Martha Reeves & The Vandellas ~ Heat Wave (1963)

 Ohmsen wrote: 
Those  girls are good backup singers. Distinctive like the B-52s.

Roy Buchanan, Delbert McClinton - You Can't Judge A Book By The Cover

 Proclivities wrote: 
the burning sensations were my favorite band for a short weekend in the eighties - true story

 rhahl wrote:

Nice - covering a Jonathan Richman song.  Cool version.

 rhahl wrote:

Gail Ann Dorsey

David Bowie - Pablo Picasso

BAND-MAID / FREEDOM

Steve Ray Vaughan - Scuttle Buttin

 Coaxial wrote:
Ah yes, the 11:04 version. Bill prefers the radio version with the god-awful edit. As I've posted in the song comments, it sounds like somebody kicked the turntable to create a four minute track.

In your heart you know it's wrong, Bill. 

That honor goes to Eddie Phillips of The Mark Four. In the mid-'60s, Eddie was looking for a way to keep a drone going on his low E-string while he hammered-on a solo with his left hand on the other strings.

First, he tried sawing a string with a hacksaw from which he'd removed the blade and added a taut guitar string. That seemed pretty good, until at one gig he noticed some kids in the front row pointing at his guitar and laughing. "I looked down, and I'd worn three or four massive grooves in the bottom horn of my 335 from the ends of the saw," Eddie tells me. "Oh no! What have I done? So that obviously wasn't going to work."

Next, he went to his local music store in northeast London, bought a violin bow, and tried that. Not great. Jack Jones, the Mark Four drummer, said he'd heard you had to put rosin on the bow. Eddie went straight back to the store for a block of solid orange stuff with a whiff of pine.

Once a bow is treated to some of this rosin, it has the right amount of "grip" for the strings, as Eddie discovered. "I tried it, and to my surprise it actually worked," he says. "OK, it didn't do the guitar a great deal of good—but it didn't wreck it like the hacksaw. It did the job. And then I found you could turn the bow over to play it almost like a bottleneck, if you could get it right. It was all hit and miss. It was the kind of thing where one night it would be great, and the next night you gave up on it."