Posted on 08/05/2014 12:43:42 PM PDT by a fool in paradise
...You Really Got Me delivered something very different. It is taut but increasingly hysterical, hard driven and explosive, an out-and-out rocker. It is more riff than song. And what a riff. It consists of just two power chords, three strings of the guitar, sliding up and down over two frets, striking five times in three beats of the bar then restarting after the fourth beat. It has a feeling of being chopped off in its prime and constantly restarted, spluttering like a motorbike getting ready to race, a jerky, stop-start quality that creates an incredible sense of urgency.
It was their third single for Decca, and after two flops, everyone knew this was make or break. Ray wrote the song, influenced by the riffs of American blues, and was the driving force in the studio. In the days when recording sessions tended to last about as long as it took to play the song once, Ray rejected several early takes, insisting on re-recording it to try and capture his band’s live energy. He was unhappy with the slow, bluesy tempo and kept urging the band to play faster....
Released on August 4, 1964, You Really Got Me crept up the charts for a month before eventually giving the Kinks their first number one. Heavy rock, as we think of it now, took a few more years to get a grip, and it wasn’t really until the last years of the decade that it became almost the definitive sound of a more adult popular music. The Who blatantly imitated The Kinks on their classic Talmy produced debut, I Can’t Explain, in 1964. The Rolling Stones fuzzy riff (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction appeared in 1965....
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My first husband really liked “Mississippi Queen” by a group called Mountain back in the day-we used to go sit in the car in the driveway late on Saturday nights so as not to wake up the kid playing tapes and doing other stuff...
Mississippi Queen is on my iPod. You just have to change the song when it gets to the crappy middle part.
I know Mississippi Queen....good song and story...LOL!
It's certainly up there with the greats. Although "Sweet Home Alabama's" is pretty sweet. And "Smoke on the Water." And "Goin' Up Around the Bend." And ...
Does Mr. Rock at least have a legitimate birth certificate? (they only cost $10)
Yep, Leo
The first use of a fuzz guitar was Marty Robbins "Don't Worry" from 1961, produced by an accident in the studio when a tube in the amp blew during the recording. Marty liked it so much he kept it in the song.
I have it on one of the CD’s I take in the 4Runner to listen to on the way to and from jobsites.
Good times-young, just out of college with new jobs, first house and a little cub-about 8 years later, when we moved to a new house, we were unpacking and arranging our stereo stuff, tapes and records and we found a doobie in the bottom of a box of tapes. When the kid went to a slumber party the next weekend, we bought a bottle of wine, turned on a blacklight in the living room, cranked up the stereo and lit up-it was much improved with age, or maybe we were just out of practice...
Why yes...yes I do.
You mean there was a time when parents would be discreet when they wanted to occasionally have a little fun?....LOL!
Oh heck! I guess that means you can’t run for President ....
“Peter & Gordon’s cover of “I Go To Pieces””
The best Peter and Gordon song ever, I think I was a sophomore or junior in high school. The period from 1964 thru the early 70’s was the best music of all time>
in a gadda da vida
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