Conference napalm::heavy_metal

    again..Shawn Good topic,
    
    
        What about 
       "I might Lie"
                     g o o d    s o n g 
           my band did a version of that song in 1987, 
        he's got exellent musicians w/him....Lets add more to the topic!!!
    
    
     	ANDY TAYLOR NOW? OR WHEN HE WAS IN DURAN DURAN..
          I VOTE Now.....He's much better.
                                    JIM..TAMA

    
    
    	I cannot stand DD's music, but Andy Taylor on his own is
    	okay.  I haven't heard much from him other than Bang A
    	Gong, and Some Like It Hot...
    
    	I never really thought of him as HM, though.  Guess I
    	better open my ears to his most recent stuff, huh?
    
    	Tig~~

Andy Taylor is now playing with Rod Stewart. He plays all the guitars on
the new album (which is Rod's best in over a decade), and is also going
to be playing on the tour (Prov. C.C., Centrum and the Boston Garden all
have shows in late September).

And I agree - a pretty good rock'n'roll guitarist. Who woulda thought?

cat

    
    I was into DD on their first lp (Planet Earth...hey, it was a cool
    funk/rock lp before they went commercial!), and remember reading
    an interview with DD shortly thereafter.  They were discussing the
    band and they said they wanted a guitarist that was a cross between
    George Benson and Jimi Page...they got Andy Taylor.  They said when
    they got him in the band, they had to slow him down cuz he used
    to play 4 times as fast as everyone else.  WHo would have thought???
    
    Of course Andy ALWAYS used Marshall's in concert with DD, he just
    added more stacks when he went solo, that's all.
    
    Buck

    
    	I went to see Rod Stewart Monday night at Saratoga Performing
    Arts Center in NY and I'm afraid he wasn't there.  They had some
    other guy playing, who's got an album coming out soon, along with
    his regualr guitarist.  Not bad wither, since he played the Jeff
    Beck part of `People Get Ready' and really made that axe cry !
    
    METALord 

                    
    Hey I like Duran Duran - I saw them on the RIO tour a few years
    back.           
                    
    Andy Talylor is pretty good - as far a Brummies go.
     
    BTW - The Power Station Project (Micheal Des Barnes <of Chequered
    Past> John Taylor <DD Bass player> Tony Thompson <??> and Robert
    Palmer <:-)>) was on temporary anyway, whilst the rest of DD did
    the ARCADIA project.
                        
    BTW2 - Its *not* BANG A GONG its GET IT ON.
                        
    -Mr Brownstone      

    
    RE:.6
    
     BTW Tony GET IT ON was released in the states as BANG A GONG.
    
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    RE:.7  Ahhhh!!! that would explain it !!!

re: a couple back

Tony Thompson was the drummer for Chic. 

(He also played for Led Zep at Live-Aid. He was supposed to join a reformed
LZ, but it didn't work out - he drank too much. But then the reunion never
got out of the rehearsal hall anyways.)

cat

    I thought Phil Collins played drums for Zep at Live Aids?
    
    
    			can't fool the Bomb
    

>    I thought Phil Collins played drums for Zep at Live Aids?
    
Well, yes and no. See, there were two drummers on stage with LZ.
Phil Collins seemed to be there mostly for looks, while Tony
Thompson was the real drummer. Tony is the one who rehearsed for
two days with LZ, and he played at the show.

Phil,on the other hand, was just sort of sitting in and 'jamming'
with them. If you watch the video, you'll see that Phil isn't even
playing all the time, and he's watching Thompson for his cues.

So while Phil was there, he was not the real drummer.

cat

    Ok - I'm ready to take a hit on this, but... 
    
    	I'm a BIG Duran fan - have been since before the first album,
    and I have about 30 (yes, thirty) imports/12", etc. _Duran Duran_
    (both the U.S. versions, and the UK version) is a killer funk rock
    album, and _Rio_ (once again, all versions, but especially the U.S.
    version) is even better - both are laced with Andy's HM influence
    and John's funky bass lines, not to mention Simon's carefully
    structured vocals. If one were to listen to Duran BEFORE all the
    hype and teenie-attention, one's attitude might be different...
    ;-)
    	IMO, Andy was much better in Duran - although I like his current
    work, he seems to overuse the same chord found in Bang A Gong (Get
    it On) off of _33 1/3_. His inventiveness in fitting his style to
    Duran's made him much more interesting.  He did cut loose in concert
    quite a few times, and both shows (_Rio_ and _7..._) were among
    the best all-around shows I've been to.
    
    Fire Away 8*)
    
    John "I'm talking for free..." Casebolt
    

    
    
    I saw a concert on TV once where Duran Duran were playing "Union
    of the snake" live (killer track) and Andy Taylor was having *fun* 
    with that whammy bar, doing dive bombs all the time and seriously 
    pissing everyone else in DD off by the looks on their faces (This 
    was when he had real long hair and just b4 DD split up).
    
    Best cuts ??  Wild Boys, Save a Prayer and Union of The Snake.
    
    Anybody see the uncensored "Girls On Film" video ??  I bought the
    DD video and ohhhhhh....I wish I was an ice cube :-)
    
    Sorry if people think this isn't HM, but b4 we get flamed we are
    talking about a HM guitarists past band - so (insert loud rasperry)
    na na nana na !!!! ;-)                  
    
    -Tony 

    
    	I have to admit, that video would have been rated XXX by good
    ol' Tipper.  Ditto on the ice cube ! ;^)
    
    	Save a Prayer - Excellent use of keyboards on this one !
    
    But in keeping this with the base note......my ex-girlfriend used
    to drool over the TV when Andy Taylor video's were on.  Made a short
    life for the TV. <sigh> :^)
    
    METALord"
    

    re:tony whats a brummie?
    
    dd was good/ ok some of there music is ok..
    
    andy taylor on the other i wished would have become more popular,
    i've heard the first album, i think its got "take it easy, (on
    yourself)"  it was ok, i thought he could do so much better.
    
    (i didnt know we had an andy taylor note ) ha!
    
    	later,,
    i like this storm we're having......................
     

    A Brummie is a person who was born in Birmingham UK
    
    A few Brummies:-
    
    Ozzy Ozbourne, David Coverdale, Tony Iommi...