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Hostile;1383387 said:
I love it because of Randy Rhoads. On Mister Crowley is where he really just awes you though.

That is one of my favorirtes.

Also, I really like the organ in the live version, i wanted to rig it so when someone rang the doorbell at my house the organ intro to that song plays.

As far as hard core guitar jams the song perry mason is awesome too, definitely one of my favorites.
 

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Juke99;1383754 said:
Now now...I also have Come Together and Twist and Shout...

You should have also called me a Lennon Hater...which would be about as far from the truth as possible.

:)

Uh...Drive My Car...Get Back...Junior's Farm...Hi Hi Hi...Let Me Roll It..

Now I'm pushing it... :D

Btw, I really liked your list.
Cheers! Joe Satriani is someone I haven't really checked out. I've always been wary of guitar maestros but the sense I got from a lot of musicians is that he's more tasteful. I'll have to try and track down some of his work on vinyl.

My wife bought me a record player for my birthday. The best present ever! In the last month I've picked up the following on vinyl:

Ok Computer (the prize of the collection)by Radiohead; Double Fantasy by John and Yoko; Let's Dance by David Bowie; Love Over Gold & Brothers in Arms by Dire Straits; Honky Chateau & Greatest Hits vol.2 by Elton John; Inner Visions by Stevie Wonder; Empty Glass by Pete Townshend; So by Peter Gabriel; Panorama (underrated classic btw) by The Cars.
 

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jackrussell;1383894 said:
She's The One
Candy's Room
Badlands
Spirit In the Night
Because the Night
Atlantic City
Darkness On the Edge of Town

yeah love em all...shes the one is so fantastic. That whole album is fantastic though, I like darkness more but...man he is great
 

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jem88;1383962 said:
Cheers! Joe Satriani is someone I haven't really checked out. I've always been wary of guitar maestros but the sense I got from a lot of musicians is that he's more tasteful. I'll have to try and track down some of his work on vinyl.

My wife bought me a record player for my birthday. The best present ever! In the last month I've picked up the following on vinyl:

Ok Computer (the prize of the collection)by Radiohead; Double Fantasy by John and Yoko; Let's Dance by David Bowie; Love Over Gold & Brothers in Arms by Dire Straits; Honky Chateau & Greatest Hits vol.2 by Elton John; Inner Visions by Stevie Wonder; Empty Glass by Pete Townshend; So by Peter Gabriel; Panorama (underrated classic btw) by The Cars.


For Satriani, buy the CD "Surfin' With The Alien"...it's filled with "pop" songs. He wrote melodies for the album. I can't STAND guys like Malmstein (or how ever it's spelled) who just run all over the guitar. Surfin With The Alien, is not one of those albums.

I have over 2500 vinyl albums. I bought a turn table that plugs into my USB port for conversion...just haven't gotten around to it yet.

Stevie Wonder RULED for a few years. Beyond talented.
 

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surfing with the alien. Great album. I remember trying endlessly to learn to play some of that stuff on my kramer...

wasnt happening..!
 

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theebs;1384144 said:
surfing with the alien. Great album. I remember trying endlessly to learn to play some of that stuff on my kramer...

wasnt happening..!

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And yeah, it was a great CD. Still is.
 

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in the 80s they took off when it became known that eddie van halen had a kramer baretta body.

the orgininal usa made kramers...pacer-baretta-nightswan played great...sounded great. They were the instrument of choice of the 80s metal guitar gods......

eddie, george lynch, richie sambora.....etc...

They are not as good as the other 80s guitar, the usa made charvel but they were good.

The korean made kramers are crap. like in the picture.

But mostly, EVH made them famous with his paint jobs..i e. "5150" and the black and yellow stripe he put in dimebag darrells coughin.

guitar snobs, like clapton, frampton etc...would never have played them..they were a fad..
 

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theebs;1384241 said:
in the 80s they took off when it became known that eddie van halen had a kramer baretta body.

the orgininal usa made kramers...pacer-baretta-nightswan played great...sounded great. They were the instrument of choice of the 80s metal guitar gods......

eddie, george lynch, richie sambora.....etc...

They are not as good as the other 80s guitar, the usa made charvel but they were good.

The korean made kramers are crap. like in the picture.

But mostly, EVH made them famous with his paint jobs..i e. "5150" and the black and yellow stripe he put in dimebag darrells coughin.

guitar snobs, like clapton, frampton etc...would never have played them..they were a fad..


Thanks for the education. :)

So..from the pick ups and body shape, etc, I am assuming it sounds sorta like a Strat???
 

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theebs;1384241 said:
in the 80s they took off when it became known that eddie van halen had a kramer baretta body.

the orgininal usa made kramers...pacer-baretta-nightswan played great...sounded great. They were the instrument of choice of the 80s metal guitar gods......

eddie, george lynch, richie sambora.....etc...

They are not as good as the other 80s guitar, the usa made charvel but they were good.

The korean made kramers are crap. like in the picture.

But mostly, EVH made them famous with his paint jobs..i e. "5150" and the black and yellow stripe he put in dimebag darrells coughin.

guitar snobs, like clapton, frampton etc...would never have played them..they were a fad..

As a note of history.

His original Frankenstein guitar...first the white and black one, which he later painted the famous red and black and switched the neck out.

It originally was a Charvel body not a kramer body.

He did move on to Kramer all together but the original was a charvel body, that had two necks that I am not sure who made...they were not fender necks but had the fender shaped headstock. Then he switched to a Kramer neck on that guitar.

Later he went with kramer and they made him quite a few to his specs.
 

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StanleySpadowski;1383079 said:
If your looking for the most influential music in rock history, you'd have to include some Velvet Underground. Try All Tomorrow's Parties.

Brian Eno said that they didn't sell many records but everyone who bought one started a band.

VU is the top influence for the stuff I dig. Eno is pretty damn influential in his own right -- although most folks won't recognize his musical output - he put out 4 of the best albums in the history of modern music (Taking Tiger Mountain, Another Green World, Before and After Science, and Here Come the Warm Jets).

Bowie said something similar about the VU recently -- but he added that the Talking Heads had that same sort of influence in the 80s and the Pixies had it in the 90s.
 

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BrAinPaiNt;1384252 said:
As a note of history.

His original Frankenstein guitar...first the white and black one, which he later painted the famous red and black and switched the neck out.

It originally was a Charvel body not a kramer body.

He did move on to Kramer all together but the original was a charvel body, that had two necks that I am not sure who made...they were not fender necks but had the fender shaped headstock. Then he switched to a Kramer neck on that guitar.

Later he went with kramer and they made him quite a few to his specs.

Yep that is right. Actually he met wayne charvel at charvels little guitar repair shop and became a regular there. he went in got the body from him and then just used one humbucker pickup wound the wire himself on the coil and then used the neck he had...

I think it was less than a 100 bucks....THat is where the famous brown sound came from on the original album.

The 5150 paintjobs were kramer pacer specials...not barettas, I was wrong had to look it up!. Kramer made the beack and the banana headstock from his original guitar for him...then the kramer pacer and baretta took off in like 83 and up........

Everybody bailed on kramer though because they stopped making the guitars in new jersey and started raising prices and building them in korea......the pros got mad...

That is how eddie went to Ernie ball.

Eddie was famous for just hanging out all night and drinking and playing in jersey where they built those early on. Then everyone copied and played kramer!!



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http://www.vintagekramer.com/5150.htm great site for anyone interested​










 

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theebs;1384294 said:
Yep that is right. Actually he met wayne charvel at charvels little guitar repair shop and became a regular there. he went in got the body from him and then just used one humbucker pickup wound the wire himself on the coil and then used the neck he had...

Do you still play?

If so what axes do you have now.

I remember way back in the late 80's I was going to go and buy my first NEW guitar. Up to that point I had only had a cort strat copy. All in all for a copy it actually did not sound bad but I just never felt comfortable with the thick C neck.

So I do some research, at that time it was just magazines as there was no net for most.

I go around 2 hours away and find a store that had two guitars in my price range at the time.

Both were more of entry level guitars.

One was a Charvel and the other a kramer.

Each were imports, each had One cheap factory humbucker and a licensed floyd.

I had read reviews of the Charvel that were pretty good for the money.

The finish on the Kramer actually looked a little nicer. I think it actually had a carved top on it but what turned me off about it was the humbucker was slanted and I just didn't like the look of it. So I wound up with the Charvel.
Still have it to this day...rarely play it but I still kept it.

I later got a Jackson Dinky, BC Rich Warlock, Schecter C-1 classic and last one is a Dean Razorback.

I am mostly playing the razorback and Schecter. The razorbacks neck is the best feeling neck on a guitar I have played. Just fits so well...it is a V shaped neck.
 

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abersonc;1384258 said:
VU is the top influence for the stuff I dig. Eno is pretty damn influential in his own right -- although most folks won't recognize his musical output - he put out 4 of the best albums in the history of modern music (Taking Tiger Mountain, Another Green World, Before and After Science, and Here Come the Warm Jets).

Bowie said something similar about the VU recently -- but he added that the Talking Heads had that same sort of influence in the 80s and the Pixies had it in the 90s.
I have Taking Tiger Mountain and Another Green World and they are both excellent albums. Burning Airlines Give You So Much More, St. Elmo's Fire, I'll Come Running..some real classics there.
 

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Talking Heads had some great material. I love Fear of Music. There's a song called Animals that totally cracks me up, and the closer, Drugs, just leaves the listener mouthbreathing.
 

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Elvis Presley -- "That's All Right" (1954)

This was Elvis' first song recorded for Sun Records and is considered one of the very first "Rock N Roll" songs. He took a blues tune by Arthur "Big Boy" Cruddup, added a little country, and voila!
 

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HTownCowboysFan;1384676 said:
Elvis Presley -- "That's All Right" (1954)

This was Elvis' first song recorded for Sun Records and is considered one of the very first "Rock N Roll" songs. He took a blues tune by Arthur "Big Boy" Cruddup, added a little country, and voila!

I love some of the Elvis songs.

That is one I happen to love.

One of my faves is one that is not really one of his Huge hits...

I got a woman
 
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