Posted on 04/05/2013 7:20:30 PM PDT by MNDude
There are a lot of lousy musicians that are a lot more popular than they deserve, but in you opinion, who are the three most over rated musicians (or groups) of all time?
Second, no, most of the modern guitarists you name cannot play things that Eric Clapton can play.
Third, buy this: http://www.amazon.com/Live-Madison-Square-Garden-Clapton/dp/B001V7YWTQ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1365225217&sr=8-1&keywords=clapton+winwood and then come back and tell me how he's coasting ... This is one of the great live rock albums of all time and it is just a few years old. Clapton is brilliant and Winwood is amazing.
In my school, most everybody listened to country music.
I was the oddball.
:)
Musicians revered Zep for Page and Bonham. Most I know thought Plant a preening screecher who pranced about while the real musicians did magic things with their instruments.
I wasn’t 18 in fifth grade or eighth grade.
That's why we enjoy your company around here, in spite of your poor taste in music ;-)
On the early albums Plant basically did an imitation of Janis Joplin.
Quite an accomplishment there, sport.
Why, thank you!
[watch out if Shibumi shows up with his freaking Mongolian throat singing stuff]
Yeah and Badly. Never Cared much for Joplin though I did like a couple of songs. Grace Slick impressed me more. I heard her Live once and she had the most piercing loud voice of any female singer ever.
“I wasn’t 18 in fifth grade or eighth grade.”
Oh God I wanna make a self-deprecating hillbilly joke so bad....
Yes, Grace Slick. You can see what a talent she is in this clip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_raXzIRgsA
She is clearly stoned, as is her band, and the PA is screwed up so that she can’t hear herself, which is why she has her finger stuck in her ear. Yet she totally nails the performance. Her pitch and her phrasing are right on the money. That’s the mark of a true professional, sixties style.
Dag-Nab-It! Why doesn't anyone EVER give JP Jones his due credit! Incredible player and arranger, as well as a very fine keyboardist. He wasn't flashy, so people seem to forget all about him!
Mark
Nothing sounded like “Whole Lotta Love” up to that point.
There’s a fantastic youtube vid of Steve Marriot doing “Black Coffee” in studio. It is truly amazing.
Mrs. AV
I agree in many ways JPJ was the glue....Now I admit I am a little biased since No Quarter is my favorite Zep song, largely due to his opening keyboards....but the guy had a very impressive body of session work even before joining Zep.
Real musicians certainly knew who John Paul Jones was; even if the Zep bashers on this thread don't.
Eric Clapton, top of the list.
Sucker has never created anything of his own, and is merely a fine Bar Band karaoke player. At least 1000 players as good or better than the Thief in every major city in the Union. Not to mention the creators that came before him. Hey, all greats spring from and pay homage to the guitar ancestors, but the real greats create their own to carry the ball further down the field.
I will NEVER understand how anyone can begin to listen to Layla or Lay Down Sally, or his version of I Shot the Sheriff, or Wonderful Tonight—or for that matter ANY song he’s ever played and every riff he’s ever stolen (which is ALL of them, every single last one.)
Nothing but a two-bit musical thief. Hate the guy.
Don’t mince words, tell us what you really think.
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