In this video, I show you the three electric guitars I play in the "Violet's Cover Songs" playlist found here: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMiynT1h4lQLGXXHoe0i7P4y09pXz1h06. I don't play much in this video, but you can hear these guitars in that playlist. 1993 Fender American Standard Stratocaster (sorry, I cut this one off before cycling through all the pickups) Modifications: Fender Red Lace Sensor pickups in bridge and middle positions, Grover tuners, hard-tailed bridge (i.e., whammy bar does not work), perloid pickguard Songs I use it in: Dead Kennedys, "Police Truck" Dead Kennedys, "Holiday in Cambodia" Dead Kenneys, "Too Drunk to Fuck" Janes Addiction, 'Been Caught Stealing" Devo, "Whip It" The Fixx, "One Thing Leads to Another" (see also the "How to make WHAPP" video in the pedalboard playlist) 2013 "Deep-Space Black" Fender Standard Stratocaster (HSS, S-1), stock with functional whammy bar I used this in the following videos (some of them I would have rather used my Jaguar, but it was at the guitar doctor's in December 2013 -- I put a star by the ones I would have used the Jaguar for): Blondie, "One Way or Another" Ween, "Piss up a Rope" Primus, "John the Fisherman" The Pretenders, "Middle of the Road" John Spencer Blues Explosion, "Get Your Pants Off" The Police, "Walking on the Moon" Pat Benatar, "Hit Me With Your Best Shot" Nirvana, "In Bloom" ** 'Til Tuesday, "Voices Carry" ** Siouxsie and the Banshees, "Spellbound" ** The Ruts, "Babylon's Burning" ** The Police, "Murder by Numbers" ** L7, "Wargasm" ** The Runaways, "Cherry Bomb" 2011 Fender Violet Deliriums ESM Signature Model Blacktop HH Jaguar (ESM = Explosive Space Modulator) Modifications: Seymour Duncan SH-1 pickups, killswitch, stickers on pickguard I use this guitar for most of the videos, including: Magazine, "The Light Pours out of Me" X-Ray Spex, "Art-I-Ficial" Dead Kennedys, "California Über Alles" Dead Kennedys, "Nazi Punks Fuck Off" Gang of Four, "Ether" Sleater-Kinney, "Modern Girl" Hole, "Violet" The Cars, "Bye Bye Love" Suzi Quatro, "Can the Can" Minutemen, "Viet Nam" Minutemen, "Little Man with a Gun in His Hand" Ween, "Freedom of '76" Megadeth, "Symphony of Destruction" The Police, "Synchronicity II" Henry Rollins Band, "Disconnect" U2, "Pride" Siouxsie and the Banshees, "Israel" Rage Against The Machine, "Killing in the Name" Cake, "Short Skirt/Long Jacket" Primus, "Sgt Baker" The Waitresses, "The Comb" Nirvana, "Smells Like Teen Spirit" The Police, "Miss Gradenko" Living Colour, "Cult of Personality" The White Stripes, "Seven Nation Army" Rage Against The Machine, "Freedom" King Missile, "I'm Sorry" Black Flag, "My War" Soundgarden, "Black Hole Sun" L7, "Pretend We're Dead" Janes Addiction, "Been Caught Stealing" Porno for Pyros, "Pets" Public Enemy, "She Watch Channel Zero" X, "Johny Hit and Run Paulene" The Fixx, "One Thing Leads to Another" Pink, "U + Ur Hand" NWA, "Niggaz4Life" Living Colour, "Funny Vibe" The Supersuckers, "Doublewide" Wesley Willis Fiasco, "Jesus Is the Answer" Primus, "Jerry Was a Racecar Drive" Rush, "Witch Hunt" Black Flag, "Rise Above" Primus, "Groundhog's Day" Alice in Chains, "Man in the Box" Rage Against The Machine, "Bulls on Parade" Soundgarden, "Spoonman"

• published: 27 Feb 2014
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