--- On Wed, 1/26/11, Cfh <cfhiebert@sasktel.net> wrote:
A friend of mine from years ago
> once said that
> playing bass and handling vocals was something to be
> admired. He was/is a
> bass player in a local band and has does not handle any
> vocal work at all.
> He was commenting on Geddy Lee at the time. He was not a
> Rush fan
> whatsoever, but gave Lee props for what he was doing.
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it's extremely difficult. One of the most impressive displays of musical skill I ever saw, was Sting on the Police's Zenyatta Mondata tour. That guy played reggae bass lines, that are in one time signature and start and end on one set of "beat marks", and sang lead in another time signature that started and ended on another set. Really really impressive. It was like he had two brains.
Maybe thats why he was such an egomaniac.
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>
> I used to watch that show and I can't recall a Wings poster
> at all. I do
> recall a Kiss poster in Eric's bedroom that my brother
> owned. I liked the
> fact that they used vintage stuff. Those huge posters were
> great, my brother
> (again) had the Alice Cooper version of those beasts.
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I had a giant Jimi Hendrix poster, which was a famous one, daylight shot of him, from below, i think taken at the Atlanta Pop Festival, late in his career. I had a Led Zep one, lots of people had it, that was a collage of a bunch of different photos, same style as the one I mentioned in the background of That 70s Show. I had a "famous rock guitarists" poster done by the same people. And a Pink Floyd one, same style, collage.
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> I had that Rock n Roll album on cassette from a cut out
> bin. Never cared for
> it. Seemed a bit mechanical, but then again I probably
> didn't give it a fair
> amount of listens.
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theres a really nice version of Ben E King's "Stand By Me" that got some airplay and a bunch of cover bands still do it to this day, around here.
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> Favourtie Lennon quote when asked if Ringo was the best
> drummer in the
> world: In the world? He's not even the best drummer in the
> Beatles..
>
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which was bullshit and I'm positive Lennon knew it and was yanking Ringo's chain. The only track that can be positively confirmed that Ringo did NOT play on, is Back in the USSR, and the drums are not that spectacular. Macca played most of it and later George and John added "percussion", who knows what that means. Ringo was an excellent drummer, in my opinion, and Macca was not, nor is.
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