"Bob Dylan's dream"
Posted on 04/05/2013 7:20:30 PM PDT by MNDude
There are a lot of lousy musicians that are a lot more popular than they deserve, but in you opinion, who are the three most over rated musicians (or groups) of all time?
"Bob Dylan's dream"
Wow. That was really revealing. I should have known a bunch of Brits could not have written “When the Levee Breaks.” And they stole from Joan Baez? How did they get away with that? And the guitar riff from Stairway to Heaven. I can’t believe they didn’t credit any of these artists. That’s rotten.
“The Sex Pistols were a manufactured band as well, a selling point being they couldn’t play their instruments.”
Considering he hadn’t been playing for very long when they recorded Never Mind the Bollocks, Steve Jones was not a bad guitarist. Glen Matlock was a decent musician, but he got the boot in part because he liked stuff like the Beatles.
Sid Vicious was so bad that the band frequently turned off his amp during shows, and according to Jones there are maybe three or four notes of Sid’s bass playing on Never Mind the Bollocks. Jones played bass on most of the album; Matlock played it on “Anarchy In The UK.” If you don’t have enough musical ability to play bass in a punk band, you’ve gotta be pretty hopeless...
It’s pretty sad that most of what passes for soul music these days has no soul to speak of...
Yoko Ono
Stop this wedding at all costs.
I heard it on The X.
Barry White's music gets me in the mood for doin' the banana split!
Post a youtube mate.
(Sorry about the delay, my mouse ran out of juice last night, drug stores were closed, and I don't know how to drive without it.)
I look forward to warm and cozy Hades where I’ll sit comfortably listening to Bob Dylan, while the “Dylan can’t sing” crowd is stuck in Heaven listening 24x7 for eternity to Heino who CAN sing!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sJxxikKk8Q
I guess they'll be knock knock knockin' on Heaven's door.
“Van Morrison.”
Oh no you didit.
'Allo Gordo.
Excuse me, I prefer if you call me "Sting" from now on.
Aye, you've gone off your bleedin' rocker, Gordo.
Nothing to add, except to admit that I have a brief first hand experience with the mob and the jukeboxes.
What we are seeing now are the beginnings of a truly free market in the music industry, that is to say outside the mainstream music industry, where the artists manufacture and distribute their own recordings, whether hard copy CDs or downloadable files, that Apple or Amazon stores for them. There is so much good music out there if you look.
I think I mentioned the excellent British band Phat Bollard that supports itself by busking, and pays little attention to CD sales, except those they sell on the street. One reviewer compared them favorably to the mainstream Mumford and Sons. In the past year I’ve discovered a couple of dozen others like them, all through Al Gore’s invention.
Way back in '87, they got some minor play on MTV with:
Some people thought David Kincaid was the next John Fogerty. Then they couldn't find an American record label that wasn't out to screw them so they signed with a minor European label that gave them a lot more freedom.
No slick studio productions. They sound just as good live in a small venue as they do on CD or in a concert hall...
Lead singer David Kincaid is incredibly versatile and is equally at home at a Celtic Folk Festival:
as he is in a Civil War music ensemble:
I'm not aware of the Brandos ever having trashed any hotel rooms or choking to death on their own vomit, so they may not be as reknowned rockers as Led Zep, but under rated?
Hell yeah.
Well, they didn’t really get away with it. They’ve been sued several times over these things, and I think they’ve either lost or settled all the cases, having to pay the artists off retroactively.
McLaren tried to sign another punk band that could play, Cock Sparrer, before he decided to put together the Pistols. They told him to “p*** off” because he wouldn’t buy the drinks at their contract negotiation, held in a local pub.
Lydon & Rotten just wanted to be famous, so they were probably more compliant :)
Frank Sinatra, The Who, and Stevie Wonder
All Along the Watchtower is the example that jumps most quickly to mind, although by an odd perhaps (not) coincidence, a very old folk song Dylan revived for the Rock Era in 1961, called The House of the Rising Sun has subsequently been done better by everyone else; The Animals, Frijid Pink had the most commercial success with it. I think just about every folksinger in the 30's and 40's tried his/her hand at it, certainly everyone in Woody Guthrie's circle did before Dylan came along. My favorite rendition currently belongs to Leslie West. It is also the most recent major label version I'm aware of.
Ahhhh, that'd be the Moody Blues, imo.
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