THE MUSIC THAT I LIKE!!!!!
Hmmm... Where should I start in this? Well, I WOULD start with KISS, but I've got a whole section of the site devoted to them, so I'm not... So I'll start with the second band I've got on my cd rack...
The Beatles... What can be said about them that HASN'T been said already? The writing team of John Lennon and Paul McCartney had to have been the best song writing pair since Rodgers and Hammerstein. Lennon and McCartney, along with George Harrison and Ringo Starr, turned the rock 'n' roll world upside down in the 60's. If only I were alive in that area of time... I'd love to know what it was like to actually BE there at the concerts... I'd love to know what it felt like when you put on the brand new Beatles record for the first time... But I digress... What's important is that The Beatles were probably THE single mot important band in the history of rock 'n' roll. And besides all the great music, that's on reason I like 'em.
The man in the picture you see to your right was, in my own opinion, a genius.
Frank Zappa had limitles creativity, and he didn't really care who, if anyone, he offended. He was a bandleader, guitar god, satirist, composer. The arrangements and just the sheer oddity of some of his late 60s/early 70s stuff is just amazing. With many line-up changes in his band, he made sure that just about every member was pracically a virtuoso. He even got the ball rolling for Steve Vai and Alice Cooper. (okay, Cooper wasn't in his band, but he did help HIS band get noticed) Unfortunately, Frank's genius was lost when he died of Prostate cancer in 1993 at the age of 52. He left behind, though, about 60 albums for future fans to discover and explore.
The next band is just loaded with talent. The rhythmic bass of John Deacon... The thunderous pounding of Roger Taylor's drums... The melodic talent of Brian May... The absolutely amazing voice and stage presence of Freddie Mercury... I can only be talking about ONE band... And that is Queen. Unfortunately, this is another band that has a deceased member. One of rock's greatest vocalists EVER was taken by the AIDS virus in November 1992. There's just no way Freddie could have been replaced. He and his overbite were one-of-a-kind. Albums such as A Night At The Opera, News Of The World, Jazz and Live Killers prove that.
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