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Was there ever a Tighter band than...

#125
The E Street Band during the River tour. The Asbury Jukes of the late seventies. Harry Chapins's band. Lisa Loeb's touring band at her height of popularity in the mid-nineties. Death Cab For Cutie around Transatlantacism. Al Stewart's band circa Year of the Cat. Chris Issac's band. Blondie during the Parallel Lines tour. Just a few that come to mind that were really tight live.
 
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interp said:
That's more like it, much better recording of Periphery. Yeah, that's fairly tight. Don't much care for it, but that's not the point, is it?

Since this thread has to do with "tightness" and some commenters seem to equate that with complexity, I will offer the subjective observation that in my experience the less complex the music and the slower the tempo the more difficult it is for an ensemble to play rhythmically "tight." Speed and complexity can be a crutch.
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As much as I like Periphery, you're very right in your own way.

While we're on Tight, Opeth is pretty darn tight as well - I can't remember if anybody's mentioned them. Their drummer is as absolutely mechanical live as he is in studio, it's insane. Also, somebody beat me to the Ramones - definitely not "complex" by any means, but christ they knew what they were doing. Also, Descendents/ALL. The lineups with Stephen Egerton and Karl Alvarez are where they really kicked off with the tightness. Saw Stephen and Bill play in Flag at Orion fest a few years ago, they were INSANE with the tightness, sounded just like the recordings.

Also, I've been told that Blink182 and NOFX are also very tight live.
 
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Kukulkan61 said:
Alot of the Bands I was gonna mention are already spoken for but one band thats tight as ever in this modern age is Brunos Mars's band
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I love BM band as he's going back to James Brown rules; here's your 3 notes, here's your 2 notes, here's ONE - don't F it up.



I sent this to my band the other night with this statement: 'everybody's in the rhythm section. Unless your not?'
 
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I saw James Brown once. He had two backup bands on stage. In the Middle of a song he made a cue and one band stopped and without missing a beat the second one started right where the first left off. I never saw anything like it before or sense.
The Derek Trucks band is probably my favorite.
 
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SteveBassJr said:
I saw James Brown once. He had two backup bands on stage. In the Middle of a song he made a cue and one band stopped and without missing a beat the second one started right where the first left off. I never saw anything like it before or sense.
The Derek Trucks band is probably my favorite.
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I thought you were going to say: "In the middle of the song he fired one band and hired the other band, without missing a beat ;)."
Maybe that was Buddy Rich.
 
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Billyzoom said:
The world's greatest entertainer. Tightness defined.

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I saw the documentary on JB a while back, and he'd actually dock players live (using hand motions to denote how much $$) if they messed up anything during a performance. He demanded perfection and it showed, and Jabo Starks And Clyde Stubblefield are monster pocket players.
 
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