Posted on 06/21/2018 7:01:33 PM PDT by Mariner
I have a theory about rock ’n’ roll bands that I haven’t really expressed to many people, but I will offer it here.
I think any rock ’n’ roll band that wants to consider itself serious needs to be able to competently perform a certain set of standard rock songs. If they can’t play these songs, they should just stop the music and get day jobs.
I’m talking about classic songs that are basic to the genre.
Let me explain.
Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi were not blues musicians. However, they knew enough about music to know any band worth its salt had to be able to perform certain standards at any time.
Thus The Blues Brothers were born. The idea led to a hit album called “Briefcase Full of Blues,” which contained the standards, and a hit movie. The song “Soul Man,” was immortalized thanks to The Blues Brothers.
So it should be with any competent rock band. If you want to be good, if you want to entertain, there are certain basics which must be mastered.
But which songs are the songs that must be part of any competent band’s repertoire.
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Are you a Mike Portnoy fan, then?
Or prog in general?
Disturbed does a decent job with
“ The Sound Of Silence”
"She Said, She Said"
"Alone Again Or"
"19th Nervous Breakdown"
"So You Wanna Be A Rock & Roll Star"
"Piss On The Wall"
"Lawyers, Guns and Money"
"Love Is The Drug"
Big buzz around Greta Van Fleet, sounds a lot like Zep.
The author is not at all conceptually correct because Rock Music is now so diverse and has developed so many factions that there does not exist today any sort of unified audience.
Affordable home studios, more affordable instruments, and digital distribution together did what the courts and public outcry were never able to do: they effectively killed payola dead dead dead. And without corporate control clamping down on what was heard and how big a library could affordably be collected and transported the audience fractured.
All of which is a very, very good thing.
Viva Michael Robertson and Greg Flores.
Berry, who died a few years ago, lived in a residential neighborhood in South Central Los Angeles. He would often be seen strolling around the neighborhood wearing a sea captain's hat.
In a Gadda Da Vida, with the drum solo.
Seven Nation Army
Yeah? Thanks for that tip I will check this out.
“What I Like About You”
An awesome and underappreciated song. I saw The Romantics about 20 years ago. They still rocked!
JJ Cale “The River Runs Deep”
Muddy Watters “Baby Please Don’t Go”
Waylon Jenning “Waymore’s Blues”
Johnny Winter’s “Mean Town Blues”
4’33”
(FRANK SINATRA, FRANK ZAPPA, LOU REED, MAE WEST, JOHN LENNON, KEITH MOON)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oh-o3udImy8
My Way
(Sid Vicious)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=rDyb_alTkMQ
The End
(Nico, John Cale, Brian Eno, et al)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yb1JltnSyfw
Macarthur Park
(SCTV)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=I8JlQNIvIfI
I’ve Got You Babe
(The Dictators)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=m288UGE4wMY
(Rolling Stones)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=NwvVuCjwAO8
(David Bowie and Marianne Faithful)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXaCTV3X1y4
Heroes
(Nico)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=O8VMVe3AAWc
(Lemmy)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J06yQb4lbPk
(PJ Proby)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sq3fsO0qUfI
Oh yeah, I love Portnoy. And yes, a prog since the first Yes album. Guilty as charged, m'Lud!
By the way, in that Universal Mind cut, that was Portnoy crawling over to Jordan Rudess with the sign reading "Keep Playing!" Petrucci's amp had gone out. That whole thing was an ad lib. Just damn.
>>Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi were not blues musicians. However, they knew enough about music to know any band worth its salt had to be able to perform certain standards at any time.
Hire legendary studio musicians as your backing band
Good list.
I think a classic all guitarists should know is Blackbird by the Beatles. It’s a wonderful song.
This was the lineup for the first hour or so for our band.
What do you consider the first Yes album? Yes? Time and a Word? The Yes Album?
Just curious. Peter Banks never got the credit he deserved. That said, Steve Howe is my guitar hero.
cc rider
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