Archive for the ‘60’s Rock’ Category

‘Purple Haze’. The Jimi Hendrix Experience

Posted: March 18, 2013 in 60's Rock, Heavy Metal
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‘Purple Haze’ set the rock scene on fire, thanks to Hendrix’s marvellous guitar manipulation. Central to the all-round amazingness of ‘Purple Haze’ is a chord made so famous by Jimi that pundits even refer to it as ‘the Hendrix chord’ to this day. Many musicians have covered the song but Hendrix’s original version will always be sensational.

Buy this song at iTunes or Amazon. The official band site is here.

Other links

  • Use our music reference database to search for information on artists, music styles or instruments (flametreepro.com)
  • Check out a music learning website  with the chords and scales audio for guitar and piano (flametreemusic.com)
  • You can buy this music, and so much more at Rough Trade, one of the best indie stores in the world.

‘I’m Free’. The Who

Posted: March 15, 2013 in 60's Rock, Rock
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A song of almost psychedelic proportions, ‘I’m Free’ was taken from The Who’s fourth album Tommy, written mostly by guitarist Pete Townshend .  Released in July 1969 with B-side ‘Tommy Can You Hear Me’, ‘I’m Free’ is a slick operation of songwriting and guitar riffs.  Opening with a riff that will test any budding guitarist’s chord skills, it remains one of The Who’s best laid backed songs!

Buy this song at iTunes or Amazon. The official band site is here.

Other links

  • Use our music reference database to search for information on artists, music styles or instruments (flametreepro.com)
  • Check out a music learning website  with the chords and scales audio for guitar and piano (flametreemusic.com)
  • You can also buy this music, and so much more at Rough Trade, one of the best indie stores in the world.

‘Have Love, Will Travel’. The Sonics

Posted: March 14, 2013 in 60's Rock, Garage Rock
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Kids in the 1960s loved to rock out to garage rock, the type of music played by those who didn’t have decent equipment.  The Sonics epitomized this sound with the Richard Berry-penned tune ‘Have Love, Will Travel’.  The unforgettable riff, with a level of raucous overdrive applied to the guitar tone, was not a common sound when first released.

Buy this song at iTunes or Amazon. The official band site is here.

Other links

  • Use our music reference database to search for information on artists, music styles or instruments (flametreepro.com)
  • Check out a music learning website  with the chords and scales audio for guitar and piano (flametreemusic.com)
  • You can also buy this music, and so much more at Rough Trade, one of the best indie stores in the world.

‘I Wanna Be Your Dog’. The Stooges

Posted: March 14, 2013 in 60's Rock, Garage Rock, Heavy Metal, Protopunk
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‘I Wanna Be Your Dog’ was rapidly established as an anthem for a generation of disaffected kids for whom the hippie dream was fading fast. With a grinding riff laden with walls of primitive distortion, the song is at once grimly nihilistic and hilarious, combining Iggy Pop’s laconic vocals and the histrionics of the rest of the band.

Buy this song at iTunes or Amazon. The official band site is here.

Other links

  • Use our music reference database to search for information on artists, music styles or instruments (flametreepro.com)
  • Check out a music learning website  with the chords and scales audio for guitar and piano (flametreemusic.com)
  • You can also buy this music, and so much more at Rough Trade, one of the best indie stores in the world.

‘Born To Be Wild’. Steppenwolf

Posted: March 13, 2013 in 60's Rock, Hard Rock, Heavy Metal
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‘Born To Be Wild’ is one of those songs synonymous with the heavy metal era of the 1960s music scene.  Anchored by the pounding riff, the song was made popular by its appearance in the classic 1969 film Easy Rider; the title and the melody are still connected to the public’s perception of motorbike culture.

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‘I Feel Fine’. The Beatles

Posted: March 11, 2013 in 60's Rock, Pop Rock
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This riff-ridden song saw the first intentional use of guitar feedback in a recorded release. The effect was used to great acclaim to extend the song’s opening note, which was played on the A-string of John Lennon’s guitar. This note then leads into the opening riff, featuring a three-chord pattern and played with great precision by Lennon and George Harrison.

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‘All Day And All Of The Night’. The Kinks

Posted: March 10, 2013 in 60's Rock, Hard Rock
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The opening tones of ‘All Day and All of the Night’ are instantly stirring. Dave Davies’ raw, overdriven guitar sound – the result of a deliberately mutilated speaker cone in his amplifier – was in place for the fantastic riff that opens and sustains the song, and over which his brother Ray’s vocal melody lies in unison.

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‘Wipe Out’. The Surfaris

Posted: March 10, 2013 in 60's Rock, Surf Rock
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Even if you don’t know the band or remember much of the song, chances are you will know the falsetto wail of ‘Wipe Out!’ that introduces the song. When surf music was popularized in 1960s America by the Beach Boys, it was The Surfaris, a little-known group, who played a huge part in the phenomenon!  Since its 1963 release, the song has been covered by numerous artists, and the phrase ‘Wipe Out’ remains in the public’s conscious to this day.

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‘Pinball Wizard’. The Who

Posted: March 9, 2013 in 60's Rock, Hard Rock
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The single ‘Pinball Wizard’ rocketed onto the scene in 1969 and featured as part of The Who’s novel rock opera album Tommy. Beginning with that subtle, echoed buildup, the stabbing guitars and then the superb, ethereal chord sequence that leads into the vocal, it is one of the Sixties’ defining compositions.

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‘N.I.B.’. Black Sabbath

Posted: March 9, 2013 in 60's Rock, Heavy Metal
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Dubbed as the first heavy metal band, Black Sabbath truly lived up to their dangerous image in the 1960s.  However not all of their songs were heavier metal than contemporary greats Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple.  The opening riff of ‘N.I.B’,  (named after the shape of drummer Bill Ward’s goatee beard, a shape which the rest of the band thought resembled a pen nib) is a warm, downtuned tone that Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi and other guitarists used in later years.

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