I offer you this... <object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/TchCw2VdIkw"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/TchCw2VdIkw" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object> growing up, I didn't like heavy metal until I heard that song... question for you guitarists out there. have you ever tried to play the guitar while headbanging. I mean, after seeing Angus...i've been known to try headbang while dancing....i get dizzy. How can you play guitar while doing that?
As a bass player, I did it all the time - still do on occassion. Once you get used to it, it's not that big of a deal. At first, you can get a little dizzy, but your body adjusts and then it's easy. As I've gotten older, the only thing I have to watch for are the occassional muscle spasms in my neck right in the middle of slinging my head around. Charlie horses on stage in the middle of a song are not fun.
There is very little in this world sillier than somebody playing powercords through 5000 watts of Marshall amps on an arch top Jazzbo Gibson L-5 type guitar. Seriously. Get a BC Rich or at the very least a Gibson SG, drop the affectations, and stop being pretentious.
I dunno. Jimmy Page occassionally worked the 355. The Smithereens were pretty cool on Rickenbackers. There are a lot of cool guitar players that rocked the semi-hollow body.
My personal favorite live guitarist is Lindsey Buckingham... and I was born AFTER 1970. Gotta catch Leo Kottke too before I die. <object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/GaACDF9ZeEk"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/GaACDF9ZeEk" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object>
Like this? <object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/VYALiTct1_I"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/VYALiTct1_I" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object>
yeah the one time I saw you play (at Satellite lounge, remember?) you were slinging your head around. Not quick the slapping your head to you chest, losing your hat, type headbanding, but nonetheless...Jeff does rock.
Good lord, was that back with the Basics? I vaguely remember that. Man, that was 10 years ago at least.
Having long hair helps headbanging tremendously... that extra momentum prevents the "snapping" effect when you change direction. It could definitely be the difference between a nauseating episode of vertigo and a night of rocking. I pity the heavy metal star who loses their hair. The dude from Pantera is definitely hardcore.
10 years? hmm...maybe 8. I think that was the first time we met. You posted something on the board about the show and I shook your hand after the show. Yeah, I was probably just one of many groupies that you had to deal with that night. haha
Ok, I guess I didn't properly explain myself. I'm talking about guys who essentially play super-hard rock or metal and prefer the Marshall amps with the transistors because the distortion is cleaner. I'm sure some people have managed to play well with that sort of combo, but I would say in spite of the guitar rather than because of the guitar. For these people it is exclusively an affectation because they like the way it looks. As you say, those are semi-hollows, not full-hollow Jazzbo archtops, like the L-5 or a Gretch White Falcon. They are still affectations, but the guitars aren't unwieldy and designed for Jazz type work. Both the Gibson 335's and the Rickenbackers are all neck-through-body which means you could basically rip off the hollow chambers without it affecting the tone very much. I think in that video the guitarist is 'playing' a White Falcon, which came as an archtopped hollow body with single coil pickups. The distortion from feedback if he was really playing that guitar at an AC/DC show would be beyond unreal. You wouldn't be able to hear the show. And what is the point if you take what amounts to a $20,000-$30,000 guitar and rip the guts out and rewire it?
I've tried the head banging deal when I jammed.. not really too good for me. I got dizzy, and I have a really crappy motion sickness deal going on since I was a kid so the slightest dizziness or headache could turn into something bad. Sucks. Luckily, the group I play in isn't really metal. So the typical Bass head-nod thing is good enough for me hehe.. especially since I play the bass most of the time. Not a bassist though, I couldn't pass as a real one to save my life. I'd like to see Jeff on the bass.. I think I saw someone ask you this in another thread, but are you doing any gigs anytime soon?
Kirk > Angus <object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/B1gM9UNXrIo"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/B1gM9UNXrIo" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object>
[nitpicking] Rickenbackers aren't neck-through body guitars (at least the standard 330s and 360s). They're set/glued-on necks. Rickenbacker only does through-body on the solid bodies and basses. Set neck guitars have pretty different tonal characteristics from through-body guitars. [/nitpicking] I remember back in the early days of The Cult, Billy Duffy rocked out on a White Falcon with pretty minimal feedback.
Don't forget the Nuge...Ted Nugent...pre-gun nut/reactionary days. Played an ES-175 straight through a bunch of Marshalls. And, no, I cannot play guitar moving my head like that. All I can do is....pose.
Leo Kottke - Vaseline Machine Gun <object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/tew_fIhz3eY"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/tew_fIhz3eY" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object> Leo Kottke - medley <object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/lnQTC5ICGik"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/lnQTC5ICGik" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object>
This coversation is a sham without Prince in it. <embed style="width:400px; height:326px;" id="VideoPlayback" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=5273942767445519683&hl=en" flashvars=""> </embed>
I just thought I should point out that AC/DC is not really metal...more like hard rock. Not really "greatest ever" live but better than I expected at the time = Larry LaLonde of Primus circa late 80's - early 90's.
