Listen to AC/DC. Constant use of two guitars that go great together. One can’t get a sound like AC/DCs really any other way.
Didn’t early incarnations of Meatwood Flack have 3 guitars? Mick Fleetwood, Peter Green, and. . .someone else.
Quite simple really. You need to shove the neck of one guitar under the chin of the club promoter, forcing him against the wall. Then your partner uses the second guitar to smash open the cash box and get the money you were originally promised for the show.
It’s all about economics.
Pat Smear is his “punk” name, like Jello Biafra, Joey Ramone or Cheetah Chrome…
Peter Green, Danny Kirwan, and Jeremy Spencer. (Mick Fleetwood’s a drummer.) And they were hot in their day. The live at the Boston Tea Party CDs (three volumes) are a great source of extended blues-jammin’ goodness.
When you’re starting out, one of the benefits of not having two guitar players is that the meager amount you get paid at the end of the evening goes further. Plus it’s easier to fit 4 people in a car than 5.
Television were the perfect example of this: Richard Lloyd and Tom Verlaine’s intertwining soloing on Marquee Moon, where they weave in and out and around each other seems almost telepathic, and the effect is just breath-taking.
Slight hijack: besides Keith, who was your favourite Stones guitarist? I was always partial to Mick Taylor, whose slide work offset Keith’s rhythm playing beautifully.
Or like Darby Crash, Smear’s bandmate in The Germs years ago.
Oh, yeah, definitely Mick. All due respect to Ronnie, but with him it’s a bit like the Stones have two Keefs (a scary one and a smiley one). And I think of Brian more as the sitar-recorder-dulcimer-harmonica-whatever-and-guitar guy than as strictly the Stones’ guitarist. Note that on the Let It Bleed tracks he played on, he played autoharp and percussion, not guitar.
Mick Taylor, though, with stuff like “Can’t You Hear Me Knocking” and the Ya-Ya’s version of “Sympathy for the Devil”–he’s the man.
How about Genesis? Listen to Genesis with Steve Hackett and then when he left. Thankfully, Tony Banks’ keyboards became more important in the music. Mike Rutherford simply can not play lead guitar like Steve Hackett.
Just give The Outlaws a listen.
You will hear the magic of more than one guitar.
IMHO the best guitar band ever.
Thin Lizzy switched from a one-guitar configuration to a two-guitar configuration because Phil Lynott never wanted to be in a pickle if a guitarist quit on him again.
There’s a difference between having two lead guitars, and one lead and one rhythym (Lou Reed has said if he had his time over again he’d still choose to be a rhythym guitarist!). Did you particularly mean one or the other?
My favourite exponent of twin lead guitars is Wishbone Ash. Magic.
I did hear that in early concerts all 5 members of Blue Oyster Cult played guitar on some tracks! Didn’t happen when I saw them a few years ago. But they had credits for “stun guitar” on at least one of their early albums.
Pros: It freakin’ ROCKS, dude.
Cons: Who cares?
An excellent memory from college days - the University of Illinois guy who had the 11 p.m. (or whatever) shift one semester started every show with this one.
One of the sweetest duets of modern time…
They have three.
Thin Lizzy played Jazz Odyssey?
Does anybody know how many guitar-players are in the Queens of the Stone Age?
It sounds like 3 at least.
I love the tapestry of guitar these guys can weave, where it is really hard to tell the different guitars apart.
Who played Cowbell?
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