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

TM tiki mick Tiki Socialite SOCAL Joined: May 12, 2004 Posts: 4094	TM tiki mick Posted posted on Fri, Mar 31, 2006 1:30 PM Hi, I was in a rush tribute band all through high school...we used to pride ourselves on being able to pull off "la villa strangiato" and "YYZ" pretty much note for note, but we did cheat a little 'cause we were a four piece band. But, even after our lead guitarist moved away, we still could pull off "free will" and "red Barchetta" pretty good! Those were the days! For some reason, Rush was super popular with the preppies at our school, so we were also hugely popular because we copied them completely. I was particularly interested at that time in trying to get the exact bass tone from "moving pictures". I used to play with a pick all the time, so really I sounded more like Chris Squire. Since about 1988 I switched to fingers, though. In later years I found out he used two different basses on that record, and there was a lot of compression. Although I play mostly upright for the last few years, I can still get my Jazz bass to sound pretty close on home recordings I have made. I saw Rush last time at irvine meadows, on the tour where they had the washing machines on stage, and the roadies were dropping quarters in to keep them going. They were playing for 3 hours that time, and it was awesome. They never sounded better, in fact! I managed to sneak down to the front row by acting invisible, and ended up less then a few feet from Alex!! as far as the beatles go, Well, I always give them respect for being original, thats for sure. And, I can see their influence in almost every band I do like, but it's still the tone of thier voices I don't like. I was really into jazz fusion first, before I got into trad jazz, because I figured bands like Weather Report, Mahavishnu Orhestra, RTF and others were the natural progression from prog rock, like King Crimson, yes, rush and ELP. Now, though, I much prefer trad jazz, so I can dig VSOP. I like some of those latter -day trad bands a lot! I also love Ron Carter, but NHOP is the most awesome player in recent history. Too bad he's dead! About Journey.....well, I better keep my mouth shut about them, but all I can say is "sideburns" and the "O" syllable. (He had big ones, and he used OOOOOH in just about every song he wrote.) [ Edited by: lucas vigor 2006-03-31 13:34 ]

Hi, I was in a rush tribute band all through high school...we used to pride ourselves on being able to pull off "la villa strangiato" and "YYZ" pretty much note for note, but we did cheat a little 'cause we were a four piece band. But, even after our lead guitarist moved away, we still could pull off "free will" and "red Barchetta" pretty good! Those were the days! For some reason, Rush was super popular with the preppies at our school, so we were also hugely popular because we copied them completely. I was particularly interested at that time in trying to get the exact bass tone from "moving pictures". I used to play with a pick all the time, so really I sounded more like Chris Squire. Since about 1988 I switched to fingers, though. In later years I found out he used two different basses on that record, and there was a lot of compression. Although I play mostly upright for the last few years, I can still get my Jazz bass to sound pretty close on home recordings I have made. I saw Rush last time at irvine meadows, on the tour where they had the washing machines on stage, and the roadies were dropping quarters in to keep them going. They were playing for 3 hours that time, and it was awesome. They never sounded better, in fact! I managed to sneak down to the front row by acting invisible, and ended up less then a few feet from Alex!!

as far as the beatles go,

Well, I always give them respect for being original, thats for sure. And, I can see their influence in almost every band I do like, but it's still the tone of thier voices I don't like.

I was really into jazz fusion first, before I got into trad jazz, because I figured bands like Weather Report, Mahavishnu Orhestra, RTF and others were the natural progression from prog rock, like King Crimson, yes, rush and ELP. Now, though, I much prefer trad jazz, so I can dig VSOP. I like some of those latter -day trad bands a lot! I also love Ron Carter, but NHOP is the most awesome player in recent history. Too bad he's dead!

About Journey.....well, I better keep my mouth shut about them, but all I can say is "sideburns" and the "O" syllable. (He had big ones, and he used OOOOOH in just about every song he wrote.)

[ Edited by: lucas vigor 2006-03-31 13:34 ]

Post #224249 by tiki mick on Fri, Mar 31, 2006 1:30 PM