Guitar Cover - "I Wanted Everything" - The RAMONES
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- čas přidán 9. 09. 2024
- Covering the entire Road To Ruin album, specifically the "Road Revisited Mix". Barre chords and downstrokes, just like the record. Interestingly, this new mix of the song doesn't have an extended fade out like the original. The guitar is a customized strat with a Hallmark "The '67" Mosrite-style pickup, and the amp is the Softube Marshall JMP 2203. Thanks for watching!
That was freaking awesome 🎸🤘🏼
I know a lot of guitar players play the intro like D, G, C and F but I still convinced the right is D, G, D and F. Unfortunately I cannot find any video of Johnny playing this song. Congratulations by the way. Not all Ramones cover can get the spirit as you did... same as Bass players that cannot figure out if the note to play are on the E or D string... kills the song mood when they miss...
Thanks! I've never been able to tell for sure which it is, since the chord is so brief. It's almost just a noise between the other chords at these speeds, so I just play the chord that feels smoother to use
Absolutely spot on. This and We're a Happy family are arguably the hardest Ramones songs to play on guitar due to the fast barre chord switching, especially at 1978-era live show speed! I honestly didn't realize just how much Johnny neglects the major thirds on Road to Ruin, almost like he's voicing power chords while fretting the major barre chords, but I can see why he did it, since some of the chord progressions sound slightly dissonant with the full chords.
Thanks! Happy Family is a nightmare, going all over the neck and forcing you to bang away on all the strings like that. Any guitarist who has ever dissed Johnny should be made to play that track correctly, ha! And to be honest, I'm actually fretting and strumming all six strings most of the time in a lot of these Road To Ruin covers, and the 3rds are very much so a part of what you're hearing. They're in this entire cover. They sit in the tone in a surprisingly pleasing way, which almost makes them sneakier. They don't have a sharp stringy sound that aggressively pokes through the tone, or much of that bad dissonance you're talking about (My old rig did that). The other high strings aren't obnoxious either, and even minor 3rds sound pretty alright. There's something different about the way Johnny's then-new Marshall JMP 2203 really crunched his chords, and these Softube amp sims I'm using seem to do the same thing.
The 2203 is a marginally higher gain amp than the Plexi Super Leads of the first three albums, and the tone is just meaner and grittier. When you start hitting all six strings HARD, the notes in the chords just break apart. The Super Lead acts like this too, but not as severely... like with my "first album" tone, the G string really stands out, but no matter how hard you hit all six strings, the high e string just does not poke through in any significant way... it only contributes brightness to the tone. You have to turn the gain down below 10 to start hearing more of that clear sparkle from the highest strings like on Rocket To Russia or especially Leave Home. But yeah, the 2203 used here also really likes to emphasize the low notes of a chord too, and maybe it brings out the "power chord" part of the barres even more. I dunno, I don't claim to fully understand it myself, but it's like magic when enough of the right things come together. Doesn't work as well with the Les Paul (it just sounds off somehow) or my Telecaster (far too twangy), it has to be that fat high output Hallmark pickup. But even with my custom guitar, if I ACTUALLY play just power chords, it sounds totally wrong. More "plonky" by comparison, none of that pulsating chainsaw sound. Alternatively, strumming the barre chords too lightly or with the wrong picking angle and/or jaunt can throw it off too. It's actually really particular, but for Johnny I'm sure it was just how his hands moved. I don't even think I'm 100% there.
I will also add, Johnny's Mosrites also had those special "speed frets", which were relatively flat compared to rounded frets on most guitars today. Rounded frets create a smaller contact point on the string, resulting in a much clearer note with a glassier sound. It's almost impossible to get a guitar that isn't like this today. Mosrite "Speed fret" necks on the other hand, as well as the old Gibson "fretless wonders" of similar design, were said by some to have the opposite effect. Flatter frets resulting in more string contact and a bit less clarity in the note, so a bit of a dulled sound. I don't doubt that this is a missing piece to Johnny's true tone, possibly blending the sound of his strings together into one blaring chord... even more so than just his particular heavy handed strumming, his pickups and the way his Marshalls processed it (thought that is most of it). But in general I think Johnny's sound at any given time had a lot to do with a ton of seemingly small variables piling up, not just the big obvious ones.
That’s gotta be the longest reply from the content poster that I’ve ever seen...
🎶 I wanted a mosrite guitar 🎶
Absolutely awesome. 👍
Proper job👌🏼
Perfect,my favorite song of the album.Nice fucking sound.
WOW
Great song, and great job on it!
Fuck yeah. 👍
tab?
Very Good Gabba Gabba Hey
The structure of this song is so difficult (for me)!!!
It's definitely one of the trickier songs in terms of remembering all the chords. You'll get it 👌