I had the extreme pleasure to work for Hard Rock Internationals memorabilia department for about a decade and I can say, I enjoy so much, when I see videos like this (The Original Video). It brings me back to the amazing time I had with that “job”. And the great people I worked with and those I met along the way. I had my hands on some of the most Iconic, historical instruments and documents in music history. Nothing beats it. And I love seeing true fans and purveyors of the history get to hold items like this and just jam. I 100% agree it’s hard to fathom how nervous you get holding something like that. You do almost forget at times but you’re still in awe. I worked a lot with filing the LOA’s (Letters of Authenticity). It’s a nightmare at times dealing with proving authenticity when the items changed so many hands. But when you find that one letter or photo linking and verifying the exact item in question, what a feeling. I watched the original video after this. Such an amazing sound. Sorry for such a long and kinda scatter brained comment. I got very nostalgic.
When my brother first agreed to buy this guitar from Bloomfirlds Mgr, he said Hard Rock called and offered more. My brother said to Bloomfields Manager, Hey we made a deal, we shook on it, and so my brother bought the guitar. BTW, did you know my friend Karl " Bones " he worked there as well.
Name doesn’t sound familiar but if he was there between 2009-2019 is very possible. I worked out of the corporate office, where our old warehouse use to.
Man, you are blessed to have such an opportunity in life to play Hendrix/Milles/Bloomfeld strat. There are thousands of us guitar geeks dreaming of such possibility. As a devoted fan of Jimi I am a bit jealous but at least I had an opportunity to sleep in the same hotel room that once was ocupied by Jimi in the 70s. Holding his guitar whould be a spiritual experience. Cheers and rock on
My dad’s best friend is the collector who bought Buddy Miles 2nd Hendrix Stratocaster in the 1980’s, that was referred to on that list along with the Bloomfield guitar. It lives out of reach on a high wall in a glass case, in Racine Wisconsin, where I’ve marveled at it. Crazy to see it mentioned here in passing, I’ll have to make a video & upload some pictures of it. In the early 2000’s Buddy Miles was a local celebrity regular, bumming cigarettes while bellied up to the bar, at George’s on Main Street, where we used to buy him shots of tequila to pester him about Jimi Hendrix, Billy Cox, Wilson Picket, John McLaughlin, Carlos Santana & the California Raisins…LoL…🎸
There's still a ton of stuff out there that might surface one day that is Hendrix related. For example - Eric Burdon, Stephen Stills, and others have said in their autobiographies about a weekend spent at Joni Mitchell's house in the canyon - where Hendrix jammed for hours - with Stephen Stills playing organ - and a bunch of other famous players just stepping in and out of the jam. Apparently it was all recorded on tape - some 20+ hours of music - with some of the greatest players of all time. To date, I have not heard of any of this infamous jam coming to light on any released album (or bootleg) - but there are so many stories that corroborate the event taking place, that someone must have those tapes somewhere.
I know a guy who was a roadie for Hendrix, his wife lived with Hendrix in NYC before he went to London. Hendrix has 15 guitars on that one tour that he gave away or stored away places or tried to keep from upper management (Axis tour I believe) he would ask for money for guitars and say the got stolen, give them to people as gifts or friends and was going to come back later and sell them without having the contracts and control over him once he was able to break away as he was planning. He knew the game and played the game right back He had so much stuff stored away without his name it's going to be impossible to find it all, plus there so much stuff that he had that no one would ever know a lot of it went back out into the world, there are definitely some guitars that he owned that are out there still that are just old strats
Glad this video came out simply because it puts more emphasis on the fact that Michael Bloomfield and Buddy Miles owned this guitar. Understandably, although it was mentioned in the previous video, this fact kind of got glossed over because obviously the focus was on it being one of Jimi's guitars. Personally, if I had that kind of money, a guitar I could be 99.9% sure was owned by Michael Bloomfield and Buddy Miles and PROBABLY also owned by Hendrix...I would buy it.
Was a great video. Flipping awesome experience. I’m young enough to operate my smart phone and know how to find the full length video, if a short catches my attention, and I’m old enough to appreciate watching young talented people make a name for themselves in this world without stepping on toes or hurting anything in the process. Through music we shall all be free. I see a couple people make mention of early MW attitude and I agree. I say torch these commenters like a bad watch mojo list❤❤❤ 🤘🤘✊✊
Not really related to the video but I just wanted to say that you have been such an inspiration for my guitar playing. As a young guitar player, finding your channel has been so awesome. I check you channel every week for new videos and I really admire your playing. Your understanding of the instrument is amazing and I hope to be like you someday, sharing my music with the world one way or another. Also when is the new album coming out? Rock on dude🎸🎸
You could fly to Seattle and dig up Jimi's body. But then you would have some ass clown in the comments saying that Jimi's femur doesn't look quite right enough. 🤨
Some people are jealous of other’s opportunities. I have a refin 1954 Strat, and years ago I posted a picture of it in a Strat owners forum, and one dickhead wasted no time in telling me he thought it was a fake. Congrats to you for playing the Jimi Strat!
Should have told him your guitar thinks _he_ is fake. 🙂 Seriously, trolls have existed since the beginning of public online systems. We had them on BBSes in the '80s. We had a rule to deal with them: Don't Feed The Trolls. The problem is that people do feed them, and so they have multiplied exponentially in the modern Internet age.
I for one was just as impressed by Bloomfield owning and playing the guitar as Jimi, but now you add Buddy Miles to the mix. Holy crap Tyler this You Tube might just be workin for ya.
Tyler, the coolest thing you can do is leave such an impact that someone in the future is as hyped to play your green PRS as you were with this guitar. Godspeed.
I read that Hendrix used to play guitar right handed when his dad was home and left handed when not. Something along the lines of being left handed was frowned up. Story goes he would just flip it over when his old man was around. With that in mind, it means he would be playing the guitar upside down at some point :) When I watched the original video all I could do was smile. Can only imagine the vibe that axe must have been giving off while you played it.
Hey man just wanted to say congrats, you're living all of our dreams and I love watching it. Also, you passed Jimi Hendrix in subs on RUclips, what kind of voodoo magic have you got Tyler?
In 1968 in Tucson, Jimi came through town to do a quickly put together show with Sound Machine opening for him. I had to BEG my Dad fir the $2.50 ticket price. Hardly anyone came to the show. There was only about 40 people who showed up, if even that many. Sound Machine was just way way too LOUD, it wore us all out with sound overdose fatique. They really sucked. Jimi came on, I sat literally 5 feet directly in front of him. I already knew he was GOD having heard him on my tiny transistor radio while walking to High School one morning. I literally stopped in my tracks until the song was over. I stayed quiet until they announced his name, so I could see if the record store had anything on him. Jimi finished his set and NOBODY CLAPPED! Most of the audience were guitar players and they all looked like they'd been electrocuted with high voltage. My friend with me got up and said, 'hey lets go to the equipment room and check out Jimi's guitar because HIS friend was managing it. We walked in and his friend threw Jimi's guitar case down at my feet. I was scared to death of this weapon of SOUL. I opened it, it was the white Strat you saw at Miami show. I strummed the ultra light strings and put it back in. My friend said "hey, lets STEAL it." We seriously thought about it, the back door was wide open to the outside street. So, we decided not too. Good thing, because we walked out the back door and ran straight into JIMI, and there was a cop car parked right there. I was so tongue tied I asked me friend to ask him something. "Hey, Jimi, what kind of amps do you prefer?" He looked at us and said "Sound City PA's, and Marshall Amps.' Then silence we all looked down at the ground not knowing what else to say, Jimi did too. He was incredibly shy and I was too. He walked over to their white Cadillac, hopped in and took off. WOW. I saw that guitar again at the Experience Museum in Seattle, and smiled.......I followed the rest of his career til the end. Its odd, through the many years (I'm 75 now) I had many lucid dreams with him in them and they've never stopped. Its always like meeting a soul brother and the dreams bring me great joy. Its so sad he was murdered, by Jeffries, who himself died a year later. But Jimi left us magical music that will last forever; he very tired of the guitar hero life, but sure wish he had lived a little longer to do the jazz oriented music he was planning to do. What a time that was, so much great music and the awful president who sent many of us to die in Viet Nam for NOTHING. I was spared that horror, thankfully.....
Lots of living guitar legends around as well. Would love to see some of those videos. Keith Richards, Mark Knopfler, Clapton, Buddy Guy, Page, Billy Gibbons. All would be great videos if you used your connections to track some guitars down.
Would like to see more info on what the 12 string version of that guitar looked like? Also, seems that as time goes by, “New” guitars like that one will become less and Les found/proven/authenticated as the sources of info pass away. 🤘🏼
Just continue to enjoy the ride man, you have earned it. People don’t understand how much work it is to be creator on any platform. I barely have 500 followers and there are just days you can’t or don’t feel like being creative or even just crappy like me. This stuff eve on the most basic level. I’m lucky that a lot of the better things I did were when I was younger and I used to just sit around and record I haven’t really tapped that as much so far. I did yesterday with a video I made in 2017. It was originally vocal to a mic, guitar acoustic piezo in direct and video from probably my Sony handycam. I just snagged the video camera only and dis a bare bones with that. Digging through my old reaper media files was fun on a day where I didn’t feel like working all day on a mediocre thing I wasn’t into. I ramble because I’m old sorry. Boring. The weather is changing and it makes me hurt. I’m gonna to do some photo auditing for a customer and make a few bucks. Love what you do Tyler just keep kicking ass. Trolls ain’t shit.
It looks legit to me and the stories line up as well. Some people would rather just rain on someone else’s parade than be happy for them. Really cool guitar.
man people always gunna hate because people are doing stuff that they want to do, you just played the dream guitar of so many people who also might not be able to play guitar at all, you’re loving the life Ty!
I already had my turn to speak. I know that I get pleasure out of just getting to play special guitars. Recently, I’ve been playing a 2011 special edition strat with a mahogany body and maple board. Has all the tags. Stickers , plastic on the pick guard case candy- I don’t know where it’s been for 15 years but it plays like a dream and that is what I take pleasure in. Some guitars are just special. Nobody famous probably played this guitar but it is way special. Priced to sell. I raved on it too much and the shop owner I do work for took it home. I’m going to probably make a play for it eventually Id I live long enough. lol
Trevor and Jay are as well connected and traveled in the world of vintage gear as they come. They wouldn't put their name on a guitars provenance otherwise without solid intel.
The problem with Jimi Hendrix's guitars. Especially the Fender Stratocaster. Is that he didn't use just one throughout his career. He used many. Years ago in some guitar magazine. They had a copy of the guitars he bought from manny's in NYC. there was 12 Fender Stratocasters on the receipt! This was for a tour he was doing. Now we can scour the internet, books and magazines and chronicle each Stratocaster in the pictures. But what about the ones that weren't photographed? All that to say. You can't pin down one particular Stratocaster that was Hendrix's.
A co-worker of mine told me he bought a guitar from a luthier in NYC who built 3 guitars for Clapton and Eric bought one, passed on the others. Etched into the neck where it meets the body "EC-2". I am sure Clapton played it, and I have no reason to doubt the legitimacy of his story, so I think that's pretty sweet.
Definitely an ambassador for guitar and music knowledge. Awesome you got to play that guitar and have a very credible source for the origin. To be fair, there was that big controversy a year or two ago around the "Hendrix Monterey Strat." I remember Mike at CGS did a few in-depth videos on that and in the end, I believe, don't remember for sure, it was acknowledged to be a fake.
How awesome is that!!!! However, next time let me know your coming to Seattle Ill show you the good places to eat. LOL Super cool that you got to play Jimi's guitar though.
All the naysayers are just mad jelly. I can say this with confidence because my dad, who has been playing guitar for over 50 years, always leaves the room when I turned your videos on. He says you're too young to be so good. All this and everything you've accomplished just goes to show you've chosen the right path. Not many can say the same. Keep up the awesome vibes! ❤️
I was just at Emarald City Guitar 2 days ago. I go there evey time I go to Seattle. Great place, great employees. They actually have a small wall of affordable guitars. A very small wall. The rest is rows and rows of drool-worthy guitar dreams.
I've been a guitarist for a long time and my full time job is in video production. The film industry has similar provenance for many set pieces and props from famous films. Many props have been sold for large amounts based solely on word of mouth, following the story, and expert advice. You played a guitar owned by Jimi my man! The haters will try to poke holes but they don't understand sh*t 🤘🏻I've been a subscriber for a while and love the content!
Honest question - I am more of the mindset that EVH did more for the evolution of guitar and guitar players (GOAT discussions) and truly would like to learn more about what and why so many view Hendrix as the top of the heap. I don't see / hear the 'things' he did discussed in the same light as Eddie (articles, videos, etc., just the praise so to speak). Love what you do!
Hendrix deserves respect but the wank for him comes down to a single word: boomers. He’s the boomer guitarist icon, and boomers have way more cultural dominance than they have any right to after all these years. Even millennials still force themselves to emulate boomer opinions for clout and to impress daddy. Zoomers, for all their flaws, are the first generation to see history detached from the cultural imposition of how you “have to think,” and so they don’t care as much about Hendrix or Clapton or The Beatles.
in the beginning i didnt like your content very much but now i rediscovered your channel and your content is stellar. btw if you want to, come over to my place in germany, i got some of my guitars with me and i have a guitar of alex skolnick from testament, one of jesse peterson aswell, and one of dino cazares dc ibanez, and a guitar of olde wolbers, actually the one he used on the cyprus hill music video. and some more. but theyre not all in one place bc i got triple citizenship most guitars are in staten island, some are in munich and two are in tel aviv. oh just noticed youre from the us? always thought uk somehow, ill be in the us next summer for work, commissioning missile defence systems on some nimitz class carriers of the us navy (now i work for rheinmetall in germany but i also worked for raytheon and general dynamics and those two and others sometimes give me a call if im available when it comes to equipment for aircraft carriers since i was an aviator in the israeli air force so they picked me for not being afraid doing my work when the boat is in the ocean).
Hendrix played a black les paul custom also and the white strat had a tele neck on it in some photos. I bought my Hiwatt from Jay Boone in 1984, I bring my goodies to them to sell for me, ECG is fair, and Know their stuff.
I’m the exact opposite. I just had difficulty getting into SRV, even though I love his influences. I think I don’t like the 80s studio sound from the drums and bass
@@yaboiflats6986 I’ll admit that SRV was probably a better guitarist, technically speaking, but SRV isn’t even comparable as a song writer! Jimi was the whole package, before anyone even knew what the package was. SRV, while a solid blues guy, who revived blues in popular culture, he was playing a lot of covers, just another white guy playing the blues, which had been done. Stevie just did it so well that he got everyone’s attention. It’d be like if an Elvis impersonator was really good and started writing a few original songs that charted
Just love your video's. I bought two lefthanded 70's Strats in 1994 and 1995. Just because I wanted to create Hendrix's sound. Strung them upside down because I am a right handed player. There is some magic in them and that's because the flipping causes the bridge Pick-up to be just under the natural harmonics of the strings. Great for feedback! Maybe a suggestion for a really cool Video. You can Find my music on reverb nation violet resonance.
I went to high school with a lefty who learned how to play righty guitars upside down. Theory was there's rarely a lefty guitar kicking around. He was pretty good too
So cool that you went to Emerald City Guitars. Such an amazing shop. For the record, I could feel the aura of the guitar through the screen…no way it’s a fake. Trolls are hilarious, but your positive energy is inspiring! You’re the best!
4:27 “What could I do that’s cooler?” Have a kid. Nobody else will think it’s cooler, except maybe your family, but I promise you. Getting to play with your kid and love them is cooler. Especially toddler snuggles! Nothing like getting a big hug and being a tissue at the same time to make you feel this conflicted love for a little person who shares half your genes. Realizing my
Think about this. I've played many guitars, even guitar shopping. If I were famous as Jimi people would be looking for the guitars that I played and there were no pictures of. Like floor models and then I got a new one out of the box at the shop. The guitars I've sold with no receipt etc. Thats the nostalgia of the guitar.
Hey, Tyler Speculations aside, whether or not it's legitimately a Hendrix guitar, who am I to say? I would be stoked just to play an original '63 Strat. Throw Hendrix's name in there and I'm having an out of body experience. I have to live (somewhat) vicariously through your RUclips postings. Keep 'em coming. And thanks for sharing your experience with us.
I don't care whose guitar it was -- the reverse solo was pretty rad. I used to reverse vocal tracks, apply an echo or reverb to it, then reverse it again so it's back to normal, and it'd give it a strange sort of sound. Working with sound in reverse to see what kind of sounds you get can be a lot of fun.
Well I own Steve Miller pyramid bassman cabinet from the 70s he used on tour, the story was a studio owner followed the bus to a music store in NYC where the would switch gear between tours, they sold that and he bought it on the spot, had it for years in his studio and sold it to me, there are no pictures, theres no paperwork, just the story. I got a great deal on it and have no idea if its true or not but it rips
I’ve lived in Washington my whole life (32 years) and emerald city guitars was always my favorite stop getting off the ferry 3:36 .. my brother actually bought a double neck sg from them when in like 2004.. anyways they wouldn’t let me touch the goldtops in the case and I didn’t buy a 80s mustang out of spite…
Dude you don't have to do anything cooler. Playing Hendrix's guitar is sick dude. Just continue with your musical journey. Maybe you'll find another Hendrix guitar along the way.
Come to think about it, you *have* become an ambassador for the hobby of playing guitar.
And he’s garbage…ZERO feel…like someone gave a rich kid a bunch of expensive guitars…wonder if there’s some sort of nepotism going on
I had the extreme pleasure to work for Hard Rock Internationals memorabilia department for about a decade and I can say, I enjoy so much, when I see videos like this (The Original Video).
It brings me back to the amazing time I had with that “job”. And the great people I worked with and those I met along the way.
I had my hands on some of the most Iconic, historical instruments and documents in music history. Nothing beats it.
And I love seeing true fans and purveyors of the history get to hold items like this and just jam.
I 100% agree it’s hard to fathom how nervous you get holding something like that. You do almost forget at times but you’re still in awe. I worked a lot with filing the LOA’s (Letters of Authenticity). It’s a nightmare at times dealing with proving authenticity when the items changed so many hands. But when you find that one letter or photo linking and verifying the exact item in question, what a feeling.
I watched the original video after this. Such an amazing sound.
Sorry for such a long and kinda scatter brained comment. I got very nostalgic.
When my brother first agreed to buy this guitar from Bloomfirlds Mgr, he said Hard Rock called and offered more. My brother said to Bloomfields Manager, Hey we made a deal, we shook on it, and so my brother bought the guitar. BTW, did you know my friend Karl " Bones " he worked there as well.
Name doesn’t sound familiar but if he was there between 2009-2019 is very possible. I worked out of the corporate office, where our old warehouse use to.
Man, you are blessed to have such an opportunity in life to play Hendrix/Milles/Bloomfeld strat. There are thousands of us guitar geeks dreaming of such possibility. As a devoted fan of Jimi I am a bit jealous but at least I had an opportunity to sleep in the same hotel room that once was ocupied by Jimi in the 70s. Holding his guitar whould be a spiritual experience. Cheers and rock on
My 1st blues guitar hero was Mike Bloomfield, which makes that guitar so much more special, and means more to me!
My dad’s best friend is the collector who bought Buddy Miles 2nd Hendrix Stratocaster in the 1980’s, that was referred to on that list along with the Bloomfield guitar. It lives out of reach on a high wall in a glass case, in Racine Wisconsin, where I’ve marveled at it. Crazy to see it mentioned here in passing, I’ll have to make a video & upload some pictures of it. In the early 2000’s Buddy Miles was a local celebrity regular, bumming cigarettes while bellied up to the bar, at George’s on Main Street, where we used to buy him shots of tequila to pester him about Jimi Hendrix, Billy Cox, Wilson Picket, John McLaughlin, Carlos Santana & the California Raisins…LoL…🎸
Wait a minute, that guitar was owned by Michael and Jimi, well what the heck, Michael was so awesome
There's still a ton of stuff out there that might surface one day that is Hendrix related. For example - Eric Burdon, Stephen Stills, and others have said in their autobiographies about a weekend spent at Joni Mitchell's house in the canyon - where Hendrix jammed for hours - with Stephen Stills playing organ - and a bunch of other famous players just stepping in and out of the jam. Apparently it was all recorded on tape - some 20+ hours of music - with some of the greatest players of all time. To date, I have not heard of any of this infamous jam coming to light on any released album (or bootleg) - but there are so many stories that corroborate the event taking place, that someone must have those tapes somewhere.
I know a guy who was a roadie for Hendrix, his wife lived with Hendrix in NYC before he went to London. Hendrix has 15 guitars on that one tour that he gave away or stored away places or tried to keep from upper management (Axis tour I believe) he would ask for money for guitars and say the got stolen, give them to people as gifts or friends and was going to come back later and sell them without having the contracts and control over him once he was able to break away as he was planning. He knew the game and played the game right back
He had so much stuff stored away without his name it's going to be impossible to find it all, plus there so much stuff that he had that no one would ever know a lot of it went back out into the world, there are definitely some guitars that he owned that are out there still that are just old strats
I think people are just contrarians. They just want to argue.
No way
@@BrunoThiaolayelHahaha
I don't want to argue! How Dare You!
I'm convinced the whole "Paul is dead" conspiracy is just contrarians desperately grasping at straws.
No we don't... NO WE DON'T!!
N O W E D O N' T!!!!
Glad this video came out simply because it puts more emphasis on the fact that Michael Bloomfield and Buddy Miles owned this guitar. Understandably, although it was mentioned in the previous video, this fact kind of got glossed over because obviously the focus was on it being one of Jimi's guitars. Personally, if I had that kind of money, a guitar I could be 99.9% sure was owned by Michael Bloomfield and Buddy Miles and PROBABLY also owned by Hendrix...I would buy it.
You said it ................. keeping the name of Jimi Hendrix alive in 2024!! Appreciate young folks like yourself!
Robben Ford credits Mime Bloomfield as his number one influence on guitar. Truly two guitar gods have owned that guitar. Pretty awesome.
I love Mime Bloomfield. He’s a man of few words 😂
Mime Bloomfield played without an amp.
Was a great video. Flipping awesome experience. I’m young enough to operate my smart phone and know how to find the full length video, if a short catches my attention, and I’m old enough to appreciate watching young talented people make a name for themselves in this world without stepping on toes or hurting anything in the process. Through music we shall all be free. I see a couple people make mention of early MW attitude and I agree. I say torch these commenters like a bad watch mojo list❤❤❤ 🤘🤘✊✊
Not really related to the video but I just wanted to say that you have been such an inspiration for my guitar playing. As a young guitar player, finding your channel has been so awesome. I check you channel every week for new videos and I really admire your playing. Your understanding of the instrument is amazing and I hope to be like you someday, sharing my music with the world one way or another. Also when is the new album coming out? Rock on dude🎸🎸
You could fly to Seattle and dig up Jimi's body. But then you would have some ass clown in the comments saying that Jimi's femur doesn't look quite right enough. 🤨
Body? He crumbled into pure LSD upon death.
@@Fl4ppers I heard he just disintegrated back into atoms and folded back into the universe in which he came, legends are wild
Goofy ahh comment
There's no body. There's nothing left but a... purple haze.
@@rmaxtpmxlike a castle made of sand melting into the sea
Thank you for making content, Tyler. Oh, and thank you for Guitar Super System, that has helped me a lot.
You might not have had a picture of the said guitar with the man, but it had a cast iron provenance, as they say in the art trade.
Keep on truckin!
I just moved away from Seattle. would have loved to see this. 😢
Cooler? I can see that you already have it. The gratitude for having played it will stay with you forever. Music IS Win. Yep.
Some people are jealous of other’s opportunities. I have a refin 1954 Strat, and years ago I posted a picture of it in a Strat owners forum, and one dickhead wasted no time in telling me he thought it was a fake. Congrats to you for playing the Jimi Strat!
Should have told him your guitar thinks _he_ is fake. 🙂
Seriously, trolls have existed since the beginning of public online systems. We had them on BBSes in the '80s. We had a rule to deal with them: Don't Feed The Trolls.
The problem is that people do feed them, and so they have multiplied exponentially in the modern Internet age.
Never doubted it for a minute Tyler! It was awesome to see you play it. Thank you and cheers!
I for one was just as impressed by Bloomfield owning and playing the guitar as Jimi, but now you add Buddy Miles to the mix. Holy crap Tyler this You Tube might just be workin for ya.
W…t….f…dude, did you just put this ass hats name in the same sentence as Buddy Miles and Hendrix?! What ass lapping douche chilling bs
Tyler, the coolest thing you can do is leave such an impact that someone in the future is as hyped to play your green PRS as you were with this guitar. Godspeed.
I read that Hendrix used to play guitar right handed when his dad was home and left handed when not. Something along the lines of being left handed was frowned up. Story goes he would just flip it over when his old man was around. With that in mind, it means he would be playing the guitar upside down at some point :) When I watched the original video all I could do was smile. Can only imagine the vibe that axe must have been giving off while you played it.
Hey man just wanted to say congrats, you're living all of our dreams and I love watching it. Also, you passed Jimi Hendrix in subs on RUclips, what kind of voodoo magic have you got Tyler?
You ARE a good ambassador for this guitar thang.
You fully understood the flak that would come and had the forethought to squeeze a second video about it (and I'm happy you did). Well played, sir.
I equally appreciate this video and am sad you had the need to make it. The internet can be a cruel and unforgiving place.
I believe you because you’re awesome
You are so blessed brother.. I believe the ONLY way to top this.. would be to play a guitar that Hendrix is pictured several times with🤘
In 1968 in Tucson, Jimi came through town to do a quickly put together show with Sound Machine opening for him. I had to BEG my Dad fir the $2.50 ticket price. Hardly anyone came to the show. There was only about 40 people who showed up, if even that many. Sound Machine was just way way too LOUD, it wore us all out with sound overdose fatique. They really sucked. Jimi came on, I sat literally 5 feet directly in front of him. I already knew he was GOD having heard him on my tiny transistor radio while walking to High School one morning. I literally stopped in my tracks until the song was over. I stayed quiet until they announced his name, so I could see if the record store had anything on him. Jimi finished his set and NOBODY CLAPPED! Most of the audience were guitar players and they all looked like they'd been electrocuted with high voltage. My friend with me got up and said, 'hey lets go to the equipment room and check out Jimi's guitar because HIS friend was managing it. We walked in and his friend threw Jimi's guitar case down at my feet. I was scared to death of this weapon of SOUL. I opened it, it was the white Strat you saw at Miami show. I strummed the ultra light strings and put it back in. My friend said "hey, lets STEAL it." We seriously thought about it, the back door was wide open to the outside street. So, we decided not too. Good thing, because we walked out the back door and ran straight into JIMI, and there was a cop car parked right there. I was so tongue tied I asked me friend to ask him something. "Hey, Jimi, what kind of amps do you prefer?" He looked at us and said "Sound City PA's, and Marshall Amps.' Then silence we all looked down at the ground not knowing what else to say, Jimi did too. He was incredibly shy and I was too. He walked over to their white Cadillac, hopped in and took off. WOW. I saw that guitar again at the Experience Museum in Seattle, and smiled.......I followed the rest of his career til the end. Its odd, through the many years (I'm 75 now) I had many lucid dreams with him in them and they've never stopped. Its always like meeting a soul brother and the dreams bring me great joy. Its so sad he was murdered, by Jeffries, who himself died a year later. But Jimi left us magical music that will last forever; he very tired of the guitar hero life, but sure wish he had lived a little longer to do the jazz oriented music he was planning to do. What a time that was, so much great music and the awful president who sent many of us to die in Viet Nam for NOTHING. I was spared that horror, thankfully.....
Lots of living guitar legends around as well. Would love to see some of those videos. Keith Richards, Mark Knopfler, Clapton, Buddy Guy, Page, Billy Gibbons. All would be great videos if you used your connections to track some guitars down.
Would like to see more info on what the 12 string version of that guitar looked like?
Also, seems that as time goes by, “New” guitars like that one will become less and Les found/proven/authenticated as the sources of info pass away. 🤘🏼
Tuned in E-flat! Nice!!
Ya, I can....keep doing what ya doing, cause your channel is worthy of grey poupon. Couldn't help it, your channel is excellent.
Just continue to enjoy the ride man, you have earned it. People don’t understand how much work it is to be creator on any platform. I barely have 500 followers and there are just days you can’t or don’t feel like being creative or even just crappy like me. This stuff eve on the most basic level. I’m lucky that a lot of the better things I did were when I was younger and I used to just sit around and record I haven’t really tapped that as much so far. I did yesterday with a video I made in 2017. It was originally vocal to a mic, guitar acoustic piezo in direct and video from probably my Sony handycam. I just snagged the video camera only and dis a bare bones with that. Digging through my old reaper media files was fun on a day where I didn’t feel like working all day on a mediocre thing I wasn’t into. I ramble because I’m old sorry. Boring. The weather is changing and it makes me hurt. I’m gonna to do some photo auditing for a customer and make a few bucks. Love what you do Tyler just keep kicking ass. Trolls ain’t shit.
It looks legit to me and the stories line up as well. Some people would rather just rain on someone else’s parade than be happy for them. Really cool guitar.
I love the clap back. So good.
man people always gunna hate because people are doing stuff that they want to do, you just played the dream guitar of so many people who also might not be able to play guitar at all, you’re loving the life Ty!
I already had my turn to speak. I know that I get pleasure out of just getting to play special guitars. Recently, I’ve been playing a 2011 special edition strat with a mahogany body and maple board. Has all the tags. Stickers , plastic on the pick guard case candy- I don’t know where it’s been for 15 years but it plays like a dream and that is what I take pleasure in. Some guitars are just special. Nobody famous probably played this guitar but it is way special. Priced to sell. I raved on it too much and the shop owner I do work for took it home. I’m going to probably make a play for it eventually Id I live long enough. lol
Probably should have just thumbnailed it as Bloomfield’s guitar with a side of Jimi, but I get it. Thanks for the great content.
I appreciate the videos. I think you were very polite to the haters; means you have a good soul. Keep on going because MUSIC IS WIN. 🤘
There will always be naysayers, I say that you are a very fortunate man Tyler.
Imagine if Hendrix could have continued making music to this day...What a world. ❤
Love Jimi, love a black Strat. Probably was his. Well done man!
Cool video man. I've been to Electric Lady Studios once 🤷♂
the random squier comment was mine dude I'm sorry no hate awesome videos lol 😂 idk why i even said that my bad dude 🤝
Good on you for owning it 👍
No offense taken it made me laugh 🤘
That’s to funny I can imagine 😮😂
You rock dude!, love watching you.
Trevor and Jay are as well connected and traveled in the world of vintage gear as they come. They wouldn't put their name on a guitars provenance otherwise without solid intel.
The problem with Jimi Hendrix's guitars. Especially the Fender Stratocaster. Is that he didn't use just one throughout his career. He used many. Years ago in some guitar magazine. They had a copy of the guitars he bought from manny's in NYC. there was 12 Fender Stratocasters on the receipt! This was for a tour he was doing. Now we can scour the internet, books and magazines and chronicle each Stratocaster in the pictures. But what about the ones that weren't photographed? All that to say. You can't pin down one particular Stratocaster that was Hendrix's.
Same issue occurred with Paul Davids. But both your and his videos were great!
A co-worker of mine told me he bought a guitar from a luthier in NYC who built 3 guitars for Clapton and Eric bought one, passed on the others. Etched into the neck where it meets the body "EC-2". I am sure Clapton played it, and I have no reason to doubt the legitimacy of his story, so I think that's pretty sweet.
Definitely an ambassador for guitar and music knowledge. Awesome you got to play that guitar and have a very credible source for the origin. To be fair, there was that big controversy a year or two ago around the "Hendrix Monterey Strat." I remember Mike at CGS did a few in-depth videos on that and in the end, I believe, don't remember for sure, it was acknowledged to be a fake.
4:28 Tyler realizes he's peaked and the only direction from here is ..... well, not up. JK - love ya, dude!
There is nothing cooler that you can ever do. You have peaked.
How awesome is that!!!! However, next time let me know your coming to Seattle Ill show you the good places to eat. LOL Super cool that you got to play Jimi's guitar though.
All the naysayers are just mad jelly. I can say this with confidence because my dad, who has been playing guitar for over 50 years, always leaves the room when I turned your videos on. He says you're too young to be so good. All this and everything you've accomplished just goes to show you've chosen the right path. Not many can say the same. Keep up the awesome vibes! ❤️
He’s AVERAGE
@ You're entitled to your faulty opinion of him.
You could come on our podcast, that would be pretty cool. AND we are outside of Nashville!
Excited for the new videos!
Now you gotta become the new Hendrix, that's all...🤭 You're doing great man, keep up to good fun!
"how do you know how to make a comment but don't know how to find the video?" LOL omg had me dying... cheers, Tyler! I believe...
I was just at Emarald City Guitar 2 days ago. I go there evey time I go to Seattle. Great place, great employees. They actually have a small wall of affordable guitars. A very small wall. The rest is rows and rows of drool-worthy guitar dreams.
I've been a guitarist for a long time and my full time job is in video production. The film industry has similar provenance for many set pieces and props from famous films. Many props have been sold for large amounts based solely on word of mouth, following the story, and expert advice. You played a guitar owned by Jimi my man! The haters will try to poke holes but they don't understand sh*t 🤘🏻I've been a subscriber for a while and love the content!
Any music fan knows that Jimi played a right-handed strat upside down, blows my mind how so many comments didn't lol.
Honest question - I am more of the mindset that EVH did more for the evolution of guitar and guitar players (GOAT discussions) and truly would like to learn more about what and why so many view Hendrix as the top of the heap. I don't see / hear the 'things' he did discussed in the same light as Eddie (articles, videos, etc., just the praise so to speak). Love what you do!
Hendrix deserves respect but the wank for him comes down to a single word: boomers. He’s the boomer guitarist icon, and boomers have way more cultural dominance than they have any right to after all these years. Even millennials still force themselves to emulate boomer opinions for clout and to impress daddy. Zoomers, for all their flaws, are the first generation to see history detached from the cultural imposition of how you “have to think,” and so they don’t care as much about Hendrix or Clapton or The Beatles.
People should consider just enjoying a great player playing a legendary axe. Guitar is supposed to be fun.
I think i saw that guitar at Rudy's music in NYC. Very nice
Even if it was just Mike Bloomfield's guitar alone, that would be awesome, but both Bloomfield AND Hendrix? That's the motherlode!
in the beginning i didnt like your content very much but now i rediscovered your channel and your content is stellar.
btw if you want to, come over to my place in germany, i got some of my guitars with me and i have a guitar of alex skolnick from testament, one of jesse peterson aswell, and one of dino cazares dc ibanez, and a guitar of olde wolbers, actually the one he used on the cyprus hill music video. and some more. but theyre not all in one place bc i got triple citizenship most guitars are in staten island, some are in munich and two are in tel aviv.
oh just noticed youre from the us? always thought uk somehow, ill be in the us next summer for work, commissioning missile defence systems on some nimitz class carriers of the us navy (now i work for rheinmetall in germany but i also worked for raytheon and general dynamics and those two and others sometimes give me a call if im available when it comes to equipment for aircraft carriers since i was an aviator in the israeli air force so they picked me for not being afraid doing my work when the boat is in the ocean).
Hendrix played a black les paul custom also and the white strat had a tele neck on it in some photos. I bought my Hiwatt from Jay Boone in 1984, I bring my goodies to them to sell for me, ECG is fair, and Know their stuff.
Only thing cooler would be having children and have them continue your legacy. Keeping good music and legendary musicians alive through generations! 🤙
Who knew playing a guitar would cause a Q&A
the only thing cooler than this is showing us your entire guitar collection
Your greatest achievement will be children to share your talents and love!
Cheers!
I think it would be cooler if you played the star spangled banner on Hendrix guitar at the Super Bowl. Make it happen bro.
Being transparent, as usual. Good on you, man
GOD bless you Tyler.
Nice work!
SRV still my personal goat. Love Hendrix, but something about SRV just gets me.
I’m the exact opposite. I just had difficulty getting into SRV, even though I love his influences. I think I don’t like the 80s studio sound from the drums and bass
@@honkytonkinson9787srv wishes he ws hendrix
@@yaboiflats6986 I’ll admit that SRV was probably a better guitarist, technically speaking, but SRV isn’t even comparable as a song writer!
Jimi was the whole package, before anyone even knew what the package was. SRV, while a solid blues guy, who revived blues in popular culture, he was playing a lot of covers, just another white guy playing the blues, which had been done. Stevie just did it so well that he got everyone’s attention. It’d be like if an Elvis impersonator was really good and started writing a few original songs that charted
First I’ve ever heard of Jimi playing a 12 string Strat in any of the Band Of Gypsys music.
Well hell, Mike Bloomfield ain't exactly chopped liver, so that alone makes that guitar pretty darn special. Hendrix is the icing on the cake.
The ONE thing that would be better than playing Jimi"s guitar you say Owning Jimi's guitar.
Just love your video's. I bought two lefthanded 70's Strats in 1994 and 1995. Just because I wanted to create Hendrix's sound. Strung them upside down because I am a right handed player. There is some magic in them and that's because the flipping causes the bridge Pick-up to be just under the natural harmonics of the strings. Great for feedback! Maybe a suggestion for a really cool Video. You can Find my music on reverb nation violet resonance.
What would be cooler is if you exhumed bumblebee from Dimebag's grave, then played a facemelting solo to cemetery gates on top of his grave.
The ONLY thing he could ever do is not possible and that would be to meet Hendrix.
I went to high school with a lefty who learned how to play righty guitars upside down. Theory was there's rarely a lefty guitar kicking around. He was pretty good too
4:21 - Rip a guitar solo on Gilmour's black strat. Or maybe play Beano, Joe Bonamassa knows where it is.
So cool that you went to Emerald City Guitars. Such an amazing shop. For the record, I could feel the aura of the guitar through the screen…no way it’s a fake. Trolls are hilarious, but your positive energy is inspiring! You’re the best!
4:27 “What could I do that’s cooler?” Have a kid. Nobody else will think it’s cooler, except maybe your family, but I promise you. Getting to play with your kid and love them is cooler. Especially toddler snuggles! Nothing like getting a big hug and being a tissue at the same time to make you feel this conflicted love for a little person who shares half your genes. Realizing my
Think about this. I've played many guitars, even guitar shopping. If I were famous as Jimi people would be looking for the guitars that I played and there were no pictures of. Like floor models and then I got a new one out of the box at the shop. The guitars I've sold with no receipt etc. Thats the nostalgia of the guitar.
Damn Tyler, about the only thing left you can do is go on an adventure "Quest" with Bear Grylls!!
You shouldn't ever worry about responding to RUclips comments. Just keep on keeping on.
Hey, Tyler
Speculations aside, whether or not it's legitimately a Hendrix guitar, who am I to say? I would be stoked just to play an original '63 Strat. Throw Hendrix's name in there and I'm having an out of body experience. I have to live (somewhat) vicariously through your RUclips postings.
Keep 'em coming. And thanks for sharing your experience with us.
you should do a guitar give away that would be sick
I don't care whose guitar it was -- the reverse solo was pretty rad. I used to reverse vocal tracks, apply an echo or reverb to it, then reverse it again so it's back to normal, and it'd give it a strange sort of sound. Working with sound in reverse to see what kind of sounds you get can be a lot of fun.
Well I own Steve Miller pyramid bassman cabinet from the 70s he used on tour, the story was a studio owner followed the bus to a music store in NYC where the would switch gear between tours, they sold that and he bought it on the spot, had it for years in his studio and sold it to me, there are no pictures, theres no paperwork, just the story. I got a great deal on it and have no idea if its true or not but it rips
hey bro im 16 and I just wanna say, thanks man you've really inspired me
James Hetfields iron cross, and or Kirk Hammett’s greeny that would be the top of the line in my opinion
🤘🏻🤩🤘🏻
I’ve lived in Washington my whole life (32 years) and emerald city guitars was always my favorite stop getting off the ferry 3:36 .. my brother actually bought a double neck sg from them when in like 2004.. anyways they wouldn’t let me touch the goldtops in the case and I didn’t buy a 80s mustang out of spite…
Sorry there were so many stupid ppl making misinformed comments on your last video. They really shouldnt let pre teens on here. Nice work Tyler
Dude you don't have to do anything cooler. Playing Hendrix's guitar is sick dude. Just continue with your musical journey. Maybe you'll find another Hendrix guitar along the way.