Very fond memories of the Seventeen Seconds tour in 1980. Maybe 5 encores if I recall correctly . We wouldn't let them leave. One of the best concerts I ever saw.
Saw the Cure play this entire album in an Edmonton, Alberta bar back in the early eighties. Unforgettable. Also unforgettable was that there were more bar staff than audience members.
haha. Awesome memory. I had that experience with the Flaming Lips in 1987 in South Carolina. We ended up helping them move their gear into their van afterwards.
Station 2Station i would have loved to have hung out with the Cure back then and probably could have in retrospect but in my eyes they up there with all the big bands and therefore unapproachable. Over the years i discovered that Robert Smith is a lovely man and probably would have accepted an offered beer.
Great stuff Adrian. I think some people unable to see beyond the makeup, etc., overlooked The Cure and failed to see the true genius in Robert Smith's guitar playing and songwriting. They've influenced so many bands, look at all the greats who've covered them.
yep 100% - I think a lot of guitar muso's got into them after Reeves Gabrels played session guitar at Glastonbury - certainly a lot of my guitar mates that never understood my obsession with Smith and John McGeoch suddenly "got" the Cure. Reeves was somehow a rock frat "blessing" that made it ok ( for straight laced rockers ;- ) to say the Cure are cool, without blushing or feeling a little uncomfortable. Guitar nerds are often incredibly conservative and I think this is why Adrian's channel is so compelling as it breaks down a lot of barriers as to what has cultural value - sorry got a deep there lol!
Phineus Freek - Roland “Jazz Chorus”, a 2x10 or 2x12 amp/speaker cab that has a dedicated “chorus/vibrato” input, used on many of The Cure’s early albums, and I’m sure a lot more: I’d venture to guess Siouxsie & The Banshees (who Robert Smith has collaborated with), Tears For Fears..?
Nice! This is probably the paradigmatic "Robert Smith playing a Jazzmaster" song for me, the guitar is so skeletal and percussive and bright.. What an amazing bass track too, and let's not forget Lol on the drums, sounding like the world's punkiest drum machine.
Robert Smith rarely gets props for being a great guitar player. Truth be told, he was very inventive, hugely influential and wrote memorable guitar melodies that stick in your head. He also played and toured as the guitarist for Siouxsie and the Banshees for a time and can be heard on their live album Nocturne.
You have gotten much better with your pinky finger these days. 2022, I just went back in your lessons to learn this one over again. I seem to do that more and more as I progress in my GenX years. Thank you for all that you do.
Listening to this tune for more than 30 years, and learning guitar for less than a year. Thanks so much for this amazing tutorial. It will surely expand my skills while enjoying an amazing song. 🥰😍🤩
Holy crap, I was literally looking up this song tutorial this morning hoping you would have done it and lo and behold you have uploaded it TODAY! Thank you so much Adrian.
Another incredible tutorial - wonderful choice of material. You have become my main motivation to keep picking up the guitar and learning. Please keep up with the Cure tutorials I know they arent technically challenging but Robert Smith has quite an odd guitar style that I love but often struggle to unpick . Thanks again for your out put its varied and wonderful.
I've been playing acoustic for 2 years but this intro tells me I need an electric. I will always adore Robert Smith and the Banshee's McGeoch's guitar playing, they pull me in like no others.
Awesome Adrian! Soft spot for this era! Pictures Of You one of my all time favorite songs! This period of post punk/ new wave good to satisfy all the ladies requesting more danceable songs lol! Cheers!
Well done @ACPG. Great sound and awesome rhythm track. Yes I remember that tour as well @TW. In Paradiso, Amsterdam. Their sound person had created an awesome sound!! Just Beautiful.
Heeelllllls yes! You have the best channel because of your tastes, gear and methods of teaching. Speaking of requests, I can never figure out the proper way to play Richard Hell and The Voidoids - Blank Generation.
That last be weird chord is rather like the one in " Alone Again Or" by Love moving from the two fretted notes then to the F# major by adding the barre. Great video again!
Been playing this a bit differently for years as I've learned the song literally just by listening to it and watching Robert play on horrible quality (from today's perspective) VHS videos, and I guess I got some things slightly wrong. I'd say the way you play it is more accurate in some parts, but some of those "embellishments" are somewhat different IMO. But who knows. And it's not like Robert has played it exactly the same way throughout the years either. And it's a song to play and enjoy anyway, not an exact mathematical study ;) Won't probably be able to change the way I play it after all these years, but very nice lesson and still learned some things, so thank you from a lifelong The Cure fan.
I could not thank you more for this great staff Adrian! All your tutorials are just perfect and so helpful. Have became the sucsriber as of today and just do hope you will find the time to keep doing this for years to come! There are a lot of videos on how to play various things on youtube but too often you can feel from the very beginning that the player strugles to match exactly what he tries to cover while in your lessons is obvious that every note you play, the rythm & feeling match the original simply perfectly. Wish you all the best and cannot wait for your other videos!
Thank you Adrian for this great tutorial! As a long time Cure fan I’ve been playing this song over and over again. But there were always some beats I thought I hadn’t really figured out quite right. Now you’ve provided all the details I had missed. Thanks a ton! Sound wise, I guess you’ve come quite close. I use a Jazzmaster (MiJ with ‘65 American vintage pickups) through a JC40 with the addition of an EHX Electric Mistress to add a very subtle Flanger that is almost everywhere on 17 Seconds. Last but not least, I’d be glad to watch a tutorial of The Drowning Man from the Faith album. I think there are many strange, incomplete chords in it, with lots of open strings, which goes to show how creative and peculiar was Robert Smith guitar work at that time.
Remember the first time I ever heard this song, I must have been about 9 years old. I quickly asked for a guitar for Christmas and still playing the cure over 30 years later
Hi Adrian another great lesson, I know you've done a few smiths songs, I'd love you to do heaven knows I'm miserable now, I've yet to see a comprehensive lesson on that song yet
Hello Adrian. I am always looking forward to you're lessons. Especially your choice in some forgotten oldies. My request is Michael Kiwanuka cold litte heart. Greetings from Rotterdam (Netherlands)
This is amazing, thanks! I've been playing this song for more than 30 years and now I realize there was still a couple of emblishments that I had missed. Other Cure songs with smart details: The Drowning Man and The Figurehead. I'd also appreciate any insights on The Kiss and All I Want, as there are so many guitar layers and pedal effects that it is difficult to figure out exactly what guitar is doing what.
Nice coincidence , i’d just been learning through some of this era too. Thanks for doing this. Nice haunting one to do is ‘strange day’ and 100 years. Since you ask for recommendations for lessons, could you do stone roses ‘bye bye badman’ please or ‘standing here’ the 2 roses songs I just can’t get and no lessons anywhere for either. You have great taste. Thank you
Thank you for transcribing this song. This is one of my top five favourite songs by The Cure. To hear you break it down helps me with my guitar playing, I appreciate that. Would you mind transcribing the song Brave Captain by the American post punk band fIREHOSE? It is one of my favorite songs in general. I wish you continuing success.
Love the cure so much man, thank you. Do you think you could ever look at some It Looks Sad? Songs like Faded and Seasons would be siiiick to see you play
Robert Smith is a excellent guitarist not by his technic but with his creativity. all its parts are always falsely simple I love it
Agree! His technique's not too shabby either - he's really tight and accurate on this track.
Very fond memories of the Seventeen Seconds tour in 1980. Maybe 5 encores if I recall correctly . We wouldn't let them leave. One of the best concerts I ever saw.
Saw the Cure play this entire album in an Edmonton, Alberta bar back in the early eighties. Unforgettable. Also unforgettable was that there were more bar staff than audience members.
haha. Awesome memory. I had that experience with the Flaming Lips in 1987 in South Carolina. We ended up helping them move their gear into their van afterwards.
Wow you’re so lucky!
Station 2Station i would have loved to have hung out with the Cure back then and probably could have in retrospect but in my eyes they up there with all the big bands and therefore unapproachable. Over the years i discovered that Robert Smith is a lovely man and probably would have accepted an offered beer.
Quelle chance !!!!!
Was that at People’s Pub?
Great stuff Adrian. I think some people unable to see beyond the makeup, etc., overlooked The Cure and failed to see the true genius in Robert Smith's guitar playing and songwriting. They've influenced so many bands, look at all the greats who've covered them.
yep 100% - I think a lot of guitar muso's got into them after Reeves Gabrels played session guitar at Glastonbury - certainly a lot of my guitar mates that never understood my obsession with Smith and John McGeoch suddenly "got" the Cure. Reeves was somehow a rock frat "blessing" that made it ok ( for straight laced rockers ;- ) to say the Cure are cool, without blushing or feeling a little uncomfortable. Guitar nerds are often incredibly conservative and I think this is why Adrian's channel is so compelling as it breaks down a lot of barriers as to what has cultural value - sorry got a deep there lol!
I recently bought a JC22.... game changer! It made all of my 80s alternative dreams come true!
@@phineus8397 It's an amp
Phineus Freek - Roland “Jazz Chorus”, a 2x10 or 2x12 amp/speaker cab that has a dedicated “chorus/vibrato” input, used on many of The Cure’s early albums, and I’m sure a lot more: I’d venture to guess Siouxsie & The Banshees (who Robert Smith has collaborated with), Tears For Fears..?
I have the JC120. It's amazing
@@jonathannagel7427 The Cult. She Sells Sanctuary or The Rain. ;)
Nice! This is probably the paradigmatic "Robert Smith playing a Jazzmaster" song for me, the guitar is so skeletal and percussive and bright..
What an amazing bass track too, and let's not forget Lol on the drums, sounding like the world's punkiest drum machine.
That was about the last time in the history of the band, where Lol was musically useful in any way... ;)
lol
@@everpuremusic gallup smith tolhurst, such an iconic lineup
Jesus mate you nailed that!!!! Sounds great
As a Cure fan for more than 30 years : this is perfect ! Nice work mate !!
Finally! A guitar lesson that does this song justice. Thank you Adrian!
Robert Smith rarely gets props for being a great guitar player. Truth be told, he was very inventive, hugely influential and wrote memorable guitar melodies that stick in your head. He also played and toured as the guitarist for Siouxsie and the Banshees for a time and can be heard on their live album Nocturne.
thanks, thats such a nice fun fact!
"Jumping Someone Else's Train" is a great one to play - perhaps one day? 👍👍👌👌
just about the most insanely clean bright jangly guitar tone in any song ever
I had to give this one a 'like' simply for the tshirt introduction. 😄
You have gotten much better with your pinky finger these days. 2022, I just went back in your lessons to learn this one over again. I seem to do that more and more as I progress in my GenX years. Thank you for all that you do.
Listening to this tune for more than 30 years, and learning guitar for less than a year. Thanks so much for this amazing tutorial. It will surely expand my skills while enjoying an amazing song. 🥰😍🤩
Grinning from ear to ear at the opening harmonics -- this is wonderful! Thank you 😎👍
Love this guy he’s the best
FANTASTIC!!! Please make more of The Cure songs!
Holy crap, I was literally looking up this song tutorial this morning hoping you would have done it and lo and behold you have uploaded it TODAY! Thank you so much Adrian.
This was the perfect guitar tutorial-comprehensive and easy to follow. Thank you!
Nice, sounds spot on! I wouldn't mind seeing you do A Strange Day as well.
I thought I couldn’t love your channel more...
Another incredible tutorial - wonderful choice of material. You have become my main motivation to keep picking up the guitar and learning. Please keep up with the Cure tutorials I know they arent technically challenging but Robert Smith has quite an odd guitar style that I love but often struggle to unpick . Thanks again for your out put its varied and wonderful.
I am 43 and now i listen Cure for first time....🙏🙏🙏🎸🎸🎸🤘🤘🤘
I just want to say that you explained it excellently. Thank you so much. Your channel ist great!
I’ve been on a Cure binge lately. Hearing songs for the first time and I’m 44. Doesn’t hurt I just scored a mint 80s jc120 for $250!
Excellent!!! This is my favorite song off of Seventeen seconds.
Just about my favourite ever song! Thanks Adrian.. 👌🏻
Brilliant Adrian. Thanks for all the alternative songs you do.
15:55 I always LOVED this
One of my favorite ever Cure songs and Roberts writing and playing is always so inspiring
I've been playing acoustic for 2 years but this intro tells me I need an electric. I will always adore Robert Smith and the Banshee's McGeoch's guitar playing, they pull me in like no others.
Same here, I cannot get the intro with my acoustic either, played for 2 years too.
Awesome Adrian! Soft spot for this era! Pictures Of You one of my all time favorite songs! This period of post punk/ new wave good to satisfy all the ladies requesting more danceable songs lol! Cheers!
Absolutely outstanding video.
Well done @ACPG. Great sound and awesome rhythm track. Yes I remember that tour as well @TW. In Paradiso, Amsterdam. Their sound person had created an awesome sound!! Just Beautiful.
Love to see a deep dive into Push
I know it’s a guitar vid.
But that bass line is lovely.
You rock man.
Always had problem figuring out those harmonics and strum patterns.
Well done mate. There were a couple spots that always befuddled me a bit, you're spot on. Cheers.
Great track, really looking forward to trying this one.
Hi, I'm from Brazil and I'm learning how to play thanks to you! Love your videos!
Love you man you're my favorite guitar teacher online 😊😎🎵🎹
This is my favorite song by them. Thanks for teaching me how to play it.
Great sounding track
Great job. Nice to see it played with accuracy. Hopefully more to come?
Man, your song choices are so tasteful. Slint, Raw Power and now this. Nice work brother.
Great job on this . !
Thanks a lot for this great tuto on a great song !
Heeelllllls yes! You have the best channel because of your tastes, gear and methods of teaching.
Speaking of requests, I can never figure out the proper way to play Richard Hell and The Voidoids - Blank Generation.
Such a classic. Nice job.
That last be weird chord is rather like the one in " Alone Again Or" by Love moving from the two fretted notes then to the F# major by adding the barre. Great video again!
Adrian, I'd never thought you'd do it! Mega thanks for this one, mate.
Been playing this a bit differently for years as I've learned the song literally just by listening to it and watching Robert play on horrible quality (from today's perspective) VHS videos, and I guess I got some things slightly wrong. I'd say the way you play it is more accurate in some parts, but some of those "embellishments" are somewhat different IMO. But who knows. And it's not like Robert has played it exactly the same way throughout the years either. And it's a song to play and enjoy anyway, not an exact mathematical study ;) Won't probably be able to change the way I play it after all these years, but very nice lesson and still learned some things, so thank you from a lifelong The Cure fan.
You sound a bit butthurt that you've been schooled on how to play it properly. Adrian has nailed it 100%.
Nice harmonics there. True to original
Saw them in the Stokvishal in Arnhem 1980 even had a bootleg of said gig quite an amazing band❤
I could not thank you more for this great staff Adrian! All your tutorials are just perfect and so helpful. Have became the sucsriber as of today and just do hope you will find the time to keep doing this for years to come! There are a lot of videos on how to play various things on youtube but too often you can feel from the very beginning that the player strugles to match exactly what he tries to cover while in your lessons is obvious that every note you play, the rythm & feeling match the original simply perfectly. Wish you all the best and cannot wait for your other videos!
I have the JC120 from 1987. It's still killer today as it was when I bought it back then.
Really well done, thank you! 😀👍
Thank you Adrian for this great tutorial! As a long time Cure fan I’ve been playing this song over and over again. But there were always some beats I thought I hadn’t really figured out quite right. Now you’ve provided all the details I had missed. Thanks a ton!
Sound wise, I guess you’ve come quite close. I use a Jazzmaster (MiJ with ‘65 American vintage pickups) through a JC40 with the addition of an EHX Electric Mistress to add a very subtle Flanger that is almost everywhere on 17 Seconds.
Last but not least, I’d be glad to watch a tutorial of The Drowning Man from the Faith album. I think there are many strange, incomplete chords in it, with lots of open strings, which goes to show how creative and peculiar was Robert Smith guitar work at that time.
amazing tone!
Remember the first time I ever heard this song, I must have been about 9 years old. I quickly asked for a guitar for Christmas and still playing the cure over 30 years later
thanks mate, appreciate you!
Lovely spectral guitar...
hell yes dude, I was singing like crazy
great job!! I love the chords in this song, thanks
Great stuff. You are very precise and I love the Cure!
Hi Adrian another great lesson, I know you've done a few smiths songs, I'd love you to do heaven knows I'm miserable now, I've yet to see a comprehensive lesson on that song yet
A lesson on I wanna be adored please
🥰🥰 love from France 👍🏼
So Good !!! Thank you !
Some more blur lessons would be amazing, there are barely any on RUclips
Awesome thanks
So awesome! Thanks!
Another great Jazzmaster/Roland JC song is the instrumental Another Journey By Train.
Bass also awesome!
3rd time lucky, I guess you found the cure.
Nice one Adrian, you nailed it 😎🎙🎸✅, I watched it 1st time around, hence the quick reply
Thanks Julian! Yes, weird technical issues, but should all be OK now.
Hello Adrian. I am always looking forward to you're lessons. Especially your choice in some forgotten oldies. My request is Michael Kiwanuka cold litte heart.
Greetings from Rotterdam (Netherlands)
Ever fancy doing a lesson on suede?
Great stuff, thank you..
Can you do 10:15 Saturday night by the cure guitar lesson
Dude you're the best!!! Cure and Smiths 🎉
Can you do Apart??
Speaking of requests, Adrian...
Let’s Make Some Plans - either close lobsters or wedding present versions. Pretty please! It’s a stonking song.
OMG you are the best.
I would like to second a previous commenters request for Let’s Make Some Plans by Close Lobsters. Just a wonderful song. Thank you!
This is amazing, thanks! I've been playing this song for more than 30 years and now I realize there was still a couple of emblishments that I had missed. Other Cure songs with smart details: The Drowning Man and The Figurehead. I'd also appreciate any insights on The Kiss and All I Want, as there are so many guitar layers and pedal effects that it is difficult to figure out exactly what guitar is doing what.
10,000 THUMBS UP!
Your a real guitar gangster
"...Like I need another amp...I kinda need another amp." N+1
F**king awesome matey, thanks!
you do know how to play the guitar 👍
Nice coincidence , i’d just been learning through some of this era too. Thanks for doing this. Nice haunting one to do is ‘strange day’ and 100 years. Since you ask for recommendations for lessons, could you do stone roses ‘bye bye badman’ please or ‘standing here’ the 2 roses songs I just can’t get and no lessons anywhere for either. You have great taste. Thank you
Love yout videos, pls make more stone roses stuff
Would you ever consider The Pretender's "Message Of Love"?
More Cure
Another great one !
Do Here and Now by Ride!💥
Great video. Could you do One Hundred Years by The Cure ? Has some amazing guitar work in it
Thank you for transcribing this song. This is one of my top five favourite songs by The Cure. To hear you break it down helps me with my guitar playing, I appreciate that. Would you mind transcribing the song Brave Captain by the American post punk band fIREHOSE? It is one of my favorite songs in general. I wish you continuing success.
Thanks for this Cure upload.
I am big fan of your channel and I was wondering if one day you can play
My recurring dream from Crowded House.
Regards.
Love the cure so much man, thank you. Do you think you could ever look at some It Looks Sad? Songs like Faded and Seasons would be siiiick to see you play
Funny i worked this track Yestarday !
you don't know how lucky you are to have fingers like that