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August 5, 2005 at 12:07 am #22181lee_UKParticipant
In no real order i think these 5 say it all..
The Stones
The Who
The Beatles
Led Zep
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October 1, 2005 at 1:32 am #72784lee_UKParticipant
Well said.
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September 30, 2005 at 11:11 am #72803ApologistParticipant
Kiss? Perhaps not so much musically as theater … and glitz .. Motley Crue and Posion come to mind .. however I would remind you that not only do I not care for Kiss but also I care even less for their spawn.
Though God help me I do kinda like The Darkness .. weird I know but I just cant seem to help it 😉
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September 29, 2005 at 11:13 pm #72787lee_UKParticipant
Spinal Taps 3rd album ‘Sniff the Glove’ has heavily influenced by Gene Simmon’s and secret suppository exlploits, middle finger i beleive. 😆
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September 29, 2005 at 6:43 pm #72788glwParticipant
[quote=”Apologist”]Well to the list in regards to influencing music for later generations etc.. I would add all the Bands Clapton played in since sooo many bands mentioned listed here have guitarists that place him as an influence but I would also add Alice Cooper and The Ramones .. and Kiss though I cant stand Kiss I cant deny their influence on culture and their influence on the music scene and Lord have mercy how could we not mention Rush? :shock:[/quote]
Was anyone ever influenced by Kiss?
No-one that I can think of.
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September 29, 2005 at 11:02 am #72768ApologistParticipant
Well to the list in regards to influencing music for later generations etc.. I would add all the Bands Clapton played in since sooo many bands mentioned listed here have guitarists that place him as an influence but I would also add Alice Cooper and The Ramones .. and Kiss though I cant stand Kiss I cant deny their influence on culture and their influence on the music scene and Lord have mercy how could we not mention Rush? 😯
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September 29, 2005 at 10:16 am #72796silentseedParticipant
Grateful Dead Doods
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September 24, 2005 at 6:57 am #727711bassleftParticipant
Arf, or should that be “.ars” 😆
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September 23, 2005 at 7:25 am #72778lee_UKParticipant
[quote=”1bassleft”]http://www.lee.uk.harketbeatslennon.ars
😛 Two can play that game (like tennis) 😆
1BL[/quote]
the sad thing is i nearly clicked on that 😆
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September 22, 2005 at 6:11 am #727741bassleftParticipant
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September 22, 2005 at 4:28 am #72776lee_UKParticipant
[quote=”Michael”]Lee’s claim that it beats anything by Lennon.[/quote]
😯 im flabergasted, did i realy say that? im speechless..
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September 20, 2005 at 8:03 am #727901bassleftParticipant
No, I think he stepped over the boundary, seduced by Harket’s cheekbones 😛
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September 20, 2005 at 7:57 am #72773MichaelParticipant
Take On Me was all I could come up with. Great song but I don’t think i could entirely agree with Lee’s claim that it beats anything by Lennon.
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September 20, 2005 at 7:54 am #727791bassleftParticipant
I can do that, funnely nuff. “Take On Me”, “The Living Daylights”, “The Sun Always Shites on TV”, “The Blood Moves the Body”. I’ve spent 20 years trying to erase the catchy, bubbly nonsense out of my head.
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September 20, 2005 at 7:50 am #72802MichaelParticipant
Name 3 A-Ha hits without googling. Of course Lee’s criteria for an A-Ha hit will be pretty lax.
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September 20, 2005 at 7:45 am #727811bassleftParticipant
I did consider Ash, but they’re not in my “formative years”. Lee, you’re an old chum etc, but you’re asking a lot of apologies out of me. First, a full apology wanted because I didn’t think A-Ha were as good as you say they were, now an apology for not thinking Hawkwind are the worst band in the world 😯
New thread; what deserves a guitarsite reworking? A-Ha’s “Take on Lee” or Hawkwind’s “Adjust Lee”? 😛
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September 20, 2005 at 7:26 am #72800lee_UKParticipant
what about ‘Ash’ mike? ‘Ash is’ got be be up there, and i really think Bass has made a complete mockery of this thread by suggesting the worst band in the world, ‘Hawkwind’ . Im still waiting for a retraction and appology. 😆
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September 16, 2005 at 8:57 am #72767MichaelParticipant
I’d love to see the record collection at 1bs house.
Were you that couple on Changing Rooms with the Boy George poster above their bed? 😀
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September 16, 2005 at 8:51 am #727751bassleftParticipant
Discussed it with Mrs Bass and now under orders to post new Top 5:
1: Interpol
2: The Bravery
3: Duran Duran
4 + 5: Who cares?She’s very 80s revivist/revisionist but she’s willing to put in JHE if you want to keep it on-topic. Mrs Bass would’ve typed “Hawkwind” but she elected to stick red-hot pokers in her eyeballs instead 🙂
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September 15, 2005 at 11:05 pm #72791lee_UKParticipant
Bass remind me, did you omit Hawkwind from your list? can you rack em up again? your new revised top 5 of 60’s/70’s , and this time have a good think about it, discuss with Mrs Bass and then post it up again.. 8)
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September 12, 2005 at 5:40 am #727601bassleftParticipant
Wandering slightly off-topic is allowed here (or, at least, I do it 🙂 ). Good slot, on the bill with Marillion – beats Tuesday night at the “Lice and Armpit”. Even more kudos for packing up before the headliners play.
The Pistols’ influence is huge. It was no coincidence that Kurt + Co monikered their 2nd album “Nevermind”
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September 12, 2005 at 2:31 am #72793TimParticipant
To be honest I listen to the pistols once in a…well month probably, which isn’t a lot for me. but they influenced people like Duff McKagen who, and I’ll probably get flamed for this, knows when to play and when not to play he inputs as much as the song requires, much as Redding did, bearing in mind the fact Noel Redding was the only thing between Jimi and the drums I think Duff discovered the place for Bass when we have 2 Guitars a piano and any other **** Axl threw at him.
Once again I’m off the Thread and posting to ‘bass’, sorry, I’ll try and be good from now on.
Tim.
p.s. My biggest ever gig was 4th on the bill to Marillion…but we didn’t actually hang around for their set, which I think excuses us slightly!
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September 10, 2005 at 2:55 am #727921bassleftParticipant
Perfectly legit to put the Pistols in. At the time, I thought they stunk but I could see later that someone had to pull rock music back out of its sphinctre. They did that. We’d otherwise all be playing “Pendragon’s Rondo at the Gates of Singularity” now.
As made-up prog titles go, that’s a good one. Must remember it if Marillion make a comeback 🙂
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September 9, 2005 at 7:05 am #72770lee_UKParticipant
[quote=”1bassleft”]Oh bummer. 8) While I’m cigging and composing my thoughts, the “tennis” thing comes up. Great timing 🙂
EDIT: And I’ve now properly read it, Lee. Fer gawd’s; you could’ve just linked to the original bass-post (you are a mod – you have the power 🙂 ). What’s this guff about a tournament?
The boring truth. I’m playing with “intermediate 1” at the tennis centre. One person over, so I got paired off with some 10 yo for singles (I hate singles, being a fattish smoking 30-something). I got beaten to death by some “top 5 in the country” (admittedly, Britain) kid who has never sweated in his life. Happy now ❓ 👿 :)[/quote]
I know i can search for the original post but i thought i’d tip the whole spice rack in to the stew, just to ‘Herb’ it up a little, however its told its still a classic. 😆
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September 9, 2005 at 3:57 am #72599TimParticipant
He was quite ‘riffy’ but this was a band which, for the most part, had no rythyhm guitar input at all, filling the gap between Mitch and Jimi can’t have been easy, even for a demoted lead player!
Billy Cox was sound in the Band of Gipsies but by then you had Bongos, other guitars, and Jimi knows what else to work around, which I always feel detracted from the actual talent on display by the core players.Pet subject in case you hadn’t guessed!
Tim.
EDIT: you said ‘good choices’ as opposed to ‘Sex Pistols, what the…’
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September 8, 2005 at 7:38 am #725881bassleftParticipant
Oh bummer. 8) While I’m cigging and composing my thoughts, the “tennis” thing comes up. Great timing 🙂
EDIT: And I’ve now properly read it, Lee. Fer gawd’s; you could’ve just linked to the original bass-post (you are a mod – you have the power 🙂 ). What’s this guff about a tournament?
The boring truth. I’m playing with “intermediate 1” at the tennis centre. One person over, so I got paired off with some 10 yo for singles (I hate singles, being a fattish smoking 30-something). I got beaten to death by some “top 5 in the country” (admittedly, Britain) kid who has never sweated in his life. Happy now ❓ 👿 🙂
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September 8, 2005 at 7:37 am #726021bassleftParticipant
Good choices, good op about the JHE rhythm section. I’d only disagree in that Redding, as a ‘demoted’ lead player (most would be, in the same band as Jimi) was actually quite ‘riffy’ by the standards of most late 60s bass players. It worked, of course; perhaps because Noel had a better understanding of where Jimi was going than yer average rooter.
As with Entwhistle/Townshend, there’s a nice interplay of bass and lead exchanging melodic parts. Later on, it sometimes got overblown with other bands. There were plenty of times when I thought Howe, Squire, Wakeman and Bruford were (as the phrase goes) “up their own buttocks”. Everybody hammering away in technical brilliance; but the song fell out of the rear hatch 200 miles back. Entwhistle and Redding could do great things, but maintained that drums-to-lead link.
Mustard mitt (before someone tells me) I’m talking about recordings rather than live. I wasn’t at Isle of Wight ’70 because my laces had come undone and Mum had got fed up of tying them for me. Yikes! Our Tim was eyeing up nipples for lunch at the same time I was eyeing up a Ricky copy in Woolworths. I feel very old – any pensioners looking in to cheer me up with a post?
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September 8, 2005 at 6:36 am #72590MichaelParticipant
haha i think i’ll prefer to remember the first story. Just has more drama.
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September 8, 2005 at 6:34 am #72652lee_UKParticipant
OK Mike, i’ll Lay the story down once more for the new comers, this is straight from the Basses mouth, Ok, Bass is a real hotshot tennis player, and many people in his exclusive South of france St.Tropez Tennis Club have always looked up to him for guidance, tennis tips, and of course Tennis workouts, so every year theres a Amatuer Status St.Tropez open whic Bass always plays in and usualy makes the final, so last year he enters and draws a 10yr old in the first round, and in front of a 2,000 strong crowd he gets a straight 3 set whooping, he didnt even win a point, and only managed to get his racquet to the boys serve once but didnt manage to return it. Since that game he had to sell up in St.tropez and Move back to the UK, the shame was too much, i think thats how the story goes… 😆 is that right Bass? nooo the truth is he played a small tournemant in his home town a drew the local 10yr old prodigy, he did lose but it was a close thing, i think… 😯
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September 8, 2005 at 5:32 am #72622TimParticipant
I was born in ’81 but I’m really struggling to cut my 60’s/70’s influences down to a top 5, I think I’ve decided on the following:
Jimi Hendrix Experience
Bob Marley and the Wailers
Black Sabbath
David Bowie
Sex PistolsBear in mind I’m a bassist, when I say ‘the experience ‘, and much as I love Jimi Hendrix as a guitarist, its the way the rhythm section held together and provided the structure for Jimi to improvise over, the plain simple rhythm of Noel Redding’s bass which allowed Jimi to fly off the groove but always find it again in time for the vocal was perfection to my ears.
Tim.
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September 6, 2005 at 7:19 am #72593MichaelParticipant
haha i had to the sing the line a few times to myself at first until I realized what I was singing – but it was too late by that point.
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September 6, 2005 at 7:14 am #725921bassleftParticipant
I hated to press the nuclear “Men At Work” button. Pretty low-down trick. Still, I did feel cornered…
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September 6, 2005 at 7:12 am #72601MichaelParticipant
very.. good.. point 🙂
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September 6, 2005 at 7:10 am #725971bassleftParticipant
Ok, but how come my neck’s got sunburn just for mentioning Hawkwind ❓ Mike, you glided in with “Four Tops” and “Temptations” and escaped like Teflon-Man 😯 . Matching sequined suits are the big thing?
“You just smiled, and gave me a vegemite sandwich” 😛
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September 6, 2005 at 7:04 am #72598MichaelParticipant
😆 its a requirement that friends always bring up past embarrasing moments.. you know in front of girlfriends, fellow workers, or in this case forum members.
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September 6, 2005 at 7:02 am #726031bassleftParticipant
Blimey, it’s times like these that you realize who your friends are(n’t) 🙂
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September 6, 2005 at 6:52 am #72632MichaelParticipant
For old times sake Lee best repost it so all the new folk see. Just to be safe. It might at the very least add some form of reasoning behind his choices in this thread.
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September 6, 2005 at 6:49 am #760171bassleftParticipant
10 minutes have passed and no request. Best bury that story, then 😳
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September 6, 2005 at 6:38 am #72640lee_UKParticipant
The 10yr old Tennis ace is a true classic tale, of course if anyone wants a recap then im sure Bass wont mind me retelling it…
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September 4, 2005 at 7:01 am #726121bassleftParticipant
Sorry Lee, never meant to hijack the thread. I just went for what was important to me. In all honesty, the Stones weren’t; even though they undeniably wrote some great songs.
Besides, look at all of this personal history I’m laying in your “hostage to fortune” bag. Instead of going on about my ownership of an old Hondo II, and being beaten at tennis by 10y.o.s, you’ve got some new material to work on 🙂
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September 4, 2005 at 6:33 am #72614lee_UKParticipant
Rethread the thread? 😕 noboday has mentioned Captain Beefheart.
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September 3, 2005 at 8:03 am #726301bassleftParticipant
PS, Lemmy didn’t “see the light”. He saw the customs officer thwacking a latex glove over his right hand and beckoning him to lean over. This was just as Hawkwind were flying out for a US tour. Utterly disreputably, they left him to it and hired a dep for the tour (I think Dave Brock and Nik Turner were p’d off that their biggest hit, Silver Machine, featured the vocal talents of Mr Kilmister).
Incidentally, Lemmy Kilmister, “Fast” Eddie Clarke and “Philthy Animal” Taylor were, collectively, close to being in my personal 5.
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September 3, 2005 at 7:55 am #726381bassleftParticipant
😯 What was I thinking ❓ I made a monumental, catastrophic error – I forgot to list King Crimson ❗ Looks like I’ll have to drop The Beatles 🙂
Enough emoticons. The key phrase was [quote]Purely from a personal “meant something to me” basis [/quote]
Excuse my just-turned-40 nostalgia, but I was thinking back to when I was 13-20. The 1st album I bought (atchly, my elder brother stole my pocket money and purchased – but I liked it, so it’s ‘mine’, right?) was Hawkwind’s “Warrior on the Edge of Time”. My first gig-attendance was 1978’s “Hawklords” (change of name caused by legal tosspotting) and I swear that the gig-pic of “Live ’79” was taken at Keele University and that’s my back-of-head in the front row.
My second album (my money, my purchase) was “Dark Side of the Moon”. I then spunked cash on late Moody Blues, leading me to Pat Moraz and thence Yes. Then I fell for a TV ad for the ‘bestof’ album “Deepest Purple” and realized even dubious-smelling people whose jeans had more soggy beer-towels than actual denim content knew a good band when they saw one. Then I heard “Court of the Crimson King” and my choice of girlfriend was limited to those who recognized Fripp’s greatness. TBF, you could just say that my choice of girlfriend was limited.
When a smart, professional woman told me she liked Crimson too, she had to become the future Mrs Bass. HST, once I saw she only had the Polydor re-issue, I did refuse to ‘give her one’ 😆 . However great they may be, you can’t squeeze Beatles and Stones into that personal radar.
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September 2, 2005 at 12:31 am #72608lee_UKParticipant
Hawkwind???? i think you have lost it 1bl, come on, Hawkwind!!!! please amend your listing, but im glad to see Land in there, well if we were 60’s or 70’s we would have been.. HAWKWIND?????? urghhh even Lemmy saw thw the light.. think about it, how can you put that talentless lot above the Stones? Please come back with a defence, Stones Vs Hawkind.. 😆
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September 1, 2005 at 9:39 am #725911bassleftParticipant
for pure name-dropping, I’d have to put “Land” in my top 5 😆
If it’s 60s/70s – I don’t think EVH’s best stuff is in the 70s. TBH, I don’t think his best stuff makes a top 5 anyway. Purely from a personal “meant something to me” basis and in no order of merit:
Pink Floyd
Yes
Deep Purple
Beatles
Hawkwind (!!)At the risk of name-dropping, after I’d nattered to Hugh Lloyd-Langton, I wandered over to see Hawkwind’s support act. Simple Minds, they were called. They got mercilessly barracked, but I quite liked them. Jim Kerr and Co were quite obviously, desperately, wanting to be Tubeway Army. Years later, they achieved chart success by quite obviously, desperately, wanting to be U2.
“This is my glans; take it in both hands”
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September 1, 2005 at 7:07 am #72606lee_UKParticipant
I met the late great Noel Redding once, shook his hand had a quick chat and got his autograph, what a gent he was, he played a great set too.
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August 31, 2005 at 3:35 am #72658TimParticipant
I’m a newbie and haven’t introduced myself, sorry, I’m Tim, but this thread seemed to be mising a certain Mitch Mitchell, Noel Redding etc…
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August 18, 2005 at 11:38 pm #72610pedalboardguyParticipant
wrist band
rubber band
arm band
band aid
head band….sorry…i’m so silly1. the beatles
2.bob marley
3.black sabbath
4.david bowie
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August 18, 2005 at 10:19 pm #75989six six sixMember
1. the beatles
2.bob marley
3.black sabbath
4.david bowie
5.van Halenthe beatles started it ,
bob marley brought regae to north america and made it popular,
black sabbath are the fathers of metal,
david bowie was the start of glam rock
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August 10, 2005 at 6:31 pm #72618MichaelParticipant
Badfinger
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August 10, 2005 at 6:07 pm #72626next_2_nothingParticipant
sabbath!
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August 10, 2005 at 4:12 pm #72609glwParticipant
…but you can’t deny the Beatles’ importance.
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August 10, 2005 at 12:39 pm #72587HigherPerspectiveParticipant
I think you did a preety good job. But, I don’t really enjoy the beatles. But, that’s my opinion.
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August 10, 2005 at 6:03 am #72594MichaelParticipant
Who do you put in instead of the Beatles HP?
An important addition I hadn’t thought of GL.
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August 9, 2005 at 11:21 pm #72620HigherPerspectiveParticipant
I’d say good choice, but I’m not a huge fan of the beatles.
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August 5, 2005 at 4:24 pm #72616glwParticipant
Not really guitar-related, but you’ve gotta have Kraftwerk!
(There’s a really lovely guitar solo on the 1974 version of Autobahn – the last time they used a guitar).
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August 5, 2005 at 9:23 am #76047FarinoParticipant
In no order:
1. Bob Marley and the Wailers
2. Fleetwood Mac
3. Deep Purple
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August 5, 2005 at 7:23 am #72654MichaelParticipant
Hrrrm.. you’ve taken the obvious but I have to agree on all Lee 😀
I’ll throw a few different ones into the mix…
Supertramp
The Temptations
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Four Seasons
Four Topsand….
The Doors
…because 5 just aint enough 🙂
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