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[drvenner]

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People that waste everybody's time by doing fake crap like this need a ass beating

 

[Johnny Majors' Ghost]

Favorite singer/songwriters? Gordon Lightfoot for me.

 

[gainesvol82]

If there never were Beatles, Zeppelin would be the greatest band of all time, imhumbleo.

Still are. Zeppelin > Beatles and it's not even close.

 

[hjeagle1vol]

Screw Mick Jagger's skanky homo-erotic self. Most overrated frontman in history. The Stones were mostly garbage with a few great songs like Paint It Black, Can't Get No Satisfaction and Gimme Shelter. Just cause they had longevity doesn't make them all-time greats. Brian Jones death was the end of their great music. Robert Plant was the GOAT classic rock front man with Ronnie Van Zant close behind. I'd take David Gilmour over Jagger even though he split duties with Roger Waters.

Stones can’t wipe Gilmore azz in my book

 

[SugarCC]

I can't blame you. I understand many people love The Stones but they are very overrated to me despite Paint It Black being one of my all time favorite songs. I also love White Rabbit but don't really like much else Grace/Jefferson Airplane or Starship did. But her studio performance and Smothers Brothers performance of White Rabbit while tripping balls on LSD make up for every crappy song she ever made.

Now...I will say, most albums after Exile On Main St, I can take or leave; but, the three that came before it...damn, man, if you're not impressed with those, you a hard SOB to impress.

 

[gainesvol82]

I’m a huge Billy Giibons fan

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Biggest sound out of a 3 piece band possibly ever. My first concert I was 14/15 and saw Fogerty play all of CCR's hits at Worlds Fair Park in Knoxville. Had just started smoking and walking down the hill to the beginning of Born On The Bayou transported me to another place in time. Second concert was Blue Oyster Cult and Styx(with Tommy Shaw) and it was also great. Both had to be around 1997. I would have killed to see the great concerts of the 60's and 70's but I've gotten to see some great bands....I was born in the wrong generation.

 

[Devo182]

If there never were Beatles, Zeppelin would be the greatest band of all time, imhumbleo.

Would align with many a' consensus.

But Beatles are consensus+++ as it is. And it ain't close by any measure. But they deserve it.

 

[drvenner]

I was really too young to know/understand how or why but you can see a ton of it in old recordings. Even so, I don't know how Prog Rock band from the UK managed to capture the audience they did but it seems like there was nothing Freddie couldn't will into existence. He's the male Janis Joplin, imo. Just someone who poured his heart out so completely when he performed that you couldn't help but be moved.

I love me some Janis Joplin.

 

[bullet20]

@bullet20 wants to hit me with a TWSS and doesn't have the common courtesy to let me get the notification off of it. That's as bad as posters that steal a man's good GIFs. 👁👁

I really dont know what I did wrong to make that post that way but ill try to do better next time lol

 

[drvenner]

Screw Mick Jagger's skanky homo-erotic self. Most overrated frontman in history. The Stones were mostly garbage with a few great songs like Paint It Black, Can't Get No Satisfaction and Gimme Shelter. Just cause they had longevity doesn't make them all-time greats. Brian Jones death was the end of their great music. Robert Plant was the GOAT classic rock front man with Ronnie Van Zant close behind. I'd take David Gilmour over Jagger even though he split duties with Roger Waters.

You are dead to me.

 

[Vfl2407]

Just looked a little too large for a black tip…

TWSS… he had promised me just the tip…then he went balls to the wall… and please oh please I ain’t needing any more kids.

 

[Orange Studs]

A buddy of mine in high school used to argue that Clapton was a better guitarist than Jimmy Page. What a joke, IMO. Page created modern guitar orchestration by layering different guitars over each other. Both could play everything from blues, to folk to classic rock but Zeppelin 1-4 blow away anything Clapton ever did. I can only imagine being a teenager and hearing Zeppelin 1 come blasting across your speakers and being in awe. Sabbath's first album coming out around the same time.....mind blowing stuff for that Era.

Plus Duane Allman played most of the guitar on Clapton's biggest hit.

Allman Brothers are one of my favorite bands still today. I love that kind of blues alone with people like Joe Bonamassa, Gov Mule, and others. Duane Allman could flat out play a guitar.

 

[gainesvol82]

Favorite singer/songwriters? Gordon Lightfoot for me.

Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull and Robert Plant up until around 1975. Would have given up a testicle to see those bands in their prime along with Skynyrd and Floyd.

They began to suck later but Van Halen's debut album also amazing....along with Unchained later on.

 

[drvenner]

Again, not a Guitar legends convo. Edit wasnt supposed to be

WHILE here. Read an op ed of top 100 guitarists by Rolling Stone - written by some of top guitarists.

Hendrix will always be my fave, but, as far wholistically. There is no bad Zeppelin song. Hendrix was the goat.

Way that article wrote, "Listening to what Jimmy Page does on guitar can transport you. As a lead player, he always plays the right thing for the right spot – he's got such remarkable taste. The solo on "Heartbreaker" has such incredible immediacy; he's teetering on the edge of his technique, and it's still a showstopper. But you can't look at just his guitar playing on its own. You have to look at what he did with it in the studio and how he used it in the songs he wrote and produced. Jimmy built this incredible catalog of experience on the Yardbirds and doing session work, so when he did the first Led Zeppelin record, he knew exactly what kind of sounds he wanted to get.

He had this vision of how to transcend the stereotypes of what the guitar can do. If you follow the guitar on "The Song Remains the Same" all the way through, it evolves through so many different changes – louder, quieter, softer, louder again. He was writing the songs, playing them, producing them – I can't think of any other guitar player since Les Paul that can claim that. By Joe Perry"

Paraphrashing, he may not have been the greatest player ever but every note, every lick had greatest timing arriving perfectly.

Best guitarist I've ever heard live was Stevie Ray Vaughn at Alumni Gym. Epic show.

 

[UTProf]

Outside the realm of fronting a band, the solos...Elvis is the pinnacle; but, Otis and Prince are my favorites.

The ladies...Aretha, of course...Grace Slick and Debbie Harry. My favorite of the last 20 yrs or so, quite possibly my favorite all time, is Karen O of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs.

I think you're overrating Elvis even though he was obviously great. He was able to get away with on-air what others couldn't because he was white and also because he came up at the right time. But you're just not gonna top James Brown performance wise whether you like his style or not.

Now mind you, I feel Elvis is underrated in many ways despite being overrated in others. And if we're telling the truth and overlooking the man's flaws, it's hard to beat Michael Jackson (and Prince who might just be the most overlooked guitar player ever).

But just listen to Big Mama Thornton's Hound Dog:



Elvis (Hound Dog):


James Brown:



Elvis:



(Elvis even does the cape thingy that James Brown used to do tho not in this vid)

LeadBelly (sound reference):



Michael:

(also derivative of James Brown's movements but good lord his body control)



BB King + U2 (bc it's just where both shine best, imo)

 

[Devo182]

Favorite singer/songwriters? Gordon Lightfoot for me.

Nina Simone
Lou Reed
Bob Dylan
McCartney


But I'll go with Nina Simone. No, she didn't write ALL of her hits, but all the ones she wrote were gosh darn amazing. Still sad they fudged her biographical movie. She deserved one as good as Aretha Franklin's, but ended up with a garbage clump of cellulose.

 

[SugarCC]

Still are. Zeppelin > Beatles and it's not even close.

I'm not gonna argue with you, I'll leave that to all the badass rock n rollers who have said it over and over about The Beatles. They quite literally could play ANY TYPE of tune you could possibly want to listen to, and make it as if it were the very first time you were hearing those sounds...they were masters, no matter the genre. Zeppelin couldn't do that, as much as I love them. Dude, they're my second favorite that's ever been, ahead The Who, The Stones, The Clash, CCR, Cream...

 

[Orange Studs]

As far as front men of American bands to me its Steven Tyler and then everyone else.

Perry the lead man for Journey had an incredible voice.

 

[GrindHARD]

Favorite singer/songwriters? Gordon Lightfoot for me.

Ryan Bingham
Chris Knight

 

[Orange Studs]

Favorite singer/songwriters? Gordon Lightfoot for me.

Jim Croce

 

[drvenner]

Nina Simone
Lou Reed
Bob Dylan
McCartney


But I'll go with Nina Simone. No, she didn't write ALL of her hits, but all the ones she wrote were gosh darn amazing.

I love me some Lou Reed.

 

[TN-POSSUM]

I really dont know what I did wrong to make that post that way but ill try to do better next time lol

Keep practicing buddy..... you got this.

 

[Jackcrevol]

Best guitarist I've ever heard live was Stevie Ray Vaughn at Alumni Gym. Epic show.

one of my faves.

 

[SugarCC]

I think you're overrating Elvis even though he was obviously great. He was able to get away with on-air what others couldn't because he was white and also because he came up at the right time. But you're just not gonna top James Brown performance wise whether you like his style or not.

Now mind you, I feel Elvis is underrated in many ways despite being overrated in others. And if we're telling the truth and overlooking the man's flaws, it's hard to beat Michael Jackson (and Prince who might just be the most overlooked guitar player ever).

But just listen to Big Mama Thornton's Hound Dog:



Elvis (Hound Dog):


James Brown:



Elvis:



(Elvis even does the cape thingy that James Brown used to do tho not in this vid)

LeadBelly (sound reference):



Michael:

(also derivative of James Brown's movements but good lord his body control)



BB King + U2 (bc it's just where both shine best, imo)

Yeah, there is no overrating Elvis, in any way...white, black, brown, or blue; as I take NOTHING away from James Brown. James was no Otis, though, imo...not even close...nor was he Sam Cooke, Marvin Gaye, or Ray Charles; and, I LOVE James Brown.

 

[UTProf]

And Tina, Aretha, Dolly, etc. are all from TN:





TBH, we have too many to pick from. But I find Nutbush's lyrics still apply.