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Thunderbird Club
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Haji
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It's simpler in my band. I say "I don't wanna", and we don't.
Course, I can also be overruled the same way on something else.
Course, I can also be overruled the same way on something else.
Well the only Beatles song I've ever played is actually Rain.
Now, if y'all wanna talk about overrated, Ladies and Gentlemen, the Rolling Stones...
Now, if y'all wanna talk about overrated, Ladies and Gentlemen, the Rolling Stones...
My view is that I won't veto as a rule. I've happily played a lot of songs that are outside my previous experience and I have enjoyed it - mostly.
I reserve a veto though and will pull it out if there is something I find truly odeous and obnoxious.
So what you're saying is, you save it for Mustang Sally then?
While I play plenty of stuff at home for practice the list of cover versions I have performed in public can be counted on the fingers and thumbs of both hands with no resort to toes... Mustang Sally is not on that list, and I can state categorically that humanity would not be enriched by my contributing yet another version.
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As far as the Beatles and Roling Stones, as much as I respect them and get their influence, I am not a fanboy of either. They both have some amazing songs, but I have 3 or 4 or maybe 6 songs I love from each, but that's about it.
As far as the bass players for both bands, I don't care what music you're into, both those guys are ridiculous, and I might go as far as saying that they were both key to the two bands' success.
The Beatles, I'm not much into the 1964-ish stuff, but love a few songs like Blackbird, Hey Jude (c'mon, if that last 10 minutes of Paul singing "Na na na, hey Jude", doesn't make you sing along, you're basically dead), Revolution, Helper Skelter, but they have a lot of toe tappers.
Sympathy For The Devil may be in my top 10 favorite songs ever, and I love Gimme Shelter, but i think it's because of the part where the female backup vocals, that girl absolutely kills it, and the point where she is wailing to the point her voice breaks, and leaves it all out there, classic. I'm telling you, listen to that song and focus on her vocals, don't know who she is, but she should have been a star. But they also have a few others I'll turn up the radio for.
I was born in '68, so my main influences come from the '80's when I was in high school (I.e metal/hair bands), plus some of their 70's heavy rock influences(Sabbath, et. al.)
But I have a brother that's 10 years older than me, so I listened to a lot of his albums he had lying around, Zep, Bowie, Kinks, Queen, The Tubes (talk about an under appreciated bass player!)
As far as the bass players for both bands, I don't care what music you're into, both those guys are ridiculous, and I might go as far as saying that they were both key to the two bands' success.
The Beatles, I'm not much into the 1964-ish stuff, but love a few songs like Blackbird, Hey Jude (c'mon, if that last 10 minutes of Paul singing "Na na na, hey Jude", doesn't make you sing along, you're basically dead), Revolution, Helper Skelter, but they have a lot of toe tappers.
Sympathy For The Devil may be in my top 10 favorite songs ever, and I love Gimme Shelter, but i think it's because of the part where the female backup vocals, that girl absolutely kills it, and the point where she is wailing to the point her voice breaks, and leaves it all out there, classic. I'm telling you, listen to that song and focus on her vocals, don't know who she is, but she should have been a star. But they also have a few others I'll turn up the radio for.
I was born in '68, so my main influences come from the '80's when I was in high school (I.e metal/hair bands), plus some of their 70's heavy rock influences(Sabbath, et. al.)
But I have a brother that's 10 years older than me, so I listened to a lot of his albums he had lying around, Zep, Bowie, Kinks, Queen, The Tubes (talk about an under appreciated bass player!)
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My cousin played Who's Next to me when I was very young, and for me it has always been the Who, Kinks, Small Faces (and later Faces) and Beatles before the Stones from the 'British Invasion' bands.
For example there's a world of difference between the Small Faces who absorbed/were influenced by R&B and the Stones who created a pastiche. Not saying they were rubbish but definitely not all they were hyped up to be.
For example there's a world of difference between the Small Faces who absorbed/were influenced by R&B and the Stones who created a pastiche. Not saying they were rubbish but definitely not all they were hyped up to be.
Never played Free Bird. But I do like "That Smell" by the same lads.
Lol. Nah. Thinking more of 'my boomerang won't come back' or 'Ahab the Arab'. No ones suggested them as yet.
Gimme Shelter, Paint it Black, plus the early blues stuff. They were all done (for me) by 73, with a resurge with Some Girls and a few here and there afterward.
Eh, I don't really like talking about overrated bands. It's always going to end up insulting to someone's favorite.
Don't really like any of their stuff. But I have played Free Bird.
Let It Bleed is a fine record - they coulda left it there.
I always like the Beatles, well most of it. Some albums of the Stones. The only reason we own even one album of the stones (40 Licks) is my wife wanted it. Zep, Tubes, Sabbath, Ozzy(of course), Rush(i know some of you groan),Skynard, Bowie, Iron Maiden, Stiff Little Fingers, Ramones, Sex Pistols, oh boy my youth was Focked up.
SLF! Awesome, I had no idea their popularity (or lack of) stretched across the Atlantic, played the same venue with them a couple of times, always a great laugh to be with as I remember.
Big Beatles listeners in our household, my missus is fanatical I guess from living in Liverpool in their heyday, I think she must own just about everything created in their name. The Stones, I like some of their stuff, we have greatest hits album which I like a lot of songs on but there's a lot of dross on their studio albums I think. I could never take to Rush, I don't think I have ever hears a tune played from start to finish in my life.
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Back to the "my bridge inserts are pulling out" subject. I cannot find a friggin' pack of flat toothpicks anywhere. Searched all the local grocery stores, Walmart etc, no one around here carries flat toothpicks period. Looking at alternatives and open to suggestions.
How about using a pocketknife on a piece of lumber and cutting yourself some "toothpicks"?
