Thursday, July 17, 2008

Answers GQ2: The Revenge - Round 7

This must've been one of them there difficult rounds - at least judging from the percentage of correct answers. Oh well - perhaps upon retroactive inspection, it will be evident that the songs in question were:
  • Song 131: Metallica - Orion. From "Master Of Puppets" and one of the late Cliff Burton's showpieces. Kinda' cool instrumental, but it's obvious that Kirk Hammett quit the guitar lessons he took from Joe Satriani, 'cause there's no way an advanced Satch student would perpetrate such unimaginative, run-of-the-mill pentatonic clichés as what Hammett has the audacity to call a solo here. Why do I care? 'Cause I had the dubious honor of reproducing the solo for many of our gigs, that's why.
  • Song 132: Spin Doctors - Two Princes. I don't get it - I thought I got the guitar tone quite close to the jangly original, and this is a monster 90's hit, but not even the self-professed 90's music guru among you recognized this one. What gives? The upwards of tens of audience members we played this for back in the day sure seemed to recognize it though.
  • Song 133: Quiet Riot - Cum On Feel The Noize. Technically a Slade song, but nobody cared until the late Randy Rhoads' first recording band made this version, which appears immediately after the title track on "Metal Health", one of the best-selling albums of all time. This was one cover song I never minded playing - the solo is such a classic (although I added like fifty notes on the final bars of this version). However, none of y'all mooks managed to find it.
  • Song 134: The Police - Every Breath You Take. But oh yeah; y'all got this song. I also accepted Puff Daddy with "I've Been Missing You" as an answer though, since one cannot tell the difference from my recording. I remember watching as P Diddy performed this song "live" on some MTV show or wherever it was, and got to witness the moment wherein Sean Combs single-handedly debunked the myth of black people having rhythm and being much better dancers than other races. Sorry, but P. Diddy's performance during his "dance solo" made Rick Astley in his "Never Gonna Give You Up" video look like Michael Jackson himself. Oh, and in case you're wondering why my version absolutely sucks, I can only offer the following excuse: I refuse to play in heathen tunings (which is pretty much anything outside of A440 or a half-tone downtuned version of this), which sometimes makes the positions of chords in alternate tunings really hard to reach. Case in point: This tune. Mea culpa.
  • Song 135: Sting - Fields Of Gold. The guitar solo on this song, actually, or acoustic guitar interlude or whatever you wanna call it. One of the few Sting tunes I actually enjoy.
Not much of a spread in this round, as is obvious from the Score for Round 7:
  1. Sondre (5 points)
  2. Anders/Cathy/Pigeon (tied at 4 points)
The Total Score
now stands as:
  1. Sondre (41 points)
  2. Cathy/Anders (tied at 40 points)
  3. ...
  4. Pigeon (33 points)
Congrats to Sondre
for edging slightly ahead of the competition, and good luck with the final round of The m-factor Guitarquiz 2: The Revenge

4 comments:

Anders said...

Metallica - Orion.
Yeah, yeah, I misspelled Metallica. So what? ;-)
Funny that this round ended the same day that Metallica played in Norway.

Spin Doctors - Two Princes
I did get this one straight away, but only because it's on the "So I Married An Axe Murderer" soundtrack. Bought it because of the Chris Whitley tune,Starve to Death, and remembering this song as the most annoying one of the whole album. Which reminds me, when are we going to see some Chris Whitley on the guitar quiz? He has two songs in standard tuning, if I recall correctly...

Quiet Riot - Cum On Feel The Noize
Don't think I've every heard a Quiet Riot tune, but I'm heard this tune (with Slade?).

The Police - Every Breath You Take
Easy one, and a classic, regardsless of what you may think of the song.

Sting - Fields Of Gold
Well, aren't you the clever one. Two Sting tunes in one round, right after each other ('cause let's face it, Sting was The Police).

Wilhelm said...

Funny that this round ended the same day that Metallica played in Norway.

Yup. You probably almost could hear them, right?

Which reminds me, when are we going to see some Chris Whitley on the guitar quiz? He has two songs in standard tuning, if I recall correctly...

If I did record some Whitley - what would the odds of any other participants recognizing it be?

Don't think I've every heard a Quiet Riot tune, but I'm heard this tune (with Slade?).

You've heard this song before - it's simply no way you could've avoided it

Well, aren't you the clever one. Two Sting tunes in one round, right after each other ('cause let's face it, Sting was The Police).

....yes; I thought so...

Anders said...

Yup. You probably almost could hear them, right?

Fortunately, no.

You've heard this song before - it's simply no way you could've avoided it

Of course I have. Just don't know by whom, but I assume Slade is the one.

If I did record some Whitley - what would the odds of any other participants recognizing it be?

About the same as for a Santana, Quiet Riot or .38 special tune, it seems.

Wilhelm said...

...douché, as teh french say