The original Saturday Night Live band. Most of them toured backing Bob Dylan in the early 80's. So tight you couldn't get between them with dental floss.
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Was there ever a Tighter band than...
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The band I am thinking of was led by GE Smith. That may not have been the original incarnation.
Meshuggah is EARTHSHATTERINGLY tight live.
End of this song is a great example:
End of this song is a great example:
The only band I have seen as tight as union station is Punch Brothers. The virtuosity looks effortless, and the vocal harmonies are perfect.
I was going to mention Bonnie Raitt's band, but part of their "tightness" is their looseness, so I guess it all depends on how you define "tight".
I was going to mention Bonnie Raitt's band, but part of their "tightness" is their looseness, so I guess it all depends on how you define "tight".
Just to piss Sting off. Those two fought like brothers a lot.
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I don't know man, I've heard some of the studio tracks soloed off... I think 'Abbey Road'. It sounded so great altogether, but a lot of the parts sounded like garbage soloed. The motown tracks on the other hand were dead on the money solo or together.
Also on a side note-some of these videos have such terrible sound quality, it's hard to tell what is tight. That first current prog rock video is a cell phone of what sounds like monitors-only. I am wearing in-ears, and I only head the drums and string clicks. Also, unfortunately that King's X video was lacking enough low end, or Pinnick's 12-string was so mushy, I couldn't hear what he was playing. Killer 3-part singing though.
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Studio and live playing are two such diverse arts, don't you think? Listening to Will Lee and the Fab Faux replicate that second side of Abbey Road, it's hard to imaging that the individual tracks weren't well played (even before Sir George Martin did his magic).
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I do think! Haha, also just because the time is moving around doesn't mean the band isn't tight-if they move together... which is something I thought of after I posted! I mostly brought it up because I am still shocked at how bad the parts sounded. The whole is still magnificent. I wouldn't take another band's performance of the tunes to determine how tight the original band was.
Oh, quite right. But by watching how these guys approach the material, you can get a sense of how the tunes breathe. Now, mind you, Sir Paul played much of side two by himself...which leads me back to the 50's/60's version. Very tight indeed.
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I vote for the Dixie Dregs. The word has not yet been coined to describe how tight they were.
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Lucinda Williams, opening for Neil Young at the LA Greek Theater, early Oughts. This band included Jim Christie on drums, Taras Prodaniuk on bass and Doug Pettibone on guitar, behind her "Fruits of my Labor" album. I understand Christie and Prodaniuk had worked together for years in Dwight Yoakum's band. The band owned space and time, creating a magical zone of "behind the beat" that triumphed in projecting a heroin-hazed darkness over the chirping of birds, early evening sunlight and house full of aging yuppies impatient for Young to rock out. My companions (lawyers all) obsessed over the drugs they thought the band must have been taking [/QUOTE]
This band still blows me away to this day! I dig all styles of music but they really have a "sound" that transcends. "Live at the the Fillmore" is the Lucinda Album. Really tasty bass playing and tone by Taras Prodaniuk
Lucinda Williams, opening for Neil Young at the LA Greek Theater, early Oughts. This band included Jim Christie on drums, Taras Prodaniuk on bass and Doug Pettibone on guitar, behind her "Fruits of my Labor" album. I understand Christie and Prodaniuk had worked together for years in Dwight Yoakum's band. The band owned space and time, creating a magical zone of "behind the beat" that triumphed in projecting a heroin-hazed darkness over the chirping of birds, early evening sunlight and house full of aging yuppies impatient for Young to rock out. My companions (lawyers all) obsessed over the drugs they thought the band must have been taking [/QUOTE]
This band still blows me away to this day! I dig all styles of music but they really have a "sound" that transcends. "Live at the the Fillmore" is the Lucinda Album. Really tasty bass playing and tone by Taras Prodaniuk
