Always nice talking tones with you, Nik ⚡️ Thank you 🎶

I went to see Philip live a few years ago here in Newcastle in the U.K.. It looked like he had been badly let down by his promoter that night as the advertising for Philip’s gig only seemed to appear a week or two before the show. There were also four other competing gigs involving major artists happening in the city that night. This sadly but almost inevitably resulted in Philip’s audience being small, literally about 15 people!. To compound this, Philip was also sharing the venue that night with a ‘then popular’ UK talent show semi-finalist singer who was performing in the larger adjacent hall and whose sound was badly bleeding into Philip’s room! I had already been a long time follower and fan of Philip’s since his days playing with Melissa Etheridge, after the gig that night I came away not only as an even bigger fan of Philip’s guitar playing and musical talent but as a massive fan of Philip as a man and human being. He came onto stage that night and played to an audience of 15 like it was an audience of 30,000 he was so nice and engaging to everyone in the room, frequently walking out into the audience, standing with people and playing for them. He made light of, and laughed off the sound bleeding through from the other gig. Philip will probably never forget this gig for all of the wrong reasons, I will never forget this gig for all of the right reasons, namely his awesome musical talent, humility, sense of humour and total and utter professionalism. Philip Sayce is a total class act both as a musician and as a human being, I’m a fan for life! Great video Nik.

Hell yeah even his cabinet is relic’d!

Mother sounded like a 8.72 lb guitar when u set it down. God bless Mr. Sayce

"One of those (guitars) when everyone turns around and says, 'What is that guitar," Sayce says of the Strat as he played it in music store. I suspect his amazing playing also had something to do with turning heads. :)

Great video man Phil is such an amazing player and seems like a totally chill dude.

Beast, and heck of a nice guy.

That was great

Un-burst is my favorite color strat

I’m just glad them beautiful guitars found Phil as he makes them sing so sweet. He looks well can’t wait until comes back to U.K....been following his career since seeing him with Jeff healey I knew he was talented.

My favorite blues rock guitar player! One of the best nowadays no doubt!

awesome awesome awesome!!!!!!

Thank you Nik for sharing the interview the Great Philip Sayce!

My favorite player

Outstanding

From hanging around Toronto circa 1999 I have a photo of 'mother' with the finish still intact

It would be cool to hear something about his National!

Thanks Nik Philip Sayce is my inspiration these days. His guitars are out of this world Thanks for sharing.

Thanks Nik!!! It's always a pleasure to hear philip talk about music and guitars, it's inspiring!

I'm not that familiar with Guitars but I do love your Style/Sound and the cabinet behind you is BEAUTIFUL Philip.

I LOVE high action too, also go by feel

Thanks Nik and Philip!

Awesome!!

I love Philip sayce he’s one of my guitar hero’s and one of my greatest inspirations to pick up a guitar and actually invest in my work, hope he keep enlightening us with beautiful music as always for the years coming 🤘much love from AZ 🌵 ❤️

Hello from New Brunswick, Canada ☮🎸💕

Great to see Phil talking about his main squeezes. The first time I recall seeing and hearing that sunburst strat was at my house. Bob brought it over and Phil played it through my 1966 Deluxe Reverb and it did sound incredible. He had it cranked through my Deluxe and I was simultaneously thinking how great it sounded in Phil's hands and what my neighbours were thinking with the volume! That Deluxe ( nicknamed The Beast) was unusually loud for a 22 watt amp.

Thx Nik, Sayce is one of the best and love any content from him!

One of best power blues guys,,such a nice soul and heart here,, grateful guy u can tell.. keeping things real...

I have 3 Modern-ish Fender Strats a 1997 ,2012 and 2014 they are all beautiful and sound great and have that tone BUT nothing beats a pre-CBS Strat enjoy and have fun.

Its crazy Philips guitars make the Rory Gallagher strat look new haha.

Thanks Nik and Philip

Very cool Nik! Thanks for posting -- Phillip gets some incredible tones out of those '63s

Favourite guitarist, favourite channel talking about my favourite guitars. What's not to like?!?!

Thank you ‼️

wow and thanks! (:

great video from a guitar legend \m/

I never comment on videos but I think your channel and content are fantastic. Thank you

I have been super into Philips music lately. I’d love to learn how he uses some of his vintage/custom pedals live. I got a fuzz and I am trying to get some similar tones, but that man has some serious mojo that is hard to nail down!!!

Nik I really dig ur playing!🤘

What a great video and insight into Phil's gear and the way Phil thinks and feels about his guitars. Thank you Phil and Nik!

Phil is the man!! What a great Human!! Thanks for this Vid Nik.

Great interview thanks for posting

Thanks Nik this really made my day!

What an awesome video!

Great content nik!

Thanks Nik been waiting for this one. I have the new Philip Sayce album on pre-order, so the new track landed on my phone this morning, and straight after i see this vid is up... its a good day. Cheers.

I love you Nik Sevigny!

I remember when he bought the sunburst 63’ back in like 2010, all the paint was worn off that thing within 2 months 😂.

Great vid Nik. Sounds like Phillip's gonna be on the dark side for this album. Cant wait till tomorrow to check out the new song.

I've been using the blue tortex Sharpies for years since they first came out with them before that I just used the regular blue tortex

DAMN!!! he should sell his sweat to the guys at the fender custom shop to help relic there guitars!

Philip sayce is the reincarnation of the soul of the blues Jimmy handrix and in him

Philip Sayce is a fucking monster player. Untouchable, blows my mind every time watching this cat play.

I thought he changed the neck on the mother Strat to a 66. I guess this is the original neck in the video. Cool video 😎

Nice... makes me want more interviews with Philip. Perhaps more talk about amps or anything :)

Next please: PHILIP SAYCE GIVES A RUNDOWN OF HIS PEDALBOARD

👍🏻✌🏻💪🏻

The Ian Moore influence, yes sir!

That cabinet was brand new at the start of the video

Nik, I love your stuff but would you consider normalising the volume a bit? Turning the volume up enough to hear the interview, the music in between is Crazy loud.

THE RIFF W NIK SEVIGNY, which fuzz pedal gets close to philip sayce fuzz tone without using the OX fuzz what else can you use? Is the Dumble tone means just a very clean booster pedal or using a treble boost pedal? I'm trying to get a Dumble tone but I don't know what it means or what people are talking about that dumble tone?

Great interview. Interesting that they are a month apart and the screw placement about the middle pup on the pickguard is different. wild!

6:12 I'll never again worry about the action on one of my strats, I keep trying to lower it by readjusting the truss rod, then lowering the saddles. I can get it a bit lower, but string bending beyond the 12th fret causes choking off the note. What makes it worse is having a 'floating' trem, as the bridge plate is lifted off the body, making the action (to me) quite high.

Are both these strats still 7.25 radius or have they been changed during a refret at some point.

Yeah -- that's high action.

Two 63 strats that are one month apart but have different pickguard screw pattern.. between middle and neck. Any reasons or time line on when this changed ?

hi philip what gauge strings are you using?Thanks

Nik, do you put big frets on your Strats and high action? Just curious. Thanks

So fender sent that Sunburst out like that? To where it's predominately black? Craziness.

Big frets 6100 or 6105?

7:08 can anyone else see jimi hendrix face [ with a beard] smoking a skinny joint and his head has a moon shape? or should i pass the joint to some one else?

good interview but for the love of god, eq the audio. His voice is low and muffled and the interstitial music is deafening...

Strings gauge and tuning are mising!

A lot of talking, and no action....would have been nice if he plugged in and let the viewer hear the instrument.

Fix your sound levels and the video/audio sync.