Chuck added the double stops (which are reminiscent of Goree Carter from 1949) to the structure of the original lick and then added a souped up version of the classic T-Bone bend/slide to the 5 lick. Genius!

@Damianblf

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, for sure. What's coming to my mind is Goree Carter's "Rock Awhile". :)

@MichaelHattem

2 жыл бұрын

@@Damianblf That's the track I had in mind too. I only just realized that he was only 18 when he made that record!

@MrDblStop

2 жыл бұрын

Cliff Gallup's intro on Gene Vincent's 'Crazy Legs' is closer to the Carl Hogan lick, which was released just over a year before Johnny B Goode. Gallup added the double stops. It's possible that Chuck never heard Crazy Legs, but it seems unlikely. And I'm sure he could have done it himself, but it's fascinating to see how these iconic players built on their influences.

@gescheitine

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the information. Aa hiatorian and guitar player, that’s relevant. Have a nice day. :-)

Awesome players. Awesome genre. My kids rock out to Johnny B Goode in the car all these years later.

I come here for the guitar AND history lessons. Cool!

@Damianblf

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much for watching. Have a great weekend. :)

Do you mean you always have great messages at the end of your video. I think this message is one of the best that you’ve done. My friend.

@Damianblf

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much. Keep on rockin' my friend. :)

Damian, I’d love it if you made a Swing Blues playlist. I don’t know much about that genre, and would love to hear more!

@Damianblf

2 жыл бұрын

That's a great idea. Thanks for suggesting it. :)

And don't forget the big part of influence Chucks pianist J. Johnson had! :) Listen to the keys Chucks music are played in...... ;) I remember The Boss talked about when he and his band was stepping in as a backing band for Chuck at a live gig and when Chuck started playing the opening riff, Bruce and the band was thinking; what the he......! They quickly found out that they had to transpose their chords a halv tone up. :) :) Thank you Damian for your your magical moments and spreading life wisdom in companionship with great music! You're rocking!! :)

Berry was very open about his influences. He took all the signature licks of both T-Bone Walker and Elmore James. He was also heavily influenced by country music as well. Maybellene and and 30 days were influence by Berry's own admission by Bill Wills and his Texas Playboys. It's all good. As Berry himself said, "I took a little from here and from there and blended it all together. But nothing is new under the sun"

@missionrd100

2 жыл бұрын

Very true. I also remember someone asking Chuck if Jimmy Reed was an influence and he heartily replied in the affirmative. Then again, Chuck liked a lot of different musicians such as Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Muddy Waters, Hoagy Carmichael, Charlie Christian, Jay McShann, as well as the people already mentioned.

@olafbigandglad

2 жыл бұрын

Bob Wills, but you are correct.

@Damianblf

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching Andrew and for leaving a comment. :)

Not only the great guitar lessons we've come to expect and appreciate, but a fantastic history lesson, as well. Many thanks!

A friend sent me one of your video's this morning, i'm now looking at and practicing this second one, excellent and not over taxing

Oh wow! I always look forward to these. The history is important to know - you understand the lick better and recognize the creativity of the blues and jazz players all the way back to WWI. A real mind blower that those pre-Chuck licks still sound awesome. And, heck, a cool lick to learn! Thank you Damian!

@Damianblf

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching. :)

Beautiful!-- great gag intro, loved the history lesson and the lick, and your words of inspiration are always, well... inspiring!! Thanks a heap!! 👍😊

What distinguishes Damian is not only his play and teaching, but his putting music in historic context. This deepens our connection to the music, and dispels the myths we have about who “created” riffs!

@Damianblf

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Josh. Much appreciated. Keep on rockin' my friend. :)

Your comment about the intro, of course, being what grabbed you the most really takes me back to the first time I heard that song. I was 8,,9, or 10, or something like that. At the time Saturday Night Live was a hot, new, up and coming show. I was supposed to be in bed, but my parents were downstairs. So, I snuck into their room, popped on the telly, and snuck a peak. The host (Ruth Gordon) introduced this guy I'd never heard of named Chuck Berry. He started playing that riff. My head spun around. The next day, it was all I could think about. I've been thinking about it ever since.

@Damianblf

2 жыл бұрын

Awesome. Thank you for sharing that memory. :)

That is One Gorgeous Guild.

Cheers Damian, I learned something new there as I didn't know that about Chuck's iconic riff. Lovely sentiment at the end too. Bless your heart. Thank you. Guy

@Damianblf

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed the video and thank you for watching. Keep on rockin' my friend. :)

Great video Damian! As a guitar player of nearly 50 years, I can certainly say that there is certainly nothing "new under the sun" when it comes to guitar riffage! 😊👍🎸 Also...loved your little eulogy at the end...so true. Kindness is everything. 😊♥️

@Damianblf

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Christo. :)

For some similar licks on Rockabilly records, Joe Clay's lead player, Mickey Baker, played similar lines... Almost note for note to the older Jump Blues stuff, like Hogan did. You're the best, Damian! Cheers

@Damianblf

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching. Keep on rockin' my friend. :)

Thank you so much for your incisive demonstration of Chuck Berry's "Johnny B. Goode" intro and equally insightful analysis concerning its historical antecedents, Mr. Bacci. I appreciate your dedication to sharing of your skill, knowledge and - most importantly - enthusiasm with us. You are the epitome of a teacher!

@Damianblf

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Thomas. Much appreciated. Keep on rockin' my friend. :)

@elnomanchs9546

Жыл бұрын

This comment is great. You said all I wanted to.

Great stuff Damian.

I love your quotes!

You give so much light. Muchas gracias.

@Damianblf

Жыл бұрын

Thank you very much. :)

Whew…we were about to fight when i thought you were gonna come after Chuck and try to take away from him…. Fantastic video sir.

@Damianblf

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for watching. :)

I too was grabbed by the Johnny b good into in the 50’s. So much so that I learned to play. Chuck B. Was always into automobiles and I thought that the intro reminded me of cranking over a big block.

@Damianblf

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching. :)

Great video Damien! Thank you

@Damianblf

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it. Thank you for watching. :)

Awesome video and lesson as always Damian! Love that Guild! You always inspire me both for guitar and life! Much love brother!

@Damianblf

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Mark :)

Thank you Damian,for my continuing guitar education. Great stuff ,as always

@Damianblf

Жыл бұрын

Glad you're enjoying the videos. Thank you for watching. :)

Always love your videos. The historical aspects are especially nice. I always cherish Chuck's music and contributions to rockabilly and rock 'n roll. It's my personal belief that he was robbed of not only the credit he deserves, but the money and kickbacks, too. R.I.P., Chuck. R.I.P.

@Damianblf

2 жыл бұрын

Chuck Berry was a legend. Thank you for watching. :)

Damien thanks for sharing Rock and Roll History always very interesting it would be great if you share more of your live music with your band love to see your performances

@Damianblf

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching. Cheers :)

This is brilliant. Glad I came across it.

@Damianblf

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Brian :)

Your a great man Damian! Thank you for the message at the end! The history is always great too!

@Damianblf

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Joe :)

Damian! Great video! Very interesting! Thanks 👍🏻

@Damianblf

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Antonio :)

Just found your channel tonight, it came highly recommended to me by a great Scottish musician and artist friend of mine. He was right, I really enjoyed this video, got a lot out of it and your genuine, warm presentation - especially your closing comments. You are a wee special human. Be safe.

@Damianblf

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed the video & thank you very much for watching. Cheers :)

Quite educative, and great to see someone play the JBG intro lick correctly!

@Damianblf

Жыл бұрын

Thank you :)

Great video. Especially at the end. Do onto others as you'd have them do onto you, to paraphrase a great man

@Damianblf

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you. Glad you enjoyed the video :)

Love the Intro! Thanks Damian!

@Damianblf

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching :)

Amazing, just for the intro!!!!! Back to the futurish dude!!!!! Cheers from Italy, you're still the best!!!! Happy new year (1955 obviously!)

@Damianblf

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much and Happy New Year to you. :)

Very behind on watching and learning from KZread and Patreon guitar lessons, been a very busy couple months. Really enjoyed watching this one today, love learning about the roots of such great tunes and musicians. Thank you kindly and have a great weekend! 🤠

@Damianblf

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much CC. Glad you enjoyed the video. Hope you're having a great Sunday! :)

Cool Lesson in history bro thanks!

@Damianblf

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you William :)

Great job as always Damian, you're a real treasure

@Damianblf

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much for the kind words. It really means a lot. Keep on rockin' my friend. :)

@ivanwildboy

2 жыл бұрын

@@Damianblf you make great material with a smooth and friendly approach since long time and you make it really for nothing. I don't know if you make money or not with your videos but I know only one thing: you are the only youtuber that I follow with passion and total respect. Probably we share the same age and similar musical carriers, I'm Italian and I suppose your roots would be the same... What else? Thanks a lot my friend and take care of you and your family. I'm in bed with COVID but I'm quite out of bed, my NYE gig give me this present... It's my job, it's my life, it's rock'n'roll. A big hug my friend

Love it great video.

@Damianblf

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you. Glad you enjoyed it. :)

Thank you as Always DB, Happy New Year.

@Damianblf

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you & Happy New Year to you! :)

Damian you have coolest guitars!

@Damianblf

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching :)

Brilliant Damian....Thank You!

@Damianblf

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Robert :)

always interesting…..great lesson

@Damianblf

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you :)

Great video thank you for posting it

@Damianblf

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching. :)

Love Chuck Berry... I've also heard of Chuck Berries...

Great vid as usual. Thanx!

@Damianblf

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Scott :)

Thanks for the great history lesson! And the great riff (obviously).

@Damianblf

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching :)

Love your videos.

@Damianblf

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Charles :)

Awesome video...one of my favorites....thanks !

@Damianblf

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching. :)

love all the punk stuff you have on your walls...that is what i mainly listen too

@Damianblf

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Brad :)

you are great person !!! LOVE & PEACE

@Damianblf

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching David. Keep on rockin' my friend. :)

Damián, great video, as usual. But what I like the most of your videos is the ultimate message you send us about the friendship and the humanity. You seem a good man. Thanks for your advices. Once again, cheers from Spain. 🇪🇸By the way, the wheather in my city (Almería), It’s quite similar to Florida. It’s very sunny. Keep on rocking, buddy.🎸

@Damianblf

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much Rafael for the kind words. Salud :)

That's awesome thank you for the video

@Damianblf

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching. Much appreciated. :)

Wow so informative... I love music history! Bluin the blues wow I gotta go research now!

@Damianblf

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Annette :)

Really enjoyed this. I knew about the Chuck's connection to Hogan and T-Bone but I was unclear as to which records they came from Thanks Damian,God bless and Rock on 🙏😷🎶

@Damianblf

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you John for watching. :)

Great stuff again Damian. Keith.

@Damianblf

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Keith :)

So glad you mentioned Louis Jordan too. His “Saturday Night Fish Fry” might be jump blues morphing into rock and roll before our very eyes.

@kellykent131

2 жыл бұрын

That’s a great way to put it Sir. I couldn’t have said it better. 👍❤️

@Damianblf

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching Samuel. :)

@cuellar23

Жыл бұрын

Yes!

Great, Damian🙏👌

@Damianblf

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much :)

Damian, so true. When I heard Chuck's intro, I thought, hmm? I know those licks.... In the early 60's when I heard the Beatles song, "Do you want to know a secret?" I played it finger style to get a feel, and I thought of Frankie Valley and the Four Seasons hit "Candy Girl". "hmm"? Maybe borrowed, maybe not but it shows how we all think of music creativity using what we understand of mood structure from our memory library. Maybe (probably) a poorly worded explanation by me. Thanks!

@Damianblf

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching John and thank you for sharing your thoughts. Keep on rockin' my friend. :)

You were very kind to Chuck there boss, fabulous insight. 😎🎙🎸✅

@Damianblf

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Julian :)

That's such a killer lick!! B.B. King recorded two fantastic covers of "Ain't That Just Like A Woman", both vocal and instrumental.

@Damianblf

2 жыл бұрын

Both of B.B's versions are awesome. Thanks for watching. :)

Thanks that is all new to me, love your channel.

@Damianblf

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching Martyn. Glad you enjoyed the video. :)

Fabulous video! Damian, I hope you take your encyclopedic knowledge of the roots 20th C. music and write a book so these stories don't get lost.

@Damianblf

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching. Keep on rockin' my friend. :)

Bravissimo 👏👏👏.il cognome Bacci e'Italiano al mio paese ce ne sono molti.👋👋👋

Love this!!!

@Damianblf

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you :)

I've listened to every Chuck Berry album. He used that opening riff on at least 25 different songs sometimes 3 and 4 times on the same album.

Damian! You’re amazing, man! Love your approach and your playing and knowledge. Ironic that that ES-355 was not produced until the late ‘50’s and this was supposed to be 1955 😂🤣. I wish a great 2022 to you and your family!! Thank you!

@Damianblf

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching & Happy New Year to you as well. :)

You’re a mean guitar player Damian but you’re a kind spirit!

@Damianblf

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the kind words Timothy :)

I love this. I've always believed that if you want to play like someone then you need to go back and find who they wanted to play like, so I love this kind of history.

@Damianblf

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed the video. Thank you Keith for watching. :)

Imagine all of the guitar players who were unrecorded who inspired the players we know! Awesome video! 😎😎

@Damianblf

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Tom :)

Also Goree Carter' s "Let's Rock Awhile" in 1949

Good stuff Damian thanks, double take at 1.38 thought Carl Hogan was Jonathan Richman ! Didn't know these players thanks👍

@Damianblf

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed the video. Thank you for watching. :)

Hey Damian. Great dissection of intro in primal licks. Love to recognize where some piece of music came from. If someone searches a little bit he'll probably find T bone hidden behind 😉. Great channel, instantly subscribed, thanks again. Blues on 🎸🖖🏻

@Damianblf

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the sub Walter. Glad you enjoyed the video. :)

Charlie Christian played this lick at 2:16 on the Benny Goodman song, “Gone with What Wind.”

@Damianblf

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching & for leaving a comment. :)

Love the intro 😆

@Damianblf

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching. :)

Thanks for sharing Damian, I am not sure if you know this, but Chuck Berry got the idea and melody for the song “Promised land” from country singer Roy Acuffs song “wabash cannonball”. A lot of rock n rollers were influenced by country artists. I’m sure you know Chuck was influenced by T-bone walker, and also junior Barnard heavily on the guitar. I am not sure if you are interested in making videos about music history or not, but I think it would be a good video to compare the two songs.

@Damianblf

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, it could be a good topic for a video. Thanks for the suggestion. :)

Sonzeira, Demian!!! Like!

@Damianblf

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching. :)

Diggn that guild and the tip of the hat to Louis Jordan. ..I've often heard him in interviews allude to the same artists you mention. Great lesson

@Damianblf

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching :)

fantastic t-shirt !!!

@Damianblf

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you :)

@lucasolari3756

2 жыл бұрын

@@Damianblf I would like to take a nice vacation in Florida to get a full immersion rockabilly guitar course from Damian: 3 hours at day, 5 days at week, 5 weeks... Maybe I could learn to play some songs from the beginning to the end without making mistakes... maybe!

W0W!

Check out the intro to "Let's Rock Awhile" by Goree Carter (1949)

Damian, great lesson. I loved it. I loved that you brought the information about Chuck Berry and the origins of Johnny Be Goode quickly and concisely. I dig the Joan Jett and the Blackhearts t-shirt. It looks so cool. I’ve been jonesing for a Musicman amp. I just found out she plays a 2 x 12 amp by MM. She also uses an Ibenez Turbo Tube Screamer. I’ve got a TS9 and I like. Have you ever played a Turbo?

@Damianblf

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much my friend. I've only used a TS9 and I haven't used one in years lol. I'll have to look up the Turbo Tube Screamer and check out some reviews & demos. Sounds interesting. :)

I’ve been considering the X-175b to cover both rockabilly and 50s jazz. What have you thought about it?

My goal is to play like Damian Bacci. (And contribute to mankind.)

@Damianblf

2 жыл бұрын

You are very kind to say that. Thank you very much for watching. :)

you play music that doesn't fit with your rock and metal decor and fashion and that's why your cool, your an original and a critical thinker. love your inspirational and moral moments too brother.

@Damianblf

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much for the kind words. Keep on rockin' my friend. :)

Another great video! Thankyou. By the way, what sort of pick do use and why please?

@Damianblf

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Michael. For the past 10 years I've been using my own signature guitar pick that is a medium .71mm white celluloid. I used to use heavy picks for years and used different assortment of brands. But a friend of mine was the guitar tech for Joe Perry awhile back and he sent me a whole bunch of white .71mm Aerosmith picks and I loved them. So when I ran out I had some custom made for me that were just like the Aerosmith picks. Anyone who buys a DVD course from me gets one of my guitar picks in the package. :)

Like many, I would love to know where or how Chuck Berry learned that rhythm with the E and A strings. That became the model for Rock Music since then.

Great I video !! .... I wonder if it was the "Horn Players" of the day that influenced the very early guitarists like Carl Hogan and T-Bone Walker ?... Ahhhh music its a living evolving thing ;-) Thanks for the video Damian and yes I agree the Universe cares only for the humanity and love that we give to her ;-)

@Damianblf

2 жыл бұрын

Oh for sure the horn players inspired those guys. Thank you for watching Chris. Cheers :)

Always remember his biggest influence, Sister Rosetta Tharpe.

@Damianblf

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching :)

@AlBowly

Жыл бұрын

She was playing that style years before him.

Great info Damian. You are an awesome fount of knowledge and a really good teacher. I have wanted to talk about Chuck's track Deep Feeling. The only song he ever recorded using a Pedal Steel. There is no doubt in my mind that this song is the direct influence for the song Albatross, from the great Peter Green. If I am right, could you put together a vid about that. That'd be so CoooL. Thanks, Matt.

@Damianblf

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much Matt and thanks for the suggestion. What's funny is Chuck Berry's "Deep Feeling" influenced Peter Green and the song "Albatross" influenced The Beatles "Sun King". :)

@matthawkins8197

2 жыл бұрын

@@Damianblf Yeah, That's cool. Music is a hand shake from one artist to another.

Thx D. Anorther great & fun lesson : Is your dvd available as as download ..? Thx

@Damianblf

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching and yes, my "Ultimate Rockabilly Guitar" & my "Good Rockin' Guitar" courses are available as downloads. :)

It's all been done before...... thanks for doing the research.....all the greats steal but make it their own and move it forward

@Damianblf

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching John and yes, very true. We all borrow from each other. :)

Hello Damien Thank for your vidéo about chuck berry influences I m Guitarist and live in France . I like your videos I would say that I never heard chuck berry played the same version recorded in 1956 ? In live He didn’t play the original the sing and guitar was different often in the key of C! It’s very strange :) I read that Matt guitar Murphy was in the recording I think too that chuck Berry wanted to try to do the riffs of his pianist Johnny Johnson :) Thanks

@Damianblf

2 жыл бұрын

Johnnie Johnson was an amazing player. Thank you for watching. :)

Not one of... The seminal moment in the "invention" of rock n roll guitar. Rock on! 🤘

@Damianblf

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching :)

This one was really intresting. Are you on tiktok??? I just see Marty guitar and all the other big YT merging on there.

@Damianblf

2 жыл бұрын

No, I'm not. I may get on there in the near future. Thank you for watching the video. :)

Thanks so much for the music history lesson. Can you also explore how Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup should get more credit for rockabilly?

@Damianblf

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much. I think Elvis was quoted once saying "“If it weren’t for Big Boy, I might not be here today”. Thank you Alan for the suggestion. :)

@alangoldstein6767

2 жыл бұрын

@@Damianblf Thank you for replying! I agree, Elvis was definitely complimentary to Crudup and gave him songwriting credit (though this songwriting credit honesty was not common in the industry). I'm referring to several articles that said Elvis should get credit for starting rockabilly with "My Baby Left Me" as he allegedly greatly increased the tempo from Crudup's original version. When I listen to them both, the tempi don't sound very different to my untrained ear. I love rockabilly but feel the contributions of African-Americans (and women like Wanda Jackson), are often overlooked. (Of course, I'm not referring to you at all and love your lessons, I just would like to see the media have a more inclusive history.) I'll step off my soapbox now. Thanks.

@jayviviano109

2 жыл бұрын

@@Damianblf interestingly enough I just recently spent the weekend with one of Arthur Crudups closest personal friends. Dick Waterman. Dick was a personal friend to a lot of the other Blues Legends from back then and was the guy that helped fight for many of them to get there royalties and money from concert promoters. He was the guy that road with Arthur Crudup and his family back in the early 70s to help Arthur get is past due royalties from the record label. Record label execs wouldn't turn over the money on some "technicalities". And Arthur sadly yet graciously accepted his fate as never going to receive his royalties, and tragically passed away not long after. But after Arthur passed they put the squeeze on record label again about a year later, and this time the label execs were willing to finally do the right thing (which they should have done many years earlier when he was still alive)... Arthur's Family received much more money than Arthur himself was originally even asking for, I think they received approx $250,000 in back royalties (Arthur was asking only for $60,000.... and keep in mind for context, back at that time 60,000 would have been more like 250,000. So the 250,000 his family actually got was more like equivalent to a Million dollars today). and that was only the first payment ....his family has continued to receive more money throughout the years. So Financial paybacks were eventually done, but unfortunately not during Arthur's lifetime. Just pointing this out because there is still a very popular belief throughout the years by many in our day & age that "no money was ever paid to the Crudup estate". Which are generally nothing more than assumptions. But are completely false.

@jayviviano109

2 жыл бұрын

@@Damianblf as for Elvis, your quote is correct. In fact Arthur himself had great respect for Elvis and felt Elvis was one of the few people out of the entire industry that ever gave him public acknowledgement. (There were other artists including RnB artist that also covered Arthur songs, but they never gave him a public shout out like Elvis did.) Plus Arthur said Elvis actually signed his royalty statements. So Elvis was under the assumption the record company was then sending Arthur the money. Arthur was quick to point out it wasn't Elvis's fault because he didn't know it was the greedy folks higher up running the record label that were keeping all of his royalty money. I'm actually working on a Documentary that will be covering a lot of this type of information. It's an interesting topic for sure, yet amazing almost alarming, all these years later how much misinformation is out there.

@jayviviano109

2 жыл бұрын

@@alangoldstein6767 I just saw your comment. What's interesting about your mention of My Baby Left Me is Arthur said he received a personal note from Elvis regarding that song...telling him how much he loved it. Arthur talked about this in interview in 1970s. (Most historians completely ignored it). As for the songs, Elvis changed them up quite a bit. Arthur also talked about this in another interview. Most folks aren't aware Elvis completely rewrote "That's Alright Mama". When people listen to Elvis's version and go back and listen to Arthur's, if they focus on the lyrics of each it's only then do they notice...different lyrics. Elvis did it himself. No one else was involved. (Some tried to falsely give Sam Phillips credit, but it's complete bs). Basically Elvis did what many other Blues Legends did back then... which was a long tradition of taking Popular lyrics from different blues songs and then writing/ rearranging them into ANOTHER song. Most Blues historians know this was a very common form of writing blues music back then. No one ever gave Elvis credit for essentially doing what many other Blues artists were doing. Arthur himself noted the changes in Elvis's version and pointed out he liked Elvis's spin on it. But of course no question Arthur was the initial inspiration to Elvis, behind his versions.

What do you think about the guild? How does it compare to the 6120?

@Damianblf

2 жыл бұрын

I love my Guild. It's one of my favorite guitars. It plays well, it sounds great. And I really like how it looks. The two guitars are different from each other. The Manhattan X-175 has a more similar sound & feel to a Gibson than to a Gretsch.

@jasonstacey9460

2 жыл бұрын

@@Damianblf thanks man I've been playing my Tennessee rose for about ten years. Been thinking about changing things up a bit. Still can't afford the 50's 175/295 that I want.

sister rosetta tharpe was also a big influence on his sound

@Damianblf

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching :)

I thought the influence came from a horn section of the big band era. Glen Miller, maybe? I am going to check and will let you know