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  • Punk Rock = Tuning you're guitar perfectly? ....LMAO...hey elitist @holes, go find a Joe Satriani video and continue your circle jerk around that

  • Fucking horrible shit guitarist....anybody who thinks this guy can play is a moron. Any fucking 15 year old can play better than this useless fuck after two weeks of practicing in the garage. Jesus CHRIST, you people have your heads up your ass and wouldn't know a good guitarist from your asshole....assholes! I could write a better song than this piece of embarassing shit in about 30 seconds.

  • @TeenCretin I'm TOTALLY SERIOUS!!!

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  • @TeenCretin ....btw, search "Sonic Reducer" cover and see all the "REAL" guitarists that enjoy this guy's stuff....Guns n' Roses are doing a cover of this at their shows as we speak.

  • @TeenCretin youre a fucking idiot. simple doesnt equal bad and complex doesnt equal good. if it sounds good then it sounds good and it if sounds bad then it soudns bad doesnt matter if it has a million notes in it you theory loving faggot. dickheads like you dont know the first thing about music. its about passion its about playing from the gut. go jerk off to joe satriani loser

  • why I learned to play.

  • Sonic Reducer is the greatest American punk rock song of all time.

  • anyone who says punk rock is for amateurs has never heard cheetah play guitar

  • I love this! I'm just learning (at 51 yet) to play punk guitar, and this is the first song I want to learn. Cheetah still rocks. I'm even getting a copy of that same guitar he's playing (it's a real Les Paul, just made in Korea with a different name on head stock). This is one of my all time favorite punk classics. Right up there with "Blank Generation" and "Anarchy in the U.K." in my opinion.

  • @Elric2024 The guitar he's playing is an American made Les Paul BFG - A no frills Gibson Les Paul - Or do you mean you are actually getting a Les Paul copy?

  • lmao.. three chords

  • @allxtar listen to any ramones live recording. pay special attention to the sequence of words shouted frequently before a song starts. there might be a lesson for you in there. here's where it gets tricky: what would the next word be, if the sequence were continued? if you find the right answer - presto! - here's the number of chords

  • tune the guitar for fuck sake

  • @tribaku1 LMAO SHUT THE FUCK UP NOOB HES A LEGEND HE PROBABLY PLAYS IT RIGHT

  • @kailms

    i never said he played it wrong you handicap,i said tune the guitar!!

    i just played a gig in ireland with Stan Lee and Greg Hetson the other night here in Ireland theyre are "LEGENDS" and would know to tune a fucking guitar when doing a cover like any other guitarist!!

  • @tribaku1 k my bad but dont put negative comnents at ALL! CUZ he just doesnt deserve this shit hes come a long long way

  • @kailms

    he is a great guitarist i'm not slating his playing ability he's been around years and can easily out do me on guitar i'd say,just tuning wrecks my head when its not right!!

    rant over :)

  • where's the solo part? :( good vid anyway

  • LEGEND.

  • Anybody have Tabs for the filler licks Cheetah uses between powerchords here?

  • Cheetah is AWESOME, always has been. Southern rock and pussy metal went huge while the Dead Boys crashed and burned. I always thought it was weird how supposed straight guys were into bands where men spent more time on their hair and wore more make up than the town pump. Cheetah Rocks, And all you metal boys who want to come out of the closet, it's okay now, it's 2011, no one can fire you for your sexual preference.

  • He is a legend, played for GG Allin a short time, too.

  • I got a better crunch out of the PAF Pro's when i tried it compared to the Burstbucker...but at the time that wasnt what i was lookin for...that was thru a sorta fender sounding amp...i think it was a tweed mesa...that was way before mesa became popular

  • I dont even have to pick up my guitar and bitches start throwen their pussies at me...and believe me, i hit as many of em as i can.....

  • cheetah chrome is the fucking man, him and stiv made the dead boys! this is awesome!

  • yo coudy they got some cool sg's out now with p-90's in em. anything with a p-90 is gonna sound good....unless your just going for the look. dont listen to the lame bitch , dude sounds f'n gay....

  • your lame for sure....

  • the brown guitar is a melody maker.....

  • @idontwantohurtnobody

    tanx man

  • what was that brown guitar in old footage? looks like Les Paul Jr

  • @CoudyRamone It's an old school california double cutaway melody maker, similar to the one that Joan Jett plays today. If you're in the market for one I would definitely recommend Gibson's JJ signature melody maker with the burst bucker pickup and kill switch...it's got tons of crunch and can handle some old school glam rock and punk really well...and no, i am in no way affiliated with gibson, i just love old school melody makers.

  • @TheLexiLame

    damn now im stuck on getting either Gibson LP Special

    and Gibson Melody Maker JJ

    prices are almost same

  • @CoudyRamone

    I think the melody maker is lighter and is more unique. However, the LP has more than one pickup which gives you a bit more versatility. You can also customize the color of the LP whereas the JJ melody maker comes in white and black only. Both are great guitars though...If you play mainly rhythm go with the melody maker, but if you play lead and rhythm then go with the lp...i've heard the neck of the melody maker isn't conducive to shredding.

    I hope that helped.

  • yo nobrainrex , stick with what your good at , the skin flute....you faggit.

  • Whats with all the homophobes on this page? AND WHERES THE SOLO"S? I wanted to learn the solo's!

  • EPIC !!!! love that !!!!

  • F cock in his ass chrome....fucken bitch is a lizerd proven by this clip, Dee Dee Ramone kicked the shit out of chizzy chrome outside c b g b, for talkin gay shit to Joey...it was hilarious...chrome was sqeelin and screeming for help, butt everyone wanted hin dead for tryen to be gay with Joey...

  • @idontwantohurtnobody who cares? it was the late 70's, early 80's...everyone was a tad bit gay back then haha.

  • @idontwantohurtnobody Oh, so you've read "Please Kill Me." Aren't you just so cool...

  • @DanDanTheBassman fagfanGAYboy thinks he can stand next to me.....

  • @idontwantohurtnobody Well, I mean, having read it as well, yeah, I can. You're clearly not old enough to have experienced all this, so instead, from your lofty armchair, you cast judgments that have nothing to do with music and instead on the basis of proto-punk folklore. Get real, dude.

  • @DanDanTheBassman Havent read that book.....Your a joke.

  • @DanDanTheBassman I'll blast you off the stage, your a lizerd.

  • @idontwantohurtnobody I should have guessed you weren't one for books... Oh, I'm a lizard? Hell yeah. I'm a scaly muthafucka. Damn. You're clever.

  • @DanDanTheBassman you talk like a nigger, you probably are...i should have known. your no challenge.

  • @idontwantohurtnobody Oh lawdy, lawdy, you done got me! We got ourselves a DETECTIVE here!!!

  • @DanDanTheBassman your a bug. to bad your not near, so i could step on you and put you out of misery.

  • @idontwantohurtnobody First I'm a lizard, then I'm a bug... Praytell, what am I gonna be next?

  • @DanDanTheBassman you KNOW

  • @DanDanTheBassman very good...keep it that way.

  • @idontwantohurtnobody I would suggest that you should read the book "Please Kill Me; The uncensored, oral history of punk" by Leggs McNeil and Jillian McCain. You will find out how many of these guys from back in the 70's punk sceen whoreed themselves out to men just so they could get their fix. Dee Dee Ramon included. Heroin is a funny thing that will make people do just about anything for it. Kindly get your facts straight, then feel free to talk out of your ass.

  • @FnordKyuss yea...right....you were there....taken it in yer ass too....RIGHT! YOU FAGGIT.

  • @idontwantohurtnobody Seeing as how I am a girl I can't be a faggot. Also I was born in the 80's so no I was not around back then. I do however have a deep love for all things 70's punk, and have read many books about the time and scene. Dee Dee Ramone, Cheeta Chrome, Jim Carroll, etc all addicted to heroin, all turned tricks. To quote Dee Dee himself "The song 53rd and 3rd speaks for itself. Everything I write is autobiographical and very real." perhaps you should listen to the song.

  • Johnny fucked steve jones in the butt during the entire anarchy tour. he told steve it was that or give syl back his les paul fag ass bitch mclarin stole from syl then gave to steve the chicken choker. the true name of the band was the sex pistol suckers, but emi made them drop the suckers becouse they knew people in the U.S. wouldent go for the cock suken queers if we knew they were sucken cocks for a liveing. Understand kids, the sex pistol sukers were cock sucken fags

  • Well, not so young anymore, but definitely still loud and snotty. I always liked these guys better than the Pistols.

  • I really hope he didn't spend the money he got from this on a thermos full of methadone. although his thermos saved my life one day.... guy's cool as fuck and the definition of legend.

  • @BobbyPyn372 I doubt it,being methadone is one of the cheapest opiates you can buy

  • I dont care what these little turds say, THE DEAD BOYS ROCK and that's all there is to it. So quit bashing on Cheetah, you don't know SHIT

  • gibson advert.

    punk rocker of the really pennyless kind, I'll never be able to afford that kind of gear.

    and I d o n ' t n e e d a f u c k i n g G I B S O N

    CHECK MY VERSION OF AIN4T IT FUN ON MYSPACE ; profile name PJ Clary

  • @PIERRECLARY

    well in 70s u got anything u wanted in pawnshop for 50 bucks

  • See, just like i tell all the girls, all the real cool guys lose their hair...eventually;))

  • he must be about 60 ?

  • Classic!

  • awesome tone! love that song!

  • Cheetah Chrome is god and can do whatever the fuck he wants!.  I don't care if he starts doing Wal Mart ads. He's a fucking legend! He was rocking fucking hard before most of you were born so cut the sellout talk and show the man some respect you fuck faces.

  • Looks like little kids these days dont know who this guy is...... we're not worthy, we're not worthy!!!!!

  • is he using a PEDAL ?? hmm also can someone tell me what kind of PEDAL IS GOOD I LIKE PUNK ROCK LIKE THIS SO HELP ME OUT WITH MY FUTURE PURCHASE.. THANX ANYONE WHO CAN ;)

  • @monique1896

    yo man punk rockers rearly use pedals but its fun some times, right

    anyway Behringer eq700 is good

  • @CoudyRamone thanx damn i got a distoration from guitar center it was like 40 bucks hmm, yeah i kinda figured the punkers dont. they play all shitty and i love the sound haha uhh what are some of the bands that dont use pedals ?

  • @monique1896 i know Johnny Ramone did not use em at all exept for kill pedal

  • That's badass

  • Guy's a fucking legend, and people here are shitting on him. Fuck off and die squids.

  • This is cool. Compare to Johnny Rotten's butter commercials (adverts) on British TV. Glad to know all the punk rockers didn't OD in the 70's.

  • GOOD PUNK ROCKERS DONT TUNE THERE GUITARS..

    only prissy uptight queers tune there stuff.

  • @monique1896 You're a fucking idiot.

  • @monique1896 wow ur so cool and hardcore u dont tune ur guitar. i guess ur a real punk rocker then....... fuck off u dumb douchebag

  • thanx i know im pretty hardcore.. thanx yeah most people that dont care dont tune.. i guess im one of those people... ;P.. accoustic gtar is kinda gay.. ELECTRIC ALL THE WAY.... idk that is kinda of one of those new HIGH SCHOOL WORDS THAT 13 YEAR OLDS USE ON DISNEY CHANNEL HAHA HMMM WHY DONT YOU GRAB YOUR DADS SCREWDRIVER AND STICK IT UP YOUR ASS.. AND TURN THE KNOB ON YOUR PUSSY IT'S APPEARS TO BE LEAKING PUSSY JUICE

  • @monique1896 Huh?!

  • "HE WANTS YOU TOO, MALACHAI!!!" Don't know Dead Boys, don't know dick.

  • Joker says he kicked your ass at Lupo's

  • shut up! cheetah may have had hard times,,,but he had to do what he had to do to survive..even if he had to do gay stuff for drug monEy.  rumor has it..HE IS AWESOME !!

  • @Eddie9000airmag Yes, he is actually one of the most geniunely kind people I've ever met...

  • holy shit !!! he is out of tune !!!! ...he doesn't even tune up!! hahahaha....i used to see cheetah in the park sleeping and pan handling for money in the 80's and early 90's...nice to see that he is better now....i guess not playing for 15 years hurt his chops a bit...

  • now that everyone else is dead...they let this guy play some bar chords....what a joke

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  • Wow. I haven't seen Cheetah since CBGB's. He kinda looks better now.

  • Sounds as awesome as ever. Cheetah you still rock!

  • The MAN, the myth, THE LEGEND!

  • The Dead Boys changed the game...long live the Dead Boys...they rocked and were nice guys. I did lights for them in Pittsburgh and booked them at the Demi in Enola.

  • He's left-handed, we has his watch on his right wrist.

  • You idiots don't even know! Dead Boys at CBGBs was EXCELLENT! Don't listen to that moron who claims he did sound for them, they fired him for theft!

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  • i did sound for the dead boys a few times....when they were finished with their fake punk stuff,they started putting on eyeliner and though they were the new resurrection of the new york glam scene.... bunch of fakes..now that everyone else is dead..they talk to this guy!...cheetah is a cool guy.but they make him look like a star....out of all of those guys he was the one with the songs...the others were awful...god awful...they had 2 good songs,first record is good,second sucks totally,,

  • we have come for your children rules!

  • wow...he got real old....boy he doesn't play as well as he used to!...because of this video i bought one of his cd's...IT was terrible garbage !!!!...what a ripoff

  • Jealousy's an ugly emotion.

  • me encanta!!! AWERESOME!! CHEETAH IS THE KING OF THE KILLER GUITAR!!!

  • Awesome tone man!! Cheetah Chrome rocks!!

  • Cheetah's a God!

  • what type of guitar is he playing on the old footage?

  • looks like a gibson sg

  • Melody Maker, double cutaway.

  • melody maker

  • Chrome=God

  • Cheetah is a god.

    My uncle is friends with him.

    Lucky bastard.

  • whys he playing out of the neck pickup

  • he's not, on a les paul BFG the switch where the pickup selector on a traditional les paul is actually a killswitch

  • "badly finished guitar" ha

  • Ello punkas' I too enjoyed cheetas fuckin demolishing shreds! Made me want a BFG imediatly. Does the bfg stand 4 big fucking guitar?

  • Cheetah is my fuckin idol! i want to be exactly like him on stage

  • i remember Cheetah used to show up at Chase bar sludge jams in da 80's..great guy n great guitar player. Legend!

  • Chrome does rock, this is self evident!

  • Then you wanna go for some feeback !!! Coolest name in music ever, Cheetah Chrome

  • who cares?

  • The greatest, by far the coolest, instructional music video ever made!

    Rock on Cheetah!!!!

  • There was a old "New Wave" (or was it "Punk Rock"?) music book with the chords (and notes, I guess) of mostly great songs in it, inc. the Dead Boys! I, um, was lent (given) that by a casual friend...

    this song was always fun to play!

    Sonic Reducer RULES!

    Dead Boys were fucking GREAT!!!!!!!!

  • There was a Musician Magazine feature on the 100 greatest guitarists of all time 10 - 15 years ago. Cheetah was included, along with Johnny Ramone. I'm sure lots of guitar geeks were pissed,

  • yeah but they deserved to be in there

  • yeah! this is fuckin' punk rock and this is a great man!

  • Love this clip-and the Gibson BFG

  • Does anybody know a page were I can learn E Guitar?

  • This busts the 3 chord myth about punk. Gibson better have paid ol' Cheetah. Cheetah if you're out there thanks man.

  • What kind of distortion pedal do you guys think he is using?

  • Hes not using pedals,its straight into a marshal amp,try the guitar and see

  • no pedals to punk lol.

  • Man... this is fucking unbelievable, if johnny ramone is the godfather of downstroke, cheetah is the king! thanx for this one dude!!!

  • johnny was so damn angry that he got a movie where women sacrifice MEN to the gods from whatever religion, in the end of the movie it says, in memory of johnny ramone, lololol!!!!!

  • Dead Boys = Best Punk Band Ever

    Cheetah = Best Punk Guitarist Ever

    Gibson = Totally Rules \m/

  • rock n' roll = best music type fuckin EVER!!!!!!!!!!

  • Shut the fuck up

  • Next to the "neck" pickup even. :0) Sorry. Typo-mania!

  • The Hofner Colorama is their version of a Gibson Melody Maker. CC was definitely using a Melody Maker, however, as you can see 'Melody Maker' written on the scratchplate next to the next pickup. Hofner guitars ARE great but would have been really hard to come by in Ohio/NYC in the 70s. Whereas Gibson's Kalamazoo, Michigan factory was merely a few hour drive from CC's home-town.

  • Well, thanks for the info! Now I don't have to live in doubt anymore. (:

  • If it had not been for Gibson, there would not have been any Dead Boys, hence no Cheetah Chrome, hence no punk rock. So fuck off with all this talk about selling out. The Dead Boys were one of the best punk rock bands of all time!

  • great guitar face!

    loud and snotty!

  • Sellout? He played Gibson from the very start! Obviously, the two are in agreement.

  • He`s playing a G-bfg which is awesome and cheap, I have to believe most musicians today are playing with Mexican strats.

  • ZRN959: The guitar he's using in the archive footage is a beautiful Gibson Melody Maker D (D for double cut). Great guitars. 63-65 vintage.

  • I would say that it is a Höfner Colorama. but they look pretty much alike

  • Is Cheetah playing a junior Les Paul Double cut?

  • Cheetah is still a fucking badass. He plays shows around New York, from what I've heard.

    Fun little listen for the punk rock anthem.

    As for the talk about "sellouts" and shit, well, for starters, this song is a masterpiece, written in chord progressions. Jesus. So fuck off with your belief on "power chords."

    And what's so wrong about Cheetah doing a lesson for Gibson? Its not like that takes away from how ferocious he was in the 70s or the greatness of Young Loud and Snotty.

  • Yeah, he still plays NYC a lot with his new band the Black Angels. Then and the Dictators both play the Continental quite a bit.

  • Hej all you idiots talking about power chords... He played this entire song with full major chords over a minor chord progression to give it the brilliantly dissonant song that made the track great. Yeah, I'm talking to you MangoMan14

  • *sound

  • pistols too check out playin wit olga

  • Awesome!! this so funny. Cheetah give lessons, Fuck yes

  • To MyhemMan: First of all, you suck at everything you've ever done.

    Second of all, you're going to keep on sucking at everything you ever do for the rest of your life.

    Embrace the suck. It's all you got.

  • Okay, MyhemMan, you dissed Gibson and Sonic Reducer in the same comment. You, sir, are the lamer.

  • who cares whether he/they did it for financial reasons ? its still a great song anyway.

  • you, jackass, think too much. that means you're not really a punk. dumbass honor student.

  • financial reasons? this man needs to pay his bills. you can't expect him to live off fresh air and sunshine! don't you yourself at least do some form of work to pay your bloody bills? nothing is free in this world. how the fuck do you pay for shelter, food, etc .. or do you get your dinner from roasting the roadkill you peeled off the highway just opposite your fucking house? or let me guess.. you're a fucking loser who lives off his/her parents like a leech.

  • myhemman, you are dumb

  • oh guy look, this man he makes me crazy every time i listen this video.. how much dediton and passion he do when play 4 or 5 siple chord.. punk is not technics only attitude and cheetah i think have the same attitude when he play with steve ..

  • yeah. i like songs that have a lot of dediton in them. gives them that special sound, like a kindergarten spelling bee.

  • Cheetah"MOTHER FUCKIN"Chrome Bitches!!!

  • still got it!

  • SHIT SANDWICH

  • Obviously so does your taste in music skater fag! Go blow your boyfriend.

  • my taste of music?

    dude you dont know any bands i listen to

  • sk4teboarding101, get the fuck out of here emo bitch

  • yeah!

  • Glad he is still walking the face of the earth.Last I saw him was in '86...and he looked dead then.LOL .

  • Weird, never thought I would see something like this.

    Still kickin tho, thats an accomplishment.

  • The first time I saw him he was chanting "kill the hippies"

  • yeah fuc*

  • Looks looks looks?

    Sound !

    Thnx mate!