Nice to see Davey Johnstone getting some love. This was such a ripping tune. As a kid in the '70's, I couldn't get enough of it!

My first concert was Elton's "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" tour. To this day, it stands as one of the top three shows I've ever seen and I've seen a lot of shows in my life. The band was on fire and they played every tune perfectly. They opened with "Funeral for a Friend / Love Lies Bleeding" and just took off from there. One hell of a show and band.

I saw Davey with Alice Cooper on the “Welcome to my Nightmare” tour. I was blown away. Phenomenal guitar player!

@thefonzkiss

5 ай бұрын

Steve Hunter and Dick Wagner were on guitar on that tour, not Davey Johnstone. Hunter didn’t do some 1977 shows due to other commitments, he was replaced by Bob Kulick. Davey played the From The Inside and Flush The Fashion tours.

I watched Davey Johnstone play this song live in 1974 at Hoffienz Pavillon and he was playing a white Gibson 2 pickup Les Paul Custom through the entire show.

Ahhh..the summer of '73! Saw Elton live 2 weeks after this song was released as a single in August. Maybe the best band I have ever seen live. Elton was cool back then. Thanks for posting!

FINALLY some love and appreciation for Davey Johnstone! He is one of my 3 huge influences (Townshend & Martin Barre being the others). Elton & Taupin are incredible songwriters but Johnstone is the secret sauce. His parts add soooo much to the music and are integral to the whole! I went out of my way to see Meatloaf back in the 80s ONLY because Davey was touring with him. I was belly to the stage directly in front for the entire show in a rinky dink club on the Jersey shore. Even when tasked with taking a lead he was the consummate sideman - adding to the songs without taking away from his “boss”. Definitely a top 10 concert experience! Would love more lessons: Captain Fantastic, Meal Ticket, Madman, and the ultimate melodic statement, Funeral/Love Lies Bleeding. Thank you so much for this! I’m heading down to my basement (dungeon) now to grab my LP Custom and get this under my fingers.

@lfader

5 ай бұрын

Wow my admiration for Pete and Martin is endless Insane guitarists 🌟🌟⚡ Edit:: Yes Les Paul Customs 🪄🪄🪄

I Remember dancing to and singing this one at the top of my lungs! What a great tune, and great breakdown. Thanks!!👍

My favourite guitar channel!

Thank's once again, from Les Paul's hometown.

Such good content on this channel. I learned something from every lesson you teach.

great job as always dude...i envy you because you are doing exactly what i wish i could be doing; picking all these great songs apart and posting lesson videos on YT haha...blessings to you always brother 😎

Thanks for another great lesson!!

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road is full of great guitar riffs. My favorite is All The Young Girls Love Alice.

@castleanthrax1833

Күн бұрын

I love Dirty Little Girl. It has such a great "swing" to it.

Great tune! Thanks!!

You always hit the good ones!

Good one and nice to see some close up camera work. Thanks!

Damn dude- your triple gold humbucking SG is glorious 🌟 Edit:: Davey Johnstone has been a badass since the '70s 💥

One of the coolest riffs ever thanks!

One of my favorites. That and Rebel, Rebel by Bowie. Love to see you do that one. Thanks

Love it! I’d really like to see a lesson on Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding. That would be quite an undertaking and might take two videos. Love your channel.

Great guitar tone ... AND that SG! Chuck Berry stuff in the chorus, very nice. Good lesson, never thought of Elton John songs as guitar songs. 👍👍

@cinpa2968

5 ай бұрын

Sooo much guitar all over EJ’s music! Even before Davey he had Caleb Quaye, another phenomenon musician.

Great job on this lesson! really love the vertical tab graphic on the right hand side too!

Awesome lesson and always loved that guitar in there, powerful!!

your guitar sounds amazing !!

I keep telling people you've got the best ear on KZread. You never miss the subtlest nuance in any riff you're dissecting. Thanks, and greetings from Downunder Oh, and DJs work on Yellow brick road, particularly on "I've seen that movie too" was amazing

@12footchain

5 ай бұрын

Thank you very much!

Thanks. Forgot about this one. One of the few EJ tunes that I would not change the radio dial back in the 70s. Will see if I can follow your lesson this week.

Great teaching style and pace. Thanks

A+ for making it so wasy. Eternal thank you! 😇🥰😍🥲😋💘💝💖💗💓💯👍

One of the best SNAFF lessons! Something I have been trying to perfect for 50 years? 😊

Would love to see you break down The Bitch is back, another awesome Davey Johnstone guitar song.

This was a long over do! I always liked the rhythm of this tune! I wasn't a big fan at the time of release but as I aged and heard it later was awstruck with playing along with this track! Thanks for sharing these classic gems!

My favorite channel too! Thanks!

Hi Doug and thanks for this 👍 It's a kind of deja vu from my youth, so after watching and listening, I ran out to find the "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" album in my stored vinyl collection - simply had to listen to the original tune again. Once more, Thanks for your splendid work and lessons, Doug. ☮️❤️🎸

Nice job, you have a way of simplifying things making learning more difficult songs easier to learn.

Really great! I always loved that song and nobody ever gives it credit. Well done.

Really enjoy your instructional videos!

Nice! One of my favorites from that era, along with “Stay With Me” by Faces.

Knocked it out of the park again! Thx!

Awesome, what a fun song, thanks!

KILLER!! Such emotion through essentially power chords. KILLER!!!

Such a cool song

fun to play. thanks 🤘

Doug, you have great taste!!!!!!

Nice lesson. For bands with 2 guitarists it would be fun to break down the overdubs, especially on the outtro.

Another get lesson, thank you

Excellent

Awesome. Dave Johnstone plays lead on one of my favorite guitar oriented albums of all time, Alice Cooper’s Flush the Fashion. The guitar work on it is magical.

I'm so rusty...thanks as I resurrect my git go. Haven't had guitar lessons since 1969

Nice lesson. I needed a refresher on this . I listed to ybr back in mid 70s , it is such a great album. This song is all about guitar . Davey’s exact tone is hard to dial in, I know he played a LP, and would be interested in the amps and effect used in studio.

Yet another great analysis and lesson on a good song. And check out that sweet SG Custom. Have I just missed that sweet little axe in previous videos?

@12footchain

5 ай бұрын

its actually not a SG custom, it's one of these SG signature series models reverb.com/p/gibson-kirk-douglas-signature-sg

Couldn’t agree with you more on “gotta be in the top five of Seventies hard rock”….. obviously we exclude Stones/Who/Zep and look just below for this, but I’m with ya…. next-tier-down bands doing unbelievable things… Saturday Night’s Alright Can’t Get Enough or Good Lovin’ Gone Bad Saturday Night Special Stealin’ We’re An American Band You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet All slightly-trashy unbelievably-powerful genius Depending on whether you put Bowie in that ineligible top tier (I don’t), we could include the masterful Ziggy- Suffragette combo. And a couple of top Aerosmith songs, you pick. I’d go Uncle Salty or Sick As a Dog, but I love the big early hits too.

hard hitting, the epitome of a rock song … A couple of the sounds that I really like Are the sounds of a switchblade and a motorbike I'm a juvenile product of the working class Whose best friend floats in the bottom of a glass, oh

Davy Johnston very underrated. Managed to rock in a soft pop piano band His work in Funeral for a Friend is also extraordinary

@RJS1974

Ай бұрын

Elton one the greatest rock piano players and melody writers of all time. Elton John liked to rock and his band did wanted he wanted. Make no mistake Elton John was a solo artist and his band played what he and Bernie Taupin wrote.

Nice, I love that jam. Thanks. New to your channel and I think if you're doing this tune, I'm really gonna dig it.

@12footchain

5 ай бұрын

Welcome!

Nice one 6

Always loved it but haven't been in a band that wanted to tackle it, if they had even heard of it. A great rocker that doesn't get the attention it deserves.

Thanks!

@12footchain

5 ай бұрын

Thank you!

Man, excellent job and perfect tone re-creation!! A Great Tutorial!! Davey Johnstone is almost strictly a Les Paul guy, but your SG humbucker catches his tone perfectly. I was actually at the Yellow Brick Road tour and half a dozen others subsequently. Loved his band with Dee Murray and Nigel Olsen. I'm a huge EJ fan going back to Tumbleweed Connection and Honky Chateau!! I think Yellow Brick Road was his peak, with all those great rock guitar classics. Every time I've seen Davey, he has always alternated between a Custom and Standard Les Paul. He always uses those two on his individual Facebook Channel, also. Hey, which amp and cab are you using?? Is it that Marshall head and 4x12 cabinet on the right of the screen? I would like to request one other rocker off Yellow Brick Road: "All The Young Girls Love Alice"!! Would love to get your take on that one..."born to be a lady by the Golden rule, Alice was the pawn of a public school..." 🎼🎵🎶🎵🎸🎸😂

@12footchain

5 ай бұрын

thanks! no for this one I'm using GuitarRig7 software running off my pc/DAW. The specific settings are down in the video description. But if I was doing live, yes I'd use my 50w Marshall into the 4x12.

The reason most people do not get the fat sound that Davey gets, is they do not have nine Fender Champs lined up . . . . . That is how Davey said he got that sound. Also, most people play with their guitar connected to just one amp . . . . . big mistake if you really want a professional studio sound, you always want to have at least two amps, as was explained to me a long time ago, use each amp with different settings, then carefully adjust your volumes so they are the same using your ear. EJ band also used a lot of microphones when recording in the studio. Davey did quite a few songs with alternate tunings, (not this one), Hercules was one of them.

Great lesson! I've been waiting for someone to do this. Thanks Here's another I'm still waiting for a good lesson for if you'd like to give it a try. Zep's "The Rover" . I'll be watching for it. Thanks again.

@12footchain

5 ай бұрын

Soon!

Doug, we miss you in Seattle!

@12footchain

5 ай бұрын

Miss you too Joe!

Thanks

@12footchain

3 ай бұрын

Thank you!

How about life in London or makes no difference by Pat Travers?

Fun Fact - Elton wanted the songs Your Sister Can't Twist and Saturday Night's Alright to be his version of Black Dog and Rock and Roll from LZ4.

I never noticed its basically the same riff as Nothing But a Good Time. The tone is just different

@12footchain

5 ай бұрын

yeah you are right!

@travismiles5885

5 ай бұрын

@@12footchain I like when I set out to learn a song and end up learning two or three more because the riffs are so similar.

@geraldhartley

5 ай бұрын

Except Nothing But a Good Time is bouncing back and forth on the Am7 shape. This is different.

@CAP21

5 ай бұрын

Always thought this was a very catchy and cool tune. One of those songs that is appealing to the ear.😎 Great breakdown🎸

@JoanMilhoan-jn2lf

4 ай бұрын

Shut up and just play

If I’m not mistaken, Davey played that on an electric 12 string chain.

Great Stuff 🎉 What about some Faces with Rod S. losing You or Maggie May ... just a suggestion

@12footchain

5 ай бұрын

Thanks! Have fone Maggie may here, great song. kzread.info/dash/bejne/iptku5Kodc--g5s.html

WOW GUY! What a COOL GIBSON SG you have! What Year is that? Is that CUSTOM MADE or What? Is it just me or is the neck really wide but the fretboard looks like almost FLAT Radius wise? Give us details?

@12footchain

2 күн бұрын

Thanks, yeah awesome guitar, it's a 2021 capt kirk douglas signature SG. Look them up, great guitar, beat neck on any guitar I own

Sounds better using the B & D strings, as opposed to you using the B & G strings. The classic old blues shape but because it's amped up it sounds more rocky of course.

I never noticed it sounds like a KISS guitar part.

kzread.info/dash/bejne/mJuFrptyj6undLQ.html Davey did an instructional video many years ago for Star Licks where he shows you how to play some of the classic and deep cut Elton John songs (including Saturday Night’s Alright For Fighting) that is a nice addendum to this video.

Always thought this was in open g

Guitar in this song Sounds like Pete Townsend, a la Pinball Wizard, not Stones.

Dave’s uses what has become associated with Keef, but apples and oranges; eh mate? Keef is a legend, but imho; isn’t Johnstone too a legend? Owing to the huge plates of meat. 12’ Chain knows what that’s about. How about the r3st of y’all?

Thanks!

@12footchain

5 ай бұрын

thank you!