Noah Gibson I think it won't happen just cause this man owns dozens of jazzmasters so that shows that he's not happy with just one guitar. Realistically for a signature guitar for him to have, it would have to be several signature, one for each different use and style
MorningShot4 all the guitars are more to facilitate different tunings so that he's not tuning and warping the neck of the guitar in a live setting. A signature is definitely possible
MorningShot4 they could do something similar to Thurston's signature. He and Lee both have tons of different jazzmasters, but yet got their signature models. Well, in Lee's case it was obvious that his signature should be a jazzblaster, but in Thurston case they captured a general idea (no tone control, no rhythm controls). Fender might go the same road with Kevin, should they release his signature. However (and this is just my opinion), Fender kind of fucked up SY signatures, especially in Lee's case. AFAIK Thurston's jazzmaster, despite having (or actually lacking) some of the features, still came out as a regular jazzmaster. You still had to take it to a luthier to set it up for SY tuning, at which point you could do the same with just a regular jazzmaster (which I would argue would be closer to what Thurston plays and more authentic, I guess) instead of overpaying for a signature model. And Lee's jazzmaster, well, all you need to know is that he contacted Curtis Novak to fix those shitty pickups they put into his signature model.
Fender could AT LEAST remake the Ibenaz 2365 and make it Fender. It was a lawsuit Jazzmaster anyway that Ibanez ripped off. The one used in the Only Shallow video...
I love how genuine and modest he is. If it wasn't for the generation of guitarists like him and Thurston Moore, we'd all still be endlessly playing minor pentatonic riffs.
He plays a lot of pentatonics and barre chords. Sonic Youth is all weird tunings to play chords with one finger. Ritchie Blackmore took cues from classical guitarists and introduced major scale modes way before anyone in the 80s did. Now Tom Verlaine, John McKay, John McGeoch, Keith Levene and his generation were true innovators. These two just wank with effects and trem bars
Experienced that song in Seattle when I saw them. I LOVED it, the crowd pretty much just completely stopped moving and everyone was just staring at the stage in awe. Can't wait to hear the new record
!!!Holy Frick!!! Last minute or so of this video is a new MBV song they've been playing on the current tour!!! Heard it hear first folks (at least a snippet)!
You're absolutely right, I was just describing the movements in which they were pioneers, in the same way that they were: Spaceman 3, A.R. Kane, The Birthday Party, The Jesus And Mary Chain....
@@danielfelipegonzalezocampo3418 Don't forget The House of Love, The Chameleons, Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr, maybe Big Black for guitars...it's a long list! :)
Outskirts images are shot in Dublin, because it appears the Fusilier's Arch and the Christ Church in Temple Bar, but the particular place I don't know, it seems to be in the outskirts countryside. I like the place, he must to be very quiet and surrounded by nature, very inspirational I think.
Not the biggest fan of my bloody valentine but Deafheaven drew a lot of inspiration from them on Sunbather on their reverse reverb parts and I grew to love that guitar sound
I don't know a whole lot of MBV's back catalogue, but the song that you can hear in the background @3:09...is that one of their new songs?? Type in 'mbv new 2' and this sounds like the exact song, from a live show they did last year.
When I saw them open for Dinosaur jr. in ‘91 they were the loudest fuckers I ever heard... the crowd we eargasmed together because didn’t everybody drop window panes before walking in? It was the greatest show we ever saw.
I had the chance to talk with Kevin after a show. Such a nice and special men! Really humble, he even took the time to tell me every technical aspect of MBV's shows.
One of the things that I think I envy him the most is because of his stature, he can readily admit to having been influenced by other bands who were our contemporaries, whereas if I admit to being influenced by My Bloody Valentine, the perception is more that rather than having original ideas of my own into which I incorporated influences from their work, that I've simply "ripped off" MBV. At least I can say that I never actually bought a Jazzmaster or Jaguar to ape his playing technique. It's actually only recently that I've become enamoured with the Jaguar and Mustang. Back in the early 1990s, I was all about my Rickenbacker 330 (a choice very much influenced by my friends in Lush and Ride), but I did use the wet output only in Mode II of a Boss CE-3 and a Boss VB-2 to emulate that detuned warble that Kevin first popularised. I also played an Ampeg VH-140C 2x12 stereo chorus amp (quite similar to a Roland Jazz Chorus JC-120), which has a built-in detune chorus, and can run both of its 12" drivers off the detuned channel, which produces a similar effect. I also used a Boss EH-2 Enhancer pedal to produce that shrieking jet engine afterburner blast of white noise. Nowadays, I'm using a tc electronic Shaker vibrato, a Digitech FreqOut., and a tc electronic Mimiq doubler, through a pair a Mesa/Boogie amps (another Lush influence). I'm planning on adding a Digitech Whammy Ricochet. But still the same Rickenbacker I bought new in 1990. But I think what I love best about this video is the fact that, as Kevin said, "a guitar doesn't have to sound like a guitar". When we were in our youth, in the 1980s, guitar magazines focused exclusively on virtuoso fingering, and very little on experimenting with what a guitar could or should be. I grew up playing keyboards, and didn't touch a guitar, really, until I was 20, in 1989. During the 80s, my idols were Depeche Mode and Kate Bush. I had no preconceptions of what a guitar should sound like or how I should play it, and no desire to be a "guitar hero". I just wanted to make the sounds that were in my head, and when I joined a band in 1990, a guitar turned out to be the easiest way to do that. Less than a year into joining my band, I was good enough on guitar to play rhythm, and the keyboards fell by the wayside.
Wow, that sounds like fun! I'd never try to ape the Shields glide guitar thing, myself, but it's always fun to watch it done well. I also enjoy using chorus pedals, and screw the haters. I like putting one after a dark but cranked fuzz with subtler settings to brighten things up and give it a more spaced out vibe. I play 12s partly cuz of Lush. The funny thing is that their use of it was so subtle, that I didn't recognize it until years later. The Church is what really got me into 12s, though. My 12 is a crappy Jay Turser ("Who?" IDK!), probably the only one in the world left, with muddy humbuckers, linear tone pots, some weird phase switching crap, and massive tension that makes it hard to play well. I always play with a capo on the fifth fret, cuz it makes it so much easier to play and gives a more consistent sound. I have plans for upgrading the frets, pickups, and tone pots, and putting on some kind of extremely light flat-wound or ground-wound set. Speaking of "a guitar doesn't have to sound like a guitar," one of the most underrated bands to come out of the same original scene as Lush and the others, is Kitchens of Distinction. Julian Swales used his guitar to pretty much create pad sounds, which is exactly how I like to think of such sounds today. In fact, in the liner notes of at least one record, there's a quip, "No one played keyboards," referring to all the sound they created. They were contemporaries of a lot of the London shoegaze bands, but they weren't exactly hazy with vocals turned down. Take Slowdive, make the vocals more assertive and about being gay, pepper the whole thing with occasional jazz chords (in the bass, too), and you're pretty close. That's how I'd describe them, anyway.
give the man a signature damn it
Noah Gibson I think it won't happen just cause this man owns dozens of jazzmasters so that shows that he's not happy with just one guitar. Realistically for a signature guitar for him to have, it would have to be several signature, one for each different use and style
MorningShot4 all the guitars are more to facilitate different tunings so that he's not tuning and warping the neck of the guitar in a live setting. A signature is definitely possible
MorningShot4 they could do something similar to Thurston's signature. He and Lee both have tons of different jazzmasters, but yet got their signature models. Well, in Lee's case it was obvious that his signature should be a jazzblaster, but in Thurston case they captured a general idea (no tone control, no rhythm controls). Fender might go the same road with Kevin, should they release his signature.
However (and this is just my opinion), Fender kind of fucked up SY signatures, especially in Lee's case. AFAIK Thurston's jazzmaster, despite having (or actually lacking) some of the features, still came out as a regular jazzmaster. You still had to take it to a luthier to set it up for SY tuning, at which point you could do the same with just a regular jazzmaster (which I would argue would be closer to what Thurston plays and more authentic, I guess) instead of overpaying for a signature model.
And Lee's jazzmaster, well, all you need to know is that he contacted Curtis Novak to fix those shitty pickups they put into his signature model.
Kevin is so picky it would probably take him 22 years to design it!
Fender could AT LEAST remake the Ibenaz 2365 and make it Fender. It was a lawsuit Jazzmaster anyway that Ibanez ripped off. The one used in the Only Shallow video...
Can you put out a whole documentary on Kevin Shields or something? I can't get enough of this.
2 votes.
3 votes
4 votes
Honestly. I would listen to him talk about anything at all.
IIlIl Ill Il l that's 5 votes. You counting @fender?
Hi Fender please make this a 100 part series. I don't think anyone would complain
Hahahaha I agree!!
Could I also get a Jazzmaster plz
I’d complain that it’s not a 200 part series
This ^
Even the cows love Jazzmaster
MOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Moogaze!
I love how genuine and modest he is. If it wasn't for the generation of guitarists like him and Thurston Moore, we'd all still be endlessly playing minor pentatonic riffs.
@@so5532 nothing
He plays a lot of pentatonics and barre chords. Sonic Youth is all weird tunings to play chords with one finger. Ritchie Blackmore took cues from classical guitarists and introduced major scale modes way before anyone in the 80s did. Now Tom Verlaine, John McKay, John McGeoch, Keith Levene and his generation were true innovators. These two just wank with effects and trem bars
@@andyglamrock one of the most ignorant comments I ever read.
@@andyglamrock yeah and it sounds fucking amazing
It's the sound that counts
It's gratifying hearing Shields even mention Sonic Youth and The Cure. Lovely.
And Robert smith said that my bloody Valentine basically pissed all over the cure - which says a lot!!! Loved that he said that
Kevin seems like he lives such a chill life just hanging at home in the studio or nature. what a dream.
Cowgaze
Moogaze
Dairy Pop
@@hunteranthony4082 beat me to it!! what a wasted opportunityyy
Shoegraze
Cowgraze
Kevin Shields > the universe
It's cool that he's just a few volumes louder than J Mascis' speaking voice. Love 'em both.
Looks like a mad scientist, plays like a mad scientist, bloody legend!
Issac newton
@@cochayuyo1084 Nah, as a gentleman of culture and refinement, he played bass!
“The cows went... 👍 Good!” Excellent.
Marr, Shields, Greenwood and Scott Cortez my fav Guitarist ever
I wish Bilinda would come around and talk.
She is very shy
Get colm and and debbie then
He's the best guitarist of all time! My favorite hands down
The new song they premiered at their shows is at the end of this video :o
dobtf2 hopefully that means it will be on the next release!
yes! Would love to hear it in good quality, it sounds absolutely beautiful from what I could gather so far
holy shit...that has potential to be one of their best yet
I got to hear it live a couple nights ago, it was lovely! One of the best songs of the night, even.
Experienced that song in Seattle when I saw them. I LOVED it, the crowd pretty much just completely stopped moving and everyone was just staring at the stage in awe. Can't wait to hear the new record
The greatest living genius still making good work in the rock genre. He's our Brian Wilson. I look forward to the two new MBV EP's.
Polyfusia wait...WHAT EPS?
Ah, you didn't hear? MBV are recording and releasing two new EP's sometime this year or next, and an LP after that hopefully.
@@Polyfusia at some point in the (near?) future...
@@Polyfusia damn, hopefully that's still coming
@@boogiemeister9581 same it’s been almost 10 years since Mbv came out.
PART 3 FOR THE LOVE OF CHRIST
kevin shields makes the cows come home
My opinion of cows has just gone up ten notches. Maybe we should stop eating them and ask them their musical opinions instead.
>tfw the cows have better taste than 98% of the population
agreed
Cows probably do taste better than most humans
Anthony Francis totally.
Vegan shoegazers are the best shoegazers (and the best vegans) 👌🏻
I've never clicked on a video so fast .pt2
Shoshy Boo maybe you're a fan of him
wife material
MBV....my soul is alive. This man is a living legend
!!!Holy Frick!!! Last minute or so of this video is a new MBV song they've been playing on the current tour!!! Heard it hear first folks (at least a snippet)!
I was trying to figure out what that song was since I recognized all the others...best possible answer to that question!
which song is playing at 2:34?
@@jasperbrieschke771you never should
KEVIN SHIELDS : SHOEGAZE / ROBIN GUTHRIE : DREAM POP / SACRED 80'S
You're absolutely right, I was just describing the movements in which they were pioneers,
in the same way that they were: Spaceman 3, A.R. Kane, The Birthday Party, The Jesus And Mary Chain....
@@danielfelipegonzalezocampo3418
Don't forget The House of Love, The Chameleons, Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr, maybe Big Black for guitars...it's a long list! :)
He lives in such a beautiful, dream like place.
The power of Shields compels you......
and cows......
Remember hearing isn’t Anything for the first time in 89/90 and those guitars man!! And the drums!!!
I loved that he gave a shout out to The Velvet Underground
Feel like I've watched this and part 1 like a dozen times at least. Its so calming and informative, and packed into a tight few videos.
Saw one of their recent shows at the Palace Theatre In St. Paul. Their new material absolutely threw me to the wall.
I could listen to Kevin talk all day, and I don’t know anything about guitars.
Kevin Shields is a fucking genius.
Outskirts images are shot in Dublin, because it appears the Fusilier's Arch and the Christ Church in Temple Bar, but the particular place I don't know, it seems to be in the outskirts countryside. I like the place, he must to be very quiet and surrounded by nature, very inspirational I think.
Kevin Shields legend....
ty mr shields
Shields is absolutely packed with knowledge and skill. Love to see more.
Not the biggest fan of my bloody valentine but Deafheaven drew a lot of inspiration from them on Sunbather on their reverse reverb parts and I grew to love that guitar sound
This dude is a LEGEND
my hero! since i was a stupid teenager! this kind of guy can save someone's life through sound
GOOD LORD THATS THE STUDIO VERSION OF NEW SONG 2 RIGHT THERE IN THE OUTRO JUST GIVE IT TO US KEVIN PLEASEEEEE
love their evolution, and all of their sounds, geek! and the new reecord will forever be my favorite
Cows like shoegaze, what a fact
Fender is a big company, couldn't someone have checked the subtitles before this went out?
I really love those 1987 EPs, too bad he doesn't.
You’re on your own there!
@@sharonlee4773 he's not, strawberry wine is awesome
@@purplelizard2348 All wine is awsome!
Kevin is a genius
i admire him.
His studio is actually way less chaotic than I imagined it would be haha
More Kevin Shields !!
Great Interview. Really enjoyed it. Part 1 & 2.
I wish this was a 10 parts documentary
If you do a Shields signature Jazzmaster, I swear I sell my 15 guitar collection to get 3 of them. PLEASE DO IT
He's a mad scientist and I love it
s/o to the cramps! Didn't expect him to mention them as an influence :-)
Absolute legend
Obrigado, Fender!
New song at the end!!
the cows were jamming out to My Bloody Valentine
loved it
All I Need is still the most beautiful drone I have ever heard
Such a great sonic architect and anarchist..rediscovering his art.Mastery
I don't know a whole lot of MBV's back catalogue, but the song that you can hear in the background @3:09...is that one of their new songs?? Type in 'mbv new 2' and this sounds like the exact song, from a live show they did last year.
This is so so so great, MORE. Much love from Ireland
Gran entrevista Kevin es una de las mejores personas en el planeta
It would’ve been nice to actually hear him playing the guitar in the room he was in.
So beautiful
this has given me a whole new perspective on cows
no 2 more important than Bob & KS last 40 yrs
seeing them tonight i’m so so excited
when he said, that the cows went: "good"... i've felt that
I love u Kevin
When I saw them open for Dinosaur jr. in ‘91 they were the loudest fuckers I ever heard... the crowd we eargasmed together because didn’t everybody drop window panes before walking in? It was the greatest show we ever saw.
my hero
Nels Cline should be featured here. I mean he has to be
love this.
I loved this, thanks!
Loveless is one of greatest records ever recorded .
I WANT TO TALK TO THIS MAN
agreed
I had the chance to talk with Kevin after a show. Such a nice and special men! Really humble, he even took the time to tell me every technical aspect of MBV's shows.
@@PipeD0d did he say when a new EP would be released?
@@ThruTheEarth it was 2018 and he told me "hopefully next year".
Thurston Moore & Jazzmaster 60th anniversary
Kevin Shields is the type of guy that you see on the elliptical everyday
One of the things that I think I envy him the most is because of his stature, he can readily admit to having been influenced by other bands who were our contemporaries, whereas if I admit to being influenced by My Bloody Valentine, the perception is more that rather than having original ideas of my own into which I incorporated influences from their work, that I've simply "ripped off" MBV. At least I can say that I never actually bought a Jazzmaster or Jaguar to ape his playing technique. It's actually only recently that I've become enamoured with the Jaguar and Mustang.
Back in the early 1990s, I was all about my Rickenbacker 330 (a choice very much influenced by my friends in Lush and Ride), but I did use the wet output only in Mode II of a Boss CE-3 and a Boss VB-2 to emulate that detuned warble that Kevin first popularised. I also played an Ampeg VH-140C 2x12 stereo chorus amp (quite similar to a Roland Jazz Chorus JC-120), which has a built-in detune chorus, and can run both of its 12" drivers off the detuned channel, which produces a similar effect. I also used a Boss EH-2 Enhancer pedal to produce that shrieking jet engine afterburner blast of white noise. Nowadays, I'm using a tc electronic Shaker vibrato, a Digitech FreqOut., and a tc electronic Mimiq doubler, through a pair a Mesa/Boogie amps (another Lush influence). I'm planning on adding a Digitech Whammy Ricochet. But still the same Rickenbacker I bought new in 1990.
But I think what I love best about this video is the fact that, as Kevin said, "a guitar doesn't have to sound like a guitar". When we were in our youth, in the 1980s, guitar magazines focused exclusively on virtuoso fingering, and very little on experimenting with what a guitar could or should be. I grew up playing keyboards, and didn't touch a guitar, really, until I was 20, in 1989. During the 80s, my idols were Depeche Mode and Kate Bush. I had no preconceptions of what a guitar should sound like or how I should play it, and no desire to be a "guitar hero". I just wanted to make the sounds that were in my head, and when I joined a band in 1990, a guitar turned out to be the easiest way to do that. Less than a year into joining my band, I was good enough on guitar to play rhythm, and the keyboards fell by the wayside.
Wow, that sounds like fun! I'd never try to ape the Shields glide guitar thing, myself, but it's always fun to watch it done well. I also enjoy using chorus pedals, and screw the haters. I like putting one after a dark but cranked fuzz with subtler settings to brighten things up and give it a more spaced out vibe.
I play 12s partly cuz of Lush. The funny thing is that their use of it was so subtle, that I didn't recognize it until years later. The Church is what really got me into 12s, though.
My 12 is a crappy Jay Turser ("Who?" IDK!), probably the only one in the world left, with muddy humbuckers, linear tone pots, some weird phase switching crap, and massive tension that makes it hard to play well. I always play with a capo on the fifth fret, cuz it makes it so much easier to play and gives a more consistent sound. I have plans for upgrading the frets, pickups, and tone pots, and putting on some kind of extremely light flat-wound or ground-wound set.
Speaking of "a guitar doesn't have to sound like a guitar," one of the most underrated bands to come out of the same original scene as Lush and the others, is Kitchens of Distinction. Julian Swales used his guitar to pretty much create pad sounds, which is exactly how I like to think of such sounds today. In fact, in the liner notes of at least one record, there's a quip, "No one played keyboards," referring to all the sound they created. They were contemporaries of a lot of the London shoegaze bands, but they weren't exactly hazy with vocals turned down. Take Slowdive, make the vocals more assertive and about being gay, pepper the whole thing with occasional jazz chords (in the bass, too), and you're pretty close. That's how I'd describe them, anyway.
Your own story sounds interesting!
A Bilinda Butcher Signature Mustang with floating tremolo, please.
He says Einstürzende Neubauten after Birthday Party at 0:58. Captions didn’t catch it.
Think he also says "tape-based drone thing" not "drum"
Anyone know the song at 2:13?
New song at the end!
Hip hop was new... and we smoked a lot of pot.... and we made a groundbreaking record.
I know this is an older video but "Current Joke" in the subtitles 🥸
The cramps as the crabs too lol
Did you get any suggestions from the cows on records to check out? So far I know they love MBV, The Mermen, one song by The Foo Fighters, and polka.
Atom Heart Mother?
The Dead Milkmen go over well with most dairy cows
@@davideats9255
That joke was cheesy! You gotta make like Wisconsin and milk it for all it's worth. ;P
Cows love music.
Will there be a Part 3?
should just make it a regular show. ill watch every week.
Ofcourse
Shoegaze king!!!
My Bovine Valentine!!!!
cant believe he still doesnt have a signature
subtitles @0:14 "Whales in the countryside"
Maestro ❤️
love it
Kevin mentions a band called The Crabs (1:10). Does anyone know more about the song? I taped it as a kid, loved it and would like to get it.
Think he said THE CRAMPS, who are quite famous.
the song is called “lovelee sweet darlene” by my bloody valentine
Recording "All I Need" - Engineer: "Nope." :-D
IS THAT A MY BLOODY VALENDOG
a guitar for each song
3:22 put captions on and loveless starts peeing everywhere
Robert Smith of the Cure famously stated that MBV “pissed all over us.” How’s that for praise?
Excellent!