Use in Rock Music
Keith Richards of The Rolling Stones is famous for introducing the 5-string version of the open G tuning to rock music on songs such as "Brown Sugar", "Honky Tonk Women", and "Start Me Up”. Ace Frehley, original guitarist for the American theatrical rock band KISS, used 5-string open G tuning on the songs “Two Sides Of The Coin” and “Talk To Me” of 1980's Unmasked. “Talk To Me” became a minor hit in Australia and was KISS’s last hit song of their "makeup era".
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Famous quotes containing the words rock and/or music:
“Compare the history of the novel to that of rock ‘n’ roll. Both started out a minority taste, became a mass taste, and then splintered into several subgenres. Both have been the typical cultural expressions of classes and epochs. Both started out aggressively fighting for their share of attention, novels attacking the drama, the tract, and the poem, rock attacking jazz and pop and rolling over classical music.”
—W. T. Lhamon, U.S. educator, critic. “Material Differences,” Deliberate Speed: The Origins of a Cultural Style in the American 1950s, Smithsonian (1990)
“He turned out to belong to the type of publisher who dreams of becoming a male muse to his author, and our brief conjunction ended abruptly upon his suggesting I replace chess by music and make Luzhin a demented violinist.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)