Posted on 05/18/2008 11:01:10 AM PDT by SilvieWaldorfMD
And The Winners Are....
yeah, I think that's them. the most prefabricated act since the monkeys and autograph.
I beg to differ. Those guys were amazing -- wrote their own stuff and are still together touring.
I remember meeting them when I worked at my college radio station in 1980. They took their music quite seriously. And though I never really followed them or their music, I believe that John Taylor is quite a good bass player. And the last time I checked, Terry Bozzio and Warren Cucurillo were playing with Duran Duran: You might be interested to know that they're both alumnus of Frank Zappa's bands.
Mark
Mark
Eeeekk!!! The guy in the right hand side with platinum hair looks like such a gal!
Agreed! Aimee Mann is gorgeous, and looks SO much better these days, though I'm not that crazy about her music:
Actually, I see the same situation in Gwen Stefani. She works so hard to be "edgy" that she really loses so much of her incredible, natural beauty. I remember seeing an early "No Doubt" video where she's just wearing this blue pattern dress, and little makeup, and thinking that she's amazingly beautiful.
Mark
I thought it WAS a girl.
(WTF is up with it’s TEETH?!?! You could use that head and upper mandible for a wood plane.)
Really? My favorite’s just a few frames after that one! =-D
It wasn’t until Nicks, Christine and even Buckingham came into the band that the group garnered much respect, admiration, recognition and fame.
They were very much different bands. FM v1.0 was basically the Peter Green Blues Band, and that's what they played. Blues. FM v2.0 was headed more towards pop, with the addition of Bob Welch and Christine McVie. FM v3.0 had Stevie Nicks and Lindey Buckingham, and it completed the evolution from a blues band to a pop band. The only original members were Mick Fleetwood and John McVie.
Mark
I have to disagree there.I favored the origional to the most well known lineup.I'm more of the old,old school rock and roll than anything else,I probably got quite a few years on you.
I always like Bozzio's part of the Devil on FZ's "Titties and Beer".I couldn't see him in Duran Duran,he was a classical trained musician who was a madman on the drums.Warren Cucurillo as far as I know was someone who frequented Frank's shows,wishing he could join his band,until he met him back stage and Frank gave him an audition eventually and thought he was good enough .He had to be good because Zappa was known for being particular and would fire you in a minute if you couldn't play the way he wanted.I think it was short lived ,though.
I read somewhere that Cucurillo had posed naked in some hard-core porn mag and that the Duran members did not like that at all, thus cutting him off the lineup a while back.
I had pretty much turned my back on MTV by then in favor of the blues. Must have missed it.
Pat Benetar was almost amazing.
they still suck.
It's fluff music.
And since you're placing yourself as the benchmark of taste, pray -- enlighten us with music that you find more acceptable.
well, I'm a good judge of my own taste, but I don't know about a "benchmark." I think appreciation for quality and creativity, along with repulsion for petty commercialism, come from somewhere very objective outside ourselves.
Notwithstanding that, let's see...to make it fair, let's find something from the '80's...sort of hard after '83-'84... what do I remember listening to then...Gerry Rafferty, City to City; Bowie (Modern Love); Jackson Brown (well, it was a phase); I saw Billy Joel once; Pure Prairie League twice (once they were excellent, once they were pitiful); Spyro Gyro; Pat Metheny a half dozen times; Edie Brickell; BB King; Delbert McClinton -- OK, these are my picks for '80s, caused it was happy music that launched a happy decade: Delbert McClinton, The Jealous Kind (Givin' it For Your Love...) and John Lennon/Yoko Ono, Double Fantasy (a great statement).
Really haven't got too far past the first couple of years, but it's getting late, and this post is long enough as it is.
Oh, and as I said, I think what's her name from the Bangles was a knockout, but that's not speaking musically.
s/b Spyro GyrA, and since I mentioned the word “Petty,” how could I have forgotten Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers?
Now there's your most important statement by far. Because, had it been only for "petty commercialism" that bands like Duran Duran, Bangles, Go-Go's and all these other 'fluff' ones had stayed in the business, then all of them would be filthy rich and retired by now, 25+ years later, and living off royalties somewhere in the Caymans. That is not the case with most of the bands discussed in this thread. They continue to play and tour, even in the most disgusting hellholes, away from their families. Some of them have kids who are teens now, and they never saw them growing up because they were out touring most of the year.
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