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November 13, 2019 at 2:35 pm #150340
Billy’s post of the Music Of My Teens, has made me reflect back on who influences me to play guitar.
Rather than naming them and adding discussion, let’s post a few songs that really “spoke” musically to us
Chronologically, these are ones that really got me diving deep into blues rock
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November 13, 2019 at 2:38 pm #150342
It would have to be this:
https://www.thebeatles.com/album/revolver
The melody of the notes is what expresses the art of music . 🙂 6stringerPete
It really is all about ”melody”. The melody comes from a language from our heart. Our heart is the muscle in music harmony. The melody is the sweetness that it pumps into our musical thoughts on the fretboard. 🙂 6 stringer Pete
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November 13, 2019 at 3:10 pm #150346
What a great idea, ì grew up kinda inbetween era’s, My dad’s music collection had a mishmash of albums, stuff like sniffle, big band Jazz. This was when the Beatles, Shadows the stones and other brit bands where coming to the fore, my elder brother was finding bands like grand funk railroad, the yard birds, led zeplin, this however wasn’t for me, being 10 years old or so at the time I was still being fed a diet of kids stuff, that was untill I heard a band called Python Lee Jackson, an Australian band who were trying to get a foothold in the Brittish music scene, sadly they only had one major hit here but it did it’s job as far as I was concerned..
This for me introduced me to the likes of the faces, long John baldry, the small faces...Billy..
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November 13, 2019 at 4:02 pm #150349
I used to watch Long John Baldry being very ‘proper’ as a singer/presenter on main-stream TV in the 60’s but I would often see the real LJB in the White Horse Blues Club off Oxford Street, doing the 6pm to 12 midnight set singing some very risqué folk/blues numbers. Different performances for different audiences…..
Richard
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November 13, 2019 at 4:46 pm #150351
When I was introduced to the music of the great Peter Green, it was the haunting track of Albatross, captivating and refreshing to say the least, oh yeah we had guitar instrumentals before, Bert Wedon and Hank Marvin were churning them out quicker than Cliff Richard would do an impromptued performance at a rain soaked Wimbledon, bùt those again were the types of music my parents would listen to, I was a child of the 60’s and I wanted my own soundtrack to life..10 or possibly 11 in 1968 when I heard this track which ingrained a love for Greenies music
It wasn’t until years later that I was old enough to understand that this was one of the saddest plea’s for help, love and understanding ever written, guess I was too wrapped up in the melody or too immature for the song to have any deep seated meaning… a phenomenal number which will always remain a favourite of mine...Billy..
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November 14, 2019 at 7:43 am #150391
Can’t believe I never heard of Peter Green before joining Active Melody. I love his voice and melodic guitar playing. Shame how things worked out for him.
John
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November 13, 2019 at 5:27 pm #150354
I’m going to comment on two other tracks that influenced me( you’ll have to excuse me, been celebrating my mom’s 90th birthday and I’ve had a few shandies)…
1st number has nothing to do with guitar but it woke me up to the fact that none of us are the same though life is life and we all crave the same things, another thing it made me aware of is that you don’t need to be a good singer to sing a song.
This would be somewhere around 72, I was 14 or so then.
Met this rather pretty girl while on holiday(vacation) and sitting in a cafe on Girvan main street she put money in the juke box and this came on
That opening bass line just drew me in..
I recall asking “the f**k’s that?”, but I was drawn in to lou’s words and the story he was telling ..
Later that same week I got caught up in to my 1st ever mass brawl fist fight in a dance hall, I don’t know if the track sparked it off or not, I just remember the adrenalin flowing as this played in the background
Mick Ronson imho is a forgotten guitar hero, he magiced up some iconic classic riffs of my teenage years....Billy..
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November 14, 2019 at 6:18 am #150385
This is why I picked up a guitar around the age of 5. John, Paul, George and Ringo! This album played in our home all day, every day!
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November 14, 2019 at 6:55 am #150388
This song rocked my world.
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November 14, 2019 at 8:45 am #150393
I never quite got Hendrix in my teen years, it wasn’t until years later that I found his music more to my liking, I found Garry Moore in a similar vain, wasn’t till I was in my 30’s and seeing him perform live that I appreciated just how phenomenal he was..
..Billy..
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November 14, 2019 at 9:04 am #150395
Can’t believe I never heard of Peter Green before joining Active Melody. I love his voice and melodic guitar playing. Shame how things worked out for him.
JohnAlvin Lee said that Peter Green was the first and only guitarist that he had seen that would turn his guitar volume down for his solos. Green is definitely a unique player
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November 14, 2019 at 12:20 pm #150399Anonymous
One of many…Johnny Winter – Everybody’s Blues
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November 14, 2019 at 1:21 pm #150402
Gary Moore was a big favorite of mine,but I like Joe’s version of “Midnight Blues” better!!
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November 14, 2019 at 3:55 pm #150427
I posted three times and it didn’t take.
They weren’t songs but albums, The Rolling Stones, Now!; the Stones’ Get Yer Ya-Yas Out and The Animals Greatest Hits, with a note that I’m still trying to get the arpeggios on “House of the Rising Sun” right.
EDIT, hmmmm, this took!
Don D.
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November 15, 2019 at 1:16 pm #150492
This one:
I would love to learn to play it someday.
Sunjamr Steve
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November 15, 2019 at 2:04 pm #150494
This one:
<iframe title=”Stephen Stills Black Queen (Very High Quality)” src=”https://www.youtube.com/embed/tee61YGheaA?wmode=transparent&rel=0&feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1&origin=https:%2F%2Fwww.activemelody.com” allow=”accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture” allowfullscreen=”” id=”fitvid0″ frameborder=”0″></iframe>I would love to learn to play it someday.
Stephen Stills is an amazing musician. He studied with the Rev Gary Davis and Graham Nash said that Stephen arranged all of the instruments, except drums, on the 1st CSN album
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November 17, 2019 at 8:14 am #150621
Really liked that Stephen Stills song first time I heard it from comments on YouTube appears Stills and Clapton were going to do an electric version but both got trashed Clapton split so Stills well into a bottle of Tequilla
did this acoustic cut.Appears it was played in different tunings which allowed for easier bends and suited Stills voice, link to a cover here well played in
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November 17, 2019 at 9:29 am #150625
Filippe Dias is good, amazing really—what a great musician. He got such a great sound, it seemed like his playing (one string or three, attack, muting) all the details of the arrangement are all worked out. When I was watching, maybe he seemed a little clumsy, but it did what it had to do—when listening, eyes closed, it all fit together very smoothly.
The song sounds very minor key but it isn’t, is it? It’s been years since I heard the original and I didn’t even remember it being on that album.
Don D.
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November 17, 2019 at 3:12 pm #150649
Yes first time I heard Filippe Dias the start was good but went of at times it’s a great song though wish I could see Stills play it
Vorocnan
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