Subtle Guitar Work

Ok, I will play with myself, some of the first music I remember is Tommy James and the Shondels. Still one of my favorite artist all these years later.

who would think to put a flamenco style acoustic over this masterpiece, Tommy James 

https://youtu.be/DQgunytVmIU?si=X-1z1_aNqXkSmfns

and the 45 roulette record pic in the video brings back some sweet memories before the LP became a thing 

Back to my 45 memories. It was satan that led me to rock and roll, or Jesus, I am still a bit confused on that part some 55 years later. 
 

I hung out with a few neighbors growing up, and we were constantly together. One day around first or second grade one of my friends was given a few of those old boxes that held 45 records. The ones with the hinged top and locking latch for when you closed up the box. He had one of those old small 45 record players with the speaker built in (mono), and we started cuing up the hidden gems from these treasure chests. This is pre FM hippie radio and AM was king, so we new the songs from the radio, but listening to the radio was not something we did before this day, it was something in the background when you rode with Mom. It was glorious and we spent day upon day sitting in my friends dining room listening to music over and over again. We never were inside growing up, except for this small window in time. We also had the power to repeatedly drop that needle into parts of songs that we really dug, like that guitar riff in Ticket to Ride. These boxes had it all, the Beatles, The Kinks, Tommy James, Elvis, and it was the start of my love for music, and the parts that make music meaningful to me. 

Now this is where all my confusion comes into play. My neighbor was given these records from his cousin. She either came to Jesus or was told that what she was listening to was Satan's music and she would go to hell if she kept listening to it. So it was either the fear of hell or her love of music that did not burn these records, or it could of been her hatred for her cousin and wanted him to go to hell, Anyways they say the Lord works in mysterious ways, and this was how I was led to this life of rock and roll.

Thanks gunkman, the old coin on the arm of the needle, before the turntables where you could adjust the weight of the head with the counter balance weights, almost all "record players" had this modification. Good times engineering to achieve better sound something that also evolved at rapid level in this era.

the riff that changed the world.
Most early rock and roll was built around rhythm, and the riff in the song, if there was a riff, was a musician playing the chorus, a lot of songs would also open with this. I mentioned this song above, and imo it was a zenith point where the youth of tomorrow ripped rock and roll away from creators Elvis, Chuck Berry, Fats Domino, and made it there own. You can hear the future Laurel Canyon sound all over this, but it is that riff in the center of the song, that sweet burst of a few notes that changed it all.
 

https://youtu.be/UHsN9d4FTVI?si=vfI7FqYpbiPDsodv

A very basic acoustic guitar and a sweet voice, exactly perfect 

https://youtu.be/cJZ_ViDADOE?si=knhJwOrQxni2W3sa

Todays pick is Sleep Dirt by one of my favorites, Frank Zappa, but it is the underlying rhythm guitar that I love in this tune, played by Jame Youman

https://youtu.be/R7_kuDyuBwo?si=IkMTa0bvekGNaW6R

Let's stick with the King

single slow strum chords, with a great bass, drums and a lil whammy, Frank then does a small delicate strangulation of the guitars, so briefly, at the end

no one plays lead like Frank Zappa, I swear at times he bends the whole neck of the guitar.

https://youtu.be/vPI7GIw6HQ8?si=wQARFSEkyqqotygu