Have worked up an instrumental version of Wicked Game for no other reason than I like it.
Wanna play it with my surf band. I know it ain't surf but it sounds like it.
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Chris Isaak's Wicked Game?
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Joined: Mar 16, 2016 Posts: 217 Highland CA |
Posted on Apr 11 2016 07:19 PM
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Posted on Apr 11 2016 07:56 PM
great tune, give it hell! |
Joined: Feb 26, 2006 Posts: 12159 Seattle 
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Posted on Apr 11 2016 07:57 PM
We once jammed on Wicked Game for 15-20 minutes. Somebody's Crying is the one we recorded and played live though. |
Joined: Feb 27, 2006 Posts: 2063 Virginia, USA
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Posted on Apr 11 2016 08:35 PM
Just played it live a couple weeks ago in my other band Killers from Space. Paul |
Joined: Feb 27, 2006 Posts: 10331 southern Michigan
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Posted on Apr 11 2016 08:54 PM
The way the song became a hit is that the instrumental version of it appeared in the David Lynch movie Wild at Heart. A DJ heard the song in the movie and was so taken by it that he had to find it. Once he tracked it down and it turned out it had a very vocal on it, he started playing it like crazy, which lead to other DJs following suit and the song becoming a massive hit. But it all started with the instrumental version!!! —Ivan |
Joined: Feb 27, 2006 Posts: 25568 Anaheim(So.Cal.)U.S.A.
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Posted on Apr 11 2016 11:03 PM
Jimmy Wilsey who played guitar on it had an instro band a few years back. Jeff(bigtikidude) |
Joined: Apr 23, 2006 Posts: 133 Austin TEXAS!
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Posted on Apr 12 2016 01:41 AM
Great tone on that tune; Strat with Lace Sensors if memory serves. I always assumed it was the racey video that made that song such a huge hit. —
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Joined: Mar 22, 2006 Posts: 363 Los Angeles
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Posted on Apr 12 2016 03:01 AM
Completely brilliant song composition, words, and Wilsey's TONE (and playing)!!! |
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Posted on Apr 12 2016 03:54 AM
GregEL wrote:
Thumbs up! |
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Posted on Apr 12 2016 06:14 AM
It's a great song but it was played to death when it came out. I preferred his less successful hit "Blue Hotel". |
Joined: Feb 26, 2006 Posts: 3805 North Atlantic 
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Posted on Apr 12 2016 06:31 AM
I have a Deke Guitar Geek festival dvd that has Jimmy Wilsey playing an instrumental version. The arrangement, tone, and vibe is teally cool. I say tumbs up! Rev —Canadian Surf http://www.urbansurfkings.com/ Last edited: Apr 12, 2016 06:32:34 |
Joined: Oct 23, 2007 Posts: 385 Boca Raton, Florida
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Posted on Apr 12 2016 06:33 AM
"Great tone on that tune; Strat with Lace Sensors if memory serves." Mr. Wilsey was a regular at the Fender forum many moons ago. He openly answered questions. He claims the track was recorded with an American Vintage '62 Strat with stock pick-ups into a Twin Reverb. Later in the mixing stage they ran in through something to enhance it, or split the signal and ran the second signal through something. |
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Joined: Mar 16, 2016 Posts: 217 Highland CA |
Posted on Apr 12 2016 06:39 AM
Seems there's hundreds of you tube videos of people playing it. Found this one interesting: |
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Posted on Apr 12 2016 07:24 AM
The Royal Aces have been playing that as an instrumental for awhile now, and it always works well when the time has come at a gig for "a slow, pretty one". Each band can decide what's surf or not! |
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Posted on Apr 12 2016 07:56 AM
Many Chris Isaak songs (and covers) are surf music with words: — |
Joined: Nov 14, 2011 Posts: 79 San Diego |
Posted on Apr 12 2016 08:46 AM
This cover absolutely sounds like a surf song... |
Joined: Oct 08, 2014 Posts: 1073 Northern Ohio
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Posted on Apr 12 2016 11:07 AM
GregEL wrote:
The only reason to play a song.
So what would you have done it they said thumbs down? Not play a song you like playing? —Da Vinci Flinglestein, The Syndicate of Surf on YouTube |
Joined: Feb 27, 2006 Posts: 3776 tn
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Posted on Apr 12 2016 11:20 AM
slopoke wrote:
There have been a few surfy covers of this Yardbirds song. I like this one: http://www.satanspilgrims.com |
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Joined: Mar 16, 2016 Posts: 217 Highland CA |
Posted on Apr 12 2016 11:29 AM
"So what would you have done it they said thumbs down? Not play a song you like playing?" Maybe. If all those who have played it live said it bores the hell out of an audience or sends them running and screaming towards the exits then it's not like there isn't any other songs to play. |
Joined: Jul 23, 2014 Posts: 637 LA -ish
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Posted on Apr 12 2016 12:19 PM
Big Blue Spanish Sky is also ripe for a Surfanese extract. When in doubt, ask yourself...what would Jimi do? PLAY ON!!!!! mj
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