The Original Headless Guitar... And Probably the Cheapest Too!

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@jotarodripjo4449 5 лет назад

Pros: Small Lightweight Sounds good Plays good Easy to maintain Stays in tune Smart and usefull features Versatile Cheap Cons: It looks a bit silly

@daionsavage 5 лет назад

Munch, munch, delicious crunch Aye!!

@dpedrosoliano 5 лет назад

very 80s haha

@sparkfx5874 4 года назад

@@oyc7946 Seriously. Was my main axe when I played shows. Sounds great and is an amazing guitar. Great value. Wish they'd do an in depth serious review and give it the credit it deserves

@rahimboulfekhar2255 4 года назад

Looks very silly

@TheZooropaBaby 4 года назад

you know....when Telecasters came out, many guitar players said it looked too plain and silly....so I really dont see the problem in thinking Steinberger looking silly

@chris-ig2hw 4 года назад

The fact Rob doesn't like it makes me like it 10 times more.

@thorndog100 3 года назад

Hell Yeah....🤣

@TomSmithluthier 2 года назад

Still rings true today.

@jimmymajcher6934 5 лет назад

6:10 best quote from Monsieur Lee Anderton "It sounds like a guitar"

@acausalfermion 5 лет назад

Those are the bounds of Monsieur Lee's intelligence in videos where he is unfamiliar with the gear.

@gerryjamesedwards1227 5 лет назад

It takes many, many years of experience to come up with such incisive observations.

@theblueberryboi9469 5 лет назад

Well you see some guitars don't actually sound like a guitar.

@acausalfermion 5 лет назад

@@gerryjamesedwards1227 One would think so. Danish Pete is a subliminal wholetone-feel-idea machine. His jams with Bea are *spectacular* .

@theharvardyard2356 5 лет назад

Look up EVH playing "summer nights" live 1986. If Eddie taking a drag off his cig stuck on top of his 'Berger's neck, mid-riff, doesn't make you see them as "cool," nothing will.

@charlesmcguffy 4 года назад

Live: Without A Net is a great video!

@kirangrewal7716 3 года назад

Nothing from the Hagar era was cool!

@TheMaxPower82 Месяц назад

Simply King Edward holding a Steinberger is enough to make these axes look cool.

@yourbuddykevin 5 лет назад

I bought one of these bad boys in 2011. I've brought it with me on three deployments on a Navy ship. Perfect size and fits in a locker.

@gunhedd5375 5 лет назад

km5658 • Too funny. I had a Steinberger bass I’d shove in the overhead during my deployments. This was in 1988. 😎

@gtoger 5 лет назад

I worked for a blues band and the bass player played a Steinberger. He got more attention for that thing, and I have to say it held tuning extremely well. Didn't stop us from making fun of him but he toured and recorded with that thing and it always sounded great.

@ec8107 5 лет назад

Chapman's smarmy disdain for these is making me want one.

@ranabanana42 5 лет назад

Not Lee’s?

@brickbreaker8148 5 лет назад

He's pissed cause it foils his tonewood theory....no frickin body and it sounds great.

@rickc2102 5 лет назад

Really, they just need a pickup swap to be very viable axes.

@Diax1324 5 лет назад

@@brickbreaker8148 ...Quite frankly, it sounds thin.

@robertwellington2616 5 лет назад

Ger Bear He’s always been egotistical. Giant ego.

@alandmoore4306 5 лет назад

I mean, any Gibson is gonna end up being headless eventually; might as well get it that way from the factory.

@sansocie 4 года назад

Point. Game. Win.

@cwzialor 4 года назад

Burn

@msheldon10 4 года назад

Was just what I was thinking. The original headless guitar was the Gibson that stacked it.

@richardworkman5416 4 года назад

LOL!!!!

@dj-h8735 4 года назад

Mic Drop. 🎤🎤. That is exactly what I was going to say about my Epiphone BB King special. It was cheap to begin with so just smooth out the neck router out the body for the new hardware and make it a cheaper looking headless. Played Like crap - or maybe it way me.

@Payne2view 5 лет назад

I wanted one in the 80's, so if I had the spare cash I'd get one just to make my teenage self happy.

@FlesHBoX 5 лет назад

Right? Like back then these were the COOLEST guitars that existed....

@ScutMonkey 5 лет назад

The originals were made of composites not wood and the trans trem system was so amazing. It stayed in tune using the trem so you could dive bomb entire chords in tune. It kinda shows how dumb guitar players are. "It's easier to string. It's easier to adjust the truss road. The tuning ratio is better. You can block the trem by flipping a switch. Sounds great, looks dumb, don't want it."

@BoozyBeggar 5 лет назад

That is exactly why I bought a BOSS GT-3 on ebay.

@jasonschronicles 5 лет назад

@@ScutMonkey THIS.... That said, I still have my GR4R

@Impulse21s 5 лет назад

@@ScutMonkey weren't they originally made of Graphite ? I remember Geddy Lee raving about his bass. (I'm prob wrong)

@martino250570 5 лет назад

As product reviews go this is a poor effort guys. No information on neck shape and feel. No details on the pickups or how it sounds. Some people might see beyond it’s appearance and appreciate the genius design of the product (especially as a travel friendly guitar) and would like to know more about how it sounds and plays.

@Faresguitarjr 4 года назад

Totally agree. I want to buy one and have no relevant information in this video. I had an original TransTrem Steinberger and had also a Hohner copy made of wood like the Spirits. Great guitars in every way. Seems like the Spirits are so good that made these guys embarassed to admit it. The point is that most of the guitarists are more worried about their looks than their playing.

@IndecentAngels 3 года назад

Well said Martin. It is exactly what I was thinking throughout the nonsense of them laughing.

@dkmlife565 3 года назад

Amen

@deanmass 5 лет назад

First time you guys have legit pissed me off. For $350 bucks, these are genius practice, travel, cramped quarters guitars. Grow up.

@FlesHBoX 5 лет назад

And they said that? Why are you pissed off that they gave an honest opinion about their personal tastes? It's not like they said they are terrible guitars... Lee even specifically pointed out how great they would be for travel. Maybe you should grow up?

@gavinchambliss8576 5 лет назад

Hey pal, you just blow in from stupid town?

@deanmass 5 лет назад

Whatever. Calling the first revolutionary form factor design stupid IS stupid.

@Dejoblue 5 лет назад

I unsubscribed from here and Rob's channel. They should get a real guitar player like Greg Koch to demo their gear; he shuts up and plays the damned thing when he doesn't particularly like it. This was a hostile and offensive video. There are tons of other guitar store channels that aren't going to laugh in your face because they think they are selling you a piece of shit.

@deanmass 5 лет назад

I won’t drop because of it, but this is the first time I thought it was incredibly childish, not in a fun way, and irresponsible. The opening thing, play cricket or whatever the hell. Ned Steinberger is a genius. Opinions are fine but the “tone” of this one was shitty. I’ve owned several Steinberger’s, and they ARE polarizing, but they are also groundbreaking, forward thinking and super practical in a lot of cases.

@SixString_J5 5 лет назад

I'm an owner of this guitar. I've had it for a couple months. As a main guitar (even for the money) you could do better.... but as a travel guitar, you cannot beat it. It feels and plays like a solid epiphone, not a good epi, but a solid one. I take it as a carry on on all my flights. The guitar is resonant, stays in tune, and has decent fretwork. You can't find a travel guitar that can match it, let alone for the money.

@meme8875 4 года назад

John Hooten what is your preferred main guitar Also considering money

@catapl93 4 года назад

Is the trem sistem reliable? Does it stay in tune when you use it/bend strings?

@SixString_J5 4 года назад

@@catapl93 It's stable but quirky. If you are used to floyd bridges you can figure out this one. It has a universal spring adjustment knob (kind of like some ibanez floating bridges have). It also has a great deal of adjustability on each saddle much like a hipshot contour bridge and a trem lock as well that makes it function like a hardtail. All of these features make it imperative that you are comfortable with setup requirements of many different kinds of bridges. Hope this helps.

@Bridging_the_Political_Divide 2 года назад

Well said. I take mine everywhere being so small and portable. I play waaaaay more because of this little sidekick. Worth it's weight in gold as far as playing more. I take mine everywhere.

@PJ-ff5jy 5 лет назад

If I were Steinberger I'd feel you ridiculed the guitars.

@orlock20 5 лет назад

Gibson owns this brand. Now Gibson owns a guitar owns a brand, the Les Paul, that breaks its head stock by just looking at it and a brand that has no head stock. I wonder if one could mod a Les Paul with a broken head stock into one of these types of guitars.

@warrenoids 5 лет назад

@@joebryant8500 lol.

@TheRealMarxz 5 лет назад

@@orlock20 and... you could then put a foam rubber fake gibson les paul headstock on that would bend instead of break when given a harsh look and NO ONE WOULD EVER NEED TO KNOW

@TheRealMarxz 5 лет назад

@@joebryant8500 I don't know, I heard some unsettling cracking noises when I gave my LP Special a harsh look once....

@TheRealMarxz 5 лет назад

I think he's well used to it by now after almost 40 years... and the fact that at some point he went "meh, that's Gibson's problem now"

@ggdd1299 4 года назад

One of the best guitar players of all-time, Allan Holdsworth used to use Steinbergers to record and play live. He even used to use them, after he had his own Carvin models..

@MetalheadNation 9 месяцев назад

Yep! Him playing it in the late 80s and early 90s is absolutely insane. I think he moved to DeLap for a bit , but brought the Steinberger back in the late 2000s while also using the Carvin models 😁

@dpault 5 лет назад

One of my favorite 80s guitarists used one. Vito Bratta of White Lion!

@phillipasby9202 5 лет назад

Smaller body of work but I loved that he took EVH technique and to my ears was a lot more melodic with it... kind of out EVHed EVH...

@jalmodov7817 5 лет назад

He's the first guy that came to my mind.

@davidcarey5623 5 лет назад

This!!!!! Can't believe it didn't come straight into their mind.

@sparkfx5874 4 года назад

h8ers man. I LOVE this guitar. It was my main, not just a travel guitar. Great sustain, great clarity, tone versatility. Lightweight and great for gigging. Great ergonomics. Again, TONE and the versatility. Such a crisp and clear natural tonality that you modify with your EQ and effects like reverb and etc. Don't take their word for it. Go somewhere and pick it up and play it. Looks aren't everything but I'm one of the few who actually did love the aesthetic. It's different and unique. The best part - it sounds amazing and stays in tune and you set it up once and it's good. Seriously, irks me that they let the aesthetic completely dictate their review of the guitar. Wish they'd talk more about the sound quality and smooth playability. Shame on ya chappers

@gerberboon 5 лет назад

Rob, you're wrong. Ahh, these are great guitars and you have done a disservice to humanity.

@TennesseeFrank 5 лет назад

LOL, wonder where you got that from?

@BlutigeTranen 5 лет назад

Cool looking headless guitar players: Sarah Longfield

@aidanblackmusic 5 лет назад

And Plini

@tgrima 5 лет назад

Lee Mckinney

@ronaldmiller5451 5 лет назад

I saw Lou Reed using a Status (by Steinberger) on his Magic and Loss tour. I know he's not really a 'guitar god' but I have to say it sounded absolutely astounding.

@alanfender123 5 лет назад

"Google headless guitar player" -Lee Anderton

@vocalion9519 5 лет назад

Roland was a headless Thompson gunner, maybe he played guitar as well.

@megan_alnico 5 лет назад

I've heard of the headless horseman, but never a headless guitar player.

@thorndog100 3 года назад

@@megan_alnico 🤣🎸🤣

@kraM1t 5 лет назад

SUMMER NIGHTSSSSS AND MY RADIOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, those that know.. KNOW

@chris3383 5 лет назад

Hot summer nights !!! Eddie played it that's all that matters !!

@zaraak323i 5 лет назад

He could never have done Get Up without the Steinberger's InTune Trem system. They didn't even mention if that's still part of the guitar. The tremolo would be the only reason I'd buy one of these.

@zazuzonker 5 лет назад

zaraak323i Unfortunately, the trem on these isn’t the same as the ones on the high-end Steinbergers of the past (like Eddie’s). That’s called a TransTrem.

@Mrbluesplayer43 5 лет назад

I've owned a Honer G3T which was a licensed copy of the steinberger, for over 20 years now, and to put it quite simply, these are the best travel electric guitars period. Ive travelled for my work all my life and tried and owned several other electric travel guitars but the Steinberger design is the tops. My G3T has been all over the world, in and out of aeroplanes, helicopters and thrown in the back of pickups, driven across deserts, through jungles and flown to off-shore installations. It's been through the wars, but still plays great, and has survived 50 Celsius temperatures to several below zero. They are incredibly robust. its the only guitar I've ever needed re-fretting as it's been played so much I simply wore the frets out. Mine is a genuine relict now. What other guitar could you sneak onto a family holiday, what other guitar can you hand carry onto a plane without causing a fuss or taking up your baggage allowance or annoying you significant other? It may not look like a traditional guitar, but these are an a little design wonder. Get over your guitar snobbery guys and travel with one for a while. Only then will you realise just how amazing they are.

@RC32Smiths01 5 лет назад

I think the intro jam appropriately fits what these kind of guitars, design-wise, were truly meant for, and those little jokes like the pan flipping definitely shows out on its unique design! I am quite surprised at that price, as I thought that the originals would be WAY expensive, so hearing of it's price is really refreshing.

@SwainixFPV 5 лет назад

For someone like me, quite a young player with just a LP like guitar, that also likes weird guitars, it's awesome to see that low price :)

@RC32Smiths01 5 лет назад

@@SwainixFPV Ahh same my man. I tried a headless bass, and I absolutely fell in love with these kind of guitars.

@DanRelayer_Ukraine 5 лет назад

Spirits have always been the cheapest. What I really wish they'd do is to revive the synapse line which was a bit more expensive but also considerably better.

@RC32Smiths01 5 лет назад

@@DanRelayer_Ukraine Ahh that could be potential. Higher quality = Higher price

@revjeffg 5 лет назад

EVH, Rutherford and the names you mentioned played a Steinberger, with (like the basses that came first) a carbon fiber body. And also the TransTrem, a revolutionary trem system that raised (or lowered) all the strings equally in pitch. That wasn’t slide playing on the 5150 album. The Spirit line came a bit later, I can’t remember if any model had the TransTrem, but they were made of wood like these are.

@petdoe8938 4 года назад

One word Mr winter ,when you play the blues like him then comment, blessed be

@MrVinB 5 лет назад

Oh and btw, I don't get that Rob loved the Höfner Shorty (see his vid on that from years ago) and just destroyed the Steinberger. The Shorty was basically this + a headstock.

@richardmathews6236 3 года назад

And shit single HB pickup, headstock heavy and way longer than the SB

@MrMatthiasSchneider Год назад

I'm pretty sure Van Halen released an entire VHS video in about 1986 called Live Without A Net in which Eddie was playing a Steinberger. Amazing that people aren't aware of it.

@Zundfolge 5 лет назад

I'm kinda disappointed that you didn't do more research on the original guitars (pre Gibson). The composite ones with active (EMG) pickups and Ned's absolutely amazing Trans-Trem (a tremelo that stayed in tune while using it) were a revelation. The Spirit series was always the "economy version". I'd love to see Gibson actually start making the original composite ones again. Also you could get the M series that had a strat style body if you wanted a more traditional look (still headless though). As for the notable players, most of them used Steinbergers preciously because of the trans-trem. There's a few things done by Holdsworth that are impossible to play on a guitar not equipped with one. That said, from a guitar tech standpoint, setting up a Trans-trem is borderline suicide inducing. Seriously would be easier to set up a Floyd Rose while wearing mittens ... and drunk.

@MetalheadNation 9 месяцев назад

Yeah, I remember seeing clips of Holdsworth in the early 90s using one to bend in and out of chords without going out of tune. I think Allan Holdsworth’s most incredible period of his career was that late 80s to mid 90s era where he was using the Steinberger and the DeLap guitars. Just some unreal recordings from that era

@TheLocalZeroChannel 5 лет назад

i think the 80s Steinbergers had a trem system where all the strings changed pitch the same amount, so you could move chords up and down and the intervals would stay in parallel. They had one version where you could lock the trem down a semitone or two, instantly giving you Eb tuning or D tuning. Maybe Van Halen used one just for these reasons?

@davidwalter2282 5 лет назад

David Bowie made these guitars look cool in the “20th Century Boy” video.

@mygtr2021 3 месяца назад

I kept one of these in the back of my SUV for 3+ years, used it to noodle on during my lunch breaks or the beach. still works great, stays in tune, intonation still good.

@samdehaan7394 5 лет назад

Seeing as the problem is simply Rob and Lee disliking the looks it’s nice to see they’re complimentary of the functionality. It’d be great to have Pete do a little video on them too Personally I got bored with strats, tales, les Paul’s and SG’s so it’s nice to have something different that’s still a reasonable instrument.

@dudeeronomy3805 2 года назад

I'm bored with all those "classic" guitars too... they seem bloated and pretentious compared with the Steiny.

@richardmcpike 5 лет назад

I have one of these and dragged about in planes while working overseas a lot - a great travel guitar until 9/11 after that anything unusual you just couldn't take in the cabin. I have gigged it too - tuned to C to play one song No One Knows and it sounded grand at volume. When I picked it up to play at one gig a Glasgow punter shouted "oh he's bringing out the boy" and it had a name. Rarely used unless travelling by car these days but a very functional guitar.

@Forest_Fifer 5 лет назад

Steve Rothery has a 6/12 double neck Steinberger.

@nellayema2455 5 лет назад

I bought my daughter a Spirit and a Katana mini. She lives in a big city and either walks or takes public transportation wherever she goes. She can easily take it anywhere. I bought myself one, too. The middle single-coil pickup seems to be noiseless, as there's no hum that comes out of it like my strat and tele hum machines. I did raise the middle pickup up to make the volume more even when switching to and from it. Once set up and balanced, the bridge is great. Overall a fine playing and sounding guitar for not a ton of dough.

@thehermit407 5 лет назад

As you attempted (failed) to play cricket with it, have you seen the guy at the Cricket World Cup with the cricket bat telecaster?

@rayraymond2952 4 года назад

I love my 3 SB GT-Pro-Deluxes (HSH; changed out PUs, below) & one Hohner G3T (HSS; changed out PUs with Seymours). The original EMG PUs on both types of guitars are "wanting" so say the least, especially compared to the Seymours described below. --- On one of the GT-Pros, I changed out the pickups with Seymour Duncans: Custom Custom Hum, Br; Vintage Rails single-coil, Mid; & P-Rail Hum Neck. Both humbuckers (Br & Neck) have Seymour Triple-Shots, which allow four combinations for each humbucker: both coils together in [1] parallel or [2] series, or each coil individually [3 & 4]. These PUs with the Triple-Shots are great. Thanks, Richard

@MinPlanck 5 лет назад

I get you don't like them but a bit more of a demo would have been nice!

@robertwellington2616 5 лет назад

Joe Bryant yea I’m out.

@Rick-uu5yo 5 лет назад

Love this site but you missed/blew over some key points; I have an old Hohner G3T; pretty much the same guitar and have had it for about 24 years. I used it as a travel guitar when I'm traveling with work; it came in a hard case that housed cables and my little Zoom multi-effects box. Better than watching crummy hotel room TV. The lockable bridge means that when jamming along to something, when a slight change in tuning is required, you lock the bridge, tune the guitar and then screw the spring tension screw in or out until the bridge lock just comes loose, then the whammy is available. It's the only guitar I have with a with a trem system that can do this.

@biggkahuna3867 5 лет назад

if you need a travel guitar it is a good solution.

@ktfjulien 5 лет назад

@Mark Seymour A katana mini fits in a suitcase, And you can use your phone and headphones

@alexdattel2757 5 лет назад

@Mark Seymour You can get your live tone out of a single pedal like HX Stomp or similarly sized pedals or even a laptop with a plugin if you really want to.

@alexdattel2757 5 лет назад

@Mark Seymour you need an audio interface like a Scarlett 2i2 and a laptop that has lots of ram. If you don't have that a pedal sized modelling amp is probably a better fly rig

@Bassalicious 5 лет назад

I had an entirely maple 4 string bass made by Hohner once. That thing was an absolute sports machine, I loved it. I just never got it to sound the way I wanted, so I ended up selling it. The bass variant had a drop tuner on the low E string instead of the trem system the guitars have. I actually ended up using that to write songs or come up with cool effects. Just dropping to whatever tuning you've set it to in a blink of an eye was really cool and handy too

@steveozone4910 5 лет назад

Hey Rob. I know you're a big fan of Red Dwarf! The rowing section in the intro reminded me of back to reality lol

@Junyo 5 лет назад

The "rowing paddle" is what the first Fender Telecasters were called - and those turned out well in the end. ;)

@jgomez7183 2 года назад

I got to have one of these. Lightweight for jam session and doesn’t get out of tune. It fits anywhere.

@conordyer2307 5 лет назад

Lee admits tone wood doesnt work the way we think, the guitar body removes frequencies and we hear what is left. Steinberger removed most of the guitar and the headstock- how can that not be the ultimate tonewood :P lol

@steveparkes 5 лет назад

I used to love these. The sight of Reeves Gabriel's with one of these and a selection of vibrators is a thing of.... erm I think it's time for my meds.

@modularcuriosity 5 лет назад

Allan Holdsworth, arguably the greatest guitar player ever, loved headless guitars. He loved not only the portability of them, but also the balance while playing with a strap. Then again, he played Carvin/Kiesel guitars, not Steinberger. Johnny Winter absolutely played a headless guitar but it too was not a Steinberger. He played a Lazer guitar which, I think, was produced by Gibson.

@DinoNardelli 5 лет назад

Holdsworth DID play a Steinberger GL. This was before Bill Delap built him a custom one of his own.

@modularcuriosity 5 лет назад

@@DinoNardelli You know what, I think I do remember him with a Steinberger. Of the times I've seen him live the first time or two was with the red Ibanez signature model, and then later with the Carvin models. But I think I may even have an old Guitar Player magazine with him holding a Steinberger on the cover.

@hayatotheninja 5 лет назад

I still have a high end Steinberger from the early 90's with an S-ish style body from when I was a huge Cynic/Death fan. Love it, love what it can do, but my aesthetic taste has changed a LOT since then. Still use it for recording things in weird tunings though.

@eskemeldgaardkrogh4145 5 лет назад

Paul Masvidal just rules... as do the REAL Steinbergers. the Spirit line? Not so much! Yet, if Gibson ever decided to do a Spirit reissue of the GM, I’d be all over it... I’d probably mod it to hell, with stainless steel frets and a scalloped fretboard and I’d obviously fit it with EMGs! Sadly, I find the GL uncomfortable, hence, the current Spirit offering is really of no interest to me.

@digiscream 5 лет назад

Allan Holdsworth definitely played one back in the 80s - but it was one of the real ones, with the graphite neck and, I believe, a composite body. They also had the TransTrem, which was a phenomenal bit of kit. David Rhodes famously used one for all of Peter Gabriel's shows too. EVH used them on bits of the 5150 album, mainly because the TransTrem allowed notes in chords to maintain their relative pitch while using the trem. Gilmour used the same (with EMG actives!) for bits of A Momentary Lapse of Reason too.

@davidvirgil3649 11 месяцев назад

I was friends with Johnny Winters and he definitely played one. He didn't use it much but he did in concert several times.

@mikeaustin4138 4 года назад

Saw David Lindley in 1989? and his bass player - Jorge Calderone - played a Steinberger bass and it sounded deep and clear.

@debashishkaushik6933 5 лет назад

Sees a headstock tuner on a headless guitar. Wait that's illegal

@7dollarhaircut 2 года назад

Listen to "Summer Nights" on Van Halen's 5150 album. That song is an excellent demonstration of the innovation of Steinberger's Trans-Trem tremolo system. Ed uses it to seamlessly transpose the song up a key just before the verse. Trans-Trem systems are quite rare, and very expensive on the used market if you are lucky enough to even find one.

@DrakrSlyr 5 лет назад

Lee, I LOVE how much confidence you have gained for your own playing over the years you’ve been doing these videos. You’ve got style going on. Rock on dude 🔥

@cirjames2540 5 лет назад

Steinberger are not my thing, but complete respect for thinking out of the box. Do we really need another company making S,T, or Single cut copy guitars?

@toshklofft 5 лет назад

Eddie did play one. He frequently played one live for certain songs during the 5150 tour with Sammy.

@Gibbo1050 5 лет назад

Spot on. It was a transtrem version which he wrote Summer nights on and used it to do key change.

@munkienl1 5 лет назад

I have one. I swapped the pickups for 2 SD humbuckers. Forget about the middle pickup. I blocked the tremolo with the builtin trem stop. More sustain, more bass. Excellent travel guitar, a serious instrument with better pickups. Replace the paper thin gigbag with a Warwick Rockbag.

@davidfaustino4476 3 года назад

I feel that same way about Chapman guitars as Rob does about headless. I wonder how he feels about filming music videos in ill-fitting cargo shorts?

@SausageFingers73 2 года назад

I bought one of these a few weeks ago, and I'm well happy with it. Always liked the look of them since seeing both Mark Knopfler and Jack Sonni playing them on the Brothers in Arms tour in '85

@41DegreesSouth 5 лет назад

They make you guys look like bloody giants.

@brentwalker8596 5 лет назад

I definitely remember Geddy Lee playing a black Steinberger in the late 80s and he looked very cool. Who care about the headstock? This design is an example of pure function as opposed to aesthetic tradition.

@JohnFirkRichards 3 года назад

Johnny Winter played a little headless guitar from the early 1980's onwards, a Lazer by Erlewine in Austin Texas, after years with a Gibson Firebird

@jonmatteo9186 5 лет назад

Robs licks at the beginning are pretty godly

@cdrabik 4 года назад

Here's some real info for someone actually thinking about buying this guitar. I've had one since 1991. There are a few tests these guys could have performed to demonstrate the difference between one of these and a guitar in a similar price range. 1. Find a guitar at a similar price point without a floyd. Stretch strings and tune it. Beat the snot out of the trem for five minutes. Pick up the Steinberger. Stretch strings and tune it. Beat the snot out of the trem for five minutes. Compare. 2. Break a string on the traditional guitar. Try to finish the song. Break a string on the Steinberger, and flip up the trem lock. Finish the song (in tune). 3. Find a guitar at a similar price with a floyd. Repeat test 2 (with the same results). 4. TIme yourself changing that broken string on all three guitars. Let me know which one is easiest and quickest to change. As far as the basics - the neck is a bit chunky but plays fast. The wood fingerboards these guitars now come with aren't as nice as the phenolic fingerboards on the graphite instruments and early Spirits, but they do have some advantages when it comes time for someone to work on the frets. They're light and well balanced. The R-Trem is IMHO the best trem you can get on a guitar under a grand. The pickups I can't really comment on because they've changed from the EMG Selects that are in mine and I haven't played a new one. The selects are a bit on the brittle side, very bright sounding. They're workable but they're not real EMGs by a long shot. Hope someone finds this helpful.

@correctguru61 5 лет назад

Steve Hillage plays one. Got rid of all his vintage Fenders and Gibsons and just owns a Steinberger. I have a Speedster Travel Guitar and it’s great. It’s headless.

@mjohnson9552 3 года назад

BTW, Buck Dharma of Blue Oyster cult has played Steinberger headless guitars for years almost exclusively. Now that dude has tone. Johnny Winter played them when he came back to performing. Both used them because they were a fit for their needs.

@pablo2by4GotBanned 5 лет назад

Mark Knopfler played a steinberger on Money For Nothing. The trans-tremolo steinbergers were created specifically for Eddie Van Halen on the first Van Hagar album

@jamesburge1983 4 года назад

Wow, did not expect to see so much polarization on the subject of shape. Then the discussion concerning wood resonance vs string isolation. Oh well. Actually what I think would be fun is a comparison between one of ned’s original instruments and one of these. If I remember correctly Ned steinburger was not an instrument maker by trade, but rather a furniture maker with an engineering background and ended up designing these things as a result of a conversation with a friend concerning some specific design challenges that guitars present. The originals were made using every high tech, high speed low drag technology of their day so it would be fun to see the comparison between those and these, which are pretty far from their high tech origins.

@JoePearsonGuitarist 5 лет назад

Pretty much all those players did in fact use steinbergers, albeit some of them used the strat shaped ones. Are they putting the proper trans trem on these? (If you don’t know what the trans trem is, it raised and lowered the pitch “in tune”)

@emptypromises2962 5 лет назад

Somebody has probably already written this, but Gilmour cut almost all of the tunes on A Momentary Lapse Of Reason with a Steinberger. Also, if you watch the Van Halen DVD, Live without a net, shot in I think 1986 in New Haven, you can see Eddie playing a few songs on a Steinberger.

@richardworkman5416 4 года назад

You two ask if you look 'cool' playing a Steinberger? I pose this question: "Have you two ever looked cool playing ANY guitar?" Issue settled. Lol! My 1980s Steinberger was 'hands down' the best guitar I've ever owned. THE VERY BEST... and I've owned many over my 50+ years of performing. My eldest son now owns it... and I suspect someday a great-grandchild of his will be playing it long after we have both passed on. They are simply fantastic guitars with a great always-in-tune, vibrato (Transtrem) system. By the way... word to the Captain... the list of supporters you read off are 'for real'... trust me, they are not 'photo op' promoters as Chappers eluded to... not even, Johnny Winter!

@wakjob961 5 лет назад

"Live Without A Net" That's about it for me.

@NaoKeysVT 5 лет назад

i actually want one since I move around a lot, being still in school. Only thing is that in NA it seems like there's very... VERY few stores that sell these.

@asissoev 5 лет назад

This is perfect for ski trips!!! Seriously. I totally forgot about these! I really wanted one back, when my teacher TJ Helmerich played one... (I did see the travel guitars. Nope.)

@lordporcupine8767 5 лет назад

Alex Sissœn Yep ideal for ski trips, cause they double as ski's and maybe robust enough to be able to play the guitar immediately on entering the ski lodge at the end of a day of tackling double black diamond runs.

@asissoev 5 лет назад

@@lordporcupine8767 Haha. But seriously, I know it's crap, but cheap and fits in the trunk... I'm getting one.

@daveelbourn3655 10 месяцев назад

Johnny Winter looked COOL playing a headless guitar...much more than certain players using whichever guitar they wanted to be pretend cool with!!! Steinbergers are perfect for motorcycle transport....personal experience!!

@Valentineskidd 5 лет назад

Some shade thrown at Strandberg. That answers my question of if you guys would ever consider stocking them 😂

@granthostheflatulent 4 года назад

Had one since the '90s and now I have 2 and a bass. My original '90's one is unbelievably stable when it comes to staying in tune for a really long time - the more modern one is the now discontinued Synapse model and it is not as stable, but still better than a conventional guitar.

@hobinlobo 5 лет назад

In the 80s, Johnny Winter seemed to be playing a headless guitar as much as his Firebird.

@gibemato 5 лет назад

Just put some good pick-ups (I have one with EMG and one with Seymour Duncan) and they turn awsome. Good sustain with neck-thru-body. Stay well in tune. Great tremolo too. Nice price. Easy to carry everywhere. I love them.

@jray5363 5 лет назад

gibemato Now that you mention it, it is one of the best sustaining guitars I own.

@AC-wq7fo 4 года назад

I've been using one since 90-91. The same one. It's been dropped, smashed, chiselled, hot played, cold played, indoors and out, innards ripped out. I put new strings on for a show in 1992...same strings, still (and you can see every groove and bend on each string) and it's still in tune [I'll add that my g-tuner got stuck - won't tune up past a certain point, but I compensated with the string tensioner, then I dropped to D]. This thing just will not die - or go out of tune. I dropped it the other day and broke the leg-stand thing so I was wondering about parts and saw the new steinberg line-up, which brought me here. If you're in dodgy areas, it doesn't look like a guitar (hello salford scallies - ha! beat you all), and it'll often be let on a plane, but it fits in a suitcase anyway. I carry mine in a Decathlong gun case :-), the logest of which has space for my fx and cables too. I rather think I'll live without a leg-stand and get emg's installed. PS - i can't stand playing a normal guitar now - too heavy in the neck area, especially when stood up.

@Marksmanbbs 4 года назад

I have a steinberg original from the 80s i guess and when I got it on a trade deal all I kept saying was,I don't want that kids guitar and threw it in the corner of the closet,then one day I went on the internet and saw that it is not a kids toy guitar,plugged it in and MAN! this thing worked and sounded great,I did end up putting it back in the closet after taking out the pickups,,still there its the red one,

@kennybissettsongs 2 года назад

I love mine. $450 brand new in the early 90's. Affordable, light, sounds great. Body shape is subjective, ofr course!

@alankennedy5842 4 года назад

Great guitars and, yes, all the guitarists mentioned, did use them in the studio and live.

@mcflotty 4 года назад

I had one in the late 80’s. I think it was a Honer? I remember it never ever went out of tune. I was playing hard rock at the time and remember it sounded good lol. Oddly I find myself wanting to buy one now

@LonePigsyAndCub 4 года назад

Jerry Garcia played one on Ornette Coleman's Virgin Beauty. He also used his as a practice guitar during his post diabetic coma recovery.

@philmcp4511 3 года назад

This is great little guitar, especially for the price. Got mine from Andertons (despite their lack of love for it!). Yes they scream out for better pickups, but now that's done, I'm so happy with it. (Bareknuckle Holly Diver btw - an awesome pickup)

@michaelangeloh.5383 5 лет назад

Exactly, Lee, what you said about the headless type guitars; Myself I like many types of guitars. I "grew up" seeing mostly Strats, like with Iron Maiden, which is one of the main reasons I got a CAP10. I also have a single-cut, I have an SG, a Rhoads, some Icemans, an Ironbird (ML-ish), etc. - But when I was looking into finding one of the most "featured" or "abled" guitars, something that has the right shape and so on, I ended up concluding that I'd want a Strandberg guitar, and I still want one. - I have to add, though, that they've also expanded their aesthetics, so much that you can even have one that looks like a Strat. Albeit headless and all that, but you cán get a bunch of different styles now.

@undercrackers56 5 лет назад

Are they any good for air travel? So do they come apart for packing into a case, or will airlines allow carry on?

@psychoprosthetic 5 лет назад

I have a Spirit by Steinberger with a near-strat shaped body. Bit bulkier, bit heavier, but more comfortable. It's sooo portable, sounds great. True it's fiddly to tune, but its very stable and hardly ever needs tuning. I used to use one with a sansamp and an AER and could get all my gear into a ladies shopping trolley. The little green frogs are laughing at guitarists who still play guitars with headstocks. And asking if Holdsworth looked cool with a headless guitar is ridiculous! Holdsworth never looked cool: he just sounded cool, always.

@AaronHallett 4 года назад

So I threw in a better bridge pickup and it has become my favorite guitar. The stock pickups are kinda weak, but the replacement makes it sustain for days. I took it on a plane for 6 hours as a carry on, and it arrived still in tune. When I record I don’t have to constantly tune because of that ridiculous stability. It saves so much time. It’s setup quite well, and it’s perfectly balanced. It looks a little different, but I’m not the type to care.

@babapawan62 4 года назад

May I know your bridge pickup? I need to change mine.

@AaronHallett 4 года назад

It’s a Super Distortion, nothing special but it’s got better sustain.

@babapawan62 4 года назад

@@AaronHallett Dimarzio Super Distortion? Is that correct?

@AaronHallett 4 года назад

Adman Maliawan yeah Dimarzio, sorry should’ve said so. They’re cheap but sound good. That meets my qualifications.

@babapawan62 4 года назад

@@AaronHallett cheap? That's what I'm looking for. Thanks 😊

@Sui778 Год назад

Most people poo-poo the way these guitars look but I LOVE the compact design.

@paulcollingridge8387 4 года назад

I have a hohner Pro headless bass, it has a regular body, keeps its tune and has an incredibly 80s funky tone... It is awesome (l prefer the Warwick)

@karatebuff 5 лет назад

18:17 that laugh from Pete was Epicley funny!!

@JalenRawley 5 лет назад

Some Steinberger nerdery: The original Steinbergers were made of composite material, not wood. Super light and way stiffer than wood (sustain!), they also came with active EMG pickups. The marketplace was resistant, so they started doing wood body guitars with composite necks. A big bonus was the TransTrem bridge which could lock the entire bridge up or down several steps to retune the guitar various steps above and below standard tuning. EVH did this for "Summer Nights", which is why he used this guitar for that song. Hohner licensed the design and made them out of maple before Steinberger made the Spirit line doing the same thing. This brought the price WAY down. Thw composite Steinbergers were all more than $1k US, even more for TransTrem models, while the wood ones went for around $400 (albeit with passive EMG Select pickups and no TransTrem option). Why do I know all of this stuff? Because I've had several and still own three (2 guitars and a bass). With replacement pickups, they are decent guitars. I've never had a better backup/van/bus guitar for a tour. The reasons they weren't popular were numerous, most of them based on looks alone. Gibson bought and buried the brand, only selling them via Musicians Friend and their own MusicYo web site (along with Kramer and Tobias). Original composite Steinbergers and their parts are still highly sought after, but these wooden ones aren't. They aren't terrible, but they're not great either.

@brickbreaker8148 5 лет назад

Zzounds sell em for $400

@Airforce1Gunny 5 лет назад

Bruce Hall from REO Speedwagon plays one in the the Variety Tonight music video.

@metallijam1809 5 лет назад

I really enjoy your videos. Could you mention in these videos what the fret work is like, especially on the budget ranges, as that's usually the difference between a good budget quitar and one not worth even picking up.

@johncrum3208 5 лет назад

Halen used it for the trans trem the song summer nights has two tunings

@UncleDudeProductions 4 года назад

Maybe it's nostalgia. Maybe it's because travelling with a ukulele doesn't cut it. But, I still want one. Quilt-top, too.

@GuitarStu 5 лет назад

Chaption replay. Amazing.

@joshuapatrick5167 4 года назад

Eddie Van Halen used one in Live Without a Net. Great gig , great video. A must see

@cornfieldexpress 10 месяцев назад

Ideal for bedroom producers using say an ipad mini an akai mpk mini mk3 a nux mighty plug pro. This would make sense as opposed to a full size guitar. Also their bass the XT2 would be ideal as a short scale making it even more compact.