There's a clip of Stevie Ray Vaughan talking about Clapton and the British blues scene and how it influenced him. He demonstrates the difference in the way Freddie King plays "Hideaway" and the way Clapton plays it on the Beano album. Clapton incorporated more bends and was a little more aggressive in his picking, whereas King played it more glissando and picked more smoothly. The upshot was that SRV said it made him realize that he didn't have to be a purist and try to treat the blues like a museum artifact, he could adapt it and make keep it a living thing.
@@onerandombruh Glissando is a lot like making "Slide Guitar moves" but ~without~ a slide - i.e. without a cylinder on or in your fretting hand. aka "slidin' bareback". Because you are moving over the frets and still touching them, discrete pitches can still be heard to more or less of a degree - depending how slowly you transition from one fret to the next. A slide, however, is playing PORTAMENTO = no discrete pitches are differentiated due to the lack of any direct fret contact, no matter how fast or slowly you move. In other words, Glissando and Portamento aim for essentially the same result sonically. The key difference being the discrete vs continuous pitch change due to fretting notes vs not fretting them. Technique-wise, a Glissando is several specific moves executed in instant succession : _The note is initiated on one fret while immediately moving to arrive at another target fret ~ while fretting-hand pressure is maintained on the string against fretboard.~_ This is crucial to "sticking the landing"; keeping the note sustaining after it arrives at the target fret. Glissando comes into play often and with many a melody. Slide is another animal, as technique-wise it requires an accessory and it's deployment is more genre-dependent. Happy Woodshedding :)
Glissando on guitar is sliding a fretted note up to another note. Freddie King played the main lick to Hideaway on the B and E strings, sliding up from the F# on the E string 2nd fret to G# on the 4th fret. On the Bluesbreakers album, I'm pretty sure Clapton was playing on the D and G strings at the 9th - 11th fret and bent the F# up to the G#. That's the way most lessons and tabs teach it, but the only video I could find of Clapton playing it live was with Mayall in the early 2000's and he played it the Freddie King way, definitely a much different sound and feel. Anyway, yeah SRV was just saying hearing it played differently than the original recording made him realize that the blues was meant to be expressive and alive and not stuck in a purist vault never changing.
This might be one of my favorite JHS videos ever. Its off the rip informative, deeply and accurately researched, and hits the right notes; pun intended. So many channels touch on Blues history and origins, even tone; but never really touch on the sonic makeup that led there. Hardware nerds unite.
Ahh! I discovered your channel back in the bad old lockdown days. This felt like a classic video from you guys. Fun and full of facts. Please keep them coming! Record time rocks!
This format of video I s why I started watching the channel. Deep dives on a brand, effect type or music genre with Josh’s dry humor pulling it all together
I really respect the research and reverence Josh always gives these deep dives. You can tell he genuinely loves music and genuinely loves the guitar and genuinely loves cheeseburgers.
This is my favorite episode. Freddie King needs to be higher on every best guitar players of all time lists. More content like this please. "We Have Funk at Home" next please.
Don't get me wrong, I love the crew so much, but there is something about this informative video format that Josh gets straight to the point and shows his appreciation. Love the blues, love JHS :D
I saw Freddie King at a local bar in the late 60's, it may be that time has altered my memory, but when he played "Hideaway" and "The Stumble" it changed my perception of everything I heard afterward. His playing was powerful, smooth and graceful, if I can use that word. It changed everything I've played or listened to since.
Honestly my favourite jhs show to date. Inspiring. I’ve watched this through a few times and every time I pick up my guitar and try something new. Im not a blues player and don’t have any pedals (other than the Kemper) but I’ve literally looked up all of these pedals over the last months and priced up pretty much this exact board. Great job!
So I checked my thonmann history and indeed I looked up Lizard Queen three times (different dates but also lizard king), Dunlop Band of Gypsies Fuzz Face (all of the Dunlop minis but I went to this one three times apparently but they actually don’t sell this version through thonmann so I searched other places and then forgot), 3 Series Screamer (in a crazy day going over this, morning glory, and then back and forth between double barrel and sweet tea before putting the series 3 in my basket and then not looking at pedals for a month and then taking it out), Overdrive Preamp (I then didn’t look for a few days but in the hazy fever dream psychedelic depths of the rabbit hole this pedal sent me down I’m fairly sure I bookedmark about a dozen plans to build my own version… but with tubes). Unicorn (and this got lots of plays as a good univibe is reallllly hard to find and the thonmann demos are clear this is the best… but I stopped when you brought out the beach boys pedal but was waiting for it to be available outside of the us) yeah so a bit creepy how close this board is to my ideal board backed up by search history. Even though I’m certainly not a blues player… yet
Freddie King is a good call for record time, particularly for those who may not have really investigated the blues. Eric Clapton's early days with the Yardbirds and Bluesbreakers became the framework for how guitar is used in Rock and Roll to this day. No one played rock guitar solos like that before him. And you don't hear anything like it pretty much anywhere in music before him.... except from Freddie King. I feel like Freddie King was really the first lead, electric guitar shredder in blues music. You'll find that half of the history of rock in roll in his phrasing just because he was such a big influence on Eric Clapton's lead playing.
you are the only person in a decade that i’ve ever read talk about electric guitar influences who truly understands early Freddie King and how we’re all basically copying him. White bands didn’t have blues guitar solos before Clapton. Hendrix was playing backup guitar on the Chitlin circuit when people were going to shows just to see Eric play guitar solos, they didn’t even care about the band. Let’s be real, in the states fans hadn’t done that in music unless you’re going to watch jazz or r&b or blues aka black music. But those aren’t bands with lyrics and persona’s etc. It’s still professional backing bands or just bebop combos. It’s jazz not rock n roll. And all these modern jam band and blues rock phrases we use, including Slash and all the modern guys like Chris Buck, Josh Smith, it all goes back to Clapton/Peter Green/Bloomfield…but all three of them are just doing the Freddie King thing. even internet players who “hate Eric Clapton” play his phrases and don’t even realize it, Thank you for clarifying Freddie King’s role. Josh is a great historian but you can tell he doesn’t know as much about blues as per say pedals. He goes for a 1950’s Blues sound, so he picks a 1971 BB King record. And then with Freddie King. Same thing, he’s talking about 1970’s Freddie when he’s basically playing funk-blues or soul. He doesn’t realize like almost all guitar people on the internet. That in the 50’s, that blues was way different from the tones in the late 60’s. By 68, Black Blues Giants started using the amps and overdrive of the white players who were imitating them…to new, younger, white crowds 🤦🏻♂️. It was a second career at that point for most of them. But those Early 1950’s Freddie King records are the foundation for rock n roll guitar and the “guitar solo” in general. A lot of great jazz players like Les Paul, Wes, Pat, Joe Pass, Charlie Christian, the list goes on. But they didn’t influence rock n roll like Freddie King did.
@@petermoss208 as you say, many of the blues OG's sorta had a second career later on. This is what I find so fascinating about Muddy Waters. Alan Lomax, working for the Library of congress, found Muddy Waters in the south and recorded him in 1941. This was long before he moved to Chicago, picked up electric guitar, started playing with a band and releasing records. Those recordings weren't even released at the time, but you can hear them now. Muddy Waters in his home on a plantation where he was a Sharecropper, playing delta blues with a slide on acoustic guitar. In a brief interview he says he learned from Son House and was familiar with Robert Johnson (only a couple years older than Muddy) but never met him. Then you can hear his first records in Chicago where he electrified the old Delta blues style. And hear how his style develops over the course of his life. A true OG who's career can show you exactly where the blues went. BB King started off picking cotton in the south. And he got his vibrato technique by attempting to mimmick his cousin, delta blues artist, Bukka White's Slide guitar vibrato without a slide. However people like BB King, Albert King and Freddie King were very much innovators of the blues. They brought a new energy to it and crafted modern approach to blues lead guitar playing. Frankly BB King just wasn't able to sing and play at the same time, so focusing on lead guitar was just a necessity. Freddie King was indeed the first real lead guitar shredder though. And he was actually writing full on guitar instrumentals for blues. You didn't see long, dominant guitar solos before him. Other than to a very limited extent in Jazz - mainly in gypsy jazz as the guitar wasn't so prominent in other jazz movements. Probably because it just wasn't a loud enough instrument to compete with horns at the time.
@@petermoss208 Also will add... and you sound like the type of person that would know this... we frequently see this footage of Sister Rosetta Tharpe in the 60s with a narrative that she was the true inventor of rock and roll and is overlooked for being black and gay. So before anyone brings her up... That video is from the 60s. She's playing a gibson SG. It's just black and white for-TV footage that looks older. Yes, she was around before Elvis, Chuck Berry & co. And she was a very early adopter of the electric guitar. However she was not unknown or forgotten. And she was never a rock & roll artist. She was a gospel singer and did influence people like chuck berry. She was not shredding long electric solos in the 40s. Later in her career, she was influenced herself by popular genre's like rock and roll and electric blues. But she was still a gospel singer. And if you weren't familiar with her before seeing a reel on instagram, see if you can name 10 other gospel artists from the 40s. You aren't unfamiliar because she's been discredited, you are unfamiliar because you don't follow 1940s gospel music and/or aren't a music history nerd. She is a big deal, has gotten her credit where credit is due, and shouldn't have her story rewritten to get likes and views on instagram.
I love it that for the last 18 months everyone's default Jimi pic is from a February '69 show at the Royal Albert Hall that I was at, Wonderful stuff 😊
I am 77. In the mid 60's I was put onto Chicago Blues by a guy who ran the Jazz Dept in Record Store. I was soon doing a 400 mile trip every 3 or 4 months to buy records in Chicago's East side as you could never find but a few records in the Jazz or Folk section of a large large city Record Store. I started a band Terraplane to play all those great players tunes. I was astonished by Clapton on the Beano record because I new and played the Freddy King tunes he did a cover of. I will stop here. Except to say I jumped the pond in 71 to live and play in the London UK clubs all the great Brit players began in. I eventually got into Prog and still play 4 to 6 hours every day through my Plexi. I have only played and sang my own tunes since 1970. I still am an avid writer.
aka the david Gilmore approach. I learned a lot from a guitar mag article that showed you the solo to Another Brick pt2, but also analysed why it was so good - the space in it. Like a trumpet player pausing for breath.
Great Record Time recommendation! My grandpa was a guitar player/blues player & when I was 10 & learning guitar I was into Hendrix & Van Halen one day my grandpa sat me down & asked me if I knew what came before Hendrix & Van Halen, I had no idea. He puts on that Freddie King record & I’ve been a Freddie King fan since. My grandpa was a fan of BB & Albert King but Freddie was his favorite
I don't know whether Josh has improved over the years or if he just sounds better to me than he used to, but Josh you sound pretty darn good in this one. [Edited to correct voice typos]
Ok why am I only finding this page and you guys now !!! Thank u for bringing me down the pedal rabbit hole and being totally transparent so I can actually buy pedals again! The guy at the local shop says have u tried a JHS I said no and then went online and TADA ! I you guys are more than a pedal page , this is the knowledge and history that all players need , I know I do ! I have played for years and never understood how players sounded like they did ! Wow thank you. I have so many pedals to try. Thank you dude to you and your team. All your vids are awesome off to buy a JHS now to support this sick brand !
(1) Plug your Git-Tar into an old Octal amp (2) Play those Blooze Scale licks you took a solid year to learn from your favorite 'Blooze Git-Tar Method' book (3) Scrunch up your face, like you're in pain, after only three minutes of playing. (4) Wait and see, that Blooze Tone will pour outta ya!
Excellent video! Loved the history and the playing and tones were killer. I also appreciate you featuring sounds from pedals from manufacturers other than hour own. Thats pure class!
The question of sandwich-ness has long been misunderstood as a question of *form,* when instead it should be seen as a question of *function.* Remember that the sandwich was invented so its creator could eat a meal without setting down a hand of cards. Therefore, anything that enables someone to consume, by hand, a food or combination of foods that would be otherwise too messy, hot, or otherwise unpleasant to eat by hand may be considered a sandwich. Therefore, hot dogs, tacos, hand pies, and gyros are all sandwiches, while foods like sushi, calzones, and the Kentucky Hot Brown are *not* sandwiches, as they require utensils to eat.
I've been putting mayo directly on the bread since the last video. My wife confronted me as to why there were crumbs in the jar. I told her to 'f*ck off '. I noticed my Notaklon was missing from my board the other day. 😢
I took a rock history class in Seattle that discusses all of this. It's great to hear a condensed version with the pedals we use today to recreate the original tones of that time.
It seems to me, Josh gets it. Blues has a muddy yet winsome past, troubled yet endearing, a present steeped in nostalgic longing that wryly hints at a better day, offering the soul a path of tepid comfort in the plodding quest of a fulfilling future. One doesn't just hear it--one can feel it. We will come to realize this road is long--enjoy the journey, it will be worth it.
Great video - so much good info you presented. Man when I first heard Led Zeppelin one in 1969, I was totally blown away and still am blown away by how they take the blues up to stratospheric levels. Great video fer sure. thx.
Good one. Live Wire/Blues Power by the great St. Louisan Albert King is so ripping. Very influential LP and a very hifi Fillmore recording. So much of Led Zep I comes from this Albert King LP it's nuts. Had in high school, and got this along with stuff like "Disraeli Gears," and "Bluesbreakers" back then. All obtained at the 2nd location of Vintage Vinyl in STL, for $1-3 a piece! And I still have them! I loved Jeff Beck's Yardbird stuff, first time I heard those on the radio in jr. high, so I got a German "For Your Love" tape that blew my mind. I have received quite an education from you guys, and appreciate the production work and research. JHS Pedals helped my sanity working the frontline during Covid with kids. Very thankful for the tone and pedal based research about musical styles as well.
The Milkman is JHS most underestimated pedal. The feel of the slap back is awesome and the boost level is perfect to really push your tone over the band or the front of your amp into full-on over drive.
Josh, thanks for sharing your perspective on records too... you made me discover good music. As for Freddie King, love his sound and legacy and dis not know this record - great discovery. I recommend you "Gettin Ready" record from Freddie King in case you would not have heard it yet. Simply remarkable...
Good episode! SRV is my favorite blues player. He has the balance of all his influences, you are correct! I like what you said about getting a lead tone, despite it sounding awful playing chords, I need to experiment with that idea!
This is classic JHS show! History, pedals, tones and Josh’s incomparable dry humour…the thing that got me through 2 COVID lockdowns!
Yess! So true! I love this kind of content and format so much!
Agreed; really good episode and so much like the ones from a few years ago that were awesome
The vibe is all there, fully agree.
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You must live in Europe or Illinois.
There's a clip of Stevie Ray Vaughan talking about Clapton and the British blues scene and how it influenced him. He demonstrates the difference in the way Freddie King plays "Hideaway" and the way Clapton plays it on the Beano album. Clapton incorporated more bends and was a little more aggressive in his picking, whereas King played it more glissando and picked more smoothly. The upshot was that SRV said it made him realize that he didn't have to be a purist and try to treat the blues like a museum artifact, he could adapt it and make keep it a living thing.
Sorry but what does glissando mean? I am a complete ignorant baboon when it comes to music theory...
@@onerandombruh Glissando is a lot like making "Slide Guitar moves" but ~without~ a slide - i.e. without a cylinder on or in your fretting hand. aka "slidin' bareback".
Because you are moving over the frets and still touching them, discrete pitches can still be heard to more or less of a degree - depending how slowly you transition from one fret to the next.
A slide, however, is playing PORTAMENTO = no discrete pitches are differentiated due to the lack of any direct fret contact, no matter how fast or slowly you move.
In other words, Glissando and Portamento aim for essentially the same result sonically. The key difference being the discrete vs continuous pitch change due to fretting notes vs not fretting them.
Technique-wise, a Glissando is several specific moves executed in instant succession :
_The note is initiated on one fret while immediately moving to arrive at another target fret ~ while fretting-hand pressure is maintained on the string against fretboard.~_ This is crucial to "sticking the landing"; keeping the note sustaining after it arrives at the target fret.
Glissando comes into play often and with many a melody. Slide is another animal, as technique-wise it requires an accessory and it's deployment is more genre-dependent.
Happy Woodshedding :)
Glissando on guitar is sliding a fretted note up to another note. Freddie King played the main lick to Hideaway on the B and E strings, sliding up from the F# on the E string 2nd fret to G# on the 4th fret. On the Bluesbreakers album, I'm pretty sure Clapton was playing on the D and G strings at the 9th - 11th fret and bent the F# up to the G#. That's the way most lessons and tabs teach it, but the only video I could find of Clapton playing it live was with Mayall in the early 2000's and he played it the Freddie King way, definitely a much different sound and feel. Anyway, yeah SRV was just saying hearing it played differently than the original recording made him realize that the blues was meant to be expressive and alive and not stuck in a purist vault never changing.
Pretty decent SRV style. 🎉
@@shaft9000 thanks for your response.
Addison is here!!!
minus a wicked 'stache 🥲
zero mention of Addison in the credit ...
Yes!!!!!!. Just spotted him and rewound to double check
I missed that dude. He just had a kiddo, right?
I think this is one that was in the can. But yeah, it’s good to see him!
I love the closeup of switching from FLERB to HALL on the Holy Grail🤓
My first thought was that FLERB is a setting only Paul Gilbert gets to use. That was one of my favorite episodes!
I think only Paul Gilbert can make FLERB sound superb.
it was still there from when PG14 himself put flerb (to Josh's horror) on the map.
This might be one of my favorite JHS videos ever. Its off the rip informative, deeply and accurately researched, and hits the right notes; pun intended. So many channels touch on Blues history and origins, even tone; but never really touch on the sonic makeup that led there. Hardware nerds unite.
I always liked Addison's addition to the music generated during the making of JHS videos. 🙂
Ahh! I discovered your channel back in the bad old lockdown days. This felt like a classic video from you guys. Fun and full of facts. Please keep them coming! Record time rocks!
old lockdown days? Wasn't that like, a year ago? Time flies by
7:22 "We have blues at home" lol That was the perfect analogy.
This format of video I s why I started watching the channel. Deep dives on a brand, effect type or music genre with Josh’s dry humor pulling it all together
I really respect the research and reverence Josh always gives these deep dives. You can tell he genuinely loves music and genuinely loves the guitar and genuinely loves cheeseburgers.
This is my favorite episode. Freddie King needs to be higher on every best guitar players of all time lists. More content like this please. "We Have Funk at Home" next please.
RECORD TIME IS BACK!
Josh and the gang - don’t think I ever heard a true blues flavored jam from you guys. And this was some tasty shizzle! Well done as always.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Yes more content like this!! I love the pedal board building and jams
How l have missed the jam episodes. Especially with historic content. AND with Addison? You're gettin' the band back together! Prime stuff, this.
Don't get me wrong, I love the crew so much, but there is something about this informative video format that Josh gets straight to the point and shows his appreciation. Love the blues, love JHS :D
Bless- feels like an old school JHS. Making me nostalgic!
Hey! It’s Addison! Makes me happy to see you three play!
I miss these old jhs videos I’m glad they are back
I saw Freddie King at a local bar in the late 60's, it may be that time has altered my memory, but when he played "Hideaway" and "The Stumble" it changed my perception of everything I heard afterward. His playing was powerful, smooth and graceful, if I can use that word. It changed everything I've played or listened to since.
Freddie King I listen to him everyweek, my favourite blues man, chaotic, explosive and full of soul
These are the JHS videos that we all love!! History, pedals and record time!! 🙌🏻
Addison!!!!!
It was really a treat getting to hear you 3 do blues. Pascagoula, MS approves! Really you guys rock!
I’m loving the 80’s Clapton blues at the moment. Particularly that tone on Pretending, on the Journeyman album.
I love the fact that Samantha Fish and Kingfish were in the intro pic for modern adapters
Only just discovered her. Man, she is outstanding!
Please Josh do more of this, you're the best! One might almost say the snap, crackle and pop of blues!
Impressed you have all these styles in your bag Josh
In 1968, at the age of 14, I heard the blues played live for the first time. And that has made all the difference!
More blues is always welcome.
Dude! It feels me with joy to hear you speak so Highly of King Freddie! You know what's up!
Honestly my favourite jhs show to date. Inspiring. I’ve watched this through a few times and every time I pick up my guitar and try something new. Im not a blues player and don’t have any pedals (other than the Kemper) but I’ve literally looked up all of these pedals over the last months and priced up pretty much this exact board. Great job!
So I checked my thonmann history and indeed I looked up Lizard Queen three times (different dates but also lizard king), Dunlop Band of Gypsies Fuzz Face (all of the Dunlop minis but I went to this one three times apparently but they actually don’t sell this version through thonmann so I searched other places and then forgot), 3 Series Screamer (in a crazy day going over this, morning glory, and then back and forth between double barrel and sweet tea before putting the series 3 in my basket and then not looking at pedals for a month and then taking it out), Overdrive Preamp (I then didn’t look for a few days but in the hazy fever dream psychedelic depths of the rabbit hole this pedal sent me down I’m fairly sure I bookedmark about a dozen plans to build my own version… but with tubes). Unicorn (and this got lots of plays as a good univibe is reallllly hard to find and the thonmann demos are clear this is the best… but I stopped when you brought out the beach boys pedal but was waiting for it to be available outside of the us) yeah so a bit creepy how close this board is to my ideal board backed up by search history. Even though I’m certainly not a blues player… yet
Freddie King is a good call for record time, particularly for those who may not have really investigated the blues.
Eric Clapton's early days with the Yardbirds and Bluesbreakers became the framework for how guitar is used in Rock and Roll to this day. No one played rock guitar solos like that before him. And you don't hear anything like it pretty much anywhere in music before him.... except from Freddie King.
I feel like Freddie King was really the first lead, electric guitar shredder in blues music. You'll find that half of the history of rock in roll in his phrasing just because he was such a big influence on Eric Clapton's lead playing.
you are the only person in a decade that i’ve ever read talk about electric guitar influences who truly understands early Freddie King and how we’re all basically copying him. White bands didn’t have blues guitar solos before Clapton. Hendrix was playing backup guitar on the Chitlin circuit when people were going to shows just to see Eric play guitar solos, they didn’t even care about the band. Let’s be real, in the states fans hadn’t done that in music unless you’re going to watch jazz or r&b or blues aka black music. But those aren’t bands with lyrics and persona’s etc. It’s still professional backing bands or just bebop combos. It’s jazz not rock n roll. And all these modern jam band and blues rock phrases we use, including Slash and all the modern guys like Chris Buck, Josh Smith, it all goes back to Clapton/Peter Green/Bloomfield…but all three of them are just doing the Freddie King thing. even internet players who “hate Eric Clapton” play his phrases and don’t even realize it, Thank you for clarifying Freddie King’s role. Josh is a great historian but you can tell he doesn’t know as much about blues as per say pedals. He goes for a 1950’s Blues sound, so he picks a 1971 BB King record. And then with Freddie King. Same thing, he’s talking about 1970’s Freddie when he’s basically playing funk-blues or soul. He doesn’t realize like almost all guitar people on the internet. That in the 50’s, that blues was way different from the tones in the late 60’s. By 68, Black Blues Giants started using the amps and overdrive of the white players who were imitating them…to new, younger, white crowds 🤦🏻♂️. It was a second career at that point for most of them. But those Early 1950’s Freddie King records are the foundation for rock n roll guitar and the “guitar solo” in general. A lot of great jazz players like Les Paul, Wes, Pat, Joe Pass, Charlie Christian, the list goes on. But they didn’t influence rock n roll like Freddie King did.
@@petermoss208 as you say, many of the blues OG's sorta had a second career later on. This is what I find so fascinating about Muddy Waters. Alan Lomax, working for the Library of congress, found Muddy Waters in the south and recorded him in 1941. This was long before he moved to Chicago, picked up electric guitar, started playing with a band and releasing records. Those recordings weren't even released at the time, but you can hear them now. Muddy Waters in his home on a plantation where he was a Sharecropper, playing delta blues with a slide on acoustic guitar. In a brief interview he says he learned from Son House and was familiar with Robert Johnson (only a couple years older than Muddy) but never met him. Then you can hear his first records in Chicago where he electrified the old Delta blues style. And hear how his style develops over the course of his life. A true OG who's career can show you exactly where the blues went.
BB King started off picking cotton in the south. And he got his vibrato technique by attempting to mimmick his cousin, delta blues artist, Bukka White's Slide guitar vibrato without a slide. However people like BB King, Albert King and Freddie King were very much innovators of the blues. They brought a new energy to it and crafted modern approach to blues lead guitar playing. Frankly BB King just wasn't able to sing and play at the same time, so focusing on lead guitar was just a necessity.
Freddie King was indeed the first real lead guitar shredder though. And he was actually writing full on guitar instrumentals for blues.
You didn't see long, dominant guitar solos before him. Other than to a very limited extent in Jazz - mainly in gypsy jazz as the guitar wasn't so prominent in other jazz movements. Probably because it just wasn't a loud enough instrument to compete with horns at the time.
@@petermoss208 Also will add... and you sound like the type of person that would know this... we frequently see this footage of Sister Rosetta Tharpe in the 60s with a narrative that she was the true inventor of rock and roll and is overlooked for being black and gay. So before anyone brings her up... That video is from the 60s. She's playing a gibson SG. It's just black and white for-TV footage that looks older.
Yes, she was around before Elvis, Chuck Berry & co. And she was a very early adopter of the electric guitar. However she was not unknown or forgotten. And she was never a rock & roll artist. She was a gospel singer and did influence people like chuck berry. She was not shredding long electric solos in the 40s. Later in her career, she was influenced herself by popular genre's like rock and roll and electric blues. But she was still a gospel singer.
And if you weren't familiar with her before seeing a reel on instagram, see if you can name 10 other gospel artists from the 40s. You aren't unfamiliar because she's been discredited, you are unfamiliar because you don't follow 1940s gospel music and/or aren't a music history nerd. She is a big deal, has gotten her credit where credit is due, and shouldn't have her story rewritten to get likes and views on instagram.
Freddie is my favorite King
I play bc I heard psychedelic blues, gravitating towards Jimi and Pink Floyd, and then discovered delta blues. This is still home for me.
The subway footlong of blues is going to be the name of my next band 😁
This was the ONE! Well, the one for me. Most excellent job. Required viewing for my band, One Love, and it's extended fam. Thanks again!!!
Much love~
It's been years that I was waiting for THIS EPISODE! I
Needed this. Love these videos. Don’t care about the new formats as much as this. Need more record time and all the history and weird jokes. Thank you
I missed this kind of videos from Jhs. Thank you guys!
Geez man, you're just brilliant. Thanks for the succinct history and lovely playing. Love from NZ.
I love it that for the last 18 months everyone's default Jimi pic is from a February '69 show at the Royal Albert Hall that I was at, Wonderful stuff 😊
Freddie King has been my fave blues artist for a long time. love his style. and good to see record time back.
More theme boards!
Definitely one of the best episodes ever! Thanks for thw history of the blues, inofrmation on effects, great music and entertainment. Well done!
Addison!!
Josh's right hand pick attack is underrated. Great tones. Great Video.
I am 77. In the mid 60's I was put onto Chicago Blues by a guy who ran the Jazz Dept in Record Store. I was soon doing a 400 mile trip every 3 or 4 months to buy records in Chicago's East side as you could never find but a few records in the Jazz or Folk section of a large large city Record Store. I started a band Terraplane to play all those great players tunes. I was astonished by Clapton on the Beano record because I new and played the Freddy King tunes he did a cover of. I will stop here. Except to say I jumped the pond in 71 to live and play in the London UK clubs all the great Brit players began in. I eventually got into Prog and still play 4 to 6 hours every day through my Plexi. I have only played and sang my own tunes since 1970. I still am an avid writer.
Chicago doesn't have an east side. That is the lake.
"Make each note mean something". THAT is the most important statement for music, not just the blues.
aka the david Gilmore approach. I learned a lot from a guitar mag article that showed you the solo to Another Brick pt2, but also analysed why it was so good - the space in it. Like a trumpet player pausing for breath.
I seen it! Before you started that Holy Grail was set on Flerb!!! I knew it!
Great Record Time recommendation! My grandpa was a guitar player/blues player & when I was 10 & learning guitar I was into Hendrix & Van Halen one day my grandpa sat me down & asked me if I knew what came before Hendrix & Van Halen, I had no idea. He puts on that Freddie King record & I’ve been a Freddie King fan since. My grandpa was a fan of BB & Albert King but Freddie was his favorite
It’s the Fruit Of The Loom briefs of Blues 👍
Thank you Josh and team. Yes, more of this type of content please! I'm loving my JHS 3 series Octave Reverb! Jealous of my friends Morning Glory.
Addison is back ?
I'm so happy that Josh mentioned Gary Moore. I freaking love his playing and he is the best guitar hero for me
I'm a blues dentist. Thank you for making an episode that caters to MY needs.
Awesome episode. Didn’t think I’d learn so much. I used to be a metal/rock player. Now getting into blues
Cool to see Addison back on bass :D
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So glad to see the band back together for a classic style episode. These really are my favorites!
I don't know whether Josh has improved over the years or if he just sounds better to me than he used to, but Josh you sound pretty darn good in this one.
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Adison is back!
Ok why am I only finding this page and you guys now !!! Thank u for bringing me down the pedal rabbit hole and being totally transparent so I can actually buy pedals again! The guy at the local shop says have u tried a JHS I said no and then went online and TADA ! I you guys are more than a pedal page , this is the knowledge and history that all players need , I know I do ! I have played for years and never understood how players sounded like they did ! Wow thank you. I have so many pedals to try. Thank you dude to you and your team. All your vids are awesome off to buy a JHS now to support this sick brand !
The reason Josh didn’t use a blues breaker is because he loves boss pedals as much as his children and doesn’t want to let his precious pedals go
But Boss doesn't make the Blues Breaker pedal...
*blues DRIVER
"Why no treble booster! It was the beano secret!" *tears tears tears*
Eric Clapton didn’t use a treble booster on the Beano album
@@robertphelps1574 I know. At the end of the video Josh was saying everyone should go complain in the comments.
@@ncd1967 and I was complaining
@@robertphelps1574 hell yes, that's the spirit
Thanks for the opportunity to win this awesome pedalboard
Thumbs down for not including Steven Seagal on the list of modern Blues legends
That guy's a serious player!
“Me want de poonani” - Steven seagal 🤣
Don't have a cow man
I love seeing this video format back!!!
(1) Plug your Git-Tar into an old Octal amp
(2) Play those Blooze Scale licks you took a solid year to learn from your favorite 'Blooze Git-Tar Method' book
(3) Scrunch up your face, like you're in pain, after only three minutes of playing.
(4) Wait and see, that Blooze Tone will pour outta ya!
@dannobilly Not nearly enough; accept no substitutes! 'Chess-In-A-Pedal' doesn't work for Blooze.
Addison!!! So glad to see you're back!!!!!
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Was this pieced and parceled together with old clips, or is Addison back?!?! Why are we not discussing this!?
Answered my own question when I saw his mustache disappear halfway through.
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Excellent video! Loved the history and the playing and tones were killer. I also appreciate you featuring sounds from pedals from manufacturers other than hour own. Thats pure class!
Yes! More Josh... fewer of the kids...
Hell yeah! We are so back! Thank you for this episode!
Question on many minds: do you need a law degree nowadays to play the blues?
a Bar card actually
A medical degree is acceptable. There used to be a dentist here that built a blues club so he could play. He brought in great acts, though.
Only if you want to make money playing the blues lol
Love the revival of the classic format!
Lame, I want more sandwich takes and advice, is a hot dog a sandwich?crust or no crust? we need these burning questions answered
With mayo on the hot dog??????
The question of sandwich-ness has long been misunderstood as a question of *form,* when instead it should be seen as a question of *function.* Remember that the sandwich was invented so its creator could eat a meal without setting down a hand of cards. Therefore, anything that enables someone to consume, by hand, a food or combination of foods that would be otherwise too messy, hot, or otherwise unpleasant to eat by hand may be considered a sandwich. Therefore, hot dogs, tacos, hand pies, and gyros are all sandwiches, while foods like sushi, calzones, and the Kentucky Hot Brown are *not* sandwiches, as they require utensils to eat.
I've been putting mayo directly on the bread since the last video. My wife confronted me as to why there were crumbs in the jar. I told her to 'f*ck off '. I noticed my Notaklon was missing from my board the other day. 😢
@@davidsummerville351 Serves you right 😅
Great show Josh! Keep them coming like this! very informative and super eductional!
Newbie guitar learner here. This was insanely enlightning.
Man that had to be fun to put together
Muddy "Mississippi" Waters - Live is also one of my favorite Blues albums, included Johnny Winter and James Cotton playing in it. So good!
The fuzzface jam was incredible!♥
I took a rock history class in Seattle that discusses all of this. It's great to hear a condensed version with the pedals we use today to recreate the original tones of that time.
Thanks for bringing record time back! Glad to Addison!
It seems to me, Josh gets it. Blues has a muddy yet winsome past, troubled yet endearing, a present steeped in nostalgic longing that wryly hints at a better day, offering the soul a path of tepid comfort in the plodding quest of a fulfilling future. One doesn't just hear it--one can feel it. We will come to realize this road is long--enjoy the journey, it will be worth it.
Great video - so much good info you presented. Man when I first heard Led Zeppelin one in 1969, I was totally blown away and still am blown away by how they take the blues up to stratospheric levels. Great video fer sure. thx.
You made me want to go buy another Fuzz Face so, congratulations. Job well done.
mission accomplished
you can tell Josh is passionate about music history .. gear history .. and just guitar in general. grateful for this channel in the community.
I came for the pedals, stayed for the history class. Awesome content!
Good one. Live Wire/Blues Power by the great St. Louisan Albert King is so ripping. Very influential LP and a very hifi Fillmore recording. So much of Led Zep I comes from this Albert King LP it's nuts. Had in high school, and got this along with stuff like "Disraeli Gears," and "Bluesbreakers" back then. All obtained at the 2nd location of Vintage Vinyl in STL, for $1-3 a piece! And I still have them! I loved Jeff Beck's Yardbird stuff, first time I heard those on the radio in jr. high, so I got a German "For Your Love" tape that blew my mind. I have received quite an education from you guys, and appreciate the production work and research. JHS Pedals helped my sanity working the frontline during Covid with kids. Very thankful for the tone and pedal based research about musical styles as well.
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I loved the way Free adapted the blues on their first records, a very cool rhythm section and killer leads
I knew you are a good guitarist, but I didn't know you could play blues until now. Nice job, brother! I dig your channel and your pedals.
Josh, I want to thank you and your crew for such a wonderful and and enjoyable trip thru the blues . U did the blues some serious justice .
So beyond hyped for a classic JHS Show, this truly gives me life
Finally a good old JHS Show again - missed it for many months!
I love these style of JHS videos. I miss these. This reminds me of when I would watch every week.
Thank you Mr Josh ! And yes, I would like more like this.
Another excellent JHS programme. Love the team jam.
The Milkman is JHS most underestimated pedal. The feel of the slap back is awesome and the boost level is perfect to really push your tone over the band or the front of your amp into full-on over drive.
This is my favorite episode by far. JHS band is always amazing!
Hooray! An actual real video instead of just another short. Shorts are fine, just don’t need 10+ in between actual videos.
Josh, thanks for sharing your perspective on records too... you made me discover good music. As for Freddie King, love his sound and legacy and dis not know this record - great discovery. I recommend you "Gettin Ready" record from Freddie King in case you would not have heard it yet. Simply remarkable...
Good episode! SRV is my favorite blues player. He has the balance of all his influences, you are correct!
I like what you said about getting a lead tone, despite it sounding awful playing chords, I need to experiment with that idea!
17:53 “I guess you guys aren’t ready for that yet… But your kids are gonna love it.”
Great to see Addison back. Please do more of this! This was brilliant!