180 | Seth Lee Jones' Red-Hot Telecaster Torturing Blues-Rock

No Guitar Is Safe

Jude Gold

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4.8 • 857 Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2024

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Wielding a fully customized war-torn and home-built Telecaster, blues-rock phenom and guitar luthier SETH LEE JONES taps into a fierce musical mojo whenever he takes his amps off standby and starts to wail (which he does quite a bit on this episode). Enjoy, as Seth reveals how he incorporates slide guitar moves, “steel bends” (courtesy of push levers on his guitar’s bridge), heaps of overdrive and sustain, a fleet of cool guitar pedals, and a sprig of shred guitar into every solo he takes (including the ones on his new album, Tulsa Custom), making him one of the most exciting guitarists to emerge from Tulsa, Oklahoma — a great music town! — in recent years. This episode is presented by GuitarPlayer.com and hosted by JUDE GOLD. NOTE: Seth, as you'll hear him mention, often plays in Dropped-D tuning, and does so on this episode. If you need a refresher on Dropped D, the tuning is D, A, D, F#, A, D, low to high.

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0:00.0	No, guitar is safe.
0:07.0	Hey, hey, what's up? It has been a minute. I had to go tour Europe for a month. Well, almost a month.
0:14.0	We were supporting Deep Purple playing all these arenas. It was such a blast. I'll have to tell you about it on another episode coming up because there's a lot of episodes coming at you soon, including today's where you're going to hear me jamming. I'm playing this super clean telecaster from the 60s in the home of Seth Lee Jones, who is on the mojo-rific, dirty, twangy, bendy, distorted, screaming, other telecaster that he built himself.
0:44.2	Music Yeah, you're going to hear a bunch of that and other stuff.
1:14.6	Once this episode gets started, first we got to thank guitar player.com for making this episode
1:20.2	happen. Be sure to head there at least once every five minutes, everybody.
1:29.8	And of course, shout out to Guitar Player Magazine, the final print edition of Guitar
1:35.0	Player Magazine.
1:36.0	And, you know, since 1967, it's been in print.
1:38.8	Kind of heartbreaking.
1:39.7	But the final print edition is this month, and it's probably already been out, which
1:43.7	is the Jimmyimmy page
1:44.7	issue dig it so yeah we're going to dive into how set does this crazy guitar playing style that he
1:52.8	has with all these levers on his guitar well he's got three hip shot levers that he's customized
1:57.2	to get crazy bends and how he gets it to roar and sing the way he does.
2:18.3	Music and I'm I'm and
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2:22.3	I'm
2:23.3	a
2:24.3	I'm
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