Fender keeps making the same guitars and marketing them differently LOL

I hope you don't mean that American Standard that they made for 35 years.

Its a guitar look like old fender vintage played by genuine stratis vintage fingers

They’ve sent them to every KZfaqr with any kind of fan base.

@@lustycourtier2425 yeah it's the new shiny object.

Tyler Bryant?

@@gui-texzan7477 who?

As well as Matthew plays….I’d say Eric Johnson.

Festus McCraken maybe?

@@rodrigogomes2064 he’s a strat loving blues rocker

cringe and poo

dawg we know where london is sweet message, i agree lol

@@vaibhavkaza I happen to live in Southern Ontario, Canada. Near me is a rather large city called London.

@@vaibhavkaza. I live in London, England, (UK). My cousin also lives in London, but she lives thousands of miles away from me. She lives in London, Kentucky, USA. "dawg". There is also a London, Canada, north of Lake Erie. Now you know where three London's are "dawg".

@@Teachering Thank you for commenting. I appreciate your input 😄

@@edwardgriffin8092 it was just a joke, i respect whatever you're saying. as I mentioned, sweet message still!

The intro jam is one of the tasty licks from his newly released music. Available on streaming platforms now 👌

Yeah what that intro was insane

Just received this 61 Strat in Fiesta Red and the guitar was perfect right-out-of- the-box!!!! Set up, intonation, and action are spot-on!!!! Kudos to Fender for making a fine instrument!!!! Also, the slab rosewood fret board was uniform in color and dark throughout the entire fretboard!!!!

Is the neck profile a chunky C ? I have a nerve in the web of my thumb that makes my hand go to sleep immediately if the neck is too thin. I have a LesPaul Special II that I can’t even play. I need a baseball bat neck.

I second this!!

: ) a friend of mine went to see Robin Trower a long time ago. we were young and both had Gibsons. he said "well, I see why he plays Strats now... it screams thru that Marshall. "

Yeah, it's seems almost rude of Matthew to be playing something that's not been buried for forty years under a combine harvester next to a large vat of pig's slurry.

@@frankstein5967 Robin Trower is definitely one of the best players ever, but like Rory Gallagher he is a guitarists guitarist who has to be seen to be understood. He has always worked really hard and strictly. He was talking about how form and discipline are the best tools in your toolbox to finding your voice. He is what 80 now and he is still a mind blowing performer. I have all of his albums but no turntable, he really sounds good in analog stereo. He, James Dewar, and Reg Isidore are my favorite iteration. Trower’s sweep picking is second to none, with Carlos Santana right behind. “Fool and Me” and “Little Bit of Sympathy “ are amazing in their form and precision, presence that so many other artists lacked. And he still plays 11s to keep his hands strong. I saw in KC in 1976 75 maybe, but I couldn’t believe how he could go from Bridge of Sighs to the delicacy of In This Place. People just stood there with their mouths open at his virtuoso ability. As far as I know his board was a Mutron Wah.

its avg at best

very nice guitar and playing ...the tele too! 👌

@@sooparticular I disagree with you, he may have tried to jam too many styles into his video but he is still a good guitarist.

@@Bbbbad724 the guitar silly....not the guitar player...have u played it yet?

@@sooparticular No I haven’t, but I have played an original 61, and the measurements seem to bear out that it is pretty close to the original, the frets it seems aren’t as wide.

Please come again!

Just about to say the same..

he could probably make a squier bullet sound good tbh

Well it’s running through his amps CRANKED which no one does anymore… that’s a huge part of the sound of this video.

@@snapascrew 🙄

@@snapascrew Exactly. The sound comes from the speaker of the amp.

especially if you play single coils,more dynamic range and more noise when cranked i always feel they have their ways of sounding more legitimate just playing regular chords clean without having to put in much effort compared to a humbucker, at least if you have an amp that can do the beatiful bass reproduction justice, humbuckers can be bassy, but when they are, they're just too strong, singles are just right for that bass but handling that gritty dirty single noise with the overdrive is some level of control, especially the very high registers are very gritty like a very talky kind of singing, but that dirt is what makes it sound fat despite of the singles :D evevn if you use the neck pickup it comes with those undertones (i swear they're like overtones but lower), like the negative of the harmonic shit you can hear off the guitar that isn't amplified when you do legato and the such, it takes a bit of that in, overdriven single coil neck pickup basically sounds halfway like harmonizer with the strong overtones that sound lower than the fundamental, now every string instrument is a bit liek a saw wave so there's overtones, but there's an obvious double voice in those in how little the ampltiude diminishes for the steps i always feel likes strats and teles are way superior for fingerstyle electric playting too, i thought it was because of the tension on the strings because of how the bridge is and the such, and it patrtially is, but most of it is really down to the bigger dynamic range of the singels i've learned over the years, you simply can't play really soft parts on a humbucker with out minor accents popping out way too hard playing singles with a decent level of gain brings in a lot of artifacts you have to deal with, if you're only used to humbuckers, you're probably very light handed on things, on a humbucker it's basiclaly impossible to play really soft, and a small difference makes a lot of difference, they are inferior for dynamics, and don't convert as well for an acoustic player, strats need to be attacked a bit more to really get the loud out, but you can full on pluck and slap and hook shit and it'll still sound right, at which point most humbuckers will just sound like gash but yeah, getting that kind of overdrive on singles, comes with an insane noise floor, especially if you want the highs to sound fat enough wihtout using slapback delays or chorus my first guitar was a cheap strat clone with singles, playing in an old house without griounded power sockets lol i learned to always keep my fingers over the strings whenever i'm not playing to keep the buzz out, singles are so much worse when it comes to static noise, even though i have way better guitars and amps and cleaner power now than i had then my main axe has been a HSS strat clone for 10 years now, where i don't have the tremolo/whammy bar inserted, but it has a floating brigdge set up so i do use my hand palm to bend up exclusively to complement left hand bends and virbrtos' (like do a slow bend upward, pick a trickly a pinch harmonic, then yank the bridge for a wide vibrato), but those are mostly humbucker tricks that are kind of tricky to pull off on singles so yeah the playing dirty on singles impresses me most even being used to strats on singles too, i opt for the humucker almost always when it 's time to rip, because it avoids a lot of feedback noise and other things you actively have to fight, and it compresses the dynamic range with makes it a bit easier for shredding without compressors or cranking the gain all the way on singles you have to, to get dirty enough, but you do get a lot of those undertoney fatness thingies as a result of it, which is a blessing and a curse lol

Its dani California

@@mikefloyd3152 Indeed it is!

I really like that, the 7.25 radius is the thing I have missed. 9.5s are so so, but these Mullet Master compound radi are sacrilege. If someone wants that I think Ibanez is out there. Fender had 7.25 radius. And the thick C that’s a working man’s guitar and blues is traditionally working man’s music. I never cared for poodle pop, or any of that. Shreds in good taste are fine, like David Gilmour. But Rory Gallagher is my style. He played that 61 Strat of his until his sweat wore the paint off. Fender makes a Custom Shop Tribute to him and it is a 61, Strat. The sledgehammer!

@@Bbbbad724 Don't forget Gary Moore, who also played a 61 Stratocaster!!

@@michaelgreen5206 I know, the tone, before he used Les Pauls his blues tone just comes out of a Strat especially the 61. The bend up, bend down of a 7.25 neck and if you drop it to Eb, it just says Texas… I think the 61 is an epic guitar it has a soul!

@@Bbbbad724 Agree!!

Have an American Professional I with similar C-neck shape and with narrow tall frets and had no problem playing it or transitioning from medium-jumbo frets.

@MatthewScott I just got an email saying to text you on Telegram.... real? I don't have Telegram...

@@ninelivesrob not real

they're not the original vintage fretss. they are the tall vintage frets. they are as tall as jumbos.

They make you go to Custom Shop to get that combination, or someone like Grosh, Xotic.

Thank you for watching that long Peter.

I wouldn’t call the highlighted “issues” as such, it’s more of a setup preference - no Strats came out the factory with a decked trem, frets - again, they never came with jumbos, change too much and then you’re detracting from the whole point of a vintage reissue. Also - speculation on the nitro paint formula, I wouldn’t comment unless I knew for sure. Fair point on the body weight though, but most off the shelf Strats are 8lbs+ nowadays.

Typo?

@@davidLPST howso?

@@stephenstevens6573 his names matthew not michael

@@usernameunk my bad, man...I was driving and texting...I feel like a dumbass. Thank you, man...I know that, of course

@@usernameunk I played, long term in a band and my guitar player was named Michael Scott...must have just come through on me

I wish he would put on some blush or eyeliner for us.

@@familyengineering5591 i think your sick, you should get so help.

@@familyengineering5591 just use Photoshop

The real Rory Gallagher was a blues god! RIP - but Matt will come really near, ... ! Same kind of playing a strat, ... !

@@markusm.lambers8893 Pretty sure this isn't true. Rory is dead and buried in Ireland. Matthew is not.

You think most people want the guitar to look like mine after sometime? I think people would be wanting a refund. But maybe not 🤣

@@MatthewScottmusic Yes, I believe that. Most of the reviewers who don't have the knowledge about vintage guitars like you do, say that it's nitro lacquer therefore it will age nicely. Everyone is speaking how they want their guitar to have a "honest wear". And people are buing into fender nitro guitars thinking that if they play them enough they will look like Your guitar. Otherwise why not finish it in urethane? But on the other hand I understand fender - dealing with returns of chipped guitars would be insane.

@@MatthewScottmusic Why would I care about a guitar being nitro unless it's gonna age how they did back in the 50's and 60's? if it does wear right there is no point in getting it over urethane.

It feels better than Poly. Some people think it sounds better.. just two reasons some people are convinced to purchase nitro. Rather than it turning into a relic.

Have you seen Gibson's latest offerings?? You're talking about minor setup work at best. Well, I'll find out tomorrow!

@@3rdtonefromthesun no I’m talking sending multiple guitars back to Fender because of poorly built guitars. Fender are trying to produce too many guitars nowadays and it shows. If you want a good strat or tele, don’t buy Fender. Are there good ones? Of course. But the bad ones are occurring more and more often literally by the month.

@@JonWickensMusic I got 7lb 9oz sunburst, but had a minor body join line, exchanged it for another one at 7lb 15oz. Spot on, the neck pocket is irrelevant as the mating surface is perfectly flat, SRV could fit a pick in his neck pocket... The instrument is really lively and resonant and plays well and sounds awesome, no concerns with the fretwork on either but I had to set up to taste - more relief and decked trem. Sorry you weren’t satisfied, yes, plenty of options out there but if you want a vintage spec Fender then you’re not going to look beyond the brand, people want the novelty of the whole package and that is why these have been hugely popular. I have other guitars with modern accruements and tasty specs but you’re gonna get one of these because you know that this is exactly what you want.

@@3rdtonefromthesun I haven’t bought one if that’s what you think. I work in a guitar store and have handled many of them. It’s nothing to do with the gap in the neck pocket. A lot of them have wonky neck pockets meaning the whole neck itself is slanted in the pocket. The low E side of the neck is much lower than the high E side. Numerous with that issue. Others with shoddy fretwork. Tons of issues. A decent shop’s QC will mean the customer may not see this, but a lot of shops don’t QC fender guitars because they always used to be so good out the box. It’s just not the case anymore.

@@JonWickensMusic that’s fair enough my friend, I searched around until I got a good one.