55 - Jimmy Herring

No Guitar Is Safe

Jude Gold

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4.8 • 857 Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2017

⏱️ 108 minutes

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Presented by PRS GUITARS, this episode finds us in Atlanta talking and jamming with the great JIMMY HERRING. Beloved for his powerful solos and humble nature alike, Herring has played with several of the world's top "jam" artists, including Col. Bruce Hampton and the Aquarium Rescue Unit, Phil Lesh, the Dead, Project Z, and the Allman Brothers Band. Currently, Herring enjoys his long-running gig as lead guitarist with Widespread Panic—the band that has set the record for most sell-outs ever at Colorado's famed Red Rocks Amphitheatre. Throughout this interview, Jimmy has his PRS NF3 guitar in his hands, so he can show you musical concepts and passages that are meaningful to him ... and so he can jam! Catch Jimmy Herring on tour this summer with his band, Jimmy Herring and the Invisible Whip, or this fall, when he'll be playing concert halls with his hero, John McLaughlin. The McLaughling/Herring tour is called The Meeting of the Spirits, and it starts November 1. I hope you enjoy this in-depth hang and jam with with one of guitar's very best improvisors. And after listening, you'll surely be a better improvisor yourself. —JUDE GOLD Host, No Guitar Is Safe podcast.

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0:00.0	Welcome to No Guitar is Safe, everybody. First, a huge, huge thank you to PRS guitars for making this episode possible.
0:07.3	PRS guitars came on the scene in 1985 and have been building some of the highest quality guitars in the industry ever since.
0:14.5	They've grown a lot since their early days, and they've established a lofty roster of artists, including the man we're talking to today, Jimmy Herring.
0:22.9	I'm psyched about that.
0:24.5	If you haven't checked in with PRS in a while, you may want to take a minute to go see what they've been up to.
0:30.0	They're now making USA Bill Kitar starting at 999 with the S2 series,
0:34.5	and they're making six distinct family of amps including the Dave Grissom
0:39.0	and John Mayer's signature models. PRS is offering players more than ever before so please check
0:44.8	them out. I'm a huge fan. I got three of them. All right, let's go plug in with Jimmy.
0:50.1	No, guitar is safe.
0:57.3	Yeah, you heard the copter there.
1:01.2	So tonight, man, we're going on a trip, a red eye, as it were.
1:06.1	A long flight to Atlanta, Georgia to crossover entertainment.
1:46.9	And I got to thank Billy Johnson at crossover for hooking me up with a room and some amps to plug in with the great Jimmy Herring is one of the most beloved guitarists in the improvisational jam band rock, whatever you want to call, a psychedelic rock scene. My gosh, his main gig these days is playing with widespread panic, who now holds the record for the most consecutive or just the most period sold out shows at Red Rock's
1:52.6	amphitheater in Colorado, the ultimate jam band amphitheater. Hot damn. I think they got like
1:58.7	50 shows in a row or more completely sold out.
2:01.9	It's just nuts.
2:03.3	Jimmy, of course, has also worked with the Almond Brothers and Phil Lesh and also the Dead.
2:09.1	And, of course, man, Jimmy just did the most beautiful stuff with Aquarium Rescue Unit featuring Colonel Bruce Hampton.
2:16.8	Music with Aquarium Rescue Unit featuring Colonel Bruce Hampton. We're going to talk a lot about how Bruce Hampton shaped Jimmy's psyche as a musician
2:39.6	and his whole approach to improvising.
2:42.3	I guarantee you it's going to inspire you to take bigger, deeper, more epic, more powerful solos, too.
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