The far ends of the talent spectrum

cannon wrote: Drums:   Excellent: Bill Bruford Good: Bobby Caldwell: Captain beyond and Armageddon Bad: Virgil Donati   Bass:    Excellent: Chris Squire Good: Billy Sheehan Bad: Gene Simmons   Guitar:   Excellent: Mike Bloomfield Good: Jan Akkerman Bad: George Thorogood   Vocals:   Excellent: Ronnie James Dio Good: Chris Cornell Bad: Bob Dylan   Keys:   Excellent: Keith Emerson Good: Vincent Crane Bad: Eddie Van Halen

Yeah, Thorogood really sucks, just thought of a nickname for him-"Unthorogood"

A Rich gravy poured from a midas jug - Arthur Brown

Sandpaper on the soul - Geddy Lee

Love to pieces:

Have to disagree with Tom Waits. I have Swordfishtrombones, and I like his hoarse singing. Then again, that's what happens when you keep listening to Don Van Vliet and Lee Jackson. 

Drums:
 - Good: Charles Hayward.
 - Bad: Steven Adler.
 - Ugly: Lars Ulrich.

Vocals:
 - Good: Peter Hamill.
 - Bad: Tom Waits.
 - Ugly: Christian Vander.

 

The Truth wrote: Could never decide on one truly amazing artist (I'm way to easily impressed I guess. ) but the crappy one for me would definitely be this.

Nonsense, Friday is possibly the funniest bad song because of the lyrics, but I can give you 4 worse songs right now without even using Brokencyde or another Ark musician.

Friday x 10, and possibly an al-Qaeda propaganda video. I've actually watched Friday more than once, but I can't make it to the end of this song. 

This song and video is God's punishment for our sins, and I would play it on every TV at every mall across the country if I could. We deserve it. 

Surely there cannot be a song with a chorus worse than this.

Oh, there is.

If you're curious, Willow has now moved up from whatever that was to Ke$ha for the second single from her upcoming debut album, except that she's 10 so it's more than a little unsettling. At least wait until you're 14 to start sexualizing yourself so I don't feel so bad when I masturbate.

She's going to be great in the remake of Annie!


Edited by Henry Plainview - April 28 2011 at 22:56

Ricochet wrote: Epignosis wrote: Awesome: Drums- Neil Peart Bass- Victor Wooten Guitar- Steve Howe Keyboards- Rick Wakeman Compositions- Kerry Livgren Terrible: All of the Above- Simon Railton That's too easy. And Wakeman is pretty much second to Richard Clyderman, so I think whatever talent we're talking about, it went the drain, in the last 30 years at least.

stonebeard wrote: Epignosis wrote: Also, I want to take this moment to complain about Mike Oldfield.  Not his playing, but his tone.  He has to have the worst electric guitar tone I've ever heard. His tone on Songs from a Distant Earth is wondrous.

His tone varies a bit, though he basically uses two main tones, both processed through a Roland GP-8 DI straight into the sound board - in the early days the clean tone was a little thin and treblie, which sort of became his tradermark for a while.

Agree about SRV-- I think he came off to many as just some modern blues player or Albert King/Hendrix imitator.  But live, especially in his drunken heyday during the early 80s, he was incredible, probably the greatest white bluesman ever.  I also have to agree about Hammett, low on skill and taste, high on bluff.

As for pop stars, Pink has tremendous talent, great voice and a real edge to her music.

Epignosis wrote: Also, I want to take this moment to complain about Mike Oldfield.  Not his playing, but his tone.  He has to have the worst electric guitar tone I've ever heard.

His tone on Songs from a Distant Earth is wondrous.