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Originally Posted by gldstwmn
Christina Aguilera blew the roof of the joint doing her rendition of James Brown's It's A Man's World.
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While her rendition impressed me quite a bit, I still think it paled to Concrete Blonde's version on their
Walking In London album. Johnette Napolitano's version is really tough to top. (Unless you're talkin' James Brown hissownself)
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Originally Posted by strandinthewind
While those are good, they IMO do not jam it as hard as Rush. But, to each his own and if you wanna talk Zeppelin - we can talk all day  |
Cream is the model that all subsequent trios modeled themselves after.
While I think the guys in Rush are all technically proficient to an incredible standard, I think their music has no soul...they're just being technical for technical's sake. (there are many bands I put on that same list) I can listen to one or two carefully selected tracks of theirs at a time, but they just don't move me to listen longer than that. Cream strikes me on an emotional level first, THEN on a technical level. One of the reasons I was drawn to Clapton's playing in the first place, then add Jack Bruce's phenomenal bass playing & Ginger Baker's otherworldly drumming.
The Police...now, they make my feet tap, my head bob, and my body move.
ZZ Top just exudes "coolness".
Zeppelin? I just think we'd end up in a shouting match.
More on the Grammys:
Ok, I was impressed with that Justin Timberlake tune he did sitting at the piano. I knew nothing of his music to that point...he'd just been somebody who'd been on tabloid covers to me.
Actually, I thought Rascal Flatts didn't do too bad a job on those Eagles tunes, but the guitarists seemed like they learned the songs from tabs about an hour before the show. I would've liked to have heard MORE Bob Wills tunes instead though. "Right Or Wrong" maybe? And, why didn't Ray Benson get a feature? His work with Asleep At The Wheel has kept the Bob Wills sound alive all these years...didn't even get face time. I thought that was the "snub of the evening".
I LOVED Common's dig at Kanye West about his constant whining about not winning awards.
Ok, my snotty comment of the day:
Would somebody PLEASE put Stevie Wonder on Nutri-System? Someone's going to mistake him for Barry White here soon.