Posted on 03/25/2011 1:05:27 PM PDT by GSWarrior
Hey I was at that one. Got there early and got Bono’s autograph on my ticket stub—still have it. Still have all my ticket stubs from the 80’s. Went with my little bro.
Bruce Springsteen. Drivel.
Chicago, Bloood Sweat and Tears and Steve Miller all sucked enough to account for the vacuum of space
Oh my goodness, I so agree with you there.
John Lennon without the Beatles.
Not to mention that Dave Matthews is personally a hot-head, arrogant little punk. He’s as mean as Gary Busey who we once kicked out of our 4 star hotel and tore up the bill. Was worth it to kick his abusive butt out.
When Dave travels he checks in as Richard Tator! No lie.
Some celeberties actually get creative with the names we list on the rooms.
My personal list of overrated bands. These are groups that friends of mine love love love, but which sound like garbage to me:
Queensryche
Soundgarden
Nickelback
Creed
Bands I’m sick of hearing on the radio (not overrated, just overplayed):
Hendrix
Clapton
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Eagles
Yeah, I like bands that use lots and different good studio musicians. Steely Dan was like that so much they rarely toured.
And besides, you else has the gonads to turn the flute into a lead instument?
Top of my list, "The Smithereens" - Pat DiNizio crafts perfect power pop songs.
Again this is just MHO, but . . .
To me SRV is the Pat Boone of the Blues (or maybe the Kenny G). He took an important musical form and diminished it down to soulless,boring, bland, vanilla pap. He created cookie cutter pop that was devoid of emotion, intelligence and artistic merit.
He also would not make my list of top 5 rock guitarist (or top 5000000 for that matter). There is a huge difference between being a technically great guitarist and being a great guitarist. Give me Bo Diddly over Yngwie Malmsteen any day.
Neil Peart on drums. Unbelievable. He earns his nickname “the octopus”.
I could live without the high Geddy Lee voice but great musician.
And it’s only three guys. Some of their stuff gets repetitive over time.
I saw them first in 1975 and being 16 it was awesome to me so some of my like for them results from that. But I love a lot of their stuff, especially the album 2112 and the song Tom Sawyer.
Their early stuff was more hard rock. Peart joined and got into the writing and gets into stories like Zeppelin did. Check out the story of “Trees”, it’s a pretty good message against identity politics and freedom.
Neil Peart on drums. Unbelievable. He earns his nickname “the octopus”.
I could live without the high Geddy Lee voice but great musician.
And it’s only three guys. Some of their stuff gets repetitive over time.
I saw them first in 1975 and being 16 it was awesome to me so some of my like for them results from that. But I love a lot of their stuff, especially the album 2112 and the song Tom Sawyer.
Their early stuff was more hard rock. Peart joined and got into the writing and gets into stories like Zeppelin did. Check out the story of “Trees”, it’s a pretty good message against identity politics and freedom.
If you play guitar (as I have for well over 40 years) you will understand what Hendrix did for the electric guitar was absolute genius, irrespective of his drug abuse. Try playing six-chord blues riffs on a Fender Strat strung upside down and making it sound as fluid as a Bach minuet because your fingers could easily span five frets and you knew every scale in every key by heart. The only one who comes close in my mind is Stevie Ray Vaughan, who also died far too young.
His voice hasn't been that high since "Permanent Waves."
Overrated:
1) Tom Petty
2) ZZ Top
3) Bob Seager
4) All things Eric Clapton (though it’s cool to say you like him)
Underrated:
1) Crissy Hynde of the Pretenders
2) Styx
3) Train
Jimi Hendrix-overrated? The greatest electric guitarist in the rock genre? What about the songs he wrote? brilliant.
I was a fan of the Eagles for close to a week. As it happened, around the age of 12 or so, I bought a copy of their greatest hits at a library sale. The purchase set me back about five cents. I listened to it quite a lot and then figured that maybe some of music from that era might be almost as good. So I got some stuff from my dad and gave it a try. I was halfway through Simon and Garfunkle’s Bookends when I realized that I’d been had. I immediately marched back down to the library and demanded my nickel back.
One disagreement on Clapton; if you like Blues try his “From the Cradle” album.
ZZ Top is good with the older stuff (again, good Blues) and the commericial stuff is just fun. Great in concert. I’m biased though because at a high school BETA convention a bunch of us ran into them staying at the same hotel.
We partied in their suite.
No mention of Billy Joel yet?
Fair point, how about the following line in “Thunder Road” though:
And my car’s out back if you’re ready to take that long walk
From your front porch to my front seat
Think how much easier it would be for him, for any musician really, to make the line: From your front porch to my BACK seat. Think about the difference that makes in the song, in the meaning of the line, in the respect that it shows for the person he’s singing the song to.
For example, compare him to the myriad of wretched rock singers out now, the whole “Nickleback” genre, Theory of a Deadman, Creed, all the guys who front those bands can SING, but they end up sounding empty and phony compared to what I hear in Springsteen’s singing.
I’m not a singer and am incapable of judging people’s ability to sing and I’ve always liked the way Springsteen sings. There’s an honesty in his voice and lyrics that appeals to me.
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