Shannon: I don’t have as far as like guitar players that play with effects. I really like, my first guitar influence is Joe Santiago from the Pixies. I feel like a lot of my parts are kind of like that little two notes part. And then I just added a lot of delay in the shifting. Kind of that same idea.
I feel like I'm influence by YouTube through Steve who loves YouTube. I guess for like influence, I really like Pink Floyd. And so I guess try to push the guitar from that kind of perspective. Even though they use keyboards, I try to do it in a guitar.
Steve: Well he said it, YouTube. The Edge is always a big thing for me. It’s kind of weird, lot of things like the really simple things in REM records that Peter Buck would play, I always like that stuff. I wasn’t so much in to guitar hero, I don’t mean the game Guitar Hero, but definitely when I was much younger I try to copy Metallica licks and then play that. Really just practice, practice, but it wasn’t until I started getting in bands that I realized that a lot of times you just need to play simple parts and make the band sound good. And at that point it became The Edge, Peter Buck. Then recently, I mean Jack White is amazing. That’s kind of more now. It feels different to watch someone like him play because I'm already in a band now. Now it’s just compete admiration for someone like that. You think, how the hell is he doing that? Some of those sound, stuff he does. But we don’t sit there and try to copy the licks necessarily. It’s just more of the appreciation.
This is Shannon’s first band where he plays guitar.
Shannon: Yeah, I was playing bass before. And Steve asks me to join Long Wave as a guitar player which was definitely new to me. I already own a couple of delay pedals.
Steve: That was the prerequisite.
Shannon: It seemed appropriate for the band. And I pretty much use the same set up I used when we first started the band.
Steve: Yeah, that’s your first guitar.
Shannon: Yeah, it’s my first guitar. It’s my first delay pedal. All the early stuff.
I think that’s its powerful when the bass bolt it down for sure. I think that I wouldn’t want to be in a band that just likes, like Steve would play rhythm guitar and then I kind of do the low verb.
Steve: I mean there's nothing wrong with that. But it’s like what were saying before, sometimes you're in a band and you want to make the whole song sound good, make the whole band sound good. And it’s not necessarily playing all over the place really fast stuff. And Shannon is saying the Pixies like that is a prime example. Or U2 is a prime example. Where it was just one guy playing guitar and it’s not necessary to play all these stuff. It’s necessary to kind of provide something for the guy to sing over or the song go with the rhythm section maybe. So it is different.
Yeah, no direction was written with Shannon playing bass. I was playing guitar and our drummer Jason was playing. So I had the little lick and we basically wrote the whole entire song that way. When it came time to record it, for the other guitar, we just figure out what needs to be done. Kind of in between frequency wise, between my guitar and the bass. So that’s where Shannon came up with his part in a guitar.
With me it’s just, I think, a little bit of echo and some distortion. And then I don’t know for you.
Shannon: It’s just the hint of the delay, the Ibanez delay.
Steve: This is the main guitar that I play, and I'm pretty use to playing with this set up with the bar here. And pretty much anything you can play, you put this in there. I kind of like it better. It’s a little trick. 1-2-3-4.
It’s funny, we do a lot similar things. We do them different ways, if that makes sense. Like he’s got a pedal that kind of does that, but I don’t have that pedal. So I used this. See he got this vibrato pedal, it kind of does the same thing in a way.
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