13 years with my Billy Corgan Fender Stratocaster
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- Опубликовано: 19 янв 2023
- I purchased this guitar brand new in 2010 and I haven't put it down since.
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The Aeroplane Flies High? You are a TruFan!
One of my absolute favourite pumpkins songs to jam along with 🤘🏼
Turn left look right !
Best strat I've ever played. I have been kicking myself for years for not buying it. Why does Fender not understand how amazing hardtails are? Every year I check their new models and am always disappointed by all the springy boys.
absolutely right... Ive got a couple of springy bois and they've got their time and place but you cant beat a hardtail strat
@@carsandguitars A hardtail is a whole other animal! Definitely love a typical strat bridge for nice warm surf tones...but that's not my typical style. Nice video, and take care of those beautiful guitars!
will do! I appreciate the kind words@@holotape
Just get the Robert Cray signature, it's hard tail.
@westonhogan1672 yeah I got the RC hard tail it's got a great neck too I slapped som lace sensors in it :)
That was a solidly satisfying unboxing!!!
plenty more where that came from! haha
Awesome video!!!! I really want a Billy Corgan strat so bad. And i also absolutely love Zeitgeist.
Cheers man! they do pop up occasionally, great guitars you definitely wont regret it
Love that guitar and Aeroplane Flies High is one of my favs. Would love to hear that neck pickup in 4th position. Thanks a ton bro:)
Thanks Jack! i definitely agree, such a good song! appreciate the comment... I've got something in the works with these guitars that i'll be posting in a couple of months... it'll have all the positions! haha
@@carsandguitars😂
Badass is understatement. I need this guitar.
If you can… get one, you won’t be disappointed. Theres one or two on Reverb every so often and they don’t go for insane prices considering what you’re getting 🤘🏼
I just bought the black version today
@@garethdraper1228 we are here if you need to sell it lol. Nah congratz.
heck yeah! @@garethdraper1228
Great video. I like the under the hood stuff and the sudden appearance of the black guitar. I've had an Olympic White one since 2011. I thought about selling it recently but am glad I didn't. I find it impossible not to play Cherub Rock on it as soon as it's in my hands, but it's incredibly versatile like you point out.
Thanks Andrew, they are such a versatile guitar, you would have regretted selling it! Cherub rocks a great tune to play loud... I gave it a good run in my recent 90s strat video!
I have a 2005 HT American. Just bought it. I want the BC Dimarzio loaded pickguard.
Definitely get one if you can the pickups are amazing!
If you can, make sure you get one that’s wired up the same way as the fenders not the ‘traditional 5 way strat’ way
@carsandguitars Yes, I researched it last night. The Dimarzio BC PG is not wired like yours. I want your style. They do provide the schematic. I CSI ed yours wiring and it is identical. I will email them Tues..
The #4 position on the BC strat is absolutely magic through a clean amp... it's like the 4th position on a regular strat but... x10 haha
I actually wrote a song on my 2009 album (loosely based on the life of my --at-the-time--band mate , E-dittles) called "I like Cars 🚗 + Electric guitars 🎸"
Just thought your channel was pretty dope.
PS-
I bought this guitar, on eBay used for about 1100.
Sold it for somewhere between 18 and 20.
Needed money for my heroin habit.
Very very sad.
Was my favorite guitar at the time
(I had 18 total)
Eventually , I would find a better playing guitar, and at an incredibly low price point.
It was the beige and gold j mascis strat... well it's a squier... and I think it s a jazzmaster clone?
I can't remember.
All I know is that in the '90s he had this beautiful sparkly purple metallic fender costume J mask is and I never saw one of those cheaper than 6 grand but his signature squire that came out I had a you know tremolo whammy bar it was one of the nicest sounding I mean this guitar played better than my $2,000 shot not better than the Billy Corgan signature but it played better than both of my stratocasters and my Fender telecaster.
And
Get this
The jay mascis squier was only retailing for 349.99
Yep.
I bought it new at guitar center
Didn't even bother to play it.
Just brought it home straight out of the box
And it played circles around my axes that cost 5x as much.
So as much as I did absolutely love my BC Fender Strat
If you have not yet played the gym askes squire do yourself a favor and....
Appreciate the comment my man. Is your song on YT or anywhere? I haven't had a chance to try one of the JM Jazzmasters but I am on the lookout. Squires are some of the best bang for buck guitars out there, I've had a few over the years... currently have a Squire Contemporary jag and it's absolutely amazing.
hey mate, awesome video. Im also a huge fan of all the Corgan sigs. What’s your amp set up for this? Presumably a Marshall!
Cheers man! yeah that was all just done through the clean channel on my little Marshall DLS15 with the big muff ontop.
@@carsandguitars such a simple set up, such a big sound!!
@@namtsur 100% says a lot about how good these guitars are.
what effect are you using to get that quiet whooshing sound in the background at 6:35? is it all just from the wah?
hey mate, combo of the wah and phase90 for a second there
Ive had a oly white since about 2009 will never part with it. I recently picked up a matt black Reverend BC-1 and its a nice complement to the Strat. You should check one out, again a very versatile sounding instrument and nowhere near as hard to find or expensive as the Strat.
oh nice! the matt black BC-1s don't seem to pop up as often as the purple burst and mist green. I've had my eye on a black Z-One... really keen to try one of those!
@@carsandguitars yeah I dropped lucky got it for about 50% off new price in mint condition about an hours drive from me. Ebay find! they come up sometimes. I dont really like the purple. I would have taken a white for sure as they look cool too.
@@Lovetone1983 dang it... now I've got these stuck in my mind haha
@@carsandguitars honestly worth a look as they arent desperately expensive. I havent tried the new Z-one version but its a similar vibe I think - personally I preferred the more angualr look of the original anyway. The pickups are amazing and you can get a lot of sounds out of it, even stock. I am considering doing some coil splitting down the line by way of a 5 way superswitch... I watched all the vids online and this was probably the one that pushed me into actively acquiring one. ruclips.net/video/NLuOh0mtqZg/видео.html
@@Lovetone1983 I'll definitely try and check one out!
😮hey bro.
Fender did make hardtail strats, Tom Delong and Robert Cray
Yeah they've definitely made a few throughout the years, I believe when these came out they were the only one on offer though.
Hi cool channel man! Can i ask through what site do you search for this guitar? Is it ebay? Cheers
Cheers mate. Yeah ebay or reverb are my two main ones, I've also seen them pop up on facebook marketplace occasionally
Tried the BC1 pickup and found it way to bassy and inarticulate. Just like it sounds in this video.
You should try the Railhammer Z-One, one of... if not the most articulate pickup I've played.
The tone definitely doesn’t fit the Mellon Collie era. I use my BC Strat specifically for playing Zeitgeist era songs like United States of America and Superchrist.
I have a Corgan matching blue vintage ‘75 hardtail with Lace Sensors going through a JMP-1 and Mesa Boogie Strategy 500 for when I play Mellon Collie era songs. Nothing else comes close enough for me. When I play along to songs like TAFH with Logic Pro X, I can’t even hear my guitar because the tone is so spot on, it just disappears. But then I like to listen back without the artist song and laugh at how legit it sounds.
I know Corgan changed out his Laces Sensors from his Blue ‘74 hardtail for his BC Dimarzio’s, but I don’t want that new tone for playing their earlier songs. That’s why I have a BC Strat for that.
Ive been looking for a set of the red/blue/silver lace sensors to do a Mellon Collie build, is there that much of a difference between those and the BC dimarzios?
@@carsandguitars yeah, actually if I use the BC Strat which has the BC pickups, it squeals very easily with the replica Mellon Collie rig I have. That can be a good, or bad thing depending on your preference. billy described it the best way, “it’s like “riding a storm”, you’ve got to try and control the guitar and stand in the right spot to keep it from squealing. It’s a lot of work, whereas the Lace sensors just do it naturally.
I bought a loaded pickguard from Lace with a photo of the color scheme I wanted. The photo was zoomed in on Billy’s Strat that still said “I love my mom”, but you couldn’t see that from the photo, yet THEY STILL KNEW WHOSE GUITAR IT WAS! 😁 It’s a black pickguard, with white pickups, I have a photo of the beautiful wiring work they did and even tagged them on Twitter, with a nice reply from them. So that is for my blue ‘75 hardtail. I also have a 2002 Highway One Strat with vintage 90’s Lace Sensors, and to me they don’t sound any different from the modern ones.
I also use the Lace with my JCM 800 that has KT88 tubes. Those tubes will stay clean at a high volume, so the Lace sensors won’t squeal very easily (if at all) like the BC pickups will. The tone of the Lace’s match the opening to Cherub Rock, Today and so many others so perfectly, especially with the blue (neck) pickup. It’s insane how perfect it sounds! If you use the Red (bridge) pickup to play the clean tones, it sounds very shrill. The blue pickup has a wonderful warm bell tone that makes me love Strats so much. I think I play the Blue pickup the most because it sounds good with Drown, or Starla, or any other SD era clean tones. You’ll be pleasantly surprised I think?
@@carsandguitars BTW, I recorded it using isolated drums and lyrics, everything else is me playing. I should’ve uploaded the version without the vocal track so you can really hear all of the guitar parts. Actually, I wish Billy would release an instrumental version of Siamese Dream. Soma is such a better song than I ever thought possible when I listened to the instrumental version from the Deluxe reissue.
Ive always driven the cheapest cars, literally peices of crap, so I can afford gibsons and half stacks. I could care less about cars. But guitars, now that I love
Love it! Cheers mate