Favorite Power Trios?

[jmac]

+1

They blow my mind.

I guess you could count Muse although they now use a keys player live.

Yeah, I really enjoyed The Power Triplets' first album. I wonder if they're working on a follow up album.

If you like TPT check out Trip's solo stuff.

 

[kelleysdad]

Three Man Army

 

[nysbob]

Does Morphine qualify as a power trio?

Why wouldn't they?

I'm in a few good trios too - Psychodots, Tickled Pink & Bucket... all have CDs on CDBaby.

I like playing bass in a trio because there is really room to do something.

 

[gricko]

Motörhead...

i am stunned it took 28 posts to mention motörhead....

anyway - power ones:
hüsker dü
nomeansno
therapy?
big black [rapeman, shellac]
dinosaur jr
boris
killdozer
steel pole bathtub

not-so-power ones:
shonen knife
the jam

very un-power one:
depeche mode

 

[Richland123]

Lots of trios already mentioned and I will add more to the list.

ZZ Top
Emerson, Lake, & Palmer
West, Bruce, & Lang
Robin Trower Band
George Thorogood & The Delaware Destroyers (early on they were 3 piece)
B.L.T. (Bruce, Lang, and Trower)
Triumvirat
Fastball
Jeff Healey Band
Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble
The Outfield
Omar & The Howlers
Green Day
Blink 182
FM

 

[bassvi]

Beck, Bogert, and Appice. Only a couple albums. Beck quit because Bogert was showing him up at concerts. If you listen to the first album, you can feel the tension between them. I saw Beck and Bogert duel on stage. Beck would play a lick and Tim would play it back on bass. Too bad they couldn't get along.

There is some awesome jamming on the BBA Live in Japan album. If they could have done more stuff like Lady, Superstition and Jizz Whiz maybe it would have gone somewhere beyond where it ended (just my opinion) Tim's bass tones on those records are monstrous!

 

[tahoebass92]

Rush, ELP, the Police... all great bands! if you dig these guys, i'd suggest Fiction Plane, Sting's son's band. sound like police and rush

 

[heath_r_91]

Slipknot

In all seriousness now:
Alkaline Trio
Single File
American Low Life!

 

[trunkshope6]

Power trio?u mean like alkaline trio?

 

[Number27]

can't really argue with any of the choices on here..

i only read 3 of 5 pages, and i'm sure someone mentioned the following, but just incase..

green day
jimi hendrix experience
sublime
ten years after

 

[jerry]

ten years after

Ten Years After were like Mountain, while technically having a keyboardist you really never heard them.

 

[NoTalentHack]

My favorites:
Kings X
ZZ Top
Rush

After reading all the posts I'd have to add Hendrix. It's just that I always think of Hendrix as just Hendrix, not a trio. He could have played with a couple of sixth graders and been great.

 

[natw42]

5 pages to mention Medeski, Martin, and Wood?

For shame.

+1 to a lot of these, but definitely loves me some John Butler Trio, so +3 to that one

 

[Rich L]

Instrumental -
Ohm:
Altered
Cosmosquad
Art Metal
Niacin
GHS
Attention Deficit
Bozzio, Levin, Stevens
Hellborg, Lane, Sipe

Rush
King's X
Zebra
Primus

 

[Number27]

Ten Years After were like Mountain, while technically having a keyboardist you really never heard them.

they had a keyboardist??

i am legit suprised

 

[Holy War]

Old Melvins stuff
Old Pig Destroyer stuff
Russian Circles
Sleep
Boris

 

[C-60 Bass]

Lots of good trios here. How about Taste (Rory Gallagher)?

 

[lindseyp]

Singers don't count, do they?

I believe they stamp their feet, like Mr. Ed.

That still makes it a quartet - percussionist.

 

[Ablebasser]

Shellac
Morphine
Therapy?
Nirvana
Beck, Bogert & Appice
Back Door

 

[pmaraziti]

Lots and lots of bands I love here!

John Mayer Trio is where I'd love to play into these days. If I didn't make it , I would love also to play with Bonamassa

Thanks to TB, I discovered also

Medeski, Martin, and Wood
and now Power Triplets !