He's one of the greatest players who ever lived. He'd crawl around, jump around. Any hard-rock band that ever tried to write a crazy twelve-minute operetta owes them a debt. I said to him, "Will you help me write a song or two?" "His original idea was a feature-length musicians' film in a similar way that Any Given Sunday was about the inner life of football players. I love singers whom you can identify the first second they open their mouth, and Levi Stubbs is one of those; he's one of the greatest of all time. I interpret that song as both an ode to creative ingenuity and a critique of infinite-growth capitalism. She describes smells and sounds and uses fewer words to transmit more feeling. When Carl hit the stage, he just ripped the room apart. "Don't Stand" would be great to listen to no matter what the lyrics were it could have just been about some girl but the story makes it spooky and powerful. My parents had basically nine vinyl albums, all greatest hits: the Beatles' red/blue albums, Carpenters, Neil Diamond, Elton John, the Beach Boys' Endless Summer, Jim Croce, Gordon Lightfoot and Creedence Gold. In the songs he wrote with Robert Hunter, and in Bob Weir's stuff too, you're also hearing music from 40 years ago. It wasn't just about the fact that Duane and Gregg Allman had the same parents. He would do this boogie-woogie thing, around and around like the kids used to do with the hula hoops, where you had to go around and around at your waist, to keep the hoop going. They were writing songs we wished we had written, like "No Sleep Till Brooklyn." I didn't have anything to say to her. He loved fishing, he loved sports. I was floored. And so, that year, I heard Lynyrd Skynyrd making their Atlanta debut at a very dangerous club on Peachtree Street called Funocchio's. I really related to that, because I never had a big, boisterous, American Idol showstopping voice. The Boy Georges of the world all got up in a twist about it. As a companion piece to Baudelaire's "To the Reader" the preface to his Flowers of Evil and second to the Velvet Underground, there has never been better soul-lashing in rock. I sat there listening to it over and over, and totally blew off this girl. He called me and said, "Steven, the Yardbirds are playing here, and you can open up." I knew the Byrds from Mr. Tambourine Man on; the Stones had worked some shows in California with them back then. But the crowd loved them, because they weren't trying to be black rappers. Join Now and SAVE!!! And when I saw Wolf, yes, he was a big guy. As I waited backstage to present my speech, I was approached by three women arguing with one another as to who should be the one to go onstage and claim the award that was to be given to Jackie. The winner of our '80s poll hasn't managed to repeat the trick in our final GOAT face-off, but that shouldn't diminish his talents or achievements one iota. The songs are great. But wherever she may be, whether it's in Spain, Asia or Egypt, she's never forgotten her humble beginnings. People don't realize how unique that is. He's pretty much a recluse. He's got some serious babymaking music. They influenced everyone from the Ronettes and Motown girl groups like the Supremes to the Beatles, who covered "Baby It's You" and "Boys." Like I know the blues, Gram Parsons knew country music every nuance, every great country song that was ever written. BA1 1UA. In 2004 50 years after Elvis Presley walked into Sun Studios and cut Thats All Right Rolling Stone celebrated rock & rolls first half-century in grand style, assembling a panel of 55 top musicians, writers and industry executives (everyone from Keith Richards to ?uestlove of the Roots) and asking them to pick the most influential artists of the rock & roll era. On their very first national tour, they opened for the Who. 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. I didn't know what "production" was back then, but I knew I loved the music. Seeing the Stooges in reunion with Mike Watt from the Minutemen on bass was awesome. They also came up with the cutting-edge dance routines. Top 10 Greatest Rock Keyboardists and Pianists Keyboardists were chosen for their skill, creativity, influence, impact, musical depth & expression, and lasting popularity in 'Rock' music. When Cream came out, everybody started a power trio. That said, there's nothing romantic about being addicted to heroin. The list consists mostly of rock, blues and jazz . Two-thirds of the way through their set, one of them said, "We'd like to invite a friend of ours from America out onstage." That East Coast/West Coast feud was just personal beef. People think football players can't move when they're that big. Some DJs wouldn't play that song or "Flash Light," because a fight would start: The crazy motherfuckers at parties would become real crazy. The winner of this round takes an advantage into Round 2: Triple Charades Jeopardy. At the hospital, he lapsed into a coma. They feared no one. 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. You can hear their sound reverberating throughout the whole industry today especially since hip-hop guys sample so much of what they did back then. They weren't concerned with clothes or looks or hit singles. Should Behringer release the Behremin, its $99 Theremin interpretation, or should it keep its hands off? They were an integrated band half white, half black. And got encores! Ambrosia How Much I Feel. Ray wrote songs about the things that were important to him. He's a poet with a punk's heart. Excitement": I heard that seeing Wilson perform made the King want to hide under the table. Tina Turner has become more than just a musical superstar and sex symbol, though she is definitely both of those things. "Desperado," "Take It to the Limit," "Tequila Sunrise" and "Best of My Love" are some of the best pop songs ever written. It might be Jordan Rudess who dominates the conversation when it comes to Dream Theater and keyboards these days - more on that later - but Sherinian was actually on synth duty for the band first. At the same time, Mick was listening to what Gram was doing. There is a great air of sadness in those songs. He was a dynamic performer right up until he was disabled in an accident onstage in New York in 1990. He told me it was because Tupac was so much smarter than everyone around him. : players like Remi/mygh69 excluded due to suspicious activity. But he really came into focus in Butler's next big hit, "He Will Break Your Heart," which was written by Mayfield and features his strumming electric guitar to a saucy tango beat that you can hear echoing in Ben E. King's "Spanish Harlem.". In my lifetime, Jay-Z has, by far, been the most artful and exciting musician to consistently make hits, and I mean real hits Top 10 singles deep into his career, like "Empire State of Mind." It didn't have to be about music. That's why we look forward to listening to Eminem's lyrics and finding out where the hell he's headed next. Classically trained, Emerson's childhood was also spent playing Jerry Lee Lewis and Little Richard, and his attendance at this broad musical church became evident as he developed his own gangbusting style and honed his prog chops. The song was basically their blueprint. Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman came with perfect songs like "This Magic Moment" and "Save the Last Dance for Me." I heard a rumor that Wolf and Muddy didn't get along I never saw that. The drugs and drinking he was no better or worse than the rest of us. MTV had just started to sink its claws into people, and that song was like an anthem for coked-up adults trying to make sense of their world. No one else has had that kind of impact with one album. The subject of "Tiny Dancer" was long assumed to be lyricist Bernie Taupin's wife Maxine Feibelmann, but Taupin, a Brit, has revealed . They knew he knew. Queen fell in and out of being cool, maybe because they were so sincere. It's no accident that the Beatles' Apple Records signed James Taylor at its inception. With players from each era in the mix, this was a tough one. Rock music is all about being phony sometimes. Later on, they broke ground with the psychedelic soul of "Cloud Nine." Their music could just always hold that. This is a band getting very strung out, putting so much blood and soul into what it's doing, and for the most part looked upon as trash. The Dead still believe in that message. He incorporated his culture into the music, and he mixed English and Spanish in the lyrics. You are one of the premier songwriters in this business. Future Publishing Limited Quay House, The Ambury, It's amazing. Their thing was "What do we do with these sounds?" I grabbed their amps, they grabbed ours. But I don't think everyone else knows it. 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. Hargus "Pig" Robbins, a member of Nashville's A-team of session players who added keyboards and piano to albums by Dolly Parton, Bob Dylan, Kenny Rogers, Miranda Lambert, Ween, and many more,. And Ad-Rock is just full of life. As a kid, I used to sit at home after school and just bang out those songs on the piano. I had the honor of inducting Jackie Wilson into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. 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. Two extraordinary artists were giving me the gift of their vocals and guitar parts for my album, Watermark. Nobody moved like the Tempts. He stood there, not moving a muscle, while he issued the most savage assault you had ever experienced, unless you were at the debut of Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture" and your seat was in front of the cannon. Richard Wright (Pink Floyd) 6. All of us are lucky to have heard songs as good as "Message in a Bottle," "Walking on the Moon" and "King of Pain" on the radio. All bands should pay attention to that. Never Mind the Bollocks is the root of everything that goes on at modern-rock radio. I had a strange dream a few years back. Every time you listen to them you hear something new. Nothing gets in the way of the push-and-pull between the guitarists Angus and Malcolm Young, bassist Cliff Williams and drummer Phil Rudd. He couldn't resist it any more than I could. There's just no escaping them. was more melody-driven I'm sure he wrote his shit without a pen, and over the music but 'Pac was just hashing out his life. You hear them on both pop and classic-rock stations, and they'll be played on the radio in Germany 100 years from now. The Beatles, Eminem and more of the best of the best, Suga, Drake, And All the Songs You Need to Know This Week, BTS Suga (as Agust D) Reveals New Album D-Day Out This Month, See BTS Jung Kook Debut New Single Dreamers at FIFA World Cup Opening Ceremony, Keith Richards Surprises Fans at Willie Nelson's 90th Birthday Concert, Sings 'Live Forever' With Willie, Marty Stuart Heads Back to the Spiritual Home of Country Music, BachmanTurner Overdrive Guitarist Tim Bachman Dead at 71, Pride Live Recruits Christina Aguilera to Headline 2023 Stonewall Day Celebration, Aerosmith to Peace Out With Farewell Tour, Trump Tries to Bail Himself Out of Rape Case by Asking for Mistrial. There were real women in that audience who knew what they wanted. And it was loud, even outside. Gram and I both loved the songs of Felice and Boudleaux Bryant the Everly Brothers stuff they wrote. Visit our corporate site (opens in new tab). Derek Sherinian He didn't get the breaks he deserved; hard luck seemed to follow him around. In the end, though, there could be only one winner - the person wholl take their place in our fantasy GOAT band thatll sell-out virtual venues across continents and time. Metallica are fucking rad! He was streamlined in a way that reminded me of Keith Richards, was always wasted and had a careless guitar style that was really cool. My favorite Tupac album is The Don Killuminati. The other thing that separates AC/DC as a hard-rock band is that you can dance to their music. Billy Preston 6. It's always, "Do what you think is right.". Amen to that. Anybody who's serious about metal will tell you it all comes down to Sabbath. It's not that they're indifferent it's that the strength of character in their music is beyond their control. Rick Wakeman (Yes) 3. 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. "Hail Mary" is just perfect: "Picture paragraphs unloaded/Wise words being quoted." Word spread very quickly in those days. Jimmy and Tom decided to give me "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around," which they had written with Campbell. There are songs on all the Cream albums that amaze me still, like "Crossroads," "Sunshine of Your Love," "White Room" and "I Feel Free." He commanded both the rhythm section and melodies in the band. The Eagles forever changed country and rock, but I just think of what they did as being great American music. Songs like "You Enjoy Myself" and "Split Open and Melt" were completely charted out because he had shown me it was possible. Mick and Gram never really clicked, mainly because the Stones are such a tribal thing. I was lucky enough to see the Allmans up close in the beginning. He was wearing all black and standing in front of a giant video wall. Go look back at those TRL charts and it's not hard to tell why a generation of musicians, critics and fans became so deeply connected to the lyrics of a dude who, supposedly, was describing a world that at least 50 percent of his fans "couldn't relate to.". And of course, the piano is quite popular among young music students. Whether playing sessions for David Bowie and Elton John, releasing a string of frankly ridiculous concept albums (he even performed one of them on ice) or playing in multiple iterations of prog titans Yes, Wakeman has always excelled, embracing all the new synth technology that's come his way. But then again, we all have. When I started getting calls to come and play on some cuts behind him, I'd think, "Oh, shit, I better play right." Yes, in technical terms, he's not the greatest player on this list - though he's in pretty exalted company, to be fair - but if you're looking for a pop star keyboard hero with great hair and an ability to make '80s teenagers swoon, Duran Duran's Nick Rhodes is your go-to guy. I have experienced the thrill of collaborating with him numerous times as we have invited each other into our respective albums. "This Must Be the Place" is probably one of the most important songs in my entire life. I told him, "Carl, they're going to know you and love you." 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). No one ever had the guts to say what they said. The title song of Sabbath Bloody Sabbath has all of the stuff I'm talking about: It's rebellious and dark and wicked, but it's also gorgeous. Some people have a hard time with the self-consciousness of perfectionism. You can think that it's all been written, but it hasn't. The focus is on the songs and not the rock star BS that was taking over back then. They were the first group from the neighborhood that sang modern harmony: They could sing like a gospel group but then do R&B like no one else. Don't be influenced by anything. Any . I didn't grow up a Deadhead. Whether it's the Cult or the Red Hot Chili Peppers, I apply the same basic formula: Keep it sparse. But he also had intelligence and honesty. In 1984, I was on tour with my band, somewhere in the middle of America. As a lyricist, he's one of the best ever. They took something old and made something new. Mr. 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. Elton John makes the Rolling Stone list four times ("Bennie and the Jets" - #371, "Your Song" - #202, "Rocket Man" - #149, and "Tiny Dancer - #47), repping the piano in all its glory. For me and I imagine for millions of others Tina now stands as an enduring symbol of survival and of grace. But he didn't get into dope because of us. Tina has the ability to dream, get out, get over and get on with it. My favorite characters were Star Child and Sir Nose, even though Sir Nose was a sucker who didn't swim and didn't like the funk. When we started to do the song and Eminem made his entrance, I got goose bumps, the likes of which I have not felt since I first saw Jimi Hendrix, Mick Jagger, James Brown and Aretha Franklin. Remember that famous introduction to "Proud Mary," when Tina talks about liking things "nice and rough"? Al Jackson's father was a drummer, so Al had a background of rhythm. Eric Clapton is the most important and influential guitar player that has ever lived, is still living or ever will live. The crowd yanked all the chairs off the floor and piled them into a pyramid in front of the stage. It's significant that Hank learned to play guitar from an elderly black musician: Hank is the ultimate hillbilly, but there's other stuff going on. And he would ball that fist up. When I first met him, he was very young, sleeping on the couch at the Atlantic Records offices and using the switchboard after hours. Hardcore was very rigid. Tony Banks (Genesis) 7. Then Green came around, and suddenly this band was on a major label, playing arenas, and every human in America with two ears and access to radio was being demanded to "Stand." We've reached the end - find out who'll be taking their place in our fantasy GOAT band. Guns n' Roses revived our kind of rock. It was a thing of beauty. But I think "perfect" is the best review. His fists were as big as a car tire. ", Tom is a great and loyal friend, but he's also honest like that. I stood outside. You don't realize how powerful that is when you're just a listener. A five-minute-long bass solo is a sure ticket to commercial success. But my favorite song on the record has always been "Nobody's Fault," which is the second song on the B side. They're so alive. Even Elvis Presley knew why Wilson was called "Mr. But it still held together as a bitchin'-ass song. "Bohemian Rhapsody" is arguably the greatest song ever written. Every rapper who grew up in the Nineties owes something to Tupac. And that motherfucker could make chicks cry. He was funny, gracious to all, had a beautiful smile and a genuine way about him a gentle and humble man at heart. It takes economy and simplicity to get to an idea or emotion in a song, and there's no better example of that than Hank Williams. On "Public Service Announcement," he described himself as being like "Che Guevara with bling on." 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. They weren't always complex, either there's some stuff where it's just bare-bones essentials. There are no train wrecks in Radiohead; every album and performance is wrenching. The Dead were aficionados of folk, acoustic blues and bluegrass particularly Garcia. He worked on a lot of bottom-of-the-rung cars that didn't have cassette decks. Artists like Eminem who use their free speech to get a point across are vitally important. Chuck Leavell, legendary keyboardist for The Rolling Stones, The Allman Bros, Eric Clapton, John Mayer, and more. Because of stuff like Pro Tools, they figure they can fix it all in the studio. His job isn't just holding down the root notes he and the drummers, Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann, are moving all over the place. We were playing the Deep South Crunkville, before there was crunk and it was just black people at those shows. They didn't play emotional songs. I remember hearing those boot stomps to "Holidays in the Sun." I heard a story maybe apocryphal that Queen played a festival and got booed off the stage. I have never seen such internal discipline in a band. The essays on these top 100 artists are by their peers: singers, producers and musicians. It was aggressive and intense, and it had these really wild and bizarre rhythm changes. Part of the thrill was wondering what he was going to do next. The sprint is cool the marathon is better. If they didn't have the intelligence to see his intelligence, that was their problem. After I released my first solo album, I was doing a TV special in Memphis, and I called him and asked if he'd grace us with his presence. And both Tom and Jimmy said to me, in a brutally honest way, "You don't have a single on this record. But the groove took over, and that calmed them down. But his effect on country music is enormous. The Kinks created a different world and I'm glad they did it. My mind was being blown by this beautiful violence that was unlike anything I'd ever heard before. The key to Rocks is the first two songs "Back in the Saddle" and "Last Child." was totally a going concern. The only radio station we could get was a scratchy AM station from who knows where. There are thousand of females working as keyboard players in the world, but this list highlights only the most notable ones. Clapton absorbed that, then introduced the essence of black electric blues: the power and vocabulary of Buddy Guy, Hubert Sumlin and the three Kings B.B., Albert and Freddie to create an attack that defined the fundamentals of rock & roll lead guitar. That's the kind of guy I like to hang with. In the beginning, Tina's music was based on hard times and harsh realities. 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I've always held on to the same dreams as Freddie. Since we were involved in the Drifters' career, it's probably not our place to declare their music immortal. It was great. And his music always has that rhythm. As I climbed the stone steps toward the theater's entrance, the doors flew open and out walked a girl I'd never seen before someone from the high school, maybe wearing a gauzy sundress and a notable lack of hair spray in her long hair. 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." Our first cut writing for the Drifters was "Ruby Baby," which Nesuhi Ertegun produced and Johnny Moore sang lead on, in 1955. Six years later, players are still discovering new ways to bend its world to their will. When King left, we worked with him as a solo artist, and the Drifters kept on having hits too, first with Rudy Lewis as the new lead singer. One night, at Madison Square Garden, Bruce Hornsby who was playing keyboards with them pulled us up onstage and sat us behind his piano. 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. They had played Austin and made a tremendous noise down there. (Image credit: Tom Copi/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images) Obviously, he had great musicians on those albums: Bootsy Collins on the bass; Bernie Worrell, the best keyboard player I've ever heard. We used Brian May amps and wrote songs with different movements. When they came to Motown and teamed up with Holland-Dozier-Holland, there was no looking back. Join Now and SAVE!!! He did this guitar solo in "City of Tiny Lites" where everybody in the band dropped out except drummer Chad Wackerman. In the Name of Love," "I Hear a Symphony" at the time, people thought those songs were disposable. Duck was a great bass player, and very funny one of them good old Southern beer-drinking boys. But I still gave him a look like he was bugging. The first night was somewhere in Georgia, and we were thinking, "I hope people don't leave when they see them." And bow down. Rolling Stone is a rock & roll music game for anyone who has ever heard a song. Boy, was I wrong. Then there was his kid brother, Gregg. The Supremes were the epitome of the Motown sound. Andy Summers has both great technique and rhythmic sense. He just made that one fatal mistake taking that one hit after he cleaned up, still thinking he could take the same amount. But then it came out and just took hold of the world. Carlos Santana's music is a family thing for Chicanos. The thing was, he was doing that when the public eye was on him, and everything he was hashing out just expanded, and that's when things got out of control. I sing to James Taylor before every show I do. Robert Henry Keys (December 18, 1943 - December 2, 2014) was an American saxophonist who performed as a member of several horn sections of the 1970s. I was fully hooked. The haunting opening strains of "Hotel California" came on the radio.
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