"From time to time, Sprawl is so sublime...but mostly we're just BLUE GREEN SLIME!" Man I miss Sprawl.
I don't care that you don't like DMB, but you have to be joking...Vanilla Ice? You realize that the band's first big CD came out in like 94? That's already 8 years, and they have only gotten more popular.
Wonder if I know you. If you're a Sprawl fan, we've probably been at the same shows. And if you miss them, check out these bands: Middlefinger (Matt Kelly, ex-Sprawl singer) - they'll be at my theater, the Axiom, in January with Sexy Finger Champs who are awesome. Brown Whorenet (Clay Embry, ex-Sprawl sax) Free Radicals (Nick Cooper, ex-Sprawl drums) Marfreless (Joey Salinas, ex-Sprawl guitar) And Dave Dove, ex-Sprawl trombone, now plays cool free/avant jazz kinda stuff with the Pauline Olivaros Foundation. He's at the Axiom this Sunday. And just to finish up the ex-Sprawl update, Jeff Nunalee (bass) and Bo Morris (tuba) aren't playing with anyone these days, but you can still run into them at Rudz from time to time.
Popular doesn't make them good. If Dave Mathews is heard by a billion people after they break up, then I will have a new respect. However, the band has made no statement, they have done nothing inventive except ad a violin that happens to be electric. I'd have more respect for you as a music lover if you defended their style. Or of course, if you liked a band like Green Day or N'Sync. (At least N'Sync will admit to their music meaning nothing in the grand sense of things)
Great to see some love here for the Kinks. They did the most amazing concerts... 3 hours of awesome rock. I've never thought their albums did them justice. (not that they aren't grand!) I gravitate towards groups that I've seen in person. The big exception was the Beatles. I never saw them together as a group, but they would be in my top 5. If I could decide on a top 5, lol. Hey, Gater... my girlfriend and I saw the Doobie Brothers open for Spirit at the Music Hall in H-town for free. The two of us walked up to the long bank of glass doors that were at the front, sauntered across the lobby to the center aisle doors and started walking towards the stage. About halfway there a cute usher asked to see our tickets. (didn't have any) We shrugged and smiled at her. She motioned for us to follow and took us to a pair of seats that were 2nd. row center. We sat down, looked up at her with wonder and she smiled. "Enjoy the concert, it's about to start," she whispered. "Who's opening?", I asked, "The Doobie Brothers" said she. We had heard just a little about them. As soon as she walked away they were announced. What a great concert! We were blown away. Then Spirit followed, opening with "I Got A Line On You" and blew the place away. It was so far out that you could see as many as 3 to 5 groups at a concert. And with them playing good solid sets... not 20 minutes and then you wait 40 minutes for "whomever is groovy at the time". And for $3.50 to $5/6.00 a ticket.(for the BEST seats) Best band ever? Based on seeing them live, I'd say Jimi, the Doors, the Animals, the Kinks, Zappa, the Stones, Zep, John Mayall with Mick Taylor playing lead guiter. Fleetwood Mac with Peter Green, Neil Young with Buffalo Springfield, Todd Rundgren with Nazz and later. Canned Heat, Joe Cocker, The 13th Floor Elevators, Mother Earth with Tracy Nelson, Dan Hicks and his Hot Licks, Deep Purple, Moody Blues, the Small Faces and Springsteen at Liberty Hall in Houston in front of 2 or 3 hundred folks before he became "the Next Big Thing". Bowie, the Who, Pink Floyd, Procol Harum, the Seeds, Dylan with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers as his band. Roy Orbison at the Austin Aquafest within a year of his death... and a bunch of others would all make good choices. I can't make up my mind. Sorry. I'm forgetting a whole bunch of groups I saw that may merit consideration.
Of couse popular doesn't make them good, but they have the type of following that wouldn't allow them to slip into Vanilla Ice-like obscurity. I won't defend their music style, because, like I said earlier, I don't care that you don't like them. It's not my place(Or yours) to tell other people that their music sucks. Hate them as much as you like... It doesn't matter until you start offending people by typing things like this: Dave Mathews band is so awesome because like...I don't know music at all....like they are so cool. Like Dave Mathews speaks to me....like other bands aren't playing now so they could never be as good as my favorites. Like. How does one "know music" anyway? Music is definitely a matter of personal taste. So, anyone that knows what they like, knows music?
You've got a point about "knowing" music, but my 5 year old niece "knows" music too and she says Britney Spears is the best of all time. I'm not going to say anything to her, but she is wrong by most standards. Hey, maybe that's a way to judge a band. Standards. Just think, now we can judge lots of things. I will give you this, Dave Mathews Band has enough talent to become the "best" band. They just haven't done anything unique in my mind. They haven't changed my life much at all except that they stole my 55 dollars when I went to see them.
You are the biggest r****d of all time. I like Dave Matthews. I'm not a girl. There's a difference dip ****.
Although I am not a Beatles fan, I have to agree with most in this thread that they would be considered the best ever no matter what. If I had to round out a top five, mine would be: 2nd TOOL Art metal at its finest. 3rd Led Zepelin Come to think about it, It has been a long time since I rock and rolled. 4th Rolling Stones Closing in on 60 and the guys are still touring, is social security that bad? 5th Pink Floyd Mix rock, art and lots of acid and you get a tasty little treat called a Floyd album. Sure some of...OK MOST of you will disagree with my list, but thats the beauty of a thread like this.
I actually think that DMB is quite unique...what other big rock band has made the violin an essential part of their act? Anyway, I'm not totally sure that I am following you... Give me examples of other bands who have distingished themselves by doing something unique. Pink Floyd Question: I LOVED Wish you were here, and had huge expectations for The Wall(Since it seems to be the most widely-acclaimed Floyd CD), and was dissapointed. Sure...it's good, but totally different from Wish you were here. It's possible that it just may have been a little too "out there" for me. Anyway, what are other Floyd CD's that are more similar to the Classic Rock in Wish you were here, and far less "spacy" than The Wall?
