This man is a Great Musician and i think he's also a good person, love the way he talks, love his accent, his hair and especially his ART ... since 1992
For the record, the Lake Placid Blue finish that Bernard stripped off his Strat was a refin, not the original factory colour, so fear not, he hasn't massacred the original finish...
I was 14 in Australia when I bought Animal Nitrate on cassingle. I didn't know anyone else who liked Suede - they weren't that popular down under. But I loved the noisy pop sound and still do. To hear Bernard describe how he wrote the song is just gold. I particularly like the change of pick-ups between the verse and chorus. Genius!
I love Butler's style and tone. He (and Richard Oakes) are two guitarists I would love to have an afternoon with to just pick their brains--briliant both!!!
Hilarious comments here. If some of you would bother to listen to the tones he achieves on his Trans recordings you would change your tune. I would however state the BB does need to hear that 355 through one of the few Stereo Gibson amps that were designed for it. Amazing results! I'm happy to bring it round his studio to test it! :)
The thing with Strats - even old ones - is that they are mass-produced, working musicians' instruments. If you buy an old Strat, odds-on it will have been refinished more than once and had parts replaced and repaired several times over. Fender didn't really do "special editions" or anything like that in the '60s - and by the early '70s (according to Clapton) they could barely give them away. Bernie hasn't done anything to that Strat that hasn't been done before several times over, and it'll be a happy guitar just to keep working. :)
The paint jobs on Teles and Strats are as basic as it gets. I have friends who have stripped and repainted their fender, themselves, to the exact same standards as the Fender factory! So you're right - original paint isn't that big a deal on a Strat. And to be honest, the first thing a lot of people do when they buy a used Fender is strip the paint and repaint it themselves
I understand perfectly what he means about his expression using tremolo a lot - listen to the latter end of "You just know" if you want example of this.
Wow, what a great guitar player. And what a collection. Seriously I could only dream of owning any guitar like that. 62 fender strat. Sounds expensive.
Note all. It is a Bigsby + Tune-O-Matic combo and not a roller bridge. Roller seems like a good idea but Tune-O-Matic is better. Like on my DeArmond Starfire Special worth a tine fraction of his one there.
Hi , good said. I just wonder how the heck he puts so much strength onto bigsby and it stays in tune, where many other Bigsby users complain about tuning. Is it the way you handle this ?
Butler's replacement in Suede, Richard Oakes had to get himself a 355 like Butler's since that sound was just such an integral part of early Suede. But Oakes being a Fender Jaguar guy actually hated the 355, the style and the shape totally didn't suit him.
How could you not like a vintage ES-355? I had a cheaper version of that model(335-style Yamaha with Ebony-board and added Bigsby) and even that was a very nice guitar too.
I saw Suede at Cambridge on 7th March 2023, and Richard Oakes was playing a big red Gibson 355 for at least half of the set. It looked and sounded great.
@@ianhowlett4682 Yeah, as I said, that sound is just integral to Suede's music. I want to see them too, I'll be singing along so loud. "Just tra-ha-hash, you and me, we're the litter on the breeze, we're the lovers on the street..."
Love Bernard, he's a great talent. I know guitars are tools for expression and ultimately it's about the man that plays them, what he want's them to be, as it were. But he's RUINED that lovely 62 Strat!!!!
Why do all great Guitar players have massive hands ?....it just aint fair man. Mr Butler, you are a legend that most don't realise yet....but not this tiny handed dude.....Respect.
@@oldtimetinfoilhatwearer Even Fender and Gibson got confused about the definition of tremolo and vibrato. It really should be called a vibrato arm, as it modifies pitch. Tremolo is a modulation of amplitude, or volume, and that's not what that arm does. You'll see vibrato channels on Fenders amps which are, in reality, tremolo functions.
Wow that’s something you do to a squire not a real 62’ I don’t care if you don’t like LPB. If you’re going to strip the paint off at least take it all off.
You destroyed a Lake Placid Blue '62 Stratocaster finish?? Yes you did go mad. At least you still have it. And you and I are both in the ES-355 club; but son, you have some bad ears if you think those guitars sound bad running through two amps. Something is seriously wrong with you. Sorry, but where did you get all those bad ears and eyes from? I generally encourage people. But not you. Good grief.
@@robin_holden Considering that I have never even HEARD of the guy and have been playing guitar for 59 years (even if I DIDN'T create some of the most "exciting music"), I have enough experience and wisdom to know how NOT to ruin a prize piece of guitar treasure, and your criticism of me is entirely meaningless to me. Son.
@@Tonetwisters Well, Mr. Thirty Subscribers, a lot fewer people have even HEARD of you. It seems to me that all that experience and wisdom your 59 years of owning guitars has given you adds up to valuing the instrument itself over the art you create with it. That makes you a collector, not a musician.
Firstly, the lake placid blue was a refinish, according to Guitarist in the the comments. Secondly, there are a small handful of guitar heroes in British music from the 90s, but Butler was the best. Johnny Greenwood of Radiohead was also good, and I'd also argue James Dean Bradfield of the Manic Street Preachers was also up there. Graham Coxon of Blur was alright, and though not a wizard of a guitarist, it's arguable that Noel Gallagher of Oasis caused a significant uptick in guitar sales at the time of their early records.
This man is a Great Musician and i think he's also a good person, love the way he talks, love his accent, his hair and especially his ART ... since 1992
There are not enough videos of Bernard talking and playing.
This one was one to many, that's for sure. Who IS this character?
@@Tonetwisters Why did you click on the video? Unless you're joking?
For the record, the Lake Placid Blue finish that Bernard stripped off his Strat was a refin, not the original factory colour, so fear not, he hasn't massacred the original finish...
thanks for the info, I will put my baseball bat back in the closet :0)
+Allan johnsen Haha. Easy there
Doesn't matter. Lack Placid Blue is FAR better than that plank ...
Who cares. It's a guitar, a tool, and it's his to do what he likes with. Still sounds great so fuck the paint job.
Precious wankers.
Hearing that is an enormous relief, ha.
I was 14 in Australia when I bought Animal Nitrate on cassingle. I didn't know anyone else who liked Suede - they weren't that popular down under. But I loved the noisy pop sound and still do. To hear Bernard describe how he wrote the song is just gold. I particularly like the change of pick-ups between the verse and chorus. Genius!
I love Butler's style and tone. He (and Richard Oakes) are two guitarists I would love to have an afternoon with to just pick their brains--briliant both!!!
Bernard.... has earned the right to do what he wants to any guitar.
By doing WHAT?
@@Tonetwistersbuying it 👍
So does anyone else that buys a guitar..What’s the point of your comment? To point out the obvious?
Bernard, such a naturally talented and musical guitarist...
Musical GOD! Thank you, Bernard! I love you since the times of early Suede and you never disappointed me!;)
Bernard achieves beautiful tones here from both guitars .
Hilarious comments here. If some of you would bother to listen to the tones he achieves on his Trans recordings you would change your tune. I would however state the BB does need to hear that 355 through one of the few Stereo Gibson amps that were designed for it. Amazing results! I'm happy to bring it round his studio to test it! :)
The thing with Strats - even old ones - is that they are mass-produced, working musicians' instruments. If you buy an old Strat, odds-on it will have been refinished more than once and had parts replaced and repaired several times over. Fender didn't really do "special editions" or anything like that in the '60s - and by the early '70s (according to Clapton) they could barely give them away. Bernie hasn't done anything to that Strat that hasn't been done before several times over, and it'll be a happy guitar just to keep working. :)
The paint jobs on Teles and Strats are as basic as it gets. I have friends who have stripped and repainted their fender, themselves, to the exact same standards as the Fender factory! So you're right - original paint isn't that big a deal on a Strat. And to be honest, the first thing a lot of people do when they buy a used Fender is strip the paint and repaint it themselves
I understand perfectly what he means about his expression using tremolo a lot - listen to the latter end of "You just know" if you want example of this.
Wow, what a great guitar player. And what a collection. Seriously I could only dream of owning any guitar like that. 62 fender strat. Sounds expensive.
Bernard is synonym for the ES355 and Bigsby. Wizard.
Good grief.
Hes also got an old black Gibson ES-330 that hes probably used a lot too.
And what about the 355 guitar that they used with Suede in 1992-1993?
Why won’t this man age? My favourite player of the 90’s, and now I look older than him. WTF?
He's lives a clean and healthy lifestyle. He's vegetarian? Vegan?.
Bulter ! U r my very gd old days 😊
He got that es 355 1994? But what about live in brixton in 1993??
That guitar was stolen off Suede's tour bus in the US in 1993.
Greatest british guitarist of the 90s easily, and way better than john squier
I'll take Graham Coxon over both
Graham and Nick McCabe!
Lads, lads. They ALL have lovely bottoms.
Fact.
Note all. It is a Bigsby + Tune-O-Matic combo and not a roller bridge. Roller seems like a good idea but Tune-O-Matic is better. Like on my DeArmond Starfire Special worth a tine fraction of his one there.
Hi , good said. I just wonder how the heck he puts so much strength onto bigsby and it stays in tune, where many other Bigsby users complain about tuning. Is it the way you handle this ?
now those are some gigantic hands
My parents used to know Bernard butler
Wow 😯
hes the coolest! im a huge fan of bernard: so unconventional but writes great music. love his hair style
3:47 what is that song??? name pls
McAlmont & Butler - Yes...The bit you are hearing with the riff is the part where McAlmont is singing " Am I looking better...."
801 Guitar wow!! i know that song but i didn't recognized it! thankyou^-^
I love Lake Placid Blue.
What did he said at last?..
lover bernard. But lake placid blue is a lovely colour 😢
Butler's replacement in Suede, Richard Oakes had to get himself a 355 like Butler's since that sound was just such an integral part of early Suede. But Oakes being a Fender Jaguar guy actually hated the 355, the style and the shape totally didn't suit him.
Okes mam was in brookside TV drama in the 80xz
On recent Suede albums he does use the Gibson though, so maybe he learned to like them.
How could you not like a vintage ES-355? I had a cheaper version of that model(335-style Yamaha with Ebony-board and added Bigsby) and even that was a very nice guitar too.
I saw Suede at Cambridge on 7th March 2023, and Richard Oakes was playing a big red Gibson 355 for at least half of the set. It looked and sounded great.
@@ianhowlett4682 Yeah, as I said, that sound is just integral to Suede's music.
I want to see them too, I'll be singing along so loud. "Just tra-ha-hash, you and me, we're the litter on the breeze, we're the lovers on the street..."
what is the song at 3.33 and 3.52 ???
Yes by McAlmont and Butler
You know you're winning.
Love Bernard, he's a great talent. I know guitars are tools for expression and ultimately it's about the man that plays them, what he want's them to be, as it were. But he's RUINED that lovely 62 Strat!!!!
I agree...personal opinions and all, but, I really don't think the words Lake Placid Blue should be preceded by the word 'terrible'.
Ah i see. So he's getting off on a technicality then..... Still prefer the LPB though, refin or no! ;-)
I agree, but also, Guitarist magazine mention the LPB he stripped wasn't the original finish, so in that case it is at least not sacrilege.
Needs some compression for that Strat
The 12-string hollow body Gibson used to belong to Johnny Marr.
Bernard Butler-The Ken Barlow of Indie Rock!
Why do all great Guitar players have massive hands ?....it just aint fair man. Mr Butler, you are a legend that most don't realise yet....but not this tiny handed dude.....Respect.
Mr Orange???
Mustang Red !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It only hurts the value if it's for sale.
A "Y" cable.
I love my cheap knockoff made in china strat plug in crank up and off you go
Poor lake placid one.
That 62 has gone through what many would say is a travesty!
I kinda thought the A Major chord sounded better before you tastelessly used that vibrato arm.
Patrick Parrish you mean tremolo arm
@@oldtimetinfoilhatwearer Even Fender and Gibson got confused about the definition of tremolo and vibrato. It really should be called a vibrato arm, as it modifies pitch. Tremolo is a modulation of amplitude, or volume, and that's not what that arm does. You'll see vibrato channels on Fenders amps which are, in reality, tremolo functions.
sorry, but i think that strat is so ugly
Is that a wig?
His hair is so thick and he gets a stupid haircut style to make it look like a wig.
Strip the finish on that 355 too. 😑
Wow that’s something you do to a squire not a real 62’ I don’t care if you don’t like LPB. If you’re going to strip the paint off at least take it all off.
TELE6220 auto correct changed it to squire. Have nothing better to do than correct peoples grammar on RUclips. Wow, get a life.
Beginner level player, get some lessons wiggy
Overall god level musician though ..
You destroyed a Lake Placid Blue '62 Stratocaster finish?? Yes you did go mad. At least you still have it. And you and I are both in the ES-355 club; but son, you have some bad ears if you think those guitars sound bad running through two amps. Something is seriously wrong with you. Sorry, but where did you get all those bad ears and eyes from? I generally encourage people. But not you. Good grief.
Considering this man created some of the most exciting guitar music of the 90s, I'd say your encouragement is entirely meaningless to him. Son.
@@robin_holden Considering that I have never even HEARD of the guy and have been playing guitar for 59 years (even if I DIDN'T create some of the most "exciting music"), I have enough experience and wisdom to know how NOT to ruin a prize piece of guitar treasure, and your criticism of me is entirely meaningless to me. Son.
@@Tonetwisters Well, Mr. Thirty Subscribers, a lot fewer people have even HEARD of you. It seems to me that all that experience and wisdom your 59 years of owning guitars has given you adds up to valuing the instrument itself over the art you create with it. That makes you a collector, not a musician.
@@Tonetwisters are you british
Firstly, the lake placid blue was a refinish, according to Guitarist in the the comments. Secondly, there are a small handful of guitar heroes in British music from the 90s, but Butler was the best. Johnny Greenwood of Radiohead was also good, and I'd also argue James Dean Bradfield of the Manic Street Preachers was also up there. Graham Coxon of Blur was alright, and though not a wizard of a guitarist, it's arguable that Noel Gallagher of Oasis caused a significant uptick in guitar sales at the time of their early records.
Yeah he has ruined that strat, can't play it either to my ears