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THUNDERSTRUCK

lucy4lucy4 Member Posts: 7,939
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Is there another song that has been covered in so many different ways, I can't decide which one I like most though the piper goes close. First up is the original followed by some covers, youtube is a wonderful place :D .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2AC41dglnM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uT3SBzmDxGk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4Ao-iNPPUc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYSxOj6W7IQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKZTdkvr4qo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-Op1Mng4oY
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  • stokefcstokefc Member Posts: 7,830
    I've got the original and the blugrass one The Steven Seagals i think
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  • lucy4lucy4 Member Posts: 7,939
    stokefc said:

    I've got the original and the blugrass one The Steven Seagals i think

    The Steven Seagals version is great,that's what got me searching on youtube.
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  • mumsiemumsie Member Posts: 8,003
    Post of the year lies here.
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  • TheEdge949TheEdge949 Member Posts: 5,686
    Check out ACDC Thunderstruck live at River Plate Argentina, Great performance and an insane crowd reaction. Heard it live a few times in person but Oh to have been there.
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  • lucy4lucy4 Member Posts: 7,939
    TheEdge949 said:

    Check out ACDC Thunderstruck live at River Plate Argentina, Great performance and an insane crowd reaction. Heard it live a few times in person but Oh to have been there.

    WOW,not seen that before,can't imagine what it was like being there for that concert.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_GFN3a0yj0
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  • lucy4lucy4 Member Posts: 7,939
    It's got me now watching all of it, that concert has gotta be up in the ranks of one of the best ever.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEPmA3USJdI
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  • midnightmamidnightma Member Posts: 54
    This is version of thunderstruck by my good friends dad of the same name Gordon Duncan who sadly and tragically left us at an early age. Every year they used to hold a memorial concert for him where the best pipers and folk musicians from all over the world with whom he had left an impression on from as far afield as Canada and India would perform in his memory. It is said he was to the bagpipes as Hendrix was to the guitar.

    https://r.search.yahoo.com/_ylt=AwrJO052BqVhy2UASxV3Bwx.;_ylu=Y29sbwMEcG9zAzEEdnRpZAMEc2VjA3Ny/RV=2/RE=1638233847/RO=10/RU=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EwDlUHoDFo/RK=2/RS=eM218NntPJJ5FJ6a.vLciRK13o8-
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  • midnightmamidnightma Member Posts: 54
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EwDlUHoDFo
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  • EssexphilEssexphil Member Posts: 8,780
    Thanks for these, all. 3 things to mention, the first I knew, the others I didn't.

    1. AC/DC are an awesome band live
    2. I bought every album up to and including Back in Black. This proves they still had it after that-it was not all "Bedlam in Belgium"
    3. In the right hands, bagpipes make great music
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  • lucy4lucy4 Member Posts: 7,939
    I've just watched 17:46 minutes of Let There Be Rock, what a performance not only by the guitarist but how did the drummer keep time for that long, unbelievable performance.
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  • TheEdge949TheEdge949 Member Posts: 5,686
    Sorry for the delay in replying.

    When I first started having drum lessons one of the first bands you get to drum along to are ACDC because the music is basic.

    Keeping a beat over a prolonged time can be difficult. However the way most ACDC songs are constructed makes it relatively simple.

    Firstly they are nearly always in 4/4 time, secondly they don't employ much in the way of time changes unlike say Maiden and thirdly most songs are designed to showcase Angus and therefore everything else is designed for ease of playing.

    Ok so almost every ACDC song plays at between 68 and 72 beats per minute

    So specifically Phil Rudd on drums has no great fills (where a drummer inserts triplets, paradiddles and assorted spontonaiety) to perform and could pretty much play the whole catologue with little more than a Bass (kick drum), a snare, a hyatt, mid or hi tom, a floor tom and a crash cymbal.

    So usually he would be using the Bass on beats 1 and 3 unless the song calls for 2 and 4. In the unlikely event of 6/6 time it becomes either 1,3,5 or 2,4,6 of course there are adaptions around this so it might be 1 n 4 or 2 n 5 or even 3 n 6

    Finally he isn't keeping time on his own. A drummer has a symbiotic relationship with the bass player and it's this pairing that hold the beat together and its from them that any time changes come. That is why it became customary for the bass player to be sited on stage with good lines of sight to the drummer.

    Finally he's been doing it that long its simple muscle memory, in fact I would guess that you could play a small section of Angus riff and Phil Rudd would be able to tell you not only what beat hes on at that point but probably where in the audience or the arena Angus should be.


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  • lucy4lucy4 Member Posts: 7,939
    TheEdge949 said:

    Sorry for the delay in replying.

    When I first started having drum lessons one of the first bands you get to drum along to are ACDC because the music is basic.

    Keeping a beat over a prolonged time can be difficult. However the way most ACDC songs are constructed makes it relatively simple.

    Firstly they are nearly always in 4/4 time, secondly they don't employ much in the way of time changes unlike say Maiden and thirdly most songs are designed to showcase Angus and therefore everything else is designed for ease of playing.

    Ok so almost every ACDC song plays at between 68 and 72 beats per minute

    So specifically Phil Rudd on drums has no great fills (where a drummer inserts triplets, paradiddles and assorted spontonaiety) to perform and could pretty much play the whole catologue with little more than a Bass (kick drum), a snare, a hyatt, mid or hi tom, a floor tom and a crash cymbal.

    So usually he would be using the Bass on beats 1 and 3 unless the song calls for 2 and 4. In the unlikely event of 6/6 time it becomes either 1,3,5 or 2,4,6 of course there are adaptions around this so it might be 1 n 4 or 2 n 5 or even 3 n 6

    Finally he isn't keeping time on his own. A drummer has a symbiotic relationship with the bass player and it's this pairing that hold the beat together and its from them that any time changes come. That is why it became customary for the bass player to be sited on stage with good lines of sight to the drummer.

    Finally he's been doing it that long its simple muscle memory, in fact I would guess that you could play a small section of Angus riff and Phil Rudd would be able to tell you not only what beat hes on at that point but probably where in the audience or the arena Angus should be.


    And I thought it was just a matter of hitting the drum with a stick :D
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  • stokefcstokefc Member Posts: 7,830
    Neil Peart class
    https://youtu.be/8NAY6DT4t4c
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  • TheEdge949TheEdge949 Member Posts: 5,686
    stokefc said:

    Neil Peart class
    https://youtu.be/8NAY6DT4t4c

    Neil Peart is my fave drummer of all time.

    Contentious I know but for me he was better than Bonham, Baker and Rich, 3 of the most groundbreaking drummers in history and simply streets ahead of guys like Powell, Paice, Collins, McBrain, Jordesson etc.

    Often described as the drummers drummer he was technically brilliant and seamlessly fused techniques from jazz, swing and latino into his work.
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