AMA 5: Quitting Corporate for Youtube, PRS SE NF3 vs SAS & CE24, Taylor Swift 8th best Guitarist? 

I appreciate that your channel is very informative, your opinions and experience are relevant, and you aren't "flashy". You have a good delivery, and I hope your channel continues to grow. Congrats!

I've been following you for some time already and what I personally like about your channel is your unique perspective on the industry that you work experience gives you an insight that I find very interesting. Also that you are not a professional player, so your guitars you see them not as tools. Pro players can give great info on guitars, but they tend to have the view of how practical it is and does the job they need. As a hooby your is 100% personal pleasure and admiration of the instrument. I've had over 40 guitars myself through the last 5 years, and I know what you mean that you learn lot of things from the consumer point of view, and I like that perspective. You've had much more so you know more than me. Plus you dont come around as a snob or a dutch lol. You seem like a cool dude to hang around and talk about guitars. So keep it up! And I was the one who mentioned in your video if you saw about the N53 SE lol.

Utkarsh, I just found your Chanel recently but I am enjoying your intellectual views and “conversation” that you bring to the table. Keep going my friend.

Congratulations. I’m glad to see the channel grow.🎉

You blew by 10k so fast! It's well deserved. I'm frankly impressed you are able to maintain the stream of conciousness monolog so well, it must be informed by the years of presenting a meetings. I imagine you must at least. have an outline you follow, but it may be worth while experimenting with writing a script and using an iPad as a teleprompter. I know it sounds kinda lifeless, but Technology Connections does it really well and shows it's just you putting your best self out there when done properly! Please keep it up, I'm here to listen to your musings as long as you make them!

I appreciate the story shared behind your channel, your skills are on display!

Congrats my guitar loving friend...enjoy ur videos immensely...lets keep it going!!!

Congratulations on the great milestone, I really enjoy your content. Your videos are from the heart. Keep up the good work.

I extremely appreciate what you do and have appreciated your videos for some time! I just wanted to say and keep doing what you are doing, thank you!

Excellent work ,keep going

Congrats on 14.1K subs mate!! Great insights into the business side of things and thanks for telling the story of your journey. Keep it coming and 100k will be just around the corner!!

Appreciate the perspective.

Your videos are very insightful 😊

Congratulations on the great milestone, I really enjoy your contents not just only your passion as a guitar collector but your life journey as well.

I totally agree on the CE24 satin & the SE NF3. Both are great guitars for the money.

i've been enjoying this channel immensely for the past few months. keep up the thoughtful content!

Word on the street is PRS is interested in bringing you on board.

I hope you get to 100K subs.

Wow you had three and a half thousand subs when I started watching and it felt like that was a couple weeks ago. Time flies.

Excellent point on Taylor Swift playing guitar. Play that thing, Taylor! (I feel better now)

I have the SE SAS and the SE NF3, and they do sound very different. I agree that the “Strat” 4th position of the SAS sounds exactly like a Strat. The NF3 sounds unique in its in-between world, and the SAS has more true humbucker and true single coil sounds depending on the pickup position it is in. The necks are basically identical, and the hardware is very similar if not identical. The build quality of both is excellent. Between those two SEs it really is a matter of taste and one couldn’t go wrong with either.

You’ll need a 20K video next week 🙌

You know you’re old when you hear 8th best guitarist of this century and you’re first thought 1900-2000 😂

Nice!

the attention economy is a great album title.

RE: DD Narrowfield S vs Original Narrowfield... I have a 2010 Swamp Ash Special with the 57/08 NF pickups. I went to a local shop and played an NF3 SE with the DD NF S pickups and I was pleasantly surprised. Not because it sounded like my SAS NF... but because it sounded different. The neck also felt very different because it lacked rolled edges which made it fell very wide. My original 57/08 NF are bright, full-bodied, and bridges the nuances that I (as a humbucker guy) felt a strat has too little of and P90's has too much of. The DD NF S are darker sounding, balanced, full-bodied, and are much more like a humbucker trying to be more P90 like. Basically less growl and bite. I'm curious of your thoughts when you get a chance to A/B with you Original NF. Thanks for the thoughts and you now have a new subscriber. I'll post a video on my Swamp Ash Special NF after I get back from a short tour... probably sometime in August.

The road that I have walked upon has filled my pockets but emptied out my soul. Now I empty my pockets to refill my soul.

I too am a musician who went to school for engineering in mechanical. I’m not really a car guy like you but I always thought car design was the pentacle of engineering. I’ve had an amazing career playing drums, engineering not so much. lol

I think Levi's should sponsor you :))

thank u

That guitarist list generally looks more like a “list of guitarists popular with the layman” than a guitarist’s guitarists list.

brilliant

in relation to your other video; taylor swift you could replace with a hologram overnight & it would be functionally be no different. her songs are already written by committee (so her 'talent' wouldn't be noticeably missed), they have access to her solo vocal tracks so getting the 'swift-o-tron 3000' to scan & replicate her voice with a.i. would be trivial, from a corporate marketing perspective she's the mickey mouse ears, the coca cola symbol, the nike swoosh already.. it makes perfect sense to replace her robotically to use indefinitely as a marketing construct, and nothing of value would be lost.

I hope Taylor inspires more people to start playing guitar, then they can discover "real" guitarists, eventually. She is very popular, and those votes are coming from the general public. I wish "artistic integrity" would be the next trend!! lol.

Have you ever played a sitar? That would be a cool video.

Enjoying the channel .. but I'm skipping the Taylor Swift bit, have never heard a song of hers and never plan to.

Your assessment of Taylor Swift as a guitarist seems to me fair and sound. It's good to keep in mind that she's a singer-songwriter, and if you're a singer-songwriter you need to play an instrument. For a few hundred years the instrument of choice was a piano, and there are still a few musicians who write pop music who still use a piano -- Elton John and Billy Joel, for example. But, for the most part, the guitar has taken over in the world of popular music. Is Taylor Swift a great guitarist? No, but she'd likely be the first to admit it. Is Neil Young a great guitarist? Was Kurt Cobain a great guitarist? No and no, but they are and were good enough to create their stuff. And so it is with Taylor Swift.

The guitarist list has to be a joke Taylor swift Is a corporate creation, and can barely strum a guitar. Ariani didn’t make the list? Too funny.