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Old 11-07-19, 01:18 PM
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Originally Posted by VintageTTfan
Sounds like you feel the same way I do about CCR.
Hills I will gladly die on:

CCR = poor man's The Band

John Mellencamp = poor man's Springsteen

Stone Temple Pilots = poor man's Pearl Jam

Lenny Kravitz = poor man's whichever act he's ripping off on this particular album (Hendrix, Led Zep, etc.)
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Old 11-07-19, 02:01 PM
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Originally Posted by VintageTTfan
Oh apparently Clapton had good taste.


Here's another favourite.
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Nice Disraeli gears on that folder.
Doesn't fold!
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Originally Posted by VintageTTfan
Considering Zappa this makes perfect sense!
'Zackly!

This thread ... lots of pining over long-gone youth. I started buying 'records' for myself in '62, age 11, with Bob Dylan's self-titled first album. The other two standouts in memory for me: Meet the Beatles, 1964 (we got the Brit. Parlophone issue up here), and the Mothers' Freak Out ('66).

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Originally Posted by ksryder
Hills I will gladly die on:

CCR = poor man's The Band
Much as I love The Band, this is quite silly. Fogerty wrote as many great songs as just about anybody.
Just "Favorite Son" by itself is enough to take him out of any "poor man's" category, and I defy you to come up with anything The Band did that sounded like that.
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Originally Posted by livedarklions
Much as I love The Band, this is quite silly. Fogerty wrote as many great songs as just about anybody.
Just "Favorite Son" by itself is enough to take him out of any "poor man's" category, and I defy you to come up with anything The Band did that sounded like that.
Not to mention 'Have you ever seen the rain ...'

Fogerty weren't no Mose Allison (whole 'nother thing, I know, but still and yet ...), but he was a damn fine rockabilly songwriter, imo.
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Originally Posted by VintageTTfan
Everyone is entitled to their taste and just remember that everyone has a band that they can't stand. CCR is that band for me. It is personal taste. I just do not like them. I like Dylan, The Byrds, The Small Faces, Humble Pie, and lots of classic bands.

I like Rush and U2 and Depeche Mode also and my friend HATES those bands.........so it is all just taste and nothing personal.
Taste is funny, innit? I adore Dylan, the Byrds, but can't stand U2 -- Bono, in particular. Rush? I know they're Canajun, but ... meh. Each to their own, says I.

Me? Some faves, in no particular order: Beatles; Who; Mothers/Zappa; Squeeze; Dire Straits/Knopfler; Elvis Costello (early, w/Attractions); Cars; Cream/Clapton; AC/DC; Dylan; Jethro Tull (early stuff); Prince; Four Tops; Smokey Robinson; Aretha; Mose Allison; Dexter Gordon; Art Pepper; Stan Rogers ... eclectic as hell ... you get the picture!
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Originally Posted by VintageTTfan
Everyone is entitled to their taste and just remember that everyone has a band that they can't stand. CCR is that band for me. It is personal taste. I just do not like them. I like Dylan, The Byrds, The Small Faces, Humble Pie, and lots of classic bands.

I like Rush and U2 and Depeche Mode also and my friend HATES those bands.........so it is all just taste and nothing personal.
That's fine, but calling CCR a poor man's The Band goes beyond "I don't like them". It's such an off-base comparison that I'd have to question whether the person uttering it knew anything about either band.

I'd call Rush the poor man's stomach pump, btw. Bleccccccchhh! Great records to put on to chase away house guests.
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Originally Posted by VintageTTfan

The man who influenced them all.......
He paints them from the correct angle as well:

https://www.castlefineart.com/art/bicycle-2012
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Originally Posted by badger1
Taste is funny, innit? I adore Dylan, the Byrds, but can't stand U2 -- Bono, in particular. Rush? I know they're Canajun, but ... meh. Each to their own, says I.

Me? Some faves, in no particular order: Beatles; Who; Mothers/Zappa; Squeeze; Dire Straits/Knopfler; Elvis Costello (early, w/Attractions); Cars; Cream/Clapton; AC/DC; Dylan; Jethro Tull (early stuff); Prince; Four Tops; Smokey Robinson; Aretha; Mose Allison; Dexter Gordon; Art Pepper; Stan Rogers ... eclectic as hell ... you get the picture!
Junior Walker is the most neglected Motown guy at this point. Just judging from your list, if you're not familiar, check him out because I think you'd love it. He played at the Cabooze in Minneapolis a couple of times in the early '80s, and it was about the happiest bar I've ever been in.
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Originally Posted by VintageTTfan
Rush....the band that has die hard fans and then those that hate them. I like Rush and respect their musicianship and integrity and just like the music.

U2....another band people love to hate.....but I like um ....can see why Bono is viewed as annoying and pretentious though......Although I have to say, he has done a lot of humanitarian work and I wish I could do one thousandth of what he has done in that area. Think Bono is worthy of respect on that note....regardless if you hate his personality and music.


Bono is thinking "This could end painfully."
I think we should make a deal and not discuss who we don't like on this thread. It's a welcome relief to have a thread on here that doesn't involve having to defend something or someone I like, and regardless of my like or dislike of Bono, that's a fun picture to look at.

I regret the wisecrack about Rush, and will refrain from such from here on.
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Not exactly musician on bike, but here's a bunch of people at the Johnny Cash Folsom Prison Blues Bike Ride https://folsomcasharttrail.com/the-t...lues-bike-ride:

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Behold, the Metal God himself:

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And here are both Van Halen frontmen David Lee Roth and Sammy Hagar on bikes:




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this is my new favorite thread!!
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Originally Posted by VintageTTfan
Sure no problem...it is a deal. By the way I had no problem with your wisecrack at all. I think it is great when people can tolerate each others different opinions and not be too sensitive. This society is getting so politically correct that it is getting to the point where it infringes on freedom of speech. We should all just relax a little and enjoy open minded communication. And thanks for the kind words on my picture selection.
OK, this is ironic that I'm disagreeing with you about this and so it will be my only post on the subject, but I don't think the problem is tolerating other people's opinions. It's just that almost every single thread on BF and most internet forums seems to degenerate into an argument over some piece of trivia that drives out all the fun discussion. There's plenty of sites I can go to if I want to read people slagging each other's musical tastes, but this is the one where pictures of musicians on bikes should live peacefully!


Oh, and Dexter Gordon ( https://www.jazzwax.com/2018/11/dext...ive-63-77.html )

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Originally Posted by VintageTTfan
Rush....the band that has die hard fans and then those that hate them. I like Rush and respect their musicianship and integrity and just like the music.

U2....another band people love to hate.....but I like um ....can see why Bono is viewed as annoying and pretentious though......Although I have to say, he has done a lot of humanitarian work and I wish I could do one thousandth of what he has done in that area. Think Bono is worthy of respect on that note....regardless if you hate his personality and music.


Bono is thinking "This could end painfully."
Nothing wrong with beeing hated as a band, at least not necessarily. It's usually not the kind of music you don't care about at all that you hate, it's the music that's close to your taste but somehow takes it into the wrong direction. I have that with Rush, I respect them as individuals and musicians but can't stand hearing it. I liked U2 very much as a pretty straight forward punkrock band, allthough I have to admit I was very young back then, and then they went pretentious and I started to dislike them. I hated Dire Straits when I was fifteen, not because they were bad but because they were clean, neat and big just when I needed raw and sleazy guitars.
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Several years ago I saw him speak about cycling.

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Rita Hayworth sang "Put the Blame on Mame", so I think this qualifies:

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R.I.P. Jason Mizell, a/k/a Jam Master Jay.
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