A walkthrough of Steve Kimock's amazing gear room

[ASATKat]

I'd say Carrot Top should just stick with the guitar and give up comedy immediately!!

Yea, I never got Carrot Top's humor.

 

[ASATKat]

If you can get a hold of the second Zero CD, Here Goes Nothin', listen the recording of Little Wing. Steve gives a lesson on soloing melodically. It's cool that it doesn't have the Hendrix intro and it utilizes Clapton's riff between verses.

Yea that's cool he pays homage to Clapton's version.

 

[Paul in Colorado]

I've had a few online conversations with him on TGP. I like that he's accessible.

I've seen Steve with Bob Weir. It was a couple of years ago at Red Rocks for Jerry's birthday. John Meyer sat in as well. He and Steve trading licks was a lot of fun (and I'm not a big JM fan). Didn't he play with The Other One's, too? I'm thinking it was Steve and another guy who played with Bob Weir.

 

[branbolio]

whoa

never heard of this guy, checking him out, this is 2013?

Im sure diggin this tune!
Thought this great thread deserves a bump. Too bad Steve Kimock doesn’t post on TGP anymore, he’s got a nice gear talk goin on his new website

 

[Digital Larry]

I saw SK a couple years back with Hot Tuna at Mountain Winery. I sort of thought, having read a little about him and checked out some YT clips, that he would have been at least a little weird or outside. Not at all - he was totally tasteful the entire evening.

 

[ndcaster]

I saw SK a couple years back with Hot Tuna at Mountain Winery. I sort of thought, having read a little about him and checked out some YT clips, that he would have been at least a little weird or outside. Not at all - he was totally tasteful the entire evening.

yeah, he walks the line between inside and out really well to me

my kids love his music, so he helps to stretch their ears without them turning away

 

[Lef T]

Bumping this old thread.
I've just discovered Steve Kimock and am checking out a lot of his tunes.
This week I've got the Satellite City album in constant rotation.
A superb album on all counts.
I love when I discover a new artist that speaks to me.

 

[ndcaster]

Bumping this old thread.
I've just discovered Steve Kimock and am checking out a lot of his tunes.
This week I've got the Satellite City album in constant rotation.
A superb album on all counts.
I love when I discover a new artist that speaks to me.

This made me think, I wonder if Steve is one of those guitarists that ran alongside, in parallel, to the whole rock history thing, and now that the rock history thing seems to be a little exhausted, the Steve parallel thing has caught up and is now, like a long-distance runner, outpacing it.

Maybe I'm just getting long in the tooth, but it sure is interesting to think about the long trajectories we get to live through.

It doesn't sound like guitar is exactly dying. Instagram is full of incredible guitarists doing cool things, and Steve is one of the guys who carried the torch for accessible guitar improvisation for a long while.

Hats off to the guy.

 

[Lef T]

t doesn't sound like guitar is exactly dying. Instagram is full of incredible guitarists doing cool things, and Steve is one of the guys who carried the torch for accessible guitar improvisation for a long while.

I'm in my late sixties and have listened to a lot of great artists.
I hear some people saying how there is no great music being made anymore.
I think there's a lot of great musicians and artists currently carving out their space and garnering a following.
Of course they don't have the budgets of the old record company days,but through a lot of gigging and online media they are turning on a new
crowd to their music.
I just discovered Billy Strings and he is building a following.
Because of Billy,I discovered Molly Tuttle who I really like.
Here's a video of her.
Not sure if you've seen it,but it's oh so good.

 

[ndcaster]

I'm in my late sixties and have listened to a lot of great artists.
I hear some people saying how there is no great music being made anymore.
I think there's a lot of great musicians and artists currently carving out their space and garnering a following.
Of course they don't have the budgets of the old record company days,but through a lot of gigging and online media they are turning on a new
crowd to their music.
I just discovered Billy Strings and he is building a following.
Because of Billy,I discovered Molly Tuttle who I really like.
Here's a video of her.
Not sure if you've seen it,but it's oh so good.

Oh yeah, I'm a big fan of Molly.

 

[Refugee]

I have a sweatshirt that has a great many of Steve's guitars on the back, and I've seen him play live about 105 times. He is the greatest player on this planet! Just wanted to bump this thread, because he is certainly worthy.

 

[Audiotrove]

Bumping this because, well Steve's out playing a lot right now and is still taking it to the next level. Saw him last night at the UC Theatre in Berkeley with Oteil & Friends. Hands down one of the best shows I've seen in a long time. If you are anywhere near where these guys are playing, get out and see them. Oteil Burbridge, Steve Kimock, Lamar Williams Jr, Jason Crosby, Tom Guarna and Johnny Kimock. Wavy Gravy was sitting on stage all night (hence the Pranksterish Bozo noses). Tom Guarna (an incredibly fluid player) was on a Collings 290DC most of the night and making it sound like a Rhodes piano somehow. A couple Doug Irwin Wolf guitars were there along with Jerry's Alligator Strat and Kimock's Gibson L7. Steve had a pair of Fat Jimmy amps on stage. Quite a show.