Best use of a tremolo in a song?

SimonC

Hard to beat Richard Hawley for a bit of tasteful trem.

gatheredinsong

InactiveX

I always thought that was done with the pickup switch, with one pickup set at zero volume.

Fantastic recording though. Makes me grit my teeth.

MagicPigDetective said:

Snakedriver by Jesus and Mary Chain, used to create a cacophonous choppy wall of noise in the final minunte and a half. Glorious. 

https://youtu.be/ncmCTvJoyDQ

MagicPigDetective

InactiveX said:

I always thought that was done with the pickup switch, with one pickup set at zero volume.

Fantastic recording though. Makes me grit my teeth.

MagicPigDetective said:

Snakedriver by Jesus and Mary Chain, used to create a cacophonous choppy wall of noise in the final minunte and a half. Glorious. 

https://youtu.be/ncmCTvJoyDQ

I thought perhaps he had a pedal to change the rate, but yes, using the pickup switch does more sense actually.

BintyTwanger77

Tremolo is really the only modulation I really can’t do without. Fell for the Jam Harmonious Monk within seconds of trying it, and it’s not leaving the board: it works beautifully for every great song with trem/harmonic trem (though not pattern trem) in it. I use it to play Tom Waits, Portishead, loads of 60s stuff, and it kind of works for How Soon Is Now.

BintyTwanger77

SimonC said:

Hard to beat Richard Hawley for a bit of tasteful trem.

Richard Hawley makes stunning music, must listen to Coles Corner again.

Gadget

Richard Ashcroft - On a Beach

EricTheWeary

brojangles said:

Harlem Nocturne by The Viscounts
Baby Scratch My Back by Slim Harpo 
He Venido by Los Zafiros

Baby Scratch My Back is so cool. Just the most laid back blues, gorgeous tremolo and then the chicken picken. I’ve heard Buddy Guy just insert that into random songs, it’s a bit of a party trick I suppose but makes perfect sense within the context of Scratch My Back. It’s a song of simple things done to perfection. 

RocknRollDave

Assuming that either of these actually IS tremolo (I could be wrong):

Arctic Monkeys - Do I Wanna Know?
https://youtu.be/bpOSxM0rNPM


Garbage - Vow
https://youtu.be/qZsVcoWRIkY

Haych

bandmaster188

Some great examples being posted!
for me, you can’t beat the back to basics grooves of CCR. Plenty of trem usage going on. Particularly like this track with drop D tuning and the trem works great over the solo too.
https://youtu.be/Umzh1UYI0Sg

Sunburst

Check out the gorgeous phased tremolo from 1m 51 seconds on this. 

hollywoodrox

Anything by the ventures That has it 

RandallFlagg

Lynyrd Skynyrd, Strat through a Princeton on 'I Need You':

Haych

The subtle tremolo works well in this one, too:

Blueingreen

Trude said:

Blueingreen said:

Let it Loose by the Rolling Stones

Great as that is, I think it's a Leslie speaker rather than tremolo

My suggestion - Immigrant Song by Led Zep. The "Come from the land of the ice and snow" bit - effective because it's so brief.

Cheers.  Even as I was typing it I was thinking "am I sure it's tremolo?". Well now I know.

EricTheWeary

I couldn’t remember if we’d had Skin Deep by The Stranglers. If not then Skin Deep by The Stranglers. 

lovestrat74

prowla

slowpilgrim