Here's an early example...1972 - Noddy Holder singer and rhythm guitarist with a BIG rhythm telecaster sound and playing down strokes on the 1st two songs for a solid aggressive rhythm...he intros both songs with his rhythm too.
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DOWN STROKIN'
DOWN STROKIN'
Cheers
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Re: DOWN STROKIN'
Look Wot You Dun - still about my favourite Slade song. Noddy was one of the great frontmen and singers - no-one ever really sounded like him since, and Dave Hill has the worst haircut in rock, ever.
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Re: DOWN STROKIN'
Did he switch to alternating strokes when the rest of the band came in?
Re: DOWN STROKIN'
Yeah I didn't see any significant downstroking. It's easy to downstroke slow songs.
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This wasn't the thread i thought it was going to be.
thank god.
thank god.
Re: DOWN STROKIN'
He was balding early on and it was a comb forward from almost the get go to disguise it.
It related to a Shapie haircut as well - they'd spent some time as sharpie look a likes so he probably found it better covered his receding air line, stuck with the ridiculous front and just grew the back.
Not fast but solid and a BIG sound.
Cheers
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