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| Which band IS really America's Greatest (rock & roll band)? Wikipedia says Jim Gordon was a member 1971-2, Roger Hawkins (and bassist David Hood, Roger's rhythm section partner in The Swampers) 1972-3. So Jim and Roger were both playing drums in Traffic during 1972. After Roger left, Capaldi returned to th... | |
| Which band IS really America's Greatest (rock & roll band)? Late in their history, Capaldi moved from the drum riser to the front of the stage (he was a songwriter as well as drummer), and Hawkins and Gordon were brought in to play double drums. Do a search on Google Images for pics of them on stage. | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Clint Black is great, a throwback to the Honky-Tonk singers of the 1950's. | |
| The current best band in the world? All right, anyone already sick of my long posts, you don’t want to read this, so just skip on by. This is for slaw, but may also be of interest to those wondering how many musician’s lives are lived. No Steve, my move to Portland is the combined e... | |
| Rodney Crowell slaw, as with Dylan, the album may be a place holder until Crowell gets over a case of writer’s block. Songwriters have it rough when the muse disappears. | |
| Which band IS really America's Greatest (rock & roll band)? @marko1262---Now yer takin'! The Swampers (their actual name) are my all-time favorite recording-only band (no road work), as good as it gets. Drummer Roger Hawkins is one of my three or so favorite drummers, who left the Muscle Shoal studio to wo... | |
| The current best band in the world? I doubt you or anyone else here has it slaw! It’s a track on a single by a guy named Ray Paul that Emitt produced and sang harmony on. The song is entitled "Some Sing, Some Dance", a 1972 song written by Canadian Michael Pagliaro. It came out in t... | |
| The current best band in the world? @slaw---yeah, I don’t know why home studios just don’t get as good a sound as pro studios. My old friend Pete Curry (bassist in Los Straitjackets) has a studio with a 2" 3M 16-track recorder, a bunch of great mics (Sennheiser, AKG, Neumann, Electr... | |
| Underrated album: Sonics AND Music Good points by both jaybe and n80. I nominated Cooder's Paris, Texas soundtrack because Ry is rarely mentioned here on Audiogon, and then usually in regard to only his own albums, not his soundtrack work, which he has done a lot of. Maybe not unde... | |
| The current best band in the world? Damn whart, that's quite a bill! Ya goin'? There are a couple of You Tube clips of McGuinn and Marty & HFS playing Byrds songs, and boy do they sound great. McGuinn's playing a Rickenbacker, and Marty Clarence White's B-Bender Telecaster, the ... | |
| Whats playing on your system today? Up The Line by The Gary Smith Blues Band. Gary switched from drums to blues harp and vocals in 1969, the year I worked with him in a San Jose band. Later that year he joined The Charles Ford Blues Band, who had just moved down from Ukiah, CA. The ... | |
| Underrated album: Sonics AND Music Ry Cooder's soundtrack for the Paris, Texas film. As always from Ry, great music. As for sound, the LP has been on Harry Pearson's Super Disc list since it's inception. | |
| The current best band in the world? @rwwear, cool man. I haven't yet seen/heard Marty & HFS live, but the video clip on You Tube of their appearance on Letterman's old show has really wetted my appetite to do so. | |
| Which band IS really America's Greatest (rock & roll band)? @djones, there have been a few different NRBQ lineups. The one on the 1st album (on Columbia Records, where they back the great Carl Perkins) reminds me somewhat of the first version of Springsteen's E Street Band---a little weak (though not as ba... | |
| Which band IS really America's Greatest (rock & roll band)? @sunnyd, thanks for the reminder. I haven't heard the new NRBQ lineup, of which only pianist Terry Adams remains from the original members. Drummer Tom Ardolino passed away a few years ago, bassist Joey Spampinato (a great one, one of my all-time ... |