Posted on 02/26/2025 12:43:50 PM PST by Red Badger
Mylon Lefevre and Broken Heart experienced over 200K kids come to Christ.
Al Stewart, year of the cat. Both sides, the album too.
They left out The Who. They were a phenomenal rock band. Moon, Daltry, Townsend and Entwhistle.
Agreed; Abba was a pop group, not a rock band, and The Beach Boys were one of the great bands. As for Queen, I never could stand them. they were a forerunner and steppingstone to today’s LGBTQ+ and Trans madness. To me, Freddie mercury’s voice was like scratching your nails on a chalkboard.
Joe Walsh when young practiced the song “And Your Bird Can Sing” for weeks until he mastered it. Years later he met Ringo and told him that story, Ringo told him it was actually two guitars playing the riffs.
A lot of the players considered Campbell as the band’s leader if there was to be one. Kaye lead in to “These Boots Were Made For Walkin’” gave a lot of bass players something to think about. LOL.
That isn’t true at all. Lennon was the wealthiest of them. Starr was from the poorest family, with Harrison a little above that.
And Crosby, Stills & Nash concerts are “unplugged” shows with mostly voice harmonics … because Stephen Stills played every instrument track on their studio albums, and he can’t play them all simultaneously!
The best popular-music band ever? The Beatles, no ands, ifs, or buts. The author needs to define exactly what is meant by ROCK band. It’s a niche genre within the broader genre of popular music. The Beatles seldom ventured into the rock genre but were very good when they did.
Pink Floyd over the Who? That’s a joke.
AGREE! Get Queen off the list.
Without Steve Hackett, there is no EVH. That’s who he copied all his tapping from.
If Duane and Barry Oakley didn’t perish so young, they may have gone on to be the greatest of all time. They were still pretty good without them, but it wasn’t the same, and eventually the band fell apart, without Duane to keep them in line.
Of course I’m a Genesis fan and like Hackett, but EVH was much more than just tapping.
You know, like pre-“Only Women Bleed.”
Beach Boys musicianship was poor to average, at best, so they relied on The Wrecking Crew for their recordings.
Tony Asher’s lyrics for PetSounds is HUGELY underrated and made the difference in the critical acclaim.
TWC was a floating group of LA’s best-of-the-best but seem to be centered around drummer, Hal Blaine.
The bass players changed but Carol Kaye played on many TWC tracks.
Other session players included Glen Campbell, Dr John, and so many more.
I have mastering credits for technical assistance on a handful of iconic albums and was gifted a “dry” version of PetSounds...and hundreds of other tracks - dry and studio chatter that never made it to the commercial release.
Queen was nothing in the US in the 80s, after the disastrous Hot Space album, pretty much served as Freddie’s “coming out”.
The only decent album they did after that was their last one “Innuendo”.
And without the likes of Muddy Waters and Et al there would be no Hendrix.
For a jazz guitarist, playing rock guitar is really boring. It's like asking a piano player to pay chopsticks all day.
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