2 Drills, Chugging and Plethora of Whammy Slamming 1965 Fender Mustang 01477
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- Опубліковано 10 вер 2024
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Introduced in 1964 - Essentially a Duo Sonic with a Dynamic Fender Vibrato.
1965 Fender Mustang. Offset asymmetrical double cutaway solid body. This 12 1/4 inch wide guitar weighs 7.80 lbs. and has a wide nut width of just under 1 11/16 inches and a scale length of 24.00 inches. Solid alder 'slab' body, one-piece maple neck, Veneer rosewood fret-board with 22 original medium frets and pearloid dot position markers. Fender 'Transitional' headstock logo with "Fender" in gold with black trim followed by "Mustang" in black and and "Des. 186,826 Pat. 2,960,900 2,741,146 3,143,028 & Pat. Pending". Individual 'double-line' Kluson Deluxe tuners with oval white plastic buttons. Single 'butterfly' string guide with plastic spacer. Four-bolt Fender neck plate with serial number "L97452" stamped between the top two screws. Two black bakelite, slant mounted gray-bottom single-coil pickups with balanced outputs of 5.37k and 5.61k and with "9-7-65" written in black pencil on the undersides. Three-layer plastic (pearloid/black/white) pickguard with 12 screws. Two controls (one volume, one tone) plus two three-way pickup selector switches. Black plastic control knobs with seven sides and white line markers. Fender Mustang Bridge with six adjustable saddles. Fender 'Dynamic Vibrato' tailpiece. The neck is stamped "8 AUG 65B", the potentiometers are stamped "304 6520" (Stackpole, May 1965). The Dakota Red finish is fresh and bright with no hint of age darkening. There is some minor finish checking and just one small surface chip on the lower bass edge of the body. This guitar is in near mint (9.25) condition and is complete with the original Fender Mustang tremolo arm and bridge cover. Housed in its original Fender gray hardshell case with black imitation leather ends and orange plush lining (9.00).
I imagine him all alone in the studio.. talking to himself.
Plot twist.....he had no idea this was being recorded
There should be a law requiring everyone who picks up a guitar to have that much fun.
Not gonna lie ... I watch this video like every 3 months or so.. Phil X is a national treasure.
You know he's Canadian?
That is one of the coolest whammy system! Not as complicated as a floyd and not as simple as a basic trem. I approve and want one for a custom tele!!
And here I am, coming back to this classic in 2020
I had NO idea Mustangs could do half the stuff going on in this video. Holy smokes. Phil X. Always pushing the envelope. Dude's like, the Chuck Yeager of vintage guitar.
I can see why both Frusciante and Cobain liked this guitar.
Before John Frusciante and Kurt Cobain, Todd Rundgren played a Mustang for decades. He most famously used it to produce the motorcycle sound on the song Bat Out of Hell by Meatloaf.
This guy doesn't do cocaine, he is cocaine.
Morpheus X wow I never really noticed that. So do u really think he does coke, i'll say he is very jumpy and full of energy.
+joshua fisher Sure,and he has cold in every second video... yeeaa.. :D Non offence given,he kicks ass and that what its all about. :)
+Morpheus X He doesnt do cocaine... Cocaine does him
+Morpheus X LSD LOL
cocaine does phil x when it needs a little kick
Hilarious how he doesn't even know how the switching system works. He gets it wrong in every mustang/duo sonic video.
+fuck off, youtube thats cuz its dumb huehuehue
+magradygrind
Because it's friggen ridiculous...Why in the hell would they put the switches RIGHT where you pick?
That's like the worst place to put them...IIRC it's ON in phase, ON out of phase, and OFF...Oh well...Lame!
So what, it's not like he plays them on a regular basis.
+Ronnie Jasper but if you're a professional guitarist and your making these kinds of informative videos, shouldn't you uhhhh know what you're talking about???
magradygrind I don't think so. These are mainly demo vids for potential buyers. If Phil get it wrong it's not a big deal, the new owner can figure it out when they get it home. And the most of the people that can afford these guitars already how the switching works.
LMFAO "I can't say I have 10 of anything... except fingers... and that's, like, two thumbs".
This guy slays me.
Nice selection of classic chuggin'... I was about to type 'Just What I Needed' by The Cars when the X-man went and slipped it in. Phil is an encycolpedia of Rock!
Love his playing and exuberance, but he truly has NO CLUE about how Mustang switching works...
So what, it't not like he plays them on a regular basis. Also I don't think he owns any Mustangs.
jayrobb9 it's not a mustang it's a Duo Sonic, different switching.
What's a Duo-Sonic? Oh, and the switching of a Mustang and a Duo from 1965 are the same anyway.
YEAH, CAN WE MERGE THE TWO TO MAKE ONE?????????? I DIG IT, I DO!!!!!!!!!!!!
I AM BUYING A 1965 FENDER DUO SONIC....EDUCATE ME ON ALL YOU KNOW ABOUT THIS GUITAR IF YOU CAN.........I LOVE THE TONE, BUT I HAVE ONLY HEARD IT DISPLAYED ONE TIME WHEN A GUY DEMONSTRATED A DUO SONIC FROM EARLY 60'S AND IT HAD A HIGH CRISP PITCH SOUND THAT CAN'T BE REPRODUCED BY ANY OF THE OTHER FENDERS I HAVE HEARD..........JUST A FEW QUESTIONS.....THANK YOU...HARRISON YOUNG
It may have been mentioned in the comments before mine, but the slider switchs flip the lead wires of the pickups which you can use to get an out-of-phase sound when both pickups are on. When you're using just one pickup swapping the lead wires may alter the sound slightly since the electricity is moving the other direction and is beginning at a different depth of the magnetic field of the pickups, but the difference would be very small and probably not worth mentioning. Not enough that I would call it a different "voice". However, I do not doubt at all that Phil can hear the difference. I just didn't want people to think that there is some kind of sophisticated circuitry in there or anything. There isn't, Just some wire and switches (speaking, of course, only of the two slider switches.)
twoboots4you exactly, when you’re actually playing a Stang yourself you can sometimes hear a subtle difference. More bass one way on the neck switch on my 64 for example. But sounds very similar.
This is the best F.A video for ages - it's give me the inspiration to go upstairs and learn the licks Phil's playing right NOW!!!
Man, i'm so glad somebody else (and 38 other people) picked that out... I literally facepalmed when heard him say it. As cool as Phil is, he really needs to learn his stuff before picking up a guitar, another good example of this was when he used to demo the bass cut switch in Fender Jaguars/Bass VIs, he stated they were phase inverters.
Stupidest switching system ever! 9 different switch combos for 4 sounds!
As many others have said, those sounds are indeed the same. It's phase A / off / phase B for each pickup, and the phase makes no difference unless the other pickup is also selected, even then it only matters if they are the same or different.
This dude has energy for days, I loved this demo
Wooh, Mustangs are the best and super underrated. (: my favorite guitar in my collection, cause its the only one..
Phil X is a perfect antidote to a "prick of a day". I never fail to crack many a smile during his videos.
Well Phil, don't pay attention to him man, I gotta tell you, being a youngster and a musician you are pretty much what I want to be when I get rolling, a fun dude who rocks the hell out of anything and everything he plays!
I watch every one of these like they are TV shows!! This was a very good one here! Nice work!
He usually plays classics and this is probably the first time most of us have heard him play a song on one of these videos that was written after 2000.
I can't get enough of Phil X playing Drills. Beautiful Apartment is one of my favorite songs ever.
Completely correct. It puts the pickups in or out of phase with each other. The 3-Way switch is toggling North/OFF/South (so to speak).
I call bullshit on the 2 voices. The only reason they do that is so when they're both on, you can put them in opposite directions for an out of phase sound
You're absolutely correct.
Not exactly. There is a very, very slight difference. Hard to hear on youtube.
Randy Savage There isn't. The positions for each switch are on/off/on, that's all. You can have the following combos;
B x - - is Bridge pickup only, as is B - - x
N - x - N - x -
B - x - is Neck pickup only, as is B - x -
N x - - N - - x
Both pickups in (thicker sounding)series are;
B - - x which is the same as B x - -
N - - x N x - -
Both pickups in parallel (thin/nasally sounding) are;
B - - x which is the same as B x - -
N x - - N - - x
John Smith Nice breakdown of the pickups. Seriously though, I may be crazy, but I can tell a very faint difference between them (one having a tad more bass present). I've owned 4. Honestly, not enough to flip the switch one way or the other as I recall.
I've owned a couple too but there's genuinely no difference - it's impossible for there to be, there's no caps or anything in the circuit so you're not changing a single thing.
Never thought i'd see that day that Phil X played Green Day but i am happy that i did
Same here
I know, right?
This was one of the best videos in a long time.
Phil X might be the first guy out there to dive bomb and shred on a Mustang.
Glad it's nice and sunny there in California. It's -18 here where I am in Canada!
Man, you should have seen the smile on my face when you played Hate To Say I Told You So. It makes me proud to be a Swede. Hives FTW!
i loved that band when they came out.
MIDDLE FINGER. YOU GET NOTHING FROM MEEE!....that high note is legendary!
Beautiful, beautiful Mustang.
I'd take that over an ibanez with a floyd any day
y think this guy is never gonna die,that energy could last forever :D
i have the reissue of the 69, and i love it! its versatile, easy to play and sounds great
i love mustangs they look so cool better then a strat or tele im my eyes
Great playing btw - I love your review of the 65 mustang. I just bought a 66, though it's been refinished/refretted/plekked, more of a player than a collector.
Now in 2020 they are back, the off-set series... tnks for the review Phil!!!
The Cars - Just What I Needed
I love Phil's demos. always awesome!
That whammy bar stuff brought a huge smile to my face...
Dude I listen to The Drills every week
I am very confident a mustang has never been rocked so hard
Nice!! Played a 1965 Fender Mustang in the late 1960's and early 1970's, such a dynomite little guitar... great guitar for gigging and it's really light weight
I sold an identical one w/case in a yard sale for $60 back in 96'. Glad to see it go....
+Chuffing Ale www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-1966-FENDER-MUSTANG-ELECTRIC-GUITAR-WITH-ORIGINAL-HARD-CASE-/162039653787?hash=item25ba50e59b:g:sJcAAOSwcBhWUifW
That would only mean something if it was an original guitar in good condition and not a beat up or a reissue.
I sold one just like it, maybe a little worse for the wear. But still, by todays collector standards....I wish I would have known....
Phil is so good he doesn't even need a band!
Phil,
I love your responses to haters almost as much as i love your music and videos.
I was Really impressed with the mustang I had never gotten the chance to hear the versatility of one
Been waiting for being played this guitar by Phil.Nice!
This is actually a great demo. More effective than most at demonstrating what a particular guitar can do. This guy...Well he doesn't personally bother me at all, but I am surprised he's comfortable behaving this way as a grown man on camera for the public.
Yeah, can you imagine rock and rollers behaving like that! WTF is the world coming to! DUH!
He doesn't behave like that .. he acts like that here.. look at the videos of rob Chapman in LA with the captain and Phil going to lunch :)
"Behaving"... "Rock and Rollers"... Did you see what I did there? It's called sarcasm, pointing out irony...
Tricknologyinc I wasn't replying to you... it was for Izzy .. I'm British, I know all about sarcasm and irony thank you...
Thank YOU, sir.
That's how you do a review! Freakin awesome!
I have one from the same era, but it's light blue. It's the guitar I used when I first started playing.
I love that neck pickup, just like a strat. Strat's are my all time favorite in terms of rhythm.
you may have only ten fingers and two of those are thumbs, but damn, Phil, your fingers are awesome at what they do.
I hated you when I started watching this and loved you by the end....
Fell in love with the mustang...
i was excepting him to shout RAINING BLOOD after the whammy slamming part XD
yeah, you would think Fender, after all these years would have fixed the buzz of the single coil.....the brdg p/u is still useless with gain/overdrive after all these years...they leave it to you to fix.....and you're a wild man Phil X...HA....great talent and sense of humour
I think Phil proves you wrong at 6:15 or so. All you need is a pedal or an easily over-driven amp for the bridge pup to produce overdrive. I personally only use lower output single coil pickups and get great over drive all the time... That being said I also have a great pedal collection... ha... Although if you've only used the Japanese reissue pickups that might be the problem. They aren't quite as usable as vintage or hand wound examples. So if you've never tried an upgraded single coil in the bridge you may be missing out on something wonderful. I would encourage some experimentation. Have a good one.
that is such a beautifully smooth sounding whammy bar
whammy abuse is a seriously under looked problem in the world and phil is the top offender!
I'm just gonna say that this face @ 00:59 should be the next limited print! Always the best!
Haha, I was seriously waiting for him to play "Just what I Needed" by The Cars when he did the "chugging" segment.
i miss the frettedamericana store setting, with all the sexy guitars on the wall :(
Technical question, what's happening with the different switches going in different directions? Something with phasing? Any answers appreciated, thanks!
Phil you are indeed living the dream possibly all of our dreams! Keep up the good work cause I know that even although you make it look easy I know it ain't! Well done sir.
Was literally WAITING for you to slap out Green Day when I heard the riff prior to it, love it X-Man!!
Mashed the thumbs up button the instant I saw Phil. He's like the ultimate cross between Sammy Hagar and a golden retriever.
its a gorgeous looking guitar
Whammys are made to be slammed. So go on and slam that whammy. Chug a plethora of whammys for all I care. It did hold its tune amazingly well for an old, non-locking unit. Rock on.
I owned this one too..you Rock PLX...
Don't worry about the shit-talkers man. I enjoy every one of your videos and thousands of other people do too.
Phil cracks me up!
when phil said there were so many great chugging songs, i thought he was going to play that cars song right off the bat, but he didnt, so i was anticipating it so much that by the time he played it, i was almost screaming at my computer scream "PLAY THAT FUCKIN CARS SONG ALREADY!!!" XD always love the videos guys keep em coming :DD
I never seen anybody have THAT much fun ona whammy bar!
9:26 i did NOT expect the guitar to do a goddamn Tom scream
Which kinda points out that the human ear is terribly fallible. If you tell that something will sound different, while in fact it doesn't, even someone with very trained ears like Phil steps right into it:p
He probably won't deny that they do sound different! But he will argue that it is because variations in the pickups (wether it are different pickups, or micro variations in the number of windings), or because of a slightly different setup that they sound different, rather than it has to do with the tonewoods:)
Dude all I am saying is that Phil is awesome :-)
amazing guitar
yup, Phil really ballzd it up on that one
Mustang is my favorite guitar ever ROCK ON PHIL !!!!!!
12:02 name of the song please
You guys at Fretted Americana gotta get your hands on a Microfrets guitar. I'd love to see what Phil could do with it
I need a Mustang now... Dat whammy.
Such an underestimated guitar the Mustang!
Damn you Phil, now I HAVE to listen to The Outfield "Your love."
Good memories.
1:40
Phil, I hate to say this, but that DOES sound exactly the same. On a Mustang, the pickups don't have "two different voicings," they have a phase inverter. It only works when both pickups are on.
magradygrind you’re wrong. There really is a subtle difference. And the wiring is different. On my 64 that I just played just now had more bass when the neck pickup is switched towards the neck than when it’s towards the bridge. On most Mustangs though you can’t tell the difference. But on the old ones you can. It’s actually quite obvious. But on my Japanese one I hear no difference. Depends on the Stang. Phil is right. People in the comments are wrong.
Being a Green Day fan I have a biased opinion, but you can't deny that they were a major part of the pop-punk/punk rock revival. They're important to music, even if you don't like them
It's funny how even Dookie was criticized by fans who liked their earlier albums. Just kinda like how American Idiot was.
Man, I just love this video
Glad to hear a bit of hives.
Great video!
wow, always PhilX blows my mind!!!!
and that's how it must be, man! Rock on!
love the new background
5:55 made me die laughing and I don't know why.
I love these videos but Mustangs just don't click with me, not my thing. Nice playing as always and it sounds like a killer guitar.
OMG never thought I'd hear you cover The Outfield....
This dude knows his way around a guitar....whewwww
Killer whammy psycadelica!! Hilarious episode Phil, love your work!! Bring The Drills to Nelson, BC!