Interview with Paul Reed Smith of PRS Guitars • NAMM 2020
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- Опубликовано: 22 янв 2020
- It's that time of the year again -- NAMM 2020 - and Wildwood is here to bring you a vision of the decade to come!
Another annual tradition of the Wildwood team is to meet up with PRS himself - Paul Reed Smith - to catch quick banter, see what's new, and ultimately just riff about guitars. But whoa, this year we caught some magic. Greg fell in love with the PRS John Mayer Silver Sky, and Paul was happy to tell us a few of the stories behind its creation. Pure magic.
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Paul looks like he's gonna make Greg an offer he can't refuse.
I think Paul's met his match in interviews with Greg.
The dichotomy and uncomfortable level of the ribbing is perfect.
Greg didn't say anything much, except upset Paul with saying the word '"Fender"
match.com?
That’s actually an insult to Greg Koch
I could listen to this pair for hours. Sure Paul is a salesman but he makes great guitars and he has never settled for near enough. Got to respect that.
Mark Nicholas ... I have a Custom 24 , it’s a unique guitar and he builds a fine guitar. But don’t tell me this is a totally different guitar than a Fender Strat ... because it is a Fender Strat Knock off ....
@@jamiemorgan4146 my understanding is that it is built to be close to an early 60's Strat in terms of tone and feel but without some of the limitations of a vintage instrument such as tuning stability, intonation and general roadworthiness. I don't think anyone imagines it is anything other than PRS's homage to a Strat.
Paul Reed Smith always seems to need to dominate , get the last word . Greg was masterful in his refusal to take the bait or enter into conflict .
Clifton Boylan I suspect he’s had a doobie and a few glasses of champagne 🥂 😘
Clifton Boylan ...Paul's a Narcissist... P,us he's always selling ...
Clifton Boylan he’s a genius and successful business man, he’s earned it. Do we see the head of Gibson or Fender sitting around chatting to dealers and players ? nope
@@jamiemorgan4146 Did you intend that misspelling...? 😏
Yeah... Constantly bragging
Paul finally uncovered the secrets of pickup internal capacitance and carefully selecting pots. It's surprising how many players auto-swap pickups but never change the pots when pots and caps have as much impact on the tone as the pickups. Paul is finally a believer.
Thanks to Greg this is the first time I've been able to sit through a Paul interview. Yes Greg!
For those complaining about Paul, don’t take everything so seriously. It’s just the guy’s personality. Personally he cracks me up.
same for me and i'm not even a PRS guy.
Love to watch this every year!
Competence is more important than being humble.. Both of these guys are great... I love how straight-forward Paul is in his "Selling" it is honest-- he's not hiding it...
After many PRS I've came across and own. I've always changed out the electronics. I'm so glad Paul is finally looking at the the heart of the electric guitar. His quest for making the perfect electric guitar is a guitarist's dream come true.
Paul is starting to remind me of Larry David for some reason 🤣
i thought i was the only one who was thinking about that as well haha . very very true . he even sounds like him as well
Great interview! Paul Reed Smith is the mad scientist we never knew we needed.
Once again.. it's all in the hands and heart of the player. Go Greg!
I don’t see a conflict here. These are two guys who are really top shelf at what they do, and they respect one another. Plain to see. Greg does look like a giant next to Paul. That man can play a guitar! The other man can make a guitar. Good match.
What's interesting is that the man that "plays" doesn't choose to play what the man that "makes"
makes.
Just a choice. Doesn’t make one or the other better or right. Having choices is a great thing. The player can recognize a stellar instrument and choose that something else is what he wants. That’s all it says. I wish people wouldn’t invent conflict from it. There’s no conflict here, just opinions. I can see both sides. Perhaps that’s because I play and own more than one brand of guitar, and have done so for decades. There’s no need to choose just one.
Master player with a master builder, Paul knew what Greg was/needed to do to get a certain tone without looking most of the time, jeez...
@@passionplayer7 It's even simpler than that. Wildwood is a HUGE dealer of PRS, Gibson, and Fender, among others. Greg does most of the Wildwood vids, so the Wildwood customers need to see Greg play, and fawn over a couple PRS models. If I didn't have two killer old strats, I'd have a Silver Sky in flip-flop (rosewood though). And if I had a bunch more money, I'd buy one anyway.
got nothing but love for both Paul and Greg. Great passionate people. Very cool. The guitars sounded great!!
It is so great to see a demo by these two guys. Both know very intimately the subtleties of the tones of classic guitars. Paul is able to point them out and Greg is able to play something which demonstrates them. Much more informative than a lot of the videos out there! And we're able to hear all three pickups from the Silver Sky here, with Paul pointing out the subtle ways they capture the sound of guitars built in the 1960s.
Same goes for the demo of the McCarty toward the end of the video.
awesome ... thanks again!
The tones from this guitar are freakin HEAVENLY!
Anything Greg touches sounds awesome.
was chewing gum involved haha legend
Siggy Sour A bit of a flippant comment from Greg but it just goes to show how much he was holding his personality in while trying to interview quite a. difficult subject
So coooooool
@@jonobuckley3215 ha yeah the man is one of the funniest and best players
Awesome guitar player, awesome guitar maker. What a treat. Ha, love it. IV been playing over 50 years. Just love the PRS guitars. Wow.
PRS - “... maybe it’s time for you to convert!” ... well that went down like a lead balloon. And then the video ended :) nicely done Greg.
13:40 - That’s a loaded question for someone who is under contract with several other manufacturers and a retailer.
Paul has been hinting to Greg for some time. Wildwood & Greg do a lot for PRS. If I where Greg, I would be in the wood library look a wood for my guitar right now.
Tom Howland
It depends if Greg sold some exclusivities to Reverend, Koch and Lace; and on the rapport Greg has with those companies. Burning bridges is never good.
It also depends on if Paul wants to make him a guitar (privately) or if he wants him on the road for PRS, exclusively or not.
All those things can coexist, it just depends on everybody’s positions & wants.
PRS just re-invented the Strat for John Mayer ... maybe Paul wants to re-invent the Tele with Greg Koch?
@@ThemFuzzyMonsters
Many top name artists endorse more than one product. I don;'t know what type of deal Greg has. He sure left Fender for Reverend. As did John for PRS. My original point is Paul has been nudging Greg for a while. He sees his value.
two of my favourite guitar people in one room. loved it :D
Hahahaaaaa Lolol
Gregory guckenheimer schmitt is so damn cool.
This clip goes directly to my favorites.
Legendary
PRS= pride, craftsmanship, quality control is leaps and bounds better the competition, top notch tone, tuning stability, top quality tops, perfect fret work, better dried woods.
PRS is the relentless pursuit of perfection
Best Paul Reed Smith interview to date !
Very good sound .. its a success what they did with the silver sky
Great interview!
A perfect example of how to sell your product in a genius way.
Yup. It sure worked on me.
GREAT VIDEO... SO ENTERTAINING
Damn, those humbuckers! That is a wow.
Wow great interview.
Paul seems a bit...intoxicated here :) Great video guys, Greg always delivers.
PRS has such nice guitars, and the Silver Sky is a beautiful guitar... they play and sound great. That being said, I could listen to Greg chat all day. Why can I only take about 5 minutes of Paul?
Way to take on the big PRS Greg! Fire!!
Love Paul!!! great stuff guys,,,,btw Greg manages to always make ANYTHING SOUND LIKE A TELE!
Paul is telling us it's a pain but I bet it's a scratch that he loves to itch. The way he falls into his self with the pickup details tells me he does a lot of thinking and planning on his own, in organized chaos. Definitely a difficult and interesting character.
1:13 for the uninitiated; you can't do most harmonics using a single coil neck pickup on a 22 fret guitar because the pickup sits underneath the node where the 24th fret or octave would be; the string literally doesn't move at that point and thus there is no movement for the pickup to react to. This is also explains a lot of why many guitarists prefer a 22 fret instrument; even with humbuckers, as one the coils is under that node reducing upper harmonic content and producing a warmer tone.
Dejoblue That’s interesting thanks. I remembered a little bit about that from my physics days at school.
If you watch the pickup selector Greg was actually in position #2 (bridge and middle)... The "node" information is absolutely correct.. But Greg was NOT on the bass pickup...
Great explanation...! 👍🏾
Nice techie drop there man, thanx.
@@mattgarcia440 He slaps it down into that position when he does the last chord of the phrase. Play from 0:50 to 1:00 he is playing the neck pickup; then click on the timeline at 1:32 to 1:41 and you can hear the striking difference in tone and actually see that the pickup selector is in position 1.
These two have some hilarious chemistry lol. We need a buddy boomer movie with Greg and PRS!
Well Greg is not a Boomer he’s GenX
This is Why Paul is bad ASS! He knows all the things that make a great guitar or affect tone. Always innovating ! Lots of reviewers never mention any of this stuff, cuz they never built guitars like Paul! I don't even own a PRS, but love to hear Paul talk about guitars! One day though!
Love your stuff Greg, great interview. And the wind cries La Plaaaata. Get back here everyone has forgotten about the Fishmans!! Still got’em in my LP custom, and they are,,,, dead solid great! So I can say once in your life you were right, go figure? Or what they may say in Michigan? So, all kidding aside , thanks for demoing the Fishman products as I would have never picked them up. Now I’m starring at my PRS, hmmmm? Don’t mention it to Paul.
I love that the "bleep" is a reverb slap
I always come back and watch this because watching Greg try not to tell Paul to stfu is entertaining to me.
Greg's trying to feel out the guitar and Paul keeps talking over him 🤣
The Silver Sky is a magnificent guitar!!! Well done Paul and John!!! Greg you are a monster!!!
Funny banter...Lol. Pauls dry humor mixed with Gregs quirky musings are entertaining! 😂
When is the Telecaster coming.
When he convinces Greg ;)
@@lucaszembrzuski Greg has his own signature T-style model with Reverend Guitars.
@@44scoots i know, that's why i said it ;)
They have been coming since 1950.
Yeah but I picked up a silver sky. It was like butter. I'm a Telecaster person. I want Paul to make me a Telecaster.
Not gonna lie that sounds unbelievable!
Coleman Dickson ...Unbelievably the same as a Strat...
Very enjoyable
Two masters.
"Maybe it's time for you to covert..." that's subtle. IMO... Gregg is the best in the world at his craft.
Will they ever sell the pickups separately I want to put some in a real pre cbs.
Glad to see you finally figured out how to make decent sounding pickups!
holt shiz! Did Paul just try and teach Greg about playing harmonics? Paul must need a dump truck to carry those balls around.
Paul really reminds me of Larry David a lot
and steve jobs
Sounds like Dave Mustaine.
Yes... All of the awkwardness, none of the funny
Never understand the hate for Paul. He's still passionate after all these years, and adds something to the industry. Yes he's slightly nuts, comes out with his guns blazing, and talks a lot of crazy BS, but I think a lot of the time he believes it. To get to where he is he has done a heck of a lot of things right. He's always entertaining even when he's annoying.
It's because he is so embarrassingly full of himself. He's a guitar manufacturer not God or a rock star.
To understand why he's so annoying, look back thru the years of interviews where he's rude, insulting, and a know it all. He makes a great guitar, but his brand is tarnished by his personality.
No, he’s not full of himself, and the brand is not tarnished. You’ve got other brands where they are way out of touch with their identity and originality. Paul Reed Smith knows who he is, and Paul Reed Smith guitars are genuine in what they offer. They are consistent AND constantly improving. That is more important than being an extrovert with personality. He designs guitars. He’s not a talk-show host. Many people cherish the fact that he is still at the helm of his company and covet the instruments he has created. There are probably others better suited for interviews that get endlessly scrutinized online, but they aren’t him. What other guitar manufacturer has their owner taking the time to be involved to this extent? It speaks volumes that greatly outweighs any lack of social skills or propriety that the man may have demonstrated.
Because he’s insufferable, he’s a textbook’s narcissist, I literally want to slap in the face after 3 minutes of him talking. I can’t stand the man.
@@johnnylance Hmmm when it comes to guitars he knows his stuff that based off discovering that his guitars do things that my Gibsons, strats, Gretschs don’t do.
01:54 "so why does it sound so damned good?" "Truthful answer!"......... because you're playing it Greg, seriously has anyone ever seen Greg demonstrate something and it sounded bad?
hughjarrse - Paul makes some real nice guitars. But honestly Greg is just one of those players that can make anything sound good.
If it is related to the wire, I would check wire diameter, material, plating, stranding and direction, insulation material, dielectric constant, permitivity, added substances for protection and flame retardents, insulation thickness, foaming the insulation, tension the wire is applied. Could be interesting to look into that.
Does Paul just party his way through NAMM every year?
He was making that Santana money, that creed money, that Nü Metal money, that radio rock money, now he's making that John Mayer money...
Paul's been getting more and more Crunk for 20 years now
His company makes perfect guitars though. So he’s doing it right.
Suhr uses the same material in their V63 pickups as Fender used in their 63 pickup..apparently.
Come on Paul you know it’s a strat just your magical musical twist to it
jambajoby32 ...You mean " Bull Shit " ....
Damn, these two are hilarious. Xcuse me bein ignorant here, but is Wildwood the same company that produces guitars in S.Korea?
Paul is certainly a very proud man 😂 as well he should be.
I wish they would make a HSS Silver Sky. I would buy one if they did.
Could just put in a Hot Rails or something similar; I'd prefer the look of that on an S-style guitar
That's coming....GAURENTEED
A great player can make a $100 guitar sound great. True Story! I was at Tech School after Basic Training. A tall slanky kid (Pete) went over to a beat up knock off strat and 70s fender silver face twin at a rec center. He fused with the tuning then slayed some awesome chicken picking. I was blown away!! I didn't know you played Pete ? He replied, I'm from Tennessee where most everyone plays something. I replied, I play too!! Pete said, I know, you're not very good at it!! We all laughed at the table. 40 years later and I still remember what he said!! Cheers!
More of Paul and Gregg!
That dude is obviously a mad genius.
I gotta axe you a question. Ok Paul. I loved this one. Hahaha
I do have the SE version.. I Havent had the chance to play the USA version at home yet.
I dont care what guitars sound like in a store, I need to play them at home with my gear to know what they really sound like... I really wonder how much different the US version sounds.
Wonder if there is any tonal difference between a 3and 3 opposed to 6 in line.?
The diminutive Paul Reed Smith.
What amp did he say they were using? Cool video by the way..
@Literally Shaking Thanks man..
I'd love to hear Barbara Streisand sing "Good Lovin' Gone Bad".
Paul is a why guy. Loud, but rightly earned.
Man, for everyone on here hating on Paul, think for a second what it might be like if Gibson had someone at the helm that had this much passion about getting guitars 'right' and not being so concerned with doing 37 limited runs of guitars with stupid gimmicks at about 10 grand a pop, which still commonly have bad QC issues. We also complain about Gibson, don't we? But then hate on the guy that does produce irrefutably very high quality instruments and clearly loves what he does and what his company produces. I'm not so sure that it is arrogance that you're seeing and not just sort of a guitar nerd who never really developed the best social skills. To me, he's just a bit awkward and doesn't know how to be a regular guy sometimes, but aren't we all a little weird sometimes? Give the guy a pass, I say, and if a PRS guitar speaks to you, then who cares if the guy 'puts you off'. It's about making good music in the end anyway.
Good point there, bro. !
I'm new to guitar and have been looking into either an epiphone les paul or a prs custom se 24 and actually have been leaning to the prs in charcoal grey. I quite enjoyed this interview, I must have missed something? Or there's history with paul that I don't know about?
@@StoicTrader- Nah, Paul is just known to be quite a difficult interviewee, calling him awkward is being nice. That doesn't take away from how undoubtedly well-made PRS guitars are. Some of the recent Epiphones have been really nice, and you can find something loads cheaper than a Custom 24. Don't choose between just brand names though. You literally have to go out there and TRY a guitar.
@@tempuramonster yeah, I understand when people say to go and try them in store but to be honest I'm so new that I wouldn't even know what to look for. I'm playing on my cheap acoustic because that's all I have but I'm embarrassed to go in store and try something because I literally can't play jack shit except some chords and scales lol. Also the prs custom I'm looking into isn't the expensive one it's the se model, 700 dollar range.
@@tempuramonster YEP ALWAYS PLAY THE GUITAR!!
I have to get one
This is a great interview. Paul is unique and could stand showing a little humility, despite that I think he's a good man and a good heart. I could see his emotion and passion when he was talking about those pickups.
Greg and a Silver Sky are a great match.
Greg is just as good with his Reverend.
Pure alchemy! I wanted hard to not like this guitar. Now it's the only Strat I play.
If Greg does a "T" style guitar with PRS in getting it!!!!!!
that'd be sick. might depend on the exclusivity of his deal with reverend?
Is this before Greg signed on with Reverend guitars? 💚🎸
Please elaborate on how you fedexed John Mayer’s strat! I work for ups and would love to see how you boxed it!
dezionlion .... lol .... and it is a Fender Strat Knock off...
Jamie Morgan ??
"Play guitar" hahaha, loved that
Muy buen sonido, muy limpio
COMEDY GOLD!!!
Paul needs to upgrade that iPhone 6 plus ASAP. Love his guitars! Love fender but my silver sky is amazing.
Did not get it clearly .. it was the "hire supplying guy" that made the difference?
“Come ‘ere da once! “That’s how we say it in newfoundland :)
Good God I want to work for this man!
Interestingly, this is the only strat I want and the only prs I want
Liam Tahaney ... Why ?? You get it with a Real Strat ???
Funnily enough I’m the same 😂
Sounds good... first I like from PRS
Two very unique personalities here.
Paul is always awesome.
I think Paul had a few drinks before this interview.
its a strat！
I like the tone of some of the PRS but could never bond with the necks on his guitars. I haven’t tried a Mayer PRS yet though. Maybe I should. I did love a modern eagle 🦅 I once played though, it was probably better than a custom shop 1959 Les Paul that I played side by side. Great playing Greg!
Jason Hobbs ... I hate PRS Necks ... they don’t feel comfortable in my hand 🖐
A PRS Greg Kock Tele would be Epic!!
PRS Tele✨✨✨
What kind of guitar amp is this
Marketing apart... those pups stand pretty “high”. Most SRV type of players i know push them pups downwards, almost aligning them with the pickguard. Aged pups also tend to “downsize “ some of the high-end. Kinda like an old whiskey, you loose that initial roughness, leaving only a delayed burn at the end. And all 5 positions work well, all of them sound great... there might be a lot of marketing here, but... he did find something. That’s just my opinion.
We are just watching Gregg getting endorsed!