Gary Moore's Original Red Strat vs Fender's Custom Shop Replica 

I'm not surprised he painted it red every one wanted a fiesta red strat in the 60s you can thank Mr Marvin for that.🎸

I'm impressed by the stuff he noticed is different and how he had the guts to call it out.

I did an interview with Gary in 1984 - this guitar was stolen by British Airways for a while and eventually returned

My favorite look of a strat. That red. The yellowish plate und PUs. The dark fretboard and the yellow head. Perfect

Guys, stop spending thousands of dollars to buy "replicated history". Just spend 600 dollars and make your own.

The way you Handled & played the first piece was all Love & the feeling of handling something of high value now.It did however sound Amazing. Thanks Neuville.

Great review, great guitar and even greater Mike Ehrmantraut makeover.

Got to be one of the best sounding strats alongside SRV's!...but its Gary that made it soar to the next level, my ears are still ringing from him playing it on the victims of the future tour, we miss that man! 🌟🎸✨

Same Guitar, but different story. Gary, you’re gone, ma not forgotten. Master and Legend.

yes that version of red house was phenomenal

I got really emotional when I saw the original feeling that Gary should still be here to play it.

Nev is such a gent I love it when he gives a piece of kit the once over he is honest and very well genned up on all things guitar.

How I would love a replica of the Great Gary Moore RIP. Loved seeing him play it on his J Hendrix tribute on Blue ray. At 45 on military pension I don't think I'll be able to afford such a guitar that I would play so much through my fender 65 reverb reissue. Any donations from Fender my hand is up. A custom shop Gary Moore what Moore lol can you ask for. Yes I'm a fender nut. I would just love to own something so well done. It's reissue needs to be played not just on display but some great Blues/rock. Please please.

Have a 93" AVRI 62 in Fiesta red , bought sight unseen and needed a shim, the previous owner had had the guitar planed to 9.5 radius and jumbo frets put in. Was a basket case when bought with the wrong Graph-tech saddles installed. Original 57 62 pickups. Needed a polish and grind and went back with the original bent steel saddles. Paid 1100 for it and put 400 into it to get it back ship shape and anyone who plays it asks to buy it. Have several strats including an EJ Thinline blonde. This guitar is the last strat would ever sell. Bought it because I always loved when Gary would play his . R.I.P. Gary, gone but never ever forgotten.

Me personally would never waste money on a "relic" or "copy" instrument, but it does sound great!

Thanks for the nice comments on the demo, everyone. It's not for me to go into the rights and wrongs of prices, or the Relic debate in general; everyone is entitled to their view on such things. But it's lovely to be able to show you guitars like these, let you see them up close and hear what they sound like. Hopefully we'll get some more 'famous' or historically important guitars to show you. In the meantime, keep watching! Nev.

If I would be able to spend 12k on a guitar, I wouldn't buy a new one. For that amount you get a refinished original 1963 stratocaster. but a really great demo.

Gary played Jimis red house with the same strat at fenders 50th anniversary.. what a legend.. RIP

Oh my lord......what a lovely pair of guitars. Hat's off to Neville for making them sound so cool.

Man, you are the Best review guitarrist i ever seen!!!! congrats, keep rocking

Everything, top shelf, class presentation

I thought I had come across an interview with Gary, and he had said the guitar was in a flood in his home while he was on tour and that is what caused the color fade and the tone after he had it dried and rebuilt...

I love those chops

I might relic my own guitar... To do this I will play it for a while, wearing a sandpaper suit and gloves. Then I will rub it with charcoal, beer and curry sauce.

Anything with John Cruz's name on it is wonderful. I love it.

I don´t care how iconic it is. It´s pleasuring enough to know that certain guitars like Peter Green´s 59 Les Paul or Gilmours Black Strat has featured on several classic recordings. But ultimately it´s the player. It´s just a guitar when the players who owned them pass away.

Man, I miss GARY MOORE. One bad ass on the guitar !! sweet video, sweet guitar.

I read somewhere that the first strats imported into the UK were repainted red , as someone thought they hadn't been painted properly and needed finishing off before the were sold. if this is true, it would tend ,at least partly , to confirm Gary's strat was originally sunburst .

The red under the fiesta top coat is Dakota red- there are many 61 fiesta red strats exactly the same

Wow. Amazing that you can even compose yourself to play such a mystic artifact.

Damn, that's beautiful. Especially that faded-out Fiesta Red. I'd just about give my eye teeth if my pre-CBS Fender basses that I currently own were a custom color like that. I've ran into plenty of pre-CBS vintage stuff here in WV. But, honestly don't recall ever seeing anything in a custom color. Even as a kid, when my parents purchased my first bass, a pre-CBS P-Bass from my cousin, back in the mid 1970's. They've all been sunburst, or natural, with my mid-70's J-Basses.

Gorgeous. Great playing too.

love Gary hey! my Dad was in school with him,My Dad sings well,yes ausome guitar

Great video and great read! Need to go out and find me a fiesta red strat!

'If the person who buys this plays it, which they often don't .' One of the most insightful asides of the review. This instrument may be a bauble in a collection of a rich guy who can't play. With any luck, it isn't relegated to such a terrible fate.

Great playing, great guitar, and great tone...can't beat that.

Hi Neville. That was a beautiful presentation for this wonderful Guitar. We just received our Gary Moore replica John Cruz Custom Shop Strat a week & a half ago. I just uploaded my video as well. I've added in a link to this video of yours as a Card because I really enjoyed this so much. Best regards, Jason from Ishibashi Music, Shibuya in Tokyo, Japan.

I saw Gary 3 times and he always played a Les Paul at each one. Did not know that he ever played a Strat. This one is Sweet, love to get my hands on one.

Friend, theres a lot.of review players in the Internet, but no doubt youre the most elegant player and acurated, simple the Best!

The 'relic' effect is an art form in itself, like an abstract painting, I think it goes far beyond just trying to make a guitar look old and fakely well-used, in fact for me it adds 'mojo' and makes you want to play in a certain way. It's also not unlike the swirl paint effects you get on some rock guitars, each one unique. It also helps you relax when you gig, and leave it on stage without breaking a sweat, instead of one of those bright almost-too-pristine PRS's etc. I bought a medium-relic Tele body about 6 years ago, nitro-finish lets the wood breath far more, and a good 80% more wear has happened since then from me playing it, it just had a head start that's all. Beautiful guitars, RIP Gary.

So cool that you have his actual guitar

I wonder if the brighter paint under the forearm isn't just caused by the polishing effect of the buttons on Gary's jacket (from '90 onwards he mostly wore a suit on a stage) if you look at Blixa Bargeld's mustang it has the same thing only in Sonic Blue. The 'knife marks' are due to the buttons and Gary playing hard.

Those that don't "get" why those of us prefer relics never will, and that's ok. I don't keep every guitar I buy for 40 years, so I "get" the relic idea...its an art really.

I know pretty much everything about that guitar but the most exciting thing was to see how Gary set the Boss distortion pedal that by the way sounds amazing for weak single coils.With humbuckers those pedals doesnt even work its just a blur.

"You never give me your moooooney.." Lovely playing Nev

I love this video, but I also spent all of it hearing the theme from Arthur in the background after the first 30 seconds of the intro Neville played. The flight case reminds me of the one that came with my Roland JX-10 synthesizer. (Lord, I miss that thing!)

I think boss need to make a relic’d Gary Moore DS1.

Very nice riffing.......love the "salmon pink strat"... the faded fiesta red

WHAOU !!!! It should be so affecting and sad in the same way to have THE Gary's Red Strat in the hand...I would be paralysed... Your video is really sweet and respectul of Gary's instrument and memory... AWSOME !!! RIP Gary.

If that guitar could speak, it would say "I miss my daddy" RIP Gary Moore.❤️

That was other worldly, Neville. Thank you.

The original red strat has a great feel to the neck. Plays like butter!

Great video and great playing! Thanks for doing that!

Cool guy is Nev and a tasty player.

Tremendous player. Great review

Fiesta red was a popular color due to hank marvin, so a lot of sunburst strats got fiesta red over them.

You may want to start the analysis by analysis by indicating what year the strat is....for those of us who don't know the intricacies of the different years and specs. My assumption is that it's an early 60s.

This is the SynthAxe demo guy! :D

Everybody is bitching about it being pre-worn....while nobody acknowleded the fact that this is Synthaxe guy

I remember this guitar from Still Got the Blues clips

Gary got the best Strat tone out of this guitar.

The biggest issue I have with guitars made this way is that the players who sweated over them for many decades, didn't originally buy them because of how they looked or sounded. They bought a guitar they could adapt with different frets, pickups and other mods. This process didn't cost them one tenth of what these 'replicas' do and this equates to guitar corps cashing in on something which isn't their's. Buy any Strat, buy some pickups, have it refretted and if you can't wait that long, batter it with sandpaper to simulate wear. It will save you thousands in paying someone else to do it for you.

I have been fortunate enough to have been left my late fathers Guitars. He was collecting in the 50's up to the mid 90's. In his collection are a few pre CBS Fenders and one is Fiesta red Strat. They are out there still but their very expensive. That said Bucko bought one at Auction for 2 grand. Ok it was in a box in bit's but had a great job done of having it fixed up. I'm left handed, my Dad was not. I learnt to play with the high E off the top, even my left handed Guitars are strung that way. If there is any way you can play a pre CBS Fender, whether it be a Strat, Tele, Jag, Jazzmaster, whatever then try one. Especially the Strat. That 7.5' radius feels slinky. If you play and get the chance, take it.

Thanks for the comparison, the original sounds much better and i can imagine that it feels better to ;)

Great playing.

R.I.P Gary we miss you !

I just checked Reverb and this is currently going for a cool $18,000. Worth it? You decide.

I saw Gary rip it up with that Strat. Reading festival '82.

IN Australia 2 brothers the Dekroo bros imported Fender guitars in the 60;s without cases + all sunburst they had cases made by Stanford at Chats wood Sydney +painted the guits mostly red I guess because of Shads I have a 65 L it was blue over red over sunburst I managed to scrape the paints off to the laquer then buffed it .came up great I was thinking maybe that's what happened with Garys strat could have been in Aus

Its,amazing what gary did with that strat.He was a sweet soul,but a vicious guitar player.His style was so different from everyone else.Black Irish for ever.

It shows this virtual paper magazine is owned by one telling you its the one, man Gary played Sqier ones as well

Not much a fan of reliced guitars but still that is a nice strat... great video too.

When you are selling a guitar " this is the best neck i've ever played.. its incredible, even the wear makes it sound better" classic line, 🤣.

Gary was amazing. Rest in peace

Great post, what a guitarist and what a guitar... thanks

I think the yellow paint underneath was the original primer/sealant Fender used back in the days

So respectful. Thanks.

What an amazing sound damn ! Really underestimated

I was looking up one for sale out of curiosity, and it seems they are already all spoken for, or sold. 12.5K$ a pop, I wonder how much of it goes to Gary's estate, if any. I believe they have to give a portion of the sales since they slap Gary's name on it. 60 were made, not so many.

If you saw garry moore play red house at the Fender 50 th anniversary on this guitar you would either: A) burn all your guitars and take up golf or B) go home and practice your ass off.

how come none of us can get a boss ds1 to sound like that? It's almost slide guitar sound with a bit of fuzz,

How about replicating the neck, the hardware, color and pickups and selling it as a Gary Moore model without the faux aging?

i never realized how similar fuzz and distortion sound

Sounds like every other strat I have ever played/heard. Only ones that sound markedly different are cheap ceramic pickups and hard tails. Gary Moore quite famously never gave a toss about 'gear' or 'tone'. Strats are all about feel: there is such a massive scope thanks to the many radius and fret combinations used over the years. Maple or rosewood? Floating or decked? Staggered poles or flat? A Les Paul is a Les Paul. A strat is a synthesizer.

I remember playing the "John Entwistle" Fender 62' strat and having the immediate feeling on such a beautiful slim neck, exactly as neville said here with gary's, does anyone know why this is as id love to find the same strat, it was 4 years ago and i can still remember the impact and how it felt, just awesome, also would this be the same for all 62's ? Reissues?

They didn't even get the fret marker color correct. Gary's original actually has brighter white fret markers! Like a Mona Lisa reproduction where it actually looks more aged than the original.

This is the sound

My favorite color plus I'm intrigued by the slimmer neck. I'm not a collector so 12k is just ridiculous to me. Wouldn't mind seeing a production model of this go down just to see how everyone digs the neck profile

should be in the guitar hall of fame

Sweet timbre!

How much this 61s replica, but Gary's guitar sustain is outstanding

indeed a wonderful tribute piece & guitaresqué musical art work fashioned by the one & the only John Cruz, ... sadly though at $35,000 Cdn ... only a select few will ever get to enjoy her... Nice work just the same John . . . .

That's a great vid Nev, many thanks. Who actually owns Gary's red strat now? I didn't see it go through at the auction of his other guitars. Thanks, Steve

"probably won't" - sad truth. Nice guitar though...

You know, for a strat from the ‘60s, those tuners look brand new (the ones from the original “Pink Strat”)

"Jesse we have to cook"

Nice playing Sir.

Nice demo! FWIW...the guitar is not Pink as described in the graphic.

Beautiful guitar!!!!!

I don't really understand a scratch for scratch replica for a buttload of money but I can't speak highly enough of my 2 Nash Teles. Yes They're kind of expensive and yeah they're prematurely relic'ed so I'm sure there are some judgmental folks out there who would turn their noses up at me for buying them but I have no regrets at all about picking them up. I'm also guilty of putting extra value on one of them because It was owned and played by the guitarist of my favorite band, who sold it to me...