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Post by sparky123 on Feb 4, 2016 21:49:46 GMT
Interesting what you say regarding Guns n' Roses, as I would have thought they are nothing without Axl/Slash, as those two were at the forefront of GnR, even though Izzy probably did more for the band but gets the least credit. For me it's always about the songwriters. Songwriting is the craft I admire most by far. Singers? Guitarists? There are thousands of those who are good. You make a program like American Idol and thousands of great singers will come out from under the rocks. You go to any blues jam in any low neighbourhood and the good guitarists pile up. But songwriters, that's a whole different story. There are just a bunch of good ones because it's a way more complicated art which requires much more creativity, you have to combine chords, melody and rhythm. And that's where the heart of the music is IMO, not in a good guitar solo or a great singing performance but in a good song. Izzy Stradlin wrote most of GnR's good songs. Many of their most famous songs were written by him, some in co-production with Axl who mostly did the lyrics. Slash took too much credit because he was always in the front line waving his mane but he never wrote anything good. It was Izzy, standing beside him with few spotlights, who made GnR the band it was. Proof is that as soon as Izzy left it all went downhill for them because they didn't have new songs which could make an impact. Totally agree with what you are saying. |
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Post by Chippa on Feb 4, 2016 23:06:34 GMT
Wish I'd seen The Beatles, Pink Floyd during the Wall tour, The Clash, Ramones, Sex Pistols,Queen, Eagles and Bob Seger in their heyday, The Kinks.
My bucket list is Macca and ELO.
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Post by sparky123 on Feb 6, 2016 23:15:24 GMT
Wish I'd seen The Beatles, Pink Floyd during the Wall tour, The Clash, Ramones, Sex Pistols,Queen, Eagles and Bob Seger in their heyday, The Kinks. My bucket list is Macca and ELO. You not seeing JL's ELO is tour? |
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Post by Chippa on Feb 7, 2016 19:11:55 GMT
Wish I'd seen The Beatles, Pink Floyd during the Wall tour, The Clash, Ramones, Sex Pistols,Queen, Eagles and Bob Seger in their heyday, The Kinks. My bucket list is Macca and ELO. You not seeing JL's ELO is tour? If he does a US show or two, I hope to. |
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Post by sparky123 on Feb 8, 2016 6:58:15 GMT
You not seeing JL's ELO is tour? If he does a US show or two, I hope to. I see. He's got a few dates down already, so fingers crossed for you, he'll do more. |
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Post by BSJ on Feb 10, 2016 20:39:33 GMT
Van Morrison want to see
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Post by jrmugz on Mar 4, 2016 20:33:58 GMT
Always wanted to see The Moodies, and the Charlie Daniels Band. In their heyday? Can't think of any that I can't already find on youtube or DVD.  Jim |
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, but we're OK. 
Apparently it's quite hard to see them with the naked eye, you need to be looking through a camera or other type of lens?