@@joshphillips9033 I stop in quite often. Love this channel. Sit and ski was some of the best times I’ve ever had. Before WSP I use to play with a country music-film star Jerry Reed.
I play in a “modern” jam band, covering guitar and synths. My rig…Gibson Les Paul Jr (yes one single P90) > boost pedal > UniVibe > split to amp and DI into an interface to send to Ableton. A single P90 (any pickup really, but P90s are the best… change my mind) FORCE you to extract every possible tone from the guitar…and one can do everything you need if you know how to play the knobs). I play a Model D, ARP 2400 or ARP Odyssey depending on set, and a eurorack for beeps and boops, and an MPC loaded with psychedelic samples and drums. We run an Ableton session that cues up transitions, but more so scenes of spacial FX on individual tracks for guitar, synth, bass, even drums (we get freaky, I play an MPC along with my drummer for straight drum offs…that get suupppper glitchy and polyrhythmic…it’s amazing). So a “modern” jam band could honestly just use Ableton x3 people…or literally one Ableton session for an entire jam set. Guitars, hardware synths aka actual instruments are more a cherry on top than anything. They’re less important, and because of that…playing an LP Jr that I’m constantly tinkering around with on stage, univibe ramping up and down…turns our “Ableton rig” into an actual performance instrument instead of a playlist.
First rule of jam band…keep it light. I got a feather weight road worn Tele that would save the back. Also got a nice little RevStar that’s perfect. With the back in mind….love Jonathan’s suggestion of a ToneMaster Super Reverb.
There’s a notable exception to the what was said about strats. Jerry’s Alligator from the early 70s was a strat and appeared on legendary tours like Europe 72
Thank you for this conversation. I am devotee of Phish and the Grateful Dead, I am, I can't help it; and it's nice to hear someone speak my language. I love this, thank you again!
My favorite jam band? Emmet Otter’s Jug Band. I saw those cats back in 84. Emmet set his washboard on fire. The jug player passed out thirty minutes into his solo. Was a strange and hazy night. Strangely, that was the first night I ever had marijuana brownies.
“Paint your own pottery jam band” Lol!!! While Trey is known for Mesa Mark IIIs, lately he’s gone unobtainium with amps also by getting Jan Marie, an original Trainwreck Express. He’s also been using a Klon. Jimmy Herring plays a PRS mostly but does play strats and Teles for several WSP songs. Herring also runs a Fender full bore with a boost, wah, and interesting reverb setup. Pure and simple. Umphreys, on the other hand, have pedal boards with their own zip codes. I was on the rail at AVL and got to hear a 100 watt Fuchs blasting and it was amazing. So I guess I agree with Johnathon. It’s all about creating with what you’ve got. No rules, really.
Big props for shouting out Line 6 modeling combos, I've been using one for practically my entire guitar life. 17 years later, my next amp is going to be a tube amp, likely a Mesa/Boogie Fillmore 50... I couldn't be more excited, but I will never forget my Line 6 days.
I use my Epiphone ES 339 Pro. Smaller than a 335 with less fat tones even before you split the coils. I was noodling on it playing some Dead while I watched y'all. It works for the mostly thin Dead tones and the fat Allman Brothers. (which is a Roots Rock Revival plug since Oteill has played in both). Just my thought.
Wow! I’m a huge jam band fan, especially bands like Gov’t Mule etc…but also an enormous fan of the Bjork song Hyperballad! It’s amazing! So great video! ✌🏼 And I guess we’re listing our rigs…I take 5 Gibsons (2 Pauls, a 335, a Firebird I, and either a 63 Melody Maker or a Flying V), and a Strat. 2 amps, Soldano SLO-30 and a Deluxe Reverb reissue. And a big pedalboard with all the required jam band accoutrements and 4-5 overdrive options ✌🏼
I use MIM and custom super-Strats, and a blackface Bassman as a pedal platform. I agree you also want a Tube-screamer, and I suggest a light overdrive and boost as well. I gave away my Les Paul clones, and never use my SG clone. I feel like an HSS strat with a coil-split, pedal board, and plenty of clean tube headroom can do it all, practically speaking. BTW, your videos just keep getting better. Keep up the great work Casino Guitars!
My jam band rig: #1 - PRS Special Semihollow (poor man’s Golden Eagle, haha) into Magnatone Super 59 M80 and Mesa 2 x 12 with Golden Reverberator and Chase Bliss preamp. This guitar can do it all, honestly. Other guitars that rotate include ‘64 reissue SG (awesome), PRS McCarty 594 (also awesome), ES-335, and a Les Paul Special.
My version of a jam band is 311, they’re all dead-heads who’ve been touring for 30 years now, and they age like fine wine. They’ve outlasted most of their contemporaries with the same original lineup, the only other band that had done that is U2 that’s still on tour. I’m currently listening to: Turnstile (new album called “Glow On”), they’re such a kick ass band that I just found out about a few months ago. Also been listening to Deftones non-stop!
The mu-tron sound on scarlet/fire ,estimated prophet,shake down street,China cat sunflower 🌻 morning dew,terrapin station and many other solos runs, wouldn’t sound as amazing with out the mu-tron! It’s an original legendary sound , not just quacks,it’s probably on in Jerry’s rig more than ya realize,it’s got some very subtle settings 🎸😎✌️🎶
Sigur ros is amazing live. Glad you guys giving them props. Moved from Texas to Northern California, it's all jam band scene up here, which I dig. But it's like pulling teeth to get my friends to see other styles
I was fortunate to see Bjork in Chicago on her Vespertine tour. Full orchestra, choir, Matmos. Best live performance I ever seen. Oh yeah, zero guitars.
Great topic! I feel like jam bands are truly where anything goes. Everything from Trey’s Languedoc to Gabriel Marin’s (Consider the Source) crazy double neck, one of which is fretless and has synth pickups.
i saw jimmy herring with phil lesh and friends. he played a wet/dry/wet rig with a strat. amazing. he was dueling with warren haynes. it don't get much better than that. them carolina boys.
He is dead right about Skynyrd NOT being a Jam Band , they practiced ALL of their solos , and often got a slap around the ear from Ronnie if they deviated from the arrangement
Nothing wrong with slaughter, Firehouse, Ratt, Winger, Mr. Big! My go-to guilty pleasure! I’m glad you mentioned PRS. I love my 513. It’s does almost everything I would want.
I am not (I repeat, NOT) into jam bands. But I went on Jam Cruise with some friends and saw Umphree's McGee and they are pretty badass! I was pleasantly surprised. I spent so much making fun of their name prior to the cruise that I had no idea. Lol
My "Jam Band" picks..... CREAM... Santana... Hendrix...Zeppelin... Gov't Mule... YES... This is what I feel is the real deal. Yep! Rig picks Rivera Quiana 4X10, my pedal board, and my electric 12 string and a semi hollow electric. (I went inexpensive... Eastwood Classic 12 & Harley Benton CSTHB)
PRS Super Eagle is the ultimate jam guitar, period. To me, a good jam guitar setup is something that can get the widest variety of sounds, and the Super Eagle not only nails some of the classic jam band guitar tones like Garcia or Trey, but it also can get every sound in between. That is my dream guitar, man. Maybe one day.....
Lucky me got to grow up around Athens Ga and I saw Widespread”s 2nd show and pretty much all their shows for the first 3-4 and it was awesome …then they blew up and quit going to the big shows… long live Mikey Houser…also volume pedals are huge for jam bands Jimmy Herring uses like 4..not a jam band but I did see Dropkick Murphys last night for the first time and they killed it …
Oh yeah! Jonathan u right! Jimmy herring is a beast on stings,he’s so creative an perfect with phasing style 🥳😎🎸🎶🤪😜he’s a North Carolina legend and we’ve had some!
I love my vintage Ibanez guitars for rhythm w/ a good Fender twin reverb. That would be perfect in a jam band with someone playing a Fender Strat through a silver or black mesh Fender amp. Early 70s Dead tone for days. My Gibson SGs can get there too.
I think you hit it with the go with what you’re familiar with. Billy Strings seems to be doing jammy drums/space-like things in his live shows with a rosewood dreadnaught running through trippy pedals. Oh, and he doesn’t actually have a drummer, let alone two or three. I saw a rig rundown where Trey said that he was using a spinning speaker rig that he built when he was in college and he still used it because he knew exactly how to fix it if something went wrong
Truthfully my go to Jam band Rig is Acoustic. 1965 Dove with Dearmond 260 Pickup into SWR California Blonde and Powered Monitor and only pedal need my Fishman Tone Deq Preamp & DI, if had to choose Electric I built a Custom HH Tele with JBE Two Tone pickups, Floyd Rose Flush mounted Bridge Flamed Maple Fret board on Mahogany neck, Swamp Ash body with AAAAA Flamed Maple Cap, Locking D'Addario Auto trim locking tuners I call Mad Max because of its 3x3 headstock into my 1967 Supro Thunderbolt, Pedals my RV500, MXR Chorus, Ibanez Screaming Demon Wah and would be a happy camper
Eastwood did a custom run of a Languedoc inspired guitar. I tried to get a real Languedoc for years and he'd never respond. Picked up the Eastwood TA PH made in Korea and was pleasantly surprised. I'm sure it's no Languedoc but it sounds great and is versatile. You can find them used around $1k US
There’s also a company called Phred who do copies of both Trey’s and Jerry’s guitars. Not sure what the quality is like, but some of them are listed at $2,000+, so I’d hope they’re pretty darn good!
@@BrandonOutside yeah, there are a couple besides Phred. Reviews are all over the place and the build quality looks questionable. I chose to pass on them. Eastwood made a Wolf tribute as well. Cheers
Bob Weir plays a Strat in Dead and Co pretty often and Jerry Garcia started on a Strat. The Wolf had Strat pickups neck and middle for a bit and he hang on to that Strat neck pickup for a while.
Check out Jack Pearson (onetime Allman Bros guitarist). He mostly plays with $100 Chinese Squier Strats, into whatever amp is lying around. His playing is a relentless stream of incredible ideas, and his tone is beautiful. Whatever guitar works for you, works for your jam band playing.
it seems many genres of music have constraints and are becoming formulaic down to the instruments, amps, effects, etc. that are required. I think my Rics sound good through my Engl dual 100W half stack, but just try that in a metal band audition. (Rics are not the easiest guitars to play metal on, but the sound would work; this is just an example) for metal, jam bands, doom, funk, pop and even worse some modern jazz circles, etc., you better stick to what's expected and not try anything different not approved for use with the genre. I showed up at a jazz gig with a solid body Fender (Jaguar) instead of my D'Angelico EXL-1 and the hostility and contempt was real. Go back an watch a video of a 21 year old George Benson playing with Brother Jack McDuff, you'll see him with a Les Paul; other jazz players in the late 50s/early 60s used strats, and other guitars that you'll rarely see in jazz today. keep sticking to the prescribed constraints and wonder why some music is derivative and most music isn't innovative. TL;DR, Use the gear you want, not what you're expected or required to use for the genre. IMO
My thoughts exactly. I can not tell you how many times my molded out Fender Mustang catches side eye, despite me walking circles around anybody on the Lil Pony. They shut up, but still talk shit on my Fender Pony... really passes me off when they then play it, and it's all they can trash about me or my preferred rig. Lol, sounds phenomenal, Lindy Fralin on board, that really send em' reeling... to learn this guitar will outplay anything they hold due to shorter scale than almost anything offered out there. Then the pickups... you could use a practice Amp with a Mic, and it'll sound pretty great still. It's the Fralin, let the Lindy make you mighty.
You guys are great. Pick it up turn it up. Forget about the rest. Jam...,... It's all about the vibe between the people. Gear doesn't sound good without chemistry in the mix.
Here's my rig. PRS Special Semi-Hollow into a ToneMaster Twin. Pedal board is Boss OC-2>TC Spark Mini>QTron+>Ryra Klone> JHS Bonsai>SMS Solar Flare>MXR Carbon Copy. Gives me everything I am looking for. Looking at about 5 grand but set for life. :)
You gotta give a nod to Rick Mitarotonda from @Goose ...that kid can PLAY....Trey meets Sco. PRS Hollowbody II into a Mesa Express combo with a nice pedal board.
@@1997Ghost totally disagree. He has a great rich tone and has a nice overdriven sound on a lot of his solos. His rhythm work is mainly clean but heavy clean, if you know what I mean. Have you ever seen him live? I’d take Mitarotonda or Jimmy Herring over anyone right now in the jam band world.
Dont live near Iceland. But there's a shop here called it and I live where alot of the game of thrones was shot and your more than welcome to come here .
Since I easily can’t get a Languedoc. I’ll go with my eBay Languedoc replica. I know it’s not the same but it very inspiring to play. I put in Schaller guitar tuners and have made turning stability way better. That with my tube screamer clone with a jhs unicorn pedal. I can get some of Treys tones. I also have a strat kit modified guitar like Jerry’s alligator guitar. I all ways thought Jerry’s tone is a lot simpler to get compared the Treys. That Languedoc is something very special!
A nice hollow body. Any high headroom tube amp with reverb. A digital delay. And probably a clean boost instead of a true drive pedal. Maybe a TC Spark.
Uh... Well I saw the Grateful Dead with Jerry 63 times and Phish 20 something times and the Allmans a lot. Artinger comes close to Languedoc. Trey has been playing a Trainwreck now I believe. He has a copy of one for a while by Komet ? I believe.
I saw widespread panic open for blues traveler in the St Lawrence university fieldhouse in Canton NY in 1990-1991...was 3000 college kids standing room only open floor....talk about a jam circle....I'll never forget that night..I was a sophomore in high school and my brother was in his 2nd year at stlu....I passed out in a puddle of puke in a frat house shower stall...lol...got lil sideways that night..lol
I heard a bjork song when i was about 14 that im still in love with. So since i didnt know the name of the song that i heard in the cky video/movie. This was before youtube and smartphones so i bought 4 bjork albums to find that 1 song. I discovered besides that 1 song bjork is just to weird for me. But that 1 song forgot the name is incredibly amazing
chuck garvey from Moe played a tele for many years I think he recently moved to a prs, scott metzger from jrad plays a tele. it's not strat tones but fenders have a place in jam. trey played a white strat in vegas one year as part of a halloween gag but it was hss
Getting Sirius XM forces me to what? In just listening to Lithium all day, with the occasional wandering over to Octane. I don't think of Radiohead as a jam band, but the Ed O'Brien Strat is amazing for getting weird sonics. I don't play mine often, but when it comes out of the gig bag, I'm going to play it for hours.
I like XM. Mostly I listen to the vinyl and rewind channels - but I mix in all kinds of other stuff - classical, bluegrass, even the occasional show tune.
Lots of jamband strat players out there. chuck from moe, jake from umph(g&l), barber from disco biscuits, dude from aqueous, kimock, herring used to, peter from goose plays a suhr hss
Regarding the best guitar for a jam band: IMHO, the 335 and PRS McCarty model are close, but don't hit the nail on the head. Check out "Paul's Guitar". I having been using one now for the past 6 months or so, and its perfect for my steady jam (20 years) and for my other stuff too. Paul designed it for himself (check out his UA-cam on that), since he never know who he'll be playing with or where he needs to be in the mix. One three way switch with one volume pot and one tone pot control two TCI split coil humbuckers - each has a microswitch, so I can dial in fat leads for my Allman and Santana sound, hot rock leads, a strat neck for classic solos, a clean tele, and a quacky strat all in one place. Easy to transport gig bag means I don't need my tele, strat or les paul for my regular jams anymore (to be fair, our other guitarist plays a vintage ES-340 wired back to a 335 so we have those sounds and trade sometimes for just for kicks). The only thing it doesn't do is P90s like I have on my LP Special, but I can live with that. I bought the SE edition in amber - its gorgeous with its pearl bird inlays - which listed around 8 or 9 hundred bucks - its gone up a little since but its still around $1,000 at sweetwater, not the $2,000 range you guys were talking about. FYI I have a standard pedal board and we run both guitars through various vintage tube amps. For me my vote for the best affordable jam guitar to date is the PRS Paul's SE model !!
oh man. jimmy herring's wife runs a wellness center in my teeny tiny home town of clarkesville ga. you'll run into him at ingles or the bowling alley from time to time and i try not to mark out every single time
HSS Strats can be GREAT guitars for jamming along with all kinds of music. VERY versatile. Add a TM Deluxe Reverb and a few pedals and you are all good :)
In all seriousness. What about Snarky Puppy. If you guys haven’t listened to them, they are amazing. Such amazing musicians playing in the pocket, knowing when not to play but killing it when they do.
All of Jerry’s guitars were strats at heart, imo. Scale length, blade switch and 3 pickups.
You saved me from having to state this! Everything after Alligator
I played fiddle on all of WSP records and toured with them extensively. Great show guys.
Holy Smokes! The Man Himself! The fiddle on the studio version of Driving Song will stand the test of time.
WSMFP
Sit n Ski ftw! Thanks for stopping in
@@joshphillips9033 I stop in quite often. Love this channel. Sit and ski was some of the best times I’ve ever had. Before WSP I use to play with a country music-film star Jerry Reed.
@@joshphillips9033 1-20-96 is probably my favorite show ever
Love all the Bjork talk today. Her first 3 solo albums are untouchable and the live performances that are available from that time are all amazing.
I play in a “modern” jam band, covering guitar and synths. My rig…Gibson Les Paul Jr (yes one single P90) > boost pedal > UniVibe > split to amp and DI into an interface to send to Ableton. A single P90 (any pickup really, but P90s are the best… change my mind) FORCE you to extract every possible tone from the guitar…and one can do everything you need if you know how to play the knobs). I play a Model D, ARP 2400 or ARP Odyssey depending on set, and a eurorack for beeps and boops, and an MPC loaded with psychedelic samples and drums.
We run an Ableton session that cues up transitions, but more so scenes of spacial FX on individual tracks for guitar, synth, bass, even drums (we get freaky, I play an MPC along with my drummer for straight drum offs…that get suupppper glitchy and polyrhythmic…it’s amazing).
So a “modern” jam band could honestly just use Ableton x3 people…or literally one Ableton session for an entire jam set. Guitars, hardware synths aka actual instruments are more a cherry on top than anything. They’re less important, and because of that…playing an LP Jr that I’m constantly tinkering around with on stage, univibe ramping up and down…turns our “Ableton rig” into an actual performance instrument instead of a playlist.
“Not for the thin of wallet” is definitely going in my regular rotation.
First rule of jam band…keep it light. I got a feather weight road worn Tele that would save the back. Also got a nice little RevStar that’s perfect.
With the back in mind….love Jonathan’s suggestion of a ToneMaster Super Reverb.
There’s a notable exception to the what was said about strats. Jerry’s Alligator from the early 70s was a strat and appeared on legendary tours like Europe 72
Thank you for this conversation. I am devotee of Phish and the Grateful Dead, I am, I can't help it; and it's nice to hear someone speak my language. I love this, thank you again!
My favorite jam band? Emmet Otter’s Jug Band. I saw those cats back in 84. Emmet set his washboard on fire. The jug player passed out thirty minutes into his solo.
Was a strange and hazy night.
Strangely, that was the first night I ever had marijuana brownies.
“Paint your own pottery jam band” Lol!!! While Trey is known for Mesa Mark IIIs, lately he’s gone unobtainium with amps also by getting Jan Marie, an original Trainwreck Express. He’s also been using a Klon. Jimmy Herring plays a PRS mostly but does play strats and Teles for several WSP songs. Herring also runs a Fender full bore with a boost, wah, and interesting reverb setup. Pure and simple. Umphreys, on the other hand, have pedal boards with their own zip codes. I was on the rail at AVL and got to hear a 100 watt Fuchs blasting and it was amazing. So I guess I agree with Johnathon. It’s all about creating with what you’ve got. No rules, really.
Yea they were a little out of date on Treys rig, but don’t blame them
@@mattflickinger8151 Baxter totally needs a Languedoc ! That purchase alone with earn him The Order of the Long Leaf pine. Lol!!
That Fuchs man....nothing better than hearing that amp live. Such a shame, I believe it's not been part of jake's rig as of recent.
Big props for shouting out Line 6 modeling combos, I've been using one for practically my entire guitar life. 17 years later, my next amp is going to be a tube amp, likely a Mesa/Boogie Fillmore 50... I couldn't be more excited, but I will never forget my Line 6 days.
Always enjoy our talks, thanks guys
I use my Epiphone ES 339 Pro. Smaller than a 335 with less fat tones even before you split the coils. I was noodling on it playing some Dead while I watched y'all. It works for the mostly thin Dead tones and the fat Allman Brothers. (which is a Roots Rock Revival plug since Oteill has played in both). Just my thought.
People always forget the Zappa jam band tree, which I believe Phish falls under. The other branch of the tree is GD/Allmans.
They were heavily influenced by Little Feat, Lowell George was one of the original Mothers...
Wow! I’m a huge jam band fan, especially bands like Gov’t Mule etc…but also an enormous fan of the Bjork song Hyperballad! It’s amazing! So great video! ✌🏼
And I guess we’re listing our rigs…I take 5 Gibsons (2 Pauls, a 335, a Firebird I, and either a 63 Melody Maker or a Flying V), and a Strat. 2 amps, Soldano SLO-30 and a Deluxe Reverb reissue. And a big pedalboard with all the required jam band accoutrements and 4-5 overdrive options ✌🏼
I use MIM and custom super-Strats, and a blackface Bassman as a pedal platform. I agree you also want a Tube-screamer, and I suggest a light overdrive and boost as well. I gave away my Les Paul clones, and never use my SG clone. I feel like an HSS strat with a coil-split, pedal board, and plenty of clean tube headroom can do it all, practically speaking. BTW, your videos just keep getting better. Keep up the great work Casino Guitars!
My jam band rig: #1 - PRS Special Semihollow (poor man’s Golden Eagle, haha) into Magnatone Super 59 M80 and Mesa 2 x 12 with Golden Reverberator and Chase Bliss preamp. This guitar can do it all, honestly. Other guitars that rotate include ‘64 reissue SG (awesome), PRS McCarty 594 (also awesome), ES-335, and a Les Paul Special.
I Second the Special 22 semi hollow, the “Super Squab” the poor mans Super Eagle.
My version of a jam band is 311, they’re all dead-heads who’ve been touring for 30 years now, and they age like fine wine. They’ve outlasted most of their contemporaries with the same original lineup, the only other band that had done that is U2 that’s still on tour.
I’m currently listening to: Turnstile (new album called “Glow On”), they’re such a kick ass band that I just found out about a few months ago. Also been listening to Deftones non-stop!
Tool has toured longer than 311
@@Mike_Hancho But it's not their original lineup. Justin Chancellor replaced Paul D'Amour on bass in 1995
I see your point but Justin was a upgrade.
@@Mike_Hancho yep that’s all I was saying was the original lineup is still the same for 311, but Tool are legendary without a doubt. Love them too!
U2 just said they're going on tour without their drummer.
Les Paul special with the P-90s is the answer to the question.
The mu-tron sound on scarlet/fire ,estimated prophet,shake down street,China cat sunflower 🌻 morning dew,terrapin station and many other solos runs, wouldn’t sound as amazing with out the mu-tron! It’s an original legendary sound , not just quacks,it’s probably on in Jerry’s rig more than ya realize,it’s got some very subtle settings 🎸😎✌️🎶
Does not matter what you guys talk about you always come away from watching the channel with a smile on your face👍
Sigur ros is amazing live. Glad you guys giving them props. Moved from Texas to Northern California, it's all jam band scene up here, which I dig. But it's like pulling teeth to get my friends to see other styles
Brilliant as always, one issue: the ultimate Strat jam band will always be Little Feat!
Jonathan is right: Jimmy Herring IS a God among men.
Great point!!
No one else even comes close to Jimmy! And, he’s the nicest guy on the planet.
I was fortunate to see Bjork in Chicago on her Vespertine tour. Full orchestra, choir, Matmos. Best live performance I ever seen. Oh yeah, zero guitars.
Great topic! I feel like jam bands are truly where anything goes. Everything from Trey’s Languedoc to Gabriel Marin’s (Consider the Source) crazy double neck, one of which is fretless and has synth pickups.
Great content as usual. And thanks for introducing me to Sigur Rós!
As far as jam bands go, where’s the love for Gov’t Mule?
i saw jimmy herring with phil lesh and friends. he played a wet/dry/wet rig with a strat. amazing. he was dueling with warren haynes. it don't get much better than that. them carolina boys.
I saw them as well, amazing show.
He is dead right about Skynyrd NOT being a Jam Band , they practiced ALL of their solos , and often got a slap around the ear from Ronnie if they deviated from the arrangement
Nothing wrong with slaughter, Firehouse, Ratt, Winger, Mr. Big! My go-to guilty pleasure!
I’m glad you mentioned PRS. I love my 513. It’s does almost everything I would want.
When my CD player broke in my car it was stuck on poisons greatest hits…I never fixed the CD player:) it was now my poison player
I’m almost exclusively a DGT player. The perfect PRS imho.
You guys are chill and enjoy what you do. I envy ya. Keep up the good work.
I am not (I repeat, NOT) into jam bands. But I went on Jam Cruise with some friends and saw Umphree's McGee and they are pretty badass! I was pleasantly surprised. I spent so much making fun of their name prior to the cruise that I had no idea. Lol
My "Jam Band" picks..... CREAM... Santana... Hendrix...Zeppelin... Gov't Mule... YES... This is what I feel is the real deal. Yep! Rig picks Rivera Quiana 4X10, my pedal board, and my electric 12 string and a semi hollow electric. (I went inexpensive... Eastwood Classic 12 & Harley Benton CSTHB)
Thank you for finally recognizing Hanson as a jam band!
Umphrey's McGee. Their rigs have obtainable gear. Everyone should get some Umph Love ❤️
Convo spectrum is crazy! From goofy sidebars to serious choosing among PRS and Gibson 335.
I hit the bell every time you guys told me to and sometimes I don’t get my notifications. 😂
I’ll look into that today! And thank you:)
PRS Super Eagle is the ultimate jam guitar, period. To me, a good jam guitar setup is something that can get the widest variety of sounds, and the Super Eagle not only nails some of the classic jam band guitar tones like Garcia or Trey, but it also can get every sound in between. That is my dream guitar, man. Maybe one day.....
Lucky me got to grow up around Athens Ga and I saw Widespread”s 2nd show and pretty much all their shows for the first 3-4 and it was awesome …then they blew up and quit going to the big shows… long live Mikey Houser…also volume pedals are huge for jam bands Jimmy Herring uses like 4..not a jam band but I did see Dropkick Murphys last night for the first time and they killed it …
Oh yeah! Jonathan u right! Jimmy herring is a beast on stings,he’s so creative an perfect with phasing style 🥳😎🎸🎶🤪😜he’s a North Carolina legend and we’ve had some!
I love my vintage Ibanez guitars for rhythm w/ a good Fender twin reverb. That would be perfect in a jam band with someone playing a Fender Strat through a silver or black mesh Fender amp. Early 70s Dead tone for days. My Gibson SGs can get there too.
Jerry's alligator strat is fairly well known, though of course he used a ton of different guitars over the years.
Iceland is awesome. Went a few years ago.
One day one day:)
Sigur Rós is a whole vibe. Baxter knows.
JOnathans face while Baxter goes off on musical warriors........ Editor, I got a fever, i need some more zoom baby.
I think you hit it with the go with what you’re familiar with. Billy Strings seems to be doing jammy drums/space-like things in his live shows with a rosewood dreadnaught running through trippy pedals. Oh, and he doesn’t actually have a drummer, let alone two or three. I saw a rig rundown where Trey said that he was using a spinning speaker rig that he built when he was in college and he still used it because he knew exactly how to fix it if something went wrong
Truthfully my go to Jam band Rig is Acoustic. 1965 Dove with Dearmond 260 Pickup into SWR California Blonde and Powered Monitor and only pedal need my Fishman Tone Deq Preamp & DI, if had to choose Electric I built a Custom HH Tele with JBE Two Tone pickups, Floyd Rose Flush mounted Bridge Flamed Maple Fret board on Mahogany neck, Swamp Ash body with AAAAA Flamed Maple Cap, Locking D'Addario Auto trim locking tuners I call Mad Max because of its 3x3 headstock into my 1967 Supro Thunderbolt, Pedals my RV500, MXR Chorus, Ibanez Screaming Demon Wah and would be a happy camper
Eastwood did a custom run of a Languedoc inspired guitar. I tried to get a real Languedoc for years and he'd never respond. Picked up the Eastwood TA PH made in Korea and was pleasantly surprised. I'm sure it's no Languedoc but it sounds great and is versatile. You can find them used around $1k US
There’s also a company called Phred who do copies of both Trey’s and Jerry’s guitars. Not sure what the quality is like, but some of them are listed at $2,000+, so I’d hope they’re pretty darn good!
@@BrandonOutside yeah, there are a couple besides Phred. Reviews are all over the place and the build quality looks questionable. I chose to pass on them. Eastwood made a Wolf tribute as well. Cheers
Yeah I've been thinking the SE hollowbody PRS for my Trey unit. Dont know how I feel about the Phred units??? Always love "jam" talk!
Herring live in Asheville over the summer was unreal tone, so dialed in!!
The tone is Columbia was great! Looking forward to Wilmington.
Bob Weir plays a Strat in Dead and Co pretty often and Jerry Garcia started on a Strat. The Wolf had Strat pickups neck and middle for a bit and he hang on to that Strat neck pickup for a while.
Check out Jack Pearson (onetime Allman Bros guitarist). He mostly plays with $100 Chinese Squier Strats, into whatever amp is lying around. His playing is a relentless stream of incredible ideas, and his tone is beautiful. Whatever guitar works for you, works for your jam band playing.
Will we see the prs silver sky given away in my lifetime?
I use Bob Weir,sBedford.Have premier model. Excellent
it seems many genres of music have constraints and are becoming formulaic down to the instruments, amps, effects, etc. that are required.
I think my Rics sound good through my Engl dual 100W half stack, but just try that in a metal band audition. (Rics are not the easiest guitars to play metal on, but the sound would work; this is just an example)
for metal, jam bands, doom, funk, pop and even worse some modern jazz circles, etc., you better stick to what's expected and not try anything different not approved for use with the genre.
I showed up at a jazz gig with a solid body Fender (Jaguar) instead of my D'Angelico EXL-1 and the hostility and contempt was real. Go back an watch a video of a 21 year old George Benson playing with Brother Jack McDuff, you'll see him with a Les Paul; other jazz players in the late 50s/early 60s used strats, and other guitars that you'll rarely see in jazz today.
keep sticking to the prescribed constraints and wonder why some music is derivative and most music isn't innovative.
TL;DR, Use the gear you want, not what you're expected or required to use for the genre.
IMO
My thoughts exactly. I can not tell you how many times my molded out Fender Mustang catches side eye, despite me walking circles around anybody on the Lil Pony. They shut up, but still talk shit on my Fender Pony... really passes me off when they then play it, and it's all they can trash about me or my preferred rig. Lol, sounds phenomenal, Lindy Fralin on board, that really send em' reeling... to learn this guitar will outplay anything they hold due to shorter scale than almost anything offered out there. Then the pickups... you could use a practice Amp with a Mic, and it'll sound pretty great still. It's the Fralin, let the Lindy make you mighty.
great conversation
The PRS se Paul’s guitar has lots of cool pickup options.
Languedoc's are somewhat based on fender starcaster if you guys wanted to get one of those and mod it to your hearts delight haha
I was just thinking that Chuck Garvey of Moe plays a strat often. I also love that Tom Hamilton plays his Becker all night long.
I cut my teeth in a jam band in the late '90s/early '00s. Lots of PRS were around. Bass players all had a Modulus 5 string and an Eden amp back then.
I love this!
You guys are great. Pick it up turn it up. Forget about the rest. Jam...,... It's all about the vibe between the people. Gear doesn't sound good without chemistry in the mix.
Here's my rig. PRS Special Semi-Hollow into a ToneMaster Twin. Pedal board is Boss OC-2>TC Spark Mini>QTron+>Ryra Klone> JHS Bonsai>SMS Solar Flare>MXR Carbon Copy. Gives me everything I am looking for. Looking at about 5 grand but set for life. :)
A Strat and a either a Blues Deluxe with a couple of overdrive pedals or a modeling amp like a Fender Mustang or a Boss Katana.
Collings i-35 LC, Carr Slant 6V. Sure, I'm talking my own book. But what a versatile setup.
You gotta give a nod to Rick Mitarotonda from @Goose ...that kid can PLAY....Trey meets Sco. PRS Hollowbody II into a Mesa Express combo with a nice pedal board.
Mitarotonda is killing it like nobody these days! Love his tone also.
he has no balls. there is no edge to his sound
@@1997Ghost totally disagree. He has a great rich tone and has a nice overdriven sound on a lot of his solos. His rhythm work is mainly clean but heavy clean, if you know what I mean. Have you ever seen him live? I’d take Mitarotonda or Jimmy Herring over anyone right now in the jam band world.
Dont live near Iceland. But there's a shop here called it and I live where alot of the game of thrones was shot and your more than welcome to come here .
Gentlemen, please feel free to have a weekly jam band discussion on your channel.
Going into this video hoping you guys mention the disco biscuits. Nobody ever mentions the disco biscuits. They nasty but they good.
Since I easily can’t get a Languedoc. I’ll go with my eBay Languedoc replica. I know it’s not the same but it very inspiring to play. I put in Schaller guitar tuners and have made turning stability way better. That with my tube screamer clone with a jhs unicorn pedal. I can get some of Treys tones. I also have a strat kit modified guitar like Jerry’s alligator guitar. I all ways thought Jerry’s tone is a lot simpler to get compared the Treys. That Languedoc is something very special!
I drove many miles to see Michael Houser ripping through his soldano slo 100.
A nice hollow body. Any high headroom tube amp with reverb. A digital delay. And probably a clean boost instead of a true drive pedal. Maybe a TC Spark.
Jam band rig is what I’ve got, some pedals a Mexican Strat and a mesa boogie
Trey plays trainwrecks and he was playing a fender twin too for a while.
The original lead guitarist Micheal Houser for wsp played a tele!
Before his D'Angelico deal Bobby played a number of strats with D&C And John has been known to play a Silver Sky on the D & C stage as well...
I love me some 309 Jam On channel.
My son was digging some Sunsquabi the other day
Uh... Well I saw the Grateful Dead with Jerry 63 times and Phish 20 something times and the Allmans a lot. Artinger comes close to Languedoc. Trey has been playing a Trainwreck now I believe. He has a copy of one for a while by Komet ? I believe.
My jam band rig would be my Special 22 SH Ltd into my Ceriatone OTS20 with my Morgan 1x12 cab . My Helix LT or Ax8 for effects
I saw widespread panic open for blues traveler in the St Lawrence university fieldhouse in Canton NY in 1990-1991...was 3000 college kids standing room only open floor....talk about a jam circle....I'll never forget that night..I was a sophomore in high school and my brother was in his 2nd year at stlu....I passed out in a puddle of puke in a frat house shower stall...lol...got lil sideways that night..lol
You guys RULE!!!
OMG, where did you get the Baxter Cycle shirt???
That is from my part of the world, I know those guys!!!
Early WSP was all telecaster on lead
I heard a bjork song when i was about 14 that im still in love with. So since i didnt know the name of the song that i heard in the cky video/movie. This was before youtube and smartphones so i bought 4 bjork albums to find that 1 song. I discovered besides that 1 song bjork is just to weird for me. But that 1 song forgot the name is incredibly amazing
If y'all would raffle that PRS Silver Sky, my jam band rig would be much improved! It's such a tease hanging on the wall behind you in your videos!
Nice Black Johnny Cruz Crossville-TL back there!
That would be either my 3 pickup H150 or 3 pickup es335.
i had to get an SG standard because i fell in love with ABB. I had to get the holy grail of sg's the double gold 61
Trey plays a Trainwreck Amp now and has been for since 2019.
chuck garvey from Moe played a tele for many years I think he recently moved to a prs, scott metzger from jrad plays a tele. it's not strat tones but fenders have a place in jam. trey played a white strat in vegas one year as part of a halloween gag but it was hss
Getting Sirius XM forces me to what? In just listening to Lithium all day, with the occasional wandering over to Octane.
I don't think of Radiohead as a jam band, but the Ed O'Brien Strat is amazing for getting weird sonics. I don't play mine often, but when it comes out of the gig bag, I'm going to play it for hours.
I like XM. Mostly I listen to the vinyl and rewind channels - but I mix in all kinds of other stuff - classical, bluegrass, even the occasional show tune.
Why is the John Cruz hanging up in the background? I thought that would’ve been sold by now.
Lots of jamband strat players out there. chuck from moe, jake from umph(g&l), barber from disco biscuits, dude from aqueous, kimock, herring used to, peter from goose plays a suhr hss
I can get all the tones I need and want from my Rockerverb, Magnatone super 15 and my 61 jr.
My DGT and Princeton gives me what I need. Plumes and Phat mod and Carbon copy
Regarding the best guitar for a jam band: IMHO, the 335 and PRS McCarty model are close, but don't hit the nail on the head. Check out "Paul's Guitar". I having been using one now for the past 6 months or so, and its perfect for my steady jam (20 years) and for my other stuff too. Paul designed it for himself (check out his UA-cam on that), since he never know who he'll be playing with or where he needs to be in the mix. One three way switch with one volume pot and one tone pot control two TCI split coil humbuckers - each has a microswitch, so I can dial in fat leads for my Allman and Santana sound, hot rock leads, a strat neck for classic solos, a clean tele, and a quacky strat all in one place. Easy to transport gig bag means I don't need my tele, strat or les paul for my regular jams anymore (to be fair, our other guitarist plays a vintage ES-340 wired back to a 335 so we have those sounds and trade sometimes for just for kicks). The only thing it doesn't do is P90s like I have on my LP Special, but I can live with that. I bought the SE edition in amber - its gorgeous with its pearl bird inlays - which listed around 8 or 9 hundred bucks - its gone up a little since but its still around $1,000 at sweetwater, not the $2,000 range you guys were talking about. FYI I have a standard pedal board and we run both guitars through various vintage tube amps. For me my vote for the best affordable jam guitar to date is the PRS Paul's SE model !!
Sigur Ros.Even my wife likes them👍🏿🥶
oh man. jimmy herring's wife runs a wellness center in my teeny tiny home town of clarkesville ga. you'll run into him at ingles or the bowling alley from time to time and i try not to mark out every single time
Off topic, but…. With all the vintage and custom shop stuff in the wall back there, why is there a reissue Supra Sahara among them?
HSS Strats can be GREAT guitars for jamming along with all kinds of music. VERY versatile. Add a TM Deluxe Reverb and a few pedals and you are all good :)
tonemaster? LOL no
Most tonemaster haters have never played one.
Agree, btw, my HSS strat is the most versatile guitar I own.
nice things 😁👍
In all seriousness. What about Snarky Puppy. If you guys haven’t listened to them, they are amazing. Such amazing musicians playing in the pocket, knowing when not to play but killing it when they do.