A tour of Nels Cline's gear

[beautiful liar]

This is crazy. I want more of it. Does anyone know of anything similar?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzn0KOLrarw&feature=player_embedded

 

[circusinthesky]

Andy Timmons does a nice walkaround of his gear and a Mesa amp. He goes into delay settings, etc.
http://www.mesaboogie.com/gallery_artist/video/AndyTimmons-hi.html

 

[Craise]

This one is pretty classic...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKMYeXkYcgs&feature=channel

 

[sahhas]

thanks for posting that on nels c. the effects walk through is most cool!
love the li'l bit he did w/ the EH 16secDD. most cool. want to see more of that...
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www.myspace.com/scotthansen

 

[Blackbird Boards]

Nels; king of the wiggling tremolo

 

[theanalogdream]

very cool,
wish he went into the effects more...

 

[dougf.]

man, I might have to watch that a few hundred times!

 

[The Whiz]

Jazzmaster GAS. Overwhelming me. Help.

 

[anxiousmofo]

Big thanks for the post. Love that guy.

 

[Hiwatt Bob]

nels is the king of the wiggle trem--but the guy i actually saw do it first was gary louris from the jayhawks. i was into them back in the 90's in mpls and he'd get the coolest sounds using his SG w/maestro vibrato and a fuzz. sooo cool.

when i first got my jazzmaster, the trem system was set up wrong--so for years i thought i could pretty much just go down with it (for surf type dips). when i finally adjusted it correctly i realized how to do all those things that louris (and nels, etc)was doing.

my 2 favorite guits are my jazzmasters and SG special (w/maestro)--in large part due to those being the coolest trem systems ever.

 

[ibodog]

This is crazy. I want more of it. Does anyone know of anything similar?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzn0KOLrarw&feature=player_embedded

Dude, did you catch how much abuse the stomp switches were taking? He must have to get them repaired on a regular basis!

 

[Blackbird Boards]

Just got my ticket to see him and wilco in March!

 

[ZepFuzz05]

Very, very cool.

 

[Jacobpaul81]

nels is the king of the wiggle trem--but the guy i actually saw do it first was gary louris from the jayhawks. i was into them back in the 90's in mpls and he'd get the coolest sounds using his SG w/maestro vibrato and a fuzz. sooo cool.

Hard to really compare them. I've always found Gary's usage of vibrato very beautiful, subtle. Like something you could create without a vibrato bar or a pedal. Like other sting instruments like the violin/viola/cello etc create. Nels is anything but subtle. It can be pretty, like in Impossible Germany. But then it can also really make it hard for me to listen to him at times to because it doesn't sound very natural. I'd compare Gary's usage with Jay Bennett, Nels' predecessor in Wilco. Something like Neil Young, though occasionally even Neil over does it. I'm not sure what Nels is, but it's not Neil Young.