Whaaa? Why did I pick that title? Jangle is what it’s all ABOUT!!
I spent the last hour or so annoying the house finally putting fingers to fretboard to figure out the licks in the General Cinema trailer:
As I’ve mentioned before, it was one of my favorite ever jobs…General Cinema. I heard that freaking bumper a million times too. I finally goofed it out. Took me about 20 minutes to where I thought the ending slides should start from, but I’m pretty happy with it. Finally, I can rest easy, knowing that I can play air guitar absolutely correctly in regards to fretboard placement when I imagine this stupid bumper playing in my head. As it so often does.
Since I started playing guitar in the late 80’s, I’ve always been a guitar based music kind of guy. One of my favorite songs *younger than guitar playin’ years* that really really struck me was Stray Cat Strut. Right around 1995-1996, I caught Brian Setzer playing on Letterman. (Check out that jacket!) I was like, “Hey, that’s the dude that did Stray Cat Strut! One of my favorite songs evar!” *Note: We didn’t talk like that in the 90’s. It’s a recent phenom.
So I set about hunting down a big band version of Stray Cat Strut. Right about this time, I was also working at the movie theater, and kept hearing the echo drenched rockabilly flavored bumper (above) over and over again. I’m trying to find some clips…
….to be continued…