they did in fact have a yamaha vr6000, still waiting on shipping stuff but i guess i just got yamaha's attempt to dethrone the jc-120. your link for some reason wasnt working correctly for sign up though
Saturday, November 12th 1955: Marvin Berry is calling his cousin Chuck from next to the stage at the Enchantment Under the Sea dance at Hill Valley High School so he hears Marty McFly playing some „oldie“ (well, they call it oldie where he comes from… and your kids gonna love it!!!)
Marvin was an idiot. He had the foresight to see that this new rockin music was about to take over the whole world... but rather than try and get the guy who IS CURRENTLY PLAYING IT RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU WITH YOUR BAND... to join your band... you call your cousin and hold the phone up in the air. While I appreciate his family loyalty... I don't guess Chuck reciprocated because I've never heard of The Rockin Chuck and Marvin Band or The Wild Berry's! (Damn... the wild berry's would have been a fire name for their band too) Marvin probably died broke and alone from a series of reefer-screwdriver related injuries
Yeah, probably true. As much as I love Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens, their impact was primarily felt in their unfortunate deaths. Given more time, both would probably had even more significant impact.
Buddy Holly may not be so well known now, but he actually revolutionized the way we play an electric guitar (and rock music) AND he had a great impact on players to buy and play a Fender "Stratocaster". The Fender Stratocaster had just arrived on the market a few months before Buddy Holly became famous, but sales were not so good for Fender. Buddy Holly did a few live shows and a Live TV show while playing the brand new "Stratocaster" (a sunburst version) and its Sales went up in the USA. Meanwhile in England, players could not buy Fender Stratocasters, due to a new law over there, but a young and famous singer Cliff Richard (the British equivalent of Elvis Presley), saw Buddy Holly play that new Strat guitar and wanted it. So in 1958 he was able to buy 3 new RED Stratocasters for his new back-up band named "The Shadows", and that is how Fender got to be played in England and began the rock fashion of using Stratocasters.... all thanks to Buddy Holly.
Probably should be there huh, buddy holly sporting that first strat tapping his feet all raucously, that was the most off the chain anyone had ever seen at that time.
Les Paul goes beyond just the most popular signature guitar! Multi track recording, delay, reverb, pitch shift and looping are just a few to clinch first place.
And, by the way,. Les Paul wanted a flat-top guitar, but Gibson making violins and arch-top hollow guitars wanted it to look like these I own a LP Standard, but an electric solid body is better flat-top; a flat-top LP is the Special ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-RSIVB149cDY.html
I'm sorry -- Chuck Berry gets *all* the credit? What about Marty McFly who performed it 2 years earlier, and Chuck's cousin Marvin who called him up and let him listen to it on the phone?! Sheesh!!
Of course this kind of list can never be complete, but I think you missed two important ones: Robert Johnson: his recordings defined what was called the Blues, and the guitar's role in it T-Bone Walker: He started the whole guitarist showmanship that Chuck Berry became famous for, including the duck walk.
Maybe not guitar per say but the Concert for Bangladesh was the first charity concert. Without it Farm Aid, Live Aid, Live 8 may not have had the Pink Floyd reunion. I also think at the Bangladesh show it was publicly found out that Eric Clapton recorded the solo for While My Guitar Gently Weeps. So there's that if I'm remembering correctly.
Hearing Tom Morello in Guitar Hero 3 was what made me want to look into electric guitar. I wanted to know how the hell you make the wild noises he did. I played a little bit of acoustic, but playing an actual electric guitar was what got me into the instrument. I've been playing the instrument for fun ever since.
You walk in step by step, with such a fine sense for the real turning points in music history - the giant result: You do NOT put any pressure on it, who was ' best '... So right you are: It was never about competition, it was quite more about the evolution of something. I like that. Thank you Sir.
Damn. I really can't find any fault with this. Great list! My candidates for the next ten: -Dylan goes electric -Sister Rosetta goes electric -Polyphia release "Impassion" and the dawn of RU-vid prog-metal -Steppenwolf's "Born to Be Wild" coins the expression "heavy metal" -Ned Steinberger invents (sort of) the headless guitar -Prince drops Purple Rain and claims shredding for R&B -The LA punk riots inadvertently give rise to hair metal -Peter Frampton's talk box blows everyone's mind -Something something Chet Atkins -Somethng something Albert King
What about when a young calvin klein showed up out of nowhere, and rocked a killer guitar solo in Hill Valley ar the enchantment under the sea dance, Chuck Berry totally ripped that guy off!
Couple other additions to add onto your list. 1. Widespread adoption of FM Radio. 2. Marshall Amplifier and also creation of PA systems. 3. Independent Record Labels such as Shrapnel , Metal Blade etc 4. College Radio Stations
The death of Hair Metal was because the bands lost the plot. Instead of protest and commentary, the hair bands instead sang about partying, girls, money, and how awesome they were. Nirvana reset that with stark dark lyrics and minimal moving parts. It happens in every genre. Meaningful music gives way to popular music, only to be revived by a new generation.
Ballads.... pop junior high dance ballads. Several bands kept right on rocking through the shower less talent vacuum that was the 3 years of grunge. GNR and Metallica seemed to survive just fine... which is more than can be said about most of the halfway decent grunge musicians... except Cobain... he wasn't halfway decent. Thank you 20 ga. shotgun for the Foo Fighters
Hendrix Star Spangled Banner was not a political statement, he said he did that only because it was cool. Pacifists illegitimately took it for their propaganda; but one could claim that it was done for the veterans ( Jimi was an Airborne) or even claim it was pro bombing the Charlie
Your list was actually pretty accurate in my opinion, nice job. Side note, arpeggios are awesome and everyone should practice them. And I'm not just talking about arpeggiating chords, I mean everyone should learn all their major and minor triads like the back of their hands in every key, and connecting all those triads together in the form of arpeggios. You can get around your fretboard lightning fast. Everyone, practice what I just said in this comment. You'll thank me later.... That is if you're willing to put in the work and the effort. If not, I don't give a shit either way.
Maybe 10 of the biggest guitar moments would be a better title. Just one example would be Nevermind. Having lived through the time myself I didn't think of that as a great moment. Big yes, great, not so much. Grunge almost killed the guitar.
Sammy: Your No. 1 and No. 3 are spot on. I'd put Duane Eddy at No. 2; he was the quintessential twangmeister. It was guitar *_as_* the focal point-not as virtuosity, but as the *_sound_* of the guitar for its own sake. I'd place The Ventures at No. 4; I devoured their albums. But my No. 5-the thing that got me out from behind the drums and made me play guitar-was _Mr. Tambourine Man_ by The Byrds. Nothing had ever sounded like that! Everyone has their own. Those are mine. 😎
People like Chris Holmes have debunked Eddie’s tapping story. Plus I think tapping, for the most part, it’s one of the suckiest thing that’s happened to the electric guitar. Terry Kilgore, some say he taught Eddie how to tap, believes that Eddie was a better player before he started tapping.
About distortion, overdrive etc... yeah Rocket 88 was influential, but that sound was an accident really. However, it was in 1957 that LINK WRAY created a seminal form of distortion and/or fuzz by deliberately punching holes in the tweeter of his Premier amp to record 'Rumble' (initially labeled 'Oddball'). Released in 1958, THIS was the song and the sound that influenced people like Pete Townshend, Iggy Pop, Bruce Springsteen, Dave Gilmour, Lemmy, Poison Ivy, Jimmy Page, even Bob Dylan and John Lennon. And yes, then you had the Kinks, who very probably heard about the Link Wray method from session man and Link Wray fan Jimmy Page, and subsequently slashed a speaker cone for the recording of 'You Really Got Me'. One more thing, overdrive and distortion is not the same thing, I think. One can overdrive a guitar amp by turning up the volume and this will give you a saturated sound, but distortion is a heavier effect - and fuzz is an even more radical form of clipping. Feel free to firmly disagree though - I realize there are no clear dividing lines here.
Excellent list! My list might be a little different but yours is very well thought out and presented. What more could one ask for? None more. Cheers, Michael B.
Possy Candies Possible candidates: Allan Holdsworth, introducing a unique and elegant legato style, Joni Mitchell with her sixty-some ways of tuning her guitar, Bob Marley who made the reggae guitar so popular, even Danish bands made great music in his footprints (Tredje Tilstand, Third Setting or Condition or, well, go translate it, AI comes up with all kinds of ranks, or all ranks of kind, it's one or the other or something else, aye aye! And you can call me AI), Donovan who tought finger picking to Beatles members, and also started the folk rock era, along with Bob Dylan and others including support from The Beatles, and George Harrison who opened up music for the Indian, rich music culture, Eric Clapton who did more for the guitar than most, John Goodsall, also a legato virtuoso, know by those interested from Brand X, a legend! John McLaughlin, early fusion virtuoso and composer, ahead of most cotemporaries, Django Reinhardt... Need I say more, no! Nearly all members of Gentle Giant, who also played various other instruments, but contributed to creating some of the most interesting music ever, Tommy Emmanuel who has made finger picking popular again, and I have to mention Matteo Mancuso, who has combined classic guitar technique with tapping in such an elegant way, that we can all learn how to fly! Well, actually just everybody, because who invented the guitar some thousands of years ago, and we're all in on it. But I agree! You can't make a top ten about anything that is a matter of taste in some way, without leaving out someone, even someone important. Like the time when someone told me, that Debussy was the father of jazz, or when I found out that Miles Davis dropped bebop and basically started fusion ten years before "Fusion", i.e. the fusion between jazz and rock (albeit focusing on modal tones, Google that) - as I personally understand it, which may not be accurate, because I could not possibly care less about genre, style or identity. I have lived too long to fall for sythetic creations of the mind, like race, religion, identity or, especially, pride. Ah, pride! The most boring dream, illusion and sentiment, if it is without love! You know! Greatest of all? Ring a bell?
You're too young - Hair metal was children's music. Children and pests who thought playing a lot of notes in the shortest amount of time possible would get them 'chicks'. No, really. Most musicians outside of LA in the US or Tunbridge Wells in the UK were much more like Nirvana than Iron Maiden even 10 years earlier. Nirvana broke through, partly because their songs were incredible and Cobain had more presence than most of the rat-faced musicians who had been playing this way since punk died in about 79, but there are thousands and thousands of bands from the US, the UK, Australia and Europe who did what Nirvana were doing, albeit not as well. This is the 80s, we're talking about. Yes, hair metal got the publicity and even sales for a while. But the pop music industry has always focussed on the tween and pre-pubescent. Unless they wanted a slice of that monetary pie (and plenty did) musicians didn't don the spandex and reach for the hair spray, they wore what they wore in everyday life, including ripped jeans and flannelette shirts in winter.
Les Paul wanted a flat-top guitar, but Gibson making violins and arch-top hollow guitars wanted it to look like these I own a LP Standard, but an electric solid body is better flat-top; a flat-top LP is the Special ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-RSIVB149cDY.html
Did you know that Duane Allman was tapping already in as early as 1970? Well, he was tapping with his pick but ig it still counts. great example is one moment in his solo in 'In memory of elizabeth reed' from filmore 1971 - his whole solo is great and includes the pick-tapping
Nirvana and grunge wiping out the majority of people caring about playing guitar on a high level wasn't anything great in the instrument's history, it was an occurrence and shift in pop and music culture. It definitely was not anything that took the guitar to any new heights far as innovation.
I disagree with the common "grunge killed metal" narrative. Guns n Roses seemed to do ok. As did Metallica among others. What killed metal was its popularity which in turn made it "pop". When it went pop it found that popularity was lucrative. So the ballads took over. All the "hair metal" or just metal bands in general started to release radio friendly or more female targeted ballads nonstop. Bon Jovi did more to that scene than grunge. Grunge was a flash in the pan and that's all it was ever going to be. Had Cobain lived they would be as culturally relevant as Hootie and the Blowfish. Grunge didn't kill anything... well except for most of it's genre members.... Grunge didn't kill metal. Bad metal killed bad metal.
Where's Adrian Belew and Robert Fripp? They both "invented" very different ways to play guitar. If Jimi's here for the sounds he got out of his guitar, Adrian should be here for the wild stuff he could get out of his.
Thank you Samurai, great list! As you said, people might have other moments in mind, but this is pretty solid and appropriate. Also, makes me wanna go listen to Chuck Berry, which I haven't in a long time!
Nirvana may have killed hair metal, in a sense. But in a similar (albeit less overnight sense) Ramones killed the bloatedness of prog rock and within the next 6-8 years every band (including proggers) simplified and adopted either punk or new wave minimalism.
I'm happy with that list. Chuck Berry's influence needs to keep being remembered in this way, lest the young'uns forget the great roots of the crap they listen to! PS. When are you going to give us a close look at that back to front Strat hanging on your wall?
I hate nirvana almost as much as I hate Jimmi Hendrix almost as much as I hate the Beatles I think the arrival of Randy Rhoads should be on this list along with Dimebag
We were listening to bands from the Seattle area before it all hit the mainstream. The change was gradual over a couple of years and eventually it all went mainstream. It wasn't sudden, it was happening over time. Sound garden and Pearl jam were probably more important at the time. Nirvana was a bit of a one hit wonder but after the suicide Nirvana became iconic. That was a slow week in the news too so his death was really hyped. I think history has been re-written, which is pretty sad.
I'd say Nirvana's success was less so a great guitar moment (I'm partially saying this as a hair metal fan), but more so as a pivotal point in the progression of rock music.
I'll add an honorable mention to the release of the album Obzen by the band Meshuggah in 2008. This single album (and especially the song Bleed) is what jump-started the popularity of the 8-string guitar in metal music. I don't consider it top 10 material, but it's definitely noteworthy.
Of course there are plenty more historic moments - a lesser known (but probably equally important) is Gary Moore starting the European Blues Revival of the early 90s, when C&A (back then a huge European clothing chain - Americans: Think along the lines of Kohl's) chose "Walking by myself" for their commercial (they also had movie theater commercial with music by Jeff Beck). Whoever sat in their Art department cannot be thanked enough...
I'm sure a lot of people would disagree, get sad feelings, and probably say Jimi Hendrix actually did this, but he was just a blues player and shredded about as well as a butter knife on overcooked steak. Not that he sucked, he was definitely talented and a moderately reasonable writer as well, but he's super over rated. Jimmy Page on the other hand, was maybe not a true shredder, but he defiantly pioneered it. He honestly does have several riffs that literally are shredding, so idk, maybe he just was a shred player. Super talented at writing to. Arguably the most important aspect of making music. And of course, there's the classical era that we skipped altogether I guess. I suppose if the word "electric" was in your title that wouldn't count, but classical guitar is intense af. Listen to Asturias and tell me I'm wrong!
Marvin was an idiot. He had the foresight to see that this new rockin music was about to take over the whole world... but rather than try and get the guy who IS CURRENTLY PLAYING IT RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU WITH YOUR BAND... to join your band... you call your cousin and hold the phone up in the air. While I appreciate his family loyalty... I don't guess Chuck reciprocated because I've never heard of The Rockin Chuck and Marvin Band or The Wild Berry's! (Damn... the wild berry's would have been a fire name for their band too) Marvin probably died broke and alone from a series of reefer-screwdriver related injuries
Yeah that one gets under my skin. I’d be fine saying Eddie popularized it or brought it into the mainstream or even ramped it up. But he only “discovered” it in the way that Columbus discovered the new world.
Funnily enough, I was a teenage fan of early Genesis and Steve's solo work, so I was all over Shadow of the hierophant, Return of the giant hogweed etc. But regardless of that, it was still Eruption that caught everyone's attantion and mine, and made tapping a thing that everyone knew about and tried to do. I guess it was just a flashier showpiece for tapping that made us all see/hear it in a different way. Not the first but probably the most significant.
"Eruption" was one of the main reasons I started playing guitar, I just couldn't believe at the time (approx 1988) that a GUITAR was making that sound. That being said, I will NEVER forget the first time I saw Hendrix's performance at Woodstock probably around 1992. Do yourself a favor kids, it's not just the anthem, his ENTIRE performance at Woodstock is the stuff of legends, so much great playing, I still steal licks from it today.
Just want to comment - about a month ago I purchased a course from our Samurai, and on reviewing it I realized it was a little below what I needed. I wrote to ask for a refund, and gave my reasons. I sincerely doubted he (you? who am I addressing here?) would give the refund, and I would be disappointed but would understand. Much to my surprise, after a few days I was afforded a full refund and was happily surprised. 'How is this possible' I thought, and after doing a touch of research it became clear. You are Canadian! Kudos and thanks for the integrity move. I'll be moving back to Canada, possibly, mid November. Depends who wins the election here in US. (I'm partial to democracy.) Keep up the great videos.
Great top10! Although -obviously- the top 5 should have included the pioneering works of early flamenco guitarists, Robert Johnson, Django Reinhardt and- more than anything or anyone else, the much ignored Lonnie Johnson, who basically invented the guitar as being a lead instrument roughly 100 years ago.
Funny thing that happened: I've always played from memory and feel. When my dad got hired on as a hired gun to play bass for a dude who played on the rez, he got me the lead guitar job. I had never actually played johnny b goode, but I had the tune in my head... or so I thought. What I was actually playing for the lead part was still Chuck Berry, but it was fucking run run rudolph. Literally no one noticed.
Very good summation of key points,also EVH essentially made guitars cool again,Disco suffered,The Beatles,and Hendrix,timeless,wish there were more icons,the ranks need new ones to push the musical ship ahead
I remember when headbangers ball was on Sunday night for just a hour or so . That and beavis and butthead was amazing . And the fact it was a free satellite channel here in uk was perfect. And ps2 guitar hero metallica 👌
Great vid, great description of the importance of the Hendrix moment. Amazing to learn that crunchy sound came from broken gear :D I immediately pictured Danny DeVito saying "just shove some trash in it!"
I was already steeped in music theory and stuff, but then Guitar Hero came along, and yeah.. suddenly I got why people all wanted to play guitar. And I wanted to too.
I think you need now to do a complimentary vid of the most influential pedals, because I would argue that without pedals the popularity of electric guitar would have waned a long while ago relative to its 90 year history.
So let me get this straight, a guy who was an objectively average guitar player in life becomes a vital piece of guitar history after he blows his own face off? Have you ever thought about going into comedy full time?
