No love for Jack Bruce
Your All-Star Rock 'n' Roll Band.
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No love for Jack Bruce
Nothing from the Memphis Group, no Duck Dunn or Steve Cropper, you can’t much more classic rock and roll than them
NiftyNiblick
1960s Chick Magnet
A lot of very good saxophonists had to be left out.
Lee Allen from the J&M studio in New Orleans.
Andrew Love from the Stax studio in Memphis.
Walther Parazaider from Chicago.
Maceo Parker from the JB Horns.
Lenny Pickett from Tower of Power and the SNL Band.
So many more that I've heard and enjoyed.
I just picked my favorites, but there were lots of good choices.
Bobby Keys was certainly among them.
I always thought that Clarence Clemons of E Street was a little bit over-rated
because he was so personally likable, but I liked him, too.
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NiftyNiblick
1960s Chick Magnet
Andrew Love on tenor saxophone, Wayne Jackson on trumpet,
Booker T. Jones on B3 organ, Steve Cropper on guitar,
Duck Dunn on bass, and Al Jackson on drums.
All worthy contenders to be sure.
Three black and three white in the early 1960s--that was cool too.
I would never dis the Stax / Volt band, archives.
Never big horn guy, cares less for Chicago when Terry Kath died and it became a horn centered band
That’s funny and yes.
NiftyNiblick
1960s Chick Magnet
I'm not an expert on hard rock bassists because that's not my music.
I wouldn't know if he were good or not,
but he must have been good for what he did.
My chosen bassist, James Jamerson, played on all the big Motown hits by the Temptations, Four Tops, Miracles, Supremes, etc.
But I could have just as easily chosen Duck Dunn from the Stax studio because Stax was less poppish and more soulish than Motown.
NiftyNiblick
1960s Chick Magnet
There was lots of varied music from which to pick back then; something for everybody.
Blood Sweat & Tears, Tower of Power, Earth Wind & Fire--all solid horn sections.
Always thought rock had more of a blues base than jazz, and the acid test was could it be reproduced in the high school gym, which horns presented a problem
NiftyNiblick
1960s Chick Magnet
I agree. Jump Blues was about horns, though.
That was huge in the late forties and throughout the fifties.
But only on black radio stations, for the most part.
We had WILD in Boston back then.
I think it was only 500 watts so don't expect to hear it far from downtown!
If it existed today, it would probably be all hip hop and I'd never listen to it,
but when I was a kid, I listened to it all the time.
On Ray Charles' first hit records, aside from the girl backing singers, he had just six sidemen--
four horns, bass, and drums--no guitar--to go with his piano.
But yes, most rock became guitar oriented soon afterward.
As for the high school gym, most high schools had plenty of horn players marching on Friday nights.
Writing arrangements for larger ensembles was above high school capabilities, understandably.
Garage bands didn't even have charts in band practice.
There's a lot to be said for keeping it simple and raw--a different kind of music.
Geeko Sportivo
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I suppose that is why Bob Dylan will always be best known as a poet and notable influencer of modern age music, rather than a vocalist.
His song "Like A Rolling Stone" is still one of my top 10 Rock songs of all times though!
I've heard that song 1,000 times, and I can't think of anyone in the world, that could sing it with such emotion, or anyone I would rather hear sing it rather than Bob Dylan!
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Geeko Sportivo
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I was a big fan, of the entire trio!
The very first super group was the best super group there ever was, in my opinion!
Geeko Sportivo
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I suppose being in the Band in High School, I learned to appreciate all the contributions of horns in Rock Music through the ages.
I played sax myself, but, I still love to hear them. That is why I hung onto all of my Dad's Big Band era records. I love to still play them and hear them.
I know, I am a fanatic of Music! I like it all, except Gangsta Rap!
I even go to Black Churches sometimes, and being the only White person there a lot of times, because I have a love of Gospel Music.
I have always felt very welcomed to come and visit anytime.
If you have never been, you are surely missing out on one of America's greatest musical treasures.
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Geeko Sportivo
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Thanks for mentioning all those great talents!