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QUOTE (GeddyRulz @ Feb 10 2012, 11:03 AM)A couple bands on the list I'm not familiar with, but from the ones I know I'd pick either Faster Pussycat or Poison. No talent really, with either band. Shame on the peeps who picked Extreme or Mr. Big. Between those two bands, you have two amazing guitarists (Nuno Bettencourt and Paul Gilbert) and an amazing bassist (Billy Sheehan). And the other members of those bands ain't too shabby, either! WORD!!!!!!!!! Winger's drummer was Rod Morgenstein from Dixie Dregs, who is now teaching at university, and Mr Big's drummer, Pat Torpey, went on to tour w/ Robert Plant.Saw Mr Big once and during Pat's drum solo he sang a spot on pitch-perfect acapella version of "Something" by The Beatles. Not too shabby indeed.Re-listen to "Colorado Bulldog" or "Addicted to that Rush" from Mr. Big. Musicians playing music.

QUOTE (treeduck @ Jan 21 2012, 07:49 PM)QUOTE (metaldad @ Jan 21 2012, 03:16 PM) QUOTE (Wartypig @ Jan 20 2012, 07:04 AM) Montrose...Space Station 5 Never got into this band. I listen, but i don't hear what other people hear You hear Hagar doing Loved walks in... Oh damn forgot about that chill's down the spine Ronnie lick!! Also DOA-Van Halen and Tie Your Mother Down-Queen.Ok, one more, Into The Void-Black Sabbath.

QUOTE (Enemy Within 77 @ Jan 19 2012, 05:51 PM)QUOTE (invisible airwave @ Jan 19 2012, 03:05 PM) The Cure - Basically anything off their 1984 album, The Top, but especially Bananafishbones. Yup, Robert was really into the psychedelics around that time. Great underrated album in my opinion. +2 Heard them earlier but never HEARD them till Bananafishbones. They're one crafty bunch cha sly one's they are. Also check out Terry Bozzio's Nine Short Film's. MAD I tell's ya MAAAAAaaadddddddd!

Micheal Schenker and ANVIL!! Feb 17th 2012. Yeah booooyyy.

Was great of Sam use THE coolest part of The Necromancer for the advert's. Yes,too much time was spent on "fringe-y" bands like Opeth et. al.Mastodon, while highly skilled, sounds to me like Helmet in a blender. Also glad Sam recognized Return of the giant Hogweeds single string tapping intro as well as the entire songs influence on so much that came after. Squire, Bruford,Giles, HACKETT!!Hell Yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Wall will always hold a place in my heart because of where I was at the time: LA , hanging around outside the Sports Arena trying, like a zillion other people, to score tickets for the Walls last show. Out of the Zombie Apocalypse that was the crowd a tall skinny English bloke complete w/ scarf, shoulder-bag and Sweet era hair walks up to me, ME, and quietly asks if I need tickets! 3 please! We quickly paid and bailed and he was absolutely swarmed.Found our seat's just as the show started.I still have the stub and gaze at it every now and then. Yes, I like Pink Floyd and The Wall very much.

QUOTE (lerxt1990 @ Jan 31 2012, 08:23 PM)QUOTE (Good @ bad,andrush,Jan 31 2012, 07:00 PM) QUOTE (lerxt1990 @ Jan 31 2012, 06:56 PM) QUOTE (Good @ bad,andrush,Jan 31 2012, 06:46 PM) QUOTE (lerxt1990 @ Jan 31 2012, 06:43 PM) QUOTE (Good @ bad,andrush,Jan 31 2012, 06:42 PM) Somebody to Love superb example... I mean damn, when dok you hear that vocal power in rock? It's closer to opera...and the beuautiful 6/8 music backing it up, that's such a damn good song, I think it's popularity made us forget how good it is, just like We are the Champions and Bohemian Rhapsody. We will rock you isn't all that great though except the guitar solo. beauty: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pMM4iwC-ag Won't open on my iPad But hell just about anything Freddy sings is amazing, especially the first few albums. get a pc fancy pants. yes - he had a beautiful voice. strong, range, very unique. i miss those days... Freddie, bar none. Now I love's me some Jon A., Paul M. and John L. but no one compares to the man who sang Mustapha. I never directly heard Freddie lift something from another singer but check out Tina Turner singing Fool in Love. Sorry, don't have a link but a good version is on the "What's love got to do with it" soundtrack.

QUOTE (HemispheresserehpsimeH @ Feb 1 2012, 02:12 PM)I'll just leave this here: http://www.craveonline.com/music/articles/...eCCqeO1.twitter Yes, I took the bait and was punked by Tattoo but I do stand by my sentiment that COMPARED to their earlier work it's lame.Bait-switch-punked. Glad I was wrong. AWESOME review BTW

WOW, now THAT'S Van f***ing Halen!!!!!!!!!! I'd say that Wolfie has arrived! gotta go eat a bigass helping of crow for my earlier posts.

Tang.

Just maybe noodling about while the tape is running. Didn't sound like a serious worked out part. Loads of those from all instruments on the cutting room floor (to use a film making analogy). Still sweet to hear George's joyful voice singing with conviction in the knowledge that he had written a monster song.

QUOTE (RUSHHEAD666 @ Jan 31 2012, 05:00 AM)Carl Palmer is the shit. One of the greatest drummers in the world. He shouldn't be labeled PROG. I saw the Carl Palmer Band in San Francisco many years ago. Mind blowing. I think currently Gavin Harrison is the best but putting labels on drummers in one specific genre is totally lame. I'm glad my Simon Phillips vote was ignored for he is the true champion of drummers, even on a prog thred. The man can do it all. He can cover and kick ass in all musical genres. Some of you brainwashed zombies rip on METAL DRUMMERS on a prog drumming thread? Really? You ever hear Simon's drumming on "Sin After Sin" by Judas Priest? He ain't no fukkin' boring Dave Holland! You ever hear Simon's playing on the Pete Townshend solo albums? It's pretty progressive to me. Mike Rutherford was in a "prog" band. Even hear Simon play on Mike's solo album "Small Creep's Day?" Jeff Beck's "There And Back" could be labeled prog rock fusion. Simon also plays on "801 LIVE." Hello? PROG? Simon Phillips blows everyone on here away. Sorry Danny Carey, Neil Peart, Bill Bruford, and Michael Giles!! Step aside! Heck, even Billy Cobham blows them away too. That being said I will take Simon over Billy as well. Not even Billy can do "Space Boogie." JMO +1K. BTW, RUSHHEAD666, where is the Simon Phillips discography list at?Thanks man!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My Ding-a-ling. Chuck Berry.

Carl Palmer! Brain Salad Surgery, Tarkus, Pictures at an Exhibition. Carl Palmer!

QUOTE (apetersvt @ Jan 29 2012, 09:05 PM)QUOTE (MassProductionZone @ Jan 28 2012, 12:01 PM) Hey apertersvt, did you go backward through the Floyd catalog from there? Yes. My roomate in college (early 90s) played a lot of Floyd so I became familiar with their entire catalogue. Animals is my favorite Floyd album. Meddle is up there too. I pretty much only listen to Meddle, Dark Side, WYWH, and Animals. I did watch Live at Pompeii last night for what it's worth. What a great DVD. Oh man Pompeii,when they roll the equipment in, no sound, WOW.DVD is awesome but the directors cut version bored me to death. Lost all of it's momentum w/ all that chit-chat, for me anyway. Animals is my fave too. Tool fans have their "Tool-gasm" moments in their favorite songs and Pigs has that at the end of the long talk-box section.I like how they called out Whitehouse too. VERY brave for the Brit's. Wish someone still made songs like that cuz I'd buy it

That ancient alien technology exists. Case in point: Sound waves/vibrations can elevate matter temporarily and if tweaked correctly can move said matter about.The Pyramids?Yep! A random orbit sander is a good example of this, "as ancient alien theorists believe"

The Ruttles , and a distant 2nd The Beatles Yeah know The Beatles lifted plenty of "inspiration" from their faves too, The Everly Brothers,Little Richard, Roy Orbison. They just were a little more sly than Zep. I've never been a blues guy but got into Lead Belly some years back and was amazed how blatantly obvious it was that Page "borrowed" his riff's. I would have given LZ the nod for best if not for that.

I think another reason it was/is so huge is that it was expected to be another great Floyd album but the world was totally blind-sided by the new direction. Shorter acoustic numbers that stood on their own,radio friendly singles and of course The Trial....."Since, my friend you have revealed your deepest fear, I sentence you to be exposed before your peers".Spit-sung and heavy,tell me, who else was doing that then?????????? Back to the movie,the one unforgivable crime is Hey You being cut.REALLY??!! Hey apertersvt, did you go backward through the Floyd catalog from there?

QUOTE (tjtull @ Jan 27 2012, 10:29 AM)Love Alice!!!! My favorite album remains Love it to Death followed by Killer. There's not a bad song on either album!! The Ballad of Dwight Fry gives me chills every time I hear it. TOTALLY! How it fades into Sun Arise.. Brilliant I really liked that you could hear Alice's influence's in the G'n'R and Smashing Pumpkins records.

QUOTE (ReRushed @ Dec 14 2011, 04:53 PM)QUOTE (Unattractive Truth @ Dec 14 2011, 03:43 PM) QUOTE (rushfanNlv @ Dec 14 2011, 01:31 PM) QUOTE (metaldad @ Dec 14 2011, 11:00 AM) QUOTE (Tommy Sawyer @ Dec 14 2011, 12:12 AM) The Wall is just another rock album. For some, it is better than others, but it's just a halfway good concept album. If you were around when it came out , you would feel a little different . I agree with this post. Exactly. I agree as well. When The Wall was first released it was IT. Nothing else really mattered. You can't underestimate the power of that dbl-disk when it came out. Musicians across all genres were talking about it.Why have you spent so much time and energy tearing down the The Wall(sorry)?Now, The Wall movie on the other hand............

QUOTE (Hatchetaxe&saw @ Jan 27 2012, 10:09 AM)QUOTE (drbirdsong @ Jan 27 2012, 02:47 PM) http://www.amazon.com/Queen-Days-Our-Lives...27675311&sr=1-6 You can get the blu-ray for 20 bucks. There are tons of extras. I'm ordering it today. You will not regret it! As superb companion pieces, I heartily recommend the following recently released books on Queen & Freddie. 40 Years of Queen - Harry Doherty - it really is the ultimate Queen scrapbook. Queen Unseen - Peter "Ratty" Hince - Ratty was Freddie & John's roadie from the mid-70's til the Magic tour, some great stories and pics, as Ratty was an amatuer photographer. He's now a professional snapper. Is This The Real Life? - Mark Blake - the most indepth bio on Queen. Freddie Mercury - The Definitive Biography - Lesley Ann Jones - to date I've read 5 Freddie bios, some average, some truly dreadful. Lesley was one of the few journalists Freddie tolerated, so she got to see and hear things other journos could only dream of. It truly is the definitive book on Freddie. Some real surprises in there too. (I believe this book is getting an American release in July as MERCURY: An intimate biography of Freddie Mercury.) Nice to know and thanks for the heads up.

QUOTE (ucsteve667 @ Jan 23 2012, 07:42 AM)QUOTE (Silas Lang @ Jan 23 2012, 01:37 AM) A Night at the Opera is a masterpiece in my book and I like their other big popular songs, but other than that I've never been able to get into Queen very much Try the album Sheer Heart Attack...my fave from them True dat. SHA has the best and brightest production and Rogers drums have never sounded better on any record before or after.Another later fave is Rockit. Roger wrote it,Freddie starts it, Roger hops on board and then and then.. WE WANT SOME PRIME JIVE.Just try to keep from singing and toe tappin'.That Brian guy's not too bad either.

QUOTE (Presto-digitation @ Jan 26 2012, 03:35 PM)I clued my buddy into the two new tunes (FULL VERSIONS) and these were his comments. I post it because after a few listens this is exactly how I feel, down to the Vai comments even: "The Trouble With Never"- Wow. I think this type of song is what people were looking for and expected for the first single. If those fans hear this and don't like it, then they need to turn in their Eddie cards and golock themselves in an empty room somewhere. The riffs in this song are just twisted and sick.. I love it. The wah drenched main riff halfway reminds me of a Satriani/Vai thing (in a good way). The solo is classic badass Eddie. But what really stood out for me was what was underneath the solo: Wolfie and Alex are TIGHT. They've definitiely gelled as a rhythm section. I love that half-tempo breakdown in the middle (speaking part get a pass as it's DLR doing it), the riff is just crushing. VERY excited and happy with this tune. And of course Dave's lyrics are perfect..all kinds of double meanings and wordplay. "Blood And Fire"- Another excellent tune. Like you said when you heard the preview, has a 1984 vibe to it. Eddie's sound is very clear and chimey with just enough dirt...very classic "brown sound". Not as saturated a tone as he typically has these last few years. And that solo is of course fabulous. He's really baring his teeth again. Overall, it sounds like a BAND again. There's energy and passion there. VERY excited for the rest of the album!!! Yes, what he said!