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ROCKS GREAT CLASSIFIED – The Perfect Guitarist For Avant Rock Group

Posted: February 27, 2015 in MUSIC
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A Melody Maker ad placed for the band Roxy Music

Roxy Music’s Bryan Ferry placed  this ad in a 1971 issue of Melody Maker for “The Perfect Guitarist” wasn’t picky. Prospective musicians were only asked to be “original, creative, adaptable, melodic, fast, slow, elegant, witty, scary, stable, tricky.” And just in case “The Perfect Guitarist” read a little vague to you, Ferry’s advert also stated. “QUALITY MUSICIANS ONLY.” Around 20 guitar players answered the call, including Phil Manzanera, who didn’t make the cut — former The Nice axe-man David O’List got the job. Phil Manzanera accepted a roadie job with Roxy Music instead. But David O’List soon quit after a confrontation with drummer Paul Thompson, and the enterprising Manzanera had learned all Roxy Music’s art-glam material on the down low. Guess who got the gig next?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gJIH6cOMPs

ROCKS GREAT CLASSIFIEDS – Lead Guitarist Wanted With Flash and Ability

Posted: February 26, 2015 in MUSIC
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LEAD GUITARIST WANTED with Flash and Ability. Album Out Shortly. No time wasters please. Paul

In Nothin’ to Lose, the oral history of Kiss’ early years, drummer Peter Criss estimates the fledgling New York band auditioned around 60 guys after guitarist Paul Stanley placed a “Village Voice” classified Advert. Auditions were held at the East 23rd Street space the group, who weren’t really about to drop an album, rehearsed at. All sizes, shapes, ages and types of guitarists answered the ad. Including a poncho-clad flamenco guitarist and a love-bead-sporting chap claiming to be “a big star in Italy.” Page/Hendrix-influenced guitarist Ace Frehley was in such a rush to depart for auditions he put on one orange sneaker and one red by accident, before his mom drove Ace and his Marshall amp in the family Cadillac from their Bronx home to the Kiss loft. For the auditions, Criss, Stanley and bassist Gene Simmons would play the first verse and chorus of an strutting original song called “Deuce,” and then the prospective lead player would do a solo. “As soon as he started playing, both Paul and I looked at each other when Ace started soloing,” Simmons said in Nothin’ to Lose. “We finally heard the sound. There was a dangerous volatility about him but also glorious playing.”

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ROCKS GREAT CLASSIFIED – Loud, rude, and aggressive guitarist available.

Posted: February 26, 2015 in MUSIC
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Guitarist Mick Mars’s above early-’80s “Recycler” classified proved more fruitful than the one he’d previously posted: “Extraterrestrial guitarist available for any other aliens that want to conquer earth.” The second ad caught the attention of a skinny, young drumming badass named Tommy Lee, who’d been jamming with Nikki Sixx, a bassist/songwriter who aspired to the glitter-gutter greatness of New York Dolls and vintage Aerosmith.

Lee called and left a number for Mick Mars. A week later there was a knock at Sixx’s front door. Seeing the guitarist sporting platform shoes and hair down to his butt, according to Motley’s Crue 2001 autobiography The Dirt, Sixx pulled Lee aside and said, “I can’t believe it! Here’s another one like us!”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_tVhBmzLlQ

After Sixx showed Mars the changes for “Stick to Your Guns,” eventually an early Motley Crue single, Lee said Mars, “grabbed his guitar and played the shit out of it, making the riff so distorted and insane that we couldn’t even recognize it anymore. We picked up a gallon of schnapps at the liquor store, got plastered and jammed for an hour.” That same day Mars fired the guy who’d been the group’s other guitarist. “We didn’t even need to discuss whether Mick was right for the band or not,” Lee wrote in The Dirt. “The dude was already in.”