Jennifer Batten: Rig Tour
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- Опубліковано 14 гру 2019
- Featured in Guitarist 454
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Such a cool lady. And a force on guitar. She's stood toe to toe with all the big boys, and toured multiple times as Micheal Jackson's guitarist, yet she still talks and acts like a normal human. In these days of mass narcissism, that's refreshing and should be a lesson to all.
Exactly Robin. Human....and maybe therefore very talented. I like her and her approach to music a lot.
She recorded on Jeff Beck's albums & was part of his touring unit for some years... Top that!!!
I used to read your lesson articles all the time back in the day. Awesome!!!
My first concert was Michael Jackson in 1992 with Jennifer on guitar. Still hands down the best show of my life. She's the reason I ever picked up an instrument in the first place. Killer!
jamesbookert u so lucky 😍😍😍 dangerous world tour 😍😍😍
*Best female guitarist ever* ❤️
C'est sur, Sans oublier Emily Remler !..
not even close. She's a great guitarist but not a virtuoso. There's literally thousands of classical guitarists and other styles who you've never heard who are "better". Successful though? Maybe might be the most successful female guitarist.
As a 50 year old musician myself, I love this lady. She is so cool and bad ass! Glad she's still jammin'!☺👍
this lady and her music are timeless, thats for sure
Amazing musician and a great person. Thanks again for taking the time to sign my guitar and have a short conversation. Respect.
One of the best! Thanks for all the inspiration Jennifer!
Her explaining this shows just how much technical knowledge Electric guitarists know and learn to create their music. Insane level of knowledge and musical skill. AMAZING!! She is a genius and a guitarist Maestro.
What a world class musician and stellar person Jennifer is, she's up there with the best and an inspiration to many, love the '79 basement jam story below, classic who'd have thought it would be talked about globally on youtube 40 years later 😁
I remember seeing Jennifer make her guitar sound like a train engine. Then I began to follow her and realized how very good she is. Easily among the Worlds greatest musicians. So happy to see her here on this video. She is very humble. Nice Holiday present for me. She will be playing for the rest of her life for sure.
Guitar for the practicing musician album?
I thought it was a “Coltrane” tune! 🚂🤦🏻♂️
I met her in a clinic like 20 years ago in sweden and shés not only a great guitarplayer but also a great person!
What kind of clinic?
Sometimes you see pro player endorssed and they say this is my favorite piece of gear and 3 month later the pedalboard is completly different.
Jennifer demonstrated the blue amp last year ,well it seems she really use it and on stage!
Always gr8 to see/hear Jennifer play. Got the midi guitar thing down too.
Always nice to see quality musician and their gear. I use digitech too...love the guitar!
masterful, always a huge fan since I saw you play with Dave Rodgers and Jeff Beck in Germany back in the 1990s
This kicks ass! Jennifer is awesome!
I love you Jennifer Merry Christmas!!!
Thank you ver much, Iam loving your Guitar Play since I heard you with Michael Jackson!!!
You are a really Great!!!
She's so awesome!!
Jennifer Batten is a class act. I sent her an email years ago because I wanted examples of her guitar work for my second grade students. She sent me a DVD, and my students were amazed with her work. Her version of "Flight of the Bumblebee" is so cool and inspiring.
I still remember the first time I saw Jennifer shredding my jaw dropped to the floor! This woman is a totally badass shredder that does not get the recognition that she deserves.
One of my first guitar hero when i was a MJ fan at 5/6 years old, she is one of the reason why i play guitar. Thanks Lady.
I still remember the two handed pull off open string tap and slide....all at once, techniques she taught our class at Musicians Institute , when it was GIT class 1984-85 (last class at old actors studio I can proudly say:)
What a badass!! Great tone, great chops--inspiring!
I met her in Vancouver way back in the nineties... she signed a copy of her album with Flight Of The Wounded Bumblebee...epic
What a legend. A real frontier player.
Wow, Jennifers tone is unbelievable! It reminds me of Lukathers sound, absolutely amazing! I love it! Thanks for sharing this!
I believe it.
Humble legend!
JB, pound for pound as good as anyone(including the other JB), and a genuinely lovely human being 😀
One of the greats.
Thank you so much we really appreciated the event on saturday.
True professional.
I love the Digitech boards. I have never had any problems with mine. It does everything you need.
I saw her back in the 80’s. She’s the OG for girls that shred. She’s better then all these new chicks. Jen is a total badass.
Exactly what you said, Byron!
she sets the bar for women... hell, you sit her next to 75% of the guys out there and she'll outplay them... she is that good. wished more people knew who she is.
she plays as well as or better than many other players, period.
@@user-qr7ee2cp4y 75%? More like 99%. Name all the people who have toured with MJ and Jeff Beck.
Above Below and Beyond, she did it all on that one.
Much love Jennifer😎💓
Incredible musician
She's awesome!
She is a living legend, one of the best guitarists of all time.
Legend
MJ picked a brilliant gem of a musician. Pow
great info!
I saw her on stage with Jeff Beck. You can count the guitarists on one hand who could do that as well as she did.
Yes. It was 2000, or there abouts. Jeff was at the outdoor venue in Tinley Park, IL. It was his first time touring the States in quite a while (my first time seeing him). It's the only show where I sat on the edge of my seat and didn't move for two hours, my jaw agape the whole time. He was masterful and she was a powerhouse. Jennifer was a great compliment to the music with perfect tone (which anyone playing with JB must have).
@@jimmyb1378 Yes, I saw her with Jeff at Jones Beach Theater (outdoors at the beach) in New York. They both shredded with incredible precision. She was so good that Jeff even bowed to her. She waved it off but definitely earned it.
Muito lindo ela toca muito me tornei fã
Bravo!
Very cool
Killer rig!
Jennifer is so awesome!
The "YA" sound is on the rp360 !!
I remember when she was a guitar teacher in San Diego at Guitar Trader the same place that Warren DeMartini, Robbin Crosby and Stephen Pearcy, Amir Derahk, Jake E Lee got their start.
Fk China-youtube Socialism/communism she is super cool. I wish I had said hi to her one day leaving Guitar Trader.
Fantastic. Good practical shit, especially regarding the volume wars thing.
Her album tribal rage momentum is the best
I love that guitar since I have one! LOL!
Love jennifer batten
Lady legend!
she is awesome!
If you need that talking wah sound, check out the Electro-Harmonix Cock FIght pedal. It's got toggles that let you go between Cry and Talk wah effects, and also has a built in Fuzz with bias that lets you go pre or post That talking wah is so cool I played a sample and made it my ringtone.
Jennifer is so underrated, she can really play. I sold my Digitech RP1000 and I recommend it to anyone who's considering it, but use the 4 cable method like she was talking about from the unit to the head and it will rock.
I remember reading, way back in about 1984. The Jackson Five were going on tour for the first time since the 70's, and Michael was going to be with them. There was a lot of hype around that tour. They couldn't find anyone outside of Eddie VanHalen who could play the guitar solo to Beat It. Eventually they found Jennifer Batten--she could play it. Yes, lots of very good guitar players can do that solo today, but JB was doing it back in the day. She was ahead of her time. She is a virtuoso and she's still getting it done today. She is an inspiration.
You got wrong info. She was M.J.'s guitarist and wrote Beat it. She couldn't play the solo part she wrote and EVH stepped in and played it on the recording. Later on she learned how to play the solo. The video and info is out there. She is a great guitarist that doesn't get the credit she deserves 🎸
@@davidkastin4240 I stand corrected (Happily). I had read what I posted in the Ann Arbor News way back when. Now it is good to know the actual truth. I went to Herb David's Guitar Studio in Ann Arbor (now closed) at that time and found Jennifer's book with an attached cassette that demonstrated tapping technique and was full of licks--all using tapping. A book well beyond my ability, but even back then she was proving she was an advanced, professional guitarist.
@@gastonflatulenza1276 😉 cool. Yeah she is a very good guitarist underrated imo. Happy Holidays ✌
I saw her doing a guitar clinic in Panama to promote Washburn guitars. I thought she was the coolest and seeing her now....damn, she’s still the coolest! I even modeled my sound to her’s back in the day!
Yesssss 🤘🏻🕶🤘🏻🎸
Pay attention friends. You're learning from, greatness.
WHAT A LEGEND!!! One of the best female guitar virtuoso's ever! A very humble woman also. Beautiful tone with no need of a multitude of plugs and Axe´s effects like most people use nowadays. You can´t precise if they can play well actually btw...
"Beautiful tone with no need of a multitude of plugs and Axe´s effects like most people use nowadays."
LOL! She uses a crap TON of effects. That RP1000 puts over 1500 effects combinations at her fingertips.
I agree, she has great tone. But it has ZERO to do with her use of effects gear or lack thereof. She's just a great player.
@@MeTuLHeD I wanted to express that A LOT of musicians nowadays don't even use pedals. They configurate the digital plugs at their commodities like the Axe's because they are so f@ckin LAZY.
(Also that's the reason why so many guitar players sounds exactly THE SAME.)
@@endtyme1345 "They configurate the digital plugs at their commodities like the Axe's because they are so f@ckin LAZY."
I'm not sure we are understanding each other. I tend to both agree and disagree.
1. Disagree: Configuring a plug in or a virtual amp device like an Axe FX, Kemper, Helix, etc. is exactly like configuring an analog signal path. You have knobs and buttons and endless tweaking. In fact, I would argue that the virtual amps give you MORE tonal flexibility than an analog rig in terms of being able to tweak tone. Just the sheer volume of cab impulse responses alone which are available today is absolutely overwhelming.
2. Agree: Musicians in general...and kids in particular...hear a tone which they love and go on a quest to reproduce THAT sound. But in all fairness, it's been that way since LONG before there were plug ins and virtual amps. How many children of the 80's heard Sir Edward and started lusting after a Marshall stack and a Variac? So it's nothing new. But here's what they don't understand. Let's take Jennifer's signal path for example. You can buy a Blu Amp 1, run an RP1000 in the effects loop and pipe that out to the exact same cab she uses on stage (Marshall, Mesa, whatever) but you STILL will not get her sound. Why? Because it's HER tone. It's the way she holds the pick, the way she addresses the strings, the way she mutes the notes, her left hand vibrato and on and on and on. It's dozens of variables that make her sound like HER. If you get all her gear, you still won't sound like her. You will sound like you playing through HER GEAR. And that's where the kiddos quest for tone ultimately fails.
True, virtual amps have made it possible to download presets actually created by and used by the artists themselves. Which means, if I want Plini's rig, I can use his presets and have his exact signal chain. Which does in turn lead to a certain "sameness" in tonality among many players who are slavishly trying to reproduce his signal path.
But here's the rub. I still won't sound like Plini. Why? Because he's a unique player with a particular style. Just having his gear does NOT give me his sound.
@@MeTuLHeD Agree! Great comment! Loved that part of "Just having his gear does NOT give me his sound" that synthetizes my whole idea. I use Plini's Archetype btw...DAMN!#@! LOVEEE THAT PLUG! (Lol) & I think virtual signals has made easier to deal with common problems of analog sources, but for some reason I have to come back to my Fender twin reverb or my Marshall cabinet and a few pedals...but honestly with the Fender twin reberb and a digital reverb pedal I'm more than happy lol! Maybe it's time to let so many digital processors and start with the basics first? Do new kids know that feeling of an endless bending through their own fingers? ❤
Wow, she must have picked up Jeff Beck's style by osmosis when she toured with him! She nails it.
She wrote songs with him.
Jen: in the 80s I had a tape recorder and Mel Bay and Cherry Lane books to learn from , took me months and months to get good.
Tina S: turns in UA-cam “hold my juice and straw”
It's a Washburm Parallaxe that she's playing. I have two of them, the bolt on and neck thru. Excellent guitars. I also have her "Neck Illusions" fret markers on a couple of my guitars. Funny that she's playing the Fishman Active pups. I tried those out and they're dead quiet, but I sold that guitar. One of my very favorite guitars it the Schecter Sun Valley Super Shredder with the sustainiac. Just an awesome guitar.
You can use the Fluence battery to power the sustainer, so you can have the best of both.
I love Jennifers style
Good tone.
Wwow she uses a RP1000, i love her immediately!
That Blug Amp1 looks amazing, I have back problems so I'm done moving around unnecessarily heavy stuff
I have one.
nice meeting her at sam ash guitar clinic NY Queens and she give us free picks, very small jazz pics
Cool grandma🤘
Gotta love this woman! Let's face it. she's the bad grandma of rock guitar! I remmber watching the Mj live thing where we first saw her, and it was "Oooh, me likey!". I love that WB guitar with the neck joint, and the Blug amp. In fact the only thing that made me go "wait, what?" was the cruddy fretboard stickers. Rock and Roll Hall of fame, anyone?
I saw her with Jeff Beck in 1999 , she was going toe to toe with Mr Beck !!!!!! It was a great show !!!!!! She is a class act !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Amazing, wonderful player
love to art on the fret board. We did not get to the studio. My guitarist was a moron. He went out to party after signing with Metal Blade and died of an over dose that night.
Jen was a Monster one of the Guitar Gods yet not Recognized unlike those chic guitars 🎸
Batten is for sure a God Tier Shredder.
Cool lady!!!!
Love this woman
I tried those Illusions and found them a bit too grippy for my liking but they sure do look nice. As always, JB slays here. Such a talent.
Even though I only play acoustic guitar, I really enjoyed awesome Jennifer's badass playing.
An under appreciated musician right there, and legend.
So much better than the overrated Nita Strauss, or Oranthi.
What is it, girls comparison?
Agree
Well not the same generation but Oranthi have a good feeling! Jennifer is more shred oriented than Oryanthi
Dont forget..jen very loyal to Washburn..since 90s-today. Respect
@@mroppa6637 Yep but she's endorsed ;)
Love guitar players who actually use multi effects in their live rig. I still have my Digitech RP500 that sounds terrific. It's very hard for me to let go
legend
top for playing guitar.......jazzz blues...top
Thomas Blug : designer of the Amp1. 👌
Jennifer Batten in Rock, Caroll Kaye in Jazz,... The two OG's of female guitarist,...
Carol Kaye was known a primarily a bassist. She really dosent have much of a recognized catalog as a guitar player but she has played on over 10,000 different recorded albums and singles as a bassist. She plays Ibanez SDGR basses currently and there us a new youtube documentary out on her.
Also check out her feature on Scott's Bass Lessons Bassists you should know.
😁
cool
Jennifer Batten этим летом приезжала в Россию к нам в город, а я не попал на её выступление. Но я не знал, что она играет на Wasburn и DigiTech как и Я )))))
Hi Jennifer. Remember when you played at Muddy Waters, near Chiavari? You stayed in my hotel, in Sestri Levante and I made you two special scrambled eggs for breakfast. We talked about music in general and I, out of shyness, dared not tell you how much I liked your concert. I really like your personal style. Have a smashing 2020
I heard a lot of Michael Lee Firkins in that intro
Me too. Very similar
Definitely a bit o' the "laughing stacks" tone for sure. Love it.
I'm not even a huge "shred guitar" fan but she is SO much better than all of these Instagram speed demons. There is actually taste in her playing. Something that most of these players are missing.
Agree!
00:30 secs, Beckian!
Wow, I use Der-ya on my rp500!
She's still on the Top! One of the best guitar player in the world.
Jennifer is the REAL DEAL BURNER!!
9:10 does a really good job mimicking a Heil talk box.
I thought I wanted a Heil talk box originally, but got the Electro Harmonix Cock FIght pedal instead. For the price it's crazy good. And, I get to keep my bad teeth when I wail on it.
When she talks, I listen...
Nice tone and phrasing. Reminds me of Eric Johnson.
She plays on the movie roll models!