Your control over all parts of the instrument simultaneously is reminiscent of Jeff Beck. The way you use the switch and pots to supplement your own dynamics is amazing.
Thank you for chatting with a couple of old duffers outside the car park in Bournemouth before the Bonamassa gig. My wife was clueless but not now.I might be able to talk her into why I need a Revstar.
I have a strat now but I'm going to get the 🇺🇸 professional 2 telecaster Miami Blue... it's a beautiful 🎸. I was never into telecaster until recently... I can't wait to get it 🎸👍‼️
Chris Buck is my favorite guitar player of the 21st century! Jerry Garcia, Stephen Stills, Robbie Robertson, George Harrison, and Chris Buck are my top five favorite guitarists of all time! Rock on Chris! 🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎻
It speaks highly of Chris that the first 10 comments all reference his excellent, tasteful playing with barely a mention of the gear. Nice. Yes, I would like one.
Intro solo absolutely on fire. But come on, all that toggle flicking and volume/ tone control adjusting mid solo is outrageous. 😃 Some guitarists treat their instrument with too much respect. You seem to say " I'm in charge here and youll do what I say" Love it. 😊👍
Yeah, I'm not a fan of constantly changing pick-ups or messing with the pots, but I don't usually notice that with CB. I don't know if you watch Dave Simpson, but he's always changing pick-ups to the point of crazy.
@@castleanthrax1833 i wasn't criticising CB for all that switching. I'm just amazed how anyone can fit it all in between crazy solos. I'll check out your recommendation, thanks. 👍
Unbelievable. My heart is racing after watching that musical clip by you. It's a little after nine in the morning here in California. Your natural talent is just amazing. Its as if it's being channeled by you from another place that us mortals can only dream of being a part of. You're truly a very gifted young man.
This is perhaps one of my favourite episodes. I love the beginning playing, utilizing all 3 pick up settings, brilliant. Chris, a perfect choice for presenting these fabulous pick ups. I own a '76 Deluxe, I have owned a '74 Custom as well as a '74 Thinline II. All 3 sound incredible with these pick ups. I had sellers remorse the second money changed hands when I sold my Custom and Thinline II. Extremely expensive now to find any of them from that era. I reckon they are so expensive because as Chris mentioned, the cost of original wide range humbuckers is crazy. If you've got'em , keep'em. Great video Chris…
The Widerange humbucker in my humble opinion suits Chris's playing style so well. His Pick attack and dynamics are heightened with the distinctive sound a WRHB brings. I loved his sound on a strat, liked the Les Paul and the P90s in the revestar. I feel these encompass all the redeeming qualities of all three. Wouldn't be mad if you made a guitar with WRHB as your main guitar.
I love Chris’ videos. I always learn something valuable and interesting, even when I’m familiar with a particular topic. Chris seems to dig up some interesting nuggets that are new to me. His delivery is always spot on too! Thanks, as always, Chris - for the music and the education!
What a great noise ! I played a 77 one last year and it was gutsy as hell . I remember when they were first released they didn’t go down too well . One of my all time favourites Mick Green of The Pirates played a Tele Custom with the humbucker at the neck and a normal Tele bridge pickup . Cmon Chris we are all saving up for a Revstar and you do this 🤣
Your playing always reminds me of the beauty of the instrument that brought us all together. It’s kinda comforting knowing that no matter what happens in life I’ll have my guitar to play with and find inspiration somewhere. Love that last jam at the end!
You seem to be using more distortion than usual... Although the outro is remarkably serene by comparison... I always thought you'd be one hell of a metal player 🙂🙂 As ever your style is absolutely amazing and your videos very informative...
Cheers Chris! I use to own the very first Travis Bean Artist with a serial number, serial #11. The first couple of runs of Travis Bean used the Fender Wide Range humbuckings with a different cover. (Serial number 1 thru 10 were prototypes)
Thank you Chris...very insightful research. The tone is amazing. Another notable feature is by using the 4 knob HH setup will be super versatile. Im guessing you had that plugged in to a Fender Twin...😊
It's back alright... ahh thank god for the return of Friday fretworks 😅. I know Chris has been on tour (I got to see them live 🙌) but it's by far my guitar highlight of the week.
I bought a '75 deluxe in '76 and then proceeded to play it for 15,000 hours onstage. It is a marvelous, versatile guitar and it's still my favorite after all these decades and many other great guitars I have been able to accumulate from Fender, Gibson, Epiphone, Dean, and Yamaha. Thanks for the video, Tele Deluxe guitars deserve the love!
Thanks for another great video Chris. I'm impressed by the research you do for these videos and the level of detail you manage to include. I was looking to spot a hint of you reading from a teleprompter or a text source in front of your camera, but I didn't manage to catch any sign of that 😄 Really great stuff, and thanks for your creative choices of topic. Topping it off with another stunning performance is just, well, Wow! Cheers, Thor
Super cool detailed dive on this pickup, Chris - never knew any of this. I thought to originality of it ended with the staggered pole pieces with the treble and bass sides being split like a P-Bass pickup. You can see Leo continued this idea in his G&L pickup designs with their staggered single coils. The CuNiFe material is really cool though - would love to hear a tone demo comparing the modern reworking of them over the past 40 years compared to the original article.
jason lollar also had/has some as well lol i just bought a 50s wind p90 and a low wind imperial for my yamma pacificia build and can't wait to hear them
I've been waiting for this video since i saw the filtertron FFW! Those pickups are amazing, really interresting in studio, they allow the guitarnto sound just right, even in a hard rock /metal context!
Artist Guitars out of Australia markets affordable clones of several classic guitars. Tele, strat, 335, LP, etc. They're astonishingly high quality instruments. They also make all tube amps including 20w/1×12. One's called The Creme. The other's called The Tweed. They BOTH kill. Both have tank reverb as well. There's a shoot out posted here on YT. It's well worth checking out. I purchased a TC-59. It's essentially a Fender Custom w/a push/pull pot single coil option. Got the 20w Tweed amp. It's a killer combination. The amp is a clean/dirty 2 channel. There's a 2 switch pedal option for extra money. It has channel switch reverb kill foot switches. This combination was around 1200 NZD. As great as the originals are they're completely beyond the economic realities of working musicians.
A friend of mine has a Wide Range bass pickup that he dropped into a Squire Mustang bass, It's genuinely astonishing to play. I've been looking for one for myself for a while now.
I have a Telenator WRH, CuNiFe, pickup installed in the neck position of an American Standard Telecaster.. I had the luthier install a 4 way switch so when using both pickups. I could employ them in series as well as parallel. Great sound, great pickup. The Telenator pickup was true to the original Fender materials/design. Hopefully the new Fender WRHs are also.
If the Fender wide range humbucker was out of production for 50 years, an explanation is in order as to what was loaded into the first two Telecasters I purchased (in 2010 and 2011), both reissues of ‘72 models. The Custom Telecaster had a traditional bridge pickup and one of these wide range buckers on the neck position. The Thinline Tele had 2 wide range buckers. If the pickups weren’t really being manufactured back then, what had taken their place? Both times when I was trying to choose a Tele, I was tempted by a ’72 Deluxe such as the one you played here, Chris. It really didn’t come as much of a surprise when I saw somebody holding one in the Lou Geo area of a rehearsal facility I frequented shortly after arriving in the city of New York.
I dig Chris’s pick attack and how he combines finger playing and plectrum in brilliant fashion. Total command.
A well constructed storyline of the Mr,X of pick ups 🎉
@@MartimDurao machines can not do this ... and probably never will😉
More & more people are loving reverse headstocks !! Way easier especially when playing plus longer high E string
The seamless transition between pick and fingers…Complete SICKNESS!!!
🎸😁🎸
Your control over all parts of the instrument simultaneously is reminiscent of Jeff Beck. The way you use the switch and pots to supplement your own dynamics is amazing.
That opening jam was filthy, tasty and absolutely monstrous.
I'll state the obvious. The tone today is fantastic.
Thank you for chatting with a couple of old duffers outside the car park in Bournemouth before the Bonamassa gig. My wife was clueless but not now.I might be able to talk her into why I need a Revstar.
I thoroughly enjoy watching him play it's a beautiful controlled chaos his style never ceases to amaze me
Right to heck with the rest of the stuff the playing is pure gold
I will never get over how great of a player you are Chris.
Beautiful Playing.
I have a strat now but I'm going to get the 🇺🇸 professional 2 telecaster Miami Blue... it's a beautiful 🎸. I was never into telecaster until recently... I can't wait to get it 🎸👍‼️
Wow that's an absolutely brutal solo in the beginning!
Chris Buck is my favorite guitar player of the 21st century!
Jerry Garcia, Stephen Stills, Robbie Robertson, George Harrison, and Chris Buck are my top five favorite guitarists of all time! Rock on Chris!
🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎻
fascinating tale...always wondered what the story was...thanx man
That Desperado cover is amazing. Really beautiful and takes advantage of a sweet sounding guitar. I think the fingers help, too. ;-)
What a fantastic video have a good weekend
That intro jam 🤯
I was waiting for that opening riff to melt the gloss off that neck like a cheap candle. Well done. Thank you for sharing. Have a blessed day.
Not gonna lie. Just watchin' these kind of videos for JAMs ;)
That's the drawcard for all of Chris Buck's videos.
Great stuff Chris.
That intro! Chris is a god by now. 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Uhhhhhhh that Intro 😮
Chris......Always a pleasure. I really appreciate your work
That last bit was touching; very nice
What a sound dude. The way you switch through pickup combos is insane. Both pickups together in the intro was especially jaw dropping tone.
It speaks highly of Chris that the first 10 comments all reference his excellent, tasteful playing with barely a mention of the gear.
Nice.
Yes, I would like one.
Intro solo absolutely on fire. But come on, all that toggle flicking and volume/ tone control adjusting mid solo is outrageous. 😃 Some guitarists treat their instrument with too much respect. You seem to say " I'm in charge here and youll do what I say" Love it. 😊👍
Yeah, I'm not a fan of constantly changing pick-ups or messing with the pots, but I don't usually notice that with CB. I don't know if you watch Dave Simpson, but he's always changing pick-ups to the point of crazy.
@@castleanthrax1833 i wasn't criticising CB for all that switching. I'm just amazed how anyone can fit it all in between crazy solos. I'll check out your recommendation, thanks. 👍
Humbucker - in the hands of a master
Unbelievable. My heart is racing after watching that musical clip by you. It's a little after nine in the morning here in California. Your natural talent is just amazing. Its as if it's being channeled by you from another place that us mortals can only dream of being a part of. You're truly a very gifted young man.
roger that!
This is perhaps one of my favourite episodes. I love the beginning playing, utilizing all 3 pick up settings, brilliant. Chris, a perfect choice for presenting these fabulous pick ups. I own a '76 Deluxe, I have owned a '74 Custom as well as a '74 Thinline II. All 3 sound incredible with these pick ups. I had sellers remorse the second money changed hands when I sold my Custom and Thinline II. Extremely expensive now to find any of them from that era. I reckon they are so expensive because as Chris mentioned, the cost of original wide range humbuckers is crazy. If you've got'em , keep'em. Great video Chris…
The Widerange humbucker in my humble opinion suits Chris's playing style so well. His Pick attack and dynamics are heightened with the distinctive sound a WRHB brings. I loved his sound on a strat, liked the Les Paul and the P90s in the revestar. I feel these encompass all the redeeming qualities of all three. Wouldn't be mad if you made a guitar with WRHB as your main guitar.
I love Chris’ videos. I always learn something valuable and interesting, even when I’m familiar with a particular topic. Chris seems to dig up some interesting nuggets that are new to me. His delivery is always spot on too! Thanks, as always, Chris - for the music and the education!
Man...I can carless what Fender released.....with your playing and guitar sounds amazing....TRUTH
As per usual, interesting, entertaining and informative, Thanks, cHRIS
Thanks Chris, that was very interesting actually! Love that Telecaster Deluxe you were playing! Now I need one of those! lol
What a great noise ! I played a 77 one last year and it was gutsy as hell . I remember when they were first released they didn’t go down too well . One of my all time favourites Mick Green of The Pirates played a Tele Custom with the humbucker at the neck and a normal Tele bridge pickup . Cmon Chris we are all saving up for a Revstar and you do this 🤣
And I definitely dig the playing there at the front end, sir. Very killer.
Great Eagles covers at the end. So well done. Makes me want to practice…then practice some more.
that intro JAM was gold
Quite honestly, these pickups sound great in any position. Excellent! And amazing playing, as always!
I think Chris just won Tom Bukovac's string bending competition!
Man, that intro on the T was epic! That center position is very cool.
Great use of Desperado
Yeah, that was nice. 🎉
That last piece in the Jazzmaster was sublime!
Fascinating history!
Brilliant analysis mate
that last song is lovely...thx
Hey Chris, the wide range humbucker reminds me of the 70's, you saw this everywhere, nice tones!
Your playing always reminds me of the beauty of the instrument that brought us all together. It’s kinda comforting knowing that no matter what happens in life I’ll have my guitar to play with and find inspiration somewhere.
Love that last jam at the end!
Magnificent playing. Great video with a unique story.
Excellent content and not surprisingly the solo at 6 minutes inspiring. Top channel today, thanks.
Wonderful presentation and history. Those Wide Range CuNiFe Pickups absolutely love your fingers and attack. What a great sound!
Excellent presentation! Excellent chops and technique, and you took me back to science class. Cheers to you Chris. 😊
You seem to be using more distortion than usual... Although the outro is remarkably serene by comparison...
I always thought you'd be one hell of a metal player 🙂🙂
As ever your style is absolutely amazing and your videos very informative...
Love this topic. I have a 78 Tele Custom, and the neck WRHB sounds incredible. Some day soon I need to pick up Deluxe and see how the bridge sounds.
I'm not normally a Tele fan, but that one has balls aplenty! Thanks for another informative posting!
I always learn about cool gear from this channel, and excellent playing as well, subscribed.
Thank you for mentioning Wes Borland! He is one of the most talented dudes I’ve ever met. All around amazing.
Awesome jamming and awesome guitar... I can definitely tell that you enjoyed playing it.
This was so informative & interesting! Fantastic content.
Cheers Chris! I use to own the very first Travis Bean Artist with a serial number, serial #11. The first couple of runs of Travis Bean used the Fender Wide Range humbuckings with a different cover. (Serial number 1 thru 10 were prototypes)
Great episode. Your playing is off the charts!❤
Thank you Chris...very insightful research. The tone is amazing. Another notable feature is by using the 4 knob HH setup will be super versatile. Im guessing you had that plugged in to a Fender Twin...😊
As usual a very interesting and insightful vid on guitars, dont know how CB keeps this up while at the same time being a fully fledged RnR star 🎸🌟
It's back alright... ahh thank god for the return of Friday fretworks 😅. I know Chris has been on tour (I got to see them live 🙌) but it's by far my guitar highlight of the week.
Been looking on what bucs to put in my schecter van nuys tele and now I think I found ém! Awesome playing as always Chris! 🤘🏻
Man you can play!!!!
Outro….wonderful Chris
Great history story...but so much good playing and tone... thank you for sharing
Wow , nice intro jam !!
I have a 15 year old MIM Fender Tele Thinline Deluxe (yeah, what a name...) with the wide-range humbuckers. Love those pickups, and that guitar!
I bought a '75 deluxe in '76 and then proceeded to play it for 15,000 hours onstage. It is a marvelous, versatile guitar and it's still my favorite after all these decades and many other great guitars I have been able to accumulate from Fender, Gibson, Epiphone, Dean, and Yamaha. Thanks for the video, Tele Deluxe guitars deserve the love!
learned more from this video than 12 years of school
9:46 till the end is just Heaven on earth
Face it, Chris could make a $5.00 Chinese pickup sound like the best pickup in the world.
Thanks for another great video Chris. I'm impressed by the research you do for these videos and the level of detail you manage to include. I was looking to spot a hint of you reading from a teleprompter or a text source in front of your camera, but I didn't manage to catch any sign of that 😄 Really great stuff, and thanks for your creative choices of topic. Topping it off with another stunning performance is just, well, Wow! Cheers, Thor
Super cool detailed dive on this pickup, Chris - never knew any of this. I thought to originality of it ended with the staggered pole pieces with the treble and bass sides being split like a P-Bass pickup. You can see Leo continued this idea in his G&L pickup designs with their staggered single coils. The CuNiFe material is really cool though - would love to hear a tone demo comparing the modern reworking of them over the past 40 years compared to the original article.
Chris is a monster gtr player
Fantastic video! Rise up is such a great track!!
I don’t think I need two wide range humbuckers in my tele but one in the neck would be very, very cool. Like a ‘72 Tele Custom. ❤
Neck is where CuNiFe really shines. Don't use the bridge pickup on mine very much TBH.
Great playing as always. Nice video: always good to revisit music history.
Wow - astonishingly beautiful tones and playing
jason lollar also had/has some as well lol i just bought a 50s wind p90 and a low wind imperial for my yamma pacificia build and can't wait to hear them
What a smoking player! Great video on this pickup.
That ending was So sweet …smooth 🤟🏻
You definitely got the touch bro. Sounds killer.
I played one in the early 80s- with a DiMarzio Super Distortion in the bridge. An extremely versatile guitar...
I throw a different guitar out the window every time I hear Chris play. There goes my Tele...
Cool episode. Nicely stated. Liked the play out 😊
Managed to get one of the Fender Japan Jazzmaster 60s HH limited edition models with these pickups last year, and they are indeed amazing pickups.
I've been waiting for this video since i saw the filtertron FFW! Those pickups are amazing, really interresting in studio, they allow the guitarnto sound just right, even in a hard rock /metal context!
Mi guitarra favorita es hermosa saludos desde Colombia 🇨🇴 parcero
I had a 73 thinking with 2 paf's and it was the best sounding guitar ever. I wish I had never lost it.
Shit a bollock, Chris. I've not heard you play like that before. Epic stuff.
W0W!
Chris, you're a brilliant guitarist. Hope you're doing well. Peace.
Artist Guitars out of Australia markets affordable clones of several classic guitars. Tele, strat, 335, LP, etc. They're astonishingly high quality instruments. They also make all tube amps including 20w/1×12. One's called The Creme. The other's called The Tweed. They BOTH kill. Both have tank reverb as well. There's a shoot out posted here on YT. It's well worth checking out.
I purchased a TC-59. It's essentially a Fender Custom w/a push/pull pot single coil option. Got the 20w Tweed amp. It's a killer combination. The amp is a clean/dirty 2 channel. There's a 2 switch pedal option for extra money. It has channel switch reverb kill foot switches.
This combination was around 1200 NZD. As great as the originals are they're completely beyond the economic realities of working musicians.
Surely the university of Wales must now be offering you an honorary professorship in musical history? Another triumph dear boy. Da iawn.
love the outro
A friend of mine has a Wide Range bass pickup that he dropped into a Squire Mustang bass, It's genuinely astonishing to play. I've been looking for one for myself for a while now.
I have a Telenator WRH, CuNiFe, pickup installed in the neck position of an American Standard Telecaster.. I had the luthier install a 4 way switch so when using both pickups. I could employ them in series as well as parallel. Great sound, great pickup. The Telenator pickup was true to the original Fender materials/design. Hopefully the new Fender WRHs are also.
If the Fender wide range humbucker was out of production for 50 years, an explanation is in order as to what was loaded into the first two Telecasters I purchased (in 2010 and 2011), both reissues of ‘72 models. The Custom Telecaster had a traditional bridge pickup and one of these wide range buckers on the neck position. The Thinline Tele had 2 wide range buckers. If the pickups weren’t really being manufactured back then, what had taken their place?
Both times when I was trying to choose a Tele, I was tempted by a ’72 Deluxe such as the one you played here, Chris. It really didn’t come as much of a surprise when I saw somebody holding one in the Lou Geo area of a rehearsal facility I frequented shortly after arriving in the city of New York.
Chris, you make playin look too easy. Great work
I have a squier 70s tele custom with a wr humbucker in the neck and I love it so damn much it sounds SO damn good