ITT: absurdly overpowered lineups
>>131684814Early 70's Gentle Giant. King Crimson is my favorite band but if I were forced to name the closest thing to a "perfect band" it'd have to be Gentle Giant before they started watering down their music post-Interview
>>131684814Foreigner
>>131684814Chicago [Columbia, 1969]Duke Ellington never got away with an extended work for horns and meaningfulness. What, then, makes James William Guercio and the self-designated revolutionaries who are his cohorts think they can? Sterile and stupid. D+Can't Buy a Thrill [ABC, 1972]How about that--a good album with two hit singles attached. And as you might expect of New York natives who reside in the City of the Angels, both brim with ambivalence: "Do It Again," a catchy modified mambo with homogenized vocals that divert one's attention from its tragic tale of a loser so compulsive he can't get himself hanged, and "Reelin' in the Years," a hate song to a professed genius. Think of the Dan as the first post-boogie band: the beat swings more than it blasts or blisters, the chord changes defy our primitive subconscious expectations, and the lyrics underline their own difficulty--as well as the difficulty of the reality to which they refer--with arbitrary personal allusions, most of which are ruses. A
>>131684814Their only lineup where no one sucked.
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Seru GiranFenomenos as we would say https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zm6Qzilw5Cs&list=RDZm6Qzilw5Cs&start_radio=1
>>131685957Foreigner was predictive programming for the Brown Tide the West is currently experiencing
>>131684814At least three versions of King Crimson
>>131688557I'm gonna tell my kids this is Soundgarden
>>131684814Public Image Limited's 1986 lineup was pretty ludicrous>Tony Williams>Ginger Baker>Steve Vai>Ryuichi Sakamoto>Bernie Worrell>Bill Laswell>Jonas Hellborg>Malachi Favors>John Lydon
At Gordon Lightfoot's Toronto mansionRoger McGuinn (leader and lead guitarist, and lead vocalist of The Byrds)Joni Mitchell (solo artist)Bob Dylan (solo artist)play music in the kitchen
>>131693681didn't get the concept
Somehow it works
>>131688895>4 geniuses>and mike
>>131694741He's a big guy
>>131688557Who the fuck is that? Duicidal Tendencies? Dragon Torce? Dound Tarden?
>>131693638>Bernie WorrellSwore his name was Bobby. The keyboard player from Funka, right?
>>131694779Dates Tarning
>>131694803Got it a few seconds after, Dream Theater
Talking Heads 1980 tour band
Primal Scream with Mani and Kevin Shieldshttps://youtu.be/4UrZKIzvZZE
>>131693638all that talent for such an underwhelming album
>>131694756This. Plus Billy Preston.
>>131694779Dream Theater with Kevin Moore and LaBrie before he started wailing like an abused dog.
>>131693595Lmao I thought it was Soundgarden too for a split second
How did he pull this off?
>>131688557Yes, 100% agree
>>131699252Van Halen on steroids
