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August 13, 2018 at 10:31 pm #107395
If you aren’t familiar with Jack Pearson, he is one of those great players that isn’t that well known but he’s played several years with the Allman Brothers and Gregg Allman Band plus being a side man for other bands
In this video, Jack is playing a Squier Strat that he paid $89 for it. He speaks of buying a sunburst Squier Bullet that he used on the Gregg Allman Tribute concert. He needed a light weight guitar due to a back injury
Jack is one of those players that could make anything sound good but he’s proof that we don’t need the super expensive guitars.
This is a good interview that gives some great insight and is a great introduction to Jack Pearson as a player -
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August 14, 2018 at 12:23 am #107399
You were’n t kidding! That was a great interview and I didn’t know much about Jack Pearson but he came across as a super nice guy and great guitar player. At last! A true Squier fan and why not?
I have a bunch of Squier guitars including a white bullet strat like his so it was great to see a player like him getting some terrific sounds out of his Squier! Who needs a more expensive Fender or other type guitar when you can get the same sound out of a Squier! I’ve always said they are great guitars and I bet if you put them against more expensive guitars on a blind test you’d be hard pressed to tell the difference between the cheaper Squier and the more expensive guitar.
Anyway, I really enjoyed the interview and hearing the way he comes up with that Wah Wah sound is awesome.
I’m going to find out more about Jack Pearson and check out some more of Marty’s interviews.
Thanks for posting this one!!
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August 14, 2018 at 9:20 am #107425
So many of the guitars coming out of Asia now is built with exceptional quality. I have a Peavey JF-1 that is a 335 copy that is flawless and has the nicest slim taper neck that I’ve ever played. I bought it new a few years ago for under $300
One of the several reasons that I’m sold on G&L is because most of their imported Tribute line has the same pickups and bridges that the USA models do. I can deal with the lack of choice of neck dimensions, choice of premium body wood and finishes if I”m getting the same pickups & bridge. On the used market, there are deals to be had on G&L Tribute guitars
Very obvious from Jack’s videos how good some of the Squiers areOne interesting story is that Dickey Betts told Gregg that they either needed to hire Jack Pearson or take guitar lessons from him. Ironically, it was Jack that was called on when the ABB had to fire Dickey……….
There are quite a few videos of Jack playing with Allman Brothers and with others. Here is one of him playing a Squier on a jazzy blues
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August 14, 2018 at 2:16 am #107401
I did a Thread about ..Jack Pearson.. at the start of the year.
Funny how you say “Don’t rule out Imported guitars”, When near all the guitars here in the U.K. are “Imported”, yes even American brands are Imported.
Great Video, makes we wonder how much money Marty is making cos he is never off the Internet..hahaha..Billy..
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August 14, 2018 at 9:05 am #107424
Good point Billy. It was late when I posted that, I meant to have the subject line of
Don’t rule out cheap imported guitars!
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August 14, 2018 at 3:24 am #107403
Squire guitars have a mixed history
The original squire brand for a number of years was high quality Fenders out of japan and most of the stuff was on par with US made and at some stage part of it morphed into Fender japan.
Modern squires are a different thing altogether as far as I’m aware
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August 14, 2018 at 6:02 am #107405
I’ve got a Made In Japan squire strat that I love, it’s really good!.
I Started out With Nothing & I've Still got most of it left. (Seasick Steve)
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August 14, 2018 at 9:00 am #107422
Lovely colour that guitar of yours Jiffy, I’m a Squier fan and own 4 of them including my parts caster…which I might use for the up coming challenge video.
..Billy..
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August 14, 2018 at 8:00 am #107413
I had a quick look at serial numbers
http://www.squierwiki.com/Serial-Number-TrackingN + 6 digits puts it at a 93/94 ?
Anyways that era of Fender manufacture under the Squire brand was done to reduce labour costs and quality of the hardware was supposed to be the same, many people think that the wood and hard ware + quality control was better than available in the US at the time.
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August 14, 2018 at 7:44 pm #107462
Somewhere on youtube there are video about Ghostbuilding. I believe that 3-4 big Asian factories make a large percentage of the guitars. It was pretty interesting. You may have two guitar players and one owns a Ibanez and ones a Epiphone and they are going on about how which guitar is the best and what they don’t know is that there is a chance they came from the same factory. Im not saying those two do but that was just an example.
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August 14, 2018 at 8:10 pm #107463
Good point – its amazing how many guitars are made each year.
What it really comes down to is the quality standards of the company having the guitars built. I had a Guitar Center worker, and one old enough to know, to tell me that the tolerance standards of Paul Reed Smith are much more exacting than Gibson. He said that if you buy a Paul Reed Smith, whether USA or imported, it will be pretty much the same as the next one that you pull off of the wall and will pretty much sound the same. Gibson, on the other hand, won’t be as close and he said that is the reason that a person should play Gibson guitars before buying.
Yamaha, a Japanese company, instead of “farming out” their guitars to a 3rd party company like other companies do, bought a factory in China in order to control their quality directly. Needless to say, it shows because a Yamaha guitar is well built whether its one of their cheapest or most expensive
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August 14, 2018 at 8:34 pm #107464
Good point – its amazing how many guitars are made each year.
What it really comes down to is the quality standards of the company having the guitars built. I had a Guitar Center worker, and one old enough to know, to tell me that the tolerance standards of Paul Reed Smith are much more exacting than Gibson. He said that if you buy a Paul Reed Smith, whether USA or imported, it will be pretty much the same as the next one that you pull off of the wall and will pretty much sound the same. Gibson, on the other hand, won’t be as close and he said that is the reason that a person should play Gibson guitars before buying.
Yamaha, a Japanese company, instead of “farming out” their guitars to a 3rd party company like other companies do, bought a factory in China in order to control their quality directly. Needless to say, it shows because a Yamaha guitar is well built whether its one of their cheapest or most expensive
Not sure if Yamaha has 100% percent ownership in China, but:
Inside the financial sector – most business lines are capped at 49% foreign ownership or less. It can vary by regulator and also for busienss type under one regulator’s umbrella. The exceptions are WFOEs – Wholly Foreign-Owned Enterprises – which, as the name suggests, can be 100% foreign-owned but may not be eligible for all of the licenses that domestic or JV financial firms require to do business. Foreigners can absolutely sit on the boards of Chinese companies – even 100% Chinese-owned companies
I don’t know if Yamaha is in the financial sector, but what I’ve heard from a person living there and worked in the record/recording business, only 42% of the business could be owned by foreigners.The melody of the notes is what expresses the art of music . 🙂 6stringerPete
It really is all about ”melody”. The melody comes from a language from our heart. Our heart is the muscle in music harmony. The melody is the sweetness that it pumps into our musical thoughts on the fretboard. 🙂 6 stringer Pete
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August 14, 2018 at 10:37 pm #107472
I think that the first video below is the one that I saw a few years ago but around the same time that Yamaha introduced their A Series guitars a few years ago, the video told how Yamaha had purchased a Chinese factory specifically to build that line of guitars. That line was a departure from most of their previous designs and they wanted a specific location to focus solely on it.
I don’t know what percentage is owned by Yamaha but as I mentioned previously, its obvious that Yamaha has high quality standards for their guitars even though they are production line items. Watch the video that I’ve included and the speed at which these worker assembly the guitar is amazing and they keep the quality high.
Compare that to Santa Cruz guitars – one of the most revered acoustic guitars in the USA – they build less than 800 per year. I can afford a Yamaha but I’d have to have Bryce’s, our former Admin, salary to buy a Santa Cruz.
Quality and attention to detail is what its all about
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August 15, 2018 at 1:53 am #107477
That was real interesting viewing Keith, Yamaha having every guitar go through the same process before leaving the factory is probably a process every guitar manufacturer could do with adopting.
..Billy..
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August 14, 2018 at 10:24 pm #107468
buy the korean/versus american prs ! i bought a monster made IN USA for several reasons but if ona bugit,,i’d buy the overseas prs.. good youtube comparison
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August 14, 2018 at 10:27 pm #107469
I watched both last night,, really cool knocking on wood lol 1 in a thousand curly maples!
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August 14, 2018 at 10:31 pm #107470
I’m eventually going to email Paul,, thank him much and want to ask him about my prs pick ups lol
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August 14, 2018 at 10:35 pm #107471
I got to practice this more,, I like the strat too but this ting is a monster lol
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