tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215553202978284468.post1077154867586038843..comments2024-02-06T16:17:25.826+00:00Comments on THE GRØNMARK BLOG: The Grønmark Blog's ten favourite 50s rock'n'roll guitar pickers - from Cliff Gallup and Danny Cedrone to Roland Janes and Duane EddyScott Gronmarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15118026157459333174noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215553202978284468.post-27809614436058690002018-06-15T19:56:46.406+01:002018-06-15T19:56:46.406+01:00It wasn’t Paul Burlisson. He was a fine rockabilly...It wasn’t Paul Burlisson. He was a fine rockabilly guitarist, but you only have to listen to the other solos he definitely did record at the time, and this - and the ones on (for example) Sweet Love on My Mind and Train Kept A Rollin’ - would have been way out of his league. If Burlisson was responsible for these, then he also played the solo on Brenda Lee’s “Bigelow 6200” - in fact, everything recorded at every other rock’n’roll session accredited to Grady Martin in the '50s, because they undeniably all feature the same massively experienced and technically proficient picker producing the exact same sound using the same guitar - or, at the very least, the exact same model with the exact same set up. <br /><br />I look forward to hearing the cover versions you list.<br /><br />Antonionionioni was evidently a bit of a jerk.Scott Gronmarkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15118026157459333174noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215553202978284468.post-84138978965437740242018-06-15T11:05:06.317+01:002018-06-15T11:05:06.317+01:00Great post. Honey Hush was nailed down by the Burn...Great post. Honey Hush was nailed down by the Burnette trio the day after they had recorded Train Kept a Rollin'. Whoever the guitarist was - and Paul Burlison claims credit for the loose tube distorted guitar - he decided that the same riff would do for both. The Yardbirds' version of Train Kept a Rollin' features it more or less note for note. <br /><br />When the ever canny Jimmy Page joined the group, they reworked the song and the riff as Stroll On, presumably so that they could avoid paying songwriter royalties to Big Joe Turner. Those who have a sufficiently robust constitution to sit through about an hour's worth of pretentious twaddle can see the Yardbirds perform it in Antonioni's Blow Up. As guitar smashing was on trend at the time, the Italian maestro instructed Jeff Beck to obliterate his Les Paul during its filming. He was told to f*** off. A tenner's worth of cheap acoustic was purchased instead, although Beck looks as if he is thoroughly uncomfortable smashing anything with strings on it. <br /><br />Possibly by way of atonement for the earlier err...borrowing of the song and riff, Beck featured a live version of Train Kept a Rollin' on his Rock and Roll Party CD and DVD. It's a great, simple riff that was tricky to play until the invention of electronic octave divider pedals in the 70s meant that all that finger and thumb stretching and note muffling was no longer necessary. Sadly this came too late to be of any interest to Johnny Burnette, drowned in a boating accident in 1964.EX-KCSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215553202978284468.post-47639250191461083762018-05-29T16:12:59.530+01:002018-05-29T16:12:59.530+01:00Never noticed it, southern man - thanks for pointi...Never noticed it, southern man - thanks for pointing it out. Ricky Nelson's an anomaly - logic dictates that he should have made truly crappy, anodyne records, but he evidently had great musical taste - and, as you say, securing James Burton's services was a stroke of genius.Scott Gronmarkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15118026157459333174noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215553202978284468.post-27728674217695747802018-05-12T02:19:36.674+01:002018-05-12T02:19:36.674+01:00Well researched. Thank you.
I've always liked...Well researched. Thank you. <br />I've always liked the slightly wonky sounding chords on the opening of "It's Late" almost as if a string's just broken. <br />Now I know the sound was most likely produced by banjo strings. <br />Good move by Ricky Nelson to team up with the brilliant James Burton. southern mannoreply@blogger.com