yes, you are absolutely right. I was just thinking the same when I came across your post. I totally feel, that he is under-appreciated or not as well known/ popular as many of the other great players... I truly love the Live Album, the silver one... with songs such as 'A 100% Alcohol' and other great songs... I wish I had seen and heard him play live... He must have been a real force on stage... Keep listening to good ol' Mr. Rory Gallagher... I'm glad someone introduced me to him when I was still young learning to play this amazing instrument... I'm an all Fender Strat guy... I think I was lucky when I found a 2019 Mexican Fender Strat... this thingy plays so well, flows like juice, nice and sounds amazing
Thanks - glad you enjoyed it. Sadly, this was my last interview with Rory before his untimely death. We were friends for years - and it was important for the director Michael Bayley Hughes and myself to ensure Rory featured prominently. There maybe a future release of the uncut version of the full Rory interview with me.
Great documentary!If i didn’t know Rory being Irish,you would swear he was born somewhere in the mississipi delta! Great feel and soul. A worthy member of the fender family!
I absolutely loved this documentary. Admittedly, I was excited to see Clapton as he is my main source of inspiration in picking up the guitar and loving the Stratocaster. It's a shame that he couldn't make it, but so many other idols of mine are here. What a truly wonderful documentary. Thank you for this great piece of work!
There's a line of dialogue near the end of No Country For Old Men... "It's not just the one thing, Ed Tom... it's not just the one thing". When you think of some of the great players - Hendrix, Knopfler, Steve Miller, Albert Lee, Vince Gill, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jeff Beck, Clapton, etc. - all playing a Strat, set up the way they like it through the pedals and amps that give them the signature sound they like. Same guitar, completely different sounds in each case - that, boys and girls, is versatility.
Seems like the interviews are from the 80’s, the one with Sonny Curtis in the car was pretty cool. Because you could see out the window all the 80’s cars , brought back memories. Funny, the remarks Don Randall made about Leo Fender, not even wanting to credit him with any of the success of the company. His remarks around 11:00 - 12:30 , are less than flattering. Thanks to Mr. Leo Fender and his hard work and imagination, we have many amazing instruments and amps to play.
Would anyone have heard of Don Randall if Leo Fender hadn't been so driven to perfect the electric guitar that remains almost unchanged more than a half-century later?
One of the best Stratocaster performances I ever witnessed was Robin Trower at Winterland in S.F. He created his own atmosphere, filling the room with tone and sustain. Astonishing. 🕉
What a fantastic documentary - thanks so much for sharing. Many of these players were massive influences on me as a kid and I'm lucky enough to own a few Strats now....
WoW. Good Day & Thank You For Posting This Wonderful Film. I've been a drummer since 1964 and some guitar. I have owned 3 Strats over the years. In 2022, I bought a new HSS American Ultra Stratocaster from Fender. I personally I love it. But then, I'm mostly a drummer...
I can't imagine a world where the Strat didn't exist. It made music cool and invited the whole world to come along for the ride. Cheap, playable instruments that changed lives in a positive way. Leo certainly earned his good name and all of the success that came with it.
Thank you so much … it was a lot of hard work for just three of us - but we secured some great Strat players. We tried Eric Clapton - but his management weren’t interested in cooperating - whereas people like Mark Knopfler Rory Gallagher and Jeff Beck couldn’t have been more helpful
The reason Fender instruments were so expensive, was Don Randall. Leo sold his stuff to Randall (Fender Sales), then Randall doubled the price and wholesaled them to stores, who then doubled the price for retail sales. Al Jardine absolutely nailed it: Buddy Holly got Fender off the launch pad. I started playing on my brother's brand new 1960 Jazzmaster. But MY OWN first guitar, was a 1954 Stratocaster my dad gifted me on Christmas morning, 1963. And Holly was the reason I wanted a Stratocaster. And yeh. I did that same staring at that album. And yeh. HOLLY influenced -- directly and indirectly -- more musicians across history, than any other musician. Flame maple is not as strong as plain maple. But neck thickness is the antidote for that twisting silliness. From my own autobiography: STRATOCASTERS: MY CONTINUED LOVE AFFAIR "Some time passed after the Jazzmaster came home, and eventually a new hi-fi came along and then a few record albums started showing up. There was one in particular that I would just sit and stare at. There it was, this guitar on the album cover. It must have been a guitar, but it sure didn't look like a guitar. What in the world was that thing? There it was, right next to that Gibson ES-225TD. Now, that looked like a guitar. But that other thing...that was not a guitar. My brother finally told me that that "that," was a "Stratocaster." Well, what on earth was a "Stratocaster"? It's that thing, he said. And that thing caught my eye, lit up my world and knocked me out like nothing else ever had. Even his real Jazzmaster, as new and shiny and great as it was, was not that thing in that little picture on that album cover. Now, Buddy Holly must have known what guitar to buy, and what guitar to play. After all, he was way ahead of his time as a writer, singer and player. And he knew enough to choose a futuristic guitar that was equal to his talents--a three-pickupped tone machine that perfectly matched his multi-hickupped vocal style." I REALLY appreciate the humility that Beck and Marvin and Gallagher and Cray, brought to this speak-out. And they are right. That neck is everything. That, from a player of 63+ years. Nicely done, folks ... nicely done.
Leo Fender being one sided was probably because he was so intelligent that he lived in his own head. He was probably the only person smart enough to understand what his designs were about. He was thinking about perfection because he was a true visionary artist just like Picasso, and he wanted his designs to be eternal. That's why he was able to get it right the first time. He done the same thing the inventor of the boomerang did. His guitars are like Hendrix songs in that they can never be improved upon. RIP Great Man.
That was great documentary thanks very much I really enjoyed it, except for Al Jardine who does not strike me as a guitar player. The interviews with Hank Marvin really showed how he got his original style.
I love the look and the sound of Strats but I've never been able to bond with them. I've gone through many however I've had the same Telecaster for 25 years.
Who played that outro solo? Incredible energy tone and playing. The Stratocaster is my favorite guitar. I have a few I play all the time. Thank you Leo Fender! You changed the world.
Henry Mancini had a soldi body electric guitar in his full orchestra back in the 1960s and it was almost always a Fender Stratocatser with a Vox AC30 amplifier. There might also be a rhythm guitarist playing a Jazz box made by Gibson, Guild, USA made Epiphone, Stromberg, or D'Angelico. All the solo stuff was usually done with a Strat though. Enio Moricone also had a guitarist with a Stratocatser in his orchestral performances. Moricone's performances used a plethora of Fender amps too.
@facettekop4323 yep… I really wanted Buddy in there - and it took some hard work to locate him. When I was a kid, I used to look at the photographs taken by Bob Perine for those early Fender catalogues… and Buddy looked so cool with a Strat or a Jazzmaster. It was an honour for me personally to be invited to his home - but sad to find he didn’t even own any of the Fender guitars from all those years with the Lawrence Welk Orchestra. Richard McDonald gave me a sunburst Strat to take to Buddy’s SoCal home to film … but we had to return it to Fender. I was saddened that Fender didn’t recognise Buddy’s importance and gift him a Strat… but that’s how it goes. His own recordings were right there with Les Paul virtuosity. We remained friends until his death.
Ry's modifications to his Strats, with an Oahu lap steel pickup at the bridge and a Japanese Teisco gold-foil pickup at the neck, spurred a generation of players to build their own "Cooder-Casters". Those Valco-built lap steel pickups (also found on Supro and National lap steels) are amazing; very high output and excellent string definition even with lots of distortion (listen to David Lindley playing Mercury Blues for a taste). Lollar makes modern reissues of those pickups now so that you don't have to cannibalize a vintage lap steel in order to build a Cooder-Caster. There are several videos on RUclips about building and repairing Cooder-Casters, and a funny "Lost Guitars" video of David Lindley and Jackson Browne singing to Ry, asking him to return the Cooder-Caster he borrowed from Jackson!
Nice and entertaining, there's was a bit of Hendrix, but not enough, perhaps due to copyrights issues, but he's very important when we talk about Fender guitars.
Iconic indeed.. but, so is the Fender Telecaster (which I favor) and Gibson Les Paul's , and maybe throw in the 335. So I wouldn't say 'unmatched'.. but that's your choice. The Stratocaster body IS the most copied. They're tools. Different tools for different jobs, plus preference. I enjoy my Strats too.
Classic 50's and 60"s guitars are masterpieces of design,and Strats are serious contenders in case there was a contest,but there is not,and all we can do is enjoy them all and pick the ones you love more.
I can listen to Mark Knofler and Ry Cooder talk about music and guitars all day, the others all great players undoubtedly, but great as they are, singularity or collectivey, they're not Ry Cooder and Mark Knofler. Great video!
" There was just one instrument of progress that the people on the island of Bokono were interested in: the electric guitar". Kurt Vonnegut Jr, from "Cat's Cradle"
I frankensteined a home made tele body(chambered meranti with maple top), mated it to a 24.75 scale neck and (currently) filtertrons in it. Wired to a 3 way switch and a volume pot. Done. It has been drilled, routed and battered over the years but it's still my main weapon of choice. It's not pretty bit it's mine
I swear, when Jeff Beck popped up, I thought it was Nigel Tufnel from Spinal Tap. I realized instantly that Nigel is actually Jeff Beck. Sooo f funny. If you listen to some Beck interviews, there's no question. 😁
I am a guitar player and play strats and own 4. Own no other guitars. The strat model is the only guitar i can and want to play.think bout to buy my fifth...
Excellent documentary: I wish someone would do a doc this good on the Telecaster, or on the Fender amps. If anybody does a doc about Telecasters, be sure to include Tab Benoit and his battered Tele Thinline; and perhaps Steve Morse and his Franken-Tele if he still.owns it. PS, two of my favorite Strat-spankers are Richard Thompson, and Sonny Landreth, sadly not seen here.
@bobhewitt5047 , yeah, I'm watching it now. Nice job; thanks! PS, Arlen Roth and Duke Levine would have been good additions to the Telecaster Documentary, as well as Tab Benoit. GE Smith is currently touring as part of the Telecaster Masters with Jim Weider; and Duke Levine with Club d'Elf. There's RUclips video of GE playing duets with David Lindley (a longtime personal favorite) on lap steel; Lindley said GE knows a lot about amps, something to bear in mind if you or anyone ever does a doc about amps. David only very rarely played a Telecaster, but was instrumental in helping Cooder acquire pickups for his Cooder-Caster, as noted in the Strat video. In another video, David said that JJ Cale beat him to a bucket of P-90's in a music store by just minutes! There's a RUclips video titled "The Lost Guitars" where David and Jackson Browne are singing about wanting Ry to return a Cooder-Caster borrowed from Jackson! Interesting that Robert Cray never mentioned his liking for Magnatone amps; as an audio repair tech ( now retired), I've refurbished a half-dozen old Maggies. Neil Young likes them as well. On the subject of Strats, there's a video of Sonny Landreth at the Pistoia Blues Festival where he's playing a fiery version of "Native Stepson" through a Strat and Marshall borrowed from Cray because none of Sonny's gear arrived at the festival. Even through somebody else's gear, Sonny still sounds like Sonny! As for me, I have a Mexican-made James Burton Tele (bought from a pawnshop for $125 several decades ago) that is a very good guitar, but unfortunately, when I play it, I still sound like myself! 😖
@@goodun2974 Duke Levine is a friend of mine - and I interviewed him for Guitarist Magazine. We’re meeting up this summer when he’s back on tour with Bonnie Raitt. He’s one of the most toneful players - love his music.
@bobhewitt5047 , I have his record "Nobody's Home" and really like it, though I didn't much care for "Country Soul Guitar". I saw him playing with Mary Chapin Carpenter at the Newport Folk Fest many years ago. He's a great player, although I don't know quite what to make of his Club d'Elf project.
Few people know that C Guest's father was a diplomat and that the entire family spent years living in England when Christopher was young. So no the accent was pretty spot on and not "fake".
Except that Muddy played a Telecaster! Relatively few slide guitar specialists play Teles....Danny Gatton played slide on his with a half-full beer bottle that foamed up all over the guitar! (Austin City Limits tv show)
Best combination is individual switches (one for each PU) + 'Delta tone', one tonality for the neck PU and the second one for both (delta) the middle PU + Bridge PU !
Fixed bridges sound different than a floating bridge (tremolo). A great thing about old Strats is that the PU's are very low gain, very sensitive to amp volume , sound sweet !
A compelling film with an oddly incomplete collection of "masters". I loved seeing Rory, but where's Richie Blackmore, Clapton, Gilmore, SRV, Eric Johnson?
People forget to mention, that, by that time the 'tremolo' could only be used mildly or at the end of the song, and then you had to re-tune the guitar. Floyd Rose really completed and extended the instruments vocabulary, imho ...
The funny thing is that James Burton was endorsing Rickenbackers at the time the Shadows order that Strat. Even funnier ithtat Burton was playing with his backing group, the Shadows. Totally different band.
The (British) Shadows with Hank Marvin were originally Ciff Richard's backing band. I wasn't aware that James Burton had a band of the same name but there was also a Chicago based blues rock band that called themselves the Shadows of Knight. PS, I have a late 1990's Mexican-made James Burton Tele in a weird sort of paisley-adjacent finish, its a very good guitar (cost me $125 with case from a pawn shop a couple decades ago! The nut was cracked and needed replacement so I was able to knock them down on the price a little).
Imho sunburnt was done to create the look of an archtop via lighter colors look closer than dark colors in paintings, and the main objection to fenders was they were flat so looks less flat
When you want an electric guitar, there is only Fender. I could not choose between the Tele and Strat, they are totally different guitars. However, to me, the Tele looks better.
Rory...... wow! I never saw this interview with him. Not enough interviews with this man. A true great!
yes, you are absolutely right. I was just thinking the same when I came across your post. I totally feel, that he is under-appreciated or not as well known/ popular as many of the other great players... I truly love the Live Album, the silver one...
with songs such as 'A 100% Alcohol' and other great songs... I wish I had seen and heard him play live... He must have been a real force on stage... Keep listening to good ol' Mr. Rory Gallagher... I'm glad someone introduced me to him when I was still young learning to play this amazing instrument... I'm an all Fender Strat guy... I think I was lucky when I found a 2019 Mexican Fender Strat... this thingy plays so well, flows like juice, nice and sounds amazing
@apriltoronto5254 nothing wromg with a good mexi! I have one myself. Some have better necks than Americans ive played.
They asked Hendrix what it's like to be the greatest guitar player in the world. He said I wouldn't know, you should ask Rory Gallagher.
Great film and with so much Rory Gallagher, deservedly so for the subject matter.
Thanks - glad you enjoyed it.
Sadly, this was my last interview with Rory before his untimely death.
We were friends for years - and it was important for the director Michael Bayley Hughes and myself to ensure Rory featured prominently.
There maybe a future release of the uncut version of the full Rory interview with me.
@@bobhewitt5047 It's remarkable how loyal Rory was to that one guitar! It has "been through the wars"!
@ absolutely Ted … Rory loved that Stratocaster
Couldn’t agree more 👍🏻
Noel is my favourite Gallagher
Best documentary on the Strat I've seen , brilliant . 🇬🇧
@@johnnybeer3770 Cheers Johnny😃🎸
I àgree.I have a custom strat 2012 absolutely love my strat!!
I was honored to play a small part in this excellent film. Great work Michael and Bob.
@@eskopp A BIG PART from our perspective Evan - you are ‘the voice of Stratmasters’ …
We’re honoured that you participated.
Thank you,@@bobhewitt5047
Rory was nothing short of an amazing guitarist! He had such a great sound to his playing style....
@@joeyricci3796 absolutely Joey👍🏻
Great documentary!If i didn’t know Rory being Irish,you would swear he was born somewhere in the mississipi delta!
Great feel and soul.
A worthy member of the fender family!
Wow~! Great piece! Yeah, the Strat is (and always has been) a fantastic axe! Thank you Leo Fender and Team Fender!
I'm really enjoying this great video, especially sitting here playing my 1962 Sunburst Strat !
I absolutely loved this documentary. Admittedly, I was excited to see Clapton as he is my main source of inspiration in picking up the guitar and loving the Stratocaster. It's a shame that he couldn't make it, but so many other idols of mine are here. What a truly wonderful documentary. Thank you for this great piece of work!
Thanks so much for introducing me to Rory Gallagher. He's absolutely amazing. The best guitarists I never heard of!
I'm convinced that Christopher Guest modeled his British accent from Jeff Beck in the movie This is Spinal Tap
There was a period there where Beck spoke, dressed and acted exactly like Guest's character. I'm convinced too.
@@danarcotta1283 they’re like twins…😂
100%!
@@Cankersaurus11th thumbs up 👍
@jesusislukeskywalker4294 110%! 🙂
There's a line of dialogue near the end of No Country For Old Men... "It's not just the one thing, Ed Tom... it's not just the one thing". When you think of some of the great players - Hendrix, Knopfler, Steve Miller, Albert Lee, Vince Gill, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jeff Beck, Clapton, etc. - all playing a Strat, set up the way they like it through the pedals and amps that give them the signature sound they like. Same guitar, completely different sounds in each case - that, boys and girls, is versatility.
Great video Bob - thank you for sharing.
Great job on the making of this. Love my G&L CLF S-500 prototype. Great fun to play and can do a ton of different styles.
This is great! Thank you so much for sharing! ✌️
Seems like the interviews are from the 80’s, the one with Sonny Curtis in the car was pretty cool. Because you could see out the window all the 80’s cars , brought back memories. Funny, the remarks Don Randall made about Leo Fender, not even wanting to credit him with any of the success of the company. His remarks around 11:00 - 12:30 , are less than flattering. Thanks to Mr. Leo Fender and his hard work and imagination, we have many amazing instruments and amps to play.
Would anyone have heard of Don Randall if Leo Fender hadn't been so driven to perfect the electric guitar that remains almost unchanged more than a half-century later?
@@RickMcCargar Would anyone have heard of Fender Musical Instruments if there was not Don Randall who did the marketing for Leo Fender?
One of the best Stratocaster performances I ever witnessed was Robin Trower at Winterland in S.F. He created his own atmosphere, filling the room with tone and sustain. Astonishing. 🕉
What a fantastic documentary - thanks so much for sharing. Many of these players were massive influences on me as a kid and I'm lucky enough to own a few Strats now....
...loving every second of this... Many many thanks Bob...
Rory was so great. Love that interview with him.
Best documentary on Fender I've ever seen. Hands down!😉
@@mikebozik 🙏🏻
This is very, very nicely done! Thanks for making it available.
“Don Randall and the Fender sales team” sounds like a good 50s band name lol.
@@josephpark18254 😃🤣
Cool video on Fender and the Stratocaster.
WoW. Good Day & Thank You For Posting This Wonderful Film. I've been a drummer since 1964 and some guitar. I have owned 3 Strats over the years. In 2022, I bought a new HSS American Ultra Stratocaster from Fender. I personally I love it. But then, I'm mostly a drummer...
I can't imagine a world where the Strat didn't exist. It made music cool and invited the whole world to come along for the ride. Cheap, playable instruments that changed lives in a positive way. Leo certainly earned his good name and all of the success that came with it.
cheap? not anymore
@@huanton2manyWeren't cheap then either. It confuses me how many young folk, especially young musicians, back then had a months wage to buy them.
@@Peterbrendanalbert , the Telecaster, and especially the one pickup Esquire version, were cheaper than the Strat.
They were never cheap😮
Can you imagine!?
Absolutely WONDERFUL video!
Thank you 🙏
Thank you so much … it was a lot of hard work for just three of us - but we secured some great Strat players.
We tried Eric Clapton - but his management weren’t interested in cooperating - whereas people like Mark Knopfler Rory Gallagher and Jeff Beck couldn’t have been more helpful
@@bobhewitt5047
I'm willing to bet management never even mentioned it to Eric.....
Thank you none the less!!!!!!!!!!
Super Awesome... Strats Rock☕🎸
The reason Fender instruments were so expensive, was Don Randall. Leo sold his stuff to Randall (Fender Sales), then Randall doubled the price and wholesaled them to stores, who then doubled the price for retail sales. Al Jardine absolutely nailed it: Buddy Holly got Fender off the launch pad. I started playing on my brother's brand new 1960 Jazzmaster. But MY OWN first guitar, was a 1954 Stratocaster my dad gifted me on Christmas morning, 1963. And Holly was the reason I wanted a Stratocaster. And yeh. I did that same staring at that album. And yeh. HOLLY influenced -- directly and indirectly -- more musicians across history, than any other musician.
Flame maple is not as strong as plain maple. But neck thickness is the antidote for that twisting silliness.
From my own autobiography:
STRATOCASTERS: MY CONTINUED LOVE AFFAIR
"Some time passed after the Jazzmaster came home, and eventually a new hi-fi came along and then a few record albums started showing up. There was one in particular that I would just sit and stare at.
There it was, this guitar on the album cover. It must have been a guitar, but it sure didn't look like a guitar. What in the world was that thing? There it was, right next to that Gibson ES-225TD. Now, that looked like a guitar. But that other thing...that was not a guitar. My brother finally told me that that "that," was a "Stratocaster." Well, what on earth was a "Stratocaster"? It's that thing, he said. And that thing caught my eye, lit up my world and knocked me out like nothing else ever had. Even his real Jazzmaster, as new and shiny and great as it was, was not that thing in that little picture on that album cover.
Now, Buddy Holly must have known what guitar to buy, and what guitar to play. After all, he was way ahead of his time as a writer, singer and player. And he knew enough to choose a futuristic guitar that was equal to his talents--a three-pickupped tone machine that perfectly matched his multi-hickupped vocal style."
I REALLY appreciate the humility that Beck and Marvin and Gallagher and Cray, brought to this speak-out. And they are right. That neck is everything. That, from a player of 63+ years. Nicely done, folks ... nicely done.
Excellent Video really enjoyed it, your certainly a man of exquisite taste ❤😊
Leo Fender being one sided was probably because he was so intelligent that he lived in his own head. He was probably the only person smart enough to understand what his designs were about. He was thinking about perfection because he was a true visionary artist just like Picasso, and he wanted his designs to be eternal. That's why he was able to get it right the first time. He done the same thing the inventor of the boomerang did. His guitars are like Hendrix songs in that they can never be improved upon. RIP Great Man.
Thanks for posting this rare gem of a video!
Thank you!! Big Strat Fan...
Great video.. loved the first batch of custom colors, one of them is a carbon copy of General Motors Orchid
Great film, thank you very much!!
Fantastic 🥰 Thank you very much!
Love the sound track to the factory visit 🤟
Rory is the best possible intro to a documentary called Strat Masters. He was the greatest.
That was great documentary thanks very much I really enjoyed it, except for Al Jardine who does not strike me as a guitar player. The interviews with Hank Marvin really showed how he got his original style.
I love the look and the sound of Strats but I've never been able to bond with them. I've gone through many however I've had the same Telecaster for 25 years.
Who played that outro solo? Incredible energy tone and playing. The Stratocaster is my favorite guitar. I have a few I play all the time. Thank you Leo Fender! You changed the world.
Great strat docu! 🔥🎸
Strats are where its at...
It's also the most copied electric...copied all over. I believe Freddy Tavares designed the body-not Fender who could not play
I have this on DVD, with a signed letter from yourself stating mine was the first copy sent out :-) Crai Evans. Hope you're well Bob
@@christinezuazua2218 oh brilliant…👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Henry Mancini had a soldi body electric guitar in his full orchestra back in the 1960s and it was almost always a Fender Stratocatser with a Vox AC30 amplifier. There might also be a rhythm guitarist playing a Jazz box made by Gibson, Guild, USA made Epiphone, Stromberg, or D'Angelico. All the solo stuff was usually done with a Strat though. Enio Moricone also had a guitarist with a Stratocatser in his orchestral performances. Moricone's performances used a plethora of Fender amps too.
Awesome! Great account!
Mr Cray what a great humble man,not to mention one of the best guitars players of all time
Thanks for this. Great job 👍
So nice to see Buddy Merril, really great player!!
@facettekop4323 yep… I really wanted Buddy in there - and it took some hard work to locate him.
When I was a kid, I used to look at the photographs taken by Bob Perine for those early Fender catalogues… and Buddy looked so cool with a Strat or a Jazzmaster.
It was an honour for me personally to be invited to his home - but sad to find he didn’t even own any of the Fender guitars from all those years with the Lawrence Welk Orchestra.
Richard McDonald gave me a sunburst Strat to take to Buddy’s SoCal home to film … but we had to return it to Fender.
I was saddened that Fender didn’t recognise Buddy’s importance and gift him a Strat… but that’s how it goes.
His own recordings were right there with Les Paul virtuosity.
We remained friends until his death.
THX from France, great share
Fender The Noise Heard Around The World! Peace & Love!🐶🐶
Ry’s strat is the best looking I’ve ever seen.
The sound also probably amazing.
Ry's modifications to his Strats, with an Oahu lap steel pickup at the bridge and a Japanese Teisco gold-foil pickup at the neck, spurred a generation of players to build their own "Cooder-Casters". Those Valco-built lap steel pickups (also found on Supro and National lap steels) are amazing; very high output and excellent string definition even with lots of distortion (listen to David Lindley playing Mercury Blues for a taste). Lollar makes modern reissues of those pickups now so that you don't have to cannibalize a vintage lap steel in order to build a Cooder-Caster. There are several videos on RUclips about building and repairing Cooder-Casters, and a funny "Lost Guitars" video of David Lindley and Jackson Browne singing to Ry, asking him to return the Cooder-Caster he borrowed from Jackson!
Very interesting. Thanks for this.
Very good documentary.
Apache was the first song I learned to play.
Thanks you, Leo !
Thank you, Bob !
This is so good thank you. ❤
@@brynjones7371 you’re more than welcome Bryn…👍🏻
Best. Guitar they ever Build Thx Leo🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸
Second best! Thx Leo😅
My first Stratocaster 🎸🪓 changed my playing and my life. Thanks, Dad. ❤
Nice and entertaining, there's was a bit of Hendrix, but not enough, perhaps due to copyrights issues, but he's very important when we talk about Fender guitars.
@@davidescozzi9885 lots of copyright issues David … we’d never have released the film if we’d waited for all the permissions…
I grew up in anaheim next to fullerton i remember going to fender co.with my older brother.in the early 60s
@@markcooper9063 wow… what an experience that must have been👍🏻
Wow ! I wish my factory surroundings had been like that while growing up. Cheers
Stratocasters stand alone. Unmatched by any other guitar!
Absolutely… glad you enjoyed our film
Iconic indeed.. but, so is the Fender Telecaster (which I favor) and Gibson Les Paul's , and maybe throw in the 335. So I wouldn't say 'unmatched'.. but that's your choice. The Stratocaster body IS the most copied. They're tools. Different tools for different jobs, plus preference. I enjoy my Strats too.
Very few Jazz players play Strats. The tele of is used in country, Jazz, rock, blues so I’d say the Tele is unmatched,
Classic 50's and 60"s guitars are masterpieces of design,and Strats are serious contenders in case there was a contest,but there is not,and all we can do is enjoy them all and pick the ones you love more.
Same goes for the Telecaster!
Robert cray is incredible live, my favorite player.
💜 Lovely !
entertaining and informative🤠
I can listen to Mark Knofler and Ry Cooder talk about music and guitars all day, the others all great players undoubtedly, but great as they are, singularity or collectivey, they're not Ry Cooder and Mark Knofler. Great video!
A Great Video and a Big Credit and Thumbs Up to Michael Bayley-Hughes too.
@@EDouglasPowell it was Mike’s dream … I just got all the players sorted and interviewed them
Ry Cooder gives a class on guitar. Wow.
" There was just one instrument of progress that the people on the island of Bokono were interested in: the electric guitar". Kurt Vonnegut Jr, from "Cat's Cradle"
Stratocaster with 24.75" neck = Superb-most!!!
What? That's not their scale length. It's 25.5
I frankensteined a home made tele body(chambered meranti with maple top), mated it to a 24.75 scale neck and (currently) filtertrons in it. Wired to a 3 way switch and a volume pot. Done. It has been drilled, routed and battered over the years but it's still my main weapon of choice. It's not pretty bit it's mine
Great film! Thank you. - It has such low resolution (360) which is a shame.
My Stevie Ray Vaughan. ❤❤❤❤ Nothin' like a Stat man. ❤❤❤❤
I swear, when Jeff Beck popped up, I thought it was Nigel Tufnel from Spinal Tap. I realized instantly that Nigel is actually Jeff Beck. Sooo f funny. If you listen to some Beck interviews, there's no question. 😁
Thank you for opening with RORY GALLAGHER, jAN S
Very very interesting.
I am a guitar player and play strats and own 4. Own no other guitars. The strat model is the only guitar i can and want to play.think bout to buy my fifth...
Perhaps what you need now is a Cooder-Caster style of Strat.
Hughie Thomasson from the Outlaws
Excellent documentary: I wish someone would do a doc this good on the Telecaster, or on the Fender amps. If anybody does a doc about Telecasters, be sure to include Tab Benoit and his battered Tele Thinline; and perhaps Steve Morse and his Franken-Tele if he still.owns it. PS, two of my favorite Strat-spankers are Richard Thompson, and Sonny Landreth, sadly not seen here.
@@goodun2974 our telecaster film is on here…
Sadly, obstructive management prevented us including many great players that you mention
@bobhewitt5047 , yeah, I'm watching it now. Nice job; thanks! PS, Arlen Roth and Duke Levine would have been good additions to the Telecaster Documentary, as well as Tab Benoit. GE Smith is currently touring as part of the Telecaster Masters with Jim Weider; and Duke Levine with Club d'Elf. There's RUclips video of GE playing duets with David Lindley (a longtime personal favorite) on lap steel; Lindley said GE knows a lot about amps, something to bear in mind if you or anyone ever does a doc about amps. David only very rarely played a Telecaster, but was instrumental in helping Cooder acquire pickups for his Cooder-Caster, as noted in the Strat video. In another video, David said that JJ Cale beat him to a bucket of P-90's in a music store by just minutes! There's a RUclips video titled "The Lost Guitars" where David and Jackson Browne are singing about wanting Ry to return a Cooder-Caster borrowed from Jackson!
Interesting that Robert Cray never mentioned his liking for Magnatone amps; as an audio repair tech ( now retired), I've refurbished a half-dozen old Maggies. Neil Young likes them as well.
On the subject of Strats, there's a video of Sonny Landreth at the Pistoia Blues Festival where he's playing a fiery version of "Native Stepson" through a Strat and Marshall borrowed from Cray because none of Sonny's gear arrived at the festival. Even through somebody else's gear, Sonny still sounds like Sonny! As for me, I have a Mexican-made James Burton Tele (bought from a pawnshop for $125 several decades ago) that is a very good guitar, but unfortunately, when I play it, I still sound like myself! 😖
@@goodun2974 Duke Levine is a friend of mine - and I interviewed him for Guitarist Magazine.
We’re meeting up this summer when he’s back on tour with Bonnie Raitt.
He’s one of the most toneful players - love his music.
@bobhewitt5047 , I have his record "Nobody's Home" and really like it, though I didn't much care for "Country Soul Guitar". I saw him playing with Mary Chapin Carpenter at the Newport Folk Fest many years ago. He's a great player, although I don't know quite what to make of his Club d'Elf project.
Few people know that C Guest's father was a diplomat and that the entire family spent years living in England when Christopher was young. So no the accent was pretty spot on and not "fake".
Leo’s G&L guitars made in Indonesia are a great value.
Good news! (Saw this on RUclips.)
The factory footage❤
@@someoneelse293 Courtesy of Forrest White’s son. His dad made the film.
The best part is seeing these peoples surroundings.
Rory could really get that Muddy slide sound!!!
Except that Muddy played a Telecaster! Relatively few slide guitar specialists play Teles....Danny Gatton played slide on his with a half-full beer bottle that foamed up all over the guitar! (Austin City Limits tv show)
I wish there were subtitles so I would know who all these musicians are?
Love me some Strats. I have three.
…This video is going to get Millions of views
@@stephenfiore9960 Here’s hoping 🤞🏻
Best combination is individual switches (one for each PU) + 'Delta tone', one tonality for the neck PU and the second one for both (delta) the middle PU + Bridge PU !
Fixed bridges sound different than a floating bridge (tremolo). A great thing about old Strats is that the PU's are very low gain, very sensitive to amp volume , sound sweet !
Strat, masterpiece
A compelling film with an oddly incomplete collection of "masters". I loved seeing Rory, but where's Richie Blackmore, Clapton, Gilmore, SRV, Eric Johnson?
@@jeffrobuck6338 Either they - or their obstructive management wouldn’t play ball… especially Blackmore and Clapton.
Fully agree.
People forget to mention, that, by that time the 'tremolo' could only be used mildly or at the end of the song, and then you had to re-tune the guitar. Floyd Rose really completed and extended the instruments vocabulary, imho ...
I remember when Mark Knopfler used Shecter's
Damn, wish they did one on the Tele!
@@NoNameNo.5 We have made a Telecaster film… here it is:
ruclips.net/video/H0sPG8eO6KE/видео.htmlsi=-SDzOZj81IoTbMhH
@ sheiiit, ask and you shall receive! Thank ya! Godspeed
The funny thing is that James Burton was endorsing Rickenbackers at the time the Shadows order that Strat. Even funnier ithtat Burton was playing with his backing group, the Shadows. Totally different band.
The (British) Shadows with Hank Marvin were originally Ciff Richard's backing band. I wasn't aware that James Burton had a band of the same name but there was also a Chicago based blues rock band that called themselves the Shadows of Knight. PS, I have a late 1990's Mexican-made James Burton Tele in a weird sort of paisley-adjacent finish, its a very good guitar (cost me $125 with case from a pawn shop a couple decades ago! The nut was cracked and needed replacement so I was able to knock them down on the price a little).
Imho sunburnt was done to create the look of an archtop via lighter colors look closer than dark colors in paintings, and the main objection to fenders was they were flat so looks less flat
i cant afford one..but i fix strat so often, this guitar is so versatile
@1:42:17 Robert Cray: 0.11, 0.13, 0.18, 0.26, 0.36, 0.46
@1:43:30 0:11 to 0.49 (D'Addario Electric Guitar Strings, XL Nickel, EXL115-3D, Medium Gauge 11-49)?
Jeff beck strat king ❤along with jimi,,, robin,,, stevie,,, Eric,,, rory,,, BUT JEFF PLAYED THE STAT WITH GOAT WAMMY BAR VOLUME CONTROL thing ❤❤❤❤❤
Who's playing the Surfin USA instrumental ? It's not the Beach Boys 1:13:41
sounds cool .... anyone know ?
never mind, that's Duane Eddy's Movin N Groovin, Or somebody else doin it .
I’ve made around 45 albums with my Strat. Guitars come and go and the Strat stays.
When you want an electric guitar, there is only Fender. I could not choose between the Tele and Strat, they are totally different guitars. However, to me, the Tele looks better.