Was there ever a Tighter band than...

[Stevorebob]

So is the Philharmonic. A formally arranged band based on sheets and written parts, is not "tight" in the same way, IMO. If we go there we can count every band on TV or studio crew that records a jingle.

Or this?

The Wrecking Crew

 

[CryingBass]

Pat Metheny and Ornette Coleman - Song X

What - you don't hear it?

 

[Shortie]

Also, Cream.

That's a joke, right? Did you ever hear them live? (I did - I am really OLD!) Disaster



Producers, engineers and good tape machines can work miracles in the studio.

 

[the harp unstrung]

Pat Metheny and Ornette Coleman - Song X

What - you don't hear it?

nbsipics WINS THE INTRAWEBS today!!!

 

[Shortie]

An excellent point. Agreed

 

[spanndrew]

Man, Dillinger... Talk about a band that plays some crazy shipoopie and pulls it off tight as a drum live. The first time I heard them, my initial thought was "I am so bad at math!!!"

When you factor in how insane their antics are live, it's really unbelievable.

 

[smeet]

The Grateful Dead. Man.

 

[Ox Boris]

Huh?

I lasted 48secs listening to that abject bollocks, just wondered if anyone had greater endurance for tuneless tripe than I.

 

[Stevorebob]

I lasted 48secs listening to that abject bollocks, just wondered if anyone had greater endurance for tuneless tripe than I.

If you endure, you experience the punchline: A lone pair of clapping hands.

 

[Richland123]

There are lots of great, tight, super polished live acts already mentioned.

Bruno Mars and his band are really tight.

 

[Richland123]

Check out some Grand Funk Railroad live

 

[Les Ismoor]

Zappa
Brand X
Paul Simon's band for the Rhythm of the Saints tour
TOP
James Brown
Oingo Boingo
Mahavishnu Orchestra
Anything with Chick Corea
David Bromberg Band

 

[RickyT]

I know no-one will like this or even listen to it, but a modern progressive metal band called Periphery is undoubtedly the tightest band ever. No-one will ever come close to them.



That is their soundcheck. The complexity of the song, and the fact that they have three guitar players, all playing different things, with interlocking rhythms, and a bass player who matches them...well, I defy you to find anything tighter

This one always blows me away. Nolly is so good.

 

[Richland123]

Huey Lewis & the News (including the Tower Of Power Horns for extra tightness)

 

[the harp unstrung]

Zappa
Brand X
Paul Simon's band for the Rhythm of the Saints tour
TOP
James Brown
Oingo Boingo
Mahavishnu Orchestra
Anything with Chick Corea
David Bromberg Band

As the op, I'm kinda trying to stay out of the way here...but I gotta say, I was really, Really happy to see David Bromberg and his band get a hug!
(He was a huge influence during my yutes, and remains a Titan to this day...)

 

[J.D. Detroit]

Check out some Grand Funk Railroad live

I was just about to post GFR.
EDIT: Heck another one wont hurt.

 

[Billybladez66]

Frank Zappa band for "Make a jazz noise hear"..... tighter than Dicks Hat Band fo' sho' !!!!!!!!

 

[HaphAsSard]

Can anyone beat 48secs?

Huh?

I lasted 48secs listening to that abject bollocks, just wondered if anyone had greater endurance for tuneless tripe than I.

Oh, it wasn't an andrological question...

If you endure, you experience the punchline: A lone pair of clapping hands.

Wait, or was it?

 

[Blaargh]

The Dillinger Escape Plan, man. I've seen them a couple of times, and I have no idea how they all stay in time when the time signature is batpoopie, Greg is crowdsurfing and Ben is hanging upside-down from the ceiling. They're a god damned hive mind I tells ya.


Wizards.

I lasted 48secs listening to that abject bollocks, just wondered if anyone had greater endurance for tuneless tripe than I.

HA.

Sounds like a Dillinger Escape Plan fan in the making!

 

[Funky Ghost]

Yes, there was.