Parrot Posted January 24, 2007 Author Share Posted January 24, 2007 Johhny Ramone needs credit too for being a great guitar player who DIDN'T like solos, there's alot to be said for relentlessly banging those chords out. His playing on "I Wanted Everything" is like a buzzsaw cutting your head in half, very effective. He had a HUGE live sound, sounded alot like Leslie West not that he played anything like West. Can't you get this sound on anything and everything if you play it through La Scalas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldtimer Posted January 24, 2007 Share Posted January 24, 2007 Ouch dude. I like your thoughts about the Ventures TB and by extension you must mean Dick Dale and the Dell Tones. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TBrennan Posted January 24, 2007 Share Posted January 24, 2007 "Can't you get this sound on anything and everything if you play it through La Scalas?" The ole LSs were also very good for "Caress of Steel". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldbuckster Posted January 25, 2007 Share Posted January 25, 2007 The solo in "Louie Louie" by the Kingsmen is very good. I like "Walk Don't Run" and most of the Surf instrumentals too. Johhny Ramone needs credit too for being a great guitar player who DIDN'T like solos, there's alot to be said for relentlessly banging those chords out. His playing on "I Wanted Everything" is like a buzzsaw cutting your head in half, very effective. He had a HUGE live sound, sounded alot like Leslie West not that he played anything like West. I saw Martha and the Vandellas at a hot-rod show in, what, 1964 or 65. OH OH, your showing your age................."Louie Louie", yeah man, how many thousands of times did you play that? Great simple song....The Kingsmen.....................ranks right up there along with "96 tears"...? and the mysterians..................."Walk Don't Run" so much better than that awful "Wipe Out" song....................EH.............THE RAMONES...high energy,balls to the wall,rock and roll, no song over 2 minutes long, and flat out,all the time............unheard of at the time............Punks forefathers............................Leslie West,300+ pounds (at that time)big, full ,larger than life sound, Mountain...great loud rowdy band.................TB, thanks man it is fun rembering those simple days of our lifes........Maybe this thread wasn't such a bad idea................Alvin Lee, Ritchie Blackmore, Mike Bloomfield,Steve Vai,Steve Gaines................so many great ones, it's almost unfair to rank them in any order, isn't it ???? THANK YOU LEO FENDER, and LES PAUL................................ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldbuckster Posted January 25, 2007 Share Posted January 25, 2007 Just watched more of it.............................SWEET JANE Hunter/Wagner...........Where is the DUAL LEAD GUITARS on that song, these video's are not accurate....................Sweet Jane off the Rock and Roll Animal CD is DUAL LEAD GUITAR's ................ these so-called EXPERTS are not only deaf, they must be blind,too.....................Now I understand why Chuck Berry is top 20........so much for this poll................EH !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colterphoto1 Posted January 25, 2007 Share Posted January 25, 2007 Watching that Lou Reed clip, I knew I'd heard the name Prakash John and Hunter/Wagner- those bowry boys went from Lou Reed to part of Alice Cooper's legendary team of madmen... "After relocating to New York and forming a new outfit, Ursa Major, thegroup was introduced to Ezrin, who handled the production chores ontheir 1972 self-titled release. Although the group would break upshortly thereafter, Ezrin and Wagner had struck up a friendship, as hebegan inviting him (as well as another guitarist, Steve Hunter), toplay on sessions by other artists he was working with. Wagner andHunter's playing meshed well together as the duo was able to constructseamless guitar lines that complimented each other nicely. Ezrin usedthe duo on Lou Reed's controversial 1973 studio release Berlin (a darkconcept album that followed a pair of seedy characters beset by drugaddiction, which leads to spousal abuse, prostitution, child welfare,and ultimately, death). Seeking to lighten the mood a bit on the album's ensuing tour, Ezrinaided Reed in assembling a stellar touring band including both Wagnerand Hunter, who helped reconstruct Reed's tunes (including classicsfrom his Velvet Underground days) as jamming arena rockers, asevidenced by a pair of subsequent live releases, 1974's classic Rock NRoll Animal and 1975's Lou Reed Live. Wagner and Hunter then signed onas guitarists for Alice Cooper's solo group (Cooper had just split fromthe original Alice Cooper Band), while Wagner also served as asongwriting collaborator with Cooper for his hit 1975 release Welcometo My Nightmare. The album spawned a hit power ballad with "Only WomenBleed," a tune which Wagner had penned back in the late '60s, and hassubsequently covered by numerous artists over the years, including EttaJames, Tina Turner, and Lita Ford, among others. The Wagner/Cooper union lasted for several other albums in the mid- tolate '70s, including Goes to Hell, The Alice Cooper Show, Lace andWhiskey, and From the Inside, while Wagner continued to lend histalents to recordings by other artists:" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldbuckster Posted January 25, 2007 Share Posted January 25, 2007 Mike, if you don't already have it, many people just hate Lou Reed, you should get ahold of "Rock and Roll Animal", not for Lou, but to hear that band kick it out. That is a GREAT Rock Band...........Dual Lead Guitars that are one minute are sweet, and the next minute are Chainsaws, Parakish John on a Rickenbacker Bass, like Deep Purple always used, and rock solid drumming................"Standin' on the corner, suitcase in my hand" INDEED...............SWEET JANE...............................EH............God, I love this 70's stuff................. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheEvan Posted January 25, 2007 Share Posted January 25, 2007 That the list even exists is another example of small-mindedness. That it fails to include great solos by Wes or Herb or Joe, or by Segovia/Bream/Barrueco etc is laughable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JJkizak Posted January 25, 2007 Share Posted January 25, 2007 As a self-proclaimed guitar expert (it takes me about 5 seconds to finger a full F chord and then don't know if it works ok, then if it does rejoice) (lets see are there other cords?) I nominate Stevie Ray & Eric. JJK Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacksonbart Posted January 25, 2007 Share Posted January 25, 2007 http://www.youtube.com:80/watch?v=VskbxuehP3I................... take a look at this, it's U2 music but watch the Video......you can turn the music off if you don't like it................................................ Great video OB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TBrennan Posted January 25, 2007 Share Posted January 25, 2007 "That it fails to include great solos by Wes or Herb or Joe," Wes, Herb and Joe who? "or by Segovia/Bream/Barrueco etc is laughable." Never heard of 'em. But I don't know the name of the guy who played "Louie Louie" either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lascaladan Posted January 25, 2007 Share Posted January 25, 2007 (This was a great video). The point,however, was an opinion of the 20 most "enjoyable" guitar performances, as noted by guitarists. This forum is always based on opinions. Someone writes in for an amp recommendation, speaker recommendation, etc., we are all giving opinions. We all have our top 20. Can we all agree on on a top rock album(classical,jazz,etc.). This is what makes us different than other mammals on the planet, our individuality. Take a look at the thread of the most beautiful girl(woman) in the world. You want to see " individuality". Enjoy! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheEvan Posted January 25, 2007 Share Posted January 25, 2007 I assume you're gently pulling my chain, Tom. But just be sure, I'll elaborate. Wes Montgomery, Herb Ellis, Joe Pass (a few preeminent jazzers, each of whom has, or had, more musical sense in their little finger than the bunch of 20 have in their collective array of effects pedals & Marshall stacks. The same is true of the classical masters I listed who are really just a sample of a number of superlative musicians expressing in that genre. I suppose I should have included Tony Rice as yet another master in another genre. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NOSValves Posted January 25, 2007 Share Posted January 25, 2007 I ended up side tracked to this one Cute as heck and she can sing........ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boomac Posted January 25, 2007 Share Posted January 25, 2007 Anybody ever see or hear The Return of the Hellecasters? John Jorgenson, Will Ray and Jerry Donahue. <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldbuckster Posted January 25, 2007 Share Posted January 25, 2007 I ended up side tracked to this one Cute as heck and she can sing........ No Guitar there............................you old dawg you......[] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaiser SET say Posted January 25, 2007 Share Posted January 25, 2007 Who the heck compiled that list again!!! No Mel Galley (Trapeze) No Tommy Bolin (DP/Solo) No Simon Lees (Budgie) This things rigged[] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaiser SET say Posted January 25, 2007 Share Posted January 25, 2007 As Slim Pickens would say "I am depressed"[] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lascaladan Posted January 25, 2007 Share Posted January 25, 2007 I totally agree! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaiser SET say Posted January 25, 2007 Share Posted January 25, 2007 That's next months cover Las[] Come to think of it I didn't see Roy Clark in there either[] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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