The evolution of guitar destruction
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- Опубликовано: 18 сен 2024
- The evolution of guitar destruction - Is there anything more rock ‘n’ roll than smashing or in this case sawing a guitar to bits and pieces to end a gig.
Here is British musician Wild Willy Barrett demonstrates the art albeit in a different interpretation.
Wild Willy Barrett, is an English experimental musician and multi-instrumentalist, best known for his collaborations with John Otway. His musical style has included folk, blues, psychedelia, pop, and punk rock and his live performances are punctuated with his dry humour and onstage wit. He is known for virtuoso fiddle playing, his ability with a great number of stringed instruments, and playing slide guitar with a whole raw egg (known as egg-necking). During recent Otway/Barrett performances, he has also introduced the 'wah wah wheelie bin'.
Barrett is also a skilled woodworker and carver and has produced highly unusual furniture over many years.
Barrett comes from Aylesbury. He started playing the ukulele at the age of 4 and soon moved on to other instruments. By the age of 15, he was gigging regularly. He worked with and recorded alongside and in collaboration with his emerging contemporaries. His first commercially available recordings can be found on Guitar Workshop, issued in 1973 by Transatlantic Records. He is also featured on The Contemporary Folk Guitar album with Bert Jansch, John Renbourn, Gordon Giltrap & Ralph McTell. He has worked with many well-known artists and has toured with Squeeze, Madness, and Steeleye Span and played fiddle, guitar, and mandolin for George Hamilton IV. He also played pedal steel guitar on the influential Keith Hudson reggae album entitled Rasta Communication, along with Sly and Robbie.
During the early 1980s, he ran his own record labels; "Black Eye" and "Red Eye", which released music by artists Barrett knew and played with. Amongst them was Eddie Stanton whose songs have been covered extensively by Barrett both live and on record. Before it folded, Black Eye had a number of albums to be released most notably Please Don't Throw Me to the Christians by Stanton - most of the songs from Organic Bondage were derived from those on the album - and "Man of Many Fingers" which would have been Barrett's 3rd solo album.
Then, in the mid-1980s, Barrett started experimenting and recording with a more electronic sound which had been explored in "DK 50/80" and "Birthday Boy" from "Way & Bar". Following his mostly single-based approach at that point he recorded two singles, "Old Joe Clarke" and "Rapping on a Mountain", in 1983, which were both released on Carrere Records. A single called "The Hitchhiker and the Punk" contained a much more textured and layered sound which was created by using in-studio effects and multi-tracking. This culminated, in Barrett's words "By far the most 'off the wall' musical project I have embarked on", in Organic Bondage. He made a wooden record sleeve for the album since he did not have the finances to get a sleeve printed.
In the 1990s, Barrett recorded two albums both featuring his consummate drummer Mark Freeman on a cardboard box (an instrument he'd play live). Far from the electronic sound Barrett had been focussing on in the last decade, these two albums were more organic, specifically the second. Mound of Sound had been influenced and recorded on an old English burial mound and features much of the ambiance and "feel" that that interring might have felt had they have been born in the 21st century.
Barrett has been performing vocal and strings for Sleeping Dogz, a band that he formed with his partner, Mary Holland, and John Devine, and closed the Cambridge Folk Festival in 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2009. He toured autumn of 2009 with John Otway and toured with Sleeping Dogz in April and May 2010.
In 2012, Barrett formed French Connection, using the Sleeping Dogz line-up, with the addition of French vocalist Aurora Colson. Their first live performance took place at The Flying Shack, Cheltenham on 9 November 2012. As of 2017, Barrett continues to tour.
In 2023, Barrett and John Otway are about to go out on a long tour, celebrating their 50 years of playing together.
Avant-garde at its finest. True technique at 3:11. Much to contemplate.
Instruments have soul not to be destroyed. But this quite funny. 😂😂
Wut?
Nope. A 🎸 is an empty vessel, they can give you nothing on their own.
Players have the soul part.
This is going to be rather challenging to recreate.
0:57 Banging the guitar with a hammer, then placing it inside the guitar and continuing playing, might needs a couple of takes.
I want to do a cover of this song.
I’d die if my guitar’s is destroyed
I only realized the saw once he started cutting 😂 I feel blind
Very impressed🤯 and funny 😆
Rock n Roll baby.... this is real artistic expession. Pure ART!
😁
JAJAJAJAJAJAJAKAKKKAJAJAKAJAA THIS IS THE BEST THING THAT I SEE THIS DAY
This guy is coming close to losing a finger. Or an eye.
Amazing!
3:08 floyd rose in 19th century
Oh Noooo,John Entwhistle is angry!
what tuning is he playing in?
B R O K E N
Delta G
@@blacktoothfox677 Somehow I'm not surprised that you're watching this as well
I hope that guitar wasn’t antique
I hope it was
I can assure you it wSnt
ピックアップ付けたような穴が空いてる...
Song name?
Willie Nelson still got his guitar
This is art
Kinda out of tune😂
There's a surprize!
Smashing your guitar up is a stupid totally useless thing to do. I mean what's the point of doing it when 5 minutes afterwards you'll regret what you did to your best guitar. Just play the god damn thing and don't smash it jees
$10 guitar
I'm the first lake ❤️ 🇸🇦
😭😭😭
Sou brasileiro
2
1st
😂😂😂😂
Why this so funny