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on today's ask Zack I'm going to talk
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about a modified broadcaster blend
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control that's much more usable than the
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kind of vintage layout also I'm going to
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talk about two YouTube channels that
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I've been watching a lot lately and that
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I really want to let y'all know
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about well hello friends and welcome to
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ask Zach yes we are going to talk about
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the uh broadcaster blend and
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specifically a modified version of it
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that I think is much more
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usable and uh again I'm going to talk
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about two YouTube channels that I've
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really been watching a lot lately I well
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I preface it by saying that I haven't
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had as much time to uh to spend on you
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know watching YouTube and so I've become
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more selective and these have been two
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shows that I've really enjoyed enjoyed
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and have been watching a lot in the last
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couple months that I really you know
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wanted to share with y'all so let's uh
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now all right let's let's dive in
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so the Vintage broadcaster wiring scheme
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just to kind of get us up to speed is in
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the number one position it's the uh it's
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the sound where it's going through a a
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big you know cap and resistor and where
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it goes down volume and also gets really
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dark and has that kind of sound like
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that it's uh I think it's awful and
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unusable and then when you go to the
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number two sound it's the neck pickup by
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itself no uh you know just with the
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volume control and that's it this knob
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doesn't do anything then when you go to
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the number three position you get the
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bridge pickup with it turned all the way
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up and as you turn it down it Blends in
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the neck pickup which I think is just a
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fabulous thing
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it's just you have this one sound that's
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kind of
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unusable and so what was really funny
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about this was when messing with the
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broadcaster that when I did the
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broadcaster episode a couple weeks ago I
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thought this is such a great wiring if
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there were only someone that had come up
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with a a a modified version of this
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where the the first sound wasn't so
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crappy and then I remembered I did a
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talk right here in this room with Rick
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Holstrom that plays with Mavis stap
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on the modified broadcaster wiring that
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he and another guy had come up with and
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I even had a schematic posted and
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everything but I had never tried it on
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anything so I put this
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um modified Rick
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holmstrom uh I'll call it you know
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modified broadcaster blend wiring on
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this guitar and I just love it and it's
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it's pretty simple it's simpler than the
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the Vintage broadcaster stuff it doesn't
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have as many components um just in a
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nutshell you need you know regular 3way
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switch to 250k pots and then you need a
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0047 or your cap of choice and then a
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56k
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resistor and uh yeah it's really simple
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and I'm going to put a uh you know
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there'll be a link in the description to
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a wiring diagram for this but uh here is
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kind of the way it works so this is the
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modified first position sound so what
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this is that instead of going through as
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big of a cap and resistor this is going
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through a 047 cap and a 56k resistor so
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you get you basically get the neck sound
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through and it just brings down the
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volume just to touch and it brings down
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the tone just to touch where you have
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kind of a nice Rhythm sound
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okay now you go to the number two
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position and so it's removing that cap
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and
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resist and you get the neck pickup and
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it's kind of like the the no load
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version of the neck pickup so
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was
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versus some might say that's kind of
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subtle but I don't think so I mean it's
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kind of the difference between what you
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would want when you're kind of backing
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up someone versus taking a solo and uh
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it's it's really useful and that and
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that's the way Rick holmstrom uses it um
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then uh you know of course you when you
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get to the back position you get the
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wonderful blend control which I just
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love and one of the things that he had
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suggested I don't think Rick did but one
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of the guy Steve that came up with the
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uh the wiring in the first place he
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suggested using a no load pot for this
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blend control and I tried that and I
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didn't like it because it ended up it
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creates too much of a kind of a stop a
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detent and you know the bridge pickup
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gets louder and it gets more a little
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more strident and in your face and I
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felt like the bridge pickup kind of
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could use being loaded down and uh but
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you can easily swap that out you can put
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a no load pot in there and uh and get
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that but I like it to where the blend
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control is kind of always active as it
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were and you can just easily you know
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blend some in and uh I really like just
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taking a touch off so this is like full
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up no neck pickup
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Blended turn the volume up
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kid but if you just back it you just
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take it down just a touch
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thanks to bill hullet for that lick um
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it just kind of it just really kind of
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adds it's kind of like if you're a
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Gibson guy which I'm not but if you're a
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Gibson guy the best Gibson players tend
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to keep that selector switch in the
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middle and they just kind of keep
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blending back and forth now they will
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use the neck pickup by itself or the
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bridge pickup but a lot of times they'll
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live in that middle position on the
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selector switch and they'll keep you
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know working that and I think it's just
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a really cool uh ability to kind of have
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it
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where okay that's a little bit too much
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I can just roll it back some and instead
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of it getting dark it just gets
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fatter cuz it's not like all of a sudden
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I started sending like oh he's got both
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pickups on that's not really the honest
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to goodness Bridge Telecaster sound
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sorry for the weird voice um but it's
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not until you really get all the way
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down when this is full up that you get
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the full
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on and I don't know why I always want to
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play Bad Chad Atkins type uh my bad
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imitation of Chad but uh but I do uh I
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think also I'm biased against the two
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pickup telecasters sound and I I think I
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like the blend because then I'm able to
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kind of pull in just enough of the neck
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pickup to fatten things up but without
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it going fullon dual pickup sound and uh
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I just really like it so again this is a
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you know most of the time you're only
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going to need a 56k resistor to do this
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and of course I'm have a uh you know a
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wiring diagram on my website there'll be
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a link in the description
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uh now let's talk about why you wouldn't
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want to do this so if you are a big dual
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pickup user where both of them are quote
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equal volume as it were I'm not saying
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equal height and everything like that
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then this is probably not for you uh
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also if you use the tone control a
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lot uh and if you really want to darken
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things a lot this is not for you for me
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I don't necessarily want to darken
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things I want to fatten things
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and so for me the blend is fantastic
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also it kind of gets on the other wiring
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scheme that I like which is where you
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don't wire the neck pickup to the tone
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control so you get this in this number
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two position you get the neck pickup
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without the tone control then you have
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the neck pickup through this kind of
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little bit of tone control that knocks
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it down then you have again no tone
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control on the neck then you have Bridge
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with the blend control so anyway
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something to think about and uh you know
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and again if you're like me and you have
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a couple of telecasters it's nice to uh
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wire something up differently and have
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it uh have it fun so let's uh let's talk
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about these YouTube channels that I like
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so I like you you're probably busy like
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I am and uh and I just don't have as
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much time to spend on YouTube and so
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I've you know sometimes I do podcasts
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while I'm driving driving around and
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usually it's not music oriented um but
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then when I do have time for YouTube I
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really want something frankly that's
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quality and I want something that's
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going to inspire me and I want something
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where I'm going to learn something and
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so the two channels that I've been
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spending the most time recently are one
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with the Shane Tero and Adam Levy both
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those cats have amazing YouTube channels
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who are amazing Pros they have long
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resumés of great artists that they've
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played with they're also great Educators
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and they've both written books and just
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have a huge amount of uh of history as
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as good teachers and they do they
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present themselves well very different
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presentations so you know Shane is kind
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of a you know New Orleans kind of
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Louisiana guy and he has a little bit
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more you know a little bit more what
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should I say uh Tony chat's you know or
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or slap your mama on it uh and Adam Levy
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is much more uh he's much more you know
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calm subdued now I'm not saying that
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Tero is like a used car salesman or
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anything like that but U yeah so let's
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just talk about Shane uh Shane has been
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doing mainly lesson videos recently and
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they've all been really really good
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they're gold um and he just has a huge
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history of you know playing with holl
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notes you know playing with tons of you
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know Dr John and uh you know all sorts
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of cats then from Louisiana and then of
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course with playing you know being the
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MD with darl Hall and and his show he
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ends up playing with all sorts of
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artists and uh I think he just does a
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great job he has good hands he gets a
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good tone uh and then you know Adam Levy
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uh I don't know Shane Adam I do know
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I've interviewed him and uh just really
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love his playing his tone his Outlook
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and he's recently done a series on 10
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Essentials you know for for the guitar
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and and playing and musicianship and I
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just really have enjoyed every single
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episode of that also and uh and I love
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of course the fact that Adam has been
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playing a a Telly it's a looks like it's
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a you know 69 or or early' 70s and it
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has a A fullsize humbucker in the neck
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and of course he makes everything sound
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fantastic I think it's Lenny Stern's
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Telly that's kind of on Lo long-term
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loone to Adam but he's such a great
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player and such a great guy and so those
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are two channels that uh I would I would
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be watching because I think there's a
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lot of channels where it's just kind of
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guys holding court and talking about
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stuff and I think it's nice when you're
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able to learn things and uh and that's
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kind of challenged me in that uh I'm I'm
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going to start getting back to showing
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licks and such also I've been doing more
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on uh Instagram and uh and Tik Tok and
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one of the things I I showed that uh
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that lick that I played the uh the just
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call me Lonesome lick that uh you know
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goes something like this
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the and it's you know really a a cool
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look and and a cool part and um and I
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just love the fact that it has this uh
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you know this this Bend where you're
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bending the low E string down to the
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a you because you could have play
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it but he played it much cooler because
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Bill Hull's a a boss so uh yeah so yeah
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those are two YouTube channels that you
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ought to check out and uh I'm going to
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start being good about uh doing some
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lessons on the my show and and trying to
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keep things educational not just
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historical so all right guys we'll see
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you next time bye-bye