“SHIFTY” is Phenomenal.a truly underrated genius and master of tone! The man is so laid back and just a genuine Nice Guy. An incredible music talent! Great interview, CAPTAIN LEE! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
I think Shifty is just the coolest dude. Nice to see a chill dude like the Captain and him have a great chat. Chris just makes music so relatable for all of us. Great stuff mates. I grew up in SoCal too and my band used to roll up to Isla Vista and just play the most massive shows in the 90's in the college town of dreams. Those were the times!
Nice to hear him mention Hanoi Rocks. Too few know Hanoi’s meaning and significance to the 1980s rock scene. Even tough they where hands down one of the gratest rock bands ever! Up there with the Stones imo And he also mentioned Johnny Thunders at the end. Johnny is criminally underrated. Most remember him as a junkie, but he was also a awesome songwriter and emotional rock n roll guitarist.
Amazingly brilliant interview. One of my favourite guitarists from one of my favourite bands. Thanks Lee. So good to hear Chris's approach to playing live. AWESOME
I remember being a kid and getting into the Foo's , they were playing their first shows with Chris in a tiny venue in Dublin, they came back a year or two later and headlined Ireland's biggest festival 10 minutes from my house. I couldn't afford to go as I was still in school, 18's or over, but I sat in the front garden and listened to them. 😁 He's always been one of my guitar heroes.
Chris’s new album is fantastic! I turned my 22 year old son on to it last weekend. The Foos are one of our favorite bands, but he also likes a bunch of alt-country that I’ve been into since before he was born. He really dug it. Such great music.
Chris has always been my favourite member of Foos since I started getting into them around 2005/IYH. Seems often criminally under utilised. Cool interview.
one of the things I love about the Foo's is how you have three totally different types of guitarists.. Dave is a heavy cord driven 335 guy, Pat is a humbucking heavy/dirty sound, and Shifty normally does a cleaner higher kind of thing but all of them are at a level to be leads in different bands!! I like how he talks about facetiming Uncle Larry, and talking about how to get a certain sound out of a certain rig, and how he has three totally different rigs, his Foos touring rig, and his Foos studio setup, then his new Foos small room rig, then for his solo stuff he just has a baseline Quad Cortex with a tuner, because it flys easy for Solo stuff. just so down to earth and loves what he does. great dude.
Thoroughly enjoyed that. Cracking fella, was totally gutted when i missed him in 2019 playing the Night and Day cafe in Manchester which is a proper little venue. No ego, just a solid guy, and nice to track his journey over the years
I love both Chris and Scott sooo much! Both are genuinely, cool effin' dudes IRL, which makes my love of their music so much more. Great questions, Capt.! I can't wait to see more of these! ✌🤟🤘
Dig Mr. Shiflett. Lucky to have seen him play at my local record store several years back. To my ears I generally called it honky-tonk country, but sure could call it country rock if you wanted.
You have to appreciate that Chris is a member of the Foo fighters and in the R&R Hall of Fame but is still surprised Tom Bukovac would take his phone call.
Great interview Lee! Shifty seems such an easy going approachable good guy, to say nothing of being a great guitarist. Would be EPIC someday if you and Pete could land Shifty and Dave at Andertons for an episode.
I don’t know if yall will see this comment… But you are my go to for all this Bass And I wanted to know if you guys could do an Electric Upright Bass comparison… Much like how you have 5 strings, acoustic, travel acoustic… Love the videos and thank yall 🙏🏼🙌🏻
Fun. I was (am!) a big No use for a name fan. Never knew he joined Foo Fighters after that :D The thing with the Foo Fighters for me is that they are more like Dave Grohl and his band than a regular Band. They are super great, but that's just how I see them.
I love the Foo Fighters and can't wait to see them again. I remember in '95 going to Soundwarehouse and they had this new CD on the wall with a steam punk kind of gun blaster on it. I bought it and been with FF ever since then. This was just before Chris, Taylor, Pat and them joined the band. At the time I had no idea it was even Dave Grohl on the CD!! I kept Weanie Beanie on repeat! That was probably my favorite when I first listened. I think Wasting Light is Foo Fighters best and most perfect work during a beautiful peak! Although I've loved everything from this band AND I'm ready for that Epiphone DG-335 right now!!
You seem like hardcore FF fan like I am! I have the actual “steampunk kind of gun blaster” which is called a “Buck Rogers Atomic Pistol” I believe. Also, I got my Epiphone DG-335 preorder in! Nice to hear that there are some hardcore fans from the very beginning like myself. Cheers
What a show series that would be Bukovac and shifty shiflett talking gear and tone and life in the fast lane. lol… Wow, that’s too easy of a set up for the stage. I’d like to try that someday. I went thru the different patches for every song with a digitech rp7, back in the early 2000s, had to go back and dial everything back to simplify everything. Then I got the Zoom G3. And did it all over again. I haven’t kept up with the technology of today though and have gone back to a bunch of pedals and massive pedalboards and all the problems that has. So simplifying my rig is where I’m at now. And the tone chasing geekery continues on and on…
... Hey, Chris... Have you considered contacting Pete Cornish, or Greg fryer???... They're both wonderful choices for live work; if you need a reference, they both worked with Brian May!!!!!!!!!!
I remember Dave calling him "Shitflett" - think it was on One by One, when they'd include bonus media content on the CD. Made my day! Taylor Hawkins was piling on him too, it was great. Sorry Chris!
Back when I worked college theater and college local crews, some grizzled roadie opined "Friends don't let friends drive monitors", and this interview backs that to a T.
Before the Ace Frehley episode, Chris earned his stripes during his interview of Richie Sambora, which was so bad/sad 😢because Richie is in such bad shape that it was pulled down from CZcams right after it was posted.
I have seen a couple of his CZcams videos. I didn't know he was in Foo fighters. I thought he played country music for some reason lol. I must have seen the wrong video
Despite the “special relationship” between the UK and the US, I thought, along with “awesome”, “shoot the breeze” was a linguistic no-no. Enough to make anyone choke on their Yorkshire pud and roast beef of a Sunday:-)
I started using one ear plug in the ear that was facing the band, so I could hear just that... The real sound of my amp and my playing, while protecting me from the onslaught that was next to me!!!!!!!!!! Cymbals are so loud!!!!!!! -and can completely destroy your eardrum in no time flat!!!!!!!!!!... MUCH WORSE than The other players amps!!!!!!!!!!
... When you get into something that requires patches, it's WAY TOO MUCH!!!!!!!!!! And you're in too deep, and need to get out QUICKLY!!!!!!!!!! 🙀... I would just stick to a pedal board with my favorite pedals!!!!!!!!!!... & Either Greg fryer or Pete Cornish!!!!!!!!!!!
Chords picking it up by ear with open strings is what Smashing Pumpkins and Black Sabbath turned into the greatest rythms rock 'n roll albums. So the Foo Fighters are doing now.
If you play classic, dad rock- then yeah, they got it right for you back when classic dad rock was the "in" thing- the 50s, 60s, and early 70s. If you play 80s shred, then you're going to swear they reached the pinnacle of guitar making around the mid 80s. And if you play all this new, prog. rock style stuff- what's it called "djent"? Then you're going to think they didn't get it right until they created a 7 string, multi scale, compound radius, monstrosity along with an interface and a DAW so you could get your laptop into the mix. If you're into Polka, you have bigger problems than what gear to use. Have you tried to find a decent set of lederhosen lately? Don't laugh- polka is coming back- watch. "Grab your wiener, let's polka..."
Pretty sure he just means it took him a while to play one and make it sound like he wanted it to, when he was used to a different thing. Not like he literally couldn’t figure out how to play a different model of guitar.
![Chris Shiflett Rig Tour [Solo Shows, Ampless Rig, G3 Board & Some Foo Fighter Chat]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/VQcu70Sb3nI/mqdefault.jpg)
this dude is so humble man, underrated guitarist..
How are you underrated if Dave Grohl has you as his lead guitarist? Under-appreciated maybe, not underrated.
Not underrated at all... wth. Why do so many people have their heads up their a**
i don't care, we don't care..we just love Chris Shiflett. PERIOD! spread some love..try being humble like Chris..
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@@daydreamhero1374how can reflected and informed people be humble when a guy like you makes these bullshit statements 🤦🏻♂️
“SHIFTY” is Phenomenal.a truly underrated genius and master of tone! The man is so laid back and just a genuine Nice Guy. An incredible music talent! Great interview, CAPTAIN LEE! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Chris Shiflet rules. Yea, he’s great in the Foo Fightsrs, but he was even better in No Use For A Name. Great punk band.
Thank you, just thank you. Awesome interview
I think Shifty is just the coolest dude. Nice to see a chill dude like the Captain and him have a great chat. Chris just makes music so relatable for all of us. Great stuff mates. I grew up in SoCal too and my band used to roll up to Isla Vista and just play the most massive shows in the 90's in the college town of dreams. Those were the times!
Nice to hear him mention Hanoi Rocks. Too few know Hanoi’s meaning and significance to the 1980s rock scene. Even tough they where hands down one of the gratest rock bands ever! Up there with the Stones imo
And he also mentioned Johnny Thunders at the end. Johnny is criminally underrated. Most remember him as a junkie, but he was also a awesome songwriter and emotional rock n roll guitarist.
Amazingly brilliant interview. One of my favourite guitarists from one of my favourite bands. Thanks Lee. So good to hear Chris's approach to playing live. AWESOME
I remember being a kid and getting into the Foo's , they were playing their first shows with Chris in a tiny venue in Dublin, they came back a year or two later and headlined Ireland's biggest festival 10 minutes from my house. I couldn't afford to go as I was still in school, 18's or over, but I sat in the front garden and listened to them. 😁 He's always been one of my guitar heroes.
Chris is such a nice guy and great guitar player. Tks for the this! ❤
Chris’s new album is fantastic! I turned my 22 year old son on to it last weekend. The Foos are one of our favorite bands, but he also likes a bunch of alt-country that I’ve been into since before he was born. He really dug it. Such great music.
True Gent and a living Legend! Thank you Captain.........
Thank you Chris. The Mike Campbell interview was a fantastic guitarlesson on many many levels.
I watched his session with Brad Paisly HOLY COW!!
Chris has always been my favourite member of Foos since I started getting into them around 2005/IYH. Seems often criminally under utilised. Cool interview.
one of the things I love about the Foo's is how you have three totally different types of guitarists.. Dave is a heavy cord driven 335 guy, Pat is a humbucking heavy/dirty sound, and Shifty normally does a cleaner higher kind of thing but all of them are at a level to be leads in different bands!! I like how he talks about facetiming Uncle Larry, and talking about how to get a certain sound out of a certain rig, and how he has three totally different rigs, his Foos touring rig, and his Foos studio setup, then his new Foos small room rig, then for his solo stuff he just has a baseline Quad Cortex with a tuner, because it flys easy for Solo stuff. just so down to earth and loves what he does. great dude.
Great interview. Chris is one hell of a nice guy, would love to get a beer with him and chat.
I love these kind of interviews where The Captain and (insert guest) just really hit it off and the conversation just flows
he nailed it with the clip on tuner bit...
Thoroughly enjoyed that. Cracking fella, was totally gutted when i missed him in 2019 playing the Night and Day cafe in Manchester which is a proper little venue. No ego, just a solid guy, and nice to track his journey over the years
Chris Shiflet is one cool guy. I prefer his solo material to the Foo Fighters stuff! Great interview 👍
Love Shifty. Ever since No Use For A Name.
I love both Chris and Scott sooo much! Both are genuinely, cool effin' dudes IRL, which makes my love of their music so much more. Great questions, Capt.! I can't wait to see more of these!
✌🤟🤘
Awesome 👍
Chris is amazing I got to see him on his last UK tour and a super funny guy between songs.
What a brilliant interview love Chris Shiflett.
Awesome stuff ! Love Shifty!
I got to meet Shifty in Austin after a solo gig. Super chill and humble guy. Great show!
Always a humble and chill dude. Great interview as always!
Great musician, guitarist and person! Thank you for this great interview, greetings from Finland!
Man he's just the best. Great interview 👍
Dig Mr. Shiflett. Lucky to have seen him play at my local record store several years back. To my ears I generally called it honky-tonk country, but sure could call it country rock if you wanted.
Top guy, cant wait to see the Foo's again this summer
It’s Shifty Shiflett!!
Great interview, Lee. So glad you were able to get Shiffty on. Check out No Use For a Name. Those were the keg parties we all went to
You have to appreciate that Chris is a member of the Foo fighters and in the R&R Hall of Fame but is still surprised Tom Bukovac would take his phone call.
The guns and roses thing I remember him saying in the Wasting Light Documentary
I love the little zoom in shot after the spirit guide question 😅
He’s mint 🙌🏻absolutely a cool rocker his podcast is always entertaining and of course can walk the walk🎯🙏
Great interview Lee! Shifty seems such an easy going approachable good guy, to say nothing of being a great guitarist. Would be EPIC someday if you and Pete could land Shifty and Dave at Andertons for an episode.
Would be cool if Chris come out during one of the final NOFX shows and they covered some No use for a name songs
Nice to see that the interwebs treats the rockstars like the rest of us! Maybe Shifty needs to upgrade his monthly internet tier to the next level!
"Local Hero" was the theme for something or other lol. WTH Lee, get that film watched immediately. Classic.
such a great dude and fun musician.
Top dude. Got tickets for his london show
What great wholesome interview.
Loved it ❤🤘
That’s friggen awesome!!
Love him
awesome interview with Chris,love the Foo’s …
Many may know Chris from the Foo Fighters.. I know him from Me First and the Gimmee Gimmees !! 🤘 🎸 🔥
Great interview
I don’t know if yall will see this comment…
But you are my go to for all this Bass
And I wanted to know if you guys could do an Electric Upright Bass comparison…
Much like how you have 5 strings, acoustic, travel acoustic…
Love the videos and thank yall 🙏🏼🙌🏻
Wow, Chris Shiflett!
Fun. I was (am!) a big No use for a name fan. Never knew he joined Foo Fighters after that :D The thing with the Foo Fighters for me is that they are more like Dave Grohl and his band than a regular Band. They are super great, but that's just how I see them.
Well this is a great suprise!
What a great interview.
Hanoi Rocks...greetings from Finland;)
Look forward to see you in FF or solo. Do some solo shows in Denver please :)
Oh how I miss those no use for a name days….😢
Such a good listen 🙏
Top bloke! 👏🏻✌🏻
Algorithm Boost! I'm so glad this happened!!!❤
Great interview 👍👍
What a great dude...I've seen a ton of interviews with Shifty and he just always seems like such a cool, down to earth sort of guy. Rock on man!!!
Shifty seems like a good dude.
Lee interviews all his guests like they are old friends and they're catching up.
Hope The Captain does a full one hour interview/jokefest with Uncle Larry/Bukovac -- even add danish Pete -- betcha it would be great.D
Seems like such a good dude.
Uncle Larry is shedding a tear. Quadcortex.. pfft.. lol.
A Squier or Fender MIM Cleaver… that’s my dream…
He goes from talking about selling out a 200 seat club to saying he text him Bukovac. What a life!
I love the Foo Fighters and can't wait to see them again. I remember in '95 going to Soundwarehouse and they had this new CD on the wall with a steam punk kind of gun blaster on it. I bought it and been with FF ever since then. This was just before Chris, Taylor, Pat and them joined the band. At the time I had no idea it was even Dave Grohl on the CD!! I kept Weanie Beanie on repeat! That was probably my favorite when I first listened.
I think Wasting Light is Foo Fighters best and most perfect work during a beautiful peak! Although I've loved everything from this band AND I'm ready for that Epiphone DG-335 right now!!
You seem like hardcore FF fan like I am! I have the actual “steampunk kind of gun blaster” which is called a “Buck Rogers Atomic Pistol” I believe. Also, I got my Epiphone DG-335 preorder in! Nice to hear that there are some hardcore fans from the very beginning like myself. Cheers
23:56 Not a Rolling Stones movie but an album by W.A.S.P ! I reckon Chris knows this too! 😂
What a show series that would be Bukovac and shifty shiflett talking gear and tone and life in the fast lane. lol…
Wow, that’s too easy of a set up for the stage. I’d like to try that someday.
I went thru the different patches for every song with a digitech rp7, back in the early 2000s, had to go back and dial everything back to simplify everything. Then I got the Zoom G3. And did it all over again. I haven’t kept up with the technology of today though and have gone back to a bunch of pedals and massive pedalboards and all the problems that has. So simplifying my rig is where I’m at now. And the tone chasing geekery continues on and on…
You could have waited a couple of weeks when he’s in the UK!
Shifty is the best!
... Hey, Chris... Have you considered contacting Pete Cornish, or Greg fryer???... They're both wonderful choices for live work; if you need a reference, they both worked with Brian May!!!!!!!!!!
I love Andertons TV
I remember Dave calling him "Shitflett" - think it was on One by One, when they'd include bonus media content on the CD. Made my day! Taylor Hawkins was piling on him too, it was great. Sorry Chris!
Fuck when did he go grey???? Aging like fine wine
Get Steadman on next, please!
I never thought I would become a Keith Urban fan until I saw a concert video, he kicks ass man. A meeting with him would be well worth the effort.
I seen shifty in Edinburgh.
Back when I worked college theater and college local crews, some grizzled roadie opined "Friends don't let friends drive monitors", and this interview backs that to a T.
Before the Ace Frehley episode, Chris earned his stripes during his interview of Richie Sambora, which was so bad/sad 😢because Richie is in such bad shape that it was pulled down from CZcams right after it was posted.
"Little Jimmy"
"I still don't have the mansion and Ferrari , i suppose I could if I wanted" . Pretty much tells you all you need to know about the man .
.. why use any tuner, besides of Peterson, with the sweetened guitar setting?
I have seen a couple of his CZcams videos. I didn't know he was in Foo fighters. I thought he played country music for some reason lol. I must have seen the wrong video
Just went out and listen to his solo stuff and it’s great! Looks like Camden is sold out
Could you ask Rabea or Dave Simpson to do a “Sound Like” Buckethead by breaking the bank please?
Despite the “special relationship” between the UK and the US, I thought, along with “awesome”, “shoot the breeze” was a linguistic no-no. Enough to make anyone choke on their Yorkshire pud and roast beef of a Sunday:-)
I started using one ear plug in the ear that was facing the band, so I could hear just that... The real sound of my amp and my playing, while protecting me from the onslaught that was next to me!!!!!!!!!! Cymbals are so loud!!!!!!! -and can completely destroy your eardrum in no time flat!!!!!!!!!!... MUCH WORSE than The other players amps!!!!!!!!!!
That guy seemed a little shifty.
... When you get into something that requires patches, it's WAY TOO MUCH!!!!!!!!!! And you're in too deep, and need to get out QUICKLY!!!!!!!!!! 🙀... I would just stick to a pedal board with my favorite pedals!!!!!!!!!!... & Either Greg fryer or Pete Cornish!!!!!!!!!!!
... Well... LONG guitar solos, except for Brian May, and Eddie Van Halen!!!!!!!!!!
Holy shit, who edited this? Maybe take it easy on the blow next time!
Chords picking it up by ear with open strings is what Smashing Pumpkins and Black Sabbath turned into the greatest rythms rock 'n roll albums. So the Foo Fighters are doing now.
If you play classic, dad rock- then yeah, they got it right for you back when classic dad rock was the "in" thing- the 50s, 60s, and early 70s. If you play 80s shred, then you're going to swear they reached the pinnacle of guitar making around the mid 80s. And if you play all this new, prog. rock style stuff- what's it called "djent"? Then you're going to think they didn't get it right until they created a 7 string, multi scale, compound radius, monstrosity along with an interface and a DAW so you could get your laptop into the mix. If you're into Polka, you have bigger problems than what gear to use. Have you tried to find a decent set of lederhosen lately? Don't laugh- polka is coming back- watch. "Grab your wiener, let's polka..."
Lee did you see the drunk Ritchie Sambora interview?
He said that a Telecaster was hard to get his head around. How is that even possible?
Pretty sure he just means it took him a while to play one and make it sound like he wanted it to, when he was used to a different thing. Not like he literally couldn’t figure out how to play a different model of guitar.