a little elf has reliably informed me that santa has slipped a strat onto his sleigh for me, and the newly acquired marshall is sat behind me waiting to crunch.
so to save time on xmas day trawling youtube for suitable lessons thought i'd see if anyone can recomend, with a link would be great, any quick and easy 70s or so punk or old school heavy metal tunes i can brush up on acoustically over the next few days before plugging in, turning up and crashing my way through after the turkeyfest on the 25th!
i've been playing around, on the acoustic, with sex pistols 'pretty vacant' this last week. mucking about with a bit of ac/dc 'back in black' today, so really after a few more like those.
anyone know some good ones? as i say classic stuff really, i'm old enough to know better. just need stuff with a couple of chords and a lot of volume,
p.s. if anyone wants a laugh on their guitar here's the acoustic lesson for pretty vacant. its great... [url=
vacant acoustic style with west country flavour[/url]
Anything by the Ramones
power chords and a distortion pedal will be your friends
Cant really help beyond that sorry
Get a distortion box. plug it in and just go mad on it, whilst shouting and swearing, got yourself any one of a number of good crass songs.
You can't go far wrong learning and understanding pretty much any Tony Iiomi stuff. Symptom of the Universe is especially amazing.
Anything by Black Sabbath. Also consider Smoke on the Water by Deep Purple and the intro to Enter Sandman - you'll need these when you try out new guitars in music shops in the future. The staff will love you.
Shouldn't really need a distortion pedal with a Marshall amp, but anyway:
Teenage Kicks - The Undertones
The Passenger - Iggy Pop
Paranoid - Black Sabbath
Waking Up - Elastica
No More Heroes - The Stranglers
Should do for starters. 4 & 5 are very similar anyway đŸ˜‰
Btw Les Paul goes better with Marshall; Fender goes with Fender or maybe Vox đŸ˜‰
teenage kicks, yes, good one!
passenger, had'nt thought of that. will go looking.
just having a look at paranoid, looks cool.
this is great, its like being a kid in a toy shop!
mrs toast, i love that old guitar shop/smoke on the water chesnut. made me smile everytime i went in a shop looking for mine recently.
BAnana, yes agreed. the amp has a few fx built in but i went one better. zoom multi fx box.
Institutionalized
The amazing thing about Tony Iiomi (Black Sabbath in case you didn't know) is that he fashioned the style of play due to an accident leaving him with two finger tips missing...
[i]He plays guitar left-handed. In an industrial accident at the age of 17 on his last day of work in a sheet metal factory, he lost the tips of the middle and ring finger of his right hand.[5] Iommi considered abandoning music, but his boss (who knew of Iommi's "night job" as a pub band guitar player) encouraged him to reconsider by playing a record by jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt, who earned wide acclaim despite limited use of his fretting hand following an injury.
After attempting to learn to play right-handed,[6] Iommi strung his guitars with extra-light strings (using banjo strings, which were a lighter gauge than even the lightest guitar-strings of the time) and wore plastic covers over the two damaged fingers. He fashioned the latter himself, by melting plastic liquid-soap bottles into a ball and then using a soldering iron to make holes into this ball, putting his fingers in while the plastic was still soft enough to be shaped. He then trimmed and sanded away the excess plastic to leave himself with two thimbles, which he then covered with leather, to provide better grip on the strings. Subsequent prostheses have been custom-made.[/i]
Get a distortion box. plug it in and just go mad on it, whilst shouting and swearing, got yourself [b]any one of a number of good crass songs.[/b]
Sorry, I've been scratching my head trying to think of [i]any[/i] good Crass songs. So What? and Securicor are about the only ones which might be worth a try, but neither are what you'd call guitar-fest territory.
How about something Festive?
Gotta be....
Slade and Merry xmas.
Cum on feel the noize... is another good
good call ro5ey, cum on feel the noise, yes! been trying to figure the acoustic version (on the latest imagined village album) but may as well crash through the original.
off to youtube again!
nickf... big A little A and banned from the roxy are the only two crass songs i can think of.
Should I stay or should I go - Clash - ace for a bit of noise making.
You really got me - Kinks (or the Van Halen version)
(I'm not your) Stepping Stones - the version the Pistols did - is very fun in a slidey bar-chord way too
clash, good call chips, just had a fun 5 mins acoustically bashing my way through that one.
kinks, excellent.
well thats my christmas day sorted, good job we live in the sticks. ho ho ho!
Why not some cliff richard? would sound great on a strat, oh i love cliff
only if it's a red strat, waved slowly back & forward...
nickf, you nana, surely you didn't think I was being serious? Every Crass song was a masterpiece of musical composition, there is not a hope in hell that gav could easily just strike one Crass song out. For starters, he would have to change his whole approach to playing a guitar đŸ˜‰
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N.A.Palmer on Rhythm guitar (aka B.A.Nana), I don't think he ever played a conventional chord.
Smash it up or New Rose by the Damned
Boredom by the Buzzcocks
Alt ulster by SLF
Great thread.
Learnt Teenage Kicks last night.... An easy tune to learn.... it must be because the wife recognized it… a major achievement for my guitar skills
only if it's a red strat
sonic blue 60's player, so the shadows will have to wait...
although scarily a cliff tune from the 60's, can't recall which one, was on the radio the other night and to my novice ears it sounded like a really simple bass/strum (apart from some typical shadows riffs now and again) and i thought at the time it would be funny to play that.
ro5ey, give the acoustic 'pretty vacant' lessson i linked to a go. its really fun and super easy.
Rainbow - "Since you've been gone" and/or "All night long"
And ACDC/Hells Bells (esp. the intro and with amp at "loud")is pretty damn good too for making you feel like an awesome axe-god!