Guitar Tabloid — The week in guitar YouTube

Guitar Tabloid: 19 Sep to 25 Sep 2026

Guitar Tabloid, Week ending Friday 25 September 2026: sixstringtv's busy week; Fender opens conversation at €250,000; Peavey denies prison labour

Headlines

From Mary Spender’s video “I Interviewed the CEO of Fender”

AS SEEN ON 2 CHANNELS

Fender opens conversation at €250,000

Bud Cole told Mary Spender that the €250,000 in Fender's roughly 60 cease and desist letters was a starting point for talks, not a fine, and that 18 companies have agreed to change their designs. (Mary Spender, John Nathan Cordy, Tim Pierce)3

From TheGuitarGeek’s video “Peavey Sets the Record Straight on Prison Labour”

Peavey denies prison labour

Peavey's Fred Poole told TheGuitarGeek the company has never used prison labour, answering a claim from George Lynch.4

From Bradley Hall’s video “i'm being deported”

Bradley Hall refused entry to Brazil

Bradley Hall says he was held in airport detention in São Paulo for more than 24 hours and doesn't know how long the ban lasts.5

From John Nathan Cordy’s video “This FIRED Fender Custom Shop Masterbuilder Takes Aim at Fender - John Cruz x Farida collaboration”

Ex-Fender master builder goes to China

John Cruz has spent 276 days developing a £2,500–£3,000 relic guitar with the Chinese maker Farida, and Cordy notes that relic is a Fender trademark...6

PRS goes off-road

In the year Fender is policing Strat shapes, PRS has repainted the Silver Sky, its Strat-style guitar, in eight Land Rover colours chosen by John Mayer, from $1,000 for SE to $3,200 for USA.7

Consensus watch

  • Kaylen: Five channels made videos about Kaylen this week, and so did Kaylen, twice. (Danny Sapko, The Guitologist, TheGuitarGeek, 60 Cycle Hum, Sonic Drive Studio, sixstringtv)9
  • The Bud Cole interview: Mary Spender interviewed Bud Cole once. Tim Pierce reviewed the interview once, and Cordy reviewed it twice. (Mary Spender, John Nathan Cordy, Tim Pierce)10
  • Whether you need an amp: Rob Chapman says digital is essential for touring, and John Nathan Cordy says you don't need an amp in 2026. On Tim Pierce's channel, Joe Bonamassa defended digital Twins in a video titled "Bonamassa FALLS HARD For A Little NEW Tube Amp". (Rob Chapman, John Nathan Cordy, Tim Pierce Guitar)11
  • The Mesa Dual Rectifier: Sonic Drive Studio bought one and has "zero regrets", Riffs, Beards & Gear put it in the history books, and Ola Englund just plugged a pedal into one. (Sonic Drive Studio, Riffs, Beards & Gear, Ola Englund)12

The Big Story

The price of a joke

From 60 Cycle Hum’s video “THIS IS NOT OK”

Kaylen of sixstringtv reviewed Melody, a folding plastic guitar with rubber frets and generative AI inside, and did not like it. The video passed a quarter of a million views. According to Kaylen, a company representative then wrote from an alternative email address asking for it to come down, saying they had not eaten or slept in 48 hours.13

Kaylen posted the exchange to his Instagram stories with his reply: he would take the video down for $7,000. The company answered that $7,000 was roughly six months' earnings where its representative lives, that its usual budget for creators was no more than $500, and that it might be able to get $2,000 approved. Kaylen posted that too, said he was being lowballed, and set the price at $10,000. Under one post, according to 60 Cycle Hum, he told a commenter that he would have taken the $7,000. The opening figure was fourteen times the company's stated creator budget.14

On 19 September, Ryan of 60 Cycle Hum published a video saying the review itself was fine and probably deserved, but objecting to "putting it on the menu for manufacturers that they could pay to have a bad review disappear." Ryan noted that Kaylen also runs a management agency representing other guitar YouTubers, so the message reached beyond one channel, and asked viewers not to go after him. The Guitologist called it extortion.15

Kaylen replied that morning. The offer was public, he said, and "That is what we call a joke." His defence was that a real bribe would have come with an NDA. The comment about taking the money was a joke for the same reason. He described the maker as an AI garbage company, not a gear company.16

Hours later, Sonic Drive Studio's Jon Symons posted a different story. Months earlier, Symons had bought an Eisbrecher Guitars Meshuggah-style eight-string through Reverb, with a 100 euro discount, to review. Symons says it arrived in a single inner box with bad fretwork and what looked like rust on the bridge, and was taped back up within minutes. Symons sent it back without using Reverb's returns process, in the same packaging, insured, and was refunded. The company then said it had arrived damaged and, over Instagram, asked for about 450 euros. The courier refused the insurance claim, citing the packaging. Symons asked friends for advice. Kaylen, Symons says, was the only one who said to pay.17

During the dispute, Symons received two threatening comments. The second, from a newly created account, contained Symons's house number, had the postcode in its username and mentioned the private Messenger group Symons ran. Symons says Kaylen was one of six people online in that group at the time. Symons said repeatedly that this was not an accusation and could not be proven, contacted the police and installed extra security. The group disbanded. A friend later told Symons that Kaylen was behind Eisbrecher. Reverb closed the case with nothing owed, after which, Symons says, Kaylen sent an angry email accusing Symons of spreading lies to his clients. Symons also says a Reddit user who vouched for the guitar posted a photo whose wood grain matches the exact instrument Symons received.18

Kaylen confirmed that night that he has owned Eisbrecher since February 2025. He said the guitar had QC issues and should not have shipped, and that both sides mishandled the return. His account differs from Symons's on the details: he says Symons sent it back unannounced with the wrong courier, and that his advice was to settle amicably with the company, given while keeping up a facade. On the comments, he said: "my conscience is entirely clear regarding that disgusting terror comment John got on his channel." He argued the company had no motive, as it was already seeking its costs from Reverb. He also said Eisbrecher had given customers $50 discounts to post their guitars in Facebook groups.19

On 20 September, Danny Sapko told 411,256 viewers that Eisbrecher's demos and supposed customers come from Kaylen's management clients, and that Kaylen had sent a five-minute voice message to a group chat calling the comments horrible and swearing he did not write them.20

Kaylen says he will keep running Eisbrecher, will not play or advertise its guitars on his channel, and has offered critics uncut conversations. He says his Instagram posts about the Melody price are still up. Symons says the channel is going back to reviewing amps. Nobody has identified who wrote the comments.21

Who's Beefin'

The Guitologist vs sixstringtv

Heat: 5/5

The Guitologist covered Kaylen twice this week: once on extortion, and once under the title "Is SixStringTV BUYING VIEWS AND SUBS?" The video answers its own title: "I think he's bought views and subscribers to set it up so that he could blackmail or extort these people." The Guitologist also says Kaylen has slandered The Guitologist more than anyone else, which in this week's queue is a competitive claim.22

Sonic Drive Studio vs sixstringtv

Heat: 4/5

Kaylen's reply to Sonic Drive Studio was titled "I've been hiding this from you." Jon Symons says Kaylen secretly owns Eisbrecher Guitars, and that "he makes videos about guitar companies doing shady stuff while he's doing this himself, and wants to keep this a secret". Jon Symons also describes a dispute over a returned guitar, in which Eisbrecher wanted around 450 euros to call it a day. In the reply, Kaylen denies any part in a threatening comment left on Jon Symons's channel.23

60 Cycle Hum vs sixstringtv

Heat: 4/5

Ryan Burke says Kaylen offered to make a negative review disappear for money. As for how anyone knows: "The reason I know that this happened is because [Kaylen] published it publicly, which is extra bonkers to me." Kaylen responded with a video titled "i'm being accused of corruption?", in which he says the offer was a joke.24

sixstringtv vs The Bandwagon

Heat: 4/5

Kaylen says: "This entire day has been non-stop bandwagoning from various creators regarding what's perceived to be a lack of integrity on my part". Danny Sapko climbed aboard to argue that sixstringtv is in serious trouble, and TheGuitarGeek followed with "But this is ALSO not OK - sixstringtv consequences". Seven videos about one channel in a week. The wagon is now a train.25

Cordy and Tim Pierce vs Fender

Heat: 3/5

Bud Cole sat down with Mary Spender to explain the cease and desist letters, and Cordy made three Fender videos this week. Tim Pierce says the letters were a corporate decision, not the law, and that a lot of Fender guitars are not good enough for Tim Pierce to use. Cordy, meanwhile, found the relevant line in Cole's CV: "Bud Cole said that his first kind of job that he applied for, for a PR assistant at Fender, and he didn't get the job. Maybe now we're starting to see why." PRS has released a Silver Sky called the Defender, which Cordy reads as PRS returning fire.26

Glenn Fricker vs Linux Users

Heat: 3/5

The video is titled after Marshall fanboys. The beef is with Linux users, who objected to an earlier video in which Glenn Fricker called the OS unfit for professional audio. The reply: "My Neve Genesis Black doesn't work. Dante doesn't work." The rest of the answer had more gain.27

George Lynch vs Peavey

Heat: 3/5

TheGuitarGeek reports that George Lynch "said on a podcast that Peavey were using prison labor." Peavey's side came in a video titled "Peavey Sets the Record Straight on Prison Labour". In the same video, Fred Poole explained that internet trolls enjoy annoying people, a finding the rest of this section supports.28

The Creator Desk

60 Cycle Hum

  • Ryan Burke and Steve read out Kaylen's own post about Melody, an AI-powered folding guitar: "I jokingly said I would take the video down for $7,000. Now I'm being low-balled." The company had offered $2,000.29
  • Ryan's objection is to "putting it on the menu for manufacturers that they could pay to have a bad review disappear."30
  • Two days later they reviewed a hand-carved bass with a foot-shaped headstock, sold for $212 through Goodwill.31

The Guitologist

  • The Guitologist alleges sixstringtv bought views and subscribers "to set it up so that he could blackmail or extort these people." His evidence is Social Blade figures and comment-to-view ratios.32
  • A third upload announces he is switching to drums and consists of a single incomplete sentence, which is roughly where most guitarists' drum careers end.33

Danny Sapko

  • Danny Sapko's summary of the sixstringtv story, built on the accounts of Sonic Drive Studio and 60 Cycle Hum: "[Kaylen], aka Six String TV, is already f*cked because his channel relies heavily on exposing the behavior of other guitar companies and other musicians."34
  • Three days later, "Do you notice anything strange here?" turned out to be his short-scale basses, including a 30-inch Gibson Thunderbird, one of 900. Bassists, having run out of strings to remove, have started on the neck.35

John Nathan Cordy

  • 13 uploads this week. 19 September: "FORGET DIGITAL - I WISH BOSS Still Made Pedals Like This", citing "digital fatigue". 20 September: "This £60 Pedal Puts Expensive Modelers to Shame".36
  • "PRS Just Went NUCLEAR on FENDER" turned out to be eight Silver Sky colourways inspired by the Land Rover Defender. It drew 278,036 views, his biggest of the week by some distance.37
  • Covering the Bud Cole interview twice in two days, Cordy noted that Cole's first application at Fender was for a PR assistant job, which he didn't get: "Maybe now we're starting to see why."38

Sonic Drive Studio

  • Jon Symons says threatening comments containing his house number and postcode appeared after he named Kaylen as Eisbrecher's owner; he went to the police and added security. He does not claim proof of who sent them: "It was just too much of a coincidence. For me."39
  • His Eisbrecher Meshuggah tribute guitar arrived with rust on the bridge and bad nut spacing, and the company asked for about €450 over the return. Kaylen, as a friend, advised him to pay, without mentioning whose company it was.40

The Trogly's Guitar Show

  • Fender is fitting Professional Class Strats and Teles with a Silent System, "a giant dummy coil underneath the pick guard", to cancel 60-cycle hum. 60 Cycle Hum himself remains unaffected.41
  • Trogly got his hands on a $30,000 Fender Custom Shop Violinmaster, based on Joshua Bell's 1713 Stradivarius. It has a dead fret, a loose internal part and neck dive. The Stradivarius has no frets, dead or otherwise.42

Charles Berthoud

  • "The Davie504 Situation Is Getting Out Of Control" concerns three seconds of silence, which drew a copyright claim that appears to have since been dropped. Charles Berthoud: "I do think the system is quite harsh on creators."43
  • 438,649 people watched one bassist cover another bassist's week-off.44

sixstringtv

  • Kaylen denies any part in the threatening comment left on Sonic Drive Studio's channel: "my conscience is entirely clear regarding that disgusting terror comment John got on his channel".45
  • In "I've been hiding this from you.", he confirmed he has owned "Icebreaker Guitars, or rather Eisbrecher Guitars" since February 2025, and says he will keep it separate from the channel. The ice had been broken for him by Jon Symons earlier the same night.46
  • On the AI guitar company that asked him to remove a review: "I'll take it down for $7,000. That is what we call a joke." 60 Cycle Hum report that he later posted he would have taken the money. He says that was a joke too, which makes two.47

Tim Pierce Guitar

  • In "Fender CEO Tells Mary Spender Why He's SUING My Friends", the friends are LSL Guitars, which builds about 450 guitars a year and has launched a fundraiser for legal fees. Business director Johnny Miller says Fender's letters threatened €15,000 per guitar and demanded inventory be destroyed.48
  • Tim Pierce: "I believe Fender venue shopped for this, which is smart business. I would have done the same thing." Also: "A lot of the guitars they make are mediocre. They're just not good enough for me to use."49

Bradley Hall

  • Bradley Hall says he was refused entry to Brazil on his way back from the UK and held in a São Paulo airport detention centre for over 24 hours. He says the federal police and his visa agency told him he could travel while his residency application was pending; he had been fined for overstaying by about 80 days on the way out.50
  • His own summary: "you're finished, Bradley Hall, you'll never shred in Brazil again." He calls the bureaucracy "so archaic and backwards" and has asked viewers for legal advice, which the comment section will be glad to supply.51
  • His wife and newborn daughter are in Brazil. He does not know how long the ban lasts.52

Mimisounds

"I missed my flight to Nashville" was, for once, the whole story: Mimisounds missed a flight to a Martin event and answered viewer questions instead.53

SpectreSoundStudios

  • On Linux audio: "if it doesn't fucking work, then it fucking sucks." Most of the fury on record in "Marshall Fanboys Are FURIOUS About This!" was Glenn's, aimed at Linux. We have compiled a sound driver before, and tend to agree.54

KDH

  • Kev from Marshall says profits from the company's headphones and Bluetooth speakers fund grassroots venues: "We have this campaign right now called Keep Live Music Alive, and we really mean it." The speakers that need no guitarist are paying for the stages that do.55

TheGuitarGeek

  • TheGuitarGeek backs 60 Cycle Hum on sixstringtv, and discloses that he was once represented by Kaylen's management company; they parted after six months in which no work came in. On Kaylen: "he's doing stuff that is, is bordering on cruel, and sometimes fully."56
  • Peavey's Fred Poole, on George Lynch's podcast claim: "Peavey has never used prison labor. No, it's ridiculous. It's not on the books." A visitor from a penitentiary recently asked about work, and was turned down.57
  • Poole on the reaction to moving amp production abroad: "we move some guitar amps overseas, and oh my god, the world's on fire." We can tell that Fred is peaved.58

Rob Chapman

The brutal truth about digital modellers, per Rob Chapman, is that touring crews do not want "things that can move, things they have to carry", and guitarists are being told explicitly to leave the valve amp at home. Speaking of clutter, we count thirteen guitars within metres of Rob.59

Mary Spender

  • "I Interviewed the CEO of Fender" is, unusually for a Mary Spender title, an accurate description of the video. Bud Cole on the cease and desist letters to about 60 brands: "the how we went about doing it got way ahead of the why".60
  • Cole says the €250,000 in the letters was maximum potential damages, included on counsel's advice to start a discussion. Most discussions start with hello.61
  • He says every recipient got the same letter, on legal advice, to avoid antitrust trouble. Fender has since reached agreements with 18 companies to change their designs.62

Rick Beato

  • He toured Noble & Cooley for "I NEVER Thought Drums Were Made This Way". The way involves Buffalo Trace whiskey casks, curly maple and copper hardware in tribute to the distilling process.63

Ola Englund

Ola Englund played Chile with The Haunted, then came home to a Fortin 3.33 and an ENGL Savage 30, model E611, which by Ibanez standards is practically a name.64

Old Man Yells at Cloud

The cloud is currently composed of 80% smartphone grief and 20% digital fatigue.65

The end of the world. Rick Beato has dated the apocalypse. His video is called "The World Ended In 2012... We Just Didn't Realize It". It didn't end with fire. It ended when 4G was rolled out. "That was the killer for the music industry. It just was. That's when everything became algorithmic, and that's when people stopped knowing the same songs." Most of us missed it because we were on our phones.66

Short-form content. Rick's ruling on short videos: "That is a complete waste of your life. In my opinion, as someone that makes short-form content..." The case against short-form content was made by someone who makes short-form content. He followed it with "But short-form content is there to addict you. It just is."67

The kids. He asked what the algorithmic age had done to kids who once called themselves "punk rockers, as goths, as alternative listeners, as metalheads". By his account, the phone has been "very successful through the use of algorithms at disconnecting kids from the ability to connect with music." The goths would have hated the 4G too, but quietly.68

Away from the screen. In the same week he visited the Noble & Cooley factory in Massachusetts to see drums made by hand. His title was "I NEVER Thought Drums Were Made This Way". Rick, seemingly unaware of next-gen innovations like barrels.69

Guest shouters. John Nathan Cordy didn't appear on Rick's show. In a video of his own he said he gets "a little bit of this digital fatigue" as the guitar world becomes "increasingly sort of app-based, connectivity-based". In another video the same week he said using an amp is "becoming difficult to justify a little bit". He is tired of digital and finds amps hard to justify. His titles this week included "FORGET DIGITAL", "I'm Sorry - You Don't Need an Amp in 2026" and "I've Spent Thousands on Amps - This is EMBARASSING To Admit". None of them settles which one he means.70

The Beef League

11 beefs in 2 weeks so far

Beef of the week

The Guitologist vs sixstringtv

Heat: 5/5

Top of the league: sixstringtv, heat 17 from 4 beefs.

League table
PosClubPHeatBestForm
1 New sixstringtv 4 17 5 5 4 4 4
2 Fender Company 2 6 3 3 3
3 1 SpectreSoundStudios 2 6 3 3 3
4 New The Guitologist 1 5 5 5
5 New 60 Cycle Hum 1 4 4 4
6 5 Jacobra 1 4 4 4
7 New Sonic Drive Studio 1 4 4 4
8 New John Nathan Cordy 1 3 3 3
9 6 Music is Win 1 3 3 3
10 New Peavey Company 1 3 3 3
11 New Tim Pierce Guitar 1 3 3 3
12 7 Rick Beato 1 2 2 2

Heat is Who’s Beefin’s rating out of five, added up over the season. P is beefs played; form is the last five, newest last.

Sources

  1. sixstringtv, 0:08: "for the better part of this year, I've been running a guitar company called Icebreaker Guitars, or rather Eisbrecher Guitars" · Sonic Drive Studio, 22:09: "Six String TV, Kalen, he is behind the brand Eisbrecher guitars" · Danny Sapko, 4:29: "At any point during this, Caelan didn't feel the need to tell me, 'Hey, by the way, I'm behind this company,' so he wanted to keep it a secret from me and apparently from everybody else." (Jon Symons) · Danny Sapko, 9:20: "It was just too much of a coincidence. For me." (Jon Symons) ↩︎

  2. 60 Cycle Hum, 9:30: "I jokingly said I would take the video down for $7,000. Now I'm being low-balled." (Kaylen reading Kaylen) · sixstringtv, 0:56: "I'll take it down for $7,000. That is what we call a joke." · The Guitologist, 0:00: "pay me $7,000 and I'll take the video down" · Danny Sapko, 2:40: "Pay me or it stays up. Pay me or this video that could hurt your business stays up." (Ryan Burke) ↩︎

  3. Mary Spender, 13:32: "the how we went about doing it got way ahead of the why" (Bud Cole) · John Nathan Cordy, 22:06: "The intention was to begin conversation. But when you look at those, and I think the companies have spoken and people have spoken, probably not the way to begin a conversation." (Bud Cole) ↩︎

  4. TheGuitarGeek, 2:16: "Peavey has never used prison labor. No, it's ridiculous. It's not on the books." (Fred Poole) ↩︎

  5. Bradley Hall, 5:19: "you're finished, Bradley Hall, you'll never shred in Brazil again." ↩︎

  6. John Nathan Cordy, 0:00: "an ex-custom shop builder... he's now working with the Chinese company Farida, and it says that they've worked on this thing for 276 days" ↩︎

  7. The Trogly's Guitar Show, 0:32: "PRS has come out with a new series today in response to them cracking down, or at least allegedly, the Defender series." · John Nathan Cordy, 3:22: "introducing the Defender color collection, comprised of a limited edition Silver Sky colorways, eight limited edition Silver Sky colorways inspired by the Land Rover Defender" ↩︎

  8. Music is Win, 24:38: "The decision was to have a model that was affordable for people that are only passionate about music, but at the same time they want a reliable instrument." (Matteo Mancuso) ↩︎

  9. sixstringtv, i'm being accused of corruption? (whole video) · sixstringtv, I've been hiding this from you. (whole video) · Danny Sapko, sixstringtv is in serious trouble (whole video) · 60 Cycle Hum, THIS IS NOT OK (whole video) ↩︎

  10. Mary Spender, I Interviewed the CEO of Fender (whole video) · John Nathan Cordy, BUD COLE SQUIRMS - Mary Spender GRILLS Fender CEO Bud Cole (whole video) · John Nathan Cordy, Fender Attempts to Gaslight the ENTIRE Guitar Industry (whole video) · Tim Pierce Guitar, Fender CEO Tells Mary Spender Why He's SUING My Friends (whole video) ↩︎

  11. Rob Chapman, The BRUTAL Truth About Digital Modellers (whole video) · John Nathan Cordy, I'm Sorry - You Don't Need an Amp in 2026 (whole video) · Tim Pierce Guitar, Bonamassa FALLS HARD For A Little NEW Tube Amp (whole video) · Tim Pierce Guitar, 11:18: Digital High Power Twins ↩︎

  12. Sonic Drive Studio, 0:00: Mesa/Boogie 90s Reissue Dual Rectifier · Riffs, Beards & Gear, 2:47: Mesa/Boogie Dual Rectifier · Ola Englund, 2:05: Mesa Boogie Rectifier ↩︎

  13. 60 Cycle Hum, 9:30: "I jokingly said I would take the video down for $7,000. Now I'm being low-balled." (Kaylen reading Kaylen) · Danny Sapko, 1:05: sixstringtv is in serious trouble · sixstringtv, 0:18: i'm being accused of corruption? · sixstringtv, 0:22: i'm being accused of corruption? ↩︎

  14. sixstringtv, 0:56: "I'll take it down for $7,000. That is what we call a joke." · 60 Cycle Hum, 6:13: THIS IS NOT OK · 60 Cycle Hum, 7:00: THIS IS NOT OK · 60 Cycle Hum, 10:39: THIS IS NOT OK ↩︎

  15. 60 Cycle Hum, 1:42: "I have a big problem with holding a negative review for ransom, making it even a possibility, putting it on the menu for manufacturers that they could pay to have a bad review disappear." · 60 Cycle Hum, 14:15: THIS IS NOT OK · 60 Cycle Hum, 32:42: THIS IS NOT OK · The Guitologist, 12:33: Guitar YouTuber SixStringTV BUSTED for EXTORTION! ↩︎

  16. sixstringtv, 0:00: i'm being accused of corruption? · sixstringtv, 1:03: i'm being accused of corruption? · sixstringtv, 2:12: i'm being accused of corruption? · sixstringtv, 2:41: i'm being accused of corruption? ↩︎

  17. Sonic Drive Studio, 5:18: Sixstringtv - SECRET guitar brand exposed · Sonic Drive Studio, 7:49: Sixstringtv - SECRET guitar brand exposed · Sonic Drive Studio, 13:31: "look, give us some money. I think they wanted like 450 euros or so, and we'll call this a day" · Sonic Drive Studio, 15:43: Sixstringtv - SECRET guitar brand exposed ↩︎

  18. Sonic Drive Studio, 18:52: Sixstringtv - SECRET guitar brand exposed · Sonic Drive Studio, 19:21: Sixstringtv - SECRET guitar brand exposed · Sonic Drive Studio, 20:57: Sixstringtv - SECRET guitar brand exposed · Sonic Drive Studio, 22:09: "Six String TV, Kalen, he is behind the brand Eisbrecher guitars" ↩︎

  19. sixstringtv, 0:38: I've been hiding this from you. · sixstringtv, 1:23: I've been hiding this from you. · sixstringtv, 3:34: I've been hiding this from you. · sixstringtv, 5:21: "my conscience is entirely clear regarding that disgusting terror comment John got on his channel" ↩︎

  20. Danny Sapko, sixstringtv is in serious trouble (whole video) · Danny Sapko, 5:00: sixstringtv is in serious trouble · Danny Sapko, 9:26: sixstringtv is in serious trouble ↩︎

  21. sixstringtv, 4:37: I've been hiding this from you. · sixstringtv, 6:57: I've been hiding this from you. · sixstringtv, 1:27: i'm being accused of corruption? · Sonic Drive Studio, 27:49: Sixstringtv - SECRET guitar brand exposed ↩︎

  22. The Guitologist, Is SixStringTV BUYING VIEWS AND SUBS? (whole video) · The Guitologist, 2:00: "I think he's bought views and subscribers to set it up so that he could blackmail or extort these people." · The Guitologist, Guitar YouTuber SixStringTV BUSTED for EXTORTION! (whole video) · The Guitologist, 33:21: "He has slandered me more than he's slandered anyone else" ↩︎

  23. sixstringtv, I've been hiding this from you. (whole video) · Sonic Drive Studio, 24:09: "he makes videos about guitar companies doing shady stuff while he's doing this himself, and wants to keep this a secret" · Sonic Drive Studio, 13:31: "look, give us some money. I think they wanted like 450 euros or so, and we'll call this a day" · sixstringtv, 5:21: "my conscience is entirely clear regarding that disgusting terror comment John got on his channel" ↩︎

  24. 60 Cycle Hum, 1:42: "I have a big problem with holding a negative review for ransom, making it even a possibility, putting it on the menu for manufacturers that they could pay to have a bad review disappear." · Danny Sapko, 2:48: "The reason I know that this happened is because Caelan published it publicly, which is extra bonkers to me." (Ryan Burke) · sixstringtv, i'm being accused of corruption? (whole video) ↩︎

  25. sixstringtv, 6:47: "This entire day has been non-stop bandwagoning from various creators regarding what's perceived to be a lack of integrity on my part" · Danny Sapko, 5:12: "Kaylen, aka Six String TV, is already f*cked because his channel relies heavily on exposing the behavior of other guitar companies and other musicians." · Danny Sapko, sixstringtv is in serious trouble (whole video) · TheGuitarGeek, But this is ALSO not OK - sixstringtv consequences (whole video) ↩︎

  26. Tim Pierce Guitar, 2:49: "It's not the law that got out ahead of them. A corporation is made up of invisible people that don't have to take responsibility or blame for anything." · Tim Pierce Guitar, 9:45: "A lot of the guitars they make are mediocre. They're just not good enough for me to use." · John Nathan Cordy, 9:44: "Bud Cole said that his first kind of job that he applied for, for a PR assistant at Fender, and he didn't get the job. Maybe now we're starting to see why." · John Nathan Cordy, PRS Just Went NUCLEAR on FENDER - the DEFENDER Silver Sky is NUTS (whole video) ↩︎

  27. SpectreSoundStudios, Marshall Fanboys Are FURIOUS About This! (whole video) · SpectreSoundStudios, 13:26: "My Neve Genesis Black doesn't work. Dante doesn't work. The Antelope Galaxy 32 DOESN'T FUCKING WORK. I don't care who's fucking fault it is, it doesn't fucking work, and if it doesn't fucking work, then it fucking sucks." ↩︎

  28. TheGuitarGeek, 1:16: "He said on a podcast that Peavey were using prison labor." · TheGuitarGeek, Peavey Sets the Record Straight on Prison Labour (whole video) · TheGuitarGeek, 6:01: "There are trolls on the internet, they just have a good time by pissing people off, right?" (Fred Poole) ↩︎

  29. 60 Cycle Hum, 9:30: "I jokingly said I would take the video down for $7,000. Now I'm being low-balled." (Kaylen reading Kaylen) · 60 Cycle Hum, THIS IS NOT OK (whole video) ↩︎

  30. 60 Cycle Hum, 1:42: "I have a big problem with holding a negative review for ransom, making it even a possibility, putting it on the menu for manufacturers that they could pay to have a bad review disappear." ↩︎

  31. 60 Cycle Hum, 41:27: Foot-Shaped Bass Guitar · 60 Cycle Hum, IT'S A ROCKET SHIP! (whole video) ↩︎

  32. The Guitologist, 2:00: "I think he's bought views and subscribers to set it up so that he could blackmail or extort these people." · The Guitologist, Is SixStringTV BUYING VIEWS AND SUBS? (whole video) ↩︎

  33. The Guitologist, Guitarists Are All GHEYWADS...I'M SWITCHING TO DRUMS (whole video) ↩︎

  34. Danny Sapko, 5:12: "Kaylen, aka Six String TV, is already f*cked because his channel relies heavily on exposing the behavior of other guitar companies and other musicians." · Danny Sapko, sixstringtv is in serious trouble (whole video) · Danny Sapko, 4:29: "At any point during this, Kaylen didn't feel the need to tell me, 'Hey, by the way, I'm behind this company,' so he wanted to keep it a secret from me and apparently from everybody else." (Jon Symons) · Danny Sapko, 2:40: "Pay me or it stays up. Pay me or this video that could hurt your business stays up." (Ryan Burke) ↩︎

  35. Danny Sapko, Do you notice anything strange here? (whole video) · Danny Sapko, 2:44: Gibson Thunderbird 30-inch short scale ↩︎

  36. John Nathan Cordy, FORGET DIGITAL - I WISH BOSS Still Made Pedals Like This - the vintage Boss BE5 Multi Effect (whole video) · John Nathan Cordy, 0:24: "the world is becoming, and particularly the guitar world, increasingly sort of app-based, connectivity-based... sometimes I kind of get a little bit of this digital fatigue" · John Nathan Cordy, This £60 Pedal Puts Expensive Modelers to Shame - The Valeton GP5 Is Blowing Me Away (whole video) ↩︎

  37. John Nathan Cordy, PRS Just Went NUCLEAR on FENDER - the DEFENDER Silver Sky is NUTS (whole video) · John Nathan Cordy, 3:22: "introducing the Defender color collection, comprised of a limited edition Silver Sky colorways, eight limited edition Silver Sky colorways inspired by the Land Rover Defender" ↩︎

  38. John Nathan Cordy, 9:44: "Bud Cole said that his first kind of job that he applied for, for a PR assistant at Fender, and he didn't get the job. Maybe now we're starting to see why." · John Nathan Cordy, BUD COLE SQUIRMS - Mary Spender GRILLS Fender CEO Bud Cole (whole video) · John Nathan Cordy, Fender Attempts to Gaslight the ENTIRE Guitar Industry (whole video) ↩︎

  39. Danny Sapko, 9:20: "It was just too much of a coincidence. For me." (Jon Symons) · Sonic Drive Studio, Sixstringtv - SECRET guitar brand exposed (whole video) ↩︎

  40. Sonic Drive Studio, 4:02: Eisbrecher Guitars Meshuggah tribute guitar · Sonic Drive Studio, 13:31: "look, give us some money. I think they wanted like 450 euros or so, and we'll call this a day" · Sonic Drive Studio, 22:09: "Six String TV, Kaylen, he is behind the brand Eisbrecher guitars" · Danny Sapko, 4:29: "At any point during this, Kaylen didn't feel the need to tell me, 'Hey, by the way, I'm behind this company,' so he wanted to keep it a secret from me and apparently from everybody else." (Jon Symons) ↩︎

  41. The Trogly's Guitar Show, 4:28: "essentially what they're doing is they're putting a giant dummy coil underneath the pick guard right here and for the Stratocaster." ↩︎

  42. The Trogly's Guitar Show, I Got My Hands on the Violinmaster! (Guitar) (whole video) · The Trogly's Guitar Show, 1:47: "The Fender Violin Master is actually based on a real Antonio Stradivari Stradivarius violin. It's currently owned by Grammy award-winning violinists, Joshua Bell." · The Trogly's Guitar Show, 16:54: Fender Custom Shop Yuriy Shishkov Violinmaster ↩︎

  43. Charles Berthoud, The Davie504 Situation Is Getting Out Of Control (whole video) · Charles Berthoud, 9:01: "He actually got copyright claimed for those three seconds of silence." · Charles Berthoud, 9:38: "I do think the system is quite harsh on creators." ↩︎

  44. Charles Berthoud, The Davie504 Situation Is Getting Out Of Control (whole video) ↩︎

  45. sixstringtv, 5:21: "my conscience is entirely clear regarding that disgusting terror comment John got on his channel" ↩︎

  46. sixstringtv, I've been hiding this from you. (whole video) · sixstringtv, 0:08: "for the better part of this year, I've been running a guitar company called Icebreaker Guitars, or rather Eisbrecher Guitars" · sixstringtv, 0:31: "I would like to go into that video that was made by John from Sonic Drive Studio earlier tonight" · Sonic Drive Studio, Sixstringtv - SECRET guitar brand exposed (whole video) ↩︎

  47. sixstringtv, 0:56: "I'll take it down for $7,000. That is what we call a joke." · 60 Cycle Hum, 9:30: "I jokingly said I would take the video down for $7,000. Now I'm being low-balled." (Kaylen reading Kaylen) · Danny Sapko, 2:40: "Pay me or it stays up. Pay me or this video that could hurt your business stays up." (Ryan Burke) ↩︎

  48. Tim Pierce Guitar, Fender CEO Tells Mary Spender Why He's SUING My Friends (whole video) · Tim Pierce Guitar, 12:09: "We're not making dragons. We can't absorb that. We couldn't eat that." (Johnny Miller) ↩︎

  49. Tim Pierce Guitar, 3:15: "I believe Fender venue shopped for this, which is smart business. I would have done the same thing. But it's uncontested, and it's a decision. It's not the law. Somebody at Fender saw the bird and bird cease and desist and got excited." · Tim Pierce Guitar, 9:45: "A lot of the guitars they make are mediocre. They're just not good enough for me to use." ↩︎

  50. Bradley Hall, 5:19: "you're finished, Bradley Hall, you'll never shred in Brazil again." ↩︎

  51. Bradley Hall, 6:49: "bureaucracy in Brazil is like absolutely ridiculous. It's so archaic and backwards." ↩︎

  52. Bradley Hall, 7:05: "so I haven't been able to like do my wife's visa application yet because my baby doesn't have a passport." ↩︎

  53. Mimisounds, I missed my flight to Nashville (whole video) ↩︎

  54. SpectreSoundStudios, 13:26: "My Neve Genesis Black doesn't work. Dante doesn't work. The Antelope Galaxy 32 DOESN'T FUCKING WORK. I don't care who's fucking fault it is, it doesn't fucking work, and if it doesn't fucking work, then it fucking sucks." · SpectreSoundStudios, Marshall Fanboys Are FURIOUS About This! (whole video) ↩︎

  55. KDH, 18:52: "We take, you know, obviously we do really, really well with the headphones and the Bluetooth speakers. It gives us the ability to support these venues. We put on our own shows. We have this campaign right now called Keep Live Music Alive, and we really mean it." (Kev) ↩︎

  56. TheGuitarGeek, 28:06: "I totally support what Ryan did. It's turned into something that I don't, I know, Ryan would not condone. I just think we should take care of each other." · TheGuitarGeek, 3:17: "Kalen has made choices where the consequences for others seem to be little of his concern... he's possibly been misguided or unguided. And now he's doing stuff that is, is bordering on cruel, and sometimes fully." · TheGuitarGeek, But this is ALSO not OK - sixstringtv consequences (whole video) ↩︎

  57. TheGuitarGeek, 2:16: "Peavey has never used prison labor. No, it's ridiculous. It's not on the books." (Fred Poole) · TheGuitarGeek, 1:16: "He said on a podcast that Peavey were using prison labor." ↩︎

  58. TheGuitarGeek, 15:45: "All of that is made in the United States. But we move some guitar amps overseas, and oh my god, the world's on fire." (Fred Poole) ↩︎

  59. Rob Chapman, 3:08: "production crew do not want clutter, they don't want inconsistencies, things that can move, things they have to carry. So they're being told explicitly do not bring a real tube valve amplifier." · Rob Chapman, The BRUTAL Truth About Digital Modellers (whole video) ↩︎

  60. Mary Spender, I Interviewed the CEO of Fender (whole video) · Mary Spender, 13:32: "the how we went about doing it got way ahead of the why" (Bud Cole) ↩︎

  61. Mary Spender, 27:12: "it was to start an engagement, to start a discussion" (Bud Cole) ↩︎

  62. Mary Spender, 27:47: "it was a fairness requirement or not to violate antitrust" (Bud Cole) ↩︎

  63. Rick Beato, I NEVER Thought Drums Were Made This Way (whole video) · Rick Beato, 49:57: "We did this for America 250... So we announced it the week before, so about one week leading up to July 4th, and we're in a pre-order phase now." (Luke) · Rick Beato, 18:26: Noble & Cooley Buffalo Trace Collaboration Drum ↩︎

  64. Ola Englund, CHILLING IN CHILE (whole video) · Ola Englund, BEST JUST GOT BETTER - Fortin 3.33 (whole video) · Ola Englund, ENGL SAVAGE 30 – Small Amp, Serious Chug (whole video) · Ola Englund, 0:08: ENGL Savage 30 (E611) ↩︎

  65. Rick Beato, The World Ended In 2012... We Just Didn't Realize It (whole video) · John Nathan Cordy, 0:24: "the world is becoming, and particularly the guitar world, increasingly sort of app-based, connectivity-based... sometimes I kind of get a little bit of this digital fatigue" · Bradley Hall, 6:49: "bureaucracy in Brazil is like absolutely ridiculous. It's so archaic and backwards." ↩︎

  66. Rick Beato, The World Ended In 2012... We Just Didn't Realize It (whole video) · Rick Beato, 6:59: "That was the killer for the music industry. It just was. That's when everything became algorithmic, and that's when people stopped knowing the same songs." ↩︎

  67. Rick Beato, 3:37: "That is a complete waste of your life. In my opinion, as someone that makes short-form content, if you could really engage with music as a listener..." · Rick Beato, 5:39: "But short-form content is there to addict you. It just is." ↩︎

  68. Rick Beato, 4:17: "what is it about the algorithmic age that has affected kids and displaced music from this place where people identified as punk rockers, as goths, as alternative listeners, as metalheads..." · Rick Beato, 2:18: "The phone in particular has been very successful through the use of algorithms at disconnecting kids from the ability to connect with music." ↩︎

  69. Rick Beato, I NEVER Thought Drums Were Made This Way (whole video) ↩︎

  70. John Nathan Cordy, 0:24: "the world is becoming, and particularly the guitar world, increasingly sort of app-based, connectivity-based... sometimes I kind of get a little bit of this digital fatigue" · John Nathan Cordy, 14:07: "using an amp is definitely a choice, and for some people, I think it's becoming difficult to justify a little bit" · John Nathan Cordy, I've Spent Thousands on Amps - This is EMBARASSING To Admit (whole video) · John Nathan Cordy, FORGET DIGITAL - I WISH BOSS Still Made Pedals Like This - the vintage Boss BE5 Multi Effect (whole video) ↩︎