The Contrarians Presents: Unsung Heroes on Classic Albums
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- The Contrarians Presents: Unsung Heroes on Classic Albums. John Martin and along with a Patreon panel as we discuss Unsung Heroes.
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Dick Wagoner and Steve Hunter were the definition of unsung heroes. whether Alice Cooper Lou Reed or Aerosmith. They were the unsung heroes every Time they played on an album or a concert
'Deaffy' on the early Accept albums. Us young metal heads had a lot of WTF moments listening to Udo sing about London Leatherboys and Screaming for a Love Bite, but we loved him for it.
Joe Walsh + Wendy Melvoin were in 2 of the most successful bands yet you'll see both doing lots of session work on everything from Bob Seger, Quarterflash ,Richard Marx (Joe) to Neil Finn,Madonna,OK Go (Wendy)
Kansas: Leftoverture and Point Of Know Return--the rhythm section of bassist Dave Hope and drummer Phil Ehart. This can be said for all the albums done by the original lineup, not just these two. They were just as important as Steve Walsh's vocals, Kerry Livgren's songwriting, and Robby (RIP) Steinhardt's violin.
Dire Straits: Brothers In Arms(and the whole catalog)--bassist John Illsley. He was a perfect balance to Mark Knopfler's guitar fireworks
Robert Hunter writing lyrics for Grateful Dead. Peter Sinfield of King Crimson.
nico mcbrain played with pat travers band and french hard rock band before iron maiden,clive burr was cool too
Rudolf Schenker + Matthias Jabs
saw witchfynde twice with andro coulton/steve bridges and then with luther beltz and pete surgey on bass,preferred the original line up,as a youth i was in their fan club the coven,and had a long chewed up demo ,which fans got/before album,with unto the ages/telestai and wake up screaming which didnt appear until stagefright,so that song was at least written before surgey replaced coulton,saw original line up blow def leppard off the stage,then in the tiny venue the bungalow with later line up,was good,packed,not hard as very small venue.
jeff kollman is a killer player,love michael shencker but jeff is just as good, and more diverse.he also play with chad smiths bombastic meatbats,who i prefer to chilli peppers,jeffs own fusion/rock band cosmosquad are also very good
Elvis's bassist THE GREAT Jerry Scheff on the Doors album "LA Woman". They should have had this guy in the band from day one.
Michael Anthony' s backing vocals on all the VH albums
Ben Orr's lead vocals on The Cars albums were always a highlight.
Cozy Powell on Whitesnake Slide It In album. Killer drumming throughout this classic album.
Ray Manzarek of The Doors. His organ and keyboards gave The Doors that awesome haunting sound.
Les Binks - standout on Stained Class and Hell Bent For Leather Judas Priest
Peter White & Phil Kenzie on Year of the cat - Al Stewart. Peter was hired as a pianoplayer but could also play incredible spanish guitar, did the solo on the song On the border in one take. And the title track would not be the same without Phils saxophone solo. Around the same time Phil contributed to Pocos classic song Heart of the night.
Ellen Foley her vocal contribution to Meat loaf bat out of hell.
Also the clash acting as her backing band on the spirit of st louis
John Deacon in Queen because he wrote their best song (Another One Bites the Dust)!
Needed a pre-show mic check on lower right side dude
Ian Stewart of the Rolling Stones. Not a pretty boy, he was demoted to road manager, but continued to lay down some great piano on all those early Stones albums.
And contributed to led Zeppelin boogie with stu
@@Rockstardust69 Of course! Always loved that song.
Rush had a couple of unsung heroes in the keyboard department. First with the graphic artist Hugh Syme who played keys on such songs as 'Tears', Different Strings' and 'Witch Hunt' as well as being the creator of the iconic synth intro to '2112'. The other being Andy Richards who played additional keyboards on the 'Power Windows' and 'Hold Your Fire' albums.
Clarence White on the Byrds Untitled album, Colin Moulding on XTC's later albums, Topper Headon on the Clash's Combat Rock. Even John Paul Jones with Led Zep because of his contributions as an arranger and multi-instrumentalist. You could make a case for Brian Jones with the Rolling Stones circa 1965-66 because he introduced exotic instruments like the dulcimer and the sitar but was eclipsed by Jagger-Richards ascendancy.
Dream Theater's Scenes from a Memory IS NOT the greatest progressive metal album of all time! Are you serious? In certain moments is not even metal, it's more acoustic, lots of soft piano, even pop-ish. In terms of Metal I prefer Images and Words, which is more metal than Scenes from a Memory.
Progressive metal is vast and has many bands, including which, for me, is the best of them all: Symphony X. At least is my favourite. I much prefer, for example, the album V: The New Mythology or Iconoclast than any Dream Theater album. Only by the fact of the voice of Russel Allen makes much more Metal and Rock than anything from Dream Theater, really, because DT vocalist is not the most rock, metal nor bluesy type of vocalist. Dream Theater wins a lot for the production, but musically, they are not better than SX, at all. I much prefer Russell Allen as a vocalist and Michael Romeo as a guitarist and song writer, than the vocalist of DT and John Petrucci.
Unsung "Heroes" I would say Michael Pinnella.
Totally agree with Jeff about Dave Anderson. His bass playing on Master of the Universe is brilliant and I read that he helped create the riff for that song (though he wasn't credited). Plus he played with Amon Duul II which is pretty cool!
A bit of a borderline one (as maybe she is given due credit): Moe Tucker with the Velvet Underground. Her muffled restrained sound suits the music; it would not have worked if someone like Keith Moon had been with them - it would have distracted from the music.
Did anyone mention Anton Fig on Dynasty + Unmasked... Haven't watched yet.
Martin´s mic works again!👏
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Michael McDonald on Van Halen’s 1984.
Billy Preston on Let It Be.
Nicky Hopkins is definitely one…Jim Gordon…
Especially on "Who's Next", but there's so many other albums he's such a standout on
upp debut album,produced by jeff beck,who plays on many trax uncredited,he also produced and played on 2 trax on the second
Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones on Al Stewart's Love Chronicles. Rick Wakeman on Al Stewart''s Orange. Roger Taylor and Rick Wakeman on Al Stewart's Past, Present and Future.
Every album by Elton John's albums in the 70s for writing some of the most cinematic lyrics ever penned.
This is experts' territory. Great show 🎉