Cliff Gallup's Rockabilly Guitar Solo in Gene Vincent's "Race with the Devil" | Reverb Learn to Play 

To me Beck never was a good rockabilly player.

I heard Brian Setzer first and thought he was the king of rockabilly. Then I heard Gallup and realised he was standing on the shoulders of a giant

The solos back then were extensions of the vocals. You can sing Cliff’s parts compared to others who are trying to show off their shedding abilities instead!

Checkout Willie Phelps dj jamboree and yes siree with Cliff on guitar he was in my grandfathers band before gene vincent

Checkout Willie Phelps song DJ's jamboree and yes siree with a young cliff Gallup tearing up the rockabilly licks awesome tracks Willie was my grandfather

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@@JulioLeonFandinho I heard it was Grady Martin that played lead on those Johnny Burnette songs.

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@@JulioLeonFandinho See Vince Gordon's website. He reckons that Grady Martin did all the best playing on Gene's recordings.

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@@simonfarrell2537 Roackabilly and bluegrass- the original shredders. With all the chords and the combination of scales (major/blues/Myxolidian, they got all that) and syncopation, rockabilly's sorta like jazz (almost any notes allowed depending on where you start and where you end up) but easier to dance to , but they probably don't want everyone to know...

Didn't know that track and checked it out. You're right, their lead player definitely was inspired by it and stretched out the potential of this lick for a longer solo over a different progression, also changig the progression of this short lick after a while. Musicians all inspire each other lol. I can't remember in which track at the moment, but there is a recording I stumbled across in which django reinhardt would play this lick. To me, seemingly identically pickin it, not making use of any pull offs (at even slightly faster speed).

@@rarerockk totally agreed! I was reading something about T.S Eliot's thoughts on originality and it was like we the creators are always conected to something other people created before, we are never creating something new but slightely adding our own takes on what others made before us... Something in the lines of that... buddy, if you ever remember what Django's track it was, please leave the title here!

@@sloppy_hand I'll look through some of my loved Django LPs next week and will let you know, enjoy the rest of the weekend mate!

@@rarerockk I'll be waiting for that! cheers, my good buddy!

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I don't think Gallup had worked in Western Swing specifically, but there's a good chance he knew that song growing up. In any case, that chromatic lick in octaves was probably already a cliche for good players by the time Gallup used it. Still sound wonderful. He plays something similar in the second solo on 'Jump Back Baby, Jump Back', but even faster and more impactful because he jumps straight into it.

Guitar Player Magazine did an interview with him in the early 1980s. If you can find it, he does go into his guitar upbringing.

Yes cliff was in my grandfathers band norman Phelps and the VA rounders and they're in the western swing hall of fame ,checkout Willie Phelps DJ's jamboree and yes siree incredible guitar playing from a young cliff gallop

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Two great solos and the one in F is inspirational... one of the greatest recordings of all time... rare to get a sudden modulation like this in rockabilly or rock 'n roll... yes! the reason it sounds so exciting.

And they were probably stolen from guys like Eldon Shamblin, Lonnie Johnson, Django etc and reconfigured!

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pete gilgan- clapton himself states that as a teenager he used to mime to be bop a lula in his mum's front room using a tennis raquet for a guitar......

Clapton loved rockabilly but he loved blues more... On the other way, Jeff Beck loved more rockabilly than blues. That's why a noob listener can't appreciate those influences on Clapton

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