28-11-2014, 03:31
I think maybe my favorite male singers are Ronnie Milsap, Conway Twitty, and Ray Charles. My favorite female singers are Karen Carpenter and Whitney Houston.
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The best artist who ever lived?
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28-11-2014, 03:32
Oh yes, and my favorite group the Bee Gees
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28-11-2014, 04:07
rebelgirl Wrote:Oh yes, and my favorite group the Bee Gees awesome group Rebel... perfect pop songs IMO unbeatable harmonies and melodies and they could replicate their 'high' vocal ranges live also im not sure, but i think they appeared on Aussie tv before they were teenagers,if not,they'd have barely been teens! hell...i even like their disco material and im no fan of 'disco'
"BTO....Bachman,Turner,Overweight
They were big in the 70s....for five minutes,on a Saturday,after lunch..." - Me 2014. 
28-11-2014, 07:10
Being as he didn't say MUSICAL artist (and yes, I'm aware or of the venue but still...): Michelangelo or Sir Francis Bacon or Benjamin Franklin. My pick is Leonardo da Vinci. In music it would be Beethoven, Bach or Stravinsky. All your moderns didn't invent--they merely transformed/converted/subverted existing formats. Prove me wrong. Have a nice day.
A man accustomed to hear only the echo of his own sentiments, soon bars all the common avenues of delight, and has no part in the general gratification of mankind--Dr. Johnson
What he said. Amen, Bro--JazzboCR
28-11-2014, 07:38
CRAZY-HORSE Wrote:awesome group Rebel... Maybe you could put up some Rebel songs because I looked and all I could find about Aussie Rebel material was this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aRyzr_4X6E <<Who are they rebelling against? Melbourne? The Great World Order? The Abo/petrochemical takeover? I'm confused...Glad to see they are staying in line and wearing helmets...
A man accustomed to hear only the echo of his own sentiments, soon bars all the common avenues of delight, and has no part in the general gratification of mankind--Dr. Johnson
What he said. Amen, Bro--JazzboCR
28-11-2014, 08:27
jazzboCR Wrote:Being as he didn't say MUSICAL artist (and yes, I'm aware or of the venue but still...): Michelangelo or Sir Francis Bacon or Benjamin Franklin. My pick is Leonardo da Vinci. In music it would be Beethoven, Bach or Stravinsky. All your moderns didn't invent--they merely transformed/converted/subverted existing formats. Prove me wrong. Have a nice day. Nor did your Beethoven etc.... If you want to get specific and down to the nitty gritty of originators of music.... The true originators of music would be the Neanderthal peoples who first tapped sticks and stones together to make rudimentary tribal beats!! As for artists we can go back to the Australian Aboriginals whom have the oldest existing cave/rock paintings on Earth which date back 30,000 plus years!
"BTO....Bachman,Turner,Overweight
They were big in the 70s....for five minutes,on a Saturday,after lunch..." - Me 2014.
28-11-2014, 21:20
Freddie Mercury - his song writing is massivelyunder rated
28-11-2014, 21:54
Speaking of Neanderthals, I often wondered how one could make a guitar from the forest? The strings would be a problem I would think!
CRAZY-HORSE Wrote:Nor did your Beethoven etc....
The ultimate connection is between a performer and its' audience!
11-12-2014, 01:29
Bob Dylan is hands down the greatest songwriter to ever live, beating out the likes of Hank Williams, Willie Nelson, John Prine, and Leonard Cohen. As an artist however, there's much to be desired- mainly in the vocal area, I myself am a huge Dylan fan, but I don't believe he is the greatest artist to ever live. Chuck Berry kickstarted todays music with "Maybelline", but he's sort of faded away in recent years. Buddy Holly broke down walls for Rock & Roll, most artists still haven't caught up to "Well...Alright", but his star was extinguished long before we got to see the artist he would become. Hank Williams too, died way before we could see him grow as an artist. Jim Reeves and Patsy Cline had two of the most iconic voices of all time, yet you'll rarely see them listed as two of the greatest artists of all time (which they most certainly were). The same goes for Marty Robbins and Lefty Frizzell, who both in their own way inspired generations of artists, you can hear echoes of Mr. Frizzell in every Willie Nelson, George Jones, and George Strait song- half of todays artists don't know Lefty or Marty's names, but they're influenced by them just the same, albeit, indirectly. Johnny Cash is certainly one of the greatest artists of all time, but just as you can trace Mr. Dylan's music back to Woody Guthrie and others, you can trace Cash's musical bloodline back to the father of country music- Mr. Jimmie Rodgers. You'll never see Rodgers's name on one of these lists that certain magazines have of "The 100 Greatest Country Artists of All Time", because he isn't by their definition "Country". Jimmie Rodger's was the childhood hero of one of the greatest bluesmen to ever live- Mr. Chester Arthur Burnett, Howlin Wolf. Howlin Wolf's blues sound was deeply engrained into the music of Lefty Frizzell, who in turn (with the help of Johnny Cash) influenced the greatest artist who ever lived (in my own opinion), Merle Haggard. The Hag represents something as a musician and a man that we all can identify with, he wasn't some exceedingly handsome rock & roller like Elvis Presley, he's got average looks and sings about his own life. Merle Haggard is an exceptional vocalist, he can't hold his own with the likes of Marty Robbins and Jim Reeves, but the talent is there. He's lived a life worth singing and writing about, he spent years behind the bars of San Quentin (where he saw Johnny Cash perform). The real secret to Hag's artistry is his brutal honesty- Merle Haggard hides nothing, he'll never lie in his songs. Today you hear about trucks and drinking, and how great life is, you won't hear that in a Merle Haggard song. He tells it like it is, and won't hide from the truth, he's too honest a man to do that. Yes, Merle Haggard is by far the greatest artist to ever live not only because of his status as "The Working Man's Poet", but because of the life he's lead (singing with the likes of Buck Owens, Bob Wills, Willie Nelson, and more), and his ability to make people understand each other through his songs.
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