Pete Anderson Telecaster Trendsetter - ASK ZAC EP 35

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  • Опубликовано: 30 сен 2024
  • CORRECTION: Pete used 7 out of the 21 stockpiled Yoakam originals on each of the first 3 albums they released together.
    Pete Anderson turned Nashville on its ear with his playing and production on Dwight Yoakam's 1986 release, Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc. His use of a Tele and Fender Deluxe Reverb amp, instead of the Music City norm of a Strat going direct with heavy chorus, made Dwight's record stand-out, and radio and record buyers responded by quickly turning Yoakam into a bonafide star. In this AZ episode, I give some backstory on Anderson, show some of his licks, and how his work ethic and street smarts paid off for him.
    To Support the Channel, go to my store at - www.askzac.com
    Spotify Playlist for Pete:
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    Gear used in Video:
    2019 Danocaster Blackguard (1953 Telecaster Style) with Ron Ellis 52T (Bridge) and Julian Lage (Neck)
    danocaster.com/
    Strings:
    D'Addario NYXL 10,12,16, 24, 34, 44.
    Pick:
    Blue Chip TPR 35 RB
    Amp:
    1965 Deluxe Reverb amp with Celestion V30 speaker
    Effects used:
    TC Polytune
    Mirage compressor pedal
    9v power via Truetone CS6 amzn.to/38S9rZK #askzac #guitartech #telecaster

Комментарии • 234

  • @fivewattworld
    @fivewattworld 4 года назад +49

    I remember reading about Pete Anderson in a guitar magazine and seeking out "Guitars, Cadillacs..." and not having a sense of where country music had gone, immediately felt the Buck Owens sort of TV country I'd seen as a kid. Thanks for filling all of that in for me with this Zac. Always learn stuff here. That's why I'm such a bigger support of "Ask Zac"!

    • @WillyMcCoy50
      @WillyMcCoy50 4 года назад

      Big 5watter fan here though you drift into higher wattage from time to time. Love it! Waiting for a one pickup wonder video sometime!
      Peace!

    • @lastofthe4horsemen279
      @lastofthe4horsemen279 3 года назад

      I had that magazine with Pete.

    • @artheriford
      @artheriford 2 года назад

      As a kid, I listened to a lot of Ricky Skaggs, Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard. Then Dwight showed up and I felt the same way. Where was country music going? It was was way different

  • @bethsimmonds6320
    @bethsimmonds6320 4 года назад +36

    Pete Anderson and Mike Campbell are two of the most underappreciated guitar players. Their contribution to country music and rock ‘n’ roll is immeasurable.

    • @AskZac
      @AskZac  4 года назад +4

      AGREED

  • @danajones8685
    @danajones8685 4 года назад +31

    Up until March 9th, with the stay-at-home orders, Pete has been playing blues every Monday night at the Burbank Moose Lodge. Very open to sharing his knowledge and his stage rig. He has his own line of guitars from Reverend.

    • @SuperBuzz71
      @SuperBuzz71 4 года назад +4

      Dana Jones That is F ink incredible! When the Rona blows over I am coming out to see it even if I have to join the Moose. I saw him on his first solo tour at a small club in early 90's. He came out with an attitude like he had something to prove from the start. Introduced himself with "Staches, stashes, Staches, where ever you put your stash is proud to present ME". And then he laid into it. We had a front row table at some point during One Day Our Time Will Come I realized some other local player was leaning over my shoulder toward the magic. I turned around recognized every killer player in town had town had showed up too. It was magic, man. We hung out at the bar drinking beer with him afterwards and his confidence and attitude was amicable and cool as hell. A bad ass but not an asshole. I'm coming out to the moose lodge when the Rona clears.

    • @okiecowpokey
      @okiecowpokey 3 года назад

      They played the Palomino club pretty regularly too.

  • @etburkentine455
    @etburkentine455 4 года назад +15

    I started playing when I was 10 and still going at it at the age of 45. I grew up listening to classic country but was a total hard rock and heavy metal kind of kid in my early teen years. In high school I started listen to Dwight. I would ride around in my 82' diesel Jetta and the radio didnt have a cassette player so I was eating c batteries like a champ just reaching back and flipping my Dwight albums around in a crappy boom box. Pete blew my mind. With all the stuff I was into and so focused on shred techniques, Pete bent my ear like nothing I ever heard and strived to play like that ever since. Pete is one of my guitar heroes. So it was funny going from an RG Ibanez and instantly wanting a tele in the worst way. His sound was amazing and pre- internet mysteries still existed and just had me chasing that sound still to this day. Thanks Zac! Pete is so worth recognizing. He and Dwight changed things in the most radical way at that time and as far as I'm concerned nothing has had that impact and making the old so amazingly radical. The solo on Little Sister. My Lord

    • @SuperBuzz71
      @SuperBuzz71 4 года назад

      ET Burkentine I love every damn word of that. Also, I miss the pre-internet days of mystery

  • @gregarnold1696
    @gregarnold1696 4 года назад +14

    I was in radio in the mid 80s and Pete Anderson's guitar cut through like a blade great stuff

  • @teleclasster
    @teleclasster 4 года назад +18

    Pete's perfect recording, "Thousand Miles From Nowhere". Tele w bigsby, super hot signal, expressive chords and killer solos.

    • @AskZac
      @AskZac  4 года назад +4

      I love that track!

    • @kevdean9967
      @kevdean9967 4 года назад +1

      @@AskZac I was actually stuck, flat broke, and literally a thousand miles from nowhere in the late 90's and listened to the "This Time" album a lot. That song, and not to sound like I'm aspiring to any form of literary nobelness was a form of etherial escape for me!!!

    • @TheMax1230
      @TheMax1230 4 года назад +2

      I always thought that was a strat lol!

    • @AskZac
      @AskZac  4 года назад +3

      @@TheMax1230 It was a Tele with a whammy of some kind. In an old mag he said it was a parts Tele with a floyd

    • @teleclasster
      @teleclasster 4 года назад +1

      @@TheMax1230 I don't know if this is the one, but it sure sounds like the tone on the record. 3 pickup tele style, some kind of tremolo, looks to be on middle pickup : ruclips.net/video/QpQ4c3b_RJ8/видео.html

  • @bryantcoleman5619
    @bryantcoleman5619 4 года назад +8

    Nice one. I don’t remember who said it, but someone once said you have your entire life to write the songs for your first album and six months to write the songs for your second one. I guess a Pete was hip to that.

  • @guitareveryone
    @guitareveryone 4 года назад +14

    Tele plugged straight into an old Blackface Deluxe and cranked. That’s Pete’s vintage sound. I think he probably clipped the bright caps in his amp. Great episode Zac!

    • @therhodeo
      @therhodeo 4 года назад +4

      Esquire plugged into heavily modified Deluxe Reverbs that don't sound anything like a stock deluxe reverb.

    • @misterknightowlandco
      @misterknightowlandco 4 года назад

      And now he uses a line 6 pod...

    • @therhodeo
      @therhodeo 4 года назад

      @@misterknightowlandco Was. AxeFx into a fryette power amp now.

  • @larrywishon8084
    @larrywishon8084 5 месяцев назад +1

    I totally agree ! Pete Anderson is VERY underrated. I.M.O. "Please, Please Baby" is The Pete Anderson track ! He just goes off, literally ascending up the fretboard until it runs out. GOD ALMIGHTY !

  • @tomforsythe7024
    @tomforsythe7024 4 года назад +4

    I remember when Guitars, Cadillacs, etc, etc came out. Everyone was talking about it, because it brought back real Country Music, but was a fresh take on the genre. The videos were avant garde, his look was iconic, the graphic design on the album, everything said Dwight was a force to be reckoned with.

  • @stevelankford7343
    @stevelankford7343 4 года назад +4

    Love this episode Zac. My wife and I did get to see Dwight with Pete Anderson on guitar in Birmingham back in the early 90’s I think. Anyway, that was a fun show, my wife was beside herself and I just enjoyed the guitar work.

  • @JacksonTaylorandTheSinners
    @JacksonTaylorandTheSinners 11 месяцев назад +1

    Pete Anderson and Don Rich are why, I play tele’s.

  • @superbroadcaster
    @superbroadcaster 2 года назад +2

    Pete is one of my biggest guitar heroes. He's well known for his work on Dwight's hits, but his work on Dwight Live is astounding. I've listened to almost every song in Dwight's discography involving Pete at least a couple times and Pete has requoted lick ideas only a handful of times.
    Absolute monster and his playing mindset is very unique, should really be talked about more.

  • @rexbostwick3830
    @rexbostwick3830 Год назад +1

    The first time I ever heard Pete Anderson with Dwight, was like the first time I heard Knopler on Sultan's of Swing. It changed me and challenged me completely, but for the better.

  • @andypearce5537
    @andypearce5537 3 года назад +1

    Stole a bunch off Pete! And you too. My complements on your use of the word “Pastiche”... 👍👏🏻

  • @Jam-m7m
    @Jam-m7m 4 года назад +1

    What pickups are in that telecaster BTW great information....I met Redd in Austin Tx several time he played my old 50s Esquire one night a The Continental

    • @AskZac
      @AskZac  4 года назад

      Ron Ellis 52T and Julian Lage Neck. Redd is the man!

  • @bwalt5931
    @bwalt5931 4 года назад +3

    Dwight and Pete revived country music at that time. Great albums.

  • @thebenderbunker
    @thebenderbunker 4 года назад +2

    Great to see you recognize Pete Anderson with this video! Pete was my "gateway drug" into Twang country playing and I give him props anytime I can on my channel as well! Still can't believe he and Dwight went through so much together and then finally called it off over contracts & money. Even harder to believe they haven't worked all that out by now and done another album and tour together. Buck and Don....Dwight and Pete!

  • @robertgandy1519
    @robertgandy1519 4 года назад +2

    Another great video. I too love Pete’s playing. Anytime I pick up a Tele I haven’t played before I have to put it on the bridge pick up and play the intro to Guitars, Cadillacs to see if it’s got that sound.

  • @aguynamedben
    @aguynamedben 4 года назад +1

    Those C6 bends are mimicking the C6 neck of a pedal steel, i.e. on a double neck pedal steel the neck closest to the player, mostly used for jazz/western swing/old school Texas country.

  • @Phillip-y6d
    @Phillip-y6d 5 месяцев назад

    That was a great commentary, Zac...I didn't know that Nashville was using strats and going direct 'pre Dwight'
    Lots of irony there too, with Nashville's wimpy sound and Dwight and Pete being fans of 'that Bakersfield Sound ' 😁

  • @Mr.SharkTooth-zc8rm
    @Mr.SharkTooth-zc8rm 2 месяца назад

    I have been very fortunate to see Pete Anderson with Dwight Yoakum about 5 or 6 times back when Dwight and I still had hair on our heads. I've also seen Pete about 4 times on his own. Of course last time was maybe 12 years ago.
    Just as an aside, the first time I saw Dwight and Pete it was on a triple bill with The Blasters and Los Lobos! Incredible show! We were all young guys then...
    I'm not a musician but I really enjoyed this video.

  • @neildavidvandenbergh5422
    @neildavidvandenbergh5422 5 месяцев назад

    Zac, as per usual, this was an absolutely fantastic piece! 👏🏼 I can't believe that somehow I've only come across Pete's genius within the past couple years, but I'm so glad that a couple of guys, including yourself, have hipped me to him!
    What a fantastic guitar player, arranger, producer, and all around innovator. And yeah, his tone, especially with that wet/dry setup he had, gives me the chills!
    Great job again brother, thanks for posting! 🙏🏼😄

  • @davidmahoherrezuelo
    @davidmahoherrezuelo 3 года назад

    I go to buy the new Squier classic vibe Esquire Custom 60 in black FSR....for Pete... GREAT episode Zak!

  • @jeffclark7888
    @jeffclark7888 11 месяцев назад

    Anything involving Buck Owens and Don Rich and their Telecasters grabs my attention!

  • @IndyDead
    @IndyDead 4 года назад

    You had the Nashville "Twang" going today! New shirts and mugs are nice. Between Buk and yourself we've got the morning beverages covered. flatfiv.co/collections/ask-zac 🎸🎶👕☕️

  • @peterdollard853
    @peterdollard853 2 года назад

    Wow great combination of music and talk... really well presented..I would have liked to hear his take on Fast as You... I think i blew up my steels fuzz tone trying to copy his solo

  • @MarkusRill
    @MarkusRill 4 года назад +2

    Great stuff! Have always been fascinated by the journey the Yoakam/Anderson records took from feeling very alive and thrilling and almost cowpunkish to becoming very carefully crafted studio productions.
    And thanks for uploading the Richard Bennett interview.

    • @AskZac
      @AskZac  4 года назад +1

      Glad you enjoyed it!

  • @freecitizen2760
    @freecitizen2760 4 года назад +1

    I didn't think Country guys could use the word "pastiche".
    My bad!

  • @putzengiler
    @putzengiler 4 года назад +1

    The other day I dug out a vinyl copy of "A Town South of Bakersfield 2 " from '88 , it's pretty much a Pete Anderson album, he produces and plays on every track of different artists he compiled plus his own outfit, Pete and the Hotshots...

  • @Baci302
    @Baci302 4 года назад +1

    I love that sound too. Pete's sound drove that album. Of course, Dwight's voice and the great songs might've contributed some.
    Great stuff. All that hard word that Pete oversaw. We always learn so much from you. Thanks Zac.

  • @stantissue2065
    @stantissue2065 4 года назад +1

    Pete is a badass. Blue collar Motor City country lick genius. I love to listen to Dwight on Bakersfield Beat, but I’m really there to catch the early Pete Anderson tunes.

  • @MrKB1007
    @MrKB1007 4 года назад +1

    Awesome stuff. Would love something similar on Vince Gill.

  • @mjt5576
    @mjt5576 4 года назад +1

    Pete's playing on "A Thousand Miles From Nowhere" is nothing short of inspirational. Pete is a bad boy.

  • @eaglewindrider7700
    @eaglewindrider7700 4 года назад +1

    First time I heard Guitars & Cadillacs I didn’t know a guitar could sound like that made the hair on my body stand up. Would listen to that album over & over. When Pete quit playing with Dwight I quit listening. Always enjoy the insight & history you present as well as your playing & tones. 👍🔥🎸🦅

    • @AskZac
      @AskZac  4 года назад

      Thank you

  • @telecasterbear
    @telecasterbear 4 года назад +1

    In the late 80s I was in a two piece cover band. We played a bunch of Dwight songs, making me aware of Pete. Great stuff.

  • @jimpage601
    @jimpage601 4 года назад +2

    Fascinating. I love these essays on great players, Zac. Much appreciated!

    • @AskZac
      @AskZac  4 года назад +1

      My pleasure!

  • @johncruz9357
    @johncruz9357 3 года назад

    When you say in A tejano vibe. I assume you’re referring to something along the lines of
    St of Bakersfield. That would be more in the vein of conjunto music.

    • @AskZac
      @AskZac  3 года назад

      I should know better. Thank you, John.

  • @jeromestevenfaigin6059
    @jeromestevenfaigin6059 3 года назад

    Pete Anderson's intro starts up with your show and nothing looks like you are not pluged into an amp. But, it's OK - I like your show a lot. Cheers

    • @AskZac
      @AskZac  3 года назад

      Its a right angle plug that is black

  • @Phillip-y6d
    @Phillip-y6d 5 месяцев назад

    Dean Parks "Rosie" Steely Dan 👍

  • @coreysullivan5025
    @coreysullivan5025 4 года назад +2

    Do you have a link to the wiring diagram for the “no tone control on the neck pickup” mod?

    • @AskZac
      @AskZac  4 года назад +1

      www.askzac.com/post/no-tone-on-neck-telecaster-wiring

    • @coreysullivan5025
      @coreysullivan5025 4 года назад

      @@AskZac Cool, thanks!!!

  • @GeorgiaBoy1961
    @GeorgiaBoy1961 3 года назад

    Zack, man alive what an excellent review of the amazing Pete Anderson and his influence on country music and country guitar during his years with Dwight Yoakam. Thanks so much for doing it. The guy just knocked me down, bowled me over, with his playing in those years. As a former classic rock and blues type of guy myself, just getting into country guitar in a big way - Pete had a big influence on me. And I have always regarded Dwight as the modern-day successor to Buck Owens, just as I have regarded Pete Anderson as his Don Rich. There are certain guys - even in the country genre - who look down on Pete's work, but the man can flat-out play. His ideas were brilliant, his playing was traditional but unpredictable in a very pleasing way, and his tone and execution were simply superb. And his chops - contrary to popular belief - were nothing to sneeze at. Some of his more-complex passages are masterpieces of country guitar, full of twists and turns and subtle little touches that made his sound in those years unique. Thanks for the info on his "wet-dry" amp setup. That maybe clues us in as to why all of us striving to emulate his legendary tone and sound out in country guitar-land couldn't quite nail it despite playing Teles and vintage Fender tube amps ourselves! I hear that Pete's more-recent work is great too. I'd like to get around to listening to it sometime, if I could just get some of those classic 1980s and 1990s Dwight songs with Pete off my playlist for a while. Just love those old classics!

  • @simply3141592654
    @simply3141592654 2 года назад +1

    Pete's signature Reverend guitars are very nice

  • @javierguerrero6168
    @javierguerrero6168 4 года назад

    Zac ...always on the money...Pete is great...what’s in the water in Detroit ....Anderson...Bukovac, two rock/blues/progressive guys playing country. Interesting

  • @michaels.chupka9411
    @michaels.chupka9411 2 года назад

    etc. = et cetera, not ek cetera. et cetera. practice this.

  • @simply3141592654
    @simply3141592654 Год назад

    Sometime see if you can do an interview with Eddie Perez of the Mavericks.

    • @AskZac
      @AskZac  Год назад

      That would be fun!

  • @Docsjeff
    @Docsjeff Год назад

    In 86’ our Bass player lived in SannAntonio,& listened to KBUK on Sundays.He recorded a new song called Guitars Cadillacs on a Sony Walkman and played it for me over the phone.
    The album hadn’t even been released I don’t believe.From that moment forward,it was all we had on our setlist,along with tunes from the Wagoneers out of Austin.
    That bass player is Brinson S.’s brother Charlie.
    We were all in a band playing full time.

  • @gilsanderson3275
    @gilsanderson3275 3 года назад

    Another GREAT video Zac! I love the way you are never critical of anyone....like Mo West eliminating amps on recordings.....but you embrace the positive aspects of everyone, regardless of the stupid things they do sometimes. :) Also, thanks for mentioning Dean Parks, a hometown son of Ft Worth, Texas. A lot of people automatically think of Austin as the music source in Texas, but an amazing number of musicians come from Ft Worth. (and that obscure suburb to our east, Dallas)
    I am NOT a country fan, per se, but I can listen to Pete Anderson and Dwight all day. Thanks again, Zac.

  • @Jamestele1
    @Jamestele1 Год назад

    Pete Anderson is a true original.

  • @edhardiman835
    @edhardiman835 3 года назад

    I got in a message board exchange with Pete Anderson over our shared delight of the amp emulations found specifically on the POD 2.0. Especially the 50’s small Fender Amps and Pete tells me the blackface fender deluxe emulation are the best out there. He’s a great guy and it’s a downright shame him and Dwight stopped working together...

  • @PeterKeaneMusic
    @PeterKeaneMusic 4 года назад

    Was never much into the guitar heroes of the 70s but when Pete Anderson came along in the 80s spun my head around. Saw him w DY at a small club in 86 or 87 and a few years later at an outdoor show. He utterly owned the stage ( well, Dwight held his own... ). Been following closely since then - he’s the real deal ( country, blues, jazz, etc ).

  • @Kan-o-tex
    @Kan-o-tex 3 года назад

    Pete Anderson has probably influenced my picking more than any other single player. I'll never forget buying the "Guitars, Cadillacs..." cassette one hot summer in OKC and hearing it for the first time; it changed everything. A giant in his own right, and without Pete I might never have discovered Roy Nichols, Don Rich and Clarence White. Within a few weeks of hearing that first album (I know, the e.p. on Oak, but G,C etc. was really the first album) some friends and I had the privilege of seeing Dwight play at a strip mall country bar called Nothin' But Country. Pretty sure the band was just set up on the floor, and we saw them leaving the gig in a couple of black Lincoln Continentals. What a show. I wish Pete and Dwight could make up and put out at least one more great album.
    Thanks for the video!

  • @josephmullinsii8461
    @josephmullinsii8461 4 года назад

    When I bought my t style guitar (Harley Benton TE-20 left handed, brass saddle, fender 62 neck, Only Music blues tribute lone star bridge, gunstreet bleed wiring and bone nut upgrades) the first thing I learned was the beginning of Guitars Cadillacs!

  • @kwik2hear915
    @kwik2hear915 3 года назад

    Great info, Pete's got the heat, love his playin!!!!!!!

    • @AskZac
      @AskZac  3 года назад

      No doubt!

  • @kevdean9967
    @kevdean9967 4 года назад

    That scene in southern California was really special at that time! I could be wrong on some of the artists I mention but I think The Blasters, Los Lobos, Dwight, maybe Hasil Adkins, Chris Isaac, were part of the scene as well as a great punk and Rockabilly scene in the early '80's.

  • @elsinore5364
    @elsinore5364 4 года назад

    I saw Dwight open up for Husker Du in NYC 1986. His band was super tight. And then Husker Du came on. I've never been more whipsawed.

  • @paspallum
    @paspallum 4 года назад

    Zac awesome video - I was listening to Dwight Yoakam around 86 87 88 - I had all his albums and I loved Pete Anderson’s guitar playing
    Apart from Johnny Cash this was the only country I had in my record collection and would listen to - Remember it was music like the jades and Garth Brooks her country music where embracing remember it was music like the jades and Garth Brooks her country music where embracing
    And now country music seems to be like a cross between hip-hop and heavy metal with a huge dollop of R&B and pop
    I think what diet and Pete were doing was real country - keep up the good work!

  • @Jamestele1
    @Jamestele1 2 года назад

    I love that you examine all the great Tele players from country, rockabilly, etc. That classic Tele you're playing is my dream guitar. I can't believe Pete hired a "stunt man" for Dwight - that's dedication man!

  • @chippsterstephens6800
    @chippsterstephens6800 Год назад

    Have really been woodsheading Pete lately, I was struck at how really tight the band is on guitars Cadillacs, and now it makes sense to me, massive rehearsals, Pete’s hooks are not all the flashy but something that you end up humming later, it sticks in your mind, but what stands out to me most as a guitar player, is how he served the song rhythmically, really pushing the song , in a simple way , really sounds powerful, and not wanking to just show us his chops, he served up yokums voice on a golden platter, with a very tight band, just learned honkytonk man, to me that song is absolutely brilliant, Pete has his killer hook, then rhythmically pushes and serves the song well, the dynamics of the acoustic parts, another element here, the only time he really sticks out , it creates tension over the whole song not resolved till the very end, a very simple part played well, my god I wish I could write like that! I know this video is old, but I sure think it’s very valid, and maybe even more so today, so much to learn here. Thanks zak!

  • @rbanyaga
    @rbanyaga 3 года назад

    Thanks for the great videos and Spotify link! Pete Anderson’s playing made me want to pick up a Telecaster! His tone and technique are amazing. Those early Dwight albums will always be my favorite but I love his Blues and solo albums too!

  • @stevesuv
    @stevesuv 4 года назад

    Pete has a strong suit. It is his sense of humor. He put humor back in country music. He also over exagerates the Tele standards that we all grew up with. He is kind of a Rich Little of Telecaster guitar. I miss his corny musical humor, and I think Dwight did him wrong.

  • @Mrpsblobsoflowendmung
    @Mrpsblobsoflowendmung 3 года назад

    I’m a bass player who obsessed with a couple of three guitar players and you mentioned 2 of them here , Pete and Redd are my fave “country” players along with Nels Cline and Wayne Krantz

  • @JS-mz4xf
    @JS-mz4xf Год назад

    I had the good fortune to become good friends with Pete during our time at GIT. I can remember numerous evenings when we would get together and work out licks late into the night at his place or mine. I learned an awful lot from him during those times. One day he called me and asked if I'd like to take his place in a country-rock band playing locally in the San Fernando Valley I asked him why he would be giving up a 4 night a week gig and he just said he was going to go and give it a try with a singer he knew. The rest is history.

  • @jamotokg4551
    @jamotokg4551 9 месяцев назад

    Is Pete Anderson really from Latvia?

    • @AskZac
      @AskZac  9 месяцев назад +1

      No. Detroit

  • @Dman85612
    @Dman85612 4 года назад

    Pete sounds like he listened to Roy Buchanon doing those sixth bends and suspensions .
    He played for the song and had the good sense to cover classic honky tonk...definitely the anti Nashville sound...his leads hardly sounded worked out and 1st or second takes seat of the pants LIVE playing ...we covered lots of Dwight in the band I played it at the time ...people loved dancing to it .It was just fun music to play and because of the trad. Sound it appealed to new and old.. the hardest thing was finding a vocalist with that Dwight Yoacham honk.
    Thanks again Zac..great episode.

  • @verticaldude
    @verticaldude 4 года назад

    In my top 10 country songs. Guit-tars n Cadillacs, so simple and perfect. Well, the solo isn’t simple but Pete Delivers Nicely. I love what he did in the Meat Puppets also, off the beaten Path.

  • @colinwallace5286
    @colinwallace5286 3 года назад

    Pete Anderson could play licks and solos that made you blush, they were so “dirty”. Eddie Perez took some of that to heart when he worked with Dwight, but Pete was the original.

  • @JH_75
    @JH_75 Год назад

    Is it just me, or do a great deal of stories come back to Redd Volkeart? I love that.

    • @AskZac
      @AskZac  Год назад

      He is a great guy

  • @guitarsofold100
    @guitarsofold100 4 года назад

    We caught Pete Anderson with Dwight Yoakam in concert Melbourne mid 90's Do not forget his slide playing !! He finished the concert with a 10 min blues inspired solo that is imprinted in my brain even today .. A very underrated slide player........... thank you Pete!!

  • @danielcombs3207
    @danielcombs3207 3 года назад

    I saw Pete when he worked with Steve Forbert in the early maybe mid 80's he was incredible. I didn't know him but I never forgot him after he was introduced.

  • @lastofthe4horsemen279
    @lastofthe4horsemen279 3 года назад

    To me Pete Anderson was my generation guitar hero.Loved the New Bakersfield sound Pete and Dwight were laying down

  • @JacksonTaylorandTheSinners
    @JacksonTaylorandTheSinners 2 года назад

    That first Dwight record changed my life. You’re videos have lead me to leaving my Dusenburg’s at home and bringing my tele’s back on the road. It’s profound how lazy my playing has gotten since, I put my tele’s in storage. And my playing was already pretty lazy. Love your videos. Thank you for making them. 🙏🏼. A side note. Pete and Moot David opened up for us at The Brick in Washington back in around 2006-7 and he was playing through two lines 6’s. They sounded amazing.

    • @AskZac
      @AskZac  2 года назад

      The first album floors me. Thanks for sharing!

  • @txtele
    @txtele Год назад

    I can honestly say that Dwight yoakam's career may not have even existed without Pete Anderson Dwight owes so much to those memorable hooks that Pete played and the arranging and the production that he did on those albums it cannot be overstated how important that Pete is to Dwight's music and we owe a lot to these guys creating a small little revolution in the industry and helping get away from some of the bad practices that were taking place and recording industry hence no amps electric drums yada yada so and so on

    • @AskZac
      @AskZac  Год назад +1

      Pete is incredibly important in the history of country music. Especially the 80s and 90s.

    • @jeffclark7888
      @jeffclark7888 11 месяцев назад

      Similar to Buck Owens-Don Rich.

  • @cowtowncustoms2110
    @cowtowncustoms2110 4 года назад

    After watching this I am getting out my 61 Tele tribute that I built and seeing if My Blues jr or 4-10 Hot Rod deVille can give me a tone close to your Dlx Reverb! I have to get one!

  • @TheMax1230
    @TheMax1230 4 года назад +1

    I spent a lot of time trying to replicate Pete's stuff. A couple years ago when he went full Axe Fx he sold me his Number 1 Deluxe Reverb from the old Dwight days. That amp is a monster.

    • @AskZac
      @AskZac  4 года назад

      Well that is just awesome! I bet it is a monster

    • @TheMax1230
      @TheMax1230 4 года назад +1

      It had an EVM 12 when I received it. It does sound like the mids are on 10. Converted to 6L6s with what looks like a twin transformer although it could be from a Super Reverb possibly. It gets so hot there is a little computer fan installed lol. This thing is loud loud loud! There is also a 1/4 inch out that syncs the tremelo with the other one he sold back in the early 2000s as well as an effects loop. Here's a link to some pictures on Reverb. reverb.com/item/4529821-pete-anderson-1965-fender-blackface-deluxe-heavily-modded

    • @AskZac
      @AskZac  4 года назад

      Wow! Thank you so much for sharing this.

  • @AllenGarberGuitarFun
    @AllenGarberGuitarFun 4 года назад

    ‘Guitars, Cadillacs Etc.’ was my dawning moment for country music and country guitar. Blew my mind when it came out...I was listening to all the usual suspects that I still love to listen to and learn from...Zeppelin, SRV, the blues masters, Hendrix, Van Halen...and-I always say it-Dwight and Pete were in my pantheon right along with Page and Plant, Steven Tyler and Joe Perry, David Lee Roth and Eddie Van Halen, etc. I loved this installment of AskZac and looking forward to seeing the Pete interviews!

    • @AskZac
      @AskZac  4 года назад +1

      Very cool!

  • @Phillip-y6d
    @Phillip-y6d 5 месяцев назад

    Doinky 😂

  • @themayor6836
    @themayor6836 3 года назад

    What a monster player and an original sound & licks. Just hear a few notes and you know it's Pete.

  • @rrrrdavid1
    @rrrrdavid1 4 года назад

    I do believe Pete went to GIT. Pete is a great player as seen by the comments on here. In my nowhere career I could never get a band to rehearse heavily. Only one band I ever played in would rehearse just about every night and what do you know it was the best band I was in. Great video Zac.

  • @kevin.afton_
    @kevin.afton_ 3 года назад

    Pete is a God.

  • @andrediaz392
    @andrediaz392 4 года назад

    He's the reason I bought 3 Teles... But live his sound was sooooo different from the album's. Still a monster on guitar.

  • @darrellm3410
    @darrellm3410 4 года назад

    I agree that artists should spread out their great songs. It makes the album not as great but looking at the long game, it's the reason why Nashville likes to use professional writers instead of just using artists who write their own songs.

  • @haldumille5594
    @haldumille5594 4 года назад

    Number 341 at one hour! Talkin' Teles, talkin' PA. Nice. Thanks Zac!

  • @codyhudman2763
    @codyhudman2763 4 года назад

    Thanks for another great episode Zac! I just got my main telecaster back after doing the tone bypass for the neck pickup, as you recommended. Why did I never do this before!! I've taken the covers off, used strat pu's in the neck, but never thought of this to get a more open sound from this pickup. Thanks!

  • @martywilkinson6722
    @martywilkinson6722 3 года назад

    I always loved his playing. I have the live Dwight Yoakam album and I still listen to it all the time. I appreciate you doing this about him.

  • @kallejularebo
    @kallejularebo 4 года назад

    Pete is the King in my humble opinion. Got the chance to see him with Dwight in Austin in the 90'.
    Also blown away with his blues playing these days, which I had the fortune to witness live at the Moose in LA a couple of years ago.

  • @jimbeaux4988
    @jimbeaux4988 4 года назад +5

    My band got to open for Dwight in the late 80s. I was disappointed to find that Pete was not there but was replaced for some time by the very capable Eddy Shaver. Eddy was very nice to me and showed me the whole rig. He was told by Dwight what to use. He had a Tele string with 13s. He let me "try" to play it. I was playing 9s at the time. The amps were either 2 twins or deluxes on the ground behind him with a small slap delay pedal between them. Then, from one amp, a 4x12 was being run UNDER the stage. Thunderous!
    Eddy played the songs flawlessly. I watched from side stage and picked up a couple of licks I did not know yet.

    • @roberthdahlquist
      @roberthdahlquist 4 года назад +1

      Cool you got to meet him - he wasn’t around long enough! The word I got was that Eddy (Billy Joe Shaver’s son) preferred his Strat, but Dwight wanted him to use a Tele. Same with amps; Eddy preferred Marshalls (? - not sure about this) but, like the Tele, Dwight wanted that “look” for his playing with him.

    • @jimbeaux4988
      @jimbeaux4988 4 года назад +2

      @@roberthdahlquist That is correct. I actually got open up for Billy Joe Shaver at a small club at a later time and got to talk to Eddy again. He had his usual Strat and Marshall at that gig. The 4x12 was off the floor and right behind his head! He sounded completely different than the Dwight gig. In fact he remarked that he barely remembered any of Dwight licks. I was shocked when I learned of his passing. I did not know about his personal demons. He was a real nice, sharp guy. A real fiery player. RIP.
      Edit: I had his name spelled wrong. Also, at the Billy Joe gig he may have had the 4x12 pointed backwards. Memory and all that . lol.

    • @therhodeo
      @therhodeo 4 года назад +2

      @@roberthdahlquist most videos have Eddy using a Mesa Mark II or III Coliseum amp. 6x6l6 for 150 watts into a 4x12 loaded with EVM-12ls. Seismographs could record you playing your E string through that rig.

    • @roberthdahlquist
      @roberthdahlquist 4 года назад

      @@jimbeaux4988 I appreciate this! Nice to get it from you first-hand, especially since not that much has been written or said about Eddy. (But I do remember hearing it was Dickie Betts who’d given him that sunburst Strat.) Thanks for responding!

  • @freecitizen2760
    @freecitizen2760 4 года назад

    I love DR's but they are no longer used by Pete Anderson.
    This is from premierguitar :
    "When Pete plays, you hear vintage Fender Deluxes and Twins. But what
    you see are two first-generation Line 6 Pods (the old, kidney-shaped
    ones that many of us have buried in our gear graveyards). Pete worked
    with Line 6 early in the development of the Pod, and the company
    recorded and modeled Pete’s actual amps.
    Pete’s signal flows from his guitars through a Nady W-1KU dual-rack
    system into a Lehle P-Split II splitter box, which routes the signal to
    his two Pods, one wet with reverb and delay, and the other dry save for a
    whisper of ’verb. From there the signal feeds a Fryette Two/Fifty/Two
    Stereo Power Amplifier plugged into two Weber Deluxe open-back cabinets,
    each with a 12" Patriot Cannabis Rex speaker by Eminence (for that
    smoking tone). These cabs provide the stage volume and vibe, but most of
    the house sound comes straight from the Pods. A Voodoo Lab Pedal Power 2
    provides the AC.
    Pete does not use any pedals with his rig. However, a MIDI cable
    connects his wet signal with the drummers’ click to keep delays in sync
    with the band. All other sound variation comes from Pete’s hands and
    pickup selection."

    • @AskZac
      @AskZac  4 года назад

      Yes, that is his rig now. I was referring to his rig in the 1980's.

  • @wayne1142zx
    @wayne1142zx 4 года назад +2

    I read an article somewhere that he cloned his fender with a line 6 pod and recorded with that.

    • @misterknightowlandco
      @misterknightowlandco 4 года назад

      wayne1142zx he said it in his rig rundown too.

    • @gilguajardo7808
      @gilguajardo7808 4 года назад

      How would clone an amp with a Line 6 POD?

    • @misterknightowlandco
      @misterknightowlandco 4 года назад

      @@gilguajardo7808 line 6 borrowed his fender reverb deluxe to create the line 6 fender reverb deluxe patch on the pod.

    • @gilguajardo7808
      @gilguajardo7808 4 года назад +1

      I tried to come back after watching his Rig Rundown, but I couldn’t find my comment. Haha. Anyway, you’re right! Line 6 modeled his Twin and Deluxe, but, unfortunately, they weren’t included in the POD. At least not on the original red POD. But they sent the chips with Pete’s modeled amps to him to install in his PODs. I’d love to try them in my original POD! Yes, I still have mine :)

  • @hearpalhere
    @hearpalhere 4 года назад

    I didn't know anything about Pete Anderson except that there's a signature model guitar from Reverend. This was really great to learn more and I'll definitely check out some of the songs you've referred to. Thanks Zac!

    • @AskZac
      @AskZac  4 года назад +1

      Then I have done my job. Thank you

  • @mikeadams4605
    @mikeadams4605 4 года назад

    Pete was a great producer too.....he did one of my favorite Blue Rodeo albums, Casino

  • @chrislestermusic
    @chrislestermusic 4 года назад

    I have a Reverend Pete Anderson S tele (you would think it was sacrilegious. Ha!). Great guitar.

  • @thepiperofsimms9974
    @thepiperofsimms9974 4 года назад

    That was such a pleasant and interesting vid. Thank you. I had to buy,"Guitars,Cadillacs" in 86'. That sound was something. I don't have a Tele yet but have the bug thanks to players like you. Should I get the Butterscotch or the Paisley? Can't wait. Yuma,AZ.

  • @robertgunning9667
    @robertgunning9667 4 года назад +1

    thanks for the wiring diagram!

    • @AskZac
      @AskZac  4 года назад +1

      You bet

  • @troyoswald5683
    @troyoswald5683 4 года назад

    Absolutely wonderful! Thanks so much. LOVE your channel Zac. Love your presentation style.

    • @AskZac
      @AskZac  4 года назад

      My pleasure!

  • @markhighfill
    @markhighfill 4 года назад

    I got busy with my day job and quit playing for 20 years. In '04 I was working in Iraq and a buddy downloaded a complete Dwight Yoakam playlist to my computer. I stayed in the Middle East for 5 1/2 years listening to that. When I retired and came home I bought a Pete Anderson signature guitar.

    • @AskZac
      @AskZac  4 года назад

      It's great music

  • @CoryHawthorneCharmGames
    @CoryHawthorneCharmGames 2 года назад

    Pete is an amazing player and producer and just one heck of a nice guy.

  • @gvrussell9230
    @gvrussell9230 4 года назад

    I'm still playing at 67. The first electric guitar I ever heard was Luther Perkins. I've been a strat guy for 30 years but just got the first Tele I've had in a long long time and I'm lovin' it. Traded a Marshall Amp for it. I enjoy your videos.

    • @AskZac
      @AskZac  4 года назад

      Thank you, Gary

  • @okiecowpokey
    @okiecowpokey 3 года назад

    I grew up on country music but by the late 70s was losing interest then along came Dwight & I was blown away. Pete Anderson grabbed me like no one since Roy Buchanan. I became a fanboy & followed them across country. I saw 18 concerts from as close as I could get seats, just to watch Pete. What a monster of a player. Thanks Zac for another great show about another great artist.

    • @AskZac
      @AskZac  3 года назад

      Pete is the man!

  • @stevesuv
    @stevesuv 4 года назад

    I think it is "Are Day Will Come" he plays on his first solo album.Stripped down, one strat, no vocals.I you have not heard it.......get it. If you think his Tele tone is great, wait till you hear him on a great Strat.

    • @AskZac
      @AskZac  4 года назад

      I love that track! I would have had it on my playlist, but his solo records are not on Spotify.