Eminem is a true poet of his time, someone we'll be talking about for decades to come. I only get 11 songs and one of them won't be mine." Atlanta Rhytm . The crowd yanked all the chairs off the floor and piled them into a pyramid in front of the stage. A million people can program beats, but can they put together an entire album like it's a movie? In 2004 50 years after Elvis Presley walked into Sun Studios and cut Thats All Right Rolling Stone celebrated rock & rolls first half-century in grand style, assembling a panel of 55 top musicians, writers and industry executives (everyone from Keith Richards to ?uestlove of the Roots) and asking them to pick the most influential artists of the rock & roll era. The self congratulatory backslapping associated with the mindless bashing of "Rolling Stone's" greatest lists speaks more to "my favorite is not on it!" whining than anything else. Of course, he's got nowhere to stay, so he moved in with me. Listen to "Somebody," a song I wrote for Aerosmith's first album: It's all from the Yardbirds. I first met Tom in the studio, and he was pretty much what I expected. Page 2 of 11: The best blues guitarists of all time I grabbed their amps, they grabbed ours. They had an eclecticism the Gregorian chant-ness of the vocals, the melodic diversity, the way they used guitar feedback. He was the focus of everything. Eminem lives, sleeps and breathes music he's a bit like me in that respect. It presented this facade that everything around us is solid and real and going to be here forever, even though we know we created it. What's more, he's still devoted to the analogue cause, telling MusicRadar earlier this year: Ive got nothing against digital synths, but I just happen to prefer the real thing. Around the same time, Delaney and Bonnie Bramlett were encouraging him to write and sing. I was pretty much just into "Suzie Q" and "Born on the Bayou" back then, but I came to appreciate almost everything they ever did. Heres how it works. There's not a fake bone in his body. I remember hearing Dre's music before I really knew who he was. Keep rockin! One of the most significant things about the Beasties is their longevity. The Allman Brothers had respect for the roots of this music. Call it his refinement or the civility of intelligent life. 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. When she did it, it was a fluffy time pretty girls singing about pretty things. MTV had just started to sink its claws into people, and that song was like an anthem for coked-up adults trying to make sense of their world. I remember that if I would vouchsafe an opinion about something when we were together in the studio a snare drum on a bridge of a song, or whatever Phil would say, "Oh, man, I came here from California to make hits." Most guitar players like to go crazy, but Steve picked his spots, and when he spoke, it was profound. When I was going out in the Eighties, you could get your ass kicked if you put on Funkadelic's "(Not Just) Knee Deep" at a house party. 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But he wasn't light-skinned at all. Bobby Keys. John Fogerty has an inimitable voice. David Byrne's parents lived there for a while. And his music always has that rhythm. The rhythm guitar kicks, too. The difference between John Lydon and a lot of other punk singers is that they can only emulate what he was doing naturally. "Sweet Home Alabama" sounds like seasoned studio musicians twice their age. So whenever I had to do a solo, I would just play that. He sang Sam Cooke's "A Change Is Gonna Come," and the audience wept. 4 was the album, and it quickly became one of my favorites. When I first heard Howlin' Wolf's records, I thought that deep, scratchy voice was a fake voice, just the way he sang until I met him. Al Kooper (Blood Sweat & Tears) 11. Those first three albums Santana, Abraxas, Santana III are really special to me. Listen to "This Can't Be Life," a track I did for Jay-Z's Dynasty album, and then listen to "Xxplosive." Holland, Dozier and Holland were amazing songwriters, just pure melody men. But it was his voice that reached the higher ground. It's what you listen to when you're all hanging out: Drinking some beers, listening to "Oye Como Va" and cooking some barbecue is the best thing in the world. A community that, as far as I could tell, consisted of exactly one person. They followed their most critically acclaimed record, OK Computer, with their most radical change, Kid A. They would always pick me out of the audience with a spotlight, trying to get me up to the stage. The truth is that when Tina came back in the Eighties, she became much bigger than she was the first time around. Every rapper who grew up in the Nineties owes something to Tupac. Yet in the beginning, no one in that band Duane, Dickey, Jaimoe Johanson or Butch Trucks outshined the others. When you heard him play, you knew it couldn't be anyone else. And that motherfucker could make chicks cry. If vocal-cord vibration were like surfing off the swelling of the heart, James would be my favorite rider on the cusp a little in the air, sublime in the spray. I've always held on to the same dreams as Freddie. When I was a kid, I was really into hardcore punk. There were songwriter-producers before him, but no one did the whole thing like Phil. He's got some serious babymaking music. With players from each era in the mix, this was a tough one. My big awakening happened when I was 14 years old. I also saw Zappa at Memorial Auditorium in Burlington, Vermont, on his last tour, in 1988. I was simply staggered by the amount of equipment they had: by Ginger Baker's double bass drum, by Jack Bruce's two 4-by-12 Marshall amps and by all of Eric Clapton's gear. Most bands improvised solos each time they performed or recorded. I went backstage, and we hooked up. They started out in the age of the sensitive singer-songwriter, and their music was as smart and sensitive as anyone's, but when they called upon it, they also had the power of a great rock & roll band. Do yourself a favor, and don't debate me on this. Ted has them committed to memory: "Bo Diddley, Ronnie Montrose, Gary Moore, John Sykes, Derek St. Holmes, Eric Johnson, SRV, Joe Perry, Sammy Hagar, Duane Eddy, Dick Dale, Brad Whitford, Steve Vai, Chris Duarte, Angus Young, Johnny Winter, Steve Hunter, Bugs Henderson, Joe Satriani, Richie Blackmore, Steve Morse, Brian Jones, Keith Richards, Mick But it was always Booker T. and the MGs playing. Besides being a musician, Leavell is also a tree farmer and owns land in Georgia with his wife.. John Fogerty wrote more classic songs in a three-year stretch than anyone other than the Beatles. He had everything you wanted to see. The first song I really liked was "Once in a Lifetime." Each of the nominees had their merits and we should be grateful to all of them for lighting up our musical lives, but finally, we can count down the top 10 and reveal who youve voted the greatest keyboard player of all time. The Shirelles were given some of the all-time greatest songs to sing: "Will You Love Me Tomorrow," "Soldier Boy," "Tonight's the Night," "Mama Said." The music is bitchin'! When he went into the studio, it came out of him, like Minerva coming out of Jupiter's head. Elvis ended up covering the song and took a lot of the glory there. His music is impeccable. They had so many things going on. They are all arranged well, have catchy melodies and solid rock lyrics. Top 10 Greatest Rock Keyboardists and Pianists Keyboardists were chosen for their skill, creativity, influence, impact, musical depth & expression, and lasting popularity in 'Rock' music. On songs like "Tired of Being Alone," the horns are tasteful and restrained but completely funky. It was like I unlocked a box: His music spoke to me. in 1986, a song tacked on to the end of a demos collection of a Eugene, Oregon, band that my uncle, then in school at U of O, sent to me for Christmas. Clinton would pull in people like James Brown's saxophone player Maceo Parker and anyone else he could find. Lou Reed, myself and a friend known as Warren Peace were having dinner in one of those old-style Greenwich Village places where Pollock was supposed to have fought other painters. They rapped about shit they knew about: skateboarding, going to White Castle, angel dust and television. It's a beautiful piece of music played by an awesome rocker of a young man who was a masterpiece of a human being. I had the honor of inducting Jackie Wilson into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Highway to Hell is probably the most natural-sounding rock record I've ever heard. 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. The only person who did anything similar to it was Bob Dylan, and even Bob Dylan was never that blunt. We've reached the end - find out who'll be taking their place in our fantasy GOAT band. Otis Redding had his sound, Sam and Dave had theirs, Albert King had his own thing. Every instrument had its role to play, and it was all prefigured. But it was organic with Carl. They learned from the blues, and they continued to interpret the form in their own manner. It was great. The band fell into place, and people in the audience just fell over. BIO. I know the "folk music" he must have listened to (I, too, had been wand'ring early and late). Ray wrote songs about the things that were important to him. It wasn't just about the fact that Duane and Gregg Allman had the same parents. The words, the melodies and the sentiment are all there, clear and true. The things that Lydon wrote about back in '76 and '77 are totally relevant to what's going on right now. But this was also the guy who did 87orchestral pieces like The Yellow Shark. It was sold out. The Yardbirds' music is a gold mine waiting to be stumbled upon. On their very first national tour, they opened for the Who. And when I played at Bonnaroo with my 10-piece band, we did two covers, "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" and "Sultans of Swing." But he didn't get into dope because of us. Later you had Roger Waters evoking these big, universal landscapes of human crises. I understood what he meant. That said, there's nothing romantic about being addicted to heroin. This greatest female keyboard players list contains the most prominent and top females known for being keyboard players. For Spector, the song and the recording were one thing, and they existed in his brain. When they played their first gig, in 2003 at Coachella, the first thing Iggy did was start jumping in the air, flipping the bird to the crowd "Fuck you, fuck you and fuck you." "Hail Mary" is just perfect: "Picture paragraphs unloaded/Wise words being quoted." 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 remember when the surviving members of Queen were looking for a singer a few years ago, I was like, "I would love to try it." It can build to where you think the whole thing will crumble beneath its own weight and then Thom Yorke will sing some melody that just cuts your heart out of your chest. The Eagles forever changed country and rock, but I just think of what they did as being great American music. He couldn't resist it any more than I could. His fists were as big as a car tire. The haunting opening strains of "Hotel California" came on the radio. But those of us who love those records and a lot of us are musicians have loved them for decades. Their music talks to you, in a real way. There are a couple of moments on At Fillmore East that defy description where the Allmans take the music to places it had never been. And when Wolf said, "Motherfucker, you can't play," what he was really saying was, "I'm gonna fire your ass up. I remember a friend in high school playing me "A Case of You," from Blue. One of Tina's big hits is called "We Don't Need Another Hero." And they got the street that Muddy lived on most of his life named after him. Over the years, the Drifters were a couple of different great groups and a whole bunch of wonderful guys. It would be phenomenal. Considering how important he is to rock history, many people don't know about him. Jerry Lee Lewis 2. When we did a long stand at the Fillmore in the late Nineties, I talked Carl into sitting in with us. Radiohead can do all of these things in a moment, and it drives me fucking crazy. They became one of the greatest rock & roll bands in history. Clapton absorbed that, then introduced the essence of black electric blues: the power and vocabulary of Buddy Guy, Hubert Sumlin and the three Kings B.B., Albert and Freddie to create an attack that defined the fundamentals of rock & roll lead guitar. The sanctions and the embargo were on. Ray Manzarek 3. Till a flash of a badge or the wave of a ribbon can be seen from the farthest table, and he knows: This is it. This is the way Wolf treated you. I was in the balcony near the side of the stage. That was her story. "Bohemian Rhapsody" is arguably the greatest song ever written. Hank lived what would have been a rock star's life full of touring, drinking and woman troubles. From his records, it sounded like he was projecting from a completely different place in his body. Al Green has helped overpopulate the world. As a band, the Dead also redefined success. The sprint is cool the marathon is better. Including all the ones in storage, I reckon its about 50 or 60. They affected so many people. and the soul numbers ("Long As I Can See the Light"). 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. My first Aerosmith concert was in 1978, at a festival with Van Halen they were incredibly loud and I barely recognized a note, but it was still the most bitchin' thing I'd ever seen. We wrote songs for the Drifters, but we also put the call out to all the best songwriters in our world. And when I saw Wolf, yes, he was a big guy. Back then the Four Tops were called the Four Aims. Billy Preston 8. Tina has the ability to dream, get out, get over and get on with it. All the compelling themes are on Black Sabbath's records: beauty, atrocity, the seven deadly sins. 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. We used to have these Blue Mondays in Chicago that would start at seven o'clock in the morning. My uncle Jerry was a DJ and introduced me to all the P-Funk records when I was a little kid: The Clones of Dr. Funkenstein, Mothership Connection. Tupac was like a camera. I have never seen another man who could make hardened old waitresses at the Palomino Club in Los Angeles shed tears the way he did. Genius, maybe? As far as the bass player goes, I don't think it was necessarily a mistake to replace Glen Matlock with Sid Vicious. Excitement would still not have peace. 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." But it never does. Some DJs wouldn't play that song or "Flash Light," because a fight would start: The crazy motherfuckers at parties would become real crazy. And it opened up my mind to the mighty force of nature that is Metallica. 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). Listen to the guitar break in "All My Loving": George Harrison told me that the Beatles would study the B sides of Carl's records to learn everything they could from him. People are listening. That was the kind of shit he was doing. I met her at a Vanity Fair photo shoot. Foghat? Before I joined the Dead in 2004, I played with Phil Lesh for about five years. I first saw them play in 1979 at Madison Square Garden, before their singer Bon Scott died and was replaced by Brian Johnson. They were in essence a band of hired guns, overseen by their management. This was a group that hadn't sung together in years, but they sounded heavenly. 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. He loved fishing, he loved sports. They were the first group from the neighborhood that sang modern harmony: They could sing like a gospel group but then do R&B like no one else. To me, it has always been paramount in singing. The Stooges' sound was so evocative yet so simple. He may no longer be with us, but he leaves an indelible legacy. Nothing gets in the way of the push-and-pull between the guitarists Angus and Malcolm Young, bassist Cliff Williams and drummer Phil Rudd. The riff in "Walk This Way" is just us trying to explore the blues in the Yardbirds model. Carl was actually there in the studio when the Beatles cut some of them. What the Yardbirds did is something you don't hear in today's blue-plate-special, cookie-cutter music. They played traditional blues mixed with their own unique brand of rock & roll, and there was nothing but strength in that group. I remember one time, Booker accidentally had two dates booked at the same time, so he took some other band and went somewhere in Kansas, and I went with the MGs to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, where I had to go pose as Booker T. Halfway through, some guy yells out, "Hey, man, that guy ain't no Booker T.! Middle school was brutal for me, and I clung to my music like a life raft. But my favorite song on the record has always been "Nobody's Fault," which is the second song on the B side. Sometimes, while we were making Exile on Main Street in France, the three of us would be plonking away on Hank Williams songs while waiting for the rest of the band to arrive. It's no accident that the Beatles' Apple Records signed James Taylor at its inception. You don't realize how powerful that is when you're just a listener. I stood outside. You can clearly hear his influence in the monumental "Little Wing," by Jimi Hendrix. "His original idea was a feature-length musicians' film in a similar way that Any Given Sunday was about the inner life of football players. Living in Oklahoma, I sometimes can't relate when English bands sing about English things. The Chronic is still the hip-hop equivalent of Stevie Wonder's Songs in the Key of Life. Keith Emerson (ELP) 2. He reinforced that I was still Stevie Nicks. With Frank, his musicians were pushed to the absolute brink. Join Now and SAVE!!! But Wolf was not a demanding person. Eminem does for his audience what Dylan did for his: He writes how he feels. The first time I heard real anger and aggressive sexuality expressed in guitar playing was on that Mayall record. And it was too fucking much. Vote up the top pianists below based on their compositions and worldly influence. Wolf was a big man, but he could really move. That man was the natural stuff. They didn't play emotional songs. At an early age I looked to music to take me out of my reality, and Sabbath does that better than any hard-rock act I know. He worked on a lot of bottom-of-the-rung cars that didn't have cassette decks. At the hospital, he lapsed into a coma. Ronnie's dream was that they would sound exactly the same every time they took the stage. But the groove took over, and that calmed them down. It's Clapton's most original interpretation of the blues, because the hellhounds on his trail had a face: unrequited love. 2023 Rolling Stone, LLC. They were an integrated band half white, half black. Greatest Rock Keyboardists 1. At the same time, everything they did was really smart and worked on a few levels; you could love a particular song, then realize a year later that you had totally missed the meaning. Black Sabbath are the Beatles of heavy metal. I think he was just getting into his stride when he died. I was too young to go to the concerts, but I'd hear about them from my older brothers and sisters about the huge stage shows, and one story about a fan who stripped off all his clothes and ran the length of the arena. Finally, Elvis is the definition of a career artist he's always coming up with a different sound, always challenging himself. It's the benchmark you measure your album against if you're serious. Carl was that good. Gram had the biggest repertoire of country songs you could imagine. Jerry is still one of the few guitarists where as soon as you hear him, you know instantly who it is. Freddie vowed they would return as the biggest band in the world. I could tell that Joni was a painter by the way she wrote lyrics. Because of stuff like Pro Tools, they figure they can fix it all in the studio. And it was loud, even outside. In those days, musically, Clapton was a total wild man. was totally a going concern. Their thing was "What do we do with these sounds?" In the end, nobody described George Clinton's music better than the man himself: It is "Cosmic Slop," it is funkadelic funky and psychedelic. Contributions from Jenna Scaramanga, Amit Sharma last updated 16 January 2023 A comprehensive rundown of the best guitarists of all time, featuring the trailblazers, the early innovators, the best jazz, rock, indie, blues, metal and acoustic players - and the top guitarists around today. His background was in classical music; he looks at the bass guitar as a piece of the orchestra, like a low-pitch brass instrument. He is the finest of us Americans. It's, like, from 1982.". He gets inside your head, and he doesn't let go. Booker T. pioneered a lot of sounds on the organ. When everyone was writing song cycles about Eastern mysticism, Ray Davies was writing about a two-up/two-down flat in some English suburb. Matthew Fisher (Procol Harum, Solo) 12. Not just a keyboard player, but a true force of nature, his bombastic showmanship gave him genuine rock star status. They didn't write emotional lyrics. Whether playing sessions for David Bowie and Elton John, releasing a string of frankly ridiculous concept albums (he even performed one of them on ice) or playing in multiple iterations of prog titans Yes, Wakeman has always excelled, embracing all the new synth technology that's come his way. That ticket cost about a pound or so. As I got to know them, I marveled at their work ethic. I was lucky enough to see the Allmans up close in the beginning. Izzy Stradlin was also important. I'm a big fan of how they used reggae. Some people were confused after that by his Seventies music, when he became jazzier. You can hear how good he is at both on Eric Clapton, the album he made with them, as well as his change in tone from Gibson-dirty to Stratocaster-clean. But they weren't afraid to create a mood. "The 100 Greatest Artists of All Time" is a special issue published by the American magazine Rolling Stone in two parts in 2004 and 2005 and updated in 2011. It seemed like he was singing about me walking in the sunsets in Oklahoma. Tina's story is not one of victimhood but one of incredible triumph. He demystified the whole thing for my generation: "Look, these are just instruments. But while the band could duplicate the majesty of past live shows (and still can), the heart and soul of the band was gone forever. Ray Manzarek (The Doors) 5. Duff McKagan is like the bass player in AC/DC: His parts were fairly simple, but they made the band an unstoppable force. I keep it on my black velvet top hat. Duck was a great bass player, and very funny one of them good old Southern beer-drinking boys. And to me, that's what the best music is made of. He was a very personal guitarist; he played with more heart and soul than technique. And Queen were always trying something new; none of their hit songs were paint-by-numbers. You're in the resistance now, son. The Kinks slipped into rock history through the back door. His music hits right to the pump right to the heart. But you have to say, they did pretty well. I will not tell." Thank you, Creedence, for being popular and timeless enough to be on CD jukeboxes. For me and I imagine for millions of others Tina now stands as an enduring symbol of survival and of grace. Whatever gets thrown at them, they persevere and they get stronger; they are a family. They taught me and many other people a lot about life, people and music. You know when I did "Shaft," with those 16th notes on the high-hat? I think he was the best electric-guitar player, other than Jimi Hendrix. This was my opportunity to learn something from the Wolf. They did "Shapes of Things," "Beck's Boogie," among other songs. They played like no other band. 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. I first saw Clapton with Cream, at the Cafe Au Go Go in New York in 1967 sort of. That song is one of the great moments in rock history for the electric bass guitar.

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