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Location: Colorado | I'm putting a project together - I need songs that are about playing guitar - or at least reference playing a guitar in the song. Harry Chapin's Six String Orchestra - and John Denver's This Old Guitar come to mind. What else is out there? Heavens - I might even have to pull the guitar out and play a song or two! Somewhere out there there's a country song "I sure Guitar'd of her"! |
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Location: Gardnerville, NV | While My Guitar Gently Weeps |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | 2 of those three popped into my head. |
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Location: NJ | There's an old song by Batdorf & Rodney called "Me & My Guitar.
GoodLuck FINDING it, tho . . .
Harrison also did somewhat of a follow-up entitled "This Guitar Can't Keep From Crying". |
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Location: PDX | John Hartford -- "My Rag"
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Location: closely held secret | Tonight I Just Need My Guitar - Jimmy Buffett
Guitar Man - Bread
Perfectly Good Guitar - John Hiatt
Guitarzan - Ray Stevens
Juke Box Hero - Foreigner
Shut Up And Play Yer Guitar - Frank Zappa |
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Location: Atlanta, GA. | Does this qualify???
(ignore the sexy lady and hear the lyrics)...Yeah, right! |
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Location: Jet City | My all time favorite...
The Discovery - 2112 - Rush
That UK II of mine has sure played it's share of Lifeson tunes.
Speaking of which, I think I remember him onstage with an Adamas or Ovation back in the day. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Guitars, Cadillacs, & Hillbilly Music ...Dwight Yokum.
Guitar Boogie |
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Location: Eaton Rapids Michigan | All good suggestions...David Wilcox has a song called "Guitar Shopping", From "What YOu Whispered"...
"There's a guitar here in the window
I'd like to play before its sold
Its such a classic, mint condition
Great shape for one this old
Now all these axes have their stories
Of the gigs that they have seen
But when this one sold the first time
I was seventeen
'Course back then I didn't want it
it was way too new for me
I needed something old and righteous
with its own authority
So the first guitar I ever bought
Was twice as old as me
Cause its life was full of music
As I dreamed that mine might be
And I played that thing a thousand nights
And traded it away
For something slightly newer
That was easier to play
But now lately I buy new guitars,
They're shiny as a hearse
I still like the look of road wear,
But the roles have been reversed
And now this thing is a classic
But I still don't need to buy
Yeah the old ones have their stories
But by now, so do I"
Great song by my favorite singer songwriter... |
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Location: Eaton Rapids Michigan | Oh, also "Tonight's the Night" by Neil YOung;
"Bruce Barry was a workin' man, he used to load that Econoline van
A sparkle was in his eye, but his life was in his hands
Late at night when the people were gone he used to pick up my guitar
And sing a song in a shaky voice that was real as the day is long
Tonight's the night... |
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Location: NJ | Bruce Berry. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Brad Davis has a tune called "I love my guitar"
My new one for Jan 30 might work. The subject is addiction. I'll see if I can post it here by some sort of computer magic. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | ".... and old guitar is all he can afford"
- "Sultans Of Swing" |
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Location: Tennessee | Guitar Town - Steve Earle
Play Guitar - John Mellencamp
Shooting Star - Bad Company |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | The first little part is real slow and then it picks up from there.
The 12 Frets of GAS by Bill Kaman Jan 17, 2008
I’ve got(D) an addiction(G) All(D) my life it seems(A)
And(Bm) it controls my waking(G) hours
And at night(D), it’s always there(A), in my dreams(D)
(ch)I love guitars(G) There it’s said(D)
Natural(F#), Sunburst(F#7) and Red(G) (D)
Cause I just can’t get enough(A)
I keep on buying them up(G)
I guess it’ll be that way till I’m dead(D)
An old Martin(D) is a thing of beauty(G)
But old Gibsons(D) sometimes can sound thin(A)
Rickenbackers(Bm) are hard to play, I(G) went and bought one anyway
I had(D) to sound like Petty(A) and McGuinn(D)
I got some strats to be like Clapton
Les Pauls, so I could play the blues
Takamine and Kalamazoo, National and Oahu
There’s so many, and it’s always hard to choose
ch
My basses are 4, 5, or 6 string
My guitars all are 6 and 12
Mandolins are cute and small, but I can’t play them at all
That’s why there’s only three hanging on the wall
For Jazz I need big fat archtops
And country I need that Tele sound
The Ovation sound is getting round, hope Fender don’t put it in the ground
I worked too hard to make it world renowned
ch
(BR) (Asus4)Now it’s not so bad, I can’t make, (A7)Choices on my own
(Bsus4)This Jones is strong, But I still got, (B7)Standards don’t you know
(G)I may have bought a lot of things, (A)But never a banjo!
(break, 1 verse)
When I die bury me in a hard shell case
It’s time to go visit all the stars
Got a gig up in the sky, maybe I can play some slide
And run the Heaven Store that sells Guitars.
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Location: Tennessee | Nice. A catchy beat and you can dance to it. I give it a 9.5. You forgot the Hamers. |
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Location: Copenhagen Denmark | Romantic and " Dancy "..
"Ten guitars" Engelbert Humperdinck
I have a band of men and all they do is play for me
They come from miles around to hear them play a melody
Beneath the stars, my ten guitars will play a song for you
And if you're with the one you love, this is what you do
Oh dance, dance, dance to my ten guitars
And very soon you'll know just where you are
Through the eyes of love you'll see a thousand stars
When you dance, dance, dance to my ten guitars
Guitars are made for love, my band of men will always say
So give them all a pretty girl and they will start to play
Beneath the stars, my ten guitars will play a song for you
And if you're with the one you love, this is what you do
Oh dance, dance, dance to my ten guitars
And very soon you'll know just where you are
Through the eyes of love you'll see a thousand stars
When you dance, dance, dance to my ten guitars
Let me tell you now
Dance, dance, dance to my ten guitars
Come on everybody
Dance, dance, dance to my ten guitars
took a while to type..and found the whole thing..it`s not that hard.. :)
http://folksong.org.nz/tenguitars/lyrics.html
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Yeah Bobbo, I for got a bunch of brands. I got some time, it will take a few more rewrites. Not sure even the title makes it, since there are no steps described.... |
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Location: Jet City | CWK2 - Recordings?? |
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Location: Copenhagen Denmark | Wow !!..Great Song Beal..( take my hat of for ya`..)
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Location: 6 String Ranch | I just finished it this afternoon!
I gotta get a recorder.......
and then someone to show me how to work it....
CLIFF!!!!!! |
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Location: Lake Hiawatha, New Jersey | "Won't Get Fooled Again" - The Who
"Margaritaville" - Jimmy Buffet |
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Location: Colorado | Hey Beal...remember GAS works for Wind too. |
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Location: Brisbane Australia | "6 String Music"
"Blue Guitar"
Jimmy Buffet |
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Location: CA | *10 Degrees and gettin' colder — G. Lightfoot
"Now he's traded off his Martin, but he never was that famous..."
* Hooked on the Music — Mac Davis
"So I bought myself a guitar and I learned me a little song
Change the name to suit my latest flame and that sucker never came out wrong..."
* Stories We Could Tell — Jimmy Buffett
"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" |
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Location: enid, ok | Oddball, that was great, and elegantly displayed. My 2 cents worth:
"Six String" by Adrian Belew from "Op Zop Too Wah", 1996
"Two Guitar Lovers" by Dave Mason from "Split Coconut", 1975
I may think of more... |
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Location: New South Wales, Australia | "Got my first real six string
Bought it at the five and dime
Played it till my fingers bled
Was the summer of '69.."
Bryan Adams
BTW.....we have $2 shops down here...is that what a five and dime is? |
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Location: Jet City | I'm ashamed to say it. I had this record. I was 10 maybe. Hmm, maybe subconsciously I was drawn to playing the guitar by...
Shawn Cassidy
That's Rock and Roll
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 |
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Location: Marlton, NJ | "Well I got this guitar
And I learned how to make it talk
And my cars out back
If youre ready to take that long walk
From your front porch to my front seat
The doors open but the ride it aint free
And I know youre lonely
For words that I aint spoken
But tonight well be free
All the promisesll be broken
There were ghosts in the eyes
Of all the boys you sent away
They haunt this dusty beach road
In the skeleton frames of burned out chevrolets
Bruce - Thunder Road |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | I almost forgot the ULTIMATE guitar song..
157 Riverside Avenue !!! REO Speedwagon
"I say if ya wanna communicate, you got to speak the same language." |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Not guitar related but.... the name came up earlier in the thread. This is who Canadians think of when you mention David Wilcox. |
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Location: Jet City | Nice, catchy, do the bearcat |
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Location: GA USA | Beal, since you'll be playing it for us tomorrow, g8r can record you. |
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Location: indianapolis | Damon 67, I'm even more ashamed to say I have the Eric Carmen recording of that.
Not exactly easy to perform but Guitar & Pen by the Who |
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Location: Isle of Man, UK | Couple of random thoughts...
"All the way from Memphis" by Mott the Hoople:-
'Forgot my six-string razor, when I hit the sky.
Was halfway to Memphis before I realised.
Some dude said "You rock n rollers... you're all the same.
Forgot your instrument?!" I felt so ashamed...'
"59" by Brian Setzer:-
'Everything I love is from '59
My first guitar, and that girl of mine'.
I'm sure I'll end up thinking of thousands as soon as I hit "Add reply"...
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Location: Eaton Rapids Michigan | Originally posted by fillhixx:
Not guitar related but.... the name came up earlier in the thread. This is who Canadians think of when you mention David Wilcox.
I love that song ten degrees and gettin' colder. I think it was on that Acoustic Edge cd a few years back. Its also how I got turned onto David Wilcox.
one more song...Dinah Mo Humm...isn't that about a guitar? :eek: :D |
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Location: chicago | Al DiMeola....Kiss My Axe! |
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Location: Jet City | Originally posted by NostrAdamas:
Al DiMeola....Kiss My Axe! One of my favorite albums. Saw him on that tour! |
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Location: enid, ok | Noone mentioned "Guitarzan"? |
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Location: closely held secret | I did. Way back on page one. |
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Location: Nashville TN. | Originally posted by cholloway:
Does this qualify???
(ignore the sexy lady and hear the lyrics)...Yeah, right!
:eek: |
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Location: Jet City | Dead Or Alive
I walk these streets, a loaded six string on my back |
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Location: Cork, Ireland | Bob Dylan - Eternal Circle
'I glanced at my guitar
And played it pretendin'...'
'As the tune finally folded
I laid down the guitar
Then looked for the girl
Who'd stayed for so long...
Johnny Cash - A Boy Named Sue
'Well my daddy left home when I was three
He didn't leave much to ma and me
Just this olg guitar and an empty bottle of booze...' |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I am surprised that I know a modern song (it shocked my daughter anyway). Try "Hey There Delilah" by Plain White Ts. |
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Location: Central Massachusetts | John Hiatt, Riding with the King:
Well I stepped out of a mirror at ten years old
With a suit cut sharp as a razor and a heart of gold
I had a guitar hanging just about waist high
I'm gonna play that thing until the day I die
John Hiatt, Perfectly Good Guitar:
There out to 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 'til you get some soul
Neil Young, This Old Guitar |
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Location: CA | Ooooh. I thought of one more that really speaks to this subject: Tim McGraw's "The Ride"
I was thumbin' my way from Montgomery
had my guitar on my back
When a stranger pulled up beside me in an antique Cadillac.
Well, he was dressed like 1950, half drunk and hollow eyed
Said: 'It's a long walk to Nashville, would you like a ride, son'.
Well, I climbed up in the front seat, and he turned on the radio
and them sad old songs comin' outta them speakers was solid country gold.
Then I noticed the stranger was ghost white pale when he asked me for a light.
And knew there was somethin' strange about this ride.
[Chorus:]
He said: Drifter can you make folks cry when you play and sang.
Have you paid your dues, can you moan the blues
Can you bend them guitar strangs.
He said: Boy, can you make folks feel what you feel inside,
Cause if your big star bound let me warn you its a long hard ride.
Well, he cried just south of Nashville, and he turned that car around.
he said: [spoken] this is where you get off, boy
cause I'm going back to Alabam'.
Well, I climbed out of that Cadillac and I said Mister, many thanks.
he said you don't have to call me mister, Mister.
The whole world calls me Hank. |
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Location: Cork, Ireland | Originally posted by sycamore:
Bob Dylan - Eternal Circle
'I glanced at my guitar
And played it pretendin'...'
'As the tune finally folded
I laid down the guitar
Then looked for the girl
Who'd stayed for so long...
Johnny Cash - A Boy Named Sue
'Well my daddy left home when I was three
He didn't leave much to ma and me
Just this olg guitar and an empty bottle of booze...' Actually, search for 'guitar' in Lyrics section of Bobdylan.com also gives:
BILLY
Guitars will play your grand finale
MONEY BLUES
I'm glad I hid my old guitar
PERCY'S SONG
And I played my guitar
My guitar could play
CALL LETTER BLUES
Well, it can't be no guitar player
RAINY DAY WOMEN #12 & 35
They'll stone you when you're playing your guitar.
TALKING NEW YORK
I swung on to my old guitar,
I DON'T BELIEVE YOU (She Acts Like We Never Have Met)
Though her skirt it swayed as a guitar played,
ROMANCE IN DURANGO
Sold my guitar to the baker's son
STANDING IN THE DOORWAY
I'm strumming on my gay guitar
UP TO ME
How my lone guitar played sweet for you that old-time melody.
LAST THOUGHTS ON WOODY GUTHRIE
On this guitar I'm playing, on this banjo I'm frailin' |
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Location: Colorado | Van Halen, Little Guitars.
Oddball, Alan Jackson did that song 10+ years ago under the title of "Midnight in Montgomery". Good song. |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | Maybe someone knows for sure...
But I was thinking that Sammy Hagar's "Three Lock Box" was about guitar. 3 lock box = guitar case.
Sometimes I read too much into things but I really can't figure out what else it could be. Any thoughts?? |
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Location: Atlanta, GA. | Miles, I'm not familiar with the song but, maybe a reference to a Spanish treasure chest that was mentioned in the movie "The Deep".
Ahhh... Jacqueline Bisset in a wet tee shirt... Where was I? Oh yeah.
The Govenor of Cuba had 1 key, the ship's Captain had one and the King had the third.
It was to prevent pilfering of the King's "baubles". |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | Hmmm not sure I can trust everything I read on the Internet... but I found this.. sounds plausible.
A three-lock box is a box that someone like a queen would have that would hold something very valuable. It has three locks on it and requires three different keys to be able to break into and steal the valuables away.
As Sammy Hagar explains it, the three locks represent spirituality, physicality, mentality. If you have these three things in balance, no one person or event that effects you can get to your soul because you have these three most valuable things that are key to living an enjoyable life.
The Lyrics...
Suckers walk, money talks!
But it can't touch my three lock box.
Uh! Oh, yeah!
Mysteries of the days of old.
You find the key, you got the gold.
One, two, three lock box.
One, two, three lock box.
One, two, three lock box.
One, two, three lock box.
Treasure's here, sunken there.
Buried treasure's everywhere.
One, two, three lock box.
One, two, three lock box.
Don't go far, circle close.
The father, son, the holy ghost.
To the trinity, I raise a toast!
Ahh, yea!
One, two, three lock box.
One, two, three lock box.
One, two, three lock box.
One, two, three lock box.
Secrets of the trinity lie within the number three.
Uh!
Hey!
One, two, three lock box.
One, two, three lock box.
One, two, three lock box.
One, two, three lock box.
(Three Lock Box)
One, two, three lock box.
One, two, three lock box.
(Three Lock Box)
One, two, three lock box.
One, two, three lock box.
(Three Lock Box)
One, two, three lock box.
One, two, three lock box.
(Three Lock Box)
One, two, three lock box.
One, two, three lock box.
(Three Lock Box)
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Location: Cicero, NY | That would be good enough for me. If you can't trust Sammy... |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Wow! I never realized pop/metal could be so deep.
Or obscure, one or the other.... |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | or spelled correctly. |
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Location: Atlanta, GA. | The lyrical stylings of Sammy Hagar.
Good thing he's got a day job! |
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Location: Munich, Germany | And now for something completely different:
Corcovado by Antonio Carlos Jobim:
"Quiet nights of quiet stars
quiet chords from my guitar..." |
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Location: NJ | LOVE that song!! . . . |
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Location: Munich, Germany | If not mentioned already:
The Man in Black:
"The long legged guitar pickin' man"
"Luther played the boogie"
(guitar not really metioned)
"A boy named Sue"
(...just this old guitar an an empty bottle of booze...)
Prince: "Guitar"
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