Weird Instruments in Rock Songs

Trilby • Oct 1, 2008 4:11 pm
Best Use of the Maracas:

Rolling Stones---"You Can't Always Get What You Want"

Best use of a Lowrey Organ:

Question Mark and the Mysterians---"96 Tears"

Best Flautist: Jethro Tull, any song.


Your turn.
dar512 • Oct 1, 2008 4:14 pm
theramin - Beach Boys - Good Vibrations
mellotron - Moody Blues - almost everything
dar512 • Oct 1, 2008 4:16 pm
jazz violin - Stephane Grapellli - on Paul Simon's Hobo's Blues
Juniper • Oct 1, 2008 4:31 pm
Peter Frampton & the jaw harp
Undertoad • Oct 1, 2008 4:36 pm
Didgeridoo - Kate Bush, The Dreaming
Flint • Oct 1, 2008 4:51 pm
*** Supertramp had an actual band member listed as woodwinds.

*** Usage of chromatic harmonica on Sting's "Ten Summoner's Tales."
dar512 • Oct 1, 2008 4:56 pm
Your basic living room furniture and objects - Paul Simon - Cecilia

Simon says the rhythm track for Cecilia came from him and a bunch of friends banging on stuff in his living room. He recorded it on your basic cassette recorder.
glatt • Oct 1, 2008 4:58 pm
Paiste gong - Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
Flint • Oct 1, 2008 4:58 pm
Terry Bozzio, usage of this thing:
barefoot serpent • Oct 1, 2008 5:42 pm
B52s (Fred Schneider) - toy piano (Dance this mess around) and walkie-talkie

oh, and smoke alarm
Undertoad • Oct 1, 2008 6:20 pm
Hammered dulcimer - New Radicals, You Get What You Give
Undertoad • Oct 1, 2008 6:22 pm
Breaking glass - there are many examples but obviously, I Love the Sound of Breaking Glass, Nick Lowe.
Cloud • Oct 1, 2008 6:28 pm
George Harrison ruined it all for us.
Undertoad • Oct 1, 2008 6:38 pm
Bass clarinet - Shoehorn With Teeth, They Might Be Giants. Probably on other TMBG songs as well.
ZenGum • Oct 1, 2008 7:01 pm
Rock violin: When I Was Young, the Animals.

Bagpipes: Its a long way to the top (if you wanna rocknroll), ACDC

Wobbleboard: Stairway to heaven, Rolf Harris
Flint • Oct 2, 2008 9:58 am
Sometimes I buy albums after looking at the liner notes and seeing how many different instruments are credited.
lumberjim • Oct 2, 2008 10:24 am
It's not rock and roll....it's the blue danube......butt.....

well...ladies and germs.....Mr Methane!

give him a warm cellar welcome


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Trilby • Oct 2, 2008 1:52 pm
How come I don't see nothing?

*furrows brow in vain attempt to understand why no link is showing up ever today*
Crimson Ghost • Oct 2, 2008 8:11 pm
ZenGum;488823 wrote:
Bagpipes: Its a long way to the top (if you wanna rocknroll), ACDC


Shit. Beat me to it.
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Therimin - The Nutley Brass - Skulls

Referee's Whistle - Guns 'n' Roses - Paradise City

Chainsaw - Jackyl - I'm Your Lumberjack, Baby
Cloud • Oct 2, 2008 8:36 pm
Sometimes I buy albums after looking at the liner notes and seeing how many different instruments are credited


Flint, you're weird.

But interesting!
Elspode • Oct 2, 2008 11:56 pm
Brianna;488766 wrote:


Best use of a Lowrey Organ:

Question Mark and the Mysterians---"96 Tears"



More likely a Vox Continental or Jaguar.
Elspode • Oct 3, 2008 12:05 am
Accordion on "Sandy", Bruce Springsteen

Vako Orchestron on "Going for the One", Rick Wakeman/Yes

English Penny Arcade musical automata on "Please Don't Touch" by Steve Hackett

1968 Lowrey Berkshire Deluxe TBO-1 organ's audio output fed into EMS VCS Mk 3 filter which is being modulated by a low frequency oscillator on "Won't Get Fooled Again", Pete Townshend and The Who
jinx • Oct 3, 2008 12:11 am
Page & Plant - Gallows Pole - hurdy gurdy

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and Battle of Evermore

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Undertoad • Oct 3, 2008 12:26 am
Elspode;489299 wrote:
Accordion on "Sandy", Bruce Springsteen


Glockenspiel, and tuba.
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