00:00I'm still winging at hard hands, smiling at the pouring rain.
00:09Hey guys, Joe Bonamassa here from his apartment in New York City on a blustery afternoon in January.
00:16We're talking about how Leo got it right the first time.
00:19We already did the Telecaster, Esquire, and now we're on to the Stratocaster.
00:24Why the Stratocaster?
00:25Well, you know, these are sonic staples of life, you know.
00:29As far as a guitar player is concerned, it's like a Les Paul, a 335, an SG, a Firebird, Stratocaster, Telecaster.
00:38These are all the benchmarks of which guitar tone is measured from.
00:43And, you know, you can argue which ones you like better.
00:47A Rosewood Strat, which is more kind of like a Stevie Ray thing.
00:51Or, like, I always call these like a Buddy Holly guitar.
00:53You know, Eric Johnson used an early Strat like this.
00:56This is from 1954.
00:57And, you know, there was a lot of great sounds.
01:02Eric Clapton used the Maple Knick Strat.
01:04So, we're going to demonstrate some of the cooler sounds that you can get from a Fender Stratocaster.
01:11Just by plugging in.
01:12Again, all these videos in the last few months have been plugged into the exact same amp with the exact same setting.
01:17So, you really get to hear the tonal nuances of each guitar without any filter.
01:23There's no, you know, like, special device.
01:25It's just a Fender Deluxe Reverb set on Stun.
01:28And it's tempered down a little bit.
01:30Tempered down a little bit for the apartment so I don't get kicked out.
01:35Although, I own this place.
01:36Can they kick me out?
01:36That's that classic front pickup.
02:07These old ones do rattle around a little bit, which is always fun on the gig, watching them move around.
02:14You can wedge the switch.
02:16Three-way switch.
02:18But you can also wedge a telly as well.
02:19Check that out.
02:20When they cooperate.
02:25When they cooperate.
02:25When they cooperate.
02:29That's the front two pickups.
02:56Now we have the middle setting, which is great, you know, for that kind of Ronnie Earle classic Texas blues, you know, Ronnie from Boston.
03:04You know what I mean.
03:05Now you can wedge it again.
03:33You have the middle pickup and the lead pickup.
03:35And that's that kind of.
03:37You know it.
03:38You know it from many Eric Clapton records, you know.
03:41It's fantastic.
03:42And it's a great sound.
03:43And then, finally, the treble pickup.
04:12Which, if you have a so inclined, you can modify this so the tone pop works for the treble pickup.
04:19But this guitar is unmodified.
04:21I call this guitar Little Wayne because I bought it from a small guy who was about 80 years old.
04:26His name is Wayne in El Paso, Texas.
04:28Original owner.
04:29So I call it Little Wayne.
04:30Little Wayne, El Paso.
04:36The übersきTheisfied guitar Morin.
04:39I call it damn MAN.
04:39Little Wayne.
04:41He holds this guitar.
04:41Okay.
04:42Or do it like that ?
04:42the bass player couldnels in the middle cry and dance.
04:42It's good.
04:45Ooh.
04:46Ha ha ha ha ha.
04:47viel doubt.
04:47That's it.
04:48Well, well, it's about the background.
04:48The guitar doesn't concentrate, and it can laugh.
04:49There are many broken ones.
04:50Yeah.
04:50Yeah.
04:51I miss it all day.
04:52Let's do it.
04:52It's amazing.
04:53I feel fine.
04:54and there you have it so you know a lot of people are in one of two camps rosewood maple i am a
05:11maple board uh fan i've always enjoyed maple board strats they just they the notes jump off
05:18the fingerboard in a different way this is a maple neck with an ash body and coupled with the lower
05:25output pickups from the mid-50s it really does something special but you can go buy a squire
05:31strap that has a maple board and those sound great too they do have certain characteristics
05:37to them that the rosewood guitars don't have but similarly the rosewood guitars have certain
05:46characteristics the maple horse don't have so you know there's no right or wrong and uh it's just
05:52one of those things it's how you hear it and how you play it and what makes you happy inside you
05:58want to want to pursue happiness
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