Quite the narrow field this time 'round. Without further ado, the songs were:
- Song 76: Stevie Ray Vaughan - Love Struck Baby. Apparently this tune is often mistaken for Johnny B. Goode. That doesn't sound very obvious to my ears, but what teh hell do I know. Crazy kewl tune, actually, like several of those coming from the guitar of SRV. Probably doesn't sound the same when played on .08 strings, though.
- Song 77: Guns'N Roses - Don't Cry. Man; this sure was a perennial live favorite. Still; I rank the solo here among the five best Slash has ever done.
- Song 78: Van Halen - Hot For Teacher. Only one of y'all guessed Van Halen, but none of y'all got the song, which is off of the 1984 album. By far my favorite Van Halen song, because of the tapped intro, of course. This version was recorded off the top of my head and is how we used to play it live, but when comparing it to the original, there are some minuscule variations. First of all, the original motif goes through the A and D arpeggios without stopping, whereas I pause briefly between the two for effect. But I make up for it by adding some notes to the descending pattern. This intro sounds way more impressive and difficult than it is, which in my opinion holds true for many a Van Halen song. It's got some wide stretches for the initial taps, and you need to control the hammer-on and pull-offs to get an even volume while keeping string noise to a minimum, but otherwise, all you have to do is learn one pattern and move it across the strings. Actually, what I find to be most difficult about this song is the transition from the descending tapped lick to the palm-muted, hybrid-picked riff.
- Song 79: ABBA - Gimme Gimme Gimme. Yngwie Malmsteen himself has done a cover of this tune, and it's teh awesome!
- Song 80: The Kinks - You Really Got Me. I would have accepted Van Halen as artists as well, seeing as how their version is at least as famous. The descending harmonic minor lick doesn't belong to either version though.......just some Yngwie-isms shining through.
Pretty even Scores for round 16:
- Anders (9/10)
- Cathy/Sondre/Pigeon (tied at 6/10)
Which means that it's getting tighter in the Essence of it all, the Total Score:
- Sondre (108 points)
- Pigeon (90 points)
- Anders (88 points)
- Cathy (82 points)
- Torbjørn (6 points)
Congrats to Anders and Sondre, and good luck with quiz 17.
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Stevie Ray Vaughan - Love Struck Baby. Apparently this tune is often mistaken for Johnny B. Goode.
More then once?
The Kinks - You Really Got Me. I would have accepted Van Halen as artists as well, seeing as how their version is at least as famous.
Now is it, now? Didn't even know Van Halen had done a cover of it. Before I googled it, that is.
...it consistently ranks high on all the "Best cover versions ever in the history of the universe" lists...plus it was a big hit, or so I'm led to believe
Well, guess it was a big hit for Van Halen. Not a like the Kinks, who where an obscure band that didn't have any success with You Really Got Me. Much like Eric Clapton’s cover of the obscure Knocking On Heavens Door and Crossroad, which where not any success for the original artists.
Damn, where did those Sycophant skills go?
..yeah...you definitely stopped drinking the Kool-Aid
Hey, W-boi, you didn't answer this question:
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Love Struck Baby. Apparently this tune is often mistaken for Johnny B. Goode.
More then once?
Song 76: Stevie Ray Vaughan - Love Struck Baby
I don't have the studio version of this tune, only the live one. And there is a slightly different sound for SRV there. Fatter and with a bit more "twang" in it, so to speak. But a pretty decent 2 minutes copy of the SRV tone, though.
Guns'N Roses - Don't Cry
Man, I though everybody agreed that G'n'R was one of the crappiest 80's band. I kept buying Johnny Winter albums when G'n'R was at their peak. But I bet this tune did a lot more success amoung the local drunks then White Line Blues or Blues This Bad would have...
Van Halen - Hot For Teacher
I actually haven't got a clue about this one, but I guess Van Halen due to the tapping in the beginning. This might be the first time any of my guessings actually paid of. Anyway, I can't recall this specific song, but the quiz had remind me to get som Van Halen albums. They actually have some decent tunes. - 1 point on this one.
ABBA - Gimme Gimme Gimme.
With a mother and wife that are ABBA fans, this was easy. Even though the guitar work actually wasn't very "Björn"...
I think I have had an overdose of ABBA in my childhood, because I can't seem to like any of their tunes.
The Kinks - You Really Got Me.
Did anybody actually answer Van Halen on this one? Just wondering... Managed this one, even with the added guitar acrobatics from W-meister.
Actually, yes. Four people at first mistook Love Struck Baby for Johnny B. Goode, and one of them even found a reference to this on Wikipedia, which speaks volumes of the credibility of that concept
Actually, the rhythm part could be anything. It's not very specific for that tune. You could sing the lyrics to Johnny B. Goode over that. But the intro is a dead give away.
PS: Pigeon, I'm coming to get you. Only two points lead now, and I'm going to do really well on Quiz number 17...
But a pretty decent 2 minutes copy of the SRV tone, though.
Thanks - not exactlt my usual tone, and I'm not kidding about it being difficult to balance richness of tone and level of overdrive when there's like a difference of .06 in string thickness of the light E...
I kept buying Johnny Winter albums when G'n'R was at their peak. But I bet this tune did a lot more success amoung the local drunks then White Line Blues or Blues This Bad would have...
Bet you did...still; blues had quite the revival in K-town with the aid of Kristian Fjellstad and his various ensembles.
the quiz had remind me to get som Van Halen albums. They actually have some decent tunes.
......come over to the Dark Side...
With a mother and wife that are ABBA fans, this was easy. Even though the guitar work actually wasn't very "Björn"...
...guitarwork wasn't anything specifically, really...just tryin' to play the melody line
Managed this one, even with the added guitar acrobatics from W-meister.
More is more, despite what a bunch of losers with flannel shirts and rasta hats tried to convince people of in the 90's
Thanks - not exactlt my usual tone, and I'm not kidding about it being difficult to balance richness of tone and level of overdrive when there's like a difference of .06 in string thickness of the light E...
......come over to the Dark Side...
You know you want those fat, manly strings that give that juicy tone...
;-)
Bet you did...still; blues had quite the revival in K-town with the aid of Kristian Fjellstad and his various ensembles.
Blues had a little revival in the 90's in general. I even seem to remember an "Absolute Blues" album (remember those "Absolute- " albums? Horrible...).
But I remember me buying a Johnny Winter album at the local record pusher in K-town at the same time somebody was buying G'n'R album. THe guy behind the counter said to the other kid "Look, here are somebody with a little taste in music". Can't remember the name of the dude in that store, but he knew his blues and was quite a Winter fan.
More is more, despite what a bunch of losers with flannel shirts and rasta hats tried to convince people of in the 90's
Peter Green was two decades ahead of those guys...
......come over to the Dark Side...
You know you want those fat, manly strings that give that juicy tone...
Thanks, but there's this new thing that just came out known as distortion - I'll be fine.
THe guy behind the counter said to the other kid "Look, here are somebody with a little taste in music". Can't remember the name of the dude in that store, but he knew his blues and was quite a Winter fan.
So not Drage, then...
Peter Green was two decades ahead of those guys...
Pretty much anyone who knew how to tune a guitar were head and shoulders above Cobain from a technical standpoint.
Btw; I wonder how Pigeon feels about Anders closing in at such a high rate.....
Confident as usual
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