Jim Fusco is a singer, songwriter, and musician from CT. Jim’s RU-vid channel has amassed millions of views since its launch way back in 2006! Jim sings and plays his favorite songs from artists like the Beach Boys and the Beatles, plus adds in some of his original music along the way.
Check out Jim's personal site at jimfusco.com for his original music- you can listen to all of his songs online and buy his music on CD or on all streaming services, including Apple Music, Amazon Prime Music, RU-vid Music, and Spotify.
Jim also reviews his extensive electric guitar collection, with models from Gibson, Fender, Gretsch, Rickenbacker, Epiphone, Danelectro and more on the Guitar Bucket List series here on RU-vid and on guitarbucketlist.com
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Such a hard task!!! In all my years, the only way I have found, is to have a stereo mic setep balanced very well with distance from the cab. Super hard to do for live sound, and difficult still in the studio.
I’m a keyboardist & I can’t find anything I only have one night to learn this song.As we adding to the list. If you could discuss the chords with your viewers.Great Job the Music brother
Sorry just seeing this! I’m not at home, but I’ll do my best to describe the chords. The opening is A6 to G6, repeat, ending on D. That’s the same for the verse except the D chord you kinda play with a couple of the notes (probably can do that by ear). The “‘cause she’s heart and soul” is just a standard A to G chord progression, which eventually leads back to the opening chords again. Hope this helps at least a little!
I played the pink champagne version in Denmark Street, London. And it sounded gorgeous through a Cornell Romany 12 in the shop. I eventually bought the G6129T89-VOS Silver Jet but so far haven't quite got that exact sound out of it - I'm hoping it's just that I need one of those Cornell combos! Those bridge pickups need a bit of overdrive to sound their best.
Interesting- you know, I’ve got another Gretsch (Electromatic) and it sounds like a Gretsch- that twangy sound. The pickups on this model are Tim Shaw designed and I think they’re supposed to sound more like PAFs. So while I really like them, they don’t sound like I thought this guitar would. Oh well, it allows me to keep both of my Gretschs! 😃
Omg such a blast from the past! I used to record these at work, believe it or not, in the conference room with my colleagues after the day was done. It was so much fun working there.
Thank you! I used to love this song so much, but ever since this one extremely upsetting episode of “Outlander” it’s hard to listen to this song the same way again
Great video, and great point about Gibson guitars having static issues. I had a 2019 custom shop R0 that has an incredible static problem (when you rub the body, or the neck, static builds up and passes into the signal, coming out the speakers when you play). I sent it back to Gibson, and they had it for over nine months,, and didn’t even fix the issue. Lovely.
Eesh, that’s rough. Did they at least tell you that they identified the issue? Mine seems to have calmed down over time- not sure if it’s because of the environment it’s in (a carpeted room) or just playing it a lot, but thankfully it’s not an issue anymore
@@jimfusco No. they actually said that they fixed it, though they did not say at all what they did, other than changing the pickups, which wouldn’t have likely been the issue anyway. And, I think they’re unwilling to look at it again, nor do I want to send it back to them again to lose my guitar for nearly another year, with possibly no results again.😖
Bought a second hand 2022 60s LP for 2/3 the cost of new. Nice wide flame. Got 'whole lotta' Seymour Duncan's fitted with the Jimmy Page wiring. Great sounds . And yes, practicing lots as well, but love the sound through my old and second hand pro reverb. Not gigging now but still love playing. And if it brings pleasure and you can afford it....
Haha, my bucket list is a lot shorter, and already complete (except for one unfinished build)! One of the first guitars I ever lusted after was John Frusciante's metallic green Jaguar on the Under the Bridge video. In the early 2000's though, Jaguars weren't really available at prices I could afford. I also loved the dual humbucker Jaguar Cobain used. So after obsessing over the 2003 Squier catalogue, I decided on a Silver Sparkle Jagmaster. I still have it today, it's the one that turned slightly golden. The other one I bought while super high on pain meds during a health crisis a few years later. Don't Codeine and eBay, folks. There was one other guitar in that catalogue I also really liked the look of - my first electric was a cheap Yamaha Superstrat (not a Pacifica. That was my first mistake) that was falling apart before I got it all the way out of the box. I hated that guitar, and it's vibrato - but I still liked Superstrats. So I also longed for one of those - it's the Holoflake one I mentioned on your other video, a hardtail HH Showmaster. I finally found one with the help of a forum friend earlier in the year. I also liked guitar magazines; including a particularly trashy one called "Total Guitar". One day, they had a review of a "Daisy Rock Stardust Elite", a pinkentaburst Les Paul DC copy. They were much more expensive than my Squier though, and really hard to come by in stores. In a weird, weird moment ten years later - I found one in a guitar shop in as-new condition, the same day I got an unexpected rebate from my electricity company. I later found the matching bass cheap on eBay, and they became a pair. (Yes, pairs of guitars is a running theme...) And I eventually got my Jaguar, in Silver Sparkle to match my Jagmasters as it kind of became my signature style after a while - but it kind of discoloured over the first year. Luckily, I decided to get another one to harvest the neck - for a still-unfinished Sparkle Jag-Stang build. The second guitar hadn't discoloured, so that became my keeper - and the tinted one gave up it's neck. It now has a different one on and is waiting to find a new home. There is a "Just one more thing" kinda moment though - I like having redundancies of things, especially for my vanishingly rare gigs. And the Daisy Rock was my only bass - So I did actually buy one of those Bass VI's that match the Jaguars, which is how I know about their patchy finishes. My body is perfect, but the headstock is kinda ugly. I ended up with the 10ish% rebate on mine. So yeah - the Daisy Rock, the Jaguar and the Holoflake Showmaster were my "childhood dream" guitars, or my bucket list. The Jagmasters are my long term companions, and the Daisy Bass, Bass VI and the almost-Jag-Stang are the friends I made along the way. And along with a very, very old classical I inherited - that's my collection!
Lovely guitar! Couple of extra bonus notes - can confirm what others have said; third hole is for the mute - it's on my to-do list to get my pickguard and body drilled to install one; I think they sound really great. (Plus, it's extra chrome on a Silver Sparkle Jaguar. That's a valid reason by itself!) If you want to do it, the parts kit is the "Fender American Vintage Jaguar Mute Kit"; it's $50, and you just have to drill pilot holes for the mute plunger and two mounting screws, then widen the plunger hole to the same diameter as the plunger (1/2", if I remember right). Not super high end. :D The big one though is - it's not *supposed* to have the yellow tint. That's not actually fake ageing, it's kind of a finish error. Squier keep having problems with the mix on their polyurethane clearcoat. I have two of these, one has aged with a slight yellow-green tint (happened a year or so after purchase - so buying yours in 2023, it would have aged in-the-box); the other looks perfectly silver. I *also* have a pair of 2003 Squier Jazzmasters in the same finish; and one is aged to a champagne finish, and the other one is *also* still silver. If they get the paint mix right, they don't change colour even after 20 years. Then there's this years' Silver Sparkle bass VI. Just about every single one that went through Andertons in the UK had patches of uneven yellow on it even two months after manufacture. So there seem to be serial problems with the recent sparkle finishes. :( Luckily, I agree with your assessment - even tinted, it looks great on camera. So I guess that's a good reason to use it in a bunch of music videos? ;D And completely off-topic - I adore that Black Holoflake strat copy in the background. Squier once made superstrats in the same finish and I love them!
I bought a 2021 '60s LP Standard (used), all stock and I notice the same thing with smaller screw heads on the bridge pickup ring compared to the neck pickup ring! Both volume pots were scratchy on a hardly played guitar, so I replaced them- very disappointing. The wiring in the control cavity was a bit sloppy- wires were roughly stripped with single strands hanging out, and I had to snip them off. The inlay on the 7th fret lifted and I had to heat the area and press the inlay back in to fix. Never had those issues in any other Gibson over the years.
Nice looking guitar what pickups are in it, I've got a classic early 2000s with 496r & 500t, & the pickguard has 1960 on it bought a new one the other ones in the case, also changed the truss rod cover to plane black, quite like the tone but thinking of changing the ceramic magnet's to alnico IIs,
Hey what year was your les Paul classic? How do you determine if your Les Paul has been weight relived? I have a 8lb on the nose 92 lp classic and I was gutted to learn Gibson was weight reliving their mahogany bodies then and even now. There is a lot on different info on this floating around.
Your guitar has an interesting top for sure and yes I saw it as soon as you picked it up. It's still your guitar. Nobody has that top for sure. Easy fix on the electronics or hardware.
I have a 21 60’s Standard I bought new at the Gibson Garage. Mine is an unburst with a similar yellow to tomato soup faded burst as I articulate it with a lot of flame. I gave my spouse some special instructions as to how to handle this instrument if something happens to me….😊
Such a unique guitar and cool looking guitar! Even though it may not be considered “high end,” it’s a must have for the collection based on its looks alone😉
Omg the blueberry bursts are AWESOME. I know I just can’t be getting the same thing in every color I like, but something about the shininess and deep colors on the current ones just looks so great
@@jimfusco they are sweet brother, and the quality control is top notch, I went over it with a magnifying glass and the only thing I could find was a small tooling mark and the bottom of the fretboard you can’t even see with the naked eye, all I had to do was a slight truss rod adjustment and dial down the action
You got that right. I’ve been trying to buy from actual guitar stores online but even then I get them and they’re not in the same condition they describe them as. But most of the time I end up getting a good enough deal that I eventually get over it 😜
Interesting! Well, I guess I was looking for things for tip me off on what was changed and it just so happened that the screws on one ring were different than the other. Thanks for watching and commenting!
@@wallofrock6725it’s hard to describe- the style of the screws is different. Like they don’t match the width of the others. Now, I think that it could be just manufacturing differences but when I realized that something’s were swapped out and then replaced, it made me think it was more of an aftermarket part
There were 600 made, I believe. And I paid around a thousand, including that G&L case. The original one didn’t come with a case, so that took about $150 or so off the price of the guitar for me.
My brother, who remembers everything, reminded me about it about 15 years after we first saw it. And once he did, that was all I needed to want it again! Thanks for watching and commenting 😃
I PLAYED A 1967 366/12 UNTIL IT WAS STOLEN THREE YEARS AGO. McGuinn is/was definitely the master, even more than Harrison. Thanks for acknowledging his genius! The "Rick-O-Sound" put the neck and bridge pickups into separate channels through a quarter inch stereo plug.
OMG stolen?? That's awful. On a better note, if you haven't heard McGuinn and Hillman's 50th Anniversary of Sweetheart of the Rodeo album yet, you should give it a listen- before and after they play the country stuff, they play all the great Byrds songs and McGuinn's still got it!! (so does Hillman)
Brother it took me a while it find a fitting pickguard for the squire jag as well. I too have the silver sparkle jag & I was looking for a mirror pickguard & it was endless searching but it paid off eventually 😂
Where did you find one that fit? I’m looking into getting the squier blue sparkle jag next month when they come out and was thinking of doin the same, either a mirror or gold plate
@@777Lateralus I went on reverb and searched for a squire jaguar reissue pickguard but it took me a while of constantly searching until I finally found one
I think it might be too late now. I've had this thing for almost 8 years and I'm afraid if I take the sticker off it'll just show a circle on the pick guard where the sticker would be! Maybe at some point I'll just buy a new pick guard to replace this one (or I guess I could try removing the sticker and buy a new guard if the "shadow" is there!)
It really is- I haven't had to turn the tone knob down that much outside of the Gibson Custombuckers, which are extremely treble-y. I can see the extra treble being useful from time to time, so I guess it's nice to have another tonal option
Not on mine it isn’t- must be something wrong with it because it just cuts the sound out completely. Thanks for the tip, though- now I can attempt to fix it
I love this song the 60s and 70s misc is a different level of music for me I was born in the 80s but my mum and dad had great taste in music and I ended up liking the stuff they listened to more.
