Steve Jones is one of the best guitarists of all time, as far as I'm concerned he taught me how a Gibson should sound. The combination sounded so powerful. But I still gave him a look like he was bugging. But it never happened for Wolf. Bath Even when it's just him and a piano onstage, it's powerful. But it never does. It's a great trick it's impossibly catchy, people play it at their weddings, but it's a stalker song. I just shook her hand and tried to swallow. On Sea Change, I made a conscious effort to try to write songs as direct as Hank's. It's the ultimate fuck-off. We had a friend, Henry Smith, who had been our manager for a while, and he had gone to school there. I wanted to make a new record but I was scared. What Tears of the Kingdom offers is that same sense of freedom amplified and applied to every aspect of the . Tupac's aggressive records are my favorite. They were always great singers and great guys. The well-known music magazine Rolling Stone in its September 18, 2003, issue 931 published a list of the 100 best guitarists of all time. I first met Tom in the studio, and he was pretty much what I expected. The singer was just one tile in this intaglio. As a kid, I used to sit at home after school and just bang out those songs on the piano. 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. 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. In the songs he wrote with Robert Hunter, and in Bob Weir's stuff too, you're also hearing music from 40 years ago. In the MGs, Steve Cropper and Donald "Duck" Dunn were the rock & rollers, but they also had the country thing covered, as well as the blues. One of the things I learned from Joni: If you can tell the story and keep things moving, you don't need to return to the chorus on time. He said he didn't like the way Tupac behaved because he knew that Tupac knew better. That was him telling the world, "This is who I am." At that time I was very much into folk music and turning the corner into R&B, and I'll never forget seeing that cover, with all the Tempts dressed as Foreign Legionnaires, sitting in the desert. Gram was everything you wanted in a singer and a songwriter. It's a beautiful piece of music played by an awesome rocker of a young man who was a masterpiece of a human being. Billy Preston 8. What else was there? She was captivating, romantic. Greg Allman Perhaps Stevie Wonder, or John Paul Jones, or Benny Andersson or even Goldy McJohn might sneak in. When Sabbath wanted to convey a different message, they didn't need to pick up an acoustic guitar or call in the London Philharmonic. Gerry Goffin and Carole King wrote "Up on the Roof." 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. There was a "cotton curtain" back in the Sixties: Bands were all segregated in Memphis. And it opened up my mind to the mighty force of nature that is Metallica. At one point, after the lyric "She danced around and round to a guitar melody," he fired off an accent on his guitar that resonated for years for many of us who tried to emulate him she cast her spell and he followed, with the rest of us close behind. And he used to put on such a show. As a band, the Dead also redefined success. People are born to do certain things, and Al was born to make us smile. Al Kooper 10. With his adventurous chord voicings, incredible touch and superb improvisation skills, Hancock is a supreme player, and is still pushing boundaries and influencing new generations of musicians (his next album is set to feature the likes of Kendrick Lamar, Snoop Dogg and Common). Bobby Keys. The guitar player suddenly became the most important guy in the band. They were an integrated band half white, half black. And then his comeback with Supernatural shows how enduring his talent is. Bands like the Clash had already mixed it with punk, but the Police did it flat-out it was like reggae for music geeks. I heard a story maybe apocryphal that Queen played a festival and got booed off the stage. I'd later become friends with David Ruffin when our bands would play in Detroit, Ruffin would come to every show and we'd sing "(I Know) I'm Losing You," a Temptations cover off my album Every Picture Tells a Story. He's the definition of a true talent: Dre feels like God placed him here to make music, and no matter what forces are aligned against him, he always ends up on the mountaintop. It was a tribute to how great they were. I went backstage, and we hooked up. It was the lineup with Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page, who was playing bass on that tour. 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. So he quit the Byrds, right there and then. Otis Redding had his sound, Sam and Dave had theirs, Albert King had his own thing. In 2011, our very own Keyboard Magazine called him a "keyboard hero for a new generation," and his reputation is such that guitarists such as Slash, Yngwie Marmsteen, Steve Lukather, Joe Bonamassa and Zakk Wylde have all wanted to work with him. And got encores! I slowly became aware of the house music and that it was infuriatingly familiar. They were writing songs we wished we had written, like "No Sleep Till Brooklyn." The Drifters records that we're most associated with, including "There Goes My Baby," come from that era. I could tell that Joni was a painter by the way she wrote lyrics. I was singin' along with it by the end, though it certainly wasn't using any conventional pop-song pattern that I had ever heard. Some people might not know that Carl played guitar with Johnny Cash for 10 years on the road. And Ginger hit them in a rhythmic style all his own that was extraordinary. Somebody left an 8-track tape of Queen's Greatest Hits in a car the one where they're wearing leather jackets on the cover, and Freddie's got the mustache. He was so exciting to be on a show with. I think he's enthralled with what he's doing; he's intimately involved with his art. That song was "Fight Fire With Fire." And they got the street that Muddy lived on most of his life named after him. There's a damaged quality to David Bowie's original mix that is way ahead of its time. It was like they were weaving a beautiful piece of cloth. Before I joined the Dead in 2004, I played with Phil Lesh for about five years. Call it his refinement or the civility of intelligent life. They have worked their way up from nothing, and written the jams that rocked the world. Then I go from James' bass-baritone to tenor singing with the Everly Brothers first Don, later Phil. Al Green's voice will always remind me of driving the back roads of Memphis with my parents, listening to cassette tapes. He could turn the corniest things into funk. When they showed it to me, I was like, "Is this the right thing to do? Little did I know: Becoming enamored with indie bands in Helena, Montana, in the late 1980s was kind of like developing a taste for beluga caviar in rationing-era postwar Britain. For now, though, let's focus on the greatest keyboard players of the 21st century, as voted for by you. We said, "Oh, shit." While I'm unisoning with James, my reverence rises; my heart and mind become engaged in the sober intelligence of the song and the beauty of the singing. You can hear their influence everywhere from Joy Division to Guns n' Roses to Public Enemy to the Smiths to Slayer. They followed their most critically acclaimed record, OK Computer, with their most radical change, Kid A. was totally a going concern. Iggy's parents were intellectuals his father was an English teacher and that gave him an edge. My parents, at a loss, suggested I get involved in the local community theater's after-school program. They had a shack on the swamp in their native Jacksonville, Florida, where they rehearsed constantly, honing their original material into polished, shining steel. Let me say first off, I am a huge Nirvana fan and believe he was a very talented guitar player. For almost 30 years my entire career, really all I've been doing is trying to discover another Diana Ross. We'd spend hours and hours at the piano, swapping ideas. Guns n' Roses played as a gang, which is just what you want. Slash plays what's needed for the song, as opposed to trying to make the tune a showcase for his technique. It's amazing. From his beginnings as a jazz musician - he played with Miles Davis, no less - he went on to cross stylistic boundaries, exploring fusion, soul, funk and electro. The things that Lydon wrote about back in '76 and '77 are totally relevant to what's going on right now. One of Tina's big hits is called "We Don't Need Another Hero." I don't know if massive stardom and selling a zillion records were on their minds when they were getting the ball rolling. I grabbed their amps, they grabbed ours. When you heard him play, you knew it couldn't be anyone else. You hear them on both pop and classic-rock stations, and they'll be played on the radio in Germany 100 years from now. I was like, "Man, we don't go there." Boy, was I wrong. The drugs and drinking he was no better or worse than the rest of us. Richard Wright 4. For Dark Side of the Moon to be playing in the background during that time was perfect. Obviously, most of today's jam bands are influenced by the Dead. The fourth member, Addie "Micki" Harris, had died in 1982. The Chronic is still the hip-hop equivalent of Stevie Wonder's Songs in the Key of Life. This was back when a band was a band. I'd been trying to get into this older girl's pants for a while, and she finally let me come over to her house. Chuck Leavell, legendary keyboardist for The Rolling Stones, The Allman Bros, Eric Clapton, John Mayer, and more. At the hospital, he lapsed into a coma. It's a direct bite. I had this picture of a gorgeous vista when it's really a kind of grimy area. The second is the type who serves the artist; I would be so brash as to include myself in that category, along with John Hammond, Ahmet and Nesuhi Ertegun, and Bob Thiele music fans who try to develop great singers. James is so fine. I never would have thought of doing that if I hadn't seen Zappa do "Stairway to Heaven" in Burlington with the horns playing Jimmy Page's entire guitar solo, in harmony. The song was basically their blueprint. Trent Reznor remixed this version of Metal Machine Music as a present.". They were in essence a band of hired guns, overseen by their management. We sang "Let's Stay Together" on that stage, and it was a milestone in my short, unimportant career. If Talking Heads were around a cool idea, they would make it their own. I only knew that they sounded better than any other band. Join Now and SAVE!!! But after you're in a life-threatening situation, you think about it a little more. And of course, both bands have a singer with a really high-end voice that cuts through all the chaos below. Think about a song like "Nutbush City Limits." It sounds simple, but what AC/DC did is almost impossible to duplicate. The customers turn and look, each more untrusting than the next. And people expected the Wolf, because he was such a big guy, to just sit in a chair and belt it out. The next year, I was meeting all of the great blues musicians: Muddy Waters, Sonny Boy Williamson, Howlin' Wolf. He had a terrible car crash on the way to The Ed Sullivan Show when "Blue Suede Shoes" was breaking really big. Greg Allman Perhaps Stevie Wonder, or John Paul Jones, or Benny Andersson or even Goldy McJohn might sneak in. When Chick Corea died earlier this year, the world lost a true pioneer - one of the greatest jazz pianists of the second half of the 20th century, and one of the innovators of jazz fusion. The Police matured really quickly. 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. He called me and said, "Steven, the Yardbirds are playing here, and you can open up." The Allmans were without question the first great jam band, and they took the jam to heights that it had not previously reached. The rhythm guitar kicks, too. The first kind is the documentarian someone like Leonard Chess, who goes into a bar on the South Side of Chicago, sees Muddy Waters with a six-piece combo, then pulls him into the studio the next day and says, "Play what you played last night." I had to suffer the philistines stealing my band silently. His music is impeccable. Ian Stewart 7. But at the end of the day, Diana Ross' voice would come on the air and give you chill bumps. It hit me like a fucking ton of bricks. But I don't think everyone else knows it. She's transformed herself into an international sensation an elegant powerhouse. And he would not pick up the guitar until everything was totally together. Ronnie Van Zant was Lynyrd Skynyrd. They were definitely going for a hit single with the song "(Anesthesia) Pulling Teeth." It's amazing how many rock bands with serious grooves are made up of skinny English dudes. I understood what he meant. There is this thing in them wound up so tight that they have to let it out, let that thing uncoil; it has to be released. He once said to us, "You want to be like emissaries of light. This is the way Wolf treated you. What they're addressing still applies. Jimmy and Tom decided to give me "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around," which they had written with Campbell. Our meal was served by one of the members of Einstrzende Neubauten. Along with the Beatles, they gave those of us entering the business at that time something to aspire to that wasn't pop but was still popular. And Tom is such a great singer and so charismatic onstage. Back in the '70s, Jon Lord's full-on rock style was a refreshing antidote to the prog peddled by the likes of Keith Emerson and Rick Wakeman, with his overdriven Hammond organ sound becoming a true sonic signature during his Deep Purple days. That East Coast/West Coast feud was just personal beef. Ben E. King was this younger singer just coming up, yet he had this mature style that was so unusual. Where it comes from, I don't know. 1. Yet Tina has become a heroic figure for many people because of her tremendous strength. It's a myth that these guys couldn't play their instruments. It's amazing how one band could take all those influences country and rock, of course, but also soul, R&B and folk and still sound so distinctive. And he could express it all the music from Nashville and Bakersfield, California, the stuff from Texas in his singing and songwriting. A five-minute-long bass solo is a sure ticket to commercial success. You'd come back to town from a 51-night tour, and the first thing you did was shower and head back to Hitsville. They're never going to tell me, "Play it more like Jerry" or "less like Jerry." When Ronnie went down in that terrible 1977 plane crash, the forward progress of the band ended. He is one of the most original bass players ever. These days rappers will just tell you, "I'll kill you.". The Top Ten 1 Dave Greenfield (The Stranglers) "I know you can make it," he exhorted to soul-stirring harmonizing. If you love Elvis Costello, it's because you love what he's thinking the depth and breadth of his notice is astounding. By that standard, the Police were a huge success. I had a tape of Eazy-E's Eazy-Duz-It when I was 11 years old (until my mother found out it had curses on it and confiscated it). Some people were confused after that by his Seventies music, when he became jazzier. It didn't have to be about music. On the back it says "To the Only Girl in Our Band." The Beatles covered five of Carl's songs on record. 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. They did things with harmonics minor thirds and fifths that created this ethereal, monstrous sound. Then there's the producer who does it all. 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." Axl knew how to work an audience. Through it all, the Drifters always had this exquisite vocal blend. They survived in a world where survival didn't seem possible. Whatever gets thrown at them, they persevere and they get stronger; they are a family. I realized these songs were all acts of imagination, that Ray was commemorating an England that was slipping away. Take "Every Breath You Take." It meant, "Shut the fuck up and get out of my face." But Clapton's guitar playing is still terrific. BIO. They weren't the first girl group, but the Shirelles were the first to have many hits. Find out what the range is, and start writing.". The subject of "Tiny Dancer" was long assumed to be lyricist Bernie Taupin's wife Maxine Feibelmann, but Taupin, a Brit, has revealed . It's no accident that the Beatles' Apple Records signed James Taylor at its inception. On songs like "Tired of Being Alone," the horns are tasteful and restrained but completely funky. Trent's music, built as it is on the history of industrial and mechanical sound experiments, contains a beauty that attracts and repels in equal measure: Nietzsche's "God is dead" to a nightclubbing beat. That said, there's nothing romantic about being addicted to heroin. Jerry Lee Lewis 2. That's why we look forward to listening to Eminem's lyrics and finding out where the hell he's headed next. Tina's story is not one of victimhood but one of incredible triumph. 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. But they must have liked us a lot, because they put us on the bill anyway, and I've known them ever since. I think he was the best electric-guitar player, other than Jimi Hendrix. Clinton would pull in people like James Brown's saxophone player Maceo Parker and anyone else he could find. When I started doing my first solo album, Bella Donna, my first thought was, "Who produces Tom Petty?" There was a synchronicity between the Dead and the crowd, and it was mesmerizing to watch Jerry, in his own understated way, steering that ship knowing it was a big ship that could barely be steered, but if anybody could steer it, it was him. I first met Dre in December of 2003. A lot of deep records like Pink Floyd's The Wall or Nine Inch Nails' The Fragile are dense, long journeys. The Four Tops are a one-in-a-million singing group. Over the years, the Drifters were a couple of different great groups and a whole bunch of wonderful guys. "Desperado," "Take It to the Limit," "Tequila Sunrise" and "Best of My Love" are some of the best pop songs ever written. Every boundary that was possible on the guitar was examined by him. If, in the late Fifties and early Sixties, you were drawn to that place on the AM radio dial where the rhythms, the grooves and the beautiful sounds of African-American soul were playing, you would have found Curtis Mayfield. They've put out genius records for decades. Nobody sounds like him. When he sang "The Wonder of You," the vulnerability and passion got in real close. The publication features comments written by musicians about their favorite colleagues (e.g., Elvis . Rolling Stone also says Kurt Cobain is the fifth greatest guitarist of all time while David Gilmore is like 87 or some shit. And that motherfucker could make chicks cry. She describes smells and sounds and uses fewer words to transmit more feeling. It's just an amazing thing that no one's been able to live up to. Queen fell in and out of being cool, maybe because they were so sincere. As a singer, the thing I got out of the Yardbirds was that you don't have to have a great voice. Rolling Stone is a rock & roll music game for anyone who has ever heard a song. I really related to that, because I never had a big, boisterous, American Idol showstopping voice. . Rick Wakeman (Yes) 3. Remember that famous introduction to "Proud Mary," when Tina talks about liking things "nice and rough"? That's sort of the impact that they always had on me and my music. "I dont think I could even hazard a guess. They dug down a little deeper into rock's roots. He catches us at our tricks, and that's always thrilling. There's so little adornment. Known these days as much for his sardonic wit as his musicianship, it's easy to forget that Rick Wakeman is, first an foremost, a bonafide keyboard legend. The girl-group sound was everything to me. In 1994, I had just gotten out of rehab, and Tom and I had dinner. I love the way Freddie performed. she sounded like she was begging. Following exhaustive searches to find the greatest pre-80s, 80s/90s and 21st-century keyboard players, we narrowed down our field of GOATs to just 15, and asked you to vote for the one true greatest of all time. Izzy Stradlin was also important. Around the same time, Delaney and Bonnie Bramlett were encouraging him to write and sing. I must have done something right. But it wasn't like that. At the same time, Mick was listening to what Gram was doing. I think I was at a girl's house. The most spectacular Jackie Wilson show I ever saw was at Harlem's famed Apollo Theater, around 1960. I said to him, "Will you help me write a song or two?" Run-DMC gave "Slow and Low" to the Beastie Boys. It was warm and round and full and dripping with chocolate. When you're up on that stage or when you record, you want to be a tool that light shines through to everybody.". Everyone focuses on the magic of Jerry's guitar playing and the vulnerability of his voice, but his sense of melody and chord changes was unbelievable. They didn't write emotional lyrics. Based on votes and over 200 comments, we summed this one . I have never seen such internal discipline in a band. Theyve all put a smile on my face.. Their music talks to you, in a real way. Take a song like "Fat Old Sun," from Atom Heart Mother. His lyrics were a big part of it like Woody Guthrie and Merle Haggard before him, Ronnie knew how to cut to the chase. Any hard-rock band that ever tried to write a crazy twelve-minute operetta owes them a debt. It was an astounding sight and an explosive sound. The focus is on the songs and not the rock star BS that was taking over back then. It goes, "Sometimes he's my best friend, even when he's not around.". Songs like "Paradise City" and "Welcome to the Jungle" were just simple enough; the chorus lines came right when you wanted them.
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