Posts Tagged ‘Custom Electric Guitar’
The Beatles just dazzled us in 1965 with one of the greatest albums of all time. The song “Girl” featured a fuzz pedal on the bass guitar, the custom electric guitar sounds were made to sound french on some songs. they even had pianos’ made up to sound like harpsichords. To date it was the most creative album ever.
Brian Wilson after hearing Rubber Soul was so inspired he created in 1966 what most would say is “The Greatest Album of All Time” in “Pet Sounds”. He completely got away from songs about fast cars, beaches, and girls, instead the album was filled with sophisticated and layered vocal harmonies. The songs also featured sound effects by objects non usually associated with music, like bicycle bells, dog whistles, and buzzing organs.
The Beatles have given credit to this album as being the catalyst for their SGT. Pepper album.
Although they were formed in 1972 the best bands to come out of the 1980’s is Van Halen. This was a band that had so much going for it, like some of the best front men in the industry.
Whether you like them or not David Lee Roth and Sammy Hagar were two of the bands frontmen, they each brought their own unique brand of style to the band. The sound of the band was established by their exceptional guitarist Eddie Van Halen.
Eddie like to use his custom electric guitar that he made by hand out of the body of one guitar with the neck of another while using the guts of another. His electric guitar solo on “Eruption” is one of the best solos of all time, Guitar World readers poll had it at #2 on the list of 100 Greatest Guitar Solos.
Carlos Santana is a Mexican born rock star whose career spans 5 decades. The unique sound he arrives at from his Gibson custom electric guitar is purely his own.
Today’s generation mostly know him from his many collaborations such as “Smooth” featuring Rob Thomas of Matchbox Twenty doing the vocals, and Carlos Santana supplying guts of the song with guitar fills and runs that we have come to expect from him.
Some of the kids today might be familiar with some of his older songs like “Evil Ways” and “Black Magic Woman”. These songs were made up of that Latin electric guitar style that drew us all in like a magnet, along the vocals that were provided by Gregg Rolie in those days.
My particular favorite song by Santana is “Everything Is Coming Our Way”. I don’t know why but I consider this a sexy song, I guess it’s just the way it comes across to me. It’s one of the rare songs that features Carlos Santana doing the lead vocals, the solo is provided by a keyboard with Carlos playing rhythm guitar