Fifty glorious years of guitar abuse
Recorded in 1960, Dutch-Indonesian rock'n'rollers the Tielman Brothers:
Pretty impressive, huh? All sorts of stuff you didn't think was invented for years, nay, decades later. We're particularly drawn to that drum solo-on-guitar bit at 0:40, because whenever you think of bands extracting wild new noises from their instruments you don't tend to see anything more exotic than drumsticks as sliders or Glenn Branca-style tuning calamities, whereas back in the primal days of noisy, fuzztoned R'n'R that sort of thing was happening and a few years later The Monks were soloing three at a time:
And you think rubbing the strings against the mike stand catches the eye and ear in exciting new ways? Ha!
Pretty impressive, huh? All sorts of stuff you didn't think was invented for years, nay, decades later. We're particularly drawn to that drum solo-on-guitar bit at 0:40, because whenever you think of bands extracting wild new noises from their instruments you don't tend to see anything more exotic than drumsticks as sliders or Glenn Branca-style tuning calamities, whereas back in the primal days of noisy, fuzztoned R'n'R that sort of thing was happening and a few years later The Monks were soloing three at a time:
And you think rubbing the strings against the mike stand catches the eye and ear in exciting new ways? Ha!
Labels: embeds

0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home