Best Song Opening

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Fab Foodie

Fab Foodie

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Flying_Monkey said:
Song openings - well how about Curtis Mayfield's 'Move on Up'? An unmistakable burst of sheer joy.

BTW, IMHO most mod and garage tracks in the 60s did what 'rawk' did, faster, dirtier and shorter - Spencer Davies Group's 'Keep on Running', with that most outrageously fuzzed guiter? And The Kinks' 'You Really Got Me' makes every rock riff that cam after it look flabby and unnecessary... or the genuinely nasty
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Wass rawk FM?
Curtiss was Super-Fly...
 
Flying_Monkey

Flying_Monkey

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Fab Foodie said:
Wass rawk FM?
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Boring white guitar bands from the 1970s onwards churning out tired overdriven riffs - what lots of middle-aged forum men seem to like! You know, what Spinal Tap was all about... ;)
 
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cchapman

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For me the first thought that came to my mind was "Chains of Love" by Big Joe Turner, and for power chords the version, I think by Houston Person's soul band.

This whole thread is totally silly, how did I get sucked into it?
 
Fab Foodie

Fab Foodie

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Kirton, Devon.
Flying_Monkey said:
Boring white guitar bands from the 1970s onwards churning out tired overdriven riffs - what lots of middle-aged forum men seem to like! You know, what Spinal Tap was all about... ;)
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OOooooohhhhhh

I guess many of us grew-up with that stuff and it sticks in our minds :biggrin:
Don't make it bad though...
 
Foghat

Foghat

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Lardyboy said:
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Voodoo Child, might be better than Jimi? ;)


View: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=1GSpbuFSr2o&feature=related
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That's a bit like saying the Las Vegas Eiffel Tower is better than the original in Paris!

Here's why NO ONE comes anywhere near Hendrix for the sheer raw feel, visceral power and on-the-brink and on-the-spot inventive string abuse and aural invention:

Isle of Wight VoodooChild

Woodstock Voodoo Child
 
Fab Foodie

Fab Foodie

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Kirton, Devon.
Foghat said:
Pack it in, FM. ;)

Now give us your critical appraisal of this intro to 'beat' all intros:


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1y_ts0uDaVk
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Quote from the Youtube page...

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VS.

Quote from Rhythmn Theif

"Christ, but that's dull."

(I used to like "Sweet Jane", particularly the Mott the Hoople version).


Vote 1 to RT.
 
Foghat

Foghat

Freight-train-groove-rider
But as we all know, this is what it all comes down to in the end - and in particular where the drums pick up the riff at 1'09".

This is all you really need! ;)
 
Rhythm Thief

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Foghat said:
But as we all know, this is what it all comes down to in the end - and in particular where the drums pick up the riff at 1'09".

This is all you really need! ;)
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Now that's a bit more like it.:biggrin: No one ever did it better than Bon Scott and AC/DC.
 
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