Guitarists: Name 5 Songs...

F5AgainstOneF5AgainstOne Posts: 1,462
edited August 2012 in Musicians and Gearheads
Guitar Players...
List 5 songs that make you NEED to pick up your guitar when you hear them.

I'll Start
(There are way more, these are just off the top of my head)

Driving south - Jimi Hendrix
Who Knows - Jimi Hendrix
Shake For Me - As performed by Stevie Ray Vaughan
Kicked in the teeth - AC/DC
Big Sky / Baddest of the Bad - The Reverend Horton Heat
EV Solo Boston 6/16/11
East Troy 9/3/11
East Troy 9/4/11
Amsterdam 6/26/12
Amsterdam 6/27/12
Wrigley Field 7/19-20/13
Worcester, MA 10/15/13
Worcester, MA 10/16/13
Hartford, CT 10/25/13
Seattle, WA 12/06/13
Denver, CO 10/22/14
Fenway 2016 #1
Fenway 2016 #2
Fenway 2018 #1
Fenway 2018 #2
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  • DewieCoxDewieCox Posts: 11,429
    Impossible Germany
    Third Eye
    Ramble On
    One Big Holiday
    Red Mosquito
  • 1 Feelin' Satisfied - Boston
    i know it's PURE cheese, but, to me, it's also pure ROCK N ROLL ... and more importantly it isn't Jimmy Hendrix, ie. you can probably learn to play it if you try just a little bit ... and it is FUN.

    2 Don't Damn Me - Guns N Roses
    imho, the best "guitar song" GnR ever penned. Just balls to the wall rock n roll.

    3 We Will Rock You - Queen
    Screw "We Are The Champions", this song, once the guitar FINALLY kicks in, just for A MERE FORTY-FIVE SECONDS, is like a little mini-eargasm. Not really that hard, and fun as fuck.

    4 Dance The Night Away - Van Halen
    i mean ... whats to say? Most fun i've ever had playing E-B-A (is it me or is like every other van halen song E-B-A-C#m ??? functionally speaking it IS their sound???)

    5 Flower in the Sun - Big Brother & The Holding Company [w\ Janis Joplin]
    Best Janis Song. Intro guitar riff. great fills. Tone in the solo gets me good. Can't even come close to playing this. But it always makes me (in the words of Janis) "try". Doh. :fp:

    PS - woulda said "Crazy Train" if i didn't feel it was a cliche. But the After Hours version is unreal.
    [BTW, WTG douchebag camera man panning to THE BASS during guitar solo ???WTF???]

    Also, just because they are pure fun:
    Surfwax America - Weezer
    and The Brews - NOFX

    And for crying psychedelic tears:
    Candyman - Grateful Dead
    Pedal Steel in the recorded version solo is unfettered beauty.
    If I was to smile and I held out my hand
    If I opened it now would you not understand?
  • uninnocent-uninnocent- Posts: 5,959
    Alice in Chains - Dirt
    Pearl Jam - Immortality
    David Bowie - Five Years
    David Bowie - Rebel, Rebel
    Mott the Hoople - All the Young Dudes
  • Alice in Chains - Dirt

    Fuck yeah!

    JUNKHEAD is one of my favs, both generally, AND TO PLAY.
    :D

    But Dirt is a good one too!
    :D:D:D
    If I was to smile and I held out my hand
    If I opened it now would you not understand?
  • uninnocent-uninnocent- Posts: 5,959
    Alice in Chains - Dirt

    Fuck yeah!

    JUNKHEAD is one of my favs, both generally, AND TO PLAY.
    :D

    But Dirt is a good one too!
    :D:D:D
    Junkhead's also a great one to pull out, but I play Dirt so often. I think I may have a problem.
  • GardenpartyGardenparty Posts: 1,910
    Say It Ain't So - Weezer
    F-Stop Blues - Jack Johnson
    Shine on You Crazy Diamond - Pink Floyd
    Fredericia - Do Make Say Think
    In Memory of Elizabeth Reed - Allman Bros
    “I know this song so well, I can smoke a cigarette, have a drink, brush my teeth, take a shit, and mow the lawn while singing it. But I'll only be doing a couple of those things during this version.”
  • uninnocent-uninnocent- Posts: 5,959
    I keep seeing Weezer songs here, but nobody is mentioning my favourite songs of theirs to play: My Name us Jonas and Hash Pipe. they are both fun songs to play without terribly much effort.
  • he.who.forgetshe.who.forgets Posts: 4,593
    not that I'm ABLE to play these songs, but they certainly inspire me to play and improve:
    Mason Williams - Classical Gas
    Chuck Berry - Johnny B Good
    Cream - Sunshine of your Love
    Jimi Hendrix - Voodoo Child (or anything Jimi, really)
    CCR - Heard it Through the Grapevine
    We were but stones your light made us stars
  • LukinFanLukinFan Posts: 29,050
    Chuck Berry - Johnny B Good
    I've heard this one isn't too hard to play - even though I've never looked into it. Great song
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  • LukinFan wrote:
    Chuck Berry - Johnny B Good

    Well, Marty McFly could pull it off
    lol.

    Actually, he (Marty) is wrong.
    The song (even as played in the movie) is in B FLAT, not "B".
    And his hands, even in the beginning close up, are "close" but a fret or two too high.
    (you can tell, cuz he goes over the 9th fret marker, and even the pinky should touch the 9 and nothing over it) ... after he's done with the intro riff, he is like 5 to 7 frets too close to the head stock for his chords.
    lol.

    I wouldn't say Johnny B Goode is "hard", but it ain't "easy"
    The riff through out the song IS easy ... just standard blues 3chord hammer on pull off shit,
    but the intro lick is a pain in the ass for a beginner,
    and the solo, while not demanding, won't make sense if you don't study your pentatonic positions first.
    specifically, THIS one, would help, a LOT.
    lol.
    :D

    e----6
    9
    b----6
    9
    g----6---8--
    d----6---8--
    a----6---8--
    e----6
    9

    Johnny B Goode - Songster Tab.

    Play it, boys.
    It's fun.
    Inspiring players for decades

    Cock Out Rock Out!
    [uh, don't confuse yourself, i think he is playing this version in C, not Bflat. GASP]
    If I was to smile and I held out my hand
    If I opened it now would you not understand?
  • rollingsrollings Posts: 7,124
    Since cheese was already introduced, i don't mind then...

    I like to play

    --The Air that I breathe (The Hollies)

    --My Kinda Lover (Billy Squier)

    --High Time (Grateful Dead)

    --Moonlight, Midnight (Old & In the Way)

    --Crazy Mary
  • rollings wrote:
    Since cheese was already introduced, i don't mind then...

    --The Air that I breathe (The Hollies)

    I feel like TATIB only deserves to be referred to as "PARTIAL cheese".

    a. it's a fucking classic.

    b. if you get STONED and listen to it, it is AMAZING.
    If I was to smile and I held out my hand
    If I opened it now would you not understand?
  • BinFrogBinFrog Posts: 7,309
    Rush - Limelight
    PJ - Porch, NAISeems
    Phish - Chalkdust Torture
    Jane's Addiction - Three Days
    Bright eyed kid: "Wow Typo Man, you're the best!"
    Typo Man: "Thanks kidz, but remembir, stay in skool!"
  • BinFrog wrote:
    Rush - Limelight
    PJ - Porch, NAISeems
    Phish - Chalkdust Torture
    Jane's Addiction - Three Days

    Nice!
    Limelight, i used to think was "impossible". now it's just "fun".
    that "crunch" tone is so great with a bit of sustain and the volume up LOUD.
    Really not that hard. Except the solo is just ... i mean ... does it even qualify as a solo?
    Phish
    THEN
    Jane's

    Not to be the stereotypical phish-hater douche ...
    but everything in me that cringed when i saw "phish",
    my body released in a sigh, when i saw "jane's" ...
    ESPECIALLY
    3 days
    :D

    solo at end of song =
    stupid ridiculous.
    :D

    [hit me for being a close minded douche. sorry]
    If I was to smile and I held out my hand
    If I opened it now would you not understand?
  • BinFrogBinFrog Posts: 7,309
    BinFrog wrote:
    Rush - Limelight
    PJ - Porch, NAISeems
    Phish - Chalkdust Torture
    Jane's Addiction - Three Days

    Nice!
    Limelight, i used to think was "impossible". now it's just "fun".
    that "crunch" tone is so great with a bit of sustain and the volume up LOUD.
    Really not that hard. Except the solo is just ... i mean ... does it even qualify as a solo?
    Phish
    THEN
    Jane's

    Not to be the stereotypical phish-hater douche ...
    but everything in me that cringed when i saw "phish",
    my body released in a sigh, when i saw "jane's" ...
    ESPECIALLY
    3 days
    :D

    solo at end of song =
    stupid ridiculous.
    :D

    [hit me for being a close minded douche. sorry]


    You're a guitar player...I guarantee there is some Phish jam out there that would capture you. He's unhuman. Try this on for size:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uCSy67k16c

    And no, the solo in Limelight is not a solo. It's soul...OH!
    Bright eyed kid: "Wow Typo Man, you're the best!"
    Typo Man: "Thanks kidz, but remembir, stay in skool!"
  • BinFrog wrote:
    BinFrog wrote:
    Rush - Limelight
    PJ - Porch, NAISeems
    Phish - Chalkdust Torture
    Jane's Addiction - Three Days

    Nice!
    Limelight, i used to think was "impossible". now it's just "fun".
    that "crunch" tone is so great with a bit of sustain and the volume up LOUD.
    Really not that hard. Except the solo is just ... i mean ... does it even qualify as a solo?
    Phish
    THEN
    Jane's

    Not to be the stereotypical phish-hater douche ...
    but everything in me that cringed when i saw "phish",
    my body released in a sigh, when i saw "jane's" ...
    ESPECIALLY
    3 days
    :D

    solo at end of song =
    stupid ridiculous.
    :D

    [hit me for being a close minded douche. sorry]


    You're a guitar player...I guarantee there is some Phish jam out there that would capture you. He's unhuman. Try this on for size:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uCSy67k16c

    And no, the solo in Limelight is not a solo. It's soul...OH!

    I'll give you the guitar in that song.
    +1
    :D

    I'm still not much of a fan.
    I did (and still do, sort of) like "Fee" when i first heard it (way back when, lol) ...
    woaah. oh feee...
    but that's about where it ends for me, i'm afraid. (okay, "contact" is kind've humorous & cute)
    :P

    ps - woops. girlfriend FINALLY out of shower.
    To da BEACH, mon! packed (even my one hittie!) and ready!
    If I was to smile and I held out my hand
    If I opened it now would you not understand?
  • BinFrogBinFrog Posts: 7,309
    I'll give you the guitar in that song.
    +1
    :D

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVNSHBiG ... age#t=371s

    and hold on for the 9:45 mark and prepare for blastoff
    Bright eyed kid: "Wow Typo Man, you're the best!"
    Typo Man: "Thanks kidz, but remembir, stay in skool!"
  • BinFrogBinFrog Posts: 7,309
    Bright eyed kid: "Wow Typo Man, you're the best!"
    Typo Man: "Thanks kidz, but remembir, stay in skool!"
  • big mickbig mick Posts: 773
    Screaming Trees - Dollar Bill
    Pearl Jam - Wishlist
    AIC - Angry Chair
    Foo Fighters - Times Like These
    Radiohead - Fake Plastic Trees

    I only play acoustic or electro-acoustic and songs are a pleasure to play, sold my electric gear for a Dean 12 string to go with my acoustic collection and I have no regrets.
    Reading England 2006, Manchester England 2009, London England 2010, Manchester 1 2012, EV London 1 2012
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