186 | Ned Evett Brings His Fretless Magic to the Satch/Vai Tour

No Guitar Is Safe

Jude Gold

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🗓️ 3 June 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Fretless guitar pioneer NED EVETT is taking his new album — and his new signature-model Aluminati aluminum-necked fretless guitar — to Europe to rock just about every big city you can name over there in support of JOE SATRIANI and STEVE VAI’s “SatchVai Band: Surfing with the Hydra” continent-spanning tour. And in this interview/jam, Ned shares exactly how he’ll approach his solo sets opening for the two superstar guitar heroes. He also details songs from “Strange Kind of Freedom” (the aforementioned new album) as well as dives into his many influences — from rock to Indian ragas to folk to life-changing tunes by the Who and Robert Johnson — and relives what it was like to have guitar magician ADRIAN BELEW produce one of his albums. This episode is presented by Guitar Player and GuitarPlayer.com, and hosted by JUDE GOLD

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0:00.0	New guitar is safe.
0:08.7	Hey, what's up everybody?
0:10.4	The adventure continues today.
0:12.6	We're going to fire up that copter fly over to Long Beach, California, to a very cool guitar lair. And thanks to guitar player. And thanks to guitar player.
0:30.6	We get to hang out with Ned Evitt, a pioneer of fretless guitar.
0:36.6	And he got the bug early, like 1984, when he was just a teenager.
0:42.3	And he's been developing it and pioneering it ever since.
0:46.0	And he's a fantastic singer and performer.
0:48.1	He earned himself a spot on this fantastic tour with Satriani and Steve Vai.
0:53.5	It's called the Sachvai tour all over Europe surfing
0:56.7	with the hydra that starts on June 13th if you're out in just about any major European city
1:02.6	you know looking at this list is crazy London Paris Amsterdam Milan Copenhagen Helsinki
1:08.9	Finland I got relatives out there. Warsaw, Poland. I've
1:12.8	never been there. So many cool spots, Zurich, Frankfurt, Prague, Bucharest, Romania. He's hitting all
1:20.5	the spots with your friends Joe and Steve, promoting his brand new album, Strange Kind of Freedom,
1:26.1	which we are going to dive into.
1:38.2	You can hear that everywhere in all the platforms.
1:41.0	You can also get it on vinyl, man.
1:44.4	I know an artist is really behind something when they put it out on vinyl that is awesome Ned thank you for the copy sir got to thank guitar player
1:50.0	dot com for making this happen guitar player play better sound better that's right
1:55.2	visit guitar player.com on the regular and you will do both those things play
1:59.0	better and sound better I am Jude Gold I've had an adventurous summer myself well it's not summer yet but just so
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