Caevan O’Shite Posted April 28, 2022 Share Posted April 28, 2022 Good stuff! Be sure to check it out! 1 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...
Sharkman Posted April 29, 2022 Share Posted April 29, 2022 I would have had the live version of Dazed and Confused by Led Zeppelin from their Song Remains The Same album in this list. Jimmy Page plays his Les Paul with a violin bow. If that doesn't qualify as strange, nothing does. 1 Quote I rock; therefore, I am. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KuruPrionz Posted April 29, 2022 Share Posted April 29, 2022 Gotta give it to him for including Jeff Beck. Since he mentions technique, what about Jeff Healy? Yeah, he sounds like Hendrix and/or Stevie Ray but who else rips riffs like that with their thumb? 2 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...
Winston Psmith Posted April 30, 2022 Share Posted April 30, 2022 One of my favorite very strange tunes - I invite you to listen in around the 1:55 mark . . . Vambo Roolz, Okay! 1 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 April 30, 2022 Share Posted April 30, 2022 Nice, thanks Winston!!! Of course today I think of some serious omissions from Beato's list. Robert Fripp may be the Grandfather of Weird, the solo from 21st Century Schizoid Man is an iconic entry into weird guitar. And... I saw David Bowie on the Low tour with Adrian Belew on guitar. AB is a weirdo beyond any doubt, one of the best shows I've ever seen. This is from the same tour but not Fresno. Last but not least, James Blood Ulmer has been a champion of Ornette Coleman's Harmolodic approach to music. Another pioneer in weird guitar. 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...
Scott Fraser Posted April 30, 2022 Share Posted April 30, 2022 What surprises me is how conventional so many of these sound to me, and how Rick Beato must never have heard Marc Ribot, Robert Fripp, Nels Cline, Marc Ducret, Adrian Belew, et al. He listens to a lot of metal, which sounds not strange at all to me. 1 Quote Scott Fraser Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KuruPrionz Posted April 30, 2022 Share Posted April 30, 2022 18 minutes ago, Scott Fraser said: What surprises me is how conventional so many of these sound to me, and how Rick Beato must never have heard Marc Ribot, Robert Fripp, Nels Cline, Marc Ducret, Adrian Belew, et al. He listens to a lot of metal, which sounds not strange at all to me. Yeah, he could toss out at least 5 or 6 of those "top 20" without remorse. It's about what I expect from Beato, overall he is "Safe As Milk". Which reminds me, aren't there some weird guitar solos in Captain Beefheart's catalog? 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...
Reezekeys Posted April 30, 2022 Share Posted April 30, 2022 Not sure if this qualifies as a "guitar solo" but there is a guitar here, and some might call it "strange." Enjoy! I'll be interested in RB's discussion of the harmonic movement in this song (link goes to right before the "solo"): 🙂 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caevan O’Shite Posted April 30, 2022 Author Share Posted April 30, 2022 LO0O0O0NG a favorite- including that very specific video... ! Bowie and Belew were a particularly excellent pairing! 2 hours ago, KuruPrionz said: And... I saw David Bowie on the Low tour with Adrian Belew on guitar. AB is a weirdo beyond any doubt, one of the best shows I've ever seen. This is from the same tour but not Fresno. 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 April 30, 2022 Share Posted April 30, 2022 11 minutes ago, Caevan O’Shite said: LO0O0O0NG a favorite- including that very specific video... ! Bowie and Belew were a particularly excellent pairing! Yep, that was one of Bowie's best "finds". He promoted a good contingent of lead guitarists by hiring them to play on his records and go on tour. Stevie Ray Vaughn was doing pretty OK until Bowie had him play on China Girl and Let's Dance, then all of a sudden he was somebody. I wouldn't include Mr. Vaughn as one of the weirdest soloists but Adrian Belew certainly qualifies and then some!!!! 😇 2 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...
Sharkman Posted April 30, 2022 Share Posted April 30, 2022 This definitely should have been on the list. 1 Quote I rock; therefore, I am. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Fraser Posted April 30, 2022 Share Posted April 30, 2022 20 minutes ago, Sharkman said: This definitely should have been on the list. Does Jeff Beck get royalties for being the inspiration for the Nigel Tufnel character? (I love the ridiculousness of tuning the violin in the midst of using it as a bow. And of course the gag of using a violin instead of a violin bow for the Jimmy Page routine.) 1 Quote Scott Fraser Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Fraser Posted April 30, 2022 Share Posted April 30, 2022 3 hours ago, Reezekeys said: Not sure if this qualifies as a "guitar solo" but there is a guitar here, and some might call it "strange." Enjoy! Sonny Sharrock was the godfather of a whole movement of free jazz noise guitarism. Derek Bailey, Fred Frith, Keith Rowe, so many others, all followed in the footsteps of Sonny Sharrock. 1 Quote Scott Fraser Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KuruPrionz Posted April 30, 2022 Share Posted April 30, 2022 4 hours ago, Reezekeys said: Not sure if this qualifies as a "guitar solo" but there is a guitar here, and some might call it "strange." Enjoy! I'll be interested in RB's discussion of the harmonic movement in this song (link goes to right before the "solo"): 🙂 Thanks for this, when I was about 14 I had no idea where the good stuff was and my 16 year old brother started bringing home all sorts of interesting records. Not this one specifically but I listened to Sun Ra, John Coltrane and Pharoah Sanders live in Seattle, Rashann Roland Kirk and more "normal" jazz like Mingus, Monk and Miles. Plus anything he could find from other countries so authentic Middle Eastern, Indian, African and Asian musics, crazy people like Wild Man Fisher and Captain Beefheart, etc. Yes, that is a strange guitar solo and the singing really brings it to life!!!! 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...
Winston Psmith Posted May 4, 2022 Share Posted May 4, 2022 There's a quote from Sonny Sharrock that I keep in mind whenever I'm trying something on the fringe, and all too often, when I'm listening to some of my fellow Electronic/Experimental Guitarists - "The Fool decides he's tired of Music and wants to make Noise: Fool plus Noise equals Bullshit." 4 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...
Dannyalcatraz Posted May 6, 2022 Share Posted May 6, 2022 Haven’t checked out the Beato vid yet, so I’ll ask: did he put Steve Stevens using toy ray guns or Reeves Gabrels using vibrators on the list? EVH and the drill? And my memory fails on his name, but I remember watching a guitarist play with wooden pencils on his fingers, striking the strings with the erasers. Quote Sturgeon's 2nd Law, a.k.a. Sturgeon's Revelation: âNinety percent of everything is crapâ My FLMS- Murphy's Music in Irving, Tx http://murphysmusictx.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KuruPrionz Posted May 6, 2022 Share Posted May 6, 2022 5 minutes ago, Dannyalcatraz said: Haven’t checked out the Beato vid yet, so I’ll ask: did he put Steve Stevens using toy ray guns or Reeves Gabrels using vibrators on the list? EVH and the drill? And my memory fails on his name, but I remember watching a guitarist play with wooden pencils on his fingers, striking the strings with the erasers. None of the above. I think Mr. Beato was more interested in guitar solos that he could play "air guitar' to (except with a real guitar sitting unplayed in his lap), instead of anything actually strange. Nothing new, just more hot air and blah blah blah. Meh.... 2 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...
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