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I think the problem is, your average Joe is a total bellend.
Try telling that to Joe. I dare you.
I think the problem is, your average Joe is a total bellend.
And, if you click on the next link, odds are you'll get a completely different answer. Caveat emptor...
It's like we all forgot about and overlooked the inevitable (Dis) that would come with the (Dis)Information Superhighway.
As much as Grunge brought a downer-vibe to the 90s there was also a massive amount of Idealism about what instant
access and interconnectedness via the Internet would do for humanity. It's like a light/shadow thing, and as humans we
seem to overlook the latter until it is blatantly all up in our faces.
I think Anderton's sans Chapman has been much better. Lee has gotten also a lot better as a guitarist which is really nice to see. Peter Honore is always a joy to watch.Chapman's earlier videos with Lee were pretty good and kind of set the bar for gear demos in the earlier YT days. Andertons had good videos for several years and raised their production level a fair amount, but they kind of stalled out a few years back and I haven't watched much for a long time. Rob's videos after he moved to Malta and had the falling out with Riff City have been unwatchable. The full time video makers really do have to work full time to make moderately interesting videos and clearly he's not doing that.
Rabea, I watch mostly for his playing and songs which are good. Hell I have his new song with Plini saved on my Spotify as I listened several times because it's just a damn good song. Even Pete Thorn, great a player as he is, shills products is better than 9 of 10 videos. I honestly don't even watch his channel anymore.
You have to realize 95% of these videos are just advertisements. There aren't many honest gear reviews on social media. That's one reason I like to make long rambling posts when I try out gear...it's an interesting impartial review of the gear for other curious people, and sometimes it's a signpost for future me when he tries to buy the same gear multiple times
Hate YT gear reviews? You might enjoy this YT video!
Saw these over the weekend. John Cordy has a great channel for those of you into modeling.
Is that much different from somebody buying an expensive, hard to get boutique amp or pedal, then going on forums and claiming it's superior to everything else? With few owners it's difficult to refute any of those claims and thanks to anonymity we can't know if the person making the claim is a seasoned player or just someone wealthy who can barely play barre chords.I will add that these marketing tactics are spreading like a disease into places where potential customers hang out like Forums and other social media in a form shills or stealth marketing, unlike geartubers these shills have no reputation or credibility to lose it's just a made up username on a forum.
Is that much different from somebody buying an expensive, hard to get boutique amp or pedal, then going on forums and claiming it's superior to everything else? With few owners it's difficult to refute any of those claims and thanks to anonymity we can't know if the person making the claim is a seasoned player or just someone wealthy who can barely play barre chords.
Nice.Totally agreed on John Cordy. He makes a ton of videos and does some promotion but he's not a hype guy. And he's pretty honest and often very funny.
And of course Leon Todd, who makes a ton of really helpful free content on Fractal gear, and some other honest and interesting content. He'll sell some stuff but it's pretty transparent when that happens IMO.
I actually went through and unsubscribed from about half of the channels I followed on YT this weekend after reading this thread. So many of them were once upon a time good interesting channels but devolved into gear shills. I'm not interested in that anymore.
Actually, here's a list of some channels I've been watching:
- John Nathan Cordy - described above
- Leon Todd - described above
- The Studio Rats - excellent player with good informative content (may have a Boss relationship though)
- G66 - for Fractal tips/tricks
- 501chorusecho - pure gold of course
- That Pedal Show - often plodding and meandering but really informative
- Let's Play All - great 90's rock tutorials and riffs
- Superdanger Studios - smaller channel focused on Iridium stuff but good tones and player and informative
- Shawn Tubbs - works for Revv but he's a monster player and teaches a lot of stuff
- Eric Haugen Guitar - inspirational and focused on playing and learning and not gear
- Kiko Loureiro - humble for how accomplished he is, teaches and gives a great look into touring with a top act
- Jeff McErlaine - teacher from Truefire, good informative content
- Zach Wish - unbelievably well produced modern rock gear demos and covers (his band is great too)
- Late Night Lessons - focused completely on teaching, excellent player and teacher with wide tastes
Eytchpi42 is great. The only quibble I have with his vids is they are wayyyyyyy too long. He's up front about it and I feel like he goes through pretty much everything you are going to want to ask about a piece of gear he is reviewing.I think Anderton's sans Chapman has been much better. Lee has gotten also a lot better as a guitarist which is really nice to see. Peter Honore is always a joy to watch.
Rabea has good production on his videos and he has sold me on quite a few pieces of gear. Like Pete Thorn I tend to watch him for the riffs rather than the gear.
I like Eytchpi42 in small doses. He's got an odd sense of humor but his videos are generally informative and well produced. Dude just needs to use a tuner way more often.
People still have a hard time discerning between product demos and product reviews. Majority of gear content is not reviews but product demos. They are not meant to be a critique but to show off the gear.
It's a lot of work to make even a single video that actually looks good (and not like it's from a cave in Afghanistan or wherever John Cordy lives) and is well recorded, edited etc. If I was a YouTuber, I would absolutely try to make some money out of it because there's only so far you can do it as a hobby until it becomes an actual job.
I’m glad I already knew what I wanted for gear before GearInfluencers were a thing, I couldn’t imagine being 15 years old, falling in love with guitar and seeing these guys pimp gear with no way to obtain said gear, it was hard enough with Musician’s Friend catalogs in the 90’s, never mind a personality you dig telling you how great the product is.
I still watch gear videos all the time but it’s more out of curiosity than for making a purchasing decision.
When I was 15 I asked my mom to buy me a Guild Mahogany Acoustic. When I was 17 I bought a Strat.
My influencers were Bob Dylan and Hendrix.
"Heyyyy don't you need a Starfire! Yeaahhhh!"Look at that, even with an infinitely stuff up nose, Bob could still move Guilds!
"Heyyyy don't you need a Starfire! Yeaahhhh!"
Was it over a broken hot pocket cover?Okay, I'm gonna have to check out John Cordy now. I've had a disdain for watching anything gear related over the past few years. I got really soured on some drama that unfolded in the Helix Facebook Official Original Turbo group between a few Youtubers to the point where watching anything like that just wasn't interesting anymore.
Damn nearWas it over a broken hot pocket cover?
I’m glad I already knew what I wanted for gear before GearInfluencers were a thing, I couldn’t imagine being 15 years old, falling in love with guitar and seeing these guys pimp gear with no way to obtain said gear, it was hard enough with Musician’s Friend catalogs in the 90’s, never mind a personality you dig telling you how great the product is.
I still watch gear videos all the time but it’s more out of curiosity than for making a purchasing decision.
Look at that, even with an infinitely stuff up nose, Bob could still move Guilds!