Has anyone heard any of Cornell's new stuff? Produced by Timbaland.. so you know it's all R&B now..
Agreed. Cornell is an overrated singer with annoying voice. And those Audioslave guitar solos? Meh. But dont get me started about Timbaland's drum machine
Agreed. Cornell is an overrated singer with annoying voice. And those Audioslave guitar solos? Meh. But dont get me started about Timbaland's drum machine
I certainly am not a huge fan of Audioslave, but that bolded statement is shocking! I much prefer Cornell's Soundgarden stuff, pure brilliance.
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I certainly am not a huge fan of Audioslave, but that bolded statement is shocking! I much prefer Cornell's Soundgarden stuff, pure brilliance.
I don't know Dis, look at Like a Stone, for example. The music is OK (not great, but I could listen to it) but his voice just ruins it for me. James LaBrie is great, Josh Homme is great, James Hetfield is great, but Cornell? I don't this so...
I may be away for a few days midweek, I guess torture would be AK'd before I'd have to subimt a pick to girly anyway. In any case, I hope this draft picks up...it's still my favorite!
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With our 13th selection, 263rd overall, AliceLoveGarden is proud to select in the drummer category, the great Ginger Baker!
Peter Edward "Ginger" Baker (born 19 August1939, Lewisham, South London) is an Englishdrummer.
Baker gained fame as a member of the Graham Bond Organization (GBO) and Cream from 1966 until 1968. He later joined Cream bandmate Eric Clapton along with Ric Grech and Steve Winwood in the 1969 group Blind Faith. In the early 1970s, Baker toured and recorded with a fusion rock group, Ginger Baker's Air Force.
Baker's drumming attracted attention for its flamboyance, showmanship, and his pioneering use of two bass drums instead of the conventional single 'kick' drum. He is also noted for using a variety of other percussion instruments and for his application of African rhythms to much of his drumming. Evidence of this African influence can be appreciated in Ginger Baker's work in association with Fela Ransome-Kuti where he sat in for Fela's drummer Tony Allen in recording sessions published in 1971 by the Regal Zonophone / Pathe Marconi Label under the record title "Fela Ransome-Kuti and The Africa '70 with Ginger Baker Live!" While at times performing in a grandiloquent manner similar to that of Keith Moon of The Who, Baker was also capable of the more restrained playing he had heard with British jazz groups during the late 1950s and early 1960s. Baker also performed lengthy improvisational drum solos, his most famous of all being the thirteen-minute drum solo from "Toad", heard on Cream's double album Wheels of Fire.
Ginger Baker is probably my favorite classic rock drummer not named John Bonham. Legendary is really the only word to describe him. The equals among his peers are mostly dead really.
Some visuals....The bookends are both "Toad".
With a reunited Cream. Keep in mind, dude was 66 years old here. Unreal.
With Fela Kuti...can you say, versatility?
Finally, again as a member of Cream, this time as a 29 year old @ Royal Albert Hall.
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With my thirteenth round selection, I'm pleased to select Oasis in the category of UK. So excited to go see these guys in a couple weeks!
Oasis are an English rock band that formed in Manchester in 1991. The group was formed by Liam Gallagher (vocals), Paul Arthurs (guitar), Paul McGuigan (bass) and Tony McCarroll (drums), who were soon joined by Liam's older brother Noel Gallagher (lead guitar, lead vocals). Oasis have sold more than 50 million records worldwide,[1] have had eight UK number-one singles and have collected 15 NME Awards, 5 Brit Awards and 9 Q awards. The Gallagher brothers are the band's leading songwriters and the only continual members. The present lineup is completed by guitarists Gem Archer and Andy Bell, as well as unofficial drummer Chris Sharrock.
Champagne Supernova
Don't Look Back In Anger
Little By Little
######ing in the Bushes
Stop Crying Your Heart Out
Wonderwall
I think that's good enough for now haha.
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With our 13th selection, 263rd overall, AliceLoveGarden is proud to select in the drummer category, the great Ginger Baker!
Love the pick Dis, I had a hard time picking between Ginger and Steve Gadd, I went with Gadd but I could have easily went with Ginger. I have a newer obession with Gadd I guess
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Love the pick Dis, I had a hard time picking between Ginger and Steve Gadd, I went with Gadd but I could have easily went with Ginger. I have a newer obession with Gadd I guess
One part of this thing that has been very interesting for me is watching you musicians and seeing how you view the picks someone like me (a musician in my dreams only) have made. This thread is going to spawn hours of exploration on my part and I'm sure I'll purchase at least 10 CD's in the next year out of this thread.
I just wish everyone involved was as enthusiastic as some of us. I understand things come up, but it seems some people don't really care. Disappointing.
__________________ I am in love with Montana. For other states I have admiration, respect, recognition, even some affection, but with Montana it is love." - John Steinbeck
Shocked to see Baker fall this far, but really happy somebody added him... He's most definitely in my top-3 drummers all time. Great pick.
I hear you Dis... Such a great thread.
FYI everyone, I'm in the hole, but I won't be able to pick until probably some time around 9pm MST tomorrow, working Sunup until Sundown, so if I'm up and MIA, that's why.
with my next selection i will fill the Female singer category with JEN DURKIN the former lead singer of a great band Deep Bannana Blackout
I first heard this band playing a show at 4AM in the parking lot of a Phish concert in 1995 or 96. have seen them a number of times since.
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Jen Durkin aka Pipes is a 12 year veteran of the funk jamband scene. Started Deep Banana Blackout with Tongue n Groove All stars in 1996. DBB self produced two CDs and hit the national touring hard until 2000 when she joined Bernie Worrell and the Woo Warriors. While working with the Wizard of Woo, Jen and the Conscious Underground ,a Brooklyn based funk metal band toured on the off nights. In 2002 Jen decided to focus on funk rock band The Bomb Squad and won a performance on the American Music Awards in 2003. Jen has appeared on stage with George Clinton and the Pfunk AllStars, The Original P, John Scofield, Gov't Mule, Fred Wesley, Bernard Purdie, Melvin Sparks, Melvin Seals, George Porter Jr, Leo Nocentelli and Tina Weymouth to name a few. Performing with these legendary musicians has profoundly affected Jen in her writing, recording and performance goals. Now with the start of her new production company Lotus Soundworks she will be stretching her self further into Soul jazz, Reggae Ska and Metal. Her most recent guest appearance on the Agent 23 Bski Rocks CD was masterfully recorded at Busstop Studios in Brooklyn by Tao Kostman. Jen is currently writing with Mystic Bowie for his Funkyska Allstars. Jen joins Mickey Hart's Rhythm Devils for their October tour 2006! Spring of 2007 She co wrote a collection of tunes with Matt DeTroycalled Equinox a departure from the rock driven mayhem of Deep Banana into sambafunk. Voted best Soul Singer by the readers of the Fairfield Weekly Jen now teams up with brother Johnny Durkin on The Kit, BrassTongue Rob Somerville, Jesse Gibbon ..s and Rich Zurkowski on bass. Durkin's Deep Dish is a spicy pie with Funk hiphop and Soul tunes old and new.... .
__________________ I am in love with Montana. For other states I have admiration, respect, recognition, even some affection, but with Montana it is love." - John Steinbeck
For this selection, BF & the BFFs, in an effort to get all our favorite bands represented, are pleased to select, in the song category... The centerpiece of one of rock 'n rolls most revered albums by one of rock's most revered bands... an epic meditation on the potential isolation and emptiness of 20th century cold-war culture... Roger Waters' dark look into a cold and unforgiving future... And one mind-melter of a guitar solo... Pink Floyd's Comfortably Numb
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While most songs on The Wall were written by Waters alone, most of the music for "Comfortably Numb" was written by David Gilmour, who originally recorded it for his first solo album. Gilmour later decided not to use it for his album, and instead brought his demo of it to The Wall sessions.
The song is one of two tracks on The Wall which are completely freestanding and do not fade into or out of an adjacent track. (The other freestanding song is "Mother.") This is because on the original LP there was a break on the music as side three of the album finished.
According to Rolling Stone the lyrics came from Roger Waters' experience when he was injected with tranquillizers for hepatitis by a doctor prior to playing a Pink Floyd show in Philadelphia on the band's 1977 tour for the Animals album.[3][4] "That was the longest two hours of my life," Waters said. "Trying to do a show when you can hardly lift your arm." The experience gave him the idea which became the lyrics to this song.
Waters and Gilmour disagreed about how to record the song as Gilmour preferred a more grungy approach to the verses. In the end, Waters' preferred opening to the song and Gilmour's final solo were used on the album. Gilmour would later say, "We argued over 'Comfortably Numb' like mad. Really had a big fight, went on for ages." [Rock Compact Disc magazine, September 1992]
The music of "Comfortably Numb" is at once creepy and grand. It begins with the subdued introduction of an ascending slide guitar through an echo-delay over a single bass and synthesizer note. "Hello, is there anybody in there/Just nod if you can." Waters' voice is also fed through an echo, the single words of each first line repeating on the beat. The dark verses open into the light of the chorus, with acoustic guitar, fluttering synth-string parts, and high vocal harmonies, wherein the point of view seems to shift from doctor to patient, with David Gilmour taking over the lead vocal, recounting childhood episodes in a seeming effort to figure out what has made him so "numb," but it all is so allusive: "When I was a child I caught a fleeting glimpse/Out of the corner of my eye/I turned to look but it was gone/I cannot put my finger on it now/The child is grown, the dream is gone/I have become comfortably numb." Waters believes the child within is all that keeps us genuine and human; our personalities are formed as children; when that aspect is gone, so is our soul and innocence. At this point, the melancholy of the chorus turns to outright malevolence in tone and one of rock's greatest guitar solos enters -- Gilmour's two-minute Hendrix-ian blues-rock workout with a raunchy tone that Prince seems to have copped for his excellent guitar pyrotechnics in "Purple Rain." Though Gilmour foreshadows this solo with a smaller one after the first chorus, it does not prepare for the bravura performance of the second screaming solo; it rumbles in on a low distorted chord, picking up steam quickly, a passionate rendering of the rock-solo archetype that still sounded glorious after countless listens.
It appears as if I am on deck. Thusly I will select Eddie Vedder as my male vocalist.
Couldnt find many youtubes with him as a solo artist but he is obviously one of the most powerful voices in rock. I'll let the Pearl Jam page speak for itself and leave you with this. Enjoy.
I hope nobody in the Movie draft gets any big ideas...
