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Topic: Rock & Roll Riffs 1964 - 1975 |
Lee Baucum
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McAllen, Texas (Extreme South) The Final Frontier
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Posted 13 Mar 2012 9:23 am |
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Joachim Kettner
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Germany
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Posted 13 Mar 2012 11:05 am
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I liked Layla, Long Dark Woman, Day Tripper, Pretty Woman and Purple Haze. Otherwise it's to much Hard Rock for my taste.
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Ron Whitfield
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Kaaawa, Hawaii, USA
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Posted 13 Mar 2012 12:58 pm
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Whole Lotta Zep going on there.
I coulda stopped at #2 w/The Kinks and been eternally happy. |
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Michael Johnstone
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Sylmar,Ca. USA
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Posted 13 Mar 2012 3:31 pm
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| Jeez I played most of those tunes on lead guitar in bar bands from 1964 to about 71 except for tired sludge like Sabbath,fluff like Guess Who,Spirit in the Sky and the Zepp stuff which I didn't care for cause apart from the rhythm section which I kinda liked,I thought they were derivative,overly bombastic and the shreiky singer got on my last nerve.Plus it had already been done better and ballsier by Cream and Hendrix.Somewhere in there,I started playing in funkier,jazzier bands with more original material and then when I got into steel in the early 70s I started playing in hillbilly bands where they revisited CCR to death and of course played all the Skynrd tunes till I puked.So all told I played around 75 or 80% of those riffs many hundreds of times on stage plus a 100 more from that era they left out like the guitar riffs to "Them Changes","I Want to Take You Higher" and "Cinnamon Girl" by Neil Young to name a few off the top of my head. |
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Ron Whitfield
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Kaaawa, Hawaii, USA
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Posted 13 Mar 2012 4:20 pm
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| Michael Johnstone wrote: |
tired sludge like Sabbath/Zep got on my last nerve.
Plus it had already been done better and ballsier by Cream and Hendrix. |
 That was the cherry on top of why we liked and played it so much, and so loud!
And while heavy blues had been done prior by our heros Cream/Jimi, and we know all the derisions, it wasn't touched in their own unique/special/sub sludge genre way than by the bloody Sabs. There was nobody quite like Black Sabbath before, and nobody since. The fact that some actually wanted to kill them is cause for stylistic celebration. If I had an ipod shuffle, Cream, Jimi, Zep, Black Sabbath, The Kinks, and Norman Greenbaum would be just the micro short list on it. And I'd be deaf by now. |
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Chris LeDrew
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Canada
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Posted 13 Mar 2012 4:43 pm
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| fluff like Guess Who |
Dem's fightin' words up here in Canada! 
Nothing fluff about the Guess Who. That band was host to some of Canada's best guitarists over its near-decade heyday in the '70s, and they created some enduring riffs. Much of it didn't translate into the USA after American Woman, but up here they were kings of rock, and deservedly so.
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Leslie Ehrlich
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Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
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Posted 14 Mar 2012 12:55 am
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| Otherwise it's to much Hard Rock for my taste. |
For me, the more hard rock, the better. If it weren't for distortion/overdrive, I would have never taken up the electric guitar. Clean sound? What's that? 
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Joachim Kettner
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Germany
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Posted 14 Mar 2012 6:21 am
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Leslie I like a little distortion sometimes too, like the signature lick in "Satisfaction" or in "No Time " by the Guess Who, it fit the songs very well. But normally I prefer the natural sound of a guitar.
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Michael Johnstone
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Sylmar,Ca. USA
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Posted 14 Mar 2012 12:18 pm
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| Don't get me wrong - I liked loud distorted blues rock guitar too and back in the day played Teles and SGs into a pair of Dual Showmans. 2 or 3 years later in '66-67 when my band had a record deal & Vox endorsement,I had a pair of Super Beatles and finally in '68 a Marshall 100 watt full stack and a Sound City 100 watt full stack.Of course I had the usual Fuzztones,Echoplex,wahwahs et al. That phase lasted from age 18 till about 25. It's just that after the intensity and virtuosity of VooDoo Child and Crossroads,music like Smoke on the Water,Inna Gadda Da Vida and Ironman just didn't make the cut in my view.The genre had peaked & like a dog eating its own vomit was descending into entropy & silly pretension in my estimation.Plus there began to be less and less blues in rock music which drained all the grease out of it for me. On the Canadian front,my all time fav band in those days was Rinocerous who was a sort of under-the-radar R&B/funk/jazz/blues band on Electra around 69-71 or so.I did like a few other "heavy" bands like early Blues Image(pre "Ride,Captain,Ride),Allman Bros(w/Duane)and Mountain.Plenty of classic guitar riffs there. But around 1970 mostly I just gravitated to jazz fusion like Mahavishnu Orchestra,Bitch's Brew era Miles Davis,Zappa,Tony Williams Lifetime,Brian Auger etc.I was in my mid 20s by then,had been playing rock guitar professionally 6/7 nights a week for quite a few years w/some very good players,had seen a lot of styles come and go and I guess I just started wanting to hear composition,lyrics,chops for a change & not just bludgeoning drums,croaking screeching vocals and pseudo menacing unison bass and guitar riffs performed by guys who sounded like teenagers sniffing glue.I guess it's all down to what you listened to at a certain age when you first got laid,had your first beer,first guitar,music was magic and was the soundtrack of your life.So that emotional connection with certain songs will be there forever. For my dad it was Glenn Miller's Moonlight Serenade. |
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CrowBear Schmitt
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Ariege, - PairO'knees, - France
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Ron Whitfield
From:
Kaaawa, Hawaii, USA
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Posted 14 Mar 2012 3:06 pm
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I'm pretty sure I didn't get you wrong, Mike, especially after you reitterated your point. You like Cream and Jimi, but don't like Zep or Sabbath. No problem.
I can fully understand a musician having to play retread and hating it. If you're not creating, it's usually BS.
I grew up with Elvis, Dick Dale/surf/garage, and The Doors as a foundation, the visceral stuff, probably much like you. Then I got drunk/high and laid at a Love-In and started digging Cream and fell in love with Jimi. As those bands fell off as live performers, new bands sprung up with different music often based on the previous but with their own identities, and I dug them too. Then as Zappa, Mahavishnu, and my faves King Crimson and Amon Duul II/Euro came into view many of us enjoyed more sophisticated arrangments and bizzare styles, yet retaining a love for bands like The Stooges, and everthing in between, as well as jazz/experimental, and new age country and Commander Cody. In '75 at age 20 I moved to Oahu and found more opportunities of musical appreciation, which I gobbled up.
I still listen to everything I loved as a kid, and search daily for more of it, discovering a ton of unhearalded quality bands had slipped under even my dense radar. Thank god for the internet. Hell, now I even like the Grateful Dead! I learned the hard way long ago not to close doors on myself.
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Michael Johnstone
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Sylmar,Ca. USA
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Posted 14 Mar 2012 3:25 pm
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Yeah John Finley is my very best friend for decades and in fact he's in my kitchen right now as we speak helping my wife prepare a wonderful vegetarian dinner.Lemme get him....
Say Hi to Crowbear John.....
Hey CrowBear - all my best and thanks for the shout out. Rhino forever!!! JF |
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Ron Whitfield
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Kaaawa, Hawaii, USA
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Posted 14 Mar 2012 3:33 pm
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| Rhinocerous is one of many good bands that didn't get the limelight back in the day, yet are appreciated much more today now that we can devote time to discovering those that were overshadowed. Glad to see John Finley survived the crazy days in fine shape. |
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Michael Johnstone
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Sylmar,Ca. USA
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Posted 14 Mar 2012 4:10 pm
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Elvis......check
Surf.....check
Dick Dale.........check
Garage(as in my parents garage).....check
Doors........check
King Crimson......check
Commander Cody......check
Grateful Dead.....check
My band opened for the Dead at the Virginia Beach Dome in 1968 and therefore I felt it appropriate to ingest a certain substance popular at the time an hour or so before soundcheck. After hearing me warm up,Jerry and the boys asked me to join them onstage for an impromtu jam. As this wonderful exotic polyrhythmic,multicolored music started pulsing all around me I started wondering what this strange looking object was that was hanging around my neck with strings on it. After about 5 minutes of probably the loudest worstest Marshall driven bull$h!t guitar I ever played before or since,Jerry leaned over and yelled in my ear to unplug and take a seat. And that fellas,is how I became saddled with the dubious sobriquet: "The guy who was too high to jam with the Dead". True story. |
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Brandin
From:
Newport Beach CA. USA
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Posted 14 Mar 2012 4:50 pm
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HA! So Michael that was you? LOL!!!
GB |
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Ron Whitfield
From:
Kaaawa, Hawaii, USA
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Posted 14 Mar 2012 5:26 pm
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| Sounds like there is a time and place for air guitar after all! |
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CrowBear Schmitt
From:
Ariege, - PairO'knees, - France
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Posted 15 Mar 2012 7:49 am
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Well how'bout that !
Real nice to see ya John
been a long time but i have followed you round some
great to see you alive & kickin'
i sent Michael a email
back on topic : " guitar riff "
" Apricot Brandy "
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nX5OC801pTQ&feature=related |
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Joachim Kettner
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Germany
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