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These suburban guitar geeks nailed their sound in 1980 with Crazy Rhythms' "Raised Eyebrows": two post-punk guitars chopping up a jagged surf riff, weird percussion clatter, tension building until it all explodes into a climactic power-strum rave with three dudes yelping, "The glory, glory, oh,...
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Biography
Among the formal breakthroughs accomplished by the Velvet
Underground was something called the drone strum. As perfected by
Lou Reed, this strum didn't syncopate to emphasize the backbeat the
way rock rhythm guitar usually did -- in fact, it barely syncopated
at all, tending more toward chopped, evenly accented eighth notes
dropped squarely on the beat. And it was this nervous
chink-chink-chink-ch...
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