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Level 42 never were,are,or will be a credible band.
Billy Sheehan
Lynott
Eddie Jackson (from Queensryche - listen to the tone on Empire!)
Melvyn Brannon Jr
Gotta be Steve Harris!!
and troy van leuwen too (sp?).
As a middle aged saddo, I have no idea about Pavement. They appear to be a modern beat combo.
They were (?are) great, notable for a) being a bit too clever, and b) sounding 'slightly' like the Fall in the early days.
More importantly, there is ongoing heated debate about whether [i]Crooked Rain[/i] or [i]Wowee Zowee[/i] is their masterwork.
Andy
(It's [i]Wowee Zowee[/i], since you ask)
Out of all that I understood "The Fall", they were popular when Q was new and I could still see my feet.
I wouldn't go so far as to use 'popular' as a term to describe Pavement 😛
'Critical darlings' would be closer to the mark - they were around when Oasis were far & away the biggest band in the UK, & Bush (Bush!) in the US. Their popularity among music journalists & students was entirely disproportionate.
Andy
[i]Their popularity among music journalists & students was entirely disproportionate.[/i]
Indeed, liking REM, Radiohead, Nirvana etc etc, I'm slap bang in the "Oh you must like Pavement" demographic, when in fact, because I'm not a journalist from the NME, I can see them for what they were; just a bit dull
13 songs was a great album though.
it was 2 great EP's first 😉
Stuart Morrow / Jason Harris / Nelson
I was expecting that one from you... 8)
I'm slap bang in the "Oh you must like Pavement" demographic, when in fact, because I'm not a journalist from the NME, I can see them for what they were; just a bit dull
I don't know that that's wholly fair; however, I do own a copy of [url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Young%27s_Hospital ]Gary Young's Hospital[/url] so perhaps I am not entirely unbiased.
There are worse horrors lurking in my record collection - the complete works of [url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polvo ]Polvo[/url]* anyone?
Andy
*[i]Exploded Drawing[/i] is really good, incidentally.
This thread could do so much better...
Squarepusher, Bootsy Collins, [url=
Steele[/url]
Lemmy sounds like the Honey Monster.
Haha [b]john_drummer[/b] you didn't let me down, I immediately thought of the opening riff of 'running in the rain''Notice me' and 'the price';all blinders
Like Chris Wolstenholme (Muse),
& Mick Karn is my bass-hero.
John Entwhistle really was remarkably good though ....
[i] "Oh you must like Pavement" demographic, when in fact, because I'm not a journalist from the NME, I can see them for what they were; just a bit dull[/i]
What they were in your opinion. Pavement had some truly great songs. Bit prolific for their own good, but nowhere near one of the dullest bands of their era.
John Entwistle
[url=
Generation[/url]
followed closely by Peter Hook
DezB, Oh c'mon, some of those albums are all filler no killer. 😀
Lets be honest here the fact that the first drummer handed out cabbage and mash and toast and would rather do handstands than play the drums and yet still Slanted and Enchanted is their best album and then they still sacked him says a lot...They even called themselves "The band that killed Looapalooza"
Navel gazing made into music...
😀
Can't say I have all their albums! But the one's I've got I love. Malkmus's wonky voice just does it for me.
Not really the sort of thing I listen to regularly now, so I'm not going to get all passionate about it 🙂
Annnnnyway. Bernard Edwards needs to go on the list! (Chic, etc)
[i]John Entwistle
My Generation[/i]
I can play that. Or used to be able to!
Mind you, if you like Pavement, Have you heard of the National? just downloaded latest album, think you'd like it. (based on what I know of your tastes on here)
Entwistle and Hooky are excellent, with the latter being genre-defining.
I'd add Steve Harris, whose galloping bass lines define an awful lot of the Iron Maiden sound.
And a favourite (though not very good) bass player: Roger Waters. What he lacks in musical ability is more than made up for in megolamania and general grumpiness.
No love for Flea here, he's just a rip off combination of Leigh Gorman from Bow Wow Wow and Mike Watt from The Minutemen/fIREHOSE.
When I played bass my favs. were Andy Rourke, Paul Simenon, Barry Adamson and Bernard Edwards.
Andy Rourke was and is very underated, as much a genius part of The Smiths as Marr, some great melodic and interesting bass lines.
[i]Leigh Gorman from Bow Wow Wow[/i] - that guy was brilliant 🙂
Barry Adamson - just brought to mind the opening riff from Release the Bats... mean.
David Jay was a big influence on me in a former life.
glen diani - one minute silence. good player, ace showman
Phil Lynott- top bloke
Dad taught him to play!
Squarepusher
God yes, i forgot him.
Not seen mention of Percy Jones (Brand X) or Mike Howlett either.