Top 5's Part Three-Random Shit

Aerosmith? ZZ Top? Bloodrock? Molly Hatchett? Blackfoot? Boston? Blood, Sweat And Tears? Foreigner? Journey? Allman Brothers Band? The Grateful Dead? Eagles? KISS? Alice Cooper? ??????

Akeldama wrote:

Aerosmith? ZZ Top? Blackfoot? Boston?

I thought of these after a little more thinking, actually.

In no particular order

KISS
Steely Dan
Chicago
Blue Oyster Cult
Grand Funk Railroad

Mine are...

1. Steely Dan
2. Alice Cooper
3. ZZ Top
4. Aerosmith
5. The Ramones

...I think...

Not necessarily in any order:

Steely Dan
Aerosmith
Alice Cooper
The Doobie Brothers
Blue Oyster Cult

I'm going to split mine:

Late 60's to early 70's

1. Jimi Hendrix
2. Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
3. The Doors
4. Buffalo Springfield
5. Allman Brothers Band

the rest...

1. Steely Dan
2. Heart
3. Blue Oyster Cult
4. The Doobie Brothers
5. KISS - they were so important to my musical development I had to include them.

I was gonna do a late '60s one after a few days...I like seeing Neil Young represented twice

Akeldama wrote:

I was gonna do a late '60s one after a few days...I like seeing Neil Young represented twice

In my case it's more Stephen Stills being represented twice, but I definitely like both. In fact Neil and Crazy Horse just barely missed the list.

Akeldama wrote:

I was gonna do a late '60s one after a few days...I like seeing Neil Young represented twice

Wait, wait, wait............. Can't do Neil, He's Canadian.

chewie wrote:

Akeldama wrote:

I was gonna do a late '60s one after a few days...I like seeing Neil Young represented twice

Wait, wait, wait............. Can't do Neil, He's Canadian.

True, I just like the fact that he was in 2 of SD's bands since I'm a huge fanboy. Good catch though.

Late '60s to early '70s:

1. Jimi Hendrix
2. CCR
3. The Doors
4. Grateful Dead
5. Santana

Top 5 Talk Box Guitarists:


1. Joe Walsh
2. Peter Frampton
3. Don Felder
4. Richie Sambora
5. Mick Mars

Those are the only 5 that come to mind!

I think Frampton is the only big one that used it regularly. For most of the others, it was either a one-time thing or just a dumb gimmick.

Joe Walsh used it quite a bit as well, in fact the top 3 of my list are the only ones i actually like how they used it the other two did as you say use it as a dumb gimmick.

Akeldama wrote:

Top 5 Talk Box Guitarists:


1. Joe Walsh
2. Peter Frampton
3. Don Felder
4. Richie Sambora
5. Mick Mars

Those are the only 5 that come to mind!

Mathias Jabs used it on The Zoo, which I would venture to say is a better song than "baby I Love Your Way"

theJOKERiv wrote:

Akeldama wrote:

Top 5 Talk Box Guitarists:


1. Joe Walsh
2. Peter Frampton
3. Don Felder
4. Richie Sambora
5. Mick Mars

Those are the only 5 that come to mind!

Mathias Jabs used it on The Zoo, which I would venture to say is a better song than "baby I Love Your Way"

You're right, Joker, I forgot about that and I agree 'The Zoo' is better and Joe Perry used one on 'Sweet Emotion'.

I like the way Wrathchild America/Souls At Zero used the talkbox. It was featured prominently on "Desert Grins" and "Never".

SD inspired this one:


Top 5 White Blues Guitarists:

Honestly, I have to think about this for a few days...

Johnny Winter
uh...

Johnny Winter for sure. Don't forget SRV, Joe Bonamassa, Paul Kossoff, Peter Green, John Mayer, Billy Gibbons, Alvin Lee, Paul Butterfield...to name a few.

To me "blues" and "blues rock" are different categories.

Akeldama wrote:

Johnny Winter for sure. Don't forget SRV, Joe Bonamassa, Paul Kossoff, Peter Green, John Mayer, Billy Gibbons, Alvin Lee, Paul Butterfield...to name a few.

Personally I can't stand SRV at all. Alvin Lee is a good one, and I guess Paul Butterfield too. All those others are pretty firmly blues-rock though, which doesn't really count.

You guys are right, I wasn't paying too much attention.

I wouldn't say that...sometimes it's hard to differentiate.

I'd say that Peter Green is definitely a blues guitarist, SRV was a blues guitarist AND a blues rock guitarist, Johnny Winter I'm not really sure about. Billy Gibbons I would classify as blues rock.

Picking 5 is going to be a bitch, but I'm not really as familiar with the white guitarists, most of my blues listening dates from the 50s and 60s.

I've only delved into blues rock guitarists, like Rory Gallagher and Gary Moore. Blues (and jazz to an extent) seems like a genre that is very difficult to "figure out", because there is so much output to dig through.