I Bought All the Gear I Used as a Kid–does it sound any GOOD?

[MusicisWin]

What is your most treasured piece of nostalgic gear?

[JDWindtPlaysGuitar]

Tyler: _"Let's play the gear I used when I was fifteen!"_

Also Tyler: _plays his $5, 000 PRS Singlecut_

[TadpoleMusics]

Tyler: "Let's play the gear I used when I was fifteen!"
Me, 27: Still using the gear I used when I was fifteen

[facepalmdaily]

When I was 15 I begged my dad for a guitar. He walked into the music store and said, "Where's the absolute cheapest electric guitar you have?" They handed him a 1996 Chinese made Squier Strat.

"Great, ring it up."

"You'll also need an amp and cable."

"No we don't. He'll do fine with this."

My dad wasn't a musician, and we were dirt poor, (this counted as both my birthday and Christimas gifts that year). My first year of playing electric guitar was on a Squier with no amp. It wasn't until I found an old amp next to a dumpster that I finally had power to my and it was a bass amp. That's also how I got my first couple of pedals. Dumpster diving and fixing them. Growing up poor was rad.

Fun fact: I still have, and occasionally play, that old squier.

[eveleland]

So my kid has watched you forever. Because of you, he applied to college and decided to pursue music as a career. He would get down watching other youtube videos of people creating music just with computers and thought he had no future with his guitar. He knows it is a difficult industry, but he decided he would rather try than just give up. So now he is off to UT Knoxville next fall for theory/composition. So, thank you.

[GuitarLessonsBobbyCrispy]

I wish I still had my very 1st guitar; a 'Lero' $99.00 Les Paul copy. God was it ever a bad guitar, but it fueled my desire to become a world famous heavy metal guitarist playing sold out football never happened, lol.

[mountainmikeoutdoors]

At the end of the video you asked what our most treasured piece of gear is. My most treasured piece of gear is the Yamaha piano at my parents house. I used to play it for my mom. The last time I played that piano was in January, just a few weeks before my mom passed away. She was having a particularly bad day with her health, and she asked me to play for her. I played for about two or three hours before I ran out of things to play off the top of my head. The very last piece I ever played for her was Chopin, Nocturne in E Flat Major. I'm glad I got to play a little concert for her one more time.

[untitledgooose]

Tyler: *buys amp*
Tyler: *buys petal*
Also Tyler: *buys acoustic guitar*

[mikemurphy]

For me, there are two guitars I had as a kid that I later had to sell with a family on the way. The first is a black Ibanez proline PR1660 and the other is a late 80's BC Rich hot pink warlock. I was lucky enough to finally find the Ibanez. Well, today is father's day and by step son managed to find a warlock and bought it for me.

[appl_juice]

My favorite piece of long lost gear is my first pick

[DaveViner]

Can't believe you had a PRS as a kid, so lucky

Edit: So YouTube randomly decided to give me a notification that somebody replied to this 3 year old comment. Turns out there is a lot of replies (lol) to what I thought was a pretty obvious sarcastic remark. So for those that didn't realise, now you know. ✌️

[fnersch]

My most treasured instrument is the harpsichord that I built for my mom which she cherished to the end of her life. I still have it after 47 years.

[calebwipf]

My first real acoustic guitar was an old 79 Yamaha concert guitar. I missed that thing desperately. Last week I found the EXACT guitar I sold 6 years ago. I bought it immediately and have loved playing it again. It was the guitar I really learned on.

[nasher]

Tyler: "Today I want to revisit my old gear from when I was a kid."

Also Tyler: *Plugs £3500 American built PRS Singlecut into Line 6 Spider*

[thenothing]

Hey everyone, wasn’t it fun when you were a kid just starting out and you played your $5000 guitar through your $250 amp? Those were the days.

[TKDFORCEART]

Engages the Red "INSANE" setting, automatically becomes a kid again

[WalkMannMusicOfficial]

I'm gonna be completely honest with you Tyler,
1: that peice that was one of the first things you played on the guitar, sounded genuinely amazing. I loved it cause it sounded like a western ballad. 2nd, I LOVED THE SOUND OF THE LINE 6 SPIDER!!! My nostalgic gear was a Jackson Dinky JS32Q

[CallousCoder]

I think it’s hilarious and adorable, that 15 year old tech can be seen as “vintage”. When in my, almost 50 year old mind, it only seems like yesterday :)
So cool seeing people revisit their childhood.

[Jaspertine]

I couldn't afford an amp when I was a kid, so my dad brought home this old broken reel to reel tape recorder from work. The motor and tape heads were beyond salvage, but the preamp still worked, so I'd plug into the mono input, crank the monitors and... that was my amp.

[JEDSaje]

I DID just get back an old guitar. I sold my first NICE guitar a Gibson SG about 7 years ago, needed the dough cause I was getting married. And about a month ago I thought about the guitar and checked through my craigslist emails from that time and found the guy. He still had the guitar and NEVER played it. It still had the strings that I put on it. I got it back and I'm so happy!