How many original members of a band should be part of a band to keep the original name? Did ya follow me there? I get annoyed when a band just keeps hanging on, can keep the name and rakes in a big gate from touring. In my own mind I also feel theres a double standard regarding replacing the lead singer versus say a back line guy. Is Journey really still Journey without Steve Perry? However you wouldn't think twice about Dave Navarro coming in and out of the Peppers. I'll sit back and have another drink.
You punks that want to kick boomers.
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ZZ Top just played Brown County, but I think Frank Beard had to leave the tour for a medical issue.
So you just have Gibbons...which obviously...is the most important.
Even at 1/3 capacity, if that one is the lead vocalist and guitarist...I vote "still ZZ Top".
I've seen them twice. They were very good the first time which was on the Louisville riverfront in the late 90s.
The second time I saw them was in October of 2019. They came down here to Western Kentucky and played in a field with Molly Hatchet. Molly was very good, but Marshall Tucker was a shell of the group I saw in the 90s.
C'mon, don't do Mario dirty like that. Get it right.I always pictured you as an AC Slater type (you're too old to probably get the reference, but the younger guys will understand)
The Traveling F-ing Wilburys? C'mon, man. Next thing we know, you're going to be crowing about giving the world Asia.
Journey was a fairly talented jam band before that hack joined them and turned them into a pop band focused on pandering to 14 year old little girls.
They didn't make any money, weren't famous, but still retained their pride and testicles.
Journey wasn't Journey after that queef joined the band. They were an excuse for Steve Perry to unbuttoned his shirt and pose for the teeny boppers..
Bad example ..
Nothing the matter with that super group. John Wetton crushed.The Traveling F-ing Wilburys? C'mon, man. Next thing we know, you're going to be crowing about giving the world Asia.
I actually had no idea he wasn't an original member. Thanks for the lesson.
I actually had no idea he wasn't an original member. Thanks for the lesson.
Aware. Another bad example then. 0-2
Robert Fleischman? Also was the lead singer for Vinnie Vincent Invasion for a year. I am certain, however, that @mcmurtry66 often sang the entire infinity album in front of his bathroom mirror for hours at a time. Denims on, flannel shirt wide open, and a pack of camel lights on the counter
I saw an ad for Quiet Riot at The Vogue, "With original bassist Rudy Sarzo". Had a flashback to this ten year old doc that was great, but kinda sad at the same time:
Actually like that song.The Traveling F-ing Wilburys? C'mon, man. Next thing we know, you're going to be crowing about giving the world Asia.
I actually created best of playlists for all years from 1964-present. All genres (rock, pop, country, R&B, etc). Was interesting to do. The late 60s to early 70s was absolutely loaded.
* I stopped at 64 because the music got too golden oldies for my taste.
* I stopped at 64 because the music got too golden oldies for my taste.
I will beat the ever loving shit out of you.
Each generation has advantages and disadvantages... a lot of boomers lived their early life at least with no electricity and the toilet was an outhouse (I know I did). If we hadn't had a good garden and my mom doing a lot of canning we would have starved to death. I know there had to be lots of times when my parents wondered how they were gonna make it. We didn't have a big fancy house like the later generations think is a necessity.
GTFOH. Traveling Wilburys were awesome.The Traveling F-ing Wilburys? C'mon, man. Next thing we know, you're going to be crowing about giving the world Asia.
I have crazy mad respect for Steve Miller. As a kid, he wanted to be in a band, so he taught his brother how to play bass and Boz Skaggs how to play guitar.
ETA - Not to mention the big middle finger to the RnR HOF when he was inducted.
Ugh. If by awesome you mean bland jam sessions with too many guitar players unable to find room for complimentary parts and too little culling of mediocre that ultimately isn't up to snuff for any of the individual members let alone a combination of them, then yeah. Putting them on a list next to many of those giants of music is akin to saying s***er is the world's greatest sport.
And, he eventually left St Marks (school) where he met Boz Skaggs, and finished up at Woodrow Wilson HS (in my old neighborhood), just a few years before Dusty Hill got to WWHS...
which brings us full circle back to ZZ Top.
After seeing REK way more as an old man than a young man, I always think the voice coming out of his head in that video must be dubbed in.
I love Haggard, but Willie and him shouldn't be sing Pancho and Lefty
This will always be the version
"Live #2 Diner" is an all-time classic.
Probably mentioned it before, but Jerry Jeff's Luckenbach Laborfest in 1996 may have been the apex of my life.
One of the coolest days of my life...Jerry Jeff's Luckenbach LaborFest 1996. Went to the Texas/Mizzou game Saturday, out to Luckenbach Sunday. This pic is Todd Snider.
Lineup:
Todd Snider
Jack Ingram
Junior Brown
Robert Earl Keen
Jerry Jeff
Buddy sent me this the other day...Cody Canada and Jason Boland in the crowd with us.
Ain’t no mountain high enough; ain’t no valley low enough ——-
For the range of the response to this. You nailed it with the placement of s***** in the depths, despite the misspelling. No argument there.
But to compare the Wilburys placement to saying s***** is the greatest sport is just wrong in every aspect of world wrongly wrongness. You might as well assert The Godfather, I and II, is akin to Car 54, Where are You?
Yes and then he went on to make awful commercialized garbage. The Joker is the worst popular song of all time after Two Princes by the Spin Doctors. I hope Trump missed an exec order to ban the playing of Two Princes for the next four years.
Love those guys. Under-appreciated in Yankee lands."Live #2 Diner" is an all-time classic.
Probably mentioned it before, but Jerry Jeff's Luckenbach Laborfest in 1996 may have been the apex of my life.
Buddy sent me this the other day...Cody Canada and Jason Boland in the crowd with us.
They spliced the crying in from another song from the same documentary:
@michaelharrington75
1 year agoThe footage of the guy crying was spliced in from another part of the film. He actually started crying as Townes sang 'Waiting around to die', because the song was written about his life. That's why you can see the old guy mouth "that's right" as Townes is telling his story. Watch the footage of Townes singing 'Waiting around to die', from this same film called 'Heartworn Highways'. The old guy starts sobbing, and the girl begins to comfort him. There's one concert recording where Townes says, "I wrote this song about an old man I met in Houston." before playing 'Waiting around to die'. The guy crying is that old man.
And...And, he eventually left St Marks (school) where he met Boz Skaggs, and finished up at Woodrow Wilson HS (in my old neighborhood), just a few years before Dusty Hill got to WWHS...
which brings us full circle back to ZZ Top.
Saw ZZ Top during the 2007 Hollywood Blues Tour in Dallas with Shooter Jennings and the Old 97's opening...
The Old 97's, fronted by Rhett Miller, who also attended St Mark's...
which brings us full circle back to Steve Miller.
I remember during that show (Labor Day 1996), we were getting an "Everybody's Somebody" T shirt for my brother (who just left Texas to come back to Bloomington for his Jr year), and having all the artists sign it.
We get to Junior Brown, and he asks what we want him to sign.
My buddy (Midland, TX / UT grad) replies "sign it 'Indiana sucks, come back to Texas'"
Junior was like "Indiana doesn't suck, I'm not saying that. Give me something else."
Come to find out, Junior spent some time growing up (grade school age for 2-3 years) down here SE of Bloomington by one of the quarries. Some of the older locals even remember him and his brother, and where they lived.
So Junior Brown...has a bit of affinity for Southern Indiana (which is kinda the South anyway).
