if you could put together a super group of dead rock artists

When did Ringo Starr die?

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Re: When did Ringo Starr die?

I didnt think BB King was dead either?

Or Morrisey for that matter- miserable **** -Yes Dead - No !!!

 

Ringo Starr is not rubbish, he got that reputation after a joke made by Paul McCartney. The truth is that Starr was a good drummer, a very good drummer but he was not a great drummer like Moon, Peart, Baker and Bonham.

Oh and he's still alive so Moon still wins.

 

Buddy Rich -drums
Donald Dunn- basist
Rory Gallagher-guitar
Roy Buchanan-guitar
Ronnie Van Zant- vocals
Vince Welnick-keyboards

 

And thats true of a lot bands, just one name sums it up, don't chuckle, SLADE, ne'er mind about abart mirrored hats an all that, LIVE, an absolute hard rocking band.

 

Is he not? Just looks it then

 

Jeffrey Lee Pierce - Vocals/guitar
Rowland S Howard - Guitar
Michael Karoli - Guitar
Tracy Pew - Bass
Pete de Freitas - Drums
Epic Soundtracks - Drums

Not sure what it'd sound like but they'd make one hell of a racket.

 

Hi I'll go with members of the 27 Club (ie those musician who died at that age) . Here's some of the them: Jimi Hendrix, Kurt Cobain, Brain Jones, Robert Johson, Janis Joplin, Amy Winehouse, Richie Edwards et al.

 

mr c and load bearing pillar are the only one not bringing up the same old names, not that hendrix et al were not fantastic.
For me alex chilton, Gram Parsons and the mighty Klaus Dinger from Neu! on drums

 

Youre right... they're nearly all alive. I was half-pissed when I posted I hasten to add. In that case I'd just have Mozart as a one-man band (euphonium, cymbals, pedal drum etc....)

 

Wow! Epic Soundtracks was one of my best friends, as was his brother Nikki Sudden - sadly passed away also. Their Dad Trevor, joined them a few weeks ago. Dreadfully tragic family, I live with that every day.

I have also been listening again to Wildweed by Jeffrey Lee Pierce for the first time in god knows how many years. Great record. Also stuff like Mother Earth by Gun Club has survived the ipod transition very nicely.

My line up was an acoustic ensemble but I would have had Epic on the drums and James Honeyman -Scott on guitar and out of everyone, I'd have to go with Alex Chilton to sing lead. Plus was a smashing guitar player as well of course.

 

Elvis Presley vocals

Brian Jones guitar

John Entwistle bass

Keith Moon drums

 

That rhythm section would leave Brian Jones for dead! Stevie Ray Vaughn's your man.

 

Wow what a small world! It is tragic what's happened to that family and it's criminal that their music, both solo and as Swell Maps is overlooked. Epic's work with Crime and the City Solution and These Immortal Souls was just brilliant imho, the drumming on the song Crowned on the second These Immortal Souls album is just stunning to my ears. His solo stuff is pretty good as well although i've only been able to track down the rise above album so far, though his new compilation is in the post. Nikki Sudden's stuff is great aswell, my favourite studio album of his is probably Texas but for me his best overall release is the Live in Ausburg album he did with Rowland S Howard. Rowland's guitar sounds like it could cut glass on it, absolutely brilliant, such a shame that I was too young to have seen them. I've read you mention that you've played in a few bands over the years, were you involved with recording with Epic and Nikki at all?

I quite like Wildweed, Midnight Promise is a great song, but it sounds a little bit too slick for my ears, espeically when compared to the Gun Club records which still sound fantastic. The project that's been done at the moment is really interesting though, his friends and contemporaries e.g. Nick Cae, Debbie Harry, Steve Wynn, Mick Harvey, Mark Lanegan etc are recording finished version of songs he'd written but not recorded before he died, they've done 2 albums so far and there's some really good stuff on them.

I've tried to get into Alex Chitlon and Big Star but they've never clicked with me, I even considered going to see Big Star Third at the Primavera festival in June but the queue was massive so I went and watched Archers of Loaf instead, which wasn't a bad decision.

 

Me too. I get fed up trying to tell people that Clem Burke defines the classic Blondie's sound just as much as Debbie Harry's vocals, if not more. When the drums weren't as prominent the hits dried up. Greatest drummer alive (or dead) for me.

 

But which Whotles supergroup?

The dead one

Moon
Entwistle
Harrison
Lennon

Or the alive one

Starr
McCartney
Townsend
Daltrey

Think I'd go with the dead one, although there'd be more dealers than band members on that tour.

I think I'd struggle to put together a supergroup of dead musicians though, because if I pick my favourite dead musicians they all have different styles and wouldn't necessarily work together as a band. Plus, none of my favourite drummers are dead! I'd want Rob Collins of the Charlatans on Hammond organ, Clarence White of The Byrds on guitar and Vivian Stanshall as singer though.

 

All the artists in this thread are rubbish

Gareth Gates won X Factor. What has FM, KM and DP ever won? And they had dodgy lifestyles. Which I hate.

 

Re: All the artists in this thread are rubbish

I know this is all subjective but what do people think makes a good drummer? Is it the style of drumming? What the drummer contributes to the music or the complexity of the drumming.

A lot of indie bands that I hear tend to have quite boring drummers who sound fairly standard to me. I like death metal drummers who play the drums more as an instrument in its own right and try to do more interesting things.

 

Mark Linkous!!!

Bloody Hell, Mark Linkous is dead! He really is this time, I checked. He died once before but that turned out to be temporary - I read a review of Good Morning Spider that said something along the lines of "for a while this second album appeared unlikely". I saw him at Debaser Medis in Stockholm a few years back in what was to be honest a disaster of a concert although in his defence the weather played a major part in that as he nearly didn't make it to the venue at all.

I wondered why I hadn't heard anything from Sparklehorse for while. I'm getting worried now about a few other bands I like who I'd assumed were just between albums.