Pedals For Grunge Guitar (Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Sonic Youth, Soundgarden, Smashing Pumpkins)
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- Опубліковано 22 чер 2024
- This week, Professor Josh Scott is here to teach you how to play grunge. And, yes, there will be a test. We also celebrate the sheer grungeocity of bands like Sonic Youth, Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam and Smashing Pumpkins. BONUS: Belle Loux debuts as the frontwoman for the JHS Show band.
Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:29 We’re here because of grunge
1:49 Deep dive into Sonic Youth
4:24 “Maybe Kool Thing”
6:22 Deep dive into Soundgarden
9:28 “Real Close to Fell on Black Days”
10:12 Deep diving Nirvana
12:05 “Sort of Drain You”
14:03 Pearl Jam
18:11 “Kinda Like Corduroy”
19:32 Smashing Pumpkins
21:32 “Pretty Much Zero”
22:56 We need to save grunge
24:02 Record Time
25:10 Thanks for watching!
Gear used in this episode:
Digitech - Echo Plus
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JHS - Crayon
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JHS - 3 Series Distortion
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MXR - Phase 90
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JHS - Charlie Brown
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JHS - Angry Charlie
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Strymon - Lex
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JHS - 3 Series Delay
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JHS - 3 Series Overdrive
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JHS - Unicorn
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JHS - 3 Series Chorus
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BOSS - DS-2
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EHX - Op-Amp Big Muff Pi
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Record Time:
Mudhoney - Superfuzz Bigmuff
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Josh’s record player is by U-Turn Audio:
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The jams from this episode are on BandLab! Head over to the link below to jam with us, download the stems, and create your own samples from our sounds... or all of those things.
www.bandlab.com/jhspedals
www.thejhsshow.com/
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JHS Fresh Clips: / @jhsfreshclips7880
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You should totally break down more genres like psychedelia or shoegaze
Funk, 77punk.
Please do a shoegaze episode!
We need more of Belles vocals.
And more cowbell!!!
Seriously, that vocals are AMAZiNG
@@josearjona3728 yeah, it wasn't meant as a joke. Love her most recent album Lorelai.
@@waldemardaninsky2428 this.
I concur
I like how the Nirvana jam was called “sort of drain you” even though the beginning riff sounded identical to “on a plain”.
Tbf a lot of Cobain's riffs are pretty similar
Plain You
i think theres a joke here.
🎶one baby to another said, i'm actually on a plain 🎶
@@matthewbrigidi4266🎶I can’t complain 🎶
I needed a good laugh this morning, I didn't realize how bad. The Sonic Youth jam had me rolling on the floor. You guys get it. Thanks for doing this and so much else. 😀 "Who's Tina?" "You wouldn't get it."...lost my mind.
I was CACKLING. That spoken part had Kim written all over it 🤣
I had this on the background at work, and when that came on, and the whole episode I'm pretty sure my coworkers thought I was insane lol
Tinas never heard of you…
I am formally requesting Grunge pt. 2 with all the great missing bands. Most importantly Alice In Chains.
Seriously. Far more grunge than Pearl Jam. They don't have that, what's the name "grunge". They are a 70s hard rock band.
Screaming Trees, as well, please. I’m way in for Pt. 2.
I concur. Also TOOL maybe? I’m not sure if they are grunge but they debuted in that era
the aic circlejerk in the comments is too much - acting like a bunch of chads that last got laid in 1998
This is just dumb. It's not that crucial and it's not the "history of grunge. Tell me which bands you think I "forgot!"" episode. There's no logical reason to do another vid. Oh, so he can name all the bands everyone thinks he "missed" or "forgot"? Yea, no. You know you can always make your own supplementary vid to this one if you think there are bands that need to be included for some reason. 🤷 Just sayin...
Obviously Josh talked about the bands he wanted to talk about. If you think there are others that belong in his grunge pedal video, you can always talk about them yourself since you think there's thinhs that still need to be said as it relates to guitar pedals. UA-cam has enough room for all of us lol
The sonic youth inspired jam was FANTASTIC, and you guys absolutely nailed the vibe AND tones. nicely done.
Absolutely!
Yep, it gave me the goose bumps !
Belle's vocals really put it over the top.
@@fpsknifer9906 "You don't need to know." Just perfect.
One possible improvement... Drummer should've used miracha in place of high hat.
love the fact that they played on a plain but is "sort of drain you" lmao luv it
This is my favorite playing from Josh. Grunge is so clearly his thing and he kills it!
This is a 27 minute paid ad for pedals.
At this point it would be just rude not to form a Sonic Youth tribute band featuring Belle. Make it happen JHS.
Try the band Julie
If I did a tribute band to them I would have to call it "Sonic Boomers." Actually I kind of like that!
they need a band where minimum amount of pedals on at same time is 5 per member
julie
it would be quite rude to form a Sonic Youth tribute band featuring Belle
It’s so effing grunge that no one here agrees on what grunge is. I love it. Live on kings.
Grunge is not a musical style, that's for sure. And post-grunge is shit.
I got a DS-2 last week. The best feeling ever is running it through a British amp and having it on Cobain’s settings. My neighbors really have come to love the sound.
Man, she nailed those Kim Gordon inspired vocals!
It was the only kinda-accurate thing about the SY bit
oh yeah... a line or two about underwear and it would have been indistinguishable
gigantic disagree
Best. Episode. Yet.
And yes, more of Belle's vocals, please.
Quite possibly the best episode I have seen.
Really glad you mentioned Mudhoney. I know that Superfuzz Bigmuff is hard to find, but you can probably find a copy of Boiled Beef and Rotting Teeth which is also terrific. Would have loved to see some Screaming Trees in there too. And tell Belle that she does a PERFECT Kim Gordon.
There are plenty of copies on discogs for like 10-20 bucks, grab 'em while you can
Yeah. I was wondering where the Screaming Trees reference was, as well.
Is Superfuzzbigmuff actually hard to find? I stumbled upon a copy at a local shop for 15 bucks, bought it even though I'm not a massive fan because it's iconic
my theory is that Josh frequents record stores and maybe amazon/ebay/reverb and simply didn't know of discogs so basically he pulls from semi regional pool of record stores where maybe that record is somewhat uncommon.
This is so good. That Sonic Youth jam was amazing.
This might be the best episode to date. Belle’s addition to the Sonic Youth spoof was spot on and hilarious. Excellent work by all.
This episode was so good I went straight out and bought a grunge.
where did you buy it i want one
I think you can find grunge in Seattle. But you might also find some under your fingernails.
Courtney loved it.
Wow... Belle moved on from being a regular JHS heckler to the new vocalist for JHS band... Now she's gonna nag the audience on many possible issues aside no one knowing Tina.
Tina is my wife! So I think I can say: I know her - even though she's sometimes a mystery. :-)
She nailed the "exactly!" retort that every woman seems to have. As in "you're wrong? You don't know why you're wrong?! Just proves you wrong!"
Source : many arguments with a woman.
Great episode, really fun! And it had some of the best jams you've had so far!
This was great. Josh and I discovered grunge with the same album, Ten. One thought tho...Totally missed Pixies, that was one of Kurts influences.
I'm a little upset I'm not seeing Alice in Chains. I'm not sure they're actually Grunge, but I feel like they're important to Grunge.
If smashing pumpkins made the cut then aic definitely should have made the cut. Very disappointed in this video 😞
Alice in Chains are Grunge. Smashing Pumpkins and Sonic Youth are absolutely not.
Damn right!! They should be in this.
Jerry himself said that they're a metal band (heavy band to be precise).
After watching this and having lived trough the Grunge era, I have no idea what grunge is anymore. Seems that according to Josh, it seems you have to be from Seattle or in The Smashing Pumpkins. How is Possum Kingdom not Grunge?
I feel like it's the first proper JHS Show episode I've seen in the longest time, even if it's technically not. Is it something about the formula? I don't know. Love all.
It's the editing, they've done a lot of streams, I like both but it's nice seeing the OG formula again!
Standing ovation to the JHS band! 🎉 Sonic Youth, Pearl Jam and Smashing Pumpkins sound was spot on. I could close my eyes and see those bands playing live.
Sonic Youth sound was pretty inaccurate.
Yes more Belle!
Just checked out their albums and they are definitely in my favourites rotation! Thanks Josh and to all the gang!! 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻
The "Tina" bit was brilliant. Your jams are some inspired gold.
I assumed Kim Gordon had gone to school with Tina Weymouth. There you go.
@@BellsCuriosityShop I was making no assumptions and had no thoughts on background. Standalone, I thought it was brilliant. Cheers.
Josh needs to write a New Testament of grunge
I have to say that I have watched your channel for a few years now, and I am constantly impressed that you folks come up with really good jams! That sounds like a place that I would like to work!!
thank you!!!
It’s been a while since I’ve caught an episode and this was the best one to come back to. You guys just may be the most entertaining people on the UA-cams. Thanks for making me laugh while still giving me some useful info.
Love Josh’s sass throughout the whole video paired with in depth music knowledge. Great jams all around.
I hope there is TAD in the bible, super underrated band and one of my favourites!
No matter how crappy a day, you guys always make me smile. Thank you so much
It looks like you guys have so much fun just making videos. It must be a real chill work environment. So jealous. Thanks great videos and fun quirkiness!
Belles adlibbing on the first jam was awesome. You lot should do more of that.
Man. That Sonic Youth number was a jam. I put a vocal line in between the spoken word. I just felt it. I thought it was pretty good.
No Alice In Chains mention? Idk how you don't mention Jerry in a video like this. His tone is legendary in both rock and metal. They were part of the big 4...
They're arguably not grunge. Same era, same city, arguably riding the same wave, but more hard rock than grunge.
@@corkystclair7475 more metal that ""hard rock"", same can be said with Soundgarden, and their more grunge than Smashing Pumpkins, maybe grunge is a terrible word that holds no weight as none of the "big 5" sound any alike
@@corkystclair7475 grock
@@brianvillatoro6588 grutal
Jerry got his sound basically exclusively from his amplifier so it would be pretty boring to do AiC lmao
Great episode!!!!! Josh freaking out about the non grunge bands listed in that book hits so close to home! Love you guys!!
This channel has always sorely lacked wah. Thank you Josh and crew, you made my dreams come true!
Nick is a great drummer
Wow, great episode! I like this episodic theme.
I love your jams and I love some of these bands. Really good episode
The vibe in this video is incredible, to say nothing of the jams. Y'all seem so fun
thank you!
Grunge didn't come around in 1990 it came around in about 1984 (which was when Soundgarden first formed). It really comes from the sound the Melvins created.
True.
Never have I been more excited for a pedal video
Such a good episode! Both as a grunge and a JHS fan, I enjoyed it very much! The humor and knowledge were on point 😂
I like it when you use a few JHS pedals on the show. Particularly in this context where you've highlighted a genre and demonstrated easy ways to get the tones. Please do more, maybe have some genre specific guest guitarists, make a series out of it. 🤘🏻
Fun Show.
I was in one of the thousands of faceless bands playing the Seattle club-scene from 92-96 …
Seattle was our Paris then & We had a blast.
Great segment.
Congrats on being alive... truly. We lost too many great people then. But yeah, I think grunge is one of Gen X's greatest accomplishments.
@@CarolMatzPiano I’m one of the last singers standing, for sure. ☮️
Would love to see more of these types of videos. Very well done and very entertaining.
wonderful video! excellent playing and demoing pedals. I needed a good laugh today :)
This episode is EPIC!!! This episode makes officially JHS show the best show on the UA-cam ever.
Soundgarden, Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins, Mudhoney...the 90's are the soundtrack of my life, thanks for this!
This video was absolutely awesome!
This episode was awesome!
Being a lifelong grunge fan, I would have reacted the same way. It really shows me why grunge was one of a kind.
I am happy to now have the term, "Tonal Mac 'n Cheese Explosion" to explain what happened to me and music in the early '90's. Thank you, Josh!
Nice video and SY Jam. Cool to see the Mudhoney EP in the end, they are such an underrated band by the mainstream audience. And kudos to the Sort of On A Plain/Drain You mashup :)
That first jam was EVERYTHING. great vibes!
Categorizing bands into grunge is indeed tricky considering most of these bands disliked the term. My record time record would be Mad Season - Above. Mike McCready's bluesy Hendrix influenced guitar with Layne Staley's voice is magical.
That album is underrated
It's like a grungy dark side of the moon. It's amazing from beginning to end.
@ghost mall "and stuff sounding similar to them" lol those four bands sound nothing alike.
That opening song was phenomenal. You should release it!
I love the episode!!! Definitely ticks my nostalgic grunge esthetic, and is quintessential JHS Gold!
*Stands and Applauds* that's one of the greatest things you lot have ever done! Bravo!!
you guys absolutely killed it Belle's vocals were icing on the grunge cake ! That was fun if not an inspiration for garage bands in Fargo......
I’ve been practicing blues a lot lately and I’m super into industrial music, but after watching this I realized that I’ve unconsciously been practicing grunge 😂
Man you NAILED the tone! Great job sir
best episode. love it, thanks
Being a Seattle musician that was very active in the 80’s, this episode brings back lots of memories. Our band was just before grunge hit big from Seattle. One of our rehearsal studios had the guys that would become Alice In Chains. Matt Cameron, Soundgarden and Pearl Jam drummer auditioned for us and even sat in at a gig when our drummer could not make the gig. One of Eddie Vedder’s house is just a couple of miles down the road. YAY for Seattle Grunge!
What was your band’s name?
@@michaelsnydermusic Our band’s name was absolutely the worst name in the history of band names. It was “e”. Just lower case e. How bad is that?
@@digiwaves 😂 that’s hilarious! Mine was Pornack. We thought what would be awesome is if Muzak was done in the style porno music instead. Imagine walking in the mall to that! Our music wasn’t anything like that but it sounded funny. I still claim it’s one of the best band names ever lol.
You guys should record a new grunge album using all these pedals and techniques, because the band sounds killer.
I just found this show a few weeks ago and have been playing catchup ever since. Love love this show and this has to be the best one yet!!!
Y'all are hilarious! Great tunes and perfect comedy. Banger!!
i would like to not only request a grunge part 2 but a video where you guys recreate the sounds of iconic shoegaze bands, shoegaze is making a big comeback and i think a lot of people would really appreciate seeing how to get the tones of bands like my bloody valentine, slowdive and ride. awesome vid, awesome channel and awesome pedals. keep it up!! :)
Yes please!!
Check out Catalina Bread’s Soft Focus. Just bought it. Slowdive sound.
So basically these grunge guitarists were using the Marshalls their fav 80s hair metal bands were using but abandoned all the newly digital rackmount studio effects and went straight in from guitar. A good combo that never dies. Side note, I believe Dean Deleo was using the rackmount effects on the first STP album. Its got a big sound
Not...analog pedals rule. Guitar into Marshall is great overdrive, BUT fuzz (such as Josh said in the intro) is huge in the wall of big guitar distortion sounds found in many grunge bands!
They were using whatever guitars and pedals they could afford going into the biggest amps they could afford.
'Vintage' and retro being _valuable_ wasn't much of a thing in music culture until about the mid-'90s, and even then - much like expensive cars - high-roller market second-hand $ales were 3-10x less than what they're commanding now.
A fuzz pedal in the '90s going for over $500 would be unheard of apart from a superstar's relic along the lines of _"this exact piece is verified as being used by Hendrix or Page while recording song X"_
@@shaft9000 agreed. It’s whatever they could get their hands on from their local shop. Was no eBay or reverb in 1991
Man. This was a lot of fun!
Love the Jams today , Dudes !
There were lots of little nods across Nirvana records to the late 80's (not grunge) Dinosaur Jr. records like 'You're Livin' All Over Me' ('87) and 'Bug' ('88). In the guitar, the super loud country rock influences, the drums and the slacker aesthetic. As well as the sound of tracks like 'Sludgefest', and 'Tarpit', 'In a Jar' even the song titles put some names to it. And maybe influenced Alice in Chains too. I grew up during grunge other side of the Atlantic. But, I wonder if the superheaviness+experimentalnoise+breathysugarpop vocals of (not grunge) My Bloody Valentine Isn't Anything ('88) and Loveless ('1991) influenced Smashing Pumpkins, especially on Siamese Dream. Switch the vocalist and Cherub Rock could be MBV. Same for MBV 'Sometimes', put Corgan's voice on it and it would sound like peak Smashing Pumpkins.
People seem to get Grunge mixed with Alternative music great Grunge tone is shaggy and hardcore bands like Hole Garbage and Varuca Salt but what about Candle Box and Blur awesome guitar tone with cheap stomp boxes rocks 💀
This is the answer^
Yes, a lot of “Post Grunge” bands get lumped into Grunge.
Cheap DOD says Whaaat ? ha J/K
Came for the pedals, stayed for the jams! Awesome playing and mixing!
I love this! you guys are CRAZY. . . .. CRAZY GOOD! Josh . . . I would buy your records toooo. . just putting it out there. .....
As an old rocker who was always into outsider stuff I feel I should mention Lou Reed's influence on the whole thing, from Velvet Underground to Metal Machine Music.
Don't forget the Stooges and MC5.
@@jezmez68 Can't forget Neil Young either.
Drumstick on guitar action was really more of a sonic youth thing, but I’ll allow it
One of the best episodes I have seen ! Thanks for the cool songs and pedals too :)
and Yes , that book must be burned.
What a fun episode! I've never liked Hal Leonard's instructional materials, and I'd have been sitting right there with Josh in the dark like a crazy person pounding my fist and railing against the Grunge Bible. Thanks for this! I'm inspired to fill some of the many gaps in my grunge listening history now!
What's cool about this video is that Pearl Jam is maybe my least-favorite grunge band, but the Pearl Jam tone in this video was my favorite of the bunch. Thanks for giving us a really good video, obviously made with a lot of love for these bands.
Belles lyrics are gold!
THIS IS ONE OF MY FAVORITE JHS VIDEOS EVER!!!
Such is my love for grunge and this video I’m gonna go out and buy my 1st JHS pedal. Thank you for the entertainment (with the lights out ) all the way to the end.
Thanks !!!
This Grunge Bible makes me want to cry. Someone got paid to make this thing? I will definitely be there in the desert for the burning ceremony.
The Sonic Youth was impressive!! (I was never a big youth fan but that jam was great)
I'm a huge Sonic Youth fan. It sucked.
Best episode ever! Best Nirvana cover ever, in the world!
You have captured the essence!! Many Likes!!
💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥
I could listen to Josh talk about music for hours. A lot of these other guitar-oriented UA-camrs only talk about Led Zeppelin or RHCP (they’re all amazing bands don’t get me wrong), but I love it especially with Josh’s record recommendations where he talks about more underground artists, or about other influential artists who are popular but don’t get mentioned enough (ie Sonic Youth)
Could? I have. Slacker.
That sounded a lot more like "Sort of Drain on a Plain" to me!
Yup. I think we're the only ones who noticed lol 😂
I thought I was the only one who caught on to that, wonder if that was purposeful or a goof
@@coletimms4764 well part of it kinda sorta sounded like the breakdown of Drain You to me, but the rest was definitely On a Plain
Wonderful job of playing Josh.
loved the talk about TSP, huge music fan and i love loads of stuff but TSP always is and always will be my favourite, they have so much variety that people overlook, such a unique band that stands out from the "typical" 90's sound
This isn't the first time I've heard Smashing Pumpkins described as a grunge band, but honestly, I don't get it. They're not from the Pacific Northwest, they don't sound like other bands in the grunge genre, nor did they look like other bands in the grunge genre. To me, Smashing Pumpkins are closer to shoegaze bands like MBV than grunge bands like Nirvana and Soundgarden.
There’s a lot of heterogeneity in the grunge sound, especially if you take into account the sound of all the “official” grunge bands from the late 80s to the late 90s. For example, the power pop punk songs on Nevermind have very little in common with AIC songs on Dirt.
I came to playing music through grunge too when I was young and jeezus those selections in the so-called “Grunge Bible” are horrid. I’m right there with you, Josh. It’s like the Hal Leonard people just took snapshots of Billboards charts from around the mid-90s and chose the rock songs. And also this episode was a lot of fun, thank you JHS.
P.S. I know I’m being a stickler but shouldn’t the Nirvana jam have been called Almost On a Plain?
Good choice on Corduroy! One of my favs too
I love the passion behind the "WOAH" in the beginning
The forgotten king of grunge is TAD 🧐
YES! "But we didn't have time to mention TAD" WELL THEN MAKE A LONGER VIDEO.
Also a tip of the hat to L7, Bikini Kill and the rest of the Riot Grrrl bands.
@@PedalChainsAddictionaww yeah check Die Spitz bringing it back
I totally agree, the Toadies were not a grunge band. However, they are one of the best bands from that time, and Possum Kingdom is a cruelly underappreciated album.
Possum Kingdom is a song. The album is Rubbernecker. Fun fact: I played with Todd in a cover band called Gunga Din for a minute. This is the closest I ever got to success in music. Pathetic.
Watching the live show on this. Relax folks. It's going to be ok. Thanks Josh.
this is amazing!