Mike doesn't get enough love. He's such a good powerful bass player. Him and Mario build the amazing canvas that makes everything work.
I went to an Earthless show in 2009 because I had confused them with a (mediocre) prog metal band called Opposite Earth. When I realised, I was disappointed, but not for long! They started playing and I remember thinking "So when is he gonna start singing?" Then I thought "This is great and I wanna do what he's doing!". Shortly after I bought my first guitar.
Last Friday they played in my town. I missed the show because I had to prepare for a gig I played the next day... in some sense "doing what he's doing" so I wasn't too disappointed, really :P
I also saw them around that time ! Probably a year prior .The set was pretty much Rhythms from a Cosmic Sky and that's my favorite record by them (even though it kinda sounds like a jam session,I still love it)
Isaiah truly plays the guitar, his control over his instrument is stunning.
The way guitar players talk about tone is one of the most amusing things to me.
I know this is an old comment, but i have to know what's amusing about it? I'm a guitar player and I try not to talk about my own tone too much - it's odd when people want to hear us talk about it.
Isaiah is hands down one of the best players out there now. Been lucky enough to see Earthless several times....they crush every time
John, you do such a great job interviewing these artists. Thank you so much. I really like how you ask great questions and let them do almost all of the explanation. Keeping chatter to a minimum and letting them explain their gear and why THEY like it. You and others at Premier are a knowledgeable team and really appreciate your work. THANKS!!!
I saw Earthless at GroundZero SC back in 2017 ish and have been rocking with them ever since. Isaiah Mitchell is a picker that I never get tired of. Keep on rocking! \m/
AWESOME interview, this group is really dedicated to the classics sounds of ROCK, I'm so glad you brought attention to their style of play and technical side of Effects, keep up the good work Buddy
Awesome, Isaiah seems like such a cool guy, and is killer guitar player, glad Earthless is back!
Nerd guitar player here. You can combine pickups in either series or parallel depending on how they are wired. You can also split the coils of a humbucker. Sounds like you are talking about parallel. You can also flip the + and -, which is polarity, and because the pickups are in different physical locations, the phase of the pickups will be different and some frequencies will cancel and some will add, which changes the tonal qualities.
Been listening to rock and guitar stuff for 50 years and just learned of this guy yesterday. I agree with all the superlatives used.
Love the Bad Brains and Tym Guitars stickers on the back of the strat!
Great show, with some really fantastic groups, I have to admit that alot of the band's I've never heard of.... This show has brought an array of great musicians to my attention! Band's like, AFI, Screaming Females (brilliant singer & guitarist) & many others! But, these 2 Band's really stand out for me! Keep up the great work....☝🤓👍
GREAT TONES GREAT RIG RUNDOWN!!! BEST OF THE YEAR SO FAR!!!!!
Love Rig Rundown that shows player playing. Awesome episode!
I grew up with him. I remember him in punk bands in Leucadia. From there Earthless and now the Crowes. Freaking amazing.
these guys are doing really great music i love it, glad they are visiting ireland this year, will see them in May 2022. cheers
Can't say enough good things about this band and how great they sound live. Legends!
Picked up my guitar from Tyms today. Alex fitted the Isaiah Mitchell Brierley hand wound pups ... What a shop. What talent. What a sound!
Got to meet this dude awhile back. Super cool cat. Earthless is sick! One of my all time favorite bands. See them live.
I have been listening to Earthless fir years! Sick band. Top 3 guitarist of all time. Dude has some unreal chops and guitars, amps, etc...
Isaiah, seems to do one of the best jobs showcasing tone in his choice of notes, and phrasing. Impressive!
plus one for Brierley Pickups - absolute works of art. I have a P90 in a les paul an my fave: an esquire in an esquire I put together, gorgeous tones
Love the look of his strat! Interesting sound, very rounded. The pedal board kind of works with that, lots of subtle different mid tone flavours which he really works in his playing of course.
Awesome rundown John! Killer tones! thank-you.
Awesome John! Always a treat brother.
Nice work John. It's a beautiful thing to see two grown men ogling and growning over pedals together like that.
One of my favorite guitarists. Just recently became aware of him. So good
Best Rundown I’ve seen yet. Great stuff!
Wgs, warehouse guitar speakers, are amazing!! I have a 2x12 with a retro 30 and a HM75 and the combo is amazing! They have some of the best quality and there price is really resonable
Nice! Saw Earthless at Lake on Fire Festival last summer, amazing show! Always asked myself what fx they use. Just realized there's this rig rundown, well, better late than never^^
Great Rig Rundown, this band is awesome!
Mitchell's tone is so effing nasty. He's also one of the greatest living guitarists.
Short bassist with a shortscale and a mini bass wah, but MASSIVE tone! ❤️
The man is a monster! Love Earthless! Amazing music - brilliant guitar!
Great to see Earthless on the Rig Rundown. Trippy fuzzed out psychedelic warriors.
Super nice interview! Really cool guys.
Mick Brierley makes great pick-ups!! He lives in my home city of Adelaide, in South Australia.
Best wineries (esp. Shiraz & other reds) anywhere, too ... X)
Hey pits, nice interview. I'm gonna have to check out this band for sure.
What sick guitars. The triple bridge tele is so tight. Also what a clean tone hahaha
New game: One whisky sip for each time Isaiah says "I dunno"
Drunk in seconds XD
Love this guy and his gear!
YEAAAAAAHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!! thank you PG and johnny b.!
saw them 3 yrs. ago ,I think, at a St. Paddy's day gig. great rock band who play an amalgam of every band they like (and I like).closed w/ a song containing lyrics (an instrumental band),'Communication Breakdown'. great show on a really cold, windy night in Harvard Sq .I can understand someone starting a band because of them.good, down to earth guys(no pun) who hung around talking afterwards .nobody rushed to go outside .nobody sober, anyway. he played the shit out of that old Strat.
Yew!! Tym’s!! I go into Tym’s and drool regularly.
That is an amazing guitar! I have always wabted a 54'(maybe)? Got it off a buddies dad, what a great story!
Such an awesome player. Hell yeah.
That was The bass sound from “Check Your Head”! Sweet!!!
That tele sounds awesome
“Negative times negative is positive” “stand and deliver” 🤣😂
Arby's pedal rules! It's made by our bud Ned Clayton. We love our Arby's pedals.
Isaiah is an amazing player - had the pleasure of shooting his other band Golden Void a few months ago and it was incredible to enjoy his playing close up. Inspiring stuff and a really nice guy.
there is pure gold here
Yeaaahhhh finally Isaiah doing this !
24:56 Dude sneaking a beer! Lol. I will put it in this bag so nobody can see me take it! Lol. Then I will crouch when I walk away! Lol. Nobody can see me when I crouch! Hahaha!! I AM CRABMAN! My super power is I get invisible when I do the crab walk! Hahaha!
so elegant playin´and amazing sound...cool
That tele is rocking boy!
Isaiah is really a much more versatile player than I realized.
I like how they're wearing almost the same shirt haha. And damn he has some epic chops!
That treble boost is freaking wild sounding!
Earthless is amazing. If you are here and don't have their music, get some!
The only strat I ever heard do all this! Wow
cool pedals,,learned alot of new names..this dude rocks
Huh! This is one of those rare times I'm actually going to bother looking up the RR band I've never heard before! :D
7:20 dont touch my fkn guitar
Honestly I didn't know strats with single coils can sound so damn heavy!!! Hell I could play sludge with his setup! Killer tone!
You should listen to some Dead Meadow or Mt. Carmel. I thought the same thing.
Ya know... I'm thinking Telecaster not strat. Still good bands though. Sorry
Echodrive! Those SIB pedals are super cool. My friend has a blue Echodrive that's one of the best sounding delays I've ever heard. Good luck finding one lol.
That strat is beautiful.
I don't know this band but Isaiah Mitchell's tone is fabulous from that Tele!
My new fave band.
Great that he bought that Strat in high school and put it back to stock...
FINALLY THANK YOU!
Got to see them on this tour in Boston - very far out 🌀
Excelente y genial guitarrista Isahiah y mejor persona honestao ,honrado y humilde un ser bueno,un fuerte abrazo desde Bilbao (País Vasco) tuve la suerte de ver a Earthles en Azkena Rock y lo que disfrute con esta gran banda ✌️☮️✌️
Great band!
dang that sounds great
Tyms guitar sticker on the back , rad
honestly if you're getting a bigsby you can afford the extra 30 bucks for all the callaham upgrades. They make great trems.
Every time somebody plays a shorter scale bass people comment on how “huge” they sound like they are surprised. Shorter scale means less string tension which means bigger deeper sound, same concept as d-tuning lol
Except with detuning you're also...de..tuning. so the notes are actually lower. Short scale basses sound more rubbery and loose for sure.
wow.. How does he get such a big dark sound on the bridge pick up on a strat? Is the tone wired to it like Beck? Thx
Seaweed Pedal! That is fantastic.
Callaham probably won't mind the typo... Anyway, I love my WGS Blackhawk in my AC15!
That first guitar strap on the strat is sick! Anyone knows who made it?
Huge fan of earthless. I wonder what’s causing the splatty fuzzy sound? The amp, the pedal, the mic? Obviously when the fuZz is on it sounds fuzzy but what about the other times? It just doesn’t sound like the old jmp.
sounded way better when he changed the treble booster from full range to its original intent 13:45.
Caught them last night in Barcelona. He's still playing that same strat and killing it. I'm wondering if the body was from a strat plus? Lace sensors, "graphite" nut (strat plus is powdered steel but it could be confused with graphite)...... Hhmmm 🤔
look at there perfectly faded denim. what brand? can we have a wardrobe rundown for John
I have a Texas Ranger, and it's awesome.
Love me some Earthless. You forgot to do the Mario Rubalcaba drum rig rundown, tho...
I'd be good if you can do a Blossom rig rundown :)
Wow. Fingerpicks…amazing. He must have callouses of steel
Look up Floyd Cassista Jr. he makes Guthrie Trapp’s teles. He can make any kind of strat you could want
dude that bassist is so calm
Great job fellas. What was the strap lock?
I think Christian Peter's from Samsura blues experiment has that same sticker on his strat.
I just found the twin to my strat!
Isaiah is truly one of the greatest guitar players that has ever lived in my honest opinion. Every time I hit a wall and don’t feel like playing guitar much, I listen to Earthless and it completely rekindles my entire love of the instrument. The first time I heard this band, I couldn’t believe what my ears were hearing. It was Sonic Prayer, I’ll never forget it. It’s criminal how underrated of a guitar player he is. And Earthless as a whole! God bless this man and his inspiration.
He's got it so bad! One of my favourit guitarplayers
This comment!
Uh, ROFL
Dude same
It was Uluru rock for me.