spaghetti westerns

benjamino · #1 March 19th, 2005

i've decided i really want to get hold of some music like you used to hear on old spaghetti westerns. i used to watch them with my grandad and i'm sure i remember some cool slide stuff being on them, anyone know of any artists i could listen to?

Frankenstrat2 · #2 March 19th, 2005

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Originally Posted by benjamino

i've decided i really want to get hold of some music like you used to hear on old spaghetti westerns. i used to watch them with my grandad and i'm sure i remember some cool slide stuff being on them, anyone know of any artists i could listen to?

Hey Ben
I'm probably old enuff to be your grandad. Maybe close, anyway.
When you go back and listen to those 60's spaghetti westerns now, they weren't playing much slide. Mostly twangy Fenders with a lot of reverb up, and a bit of palm muting. Clint Eastwood type stuff. The nasty slide guitar western soundtrack stuff appeared in the eighties and early nineties. A lot of it was done by Ry Cooder. Try getting a hold of the soundtracks from Johhny Handsome, or Paris, Texas for examples. His stuff is very moody, ethereal and downright scary sounding.
Better yet- just get some Ry Cooder albums. Into the Purple Valley, Chicken Skin Music, Jazz,.
Here's a link to Ry Cooder land.....
http://www.ryland-cooder.com/

benjamino · #3 March 21st, 2005

ohh cool, i knew i'd heard it somewhere i just thought it was the older ones. cheers barry. i'm gonna check that link out now. i'd heard of ry cooder before and i was thinking about getting some of his stuff anyway. nice one

benjamino · #4 March 21st, 2005

cool i didnt know ry cooder had played on some captain beefheart albums. i'll have to get them. i've just been listening to gris gris by dr john, i like the slide work on there too

allthumbs · #5 March 22nd, 2005

He did the soundtrack for Longriders. It was on t.v. last week. Maybe thats where you got the western connection.
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benjamino · #6 March 22nd, 2005

yeah i reckon it was, my grandad used to sit and watch westerns with me all day when i was a kid i just presumed they were all from like the 50's and 60's and didnt reaise they were made in the 80's too.

zak · #7 March 26th, 2005

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i've decided i really want to get hold of some music like you used to hear on old spaghetti westerns.

Most of the classic spaghetti westerns featured soundtracks by Ennio Moricone which can be found on CD often enough.

Frankenstrat2 · #8 March 27th, 2005

Was I correct in my description that they were not really slide guitar oriented at that time?

allthumbs · #9 March 27th, 2005

You are right ,Barry. Those old sixties shooters were filled with brass and a full holliwood over the top score for the most part. No slide at all that I can remember. The closest they ever got to traditional music was playing harmonica here and there.
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