Ole Jimi rubs some folks the wrong way, it's no big deal. Genius though he was, it's still about personal taste. Me, I don't get how someone gets a headache from "Castles Made of Sand", or "Third Stone from the Sun", but then I don't get why Britney Spears had a thriving career, either. This is probably why my biggest gig was in front of three hundred people, and not 30,000.
Glad to see some love for the Cars. Pop though they were, their first four albums were really, really good, to my ears. Like any band, they hand clunkers in the catalog, but they rocked without being long-winded, they wrote great melodies that weren't cloying, and their lyrics could sometimes be amazing.
Anyway, Steely Dan -- huge fan here, saw them in Santa Barbara back in 2003, think the world of them as songwriters.
SoundGarden was going to be in my first three. Badmotorfinger would be my choice for the best album of the 90s, no doubt.
Eric Johnson is simply amazing musician. Saw him in 1991, he killed it. He's better live than on record:
Jeff Beck, a huge influence on my playing:
And Brian, props for mentioning Vernon Reid, he's another huge influence on my playing and LC's first two albums blew my ears open completely.
Glad to see some love for the Cars. Pop though they were, their first four albums were really, really good, to my ears. Like any band, they hand clunkers in the catalog, but they rocked without being long-winded, they wrote great melodies that weren't cloying, and their lyrics could sometimes be amazing.
Anyway, Steely Dan -- huge fan here, saw them in Santa Barbara back in 2003, think the world of them as songwriters.
SoundGarden was going to be in my first three. Badmotorfinger would be my choice for the best album of the 90s, no doubt.
Eric Johnson is simply amazing musician. Saw him in 1991, he killed it. He's better live than on record:
Jeff Beck, a huge influence on my playing:
And Brian, props for mentioning Vernon Reid, he's another huge influence on my playing and LC's first two albums blew my ears open completely.
