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00:00Hello, I'm Jake Bourke, and this is my guitars and me

00:11Moment it all started for me on the guitar

00:13I was probably about 12 years old and I just everything was about football at that point

00:17I had no interest in music and I came back from football training one day and my uncle he

00:22He had a guitar. He just had brought a guitar

00:24He'd been learning himself and I think he just wanted someone to jam with really

00:27So he taught me a couple of the basic chords and that was it then I just fell in love with it

00:32And I just couldn't put it down since then

00:39You know when things start happening and just to

00:43all of a sudden be playing Martin's Gibson's and

00:46Fenders and stuff was was just like everything you dream off as a kid really and it's funny like when when you're that age at

00:5318 17 19 or whatever, you know

00:56Think you think you just you think you're invincible you think you're the best and it's not until you start

01:02Learning more about music that you start to understand how little you actually know and but you know at that age

01:08It just felt absolutely amazing

01:11So this one is is one of my favorites. I love to play it on stage a lot

01:15I'm getting more and more worried about taking out live. I have to be honest, but this is a

01:201966 Stratocaster that I bought in in Texas. I think just absolutely love it

01:25It's just got this this three switch

01:28Pickup, which is great. And yeah, it's clearly had some love clearly been played a lot. I'd love to know what I

01:34Who it's been played by that's always the great thing about these guitars the history when I'd love to know more about it

01:40Sometimes like a lot of the modern Stratocasters could have the kind of that kind of glassy top-henny kind of sound

01:44But for some reason I don't think this one has it. I don't say I could be wrong, but apparently like think

01:51They didn't really make black Strats at one and so I think if they made a mistake on the finish they'd paint it black

01:58So I think where that's where it used to be white underneath the thing

02:12Didn't really know a lot about these guitars, but I was on tour in America with Noel Gallagher in Snow Patrol and and

02:19The guitar tech for Noel Gallagher's guitarist. He took me to two grooms in Nashville and

02:25And he and we went up to the upstairs room and they just had all these really old amazing guitars and I was like

02:32Yeah, I really actually like one of those to be honest and and I just love I just love the color on it

02:37Just looked kind of it's not too flat

02:39but

02:40And it just he just really had that

02:43Just that country kind of tone straight up like it was so

02:47So

02:49Instant when I plugged it in like you just without any pedals or anything you plug it in

02:52It just got the just got the power all there because this is

02:561954 I think it is I think I used to use this one a bit more as the main one

03:02At a certain time. It's very good at what it does

03:05And as I say whenever whenever it comes to like any more kind of country or skiffle II kind of stuff

03:10We do this is the first one that gets that gets called

03:17I

03:23Whenever I pick up this one, it's like straight to a most of the time

03:27Whereas the strats more like a power cord II or something

03:30It's like it's funny how and just like the different fretboards like the way you approach it as well

03:35Sometimes it now it's pretty say that yeah, you pick up guitar and you play different things on them all the time

03:40You can still see it's lifted a good life. And yeah, it's a special special thing. I

03:46Think yeah, this thing is just one of the rarest guitars I've ever come across

03:54But this one's just stayed at my house

03:56I probably needs a bit of a setup and stuff like this one definitely doesn't go on the road. So

04:02So this is a

04:051953 I think is on it

04:07yeah

04:091953 j185 and and I came across this in Tokyo in Japan. I've never actually seen one before and

04:18So we kept looking at it for a bit and trying to look it up and not much was coming up and eventually I asked

04:24The guy could could I have a go on that please? And he was like no

04:29We should quite understand so so I only had to get out his phone and keep showing pictures of guitars already own like these ones

04:35And then eventually he came around and he let he let me have a go on it

04:38I had a few drinks thought about it came back and then was like let's go and buy

04:44Yeah, the worst I'll go think about its situation ever

04:50Yes, definitely one of the rarest guitars I've ever came across it looks like it tells a story doesn't it looks like it should

04:56Be in a museum or something

04:58But I absolutely love it. And yeah, as I said, this one does not go on the road

05:02This stays at home and and is used on records whenever I need it. It just kind of has that a

05:09Kind of big bassiness to it that you kind of used to on the bigger Gibsons as well

05:14It gives you that it gives you a different option it gives you a different tone

05:17I feel like you know, I've got some lovely Martins as well

05:20And you know, they're great like kind of more mid-range II kindness, but when you just want so

05:28Just got that kind of 60s folk sound already about it

05:33If it inspires, you know

05:35Just if it just gives you the slightest spark of creative creativity or inspiration

05:40Then then it's done its job and it's and I'm sure it's been doing it well for yeah for almost 70 years now

05:46Which just blows my mind

05:56Thanks everyone, I'm Jake bug and you can listen to my new album coming out on October the 4th and thank you very much for

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