Rig Rundown - Death From Above 1979's Jesse Keeler
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- čas přidán 25. 11. 2014
- Article and photos: bit.ly/DFA1979RR
Premier Guitar was allowed an in-depth look at the touring rig of Jesse Keeler, the bass player in Death From Above 1979. Keeler has inspired a devout following of bass players to take on a new role in punk, and his unique approach to gear has helped solidify DFA’s sound and propel them into cult status.
After being a longtime Rickenbacker user, Keeler is now very comfortable with a ’69 Dan Armstrong. He likes the short scale, 24-fret design, which better suits his playing style and approach than anything he’s ever played.
A ’71 tags along as a backup, and the only mod is a “permanent” bridge to keep his intonation constant.
Keeler also utilizes a vintage JUNO-60 keyboard which runs through his rig as well.
To see more about Jesse Keeler's setup, visit: bit.ly/DFA1979RR - Hudba
"It's valueless to me if I can't use it." - This right here is why I respect collectors who use their collection. Yes, it is rare due to age, but if not used is it really doing anything? Also why I love faithful reissues.
I really like this rundown, and the rig. I appreciate that this guy just gives zero fucks about prestige and goes with cheap, "un-cool" gear to get his personal sound.
vintage Dan Armstrong basses and Acoustic amps aren’t especially cheap tho
Steve Dixon yeah and Juno 60s have become the go to “cool” synth now for a lot of collectors making it out of reach price wise for practical musicians
He's a rich kid so he could buy whatever
pretty expensive rig if you ask me
Now it’s expensive stuff but also look at jack white using cheap gear super expensive now too but, yeah always makes interesting sounds
I like it when the tiny man who lives inside the cab reaches out to the world at 2:20
"clearly I like limitations. I'm in a band with two people"
:)
three's a crowd
Yeah, a crowd, like Rush is a crowd...
Nice to hear the actual bass player so tech heavy with his information
Jesse is such a kind old soul. Literally you could ask him anything and expect an honest patient answer.
That gentle "mmm" as he caresses the bass head...
My favorite part is at 7:35 when he gently caresses his amps and goes "mmm"
i've got a peavey festival series f800b. that's how i found this video
this guy's been such an inspiration for me growing up. His "I don't care what you think is cool, as long as it works" attitude is on point. A real professional. Anyone can add stuff. A pro knows how to whittle things away until only the pure essence remains. And I've always loved people who play a "dirty" bass. A bass like a lead instrument, instead of just a backing reinforcement sound (a glorified human octaver pedal for the lead guitarist).
Blew me away when I found out this setup minus the bases were 300... crazy good band!
This dude and the sound on the DFA record is legendary imo. so glad this is up!
these guys are good at handshakes
That hand using the computer behind the amp is hilarious.
+NerdsOuttaControl troll hiding behind the amp
Thats the original member that just push the button on his instrument
I've probably seen this about 17 times... Every time it comes up in my recommended I have to watch it.
This is still true
+Cole Emmerson Hallman once again
and here I am again
@@coleemmersonhallman5329 bro
hey i’m back
I love how Jesse just went "hi " in the beginning
All this shit is gonna sky rocket on eBay now.
yeah...like 590€ for a Acoustic 126 wtf
Those old Peavey Solid State heads are rad. Standard's, Musician's, cool stuff.
C A R L O V O N S E X R O N
I have a standard pa head and can't find the same midrange in any other amp without a pedal of some sort.
Love them
Kim deal’s sound
7:09 -7:11 Relive this moment over and over
i've been waiting for this for years. thank you so much premier guitar. super insightful video
*furiously takes notes*
Can you guys get Al Cisneros of Sleep on Rig Rundown? I'm sure a ton of us bassists would appreciate it!
"The sum total of all the gear on the stage minus the guitar is $300". Excuse me while I go change the pants I just shat in.
Thought he meant the amps and cabs. He mentioned he bought the Juno for $275 or something at the time.
In the case of synths, I think it has to do with the rise of EDM and electronic music in general. Internet communities are also probably creating a greater marketplace for vintage items in general.
+Mark Taylor It's something called Inflation and Indexation. $100 back in the day was probably same value as $300 today based in how much money people used to make at that time. You make more you spend more.
I see these types of amps all the time with punk bands and none of them paid over 500
@@tysonrinker5958 Even in Germany, where those amps not have been used so often, you can have those old Peavey Mk III and IV for between € 200,-- and 300,--. Even the great sounding Peavey 215" cabs are on the market for a steal. This comes because big and heavy gear is abandoned from stages, everybody is having lightweight cabs and amps.
Except me. I love the sound of big iron solid state and tube amps, and I love 215" or 810" cabs.
Just bought a Peavey Tmax. Great sound with the preamp tube driven into saturation.
Even the lightweight Tecamp L 810 (80 lbs) or the L 215 (60 lbs) are cheap.
I just have one Class D amp, a Genzler Magellan 800, l use for gigs with rented backline. You never know what crappy amp you'll find on stage. Only one of two channels work, and mostly the wrong one, knobs are missing, DI out does not work, you name it.
This was a great interview. Near the end, Jesse really opened up and started getting all excited and candid about his shit. Great episode.
This is great! Seeing his rig is like walking into a Music Go Round store! FWIW, the Acoustic 450 head is rated around 170 watts rms into 2 ohms at about 10% THD. Amazingly great sounding amp for guitar or bass.
The Peavey Festival 800B is rated 410 watts at 2 ohms, 260 watts at 4 ohms and 150 at 8 ohms. A manual for it is available on Peavey's site (go to Support, manuals and then the link for discontinued products at select the letter F at the top and it's the first one 800B/800G).
This is freaking awesome!
Just bought a Peavey Musician head at a thrift shop for 38 bucks. 70's. Six inputs. Three different amp sections you can mix together. Tremolo with and without distortion. Fuzz. Six band eq. amazing!
It would be awesome if you could catch up with these guys for their current tour, and do an update on Jesse's rig
Back in the 70's my guitar rig consisted of a Acoustic 150 head with a 104 cabinet with 6 10 inch speakers. The only pedals was a MXR distortion + and Electro Harmonix phaser. It was an incredibly LOUD amp. I used to use it for outdoor gigs and never had it turned up past 2.
I have not heard a song by them yet, but I'm already a fan....
Did you listen
Dude…
They released a new album. Well, it came out a couple years ago but all their songs are straight up bangers. Even their new sound
What a cool setup! DFA is punk AF, love their sound, very gnarly!
This is like the john bonham, of distorted bass, and rhythm, for this band very cool.
I managed to find a similar Peavey bass head, the Series 400(Also from the 70's). Has the same pre amp and eq section, but has a fuzz control with a blend, and a master volume. Got it for $80 at a pawn shop, and works great, no repairs needed. Those old Peavey amps are built like tanks.
Need a 2022 update for this, he’s using two Orange Bax Bangeetar into some kind of power amp on the current tour, new pedals on the board too.
This was a good one, thanks
By far my favorite rig rundown. I have to comment on the whole filtering thing or Qzone with an Ibanez WH-10 is worth a try especially on bass setting. Roars like Lion of Judah!!!!
Haha, the guy behind the amp on his laptop :)
He's checking the lights on the giant artwork in the background
Pretty cool that the singer of disturbed used to do rig rundowns. I barely noticed him without the giant lip rings
Oh yeah, Jesse's an animal. So down to earth, and smart, he knows his stuff, and knows what he wants, yet his sound is soo huge!!
He tuned the interviewer like he tunes a bass.
Jesse has probably had more influence on me and my playing than any other bassist, guitarist, drummer or musician in general. My tone and taste in basses has just become more and more like his. I use a epiphone woody allen with a zoom 4 bass multi effect pedal and I use alot of treble and overdrive.
That was great!
7:09 A rare Al-P Spotting
Amp is Peavey F800B! I got one that needs to get fixed.Awesome sound
I got a cheap amp similar to Jesses at like a church garage sale . It's a 1975 peavey bass series 400. Loud as hell distorted and fuzz channel is great! To bad it's a solid state tho! Still loads of fun to mess with plus it was cheap 80bucks
Finally got my hand on a super festival f800-B. That overdrive is nuts! Peavey should definitely take that overdrive wiring and make a pedal out of it.
Lucky dog, they're basically nonexistent.
+ScotchRobbins had to drive all the way from Montreal to Baltimore, still worth it
jackhead4 Finally got one. You were right, this thing peels paint.
I've got this Super Festival Head that has been modded with a footswitch to turn the overdrive on and off. The raddest bass head I've ever owned.
The Jealousy. It burns. It buuuuurns....
I'll pay you any amount of money you want for that ahhahaha
I always come back to this rig rundown, it's the only one that isn't incredibly boring gear wise. Lou Barlows was very interesting too.
I'm intrigued, now I have to listen to some Death From Above!
What did you think when you listened? :D
Really cool, and surprisingly 'fat' sounding. I didn't expect that kind of sound from just two people.
sirspikey try lightning bolt now
+sirspikey Royal Blood is a similar setup.
+TheDeftZeppelin no it's a completely different setup
This guy has what might be the most bad-assed bass tone ever!
How about Blood Red Shoes? I would love to see that.
HelloShitty08 Funny! i just thought about the same thing!
This is just an objective critique, but can you guys tone down the folks conducting the interviews? I think a good personality is huge for a successful interview, but it can get in the way -- especially when they start chiming in their own opinions or preferences. Not trying to offend, it's a great interview and I learned a lot.
I cringe when they try to be all funny and cool in front of the artists.
I totally know what you mean, it always annoys me
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Hey cool, I saw these guys live in Detroit the day this was published.
Damn I just watched this entire thing, crikey.
Yeah and he knows EXACTLY what everything is as well, cool.
my morley A/B is 27 years old and still kicks!
"Unless someone wants to make a 24 fret bass I'm stuck."
Yeah, I know, he said he wasn't a bassist... His rig is cool as hell, though.
He meant short scale. There are barely any 24-fret short scale basses. The only one I know of is the Kramer Duke bass. There are probably a few DanElectro models as well, but those are cheap and unreliable.
J.f..k. Holy shit Jesse is so humble and seems really cool...killer tone killer rig. Thanks
Do Jack Pearson! He lives in Nashville and is an AMAZING musician!
i still have a 1970 since 79
Do The Fall of Troy for a new rig rundown. That would be sweeeeet.
The Acoustic 450 B is a 260 watt amp. And they rock. People still swear the SVT is king but Ampeg was the squire compared too Acoustic controls Corp.
I like this band.
Do Josh Scogin from '68!!
I could've bought an Armstrong bass like that for the cheap years ago but passed.Been kicking myself in the ass ever since.😢
Awesome video, gringos!
Badass
Jesse's giggle at the end hahaha
BASS.
YES.
I will like to see Jesse whit an Aria Pro,they are 24 frets too
"Don't know how many times you can screw out of lucite". For soft stuff like plastic, you put a helical (threaded insert) in, its a metal barrel that new bolts can then screw into. That way when you adjust the bolt, it's now wearing against the helical, not the plastic. You'll see them a lot in laptop cases, for example, because screwing onto raw plastic would wear super quickly and is very weak.
18:18 "knock on wood-paneling..." 😂
Peavey Roadmaster Super Festival Series. Solid State preamp. 4 Power Tubes
Great info. What venue was it filmed at?
first auto wah i have seen on a pedal board . hes using his EQ the right way from a "sound engineer's point of view" u cut frequencies not boost . But in the end whatever sounds good right ?
its not an auto wah, it's a fixed wah, big difference like jerry garcia vs frank zappa
Are you trying to suggest sound engineers don't boost frequencies? Sound engineers boost frequencies all the time, I'm one of them!
guitar's , god's & gun's That's so misinformed. Skilled engineers boost also? There is absolutely nothing wrong with boosting or cutting. Yes generally it's better to take away something than adding something that isn't there but that doesn't mean it doesn't happen. Very misinformed.
To a skilled sound engineer boosting and cutting are not the same thing. They are used differently to achieve different things. One is not better than the other.
That's a good one !!! Thx
2:19 "Hey, don't mind me, just hiding behind the amp, doing my job and all.
I know he says he uses Eminence PA speakers anyone know which ones exactly?
This is good. Pre 86 or 87 Peavey bass gear is totally rad. And cheap! My old bassist had a Peavey Mark IV head and the thing was great.
Anything made in the usa by peavey during the 70's and 80 ' s kicks ass. I own alot of it. You can buy it dirt cheap and it's top of the line stuff.
Nice, I want to know what happens when you go over 1.5 volume on that amp head! 😆
I wonder what pickup he uses,the bass is supposed to have interchangeable pickups,they just did one of these on guitar of the day,2 days ago
I’m a drummer..... but this speaks to me.
Hey DFA’s bass wouldn’t be DFA’s sound without Sebastian’s drums 👍
What kind of speaker colum does he use in holy book
yall should really do Of Monsters And Men!!!
Kaiti Stewart lol
So does he always have his chorus on to use it as a divider or will it work when it is off too?
I think it works even if it's off because I have a boss te-2 with stereo output and it works even if it's off
Is it quite? Because I also have the ABY splitter that he uses for guitar/synth. And if you use that to run into two amps it makes noise. So I am looking for a better way to do it.
well the te-2 is an echo pedal I really dig it, when you are not using it yo can still use the stereo out put it doesn't make any noise but like any long pedalboard you will get some signal loss even if your pedals are true bypass , there are a lot of pedals with stereo output so maybe if you are looking for example for a echo pedal and you want to split your signal you can get a pedal with stereo output and you'll have killed two birds with one shot, you can also use a signal splitter thats more expensive if you are looking for a professional one like the lehle p-split II but for me a stereo pedal its perfect since I don't do any switching between the amps the two of them are always on, but if you want to switch between amps an AB is better for that
Awesome. Thank you. What I might go for is buy a stereo pedal and in the line to one amp I don't always want on. I will put in a pedal backwards or with the volume down or something to make a kill switch of sorts.
or if you have a tuner you can do this, put the stereo pedal, one output goes to your amp and then the next one goes to your tuner, a lot of tuners kill the signal path so it won't go to the other side the when you want it on you turn your tuner off .... or you could buy a kill switch pedal XD JHS has a very good one but there are probably better or cheeper ones out there
LOL Chicago Music Exchange Is the most awesome music store ever!!!
7:29 on the right next to the amp.
Is it worth seeing DFA live? someone convince me!
Absolutely worth seeing live. I'm normally a death metal guy, but DFA was the heaviest, loudest, most intense and energetic show I've ever seen, bar none. Recordings don't come close to doing them justice... See them! there's nothing else like it.
I've seen them twice and by far just the loudest most raw sound I've ever experienced.
i just saw them live last night. they have a fun and dancey/funky kind of punk it was so fun
No offense but that's a stupid question. Yes, if not for you, for me. Godspeed.
GeoAl09 I hated them until I saw them live a couple years ago, been a fan ever since.
These premier guitar interviews make me so uncomfortable
the fuqqqqqqq i wanted to hear this sound he kept talking about live :[
+delnuggets Saw them at Voodoo Fest 2014, end of October. Little girls who came to ogle Jared Leto and Alex Turner were up front at the stage for DFA1979. They were holding their ears and whining. It made it even more enjoyable for me, in addition to rattling my bones for days afterwards. FANTASTIC. My favorite band from that day on.
Did you catch what case he uses for his Dan Armstrong? I can’t imagine they are original. They are such wonky basses I’m curious what case fits it
I wanted to know what kind of picks he uses
0.73mm Dunlop picks
peter hook uses a yamaha 24 fret bass. there are options
Yeah traynor cabs!
I clicked on this video because I heard of the band here and there. Super cool dude. I just checked out their music thinking there was some sludge/stoner metal coming my way - god was I wrong
At this point I’ve heard it all when it comes to stoner bass, and no disrespect that style is great, but Jesse’s approach to bass playing is actually refreshing
13:49, the guy screaming "owhh my Godd!!" Wth? ***** Premier Guitar @lastgangent #dancepunk #raverpunk
i met this guys kids on the subway once!!!!!
Also I play a peavy 300 series monitor the thing is a tank the value knob is broke wide open so I use a small vox with effects though the head phone jack 25 dollars for the peavy head 30 for the vox mini 3 g2
What's the deal with laptop buddy hiding behind the rightmost cabinet?
I played gtr in band (DOD High School in Germany) & had the guitar version of that Peavey.
Anybody know who that guy is behind jesses right bass amp?!
I'm pretty sure that's seb because he has a laptop and that little pad that play their intros!
Lol no it so isn't I'm afraid. That would be a stage tech/guitar tech/drum tech/etc.
+Tracy Panavia I don't know man it's gotta be. I know he's got a laptop and the thing next to it is a tool he uses to play some extra stuff like piano on train wreck and the extra stuff on white is red. And you know what they say about two piece bands. They're always together even in interviews!
Let me just say, that setup is no longer 300 bucks after saying that.