4 minutes ago vu n. says:greateful dead=================the title of the thread specifically says "good bands". If you can't achieve it, play different things and be more interesting. Except he took the Dolls advent as permission to play his own way. Oh come ON! Theirs was the most Detroit hard-rock informed punk extant at the moment, with Stiv Bators pie-in-face Alice Cooper-meets-Iggy Pop stage presence icing the cake. SIGNATURE MOVE: Kid Congo Powers is a world-class musician still in touch with his inner primitive. I see you share interesting things here, you can earn some extra money, your blog has big potential, for the monetizing method, Thanks for all the comments. Go and learn before you make any sort of statement about the best 2 guitar band in the history of Rock and leave them out!!! Three bands with intricate dual guitars: Allman Brothers, Grateful Dead & Quicksilver Messenger Service. Serving as inspiration for some of the most well-known and loved rock and metal bands of all time such as Nirvana, Metallica, Foo Fighters, and Nine Inch Nails, Killing Joke emerged from the post punk, industrial and gothic rock scenes and became one of the faces for the genres as a whole. Wayne Kramer and Fred Sonic Smith of the MC 5 I think fit the bill as well. Did anyone mention The Beatles? Guitarists are especially under scrutiny. I suppose by the boring patchouli of jam bands hes talking about people like the Grateful Dead and the Allman Brothers. Nothing grates eardrums harder than a punk band with no chops. What a maroon. 2 guitarists is what comes to mind when I think modern post-punk. Haters, go check out Help on the Way/Slipknot or King Solomons Marbles from the Blues for Allah album their prog rock album if they had one. Great article. Ill put them up first on any list as far as distinctly two guitar bands. These machines broadcast enormous stereophonic crunch chords and stinging, abrupt melodic leads. Another fun article, Rob! PROOF: Hornet Piata. SIGNATURE MOVE: Black Flag, the Hermosa Beach riot squad that helped initiate hardcore, grunge, stoner rock and doom metal, saw endless lineup changes across the years. There was still room for Stinsons gonzo yet melodic guitar work. Nice article on a good subject. When fretting octave shapes with their roots on the fifth string, the tip of Billies index finger brushes (or stubs) the sixth and fourth strings just enough to mute them. BEST HEARD ON: New York Dolls, L.A.M.F., So Alone, CLAIM TO FAME: Sex Pistols, the Professionals. I believe you could also think of the Pretenders as a two guitar plus bass band. this is why the urinals would be on a rocket to the top if they has a guitar numero dos. In no particular order: Richard Hell & the Voidoids on stage at CBGB in 1976. My band had 2 lead guitars and a sick ass base player ! I couldnt agree more. Paul Leary Butthole Surfers. The sound that comes to mind is Bloc Party. While their interplay may not have come across so much on the studio CSN&Y albums, live they were a force to behold. 1995-2022 Harmony Central, Inc. All rights reserved. She is truly an unsung guitar hero. SIGNATURE MOVE: Johnny Ramone might be an even bigger influence on punk guitar than Thunders. Nor do you need to have the kind of two-guitar interplay Im talking about to have a great bandthere are fabulous bands with two guitars playing standard rhythm-lead arrangements that dont fall into the category Im talking about here. But, remember, PAY the artist for it! Great to see recognition for Karl Precoda and early Dream Syndicate. Anyway ive gone off on a tangent. WebAnswer (1 of 8): It depends on what you mean by two lead guitarists. Folk: Pentangle with Bert Janch & John Renbourn, Check em out dudes, these lads go well beyond a few moody solos. love the play of ness and wickersham of social d. but my fav duo is woods and richards of the stones. That two-note, bent-string lead-fest on, is all Jett, according to manager/musical partner. She also had a knack for writing heartbreakingly beautiful pop songs that resembled the reanimated Buddy Holly now fronting the Hollies. Gunner Recall Members 5.2k Members Posted September 15, 2010 2 guitarists is what comes to mind I was posting the new articles last night, and I decided to add a few pictures. But if we move into more modern times we cant leave out the heavier rock and metal bands like AC/DC. So even though we loved Chuck, we decided to do all we could to not have that influence. Instead, punkabillys queen concentrated on Link Wrays monumentally distorted chords, Duane Eddys big banging single notes and abuse of a whammy bar, fuzz, reverb and tremolo. Sure, he had forebears. 5 reasons why bands have 2 guitars. Then he coated it with the unstable harmonic overspill emanating from the MC5s amplifiers. This has resulted in misguided notions that musicianship is absent from punk. His guitar work grew with it. But shes also a capable lead guitarist. Might want to check that Velvet Underground in 1967 picture. California-based band Bullfight was started by two seven-year-old friends, Patrick Baggett (lead vocals/guitar) and Joaquin Cunningham (drums/percussion), who They were not only the earliest of thrash outfits, but they were likely the best musicians to tackle the form. I just stumbled upon the website along with accession capital to claim that we receive in truth beloved bank account your own blog page threads. now you wanna talk about a two headed monster ?? Xavior "Soylent" G. says:He has a girly voice on me and thats about it..-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------I generally consider lead vocalist who can also play lead guitar to be the most talented musicians around, as far as bands go. Yes, it is possible. Chrissie nearly always plays and another guitarist plus bass player. an inexperienced youth. Can anything good come out of this? From the Clashs slash-and-burn early days, Jones decorated his brutal chord work with a lyrical lead guitar approach that sang more than screamed. The Stooges had two guitar players at one time working in unison, eventually one making way for the other by switching to bass. Nothing grates eardrums harder than a punk band with no chops. The best punk guitarists of all time. Hed clearly learned a thing or two from 70s metal, but left the parts he didn't like on the cutting-room floor. Two, half the personnel were women. Up-and-coming: Great choices. With these considerations in mind, here are 20 of punks greatest guitar players. And my greatest is not your greatest. One, they owed as much to 70s Camaro rock as to classic punk. This complete lack of pretension translates to their guitar playing, which has the kind of tightness and anger that only comes from playing 1000 toilet-circuit gigs. Ditto on the Brian Jones comments. She bent strings with an impunity that wouldve given Thunders pause, wrote catchy riffs that were almost casual in their infectiousness, then coated them all in a blanket of distortion filthier and nastier than L7s. Hey there guys! These changes all occurred as his songwriting grew. Punk virtuoso might sound like an oxymoron, but Televisions frontman incorporated avant garde influences to prove punks could play. (The powerhouse rhythm section sure helped fuel the sound too). Rooted in 1960s garage rock , punk bands rejected the perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock music. : a punk rock musician c : one who affects punk styles 3 a : a young inexperienced person : beginner, novice especially : a young man b slang : a young man used as a sexual partner by When Atlantic Im older th dirt but I guess way out of the loop,. Had she dropped more such breaks, wed think of her in the same class as Thunders. !We could have been like MUSE but we were not total pussies, so.. Xavior "Soylent" G. says:We could have been like MUSE but we were not total pussies, so..-----------------------------------------------------------------------Yeah, I'm sure Matt Bellamy's got nothing on you. He accomplished all this with a Gibson Les Paul Custom originally belonging to the Dolls, And The Wailers. You don't need a two foot high red mohawk to be a punk, although that is wicked cool. And I like most of the additions (though I cannot abide any praise of the Eagles, no matter how talented their guitar players may be And the ones I dont LIKE (as bands), I agree with (as picks of bands that do two-guitars very well). Brad Whitford and Joe Perry of Aerosmith! On the tour following THE DAYS OF WINE AND ROSES, it broke and he replaced it with a 335 and a Strat, which is what most of the existing footage of that version of the band shows. Tons of metal bands pull it off:a band that I have mixed feelings about, but that uses two lead guitars effectively is avenged sevenfold. By this, I dont mean just any band where one guitar strums rhythm, while another player does the lead, but a band where the two guitars work together so symbiotically, they become almost a single great instrument in the band. . They dont simply double parts until one takes off for a solo. But what Ray ultimately brought to punk was the Echoplex. At the drive in: proxima centauri He excised blues influences. But here are some bands who, if you love dual-guitar, you just might love. Guitarist Jeff Beck, seen here in an undated photo, has died. All have benefitted from his stinging, beautiful tone and caress. Try to find counter-melodies, counter ryhthms too. This American Rasta was like one of the earliest metal guitarists working within a punk format. peter green and danny kirwan ..they were freakin awesome .. or johnny winter and rick deringer ?? . . Ditto on the Allman Bros sentiment. Thomthanks for the note. At the time, [producer] Chris Thomas kept telling me to tune up and it drove me mad, but looking back Im glad he did and Im glad we spent time on it. A band of a friend of mine had a similar argument a year or so ago, the singer now adds pick scrapes, harmonics, small lead lines, a harmony here and there - and it sounds very nice. BEST HEARD ON: Sonic Reducer - Best Of Dead Boys. Sparks especially stood out, with her inside-out blues licks and melodic sense, and for consistently employing the thickest, loudest fuzzbox this side of Ron Ashetons. However, thats clearly not the VU in the bottom photo. Judas Priest is also one of the great two-guitar rock bands. Thanks for pointing that out. While early Stones is incredible, and Brian Jones had a wonderful genius for playing, well, for playing things that werent guitars (sitar, dulcimer, and so on), the band I cant help but notice most these dual-guitar ensembles are combining two exceptional rhythm guitarists; with one of them having an inclination for lead play. Below youll find a list of the reasons why a band has two six The fringe-jazzy, Televisionesque guitar work on The Las Vegas Story comes to mind, as well as the more lush sounding stuff they did on Pastoral Hide And Seek. He utilized/abused the classic tape delay unit to create shrieking psychedelic textures not found on other punk records, even to this day. Always loved the two guitar interplay on the classic Buzzcocks records. But, againif people would read the intro, you would see that this is a list of SOME great 2 guitar bands that people might want to check out. LoxleySeptember 15, 2010 in Effects and Processors. As noted above, The Clash and AC/DC were also TWO of the great two-guitar bands. Slapstick nihilism, anyone? Along the stylistic vain of those bands, I would also add The Gun Club, during their Kid Kongo period(s). Out of all of the Pistols singles, that was the slowest. The goth genre might never have been born without this top Jazzmaster exponent and his band, The Birthday Party. The possibilities are endless. Massive points for Luna. San Francisco political punks Dead Kennedys paralleled no other band. Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's The Sex Pistols, is where punk meets the skilled musicality of, s first guitar hero and secret weapon. Went to YouTube a have been checking out videos. MC5 (Fred Sonic Smith & Wayne Kramer) They INVENTED 2 guitar harmonies !!!! My band is one of these and we play punk/indie, and I'm just wondering which bands pulled it off the best. The pair also shared a yen for cheaper 60s student-model guitars and ancient British tube amps various Epiphone models with batwing headstocks, Gibson Melody Makers, Vox AC30s or early Marshall non-master volume half-stacks. But great guitar work done (usually) in the traditional rhythm/lead style. He reduced rock n roll guitar to a relentless chainsaw drone, accomplished via viciously downstroking two barre chord positions played up and down the neck, fed through Marshalls cranked to maximum distortion. Listen to ARGUS if youve never heard them, youre truly missing out. 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