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[–] TheBuddha 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

To add to the lovely reply from @cynicaloldfart, I will share a bit of a story.

By now, you probably have all heard that classical guitar was my first experience playing a guitar. That's what I started with and that's what my parents expected me to play. They were, after all, paying for my gear and lessons.

However, it was mostly at my father's behest. My mother was pretty awesome but my dad was pretty rigid and a giant Marine. So, this was what I learned.

My first learned rock song was this song, only it was the Jimi Hendrix version. You can hear it here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1opcv9t5bI8

I came home from school (I went to a boarding school) and had the house to myself. I was upstairs and was playing this song, over and over again, and singing loudly. It was the only rock song I knew, actually. I've never had a great talent for playing by ear, but a friend had had the music for this song.

So, imagine my surprise when I finally noticed my bedroom door had been opened and my mother was giving me a very stern look. She laughed as I'm sure my eyes got the size of saucers and my jaw hit the floor. She told me that my dad would be home in about an hour and confided that she'd been dancing to my music out in the hallway.

That same summer, she took me to buy some sheet music (we had tab back then too) and she pretended to not notice as I slipped a few rock songs into the pile. The rest is, shall we say, history.

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[–] cynicaloldfart 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

The style of music exemplified in this song became known as "Caveman Rock." The Troggs is short for "troglodyte" (meaning "cave dweller"), which helped bolster this image. This was written by a songwriter named Chip Taylor (brother of actor Jon Voight and the uncle of Angelina Jolie) who has made tons of money from it because it has been recorded by many artists and is constantly being used in movies and TV shows. Taylor used a lot of this money to gamble - for years he bet about $10,000 a day and was kicked out of every casino in Las Vegas for card counting. When Chip Taylor originally demoed this basic three-chord song in 1965, he didn't take it too seriously. He later told Rolling Stone magazine: "I was on the floor laughing when I was through." Taylor added in Mojo magazine September 2008: "'Wild Thing' came out in a matter of minutes. The pauses and the hesitations are a result of not knowing what I was going to do next." "I was a very simple, unschooled guitar player," he recalled. "So I started banging out these chords, and it almost sounded like a drum as well as the guitar, because you could hear the beats my thumb was doing. I was just looking out in the street and letting this thing float, and all of a sudden it just felt terrific. It was just me closing my eyes and imagining I was with some sexy girl that I wanted to talk to. She was kinda mesmerized and I was trying to mesmerize her some more."

They recorded the song using studio time booked for an orchestra session. When that session ended 45 minutes early and the musicians shuffled out, The Troggs quickly set up and blew through "Wild Thing" and what would be their next hit, "With A Girl Like You," in about 20 minutes. It was mixed live as they recorded it In four-track mono.

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[–] VoutGuy 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Nice.