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  • #22181
    lee_UK
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    In no real order i think these 5 say it all..

    The Stones
    The Who
    The Beatles
    Led Zep
    Pink Floyd

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    • #72784
      lee_UK
      Participant

      Well said.

    • #72803
      Apologist
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      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 😉

    • #72787
      lee_UK
      Participant

      Spinal Taps 3rd album ‘Sniff the Glove’ has heavily influenced by Gene Simmon’s and secret suppository exlploits, middle finger i beleive. 😆

    • #72788
      glw
      Participant

      [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.

    • #72768
      Apologist
      Participant

      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? 😯

    • #72796
      silentseed
      Participant

      Grateful Dead Doods

    • #72771
      1bassleft
      Participant

      Arf, or should that be “.ars” 😆

    • #72778
      lee_UK
      Participant

      [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 😆

    • #72774
      1bassleft
      Participant

      http://www.lee.uk.harketbeatslennon.ars

      😛 Two can play that game (like tennis) 😆

      1BL

    • #72776
      lee_UK
      Participant

      [quote=”Michael”]Lee’s claim that it beats anything by Lennon.[/quote]

      😯 im flabergasted, did i realy say that? im speechless..

    • #72790
      1bassleft
      Participant

      No, I think he stepped over the boundary, seduced by Harket’s cheekbones 😛

    • #72773
      Michael
      Participant

      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.

    • #72779
      1bassleft
      Participant

      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.

    • #72802
      Michael
      Participant

      Name 3 A-Ha hits without googling. Of course Lee’s criteria for an A-Ha hit will be pretty lax.

    • #72781
      1bassleft
      Participant

      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”? 😛

    • #72800
      lee_UK
      Participant

      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. 😆

    • #72767
      Michael
      Participant

      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? 😀

    • #72775
      1bassleft
      Participant

      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 🙂

    • #72791
      lee_UK
      Participant

      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)

    • #72760
      1bassleft
      Participant

      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”

    • #72793
      Tim
      Participant

      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!

    • #72792
      1bassleft
      Participant

      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 🙂

    • #72770
      lee_UK
      Participant

      [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. 😆

    • #72599
      Tim
      Participant

      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…’

    • #72588
      1bassleft
      Participant

      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 ❓ 👿 🙂

    • #72602
      1bassleft
      Participant

      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?

    • #72590
      Michael
      Participant

      haha i think i’ll prefer to remember the first story. Just has more drama.

    • #72652
      lee_UK
      Participant

      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… 😯

    • #72622
      Tim
      Participant

      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 Pistols

      Bear 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.

    • #72593
      Michael
      Participant

      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.

    • #72592
      1bassleft
      Participant

      I hated to press the nuclear “Men At Work” button. Pretty low-down trick. Still, I did feel cornered…

    • #72601
      Michael
      Participant

      very.. good.. point 🙂

    • #72597
      1bassleft
      Participant

      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” 😛

    • #72598
      Michael
      Participant

      😆 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.

    • #72603
      1bassleft
      Participant

      Blimey, it’s times like these that you realize who your friends are(n’t) 🙂

    • #72632
      Michael
      Participant

      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.

    • #76017
      1bassleft
      Participant

      10 minutes have passed and no request. Best bury that story, then 😳

    • #72640
      lee_UK
      Participant

      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…

    • #72612
      1bassleft
      Participant

      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 🙂

    • #72614
      lee_UK
      Participant

      Rethread the thread? 😕 noboday has mentioned Captain Beefheart.

    • #72630
      1bassleft
      Participant

      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.

    • #72638
      1bassleft
      Participant

      😯 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.

    • #72608
      lee_UK
      Participant

      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.. 😆

    • #72591
      1bassleft
      Participant

      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”

    • #72606
      lee_UK
      Participant

      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.

    • #72658
      Tim
      Participant

      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…

    • #72610
      pedalboardguy
      Participant

      wrist band
      rubber band
      arm band
      band aid
      head band….sorry…i’m so silly

      1. the beatles
      2.bob marley
      3.black sabbath
      4.david bowie
      5.van Halen …….sounds reasonable to me

    • #75989
      six six six
      Member

      1. the beatles
      2.bob marley
      3.black sabbath
      4.david bowie
      5.van Halen

      the 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
      van halen introduced people to a new sound for rock that had never been done before with killer leads.

    • #72618
      Michael
      Participant

      Badfinger

    • #72626
      next_2_nothing
      Participant

      sabbath!

    • #72609
      glw
      Participant

      …but you can’t deny the Beatles’ importance.

    • #72587
      HigherPerspective
      Participant

      I think you did a preety good job. But, I don’t really enjoy the beatles. But, that’s my opinion.

    • #72594
      Michael
      Participant

      Who do you put in instead of the Beatles HP?

      An important addition I hadn’t thought of GL.

    • #72620
      HigherPerspective
      Participant

      I’d say good choice, but I’m not a huge fan of the beatles.

    • #72616
      glw
      Participant

      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).

    • #76047
      Farino
      Participant

      In no order:

      1. Bob Marley and the Wailers
      2. Fleetwood Mac
      3. Deep Purple
      4. CCR
      5. Simon and Garfunkel

    • #72654
      Michael
      Participant

      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 Tops

      and….

      The Doors

      …because 5 just aint enough 🙂

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