Love Hurts - Nazareth

[Figarosmom]

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[ProfessorGAC]

1. Fun Fact

The guitar solo involves Manny only picking one note! The whole rest of the solo is feedback.
On the album version, the solo is longer & he picks the note one more time. But, the solo is twice as long.
The vocal performance is superb.

[Figarosmom]

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[keep_left]

3. The solo is done with a slide, right?

The video shows him simply fretting the notes, but I'm guessing the performance is mimed; the audio track is clearly from the original recording. And I think it would be awfully difficult to get that gliding-pitch sound with just conventional string bending. Man, he must have cranked those amps louder than hell to get that kind of feedback. And it's a relatively clean tone, not a totally distorted Les-Paul-into-a-Marshall sound. (I have no idea if he actually used a Telecaster to do that solo, but I wouldn't be surprised if he did).

[ProfessorGAC]

4. Actually It's Not

You can tell by the bends of a hal-note or whole note. Those are clearly finger bends.
When a guitar is in continuous feedback, the glissandos sound more continuous.
He's doing them quickly enough that we don't hear the discrete steps.
We saw them live back in the day (Aragon Ballroom, IIRC) and he played it just like in this video.
Man, were they loud!