DOWN STROKIN'

[rayc]

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.
[bbvideo]https://youtu.be/Ca4o359IB1s[/bbvideo]

[Armistice]

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.

[Greg_L]

Dave Hill has the worst haircut in rock, ever.

That dude hated bangs or loved his forehead. Probably both.

[vomitHatSteve]

Did he switch to alternating strokes when the rest of the band came in?

[Greg_L]

Yeah I didn't see any significant downstroking. It's easy to downstroke slow songs.

[Greg_L]

[bbvideo]https://youtu.be/ftFVzpzbD6E?t=177[/bbvideo]

[WhiskeyJack]

This wasn't the thread i thought it was going to be.


thank god.

[rayc]

Dave Hill has the worst haircut in rock, ever.

That dude hated bangs or loved his forehead. Probably both.

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.