EarthQuaker President Jamie Stillman's gear hoarding mentality
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- Опубліковано 19 кві 2022
- Across the years, we’ve delved into the junk accumulated by many artists and producers. But for this episode of Show Us Your Junk, we’re looking inward.
In the latest S.U.Y.J episode, we’re staying right in our hometown of Akron, Ohio, and looking at some of the junk amassed by EarthQuaker Devices’ founder, lead designer, and president Jamie F. Stillman. Jamie’s gear collecting (or “gear hoarding” as he refers to it) began as a young teen and, through the years, has become extensive enough to fill his home basement and most of another building. Of course, that other home for the gear hoard doubles as the former EQD HQ and current practice space and studio. But still, it’s a lot of stuff. Jamie takes us through racks of vintage, classic, and some just old, cheap, and utterly oddball gear, from a pristine Roland Space Echo to an elaborate D.I.Y. multi-part pedalboard/spaceship/giant metal boomerang-looking rig with a “Frank Zappa” footswitch among its many settings.
If you’ve ever wondered what kind of pedal collection a pedal maker would have, here is your answer. Jamie’s got shelves filled with classic, vintage, and interesting pedals (yes, including the Miku Stomp and a fuzz pedal made by Marlboro). He’s also got drawers full of pre-EQD pedals and early prototypes of future and long-gone EQD pedals. Dig the extensive collection of beloved vintage and junky fuzz pedals with some classic tremolo and vibes. There are also synths, a plethora of nice and cheap guitars, including a few rare and custom handcrafted beauties, and a bunch of Jazzmasters. So sit a spell and check out Jamie’s junk, and perhaps if you too are a gear accumulator, you can commiserate with him as he talks of the anxiety caused by his decades of hoarding gear, some of which seldom gets used. Sure Jamie realizes that gear is made to be used and “shouldn’t just sit around and collect dust in a basement in Akron, Ohio.”
But hey, gear accumulators are gonna accumulate.
“The real hoarder mentality is that even though I know have all this stuff that other people could use,” Jamie says.
“The next thought in my head is...but it’s mine.”
Yeah, we get it, Jamie.
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I've been watching birds, squirrels and rabbits in Akron livestream, but this is even more wild!
First comment, best comment. Change my mind.
Hilarious.
That floor console/delay/pedalboard/spaceship control thingy is honestly one of the coolest things I've ever seen. If I were Jamie, I'd probably bankrupt the company (and my sanity) just to hear what the Frank Zappa button does.
Whether it sounded like waka or jawakka, that would be fine with me!
It probably sounds something like a cross between a Telefunken U-47 through a cheesy little amp called a Fender Champ and a Stratocaster with a whammy bar? Just as long as you keep it greasy, so it goes down easy; especially if it involves Catholic girls or kitchen appliances?! ;O
the design looks like something from ESSR era Estonia
Just take it to work, open it up, make 100 pedalboard workers take a peek at it, fixed within a week. Dunno about that space echo thought, who knows how to fix those?
In my eyes, the barely functioning pile of junk in the basement of a pedal designer who gets inspired by it, is more useful than a thousand priceless guitars kept by a collector who never touches them.
u rite
@@EarthQuakerDevices true
Agreed !
I love this. It finally puts to words how I can explain to my wife that although I’m not using all of the devices at once, they all somehow inspire curiosity both in music and critical thinking. I love staring at something and wondering how it does what it does, and going down rabbit holes that lead to new knowledge. If I have 3 different boss bd2’s it’s because they inspire me. I’ll try that with my wife instead of “because pedals are rad.”
"...but it's mine!"
I love you so much for saying that, haha!
Generous and passionate. Love the fact that, as an effect designer, you play any type of guitar. Not meaning any pedal should work with any guitar, just about the interactions and their preferred territories for each effect model. Great video editing by the way. Thank you
Jamie’s “show us your junk” is always entertaining. Can we have another “does this work” episode too?
Thanks! We're cranking out rad content as fast as we can. Promise! See you in the pit! 🤙🏽
@@EarthQuakerDevices This truly was one of the best episodes yet.
This series is the best thing on youtube by a mile! Another superb episode
aw shucks! thank you eternally!
that first guitar is from Chuck Levins "Washington Music Center" (and they carry EarthQuaker now), was their house brand.
boom. thanks!
What a coincidence! I was watching a video on the rdavidr drum-DIY channel only yesterday in which he'd bought an old drum kit from someone that had a 'Chuck Levins Washington Music Center' stamp on one of the heads 😀 I had never heard of that shop ever before, plus I live outside of the US! 😄
Chuck's is the most amazing store.
The man, the myth, the legend.
Name his favorite brand of socks. KIDDING! NEVER wears socks. Ever. KIDDING! But seriously though, just joking around...
😆
That was brilliant! The folk art pedal board is amazing. I hope someday he gets it running. What a cool guy.
The Coolest 😊
Love that Epi Scroll and was so lucky to see you rock it in that clip!
come back Andy💯❤️🔥
just had one for sale here on market place a couple of days ago for $100. I didn't get to it fast enough
your smile game is extremely strong and seems genuine
😃
Nice guy, nice collection, good video
This guy is my people.
I didn't know anything about the founder until this video but I really love his honesty regarding gear and collecting stuff, he seems really entertaining. Here's hoping I buy something from you someday!
That RD Scale Model guitar looks amazing! Love that swooping RD body shape.
It does! 😍
Holy crap that space station pedal board is so awesome. I would never want to tour with it but I would 100% have it in my home jam space.
You and me both!
like someone else here said, you may have anxiety about this stuff not being used, but if by owning it it inspires you to make and produce just one awesome pedal that in turn could inspire 1000s..... all worth it
The original earthquaker pedals with the awesome artwork are so amazing 🤩
pretty remarkable huh
@@EarthQuakerDevices I would do shameful things to get my hands on one 🤫
This is quite honestly the best ever video ever uploaded to youtube!!! What an awesome way to spend an hour! Thank you EQD!!!!
I'd love to see a Justin Meldal-Johnsen episode of Show Us Your Junk next!
That would be sick. Thanks for the request!
This is so bloody calming
Even more than the pedals and stuff, I love hearing the stories and history behind them. Great episode.
Thanks for listening!
Excellent episode! Thanks Jamie
thanks for watchin!
Great hoarding,...sorry collection! I did had that "Tascam" 12track K7 recorder, and it sounded great!
27:15 Emmett Kelly of The Freedom Band has a miku stomp for extra weird squalls on Squealer. Something to talk about when discussing the miku stomp.
Great episode, I’ve got nowhere near that amount of gear, but I do understand the whole “it’s just sitting there” issue haha.
plumes will forever be on my board. Love you guys and this channel! Keep RAWKIN!!!💙from🇨🇦🍻
You're the best! We love you Canada🌲
I could listen to Jamie talk gear ALL day long
In fact, I might just do that
*loop mode on*
And also own a "Swiss Things" (live nearby Switzerland!), and I'm going for the "Sunn" pedal. We actually had one Sunn bass amp, way to big & powerfull to bring to a rehearsal!!! It was like 800watts 2 Ohms (?)... The peaker had that 'bass reflex' shape. But the Head kept blowing speakers!
That Epiphone Scroll is boss. So freakin' cool.
boss dawg
This is pretty funny, I'm a big fan/owner of the pedals for a few years + was pleasantly surprised by his affinity for Music Man 130's. I recently bought an early one in fantastic condition. I
have not truly tested it's durability by playing it out much, but it is a fantastic pedal platform for pedals ~ namely the eqd's.
Jamie building that behemoth mother ship of a board is like Leslie Nielson starting with a gun and ending with a tank in Naked Gun. So enjoyable🤣
Thanks for timely reminder of the Miku pedal i have sitting in my gear cupboard which i don't use but sounded like a great idea to buy at the time!
One of my mentors. Big up Jamie, much blessings and success
Thanks for watching, and for all of your support. Really! Thank you!
Very nice!
Love the channel ~ Keep up the great work!! Thanks so much for sharing your stuff Jamie ~ Love your mischievous smile when you hold some of the stuff, and clutching it close... This sentiment and appreciation hits home. I love all the quirky gear in my horde as well... my favorite pedal is the EQD Gray Channel.. CRANKED with the Black Eye and when paired with the Nightwire and the Dispatch Master, I get a few more times around the sun before I realize what has even happened.
thanx 4 hanging around here and for using our stuff!
Dave from Scale Model is the raddest guy. Brought my '80's Burny Les Paul Custom back to life. Would love to have a custom build of his one day. May or may not have started drooling over that Guild s70. That body shape is just too cool.
drool awaaayyy droool awaaayyyyyy
Tim, I have a Burny LP Custom which might easily be the best guitar I have owned, possibly ever played.
I saw a Rhythm Ace FR-6 in the background. I have one of those. Fun to play with!! love this video. I total understand Jamies final statements of the video.
this guy's hoarding is so insane, i love it, a true nerd
LIFERRRRR
Shoutout to the old Lentines music in Canton!
I would love to see some of those super old pedals redone. Fantastic beast has such cool artwork!!!
Nice to see that Jaimie can't pick up a pedal without click-clicking the switch just like the rest of us 😅
Nice, long awaited.
Enjoy
Jamie is so cool! great episode!!!!
thanks very much for checking it out!
Cosmos 1999 pedalboard! Briliant
jamie is the best guitarist i ever saw. After repeatedly whipping me in the face with his hair whilst head banging he walked through the crowd and played a song in the toilet! live changing!
Hulk Hogan status
3:23 Man's got great taste.👍
Super enjoyable watch...
Glad you think so!
Following Jamie's rig for years over the internet....very impressive. I love everything about this video, he's great guy !
Rock On EQD crew ;-)
Rock on! Thank you for the love!
jamie on stage is a completely different human lmao
Cool stuff ! You need to fix that Space Echo. I always loved Peter Buck's Rick 360 tones, especially on Monster. I'm up here in Elyria Ohio. I have some cool Leslie, Vibratones . Love that sound. Big fan of 12 strings too and have had many, including a Rickenbacker Harrison style 360v64, 660 12, 330 12 but the best one to me was a MIJ Fender Stratocaster 12 from 1987. E series. Plays and sounds incredible
I bought of EQD's Namm guitars and its great whoever built it Thanks !! ( The white warmoth tele with trem)
This rules. This video was one of my favorites and seeing all the crazy shit.
Bought a guitar off Jamie from Reverb and picking it up today. Life's a funny place sometimes.
That's awesome!
47:44 Was wondering what that was. Really cool, you could totally pull it off!
"But its mine" I've got that disease too, haha. Bless you for sharing your gear journey with us. I think I'm even more of an EQD fan now
Best video to come out on 4/20
we know what you want on your favorite day
The Plumes and Avalanche Run are mainstays on my board, I love all of this weird shit, I love gear. Much love from Iowa.
Thanks for tha love and support! We love Iowa!
Very cool. I'm glad someone is collecting that stuff. I've found some things at the dump.
You and me both!
I noticed he presses the switch on every pedal he picks up . . . And now every time he does it, I can’t unsee it
and why would you want to, really?
You know you love pedals, when you pick them up and have to click them twice... kind of like a power drill.
it's the thing you click
I love this stuff.
we love you!
I saw Party Of Helicopters and they were mind blowing! Harrisonburg, VA 1999ish!
classic era POH 👊🏽
@@EarthQuakerDevices wish I got to see Harriett The Spy! Loved you guys 💕
I just found my first earthquaker pedal! A dispatch master! Love it in that guitar!
you might never turn it off watch out
The huge huge pin connection looks like exactly like the ones I use l at work on helicopters. It’s definitely an aircraft electrical cannon plug.
This was awesome
happy you viewed it😊
Very impressive collection
Many many thanks
This is super Awsome... I can relate to so many aspects... Thank you for all the great pedals you make. My next purchase is going to be the night wire... But I promised to buy no more stuff this year so maybe I have to wait for that a little bit :')
Awesome, thank you!
Why did you discontinue the Transmisser? I need one badly and they are nowhere to be found....😭😭
Super cool to see the collection. Shout out to Guitar Riot, I just started playing guitar last year, went there shortly after, a lot of the gear there was unfamiliar to me, definitely need to make a 2nd visit. As an Ohioan, it's awesome to see the impact the state has on the guitar world.
what kinda pizza are you trying to hit when in town
This is like my dream basement.
dream. nightmare. it's all the same!
Amp hammer sounds awesome! Do tell....
This series is really finding its groove.
glad you feel it
I get the same anxiety about all the gear I’ve hoarded over the years. I really need to clear it all out. I have a lot of similar gear to yours.
You need to need to get that crazy pedal board to Sam Battle. I bet that he would get it working and it would make an excellent addition to his museum. Better than just letting it sit there👍
EQD will always be one of the premier boutique builders that offered true alternatives to standard effects, and more affordable versions of more rare circuits.Lot of competition these days, but I've still got as much of their stuff on the boards as anything else.
I think it's because JS has always understood that their is no such thing as useless gear, - only unimaginative players.
The ear knows⚡️
I sold my Pro Jr. - that I already deeply regret - to a Dr. - in Green - in a plaza next to a grocery store. Would have loved to check that board out. Damn. Maybe he was a dentist. He was definitely an MD.
the gear that gets swapped in green always comes back thru green
I was just thinking about selling most of my vintage gear, and then this came out.. Thanx man ii feel a lot better now ! who needs two Space echos? ME, ITS MINE! 😂
Rock on!
Oh man... I feel like the spaceship control needs to just be a switch control for a bunch of hidden EQD pedals until it can be actually finished.
I used to go to Empire Music with a freind- we would buy Larry a coffee and he would let us play all the vintage amps and occasiionally get out the '59 Bassman and jam- I learned a lot about what different amps sound like which came in handy for building clones later
well there ya go. it's all in the ears!
Hi there, greetings from France! I have an Epiphone Scroll 550, black finish with a tune-o-matic bridge... It still plays well though it's all beat up... First guitar I ever owned!
The thought of Pat buying a pedal that didn't work for ten dollars, then just letting you have it after you reconnected the battery to fix it, sounds exactly like something Pat would do.
I sold you the gold Firebird! Loved that guitar.
💯😍 thanks!
The little rye smile u got on your face while ur talking abkut those goofy amp heads on the shelf, is the same fuckin smile i am forced to wear whenever i am describing the iterations of my own personally designed envelope filter pedal. I am on pedal iteration #102 lmao. Which, sadly maybe, means that i have designed, redesigned and built out 101 pedals prior to the current one. But....i believe that i nailed the idea and sound and capabilities of my idea of a perfect envfil. Currently working on making it smaller so i can route out a spot under tele pick guards without routing too much meat
I saw that damn Star Trek lookin board on forums too back in the day lol
If you want to get rid of that vistalite floor tom, I’ll take it off your hands!
Awesome
😎
I love what bilt does with their guitars with pedals in them, I would do anything for a eqd, jhs and obne one
😎
Ace Tone is early Roland
The 330 lore is rampant in this video
🔥
Wait... I like that powder blue on that tele. I'm usually very picky with blue. But I think that's a nice tone/shade
That’s my black Sonor kit that Jamie just called “garbage.”
💋 hot. hot garbage.
It's more about the unicorn mask than the drums
Well…
That modular pedalboard thing would’ve been cool if worked.
I wonder if the site still existed.
I need the “this is my pedalboard” meme image, needs a comeback.
Oh... And I do have the Bass that goes with that guitar (B-301 ?), that belonged to "Status Quo" Bassist!
This is so sick, need an EQD ped asap
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Still have never played a EQD pedal :( and those Medieval graphics on the early pedals are brillant
try us out
Have to fix that floor console! And document it - I'd watch!
we'll holler if that ever happens *crickets* oh dang
I'm sure someone has commented below on how to get the Guy sound on a Rickenbacker 360... i saw him play with that blonde 360 he had.... WAY back on the Repeater tour.. 1991? I remember he stuffed the sound holes with foam!! it seemed to work...1!!:)
Much appreciation for the love of esoteric Japanese and European guitars with too many switches and questionable playability, my basement if full of half playable broken things that way too much money was spent on as well. Cheers!
My hero
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