Olga.... Le plus grand méconnu des guitars héros....il est génial...il te balance des riffs pleins ta face....des rythmiques des solos et une voix à nulle autre pareil ...OLGA ....
I'm glad my dad was a punk otherwise I would of probably never come across The Toy Dolls, Nellie the elephant was a favourite of mine during my childhood.
This video really shows off Olga's brilliant technicallskills , you need to remember that Olga has a standard/stock fixed bridge on his Telecaster and doesnt use a tremolo , which easily could've been used on this song. Instead its all in Olga's fingers and he rocks through this great classical piece . Also remember that there usually arent Tabs for it so Olga reads the straight music and transposes it onto his guitar . Olga is and always will be the Best Punk Guitarist in the World . Long Live The Toy Dolls !!!
Ola is great, but I wouldn't like to choose between him and several of the guitarists who played with Cardiacs. But then maybe Cardiacs aren't really punk?
Bloody amazing. Have been sharing this for the past hour to my disability music group. These guys music needs to be brought back into the public's ears............................ and I am working on it xxxxxxxx love them
Respeto a toy dolls un grupo con 44 años de punk con una calidad musical insuperables todos los componentes que han estado , el mejordirecto del punk , artisticos creativos con sentido del humor y serios etc...
Or it should have Cossacks dancing with Sabres, though I DO really like your suggestion of accrobats and plate spinners being there as well as Olga and Tommy could dance/jump around with them in the choreography which the Dolls excell at
There's no denying the virtuoso skills here. However, that is a bit of an irony, in that Punk, at least partially, emanated from the movement away from virtuosity, towards the street equality of any kid thrashing out a few chords. I presume Rock evolved along the same path: originally, a rebellious noize for the kids, then the great soloists (Hendrix, Clapton, Page, etc.) come along and take it to new musical heights. So, are performances like this Sabre Dance really Punk? Not that I care, I fekkin' luv'em (and dearly wish I'd seen them live) but it is interesting to consider. Was virtuosity the death of Punk? (Answers on a postcard to Blue Peter.)
I'm going to take it the other way and say it's even more Punk. He's got virtuoso skills but instead of cashing in on them, he's still kicking ass with the Toy Dolls. I think rebellious noise was part of the Punk movement but at the core it was about a rejection of the mainstream hyper-commercialized bullshit that was flooding the airwaves. It opened the door for all levels of talent but there were guys like Olga who were killing it from the start. In my opinion, the real death of Punk was the commercial success of bands like the Offspring and Green Day
Having been there ... . Punk was about picking up an instrument and making some noise. The good noise was repeated for others. Sometimes the people making that noise got better with the repetition. . Some of them got astoundingly good. The ones who started out good ... got even better.
