Backline-Interview: Peter Hayes/Black Rebel Motorcycle Club (Part 1)

Ein wesentlicher Teil der Individualität von Black Rebel Motorcycle Club geht auf das Konto von Gitarrist und Sänger Peter Hayes -- schon sein Equipment lässt erahnen, dass der Mann seinen ganz eigenen Film lebt. Wir haben Hayes backstage in München getroffen und mit ihm über sein Gear gequatscht.
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[@zeppelin424242]

brilliant guitar player! doesn't get enough credit, great singer too! very unique guitar sound

[@SteveTemplePilot]

I met Peter once after one of their shows. He could tell we were nervous so he came up to us and started talking and was the absolute nicest dude. A real class act and excellent at his craft.

[@cheekymescalito3249]

I don't know any other guitar guy using guitar tunings like him, he is not a scale shredder but sounds cooler than Hendrix sometimes... That's completely genius Pete... Legend.

[@Steveisnothereanymore]

i think beeing in a room with him 5 minutes makes a person 100% cooler.

[@vernobobby]

Peter is a real class act and a phenomenal guitar player

[@lagirafebelge]

look at all those beautiful 335s purring in the corner...

[@Fritz-the-Brat]

He looks a little bit like a very hungover Jack White haha

[@richarddunphy1990]

What he hell guitar is he talking about that's like a 335 with a switch near the neck that turns the humbuckers into p90s ? I'd love to know

[@Beizeiten78]

Coil split

[@markferguson3745]

The multiple tunings isn't that unusual anymore, with Soundgarden and Sonic Youth having broadly spread the cause.In the beginning , Blues players commonly made up whatever worked for them; it can be a game changer.Playing in C Standard is largely what gave QOTSA their unique sound.Heavier, yeah, - but also alien to ears use to E Standard.
The string gauges aren't hard to play in drop tunings; a 13 dropped to D or C isn't a big deal, and trust, - a 60+ as a low string is going to push some signal.
Peace.

[@MrGunwitch]

It's actually pretty unusual. Soundgarden and Sonic Youth are exceptions, most bands who use 'alternate tuning' are just detuning to Drop D or something equivalent.
Kyuss detuned to C standard and Josh Homme ported that across when he formed Queens. Additionally most of the 'stoner' desert bands played in C standard so there's nothing unique about QOTSA' sound at all.
Pete having 6 or 7 different guitars tuned to all sorts of asymmetric tunings, and then keeping track of all that live whilst also singing, playing harmonica, and activating foot pedal loops and drone chords is quite remarkable. The man is a musical genius with an incredible ear.

[@markferguson3745]

@@MrGunwitch It actually goes back to the origins of Blues in the Deep South; making up tunings to suit an individual song was more common than E Standard.
Rather than criticizing him, I'm pointing out that it's not an unusual way of achieving unique orchestration in a given song.Been working great for me for over 25 years,- you just have to take care that it continues to keep things fresh and vital, and dosen't create a logistical & technical nightmare.

[@MrGunwitch]

​@@markferguson3745 Historically you can go back to Spain and elsewhere, but that's a completely different era, style etc.. Most of the original bluesmen played solo acoustic, whereas Pete is playing in a 3-piece amplified rock setting which makes it far more complex. Improv'ing live in a band setting with asymmetric tuning (to the degree that these guys do it) boggles my mind. Nothing but respect for the BRMC.

[@perezito910]

Get that man a mic!

[@user-qb4id8zn3h]

What was the song at the beginning?

[@candikarendra3310]

BRMC - sell it

[@user-qb4id8zn3h]

@@candikarendra3310 Thank you!