Renuncia701
Junior Member
Kinks
And to circle back to the OP, you can thank The Beatles for this. And I agree 100%, it will never happen again.
walrus
Though to a lesser degree, the Seattle grunge rock scene had a minor version of the phenomenon with Mudhoney and Nirvana and a few others, but then everyone and their mother tried to replicate and it diluted into crap fast.
'cause Pearl Jam claims he's their daddy:Agreed, WW. Although it has been said that Neil Young is the "godfather of grunge"!
walrus
Yep, included them a couple of posts up.Kinks
Me too!Wow! That is an amazing number of bands. And, I proudly count myself, and a couple of my hometown friends, as part of that number. Although, we never had a paid gig or made a record.
sailingshoes
any discussion of grunge or garage band has to include the KInks. Look at the music and when and what they accomplished.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kinks
OK there has got to be 3 chords and a hook to support that title.But I should have tried harder in the mid 80s. Skipped college, and just have played out. Ah,
water under the bridge.
any discussion of grunge or garage band has to include the Kinks. Look at the music and when and what they accomplished.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kinks
(Warning, snark alertI saw The Kinks a year or so after the first Van Halen album came out. Ray Davies ranted about how they didn't do a good cover of "You Really Got Me", but then they played an even heavier version than Van Halen's! (which BTW, was great!)
walrus
(Warning, snark alert
They woulda been better just for the vocalist alone.
Sorry, Davy Lee.
Yeah, DLR pretty terrible. Better than me though. So he has that going for him.
Yup. After hearing the best hard rock singers led by the greatest of all, David Coverdale, when I first heard DLR, I had a WTF moment, but then I heard what Eddie was doing (back in the 80's!) and all of a sudden, I couldn't care less about how the vocals sounded. lmao
Wow.... time flies.Right! the first album came out in 1978 walrus
Wow.... time flies.
He really raised the hard rock lead guitar bar up a notch back then, didn't he?
There were "open mouths" all around the world when that record was first played!
As Bill the Cat would say: "A-a-a-ck!"
DEFINITELY not.
Let's just say I think I'd rather be on a beach in Hong Kong.
In fact, shoot, who needs a beach?
That's what I wanna do in my next life.
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