I'm thinking of the best 'complete' band. Rock band obviously.
By complete i mean the band with the most talented people in it. You could say that Freddie Mercury is the greatest frontman of all time and Brian May is the greatest rock guitarist of all time too and I would possibly agree, depending on how argumentative i am feeling, but who rates Roger Taylor and John Deacon?
(Disclaimer: RHCP are my personal favourite band and i will argue forever that Blood Sugar Sex Magic is in fact the greatest album of all time along with Throwing Copper (Live) and a few others.)
RHCP are up there, Anthony Keidis is one of the greatest ever frontmen, Flea is probably the greatest rock bass guitarists ever and John Frusciante is a genius, but no one ever rates Chad Smith (Except me of course, that dude bangs fuck out of the skins like a madman and sadly i am nowhere near cool enough to say skins...)
Now I'm not saying that the people i'm not mentioning are crap or anything, all i'm saying is that they're not in the top twenty or so to ever do what they do.
Queen/ RHCP are lucky most bands only have one dude who is rated. Green Day = Billie Joe Armstrong; Faith No More = Mikey Patton
You have think about (as I write, 'Oops.... I did it again' has started to play. Fully wrecking my rock vibe.... that is the downside of ripping all of my wifes music to itunes and not finishing sorting it all out)
You have to think about Led Zeppelin with Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, John Paul Jones and John Bonham. Four incredibly talented dudes; all of which are probably in the top twenty or so of their position in the band.
Once again, I will come back to this in good time.
Chad Smith is criminally underrated as a drummer, admittedly his performance on the last few Chili's albums have sounded a little "phoned in" (though my opinion is that they haven't released anything interesting since One Hot Minute).
ReplyDeleteBill Gould is pretty awesome (Faith No More) and Roddy Bottom before he left was pretty well known too.
I reckon I'd submit Radiohead, The Who or Cream as the best complete bands.
Oh dude, I know all about Chad and I agree that he is brilliant. I own a doco where Anthony and Flea are banging on about needing a new drummer after Jack Irons left and they tell a mean story about this bogan, baseball cap minnesota hard man rolling up to the rehearsal and smashing the balls of off the kit.
ReplyDeleteWith regard to the last few albums, I didn't get the one hot minute vibe, I'm not a Navarro fan, just not. Now Californication has great songs, but is not a great album and By The Way is a great album with mostly average songs. I am not going to talk about the last two albums....
Wise, it's better avoided. Could be a cool topic, awesome bands that went off the boil?
ReplyDeleteI'm sure that will come up in time.
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