Jeff has gotta be the coolest guitar and most quotable guitar tech around. Love the espresso machine - grinds the beans fresh for each cup, my daughter has pretty much the same machine
Thanks,"Premier Guitar" and "Heart" for sharing this video with the public.. I was hoping they would present this one day and now they have. It was exciting to see the gear up close and listen to the stories behind them.
That was a really good rundown. Easily one of the best I've seen. Jeff is a cool guy, and I can see how he got gigs with some of the best in the business.
I started in 1985 and my amp was the Carvin X100B with the full speaker stack. It was so much of a great Amp Carvin brought it back and you can still get it today.
What a great collection of guitars! The light blue strat has what is either a Duncan JB Jr or Lil' 59 and the bridge is certainly a Duckbucker. Neck is probably an SSL-5. Love the tele with the two Duncan designed P90s. I recommend P90s in any guitar repertoire, because it's a great tone to have on tap. Duncan and DiMarzio both make outstanding P90s. The Hot P90s really kick butt.
Dude, you totally dropped the ball on the espresso machine! We need to know psi, year of manufacture, water capacity...this is an essential component of Heart's sound!
I build the boost on his board. that one is an aj peat rooster booster. I designed and built them for Jims company. I also do one that has an additional control through my company sound sounds
The Line 6 Variax may be the most underrated guitar technology in the world, in my opinion. Just amazing, versatile and great sounding technology that still seems to be looking for an inspired guitar to live in.
I had Duncan Designed in a Schecter and they were phenomenal! Forget the friggin' brand-listen to the darn things! I've played great sounding Squires for god sake!
Love the black Gibson. My first husband, Joe Alessandra (RIP) had one... if not the exact edition, very similar from 1971. I'm a forever hardcore fan of guitarist, Howard Leese, but nice to hear from Craig as I have liked his playing with HEART since Howard moved forward in his career. Is that the tele that Howard gave to Nancy? Rockin' interview
I wouldn't say the current Vox amps are junk. The first generations from korg were a bit off track, but they are back to making good old AC15 and AC30. I got the AC15C1 a year or two ago and I love it in all ways.
Pretty sure that Tele with P90's started off as a Squier. they made a Tele Custom with Duncan Designed P90's in that exact color and black pickguard with those knobs. Those models came with the Strat-style hardtail bridge. It looks like the tech routed the body for a Strat Trem and put on a Fender neck.
7:27 totally agree on the G&L. There is something akin to magic about it. IOW, it's greater than the sum of its parts. I've played and owned many Teles (but more Strats), and my ASAT is beyond most of my guitars, including my Fullerton Legacy. In fact, at this moment I'm looking at my blonde ASAT, have an SG on my lap (was putting the truss cover back on), but have my D-35 plugged into my amp as I've been playing "Keep Your Love...". Fun!
The tele with the dd pups basically looks like a squier vintage modified tele p90 with a fender neck and then routed out the space for the trem and fitted it xD good guitar though, squier are awesome
The G&L is my go to guitar and one that will stay with me forever. The pickups are just so good. It’s nice to see them loved. Interesting how often you see the Line 6 Variax guitars appear. I wonder if this is an American made or the Korean?
first concert I ever went to was heart at the Albany Georgia civic center back in the mid 80s. I remember them playing barracuda vividly. they turned all the lights off and turned the spotlight on when he hit the first chord. he was playing some crazy space age looking guitar and I've been trying to figure out what kind of guitar it was for years. it wasn't in this run down.
Roger Fisher and Howard Leese were Hearts guitarists during their hey day. You might be thinking about the guitar in this pic www.google.com/search?q=howard+leese+space+age+guitar&safe=active&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjskP_E6KLYAhXJ5yYKHRJpBL0Q_AUICigB&biw=1920&bih=949#imgrc=YvSOct1cy537RM:
the Black boost/ Gain is an AJ Peat Rooster Booster. I ( Jonny Hafer of Sound Sounds Fuzz) designed and built the boost. Aj Peat still has them made how ever they are built by john cusak now. I still do a Range of hand built Booster mostly Germanium Models.
Kudos to Craig for speaking from the heart (aka, the truth) about the new Vox amps. They need to do what so many (Fender and Marshall, etc.) have done and release authenticate re-creations of their classic amps that don't have an exorbitant price tag.
I've had an epiphone nighthawk since the mid 90s when I was a kid, still have it, things not great in ways but cool also..I think the Heart chick is the only famous person I've ever heard of using them
Kudos to the Guitar tech. That Craig didn't know the gauge of his strings....gads! Dude. And for all the triple pickups (even though he doesn't USE them...) we say "Thank you, Dr. Brian May..."
I saw heart at the half shell in Boston on the Charles River in 1975 I think it was 75 whenever they did that live free concert I forget I think it was 75 anybody can remind me of what date that was I was there that was fuckingawesome great times great music can't we turn back the clock and go back to 75 that's when life was good. planets f***** up now everybody so f****** whacked out of their minds Where Have All the Good Times Gone there in 1975
He's helping out his buddy....good to know that there is still a trade that has a brethren and haven't been absorbed by self serving yuppie greedheads like most of the workplace....
hold up!! at 31:51... a new tremolo system??? Trem King??? proto type?? when was this video filmed?? I've been looking at Trem King trems for at least a couple of years and I'm installing that exact model, TK3, right now in a custom Tele that I'm building. So if this is the 'only one' I must have an extremely valuable item :) Let's start the bidding at $10,000... lol
I knew Nancy was a tough girl who has strong fingers, but I am shocked she uses 10's on her electrics and mediums on her acoustics. I don't know if I could go up to 10's for sure....and I have lights on my acoustics. Awesome Rundown video. I met Jeff once in New Orleans - nicest guy EVER and so cool!
The only strings I use on my Ibanez PS40 are D'addario NYXL 11-56. The one that comes with an orange NYXL sticker. I can play in standard and then put it in drop c with no problems
Damn! I passed on one of those 68 SGs with the P90 and Bigsby like Nancy has for $300-. I wish I had it now. Not pretty, not mint, but a decent player, and $300? A steal! I'm just not much of an SG guy I guess.
Ibanez iceman for $200 before they got popular. and wacks of Deans for the same before they picked up dimebag. and all the les pauls you could ever want for $300-400 before the big late 80's boom that pushed them well into the 4 digits.
I realize this is an old video, and this is and odd question and slightly unrelated; but is this Dan Rothchild the same guy who played with David Boyle on "The Indonesian Experience", Bodyboarding video from 1990? I'm trying to find the music from that video. It's Amazing.
my main guitar has an SD dimebag in the bridge and the legendarily bad INF1 in the neck and for SOME things the inf is perfect.my fav guitar's center single is from a $15 gfs clearance set and its MAGICAL. it's not about the brand name
Yak Sox * The Duncan designs SC101 or 102s' that came in my strat are so freaking Good ! I also have a jagmaster and the Duncan design HB103 that came in that guitar sucked, maybe I will try transplanting then into an SG or Les Paul to see if they sound better than in the jagmaster because I have had that happen when pickups sound like shit in the guitar that came loaded with those pickups and when swapped into a different guitar they sound way better and they turn out to be great pickups, just not in certain GUITARs. All in all I have had Duncan design pickups that sound better than anything else at thrice the price.
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This is an instant classic rig rundown. The tech seems like the coolest dude ever.
Jeff the guitar tech was PEARL JAMs tech and Neil Young's tech as well as many others that I'm forgetting right now, but yeah he is super cool !
And he's a super nice guy as well.
@@alannabucknell363 Unless your not part of his elitest bullshit cant kiss my arse Rothprick.
Jeff has gotta be the coolest guitar and most quotable guitar tech around. Love the espresso machine - grinds the beans fresh for each cup, my daughter has pretty much the same machine
From ntk
Thanks,"Premier Guitar" and "Heart" for sharing this video with the public.. I was hoping they would present this one day and now they have. It was exciting to see the gear up close and listen to the stories behind them.
I was at HEART's concert last night (1-29-16) and I just want you to know that Ann drinks FIJI water on stage
(Square bottle - vintage 2015).
If you have enough money you can buy anything. He or She in this case whom has all of the gold gets what they want.
I love the old school guitar techs no bullshit, they know their job and equipment, its simple and to the point.
That was a really good rundown. Easily one of the best I've seen. Jeff is a cool guy, and I can see how he got gigs with some of the best in the business.
I started in 1985 and my amp was the Carvin X100B with the full speaker stack. It was so much of a great Amp Carvin brought it back and you can still get it today.
Awesome interview! Huge Heart fan. Very interesting to hear what they run, etc. So many cool guitars..
1st rig rundown with book plugs! Love it! Love this tech! Great dude!!! Love his work station.
jeff the tech should start doing rig rundowns
That is the coolest bass I've ever seen. Talk about making something your own.
What a great collection of guitars! The light blue strat has what is either a Duncan JB Jr or Lil' 59 and the bridge is certainly a Duckbucker. Neck is probably an SSL-5. Love the tele with the two Duncan designed P90s. I recommend P90s in any guitar repertoire, because it's a great tone to have on tap. Duncan and DiMarzio both make outstanding P90s. The Hot P90s really kick butt.
Thanks for the p90 advice. Def agree on the Duncan's. Wish I never pulled that lil 59 and lil Jb outta my frankenstrat.
Jeff may be the coolest tech ever. What a dude :)
My favorite band !! Seen them so many times live !!
Just saw them, along with Cheap Trick, in San Antonio 5/24.
Dude, you totally dropped the ball on the espresso machine! We need to know psi, year of manufacture, water capacity...this is an essential component of Heart's sound!
That blonde Tele with the Duncan designed pickups is a squire from years ago and his guy put a fender neck on it.
Thanks for always just letting them talk.
I hate it when an interviewer feels a need to make themselves the topic. :)
The middle pickup on the blue strat is a Seymour Duncan 'Duckbucker'
Mister Tee Yeah, I have one in my G&L strat.
Nancys tech is cool. I'd love to just sit and talk with him about his life experiences.
Lotta coke
Agreed - Jeff is obviously a great tech. Love the coffee maker addition.
The best guitar tech ever! Great rig rundown guys, thank u.
"I've never seen the mini bucker with staggered slugs, what is it?"
"I don't know, I don't really use it very much."
*Am I watching Spinal Tap?*
Jeff would be a great guy to work or party with, immediately sold me on the Guitarist's Maintenance book.
I build the boost on his board. that one is an aj peat rooster booster. I designed and built them for Jims company. I also do one that has an additional control through my company sound sounds
Wow I didn’t know Nancy plays a gibson sg too! That’s why I love her and Angus and Tony Iommi so much! I own a Epiphone SG all sg players!
He totally stole Nancy's pick.
Geoff Stephens Girls don't have picks.
+Geoff Stephens ☺
Better that than her underwear.
Ford Driver I really don’t think so, man.
I would've too
The Line 6 Variax may be the most underrated guitar technology in the world, in my opinion. Just amazing, versatile and great sounding technology that still seems to be looking for an inspired guitar to live in.
Knew Nancy was a real player med strings clean sound. Love to hear she has two hands that's what you hear. She plays Zeplin as well as Page.
That guitar tech at the end was pretty cool haha
"I use really heavy gauge strings for the alternate tuning in "The Rain Song"...what are these again?"
"10's"
😂
rex racer Since these guys typically use 8s and 9s i know what he was getting at
This was great, more like the older ones.
Id love love love a RR on COLLECTIVE SOUL AND SEVENDUST!! This channel and these RR's are amazin!
"Karl. He's the only one that understands me." EPIC !!!!
Great video. Love Nancy's playing. Where do old retired guitar techs go to? LOL
hawg427 they hang out with kids...and write childrens books
To rock n roll heaven of course! I hear they have a helluva band.
I had Duncan Designed in a Schecter and they were phenomenal! Forget the friggin' brand-listen to the darn things! I've played great sounding Squires for god sake!
Dan is so awesome. Super knowledgeable guy!
I Love Beat Up Old Guitars
the ones that are beat up from play. these wannabes who pay to have them beat up make me puke
that has got to be the best one other than the Brian May rundown.. of course I LOVE Heart so this was COOL!! thanks
Jeff rules.........I need both those books shown.
Love the black Gibson. My first husband, Joe Alessandra (RIP) had one... if not the exact edition, very similar from 1971. I'm a forever hardcore fan of guitarist, Howard Leese, but nice to hear from Craig as I have liked his playing with HEART since Howard moved forward in his career. Is that the tele that Howard gave to Nancy? Rockin' interview
That middle pickup on the first guitar looks like a Duckbucker.
I wouldn't say the current Vox amps are junk. The first generations from korg were a bit off track, but they are back to making good old AC15 and AC30. I got the AC15C1 a year or two ago and I love it in all ways.
Great one! That tech is a riot. Lovely man!
I have the book, it is awesome.
+Michael Smith not the kid book, the guitar maintenance book at 30:10
Pretty sure that Tele with P90's started off as a Squier. they made a Tele Custom with Duncan Designed P90's in that exact color and black pickguard with those knobs. Those models came with the Strat-style hardtail bridge. It looks like the tech routed the body for a Strat Trem and put on a Fender neck.
im inclined to agree
I love the key kill switch! I want to start my guitar like a car!
10:34 Craig Bartock: "everything else is original".....
you can see the holes of previous tuners in the back of the headstock ahahaha
Original, I believe..
Look like he swapped the top set and bottom set..vice versa..
Great Run Down
Awesome Video
Thanks
Great this....love the Nighthawks....Some fabulous guitars in this though. Never seen that Bigsby accessory...what a useful thing that must be...
Definitely is
That was an awesome show.
7:27 totally agree on the G&L. There is something akin to magic about it. IOW, it's greater than the sum of its parts. I've played and owned many Teles (but more Strats), and my ASAT is beyond most of my guitars, including my Fullerton Legacy. In fact, at this moment I'm looking at my blonde ASAT, have an SG on my lap (was putting the truss cover back on), but have my D-35 plugged into my amp as I've been playing "Keep Your Love...". Fun!
The tele with the dd pups basically looks like a squier vintage modified tele p90 with a fender neck and then routed out the space for the trem and fitted it xD good guitar though, squier are awesome
The G&L is my go to guitar and one that will stay with me forever. The pickups are just so good. It’s nice to see them loved. Interesting how often you see the Line 6 Variax guitars appear. I wonder if this is an American made or the Korean?
I absolutely LOVE that bass
Thanks. Enjoyed this a lot.
The middle one is a Seymour Duncan Duckbucker.
first concert I ever went to was heart at the Albany Georgia civic center back in the mid 80s. I remember them playing barracuda vividly. they turned all the lights off and turned the spotlight on when he hit the first chord. he was playing some crazy space age looking guitar and I've been trying to figure out what kind of guitar it was for years. it wasn't in this run down.
Roger Fisher and Howard Leese were Hearts guitarists during their hey day. You might be thinking about the guitar in this pic www.google.com/search?q=howard+leese+space+age+guitar&safe=active&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjskP_E6KLYAhXJ5yYKHRJpBL0Q_AUICigB&biw=1920&bih=949#imgrc=YvSOct1cy537RM:
right after I wrote this comment I think I figured it out. it was a roland g 707 I think. I started searching like crazy till I figured it out.
I had a Nighthawk once. It didn't kill any of my Strats, as I sold it after about 2 weeks.
the Black boost/ Gain is an AJ Peat Rooster Booster. I ( Jonny Hafer of Sound Sounds Fuzz) designed and built the boost. Aj Peat still has them made how ever they are built by john cusak now. I still do a Range of hand built Booster mostly Germanium Models.
Great Vid. Friendly people too!!
Kudos to Craig for speaking from the heart (aka, the truth) about the new Vox amps. They need to do what so many (Fender and Marshall, etc.) have done and release authenticate re-creations of their classic amps that don't have an exorbitant price tag.
And Hats Off to this Roadie!
"You got me, let's light it on fire and see what happens" - lol thats awesome
love the rig rundowns !
Paul Rothchild's son plays with Heart? Holy cow, now THAT'S a lineage.
Love that set list!
I've had an epiphone nighthawk since the mid 90s when I was a kid, still have it, things not great in ways but cool also..I think the Heart chick is the only famous person I've ever heard of using them
Love that Nancy plays a Robin Trower song. Love Robin Trower.
Saundra Hillinger day of the eagle, no less.
OMG...the action on that Precision!
Kudos to the Guitar tech. That Craig didn't know the gauge of his strings....gads! Dude. And for all the triple pickups (even though he doesn't USE them...) we say "Thank you, Dr. Brian May..."
Man this guitarist is older than dirt, as solid as concrete and humorous as a three legged antelope ...great guy good stories...
I saw heart at the half shell in Boston on the Charles River in 1975 I think it was 75 whenever they did that live free concert I forget I think it was 75 anybody can remind me of what date that was I was there that was fuckingawesome great times great music can't we turn back the clock and go back to 75 that's when life was good. planets f***** up now everybody so f****** whacked out of their minds Where Have All the Good Times Gone there in 1975
lol the tech plugging those books like hes on the tonight show.
He's helping out his buddy....good to know that there is still a trade that has a brethren and haven't been absorbed by self serving yuppie greedheads like most of the workplace....
Celestion should really switch the name of the Vintage 30 to Vintage 60 so that people stop thinking that it's a 30 watt speaker
NICKHAM16 perhaps they are loaded with g12h30s?
hold up!! at 31:51... a new tremolo system??? Trem King??? proto type?? when was this video filmed?? I've been looking at Trem King trems for at least a couple of years and I'm installing that exact model, TK3, right now in a custom Tele that I'm building. So if this is the 'only one' I must have an extremely valuable item :) Let's start the bidding at $10,000... lol
Jeff is the man!!!👍👍👍👍🍷🍷
I saw him steal that guitar pick. He slipped it into his pocket!!
Heart is classic
Cool!
What a cool guitar tech!😄
I love "How Do I Get You Alone".
I knew Nancy was a tough girl who has strong fingers, but I am shocked she uses 10's on her electrics and mediums on her acoustics. I don't know if I could go up to 10's for sure....and I have lights on my acoustics. Awesome Rundown video. I met Jeff once in New Orleans - nicest guy EVER and so cool!
10s aren't heavy...
They're heavy for me. I tried 'em....killed my fingers....went back to .009's.
ImSuperHaute 10's are usually considered "medium," dude. SRV used anything from 13-18 for his high "E."" You just gotta practice and stick it out.
.10's are light, .11's are medium, the rest on down are heavy.
The only strings I use on my Ibanez PS40 are D'addario NYXL 11-56. The one that comes with an orange NYXL sticker. I can play in standard and then put it in drop c with no problems
nice tools for the great job
This felt like a rig rundown from somebody's grandparents!
great to see,a non geek gear head muso.
Damn! I passed on one of those 68 SGs with the P90 and Bigsby like Nancy has for $300-. I wish I had it now. Not pretty, not mint, but a decent player, and $300? A steal! I'm just not much of an SG guy I guess.
Just like cars if I only knew, 500$ gtos were common
Ibanez iceman for $200 before they got popular. and wacks of Deans for the same before they picked up dimebag. and all the les pauls you could ever want for $300-400 before the big late 80's boom that pushed them well into the 4 digits.
I realize this is an old video, and this is and odd question and slightly unrelated; but is this Dan Rothchild the same guy who played with David Boyle on "The Indonesian Experience", Bodyboarding video from 1990? I'm trying to find the music from that video. It's Amazing.
The only thing you need to do to make a Strat stay in tune is string it properly.
I like the guitar repair book at 30:16. I thought these techs already know what there doing.
great Warner T Hodges shirt!!
Ain't too proud to not use Duncan Designed.
my main guitar has an SD dimebag in the bridge and the legendarily bad INF1 in the neck and for SOME things the inf is perfect.my fav guitar's center single is from a $15 gfs clearance set and its MAGICAL. it's not about the brand name
Yak Sox * The Duncan designs SC101 or 102s' that came in my strat are so freaking Good ! I also have a jagmaster and the Duncan design HB103 that came in that guitar sucked, maybe I will try transplanting then into an SG or Les Paul to see if they sound better than in the jagmaster because I have had that happen when pickups sound like shit in the guitar that came loaded with those pickups and when swapped into a different guitar they sound way better and they turn out to be great pickups, just not in certain GUITARs. All in all I have had Duncan design pickups that sound better than anything else at thrice the price.
Crazy that she’s used that same mandolin for over 30 years.
Wish I was on the paper route that he was on to get that Les Paul!
jeff is so cool, he even can brew coffee LOL ... now that's great guitar tech!
... (6:45 )..
GOD,, I want that G&L Telecaster !!!!
I own 6 of them and they sound better than Fenders 🐕🎸
Awesome
I can't find that badass bridge copy anywhere can someone help me out
I'd love to know more about that tuning selector!
The vox v125 Speakers’s are fane speakers.
What an interesting strat that tourqoise is