The Biggest Scam In Guitar History

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@calebhooper4266 Жыл бұрын

I can’t believe Lance almost conned a guy out of his Forklift Operator’s License

@alexisjordan3303 11 ай бұрын

Not a nativr speaker, I don't get the joke. I know what a forklift is. Please help!

@florian_thrash 8 ай бұрын

@@alexisjordan3303Gabelstapler

@WhiskerBiscuit1 5 ай бұрын

@@alexisjordan3303 I'm straight American, speak English, and I'm just as confused as you, bro. Lmfao! 🤷🏻‍♂️

@adrianlang4565 2 ай бұрын

@@WhiskerBiscuit1I believe the it’s a joke because in the video he said some guy almost lost some kind of license. but didn’t say what specific license so the guy made a joke saying that license was to operate a forklift? Hey i don’t even fully know lmao

@user-lv7ph7hs7l 12 күн бұрын

Don't need it anyway. I operated a forklift for 2 years with no license. And yes the boss told me to do it. Unless you're exlusively the forklift guy if it's just one part of the job barely anyone I saw driving one has a license.

@rubenyerkanyan Жыл бұрын

I actually remember the day that I almost bought a TTM guitar, I was halfway through the transaction when my bandmate (who also told me about it) called me and told me that I should wait a bit, to see if there would be reviews on KZfaq or other sites. So we waited a while and found no reviews. And after almost 4 years we finally understood that it was a scam and were thankful that we didn't fall for it. Thank you for putting some attention on this! Keep it up bro! 🤘🏻

@sixstringtv1 Жыл бұрын

Damn, got lucky there! 😂

@TheRockinDonkey Жыл бұрын

Your bandmate is smart.

@jameslanclos568 Жыл бұрын

That was a close shave !!!

@shinji391 Жыл бұрын

"Sometimes, the best purchase is the one we don't make" - Sindri from God of War.

@bobibobik5903 Жыл бұрын

Had chance to try 2 of their guitars and they are great, especially due to prices were around 300 US$ on 2nd hand market with that wood quality, great necks as luthier i have to say they are much better value then some fancy names. Are they scam or not i have no clue but from this and other videos i see they lied and OK guess what other brands lie even more not in the same manner but they lie. For example when they say ''We designed guitar with a...'' dude a player don't design guitar at all it's a lie. Then lies in marketing about quality and have you ever seen any lab test of any guitar that it proves their marketing hype? maybe from a pickups or pedals? I haven't.

@davidriley4895 Жыл бұрын

I thought TTM might stand for “taking their money”

@chrisferrand2679 Жыл бұрын

I actually thought he was going to say that that's what it stood for. Lol

@toddmorrissey8372 Жыл бұрын

YESSSSSS!!

@daemonspudguy Жыл бұрын

Megedeth is my favorite metel band.

@noam.yuvalor1381 Жыл бұрын

Took me like an hour to understand you’ve written megadeth like he said in the beginning of the video

@Craighetfield2024 Жыл бұрын

I seen magedeth live before it was fronted by Jeremy Dewitt and George santos

@manupbritain5232 Жыл бұрын

I prefer Sloyer.

@dannysoler05 Жыл бұрын

Anrtax ys mi favorite trash metle band

@cardprophecy97 Жыл бұрын

I approve this messege

@naturekev Жыл бұрын

"Middle-aged men who missed their shot at making it in the music scene". Hey, I found a company that will endorse me!

@roosternm6830 Жыл бұрын

I know a middle aged man who fell for the TTM BS. Hook, line and sinker. He's still trying to be famous.

@zaltuguitar Жыл бұрын

Dude has balls of steel to pull this stunt again. Hopefully people wise up some and deal with this nonsense.

@Jay-sy5yf Жыл бұрын

Lol no fs given!!!

@conorfowler Жыл бұрын

I love Megedeth. Piece Cells is a classic

@PC85X Жыл бұрын

I preferred, Youth in Asia.

@dannysoler05 Жыл бұрын

I like the sog piss smells veri much

@Izayoink_Saccuy Жыл бұрын

Lust in preach is better

@eternity8811 Жыл бұрын

Sew Fer Sew Geed Sew Wet is the best

@DeAthWaGer Жыл бұрын

Pooper Collider

@SnarkySloth Жыл бұрын

They may not have gotten their guitars that they paid for but they still got their superb notoriety right? right?!

@JJ-mp7rg Жыл бұрын

Don’t you mean ‘notariety’? 😂

@colinbanning9416 Жыл бұрын

@@JJ-mp7rg Yeah, no one promised anyone superb notoriety. Check the fine print.

@rowsdowertwu5814 Жыл бұрын

This is a great video. Keep up the good work

@sixstringtv1 Жыл бұрын

Thanks! 😎😎

@googaboogaloo Жыл бұрын

I’m glad Metalliga kicked out Dave Mustang so we could have me favorite band MEGEDETH

@studiobcproductions Жыл бұрын

🤣 Dave "Mustang"

@beeemm2578 Жыл бұрын

He obviously endorsed Back Stabbath

@DanWahlberg 12 күн бұрын

LoL Or Lack Sabbath

@WastedJoey Жыл бұрын

Randy Jackson is phenomenal player. I saw him play at NAMM a few years back with George Lynch, Doug Aldrich, and Frank Hannon. Killer show and that guy shreds with the best of the best…

@tedmich Жыл бұрын

OMG a sleezeball in the musical instrument business?? I am shocked, SHOCKED! Why cant these guys just do it the old fashioned way like Rob Chapman and Ed Roman?

@sonsauvage Жыл бұрын

Oh ed…what a piece of work he was

@countzero5150 Жыл бұрын

Well, atleast if you bought a guitar from Roman you would actually get a guitar. Probably a fairly nice one. With a new fretboard, and neck... and body.

@patrickjamesworrow1130 Жыл бұрын

Oh yes, If it walks like an oxygen thiefing ponce/ bully, and talks ,ect. what a world we live in. by the the way I'm willing to give my address to any miss guided you tube fans/ followers who would like to send death threats. but at the end of the day, theres only one Steve Vai and there will always be many poor imotations. I hope Lee has deep pockets.

@toddmorrissey8372 Жыл бұрын

Heh heh.

@ericwarrington6650 Жыл бұрын

Fantastic work my friend...you've done many musicians a tremendous service..too bad you weren't abreast of these things in time to get the word out before all the damage was caused...I applaud your courage and efforts..mad respect 🤘

@FilthyPhilify Жыл бұрын

add 'superb notoriety' to the patreon benefits. That should really pull a crowd!

@ZachAdkinsGuitar Жыл бұрын

I was endorsed with TTM in 2019. Went to the 2019 NAMM show, Lance paid for a big house that had a pool and hot tub. We each had our own rooms. I was supposed to get a signature 7 string, and he was supposed to bring it at this name show. When I got to California, he shows up and all he had was a seven-string neck. No body, no frets on it, just the neck. He kept telling me how amazing they were Right there, I started kind of panicking. Because I realized that I came all the way to California to play at the NAMM booth and had no guitar to do it on. Because he told me not to bring anything and that he would provide me with a guitar. We got into it about why we came all the way to Florida for this. Was a huge disappointment. That was just the beginning too lol If you want, I would love to chat with you and you can use my story as another added piece to the puzzle. Luckily I'm endorsed with Ernie ball music man now. Don't have to worry about this nonsense. Lance just added me on Facebook too. What a dork

@bobibobik5903 8 ай бұрын

But you don't mind playing and showing on a YT Ormsby Guitar, that dude is just a successful manipulator and guitars aren't better then TTM. Plus He lies, and Rusty Cooley lies as well by showing that amazing jack on the back of guitar as ''something new'', x companies did it before O... In case of RC signature they obviously copy Yamaha super starts from 80's.. Imagine 100's of kids born after 2000's who have no idea about that, they will get a terrible guitar that is copy for a lot of $, and you have helped such brand. I wonder were is moral in all that ? As long as someone pays some people to endorse their products they seems to not care about such things, or they were tricked along the way? i'm not defending TTM, but its strange game or moral. Due to all that guitar music is vanishing for the last 15+ years. Percentage of people who learn to play HM /Rock, Blues etc guitar is smaller each year. Kid will rather became a DJ, or make some electronic music then to listen lies how they need a specific brand of guitar that cost above 1000$, amp above 2000$, pedals above 200 $ etc in order to play some gigs or to be a ''pro''.

@PeterWoloszyn 16 күн бұрын

Great work, my man. I KNOW that had to take TONS of time in research, but it’s awesome to know people like you are out there fighting the good fight. Keep it up, my brother. I’m off to watch part 2 (that’s where I started, then actually listened to what you said and went to watch this first)

@DeathMetalDerf Ай бұрын

Refreshing my memory because of the update video you did on this toolbox.

@hatempire Жыл бұрын

I feel like things will get even weirder about TTM in the near future. Hope they stop scamming people, this is sad.

@thebreakfastmenu Жыл бұрын

Imagine if TTM ends up being some huge reputable and amazing guitar manufacturer. Allegedly?

@Wolf-Wolfman Жыл бұрын

If only they had endorsed 'They Might Be Giants'

@jeffreycarpenter1864 Жыл бұрын

Well done! Great video. Hard to believe this went down and that this dude is starting up again

@madhellmiguel Жыл бұрын

I hope everyone spreads the word to stay away from TTM

@Gornflyin Жыл бұрын

How do these con men never take a bullet to the face by people they have scammed? Amazing :/

@andyc9196 Жыл бұрын

Can't wait for your guitar scam tier list.

@klauswigsmith Жыл бұрын

You mean....I'm NOT actually a sponsored guitarist....I WON'T be getting my promised guitar....I WON'T be getting my superb notoriety? ...well, shit.... (edit: GREAT video, by the way!)

@sixstringtv1 Жыл бұрын

🤣🤣

@fargeeks Жыл бұрын

I guess it sucks trying to make it Big

@paulyguitary7651 Жыл бұрын

If you are gonna have notoriety, it may as well be of the superb variety.

@colinbanning9416 Жыл бұрын

Man, I worked for a company that was in another field, but one that's equally specialized, like bowling, or archery, or whatever, and listening to a lot of the practices you describe are reminding me of a lot of that time. Very frustrating to think back that I was an unknowing worker cog in this machine

@genemichael5882 Жыл бұрын

My mate was supposed to tour Europe a few years ago and couldn’t make it as he was unwell, he later got a message from Lance on his bands website saying, Hey Man I saw you recently at the concert and you were amazing and would like to offer you an endorsement, my mate never set foot on stage let alone enter the country! hahaha

@shinji391 Жыл бұрын

I've heard about TTM Guitars, but I wasn't a guitar player back then, and once I discovered the meaning of their abbreviation, I couldn't trust them.

@DaveViner Жыл бұрын

And I thought Australia's Devries Custom Guitars was a bad company...

@manfredmar Жыл бұрын

Wow thats a throwback I remember him running rampant in a FB guitar group I was in, like 10 years ago or so. I think he passed away a few years back though.

@mattmacarthur520 5 ай бұрын

Mark Kendall played one for an endorsement video early on but then I’m guessing wised up and realized what was going on. Thank god because Kendall is one of the most underrated rockers of his era

@anejo333 Жыл бұрын

TTM was DM ing my social media back in the day trying to snag my money. I'm glad my instincts were hell no

@ibanez2010 Жыл бұрын

Haha man....That TTM questionnaire video Levi did is GOLD I tell you. Can't wait to watch this after work!

@tonym7051 Жыл бұрын

In one Philip McKnights videos where he is looking through Sam Ash, he finds an actual TTM guitar

@DeAthWaGer Жыл бұрын

If anyone is near lakeland, FL there's one at Guitar Center apparently.

@deadgoon7460 Жыл бұрын

Great vid! Thanks for doing the research on this crazy story.

@sixstringtv1 Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

@SPENCERGONZALEZ Жыл бұрын

I remember this , I got the email on this to get the green light on the endorsement, I didn’t fall for any of it. I’m very happy with my current endorsements and so grateful, but this was so interesting and crazy , I had been in show biz for along time and never heard of these guys till 2018

@raziothedeath1484 Ай бұрын

Came here via your more recent vid of this, even though I’ve already seen this, doing it again cause support 🤟🏻

@sixstringtv1 Ай бұрын

Legend

@TheScenicView 6 ай бұрын

I was on Harmony Central when TTM first released guitars. He was giving guitars away left and right, promised me a guitar, then later, refused to send me one when the few people from harmony central that received one started roasting the quality.

@sawtrapstunnaaa Жыл бұрын

i was looking forward to a more professional, journalistic style video on this situation after the Levi Clay saga. Levi’s series was so entertaining and i’ve been waiting for a more condensed version detailing the events of Lance’s,, questionable behavior since. thank you so much, it’s lovely seeing your channel grow!

@sixstringtv1 Жыл бұрын

Thanks! 😁😎🧡

@Mr_Pmg_Gaming Жыл бұрын

Great video, thanks for informing fellow musicians of this shady company.

@slayer91340 3 ай бұрын

Wow. I live where this company said it was located and never heard of them. I'm gonna keep my eyes peeled for this lol

@flowkovicwittl5350 Жыл бұрын

The worst thing this guy did was to spell Megadeath wrong.

@bensepulveda71 Жыл бұрын

Well, the band’s name is actually spelled “Megadeth” so… 😉

@MostlyElectrolytes Жыл бұрын

Lance reached out to me back around 2007 and offered a free guitar in exchange for a review. After a couple of excuses about delays I told him I wasn't interested and to take my name off his stupid website. it was pretty obvious that if he wasn't a conman that he was incompetent and anything that he provided wouldn't be worth having.

@andresilvasophisma Жыл бұрын

If I had a guitar I would call it Endorsement Guitars, so that anyone could get an Endorsement. Badum Tsss.

@rebeccabailey527 7 ай бұрын

Never heard about this guy. Its worse than that one guy that was taking joyo pedals, covering up the joyo logo on the pcb's, piggybacking a couple extra parts on to the pcb, repainting the pedal housings and selling them as his own.

@BrickNewton Ай бұрын

Note to self: steal this idea but do less work and make more money

@elancaster3989 Жыл бұрын

He conned Ward music in Canada in 1990's over orchestral instruments thats what led to him starting scamming with guitars with TTM. Hes a multinational con man. He conned thousands of junior high school kids and parents for band instrument rentals

@plugnplaybaby Жыл бұрын

So this is how Ariel Helwani would look like with hair

@sixstringtv1 Жыл бұрын

He's an attractive man, I take this as a compliment

@TheTactical6string 8 ай бұрын

I owned 2, cant believe youre covering them. Ill go into detail when i have more than a minute to comment. I found them on ebay.

@TheDistortionPrinciple 11 ай бұрын

Ok I'm convinced. Where do I go to invest in TTM?

@magnusjakobsson7925 Жыл бұрын

What a coincident ... Was wondering what the guitar scam brand was just the other day. Saw a video from Jason a year ago or so and found the whole story very intriguing but forgot the name of the company! Thanks for the video!

@eximusic Жыл бұрын

This is a great warning for morons who buy guitars they don't play first. However they probably do so many other idiotic and potentially dangerous things that it ultimately won't help much. And it was only the market for painted "metal" guitars where people completely didn't care about what woods were used. Again, no remedy for that kind of disregard.

@scumofthechurch Жыл бұрын

You should investigate scarred guitars next. The owner's name is Sean Jolie, he has a shop in Florida, USA, he scammed dozens of people out of a lot of money including me when I was 18. He never paid anyone back, massive abuser, now a lot of people are giving him props for building guitars, but he really just buys kits from China and does a little work to them and then sells them as his own. If you don't like it, you send it back, expecting a refund, then he never gives it to you. It's been 10 years since he scammed dozens of us. TTM mirrors scarred guitars almost to a T

@nunyabusiness6691 Жыл бұрын

I remember that the guitar player in the house band on Eric Andre show played one of these guitars. I remember thinking wtf and laughing when I saw what TTM stood for.

@sixstringtv1 Жыл бұрын

What a weirdly specific place to find one of these guitars 🤣

@brandonsutton3714 Жыл бұрын

"hundreds of thousands of dollars building a brand new factory" That should have been a massive fucking red flag on its own. You would need WAY MORE money to build a "brand new guitar manufacturing factory", especially in that area.

@theonegoose Жыл бұрын

I saw some TTM guitars pop up on ebay recently. What a nice trip down memory lane.

@Lmplmplmplmplmp-o5w 4 ай бұрын

I’m one of the people that got an endorsement and put the down payment down and received nothing….

@sixstringtv1 4 ай бұрын

😬😬😬

@JannickVR Жыл бұрын

God damn, banger after ganger keep it up👍

@MaTtRoSiTy 20 күн бұрын

Wow that is scandalous alright, you almost have to admire the sheer audacity of the guy

@rikfox8812 Жыл бұрын

Be advised; there's also a grifting, con man drummer running around out there named Luke Johnn, who's right in the same scamming market just like Lance Benedict; he drops big A-list rocker names claiming to be personal friends with these people who have no idea who he is. He's got a great, plausible silver-tongued line of BS and lots of plausible sounding backpedaling. So, just a heads-up for anyone out there who might run into this guy. Check KZfaq, he's on an episode of America's Most Wanted.

@RAREFORMDESIGNS Жыл бұрын

The Trump remark doesn't make any sense.

@jasonkaraszkiewicz1025 Ай бұрын

Makes perfect sense Trump surrounded himself with idiots for their loyalty and since they were nobody's like TTM endorsements and were just happy to be included in something they didn't deserve that they wouldn't blow the whistle

@mattzocrazy123 Жыл бұрын

The whole TTM thing has always been crazy to me, like, bands, and more specifically their labels, are violently litigious when people infringe on their IPs, and like, dead metal bands from the 80s, RATT n what not, sure they could get away with it, but like Megadeth? Ozzy Osbourne??? It literally feels like this dude just thumbed through his record collection and said "Yeah, these'll do"

@courier11sec Жыл бұрын

Another great video. Thanks for doing your thing. 🙂

@joeyskar Жыл бұрын

Dang, I'm feeling pretty frivolous with my one million sixstring credits.

@rosskrause3926 Жыл бұрын

I think I saw the TTM name along with CC Deville model Made In USA on a headstock at a local guitar store around 2017-2018..It was an Orange body and headstock with a Maple fretboard neck..it was for sale for $550...from a distance it looked cheap so I stayed away from it.

@miguelangelgarciaalva2538 Жыл бұрын

The guitar player from a Prog Metal band called Vanden Plas used to play one of those

@haytguugle8656 Жыл бұрын

"Endorsements" don't work that way. It is the ARTIST that offers their popularity to endorse a product, connecting their name and notoriety to a product or company for the purpose of advertisement and increased sales. An endorsement is meant to get the fans of the noted artist to want the same product that the artist says they like and use. The company will often compensate the artist for endorsing the product with money or free products, some even going so far as to offer a product with the artists name actually on the product, or being designed or modified to the artist's ideas/desire. So - the company DOES NOT endorse the artist, though they may offer an artist an endorsement DEAL - an agreement/contract for the artist to endorse the product and the value and means of compensation.

@henrygvidonas9573 Ай бұрын

Ah, the superb _notariety_ of _Megedeth..._ Those cheaky resculs are werld-renouned!

@k7j007 Жыл бұрын

@15:00 Any thief / con-man is a certifiable garbage excuse for a human being. Stealing someone's hard earned money is terrible enough but then to try and rob a person of their livelihood and destroy that persons ability to provide for themselves and family is absolutely inexcusable and unforgivable. I'm glad that person, whomever it may be was able to escape having their professional business license(s) revoked simply for trusting the wrong guy. Everyone should always be very careful about who you choose to potentially go into business with.

@villageidiot9867 Жыл бұрын

There are actually some of these guitars listed on Reverb.

@IwoIwanov Жыл бұрын

I had no idea. Entertaining contribution. Do keep it up.

@williamstevens2083 5 ай бұрын

Mark Kendall of Great White still uses TTM I believe

@DjangoWarheart Жыл бұрын

Lance misspelled notoriety too, the cad.

@sixstringtv1 Жыл бұрын

The website also says "Sneak Peak" 🤣

@robertswafford4145 Жыл бұрын

I love the cheek of a guy who keeps using the name of a notorious scam company.

@josemariareyes3448 Жыл бұрын

Did not expect the Breaking Bad reference, a not-so-memed one in face

@guitargresurrect2117 Жыл бұрын

"Megedet" "a Weegee Board?"

@Dilla4life 4 ай бұрын

Love the Moo Moo Homer hoodie

@songman68 Жыл бұрын

The 357 Customs Zak Wylde guitar scam was pretty huge as well.

@songman68 7 ай бұрын

I was just getting ready to type that out, what a sham that was. I never fell for it but I read a bunch about it and I was on the 357 customs site looking at the deal many times. I also spent lots of time reading many web forums about that shady deal.

@geezerbliz Жыл бұрын

Stacking the T and the V in your logo would make it more symmetrical.

@sixstringtv1 Жыл бұрын

I'll pass

@spud2go Жыл бұрын

TTM - Take The Money.

@patricklongshanks378 7 ай бұрын

Wow. I think that's called a psychopath.

@toddmorrissey8372 Жыл бұрын

"TTM"= "Take Their Money".

@darkallyrecordings4931 Жыл бұрын

Wow! Thanks for bringing this to light.

@bulldaggerwatkins190 Ай бұрын

Peas sails but whose Biden is the quintessential Megedeth album

@peterwall77 Жыл бұрын

I had been keeping up on the whole TTM scam due to @Levi Clay being all over it. Lance even threatened to sue him for extortion I believe haha

@TheGalilee416 Жыл бұрын

Phenomenal work on this video 😮🙌🙌

@sixstringtv1 Жыл бұрын

Thanks! 😎

@stoneysdead689 Жыл бұрын

I'm sure the guy you're talking about is trash but Keisel, makes a damn good guitar. I have no idea what kind of ppl they are, no idea if they're honest or not about how they're made or any of that- but I know the one I played was a top-notch guitar and looked great. Granted it's just one sample- maybe it was a fluke but- a friend of mine got a beautiful super Strat in Copper- much like Phil McKnight's Keisel- and it's amazing.

@axilleas Жыл бұрын

You and KDH are the real heroes of the guitar KZfaq world.

@sixstringtv1 Жыл бұрын

🙏🙏🙏

@bobibobik5903 Жыл бұрын

lol KDH plays Ormsby that is worse guitars, they don't cost 100E but people pay 800-1200 for that trash. Plus He lies about design, the dude stolen Yamaha design for jack on the back lol. Imagine such ''hero'' a real double faced $ lover.

@geraldhills41 Жыл бұрын

I remember Status Quo endorsing Kramer guitars . Their bass player might have used one live but have never seen any proof .

@techniqueswithtodd Жыл бұрын

Great vid!! So many folks have been taken in by him and it's time folks heard the truth.

@anthonydigiuseppe732 10 ай бұрын

Lance was the drummer in first band. He was 15 years old. He was a great drummer and a smart kid. I am really disappointed in what he did with TTM and the players he bilked. Sad.

@danielpsullivan6265 Жыл бұрын

Snakes all over the music industry unfortunately. It seems that the laws are designed to help the crooks after they screw over the naive. I'm certainly glad I watched this as I never heard of this brand.

@WalkenDead Жыл бұрын

Nah, I'll just go with Solar if I want a out of the norm guitar. I have one and it's pretty damn good. Firefly is a good mod platform too, I have one of those too