And, of course, what opens the record? Probably the greatest guitar riff of all time in Whole Lotta Love. According to engineer Eddie Kramer, the mid-song breakdown, “where everything is going bananas, is a combination of Jimmy and myself just flying around on a small console twiddling ...
Another unique aspect of Lemmy's bass sound is that he often played power chords using growling overdriven Marshall tube bass stacks. Alongside his music career, he also had minor roles and cameos in film and television. Lemmy was born in Stoke-on-Trent, growing up between there and...
A few ground rules here: We’ve tried to cover the entirety of rock history, while making sure that each album still sounds great a few years after its release. This list adheres to a fairly narrow definition of “rock,” confining it to largely guitar-based music, and making exceptions ...
Chuck decided to have a nice electric guitar solo, as well as comforting tones that ran over the music with a small valve amplifier. Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly and Little Richard were major pioneers in this area of music. They coaxed Rockabilly to become a thing. This all happened in the...
And double neck and even triple neck guitar. 9. Going against the grain 14:10 Although I agree Wanted Dead or Alive is hands down the strongest song in Bon Jovi history; I’m gonna go with an entirely different song, as being my favorite!
Timbre (instrumentation and tone color): Early progressive rock groups expanded the timbral palette of the then-traditional rock instrumentation of guitar, organ, bass, and drums by adding instruments more typical of jazz or folk music, such as flute, saxophone and violin, and more often than ...
Brothers Osborne just might be country music's most popular jam band. They're known for lengthy guitar solos — courtesy of bandmate John Osborne, one of the sharpest players in the genre — and live sets that turn to into extended dance parties. Nowhere is the duo's rock influence more...
This allowed him to play power chords, bend strings and slide his left hand up and down the frets like any other guitarist. He discovered that if he held his hand in a slightly different position than other guitarists, he could still play. He used light-gauge strings, but made a heavy...
Prince has to come after Brown, but it should be noticed that he could do virtually everything Brown did — and also wrote cosmic songs, and also played guitar just about as well as anyone on this list, and also sang like both an angel and devil, and also was a venturesome and sure...
and a new batch of hit songs in “I’ll Wait” and “Panama.” This is a great one to show the kids, as you have Eddie’s guitar theatrics, but also a crash course on bravado and showmanship from David Lee Roth, feverish drumming at times from Alex Van Halen and the always ...