suffered from the suites and their over emphasis on the bottom line.
Here are some Japanese Fender guitars which look sharp.
https://www.gearnews.com/fender-japan-traditional-60s-competition-stripe-range-announced/
I'm a big Les Paul fan but I do really like a Strat with hot pickups and whammy bar best on some songs.
@bill_graham Here are a bunch of Fenders! Later I'll link some Bumpers, Trunks and Hoods.
I noticed one of the Fender Strats has three hot rails in all three positions. Dickey Betts had one installed in the neck position of his Strats to make it sound more like a Gibson but kept standard single coils in the middle and bridge positions so it would sound like a Strat on rhythm guitar. Dickey has always used a Strat in the studio on certain rhythm tracks.
https://youtube.com/shorts/SKtlAim-c4U?feature=share
The Kirk Hammett Greeny Custom shop Les Paul
@bill_graham One of the most famous Les Pauls in the world. And it's expensive too. Kirk Hammett paid over $2 million to take it home.
Peter Greene and Gary Moore left their wear marks on it!
I think the BLACK STRAT is the most expensive guitar around isn't it Bill Graham?
Steve Vai is crazy!! But has magic fingers.
@robertdee Steve Vai can shred no doubt. I was always a big fan of his guitar teacher Joe Satriani
Back in the late 80's I used to take his "Surfing With An Alien" CD to a local Danbury, CT high end Stereo store, Carston's Studios, to demo systems. The sales people knew me so let me hang out and play with the new stereo equipment and I would crank that CD in one of the listening rooms. Shoppers from other listening rooms would drift in to find out what the CD was I was blasting as Satriani was an unknown back then.
@bill_graham I saw Joe Satriani once years ago. Guy with me played too and he said to me. " Now I know who my guitars listen to when I'm not at home".
He and Steve Vai usually play Ibanez guitars. Not the same model though. Steve Vai's guitars are Ibanez version of a Strat. And the cut out in the upper body for you hand when carrying it.
Both Steve and Joe could stand toe to toe with Eddie Van Halen when it came to shredding and crazy licks.
@bill_graham I've never seen this guy and some say he is stuck up and critical of other players. But he is suppose to be a top gun a shredding.
His fingerboard looks as if the wood has been shaved down between the frets to me.
Can you imagine B. B. King playing like this? He likely wouldn't have made it and Albert would have never changed his name to King to help Albert get his foot in the door.
Yeah Yngwie Malmsteen is not your typical shredder from the 1980's. His claim to fame early on was his music was neoclassically influenced shredding so a bit unique if you liked that kind of stuff.
I saw him in July of 1988 with his band Rising Force in a tiny club in New haven CT. , Toads Place, and he is very talented guitarist and showman. I have read he is a bit of an egomaniac but his talent is without question so I guess he can get away with being a bit cocky.
Malmsteen plays a Strat with a scalloped finger board as does Ritchie Blackmore. Blackmore was a big influence in Malmsteen so maybe that is where he got the scalloped fingerboard idea. Ritchie evidently was fond of Yngwie as well in his own strange way
http://rockandrollgarage.com/what-is-ritchie-blackmore-opinion-on-guitarist-yngwie-malmsteen/
Fender even makes a Blackmore tribute Strat with a scalloped fingerboard
Here are supposedly the benefits of a scalloped neck
I always thought he would have been a great choice for Deep Purple when Blackmore left but with his ego I am not sure it would have worked with Ian Gillan.
He certainly had the chops and stage presence to replace Blackmore IMHO although his stage act may be a bit over the top.
Cover of DP Burn
And Mistreated with Glenn Hughes
@bill_graham He is a wizard. I've read more than once he has a big ego and chops to go with it. People like that seem to have to be in charge with hired hands told what to do to round out the band.
As Buddy Rich says on the bus tapes" You will either play with me and play my way or you can get off my f*ing band tonight!!!" " If you want to play that s*it get your own f*ing band. In my band you play time even with your solos" " You guys are worse than any high school band I've ever heard! If I decide to quit you guys are F**KED!!! You'll have no where to go. If I hear one more clam from any of you I'll leave you here!! I'll throw you off my f**king bus!!!!" Buddy was a good example of someone who had to be in charge.
Guess it would be very difficult for Yngwie to be part of a band. Even Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton, Richie Blackmore and others need to be in charge. They just don't have the temperament to be the lead guitar player with others having their ideas and arrangements on 50 to 70 percent of the songs in the set.
Gregg Allman eventually admitted he liked his solo band better because he was the only chef in the kitchen.
Marshall is being sold to Zound Industries.
Zound makes Marshall's portable Bluetooth speakers
Gary Moore shreds the blues
https://www.guitarplayer.com/players/watch-gary-moore-shred-the-blues
Gary Moore fan for sure, but more of his hard rock stuff. His blues was really good, and definitely could lay it down, but never really did it for me. This is just my opinion, I think alot of his blues material is interchangeable from album to album. For the most part once you heard one, you heard them all. Bonamassa as well.
Everyone has a plan, till you get punched in the face,
Worlds oldest guitar pedal
https://www.musicradar.com/news/hear-the-oldest-guitar-effects-pedal-demo-ever-from-1962
@bill_graham Wow Marshall sold!! And not to an American company.
A Fender Stratocaster in a symphony orchestra??? And this has been viewed on YouTube 115 million times!!
Way cool acoustic version!!
@bill_graham Hot guitar from Gary. Half way in Gary swaps the double cutaway Tele for a GoldTop Les Paul then REALLY CUTS LOOSE!!
Yeah sad to see another iconic family owned business sold to outside interests. While the Marshall family will still have the largest stock holding, at 24%, the management of the new combined company will be from Zound.Marshall is being sold to Zound Industries.
Zound makes Marshall's portable Bluetooth speakers
Hope they don't muck things up, move the Mfg of Marshall amps to Asia to pinch pennies and ruin quality like happened to Fender and Gibson when they were sold.
Cool to see a guitar as part of a classical orchestra. Thanks for sharing
James Hetfields OGV fake Gibson Flying V. According to Hetfield the guitar that made him
https://www.guitarworld.com/news/messengers-james-hetfield-guitars-book
Rory Gallagher technique
https://www.guitarworld.com/lessons/learn-rory-gallaghers-soloing-techniques
Howlin Wolf Smokestack Lightning 1964
https://www.guitarplayer.com/players/howlin-wolf-smokestack-lightning
@bill_graham How does Richie compare to Joe Satriani, Steve Vai and Yngwie? To me he is better at high octane playing than Eddie Van Halen a little bit!
@bill_graham He he! I just looked and it's for my belt. And I ordered a picture of Whammy Faye Baker.
Sacrilegious! cutting a Gibson double neck in half
April Fools! It was a Chibson knockoff
@bill_graham Whee. I thought that was crazy. Cut a double neck in half???
Here is an odd one. Airline CEOs are fed up with traveling musicians griping and complaining about their previous guitars and basses so all the CEOs agreed going forward all guitars and basses will be stowed in the wheel wells of jet airliners. The fussy musicians can get their own stuff out of the wheel well on the apron after the flight.
