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20. Sept. 2019 · Long Beard. 2019. 7.0. By Abby Jones. Genre: Rock. Label: Double Double Whammy. Reviewed: September 20, 2019. Leslie Bear’s second album could be about any ordinary American suburb, but the...
Indie rock. Years active. 2014–present. Labels. Double Double Whammy, Team Love Records. Website. long-beard .bandcamp .com. Long Beard is the stage name of New Brunswick, New Jersey musician Leslie Bear (born 23 October 1990). [1]
- When Did You Start Playing The guitar?
- How Did You Start Honing Your Own Style of Playing?
- What Sort of Pedals and Effects Do You Use to Create That Dreamy sound?
- What Differs Between Your First Album Sleepwalker and Your New One, Means to Me?
- What Was It Like Collaborating with Craig?
- Which Part of Means to Me Really Sticks Out in Your Memory?
- What’s Your Home Setup like?
- What’s Your Live Setup like?
- How Would You Describe The Guitar on Means to Me?
I started playing when I was 15 years old. My friend had a really cheap Squier Stratocaster lying around and she never played it, so she let me borrow it. After that, I saved up and got a – still cheap – but a little better Ibanez guitar. It looked really metal. Then I started out looking at guitar tabs online. I remember the first song that I lear...
I guess pretty quickly after I started learning how to play guitar tabs. I got a feel for it, and I just kind of started figuring out chords that I liked and started writing some songs. For a while, I played in standard tuning with a guitar pick. And then when I was around 18, I think, I started to play in alternate and open tunings. I kind of aban...
For a while, I mainly relied on this one pedal that was the Electro-Harmonix Memory Man Deluxe, with Hazarai. It’s a digital delay pedaland it has a bunch of cool features like reverse echo, tap delay and echo. I mainly started using that for looping, which really helps me layer certain textures and melodies on top of one another. And with that ped...
I feel like with Means To Me, I definitely experimented a lot more, especially with adding different guitar parts. I wanted to use or have at least two guitars, and I wrote two or three guitar lines for a lot of songs and also experimented with tone. I used more distortion and I wrote a lot of guitar leads – for that, I used the bridge pickup on th...
It was great. He played the drums and bass for all the songs. I played all the guitar parts but he helped me get a good tone by trying a bunch of different amps. We had probably four guitar tracks from different amps and guitars for each guitar part at some point, and narrowed it down to the one we thought blended well. He just had a larger arsenal...
One of the main things that really still sticks out to me is the lead guitar in Sweetheart. I used Craig’s vintage Stratocaster and the bridge pickup, which had like this perfect kind of chime-y tonality that I thought was really fitting for the song and so excited about that. For the lead guitar that comes in at the end of The Last, I just cranked...
I have a Fender American Deluxe Telecaster that I bought around 2008: that was my first real guitar that I saved up for like by working all summer, full time. I wasn’t intentionally setting out to buy that specific guitar but there was a Fourth of July sale and I just thought like, “You know, like this is the guitar for me.” That’s still my main gu...
With the setup I have now, I rely a lot on the RAT for distortion. I also have a chorus/vibrato pedal from Walrus Audio; it’s called the Julia pedal. That’s been a lot of fun for me and really helps me create warmer tones, which is also another feature on the new record that wasn’t on the last. I used that pedal a lot and integrated more chorus and...
I would say a lot of it is definitely pretty warm and clear. I feel like the guitar tones sound like water or like kind of ‘slippery’. Then other times the guitar sounds more like chime-y bells or sad wailing banshees! Means To Me is out 13 September via Double Double Whammy.
12. Sept. 2019 · Maybe that’s because the project’s mastermind, Leslie Bear, has been moving in between the dream of being a musician — and avoiding the subject entirely by pursuing a straight job as a computer...
20. Aug. 2019 · August 20, 2019. Nathan Bajar. During the final minute of Leslie Bear's second album as Long Beard, Means to Me, a stormy, distorted guitar dominates. “I really just wanted to shred,” Bear...
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27. Apr. 2023 · April 27, 2023. Sean Kayden. Long Beard, the indie dream-pop project helmed by singer-songwriter Leslie Bear, returns with a mesmerizing new single titled "Posters." This captivating track showcases Long Beard's signature ethereal sound and poetic lyricism, creating an enchanting sonic experience.
31. Juli 2019 · 2019. By Abby Jones. Genre: Rock. Label: Double Double Whammy. Reviewed: July 31, 2019. What happens when you come back and nothing feels the same? In the four years since Sleepwalker, Leslie...
