Guitarists: Name 5 Songs...

F5AgainstOne

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

DewieCox

Impossible Germany
Third Eye
Ramble On
One Big Holiday
Red Mosquito

DriftingByTheStorm

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.

uninnocent-

Alice in Chains - Dirt
Pearl Jam - Immortality
David Bowie - Five Years
David Bowie - Rebel, Rebel
Mott the Hoople - All the Young Dudes

DriftingByTheStorm

uninnocent- wrote:

Alice in Chains - Dirt

Fuck yeah!

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


But Dirt is a good one too!

uninnocent-

DriftingByTheStorm wrote:

uninnocent- wrote:

Alice in Chains - Dirt

Fuck yeah!

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


But Dirt is a good one too!

Junkhead's also a great one to pull out, but I play Dirt so often. I think I may have a problem.

Gardenparty

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

uninnocent-

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.forgets

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

LukinFan

he.who.forgets wrote:

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

DriftingByTheStorm

LukinFan wrote:

he.who.forgets 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.


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]

rollings

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

DriftingByTheStorm

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.

BinFrog

Rush - Limelight
PJ - Porch, NAISeems
Phish - Chalkdust Torture
Jane's Addiction - Three Days

DriftingByTheStorm

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?

Did you just do that... wrote:

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


solo at end of song =
stupid ridiculous.


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

BinFrog

DriftingByTheStorm 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?

Did you just do that... wrote:

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


solo at end of song =
stupid ridiculous.


[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!

DriftingByTheStorm

BinFrog wrote:

DriftingByTheStorm 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?

Did you just do that... wrote:

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


solo at end of song =
stupid ridiculous.


[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


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!

BinFrog

DriftingByTheStorm wrote:

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

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

and hold on for the 9:45 mark and prepare for blastoff

BinFrog

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtowGfet ... ge#t=1478s

Other worldly.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtowGfet ... ge#t=3143s

big mick

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.