Episode 36 - We Can't Believe This is Happening!

0:00 What does a lipstick pick up anyways? I. Guess it just looks like a lipstick case but I don't know if there's anything special. They're single coils, aren't they? What is the lip? Oh, let's play something. Are we going to be nice? The. The. The. Yeah, dude. Oh yeah, dude. That's what I call the Dano Rock.

2:53 Dano Electro Rock'n'roll. Dano Electro Rock'n'roll. Why do we have Dan Electros in our hand? Well, there can only be one reason. We have something to confess, Tyler. We can't keep both of them. They could not both stay in the studio. Here's the two. Many guitars. Here's the thing, tis a greater joy to give than to receive. I've received both of these Dan electros over the course of my guitar playing life, and one of them gets more use than the other.

3:18 Yeah, this might one of my favorite guitars. Dan Electro 84. I love that. Guitar and just makes me play a certain way. All our favorite guitars do that. This guitar. Great guitar. This thing is sick dude. I don't play it as much. I saw it and I was like, what's going on with that? We were up in the, what do you call that?

3:37 Like the guitar? Bunker, which is guarded by a very sinister animal. He's got booby traps. You don't even think about it. People don't even think about trying to go into my guitar vault, but there is a few guitars in there that I'm willing to part with for the betterment of our musical community.

3:53 Did you get you? That, yeah. Sustained man, Yeah. That's how good that guitar is. But we're giving it away and that is to somebody in the No Cover Charge app. Do you guys want to own this? Super sick. Honestly, I might not be showing up on camera, but it's just really awesome. Some dark blue. It's like kind of like a midnight blue, right? Really comfy and it plays really, really good. We alluded to this in our last episode, but in case you missed. That we took what Tyler had with this guitar super system, which was epic and monumental on its own, but now we've created this universe with the NCC get in there create a profile. You can come chat with us.

4:30 Actually, I've been chatting in it. I was just talking to someone earlier today on the app and they were talking about tone advice. They said what what suggestions that any of you guys had and I tripped in right away. So if you guys have fun stuff like that, you want to show off your rig, you want to I want to ping stuff back and. Forth, sign up for the app, check out the backstage, which is the forum, the community where you can post. And that will be the place where you can find out how to win this thing.

4:51 And it's not going to be hard. You just post. It's not going to be hard, but you truly could have a chance to win this awesome guitar. And Tyler, I think that, like you said, there's going to be a lot of giveaways because I have stuff in my personal collection that I've had forever that I feel like should be rehomed to someone.

5:08 That we weren't sponsored by Dan Electro. But no, like, this is just a good guitar that I know somebody will enjoy. So with that said, we have a couple other announcements. Things are happening, man. There's going to be something on the shelves of magazine stands, bookstores, airport kiosks. Friends, I am honored to say that your model for the cover of Premier Guitar June 2026, no other than me. Get out there and find Jared.

5:39 This is probably the best cover I've seen in quite some time. Dude, I'm not biased. Yeah. I mean not. So here's the thing. I got a record coming out here and it comes out on the 5th of June. And in anticipation of that record, which you know, it's funny now because with the NCCI told Tyler, you just wait bro, we're going to be on the cover of that thing soon. And I have this record coming out. So I'm doing a rig rundown with Premier Guitar, a bunch of really fun stuff, but they put me on the cover and I was just blown away.

6:06 We did a photo shoot for it. I sent Tyler the picture. You're the only person thus far to this point of being recorded. Where? You saw, now you know you can trust me with your life. I didn't share the premier guitar. Don't share it, but yeah, I'm, I'm super stoked. And as like many of you, how do I say this? It sounds like an acceptance speech. All the years and all of the time it took to get to this point to have stuff like this start to happen and you know, opportunities like US crushing it with the pod and a new record coming out and tour dates and all of that stuff, it's just really, really inspiring you.

6:38 Got to go get the 2026 June edition of Premier Guitar. Yes, and you'll notice there's an amplifier that you're sitting so stoically in front of. Maybe there's another announcement you want to share. It keeps going. People come. On OK, so this is yet again an NCC official drop. Yeah, like this is.

6:57 Lots of exclusive news. This is this is exclusive to the NCCI. Switched over to Marshall amps and I'm going to be working with Marshall. Oh yeah, it's like, it's like everything is in its right place in the world. I have had a faithful relationship with Black Star amps for almost 15 years. I've developed signature models with them.

7:18 About a year ago I started supplementing my rig with different amps and I was getting in the studio. I was starting to use different amps, Fenders, Supros, even some old school sun amps, Marshalls. I was trying everything EVH amps and truth be told, there's so many great amps. There's so much stuff out there that's awesome.

7:35 But what was happening was I have to give a shout out to a friend of mine, Charlie Daughtry, who gave me basically I'm permanent loan a 1968 Plexi. That was the sound and when I plugged in, if you guys can only imagine, it's like starting the car and you hear it and you go, oh, that's legit you. Can't understate enough, especially since we've been doing this POD, the visual and the aesthetic of plugging in will change your mentality. The mental side of it's about the inspiration of plugging in. You're always going to play your best, and most amps will set you up for success when you're in the zone, right? If you can get that extra little bit of inspiration from the history tied to that thing, I

8:20 think that that is well worth exploring. And just to be perfectly honest, when I started playing those plexes, the way it made me feel, like you said, the way that my demeanor was when I played, it was almost like I made every note count even more. And it was like I was, it's like I took like a head first dive in and it was so exciting and it was almost like rejuvenating that when I started to play those, I thought to myself, wow, I can still feel my fingers.

8:46 No matter how much, you know, gain or whatever I stack on top of it, right? And quite simply, Marshalls and Plexes, I believe are the heartbeat of Rock'n'roll. They're the heartbeat of the the sound that I love. Really happy for you, Congrats on all this insane success that has honestly all fallen into your lap in this moment.

9:07 But it's a long road that you've spent earning this and I think it's really special and you should. Enjoy it. Well, thank you, brother. I'm I'm enjoying it. And I think the coolest part is that, but now I get to enjoy it with you, my brother and all of these people, everyone that's here for the NCC.

9:23 These are really cool announcements that for me, like, you know, honestly, I never really dreamed that far to be able to say, you know, oh, I'm going to be on the cover of these magazines or do this stuff just because you like you guys. I just love it so much. And of course, and it's a pie in the sky pipe dream, but to have it actually come realized, there's a really special thing. And I'm so happy and I'm so excited to unveil on the NCC. There's a lot of changes coming, big ones and. This this Marshall stack is not big enough, so if anyone from Marshall's watching, please help us fill some of the voids in the studio for branding purposes.

10:01 I promise dude, we're going to do a scene in. The NCC is not for sale, but we do accept tone devices that will enhance our product and I think Marshall has always been in here anyway, so. Oh yeah, I think that one of the coolest developments with you is that you engaged in effects loop. Oh. Boy, because I saw you sent me a video and you're like dude, I got the pathways in the effects loop.

10:25 Thanks to Source Audio for sending this new pedal out. You guys realize how much of A caveman I am? I'm texting Tyler. It's probably like a Saturday at 5:00 AM and I'm up and I'm like messing around. And I just remember with the big old Plexus like you have over there, there's no effects loop. So I was thinking to myself, how am I going to dial in some reverb when you need some reverb? I was like, I look in the back.

10:45 I was like there's an effect loop. So let me try and you and shout out to you and the source audio guys for hooking me up with one of these pathways. It's killer, dude. So right now, if you hear we have this reverb through the effects loop of this little mini JCM 800, right? And if I can go here and I can turn this up. What blows me away though is how much versatility the pedal has. This is not an ad by.

11:12 The way none of this is an ad, I'm just. Let me preface we're. Just nerds. We're totally nerds. It's got a trim on the other side too, so I can really get what? Hold up, let's go crazy. Let me see the plate. I'm going to turn this reverb mix up. Got really bad. Teamu Erik Johnson. This is what you'd hear way, way, way in the back.

11:56 It's just cool, man. Source audio, guys. Dude, hit that one that you have, the purple one that Donato is freaking out about. You like that? Dude I didn't even realize this thing has a slap feature. Look at this. What would be your standard reverb sound? On that dude, honestly I would I would probably go to like a spring reverb myself, something like that. That's nice.

12:53 It's. Kind of nice, right? Do you have reverb on that app? I got reverb. It was the first effect reverb, right, ever to occur in the natural world, right? And then people decided to put that in a box. So technically it's been around the longest. So there should be the most varieties first the way I look at it.

13:09 Dude, how about those crazy like Reverb tanks? You can just get a tank. Yeah, it's pretty. Sick. Do we do a reverb jam? Yeah. Do you want to do a reverb jam? Are we going to go dude? Any more reverb than that bro? And then flip them. Listen, I don't want to hate on your tone, but I'm going to need more reverb bro.

14:36 The. The. None. Who wants this guitar? It's sick. About the app, we should go back to that and tell people all of our new instructional curriculums we can learn from us, yeah. And here's the thing, man, Like what you already had going in the guitar super system, that's still there. And we actually took time to add things to it, which is both of us in tandem talking about and teaching different things.

16:22 If you want to see more about like what I do and how I play in the way that I would attack certain things or riffs or licks or tone kind of tutorials, that's all there too. You can upgrade to that section of the app, but all the rest of it is no cover charge. All the giveaways, all the backing tracks, all the community, all the good stuff that we've built here on YouTube.

16:42 That's what the app is for and an extra part if you want to learn from us, but going to be worth it if you want to just check this out. Jared, there's a lick that I do all the time in my lead playing. I don't even know where I stole it from. I think it was just wanting to sound like Richie Cotson, Zach Wylde and a banjo player at the same time. That makes no sense.

17:10 It's a lick I started to do and when I did it, people would go, how are you doing that without a pick? Very simple. Picking that first E on the 12th fret, 15th fret on the B pull off to the 12. That's the lick. Sounds like a bad dream, but check this out. So EB string 15 pull off and then you're going to take this index finger and you're going to go thumb, index, middle barred across.

17:55 And then while you barred that across your, your thumb is going to come to this B string and it's going to do the same 15 to 12 pull off. So two there. It's this almost weird roll at the end. So essentially the lick is 2 pieces. It's. And then there's a pickup automatically from the 15th fret of the G string, which is at flat 5, that bluesy note. Now you have the mechanics.

18:47 Now I move this all over the place using that same fingering, just modifying where I'm playing with my fretting hand. I could literally go anywhere I could go. I could play anything as long as I keep that fingering the same. Any string set. This is like the JJN finger style poor man's sweep lick. But when you have that down, you can go anywhere with that, so you could walk up the neck.

19:31 Kind of diminished found. So it's a really cool lick that a lot of people ask me about. Now, again, I'm just scratching the surface. There's a ton of different things I do around this lick, but that is the one that if you can get that under your fingers, you can really give someone. I call it like a tongue twister. The subscribing to the app for free is really beneficial because if you love the show, you get to see it early, could be even just a day before.

20:27 We'll try and do it sooner than that, but every now and then a guest comes in at the last minute and we got to scramble to get the show up. That is all for you and it's all free, something that we can't do without you guys, so. But also don't don't even forget about this too. It doesn't matter what level you're at.

20:43 I feel like anyone, even if you just started the guitar last week or you've been playing for 50-60 years, you are welcome. Even if you're a hardcore, you know, expert guitar player or you just picked it up, there's going to be so many things to learn and to have fun and connect with that I honestly feel like it's an app for. Everybody backing track episode that we put out last week, we're going to be updating backing tracks frequently, every Friday. In fact, you can check the app for a new jam track from Jared and I.

21:08 And make sure to tag us because I love seeing you guys jam over the backing track. I saw some people shrimp like they're just shredding over it already and it was awesome. Should we? Make one more track you know, for this Friday. I feel like we have to. We owe it to the NCC universe to carry on.

21:24 All right, so every Friday you can expect a jam track on this channel going forward. Every Monday, of course, we'll have a new podcast for you. Nothing's changed on the NCC. We're just, as you put it last time, enhancing and adding to what we do. Who wants to see JJN RIP on the new jam track on the Dan L that could be yours?

21:45 Totally could be. I do, I do, I do. OK, let's do it. What am I playing over today, dude? Well, we have on this Dan Electro. Well, let's see what happens. All right, let's hear it. I'm getting like a little police bug and police bug. The. This track's awesome and I just feel like I can keep going going. I feel like I would feel really bad though because these strings.

23:33 How old are these strings? They aren't young. So these UN young strings are really, really dead and I feel like whoever is going to get this guitar, we should do them a solid and we should put some strings on it. Yeah, that's probably true. We should give them some solid gold. Well, I know you told me you had a certain set of strings and I said we've got to put them on the giveaway guitar. You mean these?

24:01 These are Optima 24 karat gold strings and I've played these one time before and I did feel more luxurious. OK, so here's what I'm thinking. Download the app. You go to the giveaway section right where you have a chance to win this bad boy. I'll throw these old strings in the pack with it so you can have them, but Tyler scored these 24 karat gold strings. We'll put it on.

24:25 In true NCC fashion, dude, let's put them on for the people. It doesn't match the silver hardware, but hey, if you want to take them off and boil them down into a necklace, you can do that. Dude, it's 24 karat. Gulp, let's go. So in case we didn't mention the website namenocovercharge.com. Hey, go sign up if you want to chat with us. We got a ton of fun stuff happening. We can't wait to see you over there. Thanks for watching, and we'll see you next week with a brand new episode of the No Cover Charge podcast.