This was a great morning. So much fun. And just so you all know Paul is very same guy you see in his videos, a very genuine and nice guy. He's a great player too!

@PaulDavids

10 ай бұрын

Thanks Tom! It was an inspiring day for me, thanks for sharing your passion with us!

@trocla

10 ай бұрын

Thanks Paul for the video. And thank you Tom, it's a pleasure to listen to both of you, people talking about something they are really passionate about.

@DonnieX6

10 ай бұрын

Loved it, Tom, and great insights!! :)

@ODAALx

10 ай бұрын

make more videos with paul! was really cool.

@Marik0

10 ай бұрын

Such a great video. Thank you both!

This dude's enthusiasm and charisma is leaking through the screen... You can see it in his eyes, he can't wait to tell you everything. Great video

Look at this WORKING musicians set up. No RGB, no crazy 10k guitars, just a home office that gets USED every day. I probably have 4x the money invested in my studio and have put out less than 1% of this guy’s catalog. So smart.

@lukehunnable

4 ай бұрын

What's RGB?

@ty3559

2 ай бұрын

@@lukehunnableRGB = Red Green and Blue. Referring to fancy colorful lights in this context.

That guy has some serious groove. You can see why he's in demand. Thanks for doing this interview, Paul. Like you say, very inspiring!

The power of the music is NOT in the equipment, but in the talent and spirit of the artist.

@wilhelmtheconquerer6214

10 ай бұрын

Indeed. Any guitar can be great as long as it stays in tune and have a proper setup

@millmoormichael6630

10 ай бұрын

Indeed, that said I’m found the guitar that just inspires endlessly, that was 65 strat.

@perihelion7798

10 ай бұрын

@@millmoormichael6630 I'm a Tele guy, but you can't go wrong with a 65' Start. Nope.

@rustinpeace770

10 ай бұрын

@@perihelion7798Well you completely missed the point of the video. It is in the equipment. He chose that particular guitar because it has a specific sound.

@perihelion7798

10 ай бұрын

@@rustinpeace770 As if the 'sound', which is completely subjective, cannot be duplicated with different equipment. That's pretty silly, but in line with all of the gear elitists out there. Yep.

This is a VERY important story for people to see. Use what you have…and you do NOT need the most expensive gear to create greatness! VERY INSPIRING EPISODE! 😃🎸👍🏻

@thomasdequincey5811

10 ай бұрын

Is it? He didn't JUST have a $99 guitar. All the other stuff costs money too. Or do you think all the thousands of dollars of amps, pedals and recording equipment comes free?

@riko_p_music

10 ай бұрын

​@@thomasdequincey5811Well to be fair using an amp SIM would not cost thousands of dollars

@ernestokrapf

10 ай бұрын

@@thomasdequincey5811 you can get amp sims for free my dude

@azizi6023

10 ай бұрын

@@thomasdequincey5811you're completely right. I spent thousands of dollars on bias fx alone and I'm a liar.

@mattrogers1946

10 ай бұрын

Just a real expensive computer and some pricey plug-ins...🙄

Being a budget player, I played a Squier Bullet Strat for a decade. I got a lot of great sounds out of it and I recorded a lot of music that I loved with it. I always felt kind of bad for not being able to afford better instruments. This is an incredible, very reassuring watch. Long live cheap Squiers!

@Lalairu

9 ай бұрын

I have a CV tele. I wouldnt change it for anything❤

@MasteringSilence

9 ай бұрын

@@Lalairuthose are top of the line Squier, I play an Affinity Tele

@Lalairu

9 ай бұрын

@@MasteringSilence yeah I know, still a lot of guitar for the money. Affinities are great too!

@pgroove163

9 ай бұрын

​@@Lalairumy friend backed up a whole lot of vocalists and played with several top local bands playing a couple of squiers. including an affinity...tweek here tweek there and he played it through a fender twin...I dig em'

@Lalairu

9 ай бұрын

@@pgroove163 thats an amazin combo 😁

funny that he mentions 5 year old strings. 5 years ago i kept the strings on my guitar when i stopped playing, i loosened them, so they don't mess up the neck bend, two days ago i tuned them again and they are still in tune today.

Great stuff, Paul! This might just be the most important video for so many (young) guitarists to watch. Very, very inspiring!

@PaulDavids

10 ай бұрын

💯

@TomStrahle

10 ай бұрын

This makes me so happy.

@manu-singh

10 ай бұрын

​@@TomStrahleyou're a legend man, just got to know about you today

@sieni221

10 ай бұрын

But 99 dollar strat is horrible for beginners because its not as playable

@manu-singh

10 ай бұрын

@@sieni221 yes my cheap ibanez has better neck but tone is not as clean as a cheap fender strat

Wow this guy is out of this world creative. It's cool to see big pop artists using actual instruments and artist and not just full digital.

Got such a buzz from this video. The sheer enthusiasm, that riff, the tunings, and especially the use of ultra cheap guitars. Being able to leave a bunch of instruments in several alternative tunings seemed like an unnecessary luxury... it certainly doesn’t look that way so much now. Cheers, Paul and Tom!

@TomStrahle

10 ай бұрын

Cheers Chris!

@Musicsports

10 ай бұрын

Don't look in the left corner. There is the definition of expensive in the Two Rock sitting there.

Music Theory, modern acoustic technology, a love for music and a mad scientist attitude to stringing guitars in a bizarre ways makes this guy so cool!

“Beato talks about it all the time!” Man, I love how many of these professionals watch each other on KZread.

lots of truth here. To play good music all anyone needs is a decently built and comfortably set up instrument. Whatever that instrument initially cost, or whoever made it, is irrelevant. There's a big gap between the things we want, and the ones we actually need

My main baby is in fact a mini Squier Strat I’ve been playing since I was 12 and I’m never gonna get rid of it. Any cheap guitar can sound great It’s mostly on the artist.

This guy is super inspiring, especially as a guitarist who's only been playing for 8 months and wanted to start trying to write things on my own. This gave me a bunch of ideas, thank you guys for sharing this!

I was lucky enough to have a short conversation w/ Jack Pearson about this subject. He plays a Squier Strat at times, I believe he said that Squier is one of his go to guitars. Jack is an incredible musician and has shared the stage w/ so many rock and blues legends. The man can literally play anything he wants and he still plays a “cheap” guitar.

My favourite guitar I own is a Squier Affinity Strat that I modded. The neck is magical!

@michaelclarke8426

10 ай бұрын

Same here, the necks are glorious!!

@adiohead

10 ай бұрын

@@michaelclarke8426 Not all of them though, you have to find a good one.

@davekoser3938

3 ай бұрын

I have a Squier Affinity tele that I can’t stop playing. The neck on that is also spectacular. I don’t know how they can sell them so cheap…

My fav quote that will stick with me till end of times😀"The most important part of the signal path, are the neuron signal paths, where you come up with a good idea. A bad idea with the best signal path and the best instruments is still going to sound like a bad idea." 👍

A Squier Strat for $99 was the first electric guitar I ever got. Still have it all these years later, and it still sounds like a charm. Such a great guitar for the price, and I frankly wouldn't have wanted it any other way.

@josephgoforth9722

10 ай бұрын

i got a squier tele from the late 90s...and like his strat, missing that volume knob lol

@roman-co1hg

10 ай бұрын

For some reason I like my squire strat sound better than fender American, paid 1200$ for that thing some 10 years ago.

@Gene_Cali

10 ай бұрын

I love my $99. HSS FSR Bullet Squire. Dang thing takes a beaten and stays in tune. We are in the Golden age for quality affordable guitars.

@TomStrahle

10 ай бұрын

@@josephgoforth9722I actually took it off. I kept turning it down when palm muting. Problem solved.

@runeteardown7261

5 ай бұрын

that's amazing. no mods or anything? i bought a japan st copy called a selder. it sounded great when my friend modded it with alnico pickups. i'm still relearning guitar after not playing for 10 years, and i love this thing.

We could clearly see Tom's enthusiasm in his eyes, very insightful and loves so much what he does. Very lovely riffs, by the way. Hats off to both Paul and Tom for this video. 👍👍👍👍

Still have the cheap Squier that was my first guitar, now still my main guitar. I've gigged with it. Though it's not all stock anymore the upgrades aren't the fanciest either, and most are unrelated to tone. Also thank you for not making this a glorified advertisement for some specific cheap guitar. This man is very inspiring and creative.

It’s an interesting thing. When you start off, you dream of getting that expensive custom guitar and you’re like this will make me much better. When you own the custom over time you start to appreciate the nuances of cheaper instruments and then you realize how much it’s about the player and any good player can make a cheap guitar sound good.

It’s truly incredible what you can do with even the cheapest of guitars. People often forget that it’s not about the guitar it’s about the player, great quality and tone is just an added bonus. Love your videos Paul, you inspire me every day to become a better guitarist and a better KZreadr. Keep spreading your love for music so that it can be passed down from generation to generation “Keeping Music Alive.”

@vege4920

10 ай бұрын

Did not sound that great without the effects. Reminds me of the clip of Jack White nailing a wire to a board, then plugging it to an amp and making shredding sounds with it. Then he says "You don't even need to buy a guitar kids" or something, but to get that sound they would need to guy his 5000 amp or something like that. If an instrument does not sound good without added effects and amps, I think that instrument is a hindrance. If a guitar does not sound good clean, it does not sound good at all, what ever the good in the sound is is brought by the effects and whatnot.

@arunkarthikma3121

10 ай бұрын

@@vege4920 Bruh you are comparing a guitar with and without reverb. The actual tone is great. "If a guitar does not sound good clean, it does not sound good at all" How did you discover this law, great one? Plus, you can get all of these effects for free on your computer. Compression and a Fender Twin. I can get a similar glass tone out of my $100 Yamaha Pacifica, using Guitar Rig Free.

Not every cheap guitar will have the structure to sound that good. The adjustable bridge is crucial to good intonation, and the time spent working on intonation is well spent. If you don't hear the harmonics ringing on the low strings while you're tweaking the high ones, it's just not going to sound good. Remember, Tom rejected a bunch of guitars before he found the one worth keeping.

@jayrobb9

9 ай бұрын

My all-time favourite guitar is a 1999 Squier Affinity Strat that is very harmonically rich. It used to bother me until others pointed out how rare it is to find a gutar with so much sympathetic ringing and that feels like the whole thing vibrates in your hands when you play it.

Still have my £100 Squier Strat and 10W app combo (a good 16 years ago). Only ever adjusted the neck and scooped some frets and stuck higher gauge strings on there... It was and still is a great guitar amongst the many I have now.

Love his approach to the instrument: Different tunings and string combinations etc. We don't often see non-rock star musicians featured and his approach to making music is very inspiring. Would love to see more of how he approaches composing on the guitar for movies and video games. One great key takeaway is that the idea is stronger then your gear. Thanks for bringing us along Paul!

Mike Rutherford of Genesis bought a couple of Squier Bullets when he found himself in South Africa about to be locked down and without a guitar. He ended up playing a lot of the 2021 Genesis farewell tour on Squiers although his tech did upgrade some of the hardware to make them a bit more tour worthy.

All most Squiers need is a good set of strings and a decent set up. Some can really benefit from new tuners or nut (most of the time the nut is just fine). Sometimes pickups depending on genre but this applies to all guitars, not just cheap ones. Great to learn how to “work” on guitars with little to no risk too.

@Zack-bl2gg

10 ай бұрын

The biggest problem is the necks feel really bad on a lot of them, a lot of extra fret and rough necks

@Zack-bl2gg

10 ай бұрын

@@xcx8646 Check out some $100-150 ones, a lot of the time they'll have frets sticking out the scratch your hands. If you can do a fret job they're fine, I just like it when I don't need to do the. Plus the finish on a lot of them isn't very good.

My Squier Strat is featured in several songs on my first album. I run it through my Fender Twin with NOTHING but built in gain for distortion and add effects in Ableton if needed, but barely any. I bought it for $50 off a neighbor. 20 minutes of setup and the intonation is dead on and it plays amazing. I let some of my guitar friends play it without looking at it and they were shocked after playing that it was a Squier 🤣🤣

@TomStrahle

9 ай бұрын

Love this.

@petertrast

9 ай бұрын

@@TomStrahle its an interesting phenomenon, the search for and acquisition of "gear". When I was a mechanic, I bought a $300 set of tools from Sears to be a helicopter mechanic. I was able to do the same job, usually better, than most of my peers who owned $10,000 SnapOn rollaway toolboxes full of overpriced tools. For years I played in clubs to raving fans playing an ancient electric acoustic "Applause" (cheap ovation) because I brought entertainment in the form of enthusiasm and theatrics which I needed to make up for my lack of a great voice 🤣 Ideas, talent, and many other things matter more than tools in many ways. Great video.

Damn now I know I can't blame my equipment for holding me back 😂 I have the exact same guitar including the red silicone washers to hold the strap on, the only difference is that my bass is the one lacking the volume knob

Your content is always quality Paul, but this must be the most inspiring vid you've had yet. Love Tom's creativity!

Wow! This man is a genuine great human being and musician!! Overflowing with enthusiasm, charisma and knowledge

When presented with a guitar, we all see a guitar. This guy sees different ways of making sounds. Really like this.

Jack Pearson, an amazing guitar player that played for the Allman Brothers and Greg Allman, is notorious for playing Squier Bullets. He is a very underrated musician and worth checking for those of you who like blues. However, he is one of those savant types that can play just about anything.

This guy is so damn happy. I love it. Confident and cheery. His attitude is contagious enough, but being a guitar player I of course think, “well shit, I need his studio now…”

I can't remember the last time I saw a dude this stoaked to show off and play his guitars. What a gem!! 🤘🏻

My favorite guitar is a First Act that I turned into a semi-hollow. I still haven’t installed the electronics and have been loving the sound it puts out.

This was super inspiring. Thank you

What a good interview. This was as others have said a very inspiring video. Absolutely loved it. Thanks Paul . Thanks to Tom for sharing. Would love to see a longer interview with him. 🎸

Love this. I’ve always thought there’s so little difference between different guitars. Just need decent pickups and good intonation. I don’t hear much difference between $100 guitars and $5100 guitars

Great to see you two together. Tom is on youtube weekly, love to see the live lessons, even during Covid on a daily basis, learned so much during that time. Great to see you both

Amazing video, Thanks Paul

As an Epiphone and Squier player this makes my heart swell with joy. I like to do some basic mods to my guitars, but yeah it's all in the head, soul and the hands. The only comment I have about these guitars is that a little fret work and set up is often required otherwise they'll do the work.

@morganghetti

10 ай бұрын

Buy you a few tools and watch some KZread videos on fret work. It's not remotely as difficult as people think.

What a great guy! So joyful, humble and cool. Who wouldn’t want to sit down for some songwriting or scoring with Tom.

My go to guitar lately is a scruff Squier Strat that I just had sitting downstairs from all my fancies upstairs for hacking around on. Put together a few small boards and came downstairs and just bliss out with a looper all day. The guitar is always ready and always delivers, fits like a glove and tumbles out little dreams.

Nice episode. Thank you for sharing. Have a blessed day.

Tom did a great video for older players getting started that I really took to heart. So great to see the two of you together. Making friends and making music is simply a win win. Well done and so tasty.

I absolutely love Tom. Such a good dude, great teacher, you name it. His live streams are awesome. This was awesome!!!

I'm glad this guy confirmed what I've said many years ago about guitars. This is why I don't go past the $1200 threshhold. I feel guitars around this price have the quality and tone I'm looking for. I also have a Fender Squier since 1997. I played it in my recording and also toured with it. I got to play my Fender Squier in front of 12,000 people as one of the opening acts back in those days on a hot summer day in Chicago. It was truly my workhorse.

Crazy inspiring, amazing what he transmitted. Great vid!

what a great guy! This was very inspiring, the most important gear is the neuron path in the brain. That's important information for those of us that can get overwhelmed with the tone and gear chasing. Hit records on cheap guitars has been a formula for so many great works.

Great stuff, great vibes! I wish this episode was 2 hours long :)

This Guy is a genius, Proper out the box thinking.

Dang, sounds amazing. I could listen to more! Thanks Paul!

Love this guy's enthusiasm! He's playing and having fun with his job!

His creativity and energy is amazing. Great video.

Love this video. So inspiring 😮

You were right Paul, it was very generous of Tom to share his great idea with everyone. I can honestly say that I have thought about a string variation using octaves like he did, but I never went through with it. And that all E string sound was just fantastic. This is a great video and thanks to Tom and yourself, the music world just got a little brighter.

Every new Paul Davids video makes my day.

Wow this is so important to show that all guitars no matter the price have a legitimate place in music. Budget guitars aren’t just for beginners or djent bros to mod beyond recognition

I have a squire i paid $99 for in 1999 and it’s been such a good guitar. It stays in tune regardless of what you do to it or with it. I drug it behind my truck around the block just to prove it would still be in tune snd sound great afterwards. It really didn’t get scratched up or dinged too much. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve thrown it. I had a pretty bad temper back in the day. I’m old and calm now so a rarely even get mad anymore and i don’t react violently anymore. But that squire was one of the best guitar purchases i’ve ever made and i have bought alot of guitars. I own a lot of guitars most of them are in rental vaults and i have a few in a storage unit. I keep the guitar i make money with at home and a couple that i just enjoy having close at hand but the squire is always with me. I have played it on stage ALOT! I have real strats but it’s something about the squire that i just love. I have a bunch of different pick guards that are loaded and it takes five minutes to make it sound any way i need it to. I’ve made alot of money with it. Way more than it cost no doubt lol. I wish i could get my les pauls for $99. That’d be nice lol.

This guy is a legend, this song and Home to mama are my favorite guitar parts from him

@TomStrahle

9 ай бұрын

Thanks Spectery!

This is the content I love -- artists showing how they find their inspiration and sounds

Now that's a guy who's doing something he absolutely loves, you can see how much he's enjoying sharing his thought pattern/ideas for it with others who understand what he's talking about, with the side benefit of getting paid for his passion.

Thanks so much for sharing this video! It is very inspirational even to an old campfire player such as myself! 👏👏👏

Paul, thank you for putting in the effort to create this amazing video.

Now that video just made my whole month never mind my day. Proper musicians both of you, thanks !

Paul - Thank you for introducing us to great people/musicians!

They need to make a Tom Strahle Squier Signature and sell it for $99. What an inspiration

@TomStrahle

10 ай бұрын

Right? Haha.

@madislandguy

8 ай бұрын

They already do, they just call it a used tuxedo Affinity Strat.

It was a genuine pleasure to watch. Conveys a very strong message - just take what you have and create.

Tom's creativity is crazy!

@charlie-obrien

9 ай бұрын

I watch Tom's videos on playing and giving tips very often. He consistently makes you think about your playing in a new way.

Man's got chops!

Is it possible, that these two guys are the most genuine individuals in the guitar world?! It's so awesome to see Tom nerd about his different guitars and tunings and ideas. This is a really nice video - please work together again sometime

That squire model is probably the most popular guitar in Britain , because Argos did it as a starter kit for years. There's one or two gathering dust in a bedroom on every street. They play brilliant, personally prefer them toa lot of fender model's

I really enjoyed this one! Thanks.

I love this guy and the way he thinks-- i love this rlly he just has super cheap guitars and makes us see guitars differently bc of that - the way he thinks abt it is so inspiring- aah can u do more stuff with him? Haha i love u 2 talking abt guitars tunings and all this stuff is so interesting and how cute excited he gets to eyplain it i rlly want more of this ahahaha thanks for this video/ interview! Thank u💜💜 P.s i just love how hes just doing his thing being himself like that its beautiful to see cuz thats what were all here for just be and be happy while here and id that means to be what ppl call „ childish „ damn why not- ppl call me childish when i geek around abt stuff- if we all just let each other be and enjoy the moments rather then ciritizing then sich beautiful moments can be everyday and we can all work towards being more free rather then working slaves without hearts I love yall snd thanks for reading tis lil thingy i wrote

My friend has the same guitar and I was surprised and amazed at how good it sounds and how great the neck feels on it for what it costs. I use an ibanez as my go to and the sounds are so different between the 2 that I'm getting the squire for that reason. Gonna stick my set of ernie ball colbalts on it and go to work! Awesome video!! Just confirms what I thought!

So much knowledge right here ❤

This is one of the best videos on music I've ever seen. This is so creative, I'm glad you were able to make this video. this inspires me to stop looking at the price only.

Ah, the classic E-E-E-E-E-E tuning

@TomStrahle

9 ай бұрын

Hehe.

@kevinnsevinn799

8 ай бұрын

😂

You definitely didn’t have to stop with weird tunings. This is awesome to see someone push the limits of normal on guitar.

I bought a $165 (new, 2023) Squier Mustang recently and it’s my favorite guitar. All it needed was a few minutes with a fret end file. But I’m the weirdo who thinks 9s on a 24” scale is perfect to play.

Paul looks so amazed for the first time for a long time. This experience really taught him something, which is rare.

This guys is just brilliant. Such a cool dude

@TomStrahle

3 ай бұрын

Thanks mom.

Yet another proof that the player's the most important part of the equation when it comes to making something that sounds good out of an instrument. Tom IS a great player, both flatpicking and fingerpicking, so it's really no wonder he can make that $99 Squier Strat (I'm assuming it's a Bullet) sound that great. I also love his enthusiasm and his very evident passion for his work too. Thank you for this very cool video, Paul! Great work as always!

@mattrogers1946

10 ай бұрын

Having a fancy computer and a ton of expensive software doesn't count of course... 🙄

@blackstormer95

10 ай бұрын

@@mattrogers1946the software shown in the video ain’t that expensive bro, reverb is $50 and guitar rig is $100

@Vivi_9

10 ай бұрын

@@mattrogers1946 that stuff is for recording professionally, to create great music you literally only need a laptop and cheap guitar

@vege4920

10 ай бұрын

@@blackstormer95 They did a bunch of editing to make it sound good on the album. Even if someone could make something similar with 200 dollars, would you like everything you play to sound like its coming from underwater in a well because all the effects you put on top of the playing. That guitar did not sound good clean, and not being able to play clean is a huge determent to anyone. Without a clean sound, you will not learn to tune, or do any kind of ear training.

@youreallygotmenow4855

10 ай бұрын

@@mattrogers1946 Sure, having that stuff definitely helps, but it's not as important as you might think. Try giving the same rig to a not particularly good guitar player and you'll see the results. Ultimately, the playing is what *really* matters.

my first $100 silvertone was always my favorite.

Thank you for taking us along on your guitar journeys!!! Good times!!!

My very first electric guitar is the red Fender Squier from China! It has a rosewood neck. It's an awesome guitar! Anyway, this channel, 'Paul Davids,' is really inspiring. I love your editing skills and, of course, your content and guitar playing skills. 🙌🙌 PssT: My channel was inspired by yours! 😍

and a good setup

@PaulDavids

10 ай бұрын

I think this is the most important. It shouldn't hold you back.

This is just so inspiring, would’ve never thought about guitar the way Tom does. Thanks for the awesome video Paul and Tom!!!

I’ve been following Tom’s channel for the two to three years for his tips but this gives me new insight and respect into his capabilities. Very refreshing!

@TomStrahle

7 ай бұрын

Thanks!

THIS. IS.AWESOME! Thanks for posting it. Because of this cool vid, I no longer have SIC (Squier Inferiority Complex)!

@TomStrahle

10 ай бұрын

Haha.

I mean you could say this for any tool/object in most hobbies, obviously there's huge diminishing returns on more expensive stuff. I find if baffling how this is a novel concept to people, if you have money people like to buy nice things. Who gives a shit if they want a custom shop Gibson/ESP whatever that they're going to cherish.

What a great guy! Love his enthusiasm! I need more of those weird tunings and setups, though!

He struck a Vitto Bratta ( White Lion ) Tone in there sounded great !!

I so admire the 0.1% of KZread videos that don't try to convince you spending a shit ton of money makes you a better musician. Let's all admit to our one almost-trash guitar that we love dearly. Mine's a VOX ssc-33 that I bought for a hundred bucks. It's spankier than any Tele I've ever tried.

@alanale

10 ай бұрын

Yeah, Im so tired of the marketing loop on youtube. This was so cool.

@IAmTheWorstArtist

10 ай бұрын

I have a Mitchell acoustic that I got for my 16th birthday over 20 years ago. I have spent thousands of dollars on guitars since then, but I still prefer that shitty Mitchell sometimes.

@JohannesLabusch

10 ай бұрын

@@IAmTheWorstArtist Shitty can be pretty!

Hopefully this won't start a new trend and make cheap guitars insanely expensive!

WOW i dont know i need this video in my life, thanks man!

Amazing video. Thank you, kind Sir