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I wonder what the song would be if almost 1,700 bassists got together to blast one specific song. I'm thinking it would be 'Rock You Like a Hurricane'; when I first purchased by Fender P-Bass back in 1988 when I was in the Navy, my good friend who was teaching me the basics of music and playing once said to me You have to learn 'Rock You Like a Hurricane'.....ALL bass players know that one!!1,683 guitarists play 'Smoke on Water'
KANSAS CITY, Kansas - More than 1,680 guitar players turned out, tuned up and took part in what organizers say was a world record rendition of Deep Purple's "Smoke on the Water" — a song that was the first many of them ever learned.
Some came from as far away as California and Germany on Sunday to take part in a Kansas City radio station's effort to break a Guinness world record for the most people playing the same song simultaneously. The record had been 1,323 people playing the same song in Vancouver, British Columbia, in 1994.
"It was cool to see little kids playing, people who had been playing for their whole lives, like older people, and then I'm sure there were people like me who just picked up the song a couple days before," said Autumn McPherson, of Winfield, a senior at the University of Kansas.
Preliminary numbers show 1,683 people played the popular early '70s guitar riff on Sunday at CommunityAmerica Ballpark.
"I thought it was going to be kind of cheesy," said Hannah Koch, of Prairie Village, who came clad in an elf costume. "But after I got here, I got caught up in the excitement of it."
And so working off of the chords that he knew from the song, together we figured out how to play it on my bass. I didn't really know the notes or for that matter what key it was in, but I learned where on the fretboard to put my fingers. To this day (19 years later), it's still a cool song to 'jam' along with to warm up.
SLIGHTLY GOOFY SIDE NOTE: When I first saw this over at LGF, I was reminded of one of the most hilarious sketches from the show 'The Kids in the Hall'. The sketch was called 'Bobby & the Devil' where a kid jamming in his basement defeats Satan by playing....'Smoke on the Water':
Bruce: (Playing guitar) E, A, B. E, A, B, A. The rift Bruce is plying is none other than Deep Purple's song "Smoke On The Water."God, my wife and I would laugh our asses off watching that show.....and I'm talking laughing so hard that we'd almost asphyxiate ourselves. It's a complete shame that it's no longer produced.
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Mad Mikey said:
Sorry... Mrs. Mikey would yell at me if I forgot the fourth "Blick-um".
You're rig
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sturgesbob said:
Sorry... Mrs. Mikey would yell at me if I forgot the fourth "Blick-um".
Read more in Defeating SatanI don't remember "Asylum Bound" playing "Rock you like a Hurricane"...
Too busy with "Bli
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I don't remember "Asylum Bound" playing "Rock you like a Hurricane"...
Too busy with "Blick-um...Blick-um...Blick-um...
I think every bassist should learn some Billy Sheehan. Start with the best...
|| Posted by sturgesbob, June 4, 2007 06:29 PM ||Sorry... Mrs. Mikey would yell at me if I forgot the fourth "Blick-um".
|| Posted by sturgesbob, June 4, 2007 06:31 PM ||Sorry... Mrs. Mikey would yell at me if I forgot the fourth "Blick-um".
You're right.
She said: Tell him to get his 'Blick-ums' right!
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