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Related: About this forumFor a generation of garage bands this song was a godsend
Last edited Fri Feb 22, 2019, 11:57 PM - Edit history (1)
One of the very coolest riffs around - but even 2 kids with cheap amps and poor skills could play a passable version of it to impress the girls in the neighborhood...
You're like a sledgehammer baby - you've been hitting on my mind
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For a generation of garage bands this song was a godsend (Original Post)
The Polack MSgt
Feb 2019
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mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)1. Is this post ... uh ... autobiographical at all ;)
I remember this album ... I was real young, but I remember it.
The Polack MSgt
(13,188 posts)2. It is - and I was the rythm guy 'cause even this song was too hard
argyl
(3,064 posts)3. Garage bands rule. All great bands started in a garage.
Or a crowded room. Certainly not a fully equipped studio.
The Polack MSgt
(13,188 posts)4. I may as well get this out of the way - Tell us about it Frank!
argyl
(3,064 posts)5. And that's the definitive on garage bands. Many thanks.
Haven't heard that one in ages. And I'll be listening to it a few more times before I file it away again.