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     Hardin Smith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 321 Registered: 03-2006 |
Ya'll are such an eclectic and diverse bunch. Who are some of your favorite musicians, not necessarily limited to the usual bass, guitar, drums, etc.? If it's someone that not everybody may necessarily know, tell us what they do... Some of mine are: 1) Miles Davis 2) Ben Webster (saxophone) 3) Sonny Rollins 4) Kenneth Buttrey -session drummer who played on Blonde on Blonde. 5) Bruce Kaphan - the steel guitarist for an earlier incarnation of American Music Club. 6) Bill Frissell - great jazz-inflected guitarist - he's probably played with just about everybody. His "Have A Little Faith" is one of my faves. 7) Chet Baker - "cool"jazz trumpet player, was also a great vocalist. 8) Brian Chase - the drummer for the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. On their concert video, he is some kind of beast behind the drum kit. 9) James Jamerson - the immortal Motown sesh bass player - he played on just about every great single, if not all of them. 10) James Burton -great country and rockabilly guitarist that played with both Elvises, the fat and the skinnier, and also played with Gram Parsons. 11) James Honeyman-Scott - I've been watching the DVD that comes with the Pretenders box set. Damn, he was a smoking hot guitarist! 12) Marc Ribot - great great Tom Waits guitarist, his solo stuff is a real hoot, including especially a Latin-inflected one called "Muy Divertado", that will rock you like a hurricane. 13) Bernie Worrell - keyboard funk squiggle guy for Parliament/Funkadelic, Talking Heads and even the Pretenders. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 345 Registered: 05-2005 |
robbie shakespeare - bassie sly dunbar - drummie eno - sounds johnny marr - guitar virtuoso neil young - like a hurricane on that guitar jah wobble - the low notes on those PIL albums were something else. will sergeant - came into his own as a very innovative guitarist when the Bunnymen played live. Steve Nieve - keyboard king Hardin - got to agree with Bruce from AMC. Saw them twice and he played the steel to perfection - such a sweet sound | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 365 Registered: 05-2005 |
John langley (Blue Aeroplanes, Strangelove, Witness), extraordinarily brilliant drummer. Ian Keary - multi instrumentalist ( Aeroplanes, Oyster Band, himself) Will Seargent - bunnymen guitarist Martin Duffy Felt keyboard player, rather than Primals influence. Malcolm Ross, guitarist with Josef K. The drummer from Microdisney. Robert Vickers (Gb's) - bass. Blaine L Reininger, violin and vox (Tuxedo Moon) Eno Barry Adamson, bass in Magazine Tome Verlaine Richard Lloyd, both Television. Leroy Bach - Wilco Grant McLennan - lovely lead guitar parts, simple but effective. Peter Buck - ditto Caroline Trettine, poet and folk singer, one of the most beautiful voices I have ever heard. Karen from The Innocence Mission Scott Walker. Sorry going on... | ||
| Hardin Smith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 322 Registered: 03-2006 |
Yeah Kev, Kaphan is a real master of that instrument. I think his absence is one of the problems with the current version of the band...he added a certain something. It's not just Vudi that makes their classic sound. BK has a solo disc, Slider, that's really good - if you're up for a whole record of nothing but very pure and sweet steel guitar playing (sometimes I am!). | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 349 Registered: 05-2005 |
Hardin and Spence both reminded me of two glaring omissions from my list. The wonderful guitarist Vudi from AMC, and Barry Adamson whose bass playing for Magazine was sublime. I had the pleasure of briefly meeting Barry in the mid 80s. My friend (who was an acquaintance of Barry)and I were walking down Kings Road in London and Barry stopped to chat - a real nice guy as well as a great musician | ||
| Todd Slater Member Username: Todd_slater Post Number: 44 Registered: 01-2005 |
Warren Ellis - Violin - The Dirty Three wizard. Miles Davis - Keith Jarrett - piano; La Scala Prince - 14 instruments & still counting Bill Frisell - A wonderful guitarist, inspiring Yo Yo Ma - cello; His triple disc of Bach suites is sublime. Charlie Musselwhite - Harmonica; Muddy Waters Ian Rilen - Bass X (Legendary Australian Punk band) Kim Salmon - A Godfather of 'grunge' ex Beast of Bourbon, now half of awesome Country duo 'The Darling Downs' Barry Adamson Robert Randolph - young Henrix like pedal steel player. Incredible live. The Blind Boys From Alabahma - voice - beautiful music, full stop. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 78 Registered: 01-2005 |
John Coltrane - Soprano and alto sax, too many great albums to mention, but here are a few, Kind of Blue, Blue Train, Live at the Village Vanguard, Ballads, A Love Supreme Dexter Gordon - alto and tenor sax Jimmy Smith - Hammond B3 Bud Powell - piano Thelonius Monk - piano Horace Silver - piano McCoy Tyner - piano. Check out the 1976 album Trident Elvin Jones - drums Robyn Hitchcock - telecaster and acoustic guitar Robert Quine, Tom Verlaine, Richard Lloyd, David Byrne - New wave guitars Peter Buck, Mike Mills and Bill Berry - REM Will Seargent - bunnymen guitarist and the Paisley Undergrund guitars from the Roback brothers in the Rain Parade Duane Allman - Electric slide guitar master, I saw him live in 1971 5 months before his fatal motorcycle accident. Eric Clapton - 1964 to 1971 period. Buddy Guy - Chicago blues guitar master | ||
| Hardin Smith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 346 Registered: 03-2006 |
I've seen Robert Randolph, Todd...amazing...with the sounds he gets out of it, it really is a different instrument - he is a one man orchestra. | ||
| David Matheson Member Username: David_matheson Post Number: 92 Registered: 12-2004 |
Xavier Rudd is an Australian multi-instrumentalist with a spiritual-social conscience who is worth a listen. Sheila Chandra is fascinating for the amazing things that the human voice can do. | ||
| Todd Slater Member Username: Todd_slater Post Number: 45 Registered: 01-2005 |
Robert Randolph blew me away when I saw him 3 years ago at the Byron Blues Festival. He played twice over the fesival. The second time he came on after The Blind Boys from Alabamha & basically bought the house down. Which was no mean feat considering Ben Harper played half the Blind Boys set with them (this was when he first started to play with them live). The Violent Femmes came on after Robert Randolph and went nuts. The jazz & blues legends mentioned above are all incredible in their own way. Jimmy Smith died recently (12 months) his work on the Hammond organ was mesmerising. Elvin Jones is a wild drummer. I always think that Charlie Watts took his cue from some of his stuff. Buddy Guy was or is playing Sydney this week with Robert Cray. Thanks for reminding me of Marc Ribot, Hardin. He's on parr with someone like Johnny Marr and Tom Waits has a lot to thank him for. | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 302 Registered: 04-2005 |
I've resisted answering this because I wasn't sure how to, but I think I'll just pick my all-time favorite player on a particular instrument, regardless of genre. This is not intended as a supergroup! Electric guitar - Richard Thompson Acoustic guitar - Nick Drake Bass guitar - Jah Wobble Drums - Pete Thomas (or Elvin Jones?) Synthesizer/clavinet/Fender Rhodes - Stevie Wonder Piano - McCoy Tyner Organ - Steve Nieve Tenor sax - Sonny Rollins Soprano sax - John Coltrane Trumpet - Miles Davis Oboe - Amanda Brown (narrowly beating out Andy Mackay) Misc./effects/ambience - Brian Eno Not a big fan of violins, banjos, mandolins, tubas, trombones, etc. | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 275 Registered: 08-2004 |
Fantasy band line-up Peter Hook - bass Johnny Marr -(he plays)geetar Ian Mculloch - vox Thomas Wydler - drums David Byrne - the stunning guitar work circa Ghosts/Remain In Light + vox All time faves Hendrix - Are You Experienced era geetar Keith Moon - drumma Bootsy Collins - bass Bo Didley - Rhythm geetar Scott Walker - vox Mike Garson - piano | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 317 Registered: 05-2005 |
My fantasy band line-up. The Collins Gang: Bootsy - bass Albert - lead guitar and vocals (yes, I know he's dead; but this is fantasy) Edwyn - vocals and rhythm guitar Phil - drums, piano and backing vocals (no leads) Mel (from Roxy Music) - saxophone Pádraig - svengali, maraccas | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 310 Registered: 04-2005 |
Not bad, Padraig! To be safe, I wouldn't give Phil any sort of vocal mike. And does he even remember how to play drums? | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 375 Registered: 05-2005 |
What about Joan, Padraig? She could do girly backing vox | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 311 Registered: 04-2005 |
Does Joan sing? If not, ask Judy! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 318 Registered: 05-2005 |
Yes, Judy on backing vocals! I hope Phil can still remember how to drum. He used to be a really good drummer. I would let him have the vocal mike but on the condition that it would be removed if he tried any leads or 'witty' between song banter. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 359 Registered: 03-2005 |
yeah, Judy used to sing. | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 313 Registered: 04-2005 |
We're eagerly awaiting Hardin's new fantasy namesake band, the Smiths (no wait, that won't work)... | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 381 Registered: 05-2005 |
What about Ansell Collins - legendary Jamaican keyboard wizard | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 325 Registered: 05-2005 |
Thanks Kevin, I knew there was a keyboard player I forgot. I can ad Ansell and that will free Phil to concentrate on the drums - but hopefully not make him yearn for lead vocals. So now the line-up is: The Collins Gang: Bootsy - bass Albert - lead guitar and vocals Edwyn - vocals and rhythm guitar Phil - drums, and backing vocals Mel - saxophone Judy - backing vocals, duets with Edwyn Ansell - keyboards Pádraig - svengali, maraccas | ||
| Hardin Smith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 374 Registered: 03-2006 |
Aw rats, you beat me to the punch with that joke, Kurt...lots talented Collinses, not so many Smiths, apart from Jimmy Smith, the great jazz organist and some pretty decent singers - O.C. Smith and Sammi...oh, and that big pile of goo, Robert... | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 367 Registered: 03-2005 |
T.V. Smith, remember him? | ||
| Hardin Smith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 375 Registered: 03-2006 |
Only because I just looked him up...of course, the guy from the Adverts - what a nut...I once again bow to your massive knowledge, sir...you and Kev could win a zillion bucks if there was the right kind of (cool) music trivia game show... Hey, perhaps I do have the makings of a decent Schmidt-themed fantasy band.... | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 318 Registered: 04-2005 |
Fred Smith - bass (Television) Patti Smith - vocals Bessie Smith - vocals Elliot Smith - doomed troubadour Will Smith - bubblegum rap OK, maybe not quite the embarrassment of riches that is the Collins Gang... | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 394 Registered: 05-2005 |
What about that all encompassing genius of the Smith clan Hardin? Im sure you know who I mean aah! | ||
| Hardin Smith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 379 Registered: 03-2006 |
Ah, clever choices, Kurt, but 1) Half of them be daid, which would play havoc with rehearsals and, 2) the other half are really sh_tty...ok, Patti used to be good, but she hasn't put out a decent, let alone listenable album in years... Kev, I have no f-ing idea! Forgive me - I had a late night, last night, drinking wine in Pasadena. Unfortunately, it was work-related, and not a gig... | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 395 Registered: 05-2005 |
The clue was the aah! at the end Hardin. I was talking aah about aah Mark E Smith aah | ||
| Hardin Smith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 380 Registered: 03-2006 |
Good one, Kev...how could I forget? Actually, I'll tell you how - I'm massively hungover and am in "if I can only make it thru to the weekend" mode"...I'm never drinking again, at least until tonight... But, that's a great one - yes, the "New Smiths" are really shaping up! | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 396 Registered: 05-2005 |
Not forgetting that cheery old goth Robert Smith- a man who also likes a glass of wine or two!! | ||
| Hardin Smith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 382 Registered: 03-2006 |
Yes, Robert looks like he's enjoyed a bucket or two of fried chicken as well! Sorry, there's something intrinsically amusing about Goths...here in the US it's an almost generic form of rebellion. Many of them are quite troubled youths and, of course, know next to nothing about the origins of the music...it always cracks me up to see one in daylight hours, buying deodorant at a 7-11, or performing some equally mundane every day task... | ||
| Hardin Smith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 383 Registered: 03-2006 |
Ahh what a coinky-dink...I just read that today is Robert Smith's birthday - he's 47. (Do you think he has a cake, with candles, and do friends and family sing to him?). Also, Iggy Pop's b-day. The Igginator is 59...Wild! Imagine a 60 yr. old Ig... | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 320 Registered: 04-2005 |
Geez, I thought both those guys were older than that. Iggy has the face of an 80-year-old and the body of an emaciated twentysomething. And, Hardin, dead people are allowed in these fantasy bands. Padraig loses his lead guitarist otherwise. And I thought of another: Fred Sonic Smith, Patti's late hubby and former MC5. I haven't been able to come up with any noteworthy Smith drummers though. Clearly this is a more pressing concern than my work this morning... | ||
| Hardin Smith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 385 Registered: 03-2006 |
Ah, so you're right. I see dead people on Padraig's list: it includes Phil Collins (ha). Lighten up, man - it's Friday...work shmurk. | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 321 Registered: 04-2005 |
Good point, Hardin. Just counting the hours until the beer drinking starts... Got a drummer for you: Chad Smith (Red Hot Chili Peppers) | ||
| Hardin Smith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 386 Registered: 03-2006 |
Hey not bad, Chad could bring the funk and the muscle... sad Louisianian that I am too, I left out a great, classic N.O. R&B artist and pianist: Huey "Piano" Smith, purveyor of such fine hits as "Don't Ya Just Know It" and that tender ballad, "Snag A Tooth Jennie"... We might just be ready for that battle of the bands with the Collinses... And with that fine crew of vocalists, they could aways wow the crowd with their "akeepella" stylings...(I'm giving it the Forsterian pronunciation). | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 335 Registered: 05-2005 |
Speaking of dead musicians: There was also an Allen Collins who played with Lynyrd Skynyrd. He actually survived the plane crash that claimed many of his bandmates, but succumbed in 1990 to pneumonia following complications from a (get this) 1986 car crash. How cursed were that band? I want Randy to find a band of Adams. (And no cheating by using Adams Clayton and Cohen). | ||
| Hardin Smith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 393 Registered: 03-2006 |
What about Adam Ant? Guess that'd be cheating too... Well, here's some starters for Randy: Ryan Adams - songwriting out the wazoo Bryan Adams - gear-lugging, not allowed to contribute musically Johnny Adams - Genius N.O. soul vocalist Adamski - no idea what they are or do... | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 328 Registered: 04-2005 |
Terry Adams, keyboardist for NRBQ... | ||
| Cichli Suite Member Username: Cichli_suite Post Number: 117 Registered: 08-2004 |
I guess the late Randy California might have made it into Randy's band. Though, he and Randy would have had to fight it out over who got the cool name. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 84 Registered: 01-2005 |
Between the Bachman's in Bachman-Turner Overdrive, Randy Bachman's son Tal and the Bachman that was in Archers of Loaf I have my band covered. There also was a Maria Bachmann who plays violin that could be my Amanda Brown, except she has the double nn at the end. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 377 Registered: 03-2005 |
I confess the only "Adams" I could think of was Ryan, who I'm not all that wild about. I forgot about Bryan. But it's okay; the only way I could deal with a band is if I were able to rule it like Mark E. Smith. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 342 Registered: 05-2005 |
Speaking of Phil Collins... My father was checking in for a flight a few years ago when the airline counter guy said "You look like your namesake Phil, are you related?" My father, who has a good sense of humour, replied: "He's my brother, but I don't like to talk about it." The airline guy said: "Well, I just want to tell you to tell him that you met a huge fan of his." My father said he would, of course. He got bumped up to business class. | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 8 Registered: 04-2006 |
van dyke parks - he is not only a incredible good musician, composer and arranger. he is intelligent and a brilliant conversationalist, too. brian wilson - well known genius. captain beefheart - well known genius, too. robert wyatt - what a sad voice. gene clark - country/folk/whatever genius. townes van zandt - the same as gene clark. curtis mayfield - we the people who are darker than blue. nothinhg more to say. jonathan richman - he ever make me smile. mark e. smith - 'word' genius. edwyn collins - felt in love somewhere in the eighties. hope his suffering from his brain haemorrhage still continues. all my best wishes to him. neil young - even when he didn't have a really good album out since ragged glory. jerry jester & judy henske - for their brilliant, surrealistic or whatever 'farewell aldebaran' lp. not to forget that beautiful voice of judy henske. | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 337 Registered: 04-2005 |
>>edwyn collins - felt in love somewhere in the eighties. hope his suffering from his brain haemorrhage still continues.<< Hope Edwyn's not reading the board today! Sorry, I couldn't resist. No worries, Andreas, we knew what you meant! Welcome to the board. | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 11 Registered: 04-2006 |
kurt, thanks for yr. posting. what a fault. what a lunacy. i naturally meant 'RECOVERY'. really hope that edwyn did not read the board.... |