Interesting video that breaks down some of the chordal characteristics of this style:
https://reverb.com/news/video-why-is-spaghetti-western-music-so-cool
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Why is Spaghetti Western Music So Cool?
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Posted on May 18 2018 02:11 PM
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Posted on May 18 2018 02:14 PM
Watching it now. Guy is on point. |
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Posted on May 18 2018 02:22 PM
Thank you John, love it! —Jeff(bigtikidude) |
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Posted on May 18 2018 02:57 PM
That WAS good! I particularly enjoyed the "surf" parallel, and the idea that The British Shadows are a surf band. So many of their songs could have been Spaghetti Western theme music, yet they were years ahead of that particular genre. I've always thought the Shads were the most "Western" sounding English band I've ever heard, and can't figure out how 4 guys from England came to understand Western theme music as well as they did. As a side note, I play occasionally in a duo, me and a friend doing rockabilly songs. He plays acoustic, I play electric. We play "Apache", and more often than not, people think its a spaghetti western song. "What movie is that from?" has been asked more than once. —"You can't tell where you're going if you don't know where you've been" Last edited: May 18, 2018 15:11:38 |
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Posted on May 18 2018 03:06 PM
Add trumpet like Blackball Bandits, and bingo, Jeff(bigtikidude) |
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Posted on May 18 2018 04:57 PM
Awesome! Thank you! — |
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Posted on May 18 2018 05:10 PM
Loved that vid, thanks for sharing it.. I grew up on the Fender Coronado II my dad built. Surfy as hell in my book. I still lust for an Antigua What I'm wondering is what actual reverb units were used in most of these Italian Westerns.. Premiers or Fenders? —http://www.thenocturnebrain.com |
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Posted on May 18 2018 05:21 PM
Or just a amp with built in reverb —Jeff(bigtikidude) |
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Posted on May 18 2018 06:05 PM
That was very well done. Thanks for sharing! |
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Posted on May 18 2018 06:11 PM
It’s mirror made in Europe. —The Exotic Guitar of Kahuna Kawentzmann You can get the boy out of the Keynes era, but you can’t get the Keynes era out of the boy. |
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Posted on May 18 2018 06:47 PM
Good stuff. Here's The Tarantulas doing a great cover: |
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Posted on May 18 2018 07:25 PM
I'd bet neither. Probably studio plate reverb. Or just judicious miking in a big room. jb — |
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Posted on May 18 2018 09:12 PM
Thanks for sharing John. Always been a huge fan of the genre and grew up watching the movies - probably because of the music. Apparently Sergio Leone loved the music Morricone came up with so much that he edited the movies around it. The guitar player (electric not the flemenco ) on a lot of these recordings (and Italian cinema soundtracks from the period in general) was a guy buy the name of Pino Rucher. A jazz guitarist that had been around since the '40s. Brilliant playing. Have always wondered how much licence Rucher got on the sessions or whether he was strictly a hired gun??? Cheers https://thebigswelldrifters.bandcamp.com/ https://www.facebook.com/thebigswelldrifters/ |
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Posted on May 18 2018 09:19 PM
That's a great video intro. I really like how he talks about how chords elicit emotions, and the combinations produce images. Buy Endless Drummer @ Bandcamp |
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Posted on May 18 2018 11:12 PM
I always wonder what guitars Signori Rucher e Allesandroni played. The tones are hard to cop. — |
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Posted on May 19 2018 01:03 AM
alessandro alessandroni with his 1961 fender stratocaster Last edited: May 19, 2018 01:07:44 |
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Posted on May 19 2018 01:27 AM
PINO RUCHER with a strat |
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Posted on May 19 2018 01:30 AM
Some people say their was fuzz in spaghetti westerns |
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Posted on May 19 2018 01:56 AM
Hi Palo, This is about the only instances I've come across from a well know film https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrzukPzGqow - it comes in around 1:06. Sounds like a fuzzrite but who knows. There's probably other examples around from more obscure films. The Once Upon a Time soundtrack is the only instance I know of of a Morricone using it in a spaghetti western. —https://www.facebook.com/thebigswelldrifters/ Last edited: May 19, 2018 01:58:44 |
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Posted on May 19 2018 02:23 AM
Thanks big swell drifter. |
The only thing the vid left out was FUZZ!! Fuzz and reverb are homogeneous to Spaghetti Westerns. They influence me to this day. Once reason I built the Seltzerado Fuzz De Los Muertos.
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