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Ladies and Gents of the guitar loving world - live and play everyday like it's your last - one day it will be! Be kind to all and especially on my channel :-)
Studio, Gear and Guitar demos
- Unboxings
- Demos - I do the demo, you do the review in the comments section
- Tips/tutorials on setting up guitars.
A fun and laid back channel without pretence...
Still every bit against the Chinese fakes I started out exposing but my channel is now more general.
Enjoy! :o) Thanks for watching and subscribing!
Studio, Gear and Guitar demos
- Unboxings
- Demos - I do the demo, you do the review in the comments section
- Tips/tutorials on setting up guitars.
A fun and laid back channel without pretence...
Still every bit against the Chinese fakes I started out exposing but my channel is now more general.
Enjoy! :o) Thanks for watching and subscribing!
BREAKING NEWS! - New CGS Channel
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Disclaimer: If my voice sounds at all peculiar it is because I have ALS.
Please help the channel by using my affiliate links. It costs you nothing extra but helps the channel greatly, many thanks folks :-)
Thomann (Europe) : bit.ly/CGSthomann
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Thanks so much to my Patrons for their awesome support:
Thanks so much to my Patrons for their awesome support:
Grumpy Mike, James Mears, Dan O'Sullivan,
Brad Miller, Gary Tholander, And my Axe!, Jake Leigh Guitar,
Yvan Shank, Grandpa Joe, Dennis Pointer, The Lamb,
Daz Ironworker, Mikey Newman, Giles Rene, John Robson, Ert Ylle,
Fred Fritsch, Garry Davlin and Stefan Gudmundsson
YOU GUYS ROCK!!!!
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Disclaimer: If my voice sounds at all peculiar it is because I have ALS.
Please help the channel by using my affiliate links. It costs you nothing extra but helps the channel greatly, many thanks folks :-)
Thomann (Europe) : bit.ly/CGSthomann
Sweetwater (USA & Canada) : imp.i114863.net/KezZXx
Thanks so much to my Patrons for their awesome support:
Thanks so much to my Patrons for their awesome support:
Grumpy Mike, James Mears, Dan O'Sullivan,
Brad Miller, Gary Tholander, And my Axe!, Jake Leigh Guitar,
Yvan Shank, Grandpa Joe, Dennis Pointer, The Lamb,
Daz Ironworker, Mikey Newman, Giles Rene, John Robson, Ert Ylle,
Fred Fritsch, Garry Davlin and Stefan Gudmundsson
YOU GUYS ROCK!!!!
🔔 SUBSCRIBE for more: ua-cam.com/users/chinaguitarsceptic
🎸 PATREON: www.patreon.com/CGSuk
🎸 CGS Website and Forum: www.ChinaGuitarSceptic.com
🎸 Instagram: chinaguitarsceptic
🎸 Facebook: China-Guitar-Sceptic-745208339154157/
📧 Email me: chinaguitarsceptic@gmail.com
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Mike - A Tribute
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A tribute to Mike. Please add your personal tributes to the comments, and Andy will reply from the username andyparkerCGS. Sarah's username is themiltons. We're sending love out to this amazing community who have been a huge support XXX Please help the channel by using my affiliate links. It costs you nothing extra but helps the channel greatly, many thanks folks :-) Thomann (Europe) : bit.ly/C...
Health update
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Disclaimer: If my voice sounds at all peculiar it is because I have ALS. Please help the channel by using my affiliate links. It costs you nothing extra but helps the channel greatly, many thanks folks :-) Thomann (Europe) : bit.ly/CGSthomann Sweetwater (USA & Canada) : imp.i114863.net/KezZXx Thanks so much to my Patrons for their awesome support: Thanks so much to my Patrons for their awesome ...
emily
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Andy has kindly done my voice. Please help the channel by using my affiliate links. It costs you nothing extra but helps the channel greatly, many thanks folks :-) Thomann (Europe) : bit.ly/CGSthomann Sweetwater (USA & Canada) : imp.i114863.net/KezZXx Thanks so much to my Patrons for their awesome support: Thanks so much to my Patrons for their awesome support: Grumpy Mike, James Mears, Dan O'S...
Jeff beck dies
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such a sad event Please help the channel by using my affiliate links. It costs you nothing extra but helps the channel greatly, many thanks folks :-) Thomann (Europe) : bit.ly/CGSthomann Sweetwater (USA & Canada) : imp.i114863.net/KezZXx Thanks so much to my Patrons for their awesome support: Thanks so much to my Patrons for their awesome support: Grumpy Mike, James Mears, Dan O'Sullivan, Brad ...
Chuck berry had issues
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Chuck berry had issues. Please help the channel by using my affiliate links. It costs you nothing extra but helps the channel greatly, many thanks folks :-) Thomann (Europe) : bit.ly/CGSthomann Sweetwater (USA & Canada) : imp.i114863.net/KezZXx Thanks so much to my Patrons for their awesome support: Thanks so much to my Patrons for their awesome support: Grumpy Mike, James Mears, Dan O'Sullivan...
The Song the Beatles Couldn't Sing
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Please help the channel by using my affiliate links. It costs you nothing extra but helps the channel greatly, many thanks folks :-) Thomann (Europe) : bit.ly/CGSthomann Sweetwater (USA & Canada) : imp.i114863.net/KezZXx story by Tyler Golsen : far out magazine Thanks so much to my Patrons for their awesome support: Thanks so much to my Patrons for their awesome support: Grumpy Mike, James Mear...
The feud between George Harrison and The Hollies
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Thank to my buddy Phil Beck for voicing this. Please help the channel by using my affiliate links. It costs you nothing extra but helps the channel greatly, many thanks folks :-) Thomann (Europe) : bit.ly/CGSthomann Sweetwater (USA & Canada) : imp.i114863.net/KezZXx Thanks so much to my Patrons for their awesome support: Thanks so much to my Patrons for their awesome support: Grumpy Mike, James...
Ibanez no talking
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Me and Jake tried out this guitar! Please help the channel by using my affiliate links. It costs you nothing extra but helps the channel greatly, many thanks folks :-) Thomann (Europe) : bit.ly/CGSthomann Sweetwater (USA & Canada) : imp.i114863.net/KezZXx Thanks so much to my Patrons for their awesome support: Thanks so much to my Patrons for their awesome support: Grumpy Mike, James Mears, Dan...
Watch Steve Vai and Zakk Wylde pay tribute to Jimi Hendrix
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Steve and Zak pay tribute to Hendrix and each other. Please help the channel by using my affiliate links. It costs you nothing extra but helps the channel greatly, many thanks folks :-) Thomann (Europe) : bit.ly/CGSthomann Sweetwater (USA & Canada) : imp.i114863.net/KezZXx Thanks so much to my Patrons for their awesome support: Thanks so much to my Patrons for their awesome support: Grumpy Mike...
Soldano super lead overdrive : no talking
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Great soldano pedal. This is a redo as one of the guitars was out of tune. Thanks for those who pointed it out. Please help the channel by using my affiliate links. It costs you nothing extra but helps the channel greatly, many thanks folks :-) Thomann (Europe) : bit.ly/CGSthomann Sweetwater (USA & Canada) : imp.i114863.net/KezZXx Thanks so much to my Patrons for their awesome support: Thanks s...
Taylor
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Such a sad loss, he wanted to play foo fighters for ever Disclaimer: If my voice sounds at all peculiar it is because I have ALS. Please help the channel by using my affiliate links. It costs you nothing extra but helps the channel greatly, many thanks folks :-) Thomann (Europe) : bit.ly/CGSthomann Sweetwater (USA & Canada) : imp.i114863.net/KezZXx Thanks so much to my Patrons for their awesome...
Cream Tea Guitar : No talking
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Gear Street 4 - Cream T guitar. Disclaimer: If my voice sounds at all peculiar it is because I have ALS. Please help the channel by using my affiliate links. It costs you nothing extra but helps the channel greatly, many thanks folks :-) Thomann (Europe) : bit.ly/CGSthomann Sweetwater (USA & Canada) : imp.i114863.net/KezZXx Thanks so much to my Patrons for their awesome support: Thanks so much ...
45 years of Rush song 'Closer to the Heart'
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Such a great band Disclaimer: If my voice sounds at all peculiar it is because I have ALS. Please help the channel by using my affiliate links. It costs you nothing extra but helps the channel greatly, many thanks folks :-) Thomann (Europe) : bit.ly/CGSthomann Sweetwater (USA & Canada) : imp.i114863.net/KezZXx Thanks so much to my Patrons for their awesome support: Thanks so much to my Patrons ...
Gary Moore : Gone too Soon
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Thanks my good friend Phil for doing this. Disclaimer: If my voice sounds at all peculiar it is because I have ALS. Please help the channel by using my affiliate links. It costs you nothing extra but helps the channel greatly, many thanks folks :-) Thomann (Europe) : bit.ly/CGSthomann Sweetwater (USA & Canada) : imp.i114863.net/KezZXx Thanks so much to my Patrons for their awesome support: Than...
The story of Jimi Hendrix's chaotic final gig in 1970
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The story of Jimi Hendrix's chaotic final gig in 1970
All the Mini Amps Do they Sound Different : No Talking
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All the Mini Amps Do they Sound Different : No Talking
Telecaster the ultimate Rhythm guitar
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Telecaster the ultimate Rhythm guitar
Use a picture from the Monterey Pop performance. That black and white picture is suspect right?
Where do I buy this pedal?
First punk band best punk band ever
The world has just dropped for me this morning. I used to follow Mike in the very early days. I am so very sorry for your loss...I'm devastated so God knows how you all feel...my heart goes out to everyone who was touched by Mike's being.
The trade mark laws are there to protect the consumer not the manufacturer! You are only braking the law if you don't disclose that it is a fake, replica, reproduction or what ever you want to call it, and try selling it as an 'Authentic' Gibson. Same reason you can find manufacturers making and selling reproductions of Shelby Cobras. Because the customer is well aware they aren't making and selling original Shelby Cobras! Where the grey area comes up is, the people buying Chibsons from China online are almost all aware they are buying a Fake, however China is most assuredly trying to pass it off as 'Authentic'. And if you buy Chibson and then try to sell it to someone else as a real gibson you are most definitely braking the law.
The Hollies are every bit as good as the Beatles, and in many ways better. The Hollies have a better drummer, better harmonizing, and Allan Clarke is a better vocalist than any of the Beatles.
Quite interesting@ who inherited Jimmy s money? Could his family bury him properly?
You are making it much more difficult by not loosening your strings
My dream guitar🤟🏾awesome video mate
Why?
Didn't his manager borrow money from the mob to pay the IRS and ended up causing revenge when he never paid up?
I'm reading Bob Daisley's biography called For Fact's Sake. The truth is in there.
You sound just fine to me, just English. 😁🤘
Let Gibson fight for its own intellectual property. It isn't my responsibility to protect any company. Buy what you like. If you want a real Gibson with less quality because it is authentic, so be it. If you find a replica that has higher quality, so be it. It just isn't my problem. I've done decades of research and know what I'm buying. How is this all that different than murphy lab relicing guitars to appear to have 50 years of road wear? In my mind , that is forging 50 years of time. Who is to say a serial number can't be forged and the guitar sold as a legit classic?
I pray to GOD that a cure is found while this man this has time left!
Nice Playing!
Jimi Hendrix, John Lennon. Both under the control of people who had no use for them to continue being alive, and benefited from their deaths.
The SC ,450,500,550 have chambered bodies. The SC Custom is solid.
I believe that Eric Clapton has lead a controversial life style that has caused him lots of pain, he had a 3 year old daughter walk out of a window while staying at a 5 star hotel 4 stories up! He,s been into drugs and alcohol, so his creativity is or has always been at risk! So his 1976 racist comments are perhaps what lies beneath his tortured soul and is reflected in his life style from the 1970s to today! Our world is split along political lines, racial lines and religious lines! That said these differences have created a volatile world which is a direct result of continuous colonial behavior with historical consequences that western civilization will now have to face! Racism, is but one aspect, greed in the form of controlling the resources of so-called third world countries, is another aspect, alone with the wealth gap between rich and poor a decreasing middle class in America, Europe, Southeast Asia, Africa and the Middle East is another aspect! So it’s time to pay up! 😮😮😮 China is NOT going to stop! Remember in the 1890s European nations cut China up like a pizza pie, that was nearly 200 year ago and China didn’t recover from that era of her 3000 year old history until the 1980s! All that said Eric Clapton is like Donald J Trump only a reflection of Western society!
Harbor Freight Tools found a good alternative to selling Chinese copies of US patented tools. They rebranded them as Pittsburg tools. The Chinese should have called their guitars Pittsburg.
The HB is not shaped correctly. !ooks like it melted.
Great video!
Had Jimi lived, maybe he would have collaborated with the Dead in later years. After all, Dylan did eventually.
Goodness... I've gone from buying a B-stock Harley Benton Travel-E this morning, partly after finding Mike's review of it, through to... well, the full story. Earlier today I was fretting about the choice hell of buying a travel guitar and knowing how best to spend limited resources. But the most limited resource of all is... time. This is a powerful reminder. RIP Mike, and thanks Andy. I'm off to the greenhouse to celebrate new life and a bit of hope. But my new, smaller, guitar is to make life easier when I sing at care homes, sometimes going to individual rooms where there's not much room. There are many ways to leave this world, but few of them are elegant or pleasant. All the more reason to enjoy what we can, while we can. Thanks, Mike, for reminding me of what really matters.
It's totally legal to sell our Chibson Les Paul Tribute Guitars so long as you prepare a document that clearly states that the guitar is not a real Gibson but a replica. You and the buyer would sign the and date the document and both keep copies of the paperwork.
Don't you mean Blizzard of Daisley
why Randy was as important....
No offense... But out of morbid curiosity: Have purchased (6x) Ch(G)ibson + (1x) Ch(F)ender GTRs here in 2024. Amazed regarding the overall fit & finish of the instruments. Only one GTR was set-up properly (zero work required). The other units all required (4-6) hours of frustrating neck work (scraping fret boards + fret polishing + neck truss adjustments + fret leveling). That doesn't include eventual re-stringing with new D'Addarios + intonation, etc.... However, if you are able to perform this work, the rewards are surprisingly excellent. The key of success is neck work. Pick-ups are a matter of taste + your pre-amp/amp combinations, so not important in this discussion. Comment: I know so many players who swap perfectly high quality pick-ups on great Gibsons and Fenders, so that should not be a topic of concern for most all at this time... Haa - we have all been there...! Also - I do own my share of (6x) Gibsons and (5x) Fender products (and 4x Martins)..., so I believe I am able to pass down an honest commentary for your consideration. Thank you
I produced a couple shows with him years ago. Sad he left Deep Purple, I Was hoping to see him again. 😢
My personal Diary I wrote the next day after the last show of Randy Rhoads in Knoxville Tennessee! RIP RANDY! YOU ARE SORELY MISSED! OZZY OSBOURNE: THURSDAY MARCH 18TH 1982: RANDY RHOADS LAST SHOW AT THE KNOXVILLE CIVIC COLISEUM: DIARY OF A MADMAN TOUR: Upon entering the coliseum after buying my tour shirt and ticket 🎫 stub processing: I noticed the stage was set up like a medieval castle with arches and bats 🦇 flying around the top of them. There was a staircase leading up to Tommy Aldridge’s Drumkit. The top left of Tommy was where Donny Airey’s keyboards were set up. Stage right and left had to cages with which Randy Rhoads would appear from the floor stage right and Rudy Sarzo stage left. OZZY had a throne of which he would appear out of to start the show to Over the Mountain. Tommy had his drum tech dressed as an Executioner stand beside his kit with his arms crossed. The staircase had a small section that would open and a small dwarf named: Ronnie (after Ronnie James Dio the new singer for Black Sabbath-replacing OZZY) and hand OZZY towels and water between songs. Little did we all know that later in the show: the executioner would bring the dwarf out to be hung from the rafters and later he would cut off his head using a guillotine! At the end of the show OZZY climbed onto a giant mechanical hand that OZZY stood on top of and launched unspecified meat 🥩 🍖 into the audience! Of course it was all an a theatrical act as the dwarf appeared to take a bow with OZZY and the band. When OZZY smiled we noticed he put vampire 🧛♀️ teeth in! We laughed hard! I went to the show with my friend Richard and his older brother Greg who was 18 at the time. We were 13. Greatest show on earth! Richard and I were both terrified and thrilled at what we witnessed! Unfortunately the next morning all that excitement and energy was gone as we learned that Randy Rhoads perished in a plane crash in Florida. Richard and I played drums but Greg played guitar 🎸 and he definitely took it the hardest! One of the greatest guitarist of our generation and had just won the new guitarist of the year by Guitar Player magazine. Rest In Peace Randy Rhoads your music lives on! Sincerely, Gary Lagstrom
RESPONSE TO MY PERSONAL DIARY OF RANDY RHOADS LAST SHOW IN KNOXVILLE TENNESSEE MARCH 18TH 1982 KNOXVILLE CIVIC COLISEUM: I still have the diary as I wrote a book 📖 report about it and got an A which helped me pass 7th grade! I sucked in English but good in Math! Greg helped me with names like Rudy Sarzo and Don Airey. I knew OZZY, Randy, and Tommy because Randy was from Quiet Riot and Tommy from Black Oak Arkansas and Greg had them on the turntable constantly along with Blizzard of OZZ album and Black Sabbath! Yes it scared the hell out of me and Richard and Greg between puffing on a joint throughout the show was laughing his ass off at us! I tell you nobody played like Randy Rhoads the tuning, the technique, the classical influence-the Mozart of his generation! Sorely missed then today and forever! RIP RANDY RHOADS 😎😎😎❤️❤️❤️🎸🎸🎸
Did you ever do a lot of biking?
Where do I buy one.
Why is CLAPTON so unpopular... Aaaa, because he is a racist?
I don’t understand getting up in arms about these as long as they don’t have Taylor or Martin logos. No one seems bothered by all the strat and tele copies out in the world. Some made by very high end makers in the US
You’re using AI to talk for you. Loser. I’m not watching.
I miss him every day
Low budget films?
Randy was a phenomenal player!
rockin fella,, always and forever man
I miss mike so much sending love to all of his beatiful family and his friends i will see you in heaven mike !!!!
Hmm Tony Hicks and George were happy neighbours for years. I think they were well over this feud. Delia Morris
Great channel. 💥🎸🇺🇸
How great would it be to get a Fender with hard-polished rosewood and nut height filed correctly?
He's 100% correct, people of stature criticizing other unnecessary are Jerks.
Great interview
I got this pedal a month or 2 ago! I need to really figure it out. I’ve always loved it! Thanks for breaking it down
Why is this guy mugging at the camera? Why is there Ai voice over? This is weird and lazy video production.
Almost a year and just seeing this now. And only because I want manually looking at all the channels I follow. Sending belated love to all
I have a few Chibsons, they are pretty much Epiphones with a Gibson headstock shape and logo. I have put the ProBucker pickups in most of the Chibsons I own, easy swap and better sound with the added benefit of the push pull coil tap/split. Most of them need a fret level, polish and a good setup. If you do those things, then you have a guitar as good, if not better than the Epiphone for less money. There are a few cosmetic things I usually do like the truss rod cover and the pickguard if it's a Les Paul Custom, not necessary, but it looks better IMHO.
Blessings to his family and I’m sure that he has a good bed in heaven. So sorry for you loss
You brand slaves are a joke. Hes clearly a shill for HB. Theres a builder called Cathy Customs in China that makes the best replicas, even high end specs for affordable price. Theres a reason so many of us gave up on authentic gibsons. Terrible treatment of employees, weaponized lawsuits, pisspoor qc, and increasing prices with no justification in an already difficult economy.