Music
I started playing Guitar when I was in the 9th grade. (I am 60 now). A good friend taught me the basic three chord progression, and I was ready to Rock and Roll. I did ok, as long as every song was in "E".
I bought a Fender Strat out of a pawn shop in 1965, because I wanted a guitar just like Carl Wilson played. My entire existance revolved around playing that simple riff that he did in "Help me Ronda". When I was drafted in 1968, I sold the Strat to a friend, for $50.
I never learned much lead guitar work, but perfected full chord progressions, walk ups, walk downs, and my right hand technique. It is no mistake that I love AC-DC, full power chord progressions, lots of sound, and LOUD. In my opinion, "You Shook Me All Night Long" is just about as good as it gets for just pure old Rock and Roll. (as a side note, my Wife also loved that song, untill I downloded the lyrics for her. She had a rather puzzled look as she read them).
I also love Rickey Nelson, early Elvis, The Stones, and ANYTHING by Johnny Cash. I love playing that "Luther Perkins Lick" that made the Cash sound. My favorite Johnny Cash song, "Understand Your Man".
That Verse: "You'd just say the same old things that you been sayin' all along
Just lay there on the bed and keep your mouth shut till I'm Gone
Don't give me that old familiar cryin cussin moan
Understand, your Man"
Man, that is pure poetry.
My favorite guitar accompany in any popular song though, is that ringing twelve string in Simon and Garfunkels "Sounds of Silence.
I can play the progression, it starts in A-Minor, you walk the strings to get that melody within the chord structures as it goes to G, F, C and back to the A-Minor, using the high string walk downs. But, I have NEVER been able to duplicate that sound on the originol recording with my current Strat and Marshal Amp.
Heck, one day I just might go and buy a Rikenbacker Twelve String, and what ever else I might need to get that sound, and die a happy man........jackie
