El Ten Eleven - Jumping Frenchmen of Maine (Live on KEXP)

[PandaPlaysPunk]

This sounds almost electronic. Me want those looping thingies!!

[tiernanog53]

these might be the two chillest guys ever

[deech18]

is that a fretless bass what.

[FSBass]

@deech18

It's a fretless Wal bass. Walk basses are used by Failure and Tool bassists too, and omg they soud great :)

[FSBass]

@FSBass

Wal*  not "Walk"

[lakai958]

sexy wal bass. those things are freaking KEXPensive

[lakai958]

bass??

[OutOfBeta]

must compulsively buy the pedals that he has.... o.O

[jlcontarino]

as simple as it may sound, this is not easy to play live with just 2 people!

[Czeslaw1922]

2:35 reminds me of battles

[Czeslaw1922]

is that bass fretless? if so hes amazing!

[haomamusic]

3m 14 s - curious ear-man looks funny))

[monster5o]

Anyone know what effect pedal he is using to get that dirty fuzzy sound? I play bass and I'm digging that sound!

[ZcSoldierRS]

@monster5o Boy, i wish i knew.... 

[spynae]

@monster5o His pedalboard is on their website. Unrelated, I can see why Kristian likes (or liked, since he switched to a GK biamping head) the Eden WT800, after having played through one myself, but eeeeeeeh not for me.

[JFamous09er]

Pretty stoked to see them April 9th faces will be melted!

[newtronathon]

and I look like a crazy person.

[newtronathon]

YAA!!!! Its definitely 2:59 !

[newtronathon]

no no no its before that! more like 3:00

[newtronathon]

favorite moment is at 3:10

[newtronathon]

on a frettless ya!

[newtronathon]

wow.... i can't believe its been out since may last year and thers only 27k views.

I've just discovered it and i've basically listened to it back to back the last hour+

and posted and posted and posted....

THE SHEEEIT!

seriously. its been a while. i'm impressed. our paths will cross i;m sure.

[newtronathon]

wow.... i can't believe its been out since may last year and thers only 27k views

[newtronathon]

ya ya ya two peeps only

[sotordamotor]

i have always been a big fan of these guys, I saw them live a few weeks ago and i was shocked that there was only two people in the band!

[digging4fire]

wonder if there is a way to duplicate all those layers with one of the newer all-in-one effects units like a POD, sure would be easier than trying to recreate that rig!

[blekpalkon]

they were beyond awesome

[staggy727]

that takes fucking skill

[CTyler7]

Great song! I must say I've really gotten into this band since I saw them. If you get the opportunity to see them live, you really should!

[mouthbreather1]

This guy's timing is absolutely fucking ridiculous. Every time I try looping, it's always off by milliseconds. Unbelievable.

[Saber2Golf]

If I hadn't see them do it I wouldn't believe it. Never had so much fun just watching a band play their instruments.

[everlot1000]

what bass is that?

[slippywidget]

@everlot1000 That is a Wal fretless bass. His other is a 70's Carvin double guitar/bass. Incredible instruments.

[zultan4lyfe]

haha @ 3:12 that guy looks through the window like "wtf is going on out there!? i can't believe what i'm hearing, and its only comin from 2 guys!!!!!!"

[jagosek]

this bad kick ass. the best think i've seen actually

[FunkyStickman]

I am loving everything I can find from these guys... great job!

Oh, and the pedalboard at 0:08 is like O_o

[benjwk]

2:40... wooow :::-P

[Boribica]

these boys... take my soul round and round ...it's beautiful !!

[dimentuk]

You can't expect everyone to like your art but I'm finding it hard to find why... It's like taking a trip down ear-extasy lane and you only come back at the end of the video. It's the type of music I listen to once, then remember it all day and makes me grin, dance the day away =p

Awesome.

[brank134]

that high hat just gets its ass kicked all day.

im in love with this

[lagginswag]

also i caugth his pick at the end of the show. ftw

[lagginswag]

this band is so insanely good live, its the best, and if u can dance and clutch a beer at the same time ur SET!

[theDragonaut]

check out the almost imperceptible tempo stretch the drummer does as soon as the bassist finishes his loop. that's some serious timekeeping skill.

[caseykruger]

wow this song was named for me i guess since i am a jumping frenchman from maine

[monvirgo]

No frets? Wow.

[shithousemcgee]

This song was on csi miami the other night. Made me do a double take

[xillerrodriguez]

@shithousemcgee What episode?

[saguaro23]

Have/had all those pedals... makes me wish I went as far with it all... but alas I am but an impoverished graduate student with no time for the things I love.

[myspacceer]

4:19

two hi-hats?

[myspacceer]

is he sponsored by BOSS?

[GravityRides]

Yup!

[Ten0chA]

analog techno or what? :D

[guyrwickenden]

Awesome use of a fretless and 2x RC-20XL! Love it :D

[griffinmpable]

@guyrwickenden and im fairly sure he uses the looper in the line 6 delay modeler, the big green one.

[guyrwickenden]

@griffinmpable he may be using that too, but he certainly uses one of his RC20xls during this.

[griffinmpable]

@guyrwickenden I am sure you are right. I think that when I made that comment, I had been listening and trying to figure out how many different tracks he had running at a time. i think I figured out it was too many different ones to be just using the RC20s. I would love to see what his actual signal chain and how he goes about choosing which looper gets used at what point. Only way I can imagine all these different loops not conflicting with each other is multiple signal chains into one output

[limeyamos]

Wal fretless ftw

[desertsilo7]

truly an inspiration thank you!

[LlamaWarfare]

This is great!

[senioroso]

god this song took me forever to figure out. good thing i did. actully had to ask the bassist for help lol. got it down tho

[TwoTones]

yeah, I hear these guys are pretty cool in person.

you know how he gets that nice breakup on the bass?  is that just natural overdrive from the amp or an effect?

[limeyamos]

definitely an effect, couldn't tell you exactly what he's using right there though.

[griffinmpable]

@TwoTones if you go to their website theyve got a list for both of their gear

[darciekim]

This band is killer! Absolutely love them.

[Olds77421]

He needs an RC-50. I'd like to see what he can do with that...

[limeyamos]

He uses two RC-50s.

[holyshitmichael]

reminds me of death from above 1979.

this band is class.

[pencildives]

@holyshitmichael This is so much better than DFA

[ConnectionLost71]

@holyshitmichael

except these dudes kept on making albums. 

[FacialHat]

@holyshitmichael Except, unlike DFA1979, these guys are actually good!

[FSBass]

@FacialHat DFA79 aren't bad, their music is quite simple but not bad ! I really like the "noise" and "punk" side of their songs, the way they can fill the sapce being just two.