OK FINE I ADMIT IT! I DON'T KNOW HOW THE JAZZMASTER WORKS! HE USES REVERSE REVERB BUT WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?? WHAT DOES IT MEAN??? IF YOU REVERSE REVERB SHOULDN'T IT NOT BE THE ANYMORE??? WHAT DOES THAT MEAN HE USES REVERSE REVERB??? SURE YOU CAN USE DISTORTION, SURE YOU CAN USE REVERB, BUT YOU CAN'T USE REVERSE REVERB!!! YOU CAN'T USE REVERSE REVERB IT DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE!!! HOW DOES HE REVERSE REVERB??? I DON'T GET IT!!! SOMEONE EXPLAIN IT TO ME!!! EXPLAIN HOW THE JAZZMASTER WORKS!!! PLEASE SOMEONE HELP ME!!!! HOW DOES THE JAZZMASTER WORK?????????
@@noahterrell5934 Dude, calm down. Kevin didn't know anything about Jazzmasters when he first saw it back in 88' but he started experimenting with it and developed his technique. I recommend you to start with a Stratocaster and a little distortion pedal to develop your own technique, since Jazzmasters are very expensive these days. Good luck. Add: Reverse Reverb works just as its name says. The reverb does fade in after playing in a certain amount of time (obviously you can tweak the time) and all the reverberated sound is reversed. (played backwards if you want to say it that way).If you want to use Reverse Reverb, you have to get an special pedal.
@@ixLunacy I know you’re just correcting the guy, but also do just want to say this. All of mbv was smoking a lot of weed during the time recording loveless and before I’m sure with isn’t anything and there earlier eps
He said something that is so true about shoegaze in general. There's always that one-third of the population that just can't access it or they don't get it. It really is about having a meditative experience.
First time I listened to it I didn't get it and wrote it off. 1-2 years later I revisited it and it quickly became one of my favorite if not my very album. Nothing else is quite like it.
When I first heard this type of sound years ago it completely blew my mind. I didn't know what it was but it just connected with my brain for some reason and I needed to hear more.
I had a similar experience with noise rock when I listened to "shield for your eyes" by Melt-Banana for the first time, my brain litteraly told me "ok this is it, this is what we were looking for"
+Ryan Denziloe I don't disagree, it's has that spinning around the drain / Whirlpool Feeling to it, which probably means there's a Leslie Speaker on the thing. Then the dude probably said blackhole because black hole sun has one on it or some sci fi movie with a black hole that uses it as the sound effect or one of those disney audio story records.
Went to see them a couple of years ago in Manchester. Loudest gig I've ever been to by far... When I tried to walk out at the end I couldn't actually walk in a straight line. It was like the muscles in my legs had been massaged by the sound waves :D
+scaredypicker I always tell people that "You Made Me Realise" live is something that people simply have to experience in person. You will never FEEL music like that anywhere else.
+scaredypicker the sound levels were positively sonic during the '08 reunion tour. I remember seeing a pic of a sound level monitor reading 114 dB during the holocaust section of You Made Me Realise.
+creekandseminole Went to the Austin show, remember the place handing out ear plugs, and thought it was silly. They started playing.. it wasn't silly. It was amazing.. but I think they played the "brown note" during the holocaust section.
@@TheDmonet the reverse reverb is like the frosting but I really truly believe they would sound nothing like themselves without the glide guitar technique.
I remember discovering MBV when I was 18-19. Wasn't past the death of my father from a few years back, was in love, was angry, had ambitions and dreams, all of these different emotions were like a constant turbulance, and I fucking hated the chaos of it all. Then I got hold of Loveless... It was like sounds that encapsulated it all; it was aggressive, but it was beautiful at the same time. The distorted guitar was so angry, but the vocals were soothing to me, and it all just resonated with me. I couldn't get my head around it, but I could relate to it like nothing else I had heard before, and it didn't demand nothing of me. I just had to listen, accept it, it was like taking a beating but every punch was a revelation, and every bruise was a fucking blessing. In short: I fell in love, and I still am in love. More so, day by day.
Beautiful and well put. I love how gently chaotic it is. Fuzzy and distorted like a haze of rage but you could go to sleep peacefully surrounded by the void of static
"Sounds like a mermaid falling into a black hole" broke my brain.... so much so that i had to express it into a comment before i lose whatever sanity i had left
+Joseph Reisman I think that very same thing about, "To Here Knows When" when that dense noise swallows the other sounds like it as a black hole... That tune I thought it was special from the very first listen... Now with a bunch of listens to the album It finally clicked all the way... "Sometimes" is pure genuine too, fucking explosion of dense and love sound.
2:11-2.45 I attended MBV's live in Vancouver in 1988, the last song they played was a non-stop super loud guitar noise for about an hour, it was so fxxking loud for so long, the sound (noise) was like a plane taking off above your head endlessly, then, after some time, may be 40 mins or so, I started to experience the transcended state Kevin described ... amazing! ... of course, like he said at 2:38, at least 1/3 of the audience left by the time angrily as they did not get the meditative effect ... :)
That reminds me of a King Buzzo moment. The Melvins were playing some college venue and it was jammed to the rafters with drunk frat boys. So he took the stage and sporadically strummed an ear-bleedingly loud dissonant E for an hour until they all left. Then when it was just a handful of fans the rest of the Melvins took the stage and they played their gig. Kinda the opposite of what MBV did, but it reminded me of it.
Ah yes, the "You Made Me Realise" accurately named 'Holocaust Section'. Saw them in 92 and couldn't hear properly for 2 days. One of the best gigs I ever went to.
I saw them live in 2018 and they started playing that for a while and it gave me anxiety lmao I felt like I was suffocating haha but had a good time nonetheless
They handed out earplugs at the Sydney show I saw a couple of years back. Took them out for a bit and holy shit it was painful. Like Disaster Area from the Hitchhiker's Guide books
***** I take it you've not seen MBV live? MBV are so loud its no longer sound, its just pain. Its so loud that without ear plugs its just white noise anyway, it overloads your eardrums. If you stood at the front of one of thier gigs without hearing protection, you would have permanent, severe hearing damage. They played gigs in the 90s where people had burst eardums and blood coming out their ears.
colinm213 finally got to see them at the Roseland a number of years ago. got industrial plugs from a welder. Though I'm a hippie in heart my wife and I dressed in goth with bloodied ears. did an appropriate mixture of fentenal and perks. only needed one plug for my bad ear. The 20 minute feed back during :You made me realize: Was Beautiful! not grindy and edgy as sonic youth can be. It sounded like there was a hurricane outside. Tears of Joy. Have you heard -Japans yellow loveless ?- it's on youtube.
***** I saw them for the first time back in March 1992 (US loveless tour) and stood stage right, about 15 feet away from the main PA stack, for the entire show-- including the breakdown during "You Made Me Realise". Back then, it went on for a good 30-35 minutes. When it started, there was a good-sized crowd by the stack. By then end of it, there was just me and another guy standing next to me. My hearing didn't return to normal until three days afterward.
Hal Jalykakik you got lucky,1. seeing them in 92- I couldnt get one to save my life. I pounced when I heard about the reunion. It was a wet dream cum true. Had tottally given up on another release. Was pleasantly surprised, yet nothing will ever surpass loveless. @2 you got your hearing back, im sure theres still lingering damage. Gaze-out-weird Joe i
Sometimes I’m just brought to tears at how Shields cultivated known ideas and practices on the guitar like feedback/whammy bar usage and managed to tap into something so esoteric
Saw MBV in Melbourne in 1991 at Prince of Wales on the Loveless tour. Woah. So damn loud the best place to hear them was outside the building. They also had a flute player to flesh the tone out... I've never seen so many fat spliffs criss-crossing an audience in my life.
We saw the same tour in Athens, Ga and they broke into a piece at the end of the set that was basically like standing behind a 747 with the jets at full rev; half the audience left including me with our ears covered. Loudest thing I have ever witnessed.
For me he is like the genius of guitar sound, he achieved for that instrument what Brian Wilson achieved for 60s pop music. The perfect sound, a heavenly sound, reaching for heaven. To here knows qhen and sometimes are great examples of this genius wall of sounds.
I don't know how he can make it work live. He has a different guitar for different songs and the sheer number of pedals must make it a nightmare on a dark stage.
I can remember sitting on my couch reading a book while MTV’s 120 Minutes was in the background, but out of nowhere comes this blast of distortion and I bolt upright and I’m completely mesmerized! Went to Tower records the next day and picked up Loveless. Still one of my favorite albums of all time!
i totally understand what he is talking about when he mentions the trance like nature of the guitar sounds. most of the album, especially the 4th track, with that harsh, abrasive, yet intimate droning sound, really can put you in a trance like state. at least it did to me.
This is incredible. To think the beauty and creativity that can come out of Kevin Shields shimmering glittery neon pink psychedelic mind. He's amazing.
MBV is different from imitators in that they were as influenced by Sonic Youth for guitar-texture as the Byrds for vocal-harmonies. Kevin Shields' tone is impeccable.
For me he is the great sound mastermind of electric guitar sound, in the same way Segovia made it for the classical. He invents, he knows how to create many creative, emotionally charged guitar sounds. Loveless is just divine, "Sometimes, to here knows when..." pure bliss sounds
+ami noto I have a guitarist friend with a single cab that requires a shit ton of power. Can't imagine the power requirements of his rig, that thing is just massive
Kevin once said that loveless was like being absorbed in another world but still grounded in reality. I agree idk how to explain it but it makes feel my being in weird ways.
Kevin Shields isn't just an incredible guitarist. He made music about the feel and aesthetic and not about who can shred the fastest (which is an art in itself - but not what music is about imho) and has been ripped off by many guitar players and never once got mad about it. The 60s had Hendrix and the 90s - Kevin Shields and J Mascis. So much great music in the the 90s that's overlooked.
If anyone wants to experience the meditative music experience, listen to Subrange 6-36 by Autechre. It's everything that Kevin Shields was discussing in the video, minus a few hundred guitar pedals.
Kevin Shields looks like a 18th century classical music composer.
beepst he's our equivalent
beepst just imagine this music in the 18th century
@Jace hahaha fuck they'd probably behead you
because this is nothing short of sorcery ;)
Nourman Ch. true
beepst he looks like Bach or Beethoven, totally
“Whangy bar”
-legendary rock producer Butch Vig
I get so pumped when I hear the drums to Only Shallow kick in. Holy fuck
Nice profile pic
Curtis wot the fok. you too LOL
My Name is Shawn, and I Kill Communists (with logic tbh) can't we all just be friends? :)
Yes yes we all can
Curtis your pic is tripping me out man hahaha
everybody gangsta til kevin hits the wangy bar
We boutta hit the wangy
Kevin Shields on Loveless - "It just works"
its like Tesla saying "thats how the cookie fuckin crumbles" and we just deal with it
The sound of a single idea perfected
OK FINE I ADMIT IT! I DON'T KNOW HOW THE JAZZMASTER WORKS! HE USES REVERSE REVERB BUT WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?? WHAT DOES IT MEAN??? IF YOU REVERSE REVERB SHOULDN'T IT NOT BE THE ANYMORE??? WHAT DOES THAT MEAN HE USES REVERSE REVERB??? SURE YOU CAN USE DISTORTION, SURE YOU CAN USE REVERB, BUT YOU CAN'T USE REVERSE REVERB!!! YOU CAN'T USE REVERSE REVERB IT DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE!!! HOW DOES HE REVERSE REVERB??? I DON'T GET IT!!! SOMEONE EXPLAIN IT TO ME!!! EXPLAIN HOW THE JAZZMASTER WORKS!!! PLEASE SOMEONE HELP ME!!!! HOW DOES THE JAZZMASTER WORK?????????
@@noahterrell5934 Dude, calm down. Kevin didn't know anything about Jazzmasters when he first saw it back in 88' but he started experimenting with it and developed his technique. I recommend you to start with a Stratocaster and a little distortion pedal to develop your own technique, since Jazzmasters are very expensive these days. Good luck.
Add: Reverse Reverb works just as its name says. The reverb does fade in after playing in a certain amount of time (obviously you can tweak the time) and all the reverberated sound is reversed. (played backwards if you want to say it that way).If you want to use Reverse Reverb, you have to get an special pedal.
RusoLarusso it’s a joke. It’s a reference to a meme of a certain anime.
"we were just high and we wanted people to experience that..." Thank you my bloody valentine for taking away my excuses to try drugs. lol
he means high on sound, not drugs, but i feel you lol
@@animalbancho1726 he means he doesn't have any reason to try drugs anymore, because kevin shields allows him to get "high" with music
@@ixLunacy I know you’re just correcting the guy, but also do just want to say this. All of mbv was smoking a lot of weed during the time recording loveless and before I’m sure with isn’t anything and there earlier eps
@@bobbymcfee2974 they may have been doing ecstasy as well but i think it was mainly weed
Hi in Dublin would ya yea? You wee lucky to get a smell of passing hash eh 😂
He said something that is so true about shoegaze in general. There's always that one-third of the population that just can't access it or they don't get it. It really is about having a meditative experience.
some people need to meditate in silence, some others in noise :)
You can hear it in some covers too.
Total Disdain gbnm
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Total Disdain ghiooooooi
Big Bad The Band oo
"Mermaid falling into a black hole" is the best description of My Bloody Valentine I've heard yet. :)
Totally. Another description I’ve heard is watching a nuclear explosion while cuddling a baby kitten
That little 5-second clip at 1:11 of Shields playing his signature style just blew me away. An artisan at work.
"it shouldn't work but it really works"
- Kevin Shields
Loveless is still the greatest piece of modern music. Stunning creation. No pun intended.
I honestly regard Loveless as humanities greatest ever piece of art/expression.
First time I listened to it I didn't get it and wrote it off. 1-2 years later I revisited it and it quickly became one of my favorite if not my very album. Nothing else is quite like it.
@@willt.9654 give Dynamo by Soda Stereo a try. It's been called the Spanish-language version of Loveless
@@EsteBandido_YT naa
@@EsteBandido_YT es un discazo pero nada q ver con loveless
When I first heard this type of sound years ago it completely blew my mind. I didn't know what it was but it just connected with my brain for some reason and I needed to hear more.
I think it connected with your heart far more
LimeC yep me too
I had a similar experience with noise rock when I listened to "shield for your eyes" by Melt-Banana for the first time, my brain litteraly told me "ok this is it, this is what we were looking for"
Absolutely. It's like drugs, cliche as that sounds.
I learned about MBV from an interview with Billy Corgan. I went out and purchased Loveless. I was hooked after hearing it.
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Ryan Denziloe hahah i laughted at this for an hour probably..best comment of my day ;D
+Ryan Denziloe I don't disagree, it's has that spinning around the drain / Whirlpool Feeling to it, which probably means there's a Leslie Speaker on the thing. Then the dude probably said blackhole because black hole sun has one on it or some sci fi movie with a black hole that uses it as the sound effect or one of those disney audio story records.
+MRLein93 yep, you made sense out of it.
Like a pig
In a cage
On antibiotics
@@radidov5333 gggt
Went to see them a couple of years ago in Manchester. Loudest gig I've ever been to by far... When I tried to walk out at the end I couldn't actually walk in a straight line. It was like the muscles in my legs had been massaged by the sound waves :D
+scaredypicker Same here when I saw them in Dallas, TX on their USA reunion tour.
+scaredypicker I always tell people that "You Made Me Realise" live is something that people simply have to experience in person. You will never FEEL music like that anywhere else.
+scaredypicker the sound levels were positively sonic during the '08 reunion tour. I remember seeing a pic of a sound level monitor reading 114 dB during the holocaust section of You Made Me Realise.
+creekandseminole Went to the Austin show, remember the place handing out ear plugs, and thought it was silly. They started playing.. it wasn't silly. It was amazing.. but I think they played the "brown note" during the holocaust section.
msezonov lol "bbbbrrrraaaaappppppfffffttttt..."
Kevin Shields is so badass, he can make an unamped Jazzmaster sound intense as fuck (1:12)
Kyle Bentley i
No.
Nah. I think their band was revolutionary sounding but the reverse reverb is really the key, not any technique he uses.
@@TheDmonet the reverse reverb is like the frosting but I really truly believe they would sound nothing like themselves without the glide guitar technique.
meanwhile....back on hair metal island.....
what fuckin fromage-dick music that was...hated it
Yeah I cringed when that popped up.
I'm glad i'm not the only one who hates hair metal.
Fuckin hipsters lmao
Haha!
I thank My Bloody Valentine for changing my life.
same...
I remember when I first heard Loveless, my reaction was "guitars can sound like THAT???"
me too, 2009 was a weird year
I remember discovering MBV when I was 18-19. Wasn't past the death of my father from a few years back, was in love, was angry, had ambitions and dreams, all of these different emotions were like a constant turbulance, and I fucking hated the chaos of it all. Then I got hold of Loveless... It was like sounds that encapsulated it all; it was aggressive, but it was beautiful at the same time. The distorted guitar was so angry, but the vocals were soothing to me, and it all just resonated with me. I couldn't get my head around it, but I could relate to it like nothing else I had heard before, and it didn't demand nothing of me. I just had to listen, accept it, it was like taking a beating but every punch was a revelation, and every bruise was a fucking blessing.
In short: I fell in love, and I still am in love. More so, day by day.
Beautiful and well put. I love how gently chaotic it is. Fuzzy and distorted like a haze of rage but you could go to sleep peacefully surrounded by the void of static
Beautiful and accurate descriptions both of you. 110% agree
I don't think anyone ever forgets the first time they heard Only Shallow explode in their ears.
"Sounds like a mermaid falling into a black hole" broke my brain.... so much so that i had to express it into a comment before i lose whatever sanity i had left
LOL-your mermaids....I think- already left the pool.
+Joseph Reisman I think that very same thing about, "To Here Knows When" when that dense noise swallows the other sounds like it as a black hole... That tune I thought it was special from the very first listen... Now with a bunch of listens to the album It finally clicked all the way... "Sometimes" is pure genuine too, fucking explosion of dense and love sound.
John Doran is great, check out their interviews for Noisey
"his wangy bar" 1:07
The action as well tho
2:11-2.45 I attended MBV's live in Vancouver in 1988, the last song they played was a non-stop super loud guitar noise for about an hour, it was so fxxking loud for so long, the sound (noise) was like a plane taking off above your head endlessly, then, after some time, may be 40 mins or so, I started to experience the transcended state Kevin described ... amazing! ... of course, like he said at 2:38, at least 1/3 of the audience left by the time angrily as they did not get the meditative effect ... :)
That reminds me of a King Buzzo moment.
The Melvins were playing some college venue and it was jammed to the rafters with drunk frat boys. So he took the stage and sporadically strummed an ear-bleedingly loud dissonant E for an hour until they all left.
Then when it was just a handful of fans the rest of the Melvins took the stage and they played their gig.
Kinda the opposite of what MBV did, but it reminded me of it.
Ah yes, the "You Made Me Realise" accurately named 'Holocaust Section'. Saw them in 92 and couldn't hear properly for 2 days. One of the best gigs I ever went to.
Maybe the valued their hearing
I saw them live in 2018 and they started playing that for a while and it gave me anxiety lmao I felt like I was suffocating haha but had a good time nonetheless
@Joel Hassig awesome...thanks
Best heard live with industrial hearing protection. Seriously.
They handed out earplugs at the Sydney show I saw a couple of years back. Took them out for a bit and holy shit it was painful. Like Disaster Area from the Hitchhiker's Guide books
*****
I take it you've not seen MBV live? MBV are so loud its no longer sound, its just pain. Its so loud that without ear plugs its just white noise anyway, it overloads your eardrums. If you stood at the front of one of thier gigs without hearing protection, you would have permanent, severe hearing damage. They played gigs in the 90s where people had burst eardums and blood coming out their ears.
colinm213 finally got to see them at the Roseland a number of years ago. got industrial plugs from a welder. Though I'm a hippie in heart my wife and I dressed in goth with bloodied ears. did an appropriate mixture of fentenal and perks. only needed one plug for my bad ear. The 20 minute feed back during :You made me realize: Was Beautiful! not grindy and edgy as sonic youth can be. It sounded like there was a hurricane outside. Tears of Joy. Have you heard -Japans yellow loveless ?- it's on youtube.
***** I saw them for the first time back in March 1992 (US loveless tour) and stood stage right, about 15 feet away from the main PA stack, for the entire show-- including the breakdown during "You Made Me Realise". Back then, it went on for a good 30-35 minutes. When it started, there was a good-sized crowd by the stack. By then end of it, there was just me and another guy standing next to me. My hearing didn't return to normal until three days afterward.
Hal Jalykakik you got lucky,1. seeing them in 92- I couldnt get one to save my life. I pounced when I heard about the reunion. It was a wet dream cum true. Had tottally given up on another release. Was pleasantly surprised, yet nothing will ever surpass loveless. @2 you got your hearing back, im sure theres still lingering damage. Gaze-out-weird Joe
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Over 6 years later and "whangy bar" still wins the internet every damn day @ 1:07
The gesture is what really takes it to the next level
Butch Vig invents his own words
Sometimes I’m just brought to tears at how Shields cultivated known ideas and practices on the guitar like feedback/whammy bar usage and managed to tap into something so esoteric
Love your pfp. Im a huge fan of lain
Saw MBV in Melbourne in 1991 at Prince of Wales on the Loveless tour. Woah. So damn loud the best place to hear them was outside the building. They also had a flute player to flesh the tone out... I've never seen so many fat spliffs criss-crossing an audience in my life.
We saw the same tour in Athens, Ga and they broke into a piece at the end of the set that was basically like standing behind a 747 with the jets at full rev; half the audience left including me with our ears covered. Loudest thing I have ever witnessed.
vista7 That track is known as 'The Holocaust'. People have uploaded versions here from their reunion tour.
I'll have to search it. To witness it live is indescribable. Wish they toured more for their reunion show.
Absurdity loud. Psichocandy sounds more organic
KS its just a genius. totally a musical genius.
+Paisley Adams Gustavo Cerati FTW!!!!
Absolutely no one on earth like him
Gus!!
Bocanada.
Cerati
For me he is like the genius of guitar sound, he achieved for that instrument what Brian Wilson achieved for 60s pop music. The perfect sound, a heavenly sound, reaching for heaven. To here knows qhen and sometimes are great examples of this genius wall of sounds.
Even Lemmy thought that this genre of sound tsunami was too heavy
I love it how some Poison or Motley 80s poodle rocker gets cut off instantly at the end ...
I don't know how he can make it work live. He has a different guitar for different songs and the sheer number of pedals must make it a nightmare on a dark stage.
I’ve heard Loveless, and Only Shallow specifically like quite literally a million times, and it never gets old
When I saw MBV live in '91, they were the loudest band I've ever heard.
And would ever hear again.
"It's a mermaid falling into a black hole really", this is probably the best description of MBV I've ever heard.
All we want is to watch Kevin Shields strum for 10 minutes and go through his pedals WITHOUT narration
“We were just high. And we wanted people to experience that” lol might be the most accurate stoner musician thing I’ve ever heard said
anyone else get goosebumps when Only Shallow started playing?
every bloody time....
The logical continuation of Jesus and Mary Chain
we still love you kevin! i stayed for you made me realize in LA 1992 - all 20 mins of it and was lost in the trance
"It's like a mermaid falling into a black hole" lol
"It's like a mermaid fallen into a black hole or something." That makes no sense and I absolutely love it.
"whangy bar"
Still listening to them since the 90s, still get shivers with the guitar sounds from Kevin.
I can remember sitting on my couch reading a book while MTV’s 120 Minutes was in the background, but out of nowhere comes this blast of distortion and I bolt upright and I’m completely mesmerized! Went to Tower records the next day and picked up Loveless. Still one of my favorite albums of all time!
120 min was the best show on MTV
I get so pumped when I hear the feedback kick in. Holy fuck
i totally understand what he is talking about when he mentions the trance like nature of the guitar sounds. most of the album, especially the 4th track, with that harsh, abrasive, yet intimate droning sound, really can put you in a trance like state. at least it did to me.
Me too
Check out 528 frequencies
i wish this was way longer than 2 minutes
Fucking genius.
this guy is a fucking genius in my opinion... great band, great band indeed
30 years later and I still feel this music in my chest cavity.
One of the best shows I ever seen/heard from a band I never thought I'd get to. All Points West 2018 or 2019. The encore was pure sonic bliss!
Thank you, Thank you, Thank you This song was plaguing me the whole night. Can wait to hear the album version. The melody is so MBV. Great new track
This is incredible. To think the beauty and creativity that can come out of Kevin Shields shimmering glittery neon pink psychedelic mind. He's amazing.
He's the classic kind of bloke one just doesn't expect to look and speak the way he does. Groovy dude.
Love seeing guitarists expand on their techniques.
Kevin Shields is a genius.
kevin shields looks like a composer and a physician at the same time
MBV is different from imitators in that they were as influenced by Sonic Youth for guitar-texture as the Byrds for vocal-harmonies. Kevin Shields' tone is impeccable.
Need the raw footage of Kevin playing solo guitar, although I love to hear from him, that guitar sound standing alone is the greatest
Just press the on button on a vacuum cleaner
rogums please fuck off!
Snapcase 1968 lol
rogums vacuum cleaners have a clear lack of harmonics.
this made me laugh thx
How original.
1:14 that exact moment
MBV in a nutshell.
jrt70 pure tremolo * _ *
Never has a G, D, C sounded so perfect
My bloody valentine in a nutshell
@@o7k4vokb0ksp5n2 it’s g d g
the last part where nikki sixx pops up for a split second made me puke
accurate
Ditto.
Swellebound 86 you sir made my morning. I nearly gagged
I tend to like both, honestly.
I like a lot of shit actually. I have a playlist on my channel...aaaaaaaaaaaannnnd some National Bolshevik propaganda videos.
phenomenal what a Great band
For me he is the great sound mastermind of electric guitar sound, in the same way Segovia made it for the classical. He invents, he knows how to create many creative, emotionally charged guitar sounds. Loveless is just divine, "Sometimes, to here knows when..." pure bliss sounds
he must get through shit loads of 9v batteries..
+ami noto I have a guitarist friend with a single cab that requires a shit ton of power. Can't imagine the power requirements of his rig, that thing is just massive
Power supplies and wall warts my guy
God. I love his music.
Kevin once said that loveless was like being absorbed in another world but still grounded in reality. I agree idk how to explain it but it makes feel my being in weird ways.
So glad I got to see them live.
This is how i discovered mbv as a kid. Shaped my music tastes to this day.
The man knows sound intimately.
The dreams of song he must have. The kind that’s life changing and you wake up and have no way to replicate it.
I knew it before he articulated it....the music is experienced as resonance
Absolutely excellent upload, thanks for sharing
Did he just call it a whangy bar?
Butch Vig can call it whatever he wants.
he could call it a wobble stick for all i care
Truly innovative band! I love Loveless!
Kevin Shields isn't just an incredible guitarist. He made music about the feel and aesthetic and not about who can shred the fastest (which is an art in itself - but not what music is about imho) and has been ripped off by many guitar players and never once got mad about it. The 60s had Hendrix and the 90s - Kevin Shields and J Mascis. So much great music in the the 90s that's overlooked.
One of the Greatest
shields of kevin
Love the almost transition to the lowbrow caveman-Rock of Mötley Pöo.🤣
Cringe
Loveless is a great album.
Si tuviera que elegir escuchar un último álbum antes de morir, elegiría Loveless sin dudarlo, un universo lleno de ruidos ❤️
Saludos!! 🇵🇪
infinite horizon......
If anyone wants to experience the meditative music experience, listen to Subrange 6-36 by Autechre. It's everything that Kevin Shields was discussing in the video, minus a few hundred guitar pedals.
Also check out binaural beats and Solfeggio frequencies (528)
"Whangy bar" --Butch Vig
I love it :)
When I tell you that that was the loudest concert I've ever been to I was not lying.
This man is actually a genius
These guys are gnarly
When I was watching this and they mentioned My Bloody Valentine I started to cry!
Lmao, "Its like a mermaid falling into a black hole"
pretty accurate
best description of shoegaze ever
Who is that guy?
@@MarcoLongoMusic John Doran
@@crubba thank you
I thought he was Brian May!
hahaha yeah, I think it's the hair.
My Bloody.....CRÜE??
I wouldn't be Kevin's friend, but I love this man
Genius- Infinite horizon.
Shit, this guys now have more than 50 years, the time has passed so fast
UNDERRATED LEGEND!! :)
Didn't know that pysycho Bob made such good guitar riffs
MAESTRO !
The Devi Ever Godzilla on his board is so rad, glad I got a few of their pedals before they went defunct they made some magical stuff
You either get it, or all you hear is vacuum cleaners.
next level
Kevin Shields is a godsend.