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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | I realize I used the word artist, but I guess I probably mean music related artist.
I realize I started this thread, but I don't actually have any "favorite" artists, with a "why" to put in yet. In most cases I like individual songs more than the artist as a whole. I'm a Blue Oyster Cult fan, but there are specific songs I like. I turned into a "fan" after I realized a lot of songs I liked were by them.
Then there is the whole "Artist" or "Group" question. There are "artists" that I like, maybe for the songs they've written, but don't really like the band their in or maybe currently in, or the one they are most famous for.
So this will take some thought. Maybe others have their favorites ready to go. And don't forget... WHY is important. Even if you don't really know why a particular band or artist is your favorite, that's interesting to see too. |
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Location: Brighty in Blighty | me |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Hmmm... lemme see, who do I like...???
-would need to be creative, talented, enduring, original with ability to bend genres (shutUp Cliff), a monster player, singer and writer...
Cliff Richards?
Naw.... what the hell's his name?
Richard Marx?
Naa...
Richard.... Richard...
aww yes,
.... Thompson. |
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Location: North Carolina | Originally posted by dweezil:
me I agree. Me. I always like the songs I choose, and I like the way I do them. Batting 1000 |
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Location: Michigan | I enjoy mood music that you can just relax & chill out to.Theres nothing like laying back on the couch with a beverage or smoke of choice and putting on a song like Pink Floyds Dark Side of the Moon or Echoes and then go over to the computer and click on the OFC Site and read a blog about
GIVING ED ASNER A BRAZILIAN WAXING :eek:
What the F@$Ks going on here :confused: GWB :confused: |
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Location: south east Michigan | From Quadrophenia...
Why do I have to be different than I am
Just to earn the respect of a dancehall friend?
And have the same old row again and again
And why do I have to move with a crowd
Of kids that hardly notice I'm around?
I work myself to death, just to fit in
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These two verses are what my teen years were all about. Or I should say they brought about the start of change away from adolesence. They put into words what I was trying to figure out with crystal clarity.
There are others, but this is a start. |
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Location: San Ramon/Canandaigua | stonebobbo :p ok maybe a tad bit bias... but yeah hes on the list.
Drive By Truckers is always good... |
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Location: WNC-God's Country | RUSH.....Hands Down for a band
Gary Morris...Country Vocalists and graduated to opera...
Me....I sing better than either one of them....
You asked!! |
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Location: Hot Springs, S.D. | Joni Mitchell - she often says what I feel, much more eloquently than I could.
Bruce Springsteen - He also is amazing with words, and his music just plain feels good.
Wes Montgomery - SOOOO smooth.
The Nashville Bluegrass Band - Great harmonies, fine musicianship, and great song selection.
Sharon Isben - Wonderful classical guitarist.
Alice In Chains - Gotta love Layne's voice, and the weird harmonies are always interesting.
Bela Fleck - Bluegrass, jazz, classical, he does it all, and he does it on a BANJO!
Frank Zappa - The master of all musicians.
These are just a few off the top of my head. |
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Location: ms | I`m way to big of a fan of so many bands but one thing i like is a band or solo act that i like every song on the album/cd. I think thats one reason i like Fogelberg so much. |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Jackson Browne
Bob Seger
John Cougar Melon-head,
[But I think he is just John Mellencamp these days]
Relatively simple songs with Good Lyrics. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Davis Turner, when he lets me sit in. |
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Location: NJ | Toby Keith.
Because Ed Asner is FAR too hirsute . . . |
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Location: Cicero, NY | As in a lot of these poll questions, way too many for me to mention and try justifying but here are a few...
SRV, Gilmore, Clapton, Emmanuel, Carlton and actually many more. Why? If you have to ask, you need to pay a little more attention. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Originally posted by Mauvais Beal:
Davis Turner, when he lets me sit in. btw. . . He got his "That Guy" tee-shirt. |
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Location: Budd Lake, NJ | Steve Zajkowski and Alan Rennie;
they are the banjo players in our group, and two of the best, least-flashy, humblest musicians you'd ever want to meet. It is a privilege to listen to them each week.
Steve plays Scruggs-style, Alan claw-hammer.
Alan builds his own banjos, and besides being a great musician, his wood-working and inlay skills are phenomenal as well. (He plays fretless banjo, too.)
They're not famous, but man, are they good.
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Location: Marlton, NJ | Lanaki, Mishka, Stonebobbo and PebbleMax, Cliff, Otto.... even if I didn't know y'all!
Yes, SRV, Clapton, Springsteen, Moody Blues and others....
and Matt Smith because he makes me smile through every one of his lessons on WSL and his music is damn good! |
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Location: Cicero, NY | Don't forget Temp. LOVE that lap steel show he puts on every year. |
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Location: Marlton, NJ | Weaser - you are absolutely right! Even late at night in the hotel lobby - when he couldn't talk or stand up straight - he put on a helluva show! |
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Location: Michigan | CrimsonLake, didnt you forget someone :o GWB |
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Location: Marlton, NJ | Probably |
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Location: East Tennessee | Boy, so many good ones hard to narrow it down. These are not ranked in any way but as I think of them.
Glen Cambell, Eric Clapton, Allison Krauss & Union Station, Jerry Reed, Randy Travis, James Taylor, Phil Keggey, Willie Nelson and so many more.
Great singers and instrumentalists. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Steve Sutton for Banjo. Because he plays it in North Carolina when I'm in Florida. |
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Location: Michigan | Lets see how about Greg Lake and King Crimson.GWB |
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Location: Marlton, NJ | They actually aren't favorites - though I do like them. |
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The Artists you LIKE, and why.
