I was introduced to this song in 1987. I'm Black (now 50). I'm a Hip Hop Fanatic, But I got High to this Song many Days! One of my Favorite Rock Songs. NOW I'M ABOUT TO BLAZE ONE TO THIS BEAUTIFUL SOLO. Thank You. 🙏🏽👍🏽
Sounds like there's a slapback echo on his lead guitar. It starts in the right speaker and quickly pans to the left one. Or one might refer to it as "Multi Tap Delay." I've always loved this sound. I distinctly remember hearing this guitar solo driving with my brother late at night when I was young. It was foggy out and the music and the solo perfectly portrayed it. It left a huge influence on my own guitar playing. Love this delay sound.
This isolated track is fucking rippin'. IMO it translates Ted's tone aggressiveness and style much better than the album version of the track where the guitar is watered down compared to this. I wish ol'Ted had his album remixed so his guitar would sound close to this in the mix.
Wow. I mean WOW. I've heard this tune so many times since it originally came out. Ya, I'm nearly 60. I grew up on this music and I play guitar, and my band wants me to learn this song. Well, I've been practicing this song for 40 years, and now I get to hear it like this. It's just so incredible. I'm hearing so many things I've never noticed before. And I'm trying to imagine Ted in the recording studio, standing in front of some amps and laying this song down. So, short stereo delay, tons of compression, an expensive Gibson Byrdland giving Ted massive confidence and tone, 9 or 10 strings, medium to thick pick and just super tasty licks. I can also hear Ted chewing his gum, which means he's coked out of his mind. And you can hear that coke in his playing too. At 3:29 Ted seems a little unsure of where he's going with his solo, and it's probably the most non memorable part of the song. Probably for that reason. It's taken me 40 years to just come close to Ted's former level of playing. Makes me wonder how he got so good so fast. I can't count how many times we sat in a car and listened to this, stoned out of our minds. It always blew our minds. It still blows my mind, but in a very different way. Now I appreciate a lot more things about it. The tone of that Birdland, the superbly controlled feedback, the originality of the composition, the tastefulness of the licks. I mean, some of those licks are just incredible. Like at 3:23 to 3:28. It's pretty simple, but it's just wild. I imagine Ted playing that and just being blown away by his own sounds. Well, no one is gonna read this, but me again maybe in a few years. lol Fucking Terrible Ted. An amazing guitarist, but an asshole in every other way. lol I'm guessing he just did too much coke. I know a few people who did too much coke and became like Ted....assholes.
Remember, this is Ted's song, straight from his heart, or loins or where ever Ted's sonic bombast comes from. The rest of us are just trying to emulate what came from his hands naturally...that's why it takes us so long.
Dude I figured out this song when I was 16, btw this started out with rob granges bass line he came up with, ted, St. Holmes merged and this song was born, ted does not do coke, I think your referring to ed van heineken with that ridiculous statement.
hey D.B.K., what's up, I like your comments, but haven't you heard Ted's been sober now for, let's see it's Thanksgiving day 2017, that must make it 69 years 11 months and 23 days. It probably wouldn't hurt him to have a drink once in a while, and maybe take his buddy the "President" with him!
How much missing gray matter would lead a fool to proclaim that "Ted's an asshole in every other way" because he kills his own food, while this jelly-brain goes to the store and gets HIS food.
This is from his re-recording for the soundtrack Beer For My Horses, which he also re-did Cat Scratch Fever. Both of these re-recorded songs are featured in the Guitar Hero games.
This is the base that DICE used for the Battlefield Hardline in-game radio. they added their own bass, drum and vocals to this. I thought I recognized this version of Ted "The Racist" Nugent's "Stranglehold" somewhere.
