So true. I used to think of myself as a lead guitarist who sang but now my focus is being a singer who plays mostly rhythm. I just sold my house in MA and am moving to Nashville in the spring at the crusty old age of 55. I released 2 Americana style albums in the last few years and it's now or never. The #1 rule every Nashville pro seems to have is, "Check your ego at the door and you'll be fine." Love it!
In my opinion, Americana is where it's at. I spent nine years in Nashville and the Artists that kind of flew that banner were great and came in many styles and ages. I went to several conferences. I was doing press. I went to see Hayes Carll at The Basement and it only held maybe 80 people. I got in but there were 500 trying to get in and they came from as far as Australia. I met and hung with during gigs many people including John Oates. A lot of people listen to Pirate radio etc on Syrius. Nikki Lane, Buddy Miller even Robert Plant did one album with Buddy Miller as bandleader and now two with Allison Krause. Go for it, over 55, people recommend Blues but I'LL throw in the Americana banner and make the gigs at the conferences kind of important like SXSW
I already know this is what I need to hear. As a musician it just never feels like its enough. Like ive got to learn every solo ever written and master every style in the book. ive been overwhelmed with that feeling lately and it just stresses me out and takes the fun out of it. thanks for talking about this stuff it really helps me a lot.
Phil Collen. He still looks pretty darn good for his age! I appreciate that he has taken care of himself. I share his bday except he is 3 years older so he's 67. I don't even dare take off my shirt when I'm alone in front of a mirror in my own house as I am afraid of what I would see much less on a stage! 🤣🤣🤣
We could rehearse relentlessly covering every weakness, then at the gig playing like I had 5 thumbs. Other times rehearsal was sporadic and then on the gig be completely in the zone. I stopped trying to figure it out. When it’s not fun anymore, I’ll take up golf. Dude, love the Lava Lamp. Crank it up for the next episode!
God damn your positive mental outlook is contagious brother! Thanks I've been feeling frustrated with trying to play guitar now for 8 years. Your wisdom and stories make me feel a whole lot better.
That Japanese philosophy you spoke of wabi sabi what a great analogy for guitar players..I looked it up and you’re right it goes like this. Wabi-Sabi A way of living that focuses on finding beauty in imperfection and accepting the natural cycle of growth and decay. Nothing lasts and nothing is perfect.
Yes definitely!! Thanks for posting this.. I really feel like you added value to my thinking. I just turned 60 and I’m really starting to feel those flying whammy backwards knuckle pull off hammer ons lol I’ve recently re discovered Billy Gibbons, he’s really a amazing player He barely moves his hands when he plays and gets this incredible sound. Very cool!
Man, as usual, your content is packed with sage wisdom. I'm an old average drummer, and it all applies. I'm currently working on one last stink before I relegate myself to polka. Thanks for sharing your wisdom.
Brad, you put into words EXACTLY what most of us have done. I went down the same rabbit hole on gear. Guitars, amps, and fx. I'm 65, and my gear hasn't changed in 6 years. I've accepted my tone and style. Other musicians have told me it doesn't matter what gear I use, I still sound like me. I have friends that are still buying gear and even expensive P.A.'s trying to sound better. Work with what you've got and learn how to control it. Keep up the great videos. You speak the truth that we've all wanted to say.
Brad i love your channel its inspiring me to play music again so much negativity on the internet this channel is giving me my memory back to bring back my first love. Music much love from philly ❤️
I went and saw the Crue/Leppard show last year. I was a teenager when that stuff was popular & loved it. I was lucky in that I grew up in a city where I got to see all those bands in their heyday…I must say it was kind of strange seeing those guys in the leather & makeup, scarves etc. still a good time
"Hopelessly Human, both inside and out. A Joyous occasion, there's no reason to doubt." Wise lyrics from the band Kansas, thank you Brad for another great video to start the day!
I sort of learn this from Eric Johnson's first instructional vid Total Electric Guitar that he released at the apex of his powers in 1990, ive seen all those old REH tapes, but this one was a completely different level. He barely even talks about shredding or gear in it, that section lasts about 1 minute at most with one tabbed example, its clear that he was trying to communicate that it was only a minor part of what he considers music. Almost the entire lesson is dedicated to musicality and developing a broad range of competence across many genres and how he blended R&B, country, rock and jazz to create his unique style.
The band cake’ lead singers axe came to mind, along with Willie’s guitar. Their sound came out of life’s blend of what you have, what you don’t have, and who you are . The part I’m finally starting to accept is the reality of my sound. It’s hardest to let go of that unattainable imaginary sound.
Thank you Brad I love to sing and play blues and jazz a little folky stuff to .I drive a truck to pay my bills I m 57 years old and have played since I was a teenager still loving it 🎶Thank you for sharing the music
Hello Bad Brad* so true. (Great advice from someone who's been in the musical trenches) like yourself. ) How I've discovered some of the best tone combinations is to switch a lot of different guitar and amp combinations to find which ones sound the best together and remember that specific tone to a song your trying to learn or write and store that in your memory bank. Then write all 3 down. Cuz you'll never rember that combination again.😮 I can almost hear sometimes on a song, what kind of amp and guitar it is. (So having alot of gear can really improve your playing and learning) plus adding pedals. but like you also said : the most important thing is to have the natural talent to crank on any guitar 🎸 and make it sound good. Shit, Jimmy Hendrix could jamb on a broomstick! Lol. I love that video of Zakk Wild playing that hello kitty guitar! It's not the gear bro.! Lol, Keep up the great life lessons ,advice and great road stories that you've experienced! With us. Plus , love the great guitar intros on your site! ( you crank out some mean licks, bro ,in many different tones and styles! Keep Rockin man! Thnx
I was always pragmatic about whatever I used live or in the studio. I made whatever I could afford work for me. My first “big boy” amp was a Marshall JCM900. I’ve owned a Rivera, JCM800 and now own a Line 6 for practical purposes. My favorite amp was those inexpensive B-52 VT100s which were based off a Mesa Dual Rectifier circuit albeit built with inexpensive, crap materials. I loved the tone and it always pulled out the best in my playing but they’d only last a year at best. When the gear gods give you lemons, make lemonade.
That was a great story about.the other guitarists chasing your gear. Lol. It made me think about Dave telling Ed to turn his back on the first tour when he started playing leads so guitarists didn't swipe his technique. The day I found out my friends knew my playing better than me: Parrish visited me in Birmingham in early 2005 and jammed with our band.. I'm fighting my tone with a PRS SE WITH P90S and a Marshall JCM 800. Never quite happy, trying another stomp box, rolling off a lot of treble. He goes with me to Highland Music looking at used gear. He starts jamming Blackmore, Lazy off Machine Head through a local builder Combo called a samamp. I'm trying different things, he keeps playing this Fender Classic 60s Tele with a pickup swap, Seymour Duncan Hot for Tele pickups. He said, you need to sell your gear and get this Tele and get samamp. That's what you're looking for. I never had a Fender as a main guitar,never owned a Tele. I knew Sam. Amp repair guy extraorndinaire. I traded in my PRS, got the Tele, it didn't work right with the Marshall 800. I talked to Sam. He had an original build head a guy had traded back to him for another build. He sold it to me for $600. I even had to sell the Marshall cab and went for a Soldano with Celestion 25 watt paperbacks. After all that, I found out Parrish was right. He went back home to Spokane and I ran that with just a Seymour Duncan Booster at about 12 DB and an analog delay pedal built locally by Santori Sound. That's still my main for that kind of Black Crowes, Free sound. I still have it all 20 years later. I have other stuff, a lot from learning in Nashville.
Ha! Loved my Line6 Bogner…almost forgot about those. They were crazy hot in the Central TX metal scene around 2009, when I think they came out…too fun man. TY.
16:00 i hadnt heard about that particular japanese philosophy .. there's another one i dig , called "kaizen" it's like a "continuous improvement" attitude. 🙏 i picked it up from training at my day job.. but can be applied to life.
I learned quickly at music school (Minneapolis old "Music Tech" now defunct McNally College of Music) that tone is in your hands! Funny how the instructors could make those dry, crappy 10 watt practice amps sound great.......although I'm very tempted by that Dumble modeler you demo'd LOL🤣 So much wisdom in what you're saying here, wish I'd had heard this kind of advice when I was in my 20s, dang.
I like that you brought up wabi sabi. To me, great music and musicians are imperfect and that is what makes its great. Just the evolution of the guitar itself is wabi sabi. There is no and never will be a perfect guitar and we shouldn’t want there to be one! All great art is wabi sabi. Nature is entirely wabi sabi, except when man fucks with it. Heck life is wabi sabi. That’s why AI isn’t wabi sabi. All those old blues musicians were wabi sabi in every way.
It's cool how the trades overlap no matter what your tools may be. Of my 30 guitars only 1 is American made, the rest come from Asia and Mexico. On the level I play they are more than adequate. Practice with the rig your going to play with is my advice. In almost 40 years in the maintenance trades I have never stepped on a Snap On truck once, if I was working on Indy Cars or airplanes or was a Mill Wright I may but my tools are fine for the level I play in. My issue is I sell myself short, I have to remind myself I can play everything I want to play which is 70s on up stadium rock, that when I play in the GC softly people stop and listen to me and my wife and best friend consider me a virtuoso, which I am far from but I wont argue with the customer. Blues is what you can play forever, grown man's music as Keith Richards would say. Derrick St Holmes and I could be twins, you can play blues and classic rock looking like that! I saw Pete Townshend shoot Daltrey a look a few years back that said "Roger you're an elderly old man, put your shirt back on!" SRV and Brian May are the tones I'm shooting for, I still sound like me but they and Terry Kath are my sonic guides.
Stop trying to find your voice in Guitar World and Guitar Player and go to the woodshed. They provide road maps, but ya still have to drive the car to get there. Great insights, Brad.👍
There is a guitar pedal now called " Drop" that changes your tuning so you don't have to change guitars between songs. I saw Soulfly's guitarist talking about it a few months ago.
@badbrad I've always watched the guitar guys at shows switching their guitars out but I never even thought about all the issues they were dealing with while doing it. It makes a lot of sense though now that I heard you explaining it, good video.
There are so many pedals out there that replicate the tones of other guitarists (e. g. Jimmy Page, Eric Clapton, David Gilmour) that no one is developing their own tone anymore.
Yeah brad you could have 10 guitar players playing thur the same rig. And it would be different every time. Brad i was in a coverband and original band and man when the 5150 ed head came i could adjusted it to any thing.
I have wondered how much the stress of aging was effecting Taylorsville Hawkins on the road having to play at the intensity required for the gig....substance abuse could have been his cure and it ended bad.
Yeah man definitely. It's tough to keep that level of energy up man. Drummers got it hard and the level he set for that gig was a very high one to have to bring it every night.
@@dwaynejones1146 Kenny Arnoff recently done an interview where he talked about his diet and his practice regimen and you would honestly think the dude was a pro athlete preparing for the Olympics or something. It was unreal how disciplined he is. I can understand it too since the industry is so hyper competitive and drumming could sorta be seen as a "young man's game" since it's such a physical undertaking anyway. I also remember hearing Kenny Wayne Shepherd talk about touring once and how that he had to really take care of his body and I had never really thought about it but after that I really paid more attention to the way the pros act and if you think about it the vast majority of them that are in the game for a long time do seem to look somewhat fit compared to others that are around their age and not in the same industry.
I couldn’t agree with you more …the tone is 98% in the hands. On the subject of having to cover multiple tunings…this goes back 10-15 years for me when I was playing with eclectic cover bands, after carrying around at least 3 guitars for awhile, I found a decent solution in a Line 6 Tyler Variax JTV-59 LP type “Modeling” guitar…the MODELS can be of questionable emulation to what their supposed to be but the capability to get multiple tunings I still find very useful…mostly to go to OPEN G, 1 Step down, or dropped D tunings. I also had a Fender VG strat which could do most of the same tunings but was a better guitar..its electronics crapped out though after 8 years…turned it into a good regular made strat. Anyway that and pedals like the EHX TUNING FORK can do some of the job…I know they have some drawbacks.
I used a Variax for a while for that reason. I wish they would update that platform. Interesting concept seems Boss has sort of dipped their toe in that with a new processor.
I know that people always mean it as a compliment when they tell me I have a "natural talent" and things like that but I always wanna tell people that while that may be true to an extent there is still an extreme amount of work that goes into it and there is absolutely zero substitute for that. Sometimes I feel like people who fail basically look at others and say "well they're naturally talented and I'm not and that's why they're so much more accomplished than me" but I really wanna say to them "OR it MAY be that they're a much harder worker than you and you use the natural talent argument to cover for your own laziness".
Playing music you like w people you like is the ultimate ideal. Does this geehaw w making a living as a player? Not too often. Even playing music you like w people you like can become like telling a good joke. The first few times you tell it it’s funny even to you. The 60th time? Not so much.
My thinking is that you sound like you. I love playing David Gilmour, and Alex Lifeson riffs. I learned all the riffs and played all the same notes, but you know what? I don't sound anything like them. I sound like me. Tone is what "you" make of it. Do you man.
Tone is an Evolution in a sea of disappointment. Action up, action down, pickups up pickups down, a maze of potentiometers, single coil. PAF, Ceramic, Alnico 1-3-4-5....tubes.....solid state, and on and on till you find your slot. Then a Virtuoso picks up a Les Paul Jr and a crappy solid state Peavey and shows that tone and control is all in the hands and touch. And when you finally start working in the studios you find that whatever you do the Engineer will make his own tone without consulting you. Dicky Betts...albeit a supreme clean player....would hook up his LP into a Fender Super Reverb...WITH 4 JBL 10s and turn out his pure angelic tone. If you or I did that it would be finger nails on a chalk board while chewing tin foil. SO: Play The Guitar!!!!
I had a friend that was telling me how he didn't understand how I could just improvise so easily and he couldn't even dream of doing it and then he was like "but you know theory and that's why you can and I don't know theory and that's why I can't" and I was like "dude theory does NOT give you good tone and it does NOT give you good feel and it does NOT give you good technique because only PRACTICE does those things". You would've thought I was Socrates in his prime for the way the lightbulb went off in his head. LOL!
You should wear a robe like the Dala Lama with some incense burning while dispensing wisdom. As we mature our tastes change, I tried listening to early VH last night, i couldnt take the immature lyrics and ooohhs and ahhhs every 5 seconds from Roth, I dont think people consider that the dreams of yesterday are not the dreams of today.
My favorite gear is not nearly the most expensive I own. My favorites just play and sound the way I like. Never got into the pedal frenzy at all, use a solid state amp with lots of programmability and effects so those pedal effects are there but I didn't spend $10K for microscopic sound changes, meets my needs fine. Most in the audience don't know a tube from an acorn and don't know anything about pedals, they want to drink and hit on the opposite sex. They just want a sound track for that game.
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Dude, very perspicacious and concise. Most of RUclipsrs talk too much and waist our time, not you. I’m 54 and I just learned a lot.
Thanks so much. Glad to have you here.
So true. I used to think of myself as a lead guitarist who sang but now my focus is being a singer who plays mostly rhythm. I just sold my house in MA and am moving to Nashville in the spring at the crusty old age of 55. I released 2 Americana style albums in the last few years and it's now or never. The #1 rule every Nashville pro seems to have is, "Check your ego at the door and you'll be fine." Love it!
Wish you the best of luck on your journey. Thanks for tuning in!
In my opinion, Americana is where it's at. I spent nine years in Nashville and the Artists that kind of flew that banner were great and came in many styles and ages. I went to several conferences. I was doing press. I went to see Hayes Carll at The Basement and it only held maybe 80 people. I got in but there were 500 trying to get in and they came from as far as Australia. I met and hung with during gigs many people including John Oates. A lot of people listen to Pirate radio etc on Syrius. Nikki Lane, Buddy Miller even Robert Plant did one album with Buddy Miller as bandleader and now two with Allison Krause. Go for it, over 55, people recommend Blues but I'LL throw in the Americana banner and make the gigs at the conferences kind of important like SXSW
@bradhardisty1652 Awesome! Thanks!
@@badbrad Thank you Brad! Love the channel.
I always said it's not what you can play but what you can't play that defines your sound !
A lot of truth there.
Reminds me of genetics/dna research I’ve done. We have all the genetic makeup of our ancestors, what makes us unique is what’s is blocked.
Right I’ve heard the music happens between the notes
I already know this is what I need to hear. As a musician it just never feels like its enough. Like ive got to learn every solo ever written and master every style in the book. ive been overwhelmed with that feeling lately and it just stresses me out and takes the fun out of it. thanks for talking about this stuff it really helps me a lot.
Thank you! Don't get to wrapped up in what you don't know. Enjoy the player you are.
Great attitude ..use it in all parts of life .
Well said Brad ..great way to navigate life.
Phil Collen. He still looks pretty darn good for his age! I appreciate that he has taken care of himself. I share his bday except he is 3 years older so he's 67. I don't even dare take off my shirt when I'm alone in front of a mirror in my own house as I am afraid of what I would see much less on a stage! 🤣🤣🤣
He does.
We could rehearse relentlessly covering every weakness, then at the gig playing like I had 5 thumbs. Other times rehearsal was sporadic and then on the gig be completely in the zone. I stopped trying to figure it out. When it’s not fun anymore, I’ll take up golf. Dude, love the Lava Lamp. Crank it up for the next episode!
It takes a while to heat up
Another gem from the philosopher of gigs and life.
Thank you!
God damn your positive mental outlook is contagious brother! Thanks I've been feeling frustrated with trying to play guitar now for 8 years. Your wisdom and stories make me feel a whole lot better.
So glad to hear it! Music is a lifelong journey.
Thanks! Bad Brad 🎉
Thank you Dana. Have a great Friday!
That Japanese philosophy you spoke of wabi sabi what a great analogy for guitar players..I looked it up and you’re right it goes like this.
Wabi-Sabi
A way of living that focuses on finding beauty in imperfection and accepting the natural cycle of growth and decay.
Nothing lasts and nothing is perfect.
That’s a great summation of the philosophy. Very well said and we can learn from it!
Yes definitely!!
Thanks for posting this.. I really feel like you added value to my thinking.
I just turned 60 and I’m really starting to feel those flying whammy backwards knuckle pull off hammer ons lol
I’ve recently re discovered Billy Gibbons, he’s really a amazing player
He barely moves his hands when he plays and gets this incredible sound.
Very cool!
@@melody6840 Billy Gibbons is incredible!
Thanks Brad. That would be Phil Collen of Def Leppard! Yea, the tone is in the hands. Peace.
Dude you rock!
Amen brother Brad!
Thank you!
Man, as usual, your content is packed with sage wisdom. I'm an old average drummer, and it all applies. I'm currently working on one last stink before I relegate myself to polka. Thanks for sharing your wisdom.
Thanks so much for tuning in, I'm glad you enjoy the content.
Thanks for another, Brad! Hope you're doing great today!
I am! Thank you!!!🙏
Brad, you put into words EXACTLY what most of us have done. I went down the same rabbit hole on gear. Guitars, amps, and fx. I'm 65, and my gear hasn't changed in 6 years. I've accepted my tone and style. Other musicians have told me it doesn't matter what gear I use, I still sound like me. I have friends that are still buying gear and even expensive P.A.'s trying to sound better. Work with what you've got and learn how to control it. Keep up the great videos. You speak the truth that we've all wanted to say.
Thanks Bill!
Brad i love your channel its inspiring me to play music again so much negativity on the internet this channel is giving me my memory back to bring back my first love. Music much love from philly ❤️
That is so awesome to hear! Music is a true gift.
Thanks Brad.
Cheers!
I went and saw the Crue/Leppard show last year. I was a teenager when that stuff was popular & loved it. I was lucky in that I grew up in a city where I got to see all those bands in their heyday…I must say it was kind of strange seeing those guys in the leather & makeup, scarves etc. still a good time
It can be fun to see a band like that
You bring such incredible experience and advice to the table, thanks man! Man you should have a million subscribers!
Thanks man, I appreciate you!
"Hopelessly Human, both inside and out. A Joyous occasion, there's no reason to doubt." Wise lyrics from the band Kansas, thank you Brad for another great video to start the day!
Thank you!
Great information. Everything you said made such good sense.
I appreciate that!
I sort of learn this from Eric Johnson's first instructional vid Total Electric Guitar that he released at the apex of his powers in 1990, ive seen all those old REH tapes, but this one was a completely different level. He barely even talks about shredding or gear in it, that section lasts about 1 minute at most with one tabbed example, its clear that he was trying to communicate that it was only a minor part of what he considers music. Almost the entire lesson is dedicated to musicality and developing a broad range of competence across many genres and how he blended R&B, country, rock and jazz to create his unique style.
Important lesson!!!
The band cake’ lead singers axe came to mind, along with Willie’s guitar. Their sound came out of life’s blend of what you have, what you don’t have, and who you are . The part I’m finally starting to accept is the reality of my sound. It’s hardest to let go of that unattainable imaginary sound.
Be happy with the uniqueness of YOUR Tone.
@ advice like this for just clicking a 👍. Can’t beat that. Always appreciated
I saw Frank Black Teenager of the Year tour 2 times this week. It was 100%
👍🏻
Congrats on joining my team.
right on!
Thank you Brad I love to sing and play blues and jazz a little folky stuff to .I drive a truck to pay my bills I m 57 years old and have played since I was a teenager still loving it 🎶Thank you for sharing the music
Thanks for sharing, you're an inspiration!
SOLID. Grounded Advice... Grateful
Thank you!🙏
lExcellent Share 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Thank you!
Excellent vid. Have a rocking weekend you and the family. 👍
Thanks! You too!
"Take small steps...." Thank you
Yes!👍🏻
Hello Bad Brad* so true. (Great advice from someone who's been in the musical trenches) like yourself. ) How I've discovered some of the best tone combinations is to switch a lot of different guitar and amp combinations to find which ones sound the best together and remember that specific tone to a song your trying to learn or write and store that in your memory bank. Then write all 3 down. Cuz you'll never rember that combination again.😮 I can almost hear sometimes on a song, what kind of amp and guitar it is. (So having alot of gear can really improve your playing and learning) plus adding pedals. but like you also said : the most important thing is to have the natural talent to crank on any guitar 🎸 and make it sound good. Shit, Jimmy Hendrix could jamb on a broomstick! Lol. I love that video of Zakk Wild playing that hello kitty guitar! It's not the gear bro.! Lol, Keep up the great life lessons ,advice and great road stories that you've experienced! With us. Plus , love the great guitar intros on your site! ( you crank out some mean licks, bro ,in many different tones and styles! Keep Rockin man! Thnx
Thanks for the kind words! Keep on rockin'!
let’s go!
Yes!!!👍🏻
I was always pragmatic about whatever I used live or in the studio. I made whatever I could afford work for me. My first “big boy” amp was a Marshall JCM900. I’ve owned a Rivera, JCM800 and now own a Line 6 for practical purposes. My favorite amp was those inexpensive B-52 VT100s which were based off a Mesa Dual Rectifier circuit albeit built with inexpensive, crap materials. I loved the tone and it always pulled out the best in my playing but they’d only last a year at best. When the gear gods give you lemons, make lemonade.
Indeed!!!
It's a blend! You definitely shape your tone with your signal chain
Very true, but it starts with the player!
Just turned 60 recently.....a shocking realization....
I’m almost there
That was a great story about.the other guitarists chasing your gear. Lol. It made me think about Dave telling Ed to turn his back on the first tour when he started playing leads so guitarists didn't swipe his technique. The day I found out my friends knew my playing better than me: Parrish visited me in Birmingham in early 2005 and jammed with our band.. I'm fighting my tone with a PRS SE WITH P90S and a Marshall JCM 800. Never quite happy, trying another stomp box, rolling off a lot of treble. He goes with me to Highland Music looking at used gear. He starts jamming Blackmore, Lazy off Machine Head through a local builder Combo called a samamp. I'm trying different things, he keeps playing this Fender Classic 60s Tele with a pickup swap, Seymour Duncan Hot for Tele pickups. He said, you need to sell your gear and get this Tele and get samamp. That's what you're looking for. I never had a Fender as a main guitar,never owned a Tele. I knew Sam. Amp repair guy extraorndinaire. I traded in my PRS, got the Tele, it didn't work right with the Marshall 800. I talked to Sam. He had an original build head a guy had traded back to him for another build. He sold it to me for $600. I even had to sell the Marshall cab and went for a Soldano with Celestion 25 watt paperbacks. After all that, I found out Parrish was right. He went back home to Spokane and I ran that with just a Seymour Duncan Booster at about 12 DB and an analog delay pedal built locally by Santori Sound. That's still my main for that kind of Black Crowes, Free sound. I still have it all 20 years later. I have other stuff, a lot from learning in Nashville.
wow very cool!
Well put!!
appreciate it!
Very very good video !!
Thank you so much!
Ha! Loved my Line6 Bogner…almost forgot about those. They were crazy hot in the Central TX metal scene around 2009, when I think they came out…too fun man. TY.
Right on!👍🏻
heavy amp and cab
Good stuff man!!
Appreciate it!
Great insight brother! ❤
Much appreciated
16:00 i hadnt heard about that particular japanese philosophy .. there's another one i dig , called "kaizen" it's like a "continuous improvement" attitude. 🙏 i picked it up from training at my day job.. but can be applied to life.
Kaizen I like that!
😬 call centre job
man you can really play 👉🎸🔥
Thank you!
I learned quickly at music school (Minneapolis old "Music Tech" now defunct McNally College of Music) that tone is in your hands! Funny how the instructors could make those dry, crappy 10 watt practice amps sound great.......although I'm very tempted by that Dumble modeler you demo'd LOL🤣 So much wisdom in what you're saying here, wish I'd had heard this kind of advice when I was in my 20s, dang.
I'm glad you are digging the content. Thank you for tuning in!
I like that you brought up wabi sabi. To me, great music and musicians are imperfect and that is what makes its great. Just the evolution of the guitar itself is wabi sabi. There is no and never will be a perfect guitar and we shouldn’t want there to be one! All great art is wabi sabi. Nature is entirely wabi sabi, except when man fucks with it. Heck life is wabi sabi. That’s why AI isn’t wabi sabi. All those old blues musicians were wabi sabi in every way.
I couldn’t agree more.
It's cool how the trades overlap no matter what your tools may be. Of my 30 guitars only 1 is American made, the rest come from Asia and Mexico. On the level I play they are more than adequate. Practice with the rig your going to play with is my advice. In almost 40 years in the maintenance trades I have never stepped on a Snap On truck once, if I was working on Indy Cars or airplanes or was a Mill Wright I may but my tools are fine for the level I play in. My issue is I sell myself short, I have to remind myself I can play everything I want to play which is 70s on up stadium rock, that when I play in the GC softly people stop and listen to me and my wife and best friend consider me a virtuoso, which I am far from but I wont argue with the customer. Blues is what you can play forever, grown man's music as Keith Richards would say. Derrick St Holmes and I could be twins, you can play blues and classic rock looking like that! I saw Pete Townshend shoot Daltrey a look a few years back that said "Roger you're an elderly old man, put your shirt back on!" SRV and Brian May are the tones I'm shooting for, I still sound like me but they and Terry Kath are my sonic guides.
Stop trying to find your voice in Guitar World and Guitar Player and go to the woodshed. They provide road maps, but ya still have to drive the car to get there. Great insights, Brad.👍
So true, thanks for the kind words!
There is a guitar pedal now called " Drop" that changes your tuning so you don't have to change guitars between songs. I saw Soulfly's guitarist talking about it a few months ago.
That is cool. Did not have that when I was having to make all those switches.
@badbrad I've always watched the guitar guys at shows switching their guitars out but I never even thought about all the issues they were dealing with while doing it. It makes a lot of sense though now that I heard you explaining it, good video.
Thank you!
You can't beat those Best Buy student combo package guitar and amp😁 Yeap... I still sound the same 😅 Great video 👍
He he!
There are so many pedals out there that replicate the tones of other guitarists (e. g. Jimmy Page, Eric Clapton, David Gilmour) that no one is developing their own tone anymore.
There is some definite truth to that!
"one baby leap for mankind"
One giant leap for dude kind
Carvin SC-90 and a Carvin VT 50 with a 4X10 cabinet are who I am. Some people think it sounds OK.
I bet it does.
Yeah brad you could have 10 guitar players playing thur the same rig. And it would be different every time. Brad i was in a coverband and original band and man when the 5150 ed head came i could adjusted it to any thing.
You are correct. It is all about the magic in the hands.
I have wondered how much the stress of aging was effecting Taylorsville Hawkins on the road having to play at the intensity required for the gig....substance abuse could have been his cure and it ended bad.
Yeah man definitely. It's tough to keep that level of energy up man. Drummers got it hard and the level he set for that gig was a very high one to have to bring it every night.
@badbrad Salute to guys like Tommy Aldridge, who seems to never age and still plays like he did as a young man.
He is a machine!
@@dwaynejones1146 Kenny Arnoff recently done an interview where he talked about his diet and his practice regimen and you would honestly think the dude was a pro athlete preparing for the Olympics or something. It was unreal how disciplined he is. I can understand it too since the industry is so hyper competitive and drumming could sorta be seen as a "young man's game" since it's such a physical undertaking anyway. I also remember hearing Kenny Wayne Shepherd talk about touring once and how that he had to really take care of his body and I had never really thought about it but after that I really paid more attention to the way the pros act and if you think about it the vast majority of them that are in the game for a long time do seem to look somewhat fit compared to others that are around their age and not in the same industry.
A breed of Pete Thorn and Severus Snape
I’ll take it.
I couldn’t agree with you more …the tone is 98% in the hands. On the subject of having to cover multiple tunings…this goes back 10-15 years for me when I was playing with eclectic cover bands, after carrying around at least 3 guitars for awhile, I found a decent solution in a Line 6 Tyler Variax JTV-59 LP type “Modeling” guitar…the MODELS can be of questionable emulation to what their supposed to be but the capability to get multiple tunings I still find very useful…mostly to go to OPEN G, 1 Step down, or dropped D tunings. I also had a Fender VG strat which could do most of the same tunings but was a better guitar..its electronics crapped out though after 8 years…turned it into a good regular made strat. Anyway that and pedals like the EHX TUNING FORK can do some of the job…I know they have some drawbacks.
I used a Variax for a while for that reason. I wish they would update that platform. Interesting concept seems Boss has sort of dipped their toe in that with a new processor.
@ yeah Boss/Roland has put that VG- Tech in a pedal….might be interesting😁
imagine trying out a les paul robot on stage :P
those didn't hold up so well....
Chicken picker first time I’ve heard that one lol is he wear a hat too lol
Sometimes they wear hats most don’t.
No sir. It’s a talent from birth. Natural. That simple
I know that people always mean it as a compliment when they tell me I have a "natural talent" and things like that but I always wanna tell people that while that may be true to an extent there is still an extreme amount of work that goes into it and there is absolutely zero substitute for that. Sometimes I feel like people who fail basically look at others and say "well they're naturally talented and I'm not and that's why they're so much more accomplished than me" but I really wanna say to them "OR it MAY be that they're a much harder worker than you and you use the natural talent argument to cover for your own laziness".
Playing music you like w people you like is the ultimate ideal. Does this geehaw w making a living as a player? Not too often. Even playing music you like w people you like can become like telling a good joke. The first few times you tell it it’s funny even to you. The 60th time? Not so much.
My thinking is that you sound like you. I love playing David Gilmour, and Alex Lifeson riffs. I learned all the riffs and played all the same notes, but you know what? I don't sound anything like them. I sound like me. Tone is what "you" make of it. Do you man.
Very true!
Give me a Squier Affinity and a Fender Super Champ x2 and plug me in.
Right on
Phil Collen..Def Lep guitarist.
Yes!
Yes you can buy a Marshall
an old one or a new one?
Tone is an Evolution in a sea of disappointment. Action up, action down, pickups up pickups down, a maze of potentiometers, single coil. PAF, Ceramic,
Alnico 1-3-4-5....tubes.....solid state, and on and on till you find your slot. Then a Virtuoso picks up a Les Paul Jr and a crappy solid state Peavey and shows
that tone and control is all in the hands and touch. And when you finally start working in the studios you find that whatever you do the Engineer will make
his own tone without consulting you. Dicky Betts...albeit a supreme clean player....would hook up his LP into a Fender Super Reverb...WITH 4 JBL 10s
and turn out his pure angelic tone. If you or I did that it would be finger nails on a chalk board while chewing tin foil. SO: Play The Guitar!!!!
I had a friend that was telling me how he didn't understand how I could just improvise so easily and he couldn't even dream of doing it and then he was like "but you know theory and that's why you can and I don't know theory and that's why I can't" and I was like "dude theory does NOT give you good tone and it does NOT give you good feel and it does NOT give you good technique because only PRACTICE does those things". You would've thought I was Socrates in his prime for the way the lightbulb went off in his head. LOL!
Lmao😂 @ going to buy another Rolex lol comical 😅
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You should wear a robe like the Dala Lama with some incense burning while dispensing wisdom. As we mature our tastes change, I tried listening to early VH last night, i couldnt take the immature lyrics and ooohhs and ahhhs every 5 seconds from Roth, I dont think people consider that the dreams of yesterday are not the dreams of today.
That’s probably why I mostly listen to Yacht rock now but back in the day……
Before tone you need to be you on guitar and someone else
Perhaps
My favorite gear is not nearly the most expensive I own. My favorites just play and sound the way I like. Never got into the pedal frenzy at all, use a solid state amp with lots of programmability and effects so those pedal effects are there but I didn't spend $10K for microscopic sound changes, meets my needs fine. Most in the audience don't know a tube from an acorn and don't know anything about pedals, they want to drink and hit on the opposite sex. They just want a sound track for that game.
Excellent opening licks brother.sorry i havent made it to breakfast club on time lately.
All good! Thank you brother. We hope to see you soon.