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What makes Nels Cline one of the best (guitar) players in the world?

by Superscout on August 18, 2010

in Guitar,Music

This morning I listened for the first time to Wilco’s stunning “Impossible Germany” track and I think my life may have changed.

My god what a song and what sublime guitar from Nels Cline. Here is the Barcelona version on Youtube that I listened to.

This musical conversion experience got me looking for more stuff on Cline and I found this very cool video where Nels gives us the goods on what it takes to be the best:

I like what Nels says about how he chooses his projects:

“It’s not any one thing…I think the number one thing is sound…I love sound…If I can play with people who have a sensibility about sound…whose music that they write or conceive is beautiful or fascinating…that’s a factor…”

And I love when Cline talks about his Jaguar. The man owns three Jaguars! Jaguar guitars that is : )

And you know – when he talks about this beautiful instrument – it seems to me he could be talking about his guitar in the same way a soccer player talks about his shoes, a golfer about his clubs, a hockey player about his stick, a blogger about his laptop (kidding)…

I love this kind of talk. You hear it all the time from the best players, from players who really care about what they’re doing, players who want to get better and better, players who understand that sometimes to be the best, you need the best tools…

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Is a guitar player, a “player”?

by Superscout on August 17, 2010

in Guitar,Music

I am a soccer player. Never played an instrument in my life but wish I had. It’s a big regret. I love music. Don’t we all? And don’t we love, admire, even worship, the best musicians? The best guitarists?

I’ve long wanted to add guitar as a category to this project. Occasionally I’d hear guitarists referred to as “players”, as “best players” and I’d think to myself: “Why shouldn’t playing guitar be considered in the same light as the best sports skills?”; or, more specifically, I’d ask myself: “Isn’t Jimmy Page as big a legend as Pele or Michael Jordan?”

This notion occurred to me often as I watched the movie “It Might Get Loud” on a flight back from England in the spring. The movie featured guitar legends Jimmy Page, the Edge and Jack White and was basically a discussion between the three of them about what it meant to be a (guitar) player.

As I listen to the three of them I was inspired and decided then and there that – yes – a guitar player is a “player”; and a great guitar player is as great as (if not greater) than some of the greatest athletes in the world…

(You’ll notice that – under “Other”  - we now list “Guitar” as one of our main categories…and preoccupations…)

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It Might Get Loud

It DOES get loud

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