Ask and Ned will describe his music as soulful and adventurous . Take a listen through his expansive catalog and those are words you might use , too .
Growing up in Boise , Idaho , the son of an arts-supporting English professor and opera singer , Ned — born Edward Duncan Evett — discovered a passion for playing guitar by watching MTV .
This was , of course , back in 1984 when MTV , you know , lived up to its name by actually playing music on television . But I digress .
Honing his craft , Ned found inspiration in technical innovators like Adrian Belew , Stanley Jordan and Michael Hedges , and what he calls “ badass players ” like Jimi Hendrix , David Gilmour and Mark Knopfler .
But it was his encounters with Mike Fuller — yes , that Mike Fuller — that shaped those early years . Before he went on to Fulltone fame , Ned found Mike managing a local guitar shop there in Boise called Music World — and the two struck up a friendship ; one that introduced the former to the basics of guitar tone , as well as different types of guitars , amps , pedals and pickups .
“ Mike had begun dissecting old amps and pedals in his Bannock street apartment in 1982 ,” says Evett . “ At the time you could get vintage gear for next to nothing it seemed , so he would school all of us aspiring youngsters on tone by describing , in detail , every facet of his signal chain .”
No doubt , such a methodical approach to understanding the ever-dynamic nature of gear choice helped shape the sonic arsenal that Ned now employs , some three and a half decades later .
“ I think it is important to figure out what your ears like in terms of overall signal path ,” he says . “ Some of those choices are made easier by the style .”
Ned ’ s style , of course , is why we ’ re here . If you don ’ t already know , he ’ s a genuine , real-deal innovator .
Over the past twenty years or so , Ned has built a system — from scratch , mind you — for how to play what he calls “ decent fretless
Ned Evett is almost fifty years old . That being the case — and since he ’ s been playing guitar since about the time I was born — I made it a point to ask him for some advice , player to player . What I expected to happen was that all his years of experience would culminate in a moment of interview magic . And it did . Just not in the way I expected .
“ Your hands and feet are equally important ,” he said . “ Learn to dance and keep your hands in good shape .”
Simple , yet unassailably unique . Ladies and gentlemen — this is Ned Evett .
Ask and Ned will describe his music as soulful and adventurous . Take a listen through his expansive catalog and those are words you might use , too .
Growing up in Boise , Idaho , the son of an arts-supporting English professor and opera singer , Ned — born Edward Duncan Evett — discovered a passion for playing guitar by watching MTV .
This was , of course , back in 1984 when MTV , you know , lived up to its name by actually playing music on television . But I digress .
Honing his craft , Ned found inspiration in technical innovators like Adrian Belew , Stanley Jordan and Michael Hedges , and what he calls “ badass players ” like Jimi Hendrix , David Gilmour and Mark Knopfler .
But it was his encounters with Mike Fuller — yes , that Mike Fuller — that shaped those early years . Before he went on to Fulltone fame , Ned found Mike managing a local guitar shop there in Boise called Music World — and the two struck up a friendship ; one that introduced the former to the basics of guitar tone , as well as different types of guitars , amps , pedals and pickups .
“ Mike had begun dissecting old amps and pedals in his Bannock street apartment in 1982 ,” says Evett . “ At the time you could get vintage gear for next to nothing it seemed , so he would school all of us aspiring youngsters on tone by describing , in detail , every facet of his signal chain .”
No doubt , such a methodical approach to understanding the ever-dynamic nature of gear choice helped shape the sonic arsenal that Ned now employs , some three and a half decades later .
“ I think it is important to figure out what your ears like in terms of overall signal path ,” he says . “ Some of those choices are made easier by the style .”
Ned ’ s style , of course , is why we ’ re here . If you don ’ t already know , he ’ s a genuine , real-deal innovator .
Over the past twenty years or so , Ned has built a system — from scratch , mind you — for how to play what he calls “ decent fretless