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Youtube Guitar Gear Reviewers: eddievegas1

Heres another reviewer I've recently discovered, mainly doing Vintage and Rare Fender Stratocasters. Check him out!

Eric Johnson talks about his new signature guitar

From the first time I heard Cliffs of Dover I was an Eric Johnson fan, the blistering fast licks, catching riff, and smooth tone. Part of Eric Johnson's tone is his guitar, and now he's got another signature Fender Stratocaster out with a rosewood neck. One unique thing about this guitar the binding on the neck which you don't normally see from strats these days, Eric saw this in Fender catalogues in 1965. The shape of the Eric Johnson signature Fender stratocaster is based on Eric personal 1962 strat which he found had the perfect neck for him. Another unique feature tweeked by Eric is the headstock and tuners, they are at an angel to optimise tension and tuning without the need for string trees.

Pink Floyd's Guy Pratt and his Fender Jazz Bass

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Guy Pratt bass player for Pink Floyd talks about his vintage Fender Jazz Bass given to him David Gilmour as a wedding present. The bass was originally David Gilmore's own personal vintage Fender Jazz Bass guitar and Guy Pratt drooled over it constantly while touring with David. Now it's his, nice present if you got the right friends.

The Fender Jazz bass is a classic, the first bass that Leo Fender designed to get the bass electrified, and amazingly like his other designs (Telecaster and Stratocaster) he got it spot on first time. The Fender Jazz bass still remains one of the most user friendly and best sounding bassist of all time.

Heres a couple of videos, first Guy Pratt telling his story of how he acquired his Fender Jazz bass, and the second is an interview with Fender Bassman Jay Piccirillo talking about Leo Fenders original ideas and comparisons with the Fender P bass.

Yngwie Malmsteen buys a Vintage Fender 1963 Stratocaster

Yngwie Malmsteen the shredding king, this video clip looks like it was back in the 90's in London's famous guitar street, Denmark Street London in Andy's guitars. The start of the clip has Yngwie talking about music and singers he's worked with etc, if you skip to around 2 minutes 40 seconds you'll see him buy a vintage guitar for £3500, which was alot in those days, he test out the vintage Fender Stratocaster 1963Fiesta Red, plays a few licks, and tries to haggle. The seller probably knows it's Yngwie Malsteen buying soo doesn't budge in his price. You'll see how Yngwie respects the guitar like a true guitar rock n' roll legend would do at the end of the clip when you see how he carefull places it in his car after he leaves.

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Richie Sambora Guitars and Amps

Todays video is of Richie Sambora from Bon Jovi talking about how he started in music, guitar, his gear in the studio and career. His first few good guitars included Gibson SG, a Les Paul, a Gibson Explorer, primarily a Gibson man. Richie Sambora switched to Fender after his guitars got stolen, he took it as a sign to try something new and ended up with a Fender Stratocaster, Richie Sambora was one of the first few guitarist to have a signature Fender Stratocaster, which features a Floyd Rose trem, humbucker at the bridge, and Star shaped inlays on the neck. He also talks about his amps he uses int he studio, he has a huge collection of vintage amps, from Marshalls, Tweed Fenders, Vox AC30's ect. Richie also talks about an amp switcher which allows him to plug 8 amps in at the same time, allowing him to mix different amp tones together a creating a new sound.

John5: The Greatest Telecaster Collection

John5 done a interview with Guitarworld showing his gear and his Telecaster collection, I started watching it thinking its gonna be a normal colection of guitars, but I was wrong. John5 must have the greatest Fender Telecaster Collection in the world!!! This guy collects the best of them, spending millions of dollars. John5's got the most vintage Fender Telecasters in guitar history and he only buys them if they are in good condition, it has to be nearly mint or he won't buy it. He's got the the Telecaster before it was called a Telecaster, the Broadcaster.

Respect to John5 for his collection and for sharing with us. John5 the Fender Telecaster addict.

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John5 Gear Fender Telecaster

Eric Johnson Gear - Interview on his new signature

Eric Johnson Gear: Eric Johnson Signature Stratocaster RW

I was a fan of Eric Johnson since I first saw Cliff Of Dover tabbed out in a guitar magazine, then I bought a video of Eric with G3, this guy can really play, he knows his stuff with his funky jazz chords and unique soloing style.

Not all guitarists are gear and tone freaks, some just stick with their favourite guitar and thats what gives them their sound. But some are "tone chasers" as EVH would say, and Eric Johnson is one of them. He's constantly testing out gear and tweaking his sound. The newest addition to Eric Johnson's gear setup is the Eric Johnson Signature Stratocaster with Fender. Eric Johnson has another signature strat with a maple neck, but this ones with a Rosewood and some other tweaks to improve the guitar.

This guitar has a rosewood neck with binding for asthetics with fender doesn't do that often anymore, the idea came from the period when when Fender made Rosewood necks with binding in 1965-1966.

The pickups on this gutar are also tweaked to Eric Johnson's specifications. The guitar is called The Fender Eric Johnson Signature Stratocaster RW, RW for rosewood I guess. Check out what eric has to say about it:

Heres what Fender have to say about this great guitar:
"There is no greater example of guitar hero Eric Johnson’s devotion to his art than his new signature model Stratocaster guitar. With singular attention to detail, the new Eric Johnson Stratocaster RW features a two-piece alder body finished in thin-skin nitrocellulose lacquer, a quartersawn maple neck with bound round-laminated 12”-radius rosewood fretboard, a three-ply parchment pickguard, pickups voiced by Johnson himself, staggered vintage-style tuners, a custom tremolo block, and four brand-new finish options, three of which (Lucerne Aqua Firemist, Tropical Turquoise and Medium Palomino Metallic) are exclusive to this model. Deluxe blonde hardshell case included" (Fender.com_

Eric Johnson Guitar Gear

Gretsch White Falcon - Billy Duffy Gear interview

The Gretch White Falcon.... it's got to be one of the most beautiful guitar every made. If god plays guitar, he would use a Gretsch White Falcon. The Gretsch White Falcon with its white finish and gold hardware, and the shape of the guitar, THE SHAPE, this guitar is perfection, something from heaven.

However, not many guitarist play a White Falcon. Billy Duffy from The Cult does, and he's one of the rare guitarists that have made it his trademark guitar, and he's managed to make it suit his image and playing style. Billy Duffy has been playing the Gretsch White Falcon for decades and has a wide collection from vintage 1970's models, to the most current new productions. If he doesn't know about the White Falcon then who does. The White Falcon from the 70's although looked great, had no output and not suitable for gigs. Billy Duffy used to swap the pickups with custom made Seymour Duncans. Billy Duffy bought his first double cutaway White Falcon in 1982 using all his life savings to buy it, commiting his life to Rock N' Roll and music.

Heres a video interview with Billy Duffy talking about his love for the Gretsch White Falcon throughout his career.

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Graham Coxon Guitar Gear

Graham Coxon from blur one of the most underrated guitarist in my opinion. He gave blur their trademark sounds with funky rhythm and licks, and mastered the electronic robot sounds check out "On Your Own" by blur and you'll know what I'm talking about. And who can forget those riffs from Song 2 and Beetlebum.

As for Graham Coxon's guitar gear his main axe is a 1968 Fender Telecaster, thats been through the wars. He also uses a Rickenbacker a Gibson SG. Weirdly in the video below he refers to his SG as a Les Paul. I've call a Les Paul and SG before(Solidbody Guitar) but not the other way around.

Edit 7/7/09
History of the SG by Gibson - I received an email from a fan of the site with correct info about the SG/Les Paul. The early SG's were called Les Paul's, and had the Les Paul logo on the headstock, Gibson later removed and renamed it to SG after the Les Paul himself and the fans of the original Les Paul wanted the original Les Paul back. The Les Paul was un-discontinued and became the Les Paul again, and the new shape "Les Paul" became the Gibson SG. I also found an article about this on ezinarticles.com check it out here.

Heres an excerpt from Fender.com on Graham Coxon talking about his love for the Fender Telecaster:

"FN : How did you discover the Telecaster?

GC : I think it was when I started recording with Stephen Street and really all I had was this Les Paul® Custom. I’m still playing that, but it really wasn’t appropriate for some of the sounds I wanted. In the early days, the sounds of the guitars on Abbey Road were something that I really enjoyed—the fat, bluesy nature of it.Either way, Stephen lent me his Tele. He’s got a lovely old Telecaster, and that was it. As soon as I played that, I couldn’t believe it. It was something about the neck and the slimness of the neck. And what a tough little thing it was, and what a ring-y sound it had—it had the sort of ring I liked with the Jam and the Who. But it also had a really good punch. It was so comfortable; I really couldn’t quite believe it (laughs ). Now I’m just a Telecaster maniac, I suppose …"

Rtichie Blackmore Guitar's Part 2

Ritchie Blackmore gear continued....

Ritchie Blackmore Taylor acoustics
Ritchie prefers Taylor acoustic guitars, he has various 6 string and 12 strings made by Taylor Acoustic guitars. Apparently they have a more brash and robust sound with more volume than normal acoustics. Taylor acoustic's have been oioular because of their distinctive tone and more crisp trebles.

Pickups on the Ritchie Blackmore Signature Fender Stratocaster: 1 Seymour Duncan® Quarter Pound Flat™ SSL-4 Single-Coil Strat® Pickup (Neck), 1 Non-Active “Dummy” Pickup (Middle), 1 Reverse Wound/Reverse Polarity Seymour Duncan® Quarter Pound Flat™ SSL-4 Single-Coil Strat® Pickup (Bridge)

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Ritchie Blackmore signature guitar 1
Ritchie goes through some more of his collection in this clip. Some interesting guitars include his signature model with the distinctive black pickup covers, 70's headstock and pickups to his specifications.

Guitar Made of Antique wood
He also has a custom made guitar given to him with antique wood, ageing about 250 years old. Antique wood doesn't just mean it's old, what it means is it's been through hell and back, through hot and cold weather, it's expanded and constricted through the years, and over time its found itself it's shape. What this means is that this guitar is solid as a rock, it won't be affected much from temperature and humidity changes.

Ritchie Blackmore signature Fender Stratocaster 2
Ritchie has designed a new stratocaster made entirely of one piece of wood, unlike most guitars where the neck and body are glued or bolted together, this guitar neck and body are one piece. Ritchie has also specified the use of new century pickups. The neck is also concave or scalloped, as Ritchie Blackmore prefers to get a good grip of the strings of vibrato.

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John Mayer Gear - Fender Stratocaster Continuum guitar

In 2007 John Mayer and Fender held a contest for the good people of America to win a Fender Stratocaster Continuum guitar signed by John Mayer. The guitar has custom made Continuum artwork promoting John Mayers Continuum album made by John Cruz Fender Custom Shop Master Builder. John played this guitar in the summer tour of 2007 before giving it away to the winner on the Fender site, someone on youtube phelps7754 claims to have won it, I don't know if it's true or not, but I have seen something posted on the Fender site with someone called kephelps bragging about winning the guitar and showing off some pics, so it might be true.

John Mayer Continuum guitar specs:

- alder body

- maple neck with a slightly larger C-shape, topped by a buffed headstock with a vintage ’50s decal.

- The African rosewood fingerboard has a 9.5” radius and Dunlop® 6105 frets.

- Other features include three new “Big Dipper” single-coil pickups with a special “scooped” mid-range voicing wound to Mayer’s exacting specs

- American Vintage synchronized tremolo with five tremolo springs (no back plate)

- Fender/Gotoh® vintage-style tuning keys

- Custom CONTINUUM artwork

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Tom Morello gear

Tom Morello is the guitarist from Rage Against the Machines and Audioslave. Some say he's the next Hendrix with his unique sound and funky riffs.

This is Tom Morello's interview with Guitar World Magazine talking about his gear and how he gets his sound and tone. He goes through his stock rig. Here the Tom Morello gear used in this video

Guitars: Fender Tom Soul Power guitar.
Effects Pedals:
Dunlop Crybaby Wah Wah,
Digitech Whammy pedal (original version)
Boss Digital Delay Pedal
DOD Equilizer pedal with sweat guard
MXR Phase 90

Amp Head: Marshall JCM 800 2205 50 Watt head
Cabinet: 4x12 Peavey Cabinet however in this video he's using a Marshall

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David Gilmour Gear and Guitar

David Gilmour from Pink Floyd talks about his guitar sound and gear. His classic Fender Stratocaster sound, warm, hollow, clean sound set the atmosphere with Pink Floyd records.
David Gilmours signature Fender Black Stratocaster with maple neck and with pickup covers has become an icon, and has recently been copied and released by Fender custom shop. David Gilmour like many others dreamed of playing a Stratocaster because of the man that made it sound so good, Hank Marvin.

David Gilmour talks about his distortion sound, what he wants from it and how he uses it live. This interview is from a series of BBC documentaries about the guitar, theres a few more clips of some guitar legends talking about why they love guitars including Hank Marvin and Mark Knoplfer. I'll try to post more up.

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