100 Rock n Blues

Geck0 wrote: The Allman Brothers Band's last album "Hitting the Note" is fantastic and what a lineup!  Warren Haynes and Derek Trucks are quite simply born to play together.  Trucks and Jaimoe are also born to drum together and Marc Quinones adds a very cool percussion sound as well.  Gregg Allman's voice is as outstanding as ever too. A great band. Gov't Mule are my pick for great albums.  Very consistent indeed and not a single bad album.  They have a new one out in August, so I am looking very forward to it. I think even Teaflax would agree that they're not a standard 12-bar blues band!

Don't be so sure. My tolerance for that kind of thing is very very low. LIke I said, there are maybe five albums on the list above that I could listen to without cringing or getting annoyed.

^AGAIN, the list is alphabetical.

Certif1ed wrote: No - it was mine. Did I ever tell you...

.....Yes!

Certif1ed wrote: That man sure could carry a guitar...

Isn't it Peter Green's ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????

That man sure could carry a guitar...

My picks (where I haven't commented, the chosen album gets my vote!):

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16 I prefer 5th Dimension, but that might be just me!
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35 Interesting that you miss out Dire Straits' debut - but Makin' Movies is a better album all round.
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37
39 Can't go wrong with the Doors - any of their albums would have been good picks.
41 I would pick "Highway 61 Revisited".
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67
69
71 *Good album, but there are so many good albums by Mayall/Bluesbreakers. My picks would have been "Turning Point" and "Bare Wires" - or even the "Bluesbreakers" album.
78 "Let It Bleed" is my favourite of all the Stones albums, with "Satanic Majesties" a close 2nd (mainly for the humour).
81 *Again, good album, but I would pick the debut.
82 *Quality - I'm a big fan of Savoy Brown, and Raw Sienna is a superb album. Gotta mention "Looking In", "Blue Matter" and "Hellbound Train".
83 "Dance to the Music" and "There's a Riot Going On" are better, IMHO.
89 I would pick "Ssssh!" or "Stonehenge" by TYA.
91 "Couldn't Stand the Weather", of course!

I would say that 7,15,24,50,61,66,75,80,82,95 represent some of the best that may have been lost through the years, so much so as they are as good or superior to many others on the list!

Edited by DallasBryan - July 06 2006 at 12:25

^The list is alphabetical

Actually, I rushed a bit looking through the list. The Doors' debut is a fine album indeed, and Curtis Mayfield is usually good, even I'm sure he's turned out something better than that 1997 album.

Maybe it's being a studio and live sound engineer in my late teens and hearing one Blues/Rock band after another come in and do the same chords in the same order in the same way, night in and night out. The preponderance of bands who keep themselves within that very limited idiom is staggering once you have to deal with the onslaught - I'd say 4 out of 5 bands I've ever dealt with were in that category, albeit with some internal differences such as being Metal inspired or Clash wannabees.

It got to the point where even a Folk troubadour was a welcome change (easier to mike and mix, too), but it ended up being a thrill when a band could surprise me with even one chord sequence or just a single non-predictable aspect. It didn't happen much - one was a Simple Minds-style band who did an excellent cover of Genesis Back in New York City. The first 7/8 I'd heard live in months at that point, and an unexpected choice for a Pop band.

Sweden has a thriving and active music scene (and I assure you that neither Yngwie nor PoS are even close to being its biggest exports) the likes of which you can only really see in England. And though it's probably changed since the 80's, so that the majority is somewhat smaller, I'm willing to bet that at least 51% of all bands playing gigs around town and rehearsing at Fryshuset (the subsidized rehearsal space where many Stockholm bands started out) are still firmly within Rock/Blues parameters.

It may not be the #1 Radio format, but as far as bands out there playing, there's really nothing more mainstream than a twelve-bar and its offshoots.