Roger Fisher and Creating His Custom Guitars
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- Опубліковано 28 сер 2024
- Elliot Gould of Render Edge Media sits down with Roger Fisher, Heart's original lead guitarist, for three days of interviews. Roger discusses a wide range of topics, including the collaboration with his brother, Michael Fisher, the original Magic Man, on the writing and recording of his latest album, "Heart of the Blues," his love of designing and building guitars, how some of Heart's most iconic songs were written, and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction concert.
In this video, Roger talks about his love for customizing guitars, and, in particular, how he created his double-neck SG, the LED strat and the Pink Lady.
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I would love to play those custom guitars.
This was A Good visit with him I Love that he still sounds like He has kept his craft up He is a Really Good Guitarist created that sound for those Special Great Heart Songs! I did get to go see him with Heart long ago 79 another time ! A Really Good Friend of mine Buddy Blaze RIP posted a picture a few years ago Roger was in Dallas area Buddy was a Amazing custom Guitar Builder and Rodger was Playing a Buddy Blaze Guitar that night with a Very Heavy Heart Buddy died so Suddenly His Beautiful Amazing Wife was A Big part of The Custom Guitar shop Buddy knew so many Rock Stars he has Built for Buddy let watch The Entire process of building Guitar’s from start to finish I don’t Play but it is my Favorite part of a Rock Band Guitarist he took me to see several of my Guitar Hero’s my Passion and Hobby was going to concerts
5:24 "This is really dear to my *HEART*" lol Ya don't say Roger...?
This man is both a genius and very humble. No matter what he ended up doing, it would have been excellence. For all the artistry he gave to Heart, he never hogged the spotlight and let the sisters have the glory. So much so that I only recently heard of him having listened to Heart since their start. I was told early on that it was Nancy doing all the fancy fretwork. Not that she is not an excellent player, but the maestro is now obvious. May he continue to prosper and create!
Humble? Surprisingly yes, despite the 70s videos that make him appear like a total Egotist narcissist. I had assumed rocknroll god-worshipping day in day out had gotten to him. So nice to see how he ended up here. Lovely, actually...
3:36 bluguitar amp 1 spotted
From the little that he played it sounds like a very resonant instrument!
Imagine standing at bar talking to this guy. You would just scream in his face " shut the f%£k up" with all that nobody sands wood as smooth as me. And every one he knows is a master astronaut and he's the first to do everything. God almighty his humility is astonishing.
4:55
I remember the LED guitar. Got to meet all of the band after concert in Columbus, Oh. Ann had a little white dog with her. Howard took me back stage to see all the guitars. I got the rose off Nancy's guitar and a few red Heart picks. Ah the good ole days.
Can't find anything online about that LED guitar. Really want to see what it can do!
I saw Heart in Columbus, OH on the Dog & Butterfly tour. Memory of a lifetime.
Hey Rog,
I love how you design your guitar bodies and this one is sweet!
I totally agree it should be sensual and curvy like a woman.
For a possible idea on a different color combination,
I was just thinking about this...
Overall color to be a flesh tone of your preference,
And the pop color would be a lipstick like deep red or something and pinstriping could be the liner such as lip liner eyeliner you know accenting and punctuating like a woman does with her makeup.
All natural occurring colors...
I think that would bring it to life and really embody the essence of the "dream girl" aspect.
Just my input ,
being an ARTIST and all!
🎨🖌️✌🏼😉
CHEERS my friend 🥂
You have great input, my friend :-) Thank you.
I'm so glad Heart happened.. would have been a great loss without them.. thanks you guys...
What a great interview. This is my favorite interview of all other guitarists. Roger is very captivating. Both guitars are stunning - kimie
Not knowing what I was doing in 1976 I built an Flying V with a Stratocaster neck sold it to Larry’s guitar shop in Bothell Washington I was told later that Roger Fisher bought the guitar. Someday I’d like to find out if it was true
Not true
I actually got to play the LED guitar at Roger's house in...around...1980-81. I have a picture somewhere of Roger and me sitting in a room of his house in Redmond while he showed me some guitar tricks. Good times. 🤘😎
I got to see Roger and the gals at Oakland Day on the Green in the 70s about the time I got my first Strat for Christmas! He's always been a favorite for me and I was blown away when he left Heart!😟 Roger, if you see this post,thanks for inspiring me to play and for some of the best guitar playing ever!
Sincerely, Steve from the S.F. Bay Area.🎸
What a sweetheart, thanks for the kind words :-)
This year I realized he played scalloped fretboards years before Yngwie came on the scene. That blew me away. I think you can notice this in Magic Man and Barracuda music videos. My modded satin midnight blue Strat is scalloped. It’s great for bends and vibrato and finger pressure sensitivity.
I started 6 y. ago with guitar playing, but pretty soon I had the same ideas: belly cut, forearm rest, heel flatened and rounded and slimmer body on a LP. Done some of it on my LP style cheapo guitar, beside a self-cast compensated nut out of brass.
Have a kit-build Tele, completelly modified, scalloped fretboard, with dual rail humbucker in middle, a different bridge sitting on 4 brass posts, floating 0,2mm above the body (LP principle, not having it sitting on laquer) , with two piezzo’s in the cavities (third to be mounted soon on a very unusual place, where I discovered to have the best sound for it), to mix them with the electric pickups.
My Strat style will get soon a smaller, slimmer body with a round heel, deeper cut outs, moved vol.-knob, and even more ergonomic shape. Circuit for having neck and bridge, or all three pups on, additional to the standard.
That Les Paul is stunning!! He should have more of those made, I'd buy one. I mean, sounds like a Les Paul but none of the drawbacks of a Les Paul? Sign me up!!
Interesting twist on guitar construction with the titanium bridge block and fingerboard. I've been thinking for years that a bridge made of the tool material FerroTiC would be interesting. It's a powder metal product with Titanium Carbide particles bonded in a matrix of hardened tool steel. It has a very high modulus to density ratio, which should increase its sensitivity at higher frequencies.
Andy, I'd like to continue this conversation. Please email me: roger@rogerfisher.com thanks.
Cool information...Thanks... Cheers Bob
Wow, I'm so happy and inspired to see this creativeness. I feel like you, Roger and I think much alike.
The small headstock shape is basically what I did with one of my practice guitars, minus the metal plate and mine isn't an "symmetric triangle" and is a bit more round at the tip. The smallness just makes more sense. I'm always thinking how a guitar could be better, different since I too think practicality (=reducing size&weight) is very important, if it doesn't mess up tone or anything.
Extra pickups, or hybrid ideas are also very useful.
I too would love to play or own that beautiful Les Paul "bird" guitar.
I think which colors you are attracted to tells a little bit of the nature of a person too and it totally fits what one can sense in interviews n' stuff 😉😊. An interesting subject.
I dont like the shape design&paint design of the mintgreen&pink guitar though. The shape is contradictingly either too much "Salvador Dali-ish" or too little Dali boldness, which ever way one prefers, so it's in between but not in a good way. But as long as the beholder thinks it's sexy, that's all that matters really.
I wish the talk could be longer and go into depth and details. Such cool stuff by a cool creative man. 🎼🎶🎸♥️
The 4/2 tuning peg configuration has been a long time design of Music Man...still love Rog.
think he did it in 70's.
He said he was the first, do far as he knew. Music Man didn't exist until Leo Fender left his own company and started Music Man.
It is feasible Roger did it first.
Exactly..
Teisco did it in the 60's
Bottom line, when he did it, new to him. Creativity in action.
is there truss rod adjustment on the guitar wit the titanium?
Yes, and titanium isn't as strong and difficult to work with as a lot of people think. The frets are wearing down with use (albeit slowly), and the fretboard is malleable, making the truss rod useful.
the use of titanium is very interesting
I always loved Roger's playing in early Heart. In fact, like when Steve Hackett left Genesis and I no longer followed that band, the same applied to Heart - Bebe La Strange, being the last album that I purchased. I have all their early works on vinyl though.
I too like sexy guitars. And both of those guitars of Rogers, really gave me the horn! So much so, that I felt like give them a good rogering!
Hahahahaha!
Awesome Rog, I need to visit Alki Beach soon, been so long. I hear Maestro's house is now a real estate office. Amazing how fast it all went by. We need to start a new band... maybe Grey Haired Lunatics ??? We've ripened haha ha
I use small raised stickers to mark the back of my guitar. I don’t know why all guitars aren’t marked. It makes it easier to play when not looking at the frets
Huh
Good thing I can hear Roger because I sure can't hear Elliot. What the heck? He's not speaking to a guy in a bar. This is Roger Fisher. Get a mike on that guy. Love you, Rog.
The Pink Lady Strat has active electronics? I saw a 9V battery cover on the back.
Active electronics go back a ways. I remember seeing Bartolini active pickups in the early seventies.
It was used for a piezo pup preamp, now empty.
@@roger4eva I am building from scratch (ash block) a custom Telecaster with Vintage pups and the piezo p/u cut into the
Wilkinson top-string through bridge . . . the electronics buried in the body . . . to hook up to my Boss GP-10. The Tele classic plus lots of digital fun with the flick of a switch.
I can just hear the #METOO crowd after this interview LOL
They should go after rappers the way that they do musicians.
Roger I am sorry but you were not the first guy to cut the Heel off a LP, My best bud is a luthier and he did that YEARS ago...he also built my custom with not an ounce of plastic anywhere.
I think it was 1976 when I did it...not that it matters :-)
@@FisherBrosandtheHumanTribe Roger I talk to you on FB when I can its the same Dean that told you about the Theta Pro..anyway yeah Tim did it back in the early 70s so he has you by a few years,..no matter...intelligent minds think alike...boy I would really like to see a brand new Heart album with THE REAL members!! I will send you some early pics of Tims work in FB chat when you have time check em out...by the way, I still think you are one of the most underrated guitarists out there.
@@FisherBrosandtheHumanTribe I dont really care who cut up a les paul first...but your guitar work was very original...magic man was an amazing piece...thanks for the inspiration...
"nobody sands stuff as smooth as i do"
Way to go Ken J. you master welder
I'm wondering if those aren't Lace Sensors
Roger said they were standard Strat pups... But on the reverse, I noted a battery compartment. So were these Lace sensors with a buffer, or perhaps EMG's ? Remeber, CBS strats did a few years with Lace sensors, which of course, like EMG's have no visible poles.
The battery compartment is empty, only used when I had a preamp onboard for the piezo pups. @@Deebz270
Wow...to take a file and saws , chisel to a 59....just wow...
My Les Paul Sawed up , believe it was a '56 or '59 or something , Yeah! Right!
This just in, his guitars just filed a sexual harassment lawsuit.
I would bet a lot of money that shape was inspired by Nancy's perfect little backside haha...
Too bad he was let go from the band , that perfect little backside was no longer his.
@@davidallen346 Let go? I've read he wisely fired himself after a particularly alarming blow out with one of the Wilson sisters. Would love to know what he did with himself since.
@@davekyle6096 Resigned you mean ? Most likely he was dismissed from the band says online info or both agreed it's best that he left the band, also it's the Wilson Sister's band and he had a meltdown on stage where he threw his guitar it's on video somewhere, they had a reunion for the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame ceremony , in this video and his interview where he explains what he's been up after he left Heart band, it's a bit award talking about the guy on his own channel, it was a tongue in cheek reply to the original comment , it's the past really
12:40 time warp?? Wtf happened. Strat to Les paul
He said that was a 50's Les Paul......
but the neck had a volute on it. More than likely it was an early 70s Les Paul.
Let's not get our underwear in a bundle over cutting up a guitar to make it into a functional piece of art in it's own right. Besides, I can remember passing up gold top Les Pauls in the 70's being sold as 2nd hand guitars in music shops to buy the latest thing which happened to be an Electra for the same money. Nobody knew of vintage in those days. I'd love a chance at those $300 dollar gold tops I passed on today!
What a nut. I really had to wonder where he was going here..."A woman could really have some fun with this guitar... I bought the most gaudy shade of pink paint. And Linda, my girlfriend..."
Definitely out-there guy!
a woman could have some fun with that guitar? cool instrument, but oh man lol.
that poor les paul!
Sorry, but that guitar is hideous looking....
I know, that's the point :-)
Those guys have weird hair.
Hey, we're old! Give us a break!
@@roger4eva - Haha! Little does that kid know the thousands of girls & young women lusted for that hair, face, hands, et al... From a fellow electric guitar professional for a lot of years... thank you for your incredible talent & the unbelievable licks you embedded into rock & roll history. 40 years later listening to your guitar work still blows me away. Just like it did when I first heard it. Thank you Mr. Fisher for being a great inspiriation to me. To those of us players who really know, you are one of the greatest rock guitarists ever. I put you along with all of your own guitar heroes on that same list.
@@ErnieDouglas What an insightful message. Wow, your note really has impact. This helps me wrap my head around this whole strange ride - ROCK AND ROLL! What a nice message. Thank you so much for touching my heart :-)
Dude wrote some great riffs long ago, but damn them guitars ain't pretty.
I know, right :-)
@@FisherBrosandtheHumanTribe I dont know ..I have an 1977 strat rosewood with black paint ..just beat to hell...butt ugly...she is amazing....sweet and nasty....every note sings....i think shes special...
Roger needs to stick to playin guitar!
Yes and Kenny J. should stick to welding. Lol
What's with that bowl cut hair?
That is the dumbest lookimg guitar! Looks like someone threw up salt water taffy all over it. Like a cartoon guitar.