Live From Flat V - Matt Schofield Interview
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- Опубліковано 19 лис 2020
- Interview with my great friend Matt Schofield.
www.mattschofield.com/
www.mattschofield.com/truefire/
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Seen Matt multiple times, each at small venues with 200-400 attending. Almost all of them guitar nerds and their wives or dates. It’s a modest living at best and I respect their dedication to craft and empathize with their sense of loss. The pandemic is a tragic disruption of the economic model of live touring. There’s no virtual substitute for the power of Matt or Josh at 110db on stage with the energy of the crowd and their band pushing them. I continue to purchase each one of their TrueFire courses and parse each lesson like it was the Rosetta Stone, hoping it keeps them going until I can buy their show tickets again.
Matt Schofield is a great musician and great guy. I was so lucky to see him live here’s in Italy not a long ago. The stuff he has on Truefire is the most inspring and learning materials I have ever found. Always interesting to listen to these two guys even when they are not playing.
Love you guys. I got a 3/4 nylon string when I was eight and lived in the UK age 12 to 16, 1964 to 68. Going to the music room at school and learning those beautiful songs by ear with friends. I’m 70 now with a strat and a keyboard doing 60s music gigs for the first time ever and learning a lot from you two amazing people. Thanks!
Imagine a blues review tour with Matt, Josh and Kirk Fletcher. That just has to be worth 1000+ seat venues and a bus!
Right on.
It's a tour that should be organised
If it’s anywhere on the West Coast I’d buy a ticket.
My dream blues show, my 3 faves
Open and honest, ...and sometimes very funny.
All about music.
Thanks Josh and Matt.
Two of my most favorite musicians!
You guys are two of my favourite guitarists. Thank you this was a great interview 🙂🎶👍🎸
The best of the blues man, toughetr jd simo, sayce. thank God, thank you guys for the great moments of the blues
Thanks so much for bringing up BB's musical sophistication. Every time I saw him from the 60s through when he was sitting down and talking more than singing, he would play some jazzy lick that would whip my head around with a WTF was that?
Just saw this....
I'll promise you both If or next time you come to Sweden i'll be first in line ...
No one has inspired me so much as you have the last 5 years...👏👏👍👍
Great video thanks ! Matt S. Is the one I started with in that generation, bought his albums and couldnt stop tapping my foot ! For me he still made the best albums of the last 15 years as far as the new blues generation goes.
Seen him many times in london, can’t wait for concerts to be back again
I can see why these like/respect each other. Both tasty/soulful players with great sense of blues history in their playing yet each brings something new & unique to the genre. To boot each guy is influenced by different styles adding extra magic to their playing. 🙏🎸🎶
Thank you for this Josh - a real privilege to be able to hear two of my favourite players on the planet like this!
I LOVED this conversation. Great to hear you guys talk openly about your place in the community and I thought it was hilarious and NOT at all arrogant or full of yourselves. Would love to see you get more of the "golden years" treatment.
Two of today's best guitarists chatting. Fab conversation / interview. Thanks Josh and Matt! Grounding and inspiring.
Our pleasure!
It was pleasure to see and hear you gentlemen, very interesting conversation !
You are two of the absolute best!
Thanks for this one. Both of you, truly great players and both of you have some of the best sound of today’s guitar driven music that I have found. I’m the same age as you guys and being a guy that just plays at home even without being forced to, it’s really a great treasure to listen to you and Matt, along with Joe and Derek and some other great people in the same age range, what a privilege to have this music for our enjoyment. Thank you!
Fantastic, two of the best. Nice one Josh. 🤘🏽
when my parents where growing up there was stevie and Clapton now we have josh and matt!
I'm younger than you guys, 32, but I feel fortunate to have caught somewhat of a tail end of what you talk about often in these interviews, Josh. I remember I had an uncle show me a 12 bar in Bflat when I was 12, he was a great player, then I got into Hendrix and Jeff Beck. A year into playing started a band and playing the school shows, my uncle occasionally let me strum some chords on an acoustic with his trio (more or less to engage me, and it worked!) And that was it, I was hooked. Learned from being in bands and playing with people. It wasn't until years later that I got into theory etc, but by then playing live, improvising and learning how to hang had already been ingrained. It really is something how much the world has shifted, especially now. Playing live is really the best way to learn, it's an irreplaceable education. Love these interviews and stories
I love this. I most definitely steal your licks but will never sound like you two. Simply because you are monsters of improvisational blues. And you guys are icons to all the rest of us blues lovers. All we can do to support you now besides letting you know how crucial you are to our inspiration is to buy your courses and music.
2 of my favorite players, who deserve a tour bus and a great living for all the good vibes they put out, hope 2021 is better for you! another great video Josh, thanks
These are some of the best industry interviews for the arts. Thanks for doing this series, Josh!
Thanks for this; thoroughly enjoyable 🙏🏻
Great to hear your comments about BB! When I tell people the same thing, they look at me incredulous. Also, I think the shift to everyone wanting to sound the same was due to the Blues Police and the need for validation by musicians who didn't look like they grew up on the plantation. Excellent interview! I love what both of you do!
Josh, awesome interview. Matt and you are two of my favs. You have been putting up great content. Thank you. FYI, your always so low in the mix. Stay safe and have a happy thanksgiving.
We love you guys (incl. Kirk Fletcher🙂) that‘s why we sound a „little“ bit like you 💫. Greetings from Germany
Very good , bravo . You are the best. Regards from Poland.
2 of my 3 favorite players going! Greg Koch being the other. Used to see SRV in small venues. Truly lucky to grow up in central TX back then. So many talented local guitarists.
Right there with ya
Lucky guy!!
Thanks guys , great interview Josh ...totally get where you both come from . Great to hear Matt’s story having enjoyed his music for a long time now . Anything but Time is a particularly cool track . Always recommend my guitar students to listen to both of you . All the best to you both , rock on Gary x ps ....I was pre cassette age and I learned by jamming with records ...remember wanting to learn the solo to whisky in the jar by Thin Lizzy . Had to go and buy a second copy of the 45 vinyl as I wore out the part where the solo came in with the needle !! Great times .
Hope the best for you guys in the future keep your heads up. Both of you are the “Robben Ford” to many of us that first heard something different in your playing in the blues world. Definitely perked my ears up when I first heard you guys play, been on the learning journey since.
Thank you Josh for bringing Matt on and exposing him to more people. Go ahead and rant away. I'd much rather listen to you and Matt than 20 of the blues preservationists. Up here in the bay area, especially in the south bay we used to have a going modern blues community. You could book a night at JJ's Blues, call on any number of local sidemen, and call out any Barney Steel's era Ford arrangement and folks would know it. Then JJ's got sold, JW moved to Vegas and the preservationists moved in. Suddenly if you played a b5 with an overdrive (never mind a fuzz) you weren't blues on their blues-not blues scale. I've managed to get some folks to learn a couple 12 barish Joey Landreth tunes but there's still resistance. A few times I've been at a jam Steve Evans plays and we've started noodling Matt's Where Do I Have To Stand but nobody else knows it or is going to bother with it. Kevin Hayes swung by one night and I kept thinking if only we could get a song or two, we could pull out some Matt tunes and show folks something fresh and interesting. Like we used to do 20 years ago with Robben tunes. Maybe someday the pendulum will swing back again and you guys will get your just recognition.
I loved Matt's story about the music teacher who supported him. I took a music theory class one year in H.S. My bass player friend and I played Hendrix's Woodstock Am jam for the performance piece. The teacher pointed to us and said "You're making that up as you go along". But at the end of the year she gave everybody an A. She said she wanted to support any musical aspirations we had.
Man two of my favorites...love hearing how you guys are dealing with the lockdown and the impact on your creativity, production, motivation, etc. Really hoping to be able to see you guys live again sooner rather than later. Thanks much for a great convo!!
Thanks!
Cool interview Josh. In response to the conversation around 46 to 50 minutes. To put it simply yas are more or less the SRV's for this generation. The new guitar legends for the younger blues guitar fans of today. Just awesome
Thanks for the kind words!
Thanks a million josh
Great stuff..Matt is one of my favorite players!!
I´m so lucky I was able to go Matts gig couple years ago here in Finland. I wish I could some day go Josh Smith gig. Or Kirk Fletchers. Or Greg Kochs...so many great players you all are!
Great interview, both guys are great blues guitar players!
Great interview. The truth hurts but is refreshing to hear it from such greats. (Icons, lol).
Great interview !
I absolutely love The Ten Questions segment.
Wonderful!
You, Matt n Kirk should go out together on tour.
It'd be perfect!!!!
That was great! Thanks guys!
Glad you enjoyed it!
That's a good lyric Matt!
"We never had the gold record or the bus
but now everyone sounds like us"
you should use that for sure!
As Art Garfunkel tells us,ones own ears are the best teacher.
Same exact beginning to blues as you two... a tad older though! ha ha... thanks for sharing... both of you. No response needed
Thanks for listening
Awesome, Thank you :)
Another great interview! I'd love to catch you guys at one of the 1000 people gigs.
Us too!
My New Years tune for all my neighbors for 2020-21 was ....Lay It Down.........I heard Hoots and Happiness......
We're almost out of this BS Lockdown............. Let the Shows Roll Out......... Blues for 2021
Please interview Robben Ford or Derek Trucks next!
I'd love to interview both.
There's a video of Bernard Allison playing with SRV. Bernard played all of Stevie's licks note for note, before Stevie did..so much to the point you could see the exsaperation on Stevie's face.
Matt speaking some real truth around 30:00, couldn't agree more!
The shuffle is nearly always the sound I have in my head, or more so return to forever type runs/ jazz fusion dynamics. It's hard to put those things Down on your instrument though.
No Guitar Shop Chops. Never learning a complete solo, note for note...man after my own heart! lol 😂
Being yourself, and only playing what you are feeling, the essence of being an improvising Artist. With all his weaknesses, he’s still a Lovely gentlemen.
another great interview, thumbs up.
Much appreciated!
@@JoshSmithGuitar Hey Josh, as you answered my commend, can we talk business? I am the guitar teacher of the university in Vienna/Austria and want to invite you to do a clinic...after Corona when you are back traveling, whenever this is.
I'd love that. Hopefully I will be in Vienna next year!!
@@JoshSmithGuitar This sounds good, just wrote to your email some details, please check and let me know if this is possible, that would be great and our students would love it.
Hey Guys, I appreciate the honest conversation . Maybe the answer to your problems is right here in front of you on UA-cam . Currently there are 8000 views. Maybe you can put even more energy into content that can bring in more revenue and people to your gigs. The interviews are great, maybe add recording sessions or host a live gig. Both of your personalities are great for this medium!
Thanks!
I wish someone would ask Matt about songwriting and composition sometime. He's got a lot of cool original material. He's sort of in another boat with Robben in this regard.
Portsmouth, VA
If it makes you feel any better Josh, I know about you because of Guitar Player magazine. They did a feature about 10 years ago about great “unknown” guitar players and you and Inception made the list. I discovered Jim Weider the same way so you’re in good company.
Wow, really?! As far as I knew, I've never been in Guitar Player magazine!
@@JoshSmithGuitar I’m going to find it and send to you! I knew I kept them for a reason.
"So I'm hearing a shuffle literally 24 fucking hours a day" Me too Josh, me too lol.
Good to know I'm not alone!
@@JoshSmithGuitar Same here!
@@JoshSmithGuitar For some reason it's an Alan Evans shuffle most of the time, he's so distinctly swinging!
Hey Josh how about asking the guitarists in your show about their guitar setup. Action , relief etc. Maybe some tips about that. You will be amazed about how many of us are interested about stuff like that. It says more about a player than his gear. Thank you !
Ok
damn, even Matt's home office tone is awesome 😂 what amp though?
Now I’m depressed......Ha! Not really. Enjoyed it!
We have been told to retrain by the people we voted in to power.
So Josh you may get that job in home depot after all. It's so sad what has happened to music/entertainment since the nineties began, I miss the feeling of people enjoying live music together.
Please get michael landau next !!
I'm gonna go out on a limb here and assume that when Matt said a Guitar Player Journalist had a Hard On against him.....🤷♂️🤦♂️.....that's not quite what he meant, LOL!
True! 99% of the blues guitarists nowadays sound the same, like SRV wannabes. And there is Matt, Josh and Kirk...
The greats of today’s blues.
Blues per se is just a marketing ploy
Just play what you want! Purists are rigid.