Is the Sterling St. Vincent Goldie PERFECTLY DESIGNED FOR DAD BODS? - unboxing and first impressions 

I am so lucky that 5 years ago I was volunteer stage manager on a music/arts festival in Ireland and popped into a coffee shop before I started work, there was a lady ordering a few takeaway cups and she turned around, smiled and apologised for the delay. Only after talking for a couple of minutes she introduced herself as St.Vincent. She was super sweet and put my name on the guest list for her gig later that night. She is incredible, played guitar like Prince/Hendrix I thought but still a unique talent.❤ Love her guitars.They sound great live for sure.

I'm a huge fan of St. Vincent's music, so I've wanted one of those guitars for years. I'm really glad to see it get such a good review and to hear it sound so good in the demo. Especially, the Sterling version.

It looks incredible. It’s one of the best modern designs. Annie Clarke is an actual genius. Now they are baking them these Sterling’s now look premium.

You are a master click baiter, for sure. Sorry... Excellent guitar, big fan of the St.V. I use it all the time in my rants on the Mayer Silver Sky of a project worth doing. If I'm ever honored with a signature guitar with a company then we're going to make it something more distinct and not just another gussied up Strat. (Full disclosure, I love Strats.) But eff the Silver Sky.

I remember in an interview, Annie Clark mentioned the switch selection was something different. EB website notes: 1: neck & bridge, 2: all 3 pickups, 3: neck, 4: middle, 5: bridge.

I don't think I'm alone in saying I would love to hear the new band! 🎸

This looks like a legit new design. Aesthetics can inspire you to play

You're never gonna be happy with either color after your kid mentioned lime green 😂

Im a telecaster enjoyer but im also into weird and outlandish stuff of all kinds

The St.Vincent is honestly one of the best looking and most interesting guitars I've seen in years. In that color? Goddamn

5:19 Totally agree! The diminutive curvy headstock just looks like a mistake with the angular body design. I wish guitar makers would stop with the signature headstocks and create new headstocks for each new design. Especially when it’s a totally unique body design like this. I do agree the reverse headstock is a big step in the right direction.

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I like everything about it except that headstock. It sounds great though, Apache in particular.

Klaus Nomi is awesome. I thought that was so cool when I saw that St. Vincent designed a guitar to look like Klaus Nomi in guitar world magazine. If I got one I would want the black and white full pick guard one so it looks most like Klaus Nomi.

As a lover of guitar body designs, I think this is one of the greatest body shapes to arrive in the past 50 years. I am a big bloke and I wonder how a larger body in this shape would look. Great review.

Odd. I've always thought this shape was perfectly suited to st Vincent. The blue one especially reminds me of a pencil dress, which tends not to look very good on a dad bod.

I was actually looking at a blue one of these (at one that was similar to this one) a couple of years ago and it was on sale. I wish I had bought it ,but money was tight at the time. I knew these could surf.

#WiggleStick 🤣

This body shape to me is if you had a few cold ones and tried to draw the Budweiser logo from memory. Maybe that’s just me haha 😂

I've played one of those st Vincent guitars. I liked the pickups but nothing else about it.

it just took 2 days for me to setup my Goldie. It finally feels and sounds pretty good. I forget how much work it takes to get these budget guitars up to par. and poop, I didnt have the option for a gig bag

This guitar looks like someone cut up a explorer but most importantly it looks interesting.

Dude that is an incredible guitar and looks a lot like a Billy Bo. I think that’s where the “Automotive” vibe is coming from. AWESOME . Thank you sir.

Hey I just wanted to know your thoughts on firebird pickups. Also love that you aren't just another metal/blues demo and mix it up with some rocking surf!

I'm really hesitating between this one and the new Albert Lee P90 version in Sherwood Green!

Most surfy shapes seem more Flintstones, this seems more Jetsons.

Annie Clark said she designed the guitar shape to fit more comfortably with the female body (specifically boobs.) So if by "Dad bod" you mean men with big moobs, then OK😂

10:38 for Elastica fans... aaand Wire fans 😜 I'm patiently waiting for My Deranged Heart and Sunny Sundae Smile! Thank you, you are *supercool* 😎

Awesome stuff, can you ask the folks at Sterling to make a bass version? Keep killing it my dude.

Damn, now I'm torn between this and the 150th Anniversary Epiphone Crestwood in California Coral. How is it that you make me want every guitar you review? But seriously, between those two, which would ultimately be your choice and why?

entertaining show, good content, nice description and the aesthetics are nice, but it sounds extremely raunchy, is that your amp?😮lr does it need a setup?

The "Upper FIN"! This is definitely what you needed to wait for. It was calling to you......

Good click bait! The Dad bod. Now if i could just learn to play!

The Two Princes shtick has a very Homestar Runner vibe about it and it gets me every time. :D

My Sterling Mariposa is my favorite guitar ever. I think you'd really dig it as well. Fun shape, humbuckers, PINK. But same picking problem that you're having here and I have to consciously pick farther back so I pick between the pickups.

I was just watching the following video and thought "Didn't that 60 Cycle Surf guy have one of those on his channel?" Also, they totally missed the opportunity to have the headstock be the same shape as the body! The Fender style looks so old-fashioned on this. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Q_igolfkQU0.html

Yeah good click bait

I actually really dislike the Eb headstock reversed on that guitar. It would be a guitar I'd like if it was just on normal.

I have one of the very early blue Saint Vincents with the all Rosewood neck. Interestingly, as much as I am a gear swapper, I have had this guitar for probably the longest amount of time out of all my guitars. One of the things that did not work for me about this guitar was the electronics. When I initially got it, I was using three separate guitars for gigging. This was the only guitar I could not swap directly between and not have to change amp settings. This is due to the 250 K pots that were stock in the guitar. I ended up gutting electronics and putting in a super switch and to 500 K pots. Opened up the guitar up immensely. I also opted for a configuration that works for my taste and rig. It’s neck series/neck parallel, then middle/bridge parallel, then bridge series/bridge parallel. Huge array of tones, and the guitar is an absolute keeper. It’s one of the best instruments I’ve ever owned, and there have been a few.

Hell yea, I just got mine in gold after some wait. I love it but I intend on swapping out all the pickups to more gold foil-y gold foils

Someone told me my BMG Arielle reminded them of an Ernie Ball St. Vincent and I definitely took it as a compliment for all the reasons of how you described the shape!

A black pickguard would look sick

Does it do the in between Strat tones? All 3 pickup guitars should do that.

I really like that guitar. Nice choice.

You are a stronger man than I if you could wait WEEKS to open it. I tipping the very nice UPS lady who delivered it to my hotel room and had the box torn open practically before the door was shut on my hotel room.....and that was just for the HH exactly like you played at Thomann. When the MM Goldies came out I nearly preordered one even though $3K for a guitar is insane for me...completely. I think I fainted when these came out (true story, seriously!) because I didn't have the money and if I don't get one I may die. (also a true story.)

The original Goldies were Music Man's and were 3k. I saw Sterling is making one now, but they made a version of her first model with the larger pickguard as well. And while this is an attractive offer, and I'm a fan, so I really want one, I already have a wall full of sub 1k instruments and have no desire to own the Squire/Epiphone version. And having a wall full of instruments, I really don't have space. (Now if someone gave me one as a gift, I'd find space ;) I also don't have a gold guitar so a Gold Goldie would kill 2 bird with 1 stone. ) To my knowledge, Sterling to Music Man isn't closing the gap the way Epiphone and Squire have really been rivaling their top end counterparts lately. All of St. V's guitars are getting harder to find now and I'm starting to see a few bands pop up who are using them. (Just making me wish I got one years ago.) And these newer Sterlings seem to be flying off the shelves as well. (They've been out for a few months at the time of this post.) It's funny you mentioned the size because I was going to ask if these Sterlings are downsized? The MMs she uses live all seem like regular sized guitars, I've seen a few other people play them and same thing. They look like regular sized or large guitars. But I've only seen the MMs played by people, not the Sterlings. Are those people just tiny (very possible, IDK the names of some of them, but Willow Smith and Jack White have played them on SNL.) , are you a giant, or is it downsized compared to the MM? (Doesn't your curly haired buddy with the glasses have the MM version of this? A comparison would be cool to see. The only differences I can spot are the trem and while the 3k trem looks cooler, the Sterling trem looks more functional and fun. Are the pickup's the same or are they more of an OEM version? I can only find comparisons of the St. V V1s.) As stated, I like that trem as well. Do you think we can float it a little like we can with the strat style trems for some push/pull wiggle-sticking? I'm a fan of cools shapes. My 1st guitar was a Series 10 that I traded in for an B.C. Rich Warlock in '93 that I still have to this day. I also have a Mockingbird, and while it's kind of normal, I have a Jem Jr. but that grip really sets it apart for me. I have a D'Angelico Bedford SH and TD (TearDrop). The rest of my guitars are 2x 6 string Ibanez RGs, a 7 string multi scale RG. A Squire Affinity Strat. And an ESP LTD, which is a neck-through and has an EMG 81/85 set that they guy who gave it to me won in a Guitar World contest. I also have an odd Les Paul shaped guitar from what I believe is from CMI. It's got Mustang/Jazz Master style bar switches. It's not a crazy shape, but all the white switches on the black body make it pop. (The Rorschach impression is a penguin.) TBH I got it at a rummage sale for $15 and have only tested to make sure the electronics and pickups worked. I really should toss some strings onto it and see how it sounds, but from what information I've been able to gather, it's a cheap entry level no name guitar that was made overseas for, and sold by CMI, so I haven't been in a big hurry to mess with it. I'm not exactly short on guitars.

This could be the perfect guitar for 40s and up guys like me 😂 I bought a donner guitar a while ago from watching your channel I kept most of it the same except tuners I changed and I put a paf pro dimarzio in the bridge which is very great pickup for the guitar. Kept everything else stock it's one of my favorite guitars and was only 239.99 USD Your channel rocks man love the Harley Benton guitars too 🎸 🔥 being a Jackson Fender Schecter Peavey lover the donner guitar holds its own weight.

I’m here for the extra two Princetons jingle

Mastercard logo fret markers :)

1 very very minor thing thing that bugs me about an otherwise awesome guitar: the strap button isn't in line with the point that body goes to at the bottom of the guitar

has anyone ever made this style guitar in lefty?

I'm very into the Goldie. Gold guitars in general the in older ones looked like Budweiser sighne or Marlboro packs so good update

We share an interest in the slightly offbeat. My. St. VIncent has the full pickguard, and is metallic blue, but it's the design the attracted me. Really cool body shape, I like the 4 x 2 headstock, and I, too, really like the "triangular" knob design. Sounds great through my amps, not too heavy, and is surprisingly comfortable to play. I agree - keep the weight under 8 lbs.

I’m not always a fan of your guitar styles (the sparkly gold ones and over the top surfboard ones are just not my thing) but lately you’ve been tempting me greatly 😭 this and the Guild Surfliner have got me THIRSTY

I'll have to stop watcning and pick it back up later but so far I haven't heard you correct the pickup wiring. If it's anything like the original St. Vincents then it's not standard at all and has an all 3 and a Bridge/neck position, as well as one for each individual pickup.

That Two Princes moment was worth the price of admission. A true showman.

Thanks so much for this review. After watching this video I ordered the exact guitar and color. I'm impressed based on your video.

The Music Man version is possibly the best guitar for me that I’ve ever played. There are huge differences in the 2. Pickups and the neck.

What happened with the guitar you were designing? 🤔

Casual Music Fan circa 2023: "Oh, Les Paul was a guitarist?" Casual Music Fan circa 2053: "Oh, Saint Vincent was a guitarist?"

I'd like to see you check out the new Sterling Albert Lee with P90s if you get a chance.

😂. Is see this thumbnail, and I’m like ohh Anne’s guitar. I see the title. 😂😂😂 The guitar made for the complete opposite of a dad bod. Anyone heard Dean Ween on guitar placement. “Above or below never over”😂

I personally think it should have neck bindings and block inlays. That would definitely be a home run for me.

I play in a 90s type post punk band. Mini buckers fit the bill perfectly. Have to agree with Ryan here

I think it's a very cool guitar. It reminds me of The Jetsons.

• Neck warped on my Blackie, never got to play it. • Sterling will not sell a replacement neck. • Plans to swap for aluminium neck by Baguley Guitars of Germany. 😎

Love that colour, the original StV is my favourite guitar in the universe, glad you found one that you bonded with. ...But fuck you if you pinstripe it.

So I like your review and the guitar looks awesome. But I have to disagree with one passing comment. The guitar really isn't at all Brutalist in design. It's cool looking but definitely more of a mid century design emphasizing functionality.

I'm really torn between this and the Guild Surfliner Deluxe.

It's a upper horn and lower bout on electrics. Or, on an acoustic, upper and lower bouts. Can you use the word "bout" in a sentence? Like..."I'm bout to tell the wife I bought one of these", or, "I'm bout to be single again".

how would people describe the neck on this guitar? i currently play an ibanez azes40 it’s a c style neck. is the st vincent neck similar? i don’t really love super flat necks how is this one?

Svelte is the word you’re looking for. It’s Very Svelte.

Love that guitar and color choice. My only issue is I don't understand why all guitars don't have recessed backplates.

Any overlap between this and the epiphone crestwood anniversary?

your beard is gone.... but as a new subscriber I enjoy your videos, still miss your beard brah

That is a beautiful guitar! love the color and the sound of those pickups! Great choice! Gold pin stripping Hmmmmm!

Would you say these pups sound like Gibson Firebirds or Les Paul Deluxe-s?

Designed by the Avante garde feminist rocker with the Dad body in mind! Hey it sounds good….

Isaac Brock of Modest mouse is a user of wiggle stickless trems. His guitar has a similar lip on the trem. I think his even floats.

I love those. They look like something Fred Flintstone would play.

All joking aside I just want Sterling to fix the quality of their trems or switch to gotoh or FR stat. I want to buy their guitars but they make the worst trems in the industry.

I've loved these ever since I first saw them. One day I'll get one! I also love the musicman Armada. Probably the coolest les paul type guitar by quite a bit imo.

This would be my favorite guitar design by far if it wasnt for the headstoc :/. Its still my favorite guitar design but its missing that wxtra lil bit

Love the channel, even bought one of your tees but had to unsubscribe because of that spin doctors tune, it was annoying back in the early 90's and just gets worse and worse.

It must be true, you dont even look old enough to drive with that guitar strapped on you!

Great video! Always get a good laugh and hear an interesting thought from you Ryan!

The Guitar looks better on St Vincent😊 ( but you know that!)

that's a sexy little animal. i would've went with the gold but that's nice too. can't wait to try one.

I have and always wanted one of those guitars!

What pedals are you using??😢 at 26:50

The guitar looks great on her

…. Horn? I know what you’re talkin’ bout.

That's a great color on a meticulously crafted instrument, plus, it sounds massive! Headstock shape doesn't quite match the body contours...

Apologies if anyone has already asked this and I just haven't seen it in the questions, but the riff around the 24 minute mark are you going Three Girl Rhumba by Wire or Connection by Elastica? (I know they're the same, other than one was an original piece of wrk and the other not so much)

I'm sure you do like wiggle sticks.

What pedals are being used at 25:00?

Go back in time and get a Jetsons guitar...

the body shape is a girl's short dress with big collars

Like it good job

really dig that guitar :)