History of Goth

ToneControl

Grunfeld

Seems about right.  Brief but sound.

Deadman

Dave Vanian was the first goth, not Siouxsie. Fuckin yanks.

ICBM

Wrong Sisters Of Mercy album shown too… it should be First & Last & Always, or at the latest Floodland. Vision Thing is from 1990 and is less Gothy (although Eldritch always denied they were anyway).

[ex Goth pedant]

RandallFlagg

OK so what's the ultimate Goth guitar?

Sporky

ICBM said:

(although Eldritch always denied they were anyway)

If you didn't deny you were a goth, you weren't a goth.

RandallFlagg said:

OK so what's the ultimate Goth guitar?

Black 12-string Ibanez RG. Not period correct, but still...

http://www.promusictools.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/768x512/bd5be3e4bffe87df985139cc5e5c836c/i/b/ibanez-rg1512-bk-1.jpg

rsvmark

Cocteaus were never Goth....and they missed Southern Death Cult, The Mission, Gene loves Jezebel, fields of the nephilim....All About Eve were kind of there but I preferred Magazine as a post punk/indie guitar band, and Killing Joke were good too....

ICBM

RandallFlagg said:

OK so what's the ultimate Goth guitar?

The Aria electric 12-string (I think an RS-800, but I'm not certain) Wayne Hussey used in the Sisters and possibly the early Mission, for me.

Sporky

Children on Stun!

RandallFlagg

Sporky said:

ICBM said:

(although Eldritch always denied they were anyway)

If you didn't deny you were a goth, you weren't a goth.

RandallFlagg said:

OK so what's the ultimate Goth guitar?

Black 12-string Ibanez RG. Not period correct, but still...

http://www.promusictools.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/768x512/bd5be3e4bffe87df985139cc5e5c836c/i/b/ibanez-rg1512-bk-1.jpg

Sunno about an Ibanez, Daniel Ash's black tele with rosewood board is more like it

57Deluxe

Actually - the first Goth was 'The Crazy World of Arthur Brown'

Sporky

ICBM said:

RandallFlagg said:

OK so what's the ultimate Goth guitar?

The Aria electric 12-string (I think an RS-800, but I'm not certain) Wayne Hussey used in the Sisters and possibly the early Mission, for me.

The chap from Rosetta Stone had one too.

blobb

http://www.scathe.demon.co.uk/histgoth.htm

Just in case anyone is interested, old mate of mine put this together.

TonyR

RandallFlagg said:

OK so what's the ultimate Goth guitar?

Billy Duffy's Gretsch White Falcon!