And they achieved that. As a lyricist, he's one of the best ever. Sometimes you think, "How can you top anything by the Yardbirds, or Zeppelin, or the Stones?" I loved the way Tom's Florida swamp-dog voice sounded in cahoots with Mike Campbell's guitar and Benmont Tench's keyboards. We hung out, smoked some pot and listened to Aerosmith's Rocks. But he didn't. The Dead were aficionados of folk, acoustic blues and bluegrass particularly Garcia. She's transformed herself into an international sensation an elegant powerhouse. I went backstage, and we hooked up. He's the definition of a true talent: Dre feels like God placed him here to make music, and no matter what forces are aligned against him, he always ends up on the mountaintop. Put on "Steppin' Out." 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. You'd come back to town from a 51-night tour, and the first thing you did was shower and head back to Hitsville. They took something old and made something new. My dad was a mechanic. You can clearly hear his influence in the monumental "Little Wing," by Jimi Hendrix. Zappa gave me the faith that anything in music was possible. There's nothing like it. Neil Young was there that night, and he was shaking his head. Guns n' Roses' music wasn't full of the overblown gymnastics that a lot of guys were doing then their stuff is just very tasty. But who made Chess Records? And his music always has that rhythm. Somewhere between LOL and FML there was "TRL." But being a person who's made 14 records, you see how big a deal it is. The song is simple, but when you look at all the elements and how they're put together and where the downbeat is, it's kind of clever is not even really the word. You don't have to emulate them, but thanks to them, you can take it anywhere. Even when it's just him and a piano onstage, it's powerful. But I've noticed that there's been a rediscovery of the haunting quality of Hank Williams' music. The Police matured really quickly. There are a couple of moments on At Fillmore East that defy description where the Allmans take the music to places it had never been. But it was organic with Carl. DJ Pretty Lights performs onstage during the 5th Annual Camp Flog Gnaw Carnival at Exposition Park on Nov. 13, 2016 in Los Angeles. But I believe that his guitar playing changed radically in the early Seventies because singing and songwriting became more important to him, and Robert Johnson had a lot to do with that. And Queen were always trying something new; none of their hit songs were paint-by-numbers. He was not the kind of guy to blow his own horn; he was very humble. When Carl hit the stage, he just ripped the room apart. But I think "perfect" is the best review. Highway to Hell is probably the most natural-sounding rock record I've ever heard. I first met Dre in December of 2003. Iggy wanted the Stooges to be what he'd seen in Chicago as a young guy these old bluesmen playing so hard that, as Iggy once said, the music drips off you. I was in my third year of classes at a place in London called the Regent Street Polytechnic School of Architecture, which is where I met Nick Mason and Rick Wright. When Paul's Boutique came out, it didn't sell as well as their debut. Al Green's voice will always remind me of driving the back roads of Memphis with my parents, listening to cassette tapes. The riff in "Walk This Way" is just us trying to explore the blues in the Yardbirds model. The Best Horror Movies of the Last Decade, 2010s Shows That Took Place in Other Decades. in 1986, a song tacked on to the end of a demos collection of a Eugene, Oregon, band that my uncle, then in school at U of O, sent to me for Christmas. Heres him with DHS censorship architect Chris Krebs in 2019 bragging about how he had just shaken down Mark Zuckerberg: 04 Apr 2023 02:50:20 I bought a 10-song Hank Williams collection on vinyl for $4.99. They were the best of all of us. We want to hear it. With Frank, his musicians were pushed to the absolute brink. When the Four Tops first came to Motown, the Miracles and I were the mainstays of the label, and the Temptations had just gotten there. I remember listening to the high-hat rhythms on that record over and over with the guys in the Jeff Beck Group. The emotion is all in that groove. And, of course, she was glamorous: I remember all those furs, diamonds and early bling-bling. His guitar has a very distinctive sound it's like a fingerprint. He remained in that state for eight years, as the people around him fought over his estate, before he died in 1984. Queen fell in and out of being cool, maybe because they were so sincere. I never would have thought of doing that if I hadn't seen Zappa do "Stairway to Heaven" in Burlington with the horns playing Jimmy Page's entire guitar solo, in harmony. They have a phase one, a phase two, maybe even a phase three and four. We also put the Drifters together with Burt Bacharach who met Dionne Warwick at our office for a Drifters session. You feel a mothership connection. cookie-, . Paul Cook was an amazing drummer with a distinct sound, right up there with Keith Moon or Charlie Watts. And for it to do what it has done is truly mind-blowing. When you heard him play, you knew it couldn't be anyone else. Anybody who's serious about metal will tell you it all comes down to Sabbath. Elvis' songs say, "I see you, and I know what you're doing." Phil would get the track ready, then call upon the artist and say, "OK, now sing." When we played the Reading and Leeds festivals, we had to follow Slayer, and got bottles of piss thrown at us. We were 10 feet from Jerry Garcia, and you could see how that audience zeroed in on him. Everyone focuses on the magic of Jerry's guitar playing and the vulnerability of his voice, but his sense of melody and chord changes was unbelievable. He said he didn't like the way Tupac behaved because he knew that Tupac knew better. But the MGs were like a family. He has that distinctive voice, and his range is staggering. As far as the bass player goes, I don't think it was necessarily a mistake to replace Glen Matlock with Sid Vicious. There's just no escaping them. The key to Rocks is the first two songs "Back in the Saddle" and "Last Child." Maybe most important of all, he turned the amp up to 11. For whatever. Their management changed the lineup in 1958, and that's when the great Ben E. King came into the picture. Ray wrote songs about the things that were important to him. went to England in 1985, I drove through Muswell Hill and it certainly wasn't romantic-looking. As a guitar player, that is the thing I strive for: the distinct, recognizable personality that comes out in every note. It takes a lot of courage to be that honest, especially as a woman. Van Gogh is legendary for being mentally unstable There's a Jerry Lee Lewis flavor to the way he just gets in there and lets it rip: His rocking stuff has a lot of raw power, a real physicality. My children didn't know who I was until they were 21 and were able to come in the clubs and see me. The Eagles provided the soundtrack to so many of my summers, and likely many of yours, too. All of those great albums that we talk about now, like Face to Face, Something Else by the Kinks and Village Green nobody bought those records in the Sixties. We were both fans of the Drifters even before we started writing, and later producing, for them. You are one of the premier songwriters in this business. Tupac's aggressive records are my favorite. The early TRL charts were dominated by 'N Sync, the Backstreet Boys, Korn and their respective biters. The guitar player suddenly became the most important guy in the band. And then the guitars come in, and then the ambience comes in it's like several songs all blending into one. Notorious B.I.G. He was so loud. I said most cities with famous musicians, like Chicago they end up naming a street or something after them. Heres him with DHS censorship architect Chris Krebs in 2019 bragging about how he had just shaken down Mark Zuckerberg: 05 Apr 2023 18:53:13 In Jane's Addiction, we were into a groove that was very repetitive, riff-oriented and hypnotic similar in a lot of ways to a song like "War Pigs," off of Paranoid (my favorite Sabbath album). If Buddy Holly hadn't gotten on that plane, or Eddie Cochran hadn't turned the wrong corner, think of what stuff we could have looked forward to, and be hearing now. The Stooges' sound was so evocative yet so simple. They were the best in my neighborhood in Detroit when I was growing up. There are three kinds of record producers. Along with the Beatles, they gave those of us entering the business at that time something to aspire to that wasn't pop but was still popular. When I was going out in the Eighties, you could get your ass kicked if you put on Funkadelic's "(Not Just) Knee Deep" at a house party. We would linger by the stage after our set and listen to Duane and Dickey Betts play guitar together. When I was in junior high, my classmates all liked Led Zeppelin. Billie had the biggest debut album Around the same time, Delaney and Bonnie Bramlett were encouraging him to write and sing. So whenever I had to do a solo, I would just play that. It didn't seem like the sunset was happening in some king's country, in some other world. Seeing them perform makes me even angrier. It's probably the most beautiful piece of jewelry a man has ever given me, ever. In additionto creating some of the most memorable music of the decade, Rihanna had a major role in flipping gender stereotypes with songs like Te Amo and Cockiness, giving other female artists the opportunity to break from conventions set by the music industry. 05 Apr 2023 12:05:27 It's the benchmark you measure your album against if you're serious. I was too young to go to the concerts, but I'd hear about them from my older brothers and sisters about the huge stage shows, and one story about a fan who stripped off all his clothes and ran the length of the arena. From his records, it sounded like he was projecting from a completely different place in his body. When a person gets rocking to their music, everything else disappears, and that person is just one with the rock. Especially Dark Side of the Moon. I was desperately searching for like-minded kids, but with every semester that went by, I felt like my isolation only grew. The customers turn and look, each more untrusting than the next. That's the reason I wanted to appear on the Grammys with him when I was asked, despite all the nonsense talked about his being homophobic and crap like that. Everything you wanted was right there, touchable to me, in that voice even when Wolf wasn't singing. There's so little adornment. Bands like the Clash had already mixed it with punk, but the Police did it flat-out it was like reggae for music geeks. Finally, Elvis is the definition of a career artist he's always coming up with a different sound, always challenging himself. Pain and hurt can be a muse for great art. Considering how important he is to rock history, many people don't know about him. When I first heard them, I was 14 or 15 and into a lot of heavy-metal and hard-rock music. I was so inspired, I stood at attention and saluted. Rihanna proved herself to be a musical trailblazer this decade. Sometimes I put on Tupac's best songs, followed by Biggie's best songs. He hit the drums harder than anyone I've ever seen, with the possible exception of Keith Moon. That was the kind of shit he was doing. When he went into the studio, it came out of him, like Minerva coming out of Jupiter's head. That was her story. I became such a fan that if I hadn't been in a band myself, I would have joined that one. And it opened up my mind to the mighty force of nature that is Metallica. He had a terrible car crash on the way to The Ed Sullivan Show when "Blue Suede Shoes" was breaking really big. Clapton was so moved by Johnson's music that he wanted to write and sing with the same passion, clarity and truth. He was funny, gracious to all, had a beautiful smile and a genuine way about him a gentle and humble man at heart. At the very least, I don't think anyone will take issue with the next line: "I'm complex.". And now we realize that they're true masterpieces. 22. Excitement would still not have peace. It was a planned community with man-made lakes. The Dead are like that too. When you're in a band and you find something that breaks every rule, it gives you creative hope. They didn't play funk, but everything they played was funky. The Allman Brothers had respect for the roots of this music. That's very necessary today, when irony is becoming a lost art. And it was loud, even outside. And people expected the Wolf, because he was such a big guy, to just sit in a chair and belt it out. In a way, it's a matter of lost love. He's pretty much a recluse. Tina Turner has become more than just a musical superstar and sex symbol, though she is definitely both of those things. Kendrick Lamar Became The First Non-Jazz Or Classical Artist To Win The Pulitzer For Music. They were definitely going for a hit single with the song "(Anesthesia) Pulling Teeth." He was sweating it looked like glitter sweat and he had a chipped tooth. I first met Gram in 1968, when the Byrds were appearing in London I think it was a club called Blazes. But like Dizzy Dean used to say, "If you can do it, it ain't bragging," and Phil can do it: play piano and guitar, compose and produce. A community that, as far as I could tell, consisted of exactly one person. The MGs made a name for themselves with all those great instrumentals, like "Green Onions," but they were the house band at Stax/Volt, so they had real adaptive ability. WebWho have been the most influential creatives (artists, actors, musicians, singers, comedians, writers) who have changed society the most over the last 50 years? Holland, Dozier and Holland were amazing songwriters, just pure melody men. And when I played at Bonnaroo with my 10-piece band, we did two covers, "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" and "Sultans of Swing." Born in Germany, Beethoven is considered to be one of the most important names in the music industry. When he did, to me, I was getting paid. In making The Downward Spiral, he encouraged the computer to misconstrue input, willed it to spew out bloated, misshapen shards of sound that pierced and lacerated the listener. There were real women in that audience who knew what they wanted. But after you're in a life-threatening situation, you think about it a little more. At one point, after the lyric "She danced around and round to a guitar melody," he fired off an accent on his guitar that resonated for years for many of us who tried to emulate him she cast her spell and he followed, with the rest of us close behind. Before I joined the Dead in 2004, I played with Phil Lesh for about five years. And then you hear Guns n' Roses, and it's inspiring. He called me and said, "Steven, the Yardbirds are playing here, and you can open up." When R.E.M. I realized these songs were all acts of imagination, that Ray was commemorating an England that was slipping away. When you're up on that stage or when you record, you want to be a tool that light shines through to everybody.". Go home and turn off the radio. Mr. Compared to the prog-rock groups they get thrown in with King Crimson or Yes or Genesis their music is actually very simple. He once said to us, "You want to be like emissaries of light. I just thought, "Fuck, this man is amazing." Gerry Goffin and Carole King wrote "Up on the Roof." I think he was just getting into his stride when he died. I heard a rumor that Wolf and Muddy didn't get along I never saw that. Tom made me a little platinum sheriff's badge that had 24-karat gold and diamonds across the top and said "To Our Honorary Heartbreaker, Stevie Nicks." Boy, was I wrong. But the right people did. When he took the stage, adorned in a magnificent white suit, he spread his arms open wide, as if trying to embrace the entire room. Living in Oklahoma, I sometimes can't relate when English bands sing about English things. Mars's music weaves together '60s pop, '80s R&B, reggae, and hip hop, just to name a few styles, proving that "genre" is not as confining a word as we used to think. Nobody sounds like him. Do yourself a favor, and don't debate me on this. You want to go toward the light. Gram was everything you wanted in a singer and a songwriter. Vote up the musical artists who made the biggest impact in the last decade. To this day they still have the best album covers I've ever seen; they would sustain you as much as a video would today. The first song of theirs that I vividly remember hearing was "Take It Easy." 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. But it still held together as a bitchin'-ass song. Hearing Al as a kid made me want to become a singer and showed me that it was OK to have a softer, more falsetto voice. You're in the resistance now, son. Ray wrote "You Really Got Me" on piano. There have been bottleneck-guitar players forever, from the Twenties through the Sixties, but Duane began doing things no one had ever done before. His records are enormously important to country music, but I think I responded to them because they sounded so exotic. Back then the Four Tops were called the Four Aims. The song was called "Superman," a bit of meticulously crafted bubblegum that was so simple and honest and funny that my entire nascent library of cassettes (chiefly: Yaz, Scritti Politti and Depeche Mode) seemed to be rendered obsolete in the span of the track's three minutes. michael kane gibraltar net worth most influential musicians in the past 5 years When Zappa turned his back on the audience to play with Chad, I saw this huge smile on his face. Eminem does for his audience what Dylan did for his: He writes how he feels. On The Stooges and Fun House, while his brother Ron, the guitarist, was playing these loud bar-chord progressions, Scott was making the band rev and swing. And it was too fucking much. Then there was his kid brother, Gregg. And this music comes on the radio. They dug down a little deeper into rock's roots. I slowly became aware of the house music and that it was infuriatingly familiar. I couldn't get in. Eminem is a true poet of his time, someone we'll be talking about for decades to come. Byrne's lyrics spoke to the artifice of the American landscape. Later in life, in the early Nineties, I witnessed a wonderful moment, when the Shirelles were honored by the Rhythm & Blues Foundation. In Run-DMC, we were rapping over rock beats. So he quit the Byrds, right there and then. His anger, vulnerability and humor come out. Beethoven. I remember that if I would vouchsafe an opinion about something when we were together in the studio a snare drum on a bridge of a song, or whatever Phil would say, "Oh, man, I came here from California to make hits." You hear his voice and it lights everything up. I grabbed their amps, they grabbed ours. Their outfits were wonderful I blame them for teaching me to wear loud colors. It was great. Later you had Roger Waters evoking these big, universal landscapes of human crises. This is why we're talking about him now. Freddie's songs are just so much fun to sing, and he had such stamina. People think football players can't move when they're that big. With musicians, " motherfucker" was the love word. It belittles Radiohead to describe their music as having "hooks." And that beat could really get a crowd going. Ranking the best of everything of the last 10 years. I sing to James Taylor before every show I do. It's what you listen to when you're all hanging out: Drinking some beers, listening to "Oye Como Va" and cooking some barbecue is the best thing in the world. It's a beautiful piece of music played by an awesome rocker of a young man who was a masterpiece of a human being. WebRT @MikeBenzCyber: Restrict Act sponsor Mark Warner has been *the single most* influential domestic censorship pushing member of Congress for the past 5 years. Any hard-rock band that ever tried to write a crazy twelve-minute operetta owes them a debt. There is a whole generation of musicians coming up who can't play their instruments. No one ever had the guts to say what they said. Everybody knows that they're going to die. I think the artist's primary responsibility is to reflect what life was like in their time. They knew he knew. I was pretty much just into "Suzie Q" and "Born on the Bayou" back then, but I came to appreciate almost everything they ever did. When I did my first sessions at Stax, I learned everything about record production from those guys. Zappa conceptualized the instrument in a completely different way, rhythmically and sonically. Who are we to argue? There's a point on the album Kid A where I start feeling claustrophobic, stuck in a barbed-wire jungle and then I suddenly fall out and I'm sitting by a pool with birds singing. Phish tried hard to do that too: to take our four little instruments and do as much as we could with them. The rhythm section is rad. I feel like they saw Brian Eno, their producer, as another instrument. They played traditional blues mixed with their own unique brand of rock & roll, and there was nothing but strength in that group. One of the fundamental ways a decade defines itself is through its music (and of course, the talented artists behind it all), and the 2010s generated some of the most impactful and culture-shifting artists of the past hundred years. Web50 years of rolling stone new book celebrates visual. I really related to that, because I never had a big, boisterous, American Idol showstopping voice. They used to have to go out there and tape foam rubber around everything that Axl could touch from his teleprompter to his mic stand to make sure he wouldn't break anything, or hurt himself. "I know you can make it," he exhorted to soul-stirring harmonizing. He was capable of playing his instrument, but he was too fucked up to do it. I don't mean to demean the roles the others played in the group's success, but it never would have happened without him. He was no Geraldo Rivera he was Muhammad Ali or LeBron James. When I first heard Howlin' Wolf's records, I thought that deep, scratchy voice was a fake voice, just the way he sang until I met him. People imitate Stevie Wonder or whomever, but how many people can do Elvis Costello? That's the kind of guy I like to hang with. They could take those great songs and give them sound. And that is it, really. I'd later become friends with David Ruffin when our bands would play in Detroit, Ruffin would come to every show and we'd sing "(I Know) I'm Losing You," a Temptations cover off my album Every Picture Tells a Story. Just days before the release of his critically acclaimed debut album, Channel Orange, Frank Ocean took to his Tumblr andtold fans about a love affair he'd had with another man when he was 19. The sanctions and the embargo were on. It didn't have to be about music. Listen to "Somebody," a song I wrote for Aerosmith's first album: It's all from the Yardbirds. They bucked the system and encouraged their fans to do the same: to be free thinkers. I had this picture of a gorgeous vista when it's really a kind of grimy area. The day may come, if you're a young rocker, when you'll hear one of Clapton's mellow, contemporary ballads on the radio and think, "What's the big deal?" People are born to do certain things, and Al was born to make us smile. But I was also totally into Brad Whitford's guitar solos, and he had a more direct influence on the way I play than anybody realizes. I warm up in my dressing room to "Handy Man," "Sarah Maria," "Song for You Far Away," "Sweet Baby James," "Copperline" and about 20 other favorites. Everything about the songs was great, even the intros every one of them had a distinctive, memorable intro, which was a hook in and of itself. I was on holiday with my parents in the late Sixties when I heard "I Wish It Would Rain." However inscrutable Michael Stipe's lyrics were, they always gave language to this weird, agonizing metamorphosis taking place in my head. How active they are on social media? I remember getting chills watching him perform "On to the Next One" at Coachella. Awesome Teen Movies You Must See Before You Turn 20. David Byrne's parents lived there for a while. His 2. That's sort of the impact that they always had on me and my music. But the crowd loved them, because they weren't trying to be black rappers. You never heard Jagger hanging out on a single note the way Keith Relf could. I love the way Freddie performed. It's amazing how one band could take all those influences country and rock, of course, but also soul, R&B and folk and still sound so distinctive. They were the shit to us, out of all the British bands in the Sixties. A wayward fugitive, stumbling through the door of some Provenal cafe, his hat and coat soaking wet from the journey. On the back it says "To the Only Girl in Our Band." I don't know if massive stardom and selling a zillion records were on their minds when they were getting the ball rolling. They played like no other band. Then, years later, I went to the White House (back when Clinton was in office), and Al was there performing. I've always held on to the same dreams as Freddie. At 15 minutes, it was so long and so good, it made you feel like now was the time. But if those guys were speaking to you, Al Green was speaking for you. Today, were at #2. And got encores! There is this thing in them wound up so tight that they have to let it out, let that thing uncoil; it has to be released. I obviously still have my work cut out for me. Not bloody many. He was fun to be around, great to play with as a musician. Take a song like "Fat Old Sun," from Atom Heart Mother. It's hard to believe somebody could do so many different things. In my own way, I got to experience the power of the Eagles' music. Elvis ended up covering the song and took a lot of the glory there. There was nothing about him that was contrived. He told me about picking cotton when he was a kid and learning the blues from an older black field hand he knew. There was a real tradition of great singers in the group: Clyde McPhatter, Johnny Moore, Ben E. King and Rudy Lewis. Sometimes I wonder if he watches people on the Strand in London and makes up entire histories for them. He was an amazing guitar player: If you want to play Fifties rock & roll, you can either play like Chuck Berry, or you can play like Carl Perkins. On their very first national tour, they opened for the Who. It's always, "Do what you think is right.". And Pink Floyd came to embrace this idea of "We can play stadiums and we can fill them up with giant fucking pig balloons." The song was basically their blueprint. Whatever gets thrown at them, they persevere and they get stronger; they are a family. We both loved that melancholy, high-lonesome shit. You hear them on both pop and classic-rock stations, and they'll be played on the radio in Germany 100 years from now. 10. He was a very personal guitarist; he played with more heart and soul than technique. But wherever she may be, whether it's in Spain, Asia or Egypt, she's never forgotten her humble beginnings. Dolly Parton (1946Present) Seven decades of making a global career for herself, Dolly Parton has always charted new ground. It was precise and explosive and heavy. But what's interesting to me is that they wrote their very first hit, "I Met Him on a Sunday," themselves, when they were still high school students in New Jersey. "Knee Deep" was their coming-out music. My favorite line is "Wet bus stop/She's waiting/His car is warm and dry" he communicates the entire song with those 11 words. I don't think this generation has a clue what classic Aerosmith was all about. They started out with Syd Barrett writing these whimsical stories, these songs that were kind of surf-rock, kind of R&B, but in his own fucked up way. Kurt Cobain claimed he didnt know Teen Spirit was a brand of deodorant when he wrote Nirvanas 1991 grunge anthem. A lot of groups if they're lucky just have a phase one. But the reality is that life never threw her anything that she couldn't handle. He incorporated his culture into the music, and he mixed English and Spanish in the lyrics. I became a fan right then. 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