Best musicians of all time?

[Colin Zeal EFM]

Actually it's not. I just put that there to give MAD an idea what it'll be like for him when he leaves home in 20-or-so years times.

[SAINTS64MAD]

Colin you have no faith in me. im goin to move out when im 16 and live in St.Albans with my Dad. tehn i will find a job like yours that gets more money though.

[Colin Zeal EFM]

Good luck.

 

Good news is, I've still got enough for a bottle of Jack Daniels for consumption tonight, whilst banging out a few tunes on the guitar.

[CANV EFM]

im off down the pub for a few now .. will check in tonite to see MAD make the famous 1,000th ..

[Laz]

I can't believe MAD is on 1100+ already. He had posted less that 1000 just a couple of days ago.

[SAINTS64MAD]

i doubt i will do it.

[Colin Zeal EFM]

I reckon we can do it before I go home at 5.00 tonight, to be honest.

[Colin Zeal EFM]

In fact, Thornsy's just logged in, so we'll definitely do it!!

[SAINTS64MAD]

nice one.

[GHA EFM]

Jimi Hendrix wins it for me.

 

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we do have very nice flats or should we say apartsments in St.Albans very expensive.

 

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Oi MAD. What's all this 'we' stuff? You don't live in St. Albans. That's like me saying we have very nices beaches in Hawaii.

[EFM The Firm, The Voice]

Well we do, It's lovley in Hawaii at the moment

[GHA EFM]

That's what they'd have you believe, EFMTFTV.

[EFM The Firm, The Voice]

Back to the original thread I think we'll find hardly any of us will know the best musicians of all time as they were/still are all underground.

 

I find most of the above "artists" were influenced by underground music of it's time and basically copied it and as they got more famous and sale worthy their work got more lack lustra!

[GHA EFM]

Illustrated by the eternal question; who released the first punk song, the Ramones or the New York Dolls??

[EFM The Firm, The Voice]

The New York Dolls I should imagine!

[Laz]

The NYD were well before the Ramones. I once heard the Ramones at a mate's funeral. I can't remember which track.

[G Angel]

Ahhh, the first punk song of all time. Ramones or NYD - eh?? Ramones and NYD were closer to Glam Rock with a slightly harder edge. Around the same time as NYD, the place to be was Cleveland - with some of the best 'punk' bands of all - Rocket From the Tombs (Dads of Pere Ubu) and the mighty Electric Eels - 'Bunnies' is the funniest song of all time (bar, perhaps, 'Margate' or some of Ivor Cutler's stuff). Plus even earlier were the mighty MC5 and even Blue Cheer, who somehow get lumbered in the metal crowd - I suppose their songs were too long to be 'punk'.

 

In the UK, most punk was just 'Pub rawk' with added 'fashion'. Great, but a fabrication nonetheless. Top 5 UK 1977-1980 bands:

 

1. The Slits

2. Wire

3. The Pop Group

4. The Fall

5. The Buzzcocks

[ESG]

quality top 5!

 

doffing his deerstalker

[GHA EFM]

Sorry to up an old thread but I forgot three of the more obvious ones:

 

Kurt Cobain

Zack De La Rocha

Tom Morello

[Guest]

brilliant top 5 above. Being a northern monkey I'd add Joy Div and it's various forms (musician would therefore have to be Peter Hook on bass).

 

Anyone remember Comsat Angels?

 

Most influential musician? has to be an original guitar legend; Keith Richards or Chuck Berry