St. Vincent's Signature Guitars: VICE News Tonight on HBO

[@grantgreider3413]

She secretly debuted the riff of “Los Ageless” here

[@krazygluecourttranscripts887]

Anybody else notice her showing off the riff for Los Ageless?

[@TheTideKing004]

Luke Skywalker showing off is a massive overstatement. It sounds like it was written by someone who just picked the guitar up 2 months ago and thinks they are sick. I could throw paint at a wall and it would still be better music

[@krazygluecourttranscripts887]

haha okay

[@nopenope4183]

Brad Windle imo i think the riffs cool and it sounds way better in the context of the song just because a riff is simple doesn't mean it's bad example would be probably one of the most badass metal riffs ever walk

[@SuperRichyrich11]

This is going to be a sensational season of television *dancing anthropomorphic fish in the background*

[@glengamble526]

Im a big fan of Annie-but you’re mistaken in one point: Fender manufactured the Mary Kaye Stratocaster in the 50’s and in fact, it’s one of the most sought out and collectable of all Strats. A gorgeous guitar. That said, Annie Clark’s guitar is wicked awesome, too!

[@doitnowvideosyeah5841]

Problem is Mary Kaye just posed for a publicity photo with the White with gold hardware Strat. She played mostly archtop jazz guitars in her act.

[@CaptnShred]

“As a kid trying to work out pantera riffs, I was so offended”. Omg Annie is my hero.

[@MaxMakerChannel]

St. Vincent is such an amazing artist!!

[@cindysue5474]

You mean band.

[@mkds7756]

Lol best joke I’ve heard all day. Good one!

[@lawabidingcitizen5153]

@@mkds7756 You know opinions exist, right? RIGHT???

[@BlGGESTBROTHER]

@@lawabidingcitizen5153 You know people can disagree with your opinions, RIGHT?!??! St. Vincent sucks!

[@lawabidingcitizen5153]

​@@BlGGESTBROTHER Then there was no need for such a comment...

[@Miracle_ss]

WOW THIS IS THE RIFF OF LOS AGELESS 1:01

[@Rubbmeuk]

"As a kid, trying to work out Pantera riffs!!!" I knew I liked this lady!!!

[@CarsonCostanza]

This video is full of kinda wrong information... not st Vincent’s fault Just poor journalism

[@rockhard2654]

this ISNT JOURNALISM its just a publicity piece

[@Waverunner21]

Anne Clark is so fucking cool, definitely my musical crush.

[@kamoverturf6192]

"First"? So Bonnie Raitt (signature fender released in 96), Lita Ford(Signature BC Rich in the mid 80s), and Joan Jett (signature Gibson in 2006) don't count. It's true she's the first Music Man female artist with a signature but not the first overall

[@juanaguilar7458]

Bonnie Raitt: It looks like any and every other fender. Lita Ford: It really looks like an edgy novelty exercise in guitar design, playable, but not something someone would buy as their only guitar for the guitar's merit. Joan Jett: Hardly a redesign of a Les Paul style body. They said it in this video, its a complete ground-up redesign by this female artist and not a matter of Fender or BC Rich or whatever, paying a female artist to stand next to it.

[@pgon9097]

@@juanaguilar7458 guess what? They were still designed by those women

[@pgon9097]

@@juanaguilar7458 also, isn't this just a neutered gibson explorer in a way?

[@tohstygohstygal]

@@pgon9097 So Gibson owns angles with rounded corners. Got it.

[@glengamble526]

The Fender Mary Kaye Strat was the first, in the 50’s.

[@williestroker2247]

Tried on out yesterday it’s actually an amazing instrument. Well made and surprisingly really comfortable to hold and play.

[@antonlopez382]

would love to try one out. looks like a sweet guitar

[@angusorvid8840]

A total kickass guitar hero. And I love her signature model. I tried one. I'm getting one. They rock.

[@dontreadmyprofilepicturead5478]

People turn the TV on, it looks just like a window, yeah People turn the TV on, it looks just like a window, yeah

[@clydebigsby4117]

she is not the first female artist to make a signature model

[@samapple490]

Clyde Bigsby Gibson SG 🤘

[@JMEAUS22]

First to design her own signature from scratch.

[@juanaguilar7458]

Signature models are, like they say in the video, just the same model you can find off the shelf with an artist's name on it and a price premium.

[@HermitMoth]

Annie is such a talented artist she's the modern day Talking Heads

[@scotty686]

Talking Heads are shit.

[@ellelucius]

scotty686 You are a Talking shit-Head.

[@THX-vp9fz]

scotty if its not ur taste doesnt mean its shit at all. Friendo.

[@weedlife13]

Love Annie Clark, hate Vice interviewers who don't shit about what they're talking about it. Even Annie looks annoyed.

[@usmanahmed89]

1:01 *She played Los Ageless and no one knew this was a new song!*

[@addieb956]

I am all about gender association but lets give credit where its due, Bonnie Raitt has her own fender signature strat.Lita Ford had her own signature guitar BC RICH warlock, Nancy Wilson has her own signature guitars. I think a female guitarist isn't anything new and we should not make this female vs male thing cause music isn't about gender its sonic art created by anyone. btw rickenbacker was the first electric guitar made.

[@doitnowvideosyeah5841]

I thought there were previous female artist signature models.

[@michaelcambron310]

Wow the riff she plays at 1:03 is from her new song Los Ageless

[@pablohernandez213]

"As a kid, like, trying to workout Pantera riffs I was so offended"

[@KB-nw3gi]

NO fucking way! JUST NO! She'd be 20x the guitarist she is today if she was riffing on Pantera as a child... she's ok... just ok at guitar. It was such a thinly veiled thing to say.... trying WAY too hard to get those hip points.

[@JEFFKINGS]

​@@KB-nw3gi simp

[@Xitronix]

@@JEFFKINGS lmao

[@Lanearndt]

One of the greatest guitars I've ever played!! So amazing!!

[@TheSlandis]

There's a lot of confusion here by people who think that a 'signature' guitar is somehow more than a slightly modified existing guitar. Very few artists, men or women, have been fully present to collaborate on an entirely new design. There's a video of the process she went through to design the guitar with Ernie Ball. She even blended the paints she wanted and defined a unique wiring for the selector switch. It was very hands on. Be curious who else has had the opportunity to do that. I can think of EVH, Les Paul, Alan Holdsworth, Frank Gambale, and Brian May. Who else?

[@jsl21]

You don't need to look much further than Music Man - John Petrucci's original series and Majesties, the Luke series, Albert Lee's sig, they're a very inventive and colaborarive brand when it comes to artists. But the St. Vincent is definitely something special!

[@scoonyer]

if you told me the les paul and the stratocaster where designed by women i would literally go "cool" and get on with my day, why is everything a political statement these days fs

[@gtsgasa]

bonnie raitt had a signature strat too... i mean i get the point but there were female shredders in the 90s for sure.

[@Aurelius228]

Sick guitar and great artist. Impressively dumb interview. Next time get an actual musician to do the interview with relevant questions to click bait oriented questions to fit your agenda

[@feastmode7931]

dude... this is a small clip for a general Vice News audience, not people who want to know about tonewoods and fretboard radius. she is a rare woman to make a sig guitar, and her thoughts about that aspect of her identity ARE relevant.

[@clarissagomez2031]

She’s so talented damn not only is she an amazing artist but also created her own fucking guitar iconic

[@thomasdoyle6812]

Her guitar looks amazing

[@themeadowshadows]

i love annie clark so much.

[@ohstirfry]

I fell for this guitar since I saw it had no idea of st.Vincent at the time I first laid eyes on it

[@transtremm]

Mary Kay, Bonnie Rate, Courtney Love all had custom Fender guitars.

[@robertmorley4506]

'For the mass market' is the key statement

[@edwardlim9742]

I get that this isn't a guitar channel, but wouldn't it have made sense to talk about what makes the guitar unique other than the fact that a woman made it? It shouldn't be a cool guitar just because it was made by a woman. It should be a cool guitar based on its aesthetic merit and functionality (which based on the reviews I've read, is pretty good), AND that it happens to be the first guitar designed by a woman put to the mass market. Pickup selector goes Bridge, Middle, Neck, All Three at once, and Neck and Bridge. IMHO, it looks kind of like an angular reverse Gibson Firebird. It looks like it would have a lot of neck dive as well (which is inevitable with any guitar with a lightweight body and no upper horn).

[@MrZay333]

Edward Lim Only thing I gathered from it is that apparently it's the first guitar a person can play standing up or standing down, as if thats not every guitar ever.

[@tobias7985]

if only

[@scotty686]

Hasn't anyone told you it's [current year]? Merit is dead.

[@davidcremin3837]

Edward Lim ya I agree but there are a lot of vids that talk about objectively and its pretty good apparently

[@oldtimetinfoilhatwearer]

+scotty686 lmao

[@3113_records]

The most original looking signature guitar I’ve seen in awhile.

[@gratata.enchilada]

It’s literally a firebird

[@ethanm856]

@@gratata.enchilada the way it's nothing like it

[@gizmomac1520]

Her Goldie guitar (updated for 2021) is Amazing!

[@transtremm]

The Dutches from Bo Diddley’s group also had a custom model guitar.

[@Jhikonico]

1:16 anyone have an idea what song the background song is? or if theirs music with a similar riff and sound?

[@keraatkins7833]

í gotta admit í totally want one of those guitars!

[@Blankishish]

She's not the first women to have a signature model, even Courtney Love had a signature model...

[@petitnicollas]

A lot of female guitarists have signature models, but she made the design and order the production for the mass market. I am not sure if she is the first one to do it though

[@JakleIsMe]

When she's collaborating with an established manufacture already it makes me question how much she personally designed. I suspect that she was a really, really involved consultant and it seems like they ended up with a great product.

[@belleofkilronan8565]

Don't even mention Courtney Love in this. Her "signature model" was actually plagiarized from another designer. And the alterations made weren't designed from the ground up like Annie's. No comparison there.

[@Blankishish]

Praesepe lol dude relax I'm just saying there were people before, and I used her as an examole because we all know she isn't that great

[@belleofkilronan8565]

Bad example for a valid point, if you were serious about making that point at all and not just interested in trolling or hand-waving. Courtney Love ripped off two guitar designers, Tim George and Danny Babbitt to make her Venus "signature" model. Never credited them for their design, even though that publicity would have helped bolster their names and recognition throughout the industry. That's just scum behavior and an example of using feminism and being a female musician as a branding tactic and not really being interested in innovation or carving a path for other women to follow. Clark is unique in that she's not even thinking about the debt she owns to the "pantheon" of other female rock musicians, she's just naturally that creative and thoughtful. That's a positive example for others to follow, and makes her distinct from other guitarists and musicians period.

[@TheDennyAblack]

I love St Vincent... interesting body shape reminiscent of the gibson explorer.. she's very creative so this guitar would definitely be made for exploration!

[@Jhikonico]

Denny Ablack if thats the case its for sure made for people that like to make up music rather than play cover songs

[@milaortiz]

Yes, it is a celebrity endorsement. It follows an esthetic value more than effective performance instrument with ergonomic features. But probably it's what music industry wants nowadays, giving more attention to image than the real and deep significance of art. That riff was very goofy btw.

[@n0xx295]

AFAIK this it's the first guitar designed by a woman... Courtney Love designed the "Venus", which formed a sort of "couple" with the Jagstang designed by Kurt Cobain. But in all honesty, the Venus was a bit gimmicky as a guitar, and looks and plays more like an unfinished "prototype" than a well thought out instrument: It's thin sounding and clinking, has a stylish but not very practical bridge that's prone to string breakage, and it's very much an homage to the Teisco-style Japanese guitars of the 60s that became the favorites of the garage/alternative/punk rock scene in the 70s and 80s. And as such, it can never be a great instrument, because a great instrument transcends genre. A Saint Vincent's guitar is a different beast entirely: It's a proper instrument. It's clearly inspired by the 60s Non-Reverse Firebirds, but then again only loosely. It has a functioning trem, a distinctive choice of pickups, and it's overall a great alternative to a Firebird.

[@ErikGiovani]

That's a nice looking guitar, looks really easy to play

[@thousandfarenheit]

01:06 that's the riff to Los Ageless!!!!

[@georgethompson3763]

Love her music, and had no idea she had this other job!

[@toonmationproductions8703]

this isnt a job, she just designed a guitar and its her like- signature one. shes a full time musician and they reached out to her and asked her if they could make a custom guitar for her. and they did- she just helped design it

[@CriticsConfession]

I mean, I adore Annie and the achievement of being the first woman to do something, but Ringo Sheena got her own mass-produced signature guitar series like 15 years ago.

[@Emet.V]

The statement that she is the first woman to create a guitar is false. There was the squire venus co created by cortney love. The guitar is awesome all the same!

[@duncangarrett918]

That def does not count! She’s not an artist

[@MichaelGrey11]

She plays Los Ageless ❤️

[@ohraisins]

Coolest looking guitars on the planet !

[@solsoshine]

St. Vincent is cool, but why is this on Vice News and not on Noisey??

[@Elena-er7zp]

I like her mom hair. it makes me feel warm and cozy. 😊

[@sugarwalls2022]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!

[@loganrandall780]

"As a kid tryna learn Pantera riffs" haha fucking love it

[@scottpetersen1753]

"Precious few innovations have been made." Suuuuuuuure, VICE, the violin has been totally reworked in the last 100 years. The electric guitar was only invented a few decades ago, guys.

[@schizophrenicdolphinz9822]

Played one of these at warped tour was pretty nice

[@trasibleon]

Erhh... Lita Ford have an B.C. Rich signature...

[@MiikeyLawless]

she did in the 80s lol

[@SteelSkin667]

The Lita Ford guitar is just a warlock with her name on it. Many female artists have had signature guitars over the years. To be fair not many artists in general get to have a brand new design associated with their name. She is joining the likes of Les Paul, EVH, Albert Lee, Dimebag Darrell.

[@88dancel]

She had, "an", BC Rich?

[@VikCain]

yup, a Gibson melody maker without all the anoying parts of a regular melody maker. and it look awesome. So, yeah, no idea what are they talking about with the first female whatever. The guitar looks sick though and they do a cheaper stearling version that I might be able to check out.

[@devilononeshoulder]

headstock looks wrong to me, the body is angular and futuristic, but the headstock looks old and classic. its mismatched to my eye.

[@MH5tube]

My guess is EBMM didn't let her stray from their signature look. Which sucks, but makes sense. PRS didn't slap a Fender headstock on the Silver Sky for Mayer

[@hanawana]

love her

[@xXbudred123Xx]

That's a great looking guitar, St. Vincent obviously has talent, its a shame VICE just wanted to get a soundbyte out of her to further their identity politics.

[@RT804]

Budred123 I cannot ever see a situation in where I would own one but it looks okay. Im still struggling to understand the correlation between pink guitars as a kid and being offended to the point she needed to create a smaller bodied guitar with women in mind, for herself. Any other guitar that was not pink didn't mean it was gender specific to a man. Pick it up and play it. If a Less Paul is a little too big then get a baby, or inherently smaller full size guitar.

[@xXbudred123Xx]

I don't think St. Vincent really made that correlation, I'm willing to bet that "reporter" was asking some leading questions off camera.

[@petitnicollas]

I think she agrees with Vice in a lot of issues, identity politics included.

[@xXbudred123Xx]

I'm not sure, I don't know anything about her, but towards the beginning of her interview she wasn't really trying to talk about gender, but more about the guitar and that she was joking about it being a guitar for women, then her tone changed after a cut in the video.

[@samejthenearlyfamous]

Yea I just saw it as the media made it into gender thing, St. Vincent was just making boob jokes

[@laureanoalfaro9351]

I fecking love this guitar

[@Josh-wd8ce]

I thought Jimmy didn't re string his guitars?

[@Noisehead101]

He did. The strings were the correct way, just the guitar was upside down.

[@emzee1148]

Implying that women can't argue about the difference between a Strat and Les Paul...

[@erickt1974]

Courtney Love had a custom Fender first actually

[@knowone9490]

This video was pretty interesting, but i get so annoyed when you press the gender identity thing all the time..

[@Diax1324]

That's like telling people to stop talking about the holocaust. It may be a frail and absolutely beaten to death subject, but it's important and still bears heavy relevance to modern societal standards and standards which must be maintained. If we forget about these issues, we'll let the past rhyme over and over and over again.

[@ludvigroxstrom5974]

wow! it looks so beautiful!

[@semilivesixstringstrumist5595]

Its a better looking guitar than any Fender or Gibson new guitar Ever! I never wanted a Sig. guitar ever! Until Now! I will have one of these pieces of playable Art!

[@BrantK147]

That guitar looks amazing!!! I love it.

[@tayloragutierrez]

When you just now listen to this and hear a sample of St. Vincent's "Los Ageless"

[@zappasmoustache23]

pretty much most signature guitars, with a few exceptions, are simply stock models, slightly modified to the artists specification, i'm surprised most of the gear heads commenting here aren't aware of that. the sussanah hoffs rickenbacker just looks like a rickenbacker, nothing unique about that. This is the first sig guitar by a female artist that has been designed to erganomically(have i spelled that right?) suit the female body shape.

[@tkzsfen]

the pickguard is a bit...repulsive?! i can't describe it, but the less pickguard there is, the better :D the shape as a whole is good and definitely original. few are like it.

[@Diax1324]

I think St Vincent's signature is one of the coolest signature guitars of all time ever. When I'm more financially stable, I'm getting one.

[@patryknew9084]

She is incredible, she`s playing notes what should even doesn't exist and looks amazing.

[@Bluebuthappy182]

Didn't Bonnie Raitt have a signature guitar from 1996 to 2000 or 2001 and that's just off the top of my head. So not the first then. Having said that it's a really nice guitar.

[@MrGameplayGirl]

That guitar is a must!

[@BAallday36]

Shes gorgeous

[@Middlesecond]

Great video! I love St. Vincent

[@evalex71]

This is a beautiful guitar

[@DelScully]

one day I hope to be able to afford one of these... 3000 dollars where I'm from though.

[@steezjuice86]

Looks rad!

[@elpadrino1128]

What do you mean with "She is the first woman to design her signature guitar" ?? There has been signature guitars of female players since the 70´s ( with big brands ) and that argument at 2:35 is simply stupid, nobody is forcing you to buy a pink guitar just because you are a girl, I was really hoping to like this but there are too many things said to mislead people :T

[@raylocke282]

8 made me heam.

[@jimmyperullo947]

I would love that guitar. Too bad I don't have an extra $2k laying around

[@BoyAditya]

Woa.. Omar Rodriguez have st. Vincent's left handed Guitar? ... awesome

[@morganghetti]

Annie is awesome and those guitars are really cool. However, vice apparently didn't no research before publishing this.

[@davidcremin3837]

That los ageless guitar riff

[@Emelllll64]

The interviewer looks like courtney from thirteen reasons why

[@mykhedelic6471]

It's an excellent guitar by an excellent maker designed by someone who happens to be penisless. The hammer doesn't require one, the TV remote doesn't require one, the torch, the saxophone, nearly everything. Buy this guitar and speak your mind (THAT organ is required.)

[@douglasbatley1907]

They look amazing sound fantastic 😍 I want a black one please .

[@ML-hv1ni]

This video is incorrect. St Vincent is not the first female to have a signature model...Lita Ford had one through BC Rich

[@YTTraveler777]

SurfingOnBrainwaves as if St Vincent is a luthier. Hahaha. You are so dumb. Saying to a factory "make it this shape and I like this color" is hardly designing it. Its shape is just a hybrid of several other guitars...not super unique.

[@fidelity5993]

The first woman to design her own line of signature guitars? Really?? Joan Jett, Susanna Hoffs, Grace Potter, Orianthi, Bonnie Raitt, Nancy Wilson, Lzzy Hale, Courtney Love, Avril Lavigne, Lita Ford... Jesus christ VICE who wrote this

[@jaykapolka6111]

Yeah. first woman to design. Not simply have a signature model. Are you under the impression Lita Ford designed the gibson explorer or something? Do you think Jimmy Page and Ace Frehley "designed" their Les Pauls?

[@Guitaroverkill]

Jay Kapolka You are right. The other dude can’t read.

[@TheSonsofHorusx]

Seriously Vice, what a load of shit. I own a bass thats a signature model for Doris Ye....a woman....who had alot of design input on the bass.....and there are plenty of woman out there with signature guitars that range from slapping their name on the headstock to completely redesigning the piece of wood. This is just one thing I know about - cant take Vice at face value. Theres good from this though, a lesson in always crosschecking your news.

[@BoyajianDon]

Bonnie Raitt had a signature strat

[@heggy_69]

its honestly grown on me I still don't like it, but I don't hate it

[@kylerohan3841]

Love it but she isn’t the first. Two other women who had signature models are Courtney love and Bonnie raitt

[@itsalie]

she is not the fist woman to design or receive a signature guitar. mama June Thorp is the oldest off the top of my head. other female artists with signature guitars predating st Vincent's include. Bonnie Rate, Lita Ford, Joan Jett, Flash Bathory, Jenifer Baton. the point is check the facts before you push a false narrative.

[@gtsgasa]

courtney love had her own guitar in the 90s i thought?

[@cynparker]

I just look at you and...my heart breaks

[@CarsonCostanza]

“Asked why he perfect inexpensive guitars “ Shows Kurt with 1959 Martin d-18 e which recently sold for a record 6000000$

[@thisguy2973]

Not to mention, it was the most expensive guitar to ever auction. To put that in perspective, I believe back in the early 2000s, Clapton auctioned off about 140 guitars for around $1.5M. Kurts guitar he played on Unplugged beats Clapton’s 140 six-fold.

[@doitnowvideosyeah5841]

Well he like Japanese Strats better than USA ones even when he could afford a USA one. He started with Mustangs and a Jaguar, which until Kurdt started getting famous were cheap...

[@dumbdumberanddumbest9375]

I just wish the headstock was different on all ernie balls

[@Anson120]

You cant reach the upper frets. Nice rose wood neck and string passing up at the nut.

[@andreasbaader863]

Ya, I don't know any women in rock music. I mean Heart, Janis Joplin, Joan Jett, The Runaways, Stevie Nicks, Pat Benatar, Patti Smith aren't good enough.

[@kurmarkify]

hers isn't the first female signature guitar model and ernie ball is doing most of the work "getting it to market"

[@jseaux]

ArtificiallyFlavord Many other women have had signature models and still do. Maybe not as much as males, but more guys pick up guitars than women.

[@darthesgoobis123]

You mean like Joan Jetts signature Gibson Melody Maker?

[@emilydollery5176]

Kim deal, kim gordon, blinda butcher, d'arcy wretzky etc etc :D

[@sleether4049]

Check Sister Rosetta out, she is an awesome guitar player!

[@randyzeitman1354]

Did Carol Kaye design her model?

[@petitnicollas]

HEY BOSS, CAN I HABE THE ALBUM PLZ