I started a shoegaze band. It was glorious.
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ต.ค. 2024
- Today we are trying shoegaze on harp.
Does it shoegaze does it shoegaze does it shoegaze does it shoegaze does it shoegaze
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Drums - Joe Stavish @lexhitreset
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Thanks so much for having me y’all! We make the best shoegaze partners on TH-cam
HE'LL YE'AH😎🤘
Dude, teach us how to yo-yo
you're the best :)
Sick! Was that the doc pop bolt, green responsive edition yoyo?
drink//milk 🥛🪀🤟
Ian: explains shoegaze
Emily: “What? That’s it? Okay let’s yo-yo”
😂
@@emilyharpist she's a master of another kind of strings
@@carpediemarts705 i wonder what it would sound like if you had a really heavy yoyo with a pickup on it so the string would actually resonate
I was not expecting that amount of yoyo action, can't ever predict what's going to happen in Emily's videos 😂
Now we know if a yo-yo can shoegaze
👟 ✨🪀✨
She is the beauty in chaos
Ians got MAD YO YO SKILLS!
I’ll have you know I came in 7th place in the Pennsylvania regional yo-yo competition when I was 13
4:31 "I'm gonna shoegaze now"
A definitive statement that made me audibly laugh
Gave me Forrest Gump vibes. "I'm gonna go home now."
@@RustyGonzo😂😂😂
I love the part where she says "it's shoegazin time" and then shoegazes all over everything
This should unironically be a real band
Strongly agree.
Honestly this is gonna be great work music for me
Yes. Need a Bandcamp album!
It's soo pretty. Wow. MORE!
This worked super well, I can see my shoes so clearly now. You guys already have the most important part of shoegaze, which is friends having a massive amount of fun together and making gorgeous melodies together instead of competing with each other about who can play the mostest notes fastest.
*100%* 🫡💖
That yo-yo section was total chaos and I’m here for it
*YO-YO CHAOS INTENSIFIES*
Emily’s trick called drink the milk was hilarious 😂
Me: Well, you kinda have to gaze at your shoes to shoegaze.
Emily *leans back and does hand binoculars to look at her boots*
Lmfaooo am I doing it right?!
Actually, it could be a good cover for an album 🤪
I'm an admittedly snobby musician but I will say that Emily is the only one who can get away with starting a new band for a genre before she even knows what the genre even is
You get a like for admitting
Yep 😎
Honestly I barely know what I'm doing when I make music that I actually like. The moment I think I know what I am doing it always turns into meh.
@@theothertonydutch me too
Emily is herself her”own genre
This channel is both great pedal reviews / discussion, as well as just wholesome goofiness of friends with similar interests. Great shit Em and Russ!
Thanks so much! We had so much fun with Ian in this video!
I'm a shoegaze fan, and I love this video - Does It Shoegaze is my new favourite band!
Same 🙌
You gotta pronounce shoegaze like "fugazi". Only then will you become a true shoegaze artist.
I’ll meet you halfway - shugazi
I pronounce it شقوز
If you think about it, Fugazi is a shoegaze band with no pedals 🤔
@@noyd4172 Fugazi is so far away from shoegaze it's insane hahah
@@emilyharpist I think that's exactly how they meant for you to pronounce it lol. No middle ground there
I was very sceptic at first but that song you put together gave me shivers. It's like my soul gets cheese grated by a lightning struck kitten's tongue
Thanks so much! I was a skeptic at first too! 😂
I always think of ‘gaze as being like having the top of your head lovingly blowtorched.
There’s a big overlap with Post Rock imo.
You win The Interwebs for that absolutely over the top analogy.
@@Si_G nice ive always described it as a beautiful, slo- mo car crash... awesome job everyone!
From an old shoegaze fan to a new one, this is excellent. I'll listen to the $hit out of this if you do more.
The problem I have with shoe gaze is the distortion. I guess without it it would just be ambient music?
@@smelltheglove2038 yeah the distortion and reverb are what make it shoegaze
I'm honestly surprised that you didn't know what shoegaze was, since it's kind of what you're all about: pedals and reverb! Such a natural fit for you.
Final piece definitely shoegazes.
I love this video format, Emily. The guests are awesome, and applying what you've learned onto harp and releasing a song is SO. COOL.
I love shoegaze. And I love this.
Many of the classic shoegaze bands liked using harp-like synth sounds in their mixes so this seems like a very natural fit.
That Screen Violence pedal SOUNDS BEAUTIFUL!!!
Hey Emily Hopkins and Russ and Ian! That was well beyond shoegaze so it must be footwarestare! Ride ride ride!
Ride ride ride!
Shoegazi popped into my head, and there actually is a shoegaze fugazi cover album already. Damn.
Noooo! Someone beat us to it! 😂
I learn about so many different music genres here. I've never heard of HarshNoise or Shoegaze before. This channel really makes me want to try music.
Musical styles with unconventional instruments is my favorite. It just is, can't explain it. Harp in shoegaze sounds great.
A Delta Blues harp would be interesting. No idea how you'd even do that.
Stoner doom on the harp next. We need more fuzz and more harp riffing.
Ian is the best. I play his demos just to listen to. Always the most beautiful jams.
I might have known Ian was involved!
It's nice that things have gone full-circle from when I first heard of you from a Collector Emitter video.
It was so nice to finally do something IRL together! Ian is the BEST!
@@emilyharpist I really enjoyed the passages with the cleanish harp and Ian's shoegaze guitar in the background.
Beautiful! I'm reminded of Hainbach's technique of distorting the signal as it enters the reverb.
I immediately guessed who your shoegaze subject matter expert would be - top choice! Not shown: Kevin Shields being jealous he never thought to bring in some harp action.
lol same i was like 'bet its Ian, the collector emitter guy' to my girlfriend and she was like 'what?'
live footage of Kevin Shields strapping on all his guitars at once to simulate all the strings of a harp
I love that Soft Focus pedal
... Last night I was showing our bassist's kid how to yoyo, so I was looking up what yoyos are popular these days. Then I got overwhelmed by all the new yoyo culture. I thought, that's enough yoyo, I'm gonna watch this harp video.
I love that you can start off with what seems like a silly, yet exciting little adventure, but end up producing some lush, dope af music with equally talented musicians. I've always been a fan of shoegaze so I might be a little bias, but I would totally listen to, Does is Shoegaze #DoesItShoegaze
Not too big into shoegaze, so I don't know if I'm breaking extremely old ground or what. But this video really showcased to me just how important drumming is to shoegaze. For me, it just ties everything together in a way that I can see the music ending up being either under or overwhelming pretty easily without it
What a fun video! The chaotic energy is fantastic!
Thanks Brice!
would listen to an entire album of this
This makes me feel like I'm reminiscing on sweet childhood memories that weren't ever mine to begin with. "Those were good times. But, uh...whose were they, anyway? I never did any of that." That kind of thing.
ooh your comment made me think of a memory of someone else’s childhood memory of being a little girl on a swing, that was a fabricated childhood memory implanted in a replicant that Harrison Ford’s character didn’t kill?
You just described the Adventures of Pete and Pete.
I dont live and breathe shoegaze but good grief did I love this. I could listen to that forever. We need a full album, like asap. P.S. love the channel, found you through Rob Scallon.
Thanks so much Patrick! I’m not an expert shoegazer either! Haha glad you found me from Rob!
Shoegazing is not exactly only reverb, fuzz, chorus, distorted amp…. Showgaze is simply enough “staring at your pedals/shoes” when you perform. I used to shoegaze in my teenage years when performing (I’m 44). The name was hijacked in my opinion. I mean in the 90s, mazzy star used to be called a shoegaze band.
People forgot the dreampop element of it and tried to separate them into two different genres, as if there were not non-fuzz parts all over Loveless too. Slowdive, non-fuzz parts all over the place. The genre had both parts, a yin and yang. Everyone wants to only yin.
Does It Shoegaze is a really good! Definitely would fit in the Post-Rock genre quite well! We need more Does It Shoegaze!
That is pretty nostalgic. It reminds me of my youth, when the band I was in would play gigs in rooms way too large for the meager amplification we owned.
Gonna have to change my headphone fluid after all that shoegazing...
You know exactly where to go to get your headphone fluid!
Same place I go to get tires and headwash: Em's tire & fluid emporium!
Everything about this is gold. Comedy and music, You never fail to brighten my day. ☮️ 🪀
Amazing! I'm always in awe by your ability to create such cool and unique sounds.
Thanks so much, Mathias!
It's official, the Harp was meant for Shoegaze, very Ethereal. I'm so glad your song is available to download.
Yes. Love the wash sound. Waiting for your first album Em. Hope the cover has Uggs with YoYos... now I gotta go try it.
Awesome musicality aside, you folks seem like fun people to spend time with. Thanks for showing that so well. It's the obvious fun you have while producing these vids that adds the extra little something.
And it has a melancholy vibe where you are chillin' just gazing at your shoes.
This was a lot of fun! The yoyo bit at the beginning was damn perfect, and the rest was really interesting. Fun all the way through.
Thanks for explaining shoegaze. And for the yo-yo demonstration. 60 years ago, I had quite the collection of duncan imperial yo-yos and spin tops. They were all the rage of us 2nd grade boys and responsible for not a few lumps on the head while practicing the 'around the world' move. The 'cradle' was SO much safer. When spring came around, we turned to marbles and every boy had a pocket full of them itching for recess and the chance to win more. Thanks for the fun videos, Emily.
Big shoegaze and adjacent genre listener here and I would certainly listen to this project if y’all continued to make more. Alt-rock/shoegaze bands are pushing the genre further than ever right now and using way more elements and I feel like the harp fits perfectly
That song and your harp/guitar tone is really good. I love it
Thanks so much!
@@emilyharpist I listen to Shoegaze daily and would buy an album of yours in that style in a heartbeat! :D
HE'LL YE'AH ! This video is *AMAZING* Love this band. Joe=Killing it on drums, Ian=Shoegaze/Yo-Yo King(was not expecting those mad skillz) Emily&Russ=Solid 89%.
Great job, phellas™. Now to listen to this at 3AM (EPIC)(NOT CLICKBAIT)
Big Love from your Mod up North🫡🍁❤️🔥
This comment is a solid 89
@@emilyharpist Aww Yiss
Yo-yo master Emily in the making.
And I guess the shoegaze song was cool, too.
I have a long way to go with both yo-yo and shoegaze
When I saw Collector Emitter I was I bit worried about my ears. When I saw Emily picking up the Yoyo I was really worried about your gear. And afterwards I almost cracked laughing - as usual.
I’ve loved watching this channel get less and less serious over time-moving along a spectrum from “seriously creative” to “hilariously creative.”
I just did vocal arrangements and lyrics for this. This is really good. The drums bring life to it. It's simple but it jams!
Well that was beautiful. Totally brought me back to high school '96 which is so impressive that you could nail it so well with no previous exposure. Y'all are awesome 😎
It reminds me of the band Soft Blue Shimmer in the best way. I'd listen to a whole album of this!
“Drink the milk” 😂
All you need now is an introverted chanteuse whispering abstract lyrics into the mic while trying not to look at the camera.
Emily, thank you (4 being awesome). 😊😊😊
Thanks so much for being here! 😊
I think that "Can a yo-yo shoegaze?" would have been an even more incredible band name! But "Does it shoegaze?" is pretty rad, too.
And the answer is yes to both of them,
this video changed my mind when it comes to 'Shoegaze' as a verb
two of my favourite TH-cam noise-makers playing one of my favourite music genres? and WILD YOYO ACTION? ❤
Its OVER 9000
Ian is amazing
This was loads of fun. You guys sounded godlike! Add a solid vocalist, ideally from somewhere in the North of England, and I’d buy your record without a thought. Inspiring as ever! Cheers, Emily; you are a delight and an unique talent.
The yoyo saga continues! Every time I watch a video from you, I learn of a new genre and then end up falling in love with the music! Very cool stuff!
Oh such fun! And seriously great Shoegazing…..I’m looking at my own shoes even now
I would 100% buy an album of this
Have to admit the result sounded better than I thought it would
Same
I’ve been watching Ian’s videos for a year or so. First time I’ve ever seen him in human form!
Of course a harp can shoegaze! It’s perfect for it. Great video Emily!
I bought a Boss RV-2 off the back of one of Ian’s videos - it’s one of my all time fave reverb pedals!! ❤️
You seem like the kind of person I'd love to be friends with. Love your videos!!!
Two of my fav music/gear channel teaming up ! You are fabulous
I’m loving this new song. It’s one of my favorite of your releases yet. I was really happy to see one of my Bolt yo-yos make a cameo in this video too. I’m glad you are enjoying it.
thank you, Doc Pop!!!! we love your yo-yo!!! :) thank you again for sending it to me; it's such an amazing gift that means so much to me! now we just gotta convince Ian to give me yo-yo lessons... lmao
I love how she's got a minifreak
man, you could hardly step without hitting a pedal! cheers!!
I’ve been seen and I love it
That music at the end was glorious! Me being halfway through my 60s, it kinda reminds me of psychedelic rock jam band music, but with a bit of a modern twist. The newer effects pedals are way better than they used to be...
sounds pretty friggin excellent!
Thanks so much!
These two handsome young men have introduced me to shoegaze, GOBBLESS!
Maggie is forever on our minds
@@emilyharpist Nothing but love for Maggie!
🫡
@@emilyharpist ,
I sent her and her hubby Blessings this morning__hope she'll soon be 'joyning' in the fun on your channel. 😛😹💖🙌😺
that pedal that says 'live, laugh, love' on it is such a vibe! i do wish it was live, laugh, wub, though. ... puns
(SCARY)
(NOT CLICKBAIT)
(GONE WRONG) DONT SHOEGAZE AT 3AM (NOT CLICKBAIT)
@@emilyharpist So Cow 🐄™
Best part of the video is Emilys’ accent show up big time when she says “what the fuck I’m so MAAAD”
I barely started the video, but as someone who loves shoegaze I recommend a very underground and underrated band called Lovesilkpalemilk (morgonstund is my favorite track) and Thränenkind (which is not that underground), that's it, I love your videos! Ok, I'm back to say I loved the track you guys played in the end, that's lovely!
It’s still on Apple Music, though and… oh! It’s a mix between shoegaze and death metal or so! At least the song I’m hearing now… Interesting!
… let’s say shoegaze infused with death/black metal.
My favorite part of the video is whe Emily said "Im going to shoegaze now" and Shoegazed all over the harp
It’s shoegazin time
the episode that hits different .. but fits in perfectly ....
As always terrific sounds!
you forgot the core element of shoegaze, spending time looking at and controlling the fx pedals aka gazing down at your shoes 🤘😂 still so cool
I'm here for the humidity gauge. 55%...NICE!
I love that you're wearing a nose ring necklace. ❤
Never heard of shoegaze until seeing this today. Very cool. I like it.
thank you so much! thanks for being here with us!
Y’all are the peanut butter and chocolate of shoegaze! So good! So gaze-y!
i love when shoegaze incorporates instruments that aren’t usually used in that kind of music. Everybody should check out Wednesday, they’re an amazing band that blends shoegaze with country and uses a pedal steel.
So stoked to see you exploring new sound ideas like eurorack, harsh noise, and now shoegaze!
"Did that just sound like ayuss or did that sound ok?"
I loved that last piece omg
Shoegaze grew out of the post-punk alternative rock scene of the 1980s, and involved a lot of experimentation with effects in ways and to extents they hadn't been previously used in popular music, particularly with guitars, amps, and pedals that were less popular with the mainstream musicians of the era, because those were not in high demand and therefore affordable and available.
In the 1980s, what have now come to be known as the Fender "offset" guitars-Jazzmasters, Jaguars, Mustangs, Duo-Sonics, etc-were far cheaper to buy used because they had fallen out of fashion. Similarly, the silver panel Fender Twin Reverb amps of the 1970s had fallen out of favor, and could be found for relatively low prices, at least partly because they were just too loud; they wouldn't start to distort until you turned them up to obscenely high volumes, necessitating the use of overdrive and distortion pedals. The 1980s were also the era of the first widespread availability of high quality affordable effects pedals from companies like Boss, Electro-Harmonix, and others.
The term "shoegaze" itself was coined by a British music journalist, and was intended to be a derisive term for bands of the era who weren't very "rock star" like on stage, and partly due to introversion and partly due to the use of effects pedals on stage, spent a lot more time looking downward than outward toward the audience, "gazing at their shoes". The British music press has a habit of harshly reviewing up and coming trends in music. But while shoegaze can be said to have coalesced in Britain, it was never an exclusively British phenomenon. The early British shoegaze bands counted many American and global acts as influences, and a distinctly American shoegaze scene developed concurrently.
Not every shoegaze band put reverb before distortion or strummed their guitars whilst holding onto the whammy bar. Not every shoegaze band is defined by distortion or fuzz.
@@gcvrsa Shoegaze was basically cocteau twins + Jesus and Mary Chain. Of course early MBV had lots of Cure/Siouxsie influence as well.
Heavy, trippy sound… nice 👍
As a post-rock devotee, a lot of shoegaze flavor is familiar to me. This was a really fun video
That was awesome. I think "shoegaze" is like that joke about mathematicians:
"You know an extroverted mathematician because he's looking at _your_ shoes!" :D