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Hey Ozymandias, Christine McVie aka known as Christine Perfect was the original whiskey and tobacco lead singer for the UK 60's blues group Chicken Shack, same era as Maggie Bell. Both great singers.
Hey Ozymandias, Christine McVie aka known as Christine Perfect was the original whiskey and tobacco lead singer for the UK 60's blues group Chicken Shack, same era as Maggie Bell. Both great singers.
Yes, I heard of Chicken Shack, although I have never heard any of their music. And I remember her name before it became McVie was "Perfect". She's had quite a long and successful career.
Maggie Bell, (no pun intended) doesn't ring a bell with me. But, the 60's, IMHO, was a great time for all sorts of musical styles and musical experimentation. Look at groups from that era, Jethro Tull, Amboy Dukes, Traffic, Blind Faith, The Youngbloods, etc. Music of all types came out that wouldn't get a second of airtime today. Sometimes I still hear something today, different, that I love, but, it's a lot rarer now.
I mean singers who are able to raise all your hair.
The first name that STRUCK me was
1) KATE BUSH with WUTHERING HEIGHTS
2) Please don't shoot me but what about NEIL YOUNG, some songs are great for his voice but a lot aren't.
3) BOB DYLAN
And the big problem is that 2 & 3 are one of my most beloved. Like Bob Dylan, that horrible nasal sound with symptoms of a bronchitis.
4) YOKO ONO (I call her always Choko Bono) it is already more than a crime being one of the major players in the split of THE BEATLES.
5) MICHAEL BOLTON
6) ME, GITAARDOCPHIL.
7) PARIS HILTON (I hesitated to put her on 6, but I changed my mind)
8) JAMES BLUNT, in the beginning I really loved his song "you're beautiful" but 10 "listen to that song" later, it is a perfect song to torture people.
9) JOHNNY ROTTEN
10) MUSE, the singer (Matt Bellamy)
So this was my contribution today, may God have mercy on my soul, if I wrote a name and you all tell me that it isn't true.
Kate Bush...never heard, thank the Great Old Ones for that.
Neil Young..........thin reedy voice, but, he does well with some. An acquired taste.
Bob Dylan....Never cared too much for him. specially after reading the Dave Van Ronk semi-biography, "Mayor of McDougal Street".
Yoko Ono...I have heard her sing, the trauma fortunately was dealt with. Oy
Michael Bolton... the Celine Dion of male singers. His version of "Sitting on the Dock of the Bay" is a blasphemy and abomination of unimaginable proportions.
You....your being overly self critical, but, for what it's worth I feel the same way about MY voice.
Paris Hilton.........can't sing, can't act, can't even do porno right.
Johnny Rotten.....remember it was "Punk", the band could barely play their instruments.
Muse...never heard of him, Praise the Nimon.
I'm pretty sure GOD has stuffed cotton in his ears more than a few times at what he hears emanating from down here.
Kenny Chesney...........it sounds like he's singin' with big ole' jelly beans lodged deep within his nostrils. And I heard tale once of a man who saw KC with his hat off . According to this fella that saw KC hatless, he swears Kenny has two golf-ball sized lumps right on top of his head that jiggle like jello when he walks. This may or may not be totally true.
I watched a CMT story tellers episode once in which KC, with a close-up camera in his face, tell a "story" of a song he'd "written". (ahem) After his long-winded blah-blah-blah fest the song began. The camera panned away revealing KC playing a G chord on his unplugged guitar for the entire song. There were 2 "real" guitarists flanking KC to his left and right that were playing acoustic guitars( very well I must say), and changing chords at appropriate times,and their guitars were plugged in.........This is 100% true.
I have zero tolerance for posers.
His albums give proper song-writing credits. He writes darned little of what he performs, as is true of many artists.
I won't say that he has never posed his playing on stage or in a video, but I have heard and seen Kenny Chesney play at a live radio appearance (yes, saw radio, figure it out on your own) and he's darned good. That said, I have a couple friends who play in Nashville with bands you've heard of. Upon hearing a self-done recording of one of my friends who considers himself a campfire picker at best, they both agreed he's a darn site better picker than a lot of the stars they've worked with. According to them, a fair number (but far from all) of the Nashville singing stars don't play at all or only barely play and use the guitars as props because it's expected of a Country star. Kenny Chesney is not among them. He can lay it down.
- Zurf
"He can lay it down. "
I guess this is why Chesney holds a guitar on stage and rarely, if ever, plays a song through from start to finish. Brad Paisley ,Vince Gill, Travis Tritt, Marty Stuart, and Keith Urban can and do play guitar. I have my opinion of the dude(KC) and it is this; he's lame, hugely sucessly and props to him and his management team for this feat, but his voice and guitar posing on stage erks me to no end.........I do however have an open mind and if anyone can produce a video link of KC "tearin' it up" or "layin' it down", maybe I'll change my tune of ole' double lump head. (haha) Everything I've seen up to this point in time however shapes my thoughts and opinions of him.
You are, of course, entitled to your own opinion. He is hugely successful and his management team has surely done a terrific job of promoting (and likely packaging) him. Still doesn't mean he can't play.
Michael Jackson is a heck of a honky-tonk style piano player. Does he ever play piano in a video or do honky-tonk anything on stage? Nope. Marketing is marketing. Kenny Chesney's being paid to be a big show-off, and tearing up some fingerpick bluegrass style guitar isn't part of that. That you draw conclusions based on his public persona is appropriate. It's how he's presented himself. So totally fair game. I'm just saying that he CAN play, not that he does it in his videos. Another buddy of mine who was with him in a green room one time said that he did a parlor trick on a bet to play two songs at one. He played "Dixie" and "Battle Hymn of the Republic" both at the same time. I heard a recording of it. Pretty wicked good, I'd say. Apparantly it's a trick he used to do when he was a solo act in roughneck Nashville bars for a decade or so.
- Zurf
Johnny Rotten.....remember it was "Punk", the band could barely play their instruments.
i think you misunderstand punk music ozy. appologies if I am wrong.
The sex pistols could play instruments apart from Syd Vicious, they tried to teach him the bass but failed ,lol.
People think of punks as spikey haired ragamuffins wit hsafety pins sticking out their noses and playing deafening music. This is not the case with the majority of the punk bands.
They are mostly antiestablishemnt, anti government and I dont see anything wrong with that.
The clash were a punk band and a very fine one at that. they sang about rights for the people and other important everyday issues.
Stiff little fingers a superb all time great punk band. sang and still sing about life issues.
if you heard a few songs of theirs you would never think they are a punk band. A few you could loook up in spotify or pandora are " bits of kids" "each dollar a bullet" "price of admission" "Johnny was" ( bob marley cover) "
these two are different from the sex pistols, they were anarchic punk and mostly about image but still under the same genre of music as punk.
I do like the sex pistols and I am not sticking up for them here. I just wanted to say not all punks were like the sex pistols and folk would be wrong to think all punks are anything like the pistols.
OK, had to get that in,lol.
cheers
ken
ozymandias wrote:Johnny Rotten.....remember it was "Punk", the band could barely play their instruments.
i think you misunderstand punk music ozy. appologies if I am wrong.
The sex pistols could play instruments apart from Syd Vicious, they tried to teach him the bass but failed ,lol.People think of punks as spikey haired ragamuffins wit hsafety pins sticking out their noses and playing deafening music. This is not the case with the majority of the punk bands.
They are mostly antiestablishemnt, anti government and I dont see anything wrong with that.
The clash were a punk band and a very fine one at that. they sang about rights for the people and other important everyday issues.
Stiff little fingers a superb all time great punk band. sang and still sing about life issues.
if you heard a few songs of theirs you would never think they are a punk band. A few you could loook up in spotify or pandora are " bits of kids" "each dollar a bullet" "price of admission" "Johnny was" ( bob marley cover) "these two are different from the sex pistols, they were anarchic punk and mostly about image but still under the same genre of music as punk.
I do like the sex pistols and I am not sticking up for them here. I just wanted to say not all punks were like the sex pistols and folk would be wrong to think all punks are anything like the pistols.
OK, had to get that in,lol.
cheers
ken
No, I would defer to your opinion since punk was founded and birthed in the UK. The Clash were a REAL band in that they combined raw emotion and musicianship very well. The Sex Pistols were about image and nothing else. The WHO were raw emotion, but, nobody can doubt their musical competence. Keith Moon was a gifted drummer who died too soon. John Entwhistle, "The Ox" was a great Bass player, Pete Townsend.....guitar player, Roger Daltrey, raw emotion, great voice, not a bad musician in his own right.
If a musician is PISSED and mad as hell and can play well and sing with competency and emotion, THEY will get my attention. Hell, Delta Blues in the US is about raw emotion, BUT, musicality and ability.
Ken, your ok and you have serious cred IMHO!
Cheers.. and that is said with a glass of cream sherry lifted to the NE direction. Next time it will be with a proper single malt scotch! <grin>
He played "Dixie" and "Battle Hymn of the Republic" both at the same time. I heard a recording of it.
- Zurf
Did you see him do it? I appreciate your passion in standing up for someone you obviously have immense respect for. Could we go so far as to call it a man crush?( haha, just jokin' wit' ya)
I personally have spent lots of time in the "gutter" bars of Nashville. My baby sister lives there and I visit her often. I 've met and spoke with Stacy Mitchhart and Blues-U-Can-Use band that play at Bourbon Street Blues and Boogie Bar in the heart of "printers alley"( Gretchen Wilson was discovered at this fine locale).
In 3rd and Lindsley I met 3 dudes that call themselves "Bone Pony"( Scott, Bryan, and Tramp). Fantasic band, ya gotta see 'em in person to believe what they can do live!
And finally in a dark, moldy, old landmark bar on the "wrong" side of the tracks in Nasheville I met a group of gentleman by the name of Larry Cordle and Lonesome Standard Time band at the Station Inn.
Maybe your circle of friends in Nashville have some top secret information on KC that the guys and gals I know are not aware of. ( it is possible and I'd love to be proven wrong, it'd be a beautiful story) I would never be so brash to question your word but from my personal paths of travel in Nashville on the road of currently working musicians, KC is not one whom these musicians aspire to emulate. And until I see it with my own eyes and hear it with my own ears,I say Kenny Chesney is a poser...........
See what I mean;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XlwOslb75A
For me it is Celine Dion. I'm sorry, I know she has lots of fans but I just hate hat, I'm singing with my head i a cardboard box sound. Nightmare!
'That' and 'in'... Sorry my keys are sticking!
'That' and 'in'... Sorry my keys are sticking!
Well, stop singing and typing with your head in a cardboard box.
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