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 Жыл бұрын
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. Жыл бұрын
@@1badsteed All in the name of, All in the name of ROCK N' ROLL!! 🤘
@nahnotsomuch2292 Жыл бұрын
35+ years later and Wild Side still gets me fired up. Hands down my fav Motley tune.
@Richorob Жыл бұрын
Same!
@SkeeterMcBeater Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
Nice to see no heavy distortion. MM was/is such a clean and solid picker.
@BenEller Жыл бұрын
Exactly! Those tones have a lot less gas on them than most people think.
@Vulneravariable Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
check out his guitar track from the latest 2022 tour. GUY IS A BEAST
@KingBeevr Жыл бұрын
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.
@perpetualbystander4516 Жыл бұрын
And I was 19, but life was still glorious. 😁
@richardspillers6282 Жыл бұрын
Be old, the rest of us will be jealous.
@shanemiller6982 Жыл бұрын
Ben , you were my first KZfaq guitar channel and your still my favorite.
@BenEller Жыл бұрын
Huzzah! Thank you!
@RizoftheDead Жыл бұрын
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.
@jamiec9080 Жыл бұрын
Girls will always be my favorite Crue album. Because it just sounds so raw and greasy
@dirktucker77 Жыл бұрын
I love D standard tuning. It sounds awesome
@Black-Viper75 Жыл бұрын
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
@JustAdude291 Жыл бұрын
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
@gkroberts7816 Жыл бұрын
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.
@RazorRiley Жыл бұрын
Love it, Mick Mars is why I started playing 27 years ago this week! 🤘🏽
@beforethunder4987 Жыл бұрын
Yes, he was a big influence on me as well.
@silvertear87 Жыл бұрын
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.
@PC85X Жыл бұрын
Too Young to Fall in Love is my fav riff.
@gibonshank3680 Жыл бұрын
My favourite Motley album as well. Super underrated.
@andrewpappas9311 Жыл бұрын
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
@Jeffmetal42 Жыл бұрын
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.
@ThePhilTorretto Жыл бұрын
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. 😉🤘🏼
@BenEller Жыл бұрын
Many thanks!
@deadlegends5498 Жыл бұрын
I was just diving back into this album yesterday! Thank you universe for blessing me with this upload
@LuisLondonG Жыл бұрын
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!
@ponzo1967 Жыл бұрын
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.
@leftofzeroofficial Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
@@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 .
@wordsintowins Жыл бұрын
Same ol situation does the same thing. The classic blues riff you showed.
@StuPedassol Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
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
@KarlKarsnark Жыл бұрын
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!)
@pilot4them2010 Жыл бұрын
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.
@brianbrian1769 Жыл бұрын
Mick MADE Motley!
@scribeofsolace Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
Happy birthday!
@scribeofsolace Жыл бұрын
@BenEller thank you Ben!! Huge fan. You've helped me a ton.
@c-6-c Жыл бұрын
Obsessed w the guitar sound on this album specifically. So much muscle in it. Thank u❤️
@Gerisheng Жыл бұрын
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.
@darthdurkelthewise320 Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
Yes indeed, Cool stuff and more Cool stuff. thanks Boss, You are Appreciate.
@wildcyote717 Жыл бұрын
I literally looked up how to play "Girls Girls Girls" yesterday, perfect timing Uncle Ben!
@johnnyhd Жыл бұрын
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!!!
@simonpsychosis2812 Жыл бұрын
That all-downpicked riff in Live Wire would give most guitarists carpal tunnel syndrome. Brutal.
@BenEller Жыл бұрын
So fast!!!!
@fatShowPony Жыл бұрын
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.
@CrueHead189 ай бұрын
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.
@k_im.c_am Жыл бұрын
I love hearing covers of this song, fucking Mick man. Fuckin Mick Mars “Thanks babe”
@davidbrassard9125 Жыл бұрын
Amazing album, one of the guitar tone ever. Underrated. The Girls Girls Girls tour with Whitesnake was an wonderful experience. 87 rules!
@1badsteed Жыл бұрын
My first concert!
@judu2b Жыл бұрын
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 !
@PastirellaGuitar Жыл бұрын
Love these, and all your videos (and you!)
@DaganWilkin Жыл бұрын
This is sublime work! 🙌
@KarlKarsnark Жыл бұрын
"Wild Side" is an EPIC! as a vid, lyrics and riff. Probably their "darkest" song. The drum solo is probably still the best ever.
@frostyriffs Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
“No rest for the wicked” would be great.
@mazbou Жыл бұрын
I have always liked the music and the playing on Motley Crue songs but I just can't stand Vince Neil...just can't. This video demonstrates the music perfectly! Thanks Uncle!
@ericklingenberg5309 Жыл бұрын
He was tolerable for a time, but now he just can't perform at all!
@deigov Жыл бұрын
Appetite For Destruction! Both Izzy's and Slash''s riffs
@BenEller Жыл бұрын
Oh that’s definitely coming!
@johnmorrison9883 Жыл бұрын
@@BenEller Yay
@Yttikymmug Жыл бұрын
first time I had to turn down the volume listening to your vid! Crue loud and proud!
@asshat7160 Жыл бұрын
Dunable guitars are the absolute bomb. Iv sold many guitars I swore I'd never sell to acquire a few of those customs. Got an Asteroid and a Cyclops...next up is a yeti.
@patrick6951 Жыл бұрын
Hey Uncle Ben! Great stuff! Love the old Crue licks, classics. Wondering if you’d do suicidal tendency pledge your allegiance, guitar lesson. Thanks
@benpowersguitar Жыл бұрын
Mick knows how to lay down a groove. Pretty tasteful soloing as well.
@magamaga1827 Жыл бұрын
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.
@IWishUWereTacos Жыл бұрын
More of this! I really enjoy these album riff breakdowns 🤘
@HannahCope88 Жыл бұрын
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 🤘🔥
@neenjaaa Жыл бұрын
You are such a great personality and adept teacher. I value your contributions. 🎉
@neenjaaa Жыл бұрын
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.
@mindofmatter071 Жыл бұрын
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.
@deano5726 ай бұрын
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
@mathewhudson7649 Жыл бұрын
Mick was just a riff monster, luv the Crew for that. LOL you're right, I can't unhear the sesame melody
@christopherhorton4634 Жыл бұрын
Mick rocks so damn hard. He has melted more faces than an A Bomb.
@23dvs Жыл бұрын
A ‘Back in Black’ or ‘Highway to Hell’ album rundown would be cool….lots of great classic riffs!
@BenEller Жыл бұрын
How about Powerage?! Most underrated album of theirs by far!
@23dvs Жыл бұрын
@@BenEller that’ll work 👍
@seanxduffy Жыл бұрын
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
@AD1978leo Жыл бұрын
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.
@SlyHikari03 Жыл бұрын
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.
@aerosmith7175 Жыл бұрын
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
@Xplora213 Жыл бұрын
No joke, the double stop inverted fifth has got to be my favourite sound in music…. Between Hot For Teacher and Obituary… nothing will ever be this badass. Even F tuned Meshuggah is just trying to emulate that snarl attitude. Hot rod style Marshall tone will never ever die either. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
@scottthompson850 Жыл бұрын
My favorite Crew album. Mick had some some the coolest riffs of the era.
@bghammock Жыл бұрын
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!!!
@AlbertoHernandez-ow3xh Жыл бұрын
Love Girls girls girls, but Kickstart my heart is where they really gave the beans
@shawnpedersen6330 Жыл бұрын
Great rhythm guitar please do the solos🤘
@cayvzcult Жыл бұрын
Hellz yeah. Dancing On Glass is a super underrated riff and song 🤘
@kingdwan6486 Жыл бұрын
"A riff so nice, they used it twice".... Rock poetry at its very best. Love your vids. Keep Rocking!
@empirelight5477 Жыл бұрын
Riff retrospective album tour!!! Love it.❤ How about kill 'em all or master of reality?
@dmitch1983 Жыл бұрын
The solo in You're All I Need was 🔥
@felipegomabrockmann2740 Жыл бұрын
I enjoyed every single second of this video. So much fun.
@BenEller Жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@TheRicardoSanchez Жыл бұрын
Uncle B you’re approaching national treasure level 🤘🏻
@TylerGuitar5617 Жыл бұрын
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.
@beforethunder4987 Жыл бұрын
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
@joshwmusic6838 Жыл бұрын
Don't mind if I do! What an amazing video. More people need to talk about Mick! Aswell as George Lynch and Warren Demartini
@tehmessiah5617 Жыл бұрын
Hahaha Sesame Street / Girls Girls Girls. That’s awesome.
@BenEller Жыл бұрын
It’s uncanny hhaha
@tehmessiah5617 Жыл бұрын
@@BenEller I must agree GGG is one of my favourite albums and you just made me understand why. Thank you (I don’t mean the Sesame Street link, I mean the bluesy riffs)! 😂
@hikimad1523 Жыл бұрын
So what you're telling me is it alll started with Sesame Street. Great work Ben, enjoyed the video.
@TristanJCumpole Жыл бұрын
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.
@mikesurel5040 Жыл бұрын
Dear god, that sesame street/ girls girls girls thing. My wife did that to me a few weeks ago with the chorus from scorpions rock n roll band and the theme from law and order.
@teddwayne Жыл бұрын
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!
@63Spatch Жыл бұрын
Sunny day! Thanks Ben.....🤣🤘
@JasonMcNamara Жыл бұрын
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).
@standingvertical3048 Жыл бұрын
Yes sir!! good stuff.
@wm-nu1yf Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
Hahaha right?! Crue has them beat by 2 whole years!
@1badsteed Жыл бұрын
Nikki was a Tracii Lords fan. And she started at 15
@deltalegendsguitaramplific5450 Жыл бұрын
Thänks Un̈cle Bën !
@thephatalien Жыл бұрын
Fantastic lesson Ben! Mick is a definite blues riff master. Thanks for breaking it down.
@sickman777 Жыл бұрын
we were teen doing skateboard listening to that album in a loop!
@jessejacobs3792 Жыл бұрын
Hell yea ub this album was straight rock 🤘🏾
@ImPoopnRightNow Жыл бұрын
*UNCLE BEN!*
@BenEller Жыл бұрын
Hi!
@shawnok15 ай бұрын
Mick has never got the credit he deserves.
@yourdrummer2034 Жыл бұрын
Once again Brother Ben, I feel like I know you!
@Mixolydio Жыл бұрын
I’ll call the un-unhearable Sesame Street/Girls Girls Girls connection with the chorus of Juice Newton’s Angel of the Morning and Whitesnake’s Here I Go Again
@georgebanks4360 Жыл бұрын
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.
@Doctor-Shoebill Жыл бұрын
How about a Ratt retrospective? I'd like a breakdown of some DeMartini work.
@BLeeFAFO Жыл бұрын
DeMartini is cool, But Crosby was the King in Ratt. Not much of a shredder but his solos are very bluesy & melodic. He was chief songwriter as well. Word has it Mars wanted him to join Motley, But even though Robbin & Nikki were best friends & former roommates he balked. Mars & Crosby would've been hella cool.
@577buttfan Жыл бұрын
Lay it down is such a badass riff!
@DeL07 Жыл бұрын
It'd be awesome to see you do a Riff Retrospective on XYZ's Hungry. Marc Diglio slayed that album!
@Kvltiam Жыл бұрын
Appreciate you! best guitar lessons 🤘🏼
@gitaaa7740 Жыл бұрын
My fav Looks That Kill!
@TheMetalMag Жыл бұрын
Thx a pleasure to see you are doing this. What a baby you must be very young ahah