Juni 2024

Ken Parker: Innovation in Guitar-Making || the Electric Guitar Innovation Lab (EGIL) 11-27-2018
https://youtu.be/nJkm_IhBi-M?si=vPGeay7i-kc206b4 (30.06.2024)

  • How many people saw something new?

  • Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo

  • Vote: Nerd Needle

  • Started as a guitar player - make it „better“

  • Quest: Try and optimize guitars so they disappear

  • „What do think about the neck?“

  • KILLER Archtop guitar (teacher)

  • First guitar: 1973

  • Jimmy D'Aquisto

  • Irving Sloane: „how to build a steel string guitar“

  • Commentary on the guitar

  • „Who showed you, how to do this?“

  • „This is the best first guitar I ever saw.“

  • Copy of a Gibson guitar (D'Aquisto)

  • The Archtop popped out of nowhere

  • Invented by a manufacturing company, copied by italian guys in NYC

  • Not my crowd (classical musicians)

  • Violin family design

  • weakening the top, low vibration enhanced

  • Turky, 600 years ago

  • Lively and responsive

  • Violin = Violin & Bow

  • Tall Bridge - 2 Structures

  • Treble side, bass side

  • huge amount of energy

  • Guitar: Fingertipp, Plastic thing (Plektrum)

  • Macro Movement of the bridge

  • Plugged vs. Bowed

  • Efficient Archtop

  • Make sure, that the top can be energized easily

  • TOP: Really thin

  • Question: Thinkness vs. stiffness

  • Output vs. decreasing  stiffness

  • 3mm thick plates

  • „I can’t move“ (guitar)

  • Overbuilt guitars

  • Taking the clues from ancient builders

  • Question: Heavy lacquer

  • Stradivari - layers of finish

  • Seal vs. lacquer

  • VERY thin

  • Terpene Resin vs. dirt

  • Finish = dampening layer (turns down the high end)

  • Less material = more lively

  • Ken Parker: Expoxy for boat building

  • Wipe it on, wipe it off, off, off … 

  • INSIDE the wood, not on top of the wood

  • 2006 Prototype

  • Dent vs. iron

  • Poisonous Bullshit (Finish)

  • Cube Function: Thinkness vs. stiffness (again)

  • First stringed instruments: 7000 years ago

  • Carbon Fibre = Religion vs. Material

  • It’s always Carbon Fibre + Resin (Expoxy)

  • Composite Material: Paper Machè

  • House, Raising Car Body, Sculpture

  • Fibre Glass …

  • Only for the military

  • Little bit to get high stiffness

  • Carbon = Tape

  • 1:5000 of an inch

  • 1:10.000 of fibre glass

  • The frets do not were out (Parker Fly)

  • Renaissance Lutes

  • 7/8-string guitars

  • Composite structures

  • Quickie Wood Lesson

  • Flat sawn, riffed, vertical sawn (quarter)

  • Summer Wood …

  • Fantastic properties: vertical grain

  • Neck core: Light Weight (Top Wood)

  • Strings as Frets, wrapped around

  • From Balsa to Ebony

  • Mixture: Stiffness & Damping

  • $ 10.000.- instrument, sold for $ 2.000.-

  • How? Volume!

  • Repair work for 15 Years

  • Thousands of guitars, all heroes, NYC

  • Jonis Mitchels Couch, EVH wears it all day …

  • 30.000 of them

  • Research & Development Team

  • Quickie Resume

  • Tools from germany vs. getting a toolmaker

  • Infected Splinter

  • Turnbuckle - self centering

  • Adjusting the action

  • Violin Joint

  • Screwed on Neck

  • The heel is not in your way

  • Clockmaker (Ken)

  • You don’t tighten things as hard as you can, tight enough to hold it (Jerry)

  • Gibson - no setup specification, unusable

  • Prototype: One piece of verical Spruce, neck is made of Basswood, Carbon Tape on the back - no adjustment needed

  • Fly to Nigeria - cardboard box in a gigbag, IN TUNE

  • Good idea that didn’t make money - no regrets

  • Expensive Decisions

  • Not another piece of junk

  • 300 year old violins in mind

  • Go for diversity, distinguishe yourself

  • Dulcimer vs. Ukelele

  • Jake Shimabukuro - Jimi Hendrix of the Ukelele

  • Why so much money for a guitars? Goosebumps (short answer)

  • Wanna make something light? Look at everything

  • Soundhole Placement on a violin - position doesn’t matter

  • Least worst place (Parker) - as far as away from the bridge

  • You wanna have Feedback on an Archtop? F-Holes!

  • Steve Swallow - steeling the bass from the shop, unpainted

  • Fancy Boy Ken

  • Piezo = Mineral and Metals

  • Hot oil + electrical winds

  • Microphone & Speaker = Same device

  • Parker: little disks

  • String Side = Ground

  • Not an attractive sound

  • 7 String guitars, baritone - all on order

  • Demo: Low A on a bass

  • Fanned frets …

  • Charlie Hunter - 3 bass strings, 4 guitar strings with vibrato

  • “How long is the low string?” - 28 inches … “WHY does this work?”

  • Carbon on the outside of the neck …

  • Chaotic Chromatic

  • CARBON tends to even out the responce of the instrument

  • Complex chords with close voicings

Frauenfragen: Stefan Sagmeister
https://pca.st/episode/4b42e731-e086-43be-acd2-71d5ebcebfcd (27.06.2024)

  • Weiches Ei zum Frühstück

  • Karriere mit braunen Zähnen?

  • Freischaffender Designer in New York

  • Album Cover

  • Kommunikationsdesign

  • Gemeinsames sabbatical

  • Alle 7 Jahre

  • Keine Lust, 30 sein

  • Schwierig: etwas GANZ Neues mit 60

  • Macht & Erfahrung

  • Cardio am Früh

  • Unfarbe Mausgrau (Haare)

  • Jüngere Konkurrenz

  • Technisch Bedacht vs. Menschliche Entscheidung

  • Digitale Entwicklung KI

  • „Verpasste Züge bereiten mir keine schlaflosen Nächte.“

  • Glück und Schönheit

  • Jessica …

  • Chefin vs. Assistent

  • Tibor Kalman - bester Präsentator

  • Weibliche Crash Test Dummies

  • Gender als Design Thema?

  • Feminine Ansichten vs. Machos

  • Arschloch Gehabe

  • „Wo bist du die letzten 20 Jahre gewesen?“

  • Am weitesten gekommen ist, wer am hilfsbereitesten war

  • Harte Männer sind NICHT zu Stars geworden

  • 1000 Studios vs. 10 Frauen in der Leitung

  • Ladies Wine & Design - https://ladieswinedesign.com

  • Alltagsgegenstände für Männer designed?

  • iPhones für Frauen

  • 3D druck zur Individualisierung

  • Nicht noch ein Mann vs. Europäer

  • Der weiße Mann in der Krise

  • Deine Grauzonen

  • Vorarlberg vs. NYC

  • Vater Softie

  • Der jüngste von 6

  • Schwester Christine als Vorbild

  • Balinesische Kinder, richtige Kinder

  • Gefahrenwahn

  • Geschützt und Überbeschäftigt

  • Laurie Anderson

The Looth Group Frank Deimel With Giuliano Nicoletti
https://youtu.be/lQaetd1dINU?si=iPnqZSTL-X1_xFxL (26.06.2024)

  • Soccer vs. Guitar

  • Broken SG Copy

  • Vater: Zahntechniker

  • Epiphany

  • Woodstock

  • 1976 Firebird

  • First guitar age 16

  • Tools for Birthdays

  • Student strikes for two semesters

  • Don’t confuse customers with too many shapes

  • We don’t build a Telecaster

  • It doesn’t really matter, what the shape is

  • Weight distribution an balance

  • Mixed Designs

  • Uli Teufel: Reenactment

  • 50s and 60s Designs

  • Contemporary features, pushing the boundaries

  • Firestar

  • The guitar with manyswitches

  • Sonic Youth & Co

  • Rhythm section of a Jazzmaster

  • Leslie circuit

  • Pickup behind the bridge

  • Japanese band - pickups everywhere

  • Very detailed price list

  • Cora Jünger

  • Applying pictures

  • Political themes

  • American shitstorm

  • MACAO

  • Symbolic merch: Telecaster vs. Les Paul

  • G&L bass cut

  • Different materials

  • Reflecting Pickguards

  • Vibratone Bridge

  • Bad Systems in the 80s

  • Kahler on Les Pauls

  • Local suppliers

  • ABM Berlin

  • Holy Grail Guitar Show

  • Local Wood Challenge

  • Roasted Woods

  • Speed of Sound through wood

  • Treated poplar

  • Light red alder

  • 15% - 20% lighter after treatment

  • Overdone treatment

  • Convince the customer to go for local woods

  • Rainer Tausch: Zwetschge for the neck

  • Mahagony vs. Tradition

  • Better concert with Brazilian rosewood?

  • It’s a tool …

  • EGB support membership

  • UK ≠ EU

  • Comment on: Black Lives Matter Guitar

  • SHOP TOUR (55:30)

  • Experimental Prototypes

  • Sooner or later, it becomes always a mess …

  • Solar Leslie Pickup System

  • Every customer gets a box

  • Question: steps to small scale manufacturing

  • SAME table for every step vs. Stations

  • Back to EGB

  • President Frank

  • 2013

  • Goal to organize a guitar show

  • Inspired by Montreal 2012

  • 40 Electric, 80 acoustic builders (Montreal)

  • HGGS - no advertisement, only guitars

  • 5 Shows, international Format

  • Success … 800 people waiting

  • Holy Couch Show (pandemic)

  • Superhit: Oh Superman

WTF with Marc Maron Podcast: Episode 1546 - Ed O'Neill
https://pca.st/episode/296f99be-4d4a-4210-a3c7-8517ad0bd396 (24.06.2024)

  • Hiking with Owen Wilson

  • „What‘s the fucking point?“

  • 90% working glass background

  • Jeff Bridges

  • Different selfes (Danny DeVito)

  • 100% Irish

  • Steel mill vs. Hollywood

  • Daddy Coach

  • Girls vs. Acting

  • One class, one night

  • Classic & Contemporary

  • „The dad in the box“

  • It’s all wrong …

  • Jack Dempsey

  • Fighting vs. Polite

  • Pro vs. Rocky (Stallone)

  • THE BOXER - Daniel Day Lewis

  • CRUISIN

  • Christopher Walkens „Walkeness“

  • Nowhere Land

  • Married with children

  • One black, one Jewish (Producers)

  • Based on my Uncle

  • He’s got the part!

  • It’s YOUR funeral

  • Cultural institution

  • Underplayed for 11 years

  • Emmys …

Team Deakins: DON BURGESS - Cinematographer
https://pca.st/episode/4fbebfd0-515e-4037-8f87-e59fb5253978 (20.06.2024)

  • How did you get to where are you today

  • Romantic architect

  • 8MM

  • 2nd units - BTTF, Backdraft

  • DP vs. Operator

  • One camera show (Zemeckis)

  • Contact - most complex movie

  • Amazing on take one (Forrest Gump)

  • Concept Shots (Contact)

  • Elevating the Game

  • 12 people crew - Cast Away

  • ALLIED (2016)

  • NOW live action movies

  • Polar Express vs. Roger Rabbit

  • Director vs. Director

  • Conjuring 2

  • „Don, how do we do this?“

Geschichten aus der Geschichte: GAG454: Geniale Gehirne
https://pca.st/episode/bb33ed9b-0c9c-44c5-b557-0a4830fc09af (17.06.2024)

  • 9 Jahre Podcasts

  • Lenin’s Genialität

  • Geniale und Kriminelle

  • Pyramiden Zellen

  • Assoziations Athlet (Lenin)

  • 13 Elite Gehirne

  • Ungewöhnlicher Verstand vs. Ungewöhnliche anatomische Merkmale

  • Wie Josef Hayden den Kopf verlor (Folge 271)

  • Phrenologie

  • Schädelform vs. Eigenschaften

  • Viele Windungen (Beethoven)

  • Persönlichkeitsveränderung durch Unfall

  • Aussagekräftige Parameter

  • Buchtipp: „Was kostet es, ein Handy aufzuladen?“

  • 1-100 addieren: IMMER 101 = 50*101 = 5050

  • Gedanken stehen im Verhältnis zum Gehirn wie der Urin zu den Nieren

  • Wo ist der Platz für Gott?

  • Einsteins Gehirn

  • 240 Würfel

  • Harvey’s Roadmovie

  • 42 Jahre - zurück an Princeton

  • CTs am lebenden Objekt

  • „Driving Mr. Albert“

  • Radiolab (2019) Relative Genius

  • Richtige Rückschlüsse aus den falschen Gründen ziehen

  • Gehirn Gewichte

  • Intelligenz als soziales Konstrukt

Aktenzeichen Paranormal: AZ 69: Creepy Pasta "1999!
https://pca.st/episode/6b0ef572-fb99-403d-81e1-220b6af870fa (17.06.2024)

  • CREEPY PASTA

  • Caledon Local 21

  • „Mr. Bear“

  • Pay TV

  • Kindheitsunschuld

  • Soup & Spoon

  • Kunst?

  • Weitere Ermittlungen, schockierende Entdeckungen

  • Fallen Angel and Life, Paint With The Soul

  • „Creepy Pasta“

  • Dinos … 2. Geburtstag

  • „Art Attack“

  • Horror Clowns

Rick Beato: Why Tool's Danny Carey Is Your Drummer's Favorite Drummer
https://youtu.be/0ErsWJw28XU?si=7GBOOnzoy1TnIcf2 (11.06.2024)

LANZ & PRECHT: AUSGABE 142 (Alte Kriege - neue Kriege)
https://pca.st/episode/dc5e209a-5cc4-46c5-ae55-5bfcfd0605b6 (04.06.2024)

  • Eurozentrische Sicht

  • $ 100.000.000.000,.

  • Komischer Krieg (Ukraine)

  • Panzer und Flugzeuge

  • Blaupause WW1

  • 100:10 (Mann)

  • DIY Drohnen

  • Luftherrschaft

  • Erscheinungsform „Neue Kriege“

  • Staaten vs. Warlords

  • Fernsehbilder als Waffe

  • Mit der Sesshaftigkeit beginnt der Krieg

  • Kultureller Rückschritt

  • Die zentrale Quelle des Wohlstands ist Wissen

  • Die Gleichzeitigkeit des Ungleichzeitigen

  • Handel vs. Kriege vs. Internet

  • Merkwürdige Spezies: Klimawandel vs. Aufrüstung

  • Das Gegenteil von vulgär

  • Kant‘s Schrift zum ewigen Frieden

  • Stell dir vor, es ist Krieg und keiner geht hin

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend: Ron Howard
https://pca.st/episode/b327e4d8-f6f2-40a9-979d-4524ae8d6cd9 (03.06.2024)

  • We understand the reference now and it is still not funny

  • „Yellow“

  • Jim Henson - Idea Man (on Disney+)

  • Bryce Dallas Howard

  • Crying on demand

  • Compressed comedy

  • Dramatic moment + flashback

  • SPLASH

  • Density of laughs

  • Selling the narrator

  • Proof your chops

  • Jim Henson and the muppets

  • NEW tech = TV

  • 5 minute puppets after the News

  • 10.000 hours

  • Find your voice. See if anybody is interested. Figure out what they are interested in. Go for there.

  • Eat my dust (1976)

  • Roger Corman

  • Creative people find a way

  • It’s basically Kermit

  • Perfect timing

  • Experimental Movies

  • „The Cube“

  • Stop Motion OZ

  • Essence = having fun

  • The Dark Crystal

  • … talking to Kermit

  • Counting bits

  • Emotional vs. Sentimental

  • 1990 / 53

Fake Busters: König Charles, das neue Porträt und der Teufel
https://pca.st/episode/197d7107-93e7-4473-8168-f438cba0fa7a (03.06.2024)

  • Das neue Porträt von Charles

  • Der Teufel - im Spiegel

  • Pizza Gate

  • Adrenochrom

  • Tempelritter Charles

  • Baphomet - löse und verbinde

  • Vereinigung in Gegensätzen

  • King of King and Lord of Lords

  • (Kein) Sensenmann bei der Krönung

  • Statement des Künstlers

  • Royal Tampon

  • Stabile Führung

  • Krisenmanagement

  • Green King