Kennyh Posted June 6, 2008 Share Posted June 6, 2008 I've just posted a list of what I think are the 10 best songs ever played on an Epiphone guitar on Fretboard and it struck me while doing the research for it how many great guitar players use or have used an Epiphone. So, here's the challenge: what's the best song ever recorded using an Epiphone guitar or played live using one? You don't have to be able to prove absolutely that there was an Epiphone involved, but you do have to show good reason why there was almost certainly an Epiphone played on the track. Oh and if you get a chance, click the link above, have a look at my top ten and let me know what you think :-) All the best, Kenny Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RotcanX Posted June 6, 2008 Share Posted June 6, 2008 Louie, Louie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JefferySmith Posted June 6, 2008 Share Posted June 6, 2008 I've just posted a list of what I think are the 10 best songs ever played on an Epiphone guitar on Fretboard and it struck me while doing the research for it how many great guitar players use or have used and Epiphone. So' date=' here's the challenge: what's the best song ever recorded using an Epiphone guitar or played live using one? You don't have to be able to prove absolutely that there was an Epiphone involved, but you do have to show good reason why there was almost certainly an Epiphone played on the track. Oh and if you get a chance, clcik the link above, have a look at my top ten and let me know what you think :-) All the best, Kenny[/quote'] I would need a list to choose from. For now, anything played by the Beatles after the Help album. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kennyh Posted June 6, 2008 Author Share Posted June 6, 2008 Jeffrey - there's a list of ten at the link in the first line of my first post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dubstar Posted June 6, 2008 Share Posted June 6, 2008 All You Need Is Love Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JefferySmith Posted June 6, 2008 Share Posted June 6, 2008 Jeffrey - there's a list of ten at the link in the first line of my first post. Ah, okay. You might want to edit the post and underline that phrase. It will give the reader a heads-up that it is a link. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kennyh Posted June 6, 2008 Author Share Posted June 6, 2008 Good idea, Jeffrey, thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charlie brown Posted June 6, 2008 Share Posted June 6, 2008 Electric, or Acoustic? Acoustic "Yesterday!" Electric...as Jeff said...most of the post "Help" Beatles stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Funkwire Posted June 6, 2008 Share Posted June 6, 2008 (Yes, I know the studio recording used 2 Strats) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matiac Posted June 6, 2008 Share Posted June 6, 2008 "Steel Toed Sneakers". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron G Posted June 6, 2008 Share Posted June 6, 2008 Yesterday. Hands down. Not only is it a great song; it has the distinction of having more covers recorded than any other song. Yesterday also provided validation for us boomers; when Paul played it on Ed Sullivan, most of our parents, for the first time, realized these guys were good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charlie brown Posted June 6, 2008 Share Posted June 6, 2008 (Yes' date=' I know the studio recording used 2 Strats)[/quote'] Well, the author said either recorded or live, so your choice is quite valid! "My Boys!!" CB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kennyh Posted June 6, 2008 Author Share Posted June 6, 2008 Yep, can be electric or acoustic, recorded or live. That Nowhere Man recording is a great find, Funkwire. Ron, not only is Yesterday more covered than any other song, but at one time it had more radio play than any other song in history. It's funny, when I was a kid I always associated John Lennon with that black and white Rickenbacker. Now every clip I see, he's playing the Casino - before and after he sanded it down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
modfather Posted June 6, 2008 Share Posted June 6, 2008 Would like to add The Changing Man or Sunflower by Paul Weller as I am having no luck with the link 1966 Epi Casino Iced Tea Tooo die for Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johno Posted June 6, 2008 Share Posted June 6, 2008 I would include the Kinks "You Really Got Me" and "All Day and All of the Night" to any Epiphone song list. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sdgails Posted June 6, 2008 Share Posted June 6, 2008 oasis dont look back in anger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Norm Posted June 6, 2008 Share Posted June 6, 2008 Yesterday. Hands down. Not only is it a great song; it has the distinction of having morecovers recorded than any other song. Yesterday also provided validation for us boomers; when Paul played it on Ed Sullivan' date=' most of our parents, for the first time, realized these guys were [i']good[/i]. +1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brad1 Posted June 6, 2008 Share Posted June 6, 2008 Any and every song that I can play all the way through making no mistakes. Which isn't a whole lot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iansmitchell Posted June 6, 2008 Share Posted June 6, 2008 I would include the Kinks "You Really Got Me" and "All Day and All of the Night" to any Epiphone song list. That was an epi? If so, then hell yes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JefferySmith Posted June 7, 2008 Share Posted June 7, 2008 I would include the Kinks "You Really Got Me" and "All Day and All of the Night" to any Epiphone song list. I thought that was played on a Telecaster. But, 45 years after seeing them on TV, my memory could be faulty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yamatsuka Posted June 7, 2008 Share Posted June 7, 2008 http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=iQ4Gr_rfS5w&feature=PlayList&p=F2E3913DEFEB5C87&index=5 Now, let's rock! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 7, 2008 Share Posted June 7, 2008 http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=iQ4Gr_rfS5w&feature=PlayList&p=F2E3913DEFEB5C87&index=5 Now' date=' let's rock! [/quote'] More like, now let's puke. Be serious. The band of middle schoolers on the street behind me when they're cutting loose have more musicality. I've heard of the Queens of The Stone Age here but had never actually heard them before and now that I have I can say I'd rather listen to the entire Oasis catalog repeated continually for three days without any consciousness-altering substances to dull the pain rather than listen to another minute of that crap. That was nearly seven minutes of my life that I will never get back and have absolutely nothing to show for. Please, be honest. Is it that you like it because no one else possibly could or that it offends the aural senses of grown ups or whatever enough to be a viable avenue of adolescent rebellion? That was truly awful. Someone needs to take that Epiphone away from that guy and give it to someone who can actually play. Painful. I'll go along with "Yesterday" or just about any other Beatle song as the greatest ever played on an Epiphone but that crap....yeeeeeechhh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Epiphany Posted June 7, 2008 Share Posted June 7, 2008 More like' date=' now let's puke. Be serious. The band of middle schoolers on the street behind me when they're cutting loose have more musicality. I've heard of the Queens of The Stone Age here but had never actually heard them before and now that I have I can say I'd rather listen to the entire Oasis catalog repeated continually for three days without any consciousness-altering substances to dull the pain rather than listen to another minute of that crap. That was nearly seven minutes of my life that I will never get back and have absolutely nothing to show for. Please, be honest. Is it that you like it because no one else possibly could or that it offends the aural senses of grown ups or whatever enough to be a viable avenue of adolescent rebellion? That was truly awful. Someone needs to take that Epiphone away from that guy and give it to someone who can actually play. Painful. I'll go along with "Yesterday" or just about any other Beatle song as the greatest ever played on and Epiphone but that crap....yeeeeeechhh.[/quote'] That may not have been the right song to introduce you to QOTSA. In fact lots of their fans don't even like this last record. But to say Josh Homme CANT PLAY GUITAR is pretty ridiculous. I love the Beatles just as much as you but you can't expect every modern day artist to play "Love me do" now can you? Give them another chance by youtubing their early stuff or better yet google Josh Homme when he toured with The Screaming Trees as their 2nd guitar player. I agree that song you just painfully watched doesn't show Homme's talents as a guitar player so again that was a bad intro to you for the first time but comparing them to Oasis??? Now COME ON! Watch this acoustic more upbeat song in QOTSA... If you still think he's terrible well then...different strokes I guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Epiphany Posted June 7, 2008 Share Posted June 7, 2008 Or better yet his days with The Screaming Trees... Bonus! there's also a really sweet Epi in this vid the other guitar player is playing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 7, 2008 Share Posted June 7, 2008 That may not have been the right song to introduce you to QOTSA. In fact lots of their fans don't even like this last record. But to say Josh Homme CANT PLAY GUITAR is pretty ridiculous. I love the Beatles just as much as you but you can't expect every modern day artist to play "Love me do" now can you? Give them another chance by youtubing their early stuff or better yet google Josh Homme when he toured with The Screaming Trees as their 2nd guitar player. I agree that song you just painfully watched doesn't show Homme's talents as a guitar player so again that was a bad intro to you for the first time but comparing them to Oasis??? Now COME ON! Watch this acoustic more upbeat song in QOTSA... If you still think he's terrible well then...different strokes I guess. Rrrealllllly different strokes...A couple years back a band mate of mine produced a local TV show featuring young local talent and I was an assistant producer and it required me to listen to the newer groups with a much younger and opened-minded ear but that's just bad' date=' boring playing. awful vocals and repetitious droning rhythms. Their audience mostly looks bored and as though they [i']should be[/i] enjoying it so they force themselves. If you enjoy it...welll then I'm glad it exists for you. I also checked out some of the other concert videos and it's obvious that they're pandering to the adolescents with the spewing of profanity on stage...your Josh Homme has what? about a thirty word vocabulary?. Sorry. I see nothing there. It wasn't a comparison to Oasis it was that Oasis is a band I find grating because of their pretension and plagiarism but to their credit they are listen-able where as the "Queens" seem designed not to be listen-able without extreme effort. Someone needs to kill that singer. He seems to be in unbearable pain and it rubs off on you when you hear him. Enjoy...I guess. lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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