What a man Michael was. I was a student at ACM from 2012-15 and was lucky enough to have a lot of 1-2-1 tutorials with him and sit in a few workshops he’d do in the evenings. One day we sat in a room for about 3hrs playing my R8 Les Paul (which he said was a “good” and played well!). If you knew him, he was a no BS kinda guy. He spoke his mind. If you needed to practise - he’d tell you. People were actually afraid of him because he didn’t hold back! He had a standard and didn’t like people being lazy which, I respect. The highest compliment I ever received from Michael came in a 121 tutorial I had. I was big into Derek Trucks and only started playing slide. I’d had many tutorials with him and one day he said “Max I don’t know why you book tutorials with me trying to play slide - I should be coming to you for slide tutorials!” Another compliment was while teaching a few guitarists a finger picking exercise (me, now having played with my fingers similar to him). He gave the guitarists an exercise which a few struggled with - he turned to me and said “Max I know you’ve already got this down - I’ll give you something harder” - felt like that kid in class who the teacher knew needed something more challenging 😂 I miss sitting in a room with him, guitar in hand and both rewinding songs on my phone trying to learn a particular lick and just getting excited over guitars and music. He has a song called “Friends for Life” which is so beautiful that, I struggle to listen to nowadays as it’s so pretty and brings me to tears while remembering such a good friend. RIP Michael. Thank you for the memories.

R.i.p Michael Caswell. god bless his family and friends , missed by everyone. leaves a lot of teachings to us.

That sonic blue strat, wow.

RIP Michael; a great loss, a great guy and a great guitarist.

RIP Michael :(

God you are missed Michael... Fond memories of such a wonderful guy ♥

Seems like he was a great guy. Very humble and down to earth, especially when you consider how talented he was. Sad to see someone like him die so young. RIP.

RIP Michael, your playing and teaching will be greatly missed but what you left behind will be forever remembered and appreciated. 😓

RIP Michael. You will be missed :(

RIP. What a great guy and a blessing to the musical community he had been.

so sad watching this now , he was a nice guy and a brilliant guitar player

RIP Michael. Amazing player and tuitor.

Great shame we don't have Michael around and still showing us guitars. He really knew his stuff and could play. For me, that yellow Strat in the background is the star.

That sonic blue "Pre CBS Stratocaster" is worth a god damn FORTUNE...

Michael Casswell is fucking brilliant, by far the best guy lick library has.

Truly amazing artist. Sadly missing.🥺

Met him at a local gig, great guy and fantastic player rock on !

rip MC thanks for helping me on my guitar journey. you were the best/coolest teacher ever.

Michael is one of the best guitar players today! Great collection!

I have learned the guitar solo of Separate Ways by Journey because of this guy, what a great guitar teacher...RIP Sensei, we already miss you...so long.

Michael had an AWESOME Blue Strat with a Maple Neck that was so Striped it looked like a Tiger, it was in a few of his Teaching Videos. I grew up about a 15 minute walk to the Fender Plant in the 60's-80, one of my childhood friend's Dad worked at Fender, so us "friends" had Fenders too, the Pawn Shops in Fullerton were full of them. I even bought a Strat Blueprint from a 1954 from a pawnshop not too far from Fender HQ ... I have a 1980 Black Strat singed by Robin Trower when he came to the Fender Factory for a Tour, I met him and I brought the Strat for signing he also was playing a black Strat for the Caravan to Midnight tour. Michael jammed with Robin a few times...that's why I mention Robin.

Impressive collection. Michael's a sublime guitarist, and his lessons are a pure joy.

RIP :(

RIP Michael

Great teacher. Miss him.

Great video Michael. Glad to see that you have some of Steve Farris's guitars. I can't believe how many beautiful instruments were lost during the 2010 floods. And good luck with your new album, I've just downloaded it.

His valley arts sounds amazing on his videos

Thank you Michael for your gifts to us.

You were a great guitarist...may you rest in peace.

Miss this guy great teacher

Impressive collection from great guitarist.thx sharing

hopefully 1 day this guitars will make music again.RIP mike learned a lot from your YT lessons

I hope Michael casswell is in Heaven with all his guitars. God bless you

Lost..…………. but not forgotten! Michael you are missed......

My jaw hit the floor with that flamed out pre cubs strat.

Top bloke and a brilliant guitarist. RIP Michael 🙁

Great to see !!! do not know the dude......good he's kept his guitars from his past......and brought others back to life !

Guitars as beautiful as he... gentleman & helluva guitarist👍🏼

RIP I love this guy.

He generously shared every riff he knew. ... I just learned Beck's Since We've Ended As Lovers from Michael. ... Can someone tell me why he left us so early?

Best guitar collection I've seen on youtube for awhile esp the Fender Strats

I'll have a guess. Mr Caswell was 11 or 12 in 1975 or 1976 and the 1963 Strat was 12 years old at the time ( same age as Michael) I reckon he would have paid something like £150 at the time. I would love to know if he had a paper round as it would have been a while for a kid to save the money. I bought a 61 Strat in 1983 for about £350

Great video and an amazing collection from.an amazing player.. Thanks for sharing

R>I>P Micheal. Wonderful guy.

Nice collection.

RIP Michael. Such a loss.

RIP Mr casswell Keep playing all your guitars up there mate

Such a shame he was such a great talent will always remember him!!!!!!!!!! R.I.P. Michael

R.i.p Michael!

RIP bro

10 ++++ Increíble colección.................

Had me at the first one. Too 😎

Thank you for sharing I would love to hear more I wonder if there's any guitars that got away from you or that you got rid of or what you think of these new guitar builders?

So so sad that’s he’s gone …..such a talent ……you go on holiday and end up drowned 🙏

Michael resembles a Cream-era Clapton. Great player too.

A great, great player that I admire quite a bit. I got a Sonic blue strat after seeing this video. Casswell wIll be missed and, sadly, did not leave enough music behind... or at least, not that I seem to be able to find.

The Les Paul...WOW!!!!

Michael is a great player with some great great guitars. And a nice pension fund in that 63 sonic blue Strat with the flame neck ;-)

RIP

RIP🙏

RIP Michael

What a nice guy

RIP Micheal. 53 is far to young.

Hey Michael, Great collection. I agree with you in regards to Tyler guitars. They're fantastic and the purple smear is way cool i wish I had one.Have you tried any Tom Anderson's guitars?They're much like the Tyler's.

Thanks for sharing - must admit I have 2 criteria for buying does it play well and sound good - if so who cares about the rest IMHO.

Rip Michael!

After he died we should all wonder..... Where did his guitars go?

What I find amazing is that he's only got two tremolo springs in that strat. I just don't understand how its even playable! 🤷‍♂️

RIP😢

What a cool guy. Such a loss, great player too.

new sub here.. nice collections mate

Michael had a tremendous guitar collection, at the level of his great talent. We miss his pro-concepts and gentle presence on the Internet. With all due respect, does anyone know where these beautiful instruments ended up, or what the Estate did or wants to do with them ? R.I.P. Michael ! \m/

Hi Michael ! You've played such wunderfull licks on your pink Fender Jeff Beck Strat from the nineties. What happened to that guitar ? Greets & rock on..:)

rip Michael

i dont know who hes rip mate my condolences to hid family and freinds rock on mate

I had a 93 Classic just like that. Cool but not quite the Custom Shop level of today

ha ha, I had Mick at my house looking at a guitar a Tyler I was selling I don't think he had one then. He was trying my strat a 56 with a crazy flame neck that he loved but I was not selling that one now I know why.

He seems very modest..

Wow, didn't know that he'd passed away.

Whatever happened to Steve Farris and Mr Mister ?... What a brilliant player and classy band.

What is a second guitar?

RIP, sad loss.

Didn't mention his black and gold Brian May guitar

rip

omg that flame neck just made me shit my pants! wowowow

there is nothing cooler than a black strat on earth .other than jimi.

who's his guitar tech ? Gotta be a shop surely ???

"look at the flame on that one..."

R.I.P. rector

RIH Michael

It's a fine line between clever and stupid, inn'it?

How do you repair a guitar neck that is warped 'like a banana'?

Water took him :( rip

How eerily akin to Spinal Tap.

hi guitar weirdos, the tide is changing, not so far from now, with fender stratos goes down and with modern builders goes up, so you don´t believe it all you have to do, hear between the things he said.

R.I.P, but i still don't understand how he died. What do they mean by an accident? Did he drown? Bullshit, sad loss. My condolences to his family and friends...

A lot of custom necks. A lot of Tyler's it looks like

So sad he's gone too soon

Looks like Michael liked jumbo frets,,,

BUT these go to a 11