St. Vincent | Guitar Moves interview

[@ryankates]

This might be my favorite Guitar Moves interview bc you can almost bottle up the awkwardness.

[@kellerjo98]

God, I love that this series is popping back up

[@kavika8889]

yo i forgot this taught me those weird harmonic moves when i was like 13 or 14 watching this learning guitar. i learned a lot from this series as a budding guitarist especially from the josh homme and billy gibbons ones! im 25 now and still making music and STILL using a lot of the moves i learned from this show! i produce my own records and play shows now too! thanks for doing this and i love that ur reposting the old ones, but would also love for you to make some new ones too! thanks for your service mr. sweeney!

[@wesst.422]

Same here, The one with Dean Ween is too cool. I think it's the best interview ever with a guitarist, they were buddies in high school and it really shows in that interview. The one with Cass McCombs and Courtney Barnett/Kurt Vile helped me lots with basic open chords, I learnt power chords before any of the "cowboy chords" so my learning curve was quite different starting guitar. Some of my favorite solos I've written have had that Blake Mills sitar bend. The Josh Homme one helped craft more original solos too

[@uglyawesome]

Dude, 100% the same, I learned from these ~a decade ago

[@humanbeing5300]

She definitely knows her shit. Berkley teaches you alot. Whats great is she still developed such a unique style

[@UncleWalter1]

I love the cheeky bit of the Kid Charlamaigne solo at the very end. She know's what's good.

[@erikmaronde2244]

Just discovered St. Vincent via a TV concert on ARTE. Nice find and what an interesting musician she is.

[@jaybobd]

Everyone needs to go look at some videos of Tuck Andress playing guitar after watching this. The guy is incredible. Tuck & Patti were big Windham HIll artists in the late 80s early 90s

[@henrystewart3882]

love how she's a Steely Dan nerd, I have never really listened to her music but I have seen a couple instances of her talking about her love for Steely Dan, the last 5 seconds of this being her playing the solo on Kid Charlemagne. that's badass

[@ronniet8802]

She’s amazing. She easily holds her own and fits so well with David Byrne on their album.

[@winterbird4447]

She is awesome!

[@JohnsDough1918]

I just keep coming back to the Dean Ween, Josh Homme and St Vincent interviews across the years. Great stuff. Edit: forgot to mention the Blake Mills one. His playing in that video is entrancing.

[@Jay-uv5xg]

if u hate it so much then just dont comment

[@rickg8015]

It’s nice to remember that her uncle is Tuck Andress of Tuck & Patti.. His Hendrix acoustic covers are sublime..

[@ArthurPerez-t2e]

Thank you for that it was interesting to look them up

[@khefnok]

Tuck Andress is such a great guitar player. If you have never heard Tuck & Patty you should run and play a few songs of them. This is magic. Gifted family.

[@pablospicoli]

She is too cool. Bumped into Matt Sweeney outside Abbey Road Studios… and in 2014 Annie Clark on Portobello road… she said she was studying in Mexico City and visiting london… little did I know she was playing a festival… didn’t even know who she was… just thought she was a kooky chick who knew who Neutral Milk hotel was… until I saw this 😂

[@Brotelho]

Oh man. This is full circle. I remember this interview a few years back and I've been meaning to get around to learning the riff she plays at 7:58. I guess it's time to learn this. lol

[@SchoolofRockNRoll]

What song is that from??

[@Dielawn69]

​@@SchoolofRockNRollBruh, ive been wondering that since the OG versioj of this video came out. Im assuming at this point it must just be a riff she never made into an official song

[@alexsommer2210]

@@Dielawn69Live version of Save Me From What I Want circa 2011

[@tomjoad8939]

She's sooooo cool! Love her! ❤

[@katabat3837]

Favourite one in the series... little more technical than some of the other ones. Fun guitars you don't see too often either, love it.

[@thedevilinthecircuit1414]

I can definitely hear some of Andress' influence in her playing; there's a fearlessness in hitting the strings with that kind of conviction.

[@wreckoningday]

I never understood why some people act ashamed of having studied music when they're musicians. As if it somehow will belittle their art.

[@camerriam]

Those “Debussy chords” broke my hands

[@abighairyspider]

4:10 “It’s a classy move.” Very cool interview

[@mynchux]

If anyone out there hasn’t hesrd Tuck Andress, go listen now!!! Tuck and Patti are unbelievable. His parts on their version of Woodstock from CSN is unreal. He is truly a genius. Crazy he’s her uncle…

[@paulnerval7632]

Related to Tuck Andress? He's a remarkable player. What a great teacher to have in the family. Need to check out more of her music, and also love the little Larry Carlton tribute at the end of the video.

[@anthonyparks505]

Those "debussy voicings" are extremely gnarly minor 11th chords i.e. the octave-4th is stacked on top of a minor chord shell voicing. I did not know that kind of sound existed without open tunings. Wild. So much to learn. Playing those chords hurt my hands tho XD

[@davidtucker941]

Saw her play in a small tent venue in halifax in 2014 with my daughters. Her guitar was out of this world

[@Euthymia2020]

7:59 ughhh damn girl! That feel is crazy. Power of the fingers. No pick in between ❤

[@golfpug]

Cellist here - natural harmonics = open string, lightly touch the string to make it wave - halfway up the string is octave, there’s another at a fifth, and a fourth, and a third (talking steps from the open string here so on A string, A, E and D and even C#). Then a “false harmonic” or “double harmonic” means you press down the string fully usually with your first finger or thumb - and then lightly touch w another.

[@SkateHeartArt]

The hum of those two Deluxe Reverb tube amps sounds so rad!! 😎🤙

[@rothloaf1980]

Annie has a thing all her own on guitar, which I respect. And her mentioning a pandemic night of shrooming and listening to Paul Leary only adds to her coolness.

[@darwinsaye]

I saw “2 weeks ago” on the video heading and thought this might be a new updated interview together. That would be interesting. Saw this years ago.

[@davelanciani-dimaensionx]

Yep - it's from 2013 - nine years ago is when I saw this, too.

[@wanderings8168]

Total Zelda fairy fountain vibes with those Debussey voicings

[@nedkent5239]

What a great guitarist! So creative….

[@Fogeyspasm]

Those Debussy voicing sound very like the 12 string sort of Voicings Genesis used to regulary use on their earlier tracks. Stuff like Suppers Ready and a lot of the tracks on Trespass.

[@Icecreamshoes7]

That last artist mention, Ali Farka Toure is a gem !

[@Michael_talks_]

God damn best show on the internet

[@mjr2451]

Thank you for creating a dedicated channel and re-uploading these videos

[@fatsuperfly]

You have some of the best guitarist interviews! wtf man. Whooo are you, I sleep under a rock?

[@deztruct0823]

This episode was so cool gotta check out the albums now

[@MeatCatCheesyBlaster]

Check out her cover of Big Black’s Bad Penny.

[@LukeVanGeest]

Absolutely love this!

[@alanagottalottasay997]

Her dissonance has a beauty all its own…and while my ears def not to be trusted I’m pretty sure they almost stumbled into 2 QOTSA songs w those oddly haunting chord diddies….insert gasp thinking of a Homme produced St Vincent towering Monolith of Dissonance…

[@scottlapier4797]

I really hope they team up for a Desert sessions record....or anything really

[@shanicecogswell8125]

So happy these are all getting reuploaded on their own dedicated channel

[@joshuacurtis7504]

I’m six years younger than St. Vincent but also started taking lessons at zoo in sixth grade. I don’t know if I would call it shitty but there was a better guitar store connected to it called spier music which I found kinda crazy. It was one of those shops you don’t see anymore that only had those 80s and 90s shredder guitars like the warlock. I never really see those guitars even posted online I wonder who ended up with all of them.

[@1-eye-willy]

NOICE she plays finger style

[@claudeimanuel]

wooooooh classic video from the archives,!!!1

[@the_end00101]

Please re release the ace frehley guitar moves. Thanks Matt. Loves this series

[@literaticrux8292]

Up above the world again! I'm seeing Annie next weekend. Annie, Matt, and Stephen Malkmus as supergroup next?

[@mckenziestrib9187]

I saw her in LA a few days ago. You're in for one of the best shows of your life.

[@literaticrux8292]

@@mckenziestrib9187 Did you see Yves Tumor as well? How were they?

[@mckenziestrib9187]

@@literaticrux8292 nah she had different openers that night. One was pretty good, the other was meh.

[@literaticrux8292]

@@mckenziestrib9187 Yeah. It blew me away. She climbed the balcony at the venue.

[@mckenziestrib9187]

@@literaticrux8292I saw that video!! Incredible. Cannot believe that woman’s athleticism and raw talent. She’s got it allll

[@pollyanna147]

Wish this was longer but glad you got in. Good stuff

[@blindjohnharrison8026]

This video introduced me to St Vincent when it first dropped. Seen her live 3 times now. What’s the riff at 8:00 tho????

[@QuincyJamesMusic]

The fact she plays Carlton at the end is a cool little nugget haha.

[@01DaveJr]

Oh man. I'm in love. That voice! She's an amazing guitarist too. I love the way her brain seems to go

[@edward-g7z]

So cool!!

[@nigelwallis9223]

Totally amazing, so interesting to watch the technique, great format thank you

[@stoatystoat174]

This channels videos use to be on the Vice channel but they have escaped to get re-released under their own name. The Original Air dates are in the description :) (plus new interviews coming, Marcus King one out at time of this comment)

[@chekhovsraygun]

I love this interview from this point in St. Vincent’s career but damn it sure isn’t helping me resist that craigslist post I saw for a Harmony Bobkat just like hers here lmfao

[@Johnny_Doe]

Another re-upload? Remember watching these a few years ago..

[@titichartay7216]

Do not fuck with another player's pedal board !😊

[@kennywilkinson9270]

Wow I just discovered Tuck Anderss! Love a musical family! So cool!

[@mikelarson878]

The minor 2nd is like it's own genre. Check out Buildings from MN

[@adamcoe]

that's a great episode and annie is the SHIT. even made me enjoy steely dan for a hot second there and that's difficult to impossible

[@01chickenpickin]

Not a steelie fan? Dirty work?

[@vityagreen120]

Awesome 😎

[@lordflatworm]

These are great. Thanks for not trying to sell me something.

[@jonnybeck6723]

She is so cute and charming...

[@najamkhn]

This has to be a reupload. I saw this years ago on Vice.

[@macaronafterparty]

best part at 12:49 BIG OPE

[@ChristinaEarlymorn]

I love her hair ❤

[@manuelinfante58]

I love this. For so many reasons. Two established artist geeking out, and learning and being open. COol.

[@Michael_talks_]

Legend has it her amp is still buzzing

[@morbidmanmusic]

It's the guitar pickups. Not the amp. Legends are usually lies.

[@Michael_talks_]

oh @@morbidmanmusic

[@marluneth]

this woman looks absolutely incredible for her age not that 41 is old by any means but good lord, she looks and acts 25

[@OkoluTheLiar]

This is a reupload of a video from YEARS ago. Annie DOES still look great, but she was a lot younger in this vid.

[@marluneth]

@@OkoluTheLiar i see, wasn't aware due to the upload date. thanks!

[@morbidmanmusic]

Makeup bleached hair and a stylist will do that.

[@AScarletWoman]

This interview gets deleted and reposted ever few years. What's going on? Please just jeep it up 😭

[@Nicholasyeahbruh]

9:50 is that the zelda theme song?

[@kraftyhandz]

There’s a lot of fretting going on here. Quite exotic.

[@Patrick-857]

Her whole style is completely out of left field. Really unusual melodies, complicated chords, combined with the the jangling aggression and odd noises. She uses the whole guitar.

[@mgbasinski]

love the Dan Armstrong! Love Annie too of course....

[@Theplaceiliveonemoretime]

What is the song at 11:01 ?

[@cedarandsound]

Harmony with gold foils, nice.

[@TheGrimoireMovement]

Matt, will you be recording any new episodes of guitar moves?

[@mojojojo6852]

Hey Sweeney, can you do Mike Einziger next? The fretting the fret octave thing reminded me of his playing.

[@xaviergough9359]

Well, she wasn't kidding about Tuck Andress.

[@Bumbaclartios]

I relate to her “i’m so anxious i’m holding my breath while talking” energy so much

[@mikelarson878]

Everytime I see someone with that Teisco Del Ray, I think they are the one who mine that got stolen. I loved that guitar and it was a piece of crap with all kinds of electrical problems. Left it at a show, that was my fault. But I left two guitars and that was the one that got stolen from Amsterdam in St. Paul MN. Obviously she didn't take it. Just makes me think about it.

[@mikelarson878]

and eff me its a harmony... but damn do they look incredibly similar

[@ShlomirBareket]

Is Sweeney gonna do new ones? I saw him play with Endless Boogie. Maybe he should do one with them. And Ira Kaplan. And definitely Poison Ivy, one of America's great female guitarists!

[@nickrodmusic]

Eazy-E R.I.P. And gosh, is Annie ever cute. ❤ Love her style. Matt, you're a dope cat. I'd love to meet you someday, and jam a little.

[@matthewsommerville88]

The chick rips weird and i dig it

[@ghost__chips]

Can you re-upload the Josh Homme one T_T And make another one with Homme

[@Stahodad]

Hey man I think it’s back up now…

[@echoflower5435]

She's an amazing guitarist.

[@connorcraven6777]

Oh hell yeah

[@genesis2187]

Sween you have to do Mansur Brown ! PLZZZZ. love your work have all your albums.

[@RBGRBGRBGRBG]

Re upload ? Where’s the new new ?

this guy is Trevor from GTA :D love the show!

[@Char4948]

Can someone please name the very first song they were jammin?

[@andyoushouldfeelbad]

Superwolf, not Superwolves. Great album.

[@dorhinj23]

Fuck yeah

[@Thirsty_Deer_Studio]

She was great live. Here's part of her set and Greta Van Fleet and Pearl Jam at Bourbon and Beyond 2022 kzbin.info/www/bejne/jandgZ-IoZh3oJI

[@rootshers]

Steely dan at the end!

[@jujukbelvedere]

Ya ya ya

[@geoffknot]

low rent tuck and patti! you go!

[@detroitfunk313]

I miss Annie playing through those gold foil pups

[@DoctorRevers]

That’s a special woman.

[@RoboCop-zn8bt]

She's a certified babe, she looks like the doll Angelica would play with in the Rugrats.

[@ErnestM-y7l]

Isn't it like 5 to 10 years old?

[@JoshuaStMoblo]

A little Kid Charlemagne at the end. Nice.

[@jonlate4581]

He seems unaware of Tuck Andress. I'm not an expert guitar purist, but I know that name.

[@MeatCatCheesyBlaster]

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