The Original Guitar John Mayer Used For Gravity - The Story Of John Mayer's Sonic Blue Stratocaster

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The Original Guitar John Mayer Used For Gravity - The Story Of John Mayer's Sonic Blue Stratocaster

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Жыл бұрын

Today we will tell the story of one of John Mayer's least talked about Fender Stratocasters, the John Cruz Masterbuilt 1962 Sonic Blue. This guitar was a huge part of the John Mayer Trio era and even had some use in the studio when Continuum was being recorded. It's my personal favourite spec for a strat and I thought this would be a great video discussing this really cool, underrated strat!
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@echnaton2274 Жыл бұрын

Would love a video like this about his '64 Strat. In terms of looks, it's probably my favourite Strat ever..

@AntonioLopez-bc6qg Жыл бұрын

I second this

@adam_ziegel Жыл бұрын

AGREED

@JustinJeske 11 ай бұрын

Video going live in 5 minutes 😉

@echnaton2274 11 ай бұрын

@@JustinJeske 👏👏👏

@Iamgavrilo 5 ай бұрын

Much better tone than silver sky. Especially for Trio

@magnuspoderbenjaminsen Жыл бұрын

Would love to see a video on his 335. The is absolutely no content about it on KZfaq. Maybe also the tone from “try” and “out of my mind”? Killer tones! Btw. keep up the videos. Love them

@JustinJeske Жыл бұрын

CORRECTION: The footage of Gravity from September 22nd, 2005 is not the same as the TRY! Album recording, meaning they used the September 21st performance. So ironically we have both the footage of Gravity and Who Did You Think I Was from the nights they didn't use the recording. Comparing the tones of TRY! and the BLK1 in the footage it does actually sound like the TRY! Recording was with the Sonic Blue, but no way to tell for sure. We know John used it for WDYTIW that night so there is high potential he used it more than one time. Sorry for that mistake guys!

@dkuda1221 Жыл бұрын

it might be a bit like...eyes doing more talking then my ears...but that sonic blue sounds EXACTLY like off of TRY!. Like.....holy smokes it sounds the exact same.

@ron980 10 ай бұрын

Hey Justin! Thank you so much for doing this video! You're continuing the work of some of us OG MSM members that are still out there! Sonic blue has been my favorite color for a while, in part because of JM using the JC '62 in the 2005 Bowery Ballroom performance (JM3), Tomo posting this video of his student Michael Lemmo (now of Norm's Rare Guitars fame) playing a '59 John English Strat on his TY channel, and a TGP thread of someone's '59 John English Strat with the most exquisite relicing, although its pictures have been lost to the internet. My main guitar is a Suhr Classic S in Sonic Blue, but it all stemmed from my admiring that S1 switching John Cruz guitar! There are so many shades of sonic blue - I love this "faded" sonic blue finish that isn't quite too white or too blue. You're diving in deep! There is some rare footage in the video that is new to me! Thanks for all you do!

@danielmuraddanielsen4062 3 ай бұрын

Recently bought JC333! lovely guitar.

@jasonshrestha Жыл бұрын

that is the first time i saw john mayer play why georgia in electric! thats amazing..its like the video where he plays daughters with electric with the trio. amazing video Justin! this is hella entertaining and informative !

@adrianjmanuel Жыл бұрын

always a great day when i see your uploads Justin! never have i ever sat through a bunch of gear and rig rundowns with a youtube channel, so i’m so glad you’re very very passionate about what you do! i can see it’s something you love!

@JustinJeske Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much Adrian 🙏🏻

@Doophoto Жыл бұрын

Stoked to see some info on these. I have JC454. Such awesome guitars 😊

@itsallblues9621 11 ай бұрын

Really feel your passion for the music and guitars, thanks for the videos. One detail though I think his charcoal frost signature Strat was built by Dennis Galuska not Cruz. Could be wrong but don't think so. Great job.

@JustinJeske 11 ай бұрын

Thank you so much!! And re CFM: John had two Masterbuilt Charcoal Frost versions of his signature strat built! The first one is for sure a Cruz, which was confirmed by Jon Cruz and in a Japanese magazine that did a rundown of John's rig, and the second one is either a second Cruz or built by Chris Flemming (there is no confirmation on who exactly built it and the signature on the back is hard to read in the shots we have, but it's either Cruz or Flemmings).

@marcusflores2184 Жыл бұрын

A sonic blue strat will always be associated with Mick Taylor from TPS for me. If PRS ever made a sonic blue silver sky. Lord help my wallet 😂

@LALtd001 Ай бұрын

Is there a link to that footage of him using it for WDYTIW? That might actually be footage of the album version since that definitely is from the night of the 21st.

@MrCheesepizzaisgood Жыл бұрын

What a great video!!

@bradwoods371 Жыл бұрын

Ahh the sonic blue 62’ masterbuilt.

@randallweist7638 Жыл бұрын

Was the sonic blue behind John in that recent clip of him and JP Saxe recording “I Don’t miss you” looks like it could be!

@JustinJeske Жыл бұрын

That was his 61 Olympic White Hardtail!

@hayleyhooper7523 Жыл бұрын

Blue strat looks Olympic white in a lot of that footage...

@JustinJeske Жыл бұрын

Sonic Blue takes on a lot of different colours depending on lighting. In the photos from 2013 it looks a lot darker blue than it actually is

@ElliottPfuhl Жыл бұрын

What's with the Sonic Blue strat behind you in this video where your SS used to hang? Is that new? Is that why your SS was for sale? 🙂

@JustinJeske Жыл бұрын

I was wondering if someone would notice! instagram.com/p/Cu5lXjbxg-m/?igshid=YzcxN2Q2NzY0OA==

@ElliottPfuhl Жыл бұрын

@JustinJeske Nice! It jumped out to me right away, especially since you were doing a video about a sonic blue strat! So is the SS gone, or did you manage to hang on to that too? How do the two compare in sound and feel?

@institchez5366 Жыл бұрын

JM played a sonic blue strat on a KZfaq video of him giving a tutorial on crossroads riff, didn’t look that worn tho

@JustinJeske Жыл бұрын

Are you talking about the guitar world one?

@xArsVivendi 8 ай бұрын

that's an olympic white strat. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/kN2Bm9N2q7e1eYE.htmlsi=5_xE5HrvzhWQSBpm&t=300 notice it also has a weird nut (floyd rose?) and it has truss rod adjustment at the headstock (not vintage style). i've only seen him use it for his version of crossroads.

@__j1957 Жыл бұрын

Never knew this

@rauldelgado7033 Жыл бұрын

Jeske is that a sonic blue on the background?😂

@JustinJeske Жыл бұрын

Might be instagram.com/p/Cu5lXjbxg-m/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

@ianharris8706 Жыл бұрын

Love the Strats, PRS not so much 😟

@camronpreciado9540 Жыл бұрын

booooooo

@__.rey.__ Жыл бұрын

First!

@frankiewalnuts Жыл бұрын

John Cruz and the custom shop is the reason why JM left fender - John Cruz has a bigger ego than John Mayer and he was difficult to work with... Never liked the guy... and neither did my friend who worked with him at FCS

@Giballi24 Жыл бұрын

Lmao, no, just no. The story is well documented and this is the furthest thing from what actually happened.

@frankiewalnuts Жыл бұрын

@@Giballi24 Source?

@frankiewalnuts Жыл бұрын

@@Giballi24 John wanted to create a new guitar away from the usual CS guitars, and Cruz veto'd it...

@tommypadula Жыл бұрын

You are right in that JM and Fender didn't see eye to eye on customizing a guitar beyond normal FCS specs. But I don't think this was something specifically with John Cruz. JM and JC remained somewhat close even after JM's split from Fender.

@frankiewalnuts Жыл бұрын

@@tommypadula I have a friend who worked there around that time. His exact words were JC had a diva complex. Thought he was bigger than everyone else and was very hard to work with...