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Fun Stuff => BAND => Topic started by: IronOxide on 18 Feb 2005, 17:51
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Okay, the guy who runs the Guitar Club at our school gives us trivia most every week. There is a problem, however. They are very difficult, any help would be appreciated!
What did Chet Atkins use for guitar strings when he was younger?
What is the name of the current Metallica sound-alike band?
Name the commercial with a song from the occult group The Sonics (hint: The Sonics were a garage band from the early 60's that were quite influential).
Happy hunting!
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sounds like you want us to do your homework for you.
cheaters never win. but cheaters are always more fun to hang out with.
Chet Atkins (http://www.bookrags.com/biography/chet-atkins/)
near the end of the second paragraph.
The Sonics (http://www.acerecords.co.uk/gotrt/nov04/SONIC001.html)
as far as the Metallica question...dude, thats open for discussion, there are like a gagillion bands out there that sound like them. but in my opinion i would just say Godsmack.
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Good lord, how did you figure that out so fast?
Also, I be no cheater, my friends ask their art teacher because he's cool like that. I merely expand my asking range to people that are cool like you. :)
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Google. end all...be all...fucking...use it.
and your welcome.
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I might be wrong, but I don't think its Godsmack, as far as I have understood it they`re rip off Alice in Chains and even named themselves after one of their songs.
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This would seem like something to ask the people on the sonic youth board.
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the sonics, not sonic youth.
im sure they used "money, thats what i want" in a commercial....for something
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I'm pretty sure of the first 2 are right, they look pretty good. As for the Metallica sound-alike one, I have no clue. Ah well, I'm gonna keep looking for the last one. Just in case
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I hereby ressurect this topic for newer, harder trivia. I'm looking, and I'll update everyone if I find anything, but the new question is...
What is the first riff that Steve Vai claims to have learned for the guitar?
Happy hunting!
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as far as the Metallica question...dude, thats open for discussion, there are like a gagillion bands out there that sound like them. but in my opinion i would just say Godsmack.
Google agrees. An I'm Feeling Lucky search for "metallica sound-alike" brings up a Godsmack review.
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He could be talking about Beatallica (http://www.beatallica.com/).
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Not really a sound alike though. And there are hundreds of generic Thrash bands out there.
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I hereby ressurect this topic for newer, harder trivia. I'm looking, and I'll update everyone if I find anything, but the new question is...
What is the first riff that Steve Vai claims to have learned for the guitar?
Happy hunting!
I've heard this before, but I don't remember. Something really lame.
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The Metallica one was Trivium. I'm verywise open to the new one though, back to the search for me. :)
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What the hell? Trivium are a crappy (not just average, down right crappy) Metalcore band. Even through their lead singer is also in Capharnaum.
Must just be because they're on Roadrunner.
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I'VE FOUND IT! 'Twas Aquaung by Jethro Tull.
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No it wasn't.
It was "Smoke on the Water"
I know this, because Smoke on the Water is the first riff *every single guitarp player ever* learns. You can't argue with science.
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No it wasn't.
It was "Smoke on the Water"
I know this, because Smoke on the Water is the first riff *every single guitarp player ever* learns. You can't argue with science.
Untrue. Even though it was the first one I learned, what about those Nirvana-folk?
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And the people who played gee tar before Smoke on the Water? or the guys who wrote Smoke on the Water? A HA!
I actually learned House of the Rising Sun first, but meh.
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"Seven Nation Army" is becoming a popular one too.
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Smoke on the water was the first riff I learnt.
But the first song I learnt was Mayhem - Deathcrush.
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The first thing that I learned, and am still working on is "Sunshine of Your Love" by Cream. I've got it to a point of general suckyness up until the solo (where i've no clue, i need to get that song). I also like learning new chords. That fills me with a magical kind of glee for some reason.
No it wasn't.
It was "Smoke on the Water"
I know this, because Smoke on the Water is the first riff *every single guitarp player ever* learns. You can't argue with science.
That's what i said when I first heard it as well, though. Almost down to the word.
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I learned the Have Love, Will Travel thing first.
Smoke on the Water was SECOND, thank you very much.
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The first thing that I learned, and am still working on is "Sunshine of Your Love" by Cream. I've got it to a point of general suckyness up until the solo (where i've no clue, i need to get that song). I also like learning new chords. That fills me with a magical kind of glee for some reason.
That's so weird, that song just came on as I was reading this.
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It's because I am god. Yes, bow to me.
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i think that the first one i learned was something by Run DMC. i was over at a friend's place, he had a guitar & we had Run DMC on. i was maybe what, 9, 10? hehe.
if we're talking about first riffs/songs that we learned when we actually started playing the guitar then mine is probably "knocking on heaven's door". to this day the first thing i do when i pick up a guitar is test if it's in-tune by playing an open G chord.