("I Want You Back" by Jackson 5 played on with both necks of guitar)
- That's my favourite thing to play on both necks.
I started playing the fretless.
Well the thing is, the two necks, the way they're different,
this one has all the precise frets,
so you get the exact pitches.
This one does not.
It's like a slide on all your fingertips.
(guitar playing)
So I was playing more and more fretless guitar,
but I would always have to choose,
either I'm gonna play an entire song on a fretless guitar
or on a fretted guitar, and I wanted to be able to access
either one.
So the only way to real way to pull that off was making a
double neck that had a fretless neck on it.
'Cause I wanted access to both.
I am a firm believer of and, not or.
It has a Dimarzio tone zone by the bridge,
and a Dimarzio chopper by the neck, for both necks.
And the way I got it set up is just one volume knob per neck
and I put on this little capacitor resistor thing,
whatever the f**k it is, so that as you roll down the
volume it brightens the sound, so that it never goes dark.
So full volume (guitar playing)
Go all the way down (guitar playing) stays just as bright.
It doesn't darken up or anything.
So nice little trick.
I've got in between the two volume knobs is the
neck selector, that as I jump from neck to neck it's like,
boom boom, and just like hit it quick and hit it back down.
(guitar playing) So you've got one neck.
(guitar playing) other neck.
both necks (guitar playing)
What else? We've got a fiveway pick up selector.
What it is, is the bridge pick up as a humbucker.
(guitar playing) and then as a single coil,
just a little more, just a hair more organic,
and a little more expressive (guitar playing)
and then we have the two pick ups together (guitar playing)
and then the two out of phase (guitar playing)
and then we have just the neck pick up (guitar playing)
I got a magnetised hole, that I can keep my thimble in,
it'll suck it off my finger and keep it there... yay.
What else, there's a kill switch that I never use
(guitar playing)
OH!!!
(laughter from audience)
'Cause I love me some old Kiss.
It was 1982, I was at band practise and some kid was
hanging out at the practise.
He was like, "do you tap?"
I'm like (tapping feet) and he's like "no no on the guitar."
I was like, "What are you talking about?"
He was like, "Haven't you heard Eddie Van Halen?
I'm like, "what's Edabedabeda?"
He was like, "no no Eddie Van Halen."
And he played me (guitar playing)
I'd never heard a guitar make that sound before.
And it just blew my mind, it was like, it completely
changed the way I thought about guitar.
Up to that point, I was like a guitar is a utility,
that you use to make a song.
It's all about a song, and whatever you do to contribute
with everybody else to make that song happen,
of course there's your own personality that's involved
in it, your own sound, but it's just that.
I didn't view it as something that you innovate with.
That you can create sounds beyond the song.
So I heard that and it was just a big ear opener.
And then he asked like, "did you hear 'Eruption'".
I was like what's that, and then I heard the
(guitar playing)
And so I was like I need to copy that, and put 'Eruption'
on a cassette, and I just learned it.
Back then the way you learned stuff is you either
dropped a needle or you hit play on your cassette player,
for two or three seconds keep the sounds in your head,
you go to your instrument and you translate it.
And you remember and you go a little farther.
That's what I did, I got down, I learned eruption.
And then after I learned it I took the screws out of the
cassette chasse, I took off the top, I took the reels
and flipped them the other way.
So now track one was four, two was three, three was two,
four was one, and everything is backwards.
I put it back together and now I had eruption backwards
on my cassette and I learned it that way, 'cause I wanted
to learn it forwards and backwards and I did.
But music does not come from your fingers,
music leaves you at your fingers.
Music happens all before your fingers.
Music's already there and then you just sing what's there
out of your hands.