What song shows the best use of the Wah Wah pedal....

StageStruck

Given Thin Lizzy has been mentioned, it's worth mentioning original Lizzy guitarist Eric Bell. He used wah quite a bit for soloing on the first three Lizzy albums.
Another one who used wah quite a bit in his heyday was Robin Trower. Very Hendrix influenced, but still worth a listen on his own merits.

Worth seeking out some 70s TV theme tunes as well for wah use. The New Avengers, Grange Hill, and Johnny Morris' Animal Magic (70s version, not the 60s original) all spring to mind.

kelvinburn

Bulls on parade - rage against the machine. Everyone auto associates tom morello with whammy but his use of wah is arguably more original.

Skipped

Best? White Room

Worst?  (at 1:00)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdcs7F-MWhA&t=1m0s

xSkarloey

StageStruck said:

Given Thin Lizzy has been mentioned, it's worth mentioning original Lizzy guitarist Eric Bell. He used wah quite a bit for soloing on the first three Lizzy albums.
Another one who used wah quite a bit in his heyday was Robin Trower. Very Hendrix influenced, but still worth a listen on his own merits.

Worth seeking out some 70s TV theme tunes as well for wah use. The New Avengers, Grange Hill, and Johnny Morris' Animal Magic (70s version, not the 60s original) all spring to mind.

Animal Magic. Superb call. What a chilled funky little number that was. I can just imagine the session guys smoking a big one before cutting that one to play over an innocent kids' show. BTW talking of Mo Foster ( and that sweet bassline off Bergerac is in my head as I type) in his book 15 Watts he mentions that one of the reasons a lot of 70s sountracks and tv themes have effects all over the guitars is because a technicality meant guitarists going through them were paid twice the going Union rate.

Rocker

Pardon my ignorance guys but is Shaft a song, a player or a group?  If the former, what album is it on?  If either of the others, what album would you suggest?

Thanks.

EricTheWeary

Rocker;165443" said:

Pardon my ignorance guys but is Shaft a song, a player or a group?  If the former, what album is it on?  If either of the others, what album would you suggest?

Thanks.

honest? Theme choon to the movie Shaft by Isaac Hayes.

Pacatack, pacatack, pacatack, waaah. Diddle doo doo doo doo uhu dawww.

Kebabkid

EricTheWeary said:

Rocker;165443" said:

Pardon my ignorance guys but is Shaft a song, a player or a group?  If the former, what album is it on?  If either of the others, what album would you suggest?

Thanks.

honest? Theme choon to the movie Shaft by Isaac Hayes.

Pacatack, pacatack, pacatack, waaah. Diddle doo doo doo doo uhu dawww.

Isaac Hayes, sadly deceased, was also the voice of chef from South Park.

d8m

Any classic porno always has a wah in the music(so I've been told)

That's a bonus cos if you get caught you can just say you were researching classic wah wah tunes!

Rocker

EricTheWeary said:

honest? Theme choon to the movie Shaft by Isaac Hayes. 

Thanks @EricTheWeary, I never heard of it.  I have very little interest in movies and none in modern movies.  Now Westerns, that is a different story.....

EricTheWeary

Rocker said:

EricTheWeary said:

honest? Theme choon to the movie Shaft by Isaac Hayes. 

Thanks @EricTheWeary, I never heard of it.  I have very little interest in movies and none in modern movies.  Now Westerns, that is a different story.....

I think Shaft was about 1971 so might depend on how you define modern. 

SimonC

A few of my personal faves:

Buckethead : Soothsayer (just amazing, shows what he can do when he stops buggering about with the chicken noises!)

Andy Timmons: The Princess (great use of wah to take solo to the next level)

Richie Kotzen: Fooled Again (see above)

Michael Schenker : Lights Out on Strangers in the Night (masterful control and very subtle wah)

Randy Rhoads : You Can't Kill Rock n Roll ( such a shame how they faded out some of his outro solos on that album)

bigdawg

whos that young bloke playing guitar instead of craddock....?!?!? ;-)

stickyfiddle said:

The Riverboat Song. (Yeah yeah I know they're still not cool again yet..). Steve Craddock is really quite excellent here.

bigdawg

the intro for papa was a rollin stone - temptations....

Pave

Mark Knopfler Broken Bones - Wah Wah song)))

TTBZ

kelvinburn said:

Bulls on parade - rage against the machine. Everyone auto associates tom morello with whammy but his use of wah is arguably more original.

I'm glad someone said this! Also used in an unusual way in Testify. It's used loads on RATM stuff to good effect.

vasselmeyer

Wow...necrothread from Feb 2014!

MagicPigDetective

Kim Thayil is also a wah-meister, getting all kind of sounds from a wah for textures and solos. Good examples in the song Superunknown, Black Hole Sun, Like Suicide, Slaves and Bulldozers, New Damage.

Voxman

vasselmeyer said:

Rocker said:

Everyone knows that Mark Knopfler used a half cocked wah wah pedal on 'Money for nothing'.  This can be discounted as it is a set and forget job.  There is a few wah wah coloured notes in the intro of Thin Lizzies 'Jailbreak' and the Lizzie guitarists used it now and then in their other songs.

@Rocker I would suggest that Knofpler's supposed use of wah on "Money for Nothing" is an urban myth. Check out the section labeled "Signature Sound" on this Sound on Sound article:

http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/may06/articles/classictracks_0506.htm

Anyway, for me it's "Shaft", "Voodoo Chile" and "See the Light".

Yup, I posted that article a few days back - but Knopfler used a cocked wah live to replace what was captured in the studio, because it couldn't be duplicated.

But back to wah - for me it has to be Charles 'Skip' Pitts and the theme from Shaft.  

ICBM

All that time ago I forgot to mention one of my favourites - there's not that much of it but it's beautiful... Charlie Burchill on the end section of Simple Minds' 'Let It All Come Down'.

Teetonetal

Rhcp sir psycho.