I Bought All the Gear I Used as a Kid-does it sound any GOOD? 

My Epiphone Les Paul GT with the trem

My 27$ ukulele

My first distortion pedal.

My cheap crappy $50 strat copy

My strat and a Epiphone studio 10 amp

True.

Kinda disappointed that he didn't get his first electric guitar too

and the pedals through his PRS amp...not the Line 6?

right? i thought he'd buy a cheap electric but no :(

There's a good story behind that guitar. It has the most miles on it by far.

Me, at 40, still using the same gear I had at 14.

Me too 😅

"what isnt broke doesnt need fixed or replaced"

Same, almost age 29!🤘

lol i watched this looking at the first guitar I bought with my own money at 18. now 28

Great story man!

Im in my 50's I still dumpster dive and pu from the curb... its the best!

@@u.s.a.198 Oh for sure. I don't dumpster dive all that much anymore, but I still hit garage sales and stop to pick up stuff I see on the curb. I've gotten guitars at garage sales for under 10 bucks that they say "don't work" just to get them home and find out all they needed was the input jack re-soldered. I got my marshall amp from a junk pile on the curb in front of someone's house. Apparently, they didn't know that tubes are replaceable. LOL.

Oh hell yeah man, those struggles must have made you so much stronger for it. Neat story.

Ah yes I remember playing whatever song I wanted on the old cheap nylon string guitar we had. There's something to be said about having to have the bare minimum now as an adult I'm trying my best to get some good instruments in my life

Wow! Thanks for the story! Very nice!

*classical guitar

LMAO

I was scrolling trying to find this comment

@@feared_sniper-ytbros1701 same

@@gergoretvari6373 i mean, both are acoustic, classical and Anglican have an acoustic box

What kind was it?

My first guitar came with 3 and after all these years only 1 remains

Same! My first pick broke on the second day!

Same, it was some weird knock off jazz III I bought at the guitar store near me when I was a kid.

Yeah don't we all

My buddy's dad told me about a dude he knew back in the day that had a hot pink warlock.

I want a hot pink warlock 😂

I'm so sorry for your loss

Yeaaa the 5150 is my favorite amp I've ever played. Rip.

Same

That amp sounds great but is a hernia waiting to happen. Ridiculously heavy.

Fender should use that as a PRS slander campaign

The video is paused and I can still hear it. It's like some kind of dying computer noise

IKR. I don’t know how anyone would enjoy that

Agreed... my ears felt violated

I liked it ngl, but I could see why most would dislike it

Stolen comment

@@grungefever1813 Stolen name

Jaap Kievit I know

Kurt Cobain he knows too

my guitar teacher sometimes flexes his fender, which is worth 12000-15000 dollars. I dont remember the name of it, but it was one of 12 guitars of that model in the world. He said he bought it from a german that worked in the same town which he became friends with.

i have a late 70s tokai LC8 standing in my room and i could never ever sell it. Its my first and only guitar and i love it. Although i know how you feel! The same happended to a couple of years ago with a console i had as a kid haha

Oh damn that gets me thinking about the old Washburn acoustic that I basically gave away that I first learnt on😐....damn I miss it

Yes, I still have my M Strat from 1999. But that certainly wasn't my first. My first was in the 70's, and it was a full size (Dreadnaught) acoustic I could barely get my fingers around. It was a Kay guitar I think, could be wrong about that.

RIP Mike's mum. Nice story bro

Omg, such a sad/beautiful story, Rest In Peace, bro

And now im crying

Your mother deserves the whole heaven

I hope you can keep your hands on that piano. Sorry about your mom. Lost mine last year and it's never easy no matter how old you get.

It didn't, but you taught me how to play stairway like in 2008 so that's cool too.

@@adrielsotolongo4591 Wow that is cool, thanks for watching!

But Bobby my man, you have taught thousands how to play guitar!

@@ZekaSpalcev Thanks man!

Hasn't happened... YET.

SE not a big deal but yeah I only got a strat copy as a kid haha an I appreciated it

@@alds9729 he is not playing an se

@EMMANUEL OBIOZOR because he's endorsed by prs

@A Gough then you can do work for people and save up for supplies. there is literally 0 reason to assume and call someone a spoiled brat

@A Gough how do you know that?

Lol same

12 years playing....... And I have an fender telecaster and I am playing it on the Roland cube 20x

i would have probably sucked a lot less on a proper guitar with setup on day 1 😜

£50 guitar that I pressed too hard on the whammy bar and a £90 amp that I think got donated to a church. It was a Marshall 8020. That thing could scream for a little guy although it was a bit tinny.

You mean $100 guitar and $35 amp?

Wait we have gone too far lol

Ears Automaticly die

It sounded like absolute garbage

@@lukasrydelius6174 NO IT DID NOT! it sounded like absolute bliss! i'm sure Jack White or Jonny Greenwood would love it

THE BEST

wow that's cool and sweet

That’s by far the best story on here.

Dude you get the guitar? What guitar and amp?

Happy b-bday!! What you get??

My guitar is a Gio Ibanez electric, the amp is my grandpa’s old one and it is a peavey amp, don’t know the model tho

And for my b-day I got a couple of video games, a desk chair, some clothes, and a kapo

Cool! best of wishes dude

Ritchie Blackmore also plugged into a tape deck... as part of his gigging setup. I've also seen youtubers restore/convert old tube radios into practice amps, often they sound pretty good, even if they lack the versatility of a full-featured amp.

You do what you can with what you have, it's all good! Pretty sure Guided By Voices recorded entire albums-worth of stuff through a boom box.

Im really curious on how it sounded like!

Well, hey.. Everyone has a different story on how they became big.

@@dimsumpizza4746 I remember it not having a lot of low end (that may have been on account of the speakers rather than the preamp), but having some nice light breakup if you pushed it. Hardly gig-worthy, but usable. I guess the noteworthy thing was that it was technically stereo, so if I'd have had the pedals and technical know-how at the time, I could have done a wet/dry split.

Not all in the guitar

@Ben Birchman lol

good luck dude

Check out Boss Katana, Harley Benton guitars, Agile guitars, and PRS SE. pretty good stuff for the price.

Good luck I started about a year ago

I get mad easily

Wish u luck amegio

Just all of it

He is indeed

the goodest boy.

He is a good boy, yet a Dane *shivers*

Why did he buy the guitar if he didn’t use it?💀

@@nathanb7474 idk I guess he intended to. I was a little sad. The case seems to have a little water damage but the guitar is mint still

Sick!

@Rayyan mhm

Same lol

Where's the punchline

Nothing good ever came from that store, unfortunately... my nephew's bike was a superturd.

my first was a squire black strat now i have 78 Dean white Flying V, a Jackson soloist, a fender acoustic dread knot, a hollow body gibson, a black ibanez strat, and an ibanez acoustic electric, wow they've really added up,

True story???? Wow. Talk about homeward bound.

@albertplaysguitar cant get any more true. I was shocked. Still am everytime I pick it up.

Awesome story

Cool

@RyanORourkelol I was making reference to the movies from the 90s based on the incredible journey.

I hope you got back to playing eventually.

How was it stolen if you mind me asking?

That is pretty funny. I watched this while sitting next to my 1968 fender bandmaster lol.

@@connorsmith1295 that makes you even older than I am 🤣

Exactly! Vintage gear. We all played a little guitar, one of us much better. Another friend in the house was playing bass with him one day, but no one would play the drums (we rented out space to a college band. Kit always stayed, said we could play it. Finally I jumped behind the kit and it actually worked! That was around 1990, and I don't think most of this gear was around yet. Well, I always remember The Boss Pedals! Probably many more models now? Seemed to be 2 or 3 companies that were all about pedals. The main few companies, then many more started creating all sorts of pedals, remakes, and then the digital "sampling" age brought about a giant pedal (well, it had a pedal on one end), and maybe 50 or more(?) Different "Sounds" that you could pick out with the rest of this "giant pedal". It was the first of it's kind, and very popular? IDT it was an EVH product, but someone big/big company? It was like having 50(?) pedals/guitar player sounds, in one piece of gear, and pretty darn sure it had a wah like pedal at one end? It was a big deal when released in the 90's, and several hundred bucks, it seems, as no one I knew had that kind of money, and if they did, it went towards our rent, or basic gear, keeping it going, adding something here and there. Spent as much buying Albums, Cassettes, CD's, cause the love of music was first! And we played because the interaction between the 3 of us was unlike anything else, and the incredible thrill and joy of playing was our primary reason to play. Who cares if our friends said it sucked, lol, as long as some seem to like it like we did! We'd start playing, maybe the bassist had a riff, I'd play whatever I could to put a beat to it, guitarist would play something of that, I'd play to the guitarist, lol! We did a lot of Improv in our music, and sometimes play constantly for 20 minutes (we'd tape everything in case we found something that sounded/felt good, that just came together perfectly, then listen to the tape, finding riffs/songs this way. What was so strange is we were a Hardcore/Punk/Metal band, lol. I remember surprising some better known Punk band we were friends with. Metal club underneath our apartment, so this Punk band climbed up, looking through the open window w/the "Shhh"(quiet sound), as he was gonna grab our bass player and startle him through the window. Big tall Mohawk wearing brothers, scary looking, but the nicest guys. Suddenly he grabs our bassist in a bear hug from behind, through the window, lol. Startled the Hell out of him, but he was happy to see the guys, just like us! "What songs that?!", one asked, we looked at each other. It's not. We're just jamming! All the other bands had their songs written first. Ours just formed! No "play this on the drums. "Then do this at the chorus", like someone who wanted a song a certain way. Maybe an idea here and there, but at the most, a riff to start with, then whatever the others added to it, propelled it the right way. That's not how music is made. Maybe Jazz, not Hardcore/Metal, lol. We were following The Grateful Dead on Tour Spring, Summer, Fall Tour from 89'-95'(less at the end), doing our thing, before self destructing, like many, when H started coming into the scene, leaving many greats to an early death. We survived though! But many, many didn't. Great guys! But no one's perfect, especially those in the spotlight. Taylor Hawkins had this incredible spirit! A friend to almost everyone he met. A real family man and great friend, from all who knew him. He passed away with "substances" in his system. That's not why he passed away! It was because he had a huge heart! Actually, an enlarged heart. Twice the size of normal! No wonder such a relentless beat? Look into the one of the greatest horses ever named "Secretariat", early 70's I believe. Faster than any horse! Winning by 50 yards kind of stuff. What was it that made this horse so fast and strong? When the horse passed away, they did an autopsy. His Engine, His Heart, was double the size as expected from a horse like this. But the bigger Engine had more power. Taylor Hawkins had this same problem/gift. A heart 2X the size it should be! No wonder he was loved by so many, and showed immense love to his family and fans. He had to much heart in him! And he will live on in the music, forever! What video was I watching? Lol! Forgive my rambling all over, please. Great, interesting video, once again, Thanks for getting your old gear. It was a blast, like always!👍

@@timturk1899 that’s so cool! We did the same thing. I ran my 4 track tascam during a rehearsal and we’d just improv and jam, and sure there were lots of terrible sections. But there are always little gems that can be cultivated to a diamonds lick. And that’s still how I write today. I record a chord progression and then start jamming over top for a few takes. And listen back and take the cool ideas, which often make me “hear” other phrases in my head that o will than track. Boss peddles! I loved them but boy were they expensive! These are awesome days to become a guitarist. You buy AmpliTube or GuitarRig and you have all the gear we could only dream of.

@@CallousCoder Just wait Mr. Coder. Your gear AND you will be vintage before you know it. Have as much fun and sex as you can!

I still have the gould eagle too! Actually a great guitar I was playing it earlier today

Glad for you man! Keep going strong and dont let anything make you look the wrong way. Stay away from alcohol even! Good luck

I sold my American made original fender Stratocaster for $60 worth of H in the depths of my addiction :\ I understand.

Commendable dude, takes strength to get clean hope things are even better now

@@pinball-wizard thank you ❤ I have been off H for years as well as suboxone. I use nothing recreationally anymore!

@@toxicyouth94 👏👏👏 True bravery and courage

Pinoy? Mariposa?

All latinos can relate

as a latino, I can relate to this

Here in brazil to

I love my nylon string guitar. I have big hands and fat fingers, so a classic neck is easier for me.

I'm 47 and while i love my 3 kids and wife dearly, the sound of one of my guitars is still super exciting and a huge part of my life.

I learned guitar later than 14, but 14 year old me had a greater outlook on life, and so badly wanted to be 24 year old me that I am now that I never enjoyed being a teenager and im like in that phase of trying to relive what I missed. Its miserable.

I think I'm happier now. I was depressed and had undiagnosed, untreated learning differences that made school an absolute hell--except for choir, my saving grace. I still have the guitar my mom gave me when I was 15. I am past 60. Yes, it needs a refret. I kinda like the buzz, though.

@@pilsplease7561 i know that feeling dude. i started playing at like 15, and stopped at 19 due to a existential crisis and really bad bouts of depression. im 26 and feel alot better about life now. i should starting playing again. still have my old peavey pa200 amp and 2x10 cab haha. do mis my weird ass lp copy i owned though. it was a spalted maple top with a kramer banana headstock. the brand was "highlander".

@@frigglebiscuit7484 You should start playing again. I've gotten frustrated and put it down more than once due to life getting in the way. I will rotate between it and cars. I guess I gotta have more than one outlet. I've been in quite a few bands but finding people that are responsible and take things seriously is a headache.

Line 6’s are good amps. Orange and Marshall as well!

Right there with you man.

@@theqgene826 I always liked mine but I replaced both of them fairly quickly once I found better options in the price range, after playing a katana I ever wanted to see a line 6 again

I personally love line 6 amps. I know they’re branded as trash but in my opinion it beats a boss katana for its effects. That is my OPINION

Yeah! 😊

He said 15

@@Fausto_4841 That was for the Pod. The guitar was 50.

I mean 50$ is a lot better than 150$ right?

That’s awesome

MyName__ Kosmo it’s a bc rich mockingbird i know that today they aren’t considered to be cool but back in the mid eighties they were considered to be the quintessential hard rock guitar.

LOL... BC Rich was one of those brands I wanted (before the Ibanez bug). A Mocking Bird, Warlock or Rich Bitch would have been the bomb. Nice find BTW.

When I was 14 my friend and I got our first guitars, mine a squier affinity strat, his a Crate Electra. A year later his moms car was stolen along with his guitar he'd left in the trunk. His parents didn't have the money to replace it so I saved up some birthday/allowance money and got him an Ibanez GAX75. I know, I'm a nice guy. It's been 20 years since then and he and I still talk from time to time. Last month I get a call from him out of nowhere saying "You mother fu@ker lol you mother fu@ker..." I have no idea what he's talking about. He goes "I decided to clean up that Ibanez you gave me and saw what you put in the neck pocket..." Still had no idea what he was talking about. He goes "You drew a dick on a post-it note and wrote 'don't lose this one fa&&ot. Love, *insert my real name*" Lol

Exactly!! I owned a spider also now 7 years later a tube Amp shame I sold my first Ibanez Jumpstart guitar haha

yeah dude i still have my first acoustic, i stole it from my high school

Ur name says everything

@Sïôro he'd do anything for the nookie, man

@Sïôro You deserve many likes

My Little Shit Boxes would be a great band name.

@@richharris2864 Or pedal brand name

OHHH WAS IT BY CHANCE A FOCUS 1000?

I had that damn Randall amp The guy who built them is genius but I shoulda thrown it in the garbage after my 1st gig.

I forgot to add, I played it through a ovation electric. If you think the acoustics were bad well. In fact I never heard the phrase “man I just love your tone”. At one time in the late 90s I had a hot rod deluxe with an MXR COMP PEDAL RED 2 dials and a Peavey Cropper Classic all mahogany built like a telecaster Such nice tone when the hot rod cooperated which was every other gig.

I get ya... I was 18 in 89.... my very first rig was a Cort Guitar and a Gorillia Amp.. Later went to a half stack.. way to much amp for my second amp, but held me well when we formed a band in 88.

I am 14 now and I have an ibanez gio jumpstarter pack and a boss turbo distortion

If someone starts playing it i am always deeply dissapointed they stop after 5 notes.

When did he say it

Josh Asdf 15:17

Let's make a counter-petition for him to keep saying it, and more petitions will pop up for him to stop, and the counter petitions will rise like a multi headed Hydra.

Jordan Miller was funnier in my head, than it actually turned out to be

@@The_Horse-leafs_Cabbage I was literally about to say I'd like a petition for him to use it as many times as he possibly can, in every video.

i started with classical yamaha, then yamaha pacifica, fender tele SWIRL and now is Gibson SG

Started with Strat, then a Epi Les Paul, back to a Strat, now I have a Jackson Soloist.

I started with a steel string only because the music class at the middle school I went to had us do very basic shit on acoustic. And a friends grandma was cleaning out her garage and had an old acoustic I got to keep

It's like the blues guitarist pokemon evolution

Mine was the slash signed, Hendrix signed and Hetfield and Hammet signed air guitar by Gibson.

That is odd, I had the same guitar, with the same pups. But i bought it from a guy in stenage, UK, and sold it 3 years later. Great guitar/pup combo.

@@bpdarragh I think you had that guys guitar. Probably not but who knows

That was the same amp I first got. Peavey Rage 158 from a pawnshop. Guitar was a black Squier Strat with Rosewood fingerboard from eBay. Pedal I bought out of a Digitech catalog new and was a Digitech Grunge pedal.

me

I'm also a kid xD but I use almost the same gear but I'm a Pantera fan so I use Dean Guitars!

@@jaspersleegers7567 how rich are your parents?!?!

But you have the spelling ability worse than most kids

@@salvatoreusrex8257 ture

Pods had wonderful clean tones. The closest i can get in a sim is positive Grid’s bias fix clean tones. I use neural for all my dirt tones. Mainly because it feels closest to playing a real amp. All the pick attack and sag you expect.

Do them right and learn a song and play

@@eduardoprieto5267 currently im learning how to play snow by rhcp

Snow is a fun riff, hurt by Johnny cash, wind cries Mary and hey joe all great entry level songs

Dude that’s sounds to crazy to make up, nice

@@lzasyr lol

Thunderstruck is played with a b string

@@henryatherton1654 Could you not just tune it up a load?

@@Kyle-gw6qp probably could tbf

Same, I don’t know why but it’s hysterical in hindsight.

Yeah I have this amp. That’s why I only really play with pedal that has a bunch of effects

Holy shit I'm having PTSD flashbacks thanks for reminding me lmao

I have that same Line 6 amp too, but mine doesn’t do that.

Lol Kramer Stryker with some garbage Peavey amp and a Digitech multi-effects pedal lol. Still have my Kramer. It's a shit guitar but the fretboard and neck are super-comfy and playable.

oh man...thats sad...

@@Stinkyballs123 Thank for sympathizing. I'm now able to talk about it, and about the grief, without feeling sad. It's just what it is, no more bad feelings. Also it leaded me to learn luthery so maybe one day I'll be able to build a tribute to replace that guitar. Got joy wood working, in a way it's a better thing than having this guitar as my father used to wood work too, it's keeping the flame alive. :)

@@Bloodysugar good to know!

@@Bloodysugar Mah man!!!! Bro, you deserve the best guitar ever!!! You do!!!

@@chipcaronte Kind thoughts, thanks, but for real it would be a waste as I'm not a good guitarist by any mean. ^^'

That sucks, man

I had it and never learned properly in 7th grade.... Now Im 25 with a Epiphone amp I bought for a gram of weed sounding better than ever

Still have it haha

@@wids 😳

The previous owner most likely messed with the settings as I have one and none of them have those crappy effects on by default lol. Of course it's going to sound like trash, for one, using an amps built in effects, and two, when they're set to 80-90%. They don't sound bad if you take the effects off and don't have the settings maxed out. It's hard to get a usable distortion tone at that price point outside of those amps.

I had a squier frontman 10g and it was pretty bad to learn on but now I got me one of those fender tube amps and I'm a happy guy

But there can only be one Insane™

Amps should go to 11 instead of 10 as well just for that reason.

@@daanvdwielen8760 spinal tap hehe