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OT: "Classic" band that you just cannot stand?


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The Who sound like a facsimile of everything that was great about that era of rock and pop. Kind of like the English Monkees. I just don't get their music as any kind of cultural touchstone.

Question for you, gubu.

Do you play electric guitar?

Drums?

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I already slagged on Steve Perry but I couldn't resist the opportunity to repeat it.

 

This time however I will put him in good company with Kevin Cronin and Dennis DeYoung, who suck equally and together make up a sizable amount of what was wrong with '70s music (other than the Brothers Gibb).

 

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I've heard a lot of them. Some are beyond terrible, but some are really excellent. What I can't stand is when the "excellent" ones go into 20 minutes of scatting at the end of a song. And no, I'm not exaggerating.

 

 

I liked a lot of the stuff from the 90's, especially the Maranatha and similar stuff. The late 90's/early 2000's ushered in the Passion Worship era, which was hit or miss. Everything for the last 10 years sounds like bad EMO to me.

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I already slagged on Steve Perry but I couldn't resist the opportunity to repeat it.

 

This time however I will put him in good company with Kevin Cronin and Dennis DeYoung, who suck equally and together make up a sizable amount of what was wrong with '70s music (other than the Brothers Gibb).

 

 

The one Steve Perry thing I actually liked was the simple piano ballad "Foolish Heart".

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Steely Dan, Chicago, Janis Joplin, Grateful Dead, probably a lot more I can't think of...

 

Steely Dan are one of my absolute all time faves :)

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I really enjoy sitting around with some good players and playing a few Dan tunes. It must have been a real treat for you (albeit combined with a bit of pressure) when you got to do that tribute gig.

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Yeah, someone reminded me of another: Grateful Dead.

 

That's four.

 

I have a love/hate thing with the Dead... which makes sense as they were the most inconsistent band I can think of.

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