Awesome 👍

Very very well said! The magic is the musician, not the instrument.

It’s going to be sold to a rich person to a collection, where it won’t be played. Might as well go to the Hall of Fame instead

If I had billions I'd buy it. Play it at a show & then f@cking burn it

Very true...say Hendrix had taken one more step and picked up the next guitar on the rack, that one would become THE Hendrix Strat instead.

@@lucasoheyze4597 yessir. And going even further into the vintage market… many players hunt for the vintage stuff because of inspiration from the greats from the 60’s and 70’s. The funny thing is that those guitars were pretty new when they used them to record our favorite stuff. That’s why I go for the vintage inspired new stuff… vintage vibe and style (and typically very close to vintage tone) and all the playability and reliability of new gear. David Gilmour sounds just as great on his fender custom shop reissue of his black strat.

Yes they are quite aggressive, and going in for the hard sale,, and that doesn't work in 'guitarland' If they had proof it would be their pleasure providing the details of authenticity, because it aids the sale🤷🏼‍♂️

They have provided their claimed “neck grain match” image to a few of us, but it hasn’t helped their case. The image they used of the original guitar was a very low quality version, which is so grainy and pixelated that I’m shocked anyone found it conclusive. The same image of Jimi they used as a comparison is available in *much* higher quality, and comparing the grain of the purported guitar to this image, it does not look like a match at all, to me. The real guitar had straight grain down the back of the entire headstock, which the purported guitar doesn’t match.

Agreed. Even if the situation is well-known, a 60-second intro to it couldn't hurt.

2nd this, I have no idea what they were talking about...

Agreed! I'd no idea what this was about and thought they'd go over the story before taking over the conversation. Googled the story to understand the context of the video.

Yeah, and much of the relevant videos are deleted so It takes a good bit of searching to work out what happened.

Ditto, Roger THAT! ☘️😄

Or maybe they thought he'd be the easiest to fool...😎

Fine art, vintage wines, gambling, real estate through shell companies, NFTs, etc. The worst part is that almost nobody monitors these markets and thanks to social media influencers, there are a lot of suckers out there willing to throw away their money.

I bought a gibson with pot money in my 20's.

Hopefully!

If I could get away with ripping off a millionaire I would lol. That's my thought process until I find a job haha. Had a serious injury last November and have been on the hunt for work from home. No luck. So yeah I'm ready to rob if I had to

@@benink5690 What’s wrong with people being millionaires? That’s a serious question. I’m interested in what you say.

I'm the same.

Especially Jimi, who would play guitar for a few months til it was beat up, then sacrifice it and move on to another one. Just like he did with the real Monterey strat, which was very likely the black strat he burned and smashed at the Ambassador Theatre in Aug ‘67, with the same red leather strap it wore in every picture prior… ;)

Before they nailed Jesus to a cross, it was just a regular cross.

You instantly know who focuses on their playing or their gear on youtube comments.

I'm the same way I don't care how much my guitars r... I have a few custom shops love them all and they r all going to my son when he grows up and im no longer here... I love a good vintage lookin guitar... CS reliced guitars aren't my main thing but hell if the guitar plays and feels amazing then I'm buying... sadly I'm lefty so its impossible to find guitars at all in shops let alone a CS.

Easily one of the worst looks on KZfaq. Taking "BAD HAIR DAY" to the next level......lol

@@rodrossi9749 LOL, yeah it's obviously done on purpose, but it looks funny as hell. That said, I like their channel pretty good.

@@justiceforall6412 .... yep.....they are knowledgeable and entertaining......good combination.

@@rodrossi9749 I quite agree

Mike is amazing. 👍 I have had the pleasure of meeting him, and I can tell you he’s as cool of a person as he is a guitar player.

Not to mention a sea of lashed up supposed original Marshall bluesbreaker combos Not to mention the fair amount of stolen to order vintage guitars and amps All roads as they say lead to Rome 😉

Oh men, can you imagine a sequel to the adventures of Ford Fairlane with the basic plot of national treasure just changing the constitution for the Monterrey strat? Get me Andrew Dice Clay on the phone!!!!

I disagree guitars need to be played not sitting in a glass case

The real one was very likely the black strat Jimi burned and smashed at the Ambassador Theatre in Aug ‘67, for a number of reasons. There are two photos of a black strat at those shows. That show was only a few weeks after the real one was last seen at Forest Hills, and the one he smashed at the Ambassador was wearing the same red leather strap that the Monterey strat had in every photo ever taken of it (Saville, Monterey Pop, Panhandle, Fillmore West, Whiskey A Go Go, and Forest Hills). I have a few other details about this I’ve put together including firsthand info from someone who was at all of the Ambassador Theatre shows. Edit: and to clarify, that particular guitar was far from playable after Jimi got done with it, lol. The body was broken, the neck tossed, and its remnants were signed by Jimi and left to the theatre. It was stolen many years later.

Not to mention most vintage fender guitars werent made by “master luthiers” like modern day. Fender custom shop guitars are better made guitars than about any pre cbs vintage guitar. I love vintage guitars but it’s become ingrained in a lot of peoples mind that they are the be all end all, which they aren’t.

We old musical farts (not my best imagery😏) would pass up the occasional factory junk duds, and today some of those are marketed as 'Mint Vintage, found in a closet' after sitting intentionally untouched for decades. "Hi$toric $trat$" now...

its more of the "maybe Hendrix touched this guitar lol" that's y I want a 61-68 fender strat but honestly custom shops r perfect for me.

I had a boss that taught me that expression (“inspect what you expect”) about 30 years ago. I still use it today and apply the philosophy regularly.

Wow that's kinda crazy that its off

NOS is considered a level of Relic.

@@charlesbolton8471 which is weird because it’s the only tier that is specifically done with no aging. As per the CS site. “An all Lacquer finish that hasn’t aged at all- as if you went back in time and bought it.” All CS Time Machine bodies must be stamped Relic in case they end up being used on one, I suppose.

Agreed. I feel pretty bad for Paul in all of this. He posted on his Instagram before he went there that he was so excited he couldn't sleep, and in his video I think it's genuine when he says being picked to play the guitar was a life achievement (can't remember his exact wording but it was something to that effect). I don't even know if the person(s) who own this guitar believe it's real or not. They might have bought it back in 2012 fully believing it was what it claimed, and are now stuck with a high-dollar investment that has very little value. There are a few things that leave me very suspicious of them, though: (1) Heritage Auctions withdrew the guitar from auction in 2017, stating they had concerns about it not being the Monterey strat. If the owner(s) were innocent and clueless prior to that, then surely it must've set off concerns that they would investigate, right? (2) The fact that the seller(s) picked a person with huge reach and extraordinary video-making skills to put attention on the guitar, and told him that a few potential buyers were lined up, all while teasing an outrageous value to millions of viewers. (3) The follow-up by the people involved with the guitar after the many glaring issues with the guitar were called to attention (not only by several youtubers but also by a major guitar website). They have tried to debate, argue, and threaten their way around all of it, insisting that there is no credibility to any of the issues we've pointed out. Personally, if this were my guitar, and I believed it was genuine, I would be very concerned by the numerous clear issues that have been pointed out, and instead of arguing about them I'd be trying to get to the bottom of them. And if it turned out the guitar was a fake, I wouldn't be going after the people revealing it -- I'd be going after the original sellers.

Paul taps wood. "Authentic"!!

That hollow body (or semi-hollow?) to the left of Baxter's head!

Wondering the same thing

Totally agree

That's the '68 Miami Pop guitar.

He's always seemed like a pretentious prick, so I found it quite apropos.

Sitting off camera just not on the wall! Still need to hit 50K

Could not have said it better myself.

That's cheap for Snap On,let's sort the finance out...

Yes you did I remember I'm wondering if you made anyone mad?

"provenance"

Most of his Strats would have been 60s models, but I agree with your point.