Wayne Krantz trio montreal jazz fest 2007

[loverools]

no one is pushing  the rythmic envelope like Wayne is....fuck me...yes my spelling suks

[abstractlogix23]

The first studio recording from these three guys are coming in August 2009 on Abstract Logix. This is one the best instrumental trios out there

[nuluhagas]

el pedal que ocupa es un Fx13 DOD Gonkulator ring modulator un pedal que ya no se fabrica mas y es muy dificil de conseguir Solido Mr krantz

[tracebrem]

awesome playing as always.. but why does he have black tape at the head of the James Tyler-guitar.. that's his thing or something? looks cool I guess

[15111936]

I pay my gear so why should I advertise it?Glad to see I'm not the only one...THX Wayne for the music

[tracebrem]

I understand your point of view.. but.. it still seems kind of overkill imo.. even the shape of the head is a giveaway.. oh well

have you listened to Wayne's lessons on his site? killer stuff!

[mcmillansabq]

If he has an "exclusive" endorsement with one brand but chooses to play another, he's required to conceal the name of the guitar he chooses to play instead of his endorsement.

Kinda silly, but the tape is an easy way to continue the endorsement deal while still using other gear.

[culpritto]

anybody read/knows why he chose tyler? the other clip on youtube he plays a vintage strat and it sounds pretty awesome. tyler would have to really have something special

[twangbarfly]

@culpritto Try a Tyler and you'll know - or you won't :-) Just joking, that's their catch phrase. Anyway - just try one - they are INCREDIBLE guitars! The most resonant, easy to play, responsive guitar I have ever played. And that is just mine - there are probably better ones out there! My 335 and Danny Gatton tele have been gathering dust for over a year since the Tyler arrived. Belive me, they are special!!

[flyjoseph]

This hakajawaka guy is a total idiot. Every guitar wants to be played by Krantz, and every guitar runs and hides when hakajawaka shows up.

[antidote7]

Yes the comments by hakajawaka are quite absurd. They sound very novice actually. He was speaking on just using a few notes/rhythms, but he needs to understand Krantz's concept (what little I know of it)for the improv band is based on motifs and building on them in 4 and 8 bar phrases. And the use of the ring modulator is wonderful - out there, but wonderful and controlled! Point is Krantz knows what he's doing and I love people who stretch instead of staying stagnant. Wayne has his own space.

[antidote7]

this is one of the funny comments by him "18 notes a second shred" - now doesn't that sound novice?

[hakanozelguitarist]

the thing i love about guitarists like Krantz is they are fearless- they will try new things and take gambles. Its like an old quote about Jeff Beck- someone said if you see him in concert he will either be the best guitarist or the worst, depending on the night, because he would take chances that sometimes worked and sometimes didnt.

[hakanozelguitarist]

the problem with youtube is the shit gets posted along with the great, and the artist doesnt get to control his output. so a wonderful musician like Krantz gets his moments of shitness (like this vid) put out there for all to see. The situation is made worse by mindless fans who dont LISTEN- thgey work on the logic that if so-and-so played it, it must be great. That is a very adolescent approach.

[antidote7]

No, it's adolescent to call something shit when one doesn't get it. I listen, and I can hear the musicianship inside the dissonance. It's there - period. I go through this with people all the time with Zappa, John Zorn, or Diamanda Galas with their more extreme material becaue most find it to strange and therefore call it crap when the reality is they can't hear the vision of the artists because they've formulated some ridiculous idea of what music is supposed to be.

[antidote7]

If the artist controls what hes doing it's viable, therefore it's music and after that it's taste. Listen closer - you can't some of the real cool stuff going on there? Maybe it's your ear thats the problem not everyone else, and certainly not Waynes.

[hakanozelguitarist]

in all honesty try to LISTEN to this clip as though it was an unknown guy in his bedroom, not Krantz. you would click away within 20 seconds. btw if you can play 18 notes a second, why not advertise it? you conveniently ignore the comments about the 3 hrs of solo guitar i have in my repertoire, the references to reharmonisation etc etc. you are selective to suit your premise that i am a moron. thats just puerile and, once again, adolescent. it reeks of insecurity.

[antidote7]

No, insecurity is when one bashes another when they "don't understand." You actually believe that Wayne lost all his musicality from that great solo you loved? Or does it make more sense that the new area he's going in with the ring mod is something you don't get yet? Personally I don't care to grade your playing, it's not my job. My point is throughout history when people don't get or like something they cut it down instead of being intruiged by it. Usually stupidity and ignorance is the reason

[antidote7]

Will we then judge which 18 notes a second are easier to play then another cluster of 18? Who cares...

[hakanozelguitarist]

it doesnt sound dissonant to me - it sounds to me like a bunch of jazzers trying and failing to be funky.some of the worst music in the world comes from superb talented players playing out of their genre. listen to Kiri Te Kanawa sing the blues. or John Scofield trying to play a REAL traditional blues. or SRV trying to play jazz. im sure James Brown would sound shit singing Night in Tunisia!

[hakanozelguitarist]

btw playing 18 notes a second FEELS awesome- its an expression of a feeling that cant be expressed any other way!im kinda bored with all the slagging-lets end on a positive note. check out guthrie govan using a ring modulator - the ONLY guy ive ever heard make one sound MUSICAL. not to say everything HAS to sound musical! it sounded like a sack of shit when Hendrix burnt his guitar at monterey....but it was cool as fuck!

[antidote7]

ending the slagging is great - but I just think you're missing my point. And remember, saying something is musical or not is a perspective, not factual. Guthriwe Govan is awesome although I like what Wayne has done for music more, or Allan Holdsworth, or McLaughlin. I'm a huge Zappa fan also because of his musical contributions in creativity. But that's just how I see it and thats one of my points.

[antidote7]

There's nothing wrong with playing 18 notes a second but bending a note just so is just as important along with thousands of other techniques and perspectives.

[GuitAri13]

so true!

i cant really place him in any genre

funk/jazz/Psychadelic?...whate­ver, it's Wayne Krantz Music!

[hakanozelguitarist]

oh yes and btw flyjoseph, guitars DO run when they see me...because they know im gonna MELT them!!! rocknroll dude

[ZZDROSS]

Cool music.....

Great Playing...

[Johnnyplayedguitar]

Is that a three headed dragon on Wayne's shirt? This kicks all sorts of ass by the way, everyone else who doesn't get this isn't listening the right way. Go back to your Styx, R.E.O. speed wagon, and Jimmy Buffet.

[fcubic]

muhahahahaha if an amateur tried to pull this kinda shit off there would be a ton of people laughing,Wayne or not this is the stupidest shit I`ve ever heard real crapola!!!

[hakanozelguitarist]

fcubic u aint wrong!

[mushkamusic]

I have to echo hakanozelguitarist. I've also heard some awesome wayne krantz solos but the guy seems to have journeyed long and hard up his own backside to pull this load of crap out.

[hakanozelguitarist]

i heard a Wayne Krantz solo that was one of the best solos ive heard in my life. everything else ive ever heard by him (including this) sounds like a sack of shit. he sounds like he knows one rhythm and 3 notes. ill keep coming back to him now and then but..you know, the Emperors New Clothes and all that!

[Saxyman14]

maybe it's just too much for you then. I'll notify Neil Diamond he has a new listener.

[hakanozelguitarist]

Neil Diamond is a good singer, tho im sure the Avant-Police would arrest you for listening to him. it must be hard going through life scared to like music because the fashionistas say ur not allowed. Man the barricades dude! This video is of a guy with a ring modulator foot pedal. They cost about 250 euros. maybe in the context of the gig this was cool, but out of that context... to claim this is anything other than a substandard noise is to embarass yourself

[hakanozelguitarist]

there is nothing rhythmically or harmonically interesting or innovative in this clip let alone, god forbid, melodic. it sounds like the first 12 seconds of 555 from Frank Zappas Shut Up N Play Yer Guitar, only FX then took a cool solo over it. trouble is, it doesnt groove either like a good funk band, it doesnt kick shit like a good rock band. Its "falling between the cracks" meandering. it reminds me of a "Free Jazz" concert i saw in Prague...4 pianists in a row came out..

[antidote7]

Wow, you really don't know what the hell you're saying, lol. It's no biggie that you don't dig it but to not give it props is sheer stupidity. I'd love to hear your music?

[hakanozelguitarist]

check out my website you can hear me play bebop, 18 notes a second shred, Bach, Coltrane, Irish music, chicken picking, Zappa. i'm qualified to comment on this. as i said , i heard an INCREDIBLE solo once from Krantz. this isnt it.

[antidote7]

Well it's great that you can be a parrot. When you come up with an "original" CD as good as Two Drink Minimum please let me know - I'll buy it...

[hakanozelguitarist]

and ALL 4 did that terribly exciting and iconoclastic thing where they put funny objects on the piano strings so it DIDNT REALLY SOUND LIKE A PIANO.! (my favourite was ping pong balls).it was the most fucking boring evening of my life. mind you i wasnt in the crowd at THIS gig

[antidote7]

Really, The Two Drink Minimum CD is Shit? Interesting...One rhythm? I saw one vid on your page that had zero phrasing yet you bash a master of rhythmic displacement? Again, it's fine if you don't dig it but Wayne is venturing out and I would think he knows what he's doing. Typical response of people who don't understand something, they call it crap.

[hakanozelguitarist]

don't use the phrase "rhythmic displacement" to a guy who has transcribed Frank Zappa. You will embarass YOURSELF. On one clip on my site I'm playing 11:4 polyrhythms. I am more qualified than you are to comment on this video.

To clarify...i once heard a W Krantz solo that made me think "I would give anything to play like that". THIS particular clip made me think "that sounds like me when i was 18".

[antidote7]

You should be careful commenting when for you don't know me. You've got a lot of nerve assuming you are more qualified when I'VE WRITTEN many compositions myself with multiple time changes, metric modulations and rhythmic displacement. That's besides the point. You are making yourself look like a moron with each new post. The point is Krantz knows what he's doing yet you assume he doesn't. Like I said, not liking it and calling it shit is very different. "Wannabe" artists don't understand that.

[delpuckett]

noise...oh wait..i mean JAZZ !! awsome article on Wayne in Guitar Player Magazine !! must read!!

[mshot76]

i belive thats stanton moore on drums

[Fishies125]

Eh? Cliff Almond.

[whynotjules]

Wayne is a guy i've knoun through Keith Carlock, his former drummer!

And i have to agree with you all!

This dude has no equal!

Great vibe, tone and tunes!

Cheers from Brasil!

[pyramidion]

Wayne has no equal.

peace

[duey23]

yingwie

[tajto]

ah ring modulation... the last untraversed beauty

[PortableCurtis]

Who's on drums?

[Fishies125]

Cliff Almond.

[myuhlz]

Amazing! Who's on bass?

[udderhippo]

Paul Sokolow