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Re: 20 songs every guitarist must know to be called a guitarist?
« Reply #30 on: July 06, 2012, 06:10:47 PM »

the only one I haven't knowingly heard is Slayer's Raining blood


OMG, how is the world still turning - quick, to Youtube Mr Feline...

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I kind of have heard the main riff played before - sounds kind of Priest/Maiden/Metallica like
Kind of reminds me of Seek And Destroy perhaps.....
Interesting song - main riff is wonderful, but I don't like the rest at all - all goes wrong once the singing starts for me.
Goes back to being catchy again and then goes all mental and noisy towards the end, which I don't really like.
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Re: 20 songs every guitarist must know to be called a guitarist?
« Reply #31 on: July 06, 2012, 06:16:36 PM »

the only one I haven't knowingly heard is Slayer's Raining blood


OMG, how is the world still turning - quick, to Youtube Mr Feline...

http://youtu.be/7KsPZ1f7MDs


Interesting song - main riff is wonderful, but I don't like the rest at all - all goes wrong once the singing starts for me.

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Re: 20 songs every guitarist must know to be called a guitarist?
« Reply #32 on: July 06, 2012, 06:30:30 PM »
It pleases me that there's songs getting mentioned that I've never knowingly heard.

Really?  You surprise me.

Not many, but a few. Rumble, Peter Gunn, Li'l Devil and Burn don't ring any bells.

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Re: 20 songs every guitarist must know to be called a guitarist?
« Reply #33 on: July 06, 2012, 06:36:55 PM »
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Re: 20 songs every guitarist must know to be called a guitarist?
« Reply #34 on: July 06, 2012, 06:49:02 PM »
It pleases me that there's songs getting mentioned that I've never knowingly heard.

Really?  You surprise me.

Not many, but a few. Rumble, Peter Gunn, Li'l Devil and Burn don't ring any bells.

Cult - Little Devil
http://youtu.be/8BMZdmFa-HU

Deep Purple - Burn (and yes that is Whitesnake's David Coverdale)
http://youtu.be/pfzv3bf9-OY
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Re: 20 songs every guitarist must know to be called a guitarist?
« Reply #35 on: July 06, 2012, 06:52:51 PM »
Surely not Peter Gunn
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=296wS9ome4M

or Link Ray and the Ray Men's The Rumble?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9mGNJ7WSEc&feature=related



I'd heard both of them, couldn't ever have told you who they were by or what they were called. I have to say that Rumble bores me to death.

It pleases me that there's songs getting mentioned that I've never knowingly heard.

Really?  You surprise me.

Not many, but a few. Rumble, Peter Gunn, Li'l Devil and Burn don't ring any bells.

Cult - Little Devil
http://youtu.be/8BMZdmFa-HU

Deep Purple - Burn (and yes that is Whitesnake's David Coverdale)
http://youtu.be/pfzv3bf9-OY

The Cult one only seems a little familiar. The Deep Purple one I knew well, just didn't know its title.

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Re: 20 songs every guitarist must know to be called a guitarist?
« Reply #36 on: July 06, 2012, 08:10:44 PM »
There's only one song you need to be able to play in order to call yourself a guitarist.
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Re: 20 songs every guitarist must know to be called a guitarist?
« Reply #37 on: July 06, 2012, 10:43:19 PM »
There's only one song you need to be able to play in order to call yourself a guitarist.

Go on then.....


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Re: 20 songs every guitarist must know to be called a guitarist?
« Reply #38 on: July 06, 2012, 10:55:55 PM »

the only one I haven't knowingly heard is Slayer's Raining blood


OMG, how is the world still turning - quick, to Youtube Mr Feline...

http://youtu.be/7KsPZ1f7MDs


Interesting song - main riff is wonderful, but I don't like the rest at all - all goes wrong once the singing starts for me.

Reign in Blood is the only Slayer album I've actually got (on vinyl).

most of my Slayer albums are vinyl too from back in the day - only the ones that came out after vinyl was tough to get are on CD in my collection.

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Re: 20 songs every guitarist must know to be called a guitarist?
« Reply #39 on: July 07, 2012, 01:55:31 PM »
There's only one song you need to be able to play in order to call yourself a guitarist.

Are we talking about audience perception here Andy ?  :wink:

Tears In Heaven ?  Puff the magic dragon ?  Lady in Red ?

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Re: 20 songs every guitarist must know to be called a guitarist?
« Reply #40 on: July 07, 2012, 03:42:02 PM »
funny you should mention Puff the Magic Dragon... 8)

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Re: 20 songs every guitarist must know to be called a guitarist?
« Reply #41 on: July 07, 2012, 04:12:11 PM »
funny you should mention Puff the Magic Dragon... 8)

Heck yes !  There must be a flowchart somewhere, showing formative influences of middle aged guitarists in the U.K. :

Puff the magic dragon > Dad's record collection > Early Fleetwood Mac > 70s Metal > Blues / Soul > Extra Heavy Metal > Dad's record collection > Puff the Magic Dragon.

What is your connection to this song David ,  do you live with the Dragon ?
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Re: 20 songs every guitarist must know to be called a guitarist?
« Reply #42 on: July 07, 2012, 04:14:10 PM »
hmmm...well this should do for a gypsy jazz guitarist...

Minor swing
Dark eyes
Nuages
All of me
I'll see you in my dreams
Sweet georgia brown
Hungaria
Djangology
Minor blues
Django's castle
J'attendrai
Django's tiger
I got rhythm
When day is done
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Re: 20 songs every guitarist must know to be called a guitarist?
« Reply #43 on: July 07, 2012, 08:18:46 PM »
There's only one song you need to be able to play in order to call yourself a guitarist.

Go on then.....


Tell us what it is, I'll learn it then quit while I'm at the top.
There's only one song you need to be able to play in order to call yourself a guitarist.

Are we talking about audience perception here Andy ?  :wink:

Tears In Heaven ?  Puff the magic dragon ?  Lady in Red ?



:lol:

I was in a hurry when I posted, and I've been out all day...

I kind of meant "whatever song you first manage to get through and can play it again" - if you can play one song on a guitar, you're a guitarist.

But seeing as you ask, er, I dunno "House of the Rising Sun"?? :lol: That seemed to be the one everyone was starting with when I was starting. (I never bothered though, I thought it was a boring song.)

I did three in one half-term holiday when I started, the first one was "King of the Road". Then "Greystone Chapel". But what I really wanted to learn was "Words" by the Bee Gees - that had the least and easiest chords of the songs of theirs I wanted to sing - and I could just about get through it without too many pauses by the end. I was pretty good on King of the Road by then, thoguh, but my fingers hurt like hell!!

When you can perform a song (whether in front of people or not) you're a guitarist.

Now, whether anyone would pay you for being a guitarist at that stage... that's a whole different question! :lol:
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Re: 20 songs every guitarist must know to be called a guitarist?
« Reply #44 on: July 07, 2012, 09:02:20 PM »
Surely not Peter Gunn
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=296wS9ome4M

Haha, the only place I know that tune from is Spy Hunter in the arcades.  ;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSHIHaU1SfA