Your Favourite Music and Musicians.

[Woking88]

Music threads have usually gone down well in the past. What is your favourite piece of music or musician?

Share your favourites with the rest of us.

Here's a guitarist who rarely features in anyone's top ten, but certainly should do:-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRH_70_Foow

Some interesting stuff in the notes.

[Evewolf65]

Music threads have usually gone down well in the past. What is your favourite piece of music or musician?

Share your favourites with the rest of us.

Here's a guitarist who rarely features in anyone's top ten, but certainly should do:-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRH_70_Foow

Some interesting stuff in the notes.

Wow I think Dirk could do with some lessons from this guy !!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-PQeWJ2ZC8

[Evewolf65]

I have a massive core of music that has been my influence over many years and I would be the first to admit it has been predominately Metal, Punk and New wave/Crossover biased. But since raising a family I've been exposed to many other forms of Music, anyway My son is into quite a lot of stuff from the 80's and I've found myself revisiting bands/artists that I grew up with back then and took little notice of, but I now really appreciate how good they were, here's one........

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9Gf-f_hWpU

[Newcy Wolf]

We are (rightfully) going down the Randy Rhoads road (like what I did there?)

[MichiganWolf]

One of my favorites is Queen and one of their best, maybe under appreciated songs is The Prophet's Song. Bohemian Rhapsody gets all the love, but this song is just as good IMO. Queen were one of the first bands to do the delaying and layering of the guitar and then did it with vocals. Interesting video about how the song was made.

https://youtu.be/JOTf8GbD-oE

[Woking88]

Wow I think Dirk could do with some lessons from this guy !!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-PQeWJ2ZC8

Different era, different genre - I hadn't intended this as a 'mine's bigger than yours' thread!

[Newcy Wolf]

Problem is Woking, the guitarist in question had a very short career.

Randy Rhoads had an uneventful career with a band called Quiet Riot until he auditioned for Ozzy Osbourne's band, Blizzard Of Ozz, a year after Ozzy was fired from Black Sabbath in 1979.
With Rhoads, Ozzy recorded Blizzard Of Ozz and Diary Of A Madman in the space of two years.
This period basically saved Ozzy from suicide imo and it was an absolute tragedy that Randy Rhoads was killed in his mid twenties in totally unnecessary circumstances.

Woking, look up Randy Rhoads's life and try the track Diary Of A Madman, it shows the range of the kid, from classical, to rock, to one of the the best crescendos you will hear.

It's basically a composition from a kid in his early twenties, something unheard of these days.

[Acido]

Hey Wokey dokey
I dont think Ive ever had a particular favourite band/singer or style of music either, but I do often tell myself that the 80s was/is the best era for music. But thats me talking with my rose tinted 80s goggles on of course.

[Woking88]

Problem is Woking, the guitarist in question had a very short career.

Randy Rhoads had an uneventful career with a band called Quiet Riot until he auditioned for Ozzy Osbourne's band, Blizzard Of Ozz, a year after Ozzy was fired from Black Sabbath in 1979.
With Rhoads, Ozzy recorded Blizzard Of Ozz and Diary Of A Madman in the space of two years.
This period basically saved Ozzy from suicide imo and it was an absolute tragedy that Randy Rhoads was killed in his mid twenties in totally unnecessary circumstances.

Woking, look up Randy Rhoads's life and try the track Diary Of A Madman, it shows the range of the kid, from classical, to rock, to one of the the best crescendos you will hear.

It's basically a composition from a kid in his early twenties, something unheard of these days.

Thank you for your detailed reply Newcy. As with many things in life, one man's meat is another man's poison. I am no lover of heavy metal, but I do not mock those that are.

Eve's comment puzzled me as I can see no reason why a man ranked at 31 in an all-time list of 100 greatest guitarists should need lessons from the man ranked at 85.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/li...-time-19691231

[Newcy Wolf]

That's an opinion poll woking.

I had to smile, to have a great, great guitar player like Angus Young barely breaching the top 100 at 96 and putting Joni Mitchell at 72 beggars belief.

Joni Mitchell???????




Eddie Van Halen at 70 and Ritchie Blackmore at a paltry 55?

Forget music tastes, was the creator of this poll just simply deaf?