Kenny Wayne Shepherd Here It Comes Again

Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band

Here is the story about how Kenny Wayne Shepherd got hooked upwards with using pedals from Analog Man.

Robb McMahan, the www.kwsband.com webmaster, is also a fine guitar player. You can see him on the photos on the web site for the practice for the Problem IS...DOUBLE tour jamming with the band. In 1998 I did an Ibanez TS-9 808 modernistic for Robb and he REALLY liked it, so I sent him one for KWS to endeavor and Robb recommended it and gave it to him. In early 1999 Robb told me KWS was using it on bout and wanted some more. So I made two more than and after modified 4 more of his existing ts9 pedals. Ane is a TS9DX.

Here are three of his pedals that I had in for maintainence. Roy Kelly, Kenny's guitar tech, puts brilliant gaffer's tape on the pedals so they can be seen onstage. My red smiling dominicus stamps are on the sides, and my labels are in a higher place the power jacks.

Here is Roy setting upwardly the pedalboard earlier the summertime tour. Merely behind Roy is one of Kenny's Twin Reverb reissues which he uses live (with Large 12" EV speakers), and his warmup amp, a VERY CLEAN Vibroverb with 15" speaker, just like Stevie Ray Vaughn used.

On the left is the Dunlop univibe speed controller, side by side is a Dunlop 535Q wah. And so my ts9/808, so an former TS-808. Roy is holding a Line 6 delay pedal. Next is a Roger Mayer Octavia. The other box is a switchbox or "snuff box" which allows KWS to kill the guitar signal to the amp and ship it to the tuner but.

On May 25th, 2001 Analog Mike finally got to run into Kenny Wayne Shepherd, who had been using the Analog Homo modified TS9/808 Tube screamer pedals since late 1998. Kenny wanted to check out more pedals, the FOXROX electronics Captain Coconut and the Analog Homo Clone Chorus, along with a Teese RMC3 wah and modified fuzzface.

I met Roy before the show, we planned on setting up the pedals onstage and trying them. But at that place was a scheduling trouble with Lizzie West, one of the warmup acts, and then we could not fix on the main stage. Hither we are standing in front of the strats on the side of the stage. Roy gave me one of the TS9/808 pedals to cheque out when I got back to the shop. His quote during the picture was:

ANALOG MAN IS THE SHIT!

I brought the pedals to the dressing room and set them upwardly in that location instead, while Roy was setting up the guitars.

Here are the pedals I brought, with the old Vibroverb. From left to right are the Analog Man USA fuzzface (modified dunlop), Analog Human being chorus, Foxrox Captain Coconut, Teese RMC3, and modified univibe speed controller for the Captain Coconut provibe.

Just earlier showtime, Kenny showed up and tried the pedals with a squeamish Relic Strat. He liked everything, and told Roy to put the Chorus and Captain Kokosnoot in his pedalboard for tonights testify! Roy nearly had a centre attack but I told him information technology would not exist a trouble and I would assistance him get information technology working. Fiddling did I know how curt time was between Double Trouble's set (SRV's ring) and KWSs, and how much work Roy had to practise. Here is a small shot of me and KWS.

Here was the one-time pedalboard, with the same effects as I mentioned above in the movie with Roy. You can also see the Dunlop univibe here.

Here is the new pedalboard, with the Captain Coconut replacing both the Roger Mayer Octavia and Dunlop Univibe, and the Chorus added. This besides gave Kenny a fuzz which he did not accept previously. The pedal order we used was Guitar -> wireless -> Wah -> TS9/808 -> TS-808 -> Coconut (fuzz, octave, vibe order) -> Line 6 filibuster -> Analog Human Clone Chorus -> Switch box -> Tuner or amp (two Super Reverb Reissues).

Hither is Kenny onstage, moving too fast for my slow picture show. I was hanging out with Roy at the side of the phase nigh the guitars. Y'all tin can barely see the helm kokosnoot poking out of the board. Kenny started using the Analog Human being Chorus a bit on the first or 2d song, set up to a fast leslie audio, with the speed at about four:00 and the depth about 12:30. He soon started to kick on the chorus A LOT for solos and chords, was really enjoying it! When he came to the side of the stage to alter guitars he gave me a large smile and thumbs upwardly and said he loved it. He then ventured to the Captain Kokosnoot, using the fuzz foot a few times, and the provibe. The test was going to be Blueish ON BLACK, which features the octave and too a vibe/leslie sound. I was surprised when he kicked the Chorus on at the offset and used it nearly the whole song for rhythm work. The kokosnoot's octave was used for the killer solo, and he was able to get a skillful octave audio. Kenny uses HUGE strings, custom sets put together with the low E bigger than a bass guitar's high string! And HUGE frets too, Dunlop 6100s, the biggest frets fabricated. He's a skinny guy merely has VERY STRONG hands to play such a difficult guitar, but that is where the TONE comes from - big strings and frets, loftier action, and strong hands. I called Roy towards the terminate of the tour and he said the Chorus and Captain Coconut are nevertheless in the board and working groovy. He tin't get Kenny to turn the Chorus off, and he'southward really getting into the Captain Coconut now, using all three of the effects in information technology.

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Philadephia, Electrical Factory 5/19/02

In May of 2002, I talked to Roy again and institute out they would exist playing in Philly, which is non too far from hither. Then I decided to head down with Dave Play a joke on and bring some pedals and catch the concert. It was a private do good testify with a bunch of doctors in omnipresence, with Keb Mo as warmup ring and Double Trouble playing as Kenny's ring!

I met Dave somewhere in NJ, and we headed down, and somehow took the right go out after crossing the span into Philly, and ended up right at the Electric Factory. We walked right in past the guards, I guess nosotros looked like we knew what we were doing, but nobody from the band was there except Roy, sleeping in the dressing room, so we didn't bother him. We contacted Robb by phone and learned the band would be there in a while, so we waited around.

Soon they showed up and we spent a bit of time in the dressing room showing the guys the new CC2 and the Foxrox TZF flanger. Here is Kenny checking out one of my TS9/808 pedals forth with the Flanger and CC2. The expression pedal is for the flanger, you can exercise manual flanging which is Really cool when you set it upwardly for over-the-top flanging when it cancels out the sound in mid sweep. We will be selling these flangers in belatedly summer or so.

Hither is another shot with Dave helping out. My snuff box is sitting on the amp and he is playing the CC2 with a CC2 expression pedal that I built out of a new univibe controller.

Dave convinced Kenny (piece of cake) and Roy (hard!) to put the flanger on the board to endeavor in the show. Here is what it looked like, with my chorus and new SNUFF BOX. The snuff box kills the betoken to the amp and sends information technology to the tuner for tuning, with true bypass. Kenny was using the chorus about every song, sounded great! (Dave was non convinced...).

Here is what the snuff box looks similar upward shut. Has an input, output, and tuner out. Unproblematic just effective.

After the show, AnalogMike with KWS and Double Problem!!!!

Experience Hendrix, October 20, 2007

I finally met upward with Kenny and the guys again when they brought this show to my area. Here is more info and pictures of the Experience Hendrix bear witness

Promise yous enjoyed this info on KWS, I will try to continue information technology updated.

Mike Piera analogman guitar furnishings

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