Rockabilly Licks - Fast Eddie - Pt II Blue Days Black Nights

[hopop313]

Buddy Holly is my favourite singer of the 50's. Another 2 cool songs from the 50's people seem to forget is "Come on lets go" by Ritchie Vanlens (very underrated and has a nice solo too) as well as "Hippy Hippy Shake" by Chan Romero (most people don't actually realize that it was from the 50's and it it has a nice solo too).

[FantomShadowz]

I would of figured Tommy Allsup, but even at that time session players were common. Your performance sounds just like the recording-what more can be said other than superb. Be kinda special to hear you play 'Black Mountain Rag'.

[magickmark]

Hey a bit late but to add my pennies worth, listening to the Decca sessions the style of guitar in Blue Days, Midnight Shift, Don't Come Back Knocking et al, do not sound like any of the Nashville A team session players.

I think the best example is the two versions of Ollie Vee, the first is the same style of the the others above and recorded at the same sessions, where as the second later version is very much Grady Martin's playing style. But yeah Buddy changed the world!

[LtCmdrData45]

I love me some "Blue Days, Black Nights!" You sir, are a tribute to Buddy Holly's legacy!

[SetzerBrian]

hi fast eddie!!!

have you a web site where we can found this tab or other songs?

[MACLIVES]

Brilliant playing and sound

[david85251]

Great lesson, Fast Eddie. Be back tonight

to nail the lead part.

Thanks.

[bartgen27]

Man, you are great! Could you cover the Buddy song called Wishing? Especially during the verse when Buddy is playing all these fast little single note runs.

[bartgen27]

did buddy holly actually create these guitar parts, or was it some session player?

[shsam75]

Brilliant! Some of the best picking on youtube.

[FastEddietube]

I think your comment may go some way to explain what was happening at the time. I understand lots of record companies jumped on the rockabilly sound coming out of Sun. If you look at the historical timeline of rockabilly it looks like Decca were a little late on the bandwagon, and i wonder if Don was more Slap style than Joe at the time or he just happened to be available. Sometimes decisions are based on simple circumstances. What counts is the Music, and Buddy's changed the world

[FastEddietube]

I understand that Decca allowed Sonny to play. So i guess the question is did Sonny play the rockabilly part in the song. I can't answer knowledgeably as i have not heard enough of Sonny's playing outside of his work with Buddy. I think the Decca "three songs" represented a genre which Buddy loved but was not in his natural style of playing, and bearing in mind sonny wrote Ollie Vee, it could be that he played the rockabilly guitar parts. Does anyone out there know any more?

[YATES001]

excellent

[splitroast]

you the man Fast Eddie!

[Nunatag1]

very nice!!! wish i coud play that :p

[phillydog17]

Hey Eddie, how about showing us "Midnight Shift".

[guitarman63mm]

i agree, that is my favorite buddy solo.

[kosman44]

how many strings is he playing on for the little solo ?

[FastEddietube]

the solo is played on 2 strings only. The E and B string. The run is quite a popular major run, so if you get this songs you will be able to use bits of it on lots of others such as Heartbeat and Cheating Heart

[kosman44]

ok thank you very much, i appreciate it !

[kosman44]

hey, i got it ! great song  thanx

[smkinguitar]

very cool tone ,thanks for posting this cool lesson

[AConnolly44]

Wow, I've actually been looking for how to play this for years. I cannot find it online anywhere. It's actually much harder to play than I thought, but thanks for posting it. I will study it very slowly as this is a classic Holly tune in my eyes...One of my personal favorites...Thanks!!

[tbrown9000]

fast eddie,

you rock! couple of questions. how can i purchase some black cadillac's for my mp3? if i cant buy it, is there a way for me to download it or something? second, i am figuring out the rythym stuff on these songs quite nicely but i have never played solos. i like your system for practicing rythym and i am making it my own, but how do you practice lead? i really like youre lead licks.

[almostnormal2257]

how much was that

and is there anything like it but less expensive considering its a gibson?

[FastEddietube]

I saved for some time to get the Gibson 135, so yes it cost quite a bit. But, what really made me want the guitar was that it already had the Bigsby trem fitted. The guitar is the Memphis issue: most have a standard tailpiece. My Hondo cost less then the Bigsby i fitted on it, so there are lots of guitars out there. I have heard the vintage make of guitars are quite good.

[SeattleSparker]

Epiphone has an ES 135 limited edition from the custom shop, with '58 humbuckers. It was $1200 list, but is being discontinued for about $450.

I've played the 50's Gibson ES 135 and now own the Epi...my only regret is not getting two. This baby has *soul*! Somebody at Epiphone is doing something seriously right.

[BIGCARP10]

Yeah, certainly my favorite rockabilly song....nice job!

[kustom49desoto]

absolutely amazing eddie! DEAD ON!

[wrocklc]

This is just great! - Thanks for sharing licks! That´s one reason why I love YouTube

[johnnyweep59]

cool pickin

[Fynn2306]

Brilliant ! You got it down man, I'm green with envy !!!!!

[sul1961]

absolutely brilliant... very jealous, think I will throw my guitar away!!

[cozmickid]

That was amazing. One of my favorite songs, and you just played it so well and made it look much easier than it is.

[gretch6120]

well done man keep this stuff comin rock on

[perspellemann88]

Really well played.

For how long have you been playing?

[FastEddietube]

I have played plectrum style rock and roll, rhythm and blues for about 30 years. I have played other styles of music during this time and, particularly, i had 3 years from 2003 playing finger style acoustic guitar. From this i started to use a thumb pick, and started playing rockabilly seriously about a year ago.