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1 week ago | 
jasobrecht.substack.com | Jas Obrecht
This 102-minute interview took place on September 17, 1992, in the Manhattan office of Keith’s personal manager, Jane Rose. In a great mood that evening, Keith had just finished mixing his Main Offender solo album and was happy to talk about a wide range of subjects.
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2 weeks ago | 
guitarplayer.com | Jas Obrecht |Christopher Scapelliti
For close to 60 years, the heart of Neil Young’s live rig has been a very specific tweed 1959 Fender Deluxe that he controls remotely with a bespoke device called the Whizzer, which physically turns the amp's knobs when Young hits one of the foot switches on a red box onstage. The amp itself is a four-input 1959 tweed Fender Deluxe 5E3, a 15-watter with just two volume knobs and one tone control. Young’s Deluxe is completely stock if you ignore that he’s had to replace its two 6L6 tubes.
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2 weeks ago | 
flipboard.com | Jas Obrecht
'Where Are The Beatles?' Gene Simmons Speaks Up On Lack Of Big Music Artists Today, Explains Why Taylor Swift Can't Compare To Old Artists"That doesn't mean they're going to be 15-year-old guys putting guitars around their neck and saying, 'I want to be Taylor.'"
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2 weeks ago | 
yahoo.com | Jas Obrecht
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Neil Young performs with Old Black, his Gibson Les Paul, at 2017 Farm Aid, in Burgettstown, Pennsylvania, September 16, 2017..
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2 weeks ago | 
jasobrecht.substack.com | Jas Obrecht
Being an editor for Guitar Player magazine in the pre-internet days brought endless opportunities to listen to reader-submitted cassette tapes and CDs. The vast majority of ’em featured generic playing, albeit often expertly performed. Once in a great while, though, something quite extraordinary—thrilling, even—showed up in the mail.
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3 weeks ago | 
jasobrecht.substack.com | Jas Obrecht
To listeners of Atlanta-based radio station WSB, Dan Hornsby was known as “Cheerful Dan, The Man With the Two-Octave Voice.” His pop and hillbilly recordings under his own name and with the Dan Hornsby Trio enjoyed decent sales, especially his original “The Shelby Disaster.” Cheerful Dan’s greatest claim to fame, though, are his accomplishments during his tenure as Columbia Records’ go-to man in Atlanta.
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1 month ago | 
jasobrecht.substack.com | Jas Obrecht
Taped on July 23, 1987, the interview you’re about to hear was originally done for Guitar Player magazine. Three months earlier Suzanne’s breakthrough Solitude Standing album had come out, and at the time we spoke her hit single “Luka” was #3 on the U.S. record charts. We focused our conversation on Suzanne’s approaches to songwriting and playing guitar.
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1 month ago | 
jasobrecht.substack.com | Jas Obrecht
While an editor at Guitar Player magazine in the mid-1980s, I came up with the idea of asking famous players to send me one of their guitar picks. (We eventually published three fold-out poster displays of these picks.) I was surprised when one of the musicians I contacted, world-class fingerpicker Leo Kottke, sent me a note instead: “I don’t use picks.
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1 month ago | 
jasobrecht.substack.com | Jas Obrecht
Gruff, direct, and fiercely individualistic, Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown had a rich singing voice and a spirited, horn-like approach to the electric guitar, which he played bare-fingered. Unlike his contemporary T-Bone Walker, who unabashedly declared himself a bluesman, the Stetson-wearing, pipe-smoking Brown took umbrage at this classification. “I’m a musician,” he once growled at me, “not some dirty lowdown bluesman. I play American and world music, Texas-style.
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1 month ago | 
jasobrecht.substack.com | Jas Obrecht
When Jimi Hendrix returned to America in 1967 in advance of his breakthrough performance at the Monterey International Pop Festival, he spent his first day in New York City. Brushing off his jetlag, that evening he took his entourage to see Richie Havens perform in Greenwich Village. “He’s worth listening to hard,” Jimi advised. Their playing styles couldn’t have been further apart, but their friendship ran deep.
