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Jake Bugg talks about his favourite guitars | My Guitars & Me S2E1 | Guitar.com
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Hello, I'm Jake Bourke, and this is my guitars and me
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Moment it all started for me on the guitar
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I was probably about 12 years old and I just everything was about football at that point
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I had no interest in music and I came back from football training one day and my uncle he
00:22
He had a guitar. He just had brought a guitar
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He'd been learning himself and I think he just wanted someone to jam with really
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So he taught me a couple of the basic chords and that was it then I just fell in love with it
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And I just couldn't put it down since then
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You know when things start happening and just to
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all of a sudden be playing Martin's Gibson's and
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Fenders and stuff was was just like everything you dream off as a kid really and it's funny like when when you're that age at
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18 17 19 or whatever, you know
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Think you think you just you think you're invincible you think you're the best and it's not until you start
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Learning more about music that you start to understand how little you actually know and but you know at that age
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It just felt absolutely amazing
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So this one is is one of my favorites. I love to play it on stage a lot
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I'm getting more and more worried about taking out live. I have to be honest, but this is a
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1966 Stratocaster that I bought in in Texas. I think just absolutely love it
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It's just got this this three switch
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Pickup, which is great. And yeah, it's clearly had some love clearly been played a lot. I'd love to know what I
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Who it's been played by that's always the great thing about these guitars the history when I'd love to know more about it
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Sometimes like a lot of the modern Stratocasters could have the kind of that kind of glassy top-henny kind of sound
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But for some reason I don't think this one has it. I don't say I could be wrong, but apparently like think
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They didn't really make black Strats at one and so I think if they made a mistake on the finish they'd paint it black
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So I think where that's where it used to be white underneath the thing
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Didn't really know a lot about these guitars, but I was on tour in America with Noel Gallagher in Snow Patrol and and
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The guitar tech for Noel Gallagher's guitarist. He took me to two grooms in Nashville and
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And he and we went up to the upstairs room and they just had all these really old amazing guitars and I was like
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Yeah, I really actually like one of those to be honest and and I just love I just love the color on it
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Just looked kind of it's not too flat
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but
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And it just he just really had that
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Just that country kind of tone straight up like it was so
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So
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Instant when I plugged it in like you just without any pedals or anything you plug it in
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It just got the just got the power all there because this is
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1954 I think it is I think I used to use this one a bit more as the main one
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At a certain time. It's very good at what it does
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And as I say whenever whenever it comes to like any more kind of country or skiffle II kind of stuff
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We do this is the first one that gets that gets called
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I
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Whenever I pick up this one, it's like straight to a most of the time
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Whereas the strats more like a power cord II or something
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It's like it's funny how and just like the different fretboards like the way you approach it as well
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Sometimes it now it's pretty say that yeah, you pick up guitar and you play different things on them all the time
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You can still see it's lifted a good life. And yeah, it's a special special thing. I
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Think yeah, this thing is just one of the rarest guitars I've ever come across
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But this one's just stayed at my house
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I probably needs a bit of a setup and stuff like this one definitely doesn't go on the road. So
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So this is a
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1953 I think is on it
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yeah
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1953 j185 and and I came across this in Tokyo in Japan. I've never actually seen one before and
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So we kept looking at it for a bit and trying to look it up and not much was coming up and eventually I asked
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The guy could could I have a go on that please? And he was like no
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We should quite understand so so I only had to get out his phone and keep showing pictures of guitars already own like these ones
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And then eventually he came around and he let he let me have a go on it
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I had a few drinks thought about it came back and then was like let's go and buy
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Yeah, the worst I'll go think about its situation ever
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Yes, definitely one of the rarest guitars I've ever came across it looks like it tells a story doesn't it looks like it should
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Be in a museum or something
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But I absolutely love it. And yeah, as I said, this one does not go on the road
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This stays at home and and is used on records whenever I need it. It just kind of has that a
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Kind of big bassiness to it that you kind of used to on the bigger Gibsons as well
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It gives you that it gives you a different option it gives you a different tone
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I feel like you know, I've got some lovely Martins as well
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And you know, they're great like kind of more mid-range II kindness, but when you just want so
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Just got that kind of 60s folk sound already about it
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If it inspires, you know
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Just if it just gives you the slightest spark of creative creativity or inspiration
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Then then it's done its job and it's and I'm sure it's been doing it well for yeah for almost 70 years now
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Which just blows my mind
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Thanks everyone, I'm Jake bug and you can listen to my new album coming out on October the 4th and thank you very much for
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watching Cheers
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