Wilco's Nels Cline Creates an Apocalyptic Sonic Universe | The Pedal Movie Profiles

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  • Опубликовано: 29 апр 2020
  • Wilco guitarist and composer Nels Cline walks us through his history of guitar pedals in this extended interview for our first feature-length documentary, The Pedal Movie. Watch as Cline discusses his early '90s board and how guitar pedals became an integral part of his sound.
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  • @noyd4172
    @noyd4172 4 года назад +62

    Nels is the cool adult every kid dreams of becoming.

  • @justinguitarcia
    @justinguitarcia 4 года назад +112

    Nels Cline is like the missing link between an older generation of music fans inspired by Hendrix, Fripp, Miles and up to bands like Television to a new, growing group of younger musicians who use pedals and soundscapes much more than what we'd say a "traditional" guitarist would

    • @skiptracer2988
      @skiptracer2988 4 года назад +4

      Sonic Youth was doing stuff like this 30 years ago.

    • @timothy2204
      @timothy2204 4 года назад +1

      Skip Tracer yeah but the world wasnt ready for it yet

    • @tylerbakermusic
      @tylerbakermusic 4 года назад +1

      Reminds me of Radiohead’s Ed O’Brien.

    • @thatsamazin-
      @thatsamazin- 3 года назад +2

      @@skiptracer2988 yeah he was on stage with them doing it 30 years ago. Lol there’s a pic. He was a big sonic youth fan.

    • @ziggyzipgun
      @ziggyzipgun 3 года назад

      You left out Syd Barrett.

  • @masmachina803
    @masmachina803 4 года назад +49

    Excruciating apocalyptic noises that make me happy is now officially a genre

    • @cortical1
      @cortical1 4 года назад +2

      Or a band name!

  • @L.C.Sweeney
    @L.C.Sweeney 10 месяцев назад +2

    Saw him last week with Wilco and he's the greatest guitarist I've ever seen. I've never seen a guitarist who can be so melodic, so messy, so virtuosic, so simple, so complicated and so unique - all in one song.

  • @jamesschaffner1992
    @jamesschaffner1992 4 года назад +63

    This could have been about 6 hrs longer.

  • @inci0078
    @inci0078 4 года назад +54

    Seeing Nels live with Wilco is such a gift for anyone!

    • @thatsamazin-
      @thatsamazin- 3 года назад +1

      I not only got to see them in Meridian, Ms, I went to the after party and met everyone but Tweedy. Me and my buddy hung out and talked with Nels for over an hour. He is as nice a gentleman you will find on the planet. He let us hold the little metal thing he uses in shot in the arm solo. Said he buys it at hardware store. I will never forget how gracious he was and how polite the entire band was. They literally treat u like family.Pat introduced me to his family and they started hugging me. Lol! They thought I was his best friend but I had just met him. 😂 I had a buddy that knew him so that’s how that all happened. It was a blast!

    • @doomsdaydanceparty7646
      @doomsdaydanceparty7646 2 года назад +1

      Saw em in 2019 n couldn't take my eyes off what he was doing, just incredible, favorite guitarist period

  • @JasonClute
    @JasonClute 4 года назад +37

    Once we are post covid, please go on That Pedal Show pretty please Nels!

    • @HunterAnton
      @HunterAnton 4 года назад +6

      Or even better, Pedals and Effects once Juan is back to full health!

    • @KCruB3ast1
      @KCruB3ast1 4 года назад +2

      Why Not Both?

    • @HunterAnton
      @HunterAnton 4 года назад

      @@KCruB3ast1 the more the merrier!

    • @tejanohawkplays
      @tejanohawkplays 3 года назад

      @@HunterAnton YES!

  • @blackfishgaming7145
    @blackfishgaming7145 2 года назад +3

    I was fortunate to have had a conversation with Nels in a bar in San Diego years ago. I had no idea who he was. At the time he was playing in an improv band with the drummer from Jane's Addiction. There were only a handful of people at the show. I was blown away by the noises that he made. After his set, he was at the bar and asked him what he was using. He spend a good 20 minutes chatting with me about guitars. I found out later he was the guitarist for Wilco after the fact. He was a really approachable guy who clearly enjoyed what he did.

  • @stagnatic
    @stagnatic 3 года назад +10

    Here’s the thing about Nels and Wilco: watch Jeff Tweedy watching Nels: Tweedy’s immensely satisfied, “Holy crap, Nels Cline is in my band, right there next to me!” expression at various moments during any set tells you the whole story of why it works.

    • @alexroselle
      @alexroselle 4 месяца назад

      it's true! I saw them play the Greek Theater in Berkeley last October and noticed this a couple times, especially during Nels' awesome solo on "Impossible Germany"

  • @kerajeffery5758
    @kerajeffery5758 4 года назад +12

    Nels is just great. I love the contrast between the mayhem and the tranquil, and the exploratory and the pretty.

  • @stuartphelps3293
    @stuartphelps3293 4 года назад +24

    Degradation is my sound- Nels Cline

  • @hankwicklund2182
    @hankwicklund2182 4 года назад +8

    "I don't know what happened, now I have a million pedals." Story of my life.

  • @MadeofThings
    @MadeofThings 4 года назад +5

    1. This is awesome 2. Watt is one of the nicest people ever (was delightful on our show) so you know Nels' board had to be really annoying haha 3. I own a Fuzz Factory and a Tumnus and had no idea Nels played them 4. Good man for quoting two of my guitar heroes in Fripp and Howe. Thanks Reverb

  • @philh27
    @philh27 4 года назад +5

    I could listen to Nels Cline all day. Either playing or talking about playing. Any one - or both- is good.

  • @mainmaines
    @mainmaines 4 года назад +12

    Dude is so insanely talented.

  • @toddgibson6817
    @toddgibson6817 4 года назад +24

    met him once. nicest guy on earth.

    • @douggoransson5179
      @douggoransson5179 4 года назад +7

      My greatest guitar moment: Julian Lage introduced me to Nels at a Sold Sound Festival. How cool is that?

    • @mil_es
      @mil_es 4 года назад +1

      @@douggoransson5179 A friend of a friend got me backstage privileges to a festival Nels and Julian Lage were playing as a duo, and after I tracked them down, Julian was kind enough to use my phone to take a pic of me and Nels lol... and I didn't have the class to ask for a picture with Mr. Lage either (great player though)

    • @Soul74
      @Soul74 4 года назад +1

      I met him and picked his brain about some music theory stuff. Very affable and encouraging.

    • @Dan_is_a_liar
      @Dan_is_a_liar 3 года назад +1

      I wish I was nice

  • @nilsx3020
    @nilsx3020 4 года назад +6

    Amazing stuff, a true innovative, inspiring artist, who I have looked up to for a long time. A sonic pioneer...

  • @grandudetonesnob7107
    @grandudetonesnob7107 4 года назад +11

    I see Nels, I click like!

  • @amanita.celeste
    @amanita.celeste 4 года назад +49

    Nels Cline is kind of a younger, more musical David Lynch

  • @jspanos500
    @jspanos500 4 года назад +4

    A sonic sculptor master who can also shred jazz licks.
    His playing is both inspiring and humbling to the point of quitting the guitar.

    • @skeenj
      @skeenj 3 года назад

      i agree. Nels Cline and Vernon Reid are STILL the future of guitar

  • @bluelakes7027
    @bluelakes7027 4 года назад +3

    Nels is old-school cool. What a guitar player.

  • @isaacwilliams9919
    @isaacwilliams9919 3 года назад +1

    I love the way he speaks

  • @GearGasms
    @GearGasms 4 года назад +5

    I put him on my most recent Underrated Guitar Players video! He’s awesome

  • @paoloflorian44
    @paoloflorian44 3 года назад +2

    That sliver Jazzmaster is incredibly cool

  • @philippgrunert8776
    @philippgrunert8776 4 года назад +1

    Man... I can so relate to him... I think i should have a Listen to wilco.

  • @KUM0
    @KUM0 4 года назад +3

    This dude is a legend

  • @sheercerebralpower
    @sheercerebralpower 4 года назад +3

    Oh,how I love watching Nels.......

  • @adamtick
    @adamtick 4 года назад +2

    This video turned me on to Yo Miles! Thanks 😊

  • @duckbrew
    @duckbrew 4 года назад +4

    Nels is right about the fuzz factory. I couldn't tame that thing or didn't posses the patience. Had to sell it.

  • @singingshotgun
    @singingshotgun 4 года назад +4

    I see Nels Cline, I click.

  • @timharrington4470
    @timharrington4470 3 года назад

    I love how this guy uses his pedals to make the guitar Express something so unique

  • @leanvalente
    @leanvalente 4 года назад +2

    I search for Neil this week.. i Love It.

  • @CarsonCostanza
    @CarsonCostanza 4 года назад +30

    Ladies and gentlemen the worlds finest guitarist, Nels Cline! 8:22

  • @t0mpsy
    @t0mpsy 4 года назад +9

    the goat

  • @tommycate3788
    @tommycate3788 Год назад

    My hero.

  • @demondarcy3911
    @demondarcy3911 4 года назад +23

    Nels is the antithesis of the blues lawyer. in this essay i will

    • @GearGasms
      @GearGasms 4 года назад

      I’m the anti antithesis of the blues lawyer

    • @sammadden5540
      @sammadden5540 4 года назад

      Not Nick Reinhart?

    • @41DegreesSouth
      @41DegreesSouth 4 года назад +1

      I'm not a rich guy, I don't play blues, but I also don't get why it's cool to hate on people who are/do.
      Play whatever you like. I'm just pleased people are playing.

    • @bryanmannoia8410
      @bryanmannoia8410 4 года назад

      don't know if I agree. the blues and what Nels does is just expression with the guitar. making it speak. very different, but antithesis? the world needs both.

    • @skiptracer2988
      @skiptracer2988 4 года назад

      Blues is so boring, now that it's been done to death.

  • @crabejoss
    @crabejoss 3 месяца назад

    I Saw this gray box Ibanez de7... Yeah, unique tones there.

  • @UntitledSix
    @UntitledSix 4 года назад +1

    My Hero

  • @esteban_666
    @esteban_666 4 года назад +2

    7:59 Fuzz ♡

  • @Semitotal
    @Semitotal 4 года назад +4

    4:43 DE7!!

  • @CreepyT
    @CreepyT 3 года назад

    His "apocalyptic" sound here sounds like a track from the Guitarrorists compilation. Namely Dave Rick's 'Where's Gitchi Oombigat At?'. If any of you like Nils Cline and this type of experimentation and haven't picked up Guitarrorists yet then do so. It's a who's-who of alt/underground/groundbreaking players from the 70s and 80s released in 1991. It changed my perception on how to approach guitar and I had already been listening to Sonic Youth since '85 when I found Confusion Is Sex and thought I was ahead of the time. I was wrong. I have always wished follow up releases would happen every decade but sadly that never happened.

  • @jeremyserwer2586
    @jeremyserwer2586 4 года назад +11

    How have Mike Patton And Nels Cline not done a project together--or have they?

    • @benjaminhartley6578
      @benjaminhartley6578 4 года назад

      No, but Mark Ribot that is great

    • @benjaminhartley6578
      @benjaminhartley6578 4 года назад

      m.ruclips.net/video/Yb8QoOsfC2U/видео.html

    • @jeremyserwer2586
      @jeremyserwer2586 4 года назад

      @@benjaminhartley6578 Awesome!! Well it could happen as Trevor Dunn plays with Julian Lage--who also plays with the Nels Cline 4. For a second I thought that was a younger Bill Frissel on Jaguar.

  • @NoUploadJustComment
    @NoUploadJustComment 4 года назад +2

    The pedal master.

  • @TheKirby366
    @TheKirby366 4 года назад +2

    Anybody know what the purple and yellow pedal he steps on at 8:20 is?

    • @TheKirby366
      @TheKirby366 4 года назад +2

      Nevermind, it is the EQD Pitchbay!

  • @stratdoc
    @stratdoc Год назад

    Some of what you hear when Nels is spanking his Jazzmaster is not a pedal sound. The Jazz unique combo of string length and its vibrato create that that piano like hollow voice which you either love or hate..

  • @blashuvec
    @blashuvec 4 года назад +5

    goat

  • @NoCoverCharge
    @NoCoverCharge 4 года назад +4

    im a mid 80's to mid 90's guy ... it was all Boss pedals...

  • @rockstarr9000
    @rockstarr9000 4 года назад +1

    Genius

  • @bryanmannoia8410
    @bryanmannoia8410 4 года назад +1

    who is Mike Watt to question a sonic God? Nels is THE man to go to when it's time for a unique lead.

    • @gramsci420
      @gramsci420 3 года назад

      Mike Watt? The archetypal modern rock bass player? Yeah, what did he ever do? 👀

    • @skeenj
      @skeenj 3 года назад

      Our sonic Savior was a hired gun, for watt. Everyone knows what watt's work ethic is like. It's been his thing, for his entire musical career.

    • @skeenj
      @skeenj 3 года назад

      the documentary about the minutemen (watt narrating) was called we jam econo. it's his ethos

  • @tonesleuth69
    @tonesleuth69 4 года назад +4

    The David Lynch of Guitar

  • @nathanverni9143
    @nathanverni9143 4 года назад +1

    Reminds me of the time I tried to tune my guitar in garageband with one of the Experimental amp sound selected...I sent the recording to Jeff Tweedy but haven't heard back yet

  • @AD-fx2qd
    @AD-fx2qd 2 года назад

    Love Nels. What an innovative, inspiring player. I pick up a guitar, and I'm like "This is G :|"

  • @nickp440
    @nickp440 3 года назад

    I dont listen to wilco but i fucking love nels

  • @Mrpsblobsoflowendmung
    @Mrpsblobsoflowendmung 4 года назад +2

    😂😂😂😂 I can totally hear Watt kicking off when the board died 😂😂 barking haha I set up a couple of gigs for Watt when he had two pedals I was shocked and looked at him like dude ? Watts this shit? Haha I have a monster board to and he’s give me shit for it , love him endlessly
    Big Love Brother Watt.
    Nels without a doubt my favourite guitar player by the way 😂

  • @ArthurSutherland
    @ArthurSutherland 4 года назад +4

    Nasty, crunchy, shrill, salty, sweet, delicious.

  • @SMAWA9
    @SMAWA9 3 года назад

    ❤️

  • @jas_bataille
    @jas_bataille 3 года назад

    Someone definitely have to start a brand of pedals called "Shop pedals" or something

  • @peterpansie5
    @peterpansie5 4 года назад +1

    What is that thing he’s using on the strings at the start

    • @wolfieb3366
      @wolfieb3366 4 года назад

      peterpansie5 he usually uses a spring idk what that is

    • @PublicDove
      @PublicDove 4 года назад +1

      It looks like a metal flashlight - he's using the textured surface of the handle in the same way he often uses a large spring, whisk, bottleneck slide, etc.

  • @StupidEarthlings
    @StupidEarthlings 3 года назад

    ~8:20 ish .. This is what it sounds like when I play, I didn't know it was considered great music. (Of course, Its when I'm trying to play "Black Dog" from Zeppelin). 😒 👍

  • @thebreakfastmenu
    @thebreakfastmenu 3 года назад +2

    Has he made music for a horror movie yet?

  • @SteveJamsEcono
    @SteveJamsEcono 6 месяцев назад

    7:58 "... Fuzz."

  • @Norvind-YT
    @Norvind-YT 4 года назад +3

    Fuzz

  • @bernarddoherty2303
    @bernarddoherty2303 4 года назад +1

    De7!

  • @dostacos1
    @dostacos1 Год назад

    Idk why but I always expected Nels to have a British accent

  • @andrewfishman1558
    @andrewfishman1558 3 года назад

    He's doing a Masterclass! Heres the link to get a spot
    www.universe.com/events/masterclass-with-nels-cline-of-wilco-2nd-class-added-tickets-los-angeles-PYTHV6

  • @TheVaughnillaIce
    @TheVaughnillaIce 4 года назад +2

    Any vid recommendations of him going crazy in a song?

    • @goncalomarques2711
      @goncalomarques2711 4 года назад +2

      Try his album with Medeski Martin and Wood. It's called Woodstock Vol 2

    • @GyhonnyBravo
      @GyhonnyBravo 4 года назад +2

      Dan Orkin Specifically the one from Ashes of American Flags

    • @judkilgore3822
      @judkilgore3822 4 года назад +1

      Dan Orkin, good call. There’s a clip in YT of Wilco playing that song in Italy November ‘19 that’s epic. Nels takes flight.

    • @pibroch
      @pibroch 4 года назад +1

      ruclips.net/video/SmddP2cJkJ8/видео.html

    • @davemabee5798
      @davemabee5798 4 года назад +2

      With the Flaming Lips doing "She's so Heavy".

  • @jakeisjake112
    @jakeisjake112 4 года назад +1

    FUZZ!

  • @jasond2138
    @jasond2138 4 года назад

    Infinite time-ime-ime

  • @marcador79
    @marcador79 4 года назад

    hmm...

  • @Dan_is_a_liar
    @Dan_is_a_liar 3 года назад

    Cringe at the beginning

  • @BCTGuitarPlayer
    @BCTGuitarPlayer 4 года назад +2

    My favorite pedal has always been my guitar plugged into my amp.

    • @Soul74
      @Soul74 4 года назад +11

      Butler Crow oh aren’t you the iconoclast.

    • @peterpansie5
      @peterpansie5 4 года назад

      Butler Crow dweeb

    • @demondarcy3911
      @demondarcy3911 4 года назад +1

      lemme guess, blues rock?

    • @indieguy81
      @indieguy81 4 года назад +8

      And we're all very impressed. I drive a Nissan Altima. Not an amazing car by any means, but it serves its purpose and it's all I really need. But I don't go around to Ferrari owners saying "You know, all you really need is a simple car like a Nissan Altima. You only have a Ferrari because you're overcompensating for your lack of driving skills."

    • @matthewheinecke2621
      @matthewheinecke2621 4 года назад +2

      Butler Crow pees sitting down

  • @FuzzyDancingBear
    @FuzzyDancingBear 4 года назад +1

    Wilco sux but I do dig a lot of the guitar sounds