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Location: Chicago | There is a tradition of sorts to sing about the guitar (or playing) in the lyrics. "While My Guitar Gently Weeps," "Won't Get Fooled Again" and "Lucille" come to mind. There are many metaphors: axe, phallus, companion, woman, voice.... (Hendrix even made it a weapon!). Do you have a favorite lyric that features a guitar or playing one? |
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| I like the lyric from Thunder Road "well I got this guitar and I learned how to make it talk." Just a cool lyric from a great song. |
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Location: Jet City | "I bought a guitar, I got the fever, that's rock and roll" - Shaun Cassidy
Make all the fun you want, but that's how it went down for me. |
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Location: Chicago | Just remembered a fave of mine: Johnny Winter's version of CB classic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doGij4HItlk
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Location: Hot Springs, S.D. | I really love the original by James Taylor, but I thought some of you might enjoy hearing Tony Rice do this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RY6kPuz63ks |
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Location: Denver, CO | "People said son, you'll never get far on 37 dollars and a Jap guitar, but now I'm smokin' into Texas with the hammer dawn in a rockin' little combo from the guitar town." That count? Steve Earle
Or how about John Hiatt, "Perfectly Good Guitar?" |
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Location: closely held secret | I Bought A Flat Guitar Tutor
I bought a flat
Diminished responsibility
You're de ninth person to see
To be suspended in a seventh
Major catastrophe
It's a minor point but gee
Augmented by the sharpness of your
See what I'm going through
Ay to be with you
In a flat by the sea
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Location: Chicago | Jerry Reed and Glenn Campbell get down: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqxv3DbXO4k
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Location: Fort Worth, TX |
I'd highly suggest selecting the Jim Stafford video at the end of this one playing a version of Classical Gas. I didn't know he had those chops. Hilarious as well as awesome. Thanks for posting this. I can't get enough of the Jerry/Glenn combo, those two guys are so in synch it's superhuman everytime! |
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Location: Chicago | Here's a beautiful INSTRUMENTAL version of a familiar tune. I guess the listener must supply the lyrics Stanley Jordan doing Bread's "GUITAR MAN".... really nice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyjQ_U91yJE
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Location: Central Massachusetts | Neil Young, "This Old Guitar":
This old guitar ain't mine to keep
It's mine to play for a while
John Hiatt, "Perfectly Good Guitar":
Oh it breaks my heart to see those stars
Smashing a perfectly good guitar
I don't know who they think they are
Smashing a perfectly good guitar
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Location: Suisun City, Ca | Get a second-hand guitar
Chances are you're going far
If you can get in with the right bunch of fellas |
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Location: Central Massachusetts | "Riding with the King" -- BB King/Eric Clapton version:
BB Speaking:
I stepped out of Mississippi when I was ten years old
With a suit cut sharp as a razor and a heart made of gold
I had a guitar hanging just about waist high
And I'm gonna play this thing until the day I die |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | Hmm I have two favorite entire songs that celebrate the guitar..
The Marshall Plan - BOC
And of course Juke Box Hero - Foreigner |
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Location: Orlando, FL | Let my guitar do the talking,
Let my fingers do the walking.
When my love comes knocking,
let my guitar do the talking.
Cause I mean what I say, and I play what I mean,
Let my guitar do the talking.
Let my guitar do the talking, by Guitar Shorty
Edited by Designzilla 2013-06-01 8:16 AM
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Location: Fort Worth, TX | Well, I was passing by a pawn shop In an older part of town Something caught my eye And I stopped and turned around
I stepped inside and there I spied In the middle of it all Was a beat up old guitar Hanging on the wall.
What do you want for that piece of junk I asked the old man He just smiled and took it down and he put it in my hand
He said you tell me what it's worth You're the one who wants it Turn it up, play a song And let's just see what haunts it
So I hit a couple of cords In my old country way of strumming And then my fingers turned to lightning Man.. I never heard it coming
It was like I always knew it I just don't know where I learned it It wasn't nothin' but the truth So I just reared back and burned it
Well I lost all track of time There was nothing I couldn't pick Up and down the neck I never missed a lick
The guitar almost played itself There was nothing I could do It was getting hard to tell Just who was playing who
When I finally put it down I couldn't catch my breath My hands were shaking And I was scared to death
The old man finally got up Said where in the Hell you been I've been waiting all these years For you to stumble in
Then he took down an old dusty case Said go on and pack it up You don't owe me nothing And then he said good luck
There was something spooky in his voice And something strange on his face When he shut the lid I saw my name was on the case
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Location: Thredbo, NSW, Australia | Stories We Could Tell
Stared at that guitar in that museum in Tennessee
Name plate on the glass brought back twenty melodies
Scars upon the face told about all the times he fell
Singin' all the stories he could tell
Singin' every story he could tell
And oh the stories it could tell
And I bet you it still rings like a bell
And I wish we could sit back on the bed in some motel
And listen to the stories we could tell
I think John Sebastian wrote it, but it has been covered by Dolly Parton, Del McCoury, Helen Reddy, Brenda Lee, Johnny Cash, Bobby Darin, Slade, Joe Cocker, The Everly Brothers, Tom Petty, Jimmy Buffett and Dan Crary |
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Location: sitting at my computer | DaveKell - Well, I was passing by a pawn shop ... +1 The Guitar - Guy Clark & Verlon Thompson http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fkGKTq6SIQ |
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Location: atlanta | Not exactly celebrating, but anyway:
Electric guitar gets run over by a car on the highway
This is a crime against the state
This is the meaning of life.
To tune this electric guitar
An electric guitar is brought in to a court of law
The judge and the jury (twelve members of the jury)
All listening to records
This is a crime against the state
This is the verdict they reach:
Never listen to electric guitar
Electric guitar is copies, the copy sounds better
Call this the law of justice, call this freedom and liberty
I thought I perjure myself, right in front of the jury!
Is this a crime against the state? no!
This is the verdict they reach:
Someone controls electric guitar.
"ELECTRIC GUITAR"
Songwriters: BYRNE, DAVID/HARRISON, JERRY
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR |  Well, it's about a guitar
Edited by Old Man Arthur 2013-06-03 4:10 PM
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Location: Denver, CO | I get off on '57 Chevies.
I get off on screamin' guitars.
Like the way it gets me;
Every time it hits me;
I've got a rock 'n' roll, I've got a rock 'n' roll heart. |
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Location: Waurika OK | I bought me a guitar an put in tune, an I was rockin and Rollin soon.
So far back in the past I can't remember what the song was? |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | I almost forgot... my all time favorite get-the-crowd's attention tune...
157 Riverside Avenue - REO Speedwagon |
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Location: Denver, CO | Well I was sixteen and sick of school
I didn't know what I wanted to do
I bought a guitar
I got the fever
That's rock 'n' roll
I played at parties
Played in bars
I spent my money buyin' new guitars
I screamed my heart out
But how I loved it
That's rock 'n' roll
Who remembers this one?
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Location: Orlando, FL | There oughta be a law with no bail
Smash a guitar and you go to jail
With no chance for early parole
You don't get out until you get some soul
Oh it breaks my heart to see those stars
Smashing a perfectly good guitar
I don't know who they think they are
Smashing a perfectly good guitar
John Hiatt |
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Location: Northwest Arkansas | My Mama was a Gibson. My Daddy was a Fender. That's why they call me "Mind Bender". |
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Location: Denver, CO | mileskb - 2013-06-03 10:31 PM I almost forgot... my all time favorite get-the-crowd's attention tune... 157 Riverside Avenue - REO Speedwagon Dweet-dweet-dweedily-deet |
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Location: Orlando, FL | Who draws the crowd and plays so loud
Baby it's the guitar man
Who's gonna steal the show
You know, baby, it's the guitar man |
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Location: Orlando, FL | Hey this could be the NEW Insomniac Pop Quiz! |
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Location: sitting at my computer | Need is a relative thing these days It borders on desire The high tech world is full of bright shiny things We think that we really require Sometimes more than others You see who and what and where you are I'm a one-man band with no immediate plans Tonight I just need my guitar |
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Location: Chicago | I was driving across the burning desert
When I spotted six jet planes
Leaving six white vapor trails across the bleak terrain
It was the hexagram of the heavens
it was the strings of my guitar
Amelia... it was just a false alarm
--Joni Mitchell |
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Location: NW Montucky | All songs from my teen years.....
I got my first real 6 string
Bought it at the 5 and dime
Played it 'til my fingers bled
It was the summer of '69
This one I believe used an Ovation 12 string for the opening
And I walk these streets
A loaded 6 string on my back
I play for keeps
'Cause I might not make it back
I've been everywhere
still I'm standing tall
I've seen a million faces
And I've rocked them all
just a single line from this one...it always stuck out to me amidst the rest of the song for some reason
There's blood on my hand, and my Les Paul's beat...
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Location: Chicago | Watching Jimi at Monterey....Making love to the guitar in "Wild Thing"... is it a girl of the Strat?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iTXdZscdm4 If impatient jump to 2:22
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Location: Chicago | Neil Diamond:
Cracklin' Rose, you're a store bought woman
But you make me sing like a guitar hummin'
So hang on to me, girl
Our song keeps runnin' on |
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Location: Chicago | "Ripple" lyrics by Robert Hunter; music by Jerry Garcia. A favorite, mysterious Dead tune:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFsbAuX9P4w
If my words did glow with the gold of sunshine
And my tunes were played on the harp [guitar?] unstrung
Would you hear my voice come through the music
Would you hold it near as it were your own?
It's a hand-me-down, the thoughts are broken
Perhaps they're better left unsung
I don't know, don't really care
Let there be songs to fill the air |
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Location: Always beautiful canyon country of Utah | And for us oldies who learned to play in the 60's there's nothing wrong with John Denver's "This Old Guitar". "It taught me how to laugh and how to cry" among other lyrics. |
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Location: sitting at my computer | Well I found her in a pawnshop somewhere up in Ohio. Where I guess some rounder came up short and had to let her go. Cost me ninety dollars, but she's worth much more by far, 'cause I've never had a better friend than that old beat-up guitar. Didn't look like too much. Just a Roy Smeck Stage Deluxe. And a lady never faired as well, who'd traveled through so much. That Old Beat-up Guitar -- Jerry Jeff Walker
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Lyrics Celebrating the Guitar (& playing it)