Riff Retrospective: Motley Crue "Girls, Girls, Girls"

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  • @nahnotsomuch2292
    @nahnotsomuch2292 Рік тому +17

    35+ years later and Wild Side still gets me fired up. Hands down my fav Motley tune.

    • @Richorob
      @Richorob Рік тому +2

      Same!

    • @gibonshank3680
      @gibonshank3680 Місяць тому

      Even those who dislike the album still love that song.

  • @jamiec9080
    @jamiec9080 Рік тому +1

    Girls will always be my favorite Crue album. Because it just sounds so raw and greasy

  • @K.V.H.
    @K.V.H. Рік тому +39

    Mick is criminally under-rated, and it makes me sad. Sure he wasn't overly technical or flashy, but his riff and solos fit perfectly. His solos flawlessly complimented the songs. Nothing more, nothing less, and that's just fine
    And OMG that picture of Eddie in the background 😍

    • @1badsteed
      @1badsteed Рік тому +2

      She's only 15...She's the reason, the reason that I can't sleep!
      Nikki was a fan of Tracii Lords,who started acting in ADULT movies when she was 15

    • @K.V.H.
      @K.V.H. Рік тому +1

      @@1badsteed All in the name of,
      All in the name of ROCK N' ROLL!! 🤘

  • @SkeeterMcBeater
    @SkeeterMcBeater Рік тому +16

    The best riffs aren't the ones with technical & harmonic complexity. The best riffs are the ones that get the mammaries jiggling. Also, that double-cut is beautiful.

  • @thedoctormd1
    @thedoctormd1 Рік тому +32

    Nice to see no heavy distortion. MM was/is such a clean and solid picker.

    • @BenEller
      @BenEller  Рік тому +10

      Exactly! Those tones have a lot less gas on them than most people think.

  • @KingBeevr
    @KingBeevr Рік тому +15

    Dude, you are making me feel super old. In '87 I was just hitting my teenage years. I went to my first concert, Def Leppard/Tesla, in November. I was 14 and life was glorious.

  • @shanemiller6982
    @shanemiller6982 Рік тому +17

    Ben , you were my first UA-cam guitar channel and your still my favorite.

  • @Vulneravariable
    @Vulneravariable Рік тому +23

    I saw Motley Crue on their first farewell tour. I arrived as a Tommy Lee fan (I mean, a rotating drum set is hard to beat).
    Then something involuntary happened: Mick Mars melted my face. It was a good show, but Mick Mars absolutely carried that concert. He’s a beast.

    • @brianbrian1769
      @brianbrian1769 Рік тому +3

      Every guitarist wishes they'd been a drummer and every drummer wishes they'd been a guitarist. 5th law of feral dynamics. Maybe 6th. I lost count.

    • @futarydary
      @futarydary Рік тому

      check out his guitar track from the latest 2022 tour. GUY IS A BEAST

  • @RizoftheDead
    @RizoftheDead Рік тому +12

    I share the sentiment that they went into this album with the idea of supplying strip music for all eternity, and bless them for it.

  • @Black-Viper75
    @Black-Viper75 Рік тому +5

    Mick is the reason I started playing guitar. Wild Side, Dancing On Glass and All In The Name Of... are some of his coolest riffs. I still love playing them after all these years. #iStandWithMick

  • @silvertear87
    @silvertear87 Рік тому +4

    This is so cool. This is part of why I love transcribing songs. You pick apart this heavy music and find all these cool licks from blues and other genres you wouldn't think about, especially when it's slowed down.

  • @JustAdude291
    @JustAdude291 Рік тому +4

    Definitely my favorite crue album too, bad boy boogie and all in the name of, dancing on glass, wild side, so many of my favorite motley crue songs. So sleezy and blusey sounding, I love Mick Mars

  • @andrewpappas9311
    @andrewpappas9311 Рік тому +7

    I’ve always thought Mick was always fairly underrated, he’s such a great guitarist and wrote some of the coolest hard rock riffs imo and Girls, Girls, Girls is no exception. Definitely one of his best

  • @dirktucker77
    @dirktucker77 Рік тому +9

    I love D standard tuning. It sounds awesome

  • @deadlegends5498
    @deadlegends5498 Рік тому +3

    I was just diving back into this album yesterday! Thank you universe for blessing me with this upload

  • @Gerisheng
    @Gerisheng Рік тому +1

    Thank you! This album is a treasure trove of raw, tasty riffs. For some reason that I've forgotten, I ignored this album for years. Then I "discovered" it a couple of years ago. Now I can't listen to it enough, and it's all about Mick. It doesn't matter to me who is the credited songwriter, Mick's riffing on this album is huge ear candy.

  • @RazorRiley
    @RazorRiley Рік тому +5

    Love it, Mick Mars is why I started playing 27 years ago this week! 🤘🏽

  • @LuisLondonG
    @LuisLondonG Рік тому +2

    I've listened to this video 2 times yesterday and 2 times today, also going back and forth. Awesome riffs, awesome tone on your guitar!

  • @scribeofsolace
    @scribeofsolace Рік тому +1

    Watching this on birthday!!! I share it with sir Mick. Great breakdown. One of my favorite riffs of all time for me. Catchy, dirty and innovative.

    • @BenEller
      @BenEller  Рік тому +1

      Happy birthday!

    • @scribeofsolace
      @scribeofsolace Рік тому

      @BenEller thank you Ben!! Huge fan. You've helped me a ton.

  • @gkroberts7816
    @gkroberts7816 Рік тому +8

    Live wire. Down stroke awesomeness
    Mick has always been an under rated player. He makes Motley Crue sound the way they do. Just look at when he guest plays with Crash Diet ( I dont care) who sound great as is btw. He brings their sound to another level. Love Mick. Guys a gun.

  • @ponzo1967
    @ponzo1967 Рік тому +2

    I was 18 when Girls came out, we had alot of fun with rhis record. Its just fun music to listen to and dabble in. Its also been fun going over the riffs, I forgot how much I miss these songs.

  • @gibonshank3680
    @gibonshank3680 Рік тому +5

    My favourite Motley album as well. Super underrated.

  • @PC85X
    @PC85X Рік тому +2

    Too Young to Fall in Love is my fav riff.

  • @ThePhilTorretto
    @ThePhilTorretto Рік тому +2

    Thank you Uncle Ben for once again reminding the world of what a Riff Master Mick Mars was/is and giving proper respect to Mötley Crüe in general. You are a National Treasure. 😉🤘🏼

  • @c-6-c
    @c-6-c Рік тому +2

    Obsessed w the guitar sound on this album specifically. So much muscle in it. Thank u❤️

  • @leftofzeroofficial
    @leftofzeroofficial Рік тому +4

    Mick had the three Ts, tone taste and talent. Seriously a riff monster and definitely carried motley, no way that they would have been half as big without Mick. No way.

    • @TheBfutgreg
      @TheBfutgreg Рік тому +1

      Curious how John 5 can fill in that role....he's a great player as well, much more technically gifted/skilled too so curious if he'd play by the numbers in their shows....it's said they'll never record another studio album but they say all sorts of shit that's contradicted by the flow of time

    • @leftofzeroofficial
      @leftofzeroofficial Рік тому

      @@TheBfutgreg from what I read the other day they are recording stuff. As for Mr 5, he is a ridiculously good player, total beast but, in my personal opinion he doesn't have the swagger Mick has. Live videos are proof. He plays the songs perfectly, but definitely feels wrong .

  • @wildcyote717
    @wildcyote717 Рік тому +1

    I literally looked up how to play "Girls Girls Girls" yesterday, perfect timing Uncle Ben!

  • @simonhimself1
    @simonhimself1 Рік тому +1

    Same ol situation does the same thing. The classic blues riff you showed.

  • @Jeffmetal42
    @Jeffmetal42 Рік тому +6

    I know John 5 is a crazy good guitar player, but Crue will never be the same without Mick. He was the heart and soul behind anything they ever did that was awesome. They should have just let their final tour actually be their final tour.

  • @PastirellaGuitar
    @PastirellaGuitar Рік тому +1

    Love these, and all your videos (and you!)

  • @standingvertical3048
    @standingvertical3048 Рік тому +1

    Yes sir!! good stuff.

  • @CrueHead18
    @CrueHead18 Рік тому

    So true what you said about Mick. He's not a shredder. But what he contributed to Mötley and those bands at the time. Underrated.

  • @Yttikymmug
    @Yttikymmug Рік тому +1

    first time I had to turn down the volume listening to your vid! Crue loud and proud!

  • @deano572
    @deano572 10 місяців тому

    Ben this video is such a good, instantly motivational lesson. I was nose to the grindstone in theory for a couple months, now I’m pushing aside the scales and gonna play crue licks this week! I was in high school when the first album was released…. So this hits me smack dab in the soul

  • @darthdurkelthewise320
    @darthdurkelthewise320 Рік тому +1

    Dude, first off I thought I was the only one that thought that melody sounded like the Sesame Street theme!
    I felt the same way as a kid as I was way more of a “Shout” era MC fan than I was a “Girls” fan so kudos to your wife!
    As the years went by I’ve grown to appreciate that record a lot more.
    Secondly, Mick Mars was and will always be IMO the heart & soul of Motley Crue.
    Personally, I even really love the “TOP” record although it’s not a band fave.
    All Mick’s stuff is killer and thanks Ben for featuring his greatness 🤘🏻

  • @randallhaney7909
    @randallhaney7909 Рік тому +1

    Yes indeed, Cool stuff and more Cool stuff. thanks Boss, You are Appreciate.

  • @johnnyhd
    @johnnyhd Рік тому +2

    Awesome lesson! And awesome Motley love fest. Thanks for highlighting the coolness of this album. Would love similar either the other motley albums. Of course too fast and shout although they have probably been gone through numerous times. Theatre would be awesome!!!

  • @scottthompson850
    @scottthompson850 Рік тому

    My favorite Crew album. Mick had some some the coolest riffs of the era.

  • @KarlKarsnark
    @KarlKarsnark Рік тому +3

    Gods bless Mick Mars. One of the all-time great Riff lords with a killer tone too. \m/
    (Imagine making a vid like this today. LOL! and it was what kids were watching on MTV!)

  • @DaganWilkin
    @DaganWilkin Рік тому +4

    This is sublime work! 🙌

  • @StuPedassol
    @StuPedassol Рік тому +5

    I too, was just a wee lad back then and growing up thrash/punk, meant I wasn't really "allowed" to enjoy Crüe stuff. However, as I matured and kinda took that "I dont care" attitude to it's natural conclusion, I found myself enjoying some of the carefree, Mars' driven rock.
    Thanks, Uncy Bang!

    • @Jeffmetal42
      @Jeffmetal42 Рік тому +2

      man, I know exactly what you mean ab being in the Thrash scene and not being "allowed" to like certain things. I used to have hide to enjoy Gangster Rap and other styles of music. It followed me into my Death Metal conversion but In my early to mid 20's I stopped giving a shit and finally was free to listen to whatever. Silly looking back, but getting caught up in a scene can do weird stuff to a person.
      🤘Cheers!

    • @brianbrian1769
      @brianbrian1769 Рік тому +1

      You did the thing with the u.
      How'd you do that. Ű AHA! Thänks I really didn't know how to do that. Ü r a good teacher

  • @pilot4them2010
    @pilot4them2010 Рік тому +2

    Mick is one of the most under rated 80’s guitarist. He is in my top 3 of my favorite guitarist which include Vito Bratta and David Gilmore. Thanks for showing Mick some much needed love.

  • @mindofmatter071
    @mindofmatter071 Рік тому +1

    I can't unhear that...thanks alot!
    Damn it, Damn it,Damn it!!!
    Dancing on glass is and will always be one of my faves from the crew.

  • @kingdwan6486
    @kingdwan6486 Рік тому

    "A riff so nice, they used it twice".... Rock poetry at its very best. Love your vids. Keep Rocking!

  • @HannahCope88
    @HannahCope88 Рік тому +1

    Love this Ben! Girls!Girls!Girls! is just a banger of a tune, always turned up to 11 when it comes on on my radio 🤘🔥

  • @KarlKarsnark
    @KarlKarsnark Рік тому +2

    "Wild Side" is an EPIC! as a vid, lyrics and riff. Probably their "darkest" song. The drum solo is probably still the best ever.

  • @IWishUWereTacos
    @IWishUWereTacos Рік тому

    More of this! I really enjoy these album riff breakdowns 🤘

  • @judu2b
    @judu2b Рік тому +1

    I still remember the first night I played that record. Definitly a before and an after into my guitar journey.
    Actualy I made several guitar pro tabs of that album that still are references. even though, there's some mistakes.
    I've wrote them 10 years ago when I was a young teenage Cruehead, and there was no such tools as today.
    Anyway, great video !

  • @thephatalien
    @thephatalien Рік тому

    Fantastic lesson Ben!
    Mick is a definite blues riff master.
    Thanks for breaking it down.

  • @teddwayne
    @teddwayne Рік тому

    I was living in East Texas back when this came out/was a huge SRV/blues fan,plus I was trying to learn to play guitar,and stuck on the blues scale. I drove my buddies crazy,always saying this album was kick ass blues! They would say -NO WAY! Its Crue! HA HA ! Great album,great lesson here Ben ! Thank you young man!

  • @davidbrassard9125
    @davidbrassard9125 Рік тому +3

    Amazing album, one of the guitar tone ever. Underrated. The Girls Girls Girls tour with Whitesnake was an wonderful experience. 87 rules!

  • @neenjaaa
    @neenjaaa Рік тому

    You are such a great personality and adept teacher. I value your contributions. 🎉

    • @neenjaaa
      @neenjaaa Рік тому

      I’ve learned so much from your videos alone at the point I feel like I owe you money. Endless thanks for all you’ve given for free.

  • @SlyHikari03
    @SlyHikari03 Рік тому

    I remember playing this with a cover band from school of rock (a music lesson school) back in 2018-ish. and my guitar was tuned in e flat while everyone else was in D standard.
    Worst moment at a gig but hey, the guitar techs didn't tune the guitars before the song happened.
    Thats one memory i have of this song.

  • @patrick6951
    @patrick6951 Рік тому +1

    Hey Uncle Ben! Great stuff! Love the old Crue licks, classics. Wondering if you’d do suicidal tendency pledge your allegiance, guitar lesson. Thanks

  • @AD1978leo
    @AD1978leo Рік тому +1

    One of my favorite albums for sure. Always really liked You're All I Need. The solo is so different from most of their stuff.

  • @benpowersguitar
    @benpowersguitar Рік тому

    Mick knows how to lay down a groove. Pretty tasteful soloing as well.

  • @cadentrout1472
    @cadentrout1472 Рік тому

    great video, definitely one of my favorite albums from the 80s!

  • @mathewhudson7649
    @mathewhudson7649 Рік тому

    Mick was just a riff monster, luv the Crew for that. LOL you're right, I can't unhear the sesame melody

  • @felipegomabrockmann2740
    @felipegomabrockmann2740 Рік тому +1

    I enjoyed every single second of this video. So much fun.

  • @christopherhorton4634
    @christopherhorton4634 Рік тому +1

    Mick rocks so damn hard. He has melted more faces than an A Bomb.

  • @deltalegendsguitaramplific5450

    Thänks Un̈cle Bën !

  • @JasonMcNamara
    @JasonMcNamara Рік тому

    Stoked you included “Something For Nothing”. I remember struggling to play that riff back in the day with just a Drop D before I learnt they were tuned down a Tone across all strings. Drop D vs D Standard… two very different worlds. System Of A Down also live in D StandardVille (well with occasional Drop C’s for fun).

  • @aerosmith7175
    @aerosmith7175 Рік тому +2

    One of my favourite albums thanks Ben 🤘 Could you consider doing more synyster gates or a7x videos in the future on how he makes such awesome solos

  • @gitaaa7740
    @gitaaa7740 Рік тому +1

    My fav Looks That Kill!

  • @stefanloof1643
    @stefanloof1643 Рік тому

    Love it, Ben - you’re the best! 🎸Cheers from Sweden!🇸🇪

  • @TylerGuitar5617
    @TylerGuitar5617 Рік тому

    Awesome! More Crue plz! Micks playing is never really delved deep into. But the riffs are bonkers! Also, love the shoutout for Micks downpicking. I Remember too young to fall in love kicking my ass years ago.

  • @TheRicardoSanchez
    @TheRicardoSanchez Рік тому

    Uncle B you’re approaching national treasure level 🤘🏻

  • @TristanJCumpole
    @TristanJCumpole Рік тому +2

    Girls Girls Girls has another really common rock trick, also used in -Dancing On Glass- _the entire album._ Open power chord, interspersed with a bend from the string below, a half or whole step down up to the root note of that chord. So cool. Were the split tracks I sent for Dancing On Glass useful, Ben? Totally agree. One of, if not THE best dirty riff container on the entire album.

  • @seanxduffy
    @seanxduffy Рік тому

    This brings back the days of trying to learn this Drop-D, because I didn't want to reset my Floyd Rose....fixed bridges, oh yeah...thanks for the memories Ben

  • @theantiqueninja4743
    @theantiqueninja4743 Рік тому

    Always awesome. Thanks Uncle Ben

  • @albertschaf6985
    @albertschaf6985 Рік тому +1

    That part in Dancing on Glass where the bass moves. They did that sort of thing on Looks that Kill

    • @albertschaf6985
      @albertschaf6985 Рік тому +1

      Lol. I meant Too Young.... You brought it up right after I posted

  • @empirelight5477
    @empirelight5477 Рік тому +2

    Riff retrospective album tour!!! Love it.❤ How about kill 'em all or master of reality?

  • @magamaga1827
    @magamaga1827 Рік тому

    I know nothing about playing guitar, but I sure as hell can tell you how great it was to be a teenager in the Summer of 1987 with Girls, Girls, Girls plastered on MTV all day! Great time to be alive.

  • @bghammock
    @bghammock Рік тому +1

    Too Fast, Shout, and Girls for me. Saw Crue live for the second time on the Girls tour. Great stuff live! Thanks Ben! Great retrospective!
    Oh crap .. Sesame Street .. AAAARRRGGGGGGHHH!!!

  • @beforethunder4987
    @beforethunder4987 Рік тому

    Too Fast for Love is my favorite album. Raw, hard and attitude. Mick Mars is most certainly in my list of under rated guitarists. The title song is so great. Simple but carrying the same frame across and down the fret board......very cool. Oh, by the way, I missed seeing them in Nashville 1985....long story but that was the night I got booted from the military lol

  • @yourdrummer2034
    @yourdrummer2034 Рік тому +1

    Once again Brother Ben, I feel like I know you!

  • @s.manuel7969
    @s.manuel7969 Рік тому

    Funny you have the Guns shirt on doing these Crue riffs. The best concert I ever saw was GnR opening for Crue on the Girls, Girls, Girls tour. AFD was just taking off and Crue were at the top of their game! Thanks!

  • @sickman777
    @sickman777 Рік тому

    we were teen doing skateboard listening to that album in a loop!

  • @shawnok1
    @shawnok1 8 місяців тому

    Mick has never got the credit he deserves.

  • @johnsguitarmusicanddemos
    @johnsguitarmusicanddemos Рік тому

    _Great tabs Ben. ⚔️🛡️ Definitely enjoying this cuz I love jamming to this album and Shout at the Devil._

  • @dmitch1983
    @dmitch1983 Рік тому

    The solo in You're All I Need was 🔥

  • @jcm78
    @jcm78 Рік тому +1

    11:24 he even looked identical to Duane Allman before joining MC.

  • @cayvzcvlt
    @cayvzcvlt Рік тому

    Hellz yeah. Dancing On Glass is a super underrated riff and song 🤘

  • @foley15136
    @foley15136 Рік тому +1

    Ok, I posted my first comment before watching the video all the way through. Turns out that I was wrong. I wasn’t playing that song. I was playing what I *thought* that I heard in that song.

  • @resington
    @resington Рік тому

    Such a banger meat and potatos rock album and the live elvis cover on the special edition version is so awesome.

  • @Kvltiam
    @Kvltiam Рік тому +1

    Appreciate you! best guitar lessons 🤘🏼

  • @frostyriffs
    @frostyriffs Рік тому +3

    Awesome stuff. I wanted tattas painted on the back of my guitar just like Mick did. Skip to 1988 and Zakk Wylde hit the scene with the boss man. No rest for the wicked retrospective would be cool.

    • @lailer1975
      @lailer1975 Рік тому

      “No rest for the wicked” would be great.

  • @georgebanks4360
    @georgebanks4360 Рік тому

    Wild Side has been one of my favorite MC tracks. Can’t explain it but to me that riff just kicks large ass.
    Hey BTW I love your rice, man.

  • @michaeleaster1815
    @michaeleaster1815 Рік тому

    4:58 Doublestops but esp. 4ths... Mick loves 4ths. Great video! I think Mick's solos were a weak link back in the day (compared to peers) but the bluesy style has had a better shelf-life over the years as they are classic

  • @shawnpedersen6330
    @shawnpedersen6330 Рік тому +2

    Great rhythm guitar please do the solos🤘

  • @deigov
    @deigov Рік тому +9

    Appetite For Destruction! Both Izzy's and Slash''s riffs

  • @joshwmusic6838
    @joshwmusic6838 Рік тому +2

    Don't mind if I do! What an amazing video. More people need to talk about Mick! Aswell as George Lynch and Warren Demartini

  • @AlbertoHernandez-ow3xh
    @AlbertoHernandez-ow3xh Рік тому +3

    Love Girls girls girls, but Kickstart my heart is where they really gave the beans

  • @wm-nu1yf
    @wm-nu1yf Рік тому +3

    Saw them on this tour. First concert I had ever been to. Had to look up the lyrics to All in the Name of. Wow. And people think Seventeen by Winger is bad.

    • @BenEller
      @BenEller  Рік тому +2

      Hahaha right?! Crue has them beat by 2 whole years!

    • @1badsteed
      @1badsteed Рік тому

      Nikki was a Tracii Lords fan. And she started at 15

  • @Mcchubz
    @Mcchubz Рік тому +1

    Big bird and Elmo with Mick Mars . Yup my birth and teen years

  • @63Spatch
    @63Spatch Рік тому

    Sunny day! Thanks Ben.....🤣🤘

  • @KingBeevr
    @KingBeevr Рік тому +1

    MM is such an unappreciated guitar legend. One of my top-10 solos is Home Sweet Home. Not super flashy, all heart and soul.
    And my favorite recorded note of all time (doesn't everybody have one?) may very well be the harmonic that he hits, and bends twice, after Vince starts in on the chorus after the solo.

    • @johnmorrison9883
      @johnmorrison9883 Рік тому

      💯 agree That solo is A reason I wanted to pick up the guitar.

  • @simonpsychosis2812
    @simonpsychosis2812 Рік тому +7

    That all-downpicked riff in Live Wire would give most guitarists carpal tunnel syndrome. Brutal.

    • @BenEller
      @BenEller  Рік тому +3

      So fast!!!!

    • @fatShowPony
      @fatShowPony Рік тому

      I remember playing that in the cover band I used to be in, I had to stretch my wrists (holding a drumstick then twisting out) otherwise I kept cramping up.

  • @mrsoikawa
    @mrsoikawa Рік тому +1

    Mick is the most underrated musician of the 80s. For some reason Nikki gets all the plaudits, yet there is no way in hell he would be even able to conceive of all the Motley guitar riffs.

    • @beforethunder4987
      @beforethunder4987 Рік тому

      Shit, Nikki was passed over by Quiet Riot when Randy Rhodes was still with them. They said he sucked and couldn't even play. Had a hard time following, so yeah Mick is the man.

  • @hikimad1523
    @hikimad1523 Рік тому +1

    So what you're telling me is it alll started with Sesame Street.
    Great work Ben, enjoyed the video.