Davies took a razor blade to his guitar amp, thus creating the fuzzy, warped sound heard in their breakthrough hit "You Really Got Me." Davies' use of distorted power chords popularized heavy guitar playing and was immensely influential on the birth of heavy metal. The...
The broad sonic strokes spilling from the dramatic balladic piano chords, the guitar notes soaring or falling like shooting stars and percussive beats that feel melancholy in themselves all works as a framework for Snow's evocative vocal personna. To some, the sense might feel like 80's baroque...
Davies took a razor blade to his guitar amp, thus creating the fuzzy, warped sound heard in their breakthrough hit "You Really Got Me." Davies' use of distorted power chords popularized heavy guitar playing and was immensely influential on the birth of heavy metal. The...