Members PuerAeternus Posted March 20, 2012 Members Share Posted March 20, 2012 Note: this is different as to who first used pinch harmonics in solos... that came way earlier. i think venom- die hard is a good early one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members cratz2 Posted March 20, 2012 Members Share Posted March 20, 2012 Good question. I'd be willing to bet Billy Gibbons did it pretty early on though I can't think of anything off the top of my head. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Cobalt Blue Posted March 20, 2012 Members Share Posted March 20, 2012 Leslie West, perhaps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Willyguitar Posted March 20, 2012 Members Share Posted March 20, 2012 Leslie West, perhaps. Yes - that would have been my guess... or it could be possible to find an even earlier Cream of Hendrix recording, possibly Cream. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members RogerF Posted March 20, 2012 Members Share Posted March 20, 2012 Leslie West (Mountain) came to mind as well. Robby Robertson (The Band) is a good guess, as is Roy Buchanan or Clarence White trying to emulate a pedal steel guitar on a telecaster. But most likely it's some country band/solo artist from the '50s or early 1960's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Yer Blues Posted March 20, 2012 Members Share Posted March 20, 2012 Yes - that would have been my guess... or it could be possible to find an even earlier Cream of Hendrix recording, possibly Cream. There is a live version of "Steppin Out" by Cream were Clapton does it during his solo... to quote my friend "it sounds like a zipper". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members nicholai Posted March 20, 2012 Members Share Posted March 20, 2012 I found tapping videos on Uke from the 30's...... it's all been done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Angry Tele Posted March 20, 2012 Members Share Posted March 20, 2012 maybe Nokie Edwards from The Ventures. He did a lot of weird stuff: pick slides, playing behind the bridge, fingernail slides etc...Link Wray is another one that did all those weird noises/tricks (check out switchblade for example) tapping has nothing to do with pinch harmonics on a riff though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Skyforger Posted March 20, 2012 Members Share Posted March 20, 2012 I can't remember what his name was or what band he played in... Maybe something Buchanan? He'd have his back to the audience while he played so that they couldn't see what he was doing when he did pinch harmonics and other techniques. And in my personal opinion, if anyone has mastered the pinch harmonic (and probably over-uses it), it's Zakk Wylde. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Cobalt Blue Posted March 20, 2012 Members Share Posted March 20, 2012 I found tapping videos on Uke from the 30's...... it's all been done. Not discussing tapping, and the OP is clearly coming from the perspective that he understands that the techniques being employed today have a history. His post is archaeology: He's looking for the earliest pinch harmonics employed in a "rock" solo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Cobalt Blue Posted March 20, 2012 Members Share Posted March 20, 2012 I can't remember what his name was or what band he played in... Maybe something Buchanan? He'd have his back to the audience while he played so that they couldn't see what he was doing when he did pinch harmonics and other techniques.And in my personal opinion, if anyone has mastered the pinch harmonic (and probably over-uses it), it's Zakk Wylde. Roy Buchanan is a great suggestion. (Wish I would have thought of it.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Skyforger Posted March 20, 2012 Members Share Posted March 20, 2012 Roy Buchanan is a great suggestion. (Wish I would have thought of it.) That's the mother {censored}er. Thank you What decade was that? I've been told the story and even shown some footage a hundred times, but I can't remember the details. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Flogger59 Posted March 20, 2012 Members Share Posted March 20, 2012 Roy Buchanan and Billy Gibbons (La Grange). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Alecto Posted March 20, 2012 Members Share Posted March 20, 2012 According to this, Roy Buchanan claimed to have played the first pinch harmonic in the solo for his 1962 song "Potato Peeler." Can anybody think of an earlier song that used pinch harmonics? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members honeyiscool Posted March 20, 2012 Members Share Posted March 20, 2012 Artificial harmonics have been used for hundreds of years, Paganini's Violin Concerto No. 1 has an especially memorable harmonics section. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Cobalt Blue Posted March 20, 2012 Members Share Posted March 20, 2012 Artificial harmonics have been used for hundreds of years, Paganini's Violin Concerto No. 1 has an especially memorable harmonics section. Yes--and again you astound--but the OP's question was more specific than that: pinch harmonics in a rock guitar solo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members BG76 Posted March 20, 2012 Members Share Posted March 20, 2012 Chet Atkins had been doing that for many years prior to 1962. Ditto Lenny Breau and Les Paul. Good suggestion with The Ventures if you're talking about rock guitar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members twofoolsaminute Posted March 20, 2012 Members Share Posted March 20, 2012 Yes--and again you astound--but the OP's question was more specific than that: pinch harmonics in a rock guitar solo. I'm pretty sure he said in a riff, not in the solo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Cobalt Blue Posted March 20, 2012 Members Share Posted March 20, 2012 I'm pretty sure he said in a riff, not in the solo. Thank you for making my point even more precise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members nicholai Posted March 20, 2012 Members Share Posted March 20, 2012 Not discussing tapping, and the OP is clearly coming from the perspective that he understands that the techniques being employed today have a history. His post is archaeology: He's looking for the earliest pinch harmonics employed in a "rock" solo. The title is "first band to use pinch harmonics in a riff", not rock and roll band. I have researched such things. I found that you can find examples of everything we think is new quite easily in what would be considered primitive music by our standards. I apologize for not being clear, I have arthritis, I type as little as possible. If the OP meant rock only, oh well. Tough. Lol, too much info hurts? It gets ridiculous, I can use the same guy for like everything..... First guy to strum like hendrix did during voodoo chile on film.... [video=youtube;UeD8xNeNqzM] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Angry Tele Posted March 20, 2012 Members Share Posted March 20, 2012 again, we're talking about riffs not solos. if its so easy why isnt there examples? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members nicholai Posted March 20, 2012 Members Share Posted March 20, 2012 I would think it's hard to find a lot of old recordings. I guess I can look but it seems a useless task. Whatever I find, someone else would have done it earlier, and there's no record of it. We didn't become a mediated society until the 1920's or so really. It's very interesting to listen to the music that was coming out before recordings (like the first musical recordings) and then compare it to 15 years later when everyone got to hear everyone else play. Another subject again I guess though. Back to pinch harmonics, I did one by accident at like age 13 before I knew what it was. Kept trying to do it again til I learned. I'm not that smart. I'd say its been done on every stringed instrument. Does the OP really only care about rock and roll? He hasn't even been back to the thread. Cobalt cares about rock though, you might have the answer to that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Cobalt Blue Posted March 20, 2012 Members Share Posted March 20, 2012 Cool stuff. Thank you for posting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Cobalt Blue Posted March 20, 2012 Members Share Posted March 20, 2012 I Does the OP really only care about rock and roll? He hasn't even been back to the thread. Cobalt cares about rock though, you might have the answer to that. Thank you. I guess I merely inferred from the word band and the allusion to Venom that the OP was interested solely in "rock" riffs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Dr_Kuh Posted March 20, 2012 Members Share Posted March 20, 2012 again, we're talking about riffs not solos. if its so easy why isnt there examples? Is that Ricky Skaggs in your avatar? That is quite a contrast to your username because I never heard him play anything angry an a tele Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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