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00:00 People keep talking about somebody else's credit card,
00:01 but I haven't seen said credit card,
00:03 so I'm back down here, back to reality,
00:07 staring back at that guitar.
00:08 Hey, what's up everybody?
00:14 My name is Adrian Casada with Black Pumas.
00:15 I'm here with Guitar.com at my favorite guitar store,
00:18 Austin Vintage Guitars,
00:19 and we're gonna do some guitar shopping today.
00:21 When I walk into a place, I usually,
00:28 my eyeball quickly goes to the Telecasters.
00:30 I'm always looking for unique ones, unique configurations,
00:33 particularly Humbuckers and Telecasters,
00:36 and I've always loved the patina of older ones,
00:39 just the aging of some of the early '70s ones.
00:43 Just love how beautiful the wood looks on those.
00:46 I like nuance.
00:46 I like when you notice something
00:49 that's not super in your face,
00:51 but takes you a second to actually notice it.
00:53 So yeah, there's a little bit of a method to the madness,
00:55 but I typically poke around aimlessly
00:58 for a good 15 minutes before I start
01:02 to settle in on something.
01:03 Kind of more unique things like this,
01:05 where there were limited runs,
01:06 tend to grab my eye just 'cause there are cool collectors.
01:09 Guitars and these sound great.
01:11 I actually have bought two of these Wild Woods.
01:25 I'm happy that I got my start on something like this.
01:28 I remember reading this quote.
01:30 I was studying classical and flamenco,
01:33 and there was a quote by Andres Segovia,
01:35 and I think it was apparently in reference to the Beatles,
01:37 where he said that electrifying the guitar
01:40 robbed it of its poetry.
01:42 And it blew my mind when I was young,
01:44 but I was like, "Damn, that's deep."
01:45 And I'm like, "That stupid electric guitar
01:47 "is the coolest thing of all time."
01:51 (guitar music)
01:54 This would be, if all, probably all the guitars
01:58 in the entire store, this would be what I would use
02:01 live more than anything.
02:02 This would be the sound that I would be attracted to.
02:07 And it's damn sweet.
02:09 These early '70s Telecasters just age so well.
02:11 So we're up here at this other tier
02:20 where every guitar in here already feels
02:22 like it's just melting in your hands.
02:25 It's been played so much.
02:27 They just age so beautifully, the wood, the sound.
02:29 One thing with semi-hollows that I've always
02:32 just really liked is that the resonance you get,
02:35 not only with an amp, but that you can just pick it up
02:37 and play it like this without having to,
02:40 obviously, go through an amp to feel it.
02:42 There's times when you pick up a Telecaster
02:46 or a Stratocaster or something, and you're like,
02:47 "Oh, okay, well, I'll hear the sound when I plug it in."
02:50 But that's one of the things that I've always loved
02:52 about these is you can just pick 'em up wherever,
02:55 and they sound great.
02:56 I really have always loved resonance.
03:08 So you can really use that as another kind of tool
03:12 in the arsenal when you have the feedback
03:15 and the kind of resonance you get going through an amp
03:18 and with some reverb and everything.
03:19 I've always really loved utilizing it as a tool.
03:23 Lately, with Black Pumas, I've actually found myself
03:26 going more to Telecasters, as that resonance
03:29 doesn't always have the effect I like.
03:32 With Pumas, it has to cut through a little bit more
03:35 in a different frequency range,
03:37 and I use really intense fuzz pedals, too, with that.
03:40 So sometimes that doesn't always play nicely
03:42 with F-holes like this.
03:44 But generally, if I was to just pick up a guitar
03:47 and play without an amp, I mean, this is stunning right here.
03:51 Santa would maybe buy me that guitar.
03:58 What do you think, Santa?
03:59 Was I good this year?
04:01 We are in the backroom, basses and amps.
04:04 I do peruse in here quite a bit, for sure.
04:08 To me, the ultimate workhorse amp,
04:10 for what I do personally, I like kind of lower wattage amps
04:14 where you have the option to either play it cleanly
04:19 or kind of hit it a little bit harder
04:21 and make the amp work and get some effect out of that,
04:24 as well, is the Deluxe Reverb.
04:26 It's almost the perfect wattage for what I do
04:30 and what I do live in the studio.
04:31 If I could only have one amp,
04:33 it would absolutely be the Deluxe Reverb.
04:36 Yeah, the Fender is my go-to, I'd say, 99% of the time.
04:42 (upbeat music)
04:44 Biggest musical influence on my life,
04:47 besides rock, was hip hop music,
04:50 and I'm from that generation,
04:51 so I like to lean towards vintage kicks,
04:56 a lot of kind of throwback sport gear,
05:02 and again, dad mode, you know?
05:05 My shirt's tucked in, I could be at my kid's basketball
05:08 tryouts or I could be shopping for guitars
05:10 or I could be at a gig, I like that.
05:12 (upbeat music)
05:15 Thanks for watching my guitar shopping with Guitar.com.
05:17 My name is Adrian from Black Pumas,
05:19 we're here at Austin Vintage Guitars,
05:20 and I'll see you at a show soon.
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