Members fred zappelin Posted December 23, 2006 Members Share Posted December 23, 2006 I`m sure this therad has been done before but I haven`t seen it so.... Name some great rockin' tunes that don't feature the guitar as the main ingredient....I guess my reason for doing this is that even though I love guitars, I feel that the element of the guitar in rock based music has been over emphasized to a degree. I`ll start it by mentioning "Instant Karma" - Dr. Winston O Boogie Bass, Drums & John Lennon on piano with reverb=dynamite Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members philbo Posted December 23, 2006 Members Share Posted December 23, 2006 Well, going back a bit.... how about Jerry Lee Lewis - Great Balls of Fire? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members cooterbrown Posted December 23, 2006 Members Share Posted December 23, 2006 These songs had no guitar on them. Lee Michaels - "You Know What I Mean"Vocal, organ, and drums. David Essex - "Rock On"Vocals, bass, percussion, strings and horns. Beatles - "Penny Lane"Vocals, piano, harmonium (mic'd through a guitar amp), bass, drums, flute, percussion, bowed double bass, brass...George's contribution was ringing the fire engine bell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members blackpig Posted December 23, 2006 Members Share Posted December 23, 2006 Eleanor Rigby Almost anything by Supertramp (can't stand 'em) Great Gig In The Sky I Don't Like Mondays Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ani Posted December 24, 2006 Members Share Posted December 24, 2006 Dreamweaver - Gary Wright.... iirc, the music was performed primarily on synthesizers; heard he sucked in concert though... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members fred zappelin Posted December 24, 2006 Author Members Share Posted December 24, 2006 Now that was a great rock song ! He almost went deaf from his stage rig being so loud. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members cooterbrown Posted December 24, 2006 Members Share Posted December 24, 2006 Originally posted by Ani Dreamweaver - Gary Wright....iirc, the music was performed primarily on synthesizers; heard he sucked in concert though... I saw him open for Foreigner, back in the seventies, and he had like four or five guys on synths, plus a drummer, and the show was pretty damn good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members blue2blue Posted December 24, 2006 Members Share Posted December 24, 2006 Originally posted by cooterbrown These songs had no guitar on them.Lee Michaels - "You Know What I Mean"Vocal, organ, and drums....[snip] Lee Michaels... I saw him at LEAST seven times if not a few more starting in '68... I used to see him in a venue in Costa Mesa or Irvine, CA (maybe at the old fairgrounds facility or in an old barracks hall or something? It's so hazy) along with, at least a time or two, a band that called themselves CTA or Chicago Transit Authority. At the time they were kind of the "anti-Blood, Sweat, and Tears"... more rockin', lots of guitar AND jazzy horn workouts. I actually liked them quite a bit... it was a million miles from what they'd be in the late 70s as Chicago. Anyhow Lee Michaels and THE drummer from hell, Frosty (God love him and God rest him) whose hands would often be bloody after his stickless solo late in the set... he was such a fixture on the local scene that I was SHOCKED when he got a little national exposure with a couple of singles. Not purely guitarless by any stretch, but still not guitar-driven, I wouldn't say, was "Time of the Season"... Those minimal but sharp guitar chord stabs are a nice touch but it is the sound of the B3 that really, really dominates the tune -- including a cascade of overdub organ parts at the very end. Rod Argent was one of my favorite keyboaridsts of the era... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members blue2blue Posted December 24, 2006 Members Share Posted December 24, 2006 So far we're all doing keyboard songs... How about sax songs? The fifties was lousy with sax rockers. Trumpet... the Tijuana Brass wasn't exactly rock but I'm thinkin' there were a few legit rock or rock 'n' roll songs with trumpet. How about harmonica... you could make a good case that more than a couple War songs were pretty much a vehicle for Lee Oskar's powerful yet elegant harp. He could send shivers up my back with that thing. And, dang if there isn't an early 60s song that's just escaping the reach of my memory that I think featured a bagpipe solo? (But we might be well into Snoopy/Red Baron/Bismark novelty territory by now.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members gtrbass Posted December 24, 2006 Members Share Posted December 24, 2006 Howard Jones - You Know I love you. Thomas Dolby - She Blinded me with Science. Big Pig - Breakaway (Aussies will know that one.) Vanilla Fudge - You keep me hanging on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ani Posted December 24, 2006 Members Share Posted December 24, 2006 Originally posted by cooterbrown I saw him open for Foreigner, back in the seventies, and he had like four or five guys on synths, plus a drummer, and the show was pretty damn good. I always liked the song, but he only came to Kansas City the one time as far as I know. He was not very well received here from what I heard. Of course, he performed at Memorial Hall instead of one of the arenas or stadiums that were beginning to surface in the city. Memorial Hall was on it's way out for concert shows at that time. It was rumored that the backup musicians were not nearly as good as what Gary Wright had performed all the parts solo on his album release. Maybe he canned those performers and got new ones... this concert happened very shortly after he hit it big. I just remember a LOT of folks that went to that concert were really let down by the performance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members MarkZ Posted December 24, 2006 Members Share Posted December 24, 2006 Emerson, Lake, and Palmer "Karn Evil 9", "Tarkus", and just about anything else in their catalog that wasn't a Greg Lake guitar-centric ballad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Gomer Pyle Posted December 24, 2006 Members Share Posted December 24, 2006 Gimme Some Lovin WinwoodGood Lovin Rascalls Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Frantag Posted December 24, 2006 Members Share Posted December 24, 2006 Green Onions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ultravibe Posted December 24, 2006 Members Share Posted December 24, 2006 I don't think "Sympathy for the Devil" has any guitar until the solo towards the end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ed A. Posted December 24, 2006 Members Share Posted December 24, 2006 Originally posted by Gomer Pyle Gimme Some Lovin Winwood Lots of Traffic too, like "Glad", "Freedom Rider", "Empty Pages", "The Low Spark Of High-Heeled Boys", etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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