Blue Cheer
Cream
West, Bruce, & lang
Hendrix/Band of Gypsies
Kings X
Beck, Bogart, & Apice
ZZ Top
Wide Mouth Mason
Cream
West, Bruce, & lang
Hendrix/Band of Gypsies
Kings X
Beck, Bogart, & Apice
ZZ Top
Wide Mouth Mason
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Favorite Power Trios?
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That'd be my all time favorite. An up and coming group I really like is Davy Knowles & Back Door Slam.
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L.A. Spinetta y los Socios del Desierto
from Argentina
Z men from Hong kong.
I also like the already mentioned:
Hendrix, Muse, SRV, Cream
L.A. Spinetta y los Socios del Desierto
from Argentina
Z men from Hong kong.
I also like the already mentioned:
Hendrix, Muse, SRV, Cream
That works.
A. Cream. REAL Power Trio, not just a turgid bass/drum section staying out of the guitarist's way. When it worked right, it was three people having a musical conversation, trading ideas back and forth while egging each other to excel. It's really like a good jazz band in the critical aspects of collective improvisation and serving the music, not the ego.
B. Hendrix with Billy Cox and Mitch Mitchell. Billy kept the funk while Mitch and Jimi stretched time and harmony. Passion, funk, and some pretty cool guitar bits too. The live recording of "Johnny B. Goode" from "In The West" shows how much exploration one can do with three chords and a simple rhythmic structure if everyone's feeding ideas off of and to each other. So very much more than a guitarist wanking while the others plod along...
C. James Gang (v.2) with Joe Walsh, Dale Peters, and Jim Fox. Everything from "Funk #49" to "Ashes, The Rain, and I" were great. Perhaps as said above, they weren't ground breaking, but that band, especially "Rides Again" is some of the very few example of real rock bands I can listen to.
John
B. Hendrix with Billy Cox and Mitch Mitchell. Billy kept the funk while Mitch and Jimi stretched time and harmony. Passion, funk, and some pretty cool guitar bits too. The live recording of "Johnny B. Goode" from "In The West" shows how much exploration one can do with three chords and a simple rhythmic structure if everyone's feeding ideas off of and to each other. So very much more than a guitarist wanking while the others plod along...
C. James Gang (v.2) with Joe Walsh, Dale Peters, and Jim Fox. Everything from "Funk #49" to "Ashes, The Rain, and I" were great. Perhaps as said above, they weren't ground breaking, but that band, especially "Rides Again" is some of the very few example of real rock bands I can listen to.
John
+1
They blow my mind.
I guess you could count Muse although they now use a keys player live.
For a new band that can really do the trio thing, check out Rose Hill Drive if you get a chance.
Otherwise Cream and earlier SRV are my all-time favs.
Otherwise Cream and earlier SRV are my all-time favs.
This is great! I can't belive I missed Trower and Trapeze in my original post. Glenn Hughes and James Dewar had to be a couple of the best bassist/singers ever.
Real interesting too to hear about trios like Firehose which i know very little about except Mike Watt played an EB-3 through Marshalls, not a bad combination IMO.
I should not have missed James Gang either, what a band, Dale Peters wonderful bass and what can you say about Joe Walsh but he is a crazy genius guitarist.
Interesting I have not seen Green Day as anyones fave, their early trio stuff is pretty good IMo, I mean Longview has that memorable bass line.
+1 on the Blink 182, you may think it's easy but they have to be pretty good to pull it off what they do.
Muse is awesome, but they use a lot of extra players live. I dont know if they qualify as a truepower trio with the additional players.
That being said, a trio with and singer to me is not a power trio, it's a quartet. I think it's wrong to not count and extra guy who just sings as contributing musician.. The dynamic changes with the extra person. I mean, the Who would not be the Who without Daltry and Zeppelin would not be Zep without Plant. There is a certain dynamic between 3 guys who click together than makes it happen as trio so they don't need the extra frontman. Just my opinion, hey.
Ever hear of the " The Living End?" I thought it was cool, very raw I liked it.
Real interesting too to hear about trios like Firehose which i know very little about except Mike Watt played an EB-3 through Marshalls, not a bad combination IMO.
I should not have missed James Gang either, what a band, Dale Peters wonderful bass and what can you say about Joe Walsh but he is a crazy genius guitarist.
Interesting I have not seen Green Day as anyones fave, their early trio stuff is pretty good IMo, I mean Longview has that memorable bass line.
+1 on the Blink 182, you may think it's easy but they have to be pretty good to pull it off what they do.
Muse is awesome, but they use a lot of extra players live. I dont know if they qualify as a truepower trio with the additional players.
That being said, a trio with and singer to me is not a power trio, it's a quartet. I think it's wrong to not count and extra guy who just sings as contributing musician.. The dynamic changes with the extra person. I mean, the Who would not be the Who without Daltry and Zeppelin would not be Zep without Plant. There is a certain dynamic between 3 guys who click together than makes it happen as trio so they don't need the extra frontman. Just my opinion, hey.
Ever hear of the " The Living End?" I thought it was cool, very raw I liked it.
Primus and Uzeb would be my favorites. Thats sweet that someone brought up Johney Winter I forgot about those guys but they were great. I thought Sublime had another guitar player besides Brad but if thats not correct than I'd add them to my favorites. Heres 3 white guys setting a world record in groove.
