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No Guitar Is Safe

61 - Nili Brosh

No Guitar Is Safe

Jude Gold

Music

4.8857 Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2017

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

From touring her own brand of virtuoso prog-metal to delivering guitar pyrotechnics (sometimes literally!) in her role as the mesmerizing guitar goddess who lights up the stage of Michael Jackson One by Cirque du Soleil, Israeli-American guitar badass NILI BROSH always finds exciting gigs. I was thrilled to sit down with her in Las Vegas in the lobby of the Michael Jackson One theater at Mandalay Bay before the show to talk shop, trade licks, hear about her new life as Cirque du Soleil's stunt guitarist, and learn how she self-produced her amazing sophomore album, A Matter of Perception. EXTRA: The sad news of Malcolm Young's passing hit the the music world today, so, at the end of the episode, I share a tribute to the powerhouse AC/DC strummer, one of the greatest rockers of all time. RIP Malcolm! Thanks for listening! — JUDE GOLD, host and creator of No Guitar Is Safe podcast.

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0:00.0

New guitar is safe. What is up? Episode 61 of No Guitar Is Safe. You are listening to Neely Brosh. This is the title track off her new album. Well, actually, I should say current, because it's been out

0:37.8

in a little while. I know she's working on the next one. This album is called A Matter of Perception,

0:43.2

and we're going to hear a couple other tracks off of that. And later, of course, she's going to

0:47.2

show you how she actually created these licks in how she plays them and how she approached

0:52.9

recording them. Pretty badass.

0:57.0

The thing about Neely, well, I should just say, isn't it just great when you see your friends kicking ass and succeeding? Neely got the craziest gig.

1:12.6

I've been friends with Neely since she moved to L.A. five years ago.

1:16.3

But all of a sudden, she's spending a lot of time in Las Vegas. She's done 200 shows a row,

1:22.6

200 shows in a row already as this amazing guitar virtuoso angel demon. I'm not sure what her character is,

1:30.9

but she sure can't play some guitar in Michael Jackson won by Cirque de Soleil in Las Vegas.

1:38.0

Yes, she goes up there and she blazes and there's so many huge guitar moments in this show.

1:45.2

And it's totally worth checking out if you're in Las Vegas.

1:55.0

She, again, she's only been doing it for what, I don't know, six months and she's 200 shows in.

2:00.0

It's kind of nutty.

2:01.4

The thing about the show, too, is, I don't know about you, but for me, I grew up loving also

2:08.3

the theatrical part of rock concerts.

2:11.1

And, you know, that's kind of, it's hard to find that now.

2:14.3

I mean, when I was 14, I saw Rush.

2:22.2

I saw Witch Hunt at the Cal Expo Amphitheater outdoors near Sacramento.

2:26.4

And as those big old drum fills are building, if you know the song,

2:29.8

the laser beams came out, the fog, it was all timed perfectly. It was so incredible the way the visuals match the music. Well, you know what? That is just

2:36.5

kid's stuff compared to all respect to Rush, but you know, this is 2017 and Cirque de Soleil's

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