Whole lot of people on here saying a small rig isn't worth checking out. Why not? She sure gets a huge sound out of it. It may not be complicated, but it's still cool to give exposure to an artist who can get a great sound out of hardly any gear. If all people see is artists with 20 guitars, 100 pedals, 3 amps, etc. then they'll think they need that too. She's proof otherwise. Great stuff!
Aidan I've seen a bunch of her videos.It makes me question your interpretation of "shreds hard",she's not exactly a female Rusty Cooley.See:Sophia Di,Tina San.
rob oliver , I actually prefer those to most expensive/expansive "celebrity" rigs explained by their techs. A reason why I loved Soundgarden's rundown, for example, was Kim Thayil and Ben Shepherd detailing how their gear serve their music just as Margaret is doing here.
I love idiots in comment section that are bitching because she has "not enough" gear and it was not worth a video... Seriously??? It seems they still haven't understand it's not all about the gear we have, but what we do with! I don't know this artist, but it was still interesting to discover her setup and her approach. PG, don't pay attention to haters that are generally just some frustrated keyboard warriors that spend more time with they computer keyboard than their musical instrument(s)!
Agreed, however everyone forgets how tone works. Even if you get a hundred pieces of gear, you will not sound like any other player. Get Margaret's rig and try to play her songs. Even if you play just like her, you won't sound 100% like her. I've tried it over the 21 years I've played, and I fail every time.
I just found out about Margaret Glaspy this week and I'm so enamored with her music. I wish she didn't feel like she had to be apologetic for having a simple rig that relies heavily on pick attack to create dynamics. That should be the end goal of a great many guitarists. Tone is in the god damned hands. Her relative minimalism really emphasizes the value of her note choices and right hand attack.
@@ignazioacerenza9881 I don't know enough about programming/algorithms to venture a guess. Maybe some aspect of the push for Lage's new album triggered an avalanche of audio visual comfort for very specific users.
totally agree with this - 6 years after the video went live. Margaret Glaspy's guitar sound is so dynamic and organic - I love it. As a home guitarist with whacks of gear i spend so much time twiddling knobs i know i am guilty of putting musicality to one side
Love Margaret's style and her minimal approach! Tele-style guitar into Deluxe Reverb is my favorite setup so it's inspiring to see someone else using the same minimal rig to make a completely unique type of music.
I'm apparantly way behind the curve, but I recently discovered Julien Lage and Margaret Glaspy via 5 Watt World, and I'm so glad I did! I just love those sort of retro Fender amp sounds.
Margaret Glaspy and Esperanza Spalding are my two absolute favorite new artist to listen right now. Both are just a genuine experience to listen to. You can feel when they sing that they believe in the music they are creating, very similar to Kurt Cobain. It's real music about the human experience.
I kept on the livestream Spalding did for her latest album's recording as often as I could when it ran. It was wonderful to witness why people enjoy working on her projects, she has a spirited and considerate mind.
So cool to hear that someone just wants to hear the sound of the guitar, without a pedal board filled with everything you can imagine. Hope you get to hang on to that Tele for as long as you need it.
Great interview and she is a truly artist with great voice and originality in her compositional chops ... great when good singers song writers talk about how they use their gear
the Tedeschi Trucks Band is at the Ryman in Nashville March 2-4. Sure hope we get a Rig Rundown. I saw them on Saturday in DC and Derek looked to be playing some new amps.
+ Mike Adams I agree with you...the Tedeschi - Trucks Band too many times flies under the radar of reviewers and their incredible talent and music presence can be appreciated by a wider audience via the great folks a PG...Thanks in advance Premier Guitar....
I'm interested in what Margaret would think about P90 pickups. P90s have a little more oomph than most other single coils, and I love the sound of P90s driving a tweed amp.
Phil Lesh rig rundown ? Dude is still playing hard after 52 years with the Dead,and his post-dead career, I'd be fascinated to see what he's using now, I've seen him use an Alembic quadrophonic bass system, hugely expensive Ritters, the amazing hollow body starfire w the alembic electronics (the "Europe 72" sound) he was the first to get into the graphite stuff w his modulus basses.. or his midi bass he used to trigger bassoons and flutes and stuff.. He's always on the cutting edge, I'd love to see a combo rig rundown with him and Bob Weir,he's always so Stoney and flakey and cool..I'd love to see his rig too..
This is great! Minimal rigs are so subversive these days. Her reasons are far from arbitrary, and this is a super interesting rig rundown on account of it digger further into "why" do you use, or not use, such and such gear, as opposed to simply a long list of everything in someone's signal chain with little to no explanation as to why it is that they have it there at all.
My rig is also just guitar amp. Works best when nothing disturbes you. All the great players i like have a very small righ or play basicly straight in. Angus young, jimmie vaughann, jim campolongo, jimmy briant u name it...
@@sebbityseb yeah. Really does. I prefer a 6m cable by klotz. Gives a nice tone. Bright but mellows around 10.000 hz i guea a bit. Smoothes out a little harschness. But that is just me or my ears... more importend is the power comes out of the wall for tone...
I've noticed that a lot of the people I consider to have great guitar tone are people who use heavier strings, including Margaret. I find 11's too stiff in standard tuning, but it's OK with my Gretsch hollowbody as it has a shorter scale length. It's all right if you don't do any bends or aggressive vibrato, but I prefer 10's with a 25.5" neck in standard tuning if I'm playing fast, expressive stuff. I have or have had a few other instruments that I kept with 12's but in dropped tunings and I really like that, but I think I'd like to go one step further and get a baritone one day.
As much as I love Julian -- so much so, that I will be seeing his trio perform twice next month and I will be attending one of his master classes -- it burns me everytime I watch this rig rundown and Chris "name drops" Margaret's boyfriend. Margaret can and should have an identity separate from her romantic partner. This mainly bothers me because she appears displeased by it.
She's a minimalist but she has great taste. A lot of singer/songwriters tend to play an electric guitar like an acoustic with big open chords and percussive strumming, but she is clearly an electric guitarist who loves her some Fender.
Most guitarists: This is my fuzz pedal, my distortion pedal, reverb, this delay pedal I found at a yard sale in 2003 and the lady said its cursed, my other reverb ... Margaret Glaspy: This is my pedal. I really identify with her pragmatism when it comes to gear. A decent amp, a not-shit guitar and technique is literally all you need. Everything else is extra.
Nah, a lot people do. They're accomplished solo artists but also close collaborators. They just did a tour as a duo this month and the gig I saw was my favorite yet of Glaspy's or Lage's. Their differences in musicality join up in the most interesting ways. Also, Julian was a virtuoso but not first class a few years ago, sure. It did change in the last two years, especially when hearing him live. I had never seen such growth, so quickly, at this level of playing since the beginning of the century.
The more gear, the more indirect the connection between the musician and the audience. Like when she talks about being "down the middle" some kind of middle ground between too physical and too abstract is the place to be. Guitar starts with hands on strings, all the technology is great only if you don't lose that.
Ok I'll jump on the bandwagon what about Tesla? They're touring for 25 years or something,incredible guitar tones live doublenecks,talk box,theremin,and all the guitar hero toppings.. they're long overdue.
wartimemodels naw man. It's not a reissue. That's why it's called a custom. It has a Bassman tone stack. And some other key things that make the not a reissue. It gets it's looks from a 68 deluxe though.
I think we are using the word "reissue" differently, but mean basically the same thing perhaps? I think by "reissue" she just meant that it is a new amp that is modeled on older amps in certain respects (although not a true reproduction of an actual amp that existed in the past). In other words if someone says "it's 68 Custom Deluxe Reverb", that doesn't literally mean the amp is a DR that was built in 1968. They say it's a reissue to mean "new". It sounds like you have a narrower definition of reissue- if it isn't an attempt at a reproduction of an actual amp from back in the day, it's not a "reissue" of that amp. Your usage is probably correct...I think she just mean reissue in the looser sense that it's a new amp and not a real 68 silverface DR.
I really don't see the need for a rig rundown. She plays a tele through a Fender amp. Her tone is pretty basic. I think the focus is on her voice and writing style.
Colleen Shelley , which would be interesting to explore. People kinda know simple gear is all you need to explore personal musicality, but we're not shown how it's done as often as we could. After all, the music gear industry doesn't make their money on musicians using something like 1 or 2-pedals, a simple combo and a mexican tele.
I thought the interviewer was condescending, and, though usually the rig rundowns have a lot of "gear" to cover, this one had more "approach" to cover, which would maybe be strange for the interviewer. I'm new to following Margaret Glaspy, so not sure how much of this sort of thing shes done. It seems to be that she might be a bit uncomfortable for some reason. I thought the interviewer was rude. It is a bit of a balance to find the flow of give and take, but it was pretty clear he wasn't listening to her.
Got nothing against the artist but let's be honest here: There's no way this artist's rig was worthy of an episode of Rig Rundown. Artist is worthy of an interview or exposure but a rig rundown? Come on now. Did some diversity officer inform PG it wasn't satisfying some kind of quota for the Rig Rundown series?
Wiser InTime I think the minimalist approach is an important angle in rig rundown lore. surprised a bro as enlightened as you would seek to marginalize it.
Wiser InTime this show highlights rigs. some rigs are complicated and cluttered or extensive. some are streamlined. a large part of the appeal is showcasing how different approaches work for different artists. we've been over this; please try to keep up.
Whole lot of people on here saying a small rig isn't worth checking out. Why not? She sure gets a huge sound out of it. It may not be complicated, but it's still cool to give exposure to an artist who can get a great sound out of hardly any gear. If all people see is artists with 20 guitars, 100 pedals, 3 amps, etc. then they'll think they need that too. She's proof otherwise. Great stuff!
Glaspy is an under appreciated humble artist who shreds hard. Saw her live opening for Lucius and she was brilliant - she's the coolest.
Shreds hard?Seriously?
I take it you haven't listened to her album.
Aidan Mouellic Thumbs up for Lucius!
Aidan I've seen a bunch of her videos.It makes me question your interpretation of "shreds hard",she's not exactly a female Rusty Cooley.See:Sophia Di,Tina San.
your definition of shredding is narrow.
Glaspy has the slick lickz
That was actually a great interview with a working artist that made complete sense about her gear choices.
rob oliver , I actually prefer those to most expensive/expansive "celebrity" rigs explained by their techs. A reason why I loved Soundgarden's rundown, for example, was Kim Thayil and Ben Shepherd detailing how their gear serve their music just as Margaret is doing here.
Great job on the interview, Chris.
I like how she summed it up... Plug into anything and make music. Thanks PG
Loved that too. Maggies sound comes from her soul and projects through her finger's 👌
I like her style, and the simplicity of it. Her voice is an instrument in & of itself.
Love this interview. Very light and fun. She's classy, beautiful, simple, chill, fun, and humble. The interviewer was awesome too!
I love idiots in comment section that are bitching because she has "not enough" gear and it was not worth a video... Seriously??? It seems they still haven't understand it's not all about the gear we have, but what we do with! I don't know this artist, but it was still interesting to discover her setup and her approach. PG, don't pay attention to haters that are generally just some frustrated keyboard warriors that spend more time with they computer keyboard than their musical instrument(s)!
Agreed, however everyone forgets how tone works. Even if you get a hundred pieces of gear, you will not sound like any other player. Get Margaret's rig and try to play her songs. Even if you play just like her, you won't sound 100% like her. I've tried it over the 21 years I've played, and I fail every time.
I just found out about Margaret Glaspy this week and I'm so enamored with her music. I wish she didn't feel like she had to be apologetic for having a simple rig that relies heavily on pick attack to create dynamics. That should be the end goal of a great many guitarists. Tone is in the god damned hands. Her relative minimalism really emphasizes the value of her note choices and right hand attack.
Weird how lots of us have been finding out about her recently. Has she been blessed by the gods of youtube?
@@ignazioacerenza9881 I don't know enough about programming/algorithms to venture a guess. Maybe some aspect of the push for Lage's new album triggered an avalanche of audio visual comfort for very specific users.
totally agree with this - 6 years after the video went live. Margaret Glaspy's guitar sound is so dynamic and organic - I love it. As a home guitarist with whacks of gear i spend so much time twiddling knobs i know i am guilty of putting musicality to one side
Love Margaret's style and her minimal approach! Tele-style guitar into Deluxe Reverb is my favorite setup so it's inspiring to see someone else using the same minimal rig to make a completely unique type of music.
Awesome - So refreshing to hear someone keep it simple! Sometimes, it seems like the music gets lost in the tech - So cool! great interview!
I never heard of her before and she came on Spotify random thing and I love her guitar tone. It really jumped out at me. It's perfect.
What a cool down to earth chick, she's got a great tone with simple set up and it works for her.
I'm apparantly way behind the curve, but I recently discovered Julien Lage and Margaret Glaspy via 5 Watt World, and I'm so glad I did! I just love those sort of retro Fender amp sounds.
Which episodes featuring them?
Margaret Glaspy and Esperanza Spalding are my two absolute favorite new artist to listen right now.
Both are just a genuine experience to listen to. You can feel when they sing that they believe
in the music they are creating, very similar to Kurt Cobain. It's real music about the human experience.
You would dig the Becca Stevens Band!
she reminds me of Britt Daniels from Spoon
I kept on the livestream Spalding did for her latest album's recording as often as I could when it ran. It was wonderful to witness why people enjoy working on her projects, she has a spirited and considerate mind.
So cool to hear that someone just wants to hear the sound of the guitar, without a pedal board filled with everything you can imagine. Hope you get to hang on to that Tele for as long as you need it.
New Nels Cline Rig Rundown would be super cool.
Great interview and she is a truly artist with great voice and originality in her compositional chops ... great when good singers song writers talk about how they use their gear
the Tedeschi Trucks Band is at the Ryman in Nashville March 2-4. Sure hope we get a Rig Rundown. I saw them on Saturday in DC and Derek looked to be playing some new amps.
We may have something in the works...
YES! PLEASE
DON'T YOU TOY WITH ME, PREMIER GUITAR!!! =o
+ Mike Adams I agree with you...the Tedeschi - Trucks Band too many times flies under the radar of reviewers and their incredible talent and music presence can be appreciated by a wider audience via the great folks a PG...Thanks in advance Premier Guitar....
Terrance: The rig rundown is up for Tedeschi Trucks.....it's hidden on UA-cam but live on PG website. It was a really good one
I'm interested in what Margaret would think about P90 pickups. P90s have a little more oomph than most other single coils, and I love the sound of P90s driving a tweed amp.
Phil Lesh rig rundown ? Dude is still playing hard after 52 years with the Dead,and his post-dead career, I'd be fascinated to see what he's using now, I've seen him use an Alembic quadrophonic bass system, hugely expensive Ritters, the amazing hollow body starfire w the alembic electronics (the "Europe 72" sound)
he was the first to get into the graphite stuff w his modulus basses.. or his midi bass he used to trigger bassoons and flutes and stuff..
He's always on the cutting edge,
I'd love to see a combo rig rundown with him and Bob Weir,he's always so Stoney and flakey and cool..I'd love to see his rig too..
I second this. Throw in Bobby as well!
Records and entire album with a strat she falls in love with...and has to part ways with it. Sux big time.
Her boyfriend shound buy her a shell pink custom shop. I would do that.
Great player. Love her songs.
Great interview!
This is great! Minimal rigs are so subversive these days. Her reasons are far from arbitrary, and this is a super interesting rig rundown on account of it digger further into "why" do you use, or not use, such and such gear, as opposed to simply a long list of everything in someone's signal chain with little to no explanation as to why it is that they have it there at all.
So you didn't see a rig in either the Tommy Emmanuel or Buddy Guy rig rundowns either I take it?
My rig is also just guitar amp. Works best when nothing disturbes you. All the great players i like have a very small righ or play basicly straight in. Angus young, jimmie vaughann, jim campolongo, jimmy briant u name it...
Awesome : ) Have you been digging into different types cables and the very wild difference they make when your signal chain is as direct as is yours?
@@sebbityseb yeah. Really does. I prefer a 6m cable by klotz. Gives a nice tone. Bright but mellows around 10.000 hz i guea a bit. Smoothes out a little harschness. But that is just me or my ears... more importend is the power comes out of the wall for tone...
I've noticed that a lot of the people I consider to have great guitar tone are people who use heavier strings, including Margaret. I find 11's too stiff in standard tuning, but it's OK with my Gretsch hollowbody as it has a shorter scale length. It's all right if you don't do any bends or aggressive vibrato, but I prefer 10's with a 25.5" neck in standard tuning if I'm playing fast, expressive stuff. I have or have had a few other instruments that I kept with 12's but in dropped tunings and I really like that, but I think I'd like to go one step further and get a baritone one day.
I had no idea Julian Lage and her are dating. That is amazing!
As much as I love Julian -- so much so, that I will be seeing his trio perform twice next month and I will be attending one of his master classes -- it burns me everytime I watch this rig rundown and Chris "name drops" Margaret's boyfriend. Margaret can and should have an identity separate from her romantic partner. This mainly bothers me because she appears displeased by it.
spot on
Yeah. Mr lage should buy her a nice custom shop shell pink strat. He is rich enough and she seems beg for that...
I’m not a big pedal player either. I definitely agree with Margaret about distortion and overdrive pedals.
She's a minimalist but she has great taste. A lot of singer/songwriters tend to play an electric guitar like an acoustic with big open chords and percussive strumming, but she is clearly an electric guitarist who loves her some Fender.
Love this! Tons of gear is not always the answer.
I think this is the 7th interview where she’s mentioned her boyfriend...just get married already Margaret. You deserve it 🙌🏼
Any chance we can get an updated john mayer rundown this spring? That would be huge.
Most guitarists: This is my fuzz pedal, my distortion pedal, reverb, this delay pedal I found at a yard sale in 2003 and the lady said its cursed, my other reverb ...
Margaret Glaspy: This is my pedal.
I really identify with her pragmatism when it comes to gear. A decent amp, a not-shit guitar and technique is literally all you need. Everything else is extra.
She has one of the coolest sounds these days. Just a Tele and old fenders. Go figure.
Her boyfriend Julian Lage might be the top jazz guitar player (thus the best guitar player) alive.
Who cares? This interview is about her, not her boyfriend.
He's good but he is not even close to being the top jazz player let alone the best player period. He is good though.
Go Peace
The best jazz guitarist alive?
Thats pretty bold statement daddio.
Nobody cares lol
Nah, a lot people do. They're accomplished solo artists but also close collaborators. They just did a tour as a duo this month and the gig I saw was my favorite yet of Glaspy's or Lage's. Their differences in musicality join up in the most interesting ways.
Also, Julian was a virtuoso but not first class a few years ago, sure. It did change in the last two years, especially when hearing him live. I had never seen such growth, so quickly, at this level of playing since the beginning of the century.
The more gear, the more indirect the connection between the musician and the audience. Like when she talks about being "down the middle" some kind of middle ground between too physical and too abstract is the place to be. Guitar starts with hands on strings, all the technology is great only if you don't lose that.
Margaret is THE
Don't ask anyone why the play in the middle.
Become my favorite rigrundown
Ok I'll jump on the bandwagon what about Tesla? They're touring for 25 years or something,incredible guitar tones live doublenecks,talk box,theremin,and all the guitar hero toppings.. they're long overdue.
brodie, your unbreaking eye contact is 2 intense
JACKY VINCENT RIG RUNDOWN!!!
I think she would do well with a Quilter Micro Pro Mach 2. It has a boost, reverb, tremolo and everything else she needs.
No tubes.
That deluxe reverb isn't a reissue though.
I think it is a "Custom 68" Deluxe Reverb, which is a reissue the silverface from that era.
wartimemodels naw man. It's not a reissue. That's why it's called a custom. It has a Bassman tone stack. And some other key things that make the not a reissue. It gets it's looks from a 68 deluxe though.
I think we are using the word "reissue" differently, but mean basically the same thing perhaps? I think by "reissue" she just meant that it is a new amp that is modeled on older amps in certain respects (although not a true reproduction of an actual amp that existed in the past). In other words if someone says "it's 68 Custom Deluxe Reverb", that doesn't literally mean the amp is a DR that was built in 1968. They say it's a reissue to mean "new".
It sounds like you have a narrower definition of reissue- if it isn't an attempt at a reproduction of an actual amp from back in the day, it's not a "reissue" of that amp.
Your usage is probably correct...I think she just mean reissue in the looser sense that it's a new amp and not a real 68 silverface DR.
wartimemodels I'm just going by what Fender says about it.
3:52 Start counting the "essentially".
play 6:29 over and over
kinda cool how she’s borrowing guitars until she finds the right one for her!
royal blood rig rundown!!!!!!!
Uh, correction! We never EVER correct you, Chris!!
nice work, PG! when's Weezer's turn??
Yeah! That would be nice
👍
Essentially
Not sure this episode passes the Bechdel test
Who cares?
lol damn. you're right tho, like literally within the first minute of the interview it already happens haha
Those of us with a sense of humor.
Read this comment at around the first minute of the vid. I laughed.
7:07 if you know what I mean ;)))
down boi
please make a Metallica Rig Rundown!
Who made the Tele? Don't leave the "independent builder" unknown. That would kinda piss me off if I built that guitar.
At 0:56, she says the name: Danocaster.
I really don't see the need for a rig rundown. She plays a tele through a Fender amp. Her tone is pretty basic. I think the focus is on her voice and writing style.
Colleen Shelley , which would be interesting to explore. People kinda know simple gear is all you need to explore personal musicality, but we're not shown how it's done as often as we could. After all, the music gear industry doesn't make their money on musicians using something like 1 or 2-pedals, a simple combo and a mexican tele.
What an awkward interview lol
UnleashTheBlob I dont think it was awkward. She seems natural and down to earth.
I thought the interviewer was condescending, and, though usually the rig rundowns have a lot of "gear" to cover, this one had more "approach" to cover, which would maybe be strange for the interviewer. I'm new to following Margaret Glaspy, so not sure how much of this sort of thing shes done. It seems to be that she might be a bit uncomfortable for some reason. I thought the interviewer was rude. It is a bit of a balance to find the flow of give and take, but it was pretty clear he wasn't listening to her.
Seems like he's going out of his way not to offend her, wonder why...
Zzzzz... zzzz...
Got nothing against the artist but let's be honest here: There's no way this artist's rig was worthy of an episode of Rig Rundown. Artist is worthy of an interview or exposure but a rig rundown? Come on now. Did some diversity officer inform PG it wasn't satisfying some kind of quota for the Rig Rundown series?
Sorry she didn't have enough gear for you. Go turn a knob or something.
Apology accepted. Go sit on a knob or something.
Wiser InTime I think the minimalist approach is an important angle in rig rundown lore. surprised a bro as enlightened as you would seek to marginalize it.
DBY - "marginalize"
Wiser InTime this show highlights rigs. some rigs are complicated and cluttered or extensive. some are streamlined. a large part of the appeal is showcasing how different approaches work for different artists. we've been over this; please try to keep up.
Another artist using the same tone “secret” as me; turn the guitar down and the amp up.
Essentially