Posted on 06/24/2008 7:19:30 PM PDT by SilvieWaldorfMD
Ozzy and Tony Iommi. I was a Beatles guy until their “Master of Reality” album changed my perspective forever.
I know everyone loves that Swirling Hair GIF (Dave Mustaine?). Can’t find it lately - someone must have got proprietary wid it. Dave Mustaine?
Nick Lowe and Dave Edmunds.
Some great duos mentioned already. I’ll just add my girls, Ann and Nancy Wilson.
I guess I am a big fan. I’ve seen a few of the tours twice (81,84,88,04, and 07) so they kind of start to add up. And that stretches back to 1979, their first headlining tour. I just always managed to catch them whenever they were in my area (Lincoln and Omaha Nebraska and they would often play both cities) and then travelled to Ames Ia. and Kansas city for the ‘07 and ‘04 tours and for the Monsters of Rock festival in 1988.
I would definitely say that Micheal Anthony was missed. His showmanship was (and hopefully will be again) a big part of the live VH experience. And his background vocals are one of their signatures. I will most certainly give Wolfie credit though, the kid is a very talented musician. His bass playing was very flashy, with lots of intricate fills that Mike just didn’t do. The apple didn’t fall far from the tree, if you get my drift. His showmanship was definitely lacking, though. You could tell he was still a 16 yr old kid up there with the 3 world champions of their craft.
As for the rest of the band, they were still mind blowing. A bit older but they still absoulutely smoked. If they come out again, which I think they will, be sure and get there, you wont be disappointed. Fingers crossed that they will have a new record to support down the road.
I’m way late (sorry) but my favorites besides Lennon/McCartney are:
Brian Wilson/Tony Asher, for writing “Pet Sounds”
Bernie Taupin/Elton John, for Elton John’s classic tunes
Chris Difford/Glenn Tilbrook, for the Squeeze catalog (”Tempted,” “Hourglass,” etc.)
Andy Sturmer/Roger Manning from Jellyfish
Danny Wilde/Phil Solem from the Rembrandts
Rich Mullins/Beaker — not that Rich didn’t write a number of great songs alone and with a few others, but he wrote a lot of really good ones with Beaker (”Creed,” “Sometimes By Step,” etc.)
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