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Location: New Thermopylae | The March issue of Vintage Guitar (on sale mid January) will include the first in a series of features marking 25 years of the magazine's publication. It kicks things off with the results of a VintageGuitar.com online poll to determine what readers think are the 25 coolest guitar-driven songs of the 1960s.
1) "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction"
The Rolling Stones, Out of Our Heads, 1965
2) "Sunshine Of Your Love"
Cream, Disraeli Gears, 1967
3) "Purple Haze"
Jimi Hendrix Experience, Are You Experienced?, 1967
4) "Day Tripper"
The Beatles, Yesterday... and Today , 1965
5) "Walk, Don't Run"
The Ventures, Walk Don't Run, 1960
6) "You Really Got Me"
The Kinks, The Kinks, 1964
7) "Whole Lotta Love"
Led Zeppelin, Led Zeppelin II, 1969
8) "Crossroads"
Cream, Wheels of Fire, 1968
9) "All Along The Watchtower"
The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Electric Ladyland, 1968
10) "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)" /"Voodoo Chile"
The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Electric Ladyland, 1968
11) "While My Guitar Gently Weeps"
The Beatles, White Album, 1968
12) "Oh, Pretty Woman"
Roy Orbison, 1964
13) "Pipeline"
Chantays, Pipeline 1963
14) "Born To Be Wild"
Steppenwolf, 1968
15) "Misirlou"
Dick Dale and his Del-Tones, 1962
16) "I Feel Fine"
The Beatles, 1964
17) "Little Wing"
The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Axis: Bold as Love, 1967
18) "I'm Going Home"
Ten Years After, Undead, 1968
19) "Honky Tonk Women"
The Rolling Stones, 1969
20) "Apache"
The Shadows, 1960
21) "Mr. Tambourine Man"
The Byrds, Mr. Tambourine Man, 1965
22) "Hideaway"
John Mayall with Eric Clapton, Bluesbreakers Featuring Eric Clapton, 1966
23) "Over, Under, Sideways, Down"
Yardbirds, Over Under Sideways Down (a.k.a. Roger the Engineer), 1966
24) "And Your Bird Can Sing"
The Beatles, Yesterday.and Today (U.S.), Revolver (U.K.), 1965
25) "House of the Rising Sun"
Animals, The Animals, 1964 |
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Location: Flahdaw | It's amazing how fast and completely the music changed that decade...from the Ventures 1960 to Led Zeppelin 1969 |
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Location: Nashville TN. | It sure did |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Looking at the list I wonder how many learned House as their first "guitar" tune. I know of the 25 it's the first one I learned. |
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Location: Flahdaw | yep, me too (or wipe out) |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | +3 |
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Location: SoCal | Originally posted by Beal:
Looking at the list I wonder how many learned House as their first "guitar" tune. I know of the 25 it's the first one I learned. Hell, it's the only one I know.... |
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Location: East Tennessee | 12) "Oh, Pretty Woman"
Roy Orbison, 1964
This one should have made the top ten. |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | A few of these have their roots in surf music. Gotta love it. I think I may have learned Apache or Misirlou first. The first version of the Ventures' Walk Don't Run came out in 1964, but I preferred the second version in 1965. I still have the original sheet music for it hanging in the band room. |
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Location: Colorado | I learned sunshine of your love first - albeit just single notes - no chords |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | the Ventures were VERY influential back then. |
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Location: Indiana | I learned how to play off of the "Learn to Play with the Ventures" albums. Vol 2 first then Vol 1. First song I learned was "Let's Go", I think. then "Pipeline" |
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Location: Atlanta, GA. | Secret Agent Man. |
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Location: Yucaipa, California | …..hmmmmmm, no Santana? |
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Location: Flahdaw | Originally posted by Tim in Yucaipa:
…..hmmmmmm, no Santana? Really?!!! Black Magic Woman! |
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Location: Tennessee | That was Fleetwood Mac. ;) |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | No Free Bird?
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Location: Connersville, Indiana | What about the very beautiful and different song
Crimson and Clover. |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | House of the Rising Sun was the first "real" tune for me too. I don't really count On Top of Old Smokey and Three Blind Mice. :) |
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Location: New Thermopylae | Originally posted by dark bar:
Originally posted by Tim in Yucaipa:
…..hmmmmmm, no Santana? Really?!!! Black Magic Woman! |
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| Black Magic Woman was the very first guitar lead I ever tried to learn. Some of you folks are old! |
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Location: Flahdaw | Originally posted by G8r:
Black Magic Woman was the very first guitar lead I ever tried to learn. Some of you folks are old! Still one of the very few I actually know. |
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