Posted on 05/31/2015 10:36:16 AM PDT by SkyPilot
Link to music video also Here
The song was written by Berton Averre and Doug Fieger, and released as part of their debut album (Get the Knack) in 1979.
The song was based on a real person, named Sharona Alperin. She was 17 when she met Fieger, who was 25 when he met her.
Sharon Alperin has been a very succesful real estate agent for many years.
The guitar solo and the song's rift have been cited by many bands as pure classic rock. In fact, the song was on President G.W. Bush's nano when he was in office and listened to it while working out.
Underrated. Loved the song. Hard to get all the timing down when trying to play it.
Not Guilty!
I was in grad school when it came out. Hated it then. Still hate it now.... Of course, I was a Grateful Dead fan....
Great tunes that remind me of great times.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNKVWFdhQUQ
I don’t think that song ever recovered from being covered by Cheech and Chong in “Up in Smoke”.
Do you still listen to the Dead?
The guitar riff is basically the riff from Gimme Some Lovin in reverse.
Hadn’t really thought of it as a “guitar solo” song but it does have a couple of nice ones. Late ‘50s Les Paul guitars like the one the lead guitarist is playing are worth about a quarter million bucks now. I wonder what his was worth in 1979. It would have been collectible by then but ‘79 was still before the prices went totally bananas.
That was rather a nightmare.
Some things are best forgotten as if they never happened.
The Knack is one of those things.
If anyone needs to cleanse their ears after this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1eHKf-dMwo
If the above doesn’t work, try this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GggY4TEYbk
Or this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtN1YnoL46Q
:)
>>I don’t think that song ever recovered from being covered by Cheech and Chong in “Up in Smoke”.
Every time I hear the song, the Cheech and Chong version pops into my head!
“My Balogna”
by Weird Al
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMeu3R0RdqI
I second that.
I don’t know what that cheesy rendition of Small World is, but indeed, the Sherman Brothers were geniuses.
My scrotum
I had an original Gibson Flying V which was stolen from me in 1970. Then, it was just an ugly 12 year old used guitar. I don’t like to think about what it’s worth now. It was the 22nd one built. PAF’s of course. Gold-plated. Natural Korina.
There was also a parody called “Ay-a-tollah”, but most stations refused to play it while the hostages were still held in Iran.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=inQiIkz7J5Y
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