Posted on 07/10/2020 8:18:42 PM PDT by Bigtigermike
I love all kinds of music and I know everyones taste of music is different but if forced to pick only one group since 1970 that was awesome, encompassed uniqueness and range and just fun music overall it would be Earth Wind & Fire. I just loved how they mixed R&B, Jazz, Soul, Pop, Latin and Disco and had lyrics to many of their songs that had meaning and message. Maurice White was a genius and his instrumental arrangements for the bands top hits was bar none. Great Car music
Thats the Way of the World
Fantasy
Reasons
Getaway
After the Love is Gone
Serpentine Fire
Shining Star
Cant hide Love
Boogie Wonderland
Gratitude....etc
Image a top 12 of R&R albums:
* Bread
* Grassroots
* ELO
* Fleetwood Mac (Saw them)
* Beach Boys (saw them)
* Early Elvis
* Buddy Holly
* George Benson
* The Platters - awesome
* Jackie Wilson
* Chuck Berry (saw him twice)
The Philadelphia Orchestra?
The Berlin Philharmonic?
La Scala opera?
Once in a while you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right -Scarlet Begonias, The Grateful Dead
Well, he did list etc. so September is covered, although it should have been spelled out on the list.
Journey
Earth Wind and Fire
The Stones
The Beatles
There’s only one reasonable answer for the musically-educated, which is “Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention”; and all serious discussion would be who the second choice was to be.
If you could pick only one great band ind the last 40; years who would it be?
Who
Yes who?
Yes who
No who?
Depeche Mode
No Doubt.
“Rock your baby to and fro/not too fast and not too slow/ And I say row, Jimmy row/ gonna get there/I don’t know/ seems a common way to go/get out and row, row, row, Jimmy row...’’ :-)
The Moody Blues!
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Nice post, that was 50 years ago almost to the day.
My music promoter cousin hooked me up as Ginger Baker's videographer for his jazz band in the 90's. I had ZERO clue who he or Cream was and couldn't name a single song. I got to know him and his (then) wife Karen over a couple years. I look back at that and just shake my head at how ignorant I was of his legendary status. Maybe that's why he liked me. To me, it's now like being buddies with Mick Jagger only to find out who he really was, decades later. Such a waste.
Finally, someone with sense.
AC/DC
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