Every boundary that was possible on the guitar was examined by him. What they're addressing still applies. Chuck Leavell, legendary keyboardist for The Rolling Stones, The Allman Bros, Eric Clapton, John Mayer, and more. Keith Emerson (ELP) 2. You have swamp-boogie numbers of varying length ("Green River," "Born on the Bayou"), catchy energy bursts ("Fortunate Son," "Sinister Purpose"), pop ("Have You Ever Seen the Rain," et al.) I sat there listening to it over and over, and totally blew off this girl. I would sit and listen to Wolf talk. But Wolf was not a demanding person. Hank lived what would have been a rock star's life full of touring, drinking and woman troubles. The Chronic is still the hip-hop equivalent of Stevie Wonder's Songs in the Key of Life. In addition, they could rap, they could sing and they could play instruments. When I was 11 or so, my first group was an early version of what would become the Miracles. Matlock was cool, but Sid was everything that's cool about punk rock: a skinny rocker who had a ton of attitude, sort of an Elvis, James Dean kind of guy. Chuck Leavell, legendary keyboardist for The Rolling Stones, The Allman Bros, Eric Clapton, John Mayer, and more. Laurence Fishburne told me once that he didn't like Tupac. We went to their manager's hotel room, and while he was in the bathroom we ordered $1,500 worth of room service and trashed the place. And he could express it all the music from Nashville and Bakersfield, California, the stuff from Texas in his singing and songwriting. But basically, "Suzie Q" has all the drama you would ever need. Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Artists of All Time - Wikipedia Edit: So this post has gained way more traction than I thought it would. Trent Reznor remixed this version of Metal Machine Music as a present.". The impact she had wasn't flashy. At the same time, Mick was listening to what Gram was doing. Unsurprisingly, he's still very much in demand: he played the keyboard solo on Bruno Mars' 2017 single Versace On The Floor (opens in new tab), and when John Mayer wanted those '80s vibes for recent release Last Train Home, who else would he call but Greg (opens in new tab)? The Boy Georges of the world all got up in a twist about it. Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time - Pianote I was initially skeptical, but I agreed to give it a shot. The current collection has been trimmed down a bit. Where it comes from, I don't know. There are songs on all the Cream albums that amaze me still, like "Crossroads," "Sunshine of Your Love," "White Room" and "I Feel Free." You hear them on both pop and classic-rock stations, and they'll be played on the radio in Germany 100 years from now. he took that country-picking thing into the rock world. He's approachable, affectionate and funny. Based on votes and over 200 comments, we summed this one . When David Gilmour sings about the sun going down, there's something simple about it. That's the kind of guy I like to hang with. He had a tone and a style that were uniquely his. Yet, despite all these different pieces moving around, there is a lot of very simple musicality going on. Gram was everything you wanted in a singer and a songwriter. And both Tom and Jimmy said to me, in a brutally honest way, "You don't have a single on this record. When you're up on that stage or when you record, you want to be a tool that light shines through to everybody.". My children grew up loving the Temptations, and we tried to see them every time they came to town. This thread is archived But it wasn't like that. Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Drummers of All Time puts him at number 10, on top of being inducted into The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (2003), and in 2007 the French government awarded him, along with Summers and Sting, the Ordre des Artes et Des Lettres. He was brash, cocky and talented. I heard a lot of Aerosmith in them, which meant I also heard a lot of bands that came before us. Greg Allman Perhaps Stevie Wonder, or John Paul Jones, or Benny Andersson or even Goldy McJohn might sneak in. One of the things I learned from Joni: If you can tell the story and keep things moving, you don't need to return to the chorus on time. He remained in that state for eight years, as the people around him fought over his estate, before he died in 1984. You can hear their sound reverberating throughout the whole industry today especially since hip-hop guys sample so much of what they did back then. They didn't play funk, but everything they played was funky. The first time I heard real anger and aggressive sexuality expressed in guitar playing was on that Mayall record. When he soloed, he wrote wonderful symphonies from classic blues licks in that fantastic tone, with all of the resonance that comes from distortion. Clapton has followed in the footsteps of his mentors: He's become a journeyman. When he did, to me, I was getting paid. They did things with harmonics minor thirds and fifths that created this ethereal, monstrous sound. Visit our corporate site (opens in new tab). And Ginger hit them in a rhythmic style all his own that was extraordinary. However inscrutable Michael Stipe's lyrics were, they always gave language to this weird, agonizing metamorphosis taking place in my head. I thought, "If we ever come back here, we're gonna headline it." He later took the voice of activism, calling out diseases of urban America and challenging people to see what was going on, a plea Marvin Gaye would take up, too. Her music is a healing thing. I really related to that, because I never had a big, boisterous, American Idol showstopping voice. It might have been the best purchase I ever made. At a certain point in the Sixties, things got tough for Carl he had a drinking problem, which he eventually overcame and he went back into the lead-guitar business. You try to play this stuff and you'll see they had chops. There's not a fake bone in his body. Through it all, the Drifters always had this exquisite vocal blend. I first saw them play in 1979 at Madison Square Garden, before their singer Bon Scott died and was replaced by Brian Johnson. You don't realize how powerful that is when you're just a listener. That combination just ripped my head off. Of course, the best thing about all his albums is his guitar. Tony Banks 5. Just write some great songs that's what you do." Pain and hurt can be a muse for great art. The drugs and drinking he was no better or worse than the rest of us. I've Toured With the Rolling Stones for 40 Years It's Unbelievable I only knew that they sounded better than any other band. The 100 greatest guitarists of all time - guitarworld She set the road map for the success of Janet Jackson, Madonna anybody who could sing but wasn't a real crooner like Aretha or Patti LaBelle or Gladys Knight. When we started to do the song and Eminem made his entrance, I got goose bumps, the likes of which I have not felt since I first saw Jimi Hendrix, Mick Jagger, James Brown and Aretha Franklin.