whoa, dude. firsties?

No, hell is chaperoning a junior high dance with the DJ playing rap just this side the threshold of pain.

Bless you, Charles, for not including the audio.

Hey Charles, you don't like Deep Purple?

At least they weren't playing Stairway to Heaven...

Nothing against Deep Purple, but there are some songs that are used and abused. Smoke on the Water is one.

And of course someone in the crowd yelled "Freebird"!

Ooh, that's bad, but is it as bad as the old joke of Jimmy Hendrix' Hell of being stuck in an elevator playing Muzak for eternity?

=^0

Ahhh... its good to be back at the grown ups table!

ROTFF!

Besmirch not the name Of Deep Purple!

Best Smoke on the Water story was a friend of mine who in a bar in Saigon had seen a Vietnamese band playing Smoke on the Water and singing it phonetically, he described to me a few years later one very late drunken night:

MoooOOOoooke onnah [Link: WWWAAA...] WAAA

FIeyyyeeYYAa INNASHKAY!

WEee alll came
attta monstahsss

onnaaa ray zeee reeevnin shaw LIE

I think I know one of those guys, 45th row back, 63rd from the end. Nope, just looked like him.

how TF did THAT happen, I didn't put a link there

And I thought it was just a bunch of frisky cicadas.

Oh man, there's no audio! I thought it was a YouTube link. We only get to imagine it?

Damn!

Well... it least it wasn't In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida.

Gee, I hope they made a recording!

(ducks and runs)

JWM

Next!

1739 Drummers play the solo from In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida simultaneously

The effect on the earth will be sort of like the water-hammer effect when 10,000 toilets are flushed all at the same time.

Global Warming, HA!

I though those were the words!

1,680 guitarists

..and nearly as many mullets.

I think I’ve discovered my own personal version of sheer hell. Yours may differ.

1,683 kazoos doing "It's a Small World"?

WTF?

Daily Kos headlines now a permanent fixture in the blogads?

Isn't that just cute.

Yes, a guitar thread! Thanks Charles.

Okay, Smoke is on my personal Will Never Play Again list. But it had it's place in history, and I have, uhh, pleasant memories from a few reditions.

Add to that Honky Tonk Women, Freebird, Stairway to Heaven, and ANYTHING by Neil Young.

One of my personal lyric faves was a Japanese band doing "The Last Train to Clarksville"

#18 stevieray
AHAHHAHAHAA

You have to hear it in a really squeaky high pitched angry staccato oriental accent too

hysterical

Fank Zapppaaada Mummmas

ATTA bessshhh plates ha hound

later Lizards

#17 Trickster

You mean this?

Damn. Gotta lay off the homebrew...

"I thought it was going to be kind of cheesy," said Hannah Koch, of Prairie Village, who came clad in an elf costume.

Babbalouey

how TF did THAT happen, I didn't put a link there

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! You crack me up! :D

Once again, Bush's fault.

Think of the impact of all that rock n roll on the biosphere. Birds were frightened. Gaia wept.

JWM

And knowing Blackmore's predilections I hope this field wasn't filled with 1,680 primadonnas.

witnessed, LOL

now I can go

Charles, considering the eternal LGF "Zappa quote" feature, you may want to point out that the lyrics to "Smoke on the Water" not only mentions Zappa, but the entire song is about how the casino in Montreux burned down either during or after a Zappa concert.

#10 BabbaZee 6/04/2007 4:49:07 pm PDT

Best Smoke on the Water story was a friend of mine who in a bar in Saigon had seen a Vietnamese band playing Smoke on the Water

I like the story of the USN flight crew who, while captives of the ChiComs, amused themselves by teaching the guards "Hoter Cariforna"

My version of Hell; 1,683 moonbats singing Give Peace a Chance.

That is TOO FUNNY! LOfreakinL!

{trixie]

BYE!

#26 Odinist

You mean this?

Ah... memories. Yes kids, the ‘60s were that bad.

LOL.

See if you can find Dread Zeppelin's version of Smoke on the Water. If nothing else, it will make you laugh.

Some stupid with a flare gun probably showed up too.

#20 American Soldier

1,683 kazoos doing "It's a Small World"?

Ever heard of the Temple City Kazoo Orchestra?
They do a kazoo version of "Stairway to Heaven" and Richard Strauss' "Also Sprach Zarathustra" (theme from 2001:A Space OdysseY) which they call "2001 Sprach Kazoostra".

Hilarious. Or maddening, depending on one's point of view...

Speaking of guitar players; anyone else ever notice that moonbat Carlos Santana looks just like the Commie, Daniel Ortega?

Deep Purple. Yawn. Wake me when it's "Sweet Child of Mine"...

#10 Babba the Zee: ROFLMAO!

Hit home, HARD, because as a 18-year-old on the Korean DMZ, I was watching KOREAN bands mindlessly but energetically roaring out those American songs for us!

No understanding, except that it got them bookings and bucks and a free beer or two from homesick GI's!

/Link or no, that was a GREAT post, Kiddo!

Since ya'all are insisting on seeing this...

here's the vid

For those who really want to hear it there's a Video : 1.683 gitaristen spelen ‘Smoke on the water’

#36 Ringo the Gringo

My version of Hell; 1,683 moonbats singing Give Peace a Chance.

I'll raise you one: 1,683 moonbats singing John Lennon's "Imagine".

Dun dun dun, dun dun-dun dun...

Hell would be a thousand William Shatner impersonators (and Shatner himself) singing "Bohemian Rhapsody."

#46 Thanos
Edged me out by 30 seconds.

PBbbbt! Beat you to it for once KT

#21 maddogg

WTF?

Daily Kos headlines now a permanent fixture in the blogads?

No, it's an LGF feature. And you can set the website to any of a number of different ones on the drop-down list. Mine is usually set to MEMRI.

Four million 3rd graders playing "My Country Tis of Thee" on the recorder, and Eric Cartman discovers the "Brown Note."

#20 American Soljer: (clutching ribs, in pain and crawling back into chair!)
You've heard my whimpered pleas for mercy!

"Small World" ... :D

#31 Ryannon

Excellent. :>D

#32 JWM

I don't see any amps, so Gaia would approve of that. But all the carbon life forms treading on the grass and hogging oxygen, tsk tsk.

My version of hell includes my ex-wife so I try not to think about it.

Heh, they should have made them all bring their own pignose...

And all with their little smoky amps. It's just so cute.

#53 Spiny Norman

Thanks. I see it now. Thought I had the DTs:)

My own personal sheer hell.

But why 'Smoke on the Water'?

I have to think about that one...

But did they all know each other, or were they all "Perfect Strangers"

U2's rendition of Helter Skelter where they proved their complete lack of rhythm.

We're gonna keep playin' the riff over and over again!

M-kay. That was, ummm... sheesh.

The world's biggest garage band.

From the title I thought this was going to be another Ahmadinejad thread. Then I saw the pic.

#10 BabbaZee

Every Vietnamese band I ever heard could always play Lolling on the Liver(Proud Mary by CCR).

Just a reminder, another round of Republican Debates tomorrow -- think it starts at 7 eastern

I used to mix bands like this
[Link: www.nuclearassault.us...]
So my vision of hell is somewhat more refined.

Pretty tough on the ears, but it can't be any worse than listening to Mama Moonbat screeching.

And louder

How about this:

Hell is 1683 wannabe's playin/singin' anything by Green Day.

Buzzsaw

What about secondhand smoke on the water?

Lol Much funnier than Enola Gay and Lesbian

Been there, done that. (Bassists count, too.)

Pignoses?! Are they still around? Wow... acid flashback.

#73 CanadianBacon

How about this:

Hell is 1683 wannabe's playin/singin' anything by Green Day.

That's it! I'm abandoning this thread before it gets any worse!

#48 Colonel Panik 6/04/2007 5:01:48 pm PDT

I'll raise you one: 1,683 moonbats singing John Lennon's "Imagine".

I call your "Imagine", and raise you by a Yoko Ono recording- any.

Tino Martino

wold approve of this.

(To the tune of The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.)

They stopped making Firebirds and Camaros
It was late friday night I was wasted all right,
When I saw a mullet named Harold.
His words pierced his ears like the stud in his ear,
"They stopped making Firebirds and Camaros"

As my buzz was extreme I excused this blaspheme
As the ravings of a dude high on whippets.
But then others confirmed what I had just learned,
General Motors was betraying The Mullets.

The cars' coolness and class weren't apparent at first glance,
But those who drove it did learn
Hockers, you could spit out of the T top slits.
Drag racing beat any rice burner.

Objects seem nearer in the rearview mirror,
where my feathered roach clip hung.
And the backstage pass was taped to the glass
For when Krokus opened up for Neil Young.

The cars beauty was such that it got me laid much,
When chicks saw it the deal was sealed.
I said, "Let's go for a ride" and then once inside,
Their high tops left prints on the windshield.

The seats went back far so the chick could see the stars.
Through the T top it was romantic.
We'd dry hump away to the sounds of Fastway.
The small seats made her juggs look gigantic.

Yes the pride that I feel from owning these wheels
Was so great that nothing could dull it.
It's my shell, I'm the turtle.
I'm the waist, it's my girdle.
It's the reason that I have a mullet.

Laaa laa laa laa laa
La laaa la Mullet.

So tonight, drink a toast,
To the car with the most...ballls.
They stopped making Firebirds and Camaros.

Everybody plays the guitar.
didn't you know that ?

When I get to hell, and my wife assures me I will, I expect this band to be playing at the gates:(

#82 buzzsawmonkey 6/04/2007 5:16:48 pm PDT

#78 American Soldier

What, you don't like Yoko Ono's Concerto for Nails on the Blackboard and Musical Saws Destroying a Theremin in D Minus?

Just from reading that sentence, my ears are bleeding.

#73 Canadian Bacon

Ugh! I cannot stand GreenDay! The little twerp singer came into a bar I was working at, ordered drinks, and expected them comp! And this was in the mid-nineties! Rock star wannabe runt!

#67 easy

Lolling on the liver. HOWL. That did it.

#73 CanadianBacon

Green Day- failed wannabe Sex Pistols, IMHO...

# 84 American Soldier

OK, now imagine 1683 Yoko Ono's singing "I am woman" by Helen Reddy.

#83 maddogg 6/04/2007 5:17:28 pm PDT

When I get to hell, and my wife assures me I will, I expect this band to be playing at the gates:(

Damn. I wonder if it's too late to cancel my reservation?

"Some came from as far away as California and Germany on Sunday to take part "

Hell, I wouldn't go across the STREET to hear ONE of them play it !

Promise me you won't hate me for this?

Oh, if that doesn't make this the MEDT, I don't know what would.

#89 A.S.

You gots to pay for your pleasure:)

#88 lucius septimius 6/04/2007 5:20:42 pm PDT

# 84 American Soldier

OK, now imagine 1683 Yoko Ono's singing "I am woman" by Helen Reddy.

It's gonna take a whole bottle of PX rotgut rum to bleach out that image.

I love Smoke on the Water, but hearing 1,680 people playing it is a bit much. I agree with lawhawk- Stairway might be worse.

My personal hell would be never ending Morrisey.

E C Marm where ever you are,
Your blog just keeps getting better and better.

This is most excellent!

Maybe sheer hell would be 1,683 people singing 'Aqualung'.

#91 Mandy

I'll send you the bill for the counseling I now need after seeing/ hearing that !

#93 MandyManners

Ah! My eyes!

Ah! My ears!

What a terrible thing to post!

#91 MandyManners 6/04/2007 5:21:48 pm PDT

Promise me you won't hate me for this?

OMG! MY EARS! MY EYES! AAAHHHGGG!

#78 American Soldier

... a Yoko Ono recording- any.

Okay, okay, stop... Yoko Ono, no, no, you stepped over the line soldier.

AGRRRGHHHAAA!

# 102 BZM

That is sheer bloody poetry.

For that, some funky brain bleach

I attended a Gillan concert many years ago. They played Smoke on the Water of course. They were bloody awful. You couldn't hear any actual notes - just a continuous noise. It was insanely, pointlessly loud. These guys in Kansas could actually sound better!

♫♫

We all came down to missou
Sat on the America Ballpark foul line
To set a record for the futile
Most can't play worth a dime
Some drove with their mothers
Still the drink and drugs abound
But some stoner with a flare gun
Burned the ball park to the ground
Smoke on the water, fire in the sky ♫♫

Mandy,

I'll see yer Yoko Oh-no and raise you this guy.

#102 Buzzsaw,

LOL. Pretty good.

...that, and Hillary Clinton droning on about Robber Barons.

PURE
HELL

#48 Ringo the Gringo

Speaking of guitar players; anyone else ever notice that moonbat Carlos Santana looks just like the Commie, Daniel Ortega?

LOL, there's a Cuban American dude from Miami who confronted Carlos Santana outside a restaurant in Sausalito while wearing a "Che is Dead, Get Over It" T-Shirt. He blogs about it here.

Just another part of the vast zionist conspiracy...

Mandy... Why?!

my ears are bleeding.

#91 Mandy Manners

Wow - that was like root canal treatment for the ears. she actually sounds like a dentists drill towards the end.

83 maddogg

When I get to hell, and my wife assures me I will, I expect this band to be playing at the gates:(

And in the eighth circle of hell we have this

#78 American Soldier

I call your "Imagine", and raise you by a Yoko Ono recording- any.

That calls for massive retaliation with Nina Hagen.

# 91 Mandy

Did you read the comments, the love, the adulation, the proclamations that this was the "greatest piece of music ever"?

There are some really twisted people out there.

I'll see your 1683 guitarists, and raise you a Tunick.
Dutch disrobe for photo of nude masses

Tunick, from New York City, has become famous for photographing thousands of naked people in public settings worldwide, from London and Vienna to Buenos Aires and Buffalo. He set a record for naked photography with a photo of 18,000 people in the buff in Mexico City last month.

MEXICO CITY GALLERY: Images from record-setting nude shoot - flash required for display of 6 stills.

Mock all you want, but Ritchie Blackmore was bad ass.

Deep Purple rocked.

I can remember this song was big just about the time Radar Love was big. I remember well playing on my most excellent 8-track tape at home.

But where did they plug in 1,680 amps?

Bands like these, and disco in general caused me to turn off the radio in 1975 and keep it off until I developed a taste for country music, which also sucked in the 70's and 80's but has improved much since then. IMHO, that is.

And nextstopmars; damn you! (Holy moses they sucked).

#91

Curse you, Mandy Manners!

That's three minutes and forty-nine seconds of my life that I can NEVER have back!

(Not to mention the LONGEST three minutes and forty-nine seconds of my life...)

Thank you for reminding me why I spent the year I got back to the US holed up in my room watching cop shows on TV.

http://cdbaby.com/cd/wingsounds2

The Royal Flush of Chinese American Music,
Wing sings "Highway to Hell"

Here's the first song I ever played in the car upon receiving my driver's license.

HIGHWAY Star...

And no collection of bands who truly and completely sucked (literally as well as figuratively) can be complete without these guys(?).

#130 song_and_dance

Blackmore was one of the premiere rock guitarists of the '70s (along with the Beck-Page-Clapton triumverate). All the post-Eddie shredders-to-come (Vai, Satch, etc.) would be nowhere without Blackmore's influence. He practically birthed Yngwei (for better or worse).

And what's more, he knew how to improvise -- a concept lost on so many latter-day guitar "heroes" (including Edward -- I can't think of one Van Halen song where Eddie actually soloed over some changes...)

#129 treesarie

The Royal Flush of Chinese American Music,
Wing sings "Highway to Hell"

Link doesn't work. But I can imagine it sounding something like a female version of the Kim Jong-Il puppet from "Team America" singing AC/DC.

Wasn't Wing in a South Park episode with the City Wok man?

Maybe sheer hell would be 1,683 people singing 'Aqualung'.

#91 MandyManners

I actually kinda liked it.

(This comment must have caused the second, mini-crash a few minutes ago... as soon as I pressed "post...", the site came crashing down. Even electrons hate Yoko Ono.)

Here's another vision of the apocalypse: complete with mistimed lines and out of tune shouting, singing the classic pop frolic "God Send Death", it can only be - Slayer.

KYYS put this together? can't be...

this kind of stunt seems more like a KQRC tactic (even if it doesn't have Johnny Dare written all over it)

#135

Yes,Shitty Wok

This is pretty apocalyptic, at least with regard to simulated natural disasters and costuming.

Charles,

My version of hell would be one of those 2,000+ nude "group" photos taking place at a Rosie O'Donnell look-alike contest.

#61 NoSubmission

But why 'Smoke on the Water'?

I have to think about that one...

Smoke On The Water is the first riff that most guitar players learn because it's so easy. I can still remember my 6th grade music class where everyone would play Smoke On The Water on ukeleles and recorders. I like Deep Purple, but Smoke On The Water has been overplayed. It would have been better with Space Truckin'.

This is pretty horrible

#119 Colonel Panik 6/04/2007 5:51:06 pm PDT

#78 American Soldier

I call your "Imagine", and raise you by a Yoko Ono recording- any.

That calls for massive retaliation with Nina Hagen.

My DSL's been flakin' out. Then it came back and I saw that. I think I need to get off-line and focus on drinking for the rest of the night.

Ya know, it could been "Southern Man" - the absolute worst gitfiddle playin' in modern history.

One of America's finest moments...

#144 buzzsawmonkey 6/04/2007 6:09:36 pm PDT

#133 maddog

You haven't truly experienced disconnect until you go to a bar mitzvah and watch all the little kids and the bubbies and zaydes dancing to "YMCA"--with the hand jive.

That brings back some bad sights I'd managed to forget until now.

#148 American Soldier

#119 Colonel Panik 6/04/2007 5:51:06 pm PDT

#78 American Soldier

I call your "Imagine", and raise you by a Yoko Ono recording- any.

That calls for massive retaliation with Nina Hagen.

My DSL's been flakin' out. Then it came back and I saw that. I think I need to get off-line and focus on drinking for the rest of the night.

Nina is a freak, that's for sure. But I don't think she's a moonbat. In her youth in East Berlin she was a thorn in the side of the Communist Party. They ended up expelling her to West Berlin.

#144 Buzz

Anything like this?

Buzzsaw,

I wanted to grab the video. But video/audio synchronization was so screwed up, it lost much in translation.

Master Tav...

LOL

#143 Mountain

Smoke On The Water is the first riff that most guitar players learn because it's so easy.

This is true -- although most beginning guitarists actually play it incorrectly, using strictly barre chord shapes. In actuality, the "Smoke" riff is played on two strings by finger-picking the root and the fifth below.

I heard Blackmore talk about this, and he's somewhat sensitive about the flak the song has accrued over time, as so many scoff at the fact that the main riff is essentially just four notes. Ritchie said that whenever he heard someone use that fact as a criticism, he replied with, "So was the main riff in Beethoven's Fifth."

I once read an interview with Roger Glover regarding the "Smoke on the Water Event". According to Roger, the fire started while Frank Zappa was on stage and the severity of the situation wasn't immediately evident. When told that he would have to stop the show due to fire, Frank said something like, "Next: Authur Brown IN PERSON!"

I thought that was tremendously funny, but it's hard to find anyone else who recognizes the humor in that remark...though you Lizards will surely know what he was talking about (even w/o the link).

My version of Hell; 1,684 (new record) lefties singing "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing" while wearing flowers in their hair.

***ing brilliant...

144 buzzsawmonkey

You haven't truly experienced disconnect until you go to a bar mitzvah and watch all the little kids and the bubbies and zaydes dancing to "YMCA"--with the hand jive.

I can top that - a zillion drunk people at Oktoberfest doing the bird dance

#158 slarty

I'd not heard that version (although it's funny as hell), but I did hear an interview with the band where Glover and Ian Paice said that Frank's words on stage were, "I don't mean to frighten anyone, but -- RUUUNNN!"

So long ago I doubt anyone actually remembers what really went down...

Flo and eddie gave a funny account.

#156 StinkHammer

This is true -- although most beginning guitarists actually play it incorrectly, using strictly barre chord shapes. In actuality, the "Smoke" riff is played on two strings by finger-picking the root and the fifth below.

I didn't know that. I played it on barre chords too.

#161 nextstopmars

I can top that - a zillion drunk people at Oktoberfest doing the bird dance

How about Vince Neil of Motley Crue doing the Chicken Dance.

Hillary must be tryin' to shore up her conservative base. I think I am gonna heave.

[Link: politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com...]

/Pepto Bismol

The most pathetic part of this Smoke on the Water debacle is that most of the people playing the song are doing it with acoustic guitars! It's like listening to AC/DC as sung by Art Garfunkel!

Here's a guy who I thought played a mean guitar but I never hear him mentioned with the 70s and 80s greats.

Bye the way, Journey sucked in concert. My old girlfriend dragged me to three of them - all equally as bad.

Neal Schon

Would of been cooler if they'de played with this.

It could have all ended in tears:

[Link: en.wikipedia.org...]

I also thought old Eddie to be pretty good...

#169 john bono -

1,683 kazoo players doing "Light My Fire."

Then you've got something to be proud of.

Hey, they could have been playing "Black Betty".

Here's a vision of Hell: 1,683 renditions of this ad.

Antidote
Some nice picking

Best Smoke on the Water story was a friend of mine who in a bar in Saigon had seen a Vietnamese band playing Smoke on the Water and singing it phonetically...

That reminds me of a hotel bar in Thailand when the girl was singing Pat Benatar's "I hurt my self for lubbing you."

joan jett

#165 song

For the 70's Blackmore was one of many.

The '70s was rife with great rock guitarists, even though the Eddie revolution has sorta shuffled them under the rug. Page. Blackmore. Clapton. Leslie West. Robin Trower. Ronnie Montrose. Rick Derringer. Robert Fripp. Rory Gallagher. Steve Howe. Dave Gilmour. Frank Marino. Johnny Winter. The list goes on and on.

For me it was Jeff Beck. Blasphemous as it is to say, I even preferred him to Hendrix -- he was doing all manner of radical shit on the guitar before Hendrix made an act out of it. I recall an interview with Pete Townshend where he talked about the first time he saw Hendrix perform in some club in England, before he was Hendrix the Star. Townshend said after the show he immediately called up Jeff Beck and said, “Have you seen this guy Hendrix? It’s unbelievable—he’s stealing all your stuff!”

[sigh] To us Old Farts, those were the good ol' days of rock 'n' roll . . .

buzzsaw,

Not bad, not bad...

Not quite what I expected when I opened but...

#170 goodbye_natalie

Here's a guy who I thought played a mean guitar but I never hear him mentioned with the 70s and 80s greats.

I think Neal Schon is a terrific, underrated guitar player. Very lyrical and melodic, but with chops. Carlos Santana drafted him into his band at 16 years old.

#182 Stinkhammer,

[sigh] To us Old Farts, those were the good ol' days of rock 'n' roll . . .

Those were good times. I'm trying really hard with my kids to not be like my old man and be stuck on Elvis but I haven't heard anything out there the last 20 years that chilled me like the late 60s and most of the 70s.

Guess Nirvana, Counting Crows, or the Red Hot Chili Peppers is about as close to anything original I've heard that still sounds like a good old rock and roll tune.

1,683 60's hippie remnants playing Smoke on the Water?
Where are 1,683 snipers when you need them?

Believe it or not, the best concert I ever saw...

#186 goodbye_natalie

I haven't heard anything out there the last 20 years that chilled me like the late 60s and most of the 70s.

I'm hip.

The other day I came across an old video of Rory Gallagher on YouTube, from about 1974. I was only vaguely aware of Rory when I was living in those times, but now in my maturity I thought I'd check it out retrospectively.

Rory was on fire, really laying it down. It knocked me on my ass. I was thinking, Yesss! Where is this kinda stuff NOW?

For as much slack as the '70s get for all the painfully stupid cultural shit that went on during that time, there was also a fair share of righteousness. Just like any era, when you think about it . . .

So, if they cut a CD, Charles, you won't be putting it on your Wish List, right?

Which reminds me - the ole wish list was last updated just before Christmas last year. Is it up to date, Charles? :)

#192 song_and_dance

How about Return to Forever, Romantic Warrior?

Yes, yes! Al diMeola, Lenny White! My goodness...

I definitely went through my "Bad-Ass Fusion" phase too: John McLaughlin, Allan Holdsworth -- amazing. To this day Tony Williams' New Lifetime album (featuring Holdsworth) is some of my favorite guitar radness.

A few years ago on A&E I saw a tribute to B.B. King [not one of my favorite players -- more blasphemy] which featured Jeff Beck on a few songs. He. Was. Stunning. Good to see he hadn't lost his step by spending all his time restoring old hot rod cars...

167 mountain

How about Vince Neil of Motley Crue doing the Chicken Dance.

That's it! That video even looks like Kitchener-Waterloo. Same song, but with a bunch of drunks on a crowded dance floor with no sense of rythym who can't remember the moves, even after the twentieth time they play the song. Not something any sober person would enjoy. Remind me to never be the designated driver. I'm scarred for life.

The previous record was held by a bunch of guitarist doing "Takin' Care Of Business", by a guitar hero of mine, Randy Bachman (actually Bachman Turner Overdrive.

I would have made it if I could, since that was the first song I ever learned.

I can't think of a better tune to play at Guantanamo around the clock.

I used to work at a music store, and I can say that Smoke On Da Wawa is the top banned song, despite it's age. Others include Sweet Child 'O Mine, Smells Like Teen Spirit, Stairway To Heaving, and from the keyboard department, Fur Elise.

The more things change...

#189
Billy Joel kicks ass, period. Have you seen him lately? Have you guys noticed that he and Mark Levin are starting to look a lot alike? My fav Joel song...

FWIW, for several years I was in Beatles/Eagles fusion band. We called ourselves The Beagles.

Not really.

You could teach a MILLION people to play Smoke On The Water in about 5 minutes, so the record will always be in danger of being broken, I guess.

#200 son_and_dance

I saw the Mahavishnu Orchestra in the 70's, playing with a band called Wet Willie.

Wow, someone who remembers Wet Willie -- and actually saw them! "Grits Ain't Groceries," "Baby Fat," "Red Hot Chicken" -- some pretty funky Southern white boys.

Ah, it's been a fun thread to exhume some memories and reminisce, but I gotta go feed some critters. Ciao, Lizardoids.

I'm organizing 2112 guitarists playing Tom Sawyer.

#203 StinkHammer -

Southern white boys

"Go Jim Dandy" - IIRC there's a girl, too.

More crazy:
Jimmy Carter has nothing more to fear>

Sorry to skip the remembrance.

If I had a dollar for everytime I've driven to and from the airport this year alone, I wouldn't need to worry about paying for medical school.

Now where was I? Oh yes, Billy Joel. One of my favorites...

Man, I SO wanna hear the audio! The pic just doesn't make the cut!

#206 song_and_dance_man -

The faint little light came on for me with that post. I think that W.W. and Black Oak Ark usually appeared together - Black Oak Ark had the girl.

Wow, too long ago.

"Smoke On The Water" World Record

/gee, anyone think of checking YouTube?

This should be my theme song...

Billy is still damn good! He looks like he needs to hit the treadmill a little. Hard to imagine he was married to old Christy when she was still in her prime.

Kansas City breaks World Record Smoke On The Water 1683 gtrs

/the official video

My own version of hell...

#210 KB,

LOL. Good thinkin'. Actually sounded better than I thought it was going to sound.

Knowing that Charles (PBUH) is an excellent guitar player, I'll stick my neck out and say I've always thought Blackmore/Deep Purple is/are way, way over-rated.
Just sayin'.
-full disclosure: every guitar player is better than I.

D'oh! Killed another thread.

#203 StinkHammer 6/04/2007 7:50:35 pm PDT

#200 son_and_dance

I saw the Mahavishnu Orchestra in the 70's, playing with a band called Wet Willie.

I saw Mahavishnu with Zappa and Leo Kottke. Twice I saw Mahavishnu and got busted both nights.

One of the nights I saw Mahavishnu the spotlight guy kept highlighting the wrong soloist, all the instruments sounded alike, so the other three guys would point to the guy who was soloing.

#216 Abu Bin Squid 6/04/2007 8:44:49 pm PDT

D'oh! Killed another thread.

I'm not the only one?

It's worse than you think, Charles: While those guys were plucking strings, the vocals were being handled by Cindy Sheehan.

#148 LC LaWedgie 6/04/2007 6:11:06 pm PDT

Ya know, it could been "Southern Man" - the absolute worst gitfiddle playin' in modern history.

Lynyrd Skynyrd dug it though.

Can't touch this:

#156 Stinkhammer

Very true...it's an easy riff to play. But the opening bars of "Satisfaction" are even easier, since it's only three notes on just one string. But "Satisfaction" isn't nearly as overused as "Smoke on the Water".

Just think if they were using bagpipes.

It took me 2 HOURS to get through this thread what with all the great links! Man what a blast from the past. I know she doesn't rate as one of the GREAT guitarists, but if it wasn't for Nancy Wilson from Heart, I might not be playing the guitar for almost 30 years myself! I was 14 when I got my first one (1979), and haven't stopped since. She was a HUGE inspiration to me, 'cause she showed that a GIRL could be up there with the guys, and not be all T&A and singing. Thanks for all the memories, Lizards! Man I love this site! Charles turned me on to Patti Griffin, and some others here, and I will ALWAYS be grateful! (How the hell do you spell gratefull?)

Mama

Oh, and Wendy-O and Yok-O SUCK!

well, I've always marched to a different drummer...
unfortunately, he's been playing the drum solo to In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida.

#182 Stinkhammer

There's nothing that's come on the scene in the 90s or 2000s that could match the best of what came out in the 70s and early 80s.

But you left out one of my favorites. Shredding may be nice and flashy, but I'd rather listen to a guy who can find a melody.

And why can't I ever make this intro sound like this?

Youtube Video