Squier Stratocaster

Putting together a few sources, it can be inferred that one of John Mayer's first electric guitars - if not his very first one - was a Fender Squier Stratocaster. From the documentary film *Someday I'll Fly*, starting at the 2:00 mark: > "I picked up the guitar from time to time at friends' houses, and I was always intrigued by it. It wasn't until I was 13 my dad rented one of my brothers and I an acoustic guitar from the music store. We were gonna take [guitar lessons](https://equipboard.com/posts/online-guitar-lessons). **caption reads: January, 1991 - John has lessons every Monday with guitar teacher Al Ferrante at Fairfield's Professional Music Center.** I remember I'd get home from school, play for the whole rest of the night, and just never really catch up with sleep. My mom set up a rule - 9:30pm - so I would play all the way to 9:30pm, then I'd have to stop." At 2:28 into the video, a Fender Squier sticker can be seen, with a sticker on top of it "Property of JCM." In the very next scene, a photo from 1994 of a 16-year-old John Mayer can be seen where he's holding what looks like a guitar with a Fender Stratocaster shaped body, black finish, white pickguard, and rosewood fingerboard. He shared this photo [on his Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/p/jPiCBlOEWc/) with the caption, "#tbt 1994. 16 years old." In another video entitled [John Mayer 2007 summer tour](https://youtu.be/_Q9lXIbziKA?t=3m12s), starting at 3:12 into it, in an interview John Mayer says: > "My first guitar - my first electric guitar - was a Squier. So I've kind of grown up native to the shape and the sound and the feel of a Stratocaster, and kind of learned my way around a guitar on it."

Billie Joe sale this [Squier Stratocaster](https://blog.ebayimg.com/motors/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/bmw_billie_joe-067-600x400.jpg) guitar on ebay with his car.

if you pause the video at 1:40 and read the headstock on georges guitar you can clearley see it is a squier guitar

In this photo taken During the Down the Rabbit Hole Festival, Mac can be seen playing an Olympic White Squier Strat. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ptpqtg93jUY at around 00:25 in this interview, Mac states the guitar is a 1992 Squier Stratocaster he acquired in Paris.

During the "Art angels" tour, Grimes plays a red Squier Stratocaster Rosewood fretboard.

Jared starts off with this guitar in the video

"I got my first strat, it was a Squier strat. And it was 1986...I played it on Pablo Honey and The Bends," Ed O'Brien says, at 1:40 in [this video](https://vimeo.com/112510609). Ed is pictured here with his Squier Stratocaster.

One of his backup guitars.

As it can be seen in the image, Mikey Way says his first bass was a Squier Jazz Bass and that his big brother (Gerard Way) got as first guitar a Squier Strat.

This is Mikey Way first electric guitar.

Davie played the Squier in this video

Mac playing a Fender Squier Strat in the studio at 2:40.

Ross used a blue squier stratocaster while on Austin and Ally.

In the first paragraph on this page of this interview, John McGeoch says, "After that I shopped around for a vintage Strat and checked out some new ones and of all of them I preferred the Squier '57 Strat."

This was Jim James' second guitar, right after Harmony Stratocaster for 100 dollars. "Aaron played that, I got a Fender Squier Stratocaster, and we just started going for it. From that moment on, I was possessed, just captivated. And it hasn’t let me go."

At the 5:43 minute mark Leo pulls out a HSH Squier Strat with a tortoiseshell pickguard.

"Then my dad bought me my first real guitar, which was a Squier Strat—one of the early ones. It’s a great guitar, made in Japan. He hid it, but I knew the day it entered the house."

'As well as my Tele I'd just got a Squier Strat, and I used that quite a lot through a Roland JC120 amp. It was whatever I like the shape of that week, more than the sound! I had a big thing that we used to call "The Tower", which had all these effects built in and then a huge multi-core cable to this massive, customised foot pedal. You needed a forklift truck to move it around.'

Mike plays a heavily modified 1985 Squier Strat with Dimarzio and Ibanez pickups and a Marlin bridge.

You can clearly see him playing this Squier guitar, which I'd guess it's a bullet model. Awesome version btw.

This Squier Strat was the first guitar he got and used it heavily throughout his learning days and playing for my people in his videos. When explaining the guitar, he makes no mention of any modifications at all. The fretboard is very worn and has undergone lots of maintenence.

Ke$ha is holding a white Squier Stratocaster in this live performance image.

He owns a white finish Squier Stratocaster, it first appeared on his Thomas The Tank Engine cover.

According to this photo from an issue of *Guitarist* magazine, Mayall uses Squier Stratocaster and Bullet models that are sawed down to size. One example can be seen [here](http://www.strat-talk.com/data/attachments/33/33596-c8ca6a57137074c4a58390424fd0c12c.jpg) and [here](http://www.strat-talk.com/data/attachments/33/33598-fb807b858331b173c659b6ea907aa6aa.jpg) from the same source.

(1999): "I also have a Strat which I use for one song; it’s a bog-standard Squier, but when Squiers first came out there was a batch of them that were really well made with a really nice sound, and I’ve never found another one that can match it."

Squier Stratocaster in an image from their instagram!

Around 14:35 in this live stream, Travis says that his first guitar was a Squier Stratocaster.

On this picture Viktor Tsoy has black mexican Squier Standard Stratocaster

Julio is playing a Squier Stratocaster on this photo.

Larry is seen using this guitar (natural finish) on many tour videos. In this particular video, he is deconstructing the James song "Whiteboy" and plays it on this guitar.

Only used at home, Ben can occasionaly be seen playing this.

Tyler uses this whenever he needs a single coil but can't play his Jaguar

"Badass and really cheap too, thank you Guitar Center"

"For open chord tunings (I use quite a few odd ones), I have a Fender Squier Stratocaster with a trilogy bridge, raised nut, wired with one normal Fender neck pick up, one Hot Rail and one Cool Rail pick up. With this particular axe, I tend to use open G and E tunings that work well for electric slide playing."

Here you can see Camella

in this Post on instagram, Matt shows off his Squire strat. He purchased this guitar as a brithday present for himself

He's using Squier Stratocaster for the beginning.

In this Instagram post, Matt shows off his Squire strat

In this video you can see Matt playing a Squier Stratocaster. You can see very closely the Squier logo at 2 seconds into the video.

Coffey in a photoshoot in 2018.