Weezer's Rivers Cuomo's "Blue" Guitar History | Guitars of the Gods

[@SecretsofRock]

What guitar history would you like to see next? www.buymeacoffee.com/secretsofrock

[@hotstankygarbage788]

These are just ideas off the top of mah noggin Tom DeLonge's signature Gibson Mark Hoppus Signature Frankenstein P Bass Dimebag Darrell guitar Patrick Stump Stumpomatic Johnny Marr signature guitar Peter Hook hooky bass

[@joepro182]

Tom Delonge’s Signature Strat and Gibson

[@twiggy5109]

Tom delonges invader strat or his BCR 335

[@sirsurfpsycho]

tom morello "arm the homeless"!!

[@mikefromusa6902]

Beck’s silvertone

[@jazzmaster3404]

"I was born with equal length legs, but as I grew to full height, my left leg grew nearly two inches shorter than the right. I wore custom shoes from age 16. After the success of The Blue Album, I underwent the Ilizarov procedure to correct the condition." RC

[@30smsuperstrat]

What's wrong with walking in circles?

[@lennyverralis]

i think cobains blue mustang may have been an influence on the look abit too with the tourt pick gaurd , as we know rivers is a massive nirvana fan!

[@UltraZombie]

What skystang or comp stang

[@lennyverralis]

@@UltraZombie skystang for sure with the colours

[@sodapoppsycho]

You should try to do Mac DeMarco’s Cardboard Queen that guitar has such a unique sound

[@dickmaster666]

that would be amazing

[@Danielfucks69]

No it doesnt

[@brazillionairemma1373]

@@Danielfucks69 it sounds like shit. I love Mac but seriously man

[@tangyorange6509]

@@brazillionairemma1373 agreed

[@calvinberkenbile8414]

They said “unique” not good

[@gianttreeproductions3947]

Ironic that I got this notification after weezer just finished their set in Chicago

[@mint_1919]

WHY IS NO ONE MENTIONING THAT IT HAS THE SAME SCHEME AS KURT'S MUSTANG

[@Okla_Soft]

I can’t tell you how long I’ve been waiting for somebody to make this video. I built two very similar Warmoth Strat builds this year, which were heavily inspired by Rivers’ guitar.

[@5urg3x]

10-16” compound radius is Warmoth’s standard / default. Ken Warmoth invented the compound radius (conical shaped fretboard) so they used that as a default on all their strat necks. You can still order a continuous radius, if you want, but that option would have to be changed from the default.

[@jebkush1052]

I love this Guitar and Rivers is an underrated shredder! Also I literally just watched your Kurt Cobain video today and now this shows up on my recommended. Subscribed.

[@NoUploadJustComment]

And both bands are touring together this summer. Cool content. Keep up the good work.

[@SecretsofRock]

Will do, thanks!

[@spacemonkeymadness]

Could you do a history of Tom Delonge’s strats and Gibsons?

[@twiggy5109]

I was just going to comment that!

[@SecretsofRock]

Workin' on it.

[@jebkush1052]

I love his sticker strat

[@htoomyat-bs6qr]

@@SecretsofRock I'm waiting for it

[@SecretsofRock]

I just posted a video on his Strats

[@garycoates4987]

YES!! BEEN WAITING FOR SOMEONE TO HISTORY THIS GUITAR!! I have a pink Warmoth and when I found out about his guitar I became a huge fan

[@imalright2837]

I’d kill for a Josh Homme guitar history video 🤤

[@grusamericanagilt4173]

This is a video I have been waiting for my entire life

[@booneh]

The original blue and green guitars were alder. The blonde and black guitars were maple. They were used live for E standard songs on the Green Album.

[@thebreakfastmenu]

I think the assumption of the fingerboard radius comes from the fact that Warmoth currently has those compound radius specs on their necks. Perhaps they did back then too.

[@clintonstonich]

LOVING these videos. Please never stop.

[@SecretsofRock]

Wow, thanks!

[@riverr9568]

its weird being named "river" and hearing "rivers" guitar,

[@xx7secondsxx]

Great vid bro!🤘🎸🤘🎸🤘 Love hearing about the background of amazing instruments from bands I LOVE and that were used during LP recordings i love!

[@SecretsofRock]

Glad you enjoyed it.

[@philisaacs224]

Adam Jones Gibson Les Paul Custom Silverburst

[@SecretsofRock]

Great idea, especially because Gibson just released the signature version.

[@willm3027]

Just found your channel this morning and man… I love your channel!

[@SecretsofRock]

Thanks and welcome aboard!

[@loggerhead837]

I know rivers loved nirvana, so it’d be pretty cool if he chose sonic blue & the tortoise shell guard to match Kurt’s mustang

[@FenderFanboy91]

Or rivers is kurt 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱

[@averylangs]

heyy you made the video!! Great work as always man!

[@SecretsofRock]

Much appreciated!

[@vluke1000]

I love these videos! could you do one on randy roads’s Flying V or Lindsey Buckingham’s various guitars

[@SecretsofRock]

Great suggestions! They're now on my list.

[@virtue696]

He was born with the shorter leg. (sure thats been mentioned a dozen times already) edit: actually you were probably making a joke..

[@Oliver-uw1uz]

There’s no way you only have 1k followers you deserve 100k followers

[@SecretsofRock]

Thanks, that'd be awesome.

[@aleclynner1860]

Another great vid!

[@SecretsofRock]

Glad you enjoyed!

[@jaytinponce2385]

love your videos keep it up

[@Deaf_Notes]

Woah this is crazy, like about 6 hours ago I was googling about Rivers blue strat.

[@SecretsofRock]

The Google knows all.

[@johndiloreto3738]

Something to note: The photo of the replica you used got one thing wrong. The knob for the black ice module is labeled "Volume", but the volume control has a knob that says "Master" on it

[@mywhitenoise_]

The photo shows “volume” for both, which is what Rivers had. Mike (the creator of the pictured replica) has a “Master” knob on his personal Blue Strat copy. It is debated that Rivers didn’t even use the black ice module.

[@Therankinlife]

This was great bro 😂 Good work

[@DapperGeo]

Could you do Tom morellos ‘arm the homeless’ guitar? :)

[@SecretsofRock]

That's coming up.

[@YourWifesBoyfriend]

I love champagne socialists!

[@SecretsofRock]

Posted it today :)

[@MelShibson]

Great vid. The guitars are so fat and crunchy on the blue album. I think Rivers probably did use Ric's guitars when he went over Jason's parts.

[@troutenjoyer]

Great watch. Subbed and turned on notifications 👍🏻

[@SecretsofRock]

Awesome thank you!

[@Cleveland-ye7rw]

This account will definitely be big

[@SecretsofRock]

Wow thanks, I hope so

[@presto111man]

Awesome job as usual. You might consider Michael Schenker at some point.

[@marcoabyss]

this is the content i didn't know i need

[@SecretsofRock]

You and me both

[@wmvnotmp4]

Great vid

[@6stringbass460]

Your content is super cool:)

[@SecretsofRock]

Thanks!

[@mikefromusa6902]

These vids are absolute gold

[@SecretsofRock]

Thanks! I'm just glad other people are interested in this stuff.

[@RadioactiveKetchup]

This is the greatest video I've ever seen

[@SecretsofRock]

Wow thanks!

[@MattRanks]

Yay more Weezer KZbin content

[@potatoheadhaoy]

"the player is rivers Cuomo" *Shows goddamn buddy Holly* Okay you got yourself a sub

[@SecretsofRock]

Thank you!

[@sirsurfpsycho]

LOVE THESE!!!

[@SecretsofRock]

Thanks!

[@muletsag300]

Love the SIAS instrumental playing in the background (California).

[@willowtree4450]

Rivers didn’t order/build blue. It was the previous guitarists (before brian) custom build and after his departure he just let rivers keep it.

[@richkentbondoc5206]

It says here jason cropper's strat was the red one. This cuomocaster is the blue

[@b.w.22]

@@richkentbondoc5206- He may have been choosing to be cagey about it, but in an interview/lead guitar analysis with that guy Schifflett from Foo Fighters, when asked about the guitar Rivers said that Cropper had specced it and that he wasn’t entirely sure what-all was in it, just that he’d liked his guitars. Then again, in other interviews he says that the “Weezer” sound is actually Ric Ocasek’s guitars, even to this day, either a Jaguar (I think) on Blue or a Gibson Les Paul Jr. What was stunning to me was the revelation that there’s never been, not even offered to him, a Rivers Cuomo signature guitar. This is such a bizarre fact to me, as there’s not one “signature” anything I’d be more interested in than something like that, given that I don’t have any signature anything gear.

[@darsieoj]

Both guitars are right handed Both guitars are played with picks Both guitars are in music videos Both guitars are on onlyfans

[@element19961]

bro scared the shit out of me. I've never googled something so fast in my life about the governor thing.

[@jaytinponce2385]

can u do a slash les paul story please

[@kajuiceboi3592]

Great video man! Though at 9:44, why did you make this part to unnecessarily long? You could've just said: "both guitars were blue, had a Seymour Duncan pickup in the bridge, reportedly had sperzel tuners, covered in stickers at one point, had clones made for the original player, have a cult-like following among fans, etc etc...

[@hotstankygarbage788]

Holy fuck my request, ayyyy.

[@AndyDion]

Funny documentary Rivers went to my High School in Connecticut

[@SecretsofRock]

Did you know him?

[@sluminous203]

Something really funny is that when Rivers discusses the original strat now he said a “friend” broke it on stage…. LOL

[@bobbillnolan7644]

The original blue warmoth Strat , on some of the videos of the blue album - was built by Jason, who left the guitar behind when he got fired from weezer… this video is way out on facts ✌️

[@CornDogAnimations]

Where's the video of rivers throwing blue on stage? I can't find it.

[@scs7790]

And both guitars were tuned to Eb lol

[@brettwolf]

Little known info, Boogie Bodies ordered Necks and Bodies from other venders including Fernandes of Japan. Another Rivers/Billie Joe connection

[@SecretsofRock]

That's rad!

[@no__bao]

Could you do a video on Johnny Greenwood’s Telecaster?

[@SecretsofRock]

Great idea!

[@anthonymyers5856]

This is me subscribing before this channel gets massive

[@mattiaborde8247]

What?

[@SecretsofRock]

Thanks

[@richkentbondoc5206]

Meditation part killed me 💀

[@barrypotter5751]

His trousers were made from windsocks

[@draezz7691]

Can you do a history of billie joes lespaul juniors?

[@SecretsofRock]

Great idea!

[@chrissoto6912]

Can you please do a Billy Corgan bat Strat episode

[@aleclynner1860]

Do Brian Mays guitar history

[@SecretsofRock]

It's definitely on the list

[@aleclynner1860]

@@SecretsofRock that would be interesting to watch cuz he made it from scratch!

[@UnremarkableMarx]

Do Marc Bolan's les paul. Some most beautiful numbers to ever be written were on that beautiful les paul

[@SecretsofRock]

I'll put it on the list

[@AaronEddieHYo]

In the first one, did he use the 24.75" warmoth neck? I've built two mahagony's with that neck, both standard and cbs in 2004

[@sojungvage9740]

did he really get his weezer streched??

[@ashfaII]

dude no way i took that picture of rivers 0:42 with my iphone lmaoo

[@jamesasc7709]

F spaced is Fender not Floyd?

[@benvillasana3062]

Slashes appetite for destruction les Paul

[@SecretsofRock]

Hell yeah!

[@adanpaprotskiy3117]

You should do johnny ramones mosrite

[@SecretsofRock]

Great idea

[@mattthen64punk]

Dean weens musicmaster

[@lolothe1st735]

What about John Frusciantes strat?

[@theodorejurcsisn5042]

I made a copy of this guitar back in 2001 but mine kind of sucks. I always thought Rivers’ was a copy of Kurt Cobain’s guitar of the same color.

[@anjay854]

do kirk hammet

[@anjay854]

wait no do slash

[@aishahyusope2256]

Please do a John frusciante guitar

[@SecretsofRock]

Will do

[@mattiaborde8247]

Hello

[@formula73]

CAROLE FEKKIN BASKINE

[@SecretsofRock]

Wasn't sure if people would catch that one

[@samabbitt5587]

8:33 what show is this

[@julianne5609]

ive been searching for almost an hour and cant seem to find it. I think it was at the Reading Festival show in 1996 but I only seem to find audios. Im not sure

[@julianne5609]

hello i just found the video. kzbin.info/www/bejne/p3TMmpuoh9mGpc0si=DbrQ4wfjuAZ9zsXo it's in the minute 47: something

[@mattiaborde8247]

Made the first comment

[@SecretsofRock]

Thanks for watching!

[@clemenspoint2479]

Do these videos are amazing. So funny to

[@SecretsofRock]

Much appreciated!

[@alwaysforget911]

you gotta cover all of tom delonges strats in the next video

[@SecretsofRock]

Doing it.

[@SecretsofRock]

Done.

[@chewiecovers]

Billie joe and Floyd

[@curtisnewton895]

never saw him playing that guitar

[@mikeryan2838]

The blue guitar has the same pickups as Kurt Cobain's Jaguar.

[@enriquepastor3626]

That strat was a tribute to Kurt's in utero tour mustangs 4 sure

[@jacksoncurtis3683]

=W=

[@isrei_archived]

Tom delonge strat please

[@SecretsofRock]

Workin' on it.

[@SecretsofRock]

It's live on my channel, enjoy.

[@Denzuki00]

Liz phair's underwear...sorrry..!!...i mean liz phair mustang..!!...she used it almost 30 years.

[@NikoFrederiko.]

How about Brian May?

[@SecretsofRock]

He's on the list for sure

[@reecesaracino8188]

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[@Thurston86]

Hahaha Assram! 🤘🤣👽👽👽

[@clintwilson6380]

This isn't remotely in the same geographical area code of coolest guitars, but I'm gonna watch it anyway.

[@ennbee2051]

Guarantee no one commenting plays guitar, lol. I teach. I'm only 13 and I teach. I bet no one commenting knows anything about music, lol! Sorry, sorry. I'm bragging lol, but, well I can.

[@eldiablo3794]

When you say dogstar are you referring to Keanu Reeves band and their drummer is a holocaust denier????

[@kellphil76]

That never happened, it’s total horse shit.(the fight)

[@eldiablo3794]

@@kellphil76 what fight?? I'm trying to figure out what the guy in the video is even referencing pertaining to what he said about dogstars drummer assaulting Rivers and saying he's anti Semitic.

[@eldiablo3794]

@@kellphil76 Are you saying it never happened? What about the drummer supposedly being anti Semitic? Because I just read a story about keanu apologizing for being in the band dogstart with that guy.. so I'm assuming that part is true. The Rivers fight part I can't find anything about it, but I'm gonna go on a limb and believe keanu about the anti-Semitic part and the drummer being a holocaust denier.

[@GuitarGuy4647]

Most copied? I’ve never seen this guitar or even heard of this dude by name, and I’ve listened to Weezer for almost twenty years.

[@wmvnotmp4]

That's on you lol

[@paulcrowder]

Could do without the puns.

[@BenDover-dk4oo]

Pleaseeeeee do the Tom DeLonge white Stickered Stratocaster

[@SecretsofRock]

That's literally what I'm working on now.

[@BDanuff03]

@@SecretsofRock LETS GOO, maybe eventually you can do his ES-333s or his signature strats

[@SecretsofRock]

Done, enjoy it!

[@BDanuff03]

@@SecretsofRock I enjoyed every minute lmao

[@XxcumgangsterxX]

Liddle middle nudds 😿😿😿