OK FINE I ADMIT IT! I DON'T KNOW HOW THE JAZZMASTER WORKS! HE USES REVERSE REVERB BUT WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?? WHAT DOES IT MEAN??? IF YOU REVERSE REVERB SHOULDN'T IT NOT BE THE ANYMORE??? WHAT DOES THAT MEAN HE USES REVERSE REVERB??? SURE YOU CAN USE DISTORTION, SURE YOU CAN USE REVERB, BUT YOU CAN'T USE REVERSE REVERB!!! YOU CAN'T USE REVERSE REVERB IT DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE!!! HOW DOES HE REVERSE REVERB??? I DON'T GET IT!!! SOMEONE EXPLAIN IT TO ME!!! EXPLAIN HOW THE JAZZMASTER WORKS!!! PLEASE SOMEONE HELP ME!!!! HOW DOES THE JAZZMASTER WORK?????????
@@noahterrell5934 Dude, calm down. Kevin didn't know anything about Jazzmasters when he first saw it back in 88' but he started experimenting with it and developed his technique. I recommend you to start with a Stratocaster and a little distortion pedal to develop your own technique, since Jazzmasters are very expensive these days. Good luck. Add: Reverse Reverb works just as its name says. The reverb does fade in after playing in a certain amount of time (obviously you can tweak the time) and all the reverberated sound is reversed. (played backwards if you want to say it that way).If you want to use Reverse Reverb, you have to get an special pedal.
@@ixLunacy I know you’re just correcting the guy, but also do just want to say this. All of mbv was smoking a lot of weed during the time recording loveless and before I’m sure with isn’t anything and there earlier eps
He said something that is so true about shoegaze in general. There's always that one-third of the population that just can't access it or they don't get it. It really is about having a meditative experience.
First time I listened to it I didn't get it and wrote it off. 1-2 years later I revisited it and it quickly became one of my favorite if not my very album. Nothing else is quite like it.
Went to see them a couple of years ago in Manchester. Loudest gig I've ever been to by far... When I tried to walk out at the end I couldn't actually walk in a straight line. It was like the muscles in my legs had been massaged by the sound waves :D
+scaredypicker I always tell people that "You Made Me Realise" live is something that people simply have to experience in person. You will never FEEL music like that anywhere else.
+scaredypicker the sound levels were positively sonic during the '08 reunion tour. I remember seeing a pic of a sound level monitor reading 114 dB during the holocaust section of You Made Me Realise.
+creekandseminole Went to the Austin show, remember the place handing out ear plugs, and thought it was silly. They started playing.. it wasn't silly. It was amazing.. but I think they played the "brown note" during the holocaust section.
When I first heard this type of sound years ago it completely blew my mind. I didn't know what it was but it just connected with my brain for some reason and I needed to hear more.
I had a similar experience with noise rock when I listened to "shield for your eyes" by Melt-Banana for the first time, my brain litteraly told me "ok this is it, this is what we were looking for"
@@TheDmonet the reverse reverb is like the frosting but I really truly believe they would sound nothing like themselves without the glide guitar technique.
2:11-2.45 I attended MBV's live in Vancouver in 1988, the last song they played was a non-stop super loud guitar noise for about an hour, it was so fxxking loud for so long, the sound (noise) was like a plane taking off above your head endlessly, then, after some time, may be 40 mins or so, I started to experience the transcended state Kevin described ... amazing! ... of course, like he said at 2:38, at least 1/3 of the audience left by the time angrily as they did not get the meditative effect ... :)
That reminds me of a King Buzzo moment. The Melvins were playing some college venue and it was jammed to the rafters with drunk frat boys. So he took the stage and sporadically strummed an ear-bleedingly loud dissonant E for an hour until they all left. Then when it was just a handful of fans the rest of the Melvins took the stage and they played their gig. Kinda the opposite of what MBV did, but it reminded me of it.
Ah yes, the "You Made Me Realise" accurately named 'Holocaust Section'. Saw them in 92 and couldn't hear properly for 2 days. One of the best gigs I ever went to.
I saw them live in 2018 and they started playing that for a while and it gave me anxiety lmao I felt like I was suffocating haha but had a good time nonetheless
I remember discovering MBV when I was 18-19. Wasn't past the death of my father from a few years back, was in love, was angry, had ambitions and dreams, all of these different emotions were like a constant turbulance, and I fucking hated the chaos of it all. Then I got hold of Loveless... It was like sounds that encapsulated it all; it was aggressive, but it was beautiful at the same time. The distorted guitar was so angry, but the vocals were soothing to me, and it all just resonated with me. I couldn't get my head around it, but I could relate to it like nothing else I had heard before, and it didn't demand nothing of me. I just had to listen, accept it, it was like taking a beating but every punch was a revelation, and every bruise was a fucking blessing. In short: I fell in love, and I still am in love. More so, day by day.
Beautiful and well put. I love how gently chaotic it is. Fuzzy and distorted like a haze of rage but you could go to sleep peacefully surrounded by the void of static
Saw MBV in Melbourne in 1991 at Prince of Wales on the Loveless tour. Woah. So damn loud the best place to hear them was outside the building. They also had a flute player to flesh the tone out... I've never seen so many fat spliffs criss-crossing an audience in my life.
We saw the same tour in Athens, Ga and they broke into a piece at the end of the set that was basically like standing behind a 747 with the jets at full rev; half the audience left including me with our ears covered. Loudest thing I have ever witnessed.
"Sounds like a mermaid falling into a black hole" broke my brain.... so much so that i had to express it into a comment before i lose whatever sanity i had left
+Joseph Reisman I think that very same thing about, "To Here Knows When" when that dense noise swallows the other sounds like it as a black hole... That tune I thought it was special from the very first listen... Now with a bunch of listens to the album It finally clicked all the way... "Sometimes" is pure genuine too, fucking explosion of dense and love sound.
They handed out earplugs at the Sydney show I saw a couple of years back. Took them out for a bit and holy shit it was painful. Like Disaster Area from the Hitchhiker's Guide books
***** I take it you've not seen MBV live? MBV are so loud its no longer sound, its just pain. Its so loud that without ear plugs its just white noise anyway, it overloads your eardrums. If you stood at the front of one of thier gigs without hearing protection, you would have permanent, severe hearing damage. They played gigs in the 90s where people had burst eardums and blood coming out their ears.
colinm213 finally got to see them at the Roseland a number of years ago. got industrial plugs from a welder. Though I'm a hippie in heart my wife and I dressed in goth with bloodied ears. did an appropriate mixture of fentenal and perks. only needed one plug for my bad ear. The 20 minute feed back during :You made me realize: Was Beautiful! not grindy and edgy as sonic youth can be. It sounded like there was a hurricane outside. Tears of Joy. Have you heard -Japans yellow loveless ?- it's on youtube.
***** I saw them for the first time back in March 1992 (US loveless tour) and stood stage right, about 15 feet away from the main PA stack, for the entire show-- including the breakdown during "You Made Me Realise". Back then, it went on for a good 30-35 minutes. When it started, there was a good-sized crowd by the stack. By then end of it, there was just me and another guy standing next to me. My hearing didn't return to normal until three days afterward.
Hal Jalykakik you got lucky,1. seeing them in 92- I couldnt get one to save my life. I pounced when I heard about the reunion. It was a wet dream cum true. Had tottally given up on another release. Was pleasantly surprised, yet nothing will ever surpass loveless. @2 you got your hearing back, im sure theres still lingering damage. Gaze-out-weird Joe i
+Ryan Denziloe I don't disagree, it's has that spinning around the drain / Whirlpool Feeling to it, which probably means there's a Leslie Speaker on the thing. Then the dude probably said blackhole because black hole sun has one on it or some sci fi movie with a black hole that uses it as the sound effect or one of those disney audio story records.
Sometimes I’m just brought to tears at how Shields cultivated known ideas and practices on the guitar like feedback/whammy bar usage and managed to tap into something so esoteric
For me he is like the genius of guitar sound, he achieved for that instrument what Brian Wilson achieved for 60s pop music. The perfect sound, a heavenly sound, reaching for heaven. To here knows qhen and sometimes are great examples of this genius wall of sounds.
I can remember sitting on my couch reading a book while MTV’s 120 Minutes was in the background, but out of nowhere comes this blast of distortion and I bolt upright and I’m completely mesmerized! Went to Tower records the next day and picked up Loveless. Still one of my favorite albums of all time!
I don't know how he can make it work live. He has a different guitar for different songs and the sheer number of pedals must make it a nightmare on a dark stage.
MBV is different from imitators in that they were as influenced by Sonic Youth for guitar-texture as the Byrds for vocal-harmonies. Kevin Shields' tone is impeccable.
i totally understand what he is talking about when he mentions the trance like nature of the guitar sounds. most of the album, especially the 4th track, with that harsh, abrasive, yet intimate droning sound, really can put you in a trance like state. at least it did to me.
If anyone wants to experience the meditative music experience, listen to Subrange 6-36 by Autechre. It's everything that Kevin Shields was discussing in the video, minus a few hundred guitar pedals.
Who do we badger to get more footage of Kevin Shields from this documentary? They obviously filmed more than we saw, just him doing "To Here Knows When" solo was pretty cool.
Kevin Shields isn't just an incredible guitarist. He made music about the feel and aesthetic and not about who can shred the fastest (which is an art in itself - but not what music is about imho) and has been ripped off by many guitar players and never once got mad about it. The 60s had Hendrix and the 90s - Kevin Shields and J Mascis. So much great music in the the 90s that's overlooked.
This is incredible. To think the beauty and creativity that can come out of Kevin Shields shimmering glittery neon pink psychedelic mind. He's amazing.
For me he is the great sound mastermind of electric guitar sound, in the same way Segovia made it for the classical. He invents, he knows how to create many creative, emotionally charged guitar sounds. Loveless is just divine, "Sometimes, to here knows when..." pure bliss sounds
Kevin once said that loveless was like being absorbed in another world but still grounded in reality. I agree idk how to explain it but it makes feel my being in weird ways.
At 2:10 can someone explain exactly what he meant by that? The trance state and the brain wave changing due to extreme volume. I really didn't get what he meant.
What you don’t understand about it? It means when you’re standing still in front of that 130db air turbines it goes on and on you might feel really like getting hurt by that sound but suddenly that power/sound takes you to trance state
MBV's sound is more reminiscent of experimental ambient electronica or post-rock similar to that of Boards of Canada which I absolutely love or Cocteau Twins?
With due respect, MBV is way better than Boards of Canada. Getting ethereal sounds out of a guitar is way more difficult than a keyboard which can be as simple as a preset. With that said, The Cocteaus are brilliant
They weren't from Dublin, Kevin and the drummer were, Belinda and the bassist were from London, and that's where they really became known. So by default they are a London band
I had that meditative experience watching MBV when I was 14. I also have major tinnitus now (Dino Jnr okayed before them and I used to watch so many bands without earplugs 🤷🏽♂️). Was it worth it?! Hell yeah.
i saw dino last summer without earplugs and since then i get what i call “flashes” of high pitch frequencies lasting a second once or twice a week. I’ve been seeing many shows since then and playing a lot and now i’m deciding to start wearing earplugs. I’m only 18 and don’t want to have tinnitus so young like Roger Miller did
@@Ballonpoire39 I invested in attenuated moulded earplugs which weren’t cheap but allow me to dip in and out (if the volume is badly mixed or too excessive) which ideally would have been the thing years ago. I won’t go to a gig without them. My tinnitus hit at 19. You do do acclimatise but - look after your ears - it’s easier! Don’t hang around for bands who aren’t doing it for you. Hang in there and enjoy your live shows. Edit: PS I didn’t get the fitted plugs until my 30s. Yeah. Avoid cymbals and plug up!
@@thefeelcompany Thanks a lot for thé advice man! I’m going to keep this comment in my camera roll as a guide because the older I get the more I play and i’m supposed to be a bass player for a band soon in the summer so I don’t want to hit when i’m 19 (my birthday is in august) right at the start of playing shows.
@@Ballonpoire39 Enjoy playing in the band!!! It’s a great laugh. Stay aware, plug up and your ears will be fine. If your band ever make a live recording and post it in here, tag me. Happy playing.
+ami noto I have a guitarist friend with a single cab that requires a shit ton of power. Can't imagine the power requirements of his rig, that thing is just massive
“Whangy bar”
-legendary rock producer Butch Vig
Kevin Shields looks like a 18th century classical music composer.
beepst he's our equivalent
beepst just imagine this music in the 18th century
@Jace hahaha fuck they'd probably behead you
because this is nothing short of sorcery ;)
Nourman Ch. true
beepst he looks like Bach or Beethoven, totally
I get so pumped when I hear the drums to Only Shallow kick in. Holy fuck
Nice profile pic
Curtis wot the fok. you too LOL
My Name is Shawn, and I Kill Communists (with logic tbh) can't we all just be friends? :)
Yes yes we all can
Curtis your pic is tripping me out man hahaha
Kevin Shields on Loveless - "It just works"
its like Tesla saying "thats how the cookie fuckin crumbles" and we just deal with it
The sound of a single idea perfected
OK FINE I ADMIT IT! I DON'T KNOW HOW THE JAZZMASTER WORKS! HE USES REVERSE REVERB BUT WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?? WHAT DOES IT MEAN??? IF YOU REVERSE REVERB SHOULDN'T IT NOT BE THE ANYMORE??? WHAT DOES THAT MEAN HE USES REVERSE REVERB??? SURE YOU CAN USE DISTORTION, SURE YOU CAN USE REVERB, BUT YOU CAN'T USE REVERSE REVERB!!! YOU CAN'T USE REVERSE REVERB IT DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE!!! HOW DOES HE REVERSE REVERB??? I DON'T GET IT!!! SOMEONE EXPLAIN IT TO ME!!! EXPLAIN HOW THE JAZZMASTER WORKS!!! PLEASE SOMEONE HELP ME!!!! HOW DOES THE JAZZMASTER WORK?????????
@@noahterrell5934 Dude, calm down. Kevin didn't know anything about Jazzmasters when he first saw it back in 88' but he started experimenting with it and developed his technique. I recommend you to start with a Stratocaster and a little distortion pedal to develop your own technique, since Jazzmasters are very expensive these days. Good luck.
Add: Reverse Reverb works just as its name says. The reverb does fade in after playing in a certain amount of time (obviously you can tweak the time) and all the reverberated sound is reversed. (played backwards if you want to say it that way).If you want to use Reverse Reverb, you have to get an special pedal.
RusoLarusso it’s a joke. It’s a reference to a meme of a certain anime.
"we were just high and we wanted people to experience that..." Thank you my bloody valentine for taking away my excuses to try drugs. lol
he means high on sound, not drugs, but i feel you lol
@@animalbancho1726 he means he doesn't have any reason to try drugs anymore, because kevin shields allows him to get "high" with music
@@ixLunacy I know you’re just correcting the guy, but also do just want to say this. All of mbv was smoking a lot of weed during the time recording loveless and before I’m sure with isn’t anything and there earlier eps
@@bobbymcfee2974 they may have been doing ecstasy as well but i think it was mainly weed
Hi in Dublin would ya yea? You wee lucky to get a smell of passing hash eh 😂
He said something that is so true about shoegaze in general. There's always that one-third of the population that just can't access it or they don't get it. It really is about having a meditative experience.
some people need to meditate in silence, some others in noise :)
You can hear it in some covers too.
Total Disdain gbnm
I have been
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Total Disdain ghiooooooi
Big Bad The Band oo
everybody gangsta til kevin hits the wangy bar
We boutta hit the wangy
"Mermaid falling into a black hole" is the best description of My Bloody Valentine I've heard yet. :)
Totally. Another description I’ve heard is watching a nuclear explosion while cuddling a baby kitten
Loveless is still the greatest piece of modern music. Stunning creation. No pun intended.
I honestly regard Loveless as humanities greatest ever piece of art/expression.
First time I listened to it I didn't get it and wrote it off. 1-2 years later I revisited it and it quickly became one of my favorite if not my very album. Nothing else is quite like it.
@@willt.9654 give Dynamo by Soda Stereo a try. It's been called the Spanish-language version of Loveless
@@EsteBandido_YT naa
@@EsteBandido_YT es un discazo pero nada q ver con loveless
That little 5-second clip at 1:11 of Shields playing his signature style just blew me away. An artisan at work.
Went to see them a couple of years ago in Manchester. Loudest gig I've ever been to by far... When I tried to walk out at the end I couldn't actually walk in a straight line. It was like the muscles in my legs had been massaged by the sound waves :D
+scaredypicker Same here when I saw them in Dallas, TX on their USA reunion tour.
+scaredypicker I always tell people that "You Made Me Realise" live is something that people simply have to experience in person. You will never FEEL music like that anywhere else.
+scaredypicker the sound levels were positively sonic during the '08 reunion tour. I remember seeing a pic of a sound level monitor reading 114 dB during the holocaust section of You Made Me Realise.
+creekandseminole Went to the Austin show, remember the place handing out ear plugs, and thought it was silly. They started playing.. it wasn't silly. It was amazing.. but I think they played the "brown note" during the holocaust section.
msezonov lol "bbbbrrrraaaaappppppfffffttttt..."
When I first heard this type of sound years ago it completely blew my mind. I didn't know what it was but it just connected with my brain for some reason and I needed to hear more.
I think it connected with your heart far more
LimeC yep me too
I had a similar experience with noise rock when I listened to "shield for your eyes" by Melt-Banana for the first time, my brain litteraly told me "ok this is it, this is what we were looking for"
Absolutely. It's like drugs, cliche as that sounds.
I learned about MBV from an interview with Billy Corgan. I went out and purchased Loveless. I was hooked after hearing it.
"it shouldn't work but it really works"
- Kevin Shields
Kevin Shields is so badass, he can make an unamped Jazzmaster sound intense as fuck (1:12)
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No.
Nah. I think their band was revolutionary sounding but the reverse reverb is really the key, not any technique he uses.
@@TheDmonet the reverse reverb is like the frosting but I really truly believe they would sound nothing like themselves without the glide guitar technique.
2:11-2.45 I attended MBV's live in Vancouver in 1988, the last song they played was a non-stop super loud guitar noise for about an hour, it was so fxxking loud for so long, the sound (noise) was like a plane taking off above your head endlessly, then, after some time, may be 40 mins or so, I started to experience the transcended state Kevin described ... amazing! ... of course, like he said at 2:38, at least 1/3 of the audience left by the time angrily as they did not get the meditative effect ... :)
That reminds me of a King Buzzo moment.
The Melvins were playing some college venue and it was jammed to the rafters with drunk frat boys. So he took the stage and sporadically strummed an ear-bleedingly loud dissonant E for an hour until they all left.
Then when it was just a handful of fans the rest of the Melvins took the stage and they played their gig.
Kinda the opposite of what MBV did, but it reminded me of it.
Ah yes, the "You Made Me Realise" accurately named 'Holocaust Section'. Saw them in 92 and couldn't hear properly for 2 days. One of the best gigs I ever went to.
Maybe the valued their hearing
I saw them live in 2018 and they started playing that for a while and it gave me anxiety lmao I felt like I was suffocating haha but had a good time nonetheless
@Joel Hassig awesome...thanks
I remember discovering MBV when I was 18-19. Wasn't past the death of my father from a few years back, was in love, was angry, had ambitions and dreams, all of these different emotions were like a constant turbulance, and I fucking hated the chaos of it all. Then I got hold of Loveless... It was like sounds that encapsulated it all; it was aggressive, but it was beautiful at the same time. The distorted guitar was so angry, but the vocals were soothing to me, and it all just resonated with me. I couldn't get my head around it, but I could relate to it like nothing else I had heard before, and it didn't demand nothing of me. I just had to listen, accept it, it was like taking a beating but every punch was a revelation, and every bruise was a fucking blessing.
In short: I fell in love, and I still am in love. More so, day by day.
Beautiful and well put. I love how gently chaotic it is. Fuzzy and distorted like a haze of rage but you could go to sleep peacefully surrounded by the void of static
Beautiful and accurate descriptions both of you. 110% agree
Saw MBV in Melbourne in 1991 at Prince of Wales on the Loveless tour. Woah. So damn loud the best place to hear them was outside the building. They also had a flute player to flesh the tone out... I've never seen so many fat spliffs criss-crossing an audience in my life.
We saw the same tour in Athens, Ga and they broke into a piece at the end of the set that was basically like standing behind a 747 with the jets at full rev; half the audience left including me with our ears covered. Loudest thing I have ever witnessed.
vista7 That track is known as 'The Holocaust'. People have uploaded versions here from their reunion tour.
I'll have to search it. To witness it live is indescribable. Wish they toured more for their reunion show.
Absurdity loud. Psichocandy sounds more organic
I thank My Bloody Valentine for changing my life.
same...
I remember when I first heard Loveless, my reaction was "guitars can sound like THAT???"
me too, 2009 was a weird year
"Sounds like a mermaid falling into a black hole" broke my brain.... so much so that i had to express it into a comment before i lose whatever sanity i had left
LOL-your mermaids....I think- already left the pool.
+Joseph Reisman I think that very same thing about, "To Here Knows When" when that dense noise swallows the other sounds like it as a black hole... That tune I thought it was special from the very first listen... Now with a bunch of listens to the album It finally clicked all the way... "Sometimes" is pure genuine too, fucking explosion of dense and love sound.
John Doran is great, check out their interviews for Noisey
Best heard live with industrial hearing protection. Seriously.
They handed out earplugs at the Sydney show I saw a couple of years back. Took them out for a bit and holy shit it was painful. Like Disaster Area from the Hitchhiker's Guide books
*****
I take it you've not seen MBV live? MBV are so loud its no longer sound, its just pain. Its so loud that without ear plugs its just white noise anyway, it overloads your eardrums. If you stood at the front of one of thier gigs without hearing protection, you would have permanent, severe hearing damage. They played gigs in the 90s where people had burst eardums and blood coming out their ears.
colinm213 finally got to see them at the Roseland a number of years ago. got industrial plugs from a welder. Though I'm a hippie in heart my wife and I dressed in goth with bloodied ears. did an appropriate mixture of fentenal and perks. only needed one plug for my bad ear. The 20 minute feed back during :You made me realize: Was Beautiful! not grindy and edgy as sonic youth can be. It sounded like there was a hurricane outside. Tears of Joy. Have you heard -Japans yellow loveless ?- it's on youtube.
***** I saw them for the first time back in March 1992 (US loveless tour) and stood stage right, about 15 feet away from the main PA stack, for the entire show-- including the breakdown during "You Made Me Realise". Back then, it went on for a good 30-35 minutes. When it started, there was a good-sized crowd by the stack. By then end of it, there was just me and another guy standing next to me. My hearing didn't return to normal until three days afterward.
Hal Jalykakik you got lucky,1. seeing them in 92- I couldnt get one to save my life. I pounced when I heard about the reunion. It was a wet dream cum true. Had tottally given up on another release. Was pleasantly surprised, yet nothing will ever surpass loveless. @2 you got your hearing back, im sure theres still lingering damage. Gaze-out-weird Joe
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I don't think anyone ever forgets the first time they heard Only Shallow explode in their ears.
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Ryan Denziloe hahah i laughted at this for an hour probably..best comment of my day ;D
+Ryan Denziloe I don't disagree, it's has that spinning around the drain / Whirlpool Feeling to it, which probably means there's a Leslie Speaker on the thing. Then the dude probably said blackhole because black hole sun has one on it or some sci fi movie with a black hole that uses it as the sound effect or one of those disney audio story records.
+MRLein93 yep, you made sense out of it.
Like a pig
In a cage
On antibiotics
@@radidov5333 gggt
meanwhile....back on hair metal island.....
what fuckin fromage-dick music that was...hated it
Yeah I cringed when that popped up.
I'm glad i'm not the only one who hates hair metal.
Fuckin hipsters lmao
Haha!
Sometimes I’m just brought to tears at how Shields cultivated known ideas and practices on the guitar like feedback/whammy bar usage and managed to tap into something so esoteric
Love your pfp. Im a huge fan of lain
Over 6 years later and "whangy bar" still wins the internet every damn day @ 1:07
The gesture is what really takes it to the next level
Butch Vig invents his own words
I’ve heard Loveless, and Only Shallow specifically like quite literally a million times, and it never gets old
I love it how some Poison or Motley 80s poodle rocker gets cut off instantly at the end ...
KS its just a genius. totally a musical genius.
+Paisley Adams Gustavo Cerati FTW!!!!
Absolutely no one on earth like him
Gus!!
Bocanada.
Cerati
For me he is like the genius of guitar sound, he achieved for that instrument what Brian Wilson achieved for 60s pop music. The perfect sound, a heavenly sound, reaching for heaven. To here knows qhen and sometimes are great examples of this genius wall of sounds.
I can remember sitting on my couch reading a book while MTV’s 120 Minutes was in the background, but out of nowhere comes this blast of distortion and I bolt upright and I’m completely mesmerized! Went to Tower records the next day and picked up Loveless. Still one of my favorite albums of all time!
120 min was the best show on MTV
"his wangy bar" 1:07
The action as well tho
“We were just high. And we wanted people to experience that” lol might be the most accurate stoner musician thing I’ve ever heard said
I don't know how he can make it work live. He has a different guitar for different songs and the sheer number of pedals must make it a nightmare on a dark stage.
MBV is different from imitators in that they were as influenced by Sonic Youth for guitar-texture as the Byrds for vocal-harmonies. Kevin Shields' tone is impeccable.
When I saw MBV live in '91, they were the loudest band I've ever heard.
And would ever hear again.
i totally understand what he is talking about when he mentions the trance like nature of the guitar sounds. most of the album, especially the 4th track, with that harsh, abrasive, yet intimate droning sound, really can put you in a trance like state. at least it did to me.
Me too
Check out 528 frequencies
we still love you kevin! i stayed for you made me realize in LA 1992 - all 20 mins of it and was lost in the trance
The logical continuation of Jesus and Mary Chain
this guy is a fucking genius in my opinion... great band, great band indeed
I get so pumped when I hear the feedback kick in. Holy fuck
Still listening to them since the 90s, still get shivers with the guitar sounds from Kevin.
"It's a mermaid falling into a black hole really", this is probably the best description of MBV I've ever heard.
Need the raw footage of Kevin playing solo guitar, although I love to hear from him, that guitar sound standing alone is the greatest
Even Lemmy thought that this genre of sound tsunami was too heavy
Love seeing guitarists expand on their techniques.
i wish this was way longer than 2 minutes
If anyone wants to experience the meditative music experience, listen to Subrange 6-36 by Autechre. It's everything that Kevin Shields was discussing in the video, minus a few hundred guitar pedals.
Also check out binaural beats and Solfeggio frequencies (528)
"It's like a mermaid fallen into a black hole or something." That makes no sense and I absolutely love it.
Who do we badger to get more footage of Kevin Shields from this documentary? They obviously filmed more than we saw, just him doing "To Here Knows When" solo was pretty cool.
Agreed. Who gives a shit about the other ppls opinions, just Kevin playing is enough
He's the classic kind of bloke one just doesn't expect to look and speak the way he does. Groovy dude.
30 years later and I still feel this music in my chest cavity.
Can you please put whole episode? I'm outside UK but I reeeeally want to watch this again (and again, and again, until I'll have enough)
If you haven't found it yet:
/watch?v=r0Lpdn4fN38
Kevin gets only these 3 minutes anyway
I was watching for cool riffs and Tony Iommi.
***** What a shame - I could watch him go on for hours just playing riffs in a studio.
Kevin Shields isn't just an incredible guitarist. He made music about the feel and aesthetic and not about who can shred the fastest (which is an art in itself - but not what music is about imho) and has been ripped off by many guitar players and never once got mad about it. The 60s had Hendrix and the 90s - Kevin Shields and J Mascis. So much great music in the the 90s that's overlooked.
All we want is to watch Kevin Shields strum for 10 minutes and go through his pedals WITHOUT narration
This is incredible. To think the beauty and creativity that can come out of Kevin Shields shimmering glittery neon pink psychedelic mind. He's amazing.
For me he is the great sound mastermind of electric guitar sound, in the same way Segovia made it for the classical. He invents, he knows how to create many creative, emotionally charged guitar sounds. Loveless is just divine, "Sometimes, to here knows when..." pure bliss sounds
phenomenal what a Great band
One of the best shows I ever seen/heard from a band I never thought I'd get to. All Points West 2018 or 2019. The encore was pure sonic bliss!
Fucking genius.
"It's like a mermaid falling into a black hole" lol
Kevin once said that loveless was like being absorbed in another world but still grounded in reality. I agree idk how to explain it but it makes feel my being in weird ways.
"whangy bar"
Thank you, Thank you, Thank you This song was plaguing me the whole night. Can wait to hear the album version. The melody is so MBV. Great new track
Kevin Shields is a genius.
Absolutely excellent upload, thanks for sharing
anyone else get goosebumps when Only Shallow started playing?
every bloody time....
kevin shields looks like a composer and a physician at the same time
I knew it before he articulated it....the music is experienced as resonance
"Whangy bar" --Butch Vig
I love it :)
Love the almost transition to the lowbrow caveman-Rock of Mötley Pöo.🤣
Cringe
THKW tuning i found was EBEEBE capo 3rd..sure enough he has a capo 3rd in the video..hope so anyway.
The man knows sound intimately.
The dreams of song he must have. The kind that’s life changing and you wake up and have no way to replicate it.
Loveless is a great album.
At 2:10 can someone explain exactly what he meant by that? The trance state and the brain wave changing due to extreme volume. I really didn't get what he meant.
What you don’t understand about it? It means when you’re standing still in front of that 130db air turbines it goes on and on you might feel really like getting hurt by that sound but suddenly that power/sound takes you to trance state
Binaural beats have similar effect. Also tuned to 444/528 drone solfeggio frequencies
Si tuviera que elegir escuchar un último álbum antes de morir, elegiría Loveless sin dudarlo, un universo lleno de ruidos ❤️
Saludos!! 🇵🇪
1:14 that exact moment
MBV in a nutshell.
jrt70 pure tremolo * _ *
Never has a G, D, C sounded so perfect
My bloody valentine in a nutshell
@@o7k4vokb0ksp5n2 it’s g d g
Truly innovative band! I love Loveless!
the last part where nikki sixx pops up for a split second made me puke
accurate
Ditto.
Swellebound 86 you sir made my morning. I nearly gagged
And yet you knew the person's name. Tells me something about you.
@Adolf Stalin commie fuck
I thought he was Brian May!
hahaha yeah, I think it's the hair.
Did he just call it a whangy bar?
Butch Vig can call it whatever he wants.
he could call it a wobble stick for all i care
God. I love his music.
The Devi Ever Godzilla on his board is so rad, glad I got a few of their pedals before they went defunct they made some magical stuff
MBV's sound is more reminiscent of experimental ambient electronica or post-rock similar to that of Boards of Canada which I absolutely love or Cocteau Twins?
With due respect, MBV is way better than Boards of Canada. Getting ethereal sounds out of a guitar is way more difficult than a keyboard which can be as simple as a preset. With that said, The Cocteaus are brilliant
They weren't from Dublin, Kevin and the drummer were, Belinda and the bassist were from London, and that's where they really became known. So by default they are a London band
I agree.
When I was watching this and they mentioned My Bloody Valentine I started to cry!
Just press the on button on a vacuum cleaner
rogums please fuck off!
Snapcase 1968 lol
rogums vacuum cleaners have a clear lack of harmonics.
this made me laugh thx
How original.
My Bloody.....CRÜE??
The slightly late edit at the end of this video is why UA-cam is the best way to watch visual content in the 21st century.
One of the Greatest
This man is actually a genius
I had that meditative experience watching MBV when I was 14. I also have major tinnitus now (Dino Jnr okayed before them and I used to watch so many bands without earplugs 🤷🏽♂️). Was it worth it?! Hell yeah.
i saw dino last summer without earplugs and since then i get what i call “flashes” of high pitch frequencies lasting a second once or twice a week. I’ve been seeing many shows since then and playing a lot and now i’m deciding to start wearing earplugs. I’m only 18 and don’t want to have tinnitus so young like Roger Miller did
@@Ballonpoire39 I invested in attenuated moulded earplugs which weren’t cheap but allow me to dip in and out (if the volume is badly mixed or too excessive) which ideally would have been the thing years ago. I won’t go to a gig without them. My tinnitus hit at 19. You do do acclimatise but - look after your ears - it’s easier! Don’t hang around for bands who aren’t doing it for you.
Hang in there and enjoy your live shows.
Edit: PS I didn’t get the fitted plugs until my 30s. Yeah. Avoid cymbals and plug up!
@@thefeelcompany Thanks a lot for thé advice man! I’m going to keep this comment in my camera roll as a guide because the older I get the more I play and i’m supposed to be a bass player for a band soon in the summer so I don’t want to hit when i’m 19 (my birthday is in august) right at the start of playing shows.
@@Ballonpoire39 Enjoy playing in the band!!! It’s a great laugh. Stay aware, plug up and your ears will be fine. If your band ever make a live recording and post it in here, tag me. Happy playing.
So glad I got to see them live.
he must get through shit loads of 9v batteries..
+ami noto I have a guitarist friend with a single cab that requires a shit ton of power. Can't imagine the power requirements of his rig, that thing is just massive
Power supplies and wall warts my guy
I wonder if he documents the effects chain . when i started (and recorded) i didn't and some of the magic on those recordings are all i have 😆
shields of kevin
Didn't know that pysycho Bob made such good guitar riffs
Lol that is a HARD turn at the end there 🤣🤣. I wanted to know more about eternal sound waves☹️☹️
infinite horizon......
This is how i discovered mbv as a kid. Shaped my music tastes to this day.
Shit, this guys now have more than 50 years, the time has passed so fast