Without doubt the worlds greatest guitar track is Maggot Brain by Funkadelic, a garage rock inflected acid funk band who sounded like a cross between the Stooges and James Brown. Maggot Brain is the classic solo even outdoing Hendrix because:
Guitarist Eddie Hazel had the biggest "fro this side of The Chi-Lites
Band Leader George Clinton fed Eddie loads of acid before hand and then when he was a gibbering mess asked him to play "like his mother had just died"
It features wah, delay, reverb, all the pick ups on a Strat and twang bar.
You can feel really smug when you play it to idiot fans of Beck, Clapton, Page and they realise they have backed the wrong horse.
You now know you do not need to spend ages painstakingly practicing scales to produce screaming axe odysseys, you just need to neck some acid after a family tragedy.
maningrey
Writing on a blog read by musicians and claiming to have the world's best guitar track... here is someone looking for trouble.
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ReplyDeleteThis guy is clearly taking the piss or a twit or was deprived attention from his parents. Music is a subjective experience, but this is asinine and insipid. His statements lack any clear thought process. I reckon George W. Bush is more articulate than this person.
As for a site read by musicians, the person who wrote that is clearly out of his element.
Sounds like a failed DJ to me.
I plead guilty to all of the above apart from the DJ bit, everyone knows DJs have replaced guitar players as the ones who get the blowjobs and thats no bad thing...
ReplyDeleteTurntables aren't an instrument though.
ReplyDeleteIts the groucho marx thing about not wanting to belong to a club who will have him as a member.
If blowjobs from coked up, ecstasy crazed, underage tannies with crap taste in music is what you want... more power to you.
I'll take normal blowjobs from normal girls who are impressed with an actual talent.
Isnt Boy George meant to be a respectable DJ?
No, Boy George isn't "meant to be a respectable DJ". Him and all the other celebs turned DJ are an insult to all the DJs in the world. As for the turntable not being an instrument it depends who's playing it.
ReplyDeleteIn the right hands even a beer bottle becomes an instrument (listen to Chameleon by Herbie Hancock in Head Hunters).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_Hunters
Agreed that in the right hands anything theoretically can be an instrument. I understand the need to be politically correct and whatnot, but being insulting to a DJ is a self-fulfilling redundancy in my opinion.
ReplyDeleteI do understand your point though. I suppose the issue is what qualifies one to call them-self a musician and get on a high horse and slag off every other musician? We all have different tastes and can be highly critical. Boy George was a musician. Tommy Lee too. They turned dj's, fair dues. Going out and buying turntables does not a musician make. That having been said, I do concede there are some truly talented DJ's out there. There is a fair amount of skill involved. At the end of the day it comes down to having good ears.
"what do you do for a living?"
"im a musician."
"what instrument do you play"
"Well, uhhh.... ya see. Well, funny thing about that... ummm"
"Thought so"
I know I am being mean and overly critical.
Thanks for the link. I will also look on youtube. The analogy works. In the hands of a musician anything can become an instrument.
About the Herbie Hancock track, I noticed on YouTube lots of people playing cover versions. I don't have the CD with me but I meant the first track of the CD, maybe it was Watermelon Man, I am not sure. It's been sampled by a few people too, becuase of this fantstic 'flute' sound made blowing in to a beer bottle.
ReplyDeleteits absolutely watermelon man. I had no clue it was a beer bottle.
ReplyDeleteGood call.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo5GcYeh7XA
the syncopation is awesome. it just grooves.
good call.
Jeez you guys have gone off on a fusion love fest haven't you! I like Herbie so I may have to join you in the jacuzzi. I was listerning to an Ian O'Brien track called "Where Does The Past End and The Future Begin" I love it but it's a total Herbie rip off of something off "Thrust". That my fave Herbie funk era cd, the cover is hilarious!
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