Remedy, by the Black Crowes.
Funny story! I sold my first electric amp (bought used in 1989) today, for more than I (Mom) bought it for (uh, well, less, minus shipping and fees and all that but still), and I thought to look up whether my BOSS Heavy Metal™ pedal was worth anything, and IT IS! So I dug it out of storage (I have already forgotten where I found it, but it was not put away as deeply as I expected, like maybe in a drawer) and made sure it was… in… good… working… order…. ohhhh dear I don’t think I can part with this just yet? Does it sound better now that I know it’s worth money? I’m not sure, but I am positive that last time I took it out, I was less impressed.
I’m also pretty sure that playing Remedy through it is not the heaviest of metals, but honestly it’s a pretty heavy track?
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This song was one I learned three or four different wrong ways before realllly reading it closely today and playing it in open G tuning (except for that high E string) so it’s DGDGBE which really is more like “dropped D and G” I guess, and it’s very much the “Rich Robinson wants to play like Keith Richards” tuning, but I am here for it.
There are, uh, more guitars because I like chaos, but there are at least two tracks of the electric played through the Heavy Metal™ pedal.
Sometimes I reflect a little bit on how, as a teenager, I had to figure out chords for myself, buy guitar magazines with a handful of transcriptions in each, or buy whole songbooks (and fake books) at music stores… and now it takes (well, in theory) just a few seconds because internet.
This one is mostly written up on the internet in standard tuning, but having read before that it’s in Open G Sort Of, I found a couple forum posts and more than one video lesson about how to play it.
And the drums are a bit silly, but the drums are still hard for me to freehand.
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