Top 10 bands you hate but everyone else drools over! - Bilge

J JimTandem Tiki Socialite Ontario, Ca. Joined: Jan 02, 2005 Posts: 102	J JimTandem Posted posted on Fri, Mar 31, 2006 12:38 PM Lucas, its great to read about other Rush fans on TC! Huge fan here. Neil was my first and greatest influence while playing drums as a kid. Unbelievably good live band, they certainly got my concert money many, many times over the years. A real treat was seeing the 30th anniversary tour show out here at the Hollywood Bowl a few years ago, kinda like seeing the band come full circle, Neil actually smiling more than once, and the guys looking like they were really enjoying themselves, and the love and admiration recieved back from the crowd was unmistakeable. And what really impressed me was that the dudes still rock as hard as they did back in the day. Now about the Beatles... actually if you think about it and listen to some of their later stuff, they were really one of the first progressive bands in that they took chances with stringing together some songs with multi-melodies and time changes that broke away from the traditional verse-chorus-verse-chorus song structure. Jazz!!! I was lucky to have a buddy in high school who's dad was into jazz, so we listened to it a lot hanging out there. Although I can appreciate traditional jazz, once I heard stuff from Mahavishnu Orchestra and Billy Cobham in particular, being a young drummer, I gravitated to the fusion side! That said, my greatest jazz concert experience was seeing VSOP in Philly with Wayne Shorter, Ron Carter, Herbie Hancock and Tony Williams. My God, the musical ideas and execution from those guys was unbelievable. Now I have to stick up here for Journey, for two reasons. First, back in the day, they could rock an arena like nobodys business. Arena rock ruled the mid-late seventies, if you weren't young enough back then, its hard to explain how fun those shows were. Second, they replaced a good drummer in Aynesly Dunbar with an even better drummer in Steve Smith. Steve left Journey years later to now be one of the most highly respected jazz drummers today. Sorry for the ramble Lucas, but seeing people talk about Rush and my favorite style of music progressive rock gets me going!

Lucas, its great to read about other Rush fans on TC! Huge fan here. Neil was my first and greatest influence while playing drums as a kid. Unbelievably good live band, they certainly got my concert money many, many times over the years. A real treat was seeing the 30th anniversary tour show out here at the Hollywood Bowl a few years ago, kinda like seeing the band come full circle, Neil actually smiling more than once, and the guys looking like they were really enjoying themselves, and the love and admiration recieved back from the crowd was unmistakeable. And what really impressed me was that the dudes still rock as hard as they did back in the day.

Now about the Beatles... actually if you think about it and listen to some of their later stuff, they were really one of the first progressive bands in that they took chances with stringing together some songs with multi-melodies and time changes that broke away from the traditional verse-chorus-verse-chorus song structure.

Jazz!!! I was lucky to have a buddy in high school who's dad was into jazz, so we listened to it a lot hanging out there. Although I can appreciate traditional jazz, once I heard stuff from Mahavishnu Orchestra and Billy Cobham in particular, being a young drummer, I gravitated to the fusion side! That said, my greatest jazz concert experience was seeing VSOP in Philly with Wayne Shorter, Ron Carter, Herbie Hancock and Tony Williams. My God, the musical ideas and execution from those guys was unbelievable.

Now I have to stick up here for Journey, for two reasons. First, back in the day, they could rock an arena like nobodys business. Arena rock ruled the mid-late seventies, if you weren't young enough back then, its hard to explain how fun those shows were. Second, they replaced a good drummer in Aynesly Dunbar with an even better drummer in Steve Smith. Steve left Journey years later to now be one of the most highly respected jazz drummers today.

Sorry for the ramble Lucas, but seeing people talk about Rush and my favorite style of music progressive rock gets me going!

Post #224229 by JimTandem on Fri, Mar 31, 2006 12:38 PM