Nels Cline Plays His '60 Fender Jazzmaster (solo)

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  • Опубликовано: 30 сен 2024
  • In conjunction with the Fretboard Journal #28's essay on the magic of the Fender Jazzmaster, we asked Wilco's Nels Cline to do a quick video demonstration of why he loves his 1960 JM so much. Here, on the stage of Seattle's Paramount Theater before a Wilco gig, he shows us the wide range of tones he's able to get from his instrument.
    Fender fans should also note the Fretboard Journal #28 issue also sports an interview with one of the Jazzmaster's earliest practitioners, George Tomsco of the Fireballs.
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    Recorded by the Fretboard Journal's Ryan Richter and Jason Verlinde.
    [Audio geek note: Due to the extreme range of volume in this video, a little clipping occurred. We apologize. And our ears are still ringing.]
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Комментарии • 78

  • @dimlamplight
    @dimlamplight 10 лет назад +94

    I wish I lived in a world where I could wince at paying such an extremely high price of $800 for a 1959 Jazzmaster.

    • @FollowingFollowers
      @FollowingFollowers 10 лет назад +11

      Yeah...now add a zero, that's what they cost now.

    • @stevenrivera3977
      @stevenrivera3977 9 лет назад

      Ryan Price A 59 Jazzmaster is worth SO MUCH MORE than that. That price is a STEAL. For one made in mexico it cost that much. That thing is prolly worth AT LEAST 8000 right now. Actually, check this out reverb.com/item/1669-fender-jazzmaster-1959-two-tone-sunburst-price-reduced#policies-tab

    • @michaelwoods9005
      @michaelwoods9005 9 лет назад +1

      +Steven Rivera i think what he's saying is that they weren't always worth much money, and it would be nice to go back to when they were cheap and un-desireable.

    • @nickfanzo
      @nickfanzo 8 лет назад

      I used to see these in the early nineties going for $400.00-$500.00.Now they're diserable. back then they were considered shit and only grunge and indie guys wanted them because of dinosaur jr and sonic youth. I'd rather have a pre cbs tele with a rosewood board but thats just me. The whammy on these is pretty bad. God bless leo fender.

    • @michaelwoods9005
      @michaelwoods9005 8 лет назад

      I was talking to a guy who used to see early 60s brown/blonde fender amps in music stores in the 80s for 150 to 200 bucks apiece-Everybody wanted Marshalls or blackface Fenders with reverb. Now a brown deluxe costs $3500.

  • @SebGarce
    @SebGarce 10 лет назад +9

    does anyone know if what he plays at 3:40 is a song or just improv?

  • @baer_mn
    @baer_mn 10 лет назад +50

    Can we get a Nels Cline signature Jazzmaster already?

    • @SohamBhattacharya3105
      @SohamBhattacharya3105 9 лет назад +7

      +Rosenaught8694 Why? It's literally a stock '59 Jazzmaster except for the Mastery bridge. Put that bridge on an American Vintage reissue and you'll have your Nels Cline signature without the $500 mark-up.

    • @TheZooropaBaby
      @TheZooropaBaby 9 лет назад +4

      +Rosenaught8694 actually mastery bridges aren't mass-producible, so even if artists put those in their guitars, their sig models wont have it. sadly

  • @NorthWriter
    @NorthWriter 8 лет назад +35

    That bit he plays at 3:40...man...

  • @ein2057
    @ein2057 6 лет назад +3

    $800 for a '59 JM......shit.......

  • @TheSpicerD
    @TheSpicerD 10 лет назад +30

    I have never met this dude, but he SEEMS like maybe, the coolest dude on the planet. He plays pretty well too ;)

    • @stagnatic
      @stagnatic 10 лет назад

      He is, he absolutely is.

    • @diamondog99
      @diamondog99 9 лет назад

      no , hes not that cool...thurston rocks way harder and is way cooler

    • @Nightwishmaster
      @Nightwishmaster 9 лет назад +7

      diamondog99
      Always gotta be one idiot that has to argue just to argue.... Congratulations on being that one idiot...

    • @diamondog99
      @diamondog99 9 лет назад

      PhunkyPhishPhan your welcome..
      but with coments like coolest dude on the planet !! get real

    • @Nightwishmaster
      @Nightwishmaster 9 лет назад +4

      diamondog99
      My point was that he was obviously just saying "this guy is really cool", not "this guy is literally the coolest person on the planet, out of every single person, he is absolutely 100% the coolest". Just tired of constantly seeing people arguing and correcting each other over nothing, tbh, yours wasn't really that bad I suppose. It was just obviously not meant to be taken literally.

  • @melchiando
    @melchiando 10 лет назад +17

    i wish Nels was my dad

  • @fretboardjournal
    @fretboardjournal  11 лет назад +5

    We covered the story about the guitar in our 15th issue, with Wilco's Jeff Tweedy on the cover. Mike Watt bought this guitar at Guitar Maniacs in Tacoma, WA. He then sold it to Nels Cline.

  • @Lanearndt
    @Lanearndt 10 лет назад +5

    a couple years before i saw nels do this, back in 2004 or so, I used the Electro Harmonix digital delay and kaoss pad combo exactly like this and I must say, it is one of the most musical guitar effect combinations i've ever used. been looking for an affordable EHX delay ever since!

    • @music_works
      @music_works 5 месяцев назад

      Try the manecolabs sixteen second digital delay! They have a compact and a bigger version

  • @peteludwig7256
    @peteludwig7256 11 лет назад +2

    Fender would never go for the Mystery bridge, and besides that it's pretty much stock I think.

  • @sheercerebralpower
    @sheercerebralpower 6 лет назад +2

    Saw the Nels Cline 4 live a couple of weeks ago.....simply gurrrreat!!!!!

  • @MrMonikerjay
    @MrMonikerjay 9 лет назад +4

    Tweedy at :58...sly dog.

  • @brarunasunburn7794
    @brarunasunburn7794 11 лет назад +2

    I also love the jazzmaster sound and the music of nels cline,a really amazing guitar player,one of the best contemporary ones for me.Everything from his chords voicings, his great solos and his sonic disasters landscapes,great!

  • @mrkrud
    @mrkrud 4 года назад +2

    I didn't try a Jazzmanster until I saw Nels play it. Now one of my favourites!!

  • @SoWhat.BigDeal.
    @SoWhat.BigDeal. 9 лет назад +2

    Holy crap, what a rig! And Nels is my new hero. This guy knows what he's doing!
    Cool cool cool.

  • @dr05guitar
    @dr05guitar 11 лет назад +2

    drooling over all that gear... he really knows how to use it tastefully. Also, it's great just listening to him play with no effects as well.

  • @gretscher
    @gretscher 11 лет назад +1

    It took Television and Sonic Youth to get him to go out and buy one? Not The Astronauts of The Ventures or Robert Smith of The Cure? I love Jazzmasters. I miss mine because it's getting worked on.

  • @Bobjb999
    @Bobjb999 11 лет назад +1

    It just came to my attention (thanks to Neko Case) that Pops Staples of the Staples Singers played a Jazzmaster. Here's Neko's quote: "Oh, yeah! [Pops Staples is] the reason I own a Jazzmaster too. It's exactly like you were saying. The guitar should not go into the singing or above the singing, and the Jazzmaster has the best low end of any guitar and that beautiful caramel sound." Tom Verlaine, & Sonic Youth, were the ones who made me love the sound of Jazzmasters.

  • @kidsmoked
    @kidsmoked 3 года назад +1

    I'm confused.. he says it's a 1959 Jazzmaster. 1:50.

  • @MariJu1ce
    @MariJu1ce 2 месяца назад

    I used to not get jazzmasters, but I played a 63 today and hands down best sounding guitar Ive every played, I'm a fan

  • @cycheng9577
    @cycheng9577 11 лет назад +3

    Be quiet Nels so I can hear you play!

  • @LilyCazxcrter-wc5jo
    @LilyCazxcrter-wc5jo 18 дней назад

    Harris Eric Gonzalez Richard Harris Mary

  • @thedude-jb7wx
    @thedude-jb7wx 8 месяцев назад

    im so sick of strats and Pauls. I always try to copy heroes when i play there. I just got a lightweight Stang Squire and im in love with guitar again

  • @mikebott6940
    @mikebott6940 11 лет назад +2

    Hard to believe he's almost 60.

  • @dostacos1
    @dostacos1 7 лет назад +1

    Nels Cline is my hero.

  • @decemberonthedate7476
    @decemberonthedate7476 10 лет назад +1

    really inspirational

  • @shanedkar
    @shanedkar 7 лет назад +1

    what's the black box to the left of the kaos pad?

    • @music_works
      @music_works Год назад

      EHX 16 Second Digital Delay. Discontinued and the Reissue doesn't do the same things, but Manecolabs makes a clone!

  • @natewatson6962
    @natewatson6962 11 лет назад +1

    oh sweet giblets

  • @kenmartin3353
    @kenmartin3353 6 лет назад

    my 1960 Jazzmaster cost me $400.00 with a hard case. I couldent afford a strat at this time because my weekly salary was only $100.00 take home.I look at all the electronic junk the builders of the stuff makes a fortune on, and think if Lester Paul had that can you imagine the sound he could get. It took me quite a while to figure out he recorded at a lower speed than the record players did to get that speed he had. the Paulverizer was a big joke to all of us. most of us pro guitar players were happy with a dual reverb at the time. there wasn't any thing else that sounded so good.

  • @3340steve
    @3340steve 5 лет назад

    Beautiful sounds....i hear that Cline has had the headstock rebuilt after mega damage from punk shows...it sounds great for an instrument that looks like it has been through a war.

  • @CatCasual
    @CatCasual 11 лет назад +3

    Nels never ceases to amaze me. I am so happy to see him doing so well and working so much these days. No other guitarist has meant as much to me as he has, starting with my introduction to him via Mike Watt and Geraldine Fibbers- which eventually turned me away from the bass to take the guitar seriously, full-force.
    Thanks for every bit of it, Mr. Cline.

  • @dillywilliewoo
    @dillywilliewoo 11 лет назад

    he is such an amazing guy.i hope to meet him one day.

  • @nitroxsam66
    @nitroxsam66 5 лет назад

    Elvis Costello and J. Mascis too.

  • @thomasmantellwilliam
    @thomasmantellwilliam 11 лет назад

    Earl Scheib will paint any guitar for $29.95!!

  • @Anus0Beans
    @Anus0Beans 11 лет назад

    Michael C. Hall steps in to take a photo 1:10

  • @NickCasale
    @NickCasale 7 лет назад

    Damn, that tone...

  • @terraf0rm
    @terraf0rm 11 лет назад

    Great guitars, hateful bridge design.

  • @TheAuralab
    @TheAuralab 11 лет назад

    great sound.. love it!

  • @music_works
    @music_works 4 года назад

    Never gets old

  • @alelollipop1903
    @alelollipop1903 3 года назад

    Cool landscape

  • @wardan1230
    @wardan1230 11 лет назад

    that was awesome

  • @shackyl
    @shackyl 11 лет назад

    GUITAR HERO

  • @davidevans3175
    @davidevans3175 11 лет назад

    BLOC

  • @boomboomerton7394
    @boomboomerton7394 8 лет назад +1

    that pedalboard is stupid good lord...I have 6 pedals on a board and one line selector...god guitarists have gotten lazy....tremolo pedal? no I'll use my volume knob and for vibe I add vibrato to full chords...swell with my volume knob....so much you can do with technique and creativity. .. vox wah, tc electronics dark matter, ehx lpb1 boost, mooer optical compressor, ehx memory toy, boss dd-7 and ehx switchblade+ line selector...I cannot imagine even having one more pedal...

    • @seanbrohman4138
      @seanbrohman4138 7 лет назад +25

      who gives a shit

    • @Noseheros
      @Noseheros 7 лет назад +3

      he does some of the best jazz I've ever heard with no pedals...also some of the coolest shit w effects and wilco, if u don't like it don't use a ton of pedals, he likes it so he does, whatever

    • @strayfromlight
      @strayfromlight 7 лет назад +13

      :'( :'( :'( why don't people play music under my narrow definition of it :'( :'( :'(