However I think Julian Cope was the first to use this term? It's in Krautrocksampler anyway.
― Bottlerockey (Tom D.), Monday, 26 September 2016 13:01 (seven years ago) link
yes that's where i learned italong with the guitars being 'bitty bitty'
― I wish you could see my home. It's... it's so... exciting (Jon not Jon), Monday, 26 September 2016 17:00 (seven years ago) link
Oooh! I kind of assumed it was that by looking at the videos above. Had no idea it was a popular term thought it was some local joke. There are thousands of these but I can't think of anything at the moment.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 26 September 2016 17:28 (seven years ago) link
every paul leary solo?
― massaman gai, Monday, 26 September 2016 18:12 (seven years ago) link
I didn't watch the Andy Partridge clip yet but I honestly Turrican made up this term. I was trying to figure it out from the examples (and still am, since I haven't watched the video or read the Cope book.) When I Google "guitar ernie", I see a bunch of results for Ernie Ball strings. When I type in "guitar solo ernie", I see a bunch of Ernie Isley clips.
― Spiritual Hat Minimalism (Sund4r), Monday, 26 September 2016 18:58 (seven years ago) link
"honestly thought"
― Spiritual Hat Minimalism (Sund4r), Monday, 26 September 2016 19:00 (seven years ago) link
I got the term from Partridge, I didn't realise Cope had also used it!
― pen pineapple apple pen (Turrican), Monday, 26 September 2016 19:01 (seven years ago) link
it took me all day to finally understand where the name comes from
― global tetrahedron, Monday, 26 September 2016 19:06 (seven years ago) link
the golden google search is "great god ernie"
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Monday, 26 September 2016 19:10 (seven years ago) link
ernie arises periodically in live versions of 'freebird'
feel like the 'tuesday's gone' solo had its origins in ernie before some other things were added in
― mookieproof, Monday, 26 September 2016 20:54 (seven years ago) link
pete townshend summons ernie a lot on live at leeds, surely
― glumdalclitch, Monday, 26 September 2016 21:06 (seven years ago) link
Mick Jones was wise to the Ernie, check Complete Control solo
― Dr X O'Skeleton, Monday, 26 September 2016 21:18 (seven years ago) link
to commemorate the works of Prince, Bruno Mars brought onstage the noted Ernie
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Monday, 13 February 2017 15:15 (seven years ago) link
Would the intro to Around the World by RHCP count as a summon of ernie?
― dance cum rituals (Moka), Monday, 13 February 2017 16:17 (seven years ago) link
forgot to link, ernie makes his appearance at 3:05
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyRlGFHM2gU
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Monday, 13 February 2017 18:25 (seven years ago) link
oof
― how's life, Monday, 13 February 2017 18:28 (seven years ago) link
blocked by ernie on copyright grounds
― mookieproof, Monday, 13 February 2017 18:51 (seven years ago) link
I love this thread, even though I'm bad at thinking of contributions to it. Praise Ernie.
― JRN, Monday, 13 February 2017 19:00 (seven years ago) link
Brief series of high-speed Ernies at 1.27 (plus bonus most inexplicably bored audience of all time)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgmbfXld3z8
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Monday, 13 February 2017 19:22 (seven years ago) link
I think Bobby Keys ernies in the sax solo to 'Brown Sugar' too, come to think of it.
― Working night & day, I tried to stay awake... (Turrican), Monday, 13 February 2017 22:12 (seven years ago) link
little-known fact about chrono trigger: if you beat spekkio at level 99 the god of war transforms into his true form, the great god ernie
(official re-arranged soundtrack, 5:42)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIVH_bLu-D8
― algorithm is a dancer (katherine), Saturday, 17 February 2018 02:10 (six years ago) link
wau
― mookieproof, Saturday, 17 February 2018 02:31 (six years ago) link
How/why did you dig that up
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 17 February 2018 02:49 (six years ago) link
how: because I was listening to a bunch of chrono trigger remixes on shuffle on a friday night, as one doeswhy: because I have lost control of my life
― algorithm is a dancer (katherine), Saturday, 17 February 2018 03:05 (six years ago) link
Checks out
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 17 February 2018 03:28 (six years ago) link
The Strokes "The Modern Age"
― billstevejim, Saturday, 17 February 2018 04:40 (six years ago) link
2:04
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjXnhT3jXM4
― flappy bird, Saturday, 17 February 2018 07:22 (six years ago) link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01f1bwb
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Sunday, 18 February 2018 00:39 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JW5UEW2kYvc
― ⅋ (crüt), Wednesday, 27 February 2019 22:47 (five years ago) link
probably heard that song eight hundred times but never saw the video. that's a good way to lose your hat, wonder how many he left in the river for that shoot.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 28 February 2019 17:28 (five years ago) link
the end of rush's 'working man' = ernie gets frantic
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 21 August 2019 14:45 (four years ago) link
https://youtu.be/ilsv0C1-aBw?t=169
― I don't get wet because I am tall and thin and I am afraid of people (Eliza D.), Thursday, 21 November 2019 18:33 (four years ago) link
:\
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilsv0C1-aBw?t=169
have been waiting on the 1 train platform for the past 10 minutes, accompanied for seemingly the entire duration by the lord ernie (via a busker)
― like, I’m eating an elephant head (katherine), Saturday, 7 December 2019 04:36 (four years ago) link
eddie channels some ernie in his solo on van halen's 'i'll wait'
which i like a lot, despite or because of it
― mookieproof, Friday, 13 December 2019 14:05 (four years ago) link
i think there's enough tasteful examples here. ernie is not necessarily bad. it's just ernie.
i feel like ernie shows up in some zz top songs but idk when.
― billstevejim, Friday, 13 December 2019 15:59 (four years ago) link