Back in 1990 I was at my friend Jim Demeter's house and Ry was there with the strat with the lap steel bridge and the foil pickup. Jim and Ry go way back to the caruthers days. anyway, Jim introduces me and Ry tells me about the foil pickup... that he didn't like the sound of the humbucker anymore (The humbucker was an original PAF that Jim had found for him) Ry said... now i'm paraphrasing it was 1990! that the old blues guys didn't have humbuckers they had these cheap guitars that had these old pickups in them and this was the real deal. Jim was replacing the volume knob on the guitar so he told me to show Ry some software that I had been using to figure out alternate tunings and how to create chords and scales with those tunings. So I showed Ry the software and gave him a copy of it. I figured I could ask one question so instead of the stupid like did you teach keith richards slide guitar I asked him about playing with John Lee Hooker. He said John changes chords when he feels like it and he expects you to know what chord he's going to switch to right when he does it... consequently lots of people got fired from his band if they couldn't figure that out...
Ramon: Thank you so much, A great topic, on my favorite artist and also on his gear. Great job on your doc. Ry Cooder is so respected for his on and off stage accomplishments. His artistry is so superb and his off stage efforts have been 100% for humanity. Joachim his son also❤ a great example. They are so well respected and very innovative.❤Thank you very much, you have❤be a superb YT channel and Guitar Show.
Ry Cooder is a guitar legend and his slider was fabulous..he learned and played in the best establishments of music..and recorded as it was necessary for him to do at the time..a banjo player is Ry Cooders life ..a lot of guitars and alot of banjo,'s has crossed Ry Cooders hands..great music came out of these instruments and great songs written.
Holy Buckets! This is GREAT! I've been a big Ry Cooder fan for like 40 years and I knew he had very rare, discerning ears, and a little bit about his guitars; Thank you SO much for this peek under the wall of the tent! Subbed in a picosecond!
The Daphne blue stratocaster was picked out by Ry at the Fender factory in Fullerton. He was joining Captain Beefhearts band but didn't own an electric guitar, having only played acoustic guitar, banjo, mandolin etc...Beefhearts record company gave the band money to buy the equipment they needed. Ry's guitar was part of a test or evaluation run that had painted headstocks and bound fretboards. Ry chose that guitar because he liked the color.
Wow thanks for this - I knew he chose the guitar at fender but from his own quotes I never fully understood the reason as to why he went there - so thanks for this valuable info
@@TheGuitarShow Also, the sunburst one was built up from a spare possibly Japanese body and a neck from David Lindley who also tipped him to the Teisco gold foil at neck. Ry loves lap steel/pedal steel sounds and so after trial and error wound up with the setup we see today. The sunburst is used for most slide work and the Daphne Blue which Ry said always sounded tight and now is used for ballads and fingerpicked guitar tunes. My 70's Stratocaster bridge pickup too is to me almost unuseable - too sharp and shrill. It will be replaced with an after-market Strat-type single coil . BTW Ry dismisses copycat cooder-casters as not sounding very good and most of their players as flat.
@@celticgodsoriginal Yes I heard David Lindley offered the pickup - thanks for the info - Im thinking they were early 80s Japanese fender body/neck parts. Yep I agree wth Cooder about the coodercaster clones - you need to tweak them a lot before they actually work
Wonderful video. I've seen this man and his guitar for years and never thought to look into why it looks the way it looks. In a very simple straightforward video you explained it all. Thank you
How did I end up here again watching with delight? I was listening to Sirius XM "The Beatles Channel's" Dhani Harrison birthday tribute to his dad and he played Vigilante Man from Into the Purple Valley which was one of George's favorite albums. That lead me to the 1973 Old Grey Whistle Test performance of Ry playing it on his Martin D45 from there I rewatch this and was wondering if a video on history the of Ry's acoustics was in order. What say you Ramon? Thank you for continuing to extol the greatness of Ry Cooder!
@@ronaldh8446 Yeah, back in the '70's I used to describe his slide like a dance up and down my spine - nerves like steel strings. Best guitar solo ever (to me) showed up in Taxes on the Farmer Feeds Us All, off his Into the Purple Valley album, which I still consider to be his masterpiece. But hell, I could be stopped in my tracks just by him warming up and tuning his guitar.
Hearing his slide guitar solo on how can a poor man stand such times and live on the Santa Cruz live 1987 concert made me take up slide guitar. Thirty years later i still cannot get close to his tone :)
Totally agree, though I sadly failed in slide playing. To quote my comment to this fabulous concert (czcams.com/video/tbtoXRFOwEc/video.html&start_radio=1&t=3): Definitely Ry's solo in "How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times And Live" is the climax: Heartbreaking intense, creating an almost meditative or if you want religious atmosphere, finest slide playing with unbelievable nuances (which fret is he playing at 21:00 ?). Look at Ry's facial expression, look at Flaco's fascinated side glimpse - "Wow, what's this guy doing there?" Maybe Derek Trucks, another master of slide, is technically more versatile, but he would have to give his best to come close to Ry's feeling.
@@bobbynoe1 Ry is much more versatile than Derek, being able to play the fingerpicking full accompaniment style playing of artists like Tampa Red etc and old rag time, fingerstyle blues etc. He can also rip it up on electric re Get Rhythm album. Trucks pretty much only plays like a 'pick' player, but with bare fingers...
Great great vid thanks. That Ry Cooder and The Moula Banda Rhythm Aces - Santa Cruz concert is just great and I love his tone in that era....kicks butt
@@TheGuitarShow If you haven't already check out Lowell's tone & playing on this concert (especially solo's on skin it back & tripe faced boogie). I think a stock strat with flatwounds plus hisxfamous compression eh. archive.org/details/lf1975-10-18.shnf
@@Womble1252 What a play he is! Thanks so much for the link to this concert! He's always been on my radar as a great great player but I must say I havnt listened to him enough!
I have lots of different original japanese and american gold foil pickups and I gotta say that that Guyatone LG-50 pickup is the best sounding pickup Ive ever played.
I've been looking around for examples of his Daphne Blue Strat sound and his Coodercaster sound. I've found some youtube videos with the Coodercaster, but nothing with the Strat.
This piece will give tired head to 99.99% of guitar players. Guitarists are extremely conservative. Look at what has sold in the last 70 years and it confirms this. Used to be in the business and was stunned by the sameness of everyone’s taste. Nothing wrong with that, but Cooder, Lindley and others are totally outside the norm. Nothing wrong with that either. Guitar makers are either originators like Fender and Gibson making easier to play instruments or they are copycats. Some people build roads and everyone else drive on them. I read a piece on Lindley 30 years ago where he talked about searching for any guitar that gave him tone that was reminiscent of recordings from 50-60 years ago. He said he would go into pawn shops and buy guitars that were no names: one for the neck pick up, another for the neck, etc. He just felt it was necessary due to the guitar companies pursuing either a Strat or LP look/feel/sound. He wanted variety. David and Ry hear things that most others don’t. They understand their own uniqueness. They do it the way they do because they don’t have any other way. To me, it’s part of what makes them interesting. Most wont realize its part of the process. Some will obsess over their own frankenstrat creation. The world isn’t easy to decipher. Thank god for variety.
Hey, matey... just finished watching this vid with Ry sporting these yellow frame shades and playing the "Concert for New Orleans" with these 2 blokes, one w/ accordion & one w/ a Les Paul Custom (R. Cray?) ...Thunked of you
I'm in the process of building my own blonde Frankencaster, and am going to instal a P90 at the bridge. I'll leave the cover on though and leave it at that. I'm building the guitar specifically to play slide so I might try some round wounds on it when it's finished. Ry is an incredible musician, go search out his performance from OGWT where he plays Vigilante Man and a stunning Mandolin rendition of Goin To Brownsville . Thanks for the info Ramon, given me some good ideas.
Very nice informations have you seen the Coodercaster of Blake Mills it's absolutely awesome He cites Ry as his main influence and you can hear that in his slide playing
Great video. You seem very knowledgeable on his setups! Can you give me any insight into which guitar and amp he would have been using for the slide parts on the Crossroads movie and soundtrack? Thanks!
@@TheGuitarShow - I thought that I had bought one, a light blue rosewood fingerboard 66 Strat. I had to replace the middle pickup and luckily that was soon after Seymour Duncan began to make the vintage replacement models(with staggered polepieces). It looked exactly like the one on the cover of Ry's album, "Bop Til You Drop." I don't think about that one now, another one of the ones that I wish I had held onto.
Hi Ramon, maybe it has been said already but Ry Cooder refers to a C neck ( not the shape but the fender denomination for a wider neck . B being the standard, A the narrowest and D the widest ) these were available as an option on fender guitars throughout the 60s , other options included custom colours with or without matching headstock. I have personally tried a 61 jazzmaster with an A neck ( stamped on the heel with the date) my own early 65 jazz has a B and one of my friend has a 67 jaguar with a D neck ( probably the rarest )
Ive been looking for one of these C & D width necks for nearly 40 years.Never even seen or heard of anyone ever having one! I know they exist but theyre as rare as a laugh watching Superstore!
@@jamesdoogan5528 you’re right you’re much more likely to find an optional A neck than a C or D , in general it was much more a trend in the sixties to go for narrower neck , like on Gibsons etc …
Always been a Ry fan... from his early years playing Blind Blake to present. I build Fender style partscasters occassionally... the choice of pickups is vast now... most certainly... a gold foil Tele in planned... and I've my first electric guitar... a Teisco... with gold foils... hmmmm...
@@tucopacifico He's provided loads of film soundtracks over the years including the excellent "Paris Texas". Not sure how he can live with himself for soundtracking "Crossroads" however.
Fantastic. What do you make of Ry selling his daphne blue strat, not money wise but just music wise, he finally decided he prefers the other one? I remember the interview where Ry said he felt the springs on the strat were important for the sound, probably was taken down.
Great question Roderick, I feel he just wasnt inspired to pick up the blue one, the coodercaster has been on buena vista and more important albums imo and really has a more unique sound, I think the blue one went through a lot of mods and it never found its voice again, It sounded the best when it was unmodified early on. Thanks R
I can emphasize with his dislike of the Strat bridge pickup, they can sound really harsh I guess that's why I usually use the middle/bridge setup. That way I've got a little control of the tone on the middle but that's all over now I've had a Kinman SCn lying around for twenty years and my new (to me) 64 CS Strat will do the trick.
Hey dude can you do a video where you demo the bridge supro slide pickup? I want to hear the sound without a slide as i want to put one on my guitar but want to make sure i can use it for non slide stuff
Although Ry had been around awhile, I first 'discovered' him while watching the movie "The Long Riders", my personal #1 G.O.A.T. favorite Western. Ry demonstrates his extensive historical accuracy of the music of those times. What really stands out and seals the authenticity was the music that *lived* in the movie and anchors the tone ....plain and unadorned, simple but honest; a tonic metaphor for the characters. Brilliant. A year later came "Southern Comfort". A really good movie. I regard this movie almost as a horror; again, Ry sets the tone with some really sinister and eerie compositions that play on the subconscious fear of the unknown. Put strings on it, and Ry will give you something you've never heard....
Thanks for this eloquent description of Ry'smusic - I totally agree his style is a tapestry of harmonic beauty and its so appealing as you say he is able to really tap into mood and feeling. A great master of the guitar.
A life time of listening to Ry and 50 years playing clawhammer banjo ; I have never heard him play a banjo :) His G tuning is very informed by banjo chords up the neck ..I would love to hear anything of banjo from him ... I was once told at a recording studio in New England that Taj Mahall learned clwahammer from Patrick Sky .. I know Ry played with the banjoist Pete Peterson .. I will try asking him if he ever heard Ry on Banjo ... Thanks for the great clip ..
Is it possible that the “ buddy holly “ coodercaster was first used on the Slide area album ? The sound is notably “ fatter “ there - not unlike the guitar sound on the get Rhythm album ..
Great though almost panicked,,,,"Where's the Gold Foil?" Had those on my first electric, an Audition Jag alike bought from my best friend for $12.00 in late '72 (yes, sold it back later, same price). Never had a good amp then. Stereo feeding headphones and a phono pre amp. worked. btw, LaBella flat wounds.
Me: (Throwing my hands up into the air like it already wasn't difficult enough to figure out this guy's playing ... slide solos in Open D; rhythm guitar in Open G; slack key tuning; dropped D tuning ... AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!)
Oh heck ! All that faffin' about changing pick ups - just play the bloody thing ! Single coil , humbucker , gold foil , lap steel pick up ....yawn . I get great slide sound with single coils or humbuckers. Just adjust my amp to get different tones. Its not rocket science. 🎸✌
I have played since 1975 . I had every fender you can imagine over the years,. even fender with humbuckers . controversial !! you young guitar players these days have no need to fret [ excuse the pun] these days the Chinese are turning out replicas . with an amazing sound . often for under $120
@@TheGuitarShow OK, let's go together: Te-is-co... Cooo...Teis-cooo... (listen to Ry saying it in his interview; Let's go, you can do it... dim the light, repeat, repeat...)
Back in 1990 I was at my friend Jim Demeter's house and Ry was there with the strat with the lap steel bridge and the foil pickup. Jim and Ry go way back to the caruthers days. anyway, Jim introduces me and Ry tells me about the foil pickup... that he didn't like the sound of the humbucker anymore (The humbucker was an original PAF that Jim had found for him) Ry said... now i'm paraphrasing it was 1990! that the old blues guys didn't have humbuckers they had these cheap guitars that had these old pickups in them and this was the real deal. Jim was replacing the volume knob on the guitar so he told me to show Ry some software that I had been using to figure out alternate tunings and how to create chords and scales with those tunings. So I showed Ry the software and gave him a copy of it. I figured I could ask one question so instead of the stupid like did you teach keith richards slide guitar I asked him about playing with John Lee Hooker. He said John changes chords when he feels like it and he expects you to know what chord he's going to switch to right when he does it... consequently lots of people got fired from his band if they couldn't figure that out...
I saw on Jason Isbell's Rig Rundown that he's a devout Cooder fan and his wife bought him a CooderCaster replica. Really cool.
Nice ill have to check that out thanks!
Ramon: Thank you so much, A great topic, on my favorite artist and also on his gear. Great job on your doc. Ry Cooder is so respected for his on and off stage accomplishments. His artistry is so superb and his off stage efforts have been 100% for humanity. Joachim his son also❤ a great example. They are so well respected and very innovative.❤Thank you very much, you have❤be a superb YT channel and Guitar Show.
Pleasure bro!
Ry Cooder is a guitar legend and his slider was fabulous..he learned and played in the best establishments of music..and recorded as it was necessary for him to do at the time..a banjo player is Ry Cooders life ..a lot of guitars and alot of banjo,'s has crossed Ry Cooders hands..great music came out of these instruments and great songs written.
I never associated Ry Cooder with banjo although it makes sense..
Holy Buckets! This is GREAT! I've been a big Ry Cooder fan for like 40 years and I knew he had very rare, discerning ears, and a little bit about his guitars; Thank you SO much for this peek under the wall of the tent! Subbed in a picosecond!
pleasure! thanks
The Daphne blue stratocaster was picked out by Ry at the Fender factory in Fullerton. He was joining Captain Beefhearts band but didn't own an electric guitar, having only played acoustic guitar, banjo, mandolin etc...Beefhearts record company gave the band money to buy the equipment they needed. Ry's guitar was part of a test or evaluation run that had painted headstocks and bound fretboards.
Ry chose that guitar because he liked the color.
Wow thanks for this - I knew he chose the guitar at fender but from his own quotes I never fully understood the reason as to why he went there - so thanks for this valuable info
@@TheGuitarShow Also, the sunburst one was built up from a spare possibly Japanese body and a neck from David Lindley who also tipped him to the Teisco gold foil at neck. Ry loves lap steel/pedal steel sounds and so after trial and error wound up with the setup we see today.
The sunburst is used for most slide work and the Daphne Blue which Ry said always sounded tight and now is used for ballads and fingerpicked guitar tunes.
My 70's Stratocaster bridge pickup too is to me almost unuseable - too sharp and shrill. It will be replaced with an after-market Strat-type single coil .
BTW Ry dismisses copycat cooder-casters as not sounding very good and most of their players as flat.
@@celticgodsoriginal Yes I heard David Lindley offered the pickup - thanks for the info - Im thinking they were early 80s Japanese fender body/neck parts. Yep I agree wth Cooder about the coodercaster clones - you need to tweak them a lot before they actually work
Wonderful video. I've seen this man and his guitar for years and never thought to look into why it looks the way it looks. In a very simple straightforward video you explained it all. Thank you
Pleasure and once again thanks for watching it!
Thanks for this. Nicely done. Big fan of Ry...now you as well!
How did I end up here again watching with delight? I was listening to Sirius XM "The Beatles Channel's" Dhani Harrison birthday tribute to his dad and he played Vigilante Man from Into the Purple Valley which was one of George's favorite albums. That lead me to the 1973 Old Grey Whistle Test performance of Ry playing it on his Martin D45 from there I rewatch this and was wondering if a video on history the of Ry's acoustics was in order. What say you Ramon? Thank you for continuing to extol the greatness of Ry Cooder!
Ry's style is beyond description. It's BIG. Spooky.
I agree it's other worldly
He hits notes with that tone of his that reaches all the way down into my stomach. That's the best way I can describe listening to him.
@@ronaldh8446 Yeah, back in the '70's I used to describe his slide like a dance up and down my spine - nerves like steel strings. Best guitar solo ever (to me) showed up in Taxes on the Farmer Feeds Us All, off his Into the Purple Valley album, which I still consider to be his masterpiece. But hell, I could be stopped in my tracks just by him warming up and tuning his guitar.
@@ronaldh8446 I know what that's like...
Fierce valuable information, thank you kindly, for the efforts made, fair play to you.
Thank you, and thank you also for subtitles ; that helps me to understand better.
Hearing his slide guitar solo on how can a poor man stand such times and live on the Santa Cruz live 1987 concert made me take up slide guitar. Thirty years later i still cannot get close to his tone :)
Yes they are magical also loudness is a factor too
Totally agree, though I sadly failed in slide playing. To quote my comment to this fabulous concert (czcams.com/video/tbtoXRFOwEc/video.html&start_radio=1&t=3): Definitely Ry's solo in "How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times And Live" is the climax: Heartbreaking intense, creating an almost meditative or if you want religious atmosphere, finest slide playing with unbelievable nuances (which fret is he playing at 21:00 ?). Look at Ry's facial expression, look at Flaco's fascinated side glimpse - "Wow, what's this guy doing there?" Maybe Derek Trucks, another master of slide, is technically more versatile, but he would have to give his best to come close to Ry's feeling.
@@bobbynoe1 This version by Ry also is marvellous : czcams.com/video/QL7j_jx0IYs/video.html
@@francoisebeylie2923 Thanks for the hint - totally agree!
@@bobbynoe1 Ry is much more versatile than Derek, being able to play the fingerpicking full accompaniment style playing of artists like Tampa Red etc and old rag time, fingerstyle blues etc. He can also rip it up on electric re Get Rhythm album. Trucks pretty much only plays like a 'pick' player, but with bare fingers...
Great great vid thanks. That Ry Cooder and The Moula Banda Rhythm Aces - Santa Cruz concert is just great and I love his tone in that era....kicks butt
JAIJAI0 thanks yes that's one of my favourite concerts on YT!
@@TheGuitarShow If you haven't already check out Lowell's tone & playing on this concert (especially solo's on skin it back & tripe faced boogie). I think a stock strat with flatwounds plus hisxfamous compression eh.
archive.org/details/lf1975-10-18.shnf
@@Womble1252 What a play he is! Thanks so much for the link to this concert! He's always been on my radar as a great great player but I must say I havnt listened to him enough!
Terrific video thank you !!♡!!
Very cool thank you for the story of RY s Guitars now i know so cool
Pleasure Robert
I have lots of different original japanese and american gold foil pickups and I gotta say that that Guyatone LG-50 pickup is the best sounding pickup Ive ever played.
I've been looking around for examples of his Daphne Blue Strat sound and his Coodercaster sound. I've found some youtube videos with the Coodercaster, but nothing with the Strat.
czcams.com/video/y6QiEH2iGDg/video.html
fantastic video
thanks
This piece will give tired head to 99.99% of guitar players. Guitarists are extremely conservative. Look at what has sold in the last 70 years and it confirms this. Used to be in the business and was stunned by the sameness of everyone’s taste. Nothing wrong with that, but Cooder, Lindley and others are totally outside the norm. Nothing wrong with that either. Guitar makers are either originators like Fender and Gibson making easier to play instruments or they are copycats. Some people build roads and everyone else drive on them. I read a piece on Lindley 30 years ago where he talked about searching for any guitar that gave him tone that was reminiscent of recordings from 50-60 years ago. He said he would go into pawn shops and buy guitars that were no names: one for the neck pick up, another for the neck, etc. He just felt it was necessary due to the guitar companies pursuing either a Strat or LP look/feel/sound. He wanted variety. David and Ry hear things that most others don’t. They understand their own uniqueness. They do it the way they do because they don’t have any other way. To me, it’s part of what makes them interesting. Most wont realize its part of the process. Some will obsess over their own frankenstrat creation. The world isn’t easy to decipher. Thank god for variety.
Hey, matey... just finished watching this vid with Ry sporting these yellow frame shades
and playing the "Concert for New Orleans" with these 2 blokes, one w/ accordion & one
w/ a Les Paul Custom (R. Cray?) ...Thunked of you
I'm in the process of building my own blonde Frankencaster, and am going to instal a P90 at the bridge. I'll leave the cover on though and leave it at that. I'm building the guitar specifically to play slide so I might try some round wounds on it when it's finished. Ry is an incredible musician, go search out his performance from OGWT where he plays Vigilante Man and a stunning Mandolin rendition of Goin To Brownsville . Thanks for the info Ramon, given me some good ideas.
Well done. You really did your homework here.
Thanks Keith
Very nice informations have you seen the Coodercaster of Blake Mills it's absolutely awesome He cites Ry as his main influence and you can hear that in his slide playing
Thanks! Blake is the man!
Great video. You seem very knowledgeable on his setups! Can you give me any insight into which guitar and amp he would have been using for the slide parts on the Crossroads movie and soundtrack? Thanks!
Is your name Ramón? Another great video!
Have always been curious what setup he used for the haunting piece of slide playing he did on the film Southern Comfort.
wouldn't be wild if fender produced a signature model?
Yes it's quite possible they will one day do it
@@TheGuitarShow - I thought that I had bought one, a light blue rosewood fingerboard 66 Strat. I had to replace the middle pickup and luckily that was soon after Seymour Duncan began to make the vintage replacement models(with staggered polepieces). It looked exactly like the one on the cover of Ry's album, "Bop Til You Drop." I don't think about that one now, another one of the ones that I wish I had held onto.
Fun stuff!
Hi Ramon, maybe it has been said already but Ry Cooder refers to a C neck ( not the shape but the fender denomination for a wider neck . B being the standard, A the narrowest and D the widest ) these were available as an option on fender guitars throughout the 60s , other options included custom colours with or without matching headstock. I have personally tried a 61 jazzmaster with an A neck ( stamped on the heel with the date) my own early 65 jazz has a B and one of my friend has a 67 jaguar with a D neck ( probably the rarest )
Thanks for this Jean - excellent info!
Ive been looking for one of these C & D width necks for nearly 40 years.Never even seen or heard of anyone ever having one! I know they exist but theyre as rare as a laugh watching Superstore!
@@jamesdoogan5528 you’re right you’re much more likely to find an optional A neck than a C or D , in general it was much more a trend in the sixties to go for narrower neck , like on Gibsons etc …
Blue Strat: It was not “free of charge” - the record company ( that signed Captain Beefheart) paid Fender.
Free of charge for Ry.
The audio is too low. I hate to nitpick, but considering this is a channel featuring guitars/tone sound quality should be a top priority.
Good info, thanks for sharing.
I am very interested in any info on Ry’s gear.
pleasure! I hope to do more soon!
Always been a Ry fan... from his early years playing Blind Blake to present.
I build Fender style partscasters occassionally... the choice of pickups is vast now... most certainly... a gold foil Tele in planned... and I've my first electric guitar... a Teisco... with gold foils... hmmmm...
What amp does Ry uses in studio and live? Which amp did he use on Bop till you drop?
Great job researching this! The 3rd string is wound in these Jazz Light strings from D'addario, correct?
Thanks yes on a set of 12s they are, but 11s usually its unwound
His music for “The Long Riders” in 1980 was excellent and of course authentic to the times.
His music was also on the Jack Nicholson movie "Goin South".
@@tucopacifico He's provided loads of film soundtracks over the years including the excellent "Paris Texas". Not sure how he can live with himself for soundtracking "Crossroads" however.
Fantastic. What do you make of Ry selling his daphne blue strat, not money wise but just music wise, he finally decided he prefers the other one? I remember the interview where Ry said he felt the springs on the strat were important for the sound, probably was taken down.
Great question Roderick, I feel he just wasnt inspired to pick up the blue one, the coodercaster has been on buena vista and more important albums imo and really has a more unique sound, I think the blue one went through a lot of mods and it never found its voice again, It sounded the best when it was unmodified early on. Thanks R
I can emphasize with his dislike of the Strat bridge pickup, they can sound really harsh I guess that's why I usually use the middle/bridge setup. That way I've got a little control of the tone on the middle but that's all over now I've had a Kinman SCn lying around for twenty years and my new (to me) 64 CS Strat will do the trick.
so with his blue strat it’s mainly in open g and then his coodercaster is in open d?
#Cooder Caster.. what is the tuning on the Cooder Caster?
Hey dude can you do a video where you demo the bridge supro slide pickup? I want to hear the sound without a slide as i want to put one on my guitar but want to make sure i can use it for non slide stuff
Of course I'll do it soon.
Hi Do you know what guitar is used on the Ry Cooder Straight Street video? There is a name on the headstock, can't read it from that distance, thanks.
It's an old Hofner (Höfner).
please do one on his other guitars. acoustics and mandolins!!
I promise soon
Although Ry had been around awhile, I first 'discovered' him while watching the movie "The Long Riders", my personal #1 G.O.A.T. favorite Western. Ry demonstrates his extensive historical accuracy of the music of those times. What really stands out and seals the authenticity was the music that *lived* in the movie and anchors the tone ....plain and unadorned, simple but honest; a tonic metaphor for the characters. Brilliant.
A year later came "Southern Comfort". A really good movie. I regard this movie almost as a horror; again, Ry sets the tone with some really sinister and eerie compositions that play on the subconscious fear of the unknown.
Put strings on it, and Ry will give you something you've never heard....
Thanks for this eloquent description of Ry'smusic - I totally agree his style is a tapestry of harmonic beauty and its so appealing as you say he is able to really tap into mood and feeling. A great master of the guitar.
I bought the Soundtrack to the Long Riders right after seeing it at theatre . Still have it today, one of my favorite movie soundtracks of all time.
A life time of listening to Ry and 50 years playing clawhammer banjo ; I have never heard him play a banjo :) His G tuning is very informed by banjo chords up the neck ..I would love to hear anything of banjo from him ... I was once told at a recording studio in New England that Taj Mahall learned clwahammer from Patrick Sky .. I know Ry played with the banjoist Pete Peterson .. I will try asking him if he ever heard Ry on Banjo ... Thanks for the great clip ..
Pleasure Guy thanks for the great comment
Look at this : czcams.com/video/16ZDG-8-dEY/video.html and you'll see and hear Ry Cooder playing banjo.
@@francoisebeylie2923 I love that clip .. Thanks for the wonderful link
There's a glimpse of Ry playing banjo in the movie Geronimo: An American Legend, about 35 minutes in.
Is his blue strat Sonic Blue or Daphne Blue? Looks more sonic to me.
He didnt 'Swap out' the pickup=he merely swapped it! Aarrrgghh!!
Is it possible that the “ buddy holly “ coodercaster was first used on the Slide area album ? The sound is notably “ fatter “ there - not unlike the guitar sound on the get Rhythm album ..
The Fender neck dates between 1968-71...the Hendrix/Blackmore/Gilmour era.
thanks
roundwounds on the main coodercaster? I thought he did flatwounds on his slide guitars...??
Flatwounds on daphne blue and roundwounds on his main one
Yes the roundwounds sound dynamic on that model.
Is that Guyatone a clone of the 1960 VOX “SHADOW"?
I think vox or selmer released the same guitar i cant quite remember but it was released in the uk under various names
In my experience 300k pots help give strats a little more high end.
Thanks for the tip Ryan
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Mine are Hootercasters, and Big Hootercasters are the best :-)
Great though almost panicked,,,,"Where's the Gold Foil?"
Had those on my first electric, an Audition Jag alike bought from my best friend for $12.00 in late '72 (yes, sold it back later, same price). Never had a good amp then. Stereo feeding headphones and a phono pre amp. worked.
btw, LaBella flat wounds.
Thanks for this comment, yes I love flatwounds I have them on 4 guitars
@@TheGuitarShow Nice .
I just bought these because they were on sale. I'm guessing 13's. Bending strings became easier ;)
That was not a mini humbucker, that was a full-sized Gibson humbucker.
By the way, excellent video.
Thanks Ismael!
And Eddy Van Halen thinks he started the humbucker in the bridge of the strat!
Me: (Throwing my hands up into the air like it already wasn't difficult enough to figure out this guy's playing ... slide solos in Open D; rhythm guitar in Open G; slack key tuning; dropped D tuning ... AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!)
Do Keith Richards.
sounds great
This would have been a great video if you weren't talking like you were doing a disclaimer at the end of a commercial.
Thats my BBC Radio 4 voice!
@@TheGuitarShow I'm gonna have to watch it a couple of more times. My ears can't hear that fast.
Ry Cooder and Keith Richards did not like each other. That's all I'm gonna say about that.
Oh heck ! All that faffin' about changing pick ups - just play the bloody thing ! Single coil , humbucker , gold foil , lap steel pick up ....yawn . I get great slide sound with single coils or humbuckers. Just adjust my amp to get different tones. Its not rocket science. 🎸✌
Lol you got a point but I guess Ry (and I) is a tinkerer
I'm tempted to say, you're not Ry Cooder, Alfie.
Poor guitar man!!
I have played since 1975 . I had every fender you can imagine over the years,. even fender with humbuckers . controversial !! you young guitar players these days have no need to fret [ excuse the pun] these days the Chinese are turning out replicas . with an amazing sound . often for under $120
Literally just you repeating what Ry Cooder says in this video: czcams.com/video/0QeFdMkl-SI/video.html
This is nuts. Pick up the guitar and play.
I do! In fact I was playing at a music festival just today
Damn man, ts Fn TEISCO not Teesco or Tisco as you pronounce & write. You're supposed to have good ear aren't you?
Im from Essex. We can’t speak English very well.
@@TheGuitarShow OK, let's go together: Te-is-co... Cooo...Teis-cooo... (listen to Ry saying it in his interview; Let's go, you can do it... dim the light, repeat, repeat...)