![]() ![]() ![]() We’ll take you through the whole progression from riff to solo, and work on arpeggiated and syncopated picking. 1960s Gibson ES-175 (bridge pickup setting), volume: 10, tone: 10 1969 Gibson SG Standard with stock T-top humbuckers modified with Alembic Hot Rod Kit ceramic magnets (bridge pickup setting), volume: 10, tone: 10ĪMP: 1975 Music Man 410-65 combo with four 10-inch Eminence ceramic-magnet speakers (rhythm setting - channel 2, input 1, Bright switch: Bright, Volume: 4, Treble: 6, Middle: 8, Bass: 3, Reverb: 0, Intensity: 0, Speed: 0, Master: 5, Deep switch: Normal solo setting-channel 2, input 1, Bright switch: Bright, Volume: 6, Treble: 7. Blue Öyster Cult’s Don’t Fear the Reaper is so much more than just cowbell Today, we’ll learn the unmistakable guitar part to this classic rock staple. TONE TIP: Use the Super Champ’s 65 Twin Amp voice setting for its bright clean tone and dial in the Large Room reverb effect so it provides a subtle ambience that thickens the sound but doesn’t call too much attention to itself. It’s all been done before somewhere.(Image credit: Kevin Nixon/Classic Rock Magazine) From what I've attempted so far, I first have one reactor to split the methane between the two outputs based on control, and one of these feeds into another reactor that then sends the methane to. All these plagiarism suits really bother me, actually. However, 'Don't fear the reaper' (last assignment on Atropos Station) has been giving me a headache, trying to cram everything into just 3 reactors. I said, ‘Well, you’re welcome to it because you did a nice variation on it.’ I was totally awed by the Police. “Sting was very nice and said that he ripped off ‘Reaper.’ He kept the rhythm, but he changed the melody around, so it wasn’t a real steal. “I saw the Police live and went backstage,” he says. Over the years, music fans have noted a similarity between “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper” and the Police’s 1979 hit “Message in a Bottle.” Dharma reveals that Sting himself graciously owned up to the lift. “They cut out the big guitar break in the middle. They came through righteously.”ĭharma admits that he wasn’t terribly enthused about the single edit, aimed at AM radio. There was no big promo push, but once it took off, our label, Columbia, got records out. “Gradually, though, FM stations started picking up on it. “We’d never had a hit, so we didn’t know what a hit was,” Dharma says. Once they finished recording, the band regarded the song as a strong album track, but they had no idea it would become their first hit, let alone their signature song. We had no idea people would latch on to it.” “David was a famous jingles guy, and he came up with that. “I didn’t have it on the demo, and we didn’t record it with the band,” Dharma says. One pass and I had it.”Īs for that driving cowbell, it was an afterthought that Lucas sprung on the band. “Usually, I comp my leads, but the ‘Reaper’ solo just flew. The guitarist used his own ’69 Gibson SG for the song’s searing leads, which he played in one take. For the intro guitar riff, Dharma borrowed Krugman’s Gibson ES-175 and ran it through a Music Man 410 combo. “They played beautifully and put a real sheen on it,” he says. But BÖC are eclectic, so we decided to record it.” Recording at New York City’s Record Plant, the band stayed closed to Dharma’s demo arrangement, trimming only a few bars in select spots. “ Eric Bloom is our major belter he would sing the rocking stuff. “The only reticence was that it wasn’t as heavy as our other material,” he says. ![]() I had to figure out the story, the payoff, and where the bridge would be.” A Fever For Cowbellĭharma recalls that the band and its producers – Sandy Pearlman, Murray Krugman, and David Lucas – liked his demo. “So I had that down, but the rest of the song took eight weeks. The open G is played on the upstroke, and it just spins out while the other parts move,” he reveals. While working on the song, he crafted the guitar riff into the song’s recurring musical motif. “That was my premise, that there is something after death – you didn’t have to fear it, and love could stay strong.” “I thought of a couple that is reunited on this other plane of existence after one of them dies,” Dharma says. ![]()
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