Yokohama Guitar Show 2024: Our First International Guitar Show!

We've traveled to Japan again, this time for the Yokohama Music Style Guitar Trade Show! Very thankful to have this opportunity to do our first ever international guitar show - huge shout out to Kaminari Guitars for doing this show. There were some big names here like Fender Audio, Suzuki, Aria Pro II, Neural DSP, Positive Grid, Yamaha, and many more. Mostly new guitars here, but you know we found some awesome vintage guitars as well!

Lots of fun and cool vibes all around. What was your favorite guitar or piece of music gear you saw?

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Filmed & Edited by Thomas Filbert

00:00 Traveling to Japan
00:52 Japan Arrival
01:35 Load In Day
04:41 Public Day 1
22:10 Public Day 2
26:31 Wrapping Up

[j.jester]

hold off on purchasing a guitar or amp right now unless you find a great deal. prices on guitars particularly are about to plummet. covid created an artificial demand, now there is a huge glut of gear on the market.

[gavrilopricip]

please try and take the oppertunity on your travels to show as much cool different Japanese-made gear as possible (we can see the boring ubiquitous American stuff any other time )

[dr.gregtalley]

Love it! The quality and detail of the MIJ and CIJ guitars is superb! Have fun y’all!!

[MiguelMakesMusic]

i noticed you guys are always picking up those old Bose radios. is there some kinda retro market for those?

[MarmaladeMaki]

The Sex Machineguns Corner (the carved ESP Crying Star) gave me a warm feeling since they are one of my hero bands.

[joeking]

Write down every time he says "cool".

[Scottie-bghy]

Thomas/Alex, is this a new camera you're using? The images are super sharp. Cool show.

[artkane]

Was Yairi represented at this show? Not Alvarez, but specifically Yairi. Thanks.

[harvey]

Meanwhile back in the States the Philly Summer guitar show has been cancelled. First time since Covid hit.

[stevenjones]

Great post. I'm an old man, defined more by what I don't do anymore, but I still love guitar (even after 40 years of playing). I live in SEBRING on 'WREN" Ave and the best tires I ever had were YOKOHAMA 😆. I need a new guitar from your shop some day in the future...!

[EricMerrow]

Ren!!! If you see this, I gotta know how many cool lefty guitars and basses you’ve found in Japan! It’s a dream of mine to travel over and hunt down killer leftys 🤘🤘🤘

[TheSoulsandRevive]

Nice footage! There are alot of great guitar stores around Yokohama and now with the JPY at an all time low, I guess the bargains for vintage guitars speak for itself! Cheers

[DeadBunny]

That girl keeps offering the viewer a refreshing beverage, how considerate.

... or is saying, 'get that damn camera out my face!'?

[FJness]

there are people who would pay 1-3 thousand for an omnichord early

[chuggie]

bring back some Fender Japan t-shirts to sell to us in US

[JoseSalas-wnim]

Thank you for a wonderful experience of attending a guitar show in Japan. That board walk was something else, with a built in auditorium.

[WinstonWhite-lj]

Every guitar featured in this video is ‘really cool’…

[Beakphoto]

Love the video (but your killin' me never showing that Tele-Gib thingy at the ... Day Date? Day Book? Rock Guitar Club booth). I'll just have to trust that if you didn't look at it it wasn't video worthy.

[Adamantiummonke]

Great stuff, did find or see any Cole-Clark guitars on your travels there.

[russellzauner]

nice...pay attention to what they don't have there and refill the crate that you sent home with *that* gear and send it back to cartage for your next show ;-)
There's gotta be stuff in the states that they want but don't have access too...also keep eyes peeled for FGN Japan market only guitars; they distribute in the USA now but only a very few models. There are some crazy killer builds they have that can run as low as 50% cost in compared to similar builds (I have a hard gigged FGN FL Expert plaintop that I'd put against a new Knaggs Kenai any day).