Why I Love My 1964 Fender Mustang Guitar
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- Опубликовано: 9 май 2019
- This is the story of my first guitar - a 1964 Fender Mustang. It's been a long and wonderful journey with this good musical friend! BTW, I got this guitar when Kurt Cobain was 5!
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When I was 10 years old, I finally convinced my mom to get me an electric guitar. She took me to a pawn shop where we got an old Truetone guitar ($25) and small Marlboro amp ($25). We didn’t have much money, so she had to put it on layaway.
That was many years ago. I now have a studio with Les Pauls, Strats, Teles, etc... tons of cool amps..... but that Truetone Guitar and Marlboro amp are worth more to me than all of that other stuff combined. Because my mom got them for me.
i was truly confused until i googled marlboro and found out it was also an amplifier company lmao
my first REAL guitar was a 1964 Fender Mustang. I sold it to my brother brother in the mid 70s when I quit playing (for a couple of decades actually.). He still has it. It now has two Fender wide range humbuckers from the 70s in it.
Cool!!!
That guitar was born when I was :D. My first electric was a Peavey T-15 into which I installed a Dimarzio Dual Sound at the bridge spot, along with a 6 position rotary switch (Thank you Donald Brosnac for writing that book Guitar Electronics; it made me the mod-happy maniac I am today :) ) for all possible coil combinations.
Traded that guitar in for something with a full scale (my fingers were never happy on that 23-1/2" scale) - a dirt cheap Hondo LP copy. It, too, came in for MAJOR modifications - new pickups, a bunch of teeny toggle switches for series parallel, phase, coil tapping, blablalbla, new pots, new pickguard, new tuning machines - so that at the end it was a completely different instrument. I loaned it to a friend years ago and he lost track of it. LordLORD do I miss that cheap beater guitar! :D
To this day, my main guitars are always heavily modified and rewired - my current #1 Ibanez ART-420 sports a Dim SuperII, Duncan JB, funky switching, and a Roland GK-3. Just picked up another GK-3 to install on my similarly-wired backup guitar. Love the versatility.
That guitar ROCKS!!!🔥🔥🔥
I have to agree. :-)
I like the natural finish, good move.
It's got history and Mojo....
That thing is awesome 🤘
I really like the Mustang line of guitars from Fender. My favorites are the Japanese Reissues (Crafted in Japan) models of the Mustang Bass. I've been looking for a vintage short-scale Fender (Duo-sonic or Mustang) for a while.
Ahh a true gem. Not because it's a killer guitar, history and life just pours from it.
I like the way you put that!! Thanks for sharing your story!
I also was 14 when I got my first guitar. It was a Yamaha C70 classical guitar. I still have it! And I still play with it and enjoy playing my first guitar, which reminds me of where I start being the musician I am today.
Yessss! I, and lots of others who have listened and written, can FEEL that link, the heritage of our past that runs through us, and links the people we were, the people we are, the people we will become, and the people we love and have loved. Thanks Bill, thanks listeners and writers,. Lovely stories, lovely humanity.
One of my favourite videos that you made!! Loved to hear the background story.
Bill, that is a cool guitar and you are a cool guitar player and a cool guy. I love Fender Mustangs.
Your story rings home, In 1970 my dad bought me a MIJ 6 string electric for $14 and him being an apartment house manager next to fort mounmouth NJ, I was not even told you needed and amp... I was only 9 and was miffed that it was so quiet, I was showing it off to a soldier and he said, "you need an amp!" lol, so like a couple years later I wired up a old console stereo amplifier, to this day I still like play electrics unplugged because I did it so must as my first guitar experience. lol
Oh yeah! Super distortion!!!!! Nice! Sounds great!
Great story, I did it too. Stripped a 60’s Gibson EB bass and loaded it with two used J-bass pick-ups. My son still plays it and it sounds great!
You nailed that finish, it's beautiful!
What a beauty and such an awesome birthday gift !
Awesome guitar. My dad has a 69 Fender Mustang that is all original and I love the way it plays and sounds
Great story!
It's a beautiful looking guitar! I'm glad you had kept it all of these years.
It looks great and sounds really really great. Congrats man
This is wonderful! I totally identify.. Sometimes I just take out at my ‘93 MIM Jazz Bass (which I’ve had since ‘94), and I’ll just stare at it and think about all we’ve been through. I have other basses, but this one is the most special to me 💖
Fun fact. Mark knopfler had the same issue like you, having a guitar but no amp. He also "build" his own out of a radio. I notice a pattern there... two amazing guitarists Starting without an amp maybe i have to sold mine. Great contant as always.
Great finish on the guitar and it rocks
This was a very beautiful video Mr Vencil. I still have my old Strat, and after some upgrades it's still one of my 3 main guitars!!! She was the first when I was 15 and I couldn't get rid of it Ever!
Surely you've got a passion for music. Cool story and keep rocking
You should play that more often :)
It may show up from time to time. Have to be in the mood for a really cramped fingerboard. :-)
Cool, 👍! That guitar is a time machine, you get to feel young again when you play it!
Such a lovely color of your guitar
I don't know how I missed this episode. Wow. Great guitar, great story! Never sell that guitar. I'm going to have my first guitar buried with me. Haha
You can plug a guitar into all kinds of equipment... no amplifier and then genius strikes. Ah, to be young again. Young at heart! ;)
The first guitar I ever bought was a 1966 Fender Mustang when I was 11 years old. Found it used in a second hand shop for $400. It also had the paint stripped and a super distortion added just like yours. Sure, it would be worth a lot more if it had it's original finish and parts but I 23 years later I wouldn't trade it for the world. I own dozens of guitars, but it is by far my favorite and no matter how much I've tried I have never been able to replicate the way it sounds.
Great story, thanks for sharing 😍
Thanks!
Great story and an amazing guitar , awesome man ya!
Dude that's a really cool guitar
Amazing guitar. Love natural finish.
It really cracked me up to find this video now that I’m tinkering with ambient guitar. I inherited a 1964 Mustang from my wife’s grandmother when we got married and she passed away. Over the years I did almost exactly the same things you did to yours except for choosing noiseless single coil pickups instead of humbuckers. It didn’t have quite the sentimental value for me that yours has for you. I just sold it this year for my first tube amp. A lot of great memories though.
I sold my first guitar a Hondo Les Paul copy but I kept the next one a Satalite 90t that I bought for £70 in a junk shop. I had it overhauled an now it's my main guitar for ambient work.
Woe! The playing was really out there, intense! Like vintage David Torn - hope he shelves the ebow and wishy-washy reverb to do some more of this - fantastic!
Hey! There it is! :)
sounds great!!
Thank you!!!
My first guitar/bass was a $75 used POS 3/4 scale bass from a friend of mine. Upgraded as soon as I could to a Peavey Foundation, then got a Mexican Deluxe Strat in honey blonde with all gold hardware as my first guitar.
Nice!!
That is super cool.
Mustangs and Duo Sonics are my favorite Fender guitars
Excellent!!!
That's a really cool guitar!
I have a 67 Mustang that has been modded into a super unique guitar, and has some amazing, beautiful wear on the neck. I've had it for 27 years now, and I'll never ever part with it.
I love it
This is somehow the second video I have seen of yours today, the other was about the baritone tele. I reallyyyyy dig both guitars, I have a MIM humbucker mustang, and it’s killer on slide. Me and my dad play in a two piece band together and it fills the sound so well
MIM Mustang with humbuckers? Nice!!
The first guitar I played was also a mid-60s originally red Mustang that the previous owner had painted over with hideous tan (like southwestern themed latex kitchen paint) ... the natural finish on yours is far superior ;)
🔥🔥🔥
Cool ax! I love Mustangs and may be getting one very soon. You mentioned having a Super Distortion in it at one time, but the pickups you have now have the basic PAF aesthetic. I was wondering what brand and model they are. I dig the tones.
Wow my dream guitar would be a 64 Fender Mustang! (Because Norah Jones has a 64) Awesome you still have the original tuners. They just look so beautiful. Love that you still hold onto it! 🙏
I have a 64 In the sea foam green color. It’s for sale…
Nice video Bill!
I did a similar thing with the Fender Strat I managed to persuade my parents to buy me in 1987 - stripped the paint off, changed the pickups/switches...
I will never part with it!
Excellent!!
My vintage mustang has its neck stamp as 8 NOV 64 B. Its also dakota red.
My first guitar was a Kramer Striker, but I sold it because I wanted an upgraded Japan made Kramer Focus with the locking Floyd rose.
This guitar is awesome! It reminds me of your Carvin in those early videos. Maybe it's because the pickups. :)
Bill your Prog Rock is showing....For a moment I thought Thijs van Leer was going to start yodeling.
Yikes! that would be scary! :-)
'64 Mustang: "Why did you do this to me?!?!?"
Maggie Osterberg Also a ‘64 Mustang when you drop a 5.0 L Coyote V8 in it 😂
Awesome, thanks for sharing your story. Also, having never played a Mustang I had no idea you could get a whammy effect by pressing the bridge like that!
Yes - since the tailpiece is the tremolo, it's easy to grab it and shake it. As a matter of fact, that is my preference over using a trem bar.
@@chordsoforion very interesting, thanks for the reply
@@chordsoforion that's interesting. when I finally got a whammy guitar (Ibanez rg series) I removed the whammy bar too. Now I can't find the whammy bar heh. I mostly used it for tremolo, not dive bombs so just pushing down on the bridge worked fine.
class of '76??? "74 wh*re corps" here. My first guitar was a used Cortez les paul from about 1976-ish. Japanese black beauty copy including actual gold plated hardware, and it is still all original and it still sounds better than my 2000 LP studio. ancient wood tone in the chambered LP. I got it for $165 in like 1978ish, used, after I compared it to a new Gibson les paul which I could not afford being a broke college kid. got my first pedals in about 1985-86 ish. I bought a boss HM-2 distortion and a Jim Dunlop Crybaby wah. I bought and sold several more distortion boxes but never found one as cool sounding as my HM-2 and I still have it. I added a fulltone deja-vibe, BAT pharaoh supreme fuzz and malekko delay along the way and those were my pedals until YOU SHOWED UP! now it's all about ambient pedals.
My first guitar is a squire bullet strat with the gilmour mod a mustang pickup in the neck a humbucker in the bridge and a single in the neck atleast for the moment
My first electric guitar was a '64 Mustang - paid $150 for it at a pawnshop. Cream with tortoiseshell pick-guard. But what I really kick myself over - there was a mint, closet '57 Stratocaster for sale in a music store near me - looked never played - for $1,000.
Nice!!!!
@@chordsoforion It was - but I sold it back in the day. Also bought and sold a '63 Stratocaster, 64 Jaguar, and blackface Bassman amp for what would be peanuts today!
What was your prog rock group called? I'd love to hear it
Tetelestai. Here's one of our albums (originally vinyl): tetelestai.bandcamp.com/
Very Pink Floyd-esque sir. You've come a long ways.
@@chordsoforion I'm so sorry, but THAT is the single worst band name I've ever heard..er..read. God only knows how you pronounced it. lmao
Wow you guys sounded great! Has some similarities to Phil Keaggy's music but still unique!
Классный обзор!
С электрогитарой я похоже-определился.
Здоровья!
И привет из России.)
I. Love. That. Axe.
Great story!
You hold on to that guitar till the day you die, or can't play anymore ;)
You were lucky to get a Mustang as your first guitar, it definitely beats cutting your teeth on a frustrating Danelectro or Harmony. Cool that you still have it, definitely pass it on to your kids.
Id say you should use it and see if it works as a contrasting tone to the ambient baritone.
May i say that it has to have some form of layer on it (even human grease) 😂 otherwise mold would form or termites would bite it😅
(or at least that's the way it is here at 70%+ humidity places)
Hello, I bought recently a 65 mustang as yours (natural color, without Daphne blue nitro ). I love your mods. Can you tell me how you did them ? Especially the fixation system of the humuckers. Because normally I think there is no place enough in the body to put 2 Humbuckers. So I need some explanation or picture to understand how I can do. Regards? Fred (from Bordeaux, France).
How do the mustangs tremolo compare to Jazzmasters / Jaguars?
Sorry to be picky but the video description says 1946. Great first guitar, Bill. Mine was a Hondo Les Paul copy with a bolt on neck back in 1981, I still have that too even though I played it to death.
Oops! Thanks for the head's up and it is fixed. Great to hear you still have the Hondo. Some of those are amazingly good considering price!
Mr Vencil. Great sound! What are those pickups?
The neck is an old 70s vintage Gibson humbucker, the bridge is a Dimarzio Super Distortion.
Great! Thank you. Loved the new series and hearing your thoughts about music in general. Cheers!
Great guitar! Do you own any other offsets?
Thanks! Not sure what you mean by offset though.
@@chordsoforion offsets are mustangs, jaguars and jazzmasters in Fender world. And many of similar shaped guitars of other brands. ;)
Gotcha - and I only own just the one.
It's amazing how different the guitar industry is from the modern gadget industry, you could buy a used guitar and it will last you a lifetime, while with gadgets you have to change the device every few years, otherwise you will find yourself with an unusable piece of plastic
Great point. Unfortunately, I think some of that gadget disposability has entered into the guitar space, in particular with amp modeling types of gear. Not sure that I will be using the same amp modelers 20 years from now (assuming I am healthy enough to be playing), but I will still have the Mustang.
Please drag out the mustang more often and jam to some drum tracks. That would be way cool!!
Yes the finish looks great but that fingerboard looks FLAWLESS
Links for your old Prog Rock band please!!!
Here ya go: tetelestai.bandcamp.com/
Sir I am plabning to get a mustang because my back hurts with larger guitar. Can it play heavy metal Sir 🥹Thank you Sir😊
hi Bill! What was the name of your prog rock band?Can we find something on youtube?
Kirk Kobain!
...time to plug it into the UD stomp and Big Sky.
With humbuckers on it. that's NOT a Fender Mustang, that's a Frankencrap. A Mustang is a Mustang when it SOUNDS LIKE A FENDER MUSTANG, not a thin Les Paul.
Hello - Please watch the video before making stupidly ignorant comments. Love - Chords of Orion.
Those HBs ruined it
Like I said in the video, the follies of youth...