Posted on 06/24/2008 7:19:30 PM PDT by SilvieWaldorfMD
The "Musicians Who Turn 50", "Musicians Who Turn 60", "Favorite Drummer" and "Favorite Guitarist" were such hit threads on FR, I've decided to do this one.
Who is your favorite SONGWRITING DUO?
We all know that Lennon-McCartney were amazing together and possibly the best songwriting duo ever. They might be mentioned several times on this thread. If you choose John & Paul, be specific about which song and lyric(s).
The only problem with nominating these 2 is the songs were, with one exception (Voices of Old People), all written by Paul Simon alone.
I adore Carousel... such beautiful songs.
My Boy Bill
When You Walk Through a Storm
The Clambake Song
etc.
The LP was one of the first I owned.
Ditto.
Notice the generational differences?
I notice generational differences on all the music threads...:-)
David Lee Roth and Edward Van Halen
(Mike Anthony and Alex Van Halen also get publishing credit but Dave and Eddie actually wrote all the tunes)
You’re right. I do to. I just thought it funny this time.
Good call.
Waters-Gilmour-Mason-Wright
Can’t think of any duos I’m crazy about, outside the obvious Lennon-McCartney.
oops (post 105) I guess I should have read the whole thread before I posted.
Did you get to see the tour this year?
There is Gilbert and Sullivan. Not necessarily my favorite, but unmentioned as yet.
Flight of the Conchords?
I can’t think of any others that I like much right now...
The actually played a couple blocks from where I live about a month or so ago. I wish I would have went, but they had already canceled once and the tickets were not cheap. They sold out and got good reviews... I saw them on the Diver Down tour. We camped out in the venues parking lot all night and just barely got tickets for that one! I think we paid $9.50 or something.
Mutt Lange needs to be beaten like a yard dog. HOW IN THE WORLD could he throw her out like he did? There are guys that would give their right arm and several months pay to get close to Shania. WOW, what a dumb azz!
That’s too bad that you missed them. The tickets were definitely not cheap.
I saw them twice on this tour (Omaha and Kansas City) and seriously considered heading to Quebec City to see them on July 3rd. Repair costs for a flooded basement shot a hole in that one though. The tickets for the festival they are playing are only about $40 bucks. Sure would’ve been fun.
They are supposedly releasing a live DVD of the tour. They sounded great both times I saw them, Omaha especially. Very tight. Word was that Eddie’s playing was absoulutely smokin’ on the shows they played after the little “health crisis” break they took in March. Those were the shows that they filmed for the DVD.
I saw that Diver Down tour as well. I actually went to the Omaha show in February with most of the same guys that I attended that show with back in 1982(these last two were the 14th and 15th shows for me since ‘79)
We were both lucky enough to see the greatest live rock band in history in their prime.
After 'Dark Side', it was pretty much all Waters.
My favorite period is post-Syd, pre-Darkside.
You have seen Van Halen 15 times?! I think I may have been to 25-30 Rock Concerts in my whole life. I’m definitely going to get that DVD, no matter what the price.
Was Michael Anthony missed? Did Wolfgang do anything interesting on the bass or just keep in the background?
Simon and Garfarkle
Bjorn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson.
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