I Bought All the Gear I Used as a Kid-does it sound any GOOD?
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What is your most treasured piece of nostalgic gear?
My Epiphone Les Paul GT with the trem
My 27$ ukulele
My first distortion pedal.
My cheap crappy $50 strat copy
My strat and a Epiphone studio 10 amp
Tyler: _"Let's play the gear I used when I was fifteen!"_
Also Tyler: _plays his $5,000 PRS Singlecut_
True.
Kinda disappointed that he didn't get his first electric guitar too
and the pedals through his PRS amp...not the Line 6?
right? i thought he'd buy a cheap electric but no :(
There's a good story behind that guitar. It has the most miles on it by far.
Tyler: "Let's play the gear I used when I was fifteen!"
Me, 27: Still using the gear I used when I was fifteen
Me, at 40, still using the same gear I had at 14.
Me too 😅
"what isnt broke doesnt need fixed or replaced"
Same, almost age 29!🤘
lol i watched this looking at the first guitar I bought with my own money at 18. now 28
When I was 15 I begged my dad for a guitar. He walked into the music store and said, "Where's the absolute cheapest electric guitar you have?" They handed him a 1996 Chinese made Squier Strat.
"Great, ring it up."
"You'll also need an amp and cable."
"No we don't. He'll do fine with this."
My dad wasn't a musician, and we were dirt poor, in case you didn't notice. My first year of playing electric guitar was on a Squier with no amp. It wasn't until I found an old amp next to a dumpster that I finally had power to my guitar...... and it was a bass amp. That's also how I got my first couple of pedals. Dumpster diving and fixing them. Growing up poor was rad.
Fun fact: I still have, and occasionally play, that old squier.
Great story man!
Im in my 50's I still dumpster dive and pu from the curb... its the best!
@@u.s.a.198 Oh for sure. I don't dumpster dive all that much anymore, but I still hit garage sales and stop to pick up stuff I see on the curb. I've gotten guitars at garage sales for under 10 bucks that they say "don't work" just to get them home and find out all they needed was the input jack re-soldered. I got my marshall amp from a junk pile on the curb in front of someone's house. Apparently, they didn't know that tubes are replaceable. LOL.
Oh hell yeah man, those struggles must have made you so much stronger for it. Neat story.
Ah yes I remember playing whatever song I wanted on the old cheap nylon string guitar we had. There's something to be said about having to have the bare minimum now as an adult I'm trying my best to get some good instruments in my life
So my kid has watched you forever. Because of you, he applied to college and decided to pursue music as a career. He would get down watching other youtube videos of people creating music just with computers and thought he had no future with his guitar. He knows it is a difficult industry, but he decided he would rather try than just give up. So now he is off to UT Knoxville next fall for theory/composition. So, thank you.
Tyler: *buys amp*
Tyler: *buys petal*
Also Tyler: *buys acoustic guitar*
*classical guitar
LMAO
I was scrolling trying to find this comment
@@feared_sniper-ytbros1701 same
@@gergoretvari6373 i mean, both are acoustic, classical and Anglican have an acoustic box
My favorite piece of long lost gear is my first pick
What kind was it?
My first guitar came with 3 and after all these years only 1 remains
Same! My first pick broke on the second day!
Same, it was some weird knock off jazz III I bought at the guitar store near me when I was a kid.
Yeah don't we all
I've been out of the music scene for a while and when I got back into it, I looked up the amp I used to gig with to see if maybe I could buy one. It was a peavey 5150 II, turns out that amp is super sought after now and sells for over $2000. I sold mine like 15 years ago for $400.
I'm so sorry for your loss
Yeaaa the 5150 is my favorite amp I've ever played. Rip.
Same
That amp sounds great but is a hernia waiting to happen. Ridiculously heavy.
For me, there are two guitars I had as a kid that I later had to sell with a family on the way. The first is a black Ibanez proline PR1660 and the other is a late 80's BC Rich hot pink warlock. I was lucky enough to finally find the Ibanez. Well, today is father's day and by step son managed to find a warlock and bought it for me.
My buddy's dad told me about a dude he knew back in the day that had a hot pink warlock.
I want a hot pink warlock 😂
Tyler: "Today I want to revisit my old gear from when I was a kid."
Also Tyler: *Plugs £3500 American built PRS Singlecut into Line 6 Spider*
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@@grungefever1813 Stolen name
Jaap Kievit I know
Kurt Cobain he knows too
my guitar teacher sometimes flexes his fender, which is worth 12000-15000 dollars. I dont remember the name of it, but it was one of 12 guitars of that model in the world. He said he bought it from a german that worked in the same town which he became friends with.
I wish I still had my very 1st guitar; a 'Lero' $99.00 Les Paul copy. God was it ever a bad guitar, but it fueled my desire to become a world famous heavy metal guitarist playing sold out football stadiums.......which never happened, lol.
It didn't, but you taught me how to play stairway like in 2008 so that's cool too.
@@adrielsotolongo4591 Wow that is cool, thanks for watching!
But Bobby my man, you have taught thousands how to play guitar!
@@ZekaSpalcev Thanks man!
Hasn't happened... YET.
My first real acoustic guitar was an old 79 Yamaha concert guitar. I missed that thing desperately. Last week I found the EXACT guitar I sold 6 years ago. I bought it immediately and have loved playing it again. It was the guitar I really learned on.
i have a late 70s tokai LC8 standing in my room and i could never ever sell it. Its my first and only guitar and i love it. Although i know how you feel! The same happended to a couple of years ago with a console i had as a kid haha
Oh damn that gets me thinking about the old Washburn acoustic that I basically gave away that I first learnt on😐....damn I miss it
25 years later, I still have and use my 80s Mexican Strat I got at 14. It remains a joy to play.
Engages the Red "INSANE" setting, automatically becomes a kid again
Wait we have gone too far lol
Ears Automaticly die
It sounded like absolute garbage
@@lukasrydelius6174 NO IT DID NOT! it sounded like absolute bliss! i'm sure Jack White or Jonny Greenwood would love it
THE BEST
At the end of the video you asked what our most treasured piece of gear is. My most treasured piece of gear is the Yamaha piano at my parents house. I used to play it for my mom. The last time I played that piano was in January, just a few weeks before my mom passed away. She was having a particularly bad day with her health, and she asked me to play for her. I played for about two or three hours before I ran out of things to play off the top of my head. The very last piece I ever played for her was Chopin, Nocturne in E Flat Major. I'm glad I got to play a little concert for her one more time.
RIP Mike's mum. Nice story bro
Omg, such a sad/beautiful story, Rest In Peace, bro
And now im crying
Your mother deserves the whole heaven
I hope you can keep your hands on that piano. Sorry about your mom. Lost mine last year and it's never easy no matter how old you get.
Just discovering this channel over the past week. So awesome. The childlike joy and love of music is infectious. I randomly clicked on one and now I watch at least 3 a day. Thanks for being here for me to find as I dive back into making music
I have that exact amp at home right now. I've had it for over 15 years now. Insane mode is great.
Can't believe you had a PRS as a kid, so lucky
Edit: So UA-cam randomly decided to give me a notification that somebody replied to this 3 year old comment. Turns out there is a lot of replies (lol) to what I thought was a pretty obvious sarcastic remark. So for those that didn't realise, now you know. ✌️
SE not a big deal but yeah I only got a strat copy as a kid haha an I appreciated it
@@alds9729 he is not playing an se
@EMMANUEL OBIOZOR because he's endorsed by prs
@A Gough then you can do work for people and save up for supplies. there is literally 0 reason to assume and call someone a spoiled brat
@A Gough how do you know that?
Hey everyone, wasn’t it fun when you were a kid just starting out and you played your $5000 guitar through your $250 amp? Those were the days.
Lol same
12 years playing....... And I have an fender telecaster and I am playing it on the Roland cube 20x
i would have probably sucked a lot less on a proper guitar with setup on day 1 😜
£50 guitar that I pressed too hard on the whammy bar and a £90 amp that I think got donated to a church. It was a Marshall 8020. That thing could scream for a little guy although it was a bit tinny.
You mean $100 guitar and $35 amp?
Just getting into electric guitar after mostly playing around with steel string acoustics for 30 years (not that I'm any more than intermediate at best) and have been binging your channel. Bought the Donner solid body T style guitar from one of your other videos and now have bought a second hand line 6 pod xt because it looks like a ton of fun and frankly that EJ clean tone is worth the few quid it cost me on its own. Thanks for all the excellent advice and keep up the stellar work.
that was cool watching you find those magical sounds of your youth again!
I couldn't afford an amp when I was a kid, so my dad brought home this old broken reel to reel tape recorder from work. The motor and tape heads were beyond salvage, but the preamp still worked, so I'd plug into the mono input, crank the monitors and... that was my amp.
Ritchie Blackmore also plugged into a tape deck... as part of his gigging setup.
I've also seen youtubers restore/convert old tube radios into practice amps, often they sound pretty good, even if they lack the versatility of a full-featured amp.
You do what you can with what you have, it's all good! Pretty sure Guided By Voices recorded entire albums-worth of stuff through a boom box.
Im really curious on how it sounded like!
Well, hey.. Everyone has a different story on how they became big.
@@dimsumpizza4746 I remember it not having a lot of low end (that may have been on account of the speakers rather than the preamp), but having some nice light breakup if you pushed it.
Hardly gig-worthy, but usable.
I guess the noteworthy thing was that it was technically stereo, so if I'd have had the pedals and technical know-how at the time, I could have done a wet/dry split.
My most treasured instrument is the harpsichord that I built for my mom which she cherished to the end of her life. I still have it after 47 years.
wow that's cool and sweet
That’s by far the best story on here.
I received my entire setup that I still have because i just got it as a gift from my grandfather. It’s a Squier Affinity in a dark blue that is almost as old as I am. I also received an old 10 watt Crate practice amp. Both sound great for being so old and recently got a new strap added a whammy bar and got a nice case for it so I can take it wherever I need to take it. All in all thank you so much grandpa for a new memory that will turn into a family story in the future.
My oldest is about your age, and on our weekends we would go to guitar center and just daydream. I was totally broke at the time and line 6 was completely out of the question. I’m glad you got all that gear.
I’m getting my first electric guitar tomorrow. Today is my birthday. I’m exited!
Dude you get the guitar? What guitar and amp?
Happy b-bday!! What you get??
My guitar is a Gio Ibanez electric, the amp is my grandpa’s old one and it is a peavey amp, don’t know the model tho
And for my b-day I got a couple of video games, a desk chair, some clothes, and a kapo
Cool! best of wishes dude
6:40 "Kinda feels a little bit like it came from ToysRUs"
*me, whose first guitar was a nylon string guitar from ToysRUs*
@Rayyan mhm
Same lol
Where's the punchline
Nothing good ever came from that store, unfortunately... my nephew's bike was a superturd.
my first was a squire black strat
now i have 78 Dean white Flying V, a Jackson soloist, a fender acoustic dread knot, a hollow body gibson, a black ibanez strat, and an ibanez acoustic electric, wow they've really added up,
That was also my first amp! I actually still have it. Now I will have to play it. Thanks for the memories and the awesome idea.
Crate MX15R practice amp. Gave it to my stepson a few years back and was gratified to hear him and his friends using it in their jam sessions. Still works and sounds fine.
Literally no one talking about how Howard opened that package? He's a good boy
He is indeed
the goodest boy.
He is a good boy, yet a Dane *shivers*
Line6 designing the Spyder:
Alright guys, how much gain for the insane setting?
Yes.
Just all of it
My most treasured guitar, the guitar my dad bought and learned on, and passed onto me when I was 10, a Fender Squier 2 Strat, Korean, black. I love that guitar with all of my heart
I may be crazy but this video has kind of convinced me to get one of those Pods just for the hell of it😅I really love how the settings are named after the song they’re trying to emulate
That red insanity was the most awful sound I've ever heard
Fender should use that as a PRS slander campaign
The video is paused and I can still hear it. It's like some kind of dying computer noise
IKR. I don’t know how anyone would enjoy that
Agreed... my ears felt violated
I liked it ngl, but I could see why most would dislike it
I'm just starting guitar now wish me luck on my journey.
edit: thanks for all the encouragement :)
good luck dude
Check out Boss Katana, Harley Benton guitars, Agile guitars, and PRS SE. pretty good stuff for the price.
Good luck I started about a year ago
I get mad easily
Wish u luck amegio
One of the first pedals I got was a DOD multi effects, and I still have it today. I like to keep old gear and revisit them every now and then.
The line 6 with all the presets is an amazing amp(120w version). I use it way more than the Tube EVH 5150 I just sold. Lot of fun on that amp.
I DID just get back an old guitar. I sold my first NICE guitar a Gibson SG about 7 years ago, needed the dough cause I was getting married. And about a month ago I thought about the guitar and checked through my craigslist emails from that time and found the guy. He still had the guitar and NEVER played it. It still had the strings that I put on it. I got it back and I'm so happy!
Why did he buy the guitar if he didn’t use it?💀
@@nathanb7474 idk I guess he intended to. I was a little sad. The case seems to have a little water damage but the guitar is mint still
Sick!
Ive been chasing my old gear also.. About 2 years ago I was in a GC ( yeah yeah, i know) for some strings and cables.. I look over at the used guitar section. And there she was.. My old satin matte purple finish all black hardware Fender Strat that I sold when I was 20. Im 36 now. I sold it because I needed the money and sacrificed it. Turns out it IS the exact same guitar. It had the same dings that I put in it. ALSO has my initials on the inside of the back cover. It currently hangs next to my dads acoustic and gets played very often.
True story???? Wow. Talk about homeward bound.
@albertplaysguitar cant get any more true. I was shocked. Still am everytime I pick it up.
Awesome story
Cool
@RyanORourkelol I was making reference to the movies from the 90s based on the incredible journey.
That line 6 sound is pure nostalgia. I never had one myself, but I remember back in high school (10+ years ago) lots of people I knew had almost identical beginner setups consisting of the cheapest Squier strat available paired with a small Line 6 spider.
I’ve got the newer Spider V MKII and have been blown away by the versatility of that little amp- paired it with an Ibanez Jem Jr. for new electric guitarists, I absolutely recommend this combo
I miss my fender strat acoustic and my silver sparkle jagmaster .... fucking heroin man... 6 years clean now tho and I have so many guitars my wife hates me lol
Glad for you man! Keep going strong and dont let anything make you look the wrong way. Stay away from alcohol even! Good luck
I sold my American made original fender Stratocaster for $60 worth of H in the depths of my addiction :\ I understand.
Commendable dude, takes strength to get clean hope things are even better now
@@pinball-wizard thank you ❤ I have been off H for years as well as suboxone. I use nothing recreationally anymore!
@@toxicyouth94 👏👏👏 True bravery and courage
"I wonder if green metal has a usable sound"
**Hears Green Metal**
**Immediately tunes down**
My man.
That piece of gear for me you mentioned right at the start of the video line 6 spider 4 amp on the insane setting was the most personal attack I’ve felt to date
DIETZE MUSIC!!! Hello from Lincoln, NE! Love the channel, man!
In my country nylon strings are more available than steel string acoustics so I can relate
Pinoy? Mariposa?
All latinos can relate
as a latino, I can relate to this
Here in brazil to
I love my nylon string guitar. I have big hands and fat fingers, so a classic neck is easier for me.
I think it’s hilarious and adorable, that 15 year old tech can be seen as “vintage”. When in my, almost 50 year old mind, it only seems like yesterday :)
So cool seeing people revisit their childhood.
That is pretty funny. I watched this while sitting next to my 1968 fender bandmaster lol.
@@connorsmith1295 that makes you even older than I am 🤣
Exactly! Vintage gear. We all played a little guitar, one of us much better. Another friend in the house was playing bass with him one day, but no one would play the drums (we rented out space to a college band. Kit always stayed, said we could play it. Finally I jumped behind the kit and it actually worked!
That was around 1990, and I don't think most of this gear was around yet.
Well, I always remember The Boss Pedals! Probably many more models now? Seemed to be 2 or 3 companies that were all about pedals. The main few companies, then many more started creating all sorts of pedals, remakes, and then the digital "sampling" age brought about a giant pedal (well, it had a pedal on one end), and maybe 50 or more(?) Different "Sounds" that you could pick out with the rest of this "giant pedal".
It was the first of it's kind, and very popular? IDT it was an EVH product, but someone big/big company? It was like having 50(?) pedals/guitar player sounds, in one piece of gear, and pretty darn sure it had a wah like pedal at one end?
It was a big deal when released in the 90's, and several hundred bucks, it seems, as no one I knew had that kind of money, and if they did, it went towards our rent, or basic gear, keeping it going, adding something here and there.
Spent as much buying Albums, Cassettes, CD's, cause the love of music was first! And we played because the interaction between the 3 of us was unlike anything else, and the incredible thrill and joy of playing was our primary reason to play.
Who cares if our friends said it sucked, lol, as long as some seem to like it like we did! We'd start playing, maybe the bassist had a riff, I'd play whatever I could to put a beat to it, guitarist would play something of that, I'd play to the guitarist, lol!
We did a lot of Improv in our music, and sometimes play constantly for 20 minutes (we'd tape everything in case we found something that sounded/felt good, that just came together perfectly, then listen to the tape, finding riffs/songs this way.
What was so strange is we were a Hardcore/Punk/Metal band, lol. I remember surprising some better known Punk band we were friends with. Metal club underneath our apartment, so this Punk band climbed up, looking through the open window w/the "Shhh"(quiet sound), as he was gonna grab our bass player and startle him through the window. Big tall Mohawk wearing brothers, scary looking, but the nicest guys. Suddenly he grabs our bassist in a bear hug from behind, through the window, lol. Startled the Hell out of him, but he was happy to see the guys, just like us!
"What songs that?!", one asked, we looked at each other. It's not. We're just jamming! All the other bands had their songs written first. Ours just formed!
No "play this on the drums. "Then do this at the chorus", like someone who wanted a song a certain way. Maybe an idea here and there, but at the most, a riff to start with, then whatever the others added to it, propelled it the right way. That's not how music is made. Maybe Jazz, not Hardcore/Metal, lol.
We were following The Grateful Dead on Tour Spring, Summer, Fall Tour from 89'-95'(less at the end), doing our thing, before self destructing, like many, when H started coming into the scene, leaving many greats to an early death. We survived though! But many, many didn't. Great guys! But no one's perfect, especially those in the spotlight.
Taylor Hawkins had this incredible spirit! A friend to almost everyone he met. A real family man and great friend, from all who knew him.
He passed away with "substances" in his system. That's not why he passed away!
It was because he had a huge heart! Actually, an enlarged heart. Twice the size of normal! No wonder such a relentless beat?
Look into the one of the greatest horses ever named "Secretariat", early 70's I believe. Faster than any horse! Winning by 50 yards kind of stuff. What was it that made this horse so fast and strong?
When the horse passed away, they did an autopsy. His Engine, His Heart, was double the size as expected from a horse like this. But the bigger Engine had more power.
Taylor Hawkins had this same problem/gift. A heart 2X the size it should be! No wonder he was loved by so many, and showed immense love to his family and fans.
He had to much heart in him! And he will live on in the music, forever!
What video was I watching? Lol! Forgive my rambling all over, please.
Great, interesting video, once again, Thanks for getting your old gear. It was a blast, like always!👍
@@timturk1899 that’s so cool! We did the same thing. I ran my 4 track tascam during a rehearsal and we’d just improv and jam, and sure there were lots of terrible sections. But there are always little gems that can be cultivated to a diamonds lick.
And that’s still how I write today. I record a chord progression and then start jamming over top for a few takes.
And listen back and take the cool ideas, which often make me “hear” other phrases in my head that o will than track.
Boss peddles! I loved them but boy were they expensive! These are awesome days to become a guitarist. You buy AmpliTube or GuitarRig and you have all the gear we could only dream of.
@@CallousCoder
Just wait Mr. Coder. Your gear AND you will be vintage before you know it. Have as much fun and sex as you can!
I was blessed that my friend gave me a Fender Jag-Stang as my first guitar. First guitar I ever bought though was a Lotus with an insanely sweet painthob
Happy Thursday,
I started with a Les Paul copy Hondo 2 guitar with a Fender Vibro Champ amp.
This was in the 80's. I literally paid less than $100 for the amp and it's selling for $1500+ these days. I gave the guitar to my neighbor as a gift because I bought a Ibanez.
I'm 50, still playing and going strong.
CHEERS to ALL
My Mexican Telecaster my grandmother bought me before she passed away will forever be missed. It was stolen years and years ago which lead to me not playing for over 10 years.
I hope you got back to playing eventually.
How was it stolen if you mind me asking?
"From when I was a kid!" proceeds to pull out a Line6. I'm old.
Line 6’s are good amps. Orange and Marshall as well!
Right there with you man.
@@theqgene826 I always liked mine but I replaced both of them fairly quickly once I found better options in the price range, after playing a katana I ever wanted to see a line 6 again
I personally love line 6 amps. I know they’re branded as trash but in my opinion it beats a boss katana for its effects. That is my OPINION
My first set up - Vox AD50VT with a Godin SD. Those Valvetronix are so amazing for learning. Had built in tap delay and a two channel recording looper. Not to mention a ton of different effects and tones. Was awesome!
I’ll never forget my first guitar and amp.
I went to a swap meet with my dad and I picked out this sweet red and white squire. I also bought some cheap picks and a furry red and black tiger striped strap too. It was super comfy but rough to install on the strap locks. I had to cut a slit and forced it in.
There was a time when Walmart used to sell First Act guitar and amps. I got the M2A 110. At the time I thought it was bad ass with the shiny silver hardware and bright blue light when you turned on the distortion. Unfortunately it didn’t last more than a couple of months and I don’t remember how it sounded. (Probably terrible.) but I was so determined to play!!
*plays comfortably numb solo*
Tyler: “That is just a WALL of milky goodness”
I see what you did there lol
If someone starts playing it i am always deeply dissapointed they stop after 5 notes.
When I was 14, I had a Kramer guitar that wouldn’t stay in tune, a boss heavy metal pedal and a gross solid state Randall amp.
For reference, I was 14 in 1989.
You had it good, son. 😂
OHHH WAS IT BY CHANCE A FOCUS 1000?
I had that damn Randall amp The guy who built them is genius but I shoulda thrown it in the garbage after my 1st gig.
I forgot to add, I played it through a ovation electric. If you think the acoustics were bad well. In fact I never heard the phrase “man I just love your tone”. At one time in the late 90s I had a hot rod deluxe with an MXR COMP PEDAL RED 2 dials and a Peavey Cropper Classic all mahogany built like a telecaster
Such nice tone when the hot rod cooperated which was every other gig.
I get ya... I was 18 in 89.... my very first rig was a Cort Guitar and a Gorillia Amp.. Later went to a half stack.. way to much amp for my second amp, but held me well when we formed a band in 88.
I am 14 now and I have an ibanez gio jumpstarter pack and a boss turbo distortion
I started on my dad's Harmony $50 strat, but the first guitar that was truly mine was my Epiphone SG that I still own, and it's still one of my favorite guitars.
In the 90's I had a crate g130xl head then had a dod tr3m pedal. Then a few years ago I picked them both up again and still use them now 🤘🏻
Towards the end of this, I started to reflect on that wonderful age of 14 when life is simple, and playing your guitar was the main part of your life.
I'm 47 and while i love my 3 kids and wife dearly, the sound of one of my guitars is still super exciting and a huge part of my life.
I learned guitar later than 14, but 14 year old me had a greater outlook on life, and so badly wanted to be 24 year old me that I am now that I never enjoyed being a teenager and im like in that phase of trying to relive what I missed. Its miserable.
I think I'm happier now. I was depressed and had undiagnosed, untreated learning differences that made school an absolute hell--except for choir, my saving grace. I still have the guitar my mom gave me when I was 15. I am past 60. Yes, it needs a refret. I kinda like the buzz, though.
@@pilsplease7561 i know that feeling dude. i started playing at like 15, and stopped at 19 due to a existential crisis and really bad bouts of depression. im 26 and feel alot better about life now. i should starting playing again. still have my old peavey pa200 amp and 2x10 cab haha. do mis my weird ass lp copy i owned though. it was a spalted maple top with a kramer banana headstock. the brand was "highlander".
@@frigglebiscuit7484 You should start playing again. I've gotten frustrated and put it down more than once due to life getting in the way. I will rotate between it and cars. I guess I gotta have more than one outlet. I've been in quite a few bands but finding people that are responsible and take things seriously is a headache.
You made a 5000$ guitar sound like the worlds shittiest synth real quick there
Not all in the guitar
@Ben Birchman lol
I also had the line 6 spider 3 or 4, same one you ended up with in this vid. It was actually an awesome amp with all the cool built in effects
Had that amp in my old Jazz class reserved for the two upperclassmen guitarist who took care of the equipment and I remember that red insane setting wayyyy to well
I did actually locate and purchase not my “first” guitar but my first decent guitar and the guitar I played my first gig with. It wasn’t a “quest” to find my old gear I just happen to see it at a pawn shop while I was looking for guitars to restore and mod. I saw it was like “hey that looks exactly like mine” it was going for only about 100 bucks because it had seen better days and when I started pulling it apart I saw my initials that I had cut in the bridge pickup cavity. I have it in a display case and people are like why the hell do you have that thing displayed when you have Les Pauls chilling in their cases so I tell them the story.
That’s awesome
MyName__ Kosmo it’s a bc rich mockingbird i know that today they aren’t considered to be cool but back in the mid eighties they were considered to be the quintessential hard rock guitar.
LOL... BC Rich was one of those brands I wanted (before the Ibanez bug). A Mocking Bird, Warlock or Rich Bitch would have been the bomb. Nice find BTW.
When I was 14 my friend and I got our first guitars, mine a squier affinity strat, his a Crate Electra. A year later his moms car was stolen along with his guitar he'd left in the trunk. His parents didn't have the money to replace it so I saved up some birthday/allowance money and got him an Ibanez GAX75. I know, I'm a nice guy. It's been 20 years since then and he and I still talk from time to time. Last month I get a call from him out of nowhere saying "You mother fu@ker lol you mother fu@ker..." I have no idea what he's talking about. He goes "I decided to clean up that Ibanez you gave me and saw what you put in the neck pocket..." Still had no idea what he was talking about. He goes "You drew a dick on a post-it note and wrote 'don't lose this one fa&&ot. Love, *insert my real name*" Lol
19:13 That pick was never seen again
I must be the weird one. I started playing in the early 90s and I remember everything I owned and i remember my entire journey through my long history of playing guitar, spanning from 92- present day. I remember it clear as a bell. You look like you're having a lot of fun strolling down memory lane. I would love to do the same 🙂
I learned for about two months with a Squier Strat that had been very abused and a 10w Crate practice amp in similar condition, found the pair at a pawn shop for $75. I was then extremely fortunate that my partner gifted me some of their old gear, an ESP Alexi-200 and that very same Line6 amp. Kind of jealous mine doesn’t have the pick holder though lol.
Changed my life, and I will never part with those two pieces of equipment, ever though I know eventually I’ll acquire more, higher end stuff as I continue my musical journey. Cool video.
I started with a classical we just had at home for some reason - tbh who didn't
Then upgraded to a dobro, then tele, then an es-335
i started with classical yamaha, then yamaha pacifica, fender tele SWIRL and now is Gibson SG
Started with Strat, then a Epi Les Paul, back to a Strat, now I have a Jackson Soloist.
I started with a steel string only because the music class at the middle school I went to had us do very basic shit on acoustic. And a friends grandma was cleaning out her garage and had an old acoustic I got to keep
It's like the blues guitarist pokemon evolution
Mine was the slash signed, Hendrix signed and Hetfield and Hammet signed air guitar by Gibson.
I think that obviously the gear you start with is not as good as it can be, but it's the fact that it helped along the way is what makes it a relic in a Guitarist's journey. My most treasured piece is my first acoustic guitar, it's worn down but the feeling was so exhilarating.
Exactly!! I owned a spider also now 7 years later a tube Amp shame I sold my first Ibanez Jumpstart guitar haha
yeah dude i still have my first acoustic, i stole it from my high school
I actually love the sound of the classical guitar, very cool!
the amp sounds pretty awesome, Line 6 was a hot brand in the 90’s.
I still have the ZOOM 505 multi effects pedal, which i had to get the yellow diagram to figure out, so now just use my Peavey Viper 1, it has built in effects and can make an electric guitar sound like an acoustic, lots of pretty lights, and is quite loud.
I think you might enjoy a nicer classical electric guitar, one of these days I’d like a Yamaha NTX-1.
“$50 shipping, that’s a lot more reasonable”
*me if I don’t get Amazon prime free shipping*
“?????!!!!!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!”
Yeah! 😊
He said 15
@@Fausto_4841 That was for the Pod. The guitar was 50.
I mean 50$ is a lot better than 150$ right?
Petition for Tyler to never say the words "Milky Goodness" again.
When did he say it
Josh Asdf
15:17
Let's make a counter-petition for him to keep saying it, and more petitions will pop up for him to stop, and the counter petitions will rise like a multi headed Hydra.
Jordan Miller was funnier in my head, than it actually turned out to be
@@The_Horse-leafs_Cabbage I was literally about to say I'd like a petition for him to use it as many times as he possibly can, in every video.
My first guitar was just a standard Fender Squire off-white color that I shared with my three brothers, but it was one of those golden good ones that they nailed. It played beautifully, great setup, had that bang on Fender sound in the 2nd and 4th pickup positions, and got me through countless gigs as a teenager until I saved up all my money to buy a 60's SG second hand (which I still have to this day.)
Best memory was playing that guitar night after night for the high school Grease musical. At the time I only had a crappy digital amp, but my guitar teacher (who was amazing for doing it) let me borrow his several thousand dollar Mesa Boogie combo with the cane grill. I had guitarists coming down to the pit at Intermission asking how I was getting that incredible sound!? A lesser guitar wouldn't have shone through such an epic amp, but that old workhorse did. Wish I still had that old Squier.
Loved, and still love, the Boss MT-2.
I'm still using the same gear I started with. Don't plan on ever selling my little shit boxes.
Ur name says everything
@Sïôro he'd do anything for the nookie, man
@Sïôro You deserve many likes
My Little Shit Boxes would be a great band name.
@@richharris2864 Or pedal brand name
You had better gear as a kid then most aduit guitarests I know.
me
I'm also a kid xD but I use almost the same gear but I'm a Pantera fan so I use Dean Guitars!
@@jaspersleegers7567 how rich are your parents?!?!
But you have the spelling ability worse than most kids
@@salvatoreusrex8257 ture
In 7th grade I played a Samick Strat through a Crate GX15 with a Boss XT2 Xtortion pedal. I ended up selling the Samick Strat to my best friend in 10th grade. 16 years later I was able to get the guitar back. I had a master luthier rebuild it, and I still have it today.
Great video idea! I was a bit disappointed because once you have all the gear, you demo thru a PRS wonderful guitar - vs - what you had.
That EJ Clean Sound even from an old line 6 pod is still one of the most gorgeous clean tones ever
Pods had wonderful clean tones. The closest i can get in a sim is positive Grid’s bias fix clean tones. I use neural for all my dirt tones. Mainly because it feels closest to playing a real amp. All the pick attack and sag you expect.
True Story. Sounds ridiculous but I promise it's 100% legit. I learned on a classical accoustic that was similar to the one in this video that was a gift from my Grandma. I didn't have a pick, so I fashioned my own out of the corner of an old original Xbox game case. Then I just messed with it for awhile and it was so old the strings kept breaking, until I only had one left. The A string. So I literally googled "Songs you can play on one string" and Thunderstuck came up. And I was like well there's no way. That song's just amazing and impossible (I thought to my young mind) so I looked it up, and it was pretty straight forward, so I learned it slow and gradually brought it up to speed. I didn't have to worry about muting or anything, because I only had one string! So i could just bash away at it. So Thunderstruck was literally the "first song I ever learned" on guitar. Pretty wild to think about that all these years later.
Dude that’s sounds to crazy to make up, nice
@@lzasyr lol
Thunderstruck is played with a b string
@@henryatherton1654 Could you not just tune it up a load?
@@Kyle-gw6qp probably could tbf
Visual Sound H2O version 1. That blue pentagon-shaped pedal with chorus and delay. It was the first nice pedal I ever bought as a teen. I bought one again years later...they do sound good! Guess I’m just not a very nostalgic person, as I sold it again.
I started with a black Washburn rx6 and a fender frontman 10g I had not used for 6 years (my dad bought me guitar gear to try to get me into playing guitar, and I got a sudden burst of inspiration to start years later). On my birthday a year later I got a t style guitar kit and built it up, turning it into a nice partscaster with genuine fender neck and tuning machines, and a Seymour duncan single coil for the bridge, and a seymour duncan humbucker for the neck, which I still use to this day, now with a boss gx100 and a 25w Marshall amp
As a kid I loved my Boss Metal Zone pedal. Had is for many years and it got lost in translation somewhere. Fast forward about 25 years and I saw one at my friend's garage sale and I asked her how much for it. She said "Um, I dunno, what do you have in your pocket?" I dug in my pocket and I pulled out 58¢. She said "ok, that'll work". SCORE!
Brings me back to when I was a 15-year-old beginner guitarist
as in last year
I loved my Crate Flexwave 212 combo, and they still sound awesome.
When I was 15 I had a 150 watt spider 2 head running stereo through a Behringer 400w cab with Bugera speakers. I used the insane channel (green, not red), gain dialed fairly far back. Maybe 6.5 out of 10, with about 4/10 reverb. I kept the treble at 6, mid at 7 and bass at 7. It actually sounded great for what it was.
I used to have that exact Line 6 amp. The only thing I remember about it is that as soon as you touched the distortion knob, the amp would immediately go to 100% volume even if the volume was turned town. It was horrible.
Same, I don’t know why but it’s hysterical in hindsight.
Yeah I have this amp. That’s why I only really play with pedal that has a bunch of effects
Holy shit I'm having PTSD flashbacks thanks for reminding me lmao
I have that same Line 6 amp too, but mine doesn’t do that.
8:35 I feel like I'm high and running a 110 fever
I am so glad I chose the Epiphone valve Jr 1/2 stack vs the Line Six when I was starting out.
I'm a drummer but I like to mess around on my grandpa's guitar. He passed away in 2015 and I got to keep his guitars, he has an acoustic and a telecaster. It was actually a big bit of luck that I got to keep it. Originally it was to go to my cousin but everyone knew he would've just sold it. My mom decided to keep it and she put it in her closet. A year or two later I asked about a first act discovery acoustic guitar and my mom brought me to the closet and showed me my grandpa's acoustic and electric, and my dad's bass. I've been using the electric and bass since, I love them. I'm not any good since I never took it seriously but I still have them and I cherish them.
Do them right and learn a song and play
@@eduardoprieto5267 currently im learning how to play snow by rhcp
Snow is a fun riff, hurt by Johnny cash, wind cries Mary and hey joe all great entry level songs
Tyler: I can't thank Line 6 enough for all the innovations
Glenn Fricker: *visible hatred*
Who's Glenn Fricker?
Actually he likes a few products they did like the pod, its the shit ones that people come in the studio with, convinced that they sound like heaven he doesnt like
They're just not recording amps, and that's Glenn's entire deal. Sound pretty reasonable for practice or small live venues. Takes a lot of pedals to get the same flexibility, or a pro-level modern amp modeler.
They're an awesome guest amp because of the switcher pedal. And there is no better amplifier bargain out there today. I've got one in the corner, and with the pedal I can get maybe $150. What could I replace it with that's significantly better for the same money, since I have another amp I use all the time?
@@venkatbalachandra5965 A fat greaseball producer with mediocre mixes.
I find it ironic that Glen Fricker’s last name is Fricker when he drops the actual F-bomb every 3 seconds in some videos. I can’t watch him for that reason...
I started with a Spider IV 15. Definitely had the Insane setting, although I was sophisticated enough to use Metal most of the time. With my SSS Bullet Strat.
my first 'real' amp was a Peavy Mk III bass head and 4x12 closed back cab I bought off a dude who was painting my parent's house at the time. I had absolutely no business with that amount of wattage but LOVED it. i moved away for college, my parents moved across the country and I sold it somewhere along the way. still think about it lol
Around 1993 my father offered me a Washburn HB35, "tobacco sunburst", I chose it with him in a second hand guitar shop. It was a huge deal for me as I dreamed of a 335 for a long time, as also it was one of the few opportunity I spent such time with him, and as it was one of the very few present he ever did to me. When my father died this guitar was in his home because I hadn't enough room where I lived, and I lived hundreds of miles away so my mother was first there to empty his appartment. She sold my guitar for 10€ in a pawn shop, they were divorced, she still was very angry, it was the greatest legacy linking him to me, some shit went in her head... anyway from all the gear I ever had, this the one I wish I could have back.
oh man...thats sad...
@@Stinkyballs123 Thank for sympathizing. I'm now able to talk about it, and about the grief, without feeling sad. It's just what it is, no more bad feelings. Also it leaded me to learn luthery so maybe one day I'll be able to build a tribute to replace that guitar. Got joy wood working, in a way it's a better thing than having this guitar as my father used to wood work too, it's keeping the flame alive. :)
@@Bloodysugar good to know!
@@Bloodysugar Mah man!!!! Bro, you deserve the best guitar ever!!! You do!!!
@@chipcaronte Kind thoughts, thanks, but for real it would be a waste as I'm not a good guitarist by any mean. ^^'
I don’t have nostalgic gear. Since I’ve been using all the same stuff as when I first started. Just upgraded that stuff and got a new amp. Still have my old stuff
I used to use the exact same type of amp as you the sound of tuning drop D on the metal setting was so nostalgic
One of my favorite pieces of gear and it had its own cult following was the Rockman Distortion half rack unit! From Def Leppard to Iron Maiden to Joe Satriani, i love that thing! Its noisy, its impractical, its been done to death, but its amazing!! Still own one to this day! That, and i will never ever part with a BOSS DD-7 and the GE-7.
My favorite piece of gear was a red Squire Stratocaster gifted to me by a former friend of my family. It was was stolen about a year ago in a robbery of my old apartment.
That sucks, man
It should be mandatory that all amp manufacturers have “Insane” settings somewhere on theirs amps🤘🏻
But there can only be one Insane™
Amps should go to 11 instead of 10 as well just for that reason.
@@daanvdwielen8760 spinal tap hehe
Luckily my parents were (and still are) really supportive of my musical journey. I still remember when my dad bet me a 5150 III EL34 head and cab if I could learn Eruption in a week… so thanks, Dad.
And yes I’m a huge Van Halen nerd if you couldn’t already tell.
Man you brought so many memories back for me with this video!! Take me back to the days where I was 14 years old trying to play the master of puppets solo🤣