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Northside Hawk said:
Excellent comparison. Ian McDonald in the early Foreigner days too. and Jerry Harrison in the Modern Lovers (?) and later Talking Heads. Even amongst all the debauchery, bands need a seasoned pro, or two, in the studio to keep things humming along. Even more than the Beatles, John Paul Jones may have been the best ever in that role.

Side note. On the surface Strawberry Alarm Clock and Lynard Skynard couldn't seem like two more different bands. But blues was always at base of all those swirling psychedelic organs (Iron Butterfly). And the fathers of heavy metal, Jimmy Page and Tony Iommi were simply expanding on the blues when they changed the course of music history. I'm not familiar with SAC's overall body of work, but I will guess that the riffs King was playing in that band weren't too far removed from the ones he was playing with Skynard.
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There were a lot of formally trained rock & pop musicians some of them conservatory trained. John Paul Jones & Jack Bruce who are already mentioned.

Garth Hudson - The Band - keyboards & many instruments
Bill Payne - Little Feat - keyboards
John Lord - Deep Purple - Keyboards
John Cale - Velvet underground - Viola, Cello, keyboards, base
Doug Yule - Velvet underground - Base, keyboards
Mick Ronson - Spiders from mars - Guitar
Steve Nieve - Elvis Costello and Attractions - Keyboards
Phil Lesh - Greatful Dead - bass
Sheryl Crow - Singer - Guitar, Keyboards
Andy Mackey - Roxy Music - Sax, Wind instruments, etc
Eddie Jobson - Roxy Music - Violin, many instruments
Rick Wright - Pink Floyd - Keyboards
Jim Sherwood - Mothers of Invention - Sax, many instruments
D.J. Bonebrake - X - Percussion instruments
Rick Wakeman - Yes - Keyboards
The Van Halen Brothers - guitar, drums, bass
Steve Vai - Guitar
Keith Emerson - The Nice, ELP -Keyboards
Trevor Rabin - Yes, film scores - Guitar

That only includes those who had a great deal of formal training.
 
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Ground-breaking sound to be sure. Their initial album is unparalleled. (The follow up ones were sorta garbage but the first one rocked out)
 
Seth53 said:

Ground-breaking sound to be sure. Their initial album is unparalleled. (The follow up ones were sorta garbage but the first one rocked out)
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RIP Brad and Sib. And thank you for being a big part of the soundtrack of my youth. And why did it have to rain so much when I saw you at Alpine Valley in 1987?
 
Seth53 said:

My cat's name is Lola lol(a)
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Some similarities between Ray Davies and Pavement's Stephen Malkmus. Both wrote of loss and loneliness and of a time that was vanishing and being on the edge of a scene they couldn't quite grasp or fit into. Both were hailed as geniuses for what they did. But where Davies was a moper, Malkmus was a slacker. Davies wrote about the everyday pathos and hard luck stories or working class Brits. Malkmus was taking one last, longing, look at the post adolescence he was about to leave behind. One of his signature songs was "Range Life", his tribute to the legendary California summer festival scene, propelled by one of the most gorgeous melodies you'll ever hear.
 
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Badfinger's American cousins. Eric Carmen sounded more like Paul than McCartney did (so did Pete Ham, for that matter). Once he left the Raspberries behind he was content to sound like Barry Manilow. He wouldn't rock again until the eighties.
 
Northside Hawk said:
Badfinger's American cousins. Eric Carmen sounded more like Paul than McCartney did (so did Pete Ham, for that matter). Once he left the Raspberries behind he was content to sound like Barry Manilow. He wouldn't rock again until the eighties.
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One could argue he did a lot of things in the 80s. "Rocking" wasn't one of them.
 
Northside Hawk said:
Another band who should be in the RRHOF (The Zombies, that is) Rod Argent was the driving force of the band. But Colin Blunstone was the singer. And a damn good one at that, too.
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The Zombies had disbanded before their "big" album was even a hit. "Tell Her No" is legendary, although "Time of the Season" was a much more popular tune.
 
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