|  | | 
06-14-2004, 11:01 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Dallas, Tx | | | Best Rhythm Section in rock ever??
Sign in to disble this ad
Who are your top 2 rock rhythm sections ever?
Mine are:
Noel Redding/Mitch Mitchell
Sting/Stewart Copeland
Honorable mentions:
John Paul Jones/John Bonham
John Entwistle/Keith Moon
Last edited by MascisMan : 06-14-2004 at 11:04 AM.
|
06-14-2004, 11:30 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Big Sound Central | | | If you're going to mention all of those guys, you have to mention Ginger Baker and Jack Bruce. Because they were the ones that showed everyone else, how it's done.
I think Levon Helm/Rick Danko managed to find the perfect balance being being supportive, but also lending their own special flavor to songs to make good songs great, and great songs incredible.
Also Bruce Foxton/Rick Buckler are probably the two most underratted musicians of the past 20 years. Admittedly, The Jam was largely Paul Weller's vehicle, but they were the ones that made Weller's templates into great songs.
__________________
Ameeeeeericaaaaaaaa/Eatin' my lunch from a single bowl/In my paaaaaarents basssssement/Where I'm livin'/Happy Birthday!/I'm 43.
|
06-14-2004, 11:38 AM
|  | A Hard Rockin Lover of GREENBURST Moderator | | Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Where I lay my head is home | | | Robert Deleo / Erick Kretz STP
__________________ If its not green, its not for me!!!  |
06-14-2004, 11:44 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: footballscannotbekickediguess | | | My vote goes to Bonham/Jones.
FWIW- Peter Green thought so much of his rhythm section in the Bluesbreakers he named his new band after them, even though one of them wasn't even in the new band (yet). Mick Fleetwood and John McVie.
__________________
*Recipient of the 2006 Time Magazine "Man Of The Year" Award*
|
06-14-2004, 11:48 AM
| | A Hard Rockin Lover of GREENBURST Moderator | | Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Where I lay my head is home | | JPJ and Bonham were SOLID 
__________________ If its not green, its not for me!!! |
06-14-2004, 12:21 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Dallas, TX | | | Not really Rock, but I've gotta go with Tommy Shannon and Chris Layton backing Stevie. Highly underrated IMO.
Rock I'd have to go with Neil and Geddy, because of the synergystic arrangements they did / do.
Honorable mention Jones and Bonham, though I'm not as up on my Zeppelin as maybe I should be.
__________________
Peace,
GrooveSlave. www.billhuang.com
"Tell her you're a slave to the groove; you can't help it."
Russell Hammond, Almost Famous
"You never really learn to swear until you learn to drive." George Carlin
"If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?" George Carlin
|
06-14-2004, 12:43 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: San Francisco, CA (finally!) | | | just right off, I'd say JPJ/Bonham and...
one of the most *unique*
Chris Squire/Bill Bruford |
06-14-2004, 01:08 PM
|  | Analyzer Records
Endorsing Artist: Mesa/Boogie - Shop Manager/Tech, SF Guitarworks | | Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: San Francisco, CA | | | Trey Gunn and Pat Mastelloto. All the rest of you guys can shut up now. |
06-14-2004, 01:14 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Missoula, MT | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by Benjamin Strange Trey Gunn and Pat Mastelloto. All the rest of you guys can shut up now. | I beg to differ- Levin and Bruford. The new Levin and Mastelotto will probably be very interesting too.
__________________
"Mathematicians make propositions and demand that everyone agree with them. That's because mathematicians are bigots." -Justin Shaddock
|
06-14-2004, 02:37 PM
| | Howzit brah | | Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Kauai, HI | | Another fan of Levin and Bruford here, and Squire and Bruford for that matter. But hey, I also like Cox and Miles better than Redding/Mitchell. I'd say all time it's between Geddy/Peart and Bonham & JPJ...
Fishman and Gordon anybody? 
Waters & Mason?
__________________
The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side.
Hunter S. Thompson
|
06-14-2004, 02:46 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2004 Location: Ohio | | | Neil and Geddy of course. Sting makes everyone sound good - but I really like him when he was playing with Vinnie Caliuta (sp?).
__________________
I'm not mean. You're just a sissy.
Lakland Owners Club Member #157
Last edited by cgworkman : 06-14-2004 at 02:49 PM.
|
06-14-2004, 03:49 PM
| | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by lesforprez But hey, I also like Cox and Miles better than Redding/Mitchell. | Agree...I also like Cox/Mitchell; Miles is better at the backbeat Rock-Funk stuff.
Mitchell & Moon are "similar" in that they don't play backbeat, per se.
Others-
David Brown/Michael Shrieve(Santana)
Jimmy Fielder/Bobby Colomby(Blood, Sweat, & Tears)
Phil Chen/Richard Bailey(Jeff Beck's Blow By Blow)
Chuck Rainey/Bernard Purdie(Steely Dan)
Current others-
Jimmy Haslip/Vinnie Colaiuta(Jing-Chi...they sound like Cream on steroids)
Stephan Lessard/Carter Beauford(DMB)
__________________
No Leo Fender & I'm a drummer...
"2 through 10" Learn it-Know it-Live it
|
06-14-2004, 03:51 PM
| | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by GrooveSlave Honorable mention Jones and Bonham, though I'm not as up on my Zeppelin as maybe I should be. | The Zeppelin DVDs would get you up-to-date. Bonham is like a freight train(Jerry B's words...& I agree!).
__________________
No Leo Fender & I'm a drummer...
"2 through 10" Learn it-Know it-Live it
|
06-14-2004, 04:34 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Detroit, michigan | | | surprised no one has said Sabbath yet |
06-14-2004, 04:38 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2003 Location: Leeds, UK | | | commerford and wilks.
__________________
When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea. |
06-14-2004, 04:59 PM
| | Guest | | Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: USA, Kailua, Oahu | | | Cliff Burton/James Hetfield |
06-14-2004, 04:59 PM
| | Guest | | Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: USA, Kailua, Oahu | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by Bad Brains surprised no one has said Sabbath yet | I never really thought of them as having a tight rhythm section. |
06-14-2004, 05:13 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: Mexico | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by Garrett Mireles Cliff Burton/James Hetfield | Hetfield on drums 
__________________
Click here to see how gullible people are today |
06-14-2004, 05:32 PM
| | A Hard Rockin Lover of GREENBURST Moderator | | Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Where I lay my head is home | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by Garrett Mireles Cliff Burton/James Hetfield |
James is an awesome Rhythm Guitarist
__________________ If its not green, its not for me!!! |
06-14-2004, 06:18 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: footballscannotbekickediguess | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by JimK Mitchell & Moon are "similar" in that they don't play backbeat, per se.
| I used to really dig Mitch Mitchell until I heard the Rock and Roll Circus "Dirty Mac" project. He was cool, but not as powerful as the rest of the band. Surprising, seeing as what his real gig was!
__________________
*Recipient of the 2006 Time Magazine "Man Of The Year" Award*
| | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
Posting Rules
| You may not post new threads You may not post replies You may not post attachments You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off | | | |
