R.I.P. Hilton Valentine, original guitarist for The Animals
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Hilton Valentine has died. As the original guitarist for pioneering British rock band The Animals, Valentine contributed some of the most potent riffs in the early history of British invasion rock most notably on the band’s breakout hit “The House Of The Rising Sun,” which opens with Valentine’s soaringly evil guitar intro. Valentine who, with the rest of his original bandmates, was inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame in 1994 occasionally reunited with them across his long career, and also played for several years with the group sometimes referred to as Animals II. Per
Light Up The Fire . The track will appear on
CHEAP TRICK s 20th studio album, In Another World , which is due on April 9 via
BMG. Light Up The Fire recording process, the
CHEAP TRICK guitarist said: We just do what we do, and we try not to make it into a production. We start off and we always record everybody at once. And we do it probably three times with any song we don t dwell on it. We try to get it right, and if we screw up, we patch it in. But usually we don t screw up, so we get a good drum track and a bass track. And
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