"Pick of the Day" - 1957 Fender Mary Kaye Stratocaster
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- Опубліковано 27 гру 2018
- Well, we've finally had one come through the door... the elusive, rare, and beautiful Mary Kaye Stratocaster, and a '57 at that! From the translucent blonde finish, all-gold hardware, excellent v-shape neck, frets, and tremolo system, this guitar is 100% original! We are ecstatic about having this in our shop, and just as excited to share it with you all! Today Trevor does the talking, and his buddy Bryan Barrows does the playing through an excellent 1964 Fender Vibroverb amp!
For more information about the guitar, please call the shop, but for the amp check out:
www.emeraldcityguitars.com/pro...
Music: Timothy Robert Graham "I Won't Let Go" (Instrumental)
I have a "vintage reissue " model given to me by my wife for Christmas in 1987, the year we got married. I have loved this guitar since the day I got it. Plays great and looks even better. Everyone who has ever seen it has the same reaction. I have a great guitar and an even greater wife!
Can I borrow your wife
I enjoyed his playing. Real and not pretentious.
Very nice to see appreciation for simplicity rather than fast runs and heavy distortion and SRV sound-a-likes ... just good, melodic playing.
*Matthew Scott*
Beautiful, legendary guitar. So good to hear it played clean, too. Thanks.
My favorite Stratocaster.. this and the slab-board ones are just absolutely amazing. I love blonde strats
For the record, Mary Kaye never owned a Strat or any Fender guitar as far as anyone knows. She posed for a publicity photo with this ash blonde Strat which Fender used heavily in their marketing; thus, it became known as the Mary Kaye Strat. She played a D'Angelico archtop guitar.
This was good info i always wondered what the conection was i didnt think she played at all lol
If they gave it to me I'd play it !!
There are UA-cam videos of her playing it!
Cool!
She used it in a movie she was in, actually.
I have Mary Kaye’s early 70’s Fender Musicmaster Bass amp she used for guitar as her main workhorse. Her nephew sent it to me from Vegas and I also gig it regularly with a reissue Fender reverb unit. Mary is the reason Las Vegas went 24 hours because she invented the lounge and one of her biggest fans, Frank Sinatra would come to see her with high rollers who wanted to gamble late into the night, so other casinos wanted in on the action too. They used to call Mary the First Lady of Rock’n’Roll and Elvis stayed with her family when he first visited Las Vegas. Awesome playing in the video too! I really enjoyed it! Keep up the good work!
A friend of mine has Mary Kays' black face Deluxe Reverb, had a note from her in the bottom of the amp
bluestingray67 ⚡️😻⚡️ That’s awesome! I’d love to have that too!
Gorgeous sounding Strat, thanks for this cool demo! Love your channel ECG 😉
the tone is just so warm. i could get lost inside of it'. evokes alonely highway at dusk. beautiful axe.
That's some fine guitar playing I just couldn't click away from.
Thank you ECG for the clean sounds.
Very nice playing, to demo the sound of this guitar.
Thank You for kerping it clean.
Gorgeous sounding strat!! One of the best sounding ive heard. Can't hear any hum!! Fantastic wish i could aford her!
Gorgeous guitar, nice!
Those pick ups doing magical
Now that is the sound of a real strat
Nice old git. Classic amp. KILLER playing!
Perfectly paired with that vibroverb. Tasty playing too.
My favorite colour strat !
My dad was in the Mary Kaye trio in the late 50s into the very early 60s.. 👍
Right on man! Any cool stories?
@@rocknrollmandolin only a few things my dad mentioned years later. She seems to have been a pretty hard taskmaster and wasn't really easy going. My dad and his friend Gus mancuso worked with her and they both ended up working with Billy eckstine and later on Sarah Vaughan. Gus ended up staying on with Sarah and was her bass player up to the time she passed away and my dad became one of The four freshmen..
Mary Kay was a good piece of Ash.
3 Card Monty sho stinky ash too...
3 Card Monty underrated comment
Lol! That's a piece of Ash
Mary Kaye was a cosmetic salesperson from Texas, now deceased but issues pink Cadillac's to her top earners.......She has her own color...called Mary Kaye pink.
Lol very clever
Sounds warm and heavenly
I had one of those, bought it in El Paso TX in 1976. Well, actually traded for it. I was on the way back to CA, playing in the worst bar band I was ever in. Totally horrible gig. I was playing a completely ordinary and well worn '68 ES 335. Stopped in at McDonald's for a road burger. On the table was a catsup stained scrap of newspaper that had the musical instruments for sale section. There was a '58 Strat listed for $375. I had $350 in my pocket as gig pay but I figured I could borrow the $$ from the other guys in the band. Anyway, the seller was only about 8 blocks away from the McDonalds (which, in El Paso, you could be 35 miles away from some other place in El Paso) So we drove over and it turned out the seller really wanted a 335. So we just traded. The Strat was twice refin'ed and had about 47 atoms of gold plating left, but that's what it was.
They played to hell examples are the ones that have tone and magic, not the perfect original examples. I like that good guitars were refinned because it means they were loved.
What did you you with it?
@@diegobittar7425 I sold it about 4 years ago for $7K. It was 3x refinished. It was refretted kind of average, with significant neck overspray. Only one p/u was original, though all were 60's p/us (I have been dealing guitars since the 70's & I had lotsa parts laying around) Someone put 70's Fender tuners on it (the slanted ones with the "F") if you believe it, so it had all those extra holes. Non-plated Klusons were put back on. But the worst mod was that someone had routed out an additional cavity for the jack thingy. So, there was a hole (which had been filled and filled pretty well) right next to the jack whatever-you-call-it thing the same size as the original. The guitar had massive vibe but it was seriously buggered overall. I had 5 or 6 strats, it was never going to be #1 or even #3. It was a tough decision to sell it bec I had bot it in 1976 on the crappiest band road trip ever. if I was 30 years younger I probably wouldn't have sold it. It didn't stay in tune very well. I don't miss it.
@@pneumatic00 I sold a few collector guitars, I was in my twenties and I didn't really knew what I had. I think I had your Mary kaye I would have taken to Fender to restore it, but it would had cost a lot
That Strat + that amp = perfection
Saw this at a guitar show in Philly. Such a stunning guitar. They were asking $105k for it...
I'm gagging at that price. Priced for billionaires.
not even worth over 25k
@@alohamark3025 Which are quite in abundance here in Seattle. Most musicians are being priced out of the city for the rent. Thanks, Amazon.
@@nitroxylictv except it sold for 100k. a guy i know a few years ago sent his overseas and got 125k
to me id rather have a blonde strat than a porsche
Infreakincredible! I want it!👍😎🎸🎶
Good Lord, that's a fantastic tone!!
really?
as always great video! greetings from germany! ;)
Never in my life have I even remotely heard of this instruments existence and that my friends is truely puzzling to me.
Back in the early '60s, these had a turtle shell pickguard, and Fender called them "Blonde Finish" ... that simple. I never even heard of "Mary Kaye" until maybe 15 years ago. But THIS is a gorgeous guitar.
Emerald has a great shop located in the historic Pioneer Square of downtown Seattle. Owner Jay Boone and his son Trevor are pretty nice characters as well, but I happen to know Liz better from her previous gig at American Music. She happened to have sold me a Fender Stratocaster '60s Classic Player 3-color sunburst and Ibanez AM205-AV antique violin both of which I adore. The Stratocaster was a surprising purchase for me because I have always been a classic ear Ibanez humbucker kinda kid. Some odd 10+ years ago I had been knocking around Emerald City and Jay let me try a 1964 Fender Stratocaster 3-color sunburst priced around $20K... It was illuminating! I had never played a Stratocaster that played or sounded so sweet with a slim neck which I adored. It's interesting that many years before that, Lynn Ellsworth of Boogie Bodies had lent me a sunburst Stratocaster that he had thrown together that I used on a recording project. It was a very nice player, but nothing like this '64 Fender. I had always loved the classic 3-color sunbursts. I joked with Jay that I would have bought the '64, but it was the wrong year... '63 was my birth year. ;-) Well, that demo sort of put the bug in me for a sunburst Strat, and when I saw mine, it very much looked the part... but... the neck on the Classic Players are much more chunkier than '60s Strats, kinda like my Ibanez Artists, only perhaps a wee bit bigger. No matter, it still played and sounded chimey like a Strat is supposed to be. I remain very pleased with both instruments. So if you are ever in Seattle go see Liz down at Emerald City. They have some real gems there to be found there.
That sound is intoxicating
Nice play dude
There's a great blues guitarist in Portland Oregon by the name of Robbie Laws that plays a Mary Kay strat. One of the best blues players on the planet!
I always have wanted one
I thought that this was an improvisational run. Some of my favorite 'UA-cam Moments' are those spent listening to generally improvised jams. This is transcendent stuff. I was transfixed within the first few seconds. Great environment, too. I was thinking about the somber vibe -- and a gal -- and adding this to the sole playlist I have here on UA-cam which she inspired: "Waitin' On A Woman". *_Then_* I saw that the first part of this, at least, was not an improv, but a tune by Timothy Robert Graham. 'The Gal' is a Graham, too. ; ] The title made this moment even more surreal
. My playlist has been given the 'Swiss cheese' treatment through video deletion by UA-cam and individual uploaders, but this might make it on there. ; ] A tip of the hat to Emerald City, and to Brian. I'm a couple of hours east of Joe's hometown, too. I'm sure this Strat is long-gone, but I'd buy it today if it were around and I had the finances. ; ]
Such a beautiful tone ! Purity !
Hey Fellas, really hope all is well at my favorite geetar store! Thanks for sharing this vid! Now all I need is $100k lol
Thats exactly what i think of when someone asks me how a Strat sounds like
What's the name of the song he's playing? cool sound and song.
I'd love to hear hendrix play that badass 57!
By 57 Fender had switched to Alder but the transparent white-blonde finish was still Ash
Yes ash body ' its actually cut from a solid slab of ash
These videos are a hell of a lot less obnoxious than the ones from Normans guitars. Thanks for easy going and great content
Matthew Scott’s is awesome!
Is there a name to the first piece performed or is it just impressive improvisation?
%1000 per cent original ?? That means it's actually 10 complete guitars in 1. WOW !!
That neck seems like it needs to be adjusted “side to side”. That high E string is almost off the board at the 21st fret
Nick B. Wow, so true, as evidenced at 1:43, but I think you meant the 21st fret (highest fret on the old Fenders).
Anthony C you’re very right, I was thinking that as I typed it out haha! Thanks man. But yeah my G&L did the same thing to me. Had to adjust my neck angle
Definitely looks that way..
Nick B. Yes, it is out of whack.
The angle in that one shot is misleading, I think. But it does look, in other shots, that the string spacing is pretty wide. Both E strings are close to the fretboard edges at the 21st fret. You could narrow the spacing with a new nut, and/or by cutting grooves in replacement saddles, but I wouldn’t mess with this particular guitar.
I have an old Tele with similarly wide spacing. For awhile I had threaded steel saddles on it, which let me tighten the spacing, but they changed the tone quite a bit so I put the original brass saddles back on. Just gotta be a little careful when playing up the neck.
? Call for price... Geez I was waiting to see how much I need to save for this beauty.
IMHO, the best guitar brand for gold hardware, strangely enough, is Fender. I was in and out of music stores as early as 1960, and I never, ever saw this guitar referred to as a "Mary Kaye" Stratocaster ... they were just blonde Stratocasters. But by 1960, the "hub-bub" of it being attached to Mary Kaye might have faded away. I bought an American Original '50s in "White Blonde" because of my early love for this finish, and it sounds a lot like this.
Wow!!
How much for that guitar??
How can you check the truss rod color?
Bill Nastali - well you look at the Phillips head adjustment which is metal with gold plating. For some fucking reason Fender gold plated these bastards on the truss rod adjustment.
Wow, pretty much one of the most collectible gits ever.
You can't be serious.
I can't even imagine how much that guitar's worth
prob at least 40k
Damn that sounds tasty!
I was 3 when this guitar came out really never knew the story,,but the name of the model yes,,,weird🎸🎸🇺🇸
How much?
She sounds as good as She looks. Raw, yet Striking.
Are this 57/62 pickups?
Sweet guitar.
How much??
that had the right make up of parts!
Serial number "-20092"...the dash is different than any 1957 Strat serial number I've seen. Is that unique to a Mary Kaye?
Prettiest version of the strat ever made.
Man so much string buzz you guys should sort it out... Just send it to me actually I'll fix it for ya 😅
How much? B-)
Did anybody call for the price?? Asking for a friend.
How come the tremolo bar is not gold?
Paul Frederick I bet under the tip there is plated gold for sure. Typical of 62 years of played wear, sweat, sour do with 2.5 micron gold plated steel.
@@Retro.Studio I saw another Mary Kaye that was really beat up and its whammy bar was still gold. I bet that one in this video is not original. But based on video evidence alone it is hard to tell.
Paul Frederick true, but there are many Strats played for decades without whammybars installed just left in the pocket of the case so they looked unused but strat self is played untill its a wreckage. So..
@@Retro.Studio I've seen wear. It is rarely so even.
Paul Frederick In the Guitarist article guitar.com/review/vintage-review/vintage-bench-test-1957-fender-stratocaster-mary-kaye/ you can see a few cm of gold remaining below the tip.
The vibro verb is the real jewel to my ears tho.....just not a strat guy, ya i know im weird.....love teles tho
i can feel and hear the high action. I really think that a higher action drains the tone out of a guitar and leaves it kind of bland. I mean, you could be going for such sound for making a song or something, but you should demo a guitar showcasing its most various natural tones and colors. Also some overdrive wouldn't hurt, even though this wasn't made for being distorted it's pretty important to know how a guitar sounds when overdriven in this day and age.
Agree. It really doesn't sound very good considering the amp its playing through. Even the intonation sounds off. Needs a good pro setup.
id love the vibroverb,turn it all the way up,an set it on fire playin hiway star........
5 way switch?
I wish the guy playing it had tuned it first.
That thing needs a setup
I have a 1905 strat
Haha! Strats first came out in 54.
Best sound strat ever...
Tbh, the guy plays fantastically, but the guitar is just so so.
Seems like you have some bad dyslexia man more like that super sick guitar needs a good player to play it
any thing sounds good thru a good fender,a 40.00 squire or a million dollar white hendrix strat
People think it’s related to the Mary Kay makeup or whatever. I had a guy argue with me about that.
id sell the hell out of it tonite,an buy another white squire deluxe,an the dakota r/t im after allready...
somebody........tell me something..claptons buddy an guitar player...andy fairweather low , i think
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she said she didn't want it cause she played a d'angelico
You guys critiquing this guitar are crazy. Not to mention hearing on a UA-cam video can’t do it justice
Fret buzz.
Sounds like this guitar comes with a built in Boss vibrato pedal on high setting
I'd take over a Burst if given the choice by some rich dude who just liked me 8)
Check out Tone Twins TV channel for cool vintage guitar stuff guys
sounds thin and metallic. At good price !
Thought it came with a Cadillac car, if you sold enough cosmetics
In pink
Lol!
Lmao🤘🎸
This is great😁
60 cycle buzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Sounds like a squier to me.
squier sounds better
@@modestoney1577 Yeah the old vs. new thing, about that, some of the old stuff was shit. Even Bernie says a lot of the bursts he played before the beast were good but not great. I'd like to put my collector's choice guitars up against the old stuff and really try to be objective because honestly my CC #43 and CC #6 are truly amazing guitars.
@@pappyodanial i absolutely agree. some people stopped listening with their ears . i played a lot of guitars and i think you always have to hear for yourself. old age does not guarantee a great sounding guitar, nor does the price tag necessarily. i´m sure your CC guitars are killer - who cares if they are 60 or 10 years old?
i don´t.
I agree, and the low E is out of tune :)
I was gave a 92' Squier by a friend friend who salvaged it from a house fire to restore....
Its freaking amazing, the stock pickups are hot, they sound like texas specials to me but there not.
Anyway, its a yellowed white, white gard, maple neck and board, its really cool
I use to buy and sell vintage guitars. The fakes were getting to good and I stopped
This guy is a nice, sensitive player. I prefer him over that other nerdy spasmodic vibrato show-off.
Now all you need is the make up
You're pointing at the amp with a 100,000 dollar guitar.
WTF
im calling right now, hello? nobody there, seems like they are still figuring out how many zeros they can to add to the price ...
call for price = embarrassed to say the actual price on video
That amp has a busted filtering section. You guys hiring?
Y’all should play some classic music on those guitars. I can’t follow that strange New Age music.