No One Likes These Guitars...but they should
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- Опубліковано 17 чер 2024
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Steve? :0 you mean your birth certificate isn’t sammy rye guitarís
I was a young (poor) player in ‘79 but lusted after a real American strat. Blame Hendrix, Clapton, Gilmour for that. So I walked into neighborhood store and tell him that. He said he has one in the back ready to go back to Fender because no one wants it! To me it was beautiful!!! Still have it, and some respected players have told me that it’s the best strat they ever played!!!! Was stolen, found it in a pawn shop, called the cops, court gave it back to me. Boy what a ride that Antigua has had. Some people still ask me about it to this day and are pleasantly surprised I still have it! ❤my Antigua
You gotta post a video of you playing it and telling its whole story. It’d make an awesome vid!
I think the Antigua finish is legitimately nice. It has always reminded me of an old photograph from the late 1800s in someone's family album.
i love a well done aging job on a guitar, it can add so much character if done right, the faded sun bleached look really gives it the "surf city" vibe to me
looks like someone pissed on olimplic white
@@wiktorz8524you might want to visit your urologist.
@@wiktorz8524 we dont need to know what your profile picture is, so stop telling us
Before this video I had no idea what the hell Antigua was!!!!
At 4:04 -- "Yeah, it was fun, Steve." Steve? Steve? I didn't see that coming.
I think his name is Steve Onachek.
I was looking for this lol
Looks like the styrofoam ceiling tiles in my parents' old house. Dad smoked in there for twenty years, then I did for ten.
you have any for sale? I wouldn't mind chewing on them when my gf comes over. I don't understand Disney.
I think you got really lucky with that one! An Antigua '79 Hardtail was my first Fender and it was nearly 10lbs. Great color!
Maybe order an Antigua Spotlight Special? 🤣
I think the color is classy looking. goes well with the neck. Very clean. The 3 bolt is 2 screws with 1 bolt with a slug just as strong.
I do love how they committed to making the guitars despite the aesthetic issue
Excellent insight and demo. Great gear setup choice. Thank you for everything you do Steve!
Yeah, thanks Stevie G!
Those guitars deserve more love,this finish looks lovely on jazz basses too
I'd swear that actual guitar is my first strat! I bought the only antigua strat they had from Long & McQuade in Windsor Ontario in 1981. When new, they were a grey burst and beautiful! Only later did they start to yellow and turn green looking. Loved that guitar, take care of it!
The picture shown at 2:12 looks way better. I think the problem with the Antigua finish is the greenish burst. Going for more of a brown burst around the edges is actually quite appealing.
I thought the green hue was from the paint aging and that they were originally more brown. I really like the ones that have the greener hue. The greener the better.
@@tiki_trashCould be. The darker brown edges looks like toast though and we like toast. 😂
I really love this finish. Personally I would put a black pickguard on it but the colour is so cool
I’d go cream myself but I think the pick guard is the weak point
@@TheMytherianHonestly my main issue with it is that it's a strat
The finish is beautiful, but strats give me cramps to play. Too short in the body. Firebird and explorer style bodies are about the only sort of guitar shape I can comfortably play
@@perryborn2777you can probably get a good approximation at a custom shop. I’m wondering if Kiesel can do one.
Black pickguard would look cool and switch to pickup covers that match the body.
@@TheMytherian damn I did not interpret this correctly
This is easily one of my favorite Fender finishes ever. Cheers!
I personally love the antigua burst finish! I am lucky enough to own a Squier Vintage Modified baritone jazzmaster in the antigua burst finish and it is beautiful. I've since replaced the antigua pickguard with a tortoise shell one that my dad and I cut out but I still have the original.
Ernie Ball has a Cutlass in a finish they call Brulee. Looks like a toasted marshmallow. Love that finish. Antigua Burst looks like there was a problem with the marshmallow, and it wasn't noticed until the toasting started.
it is great how you have so much fun. All the best.
I bought one of these in the very early 80's, stripped the paint off and that's it. I loved it and gigged the heck out of it. It's still stock ( except for a refret and new nut ) and I still play it all of the time.
I think it looks beautiful, it looks classic.
Love that it’s a hard tail too.
But at the end of the day, looks are always only secondary, it’s how it plays, how it feels, and how you feel playing it.
Antigua finish hard tail strat has been my dream guitar since 1980, but I've never had the funds/had one available. I'm utterly in love with that colour.
I've always liked and wanted a strat with an antiqua finish. Now I'm worried there's something wrong with me
I LOVE the Antigua on all of Fender's stuff. Also you should check out some of the obscure guitar brands, shapes, and designs from the former Soviet Union back in the 70s. They have some interesting stuff.
He just has to make sure to get the DIN to 1/4" cable for them. :p
@@Aeduo I'm sure with all the wild stuff I've seen this man procure he could fish one of those up. Lol
@@MikeyLikey95 oh for sure. It would just be unfortunate to get in some new gear you can't play because you forgot the goofy cable it needs. :p
@@Aeduo Yeah I've been there before oof
@@MikeyLikey95 yeah heh. But yeah I would be very interested to see him check out some of that stuff. I'm interested a lot in technology from over there. I have a portable computer from the 80s from the Soviet union. I've tried getting a guitar but it was poorly stored so everything got out of whack. :( It was kinda cheap though.
I played a 76 (i think) with the three bolt neck plate, CBS era, heavily hated on… best guitar I’ve ever played in my life.
I’m kind of amazed if they’re not better liked, that’s a really cool sepia/washed out black and white photograph look to me. It has a real antique vibe.
BY FAR my favorite finish on guitar. Would do heinous things for an Antigua jazz bass.
That color is beautiful, it looks like sand, and the ocean waves stop at the edges leaving wet sand. It's such a relaxing tone.
i noticed that some of them are straight up green, idk about that.
That's a classy guitar. I can't believe I've never seen one of these. It reminds me of old parchment.
When I was taking gyutae lesson at a shop that carried Fender in 1968 I fell in love with an antigua Coronado.
I like the contrast of the black plastics of the PU covers and knobs againsts the lighter body colour and how that is framed by the burst and the way it is echoed in the pickguard edge. However, I don't think there is enough contrast between body colour and that used for the burst, make it pop more like the pickguard edge does.
I've of my friends had one in the early 80's. Everyone laughed at his guitar to the point he was going to sand it down and repaint it. I begged him not to do it. Long story short, he didn't and I loved playing that guitar and, I borrowed it to use half the night on the very first paid gig I played back then. Great Memories
Whaaat? Today I was just reading about Antigua finishes on Fenders. Great stuff!
Very cool finish indeed! I would swap out the black pickups though.
I first saw an Antigua Strat in the early 80’s. It was being played by Stuart Adamson during a televised Big Country gig at Sefton Park, Liverpool, England and immediately fell in love with the finish. I’ve been trying to acquire one just like his for a while now. His had a rosewood neck, most Antigua Strats have a maple neck and it was a hard tail which makes finding the right one even more challenging.
I have one of the Fender FSR Antigua Strats from 2012 which is pretty good reproduction of the finish compared to the Japanese reissue which doesn’t look quite right. The 2012 FSR only came with a maple neck and trem so the search goes on.
I was surprised by how light the guitar in the video was, most late 70’s Strats are pretty heavy one that light is a good find.
Love the color of that strat
Love the channel 👏
id absolutely rock an antigua finish jazz bass they look really cool
Happy to deliver my take to the masses. Thanks, Sammy G
I love it. It looks like it's aged and mellowed out a bit. It reminds me of parchment paper or an old book
They put the Antigua finish on basses as well. There's a bassist in Atlanta called Jan Dykes who had one and used to use "UglyBass" as her IRC handle. She was in local bands including the Ellen James Society and Viva La Diva and played bass on two tracks off the Indigo Girls' 1994 album, Swamp Ophelia. I saw a Jazz in that finish in the window of Macaris, the old guitar shop on Charing Cross Road in London (now moved out of town thanks to rising rents and falling footfall), and went and asked in the shop if it had come over from the US since the 90s (i.e. was it Jan's?), but they weren't aware it had.
Love Antigua finish, also your name is Steve? The dude you interviewed said thanks Steve at the end!
I got my 79 strat on my 21st birthday it had been sitting in the shop for two years until I came along It was antique white sort of off white with black knobs and scratch plate. After six months of playing on stage pink spots started appearing on the back of the guitar and on the front where my arm rested. I don't know weather it was the undercoat coming through or weather the guitar was mistakenly painted red and quickly painted over with the white. The guitar shop took the body back and repainted it bright white at my request and I got a white mother of pearl scratch plate so the black knobs could be seen instead of a big black blob in the middle of the guitar. it has been a great work horse over the years but compared to my custom shop 56 reissue is quite a lot heavier. The older I get I tend to use the 56 reissue because it is lighter and my amp is getting smaller as technology in small amps progresses. Except for the colour issues at the start it has been a great guitar and it has taken me all over Australia and New Zealand playing music.
I love it!
My only issue with the Antigua burst guitars is the burst is also applied to the pickguard. If it were just a brown to off white fade with a parchment or cream pickguard, it'd be fine
It looks awesome.
i think the finish is just great and gave me the feel of country guitar
I think the finish looks great. Looks classy and clean...classic.
That’s actually one of my favorites beautiful cream color obviously but such a versatile guitar ❤❤
I've always liked the Antigua finish from photos, never seen one in person though.
Love this and I always thought Antigua was a fun finish even though a lot of people call it pea-soup sunburst. My favorite, though is the Antigua Coronados (I own one and I love it so much) - I think it looks really cool around the bound F-holes and pickguard on that body shape. It’s a little less compelling for me on the solid body Fenders, but I like them more and more as time goes by. My favorites are the ones that are darker grey around the edges with not too much green in the mix, like a black and white photograph come to life.
That kind of finish always reminds me of a hot wheels car I had as a kid that would change colors depending on if it got hot or cold water on it
Steve?! lol nice video. Enjoying the change up in camera angles. Great video.
I'm very neutral on that finish.
I like the Antigua finish simply because it's not the typical sunburst or solid color you see 99% of the time. I like those too but I'm more attracted to odd and unusual finishes, which is why my strats are a splattercaster and a red plasma burst.
In 1979 if you were a gigging musician and you wanted a strat you bought a used one, preferably pre-CBS. Fender's QC was notoriously bad in the late 70's. I was a roadie back then and remember at one gig we had a couple hours to kill after sound check so we walked over to a Guitar Center that was a block away. As we perused the new strats the guitarist noticed that the high E string on one of them left the fretboard above the 12th fret. Obviously neither Fender nor Guitar Center gave a rat's ass about quality control at that time. I'm glad you found a good one but '79 strats have a bad rep for a good reason.
I bought the reissue when it was released years ago. I love it.
Love that thing
I love my Antigua Burst Jazzmaster Baritone. The cooler definitely grows on you.
Love it, i'm a sucker for the big headstock anyways😁🎸🤘🎸
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It's so nice to see something different,you know, in an understated way,it lets the guitarist shine instead of the guitar!👍👍👍
That is a great Strat, congrats! I like Antigua!
First time I've seen that finish and I really like it. Black pickups and knobs maybe are slightly odd, but not a big problem
I’ve always loved them it looks like those photos you get at theme parks. Like you can pick old west or 1920s gangster.
Always liked those finishes
Ohh I love them. Especially the hardtail. But I really want the Jazz Bass version.
When they were reissued about 20 years ago they made me think about things I’d seen that were heavily nicotine stained, but in a pleasing way
Cigarette burst instead of tobacco burst
If the fret board was made of ebony or rosewood, it would've looked good
Cool color, cool guitar. I would get one.
That's gorgeous guitar and I want one
Yo! I am also in Winnipeg and managed to find myself a brand new made in the USA Yngwie Malmsteen Strat. They are hard to find here! It also has the bullet and oversized head stock! This guitar reminded me of it a bit, minus the scalloped frets. Loving the look of these 70s Strats as of recently!
I love the look of the Antigua burst
It's so sweet when he calls you Steve and I have to think to realise who that is 😊
I'll have to admit, I didn't pay very close attention to this video while it was playing since I don't really have an opinion on the Antigua, but boy am I glad I stayed till the end 🥰
I always thought it was an avocado finish!
10 years ago I tried a Strymon OB1 compressor and the shop gave me one of these and a Vox AC15 to try it with. I ended up buying the guitar and an AC15!
I don't like the very greenish "old eggs" looking colour some antiguas have ended up with, especially the telecasters, but this one has a nice smoky ivory come tea-stained parchment looking colour. I honestly prefer that to for example a pure white or dark gray.
Awesome video, Steve! 🤣
I wasn't aware of the Antigua finish before this, but I've had a (natural with black plastics) hardtail from that era since I graduated high school in the early '90s that is my #1 guitar. It's quite a bit heavier than yours at 9+ pounds, but it honestly sounds and plays better than any other more recent Strat I've played and at least holds its own when side-by-side with a pre-CBS Strat (and I have the recordings to prove it). I thought mine was a '79 for decades based on the serial number before looking under the pickguard, where I found an '81 sticker. Yours has a different vibe, but still sounds great!
I love this finish!!!!!!!
Antiguas are absolutely rad and 70's Fenders are, to me, the nicest looking vintage Fenders. Love the big head stock, love the triangular back plate.
Love it
Antigua Strats didn’t look like that when new. They were more of a white to greyburst. The yellowing makes it look “creamish”.
I love it, last time I played a 79 strat (also a hardtail) it weighed as much as a bass
I was amazed How Al could work at two desks at the same time...
I've always wanted one of those.
Beautiful Guitar IMO.
purple guitars sound the best, obviously, but i wouldn't turn one down.
How can anyone hate that guitar? Its a strat and looks awesome
Check the dates under the pick guard! I have what I thought was a 1979 transparent cherry strat that after checking the dates found out it was a 1980. They used the S9 for years, even into 81 or even 82 just because they had all of them already printed.
@@-samuraiguitarist_ONTELE-GRAM reported scam.
I don't have strong feelings about the color either way. I dig the guitar overall. I'm a big fan of hardtails anyway. I love the tones also. Seems to have very good resonance.
If someone wants to give me theirs, I’d happily rock it! I’ve always loved the Antigua!
I have the Antigua Squier Jazzmaster Baritone. At first I was wanting the black one, but the odd color scheme has really grown on me.
I also constantly forget your name is Steve and not Sam.
That sounds like an _awesome_ guitar!
I like the finish, reminds me a bit of silver burst
I bought one in 1979 loved the colour but didn't get on with the bottom E string so did a straight swap for a Gibson Les Paul Custom. Still like the colour of the Antigua fender but I love the Gibson better. I' love to have both guitars tbh
anyone alive in the 70s, early 80s would have seen someone playing 1 of those! I did I must admit I totally forgot it, but years later I saw a vid and the guitarist was playing 1 and I was thinking WOW, That's the guitar I saw! I LOVE THEM, THE BIG 70's headstock that finish it's different and yeah you either love or hate them! Red strat, no, white with black knobs, pickup covers on a white scratchplate, yeah! Seafoam green, no! an Sunburst, yeah 2 tone or 3! All black yeah, I love that the white in the scratchplate breaks up the black, and I think that's why the Antigua works for me, it's a burst, but the scratchplate emphasises the body shape with the shading!
Your right about the pickups, they are a bit bright. Nice quack to them but a bit too much for me in a strat.
the used cigarette filter comparison was spot on, that's the reason I like this look, pretty rock&roll if you ask me
Love Antigua burst
Nice choice on a Twin with a 15... Great sound with rich tone. On the Antigua - I think it's weird, but not ugly.
I've always liked them.
Especially a Jazz Bass.
1:27 "deFENDER" i see what you did there
LOOOOOVE that finish, it's like the only strat I'd like to have and i'm a Les Paul guy
I'm another who finds the green/yellow Antiguas off putting, but LOVES the bone white/grayburst Antiguas. 🎸