This subject came up at a jammy type of thing - if you could only play one band's or writer's music in a band, who would it be? There's a few obvious choices out there - Bob Dylan if you wanted really interesting lyrics, the Beatles, if you wanted to play great guitar parts you might go for Yes, there would be serious consideration for Zeppelin... of course the Rolling Stones had a lot of great songs, but when you come down to it "Brown Sugar", "Start Me Up", "It's Only Rock 'n' Roll", "Honky Tonk Women"... well if you played them back to back there's a certain SAMENESS that sets in. :laughing3:
The sort-of surprising almost-consensus for a writer of great songs for a rock band - that of course you could do anything to - was John Fogerty/CCR. That catalog is deep, man... you can write out a set list of twenty songs that are all rock 'n' roll classics, which is about double what I'd get rooting though the Stones, Zepp, Springsteen etc. Fogerty could use a 3 minute song to say what takes Springsteen 10 minutes, and Yes three album sides. If you can understand what they're saying at all. :toothy12:
The sort-of surprising almost-consensus for a writer of great songs for a rock band - that of course you could do anything to - was John Fogerty/CCR. That catalog is deep, man... you can write out a set list of twenty songs that are all rock 'n' roll classics, which is about double what I'd get rooting though the Stones, Zepp, Springsteen etc. Fogerty could use a 3 minute song to say what takes Springsteen 10 minutes, and Yes three album sides. If you can understand what they're saying at all. :toothy12:
