McCartney Blames Lennon

[BWRhasnoAC]

I'd take Hendrix all day actually.

Clearly preference but most of Stevie's solos are note for note Jimi Hendrix licks. Sorry but he was better. Jimi was so high he could barely tune his own guitar most of the time. Stevie had the technology that Jimi never had though.

 

[BWRhasnoAC]

I would argue 70s prog bands and some other hard rock bands (especially the ones that might have straddled the gap between the two, like, say something like a Rush) were just as important. Heck, you could argue early concept albums (e.g., Tommy or Days of Future Passed) are important, too.

But if you are arguing that the really long songs with boring chord progressions they reuse over and over again from song to song and album to album on Physical Graffiti and Presence are the "good" that Led Zeppelin did for the world, then they should have broken up after Houses of the Holy.

I like their early stuff -- like I said, a great blues covers band. I think Houses of the Holy is their best album on a couple of different levels, and I wish they would have kept its more whimsical style.

But the stuff after that... the train kind of goes off the tracks...

Neil Peart worships Bonham and Geddy Lee worships John Paul Jones.

 

[madguy30]

Clearly preference but most of Stevie's solos are note for note Jimi Hendrix licks. Sorry but he was better. Jimi was so high he could barely tune his own guitar most of the time. Stevie had the technology that Jimi never had though.

Stevie had a more slick sound; for the most part I've found him to be pretty boring.

 

[Sigmapolis]

Neil Peart worships Bonham and Geddy Lee worships John Paul Jones.

https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertai...s-rated-paul-mccartney-as-a-bass-player.html/

Jones listed his own influences as mostly jazz and Motown guys. He only mentioned two rock bassists, and those were Jack Bruce of Cream and... none other than Paul McCartney.

 

[BWRhasnoAC]

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https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertai...s-rated-paul-mccartney-as-a-bass-player.html/

So? Paul was good. No Jones though. McCartney is a lot like David Gilmour. Never going to do the most technically impressive things but they're always playing super tasty stuff.

 

[Entropy]

I would argue 70s prog bands and some other hard rock bands (especially the ones that might have straddled the gap between the two, like, say something like a Rush) were just as important. Heck, you could argue early concept albums (e.g., Tommy or Days of Future Passed) are important, too.

But if you are arguing that the really long songs with boring chord progressions they reuse over and over again from song to song and album to album on Physical Graffiti and Presence are the "good" that Led Zeppelin did for the world, then they should have broken up after Houses of the Holy.

I like their early stuff -- like I said, a great blues covers band. I think Houses of the Holy is their best album on a couple of different levels, and I wish they would have kept its more whimsical style.

But the stuff after that... the train kind of goes off the tracks...

There was some gunpowder in your soup at lunch.

I didn't say I'm a big fan of the heavy metal they spawned, but I can see the connection. Good point with Rush. King Crimson should be in the discussion as well.

My brain is stuck on the direct lineage of "Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner" by Iron Maiden is "Achilles Last Stand" on Presence. There's a pretty big sector of the population that just digs on that stuff.

The subjectiveness of this is fun. As much as I like Beatles stuff, it's the Led Zep that makes me want to pick up my guitar.

 

[Sigmapolis]

So? Paul was good. No Jones though.

Being called "perfect" by the guy you want to anoint is pretty high praise, no?

 

[BWRhasnoAC]

Being called "perfect" by the guy you want to anoint is pretty high praise, no?

Perfect what? Writing, spacing, note choice, voicing, mode? I think you're reading a bit much into obvious lip service.

 

[Sigmapolis]

Perfect what? Writing, spacing, note choice, voicing, mode? I think you're reading a bit much into obvious lip service.

Everything. Read the quote.

"Everything he's done has always been right."

I bet if you could drag up a quote by Geddy Lee about his appreciation for Jones, it would sound very similar. That is just how musicians talk about and compliment one another and their influences.

I just think it says quite a bit that Jones, when asked early in his LZ tenure, immediately went to McCartney (and Jack Bruce, to be fair to him) as one out of the two rock bassists he mentioned.

That say something about McCartney (and by extension, the Beatles).

 

[VeloClone]

I like music. I find something to like about just about every band and artist that has been disparaged in this thread.

 

[BWRhasnoAC]

Everything. Read the quote.

"Everything he's done has always been right."

I bet if you could drag up a quote by Geddy Lee about his appreciation for Jones, it would sound very similar. That is just how musicians talk about and compliment one another and their influences.

I just think it says quite a bit that Jones, when asked early in his LZ tenure, immediately went to McCartney (and Jack Bruce, to be fair to him) as one out of the two rock bassists he mentioned.

That say something about McCartney (and by extension, the Beatles).

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