[quote]countingbeans wrote:
[quote]Derek542 wrote:
Fuck you Beans, I still say Grohl is a talented mother fucker.[/quote]
He is, without question, and seems like a real stand up dude too.
Didn’t mean to imply otherwise, just your list is short… [/quote]
Lol, just fucking with you.
You guys appreciate this more than me. I just had to throw my .02 about Dave
[quote]jjackkrash wrote:
Neil
Alex
Geddy
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I’ll be honest, I expected Rush to get a lot more love here than it did.
Not really my bad but some good stuff in their catalogue.
[quote]jjackkrash wrote:
[quote]countingbeans wrote:
[quote]jjackkrash wrote:
Neil
Alex
Geddy
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I’ll be honest, I expected Rush to get a lot more love here than it did.
Not really my bad but some good stuff in their catalogue. [/quote]
The pic is from the R40 tour in Seattle about a week ago. They started with stuff from their newest album and worked their way backwards through the night to a Working Man encore, swapping out equipment for their older equipment as the night progressed. The Rush resume, if you will, is pretty incredible. That’s the same three guys on stage together for 40 freaking years continuing to generate new albums and tour for most of that time, except for a period when Peart’s family died. I’d put their rock musicianship up there with anybody. [/quote]
You telling me this dude wouldn’t be fun as hell to get hammered and howl at the moon with?
So yeah, give me your Rushmore of players/singers you would like to party with
Elvis
Chuck Berry
Jimi Hendrix
Jimmy Page
I like his side of you, Beans. It seems that your recent indulgence in six strings has given you a mellow edge.
Well, maybe not mellow, but certainly some of your sharp corners seem a bit rounder.
[quote]CLUNK wrote:
I like his side of you, Beans. It seems that your recent indulgence in six strings has given you a mellow edge.
Well, maybe not mellow, but certainly some of your sharp corners seem a bit rounder.
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re-indulgence. If I had to start over from scratch I would have said fuck it the first night.
I partied away all the theory and songs I knew, need to grind my rhythm back, but my fingers will still do what I want them too for the most part.
I assume the mellow is only temporary, but who knows.
EDIT: I think a party with Elvis would have boring as hell. Take a shit ton of downers and he scores all the ladies? Worst time ever.
[quote]countingbeans wrote:
[quote]CLUNK wrote:
I like his side of you, Beans. It seems that your recent indulgence in six strings has given you a mellow edge.
Well, maybe not mellow, but certainly some of your sharp corners seem a bit rounder.
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re-indulgence. If I had to start over from scratch I would have said fuck it the first night.
I partied away all the theory and songs I knew, need to grind my rhythm back, but my fingers will still do what I want them too for the most part.
I assume the mellow is only temporary, but who knows.
EDIT: I think a party with Elvis would have boring as hell. Take a shit ton of downers and he scores all the ladies? Worst time ever. [/quote]
Nah, that list wasn’t who I want to party with. Just some heavy hitters, architects of R&R, icons etc.
The ones I’d want to party with wouldn’t be very good on Mt Rushmore!
Mt. Rushmore of Lemmy:
Lemmy
A legend, and this track is fucking killing it.
What about Slash?
where do you guys put him?
Read his auto… Dude shouldn’t be alive, lol
[quote]countingbeans wrote:
Any love for Joe here?
Maybe not icon status… Maybe he is, not sure. Just ran across him on something else, and thought about how I don’t know anything other than the radio shit. [/quote]
Saw him in a fairly small venue and he was amazing, just a great entertainer.
In that vein I’m a huge Leon Russell fan. His live version of somewhere over the rainbow nearly brought me to tears.
fuck it, I’ll play:
Singers
Robert Plant
Chris Cornell
Bon Scott
Paul Rodgers
Guitarists
Jimi Hendrix
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Jimmy Page
Randy Rhodes
For getting hammered with:
Lemmy
Bon Scott
Keith Moon
Ozzy Osbourne
this is the best Joe Cocker song
There’s a number of ways you could evaluate this prior to carving the monument, but I’ll go with bands:
Beatles
Led Zeppelin
Pink Floyd
Rolling Stones
Close but not quite would include (in no particular order): Queen, AC/DC, Eagles, Black Sabbath, Van Halen.
Sorta-Close: The Clash, U2, Rush, Fleetwood Mac, The Doors, Nirvana, The Who, Beach Boys
Little Further: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Foo Fighters, Aerosmith, Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Police, Deep Purple, Cream
Very Far: Kajagoogoo, Spin Doctors, 4 Non Blondes, RHCP, Black Eyed Peas
[quote]AliveAgain36 wrote:
There’s a number of ways you could evaluate this prior to carving the monument, but I’ll go with bands:
Led Zeppelin
Rolling Stones
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Both of whom would tell you to check out the real kings of Rock and Roll, which would be contemporary blues. BOth these bands, and in particular the Stones, were very, very deliberate in telling people to check out the men and women who gave them their sound.
I’ve got a lot of respect for the Stones, and the more I read about how much they appreciated the Delta and Chicago masters, and were open about it, the more that respect grows.
It’s funny, as black audiences moved away from the blues in the late 50’s and 60’s it was the white audiences that give the blues its gusto. (Between the British guys, hippies, folk and country crowds, and college kids that weren’t as prejudiced as their parents.)
There is a story about Muddy Waters, upon seeing some white faces in the crowd (either Butterfield or *Bloomfield) thought it was the IRS and not kids coming to learn from their idols, hid in the bathroom between sets, thinking they had come to settle up his due to the government.
[quote]countingbeans wrote:
[quote]AliveAgain36 wrote:
There’s a number of ways you could evaluate this prior to carving the monument, but I’ll go with bands:
Led Zeppelin
Rolling Stones
[/quote]
Both of whom would tell you to check out the real kings of Rock and Roll, which would be contemporary blues. BOth these bands, and in particular the Stones, were very, very deliberate in telling people to check out the men and women who gave them their sound.
I’ve got a lot of respect for the Stones, and the more I read about how much they appreciated the Delta and Chicago masters, and were open about it, the more that respect grows.
It’s funny, as black audiences moved away from the blues in the late 50’s and 60’s it was the white audiences that give the blues its gusto. (Between the British guys, hippies, folk and country crowds, and college kids that weren’t as prejudiced as their parents.)
There is a story about Muddy Waters, upon seeing some white faces in the crowd (either Butterfield or *Bloomfield) thought it was the IRS and not kids coming to learn from their idols, hid in the bathroom between sets, thinking they had come to settle up his due to the government. [/quote]
Great story about Muddy Waters… His was one of the first blues records I ever bought.
It’s hard to cut it off and try to identify the king or the foundation of Rock and Roll (but enjoyable). A bit like considering the influence of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Voltaire on the men who ultimately were carved into the real Rushmore…
[quote]AliveAgain36 wrote:
It’s hard to cut it off and try to identify the king or the foundation of Rock and Roll (but enjoyable).
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Sure…
I’d say it’s really a mix of things, with the biggest influences from Blues, Jazz, R&B and a touch of the country too.
Rock and Roll is essentially, at least in my mind, the main-streaming conglomeration of majority American Black music styles. (Which was born from the struggles of the people singing it, their ancestors before them, and their separation from “contemporary culture” and “contemporary music theory” of the time.) Or at the very least styles personified by the Black musicians that dominated the scene.
Honestly, most “pop” music and anything remotely close to Rock has been what was once “black music” for the last, I don’t know, 50 years, performed by people of various skin tones. Until you start getting into metal, which was born from Rock, and techno/electronica (which you could still argue comes form hiphop) you’re really talking about music with it’s roots, generations deep at some points, in southern black music.
God damn…
Where do you guys put Stills? Anywhere? Dude could sing.
