First, his phased and flanged electric lead sets the otherworldly tone; then his almost-frantic acoustic strumming fleshes out the song’s nether regions. Everything seems to shimmer, the chords’ outlines as hazy as a mirage, as Sioux bellows her way through a tale as ominous (“Take them...
but was a closet songwriter. My songs were, I thought, melodically strong in parts, and a couple worked well all the way through. However, like many budding songwriters, most of my early efforts were love songs strummed on acoustic guitar, usually painful ditties in minor keys too personal...
There are sometimes stories that take on a life of their own, but during a recent interview with Eddie Trunk, guitar great Slash revealed that the story of the guitar riff for the Guns N' Roses' classic "Sweet Child O' Mine" coming from a warm-up exercise is not true...
“The original intention was to bring the inner tantrum of my diseased psyche to the forefront of the stage,” Lydia Lunch once said of Teenage Jesus and the Jerks. “The guitar is like a hysterical baby screaming; the words are very infantile.” As fixtures of downtown New York’s rock...