I know this video is 3 years old, but it just came up in my feed (prob bc I recently saw that live Ozzy Video from 82’ & searched Brad, and now he comes up all the time). Anyway, I cut my teeth playing in metal bands from 89’ thru the early nineties. Every shredder friend of mine was into a certain guitar player like Tracii Guns or George Lynch. Someone as good as you knowing Night Ranger isn’t surprising, but having them be in your top 2 is, and I think that is awesome man! They are totally overlooked in the shredder world. I am subscribing to you. Thanks for sharing this video man!
Very sweet axe my dude. Gillis and Watson are severely underrepresented in the lexicon of 80's guitar duos ~ their licks and signature styles aren't explored nearly enough (Watson's 8 finger tapping and Gillis' musical use of the whammy bar). You deserve the happiness that axe will bring. The tone is great as well. Keep rockin 🤘🏻
Jake, about this guitar..... this is my nr. One to play for about 28 years! They are fantastic for me and everything a guitar has to play! I wish i had two ore more..... thanx for posting! 🎯🪨🎯🥳
Back in 85 when I was shopping for my first guitar, I knew I wanted a red one with a trem. I didn't know what Brad used, but I knew I wanted red with a trem. I ended up with an Ibanez Roadstar II (RS-440). As for Burny, I'd love to get an LP with a trem and sustainer. Brad said he had gotten the 3rd Floyd Rose that FR made when he was making them in his garage. EVH got the 2nd. Are you a White Lion fan? Vito Bratta was another phenomenal player.
Those Roadstars's are great guitars! Our shop bought one in a while back and a co worker looked at me and said "Damn get a Floyd and you basically have a Gillis Strat"
@@jaketanis3069 The trem on my Roadstar II was a beast. I beat the crap out of it and it always stayed in tune. The pickups however....sucked major donkey balls. I didn't even know it had coil tapping until my teacher reached over and pushed on the tone knob. The salesman at Sam Ash music never pointed that out.
I am kinda suspicious of the notion that they got the first three, as Adam Bomb (Brenner) was introducing Floyd Rose to big name guitarists to get them to hopefully buy Floyd's trem unit.
Nice guitar! I'm drooling! Unfortunate that Fernandez Guitars discontinued operations July 11, 2024 and filed for bankruptcy. His guitars will become ultra-rare. Better hold on to it!
Very cool score! I always loved the guitar team of Brad and Jeff in Night Ranger, and always thought Speak of the Devil was an underrated album too. I've also always wondered if Brad makes it through an entire tour without having issues with his Floyds :)
give you a lil info on the the "pre-amp" I remember reading back in the day before it had the wireless it had an "alembic stratoblaster" preamp,, the same as in one of Zappas guitars and the Strat that Steve Vai played through his Zappa days and his Alkatrazz era, his brother helped him install the wireless and they just used the housing from the "stratoblaster". I personally would set that one up blocked and hardtail or Schaller makes what they call a vintage bridge which is basically string through non-locking(fender style) Floyd rose replacement, it's super high quality and cuts down some of the string change effort. you have a KILLER rare guitar there
I hate to tell you this but that is not one of the rare Brad Gillis Model Fernandes guitars. You have the version after his endorsement with Fernandes ended which is why it doesn't have his silk screened signature on the headstock and doesn't say "Brad Gillis Model" either. Owning two of these, I can tell you that his models had clearly marked " Floyd Rose" tremolos on top and the head stock used was identical to a Fender strat and are referred to as "lawsuit editions" since Fender threatened to sue if they didn't change it since they had the exclusive copyright on the Fender headstock shape. All of the Brad Gillis models had Fender lawsuit headstocks, Floyds and high output pick ups. (The pick guard was also 5 layers). You can try taking off the neck and seeing if the body has any markings like "BG" but that modified headstock is indicative of a cheaper version that Fernandes put out afterwards. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news but thought you should know. Cool looking guitar anyway.
You don't know as much as you think you do. That is indeed a signature BG guitar exactly as Jake says. I have one too, and I know of others. What *you* are describing do exist and are called "The Function" on the headstock. *Not* like Jakes and mine. And they were indeed individually signed by Brad, unlike the original ones that were silk screened. These were made a later run. Brad told me all of this in person when he added another signature to the back of the headstock on mine. That was in Dec 2016. And I have photo documentation. The floyd on mine was replaced with a decent german floyd with fine tuners but is otherwise stock in near perfect shape. So you are not bearing any bad news. Jake's is a real as can be. lh3.googleusercontent.com/pw/AM-JKLUA7EuFoTGlRbCbNMZx08vOPN4rhKKJZQDqD3qO34JOv27kPEenJLm9Dxj5is-CnU0iEzK3ylHFTxpgwAlp-PVvGFQIdkqwnbsTCe3EFbVJ_4NisYbp-fGedhgqx-pytvtyD1O16Q7GJztEN_q59Yh0=w1583-h890-no?authuser=0 Jake, let me know how I can reach you privately and I'll tell you a lot more!
Looks like Fernandes reproduced that one. Not a 1980's guitar, but decent enough. If it has jumbo frets, it's a good one. If it has medium jumbo frets, it's a Fernandes Function guitar and you got screwd if you paid over $650 for it. 😅
I have a St 155Bg with signatur on the Neck. The Guitar have a 9v batterie under the pickguard. I buy this Guitar in 1985 in Germany. Greets from Germany😉👌
The cheap way into a Brad Gillis guitar is buy a Fernandes Function FST. They are all black. Just paint the body red and add a EMG 85 or 81 pickup. Frets will be medium jumbo. Replace frets if you want. Total will be $850.
A black nft would probably the best replacement floyd, given theyre gonna be available again at some point. Personally I would go for a schaller vintage trem if there wasnt already a locking nut on the neck. Floyd rose hassle no mas
I have one of the actual, less than 100 of the Signature Gillis models. Gillis signed the back of my headstock and he's tried to buy my guitar (were friends) but he ain't gettin' it! 🙂
I can totally believe that because I had exactly the same thing happen. I have one of those too, and know the story behind them too as told to me by Brad. Had him sign the back my headstock too. He really didn't know how many were done that way the signed himself. And no, they didn't say Brad Gillis Model on them. And yes he tried to buy mine back too. That was at a concert in Dec 2016.
@@butchjones3497 Sorry, I thought you meant you had one of the ones like Jake's. How do you know how many of those were made? I know Brad said he did not know how many of the latter type like Jake's and mine were made.
@@kurtshubert4779 I don't even know how Jake got into this, when I was talking about the Gillis Fernandes. Brad told me how many Signature Models were made
@@butchjones3497 Jake "got into this" because he has a second type BG signature model that he tried to explain and I can confirm. How many did Brad say were made of the model you have?
Big Brad fan but could not deal with that Middle pick-up never could play them with out hitting the middle pup . But Brads playing style and tone is what I dig about him the most not his Guitar ...
Hate to be one of those...”i saw them back when” schmucks...but I saw them at college park Md...in the gym!!!...they just released Midnight Maddness...needless to say it was awesome....and that fernandes is freakin awesome...i love those old Japanese guitars!!!!
Interesting point about what makes a guitar, 20% shape, 20% body, 20% neck, 20% hardware, 20% headstock logo. Sounds like you asked for too much on this guitar
...sorry but none says nothing about Fernandes guitars, that are fantastic, these old models pre 1989 was made by Kawai, in Japan, and are better than other stuff more famous......
That still is a cool guitar!!!! I bet you paid over $1500-$2000 for it!!!! I have noticed that any guitar from the 80s whether its made in the USA or Japan or even Korea are going for a lot of money today because of the cool factor and the demand!!!! It's almost like buying a classic muscle car!!!! But not!!!! Your a lucky dude!!!! I am a big fan of Night Ranger also!!!!!😄😄😃😄😃😄😀😃😄
Well i think is a rare guitar and MIJ but i think it was super over priced ! But the goods news is you can get the original floyd he still uses of about 100 usd then i see the headstock is not Fender one on your guitar ....so what i would do is buy a and original Fender one and sent it to be painted fully black like this one and buy an original Fender logo again from the Fender factory and then you put Original JB Duncans which he is using nowdays and Presto !! You have an almlst original BG red NR guitar without the back antenna routing ! For me..., i would build one myself and the paint he used came from original Datsun 240Z (his car color paint as he said) ! So enjoy it man and btw AWEWOME PLAYER even without practice hours !! ENJOY THAT GEM AND YOU SURE DESERVE IT !
Dont care about not being the expensige model. Dont care about the lower string on last fretbisnalmost off the fretboard. Dont care about the premitive looking bridge. It sounds very expensive to me. Lots of sting and curl purr on the high strings and bouncy low end palm mute....
Read his story. You are jumping to conclusions. He bought that guitar as a box of parts. It was not even considered vintage at the time. He transformed it in the one of the most iconic guitars in the rock world. And you have a problem with that? Yeah, a butcher. Just like Les Paul.
@@maxmustardman298 Ah, the shortcomings of expression in print. I've seen enough of that sentiment expressed to easily take that as meant seriously. Glad to hear it as satire.
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I know this video is 3 years old, but it just came up in my feed (prob bc I recently saw that live Ozzy Video from 82’ & searched Brad, and now he comes up all the time). Anyway, I cut my teeth playing in metal bands from 89’ thru the early nineties. Every shredder friend of mine was into a certain guitar player like Tracii Guns or George Lynch. Someone as good as you knowing Night Ranger isn’t surprising, but having them be in your top 2 is, and I think that is awesome man! They are totally overlooked in the shredder world. I am subscribing to you. Thanks for sharing this video man!
This just finally showed up in mine too.
@@jime6688me three!!
Very sweet axe my dude. Gillis and Watson are severely underrepresented in the lexicon of 80's guitar duos ~ their licks and signature styles aren't explored nearly enough (Watson's 8 finger tapping and Gillis' musical use of the whammy bar).
You deserve the happiness that axe will bring. The tone is great as well. Keep rockin 🤘🏻
That is a gorgeous piece of work, that red fernandes.
Very cool score for sure. Brad is one of my biggest influences I got to hang out with Brad back in the 90s he was really cool. 👍🤘
Happy you got it.... love always your crazy honesty.... and the way you play... makes any guitar... stellar.
Thanks!
Jake, about this guitar..... this is my nr. One to play for about 28 years! They are fantastic for me and everything a guitar has to play! I wish i had two ore more..... thanx for posting! 🎯🪨🎯🥳
Man, just stumbled on to this channel....I'm a fan...BG is amazing live.
awwww man I wanted one of these back in the day and still do, now even more
Lucky you. It's one of my favourite guitars ever, even if Gillis is not my guitar hero. Enjoy it. Thanks for sharing. Greetings from Portugal.
Super cool video! Thanks for sharing! :D
I have a few Fernandes from back in the day. Fun memories
He said " it was alot bigger than he's used to"!
🤘🤣
Great video. Great playing and what an awesome guitar!!
It hangs proudly in my living room!
The trem was a "Head Banker", an early type of Floyd. Pretty sure some of them were still made by Schaller in Germany, without Floyd labeling.
I believe the correct term is called "head crasher"
Brad was definitely one of the early shred guys who helped start it. Night Ranger tore it up.
Dueling guitar kings!
Back in 85 when I was shopping for my first guitar, I knew I wanted a red one with a trem. I didn't know what Brad used, but I knew I wanted red with a trem. I ended up with an Ibanez Roadstar II (RS-440). As for Burny, I'd love to get an LP with a trem and sustainer. Brad said he had gotten the 3rd Floyd Rose that FR made when he was making them in his garage. EVH got the 2nd. Are you a White Lion fan? Vito Bratta was another phenomenal player.
Those Roadstars's are great guitars!
Our shop bought one in a while back and a co worker looked at me and said
"Damn get a Floyd and you basically have a Gillis Strat"
@@jaketanis3069 The trem on my Roadstar II was a beast. I beat the crap out of it and it always stayed in tune. The pickups however....sucked major donkey balls. I didn't even know it had coil tapping until my teacher reached over and pushed on the tone knob. The salesman at Sam Ash music never pointed that out.
I am kinda suspicious of the notion that they got the first three, as Adam Bomb (Brenner) was introducing Floyd Rose to big name guitarists to get them to hopefully buy Floyd's trem unit.
Nice guitar! I'm drooling! Unfortunate that Fernandez Guitars discontinued operations July 11, 2024 and filed for bankruptcy. His guitars will become ultra-rare. Better hold on to it!
It sounds pretty good, Jake! What string you got on it?
Very cool score! I always loved the guitar team of Brad and Jeff in Night Ranger, and always thought Speak of the Devil was an underrated album too. I've also always wondered if Brad makes it through an entire tour without having issues with his Floyds :)
PDX Guitar Freak no kidding! I’d love to see how he sets up his prototype style trems. Seems like a pain!
@@jaketanis3069check out my friends you tube.Masters of shred.with Brad Gillis if ur curious about his Floyd trem .
I have wanted one of these for a very long time.
ブラッド・ギルスのシグネチャーモデルをぜひフェンダーカスタムショップで制作して欲しいです。たしかに、フェルナンデスのブラッド・ギルスモデルは本人のところまで行って、ネックの太さとかを調べたりなど凄いフェルナンデスが意欲的だったと思います。しかし、本人はバラバラの状態でもらったフェンダーストラトキャスターを自分なりに改造して、最後は愛車フェアレディZの塗料と同じものをボディーに塗装したと言っていました。ブラッド・ギルスのレッスンビデオでした。ネックのところにイエローのフェンダーロゴのデカールを長年貼っていました。フェンダーさんの宣伝をしたということで、フェンダーUSAカスタムショップ製は難しいと思うので、フェンダーメイドインジャパン製のシグネチャーモデルをぜひ
お願いしたいです。細かな回路の問題はブラッド・ギルス本人に聞いてもらえば良いですかね これだけ長く続いている、ヘビーメタル、ハードロックの生き残りバンドとして、ブラッド・ギルス本人も
フェンダーの自分の一番お気に入りのギターを出してもらえばとても喜ぶと思います。ストラトタイプの赤に黒です。
どうも大変失礼致します。私の夢です。
give you a lil info on the the "pre-amp" I remember reading back in the day before it had the wireless it had an "alembic stratoblaster" preamp,, the same as in one of Zappas guitars and the Strat that Steve Vai played through his Zappa days and his Alkatrazz era, his brother helped him install the wireless and they just used the housing from the "stratoblaster".
I personally would set that one up blocked and hardtail or Schaller makes what they call a vintage bridge which is basically string through non-locking(fender style) Floyd rose replacement, it's super high quality and cuts down some of the string change effort.
you have a KILLER rare guitar there
Hi jake. Great review. How do i get the 06:50 sound. what type setup? Real Amp or pc setup? Please help me. Sorry for my bad english. Thanks :)
Thought he was playing a fender stratocaster?
Recently just picked up one i have the 1984 printed signature headstock
Very cool guitar and video.
I hate to tell you this but that is not one of the rare Brad Gillis Model Fernandes guitars. You have the version after his endorsement with Fernandes ended which is why it doesn't have his silk screened signature on the headstock and doesn't say "Brad Gillis Model" either. Owning two of these, I can tell you that his models had clearly marked " Floyd Rose" tremolos on top and the head stock used was identical to a Fender strat and are referred to as "lawsuit editions" since Fender threatened to sue if they didn't change it since they had the exclusive copyright on the Fender headstock shape. All of the Brad Gillis models had Fender lawsuit headstocks, Floyds and high output pick ups. (The pick guard was also 5 layers). You can try taking off the neck and seeing if the body has any markings like "BG" but that modified headstock is indicative of a cheaper version that Fernandes put out afterwards. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news but thought you should know. Cool looking guitar anyway.
You don't know as much as you think you do. That is indeed a signature BG guitar exactly as Jake says. I have one too, and I know of others. What *you* are describing do exist and are called "The Function" on the headstock. *Not* like Jakes and mine. And they were indeed individually signed by Brad, unlike the original ones that were silk screened. These were made a later run. Brad told me all of this in person when he added another signature to the back of the headstock on mine. That was in Dec 2016. And I have photo documentation. The floyd on mine was replaced with a decent german floyd with fine tuners but is otherwise stock in near perfect shape. So you are not bearing any bad news. Jake's is a real as can be. lh3.googleusercontent.com/pw/AM-JKLUA7EuFoTGlRbCbNMZx08vOPN4rhKKJZQDqD3qO34JOv27kPEenJLm9Dxj5is-CnU0iEzK3ylHFTxpgwAlp-PVvGFQIdkqwnbsTCe3EFbVJ_4NisYbp-fGedhgqx-pytvtyD1O16Q7GJztEN_q59Yh0=w1583-h890-no?authuser=0 Jake, let me know how I can reach you privately and I'll tell you a lot more!
This is true. I think Jake got had. If it makes him happy, it doesn't matter.
7 wishes tour sounded amazing.
Looks like Fernandes reproduced that one. Not a 1980's guitar, but decent enough. If it has jumbo frets, it's a good one. If it has medium jumbo frets, it's a Fernandes Function guitar and you got screwd if you paid over $650 for it. 😅
Nice guitar, but those strings are way off (2:51) centerline. What's up with that? The low E is falling off the heal of the fretboard. Alignment off.
I have a St 155Bg with signatur on the Neck. The Guitar have a 9v batterie under the pickguard.
I buy this Guitar in 1985 in Germany.
Greets from Germany😉👌
Nice Find!
Even though it was basically a Sabbath cover record, Just say Ozzy really showed off what he can do.
Speak of the devil double album
The cheap way into a Brad Gillis guitar is buy a Fernandes Function FST. They are all black. Just paint the body red and add a EMG 85 or 81 pickup. Frets will be medium jumbo. Replace frets if you want. Total will be $850.
Brad has a interview done in Sep of 2021 he said it was 100 Fernandez made.
A black nft would probably the best replacement floyd, given theyre gonna be available again at some point. Personally I would go for a schaller vintage trem if there wasnt already a locking nut on the neck. Floyd rose hassle no mas
I have one of the actual, less than 100 of the Signature Gillis models. Gillis signed the back of my headstock and he's tried to buy my guitar (were friends) but he ain't gettin' it! 🙂
I can totally believe that because I had exactly the same thing happen. I have one of those too, and know the story behind them too as told to me by Brad. Had him sign the back my headstock too. He really didn't know how many were done that way the signed himself. And no, they didn't say Brad Gillis Model on them. And yes he tried to buy mine back too. That was at a concert in Dec 2016.
@@kurtshubert4779 Mine DOES say Brad Gillis Model on it and totally knows how many were made now. It's a great sounding and feeling guitar
@@butchjones3497 Sorry, I thought you meant you had one of the ones like Jake's. How do you know how many of those were made? I know Brad said he did not know how many of the latter type like Jake's and mine were made.
@@kurtshubert4779 I don't even know how Jake got into this, when I was talking about the Gillis Fernandes. Brad told me how many Signature Models were made
@@butchjones3497 Jake "got into this" because he has a second type BG signature model that he tried to explain and I can confirm. How many did Brad say were made of the model you have?
How’s the action on it ?
very cool! I have fernandes BG155,
Very cool! If your bored shoot me some photos! I’d love to see it.
JacobT.tanis@gmail.com
Are you thinking about maybe adding a Floyd Rose non fine tuner or an 1984?
You need a partner on your show that looks exactly like Donald Fagan.
Big Brad fan but could not deal with that Middle pick-up never could play them with out hitting the middle pup . But Brads playing style and tone is what I dig about him the most not his Guitar ...
I always drop my middle pickup almost flush with the pick guard as I have the same problem.
Hate to be one of those...”i saw them back when” schmucks...but I saw them at college park Md...in the gym!!!...they just released Midnight Maddness...needless to say it was awesome....and that fernandes is freakin awesome...i love those old Japanese guitars!!!!
That would have been amazing!
Where can I buy one of those guitars
I do think it’s uncool that you got no reply from him about the guitar
Interesting point about what makes a guitar, 20% shape, 20% body, 20% neck, 20% hardware, 20% headstock logo.
Sounds like you asked for too much on this guitar
Brad Gillis doesn’t have 5 minutes to answer a question? Mr. Irrelevant can’t be that busy.
...sorry but none says nothing about Fernandes guitars, that are fantastic, these old models pre 1989 was made by Kawai, in Japan, and are better than other stuff more famous......
Absolutely right! I had a Fernandes Native with a sustainiac pickup. I really wish I still had it because I’ve never found another one like it.
That still is a cool guitar!!!! I bet you paid over $1500-$2000 for it!!!! I have noticed that any guitar from the 80s whether its made in the USA or Japan or even Korea are going for a lot of money today because of the cool factor and the demand!!!! It's almost like buying a classic muscle car!!!! But not!!!! Your a lucky dude!!!! I am a big fan of Night Ranger also!!!!!😄😄😃😄😃😄😀😃😄
Well i think is a rare guitar and MIJ but i think it was super over priced !
But the goods news is you can get the original floyd he still uses of about 100 usd
then i see the headstock is not Fender one on your guitar ....so what i would do
is buy a and original Fender one and sent it to be painted fully black like this one
and buy an original Fender logo again from the Fender factory and then you put
Original JB Duncans which he is using nowdays and Presto !!
You have an almlst original BG red NR guitar without the back antenna routing !
For me..., i would build one myself and the paint he used came from original Datsun 240Z (his car color paint as he said) !
So enjoy it man and btw AWEWOME PLAYER even without practice hours !!
ENJOY THAT GEM AND YOU SURE DESERVE IT !
I challenge you to a irvine meadows 1982 show wheres the whammy part contest .
WTF dude. Great guitar.
nice one..!!
原來我幼稚園時就有fernandes這個牌子
Hit after hit that I’ve never heard of after listening to metal for over 25 years
NoCaster 51' your loss
Still feel he was the best Ozzy guitarist live..by far
Jake resembles a mid 70s Walter Becker.
I build hyper accurate Brad Gillis replicas!! Feel free to hit me up...
Dont care about not being the expensige model. Dont care about the lower string on last fretbisnalmost off the fretboard. Dont care about the premitive looking bridge.
It sounds very expensive to me. Lots of sting and curl purr on the high strings and bouncy low end palm mute....
Enjoy your guitar! Don't sell it nor even lend it out!
Oh never. It is hung on my living room wall. Everyone that comes over is educated on Brad Gillis.
フェルナンデスは、実は偽物です‼️
ブラッドギルスは、当時
Fenderのカスタムを、ロゴを張り替えて使って、居ました❗
なんと❗
フェルナンデスのカタログに、その写真を見掛けた事が、あります‼️
大人の事情だったのでしょう。🤭
What in carnations....
Guitar volume way too low.
I'll give you 3000$
Hey buddy there's more guitar like that in websites.
omg a 62' strat was butchered for this...*angrily jumping around in circles*
Read his story. You are jumping to conclusions. He bought that guitar as a box of parts. It was not even considered vintage at the time. He transformed it in the one of the most iconic guitars in the rock world. And you have a problem with that? Yeah, a butcher. Just like Les Paul.
@@kurtshubert4779 that should have come across as ironic, I couldnt care less about the vintage stuff
@@maxmustardman298 Ah, the shortcomings of expression in print. I've seen enough of that sentiment expressed to easily take that as meant seriously. Glad to hear it as satire.