J Mascis, Thurston Moore, Lee Ranaldo, Nels Cline & friends @ Fender's 50th anniversary @ KF, NYC - pics

wtf that review is just WRONG. It was cool and fun to see all these guys doing their Jazzmaster thing. Lee and Moore's set disappointing I don't think anyone there would agree with that. Mascis was more disappointing after setting up 3 huge stacks of amps on stage to get just an ok sound out of all that. Nels Cline nothing without the painter? come on man, get off your ass and listen.

can't wait for that J. Mascis jazzmaster model. will it be available at hot topic?

It seems there was also a jazzmaster giveaway drawing. Where did they hide that?

You should of given me your ticket.
I was outside waiting for a scalper or SOMETHING and couldn't get in.

:(

Something tells me Jimmy Rip took that giveaway jazzmaster

man jonathan I would've gotten you in, my plus one bailed. I should give out my email address.

verlaine's set was so beautiful! this is why I took no decent photos of him, I was mesmerized. lee and thurston were so brilliant, and great fun to photograph. such a fun show.

I was the reviewer of the first comment. Nels' set was great, but really made it special was Norton Wisdom. He was constantly watching Norton paint to get inspiration for his next lick. I guess my original comment made it seemed like Nels would be nothing without NW. I have seen almost every incarnation of Sonic Youth in the past, and while I have seem them get very noisy and arty in the past, they also came back to a melody. Not so last night. Overall great night.

And BTW, his name is Jimmy Ripp, with two 'p's. He has been playing with Verlaine for a long long time, please get his name right.

The Knit show really made up for the Mcarren Park Pool show for me. I only wish Kim and Steve had been there to freak out. All SY shows are fun but the more melodic, structured stuff kinda bores me after awhile. I like the noisy freakout stuff a lot more.

oooh aren't we so touchy 10:20pmm

http://www.kino.com/verlaine-rip/

"And BTW, his name is Jimmy Ripp, with two 'p's. He has been playing with Verlaine for a long long time, please get his name right."

WRONG!

"I should give out my email address."

Are you nuts? Use a disposable e-mail address: http://www.soodonims.com/

My photos from the show here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/subcow/sets/72157607274813613/detail/

was the after party at ace bar?

Limited edition blooper 'Jimmy Rip' Jazzmasters available for a limited time for $5 with a shot of Jack Daniels at Ace Bar!

The J Mascis jazzmaster has been out for a long time. It's a $900 piece of shit.

BUY AMERICAN ONLY.

I don't understand why Whiny William keeps calling the duo of Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo "Sonic Youth."

MIJ, CIJ, MIM. ..... USA.

SONIC YOUTH was awesome!!

You have to be a real tool to think the Made in USA Fenders (or any other big-name brand for that matter)are worth the money. The Mexican Fenders are made of American wooden parts. Except the tuners and electronics, they are exactly the same. And if you've been playing guitar for over 6 months, you'll most likely replace those anyways.

yeah, um did i mention, um, i'm a total guitar snob.
um yeah, i am and i like to puke in my mouth

12:40, you're absolutely incorrect , and a shit head too.

cheers

12:40;s obviously in a shitty band as well.

It doesn't matter if its mexican or american, or brand names, it's all about the parts, the wood, and how its set up. Americans are better, but theyre not much more expensive. They tend to have better tuning heads, thicker wood, different pickups

"All of Fender's American and Mexican made guitars are cut and fretted in the USA factory..."
http://www.guitarstop.com/tour/guitar.htm
go back to your laptops, girls.

thats not the point, jack ass! white people are stupid.

You New York f**ks don't know how good you have it! I'd given my left nut to go to this show if it were anywhere close to where I live. Tom Verlaine same boring shit he's done for ten years? C'mon you shi*z... how often do you get to hear Verlaine play, really?

Can't remember the last time Verlaine appeared in public with a Jazzmaster.

Any idea why he switched -- tuning?

He always got such a great tone out of the beast...

http://www.youtube.com/v/jtZYdVNflsA

i hate white people and the guitars they play

kurt those are awesome photos!

Robert Smith & Elvis Costello were rockin' out Jazzmasters years before Sonic Youth and other bands even knew what the hell they were. With that being said, its nice to see a ton of musicians have since stumbled upon them.

Also, Verlaine's solo stuff might be boring, but Television? Come on. Verlaine is the only guy on that stage that really deserves his own signature model guitar, hands down.

Bob Bogle and Don Wilson were rockin' out Jazzmasters years before The Cure and Elvis Costello even knew what the hell they were.

Richard Lloyd was the better guitarist in Television.

Richard Lloyd = Tom Verlaine

Anonymous 9:02 = asshole (altho nice Ventures name drop)

Does anyone own one of those Mascis models?

I own a Mascis model. Pricey for what its worth...

Leading Dinosaur Jr. since the 1980s, and on his own, Mr. Mascis has united indie-rock introspection with unbridled guitar jams. On Friday his band was a full-tilt power trio, with Dave Schools (from Widespread Panic) on bass and Kyle Spence on drums. Mr. Mascis sang in a bemused drawl about being bereft and confused. But the music declared otherwise with earthy, distorted riffs — twangy roots-rock marches and choppy postpunk dissonances — leading into brash, extended solos that climbed from chiseled melodic lines to racing, spiraling, frenetic peaks.

The other headliners turned toward improvisations, as if examining how the capabilities and quirks of the Jazzmaster shaped the music. Mr. Verlaine, in a duo with the guitarist Jimmy Ripp, played an absorbing modal reverie. It was a translucent lacework of quiet arpeggios and hovering chords, with Mr. Verlaine offering glinting bits of melody and more insistent phrases: a scalloped, Celtic-tinged line and some shared strumming that picked up a pulse and a folky melody, eventually taking on a brusque rhythm. “Oh, the light in you is everyone,” he sang.

Mr. Moore and Mr. Ranaldo used their two guitars to create a Sonic Youth crescendo in a slow-motion close-up. Along with fingers, they used, among other things, a tuning fork and drumsticks on the guitar strings, making them clank and ring and buzz. They generated siren wails and thick distorted blotches of feedback, and at one point Mr. Moore played something like a heavy-metal lead-guitar solo, minus the reference points of harmony and beat. It was as if they had climbed deep inside their guitars, finding threats and exaltations.

Mr. Cline’s partner, in a duo project called Stained Radiance, was a painter: Norton Wisdom, who used watercolors on a large plastic panel, rapidly daubing images and splashing them away. There were faces, phantasms and hints of politics; one scene had a six-pointed star, a crescent and an oil derrick. Meanwhile, Mr. Cline ran his Jazzmaster through electronics to create a steady-throbbing drone, blasts of white-noise distortion, jabbing loops of a lead line, pitch-shifting chords, and calliopelike tootling — a wild, ominous, fascinating excursion amid sounds far removed from fingers on strings

you guys got the nicest photographer in town!! :D

Tom Verlaine was boring. . . . Lee and Thurston were great, but the set was shorter than I had hoped.

Nels Cline was awesome. To say that he was only great cause of the painter is just a silly comment in itself. Nels was playing together with the painter, to reach a common grounde between the music and the art. Had he been playing alone, his set would most probably have been different.

I left a couple of songs into Mascis's set. LOUD!! But Thurston playing drums in that set was awesome! man can he rip on drums!!!

you know, i was thinking that there should've been a jazzmaster giveaway. them things are hot. i would really be interested in a free one....

does anyone know if that actually happened?

the whole thing was pretty good. tom v and jimmy rip(p) were beautiful if long winded. thurston and lee were thurston and lee. i skipped nels cline cuz i find wilco to be incredibly boring. and j mascis bringing out fog songs was a nice breather from 3 straight years of dinosaur jr. revivalism, even murph thought so.

gripes: the billion or so photographers all lined up taking the same picture from the same angle was rather annoying during verlaine's quieter moments when the shutter of each of these cameras was audible--a cacophony of crickets. so rude.

luckily, this seemed to lessen as the evening wore on, or maybe things just got louder.

also during verlaine some douche in a celtics hat was talking loudly and his neighbor asked him to quiet down to which the douchey guy responded by "mad dogging" the kid and asking him if he was interested in fighting...

since when did this become dumb jock music?

otherwise, pretty killer.

someone buy me a jazzmaster. thanks.

also, thurston didn't play any sort of drums whatsoever and j's purple adidas and extremely old alien workshop tee were really pretty cool.

jus' sayin'

^^^ I was sure Thurston was playing drums on Mascis' set. . . It had to have been him..

when did Nirvana hit #1? thats your answer.

that jock idiot is at every KF show. I think they let him in for free on purpose to ruin the music listening environment. Wait until the KF is in W'burg, talking morons will be the rule, not exception.

Second the comment on photographers. Can't you shut off the shutter sound on a digital camera? But I loved the chats between the photographers during intermission: "Which one was Thurston Moore?" "Which one was Tom Verlaine?" "Who's next?" "Who's Jay Masky?" "I wish I had earplugs." "Why'd that guy hit me with his guitar?"

j's drummer was the dude from harvey milk

J's drummer is Kyle Spence, from Athens, GA. Mascis toured with those guys as The Fog back in 2004, but has been doing the Dino thing ever since. Personally, I'd love to see him go back on the road with Schools & Spence. They make a great band.

Hi,

Not to upset anyone but I always felt that the Jazzmaster has, in recent years become an overrated instrument. TheJaguar on the other hand is really cool, and more versatile. The only reason people speak so highly of the Jazzmaster is that apart from the different pickeups and offset body, it is as easy to play as a Stratocaster, and most people can't be bothered to persevere with a Jaguar. I have been playing in my uni band. I started with a Jazzmaster, but found the sound produced by its pick-ups almost obscene and changed to the Jaguar which has a real growl and for surf, it is pretty much unbeatable (although maybe a vintage Mosrite can better it).

Was it full? Looks pretty packed from those pics.