Does CC Deville Stink At Guitar? Nothin' But A Good Time Solo Lesson
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TAB for this solo: bit.ly/3Nx2qnM
In the mid to late 1980's the guitarist for the band Poison, C.C. Deville, was often criticized for being one of the worst hard rock guitar players alive. Was it true? Was it fair?
In my opinion C.C. got a bad rap. Need proof? Check out the subject of this video, the solo for the Poison hit song "Nothin' But A Good Time."
This came from the bands 2nd album in 1988 called Open Up And Say...Ahh! It's a cool song with a cool riff. But the solo? Fast shredding pentatonic licks? Check. Blazing 3 note per string runs? Check. Whammy bar stuff? Check. Use of the Mixolydian mode? Check. Great phrasing? Check. What's not to like?
Think it's easy because it's C.C.? I dare you to give it a try!
Have fun and make sure and tune down 1/2 step (Eb standard) to play along.
Guitar geek stuff: Signal path for this video was my black Charvel into a Friedman Buxom Boost, then into Friedman JJ jr, then into Two Notes Captor X and I used a Steve Stevens Cab for the solo.
Rock on!
Solo Demonstration 0:00-0:58
Intro/CC Deville 0:59-8:34
Solo chords and theory 8:35-11:34
Lesson begins 11:35
C.C. Slash, Dave "Snake" Sabo and Scott Hill wrote some of the best guitar riffs and solos to this day....their solos had feeling, emotion and feel to them.
Agreed!
Thanks man for taking the time to teach this lesson and provide the great download, just subbed and I'l be checking out your other stuff for sure!
Awesome! Thank you 🙏
Great channel ! Great playing ! 🤘🤘🤘
Thanks dude!
Great lesson and chat, I have been learning this solo, it’s so fun to play, the major chord progression backing rhythm can be played in a variety of ways and the solo played to suit.
Agreed, and thanks for watching!
Thanks for explaining this solo adding the music theory. It helped a lot to finally understand what's going on there.
You are welcome! Thanks for watching.
Great work
Thx!
Nick can you show us a Shotgun Messiah play through on the song “I’m Your Love”
Great lesson. I wish you showed a closer look at the neck
Thx!
The solo for Life Goes On is a masterpiece. So much soul and emotion pouring out of that guitar.
It's Beautiful!
No
True, but easy as fuck to play
@@martinkuliza every great guitar solo doesn't need to be complicated as fuck either. this stereotypical thought process only blinds people in her ears!
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ok, i',m aware of that,
i'm not sure why you're saying this to me though, i wasn't suggesting that it needed to be complicated.
Nor am i blind
I've been a guitarist for approx 35 years now
He's much better than most give him credit for.
No he sucks
No doubt!
Been playing for years , always found his playing tight and unique !
Even CC disparaged his own playing in a live interview. He said “I had all the right influences. I don’t know what happened!”
I agree.
But he fit perfectly in Poison. I bought their first release Look What The Cat Dragged In. It was fun. But the whole band as a whole was not giving anyone a run for their money in top notch musicianship. But it worked for them. More power to them!
Precisely!
"Life goes on" guitar solo is one of the greatest solo ever written in rock history by CC. 🙏
For sure do more Poison. A fun good time band.
Thanks for watching!
I love the music of Poison ! I grew up in the 80's and I liked them at the time . Always felt better after listening to them . Nothing But a Good Time 🤘🤘
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C.c. Fits the band he was/is in. Once he was out the band . Poison figured out it had to be those four guys to make it work.
C.C. was one of my earliest guitar influences🤘🎸I’ll never forget seeing the MTV video of this song the first time! Pure rock n roll excitement! I was 8 when this came out😜great time to be alive😌
Yeah, lots of fun! Thanks for watching.
@@NickLaytonGuitar thanks for the vids brotha! You’re hands down one of the best guitar players and teachers out there! Lots of love dude❤️and anytime you wanna do more Savatage you won’t hurt my feelings🤘😆
The Leslie West Of Metal! :)
Leslie was awesome!
Definitely not imo. Still love Poison and always brings me back to that era that was so fun to be apart of . CC seems like a cool cat too and lot of those riffs are not that easy . Great lesson !!
Agreed!
When you play it , it sounds even better, better atmosphere
Thanks!
Great band Poison🤘🏻 On the Stadium Tour they did it better than Motley and Leppard, no backtrack, just pure rock n roll
Yessir!
Posion were hot dogs and hamburgers. Not grilled rib eye. He could play, he could entertain. Those that have no level of accomplishment that he has had say stupid things.
Can't please everyone. Great playing dude. Thank you
Yep, totally agree man! Thanks for watching.
CC made the band worth listening too...!!!
And certainly more entertaining!
Pretty good thanks 👍🇺🇸
Thanks for watching!
CC is an absolute blast to listen to! So much stage presence too. In my opinion, he absolutely makes Poison.
Yeah, he just adds a lot of fun on stage.
@@NickLaytonGuitar I can see how he might terrorize a control freak by being a bit wild and unpredictable, but that guy is a world class showman, and honestly a very capable player. Especially considering what all manner of craziness he would unleash live. He might not be a G3 tour candidate, but I think you get more bang for your buck going to see that dude live. I mean, if you actually like rock music, from the partying and good times perspective. I feel like that stuff reminds us why it's good to be alive. Kinda like how Led Zeppelin, Kiss, and Van Halen come across as larger than life.
Made Poison? Yeah. Made them crap. 😂
@@isaiahmarquez9717 I support your right to be wrong as part of you 1st Amendment rights
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I saw David Lee Roth open for Poisen. During Steve Vai's guitar solo everyone went to the bathroom or concession stand to get a hot dog except me. During CC's guitar solo everyone was amazed with dive 💣 after dive 💣. I get it the average IQ level that night was pretty low.
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It was the other way around, poison opened for DLR, i went to that concert 1988. Just wanted to point that out. Rock on, hey Nick cool channel, you rock at guitar, new sub 😀.
When u say everyone went for a hotdog and a shake, well i added in a shake lol when steve played his solo do u mean your friends or everybody lol must of been long lines for those dogs 😀
CC is a guitar great 👍 he had a stye like nobody else.
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The guitar snobs love to jump on the HATE bandwagon... Poison were successful, you still hear their hits on the radio... They still fill stadiums. Back in the day I was more into Satriani , Yngwie, Stevie Ray Vaughan... But CC can play.... He sounds pretty damn good live too! Unfortunately a lot of people just like to belittle and put down successful musicians 1:18
Yep, that’s the truth man, thanks for watching!
I agree its almost like it becomes a trend, some people just like to follow what other people say, or just try to fit in to be cool with the other rockers lol, half the people that say that dont even play guitar.
80s it was Poison
90s it was Creed
2000s it was Nickelback.
Haters gonna hate
No, CC does not stink. So much fun listening to those early Poison albums. CC is the '80s incarnation of Ace Frehley in my book. More Poison solos and riffs, please. Thanks for this lesson 🎸🤘.
Cool, thanks!
CC was a great player, and primarily a great studio player. He was just really sloppy live. His record sales are proof enough - he was perfect for what Poison was all about and wrote for those songs.
Agreed
UP TO 1:34
I came for the facial expressions :P
Haha!
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HAHA
Its like this, he made a damn good living being a "mediocre " player and he made a hell of alot more money at it than I ever did
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Love CC. Great songwriter and guitarist *in the studio* but he is pretty terrible *live*. For some reason he is completely chaotic live, he seems to think faster is better. I'm not sure I've ever heard a solo played close to what was on the album. Every Rose is probably the closest he's done that I've heard.
Agreed
He didn't play. It was studio musicians.
Any proof to back that up?
@@NickLaytonGuitar my bad, it was Warrant.
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@@bishdizzle67 Ironically, CC DeVille played the solo on Warrant's "Cherry Pie" song.
This solo is obviously comped and he’s never been able to replicate it live.
This may be true enough, then again tons of solos were comped back in the day, by great players.
I’m just taking this solo at face value, from the record…and it’s pretty good based on that criteria. Rock on! 🤘
You do realize EVH took 1000s and 1000s of takes, and was the reason VH albums took so long to come out?
AVH was done in a week.
Also, take into consideration how much these guys partied, which didn't help at all.
CC style is like ADHD. He thinks right at that moment. Oh, let me throw in this dive bomb and shred pattern and just fires off like a fire cracker.
When I was in my 20s and recorded, I would disect all of the different guitar tracks that were on the finalized mix and try to emulate that when playing live. Your mind flies around thinking of the different parts when, in retrospect, you can't do that. Stick to the basics of the song. It sounds a lot better.
That's why these bands hire more musicians to fill in live once they get to a certain popularity or add in background tracks like Def Leppard
I think you should stick to what you’re good or put in the hours needed to get to the next level. When i hear CC attempt to shred on videos here on youtube it sounds like the end of the world.
And he plays regularly for thousands of people. So keep making fun of him while covering his songs in your bar band playing to 10 drunks
Exactly