Shamanczarek Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 Original Animals guitarist Hilton Valentine has passed away. He will be forever remembered for his arpeggiated Gretsch guitar introduction on "House of the Rising Sun". He was also notable for his playing on several other Animals recordings including "Don't Let Me Be Understood", "We Gotta Get Out of this Place", "It's My Life", "Don't Bring Me Down", "Boom Boom", "Baby Let Me Take You Home", "Inside Looking Out", "Shake", "I'm Crying'", "Cheating", "See See Rider", and many others. Quote C3/122, M102A, Vox V301H, Farfisa Compact, Gibson G101, GEM P, RMI 300A, Piano Bass, Pianet , Prophet 5 rev. 2, Pro-One, Matrix 12, OB8, Korg MS20, Jupiter 6, Juno 60, PX-5S, Nord Stage 3 Compact Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larryz Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 Rest in Peace Hilton Valentine...All of the songs listed in the OP are some of my all time favorites and the Animals are one of my all time favorite bands. The guitar work was legendary and original adding to the history of rock and roll bringing the British invasion to the States. The Animals were big fans of Bo Diddley and the Bo Diddley beat. All of the instruments in the band added to their legendary sound and I can name that tune in very few notes. Thanks Hilton...you were like Scotty Moore on the Elvis records backing up and writing the guitar parts for Eric and making guitar history! Like George Harrison, Hilton was instrumental in bringing the 12 and 6 string Rickenbacker sound to rock and roll.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilton_Valentine Quote Take care, Larryz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caevan O’Shite Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 Sorry to learn that... He set a lot of people to playing and getting ahold of guitars... Quote Ask yourself- What Would Ren and Stimpy Do? ~ Caevan James-Michael Miller-O'Shite ~ _ ___ _ Leprechaun, Esquire _ ___ _ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KuruPrionz Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 Rest in Peace Hilton, thanks for the music! Quote It took a chunk of my life to get here and I am still not sure where "here" is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
desertbluesman Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 RIP Hilton Valentine Quote dbm If it sounds good, it is good !! http://www.soundclick.com/bands/default.cfm?bandID=143231&content=music Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shamanczarek Posted January 31, 2021 Author Share Posted January 31, 2021 On several occasions in 2000 I got to play keys (Vox Continental) with Hilton on most of The Animals repertoire. Any guitarist can play "House of the Rising Sun" but there was a certain magic when Hilton played it. I also got to meet Dave Rowberry, John Steel, and Jim Rodford who Hilton was playing with at the time. I kept in touch with Hilton over the years and he was always willing to answer my many questions regarding his days with The Animals. Quote C3/122, M102A, Vox V301H, Farfisa Compact, Gibson G101, GEM P, RMI 300A, Piano Bass, Pianet , Prophet 5 rev. 2, Pro-One, Matrix 12, OB8, Korg MS20, Jupiter 6, Juno 60, PX-5S, Nord Stage 3 Compact Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caevan O’Shite Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 On several occasions in 2000 I got to play keys (Vox Continental) with Hilton on most of The Animals repertoire. Any guitarist can play "House of the Rising Sun" but there was a certain magic when Hilton played it. I also got to meet Dave Rowberry, John Steel, and Jim Rodford who Hilton was playing with at the time. I kept in touch with Hilton over the years and he was always willing to answer my many questions regarding his days with The Animals. That's fantastic! Very cool. And you're right, it's not just about being able to play a given passage more or less correctly, it's about the feel, the attitude, the "certain magic", musicality- the simplest of phrases as well as the more difficult are either played with that, or they are lacking there. Hilton played it like he meant it, and meant it like he played it, and gave that to the world. Quote Ask yourself- What Would Ren and Stimpy Do? ~ Caevan James-Michael Miller-O'Shite ~ _ ___ _ Leprechaun, Esquire _ ___ _ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Schmieder Posted February 1, 2021 Share Posted February 1, 2021 I almost always use "House of the Rising Sun" to try out new guitars, and also to work on my singing-while-playing and walking-bass-lines-while comping-or-soloing. Quote Eugenio Upright, 60th Anniversary P-Bass, USA Geddy Lee J-Bass, Yamaha BBP35, D'angelico SS Bari, EXL1, Select Strat, 70th Anniversary Esquire, LP 57, Eastman T486, T64, Ibanez PM2, Hammond XK4, Moog Voyager Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winston Psmith Posted February 1, 2021 Share Posted February 1, 2021 Like Caevan says, there is an entire generation of Guitarists who started out learning, or trying to learn, that arrangement of "House of the Rising Sun"; as the lyric says, I'm one. I can still remember sitting with a couple of other kids, and our cheap-o Guitars - mine came from Lafayette Radio Electronics - practicing that song. Its worth noting that the Guitar part requires playing slow, even arpeggios in 3/4 time. That was a good bit of technique to absorb as a first tune. Rest in power, sir, and many, many thanks. Quote "Monsters are real, and Ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win." Stephen King http://www.novparolo.com https://thewinstonpsmithproject.bandcamp.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KuruPrionz Posted February 2, 2021 Share Posted February 2, 2021 Like Caevan says, there is an entire generation of Guitarists who started out learning, or trying to learn, that arrangement of "House of the Rising Sun"; as the lyric says, I'm one. I can still remember sitting with a couple of other kids, and our cheap-o Guitars - mine came from Lafayette Radio Electronics - practicing that song. Its worth noting that the Guitar part requires playing slow, even arpeggios in 3/4 time. That was a good bit of technique to absorb as a first tune. Rest in power, sir, and many, many thanks. Just my 2 cents but I would say that the tempo was moderately fast but now that "sweeping" is a thing maybe it's not. I would not say that playing the arpeggios was even so much as "consistent" since there is just a smidge more time in between the first and second note of each arpeggio than there is for the rest of the notes. That's what gives it that "feel". Quote It took a chunk of my life to get here and I am still not sure where "here" is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larryz Posted February 3, 2021 Share Posted February 3, 2021 Hilton may not know it, as I never knew it for several decades, but his 1964 Am version of House of the Rising Sun must have inspired Sam The Sham and the Pharos. Their 1966 Em original of Little Red Riding Hood uses the same chords! I love doing the little bass runs with the arpeggios and I like singing House of the Rising Sun in Em. The Am (Eric's version) is a little too high in register for my vocals. I think Dylan did his version in 1961 sans arpeggios...Hilton Valentine's guitar work will always rule on House of the Rising Sun IMHO... Quote Take care, Larryz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shamanczarek Posted February 3, 2021 Author Share Posted February 3, 2021 Songwriter Graham Gouldman has cited "House of the Rising Sun" as the melancholy minor key inspiration for his 60s hits such as "For Your Love", "Heart Full of Soul". "Evil Hearted You", "No Milk Today", "Bus Stop", and "Look Through Any Window". Tom Petty was a big fan of The Animals covering their songs in live shows and playing their records on his Buried Treasure radio show. Compare "Breakdown" to The Animals "Cheating". [video:youtube] [video:youtube] Quote C3/122, M102A, Vox V301H, Farfisa Compact, Gibson G101, GEM P, RMI 300A, Piano Bass, Pianet , Prophet 5 rev. 2, Pro-One, Matrix 12, OB8, Korg MS20, Jupiter 6, Juno 60, PX-5S, Nord Stage 3 Compact Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larryz Posted February 3, 2021 Share Posted February 3, 2021 Here's another guitar classic from Hilton bringing a Rick 12 to R&R: Quote Take care, Larryz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shamanczarek Posted February 4, 2021 Author Share Posted February 4, 2021 Here is more of Hilton with the Rick. Hilton was still performing this song when I played with him. BTW, The Animals were the first band to have a Fender Rhodes Electric Piano seen here in 1965 for the first time on national TV. Dave Rowberry had replaced original member Alan Price on Keys. [video:youtube] Here he is with a teardrop-shaped Vox 12-string. [video:youtube] He plays a Telecaster here. By this time John Steel had left the band and was replace by Barry Jenkins previously with The Nashville Teens. Hilton was playing a red Telecaster with a Vox amp in 2000. He said after The Animals made it big he never had to buy instruments as they were given to him by the manufacturers. [video:youtube] Quote C3/122, M102A, Vox V301H, Farfisa Compact, Gibson G101, GEM P, RMI 300A, Piano Bass, Pianet , Prophet 5 rev. 2, Pro-One, Matrix 12, OB8, Korg MS20, Jupiter 6, Juno 60, PX-5S, Nord Stage 3 Compact Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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