This is a classic bit of New York punk, which features one of my all-time favourite guitar solos from the late, great Robert Quine. Check out the original if you’ve not heard it before:

There doesn’t seem much original live footage around of this song. This is about all I could find:

And here’s my video lesson:

Music/tab

I’ve written out both the Robert Quine and Ivan Julian parts below. There are tons of little variations throughout the song and rather than write out all of these note-for-note, I’ve just given you the gist of each part. For more detail, do some careful listening to the recording. At the start of my video I mix the two parts together a bit, something which might work well if you’re playing the song in a band with one guitarist.

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