Rig Rundown – Margaret Glaspy
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PG’s Chris Kies hung out with Margaret Glaspy before her gig at Nashville’s High Watt where they talked Telecaster versus Harmony Jupiter and what it’s like to graduate from a Fender Champ to a Deluxe Reverb.
While she recorded most of her debut, Emotions and Math, on a Harmony Jupiter Stratotone, Glaspy is now touring with this Danocaster T-style that is on an open-ended loan from boyfriend Julian Lage. She doesn’t tour with a backup and prefers to use D’Addario strings (.011–.049) and D’Addario 1.25 mm extra heavy picks.
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Heard her live tonight. Not sure what new guitar it was but it was loud and perfect.
Enjoyed the respect given to the artist.
Love her minilist approach to gear.
9:10 I totally relate with that approach of minimalist pedalboard and taking the max from my guitar- amp.
Don't ask anyone why the play in the middle.
Margaret is THE
Great interview!
I like her style, and the simplicity of it. Her voice is an instrument in & of itself.
Love this! Tons of gear is not always the answer.
She has one of the coolest sounds these days. Just a Tele and old fenders. Go figure.
Become my favorite rigrundown
kinda cool how she’s borrowing guitars until she finds the right one for her!
The more gear, the more indirect the connection between the musician and the audience. Like when she talks about being "down the middle" some kind of middle ground between too physical and too abstract is the place to be. Guitar starts with hands on strings, all the technology is great only if you don't lose that.
So cool to hear that someone just wants to hear the sound of the guitar, without a pedal board filled with everything you can imagine. Hope you get to hang on to that Tele for as long as you need it.
I'm apparantly way behind the curve, but I recently discovered Julien Lage and Margaret Glaspy via 5 Watt World, and I'm so glad I did! I just love those sort of retro Fender amp sounds.
I never heard of her before and she came on Spotify random thing and I love her guitar tone. It really jumped out at me. It's perfect.
What a cool down to earth chick, she's got a great tone with simple set up and it works for her.
Great interview and she is a truly artist with great voice and originality in her compositional chops … great when good singers song writers talk about how they use their gear
Awesome – So refreshing to hear someone keep it simple! Sometimes, it seems like the music gets lost in the tech – So cool! great interview!
play 6:29 over and over
Most guitarists: This is my fuzz pedal, my distortion pedal, reverb, this delay pedal I found at a yard sale in 2003 and the lady said its cursed, my other reverb …
Margaret Glaspy: This is my pedal.
I really identify with her pragmatism when it comes to gear. A decent amp, a not-shit guitar and technique is literally all you need. Everything else is extra.
I just found out about Margaret Glaspy this week and I'm so enamored with her music. I wish she didn't feel like she had to be apologetic for having a simple rig that relies heavily on pick attack to create dynamics. That should be the end goal of a great many guitarists. Tone is in the god damned hands. Her relative minimalism really emphasizes the value of her note choices and right hand attack.
She's a minimalist but she has great taste. A lot of singer/songwriters tend to play an electric guitar like an acoustic with big open chords and percussive strumming, but she is clearly an electric guitarist who loves her some Fender.
brodie, your unbreaking eye contact is 2 intense
Love this interview. Very light and fun. She's classy, beautiful, simple, chill, fun, and humble. The interviewer was awesome too!
3:52 Start counting the "essentially".
Another artist using the same tone “secret” as me; turn the guitar down and the amp up.
As much as I love Julian — so much so, that I will be seeing his trio perform twice next month and I will be attending one of his master classes — it burns me everytime I watch this rig rundown and Chris "name drops" Margaret's boyfriend. Margaret can and should have an identity separate from her romantic partner. This mainly bothers me because she appears displeased by it.
Who made the Tele? Don't leave the "independent builder" unknown. That would kinda piss me off if I built that guitar.
I’m not a big pedal player either. I definitely agree with Margaret about distortion and overdrive pedals.
I think this is the 7th interview where she’s mentioned her boyfriend…just get married already Margaret. You deserve it ????????
I've noticed that a lot of the people I consider to have great guitar tone are people who use heavier strings, including Margaret. I find 11's too stiff in standard tuning, but it's OK with my Gretsch hollowbody as it has a shorter scale length. It's all right if you don't do any bends or aggressive vibrato, but I prefer 10's with a 25.5" neck in standard tuning if I'm playing fast, expressive stuff. I have or have had a few other instruments that I kept with 12's but in dropped tunings and I really like that, but I think I'd like to go one step further and get a baritone one day.
What an awkward interview lol
Love Margaret's style and her minimal approach! Tele-style guitar into Deluxe Reverb is my favorite setup so it's inspiring to see someone else using the same minimal rig to make a completely unique type of music.