Guitars I Hate
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Guitarist/Songwriter/Samurai Born in the Manitoba prefecture of Canada, samuraiguitarist, honed his discipline under the study of the country's most powerful musical sensei. Bred on rock, raised on the blues, trained in jazz, samuraiguitarist creates incredibly innovative videos that showcase his talents on the guitar.
*puts away 12 string banjitar with a Floyd rose
...and robotuner
You forgot your trem bar.
@@remlad407 floyd rose?
Sven Wolf did you watch the video...
@@ethangilbertmedia It is about the comment, not the video.
I've had a banjo guitar for 30 years - it's been out of tune for 30 years.
Haha
🤣🤣🤣30yrs outta tune.. Is it still out of tune?
Bro at this point it's not out of tune its it's own tuning lol
Single Coil 😂😂 holy shit that’s a great point actually
@@nathanadnitt it's its*
When I worked at a guitar store a decade ago, a guy called and said he had some cool vintage tele, I can't remember the exact year, but let's say it was a 67'. I was stoked, and excited for him to bring it in for a setup. I did a bunch of research while waiting for him (slow store, lots of free time). I discovered that of all the models from this year, green was the rarest color it came in.
A few hours later, he shows up. He opens the case and inside is a natural finished 67' tele, which this guitar was never manufactured in. I ask him about the finish, and he says, "Oh yeah, it used to be green but I sanded off the finish." 😨
Nooo and greens such a lovley colour for guitars (well i think so coz its my favourite colour)
OOOOOOOOOOOOOh the pain!
My stomach churned a bit after reading this. But hey, whatever floats your bloated goat, right?
These stories make me cringe. But think to back in the day. You had a guitar and it had chipping cracking nitro finish on it. Stripping the paint and going "natural" was the thing back then. I bet a lot of guys had nitro finishes that they thought looked awful. "Reliced" wasn't a thing before Rory Gallagher and SRV. Besides no one knew these guitars would have any value. think to a guy now who owns a '90's Strat. Does his guitar have any value now? That's how they thought back then. I have an older musician friend who can vouch that you would've been looked at weird if you didn't refinish your tattered Tele or Strat back then. That's why those finishes are so rare and valuable today.
Green on guitars sucks
My dad always told me the story of the "Smellocaster" which made the rounds in the area when he was in a band. Apparently it was a telecaster that played amazingly, but something had happened to it to make it absolutely reek. It kept getting sold over and over again because nobody could get the smell out, and it was bad enough that it had to be passed on.
Did anyone ever try to refinish it?
Just a few months ago, I was in Guitar Center buying an amp. I used a Telecaster they had to test the amp because it was the same model as mine, and I didn't have mine with me. The thing is, that thing STANK! A guy before me had just got done playing it, and after I was finished with it, the smell got on my hands! I was so disgusted! It turned out that the guy playing it was what the employee called a "regular" who would just come in to play their instruments but never buy. I have no idea if it was from the guy playing it or what, but it was certainly a stinky experience. The only way to have avoided this would've been to bring my own guitar with me that day. I'm a lefty, and at the time. that stinky Telecaster happened to be the only left-handed electric guitar in the store.
For some reason the word smellocaster and the idea of an eternally stank guitar is making me laugh my fucking ass off rn
This story sounds very made up but I was entertained. 7/10.
Sounds like it would make a sick instrument for a bard necromancer
"i hope i never see one again" ...
Fender 2019: Acoustasonic!
Chris Gonzalez at least the new one is good
Agreed!!!
The new one is actually pretty good
@@ItsRevival Too much money,
take a look at Godin Acousticaster, if you're looking for an awesome thin boddied acoustic these are imo. the very best, and that is coming from a huge Fender fan!!
I own 3 American Strats. 2 Teles., 5 Fender amps including one I bought new in 1969 and still have to this day.
That said I own a Godin Acousticaster that has played hundreds of gigs, check them out, see what you think. 😉
The original acoustasonic is dope.
I always wanted to learn the guitar
But the beginning seemed so slow and frustrating
You...
No.
Got the same fricking ad
NOT AGAIN OMG EVERY TIME THIS AD AAAAAHHHHHHHHHH
If it wasn’t for rocksmith i’d give that one a try
Remember, this man has a reverse Flying V
Flying vagina
Imagine a flying v with robot tuners I would hate it
@@mightymollyfan oh you’re in for a treat
Ya, it’s hideous too!!😩🥴
technically it should be a Flying W
This man is a combination of every person I’ve ever met that works at Guitar Center.
well Jeez I guess I oughta rethink them
✌️Ikr it’s pretty great✌️
Those are fighting words
All the good guys at guitar center, at least.
LOL Long and McQuade for me (equivalent of Guitar Center in Canada and he actually worked there).
12 string acoustic with Floyd rose and Gibson robot tuners and only works with the jellyfish guitar pick
oh no
Hilarious!!!😆😂🤣🤪
It needs to be a hijacked banjitar that somehow gets a floyd rose and a reverse flying V
@@atomicwinter31 and put it through a Boss Metal Zone pedal through some unknown amplifier
oh god why do you give me this image in my mind?
I have never heard someone say, "I upgraded to a squire" 😂😂😂
lmfao
Play an 80s model or a new classic vibe you will understand ,but yes if you have the cash don't bother.
lol i really upgraded to a squire. it was so much better than the god-knows-which brand guitar i started off with that i didn't understand why people made such a big deal about fenders 😂
@Kevin Huang I also upgraded to a MIJ Fender Squier back in the 90's, trading my import Dean 88 for it. Of course, I also added a graphite nut, locking tuners, piezo bridge saddles, and bridge and neck Semour Duncan strat-sized humbuckers in it, so I upgraded my upgrade, so to speak.
Guys... It's Squier not squire
That story about installing a Floyd rose on a Black beauty broke my damn heart. I use a Floyd Rose on my Ibanez RG and I have a lot of fun with it, but the idea of someone carving out a cavity on such a gorgeous and valuable guitar kills me on the inside
Their Black Beauty was your Ibanez.
Before the reveal of what happened to the Les Paul, all I was thinking was "please don't say he put a Floyd rose in it"
My guitar teacher always told me the story of an 12-year-old student that used his dad's guitar to learn to play. At the time, my teacher had a small show choir with her students that would travel around and play local gigs. They had an older van with those giant removable seats that they would empty to carry around the gear. The 12-year-old's dad happened to have a 60s era black Gibson Les Paul. My teacher said the thing played like a dream and sounded amazing. It was terrifying to see a 12-year-old, who didn't take guitar even remotely seriously, walking around with it.
The kid had a habit of holding this Les Paul by the strap, without strap locks. I'm sure you think you can see where this is going. He also had a bad habit of swinging said guitar by said lockless guitar strap. One day, while the adults were loading the van and the kids were just goofing off. He was swinging his guitar in a way that he had been told no less than 100s of times not to do, when the strap came off and the guitar went flying into the giant heavy seats of the van sitting near the door. The momentum of the swing meeting an immovable object was too much physics for the neck of that guitar so it promptly snapped in half. The kid immediately started crying.
When the dad came to pick up the kid and saw his beloved Gibson in pieces, he just told his son to get in the car and was never seen by my teacher again. That silent disappointed rage.
I still partially believe that kid was killed that night.
Oh no....
Why didn't someone take it off the kid?
Hopefully………….
I got anxiety from reading that
And that's why guitar center locks higher end guitars
My stomach literally turned when you described the Floyd Rose in the Les Paul.
I promised myself I would never cry because of a youtube video. But that Les Paul really got me
@@deathincorporatedfitnesstr1256 you should come stocked with a warning sign.
WARNING: BAD OPINIONS
But Alex Lifeson from Rush has one...
Well, they actually produce lp with a floyd rose. Alex Lifeson of Rush plays one, for example.
gooby pls Is that supposed to be insulting, because I find no negative connotation to the term.
I love that Gretsch acoustic - it’s just so wrong, it makes me happy somehow.
Like a horrible 50's sci-fi movie that's so bad you have to love it.
i bought this guitar because i needed an electric/acoustic to mess around with for recording. i already own a "normal" acoustic and a classical guitar, so when i saw this freak show it caught my interest and i couldn't resist. i agree that its level of obnoxious is part of the appeal lol.
I like it a lot actually
@@cole1710 I bought this guitar because it was totally absurd. I have ZERO regrets 🙂
Honestly, I should've heeded your word and skipped the piece where the guy installed a Floyd
Rose on the Les Paul...
Me too. My blood pressure went up 40 points; i skipped too late.
Was it Alex Lifeson?
Finally, found a way to improve the les paul!
@@remyr5749 didn’t he use a bigsby?
@@femboycyan check out the Gibson Axcess. Thats what Lifeson uses
The reverse flying v might as well be the reverse mullet of guitars.
😂😂😂😂😂
Phill Sosa i laughed WAYYYY too hard at this
I know a guy who has two of those
Lmao!! That black beauty story made me make audible noises of discomfort. Also shocked I didn't hear you diss the Gibson Modern Flying V lol. Even though I'm the crazy guy that thinks they look awesome.
I don't hate that bad boy at all. I don't like it but I don't hate it either.
@@samuraiguitarist I hate it for both of us.
Hey wuddup Mike!
I like them as well.
It looks rad
I can really relate to the crappy beginner guitar. Recently one of my friends decided to pick up guitar again and started playing on the cheapo Epiphone they got from their parents like 6 years ago. They thought playing guitar was just extremely hard, untill I dropped by and let them borrow my well set up strat. Their playing immediately improved a lot and having a really nice guitar just sitting there also turned out to be really motivating for them, not fighting the guitar all the time made playing much more fun as well.
So if one of your friends wants to learn and you've got a nice spare axe, by all means just let them learn on your nice guitar!
I learned guitar on an Ibanez Gio with rusty, incredibly heavy strings. I loved it so I played until my fingers bled but the moment I upgraded to an LP studio, it felt like it was all worth it. Using the trem on the Ibanez caused the strings to make this awful cracking noise- the kind of noise they make when they’re about to snap. The relief I felt when I could play the guitar indefinitely without fear of it snapping at me at any given moment was indescribable. It still has a few setup issues, one of the humbuckers rattles (physically, it’s loose), the selector switch is loose and the G string detunes just by looking at it, but I still love it.
One of the unspoken rules of music is that,the higher the level you're at, the easier it gets. Cheap instruments are harder to play, and small venues are harder as well. When you play in a massive arena with an amazing PA and loads of monitors and you have roadies and techies setting everything up for you, it's much easier to give a great performance than playing a crappy little bar with a cheap PA.
I know some people think this is an important rite of passage, but I really don't subscribe to the "I had to suffer, so I don't see why future generations shouldn't have to suffer too, even if it's now unnecessary" school of thought. Unless you believe guitarists should have to make their own guitars like a Jedi, I don't see any reason why you should deliberately make learning an instrument harder than it needs to be.
I had guitar lessons in 2015 and quit very quickly after losing interest. I didn't pick up my guitar again until February 2021, where I was extremely passionate about it, coincidentally during the time I started listening to Rock & Roll again. Now, a year and four months later, I've been having lessons for 4 months and am actually pretty good at guitar.
I think oftentimes cheap guitars just need a truss rod adjustment or lower action. Part of the bargain with cheap instruments is they don't spend a lot of time at the factory setting them up properly.
The "weird bevel behind the neck" is called a volute, meant to strengthen the neck and keep the headstock from breaking.
Haha bet it still broke anyway. 80s Gibsons are shite
In Brazil we have (or had back in the 80s) a brand called Tonante. Some people say that if you tune a Tonante properly, it will never go out of tune again.
No one was good enough to test that legend, tho
Fica a dúvida de qual a pior: tonante ou dolphin?
Hahahahahahahaha
Haha, it's like the sword in the stone
BRASILL BRASIL
hj em dia as piores sao menphis e waldman
Dude the 57 les Paul with the Floyd story is a nightmare and then some
Yes,,,It reminds of the old POLAK joke about the Polak who won a gold medal and then had it bronzed.
@ninja cheese0315 a 57" Les Paul is scary. Almost 5 feet tall! 😵👻
That's just insane. I though the LP axcess (kinda a clever name though) was bad enough
Solid list! I feel you on your selections, especially the 12 string w/ trem. My nightmare is always a guitar that won't stay in tune, and a 12 string w/ trem is most certainly an extreme of example of such nightmare... 3:19 One thing though: the "bevel" on the back of that Les Paul headstock is called a volute, and is supposed to make it less susceptible to breaks.
I have a valid totally rational hatred for your reverse Flying V.
I always say "what ever floats your boat" but some things in life are just wrong ... the reverse flying V is one of them :)
@@seralouise. yes
Is that for real 😳?
yosemite sam- not only is it wrong or doesn't look right, it was an ugly color combination,,,, geez. that burnt brown mustard yellow with a white pick guard,,,, man. i would be a lil more tolerant, not much, but a lil more if it had a better color combo. come on man.
Wait...what...that thing's REAL? I genuinely - GENUINELY - thought "reverse flying V" must be a joke.
You should never hate a guitar someone loaned you, because it is always better than the guitar you didn’t have before you borrowed it.
They're the same guitar, so how is that possible?
Thank you Tom Nook ^_^
When someone gives us lemons, you're making lemonade and I'm throwing them through your window trying to hit your 3/4 Samick Les paul copy.
Different strokes.
Dan Zhukovin You statement is impossible, ......what do you mean?
O'Canain How’s playing a borrowed guitar making lemons or lemon Aid? If you didn’t borrow the guitar all you are playing at that point is air.
The weird bevel on the back of the headstock is called a volute.
And I happen to like them. :)
i have a deep hatred for headless guitars
I love you
Now kith..
Man I love headless guitar but I hate lespaul
I thought you can't hate anything
you're the only positive person I've found on internet who has an explanation for li'll wayne solo
Aftab Hussain Dars where did he say this?
It still bugs me that his guitar tech didn't give him a flamenco guitar for that beautiful bossa nova solo.
@@basilschreyer8807 His video on truth about wayne's solo
He's super negative all the time, what are you talking about?
Aftab Hussain Dars he was very polite about the whole thing tbf
floyd rose + les paul = probably my biggest fear
PRS mark tremonti
As much as it sounds wrong, the Alex Lifeson LP is actually a really good instrument
Gary Holt from Slayer used them as well and they sound great to me
PizNey Works neal schon lmao
I have the LP studio shred that has a Floyd Rose and it's a great guitar. However, refitting a vintage LP with a whammy of any kind is a crime and they should be sent to prison.
Perhaps the most umpopular opinion: I think Tosin Abasi 8 string guitars are ugly as hell.
Apparently they're supposed to have a versatile shape or smth like that? I still don't get them
I agree, totally.
I agree
They can be for sure
I absolutely love the look of them, but I like sci fi a lot
I have good memories with the telecoustic guitars. My sister had a telecoustic. It fell apart, and needed new pegs and stuff. When she went to college, I was allowed to mess with it. I took the four strings that were left and I turned it to ukulele tuning and used that to learn ukulele before getting an actual one
"Some say it's still detuning to this day"...with that straight face of yours...I cry-laughed, bro!!!
ArnoldPlaysGuitar time stamp please
@@quadirmiller609 watch the damn video
Rayene Boussetta I did, but I want a time stamp so I can replay it. It also saves more time. Thank you.
@@quadirmiller609 well now you know.. Also it's not like the video is 20 minutes long or something
@@quadirmiller609 4:10
Lol, acoustic Tele is back
It really bums me out to say this, but my manager went to NAMM and apparently it's worth the two grand they're charging for it
Yes. And it still looks horrible as fuck. Leo Fender would probably be so fucking disgusted if he's alive today.
I think it's actually better than ever now!
@@drfdwf392 March 21 1991.
I hate telecasters
the way your lip started to kinda curl when you were describing the floyd rose that guy put into your buddy phil’s guitar was priceless
As a bassist I have a love/ hate relationship w/ 2 of the most iconic basses in existence; The Fender Precision & the Rickenbacker 4001. I love the sound of them, but I despise their necks. The P bass is like playing a baseball bat, & the Rick is like a hockey stick. I imagine I'd have a similar reaction as the Rick w/ a Hofner, but I've only ever held one & the action was so high (no lie, it was @ least 3/4" @ the highest fret) I didn't even bother trying to play it after an initial look over.
"some say it's still detuning to this day"...djent players be like "OMG where can I buy this ?!"
(jk, I love me some extended range guitars)
Need. With bigger gauge. And better pickups. And better bridge. And better overall guitar.
It could be tuning sharper
@@h.m4627 detuning is downtuning, uptuning is sharpening.
I really like my one robot Gibson. Les Paul jr.
I would never gig with it because changing strings is a huge pain in the a$$.
But for playing at home it’s great.
Here’s a story on par with the Black Beauty. I was talking with the tech at my local guitar shop and he told me the story of his worst customer. He was a guitarist for the praise band at the local mega church and had really high thoughts of his playing and tech abilities. One day, he brought in a guitar that the tech for the shop still can’t fully believe existed. This guy had taken a Les Paul body, cut out the neck, and bolted on a Fender Stratocaster neck. He was looking to get it set up and was turned away. The guy from the story said that it was about ten years ago and he still has nightmares about it. For the record, I never saw this guitar, but it sounds awful.
the intonation would not even work on that
Charles Crumpler i think im gona be sic🤢😩🍻
That poor les Paul and strat.... *shudders*
You lost me @ "Praise Band"...
What on earth is a mega church?
It's neat that my experience with the beginner alvarez guitars is different. Mine is a hand-me-down from my mother and has been lovingly cared for and it's how I learned the very basics of guitar. It has a very special place in my heart.
Holy shit samurai! I remember back in the day when you used to have like 2500 views and this video is now over a million! it's awesome and infinetly inspiring to see you growing! like this
I'm sorry but a banjitar is more valid of an instrument than the reverse flying V.
Nothing is more valid than the Reverse Flying V of the kings.
Ding dong your Opinion is wrong
Inverted flying V's are just wrong
No they are sexy
they are the worst thing in the world
Reverse Explorers are cooler, imo
He owns one
Agreed.
I have a Telecoustic from the mid-2000’s. Got it for when my punk band wanted to have a softer moment. Years and genres later, I got it set up, and I still remember the look of surprise on the tech’s face at how sweet and mellow it sounded after being cared for. I love to use it capo’d high-has a nice baritone uke sound
Great vid! Mine is the squier mini strat. At my job, we sell these guitars at a discount to students, but in my opinion, there couldn't be a worse instrument for a kid just starting out. There's virtually no tuning stability between the neck's propensity for warping and the tuners being completely unstable, which only exacerbates fact that a beginner guitarist is going to have a hard time tuning their instrument anyway. To add to it, it's not unusual for me to see these instruments become unplayable after mere months of owning them when the neck bows to an extreme enough angle that the strings are no longer suspended over the frets, and are unable to make notes on account of touching the neck. Sure this can get fixed with a setup, but the setback is sometimes enough to make a kid just say "forget it" and stop practicing. There are much better cheap beginner guitars with shorter scale length you could go with.
A piece of me died when I heard about the black beauty
yeah me too
It was horrible
“some people just wanna see the world burn” lol
Just watched that movie haha
My most hated: in the late 80's My friend's Raven SG style guitar (made in Japan for Canadian exclusive market). It was horrible and almost unplayable, but later on in the summer we sacrificed it by plugging it in (outside) we lit it up with white gas and had a cool Jimi Hendrix moment.
For my first guitar I actually had a Nevada strat that was pretty nice to play on - it was a hand me down from my cousin but it was set up properly by an uncle which is a godsend - some fret buzz here and there but nothing atrocious. I have a lingering memory of being told the pups were swapped out for half decent ones though so that probably coloured my opinion of the tone more highly than if it was stock.
Being a not big or even that great guitar player, this will sound cheesy coming from me but here we go.
About 10 years ago my brother ordered an Esteban guitar from the commercials/short segments you would see on TV. I was too small to really remember but he loved that $500 guitar (or what I believe he said it was). A few years ago, 13 year old me wanted to start learning guitar and he didn’t mind me using it. I genuinely thought professional players were gods. My fingers blistered so bad just by playing what any beginner would play; the opening to Whiskey Lullaby, Smoke On The Water (classic). I hardly knew what fret was so you can understand just how much I didn’t know. The only knowledge I had prior to this was ukulele being taught in elementary. Fast forward to my 14th birthday. By this time, I really just didn’t mess with the guitar much. Something seemed off about it being so hard so I gave it up. We visit family and lie and behold, they have two acoustics as soon as you walk into the house. My eyes are on this pretty, black dreadnought. My parents start talking about how I wanted to learn guitar and ya da ya da. They say go ahead and I swear it felt like heaven. The action was low and hardly any effort was used to hold down a string. Present day I now have that guitar that they gave to me as a present. She’s an Ibanez, no wonder this guitar felt good, it was decent! The poor Esteban ended up with cracked neck. I’ve never played a guitar with such a high action before. And that’s why looks can be deceiving. I liked the body since it was the black with stars but it wasn’t worth $500.
I’m 16 now and still pretty mediocre when it comes to playing but I wouldn’t give that guitar away for $1,000,000.
bc it would be impossible to find another ibanez acoustic or any number of other tremendous guitars with a million dollars.
I've never played one but I really hate upright basses. I mean, they always seem to miss two strings, you can't play them like a normal guitar and the pick that you get is a meter long and not to mention, made of horse hair and wood. Upright base must be the most impractical guitar in existence ;-)
as a bassist i started to read this prepared to bring wraith upon you...
Upright (or double) bass isn't a guitar, it's a fiddle! *breaths in* okay, they're surely not the most practical things ever but hey, they were from a time an acoustic instrument had to resonate loud enough to break through a live performance and man, do they resonate! My musical group has one, not really high quality, but still playing that thing makes the whole place feel the low frequencies.
André Fontes r/woosh
Those old uprights are cool!! If you happen to see one being played by a woman it goes from cool to suhhexyyy... lol.
Back in the days when electric basses were first coming out Elvis Presley was on set making a movie and they were recording one of the songs for the movie. For whatever reason they needed an electric bass but the bassist only knew how to play an old stand up. The story goes he got so frustrated with that new Fender bass that he threw it on the ground and said those things will never replace the old stand up. I cannot recall the name of the song but it did end up getting recorded with the new electric bass and guess who played bass on it? Yup, Elvis himself! He picked it up and said "give me the damn thing" within 10 minutes he had it figured out and to this day if you listen to that song it is the King himself playing the bass guitar on it! And people dare say Elvis had no talent?
Update - the song Elvis played bass on with only about 10 minutes of practice was the song from the movie "Jailhouse Rock" and it was called, "Baby your square" - now as an avid Elvis fan myself this really surprised me once I saw what song it was. If you are unaware of that song the bass plays solo several times during it, for a guy to play bass on a song like that after only having 10 minutes to rehearse, and get used to a new fancy instrument, really attests to his music abilities!!
@@jacobclark8659 you and I both ahaha
1:28 why do people torture themselves like this? Just block it, set it up like a hardtail, and then tighten the spring claw screws until the block falls out. Then finish tuning it with the fine tuner.
At my local guitar store, there was a Travelcaster in the “Used” section. I already don’t like those travelcasters (I’d played one before that was falling apart before it had even been on the shelf), but this one was criminal. It was bright pink camouflage, it felt horrible to play, and the Floyd Rose on it made the bridge (which to me always looked like it was about to fall off) look even uglier
I had a friend that had a stratacoustic. He eventually removed the neck and put that on his squire strat. Then he put the squire neck on the stratacoustic and put it away. Probably for good.
I hate headless guitars in general. They don't look right to me. I don't trust them.
Never trust anything without a head.
PeJota15...im with ya on that
Me too they make me uncomfortable in a way I can’t describe
I’ve been in love with ‘em since i first saw Holdsworth rocking on
Then the Strandberg craze just made me more in love with them
What’s wrong with you guys? lol
@@chrispouliot1599 ..hahahaha, whats wrong with you!! Lol, jk
Alvarez beginners are great starter guitars. It's odd to hate on an entire brand because of things entirely the fault of the people who played the guitars rather than the people who made them.
The Les Paul story reminded me of my G&L that I got 17 years ago!.
So I got this G and L few years back. This (to my ears) was one of those guitars, that for no reason, it sounds 100 times better than the bunch that it was around. I A/Bed it with,,, just about all the strats I found in the store. That guitar had a much nicer acoustic qualities to it than anything else I played. So,,,, I sold few things, and bought the instrument, cause I just knew how special it is. (Atleast to my ears, i'm working on a video with me playing it)
I took it to a luthier to have a humbucker installed in the bridge position, and to get GIANT frets installed (I like PAF pickups, and big frets).
When I got it back, the luthier decided to do some routing !!!! (that was 100% not necessary and not asked for ) so he can install the pickup with a tilt :( He claims that when the pickups are like that they sound better. I was very surprised at how wrong he was.
I still have the guitar, and it still is my favorite strat i ever played. I hope i never play a better sounding strat, cause it might be some sort of a crazy expensive vintage.
I had a stratacoustic stolen from me, and now in hindsight part of me thanks the thief for forcing me to find a better acoustic. I later found out who took it and that they only got $75 for it and it was in as good a shape as stratacoustic could be in.
“Some say it’s still detuning ‘till this day.” I am dying laughing.
Drop Z life
What about an acoustic-electric 12 string banjitar with robot tuners, a trem, and a 80s gibson neck? I would love to see that
I have a Dean vendetta that I got from my neighbor that was electric first guitar. The fretboard rim was sharp and the bridge pickup didn't work. PLUS the guitar strap fell off one time and it had a dent in the side
For me it's Ovation. Damn things are like ticking time bombs. You never knew when it was going to slide off your lap.
No to mention they sound horrible.
@@mattworkman9519 no, Ovations sound great.
Got to agree here. My brother had an Ovation when he started out and I couldn't stand that bowl back.
Simple, use a strap.
@@miguelbarahona6636 Still ends up at an uncomfortable playing angle when seated, and that was back in the day when I was a string bean. Now? Gotta believe the stomach insulation gets in the way, lol. Just not for me...
3:18 that’s actually something Gibson stopped doing around the 80s for some reason. Gibsons necks tend to break very easily and this prevents that from happening
Gibson necks tend to break very easily - if you drop them. You don't need a bevel to stop the headstock breaking, just don't lean it precariously against your amp and walk away from it.
@@jimherleva4541 they still break way to easily so it makes sense to want something to prevent that. I dropped mine once and the headstock almost got ripped from the guitar, if it were literally any other guitar it wouldnt have broke.
The Gretsch Acoustic with trem looks nice at least, but the story of the Les Paul your friend gave over to be Frankensteined with a Floy Rose is going to keep me up nights, mate. Thanks for that!
I have a Dean banjo guitar that I keep in my trunk without a case (I live in Nova Scotia) that occasionally takes centre stage when I'm abandoned somewhere. But I mostly only like playing Metal Heart or I am a Viking on it so it goes back in the trunk after 10 minutes.
"It's probably still detuning to this day" hahahahaha
That bump on the back of that shitty Les Paul was a volute, which strengthens the neck by adding mass. Gibson guitars can definitely use it.
Ironically they could save a lot of ballache for themselves by changing the rake from 17° to around 12°. Most Gibson headstock breaks are due to the steeply raked headstock hitting the floor before the body. A slightly flatter headstock would improve the tuning stability and increase string life too.
And I said ironically because a shallower rake is what makes Epiphones so much stronger. And PRS also use a shallow headstock (I'm pretty sure PRS was a reaction to Gibson).
@@andrewince8824 yeah iIrc, PRS worked at Gibson for a little while. The whole headstock system on a PRS is miles ahead of anybody else.
The best necks by Gibson were the 70s and first couple years of the eighties with the volute.
I have a NAMM prototype LTD with a volute...a great guitar that they didn't eventually make many of...a X-Tone...
I'm currently in the process of turning a Nevada strat copy into a left handed electric tenor guitar for the owner of a local bar. He found the Nevada by the bins. It says a lot about the quality of the instrument
samuraiguitarist The Banjitar is chromatic, cause unlike a 5 String Banjo, you can play in every key without re-tuning & you can even use your Guitar capo too.
I remember when i first started playing bass i had a silver tone with wicked high string action. being a metal fan it was really difficult to learn faster more technical songs but damn it did my fingers get wicked strong.
Hell yeah.
Lol I had a similar experience with heavy gauge guitar strings. First guitar, don't know who strung it up but the string gauge was like frickin telephone lines. Didn't know any better so I just practiced like that and eventually the callouses on the tips of my fret fingers became like granite.
I lived in China for a few years, and needed a guitar so went to a local guitar shop and picked up a super cheap accoustic. It had a plastic saddle and bridge and looked like absolute crap. It was made by some unknown company with Chinese characters for a name.
But holy shit it sounded good. These incredible rich tones. The only thing comparable is I have a carpenter freind who makes his own guitars with special unusual wood types with hollow necks. It sounded like them. I couldn't bring it back with me though and gave it to a student who couldn't afford a guitar to learn on. I still think about it and miss it.
On the other hand I have a fender knock-off I bought in a flea market as my first ever guitar. It sounds like crap, the neck has a twist in it and the electronics only work half the time. But I love it and will keep it because of sentimental value...
Guitars i love. Would absolutely love to see this concept develope into a video!
“Some say it’s still detuning to this day” 😂
Yeah you’re right, that reverse Flying V is the dumbest looking guitar I have ever seen.
You misspelled "nicest"
@@samuraiguitarist I'm fucken dead dude
Hahaha oh so mean!
I used to think so, until I saw the reverse Explorer.
Add a thinline Taylor to that list. I was so excited by the prospect (I absolutely love my Taylor 814 model) that I nearly purchased one - sight unseen, much less played. I decided to hold off and hunt one down (divine intervention?) and soon found a few used ones. The sound that came out of each and everyone of them, made me cringe. It took a lot of tweaking to get even a decent tone. Since that experience I have seen other musicians play them live with the same odd “rubber band” string sound I had experienced that couldn’t be fully masked, making me continuously appreciate not plunking down the money that instead covered my entire PA system.
Puts away 12 string trem robotuner banjitar with Floyd rose*
Stolen 😀
man I'm completely new to guitars and don't know much about them, but as soon as you said the word "mod" in relation to that vintage guitar my heart sank
You could have a segment on the reverse v alone. Fascinating finds
As a banjo player, I hate banjitars too. Takes the special aspects of each instrument and waters them down. Somehow much, much less than the sum of their parts.
I agree but then he says that they are easy to play. Ok break one out and lets here you play some blue grass.
I mean im a guitar player and having one on the ready for pit playing is just needed. Having to learn a guitar book for a show is rough enough let alone for two hard instruments lol so they have saved my neck
i just refer to them as bad guitars
As a violin player, I hate the viola. It takes the special aspect of each instrument and waters it down. Somehow much, much less than the sum of their parts.
I'd love to see him wip out a banjo and play foggy Mt break down if it's "easy"
Canadian band - Nathan. It took me forever to figure out why there sound was so unique - Banjitar was one of many reasons. They used it well, and qualify as non-popular goodness in my books :)
The thing on the Les Paul's headstock was a feature called a volute implemented to prevent headstock breaks
I bought an SG with robot tuners in the middle of a stint overseas. Intended on putting Grovers on from the get-go, but was planning on getting them on about 6 months after buying it.
Yeah nah. The B string tuner went haywire about a week after I got the thing, and didn't stop spinning until well after it snapped the string.
This is all after buying my very first Gibson, a SG future tribute. Naturally, the tuner for the A string stripped out on that.
Cannot stand prs guitars. They are amazing and some of the most beautiful and comfortable guitars I've ever played. But there's just something so sterile about them that rubs me the wrong way. A clinical instrument rather than a companion.
Im reading this with my new prs on my lap...
ouch
@@lorz8940 congrats, ignore my love of pos vintage plywood(cuz character)
@@lorz8940 hurts because shoe fits?
I feel you, can't quite put it into words I just hate them. At a local music store they have prs guitars hanging all over the wall and I just die inside every time i go in there.
I dislike 90% of PRS guitars I play. Not only do they feel sterile, some of them are so light and small they feel like toys, and they sound like toys when you use their single coil pickups.
That being said, that 10% that I do like are special. Some of my favorite players (looking at u Rob Compa) play a PRS. When they're balanced with high output pickups, properly weighted and are strung any strings that aren't super light and wimpy, and properly weighted, I love em. Definitely plan on owning one at some point to give em a fair shake
BC Rich Warlock was my first Bass. Looked interesting, but I can still feel the bite of the guitar strap in back of my neck trying to play that beast at my first gig. I may as well have been trying to play a chimney.
This isn't hatred. This is poetry.
I had an Alvarez Rd26 for my first guitar. Only got rid of it so I could get an electric acoustic but it wasn’t that bad. I recommend beginner Alvarez to people that want to dabble and also want a full dreadnaught for less than $300.
12 string floating trem *vomits and faints anticipating setup*
Was really glad when you didn't musically knock the beginner Alvarez guitars, out of all starter guitars I think they are definitely some of the best sounding. But yeah that experience would turn me off them for good as well!
As a kid who loved AC/DC and Judas Priest-both bands that prominently played Gibson guitars, I was pretty primed to want one, but when I was old enough and far enough passed the beginner stage by the late 80s/early 90s whenever I tried in in a store they all felt like half-assed baseball bats with huge necks, no balance and fought every note you played, I never even came close to liking one that I tried.
Maybe it was just that era. I mostly play my Jackson Soloist with a Floyd these days, but yes my soul wept at the fate of that black beauty. Ya got one fresh from the factory? Go nuts, but to carve up such a classic 😢
His reverse flying V reminds me of the Grumman X-29 jet. It had forward swept wings, the opposite of what you normally see on a jet.
My 1st "good" acoustic was an early 90's Alvarez Regent... (had to pawn it along with my '90 Telecaster to pay rent when I was 22)....years later... (this past January)...I had the supreme satisfaction of walking into a guitar store and buying a brand-new guitar with a nice hard-shell case right off the showroom floor... (all of my 15 guitars are used or built)....I bought a brand-new Alvarez CE cut-away...mostly for my Dad & I to share because the old man keeps saying he's gonna buy a brand-new Taylor.....but he's tighter than a '"frog's-ass" and I keep calling his bluff....so I bought it to keep him busy....I wouldn't be a guitarist if it wasn't for him.....
the word for the bevel on the back of the neck is volute
I'm surprised he was unfamiliar with this. It indicated a limited guitar experience. These are pretty common on Gibson style angled peg heads.
@@eilliwwasniahc uhhhhh?? Maybe limited experience with vintage Gibson's. Ive never seen a modern gibson with a volute either, and ibe played for 15 years
@@strawsparky33 I'm an old geezer. Played for 40 years. Have had 3 gutars with this type of neck. So yeah, I think it is inexperience. I have already called the police, you kids get off my lawn!
i mean ive owned guitars with a volute. i had an epiphone les paul at one point with one. my 2013 gibson les paul doesnt have one, but i wouldnt mind either way. id sell my soul to own a vintage guitar from a big brand like gibson or fender, g&l, ibanez, Gretsch and ect. Theyre definitley worth their weight in gold @@eilliwwasniahc
volutes are so nice! gives a little extra strength on the neck. it saved my 1980 Lotus Falcon
"My heart started beating."
Phew. At least he didn't need to go to a hospital.
You make great sense. Nicely done. I know this clip is about what's bad, but Mitchell acoustics are great for beginners for a steel-string acoustic. Also, the 6-sting banjo really is a crutch but it has a real place in the world. It's _free_ of the effort cost, and there are a _ton_ of things more important than learning the freakin' banjo (I own lots of guitars and one banjo, a 5-string that I never play but might if it was a 6-string, but that's just my 2 cents.)
The best part was you ripping on Modern country music.
Not all of it, once in a blue moon there is an amazing song. But there is also a lot of garbage there imo
Modern country pop...also known by producers in Nashville as "it worked for the Eagles and Lynyrd Skynyrd back in the 70s, so let's beat that formula TO DEATH a million times over in the most generic way possible"!
Celtic Fury hip hop beats and rap have no place in country.
Country people are ripping on modern country right now.
>Country
>Music
Pick one
4:19 that guitar was born DJENT!
I owned an Alvarez beginner model once. After I got the neck action fixed and it repaired of an unintentional hole on the side, it played beautifully. Tone was full bodied with a slight bite to it. It though went to someone else...unfortunately.
The quality control problems with Gibsons in the 80s are rightfully the stuff of legend. I bought an SG Standard in '87, which was a dream to play, sounded great, and sported a beautiful tobacco burst finish. The guitar store owner showed me a Les Paul Standard that had arrived from the factory at the same time as my beloved SG. Its headstock was twisted 20 degrees off the plane of the fretboard. Another had arrived with a loose nut. Unreal.
I hate G string (3rd string)
@thatoneguy42 Assuming they meant from the high E string to the low E it would make the G the third
My 78 Ibanez LP, I can make the G go out of tune just by walking into the room.
Nice to see someone agrees with my opinion. It's neither fish nor fowl. Sometimes wound, sometimes not. It's in a musical no man's land
I thought I was the only one!
@@lisabartley4975 I am lost now we are arguing over the string numbers standard tuning EBGDAE you count from the bottom up and Lisa is right. Lisa I love it when people are brave enough to use their names instead of making up a name that a third grader would use. There is a reason I use my name because I will never write a comment that I would not say to your face. It is cowards that hide behind these names and make troll remarks. Not all of them but enough of them.
I cannot stand Parker Fly guitars, I mean, I understand they're well built and are wonderful to play, but GODDAMN! are they ever ugly.
gregvalou Not as butt ugly as 80s BC RICH guitars pheeeuuuwww! 😆😆😆😆
I like their shape, it is soooo progressive!
I have a lov/hate relationship with parker flies, i have two
Not everybody's cup o' tea for sure....but I love my Parker P44...the ergonomics are great as Naki referred to, and mine plays beautifully...
One guitar I always wanted since it's light, sounds great and playable. But does look strange but could care less..it's meant to be played.
Once i saw a guitar with 17 strings, imagine trying to change the strings to that thing, it haunts me to this day.
Ayo nice pfp
The Black Beauty bit crushed me like a slow garbage compacter. I literally had my feet up on the seat and was huggin my legs by the end of it.
To be honest, I hate almost as many guitars as I love. No sense in defending terrible guitars.😎