I believe your mind needs corrective lenses. CS&N with Y on occasion, were the foundation of a generation.
Dylan and the Stones were there, as were Hendrix and the Beatles. There is nothing on this earth that can bring
back the beliefs, experiments, confrontations, the challenge to change. Regardless of how all this came out , it
was the energy and the dream that may never be reproduced again anywhere. If you haven't just said NO to your
draft board your unlikley to understand.

Ever hear of Hendrix and a group called the Beatles ? Ever listen to what Dylan put out in the 60's, or Zeppelin.If Rock music was a flower it bloomed in the 60's and was plasticized in the 70's and 80's.Mirror balls and disco just didn't qualify.

 Thanks for turning me on to this group Bill, they just keep coming through with good music. I think the first time
I heard them was 3-4 years ago along with PorcupineTree (for the first time) and they have become a permanent and enjoyable part of my days and nights... Old dogs can learn new licks.

This feels like swinging in a hammock, slight breeze, sunbeams off the water, easy living.

Washington State —- Getting nothing here. Tried eight different approaches, still nothing ..
Talk about withdrawals, I'm Jones-ing for my Radio Paradise. . . looks like tech problems..

Everybody in your hotel room has very good taste. I failed to experience any negitivity while listening to this song.

"Sausalito hotel room ,eating salty candy, I love her but she loves you, eating salty candy —Leon Leon Russell

Do you suppose there are people who hate rock and roll and don't know it  ? Perhaps
catholic school, drunken parents, their only vehicle was a Rambler, horrible breath, involuntary virginity,
what ?  what ?  WHAT !!!  could be the variable that would cause 2.1% of listeners who rated this,
 to give this song a one (1) ?          
                                                         "Get thee to a nunnery ! "

tkosh wrote :   "Some Dylan covers are nice, some even great (Watchtower) // "

  While I agree with any and all accolades given the Great Mr. Bob (Zimmerman)  Dylan, "
"Watchtower" was not a cover. "All Along the Watchtower" is a song written and recorded by the
exceptionally talented singer-songwriter Bob Dylan. Dylan covered few songs, as he wrote over 500+.
(However, Dylan did cover two songs by the Mississippi Sheiks ) 

Say WHAT ??? When the last humanoid on earth talks of Pink Floyd in endearing
tones, PT will have long been a lost memory. While I like PT , they just don't have
the genius of invention, creation, attraction, pioneering, and a merge of their music with
the minds of hundreds of millions of music loves all over the globe. PF is an institution and
a damn hard act  to follow .. So I'm giving your critique a 1, if you repent and purge yourself
of heresy there may be hope for you —-The gods of music are forgiving but their tolerance 
wears thin when words of a heathen smack like a kick to the shins. REPENT  I TELL YOU @!!

I don't care for this song. I have heard tunes from The Smiths that are great but this .... NADA !
I should be able to voice my dislike for a song without being accused of gay bashing. There are song Queen
The Verve, Elton, Al Stewart Bowie, Ziggy Stardust Remy Zero ect. do, that I love and there are those that I think suck. So sue me !

We sing when government is good and we sing when government is bad, we sing of our conquests and of our oppression.  IOW. ... People sing, it is a part of being human, and has been for some 20,000 years, as an means of expression and the use of a media we all know and understand. To sing is human,  to sing about politics is "exclusively" human, and I dare say that isn't about to change any time soon.

 
 So my 10 plus your 10 = pure music to our ears .. Hard to beat on long trips— blasting the Wilbury's
cranked up to max. People look at me like I've flipped but I like singing in my car, better than the shower
This album is a great one to sing along with.   

throwback wrote:

Never have been able to listen to these guys....much to '80s for me....
———————
I assume we are listening to the same source, but we can't be listening to the same music.
 "Burning Down the House" was one of the songs put on Clear Channel's list of possibly inappropriate songs.
If the shoe fits, wear it, this song has earned a 10 !

This tune could have been slipped between tract # 7 & 8 on a Romones album.

Blasphamy you say ? 

Interesting observation. When you see Joe and hear him talk about his upbringing and music you
quickly realize Joe has one speed, and that's full bore, and he looks like he is just running the scales
at times during his playing. Talented but not your laid back Southern Blues player stereo-type,  not even close.

Bonamassa has an hour of music and interview on Guitar Center Sessions on a
Direct TV channel "Audience Network."  Joe is difficult for me to watch as
he is the antitheses of any blues musician I have ever seen. Joe is wired to the gills,
he is going 100 mph in 3 directions at once. He is obviously very talented, but somewhat
like Liberace, turn up the audio, turn off the video. It's almost painful.

Perhaps a  pill will provide a bit of analgesic help for your pain. I happen to like this album very much, and my guess is that there are millions just like me out there. A little tolerance goes a long way.

                                                  D.B. is one of the most innovative musicians on earth.
                                            It's as enjoyable watching him as it is listening to his music.

I regret to inform you that Lawrence has died ... he was crushed under several tons of bubbles . . . .
Conspiracy you ask?   

16   #1 votes.... what the hell does a musician have to do to please these people ?
Landreth is well respected in the industry, exudes talent, and kicks ass playing the blues.
I don't see why the detractors even listen to music. One doesn't have to like the genre
to appreciate it. Hey, I may not like Hank Williams or Johnny Cash, but I sure as hell wouldn't
be giving them a 1. Perhaps a couple quarters of Art Appreciation or a couple of years of
guitar lessons would/could extract some of their respect for a guy as gifted a Landerth..
I knew folks back in the day who said the Beatles weren't talented and would be no more than a passing fancy,
 ... and they too were flat ass WRONG !

sounds like someone ran over their drum set and then tried to fix it with a large hammer.

Sheesh, someone holding your head to the speaker ? Forget where the mute/volume dial is ?
Must be hell being forced to listen to music you don't like , pure hell.......

 

Your angst is obvious. Why don't you tell that elephant to take his foot off of your foot.

Many folks think P.T. is a great group and crank their speakers waaaay up.. all you have to do

is push that little button marked mute for 3 min. and attempt to conquer your own private elephant...... 

I wonder if these guys had/have any idea how many fans they have/had, and how deep the appreciation for their music is/was.  This song always reestablishes my love for their music.

 
   Indeed he is !! We have Robbie to thank for a lot of wonderful music from "The Band."
Robertson has played with, and or for, just about every talented musician you can think of.
Bob Dylan hired The Band (then called "The Hawks") to be his touring band. Their first album, ''Music from Big Pink'', was released in 1968.  The concert, called "The Last Waltz" and held in San Francisco on Thanksgiving night 1976, featured the Band playing their own music as well as playing alongside guests that included Joni Mitchell, Neil Diamond, Neil Young, Muddy Waters, Eric Clapton and Van Morrison. ''The Last Waltz'' album was released in 1978 along with Scorsese's film of the same name. It has been regarded ever since as one of the best concert films ever made. For a short but good read concerning "The Band" and specifically Robertson, check out:
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheBand?action=source  It amazed me to learn just how deep Robertson's roots are spread around in the world of R&R as well as folk rock. It's a real pleasure to hear Robertson back on the beat again (13 years since his last album) as he is such a highly talented and gifted singer/songwriter.    PS  In 1994 Danko and Hudson performed with Robbie Robertson when "The Band" was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. There is a lot of interesting and historical information concerning the "The Band," and their interface with R&R, at the site named above. Robertson will no doubt please a lot of folks with this new disc—-A big welcome back Robbie and a big thank you for all you have shared with the world of music lovers.

 I saw J.A do this tune in S.F.  1969, =  wonderful —->>> I wouldn't cross the street to hear Emiliana Torrini if
it was free.... Perhaps you had to be there, but this cover is sacrilegious  !

  I hear Maroon 5  loud and clear. That is why this toon has an unpleasent ring to it . . .  .3

  Petty is so prolific he is constantly re-inventing himself. So, much like Dylan, Paul Simon,
and a handful of other highly talented/gifted artists you never know what Tom is about to
lay down, save for it is bound to be damn good.  Mike Campbell is sadly underrated as
it's been his awesome solo's and melodic talent that help make the Heartbreakers what they are
and that is one of the best R & R bands to be found on this or any other planet. While I hope it isn't,
Mojo may be the last album this group of musicians put together, and it's great. Thanks !

   First album I ever purchased "Blonde on Blonde". Dylan helped usher many of us,                                     
 at the time, to a better day, and most certainly a more peaceful direction. 
His last 3 albums contain some of his best music although there is just something 
warm and fuzzy about his early music. There were many of us who saw Dylan
as a spokesperson for a whole generation of people looking for another movie.

   Ask Paul Simon who the best singer/songwriter is and he will say Bob Dylan
Ask Bob Dylan who the best singer/songwriter is and he will say Paul Simon.
Between the two they certainly covered all the bases.
Still climbing out of the box after all these years.

 The misses and me . . .we be ... dancin' in the dark.....very sensual tune...

Kcar wrote: "but as I've gotten older I realize that Becker and Fagan were amazingly good."

Great couple of albums -this and their slinky first "big" single "Déjà Vu"-also the name of another platinum album.
 These guys were musician's musicians.

Perhaps Green Day has etched a special place for themselves in the American "socially conscious punk scene," and to a large extent kept this genre alive.   I hear the Ramones, the Clash, Sex Pistols—— ( ah, mosh pit anyone ?)  and while some consider them a "sell out," many believe they have stayed true to their core while showing growth, like
all good bands do.   Green Day is NOT the Enemy ~!    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiKZVV3cH6Q

RT this new album is getting great reviews and acclaim. Granted music is a personal thing (to your ears) but give it a few more spins round the old turntable and you may find you grew Happy Ears...  You know what they say about Rome, ok,  so I don't either,  but sometimes familiarity breeds Happy Ears ...keep the faith as REM has kicked ass for many years now.   

I have always liked Son Volt and try to keep up with their music and somewhat musical chair members..
This is a great album —- in this song the instrumentation is super —A kickin'
tune, but at times in the vocals, Jay sounds like he is in a tug of war with the lyrics, straining to pull them from the sheet music. As if  he is "strained, groping-for-pitch" —(an accurate description, from this site) The rpm's aren't in sync with the pitch, which is not in sync with the intonation, or visa versa.  Still, this is a very talented group of musicians who 9 times out of 10——->> nail it !  

Yea, this song did not stand the test of time.

"Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds." - - - Einstein

Dylan is like the telephone, once you have it, you can't understand how
you got along without it !

We don't dance BUT we be dancin' NOW NOW NA NA NA NA NA NOW !!

Eric Burton like guitar licks. Can't say this song expands my musical horizons.
Lyrics lack panache....

"Ol' '55" is a song written and recorded by Tom Waits. It is the first track on Waits' debut album, Closing Time, released in 1973. The song was covered with greater chart success by the Eagles, released on their 1974 album On the Border.

Waits himself has been critical of cover versions of the song, saying he was "not that particularly crazy about rendition of it ... I thought their version was a little antiseptic." <sup>- - - — —  - -:  From Wikipedia

 Henley probably took that as a compliment. I wonder what Tom would have said if the Beach Boys had covered the song ?</sup>

Back to back  10's...  Henley's drive for perfection can make their music a bit repetitive as he
demands note for note, no variance, from venue to venue...in my time these guys were among the
top 3-4 American bands, and in the top ten world wide. Walsh sure didn't do them any harm either.
A sad/sour note concerning the Eagles is, the guy that does almost all the lead guitar work "Bernie Leadon" is
awesome but doesn't get the credit he deserves as he is always 5 feet out of the spotlight. But lordy that man
can PLAY !~

CCR has a tremendous following around the world. To this day, you can't find a juke-box in rural Idaho,
Montana, Wyoming, or the Dakotas that doesn't have half a dozen CCR hits on them, 

I agree Bill, this really works somewhere in time, just not sure when that is/was. I hear Vanilla Fudge.

Randy California sounds a lot like Burton Cummings, or visa versa. Spirit never received the recognition for their
innovation in instrumentation (Page ripped California off) or even the quality of their music. This album should be considered one of the top 10 cut during the 60/70's era.  Had they stuck together and continued writing/playing they would most likely have the recognition groups like U2, The Dead, and even Zep have attained. But then again, you know about opinions......

 Just a great album, but no one would expect any less from Petty, and Campbell. Album = 10 
Gotta listen to this cut perhaps 6-7 times before I would rate it, but Petty grows on you.
His double Greatest Hits album is one of my favorite works of all time. Thanks Tom, for another "DA BOMB."
(sorry these isn't an icon for someone token')

Played this vinyl until it was only good for extruding a single noodle (very long). If this was released today, it would be an 8, taken out of context it's hard for the youngsters to comprehend the cultural mood this album was inspired by. Lets see long hair, weed, anti-war, cultural upheaval, anti-Nixon, peace, free-love, incense, gettin hip. 
I member bein part of 120,000 people in Seattle who did a sit down on I-5 thus shutting it down. Rock and Roll. "Hell no I won't go !"
We need some of that spirit today.  Peace !

This fellow has done some work with the London Philharmonic that is really wonderful stuff.
PBS has an hour on him and co. see it if you get a chance, you may get a new perspective
on their talent.

Life has been an antagonist to many very talented folks. Sure do miss me some Dead.. I keep thinking that
there should be a new album out and then I realize that the Dead is Dead. Exquisite while it lasted.
Perhaps in another bubble in this bubble wrap universe .....

With a lead in like that, you may have negated your point to no less than 99.9999.............% of folks
that listen to R&R. I'd say "Rock On," but your tuning out 2 of the very best and all of the tens of thousand of 
R&R, Blues, and Salsa guitar player's influenced by these greats for the last 45 years. Ouch ! Perhaps you may get off on the banjo.

I hope this note reaches you. Your English is very good, better than 90% of other posts I read.
Good to have you aboard. Music unites us, let the friendships begin.
PS: there are no mistakes to apologize for.

This tune was thrown into a revolving door and spun at 78 rpm's.... Ad Nauseum   

Don't get the wrong idea, I liked it the first 3742 times I heard it, and then....ad nauseum..ad infinitum.
et fini sil placet....?   (psst ya gotta pray in Latin.) So sez the cosmic rabbi.

One more time Bill.     And, they danced till they dropped. .  

Oh, rock-on you tireless fools, rock-on!!!!

This group helped put the " aware"  in 'socially aware.'  In a disposible world hell bent for "toss it out" vs.  recycle/sustainable, their message perhaps saved a million tons of refuse from the ever growing land fill, and turned it back to a 2nd- 3rd ect. use. Spirit deserves a thanks for using their talent to make the world a better place !

Oh get a grip, it's just crabs, you always blow these things out of proportion.

When I hear songs like this and the guy on the album cover looks like he is 16,
I want to turn my guitar into toothpicks. Something functional, a canoe paddle,
a cane, water witch, wooden spoons, wooden snow shovel ?  PPFFFFFTTTTTTT,
and I was thinking I could take the training wheels off of it ....

Yes, that's Joe's calling card. When people hear him not having seen him, many see him as a Black blues artist, but that's not the case. Joe's has had a distinguished career rocking out, however, he does cover a lot of music by others. He is best listened to when out of sight, as he's been accused of making fun of persons with epileptic spasms. But that is just Joe's mannerisms as he belts it out.
Different strokes.....

   You don't have to like Stevie's music to realize he is one of the heavy hitters in R & B  and  R&R.He has had a long and distinguished career as a singer-songwriter. The mans got it, a gift that sets him and his music apart from the maddening noise of the shear mass of wannabe's. 

These folks must work at the Salvation Army between gigs.

Good music,  a David Byrne album cover.

"I try never to wear my own clothes, I pretend I'm someone else." —-> David Byrne

 

    Nor am I, as finding this group,  was just another benifit from listening to RP.
Radio Paradise, expanding my horizons in music 24/7. (thanks Bill)

Everybody and their mother plays the blues guitar, but not everybody and their mother plays
the blues guitar like that .. wonderful blues & great memories.

 Iscoot4peace wrote:  "The format exposes us to new musical ideas and gives these seeds time to gestate within.  Or not. "
 Spot on, and once familiar with one song, I grasp the "style" such that other song of theirs are metabolized faster. Upon reading your post I thought of "The Talking Heads" who through the years I have grown to really appreciate. The first song I heard of Byrne's was "Take Me to the River," followed by "Burning down the House," - - -he just kicks ass on these cuts. But to others it's pure hell for them to listen to him and/or the Talking Heads... as you say, some of those seeds just don't gestate.
Much like Talking Heads , Radiohead is one of those groups most folks seem to have to invest some time listening to, until they develop a taste for, but once you do, it's all down-hill from there. "Or not."                                                     

There aren't enough accolades for sweet Joni Mitchell, great vocal command, sensuous,
and smooth. Oh the memories... well, we got it while we could. David Crosby,
tutored Joni on alternate guitar tuning and she transposed this knowledge to her
piano methods, and enhanced her marvelious voice with a richer diversity.

    Amen! how did this group get by a vinyl collection of family and friends ? (started in 1965 with Highway 61)
This is the first I've heard of this group... and it's all good. Were they just a *"flash in the pan?" Did any of them start other bands ? 
I'll second "impressive" freeform. however, tis a bit bewildering in that they made it under the radar of a large group of R&R collectors.
Bill you constantly pull some fine rabbits out of that hat of yours, thanks !

Is your message a confession for laying down such a HUGE carbon foot-print ?
. .. . clean up yo act homie cuz what goes around comes around...did ja think
you could avoid getting busted ? Or,  is it you "think" that the artist's s*it doesn't stink?
SOS = Shame On Sumner

 

I suggest you settle this in a civilized manner. Ok then,  grab your implement
(pen, pencil, feather,finger paints, sharp rock) of choice and you have 5 min. to
write a great American novel. The winner will be announced on an obscure cable
TV channel, and receive a 5 year contract with Publishers Clearing House. Ready ?

Norah Jones is a huge talent with nearly 50 million albums sold and multiples of every award offered musicians.                                

 She writes her own music, plays a dozen instruments,  and is the most successful female artist of the 2000's. She is simply exquisite and getting better with time.  

    As I walked into the room in the middle of this song, I thought I was hearing the bridge
in the Allman Brothers  "Can't you see"  .....I don't know which song came first,
but there are some exact cord patterns in each.. ..  

Alvin wrote some of the most controversial lyrics of the time...
 when he wrote: "Everywhere is freaks and hairies / Dykes and fairies, tell me where is sanity / Tax the rich, feed the poor
 / Till there are no rich no more."——A.Lee

And while it was taken as a pro-conservative message when taken out of context, the song as a whole seems
to suggest that while there is much social discontent and animus between the schools of thought, perhaps
Lee was:  "leaving it up to you, cuz I don't know what to do " —-A. Lee
He's about one rug down from Page, Hendrix, & Clapton which made him one hellava good guitar player. Hall of Fame-er 

This must of been what Jim Morrison sounded like to non-English speaking listeners..... i.e.
" I'm a back doorrrrrrrr maaannnn" !!!    Ya gotta admit it sounds a tad nefarious.

 

 Interesting.. Thank you for the info. . . . Ireland has been a religious mess for many years, I wonder why they feel akin to such
a criminal element ?  Some folks might take this as a mockery and the anger is but a piece of paper below the surface.  She doesn't look like a mick. (I'm a mick) Is this fodder for a musical conspiracy ?   

  

    Considering the quality of folk singer-songwriters coming out of the UK in the last 40 years I can understand your irritated opinion. You really don't have ANYTHING to compare with Grammy Award-winning John Prine. I can't think of a single Brit that was given a Lifetime Achievement Award for songwriting by the UK's BBC's Radio 2 and that same year inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, while receiving the Artist of the Year award at the Americana Music Awards on September 9, 2005. I suppose your bitter. Tis a bloody pity.......aye ?

Good stuff... I hear allot of Fleetwood Mac in this cut...drums and harmonies could have
been done by F.M. The song that comes to mind is "Bare Trees".

Bah do dah, do dah da do da do
Bah do dah, do dah da do da do
Bah do dah, do dah da do da do
Bah do dah, do dah da do da do 
* (add two gallons of gin and repeat infinitely) 

From: Bare Trees,   Fleetwood Mac
Of Note: Bare Trees is a pre Buckingham-Nicks Mac album

 

 As did I.  I'm suprised you would mix Ripple with anything save yourself. Ripple was actually a real wine
with nothing artificial in it. Sprite on the other hand ............. 
Two bottles of Ripple, 3-4 "Mexican Dirt Weed" doobies, and you, you were prepared for any rock concert on earth.
(or any other place)

Jerry Garcia was excellent at doing 2 things, getting high and playing the guitar (high). Jerry you are missed,
you were/are loved for all the good times you and "The Dead" laid down.

RIP JG

If you take 2 Advil you won't have to take 12 of those Sandoz your taking a day.

A Tribute to Stevie Ray Vaughan (1996)

Let's see 10 + 10 = 20   Yes, that appears appropriate.. I vote 20 for the Zep.

   Early on the Brits certainly did produce some of the best R&R ever recorded.
We had Zeppelin, Beatles, Pink Floyd and Stones all pumping out high energy R&R.
Are there 4  bands today that will sustain like these guys did?  I think not.
If their out there I certainly would like to know who they are.

Great tune to ahhhhh dance to.. ya that's it, dance.......

  "68" Seattle, and again in "69"  This was a great concert band. I always believed that Bananas
was the fire in the engine of the Youngblood's,and Jessie was sort of a John Denver on acid,  but
in "74" The Jessie Colin Young  Band  opened for Loggins and Messina and just 'blew that arena away." 
I to give this song an 11. I used to carry this album around so I could turn others on to "The Youngbloods"
juss one-er-full music.
 

The early music from "the boys" had an IRA influence running through and through
Today there is a definite IRS tone to their Musak.  If you listen really closely you will
hear the bell ringing out the floor number.

What a night — watchin' the world series — listening to RP — it just doesn't
get any better !!! —- oh ya then there's the brew —- HAPPY HALLOWEEN
TO YOU ALL — THANKS FOR A KICK ASS NIGHT of R&R  BILL !!

Thank you Bill for the exposure to this group,  who are laden with talent, originality, and one hell of a kick ass sound. I also thank you for the turn on to Snow Patrol, again, another group bursting with 
good Mojo ~!  I would love to see Porcupine Tree, Snow Patrol, and Phish in any order they wished to "blow that room away !."

 RP Paradise Wrote : "Neil doesn't get enough credit for craftsmanship, but this is a perfectly crafted song../ / ect.

  I would agree , but believe that it's the natural course of music to fade into oblivion. The Nifty Fifty is in perpetuity only because of MP3 downloads and the like)   Will people be listening to Young, Simon, Dylan, or others of that rare stratification 400 or 500 years from now; will they still be still listening to Bach or Beethoven ?
For the last 120 years each generation has created it's own genius. Desirability is in the eye/ear of the beholder, and while I'm sure longevity has something to do with genius, the elements that influence future generations many not have come into being yet. e.g. grandma didn't want no Wa-Wa round here.

  Just what elements go into musical perpetuity ? I am absolutely positive that at one time there were cave-persons that played wicked reed flutes, but somewhere along the "line," someone brought an electric guitar to jam night. . . .

 Thank you for leaving Genesis Mr. P. Gabriel. No doubt had you stayed, Genesis would have sputtered into obscurity. This works, as this way you get a hit about every 8 - 10 years, while Phil and crew went on without you to be quite prolific.... and made a dozen + gold albums. Don't get me wrong Peter,  I like your tunes but absence makes the heart grow fonder...

midreming wrote: " He's been around the block now and seen a lot more. "

   Yes he has, but Mr. Dylan never comes back to the same place. Dylan has been a faithful constant companion for over 40 years now, constantly evolving. I certainly believe in different strokes for different folks but Dylan is considered by many to be the greatest song-writer of all time. (ask Paul Simon ) Perhaps people don't care for Dylan because they just don't understand his genius i.e.....Because we don't like something it has no redeeming value — ah, it's all too American.

 One wo/man's ceiling, is another wo/man's floor. In their day Waters, and Gilmour earned enough

poetic capital to write total crap for the rest of their lives and still be par with any and all others.

I happen to like this piece as it shows another side (diversity) of Gilmour not often seen, and I'm sure that if "Dark Side of the Moon were to be released today, any of these new generation rap-happy critics would be thumbs down-ing one of the most brilliant and cohesive albums ever made.
Perhaps infected with "Ghetto Envy" and who pedestal the self-serving, money over art, 'gangster's regurgitation they consider music i.e. woud be better off spending their time as critics of genre that "Thanks the Gods" Bill doesn't play. Gilmour is a rock and roll icon and has been since the late 60's. Which speaks volumes to his talent, innovation, and pioneering of a sound which is Pink Floyd's alone. Also, hats off to Syd Barrett (RIP), Richard Wright (RIP) and  Nick Mason.
 
  I wonder what many of those who expect but one speed/style and genre from Pink Floyd (Gilmour-Waters) think of Stevie Ray Vaughn's slow, melodic, and graceful pieces i.e.
Diversity is what makes the "very best" better. 

http://www.fretplay.com/guitar-videos/432-vaughan_stevie_ray-LickLibrary/How-to-Play-Slow-Blues-Guitar-Licks-in-the-Style-of-Stevie-Ray-Vaughan

         The Stones were, are ,and will always be a fantastic stimulas package to the evolution of Rock and Roll !!

brokemusician wrote: What can possibly suck more than REM ?

 People that think REM sucks ?  Well you asked..