― mike a, Friday, 5 March 2004 15:05 (twenty years ago) link
― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Friday, 5 March 2004 15:06 (twenty years ago) link
But does Mark E. Smith know how to play an instrument?
― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Friday, 5 March 2004 15:09 (twenty years ago) link
Actually, pretty sure he played guitar live until the Soft Bulletin tour. And he still plays on the albums, doesn't he?
― flightsatdusk (flightsatdusk), Friday, 5 March 2004 15:12 (twenty years ago) link
― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Friday, 5 March 2004 15:12 (twenty years ago) link
Yeah, Elvis could play guitar, but did he bother with it toward the end?
― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Friday, 5 March 2004 15:15 (twenty years ago) link
― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Friday, 5 March 2004 15:16 (twenty years ago) link
― Sonny A. (Keiko), Friday, 5 March 2004 15:17 (twenty years ago) link
― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 5 March 2004 15:18 (twenty years ago) link
The main disadvantage with Moz not being a musician in that sense is his solo fortunes have depended hugely on who his guitar player was: Vini Reilly or Mick Ronson (Classic); whoever the hell it was on 'Kill Uncle' (DUD)
― Mog, Friday, 5 March 2004 15:22 (twenty years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 5 March 2004 15:27 (twenty years ago) link
― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Friday, 5 March 2004 15:28 (twenty years ago) link
as far as who contributes what to the songwriting, there's really no formula for that. no two bands do it the same way. no two singers who don't play instruments do it the same way. but good pop songwriting isn't that rare a skill anyway. i'd argue that good pop singing is probably rarer.
therefore:
search: all GOOD singers who don't play an instrument.
destroy: all BAD singers who don't.
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Friday, 5 March 2004 15:31 (twenty years ago) link
― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Friday, 5 March 2004 15:38 (twenty years ago) link
― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Friday, 5 March 2004 15:39 (twenty years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 5 March 2004 15:40 (twenty years ago) link
― Nom De Plume (Nom De Plume), Friday, 5 March 2004 15:47 (twenty years ago) link
― Kent Burt (lingereffect), Friday, 5 March 2004 15:49 (twenty years ago) link
― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Friday, 5 March 2004 15:51 (twenty years ago) link
― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Friday, 5 March 2004 15:53 (twenty years ago) link
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Friday, 5 March 2004 15:55 (twenty years ago) link
― Jeremy (Jeremy), Friday, 5 March 2004 16:00 (twenty years ago) link
is it correct by the way that Geezer wrote the lyrics in Black Sabbath?
― tod (tod), Friday, 5 March 2004 16:03 (twenty years ago) link
True - but if he was (capable of) writing the music himself, rather than actually having to force a set of lyrics he'd already written to fit 'round a tune someone else had written (because I'm prepared to bet that's how he wrote his most of his best songs), I think he'd lose the very thing that makes those songs so distinctive!
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 5 March 2004 16:21 (twenty years ago) link
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 5 March 2004 16:22 (twenty years ago) link
― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 5 March 2004 16:24 (twenty years ago) link
― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Friday, 5 March 2004 16:27 (twenty years ago) link
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Friday, 5 March 2004 16:28 (twenty years ago) link
― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Friday, 5 March 2004 16:28 (twenty years ago) link
― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Friday, 5 March 2004 16:29 (twenty years ago) link
He could play a mean harp 'tis true but he was no musician. He could also hammer out a tune on a piano with one finger or make strange noises through a saxaphone - but he couldn't play anything well enough to communicate with his musicians without having to resort to somewhat less-than-technical instructions like "play that like a smokey yellow room, make it more sulphur yellow" or "play it like a bat being dragged out of oil, and it's trying to survive but it's dying from asphyxiation" or to make a drum roll sound more like "a bunch of keys being thrown down stairs"
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 5 March 2004 16:34 (twenty years ago) link
― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Friday, 5 March 2004 16:38 (twenty years ago) link
― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 5 March 2004 16:40 (twenty years ago) link
― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Friday, 5 March 2004 16:42 (twenty years ago) link
In an interview I read with Robert Plant a few years back, he talked about getting serious about playing guitar and had gained even more respect for Page as a musician by trying to learn the guitar parts in Zeppelin songs.
― earlnash, Friday, 5 March 2004 16:44 (twenty years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 5 March 2004 16:45 (twenty years ago) link
Search: IGGY POP, Liz Fraser,...
Destroy: Julien Casablancas (boy does he look like he needs something to do with his arms).
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 5 March 2004 16:56 (twenty years ago) link
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 5 March 2004 16:58 (twenty years ago) link
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 5 March 2004 17:00 (twenty years ago) link
― tod (tod), Friday, 5 March 2004 17:00 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 5 March 2004 17:02 (twenty years ago) link
Not only can Iggy play guitar but he started off as a drummer (does that count as being a musician?)
― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 5 March 2004 17:03 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 5 March 2004 17:05 (twenty years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 5 March 2004 17:06 (twenty years ago) link
Shame on you.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 5 March 2004 17:08 (twenty years ago) link
yeah, wtf?
― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Friday, 5 March 2004 17:09 (twenty years ago) link
― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Friday, 5 March 2004 17:10 (twenty years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 5 March 2004 17:10 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 5 March 2004 17:10 (twenty years ago) link
ACK! You are so fulla shit! Dig out a copy of Mothership Connection at once!
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 5 March 2004 17:11 (twenty years ago) link
...why are you assuming this was meant as any sort of criticism?
― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 5 March 2004 17:11 (twenty years ago) link
― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Friday, 5 March 2004 17:12 (twenty years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 5 March 2004 17:12 (twenty years ago) link
― tod (tod), Friday, 5 March 2004 17:13 (twenty years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 5 March 2004 17:13 (twenty years ago) link
Just listen to even "P.Funk (Wants to Get Funked Up)". I mean, he's no crooner, but his voice is melodic and melifluous when it needs to be. It's not like he's Einar Orn or somebody.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 5 March 2004 17:14 (twenty years ago) link
(this being einar)
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 5 March 2004 17:15 (twenty years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 5 March 2004 17:15 (twenty years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 5 March 2004 17:16 (twenty years ago) link
I just haven't seen a lot of her old live footage. All we get now are the videos from Who's Zoomin' Who and the time she was craned in to perform on VH1 Divas.
― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Friday, 5 March 2004 17:17 (twenty years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 5 March 2004 17:18 (twenty years ago) link
― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Friday, 5 March 2004 17:20 (twenty years ago) link
― christoff (christoff), Friday, 5 March 2004 17:25 (twenty years ago) link
― otto, Friday, 5 March 2004 17:39 (twenty years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 5 March 2004 17:41 (twenty years ago) link
― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Friday, 5 March 2004 17:46 (twenty years ago) link
― sublimityeternal (sublimityeternal), Friday, 5 March 2004 18:25 (twenty years ago) link
I guess Ultra was an more emotional outpouring altogether, but to tell you the truth I haven't listened to it as much as the older albums.
― sublimityeternal (sublimityeternal), Friday, 5 March 2004 18:36 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 5 March 2004 19:19 (twenty years ago) link
― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Friday, 5 March 2004 19:25 (twenty years ago) link
He plays a mean kazoo.
― mmmmsalt (Graeme), Friday, 5 March 2004 20:04 (twenty years ago) link
?
― Ben Dot (1977), Friday, 5 March 2004 20:33 (twenty years ago) link
― tom west (thomp), Friday, 5 March 2004 20:50 (twenty years ago) link
She can definitely play church organ and sing simultaneously very well indeed!
― mei (mei), Friday, 5 March 2004 21:07 (twenty years ago) link
― glenny g2003 (glenny g2003), Friday, 5 March 2004 23:19 (twenty years ago) link
― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Friday, 5 March 2004 23:23 (twenty years ago) link
― bill stevens (bscrubbins), Friday, 5 March 2004 23:36 (twenty years ago) link
Destroy: Jim Morrison, Henry Rollins (despite playing cowbell onstage during Black Flag's final days, according to Chuck Eddy)
And yes, Tod, Geezer Butler was the lyricist
― Myonga Von Bontee, Saturday, 6 March 2004 11:23 (twenty years ago) link
― thomas de'aguirre (biteylove), Saturday, 6 March 2004 14:38 (twenty years ago) link
― jim wentworth (wench), Sunday, 7 March 2004 04:10 (twenty years ago) link