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Re: Which One Band or Musician
2016/02/29 22:07:36
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bapu
Leadfoot
Randy Rhoads
Do I have to to tell the whole story again?
(I have only two degrees of separation to RR)
And Beagle doesn't have any degrees of separation between himself and Kevin's Bacon! 
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Re: Which One Band or Musician
2016/02/29 22:10:54
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☄ Helpfulby Jesse Screed 2016/03/01 07:19:48
Would you like another martini Jesse, ol pal? I'll be glad to start another batch.
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Re: Which One Band or Musician
2016/02/29 22:13:02
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Wow! I've never seen someone make martini's in a bucket before! 
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Re: Which One Band or Musician
2016/02/29 22:28:55
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Hi,
Musician -- Peter Hammill and his band Van Der Graaf Generator
Band -- Amon Duul 2 as no band has a more impressive catalog, from Plallus Dei, to Yeti, to Carnical in Babylon, to Wolf City (one of the best albums ever for me!), to Vive La Trance.
Band2 -- Djam Karet as one of the most impressive American band, with unbelievable material all along, and 25 years later they can still do "The Trip", and blow you away for some 40+ minutes, and no drums for the first third of the piece. It takes some kind of patience, care, and beauty to do that.
Musician2 -- Frank Zappa, even though many may not enjoy or appreciate his work, because of this or that, by the time you hear "200 Motels - The Suites", you realize that you have something here that is above and beyond any ones abilities. If you have not heard it, or want a snip of a comment on it, read the bit on Face to Face with Rick Wakeman with Jethron Tull's big man.
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craigb
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Re: Which One Band or Musician
2016/02/29 22:37:02
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I love Djam Karet's the Trip! I also liked that it first came out as one 40+ minute song which I bought for $0.99 on Amazon - LOL.
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Re: Which One Band or Musician
2016/02/29 22:49:14
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Hi,
Craig .. you gotta get "200 Motels -- The Suites" ... and that ending is something else ... and you can sit here ... and then realize that yeah ... Frank was some composer and this is what he probably envisioned, but couldn't do with a rock band and orchestra at the time, and make a movie at the same time.
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Re: Which One Band or Musician
2016/03/01 00:58:11
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I'm gonna go check out "Snowflakes are Dancing" - never heard of it.
Growing up, it was Abbey Road and Switched-On Bach.
Late teens, Rush and Talking Heads.
20's, Dire Straits and Level 42.
30's, I realized nothing on the radio was ever going to come close to the awesomeness of the seminal bands I already knew. I make my own music now, it fills my island. I feel limited, but content.
Of these, my guilty pleasure and favorite is Level 42.
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Re: Which One Band or Musician
2016/03/01 08:49:45
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"Band: The BEATLES: my age and their popularity
Artist: Neil Young: my rebellious years and similarity of our voices and playing style. I covered a lot of his music from Harvest and CNSY era."
Ditto.
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Re: Which One Band or Musician
2016/03/01 09:40:01
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emeraldsoul
I'm gonna go check out "Snowflakes are Dancing" - never heard of it.
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Tomita's album is magnificent ... and it even got the RED SEAL treatment, which was high quality recording at the time ... only a few LP's ever got that ... and they are all special. One other one you want is the original Celtic Harp one by Alan Stivell ... Renaissance of the Celtic Harp ... and make sure you notice when it was done!
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Re: Which One Band or Musician
2016/03/01 10:14:39
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yorolpal
Many bands have had tremendous impact on popular music. But I would still posit it's still the individual artists that over the long haul have the most influence. I love the Beatles. But did they really single handedly (without the aid of many other British Invasion bands) precipitate more change to the course of pop music? Or did Bob Dylan? Was it the Modern Jazz Quartet...or Miles Davis...or Thelonius Monk...or Sun Ra? From Mozart to Little Richard...it still takes one bat **** crazy mofo to keep turning the dial ever closer to eleven. Always has...always will.
PS...just read a few more entries and am always glad when Bit and I agree on something. I was gaga over Snowflakes Are Dancing when it first came out and still love it near to death. I've still got my original T-Shirt which, of course, doesn't even fit one of my arms now...let alone my torso. Amazing work. (And, an individual to boot:-)
Agree Ol'Pal, many that came before influenced The Bealtes. Dylan changed them. Man I spun those records until they wouldn't play no more. Then went out and bought them again.
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Re: Which One Band or Musician
2016/03/01 12:51:45
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Moshkito
emeraldsoul
I'm gonna go check out "Snowflakes are Dancing" - never heard of it.
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Tomita's album is magnificent ... and it even got the RED SEAL treatment, which was high quality recording at the time ... only a few LP's ever got that ... and they are all special. One other one you want is the original Celtic Harp one by Alan Stivell ... Renaissance of the Celtic Harp ... and make sure you notice when it was done!
I like both of those!
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Re: Which One Band or Musician
2016/03/01 13:12:08
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Sorry, but :
Band 1 : Leningrad Cowboys (the worlds best cover band)
Band 2 : CCR
Musician : Keith Richards (He's got the silver ........)
Musicien 2 : Jan Akkerman (guitarists guitarist ! )
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Re: Which One Band or Musician
2016/03/01 13:27:13
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Musicien 2 : Jan Akkerman (guitarists guitarist ! )
That guy seemed so Focused! 
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Re: Which One Band or Musician
2016/03/01 13:39:03
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Re: Which One Band or Musician
2016/03/01 20:13:39
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Depeche Mode, hands down. But the story is actually stranger than that. I started out on guitar, and played that up until recently. I did have periods where I dabbled in other instruments though. So I basically listened to synth pop but played metal guitar.
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Re: Which One Band or Musician
2016/03/01 22:49:18
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Depeche Mode is/was awesome. It's too bad the lead singer got hooked on Heroin. But then again who hasn't lately. At least he survived. :D They were one of the few openly gay bands who were able to fill a coliseum. The perceptions of the hoi polloi were that we were either too nelly (a la liberace) or hustlers of some kind. They made it cool to be gay, same with Freddie Mercury.
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Re: Which One Band or Musician
2016/03/02 01:08:08
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☄ Helpfulby Shambler 2016/03/02 04:31:55
eph221
Depeche Mode is/was awesome. It's too bad the lead singer got hooked on Heroin. But then again who hasn't lately. At least he survived. :D They were one of the few openly gay bands who were able to fill a coliseum. The perceptions of the hoi polloi were that we were either too nelly (a la liberace) or hustlers of some kind. They made it cool to be gay, same with Freddie Mercury.
Rob Halford, Udo Dirkschneider, Boy George, George Michael, Elton John, Erasure, Pet Shop Boys, Bronski Beat, etc., etc. I couldn't care less about their personal lives/preferences, if I like the music I like the music.
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Re: Which One Band or Musician
2016/03/02 02:52:27
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craigb
eph221
Depeche Mode is/was awesome. It's too bad the lead singer got hooked on Heroin. But then again who hasn't lately. At least he survived. :D They were one of the few openly gay bands who were able to fill a coliseum. The perceptions of the hoi polloi were that we were either too nelly (a la liberace) or hustlers of some kind. They made it cool to be gay, same with Freddie Mercury.
Rob Halford, Udo Dirkschneider, Boy George, George Michael, Elton John, Erasure, Pet Shop Boys, Bronski Beat, etc., etc.
I couldn't care less about their personal lives/preferences, if I like the music I like the music.
Quite. Also, Dave Gahan, Vince Clarke and Andy Fletcher of Depeche Mode are all heterosexual.
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Re: Which One Band or Musician
2016/03/02 04:08:36
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Queen
Everything about the way they made and performed music was an art. They looked at music as a business and they treated it as such. I think that's one reason they were so creative; they didn't want to be like anyone else. They put actual effort into what they were doing and made a solid product. It's incredible listening to the multis of some of their old songs and how much they were doing with instrumentation and layering. It wasn't just a band playing music; it was a group of guys going into the office and creating something that would blow peoples minds, then they would take it to stage. They didn't just do a concert, they put on a show.
Everything about that band was perfection and that is what I strive to achieve in my own work.
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Re: Which One Band or Musician
2016/03/02 04:20:46
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I would have to add Kate Bush, Annie Lennox/Eurythmics,Sting,Jarre,Eno and all in craigb's list.
Great sounds,melodies and lyrics even if it was all 'pop'.
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Re: Which One Band or Musician
2016/03/24 01:15:25
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Well, the FIRST one was Donovan with Mellow Yellow. I was 16 and had just traded a 6 pack of Bud for my brother-in-law's acoustic guitar. I didn't even know how to tune it, but this song hit the airwaves and I was determined to play it. I learned:
1.) You CANNOT tune a $5 guitar, and
2.) There were these things called "chords".
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Re: Which One Band or Musician
2016/03/24 02:36:42
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1.) You CANNOT tune a $5 guitar, and
No kidding! Whenever I get asked about buying a guitar from parents of a would-be new player I always tell them not to just get the cheapest guitar they see because it will be soooo unplayable that it may completely drain the interest from their kid. You don't need a custom PRS right out of the starting gate, but something that has a decent neck and will stay in tune so the kid can learn (and get hooked).
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Re: Which One Band or Musician
2016/03/24 20:56:24
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Band: The BEATLES
Person: Pete Townshend
any others but... only one. Rules are rules!
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Re: Which One Band or Musician
2016/03/24 21:01:28
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craigb
eph221
Depeche Mode is/was awesome. It's too bad the lead singer got hooked on Heroin. But then again who hasn't lately. At least he survived. :D They were one of the few openly gay bands who were able to fill a coliseum. The perceptions of the hoi polloi were that we were either too nelly (a la liberace) or hustlers of some kind. They made it cool to be gay, same with Freddie Mercury.
Rob Halford, Udo Dirkschneider, Boy George, George Michael, Elton John, Erasure, Pet Shop Boys, Bronski Beat, etc., etc.
I couldn't care less about their personal lives/preferences, if I like the music I like the music.
Quite. Also, Dave Gahan, Vince Clarke and Andy Fletcher of Depeche Mode are all heterosexual.
Oh give me a break.
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Re: Which One Band or Musician
2016/03/25 09:53:28
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☼ Best Answerby Mesh 2016/03/25 10:32:20
Well dang. I answered twice. Different days different moods I guess. Second answer is more about the beginning for sure. Poor memory is a blessing sometimes. You can do the same thing for the first time more than once!
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Re: Which One Band or Musician
2016/03/25 13:37:47
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No doubt in my answer:
Pink Floyd
Wish You Were Here
David Gilmour
That band, that album, that guy. I can listen to it any time of day or night. And a hats' off to FM radio of yester-year, where you could sit back and listen to a full album side without commentary or commercials. I can't underscore just how important FM radio was to opening up my musical horizons.
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Re: Which One Band or Musician
2016/03/25 21:03:16
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Yes - Fragile. Got the album for my 12th birthday. Up till then I was mainly listening to Zeppelin and Sabbath, with sides of Deep Purple and Grand Funk and other (now) "classic" rock. But when I heard Fragile for the first time I knew I was hearing something "different" from anything else I was listening to, from composition to performance to production. I had no way to understand it at the time, but there was no mistaking it. That album started an obsession with prog that lasted for decades.... ELP, Kansas, Genesis, UK, etc., and that lead to jazz/fusion like Return to Forever, Alan Holdsworth, Billy Cobham, etc., through more recent (relatively speaking) bands like Dream Theatre, Queensryche, Tribal Tech, and others. I did eventually expand my tastes over the years to include blues, country, electronica, etc., but never lost that love for prog and classic rock. Some things are just in the blood... I don't think I can single out one musician, but I'll take a stab at two - Steve Howe and Keith Emerson. BTW... I still have Snowflakes Are Dancing on vinyl. 
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Re: Which One Band or Musician
2016/03/25 21:34:15
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Yes - Fragile. Got the album for my 12th birthday. Up till then I was mainly listening to Zeppelin and Sabbath, with sides of Deep Purple and Grand Funk and other (now) "classic" rock. But when I heard Fragile for the first time I knew I was hearing something "different" from anything else I was listening to, from composition to performance to production. I had no way to understand it at the time, but there was no mistaking it. That album started an obsession with prog that lasted for decades.... ELP, Kansas, Genesis, UK, etc., and that lead to jazz/fusion like Return to Forever, Alan Holdsworth, Billy Cobham, etc., through more recent (relatively speaking) bands like Dream Theatre, Queensryche, Tribal Tech, and others. I did eventually expand my tastes over the years to include blues, country, electronica, etc., but never lost that love for prog and classic rock. Some things are just in the blood...
I don't think I can single out one musician, but I'll take a stab at two - Steve Howe and Keith Emerson.
BTW... I still have Snowflakes Are Dancing on vinyl.
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Re: Which One Band or Musician
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In the early years, I was consumed by what I didn't hear in the music. I would listen to a song and think about how I would have played it differently. It wasn't that I thought the original drummer was lame, it was just that I had a different sense for how it could be played. When listening to many popular rock songs, I felt that my approach would have sounded better, driven harder, or been more interesting. In the late '70's, though, I heard Rush. I don't remember what song it was, but I knew I was hearing someone who was pushing his limits. I heard him play things I wouldn't have considered.
Since then, I learned more about the artistry involved and how to craft a part to enhance a song rather than to show off chops. I discovered the value of creating the right feel and building the groove for the song and that led me to funk.
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Re: Which One Band or Musician
2016/03/28 13:46:23
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Now there's something you don't hear very often......Rush and funk together. (I'd love to hear them do some funk though....). 
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