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“Anyone Can Play Guitar” was a single taken from Radiohead’s first album Pablo Honey, released just in advance of the album. It was the band’s second single, and their first to receive a wide hearing (“Creep” had been issued in limited quantities some months earlier, and had failed to chart, but would soon become a hit and ultimately be re-released later in 1993). “Anyone Can Play Guitar” made relatively little impression on the charts, but it remained a staple of the band’s live sets throughout the early-mid nineties.
Thom Yorke has said that the song is about the mysticism that guitarists seek to perpetuate around their instrument, rather than it being about practice, a talent that anyone can gain with some application.
He has also said that he has a pathological disrespect for Jim Morrison. He has said that he feels it affects people in rock, “in that they believe that they think they have to act like fuckng prats in order to live up to the legend”
He has also been quoted as saying:
“Jim Morrison’s a fat talentless bastard - and he’s dead.”
Thom Yorke has said that the song is about the mysticism that guitarists seek to perpetuate around their instrument, rather than it being about practice, a talent that anyone can gain with some application.
He has also said that he has a pathological disrespect for Jim Morrison. He has said that he feels it affects people in rock, “in that they believe that they think they have to act like fuckng prats in order to live up to the legend”
He has also been quoted as saying:
“Jim Morrison’s a fat talentless bastard - and he’s dead.”
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saltybalz wrote:
the way he delivers "i wanna be wanna be jim morrison" line is brilliant
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RaditAndrogyny wrote:
This song is so naive, LOL
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norwegianwood90 wrote:
I can play guitar, but I'm still nothing. Maybe I'm not playing it well enough.
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Amelie1st wrote:
I wanna be Jim Morrison too, Thom !!!!!!!!!!
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Dani1727 wrote:
i wanna be wanna be wanna be Jim Morrison
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fall_into_nihil wrote:
how can anyone hate Jim?
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beardedfreak wrote:
I can play guitar but would let the corrosive salty beach air anywhere near it!
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assMEN wrote:
i can't play guitar.... why do you taunt me, radiohead
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hoseyman2001 wrote:
I was in the other room when this came on and thought it was the Smashing Pumpkins!
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Screenager102 wrote:
Psst... He doesn't actually want to be like Jim Morrison!! He hates the fucker!!
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metsvisser wrote:
Indeed great song!
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surferrosa65 wrote:
lol great title, great song...
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LinaValentin wrote:
fine, fine, fine
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compulsiveboy wrote:
¬¬
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carpetguy wrote:
love this.
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Piki768 wrote:
I wanna be I wanna I wanna be JIM MORRISON!
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jrouby wrote:
Nothing compare to the actual Radiohead sound but, damn, it was good !
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Ghosiaq wrote:
destiny, hold my hand protect me from the world <3
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LilCactus7 wrote:
~memories~
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dirtybitch999 wrote:
grow my hair...i wanna be, wanna be Jim Morrison
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