is there no guitar on "White Light/White Heat"?

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my band is going to play this song, so I listened to it in some detail to it for the first time in fifteen years, and i can't hear any guitar.

whomping Mo beats? gnarly bass line (by Sterl or Cale?) ? Cale's stride piano stylings? recording levels pinned to the red? you bet! But I can't hear no guitar?

anyone know?

― veronica moser (veronica moser), Thursday, 4 May 2006 11:47 (nineteen years ago)

sooner or later one of us must know.

― the Enrique who acts like some kind of good taste gestapo (Enrique), Thursday, 4 May 2006 11:50 (nineteen years ago)

there's a guitar in it but you can't hear it.

― Grand (grand), Thursday, 4 May 2006 12:03 (nineteen years ago)

It's mostly feedback, I think. The main riff is organ.

― Floating down, the sound resounds around the icy waters underground. (kate), Thursday, 4 May 2006 12:13 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, it's almost all feedback. There are plenty of alternate versions of the song (including some awful post-Velvet Lou Reed versions) that include a noticeable guitar line, but if you're going for authenticity, it's time to get up next to that amplifier and shimmy around wildly.

― trees (treesessplode), Thursday, 4 May 2006 12:32 (nineteen years ago)

that low crunchy whuump whump whump whump is the guitar

― tulio, Thursday, 4 May 2006 13:44 (nineteen years ago)

lol shitty production

― the Enrique who acts like some kind of good taste gestapo (Enrique), Thursday, 4 May 2006 13:46 (nineteen years ago)

YES!!!! U R DEF. The guitar tuning is "ostrich" (ie, all D, meaning every string tuned to D).

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 4 May 2006 14:36 (nineteen years ago)

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