The indie album that's from crossed my desk at Stereo Review unbidden one afternoon back in the day, and it will surprise nobody to learn that the main reason I gave it a spin right away was due to the Vox guitar posed so enticingly on the right hand side of the album cover.
As for Fire Town, they got signed soon after to Atlantic, who re-released the album; alas, it still refused to sell despite my raving about it in the pages of SR. Two of the band members, however, went on to form Garbage with Shirley Manson, and the rest, as they say, is history.
But now to business! To wit...
...and the most memorable use of an electric twelve-string guitar on a rock record is...?
Discuss.
Have a great weekend everybody!
For me it would have to be where it all started in America: Mr. Tamborine Man - The Byrds.
ReplyDeleteWhat a sound it made on my transistor radio!
Captain Al
Yep, June 65
DeleteThe Byrds - Turn! Turn! Turn!
ReplyDeleteFor me it's A Hard Day's Night.
ReplyDeleteprobably would be George Harrison with his Rickenbacker 360-12 on 'you can't do that' or 'ticket to ride'
ReplyDeleteYep. No George Harrison. No Roger McGuinn.
ReplyDeleteMr. Tambourine Man, of course. Couldn’t afford a Rickenbacker so i got a Hagstrom 12 :)
ReplyDeleteTo me the apotheosis of McGuin's sound came with Clarence White in 100 Years from Now.
ReplyDeleteWhat — no love for Carl Wilson on The Beach Boys “Dance Dance Dance”?
ReplyDeleteI saw Spinal Tap do 'Big Bottom' with all three frontmen playing bass. Does that count as 12 strings?
ReplyDeleteAlzo:
ReplyDeleteYou win the prize! Best musical math!
Captain. Al
I believe the correct spelling of the band's name is Fire Town.
ReplyDeleteMy God - how has no one cited
ReplyDeleteJorma Kaukonen ?
Only one? I'll go with The Searchers' "When You Walk In The Room." Worth noting that they also played Rickenbackers.
ReplyDelete"Eight Miles High" by the Byrds.
ReplyDeleteQuestion: Can anybody confirm if the fearsome, droning guitar on the Velvet Underground's "Venus In Furs" was done on a Rickenbacker 12-string? If it was, that song would be right near the top of my list, too.
This brings back memories! I read the SR review of this back in '86 and, as instructed, purchased it. I still have it in excellent condition. But, a bit of melancholia, I was just 26-yrs. old when this was in heavy rotation in my car. I'm 63-yrs. now...my parents were right again: "time flies".
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