Suhr, Lsl, Friedman What's with the Strats!!? Demo Video by Shawn Tubbs
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- Опубліковано 14 січ 2019
- After receiving so many inquiries about my "strat" style guitars I thought I'd do a video about how and why I chose them.
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you know you're deep in the game when you have five stratocasters and none of them are made by fender.
He said Player Fender are good . That's what i 've done . Put Suhr pickups on my Stratocaster . Make it killer tone machine .
🤣I'm on my way there myself. I have a PRS NF3, two PRS Silver Sky's, a Suhr Classic S Antique, and I'm looking at LSL and Danocaster now. I'm doing the same with Telecasters, except I actually do have one Custom Shop Fender Tele, but next will probably be a Suhr, or PRS NF53...🤔
Good thing I'm single...😅
Thank you for sharing, I also share your love for Lollar pickups. I love the blend set up for the electronics.
Love the video Shawn! Thanks for sharing your perspective on guitars, and it's cool to see the difference in your strats. I look forward to more videos!
Loved the video Shawn! I think we all love to see your personal approach to gear and music in general :)
Your playing and tone are just fabulous Shawn! I got my hands on one of those Suhr’s at NAMM lastJanuary. Best feeling neck Ive ever played on!
Shawn, you’re the greatest! Always helping us, always sharing your knowledge. Thank you
Love your videos. Your playing and sense of humor are first class but what really gets me is how your guitars are always so well intonated and in tune. I often have to stop watching some guys because they just keep banging away when they are out of tune.
Really enjoyed this. I think all my favorite channels touch on "why this gear works for me?" Not looking for someone else's answers for myself, more just interested in how the process is different for each of us.
Loved this. Very casual, dare I say, almost "vloggy", conversational. You do this well. Keep 'em coming.
Your description of how you try out a guitar is sage advice and I am so glad you mentioned it. I do the exact same thing and it has served me well. I did buy a Les Paul without getting to play it (from Honduras), based on how it looked. Somehow I knew it was going to be a beast and thankfully it was. Your videos are incredibly helpful and so valuable. Thank you.
Thanx for this simple vid on your strats and your way of connecting with them as well as the pick up mods. Great info. I recognize myself in some way. I’ll have to try the lollars !
I can appreciate your comment about initially wanting all your guitars to feel the same. I have a Clapton edition Strat with Lace Sensors in it. I played it so much it became a part of me. A few years after playing the strat, my wife bought me a Tele because I always wanted one. I wanted to learn how to chicken pick and get that country sound but yet have a versatile thicker rock style too. The Tele however has a maple finger board vs. the Strat which is rosewood. It has taken me 20 plus years of picking up the Tele and putting it down, trying it with different amps and so on to really appreciate how its made. It now serves it's own purpose and I love it but, It took so long to because I didn't force myself to play it out live, leave the strat at home and work things out. Now I'm a 2 guitar guy. lol. Thinking about a hollow body Tele with a trem now ;-)...
Awesome video as always, Shawn. Always love your playing, tone and feel. :)
Very good presentation Shawn. The Filter Tron was sweet, hadn't seen that before. And I should mention that some time ago listening to your Collings I liked the Lollars and replaced both pickups in my 335 and I'm Really happy with them. Thanks much
Thanks for sharing. I do have to say though you're lucky to a certain degree that you can so easily find the good in your strats. I am OBSESSIVE about them and go through them like most people go through ballpoint pens trying to find ones that can live up to my favorite one.
I decided to go back to Suhr for my main guitar that I can just beat on. Same color as yours FWIW; I really like their Olympic White finish.
Shawn your concepts at 2:00 and especially 12:00 about method of selection are spot on with mine after dozens of acquisitions over the past few years. Pretty settled in now with my magnificent seven, the Strat being a Mario Martin with Ron Ellis pups. Always enjoy your demos. Thx.
Fantastic video, so down to earth and helpful. Thanks.
So true! Find the connection. 2 of my favourite guitars right now are a Suhr Strat and a MIJ Tele.
They all sound great... that LSL with the Dirty Blonde Lollar set sounds especially fantastic.
Well hot dawg! Loved it and 100% agree with you on everything man.
Did I just see a flame top cali...
I love the LsL with the Filtertron. To me it's just that bit more unique than the typical SSH set-up and it always speaks really well on your demos.
Great video, Shawn. Totally makes sense. Speaking of Mexican made Strats, I picked up a Road Worn Series Strat, totally surprised me, I couldn’t believe how perfect it was! Like you talked about at the end of your video, I was playing it for quite a while without plugging it in, and it just felt perfect. The body resonated like it was old, or something. I plugged it in, and I couldn’t believe how amazing and snappy it sounded!
I LOVE this style of video from you, super interested in how you arrived at the specific gear you’ve got or even techniques and approaches you’ve got
My love for Strats is well documented. Got my first one in June of 81 and been hooked ever since. Love your collection there, Shawn. I really need to get a Suhr in my arsenal. I have so many friends that swear by them.
Right on Shawn... sounding amazing per usual man. Love a good Strat!
2012 Suhr Guthrie Govan Bengal Burst. Best guitar I own (I've got four strats and two les pauls too). Sounds great and plays brilliant. It has a vintage sound, but can be used to get cranked up modern tones too, it's a beast. Fantastic to play it everyday.
For me, the one guitar I knew immediately was my 62 reissue strat I bought new in February of 1983. Knowing the sales guy at the old Guitar Center in San Jose helped, as I mentioned to him that I'm under pressure to get a strat for playing R&B / Funk rather than my Les Paul, and he said "boy, do I have a guitar for you". And he wasn't kidding. Still have it, still play it, and it sounds great. Keep up the good work!
So I caved and just bought a Suhr Classic S Antique with the Humbucker, Single, Single in Surf green. I'm excited about the guitar and since the vintage has the nitro I can't wait to see it age over the years. I may have to put an EMG AB in it to boost the gain a bit like I did in my YJM. Your vids helped me seal the deal. Thank you
No matter if you play with a suhr or fender, or prs and etc ... you can make everything go well, you can make the best of the equipment you do tutorial, follow along always and spread to friends, congratulations! Hugs from Brazil!
Definitely loving the suhr tone the most. 👌🏽
Ended up touring with a Suhr Strat and Duesenberg Starplayer this year. Both great guitars and I %100 agree with Shawn on how the different guitars draw out different sounds of you as a player. That Duesenberg is so solid the whole way through I tend to play calmer and more planted cause the guitar carries so much. The Suhr is so much lighter I start to throw it around, but due to it's great construction I find it doesn't act up when I'm getting into it like some of my vintage stuff.
Zach & Maggie I had the Doozy starplayer. Well made but did not fit my hand it hurt my thumb consistently. It was not for me in sound, feel and for me overly big. Felt plasticky. Didn’t care for the hbs either. Just my opinion.
@@joerobinson6199 Yeah I found guys either love them or hate them. I will say I wasn't a fan until I tried the no f-hole starplayer with the split single coil on the neck.
Nice video. You are right about guitars that you connect with. You feel it when you get one you connect with.
Cool video Shawn! I can sooooo relate to your description of trying guitars in stores. I have a very quick, almost instant gut reaction to the feel and connection, and I too typically replace the pickups, so I rarely plug in. I may keep the pickups, but it’s not a priority when first testing a guitar. Ideally, I'll find a quite soundproofed room in the store, so I can clearly hear the guitar acoustically. For me, the biggest connection was to Jaguar guitars in general…the scale length and feel connected immediately. I own three modded Jaguars now (new pickups, bridges, keys), and they all play great: A Squire Jaguar (Indonesia); A Cobain signature (Mexico); and an American Professional Jaguar :)
Shawn, you make me buy things! After buying the Friedman BE 100 Deluxe I now am waiting on a Friedman Cali! Besides being a phenomenal guitar player , you're one of the best reviewers on the planet.
Hey Shawn just subscribed. Love your tone and playing. I've been playing a 78 Vintage Strat (since forever) & just purchased a 2014 Suhr Standard with Lollar Dirty Blonde's . . . OMG - I am in tone-heaven = Gilmour, SRV, Nile Rodgers & Mark Knopfler. The Suhr made me instantly put my Strat up For Sale. Love your White Suhr and the Lollars are Amazing. One Love from NYC.
Thanks so much for subscribing Michael! You can't go wrong with Suhr Guitars or Lollar Pickups!!
Shawn just makes me feel good inside!
Yep, Suhr makes some sweet guitars. Love the feel and the tone. Suhr is one of the few that has a certain feel when the tone comes out. Extremely responsive and articulate. That's a great looking Friedman. Lots of Relic'd models out three. That's the first straight up model I've seen played and working. Thanks.
I completely agree. I bought a Classic Antique S a few months ago and love it. I've been a Gibson guy for about 20 some years but figured that I would give a strat a try.
Like many, my first guitar was a really crummy Strat copy it didn't work well, didn't stay in tune, and was generally pain in the ass to play until I got a Charvel. I ended up getting a Gibson SG through chance and it became my number one guitar for at least 15 years. I began to buy Les Paul's as well. I'm sure that this program to me into becoming comfortable with playing shorter scale neck guitars with humbuckers.
Recently, I've become obsessed with learning SRV and some fusion licks. I happened to walk into a great local Boutique guitar shop I just wanted to play offender. I had heard of Suhr and saw a pretty Sonic blue one hanging. Just like what Shawn is saying, as soon as it came off the rack it spoke to me. I didn't buy it immediately, matter of fact, I came back 3 months later and bought it as a birthday gift to myself. I couldn't be happier.
I found that it is a bit temperamental in terms of slight neck movement with temperature drops and has required a little bit of truss rod manipulation. Otherwise, it's been fantastic and the only guitar that I've ever owned where I didn't think I needed to swap out pickups. It has v63 pickups which are extremely Dynamic and touch sensitive. Love them.
Despite all this, Gibson is still home base. I'm taking Jazz lessons and due to my an experience in this field, I'm looking at cheap Epiphone archtop to minimize my investment in case I don't go down the rabbit hole too far.
Great video Shawn. You have lots of tasty instruments which sound great in your hands, cheers
Thanks so much, Nick!
I come from a metal background and I've played a lot of guitars in my life, but a lot of them were built to shred. Last weekend I finally played a Custom Shop Journeyman Strat at my local shop, I knew as soon as they handed it to me that I was in trouble. It's a super unique spec that they special ordered and it turned me into a different guitar player.
It's not my favorite color, it's not a brand I usually chase, it's WAY more than I ever would spend on a strat, yet here I am pinching pennies trying to make it happen because you only bond with a guitar like that a few times in a life...
The only fender I still have and enjoy playing is my fender journeyman strat. You won’t regret it :)
Oooohhhhh when I heard the LSL's. Nice.
same with me.
Beautiful guitars! Wow.
Thanks for sharing Shawn, always interesting to see how we as players are different. In over 20 years I've never had one that I picked off the wall and knew it was the one. For me, the only thing I care about is the feel of the neck in my hand. That's what creates my bond. That said there are two guitars that I own that when I felt the neck I had to have. One was back in 1998 when I picked up one of the first year Peavey Wolfgang's. The other was 4 or 5 years ago when I picked up a Jeff Beck Stratocaster. Not the custom shop one, just the standard one. I was at Sweetwater planning on buying a new amp and just grabbed the closest Strat to play through it and I ended up taking home the guitar instead. That Jeff Beck Stratocaster is the easiest playing guitar I have ever picked up in my life and the older I get the more important that becomes ;-)
Thoughtful comments on wanting your guitars to all feel the same. I used to want that too, but I realized different guitars is half the fun :)
0:33 "What's with the Strats" what a face !! :)))
Without letting the guitars "dictate" too much ;-) I do agree they can be differently inspiring. The more I age, the more I tend to go towards chunkier necks. I've tried many: 1 inch super fat and extra-thin are not my thing. I had a wonderful Suhr Tele with P90's but I coudn't play its neck. Hand cramped after 15 minutes. Med .83 to 94 or LP .86 to 97 are my favorites. Also, I dig PRS's DGT: with its monster frets, it plays the most easy of them all. Plus it's very versatile in terms of tones with its 2 splittable HB's. I'm not particularly a Strat guy these days (I was in the 70's), but I kept one that I really like: a Schecter from the good years (1985) with MonsterTones and a passive parametric EQ in place of the 2nd tone pot. Very similar to what Reverend calls now the "bass contour", it allows you to practically dial all the sounds from a harsh, in-the-face tone, up to a Tele on steroids on top of the 5 usual Strat tones. Plus it's light and the neck is one of the best I've played.
My shortlist is: LP 59 (not an original, JB put his hands on them all ;-)), a PRS DGT, a Collings I35 and a Tele (Thinline with SDuncan SH2 HB's). Love your vids: keep'em coming !
That’s a great video. Lots of great advice.
I like these kind of videos. It's so much easier to tell how an instrument, amp or any gear in general sounds like if you have a reference, something to compare it to. Without any reference you (I mean me, as listener) really have no way of knowing what a certain piece of gear is supposedly doing in the signal chain.
I have the same model Suhr. I love the thing.
Same here
Great vid, great tones!
I totally agree with you about playing a guitar without an amp first. I had been looking for a Tele for a long time. At that point (1992) I had never owned a Tele but I knew it was a guitar i needed. I went to a music store in Sarasota FL only to find it packed with customers. I didn't know that Warren Haines and Allen Woody (Allman Bros. Band) were there for a Gibson promo gig. Everyone in the store went into a large room and I had the store to myself. I played 11 Teles and none of them did it for me. Finally the salesman reluctantly handed me a G&L ASAT Special. The second I played it I knew it was different, but in a great way. I could feel the string vibration traveling from the swamp ash body. It was a three bolt neck. Before then, I was anti-three bolt necks. After playing it for half an hour I finally plugged it in. I connected immediately with it. The G&L was like none of my other guitars. You know it when you know it, right? This guitar filled a void. Thanks for your videos. Solid playing and explanations, along with light heartedness and wisdom from a guy with a great pair of ears. What more would you want, huh? Keep up the good work. (Pardon my rant)
True ... what you said is perfectly true. Once I grabbed in 10 seconds in a shop a guitar that appealed to me in a bunch of 50 all laying one close to the other. I didn't lift any before that one ....just a quick landscape look to the whole bunch and I took that one, for the pleasure of the shop owner as it was indeed the most expensive guitar in that group, it was a Tom Anderson guitar and I didn't know that chap at that time so it has been indeed a matter of feeling. Great to know that it wasn't only my perception.
Have a shell pink LSL Saticoy, dig it...super light and lots of mojo. Have a Suhr Pro HSS, love that too.
I have an Ibanez RG, satin black, all mahogany neck thru, string thru, two tone sharkfin inlays...walked into the store, saw it on the wall...said I'll take it...stock pups and all. Sounds great unplugged.
Got an LsL. Love it!!
I did enjoy it, very nice and informative video!!! 🎸🎸🎸
Fantastic vid! Thank you!
I have two MIM Fender Roadhouse Deluxe Strats. Changed out the pick-guards, kept the pickups (Texas Specials).
A friend of mine has a couple of those. They're good guitars!
love these comparison videos,Xotic also makes some pretty nice start style guitars
It's been years since I've played a Xotic strat style guitar but I remember being impressed with it.
Love your evaluation approach.
I have retired my Stratocaster in favor of 2 G&Ls .
Props for the Mexi Strat!
I recently traded my Suhr Classic Pro for an LSL Saticoy and couldn’t be happier. I could never get on with the neck profile or narrow/tall frets. I picked up the LSL and it just felt like “home” right out of the gate, and the tone is nice and full whereas the Suhr is definitely on the bright side. No complaints as far as quality goes. You’re right, once you’re in this league it boils down to personal preference, not necessarily one being better than the other.
Fender Eric Johnson Strat just melted into my hands and body... When playing while standing this guitar felt like part of my body... Just awesome for me...
Those are really good guitars!
I'm *really* wanting to try one, esp the nicotine yellow, and compare to my Kotzen Strat.
Shawn , you’re blessing me dude ! Wheew !!!
I love your videos and reviews, just discoered them... I mean, there´s a lot of folks out there making reviews and talking. But they´re not musicians, they´re not guitar playes. And you are (and a very good one). Great job.
Guitar off the wall that impressed me and resulted in buying: Fender Baja Tele (MIM). Used 2008 SG Classic. Kotzen Tele (MIJ).
On the wall guitars I wanted to love but didn't: PRS McCarty (Guitar Center shit setup?), Ibanez AZ Prestige, 2019 LP 50s Standard.
Nice video, its great to know why and how you use à piece of gear...maybe more important than the gear itself! For me, I loved my Eric Johnson strat as soon as I played it in the store. Its the rosewood board version, a great tool for live playing ✌️
The Fender EJ model is great!
I love the lollars, and I’m intrigued by the Friedman , but Floyd Rose scares me, My favorite guitar is a 1982 Gibson 30th gold top I bought off the wall in 82😬, but I’ve been into building my own strats and Tele’s last couple of years be causeI can’t afford most is these guitars , I’m using Warmoth , MJT , Musikraft etc for bodies and necks and buying hardware / pickups on Reverb or eBay ,You can build a great looking relic or non relic for under a grand with high end parts, plus its fun to put your own ideas into the build, anyway great video thanks Shawn 👍
pleasure to watch and listen
Love the Filtertron on the Gold!
P.S Shawn, what’s with all the Tele’s???!!
Joking. ;)
So I have only just heard of you and subbed by the way. And it struck me how much I hear Scott Henderson in your playing. Very nice. And i love your backdrop of Suhr amps.
Thanks very much for subscribing! Scott Henderson is definitely an influence on my playing. Cheers!
@@ShawnTubbs Awesome.I love gearheads and good guitarists. I will be keeping my ears and eyes on you my friend. Peace and stay safr
As a lefty learning to play in the 80s and 90s, often strats were the only thing I could find pre-internet in stores. Then eBay hit and later Reverb, and with more money to burn I've been trying out tons of other guitar styles...Gibson, Gretch, and eventually offsets. Jazzmasters were just quirky enough to feel like "me", because I consider myself quirky (and what's more quirky than a lefty Jazzmaster?) Later when I needed a backup guitar for church I got a Suhr -- HSS, white, exactly like yours. It is such a versatile, solid and consistent tool, and the trem is so sweet! Now more than ever my JM sits in the stand and I speak through essentially a perfected version of the strats of my youth. Back with my first love, and I'm a better player because of it. Thank you John Suhr! P.S. - now if I could just master the solo on "There Is No One Like You" from Strength I'd be done. =)
JJ I have a Suhr like yours and I'm curious if you have stainless steel frets or nickel and what size? medium, jumbo or medium jumbo? Thanks
Love this video!
Thanks for the video
i think ( but i can be wrong) the pickups on the shawn tubbs black SSS LSL saticoy are 2 "blondes" and one "special" in the bridge ! this is the set Builder Bill Nash mounts on his stratocaster, and after hughe reviews and success, jason decide to sell it as the dirty blonde set . killer set of pickups ! (i have 3 specials in my strat ….)
Great video as usual Shawn, but 2 thumbs up for the Puddles Pity Party T Shirt. Cheers!
I'd love to see another one of these vids with the rest of your guitars. Also, friendly reminder for you to make a guitar record: make a guitar record, please.
Right on. It's about the connection and the means.
I started collecting guitars about 10 years ago. I started with more reasonably priced instruments and have always bought used gear. The first premium instrument I bought was a PRS Custom 24, and I felt the difference. The next guitar I bought after that was a Music Man JP6, and I realized I need stainless steel frets in my life. Then I started buying Suhr guitars. One of my favorite guitars is a custom Suhr Modern, plain mahogany body, with a glued on maple neck and Indian rosewood fretboard, SSH+ bridge, S90 neck. I love that guitar. Another favorite is my EVH Wolfgang Custom. It's uncomfortably heavy, but the sounds that come out of it make me feel alive. I also have a Suhr S and T model that both feel great and sound great. The last two guitars I acquired are a custom Kiesel Vader, and a Jackson Juggernaut, and they sound and feel great.
Through spending a lot of time with different guitars I've found the things that I gravitate to in a guitar, and different guitars play differently and make me play differently. A lot of people say the same thing, that the gear we play inspires us in different ways, and it's true. I don't plan on selling any of these fantastic instruments because I love them all for different reasons and I use each of them differently.
I find too that certain amplifiers and guitars pair together in a way that makes them sound better than if they were plugged into anything else. There have been times I was disappointed with a particular piece of equipment until it was paired with something that made some magic happen.
And it's the times that I'm playing through one of those magical signal chains that I feel happy to be alive and lucky enough to experience that kind of joy.
That's awesome! Thanks so much for commenting!
I like the feel and sound of the G&L Legacy (Fullerton) HSS with the G&L MFD pickups in the single coil positions. You should check one out.
Love ur vids mate. 👍👏
I think my next guitar will be a strat! Suhr seems something I might like :)
Hmm.. really like the way the single coils on that classic-S sound "cleanish-lovely-harmonic" and then the hummer goes "dirty-grit", oh, but then the filtertrons in that gold beauty sound... and now we have the Friedman with a maple fb and a floyd.... Oh hell, I feel like I've been dirty teased!
Agree that feel is really important. I’ve let go of some really cool guitars because I couldn’t get down with how it felt to play them. Some I wish I hadn’t let go of, but hey, it’s always fun getting something new! Don’t have the cash or space to have too many guitars for super specific roles. Thanks for the video. Was checking it out to see another “review” of a Strat with Humbucker in the Bridge.
What Humbucker Bridge goes well with Vintage style Strat Neck/Middle? I play Blues, Jazz, classic Rock.
I really like the Suhr SSV in the bridge as well as the Lollar Imperial Low Wind. WRC does some great stuff along with Throbak and Duncan. The key is to get a slightly lower output humbucker.
Informative, ty!
Thank you for sharing about how you react to guitars when you first take them off the wall. I can't tell you how many guitars I have been attracted to, taken off the wall, and within a few seconds I KNOW that I don't like them!!! I don't even have to fret them or strum the strings. We're just NOT compatible. It might be a great guitar for someone else. I don't know, but to me I'll just never be able to connect with it and play it well. Then it's to the acoustic properties of the guitar. If it doesn't ring/resonate, then I'll look to see if there's something wrong with the setup. Next it's how the neck, fingerboard and frets feel. Is it a quality fret job? Is it setup reasonably close. It's hard to judge if it's a bad setup. If I'm really interested, but the setup isn't to my taste, I may ask for a tweak if I think it might make a big difference to me. The last thing is probably the pickup tone. Like you said, you can change those to your liking. Thanks again!!
Awhile back i picked up an eric johnson strat (turquoise w/rosewood neck)...im not a strat player cuz my strumming hand hits all those knobs and stuff...but OMG...that "soft-v" neck was the best thing i ever put my hands on...(ok 2nd best)...i didnt have $2000 to get it...but i will never, ever, forget how that guitar melted into my soul...hope ya know what i mean!!!!
Sounds awesome! Lollars ALL DAY LONG!
There is a new pedal out called the ‘Protein’ from Browne amplification. It rivals the Kot and JHs double barrel, do a DEMO!!!!
Quite a few years back I picked up a used left handed MIN Strat that the music store couldn't get rid of. The price kept dropping and it sat there forever, so i bought it. Totally uncomfortable to play, for me, but the neck was nice. A few years later i bought a used, dinged up MIM Jimmy Vaughan Strat body. Off came the left handed neck and it went onto that body. A new Tusq nut was put onto the neck, Fender locking tuners were added and a Callaham bridge was put on the body. The first pickups I put in it was the Tex-Mex pickups, I purchased a Hendrix pickguard with the neck pickup slot leaning the opposite direction. I have the same pickguard on two other Strats.
Times changed and I realized that all my Strats (5) are SSS configured. So the pickups are starting to get slowly changed out. A new HSS pickguard was added and in went a Seymour Duncan Psyclone Vintage Filtertron pickup. I'm currently waiting on a Mojo Teisco copy gold foil in a single coil housing to arrive from England and a Duesenberg single coil to arrive from California that will go into the middle position. Chrome City but it should come out looking and sounding pretty unique. The interesting thing about the neck and body is that they are both from the same year (1996). The neck is slowly aging and has dark spots in the wood here and there. It looks like the guitar was put together in '96. The body is just as banged up and looks relic'd. Stays in tune really well too. I have it floating with a minor 3rd pull-up. I have roughly twenty guitars in my collection but play Strats and S-type guitars the most. They're just home to me.
You ever thought of posting a few guitar lessons online for us mere mortals? ;) Love your style dude.
May I ask what gauge of strings you’re using? I just got my new Suhr classic t custom with the same gauge I always use and I don’t why but it feels tighter and the strings are a little bit tougher to bend. Nothing dramatic and I’ll adapt but I was thinking to go maybe a little bit lighter! Thanks and omg amazing playing, big fan here big fan!!!! Greetings from Montréal!
You are such a great player!
You're very kind. Thanks so much!
Enjoyed! You speak my language (and your playing is super tasty, and badass).
I love the Suhr! Its a 9-12 compound radius btw. Killer and versatile axe! ✌️
After 54 years of playing, my outlook is a lot like yours. It’s not what it is, it’s if you connect with it. For years I could not leave my guitars alone, always changing them, pickups, painting etc. Now days, I almost always accept a guitar for what it uniquely brings to the table as is, why make all of your guitar the same right. Now if I connect to a specific guitar, and the pickups are just plain bad, like maybe a Squier Strat that plays nicely, I do install a wired pickguard with other pickups, but can always put it back at it was later. Funny now, I have a lot of guitars, a lot ha, and guitars I bought many years ago that I could just not get a long with with the style I was playing at the time, I put away, and again, a lot of them. Now in retirement I am going through them, getting ready to start unfortunately, selling them. So I will pickup up say my 73 thin line tele that just did not work for me back in the hard rock days when I was playing out, but now I look at it for what it is, and brings to the table and now, I do connect with it, and don’t want to let it go, ha ha. So you get what I’m saying, before you go and do something you regret later on, (like painting my original 76 LE explorer), maybe take a look at what the instrument does bring to the table, and use it in that content. It’s nice to have the unique sound variations of each guitar, again, why follow one mold in your guitar collection. If you want one sound, find a guitar you connect with, and play it, why spend hard earned money just for a clone of what you have already. Variety is the spice of life and of guitars in my book, Thanks Shawn
Rick
Love it!
Just love this vid
you are awesome ..Just discovered you recently..So I watched the video and not a single strat was played lol I went thru the same thing owned anderson suhr tyler grosh lsl--the best of the bunch and more ..THEN I GOTTA FENDER STRATOCASTER blew all these guitars outta da water!!! these are modern "strat" style guitars ..I have found playing for a very long time that the true cry of a great strat is made my FENDER...again you are awesome but the real deal is the real deal
Rocco nyc
Yeah, I like Fender CS guitars for sure. Glad you've settled on something you dig!
Great video!
These are 3 of my 4 favorite builders, but have you tried Xotic? IMHO, they fit with these 3 builders for all the right reasons.
Xotic builds a nice guitar!
"what's with all the strats"? they ask, well, it's the best damn guitar ever made
How does Shawn not have 943,711 subscribers?? Tell a friend, some of the best guitar, playing, and recording videos on here.
Thanks so much!!