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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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Watching it now. Guy is on point.

Thank you John, love it!

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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.

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Last edited: May 18, 2018 15:11:38

Add trumpet like Blackball Bandits, and bingo,
Spaghetti surf

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Awesome! Thank you!

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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 Smile 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.

What I'm wondering is what actual reverb units were used in most of these Italian Westerns.. Premiers or Fenders?

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Or just a amp with built in reverb

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That was very well done. Thanks for sharing!
Very important point about the rhythm difference. Try to play a SW tune with surf drumming and you have killed the SW vibe immediately.
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Good stuff. Here's The Tarantulas doing a great cover:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngmUMh_We6k
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What I'm wondering is what actual reverb units were used in most of these Italian Westerns.. Premiers or Fenders?

I'd bet neither. Probably studio plate reverb. Or just judicious miking in a big room.

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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???

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That's a great video intro. I really like how he talks about how chords elicit emotions, and the combinations produce images.
He talks about other genres circling back to get some spaghetti sauce in their music- we've heard metal, garage, soul approaches. I have to say that surf bands do SW the best!

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I always wonder what guitars Signori Rucher e Allesandroni played. The tones are hard to cop.

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alessandro alessandroni with his 1961 fender stratocaster
he also is the whistler on the soundtracks
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PINO RUCHER with a strat
Thier was a jaguar in some tracks though.
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Some people say their was fuzz in spaghetti westerns
but i can't recall any fuzz in the originals.
prove me wrong by posting an original track with any fuzz at all.

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.

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Thanks big swell drifter.
Theirs definitely some fuzz in that.
If you didn't show me i would never
have thought thier was fuzz.

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