Songs where a musician starts "ernie-ing"/summoning up the great musical god Ernie.

Yes - Going For The One

Steve Howe ernie-ing in the intro: "one, two, a'one two three four" ... "ERNIE! ERNIE! ERNIE!"

or...

The Rolling Stones - Can't You Hear Me Knocking

Bobby Keys starts to ernie in the saxophone solo at around the 4:13 mark.

The Stranglers - Walk on By

Hugh Cornwell ernie-ing in the guitar solo at roughly the 3:58 mark.

I feel like this is a common enough riff that I ought to be able to rattle off ernies all day, and yet! I can only think of one other off the top o' the head:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZbjseBPjhw

Tremendous string of ernies at about 2:25

You can actually see Wayne Kramer shaking in ecstasy as he bears witness to the presence of Ernie

https://youtu.be/8e1xvyTdBZI

If I'm going to embed a gag I better get it right

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8e1xvyTdBZI

the rockafeller skank

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Tremendous string of ernies at about 2:25

― erudite beach boys fan (sheesh), Saturday, September 24, 2016 5:42 AM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

You can actually see Wayne Kramer shaking in ecstasy as he bears witness to the presence of Ernie

― erudite beach boys fan (sheesh), Saturday, September 24, 2016 5:48 AM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Hahaha! That's an amazing one... thanks for that! Funnily enough, I'm having the same problem as you are... it feels like there should be so many examples of this, but it's kinda hard to think of 'em!

The guitar solo on "Complete Control"

Ah, yes!

Oasis - Headshrinker

Serious trip to Ernie land starting at about 1:34

I think "Going for the One" is a little different from the Stones, Stranglers, and MC5 examples. I think those are basically cycling through a melodic pattern of sliding or hammering up a whole-tone and then playing a note that's a P4 higher than the first note, i.e. D-E-G or C-D-F. In the Yes example, I think he's sliding a whole inverted major chord up a whole tone but just stays there. Similar rhythm and feel though.

Chuck vs. Keef "Oh Carol":
https://vimeo.com/18623223

I'm p tired though so could be off. xp

I think "Going for the One" is a little different from the Stones, Stranglers, and MC5 examples.

It is, but it's still an ernie!

was hoping someone versed in theory would show up in this thread! plus too Howe is playing a pedal steel on "Going for the One", making it a pedal-ernie.

early country would probably be a good place to listen for some ernies

if I can find an ernie in an Ernest Tubb record y'all are going to hear all about it

I don't understand what you're talking about :/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6FUKcCP7dA&feature=youtu.be&t=8m33s

ahem

youtube.com/watch?v=C6FUKcCP7dA&feature=youtu.be&t=8m33s

However I think Julian Cope was the first to use this term? It's in Krautrocksampler anyway.

yes that's where i learned it
along with the guitars being 'bitty bitty'

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.

every paul leary solo?

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.

"honestly thought"

I got the term from Partridge, I didn't realise Cope had also used it!

it took me all day to finally understand where the name comes from

the golden google search is "great god ernie"

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

pete townshend summons ernie a lot on live at leeds, surely

Mick Jones was wise to the Ernie, check Complete Control solo

to commemorate the works of Prince, Bruno Mars brought onstage the noted Ernie

Would the intro to Around the World by RHCP count as a summon of ernie?

forgot to link, ernie makes his appearance at 3:05

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyRlGFHM2gU

oof

blocked by ernie on copyright grounds

I love this thread, even though I'm bad at thinking of contributions to it. Praise Ernie.

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

I think Bobby Keys ernies in the sax solo to 'Brown Sugar' too, come to think of it.

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

wau

How/why did you dig that up

how: because I was listening to a bunch of chrono trigger remixes on shuffle on a friday night, as one does
why: because I have lost control of my life

Checks out

The Strokes "The Modern Age"

2:04

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjXnhT3jXM4

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01f1bwb

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JW5UEW2kYvc

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.

the end of rush's 'working man' = ernie gets frantic

https://youtu.be/ilsv0C1-aBw?t=169

:\

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)

eddie channels some ernie in his solo on van halen's 'i'll wait'

which i like a lot, despite or because of it

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXWbMu4PtpE

Spin Doctors - Little Miss Can't Be Wrong solo at roughly 1:19

At first I thought this thread was gonna be examples of like the start of "Girls and Boys" by Blur, like "er-NIE, er-NIE, er-NIE, er-NIE". How wrong I was.

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