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by CrankerBait
Wed Sep 10, 2025 6:10 am
Forum: The Original Gossip Board
Topic: Amazing albums with a garbage tune
Replies: 55
Views: 1486

Re: Amazing albums with a garbage tune

Let It Be Dig It is a pile of shite throwaway that should've been left on the cutting room floor I'm a huge Beatles fan, and I think you're right about that. Aside from the different (better) mix, the other reason I prefer Let It Be... Naked to the original is that "Dig It" is nowhere to ...
by CrankerBait
Wed Sep 10, 2025 6:07 am
Forum: The Original Gossip Board
Topic: Amazing albums with a garbage tune
Replies: 55
Views: 1486

Re: Amazing albums with a garbage tune

TheDeadBastard wrote: Sun Sep 07, 2025 4:13 pm Mother on Syncronicity
Great call. The only bad song on the album. Maybe it would have worked better as an instrumental?
by CrankerBait
Wed Sep 10, 2025 1:51 am
Forum: The Original Gossip Board
Topic: Chuck Berry - the nastiest rock star of all?
Replies: 29
Views: 1780

Re: Chuck Berry - the nastiest rock star of all?

My dad told me that his dad, my grandfather, would always go on unprovoked rants in the 50s and 60s about how terrible rock and roll music was. (One of his favorite Sunday dinner stunts was to threaten not to allow the family to watch the Ed Sullivan Show if anyone "controversial" was goin...
by CrankerBait
Mon Sep 08, 2025 2:13 am
Forum: The Original Gossip Board
Topic: What LIVE Albums Are Live, Start to Finish?
Replies: 24
Views: 670

Re: What LIVE Albums Are Live, Start to Finish?

DP - MiJ I don't think that Jimis live stuff got fixed, did it? Made in Japan was the first one that came to mind. Live perfection. Live at Winterland and Band of Gypsys sound about as live as albums can be. They may have edited the length of some songs or some the banter in between, but I don't th...
by CrankerBait
Sun Sep 07, 2025 2:33 pm
Forum: The Original Gossip Board
Topic: Plant/Coverdale guitar battle
Replies: 9
Views: 614

Re: Plant/Coverdale guitar battle

Both of them are OK. I'll go with Plant because he's playing in front of an audience.
by CrankerBait
Fri Sep 05, 2025 8:03 am
Forum: The Original Gossip Board
Topic: Great musicians, lousy band
Replies: 34
Views: 1275

Re: Great musicians, lousy band

Most of the "super groups" can't write a "hook"........(Chickenfoot, Winery Dogs, Black County Communion, etc., etc......) And I actually think Dee Snider is a much better vocalist, but was limited by the one dimensional style/mediocre songwriting of Twisted Sister. Unless you h...
by CrankerBait
Tue Sep 02, 2025 2:52 pm
Forum: The Original Gossip Board
Topic: French/Ojeda - the worst 80s guitarists?
Replies: 76
Views: 3172

Re: French/Ojeda - the worst 80s guitarists?

As a few people have already commented, they were up to the job of being the guitarists in Twisted Sister, whether in the studio or live. They may not have been virtuoso guitarists, but Twisted Sister never required that. They were a club band for years before they finally made it big. I don't think...
by CrankerBait
Mon Sep 01, 2025 5:22 pm
Forum: The Original Gossip Board
Topic: Who do you prefer vocally: Bach vs Cornell
Replies: 37
Views: 1675

Re: Who do you prefer vocally: Bach vs Cornell

Cornell. His vocals were more unique, and, as an added bonus, he could write songs and play guitar.
by CrankerBait
Mon Sep 01, 2025 5:14 pm
Forum: The Original Gossip Board
Topic: What Huge Rock Acts Have Destroyed Their Testicles More - Not A Poll
Replies: 34
Views: 1845

Re: What Huge Rock Acts Have Destroyed Their Testicles More - Not A Poll

Aerosmith There's an argument to be made for them, if only you based it on that trio of nearly identical, shit awful ballads from Get a Grip . (It would have been excusable if they'd stopped at "Cryin'", but they had to go and add the other two render the rest of the album sackless.) Pump...
by CrankerBait
Mon Sep 01, 2025 9:29 am
Forum: The Original Gossip Board
Topic: What Huge Rock Acts Have Destroyed Their Testicles More - Not A Poll
Replies: 34
Views: 1845

Re: What Huge Rock Acts Have Destroyed Their Testicles More - Not A Poll

Aerosmith There's an argument to be made for them, if only you based it on that trio of nearly identical, shit awful ballads from Get a Grip . (It would have been excusable if they'd stopped at "Cryin'", but they had to go and add the other two render the rest of the album sackless.) Pump...
by CrankerBait
Mon Sep 01, 2025 9:18 am
Forum: The Original Gossip Board
Topic: <band> would have been huge if <member> didn't die
Replies: 54
Views: 2448

Re: <band> would have been huge if <member> didn't die

When I think of musicians who died young, the ones that come to mind were already famous/successful when they checked out. Solo artists were obviously finished, but some of the bands with dead members replaced lost members and remained huge, or turned into something different like Pearl Jam or New O...
by CrankerBait
Sun Aug 31, 2025 4:46 am
Forum: The Original Gossip Board
Topic: Great new Bryan Adams track - Roll with the Punches
Replies: 30
Views: 3529

Re: Great new Bryan Adams track - Roll with the Punches

It sounds OK. It will probably sound a lot better when he plays it live.
by CrankerBait
Sun Aug 31, 2025 4:37 am
Forum: The Original Gossip Board
Topic: What Huge Rock Acts Have Destroyed Their Legacies More - A Poll
Replies: 13
Views: 1307

Re: What Huge Rock Acts Have Destroyed Their Legacies More - A Poll

Until they reunited, I would have picked GNR . They've managed to redeem themselves, at least as a live act. I'm not picking any of the options. I guess you could argue that could have retired before they hit 40 or 50, but musicians - classical, country, jazz, blues, and now rock - tend to keep goin...
by CrankerBait
Sun Aug 31, 2025 4:12 am
Forum: The Original Gossip Board
Topic: Band members who don't wear shoes on stage
Replies: 31
Views: 1617

Re: Band members who don't wear shoes on stage

I think he means this guy https://media1.tenor.com/m/EYZU_6PRcIYAAAAd/dire-straits-walk-of-life.gif Yes!!! I think he was only with them for The Brothers In Arms Tour but that was probably their biggest tour so I saw that guy's feet alot. :lol: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Sonni He became a...
by CrankerBait
Fri Aug 29, 2025 5:29 pm
Forum: The Original Gossip Board
Topic: Band members who don't wear shoes on stage
Replies: 31
Views: 1617

Re: Band members who don't wear shoes on stage

Earl Skakel wrote: Fri Aug 29, 2025 10:50 am The guy from Dire Straits was always barefoot as well.
I thought that Mark Knopfler wore cowboy boots. That's what he was wearing on the last Dire Straits tour in 1992.
by CrankerBait
Fri Aug 29, 2025 9:46 am
Forum: The Original Gossip Board
Topic: Bands who's zenith was not within their first 6 albums
Replies: 23
Views: 957

Re: Bands who's zenith was not within their first 6 albums

You could make a strong argument for the following: Pink Floyd The Rolling Stones The Beatles Rush Fleetwood Mac Judas Priest Elton John R.E.M Bob Dylan ZZ Top Genesis I might disagree with a few of those, but I could understand why one might make the argument for them. Yeah, this list is pretty ac...
by CrankerBait
Fri Aug 29, 2025 7:27 am
Forum: The Original Gossip Board
Topic: Bands who's zenith was not within their first 6 albums
Replies: 23
Views: 957

Re: Bands who's zenith was not within their first 6 albums

DonJuanDeMarco wrote: Fri Aug 29, 2025 7:23 am Bob Seger for the win!
Great pick!
by CrankerBait
Fri Aug 29, 2025 7:26 am
Forum: The Original Gossip Board
Topic: Bands who's zenith was not within their first 6 albums
Replies: 23
Views: 957

Re: Bands who's zenith was not within their first 6 albums

You could make a strong argument for the following:

Pink Floyd
The Rolling Stones
The Beatles
Rush
Fleetwood Mac
Judas Priest
Elton John
R.E.M
Bob Dylan
ZZ Top
Genesis

I might disagree with a few of those, but I could understand why one might make the argument for them.
by CrankerBait
Thu Aug 28, 2025 7:56 am
Forum: The Original Gossip Board
Topic: Beatles Anthology 30th Anniversary
Replies: 29
Views: 1556

Re: Beatles Anthology 30th Anniversary

NeonKnite wrote: Tue Aug 26, 2025 5:22 pm I think the Harrison song "Not Guilty" is an anthology gem. Yes, he released it later, but the Beatles version of the song really should have been on The White Album.
It would have been an upgrade on "Piggies."
by CrankerBait
Sun Aug 24, 2025 3:05 pm
Forum: The Original Gossip Board
Topic: Beatles Anthology 30th Anniversary
Replies: 29
Views: 1556

Re: Beatles Anthology 30th Anniversary

I think like this new version. John's voice is definitely a lot clearer. Don't know why they changed one of the words sung by George. The Paul and George harmonies sound a little different on the first listen, but I should probably give it another listen with better speakers or headphones. This isn...
by CrankerBait
Sun Aug 24, 2025 6:47 am
Forum: The Original Gossip Board
Topic: Beatles Anthology 30th Anniversary
Replies: 29
Views: 1556

Re: Beatles Anthology 30th Anniversary

I think like this new version. John's voice is definitely a lot clearer. Don't know why they changed one of the words sung by George. The Paul and George harmonies sound a little different on the first listen, but I should probably give it another listen with better speakers or headphones. This isn'...
by CrankerBait
Fri Aug 22, 2025 4:27 am
Forum: The Original Gossip Board
Topic: Worst albums you've ever heard
Replies: 59
Views: 4224

Re: Worst albums you've ever heard

No Code. Pearl Jam's Monster. They were never the same. Agree. They did some very good music after (especially last year's album). But No Code was truly awful, and it was then end of them as a pop act. Fortunately for them, they had cultivated a Phish-kind-of-thing where live shows were unpredictab...
by CrankerBait
Thu Aug 21, 2025 10:54 am
Forum: The Original Gossip Board
Topic: KISS meets Phantom and Star Wars Holiday Special were released 3 weeks apart in 1978
Replies: 19
Views: 925

Re: KISS meets Phantom and Star Wars Holiday Special were released 3 weeks apart in 1978

How much crap were fans supposed to endure in a single month? Did anyone here watch both as they premiered? What was your reaction? I caught most of the Star Wars Holiday Special the only time it was aired. As a six year old Star Wars fan, I was confused. It didn't make any sense. Also remember fee...
by CrankerBait
Wed Aug 20, 2025 5:39 am
Forum: The Original Gossip Board
Topic: Klaus take 2?
Replies: 30
Views: 1876

Re: Klaus take 2?

Vince and Dave weren't ever known for being great live singers, even when they were in their prime, so watching them struggle live four decades later is exactly what we've come to expect. Klaus was a very talented and powerful vocalist, and managed to keep things at a high level for a long time. I j...
by CrankerBait
Mon Aug 18, 2025 9:17 am
Forum: The Original Gossip Board
Topic: Ace just f*cked me
Replies: 6
Views: 1345

Re: Ace just f*cked me

I was expecting worse.
by CrankerBait
Mon Aug 18, 2025 4:56 am
Forum: The Original Gossip Board
Topic: Dana Strum recounts Ozzy/Randy audition
Replies: 9
Views: 1198

Re: Dana Strum recounts Ozzy/Randy audition

Yep, thanks for posting that. Very cool. Dana does a very passable Ozzy impression.
by CrankerBait
Mon Aug 18, 2025 4:09 am
Forum: The Original Gossip Board
Topic: Best follow up to a 10 mil plus selling album.
Replies: 16
Views: 1228

Re: Best follow up to a 10 mil plus selling album.

Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here is a great follow up to The Dark Side of the Moon . A close second for me is Houses of the Holy , a great follow up to Led Zeppelin IV . Magical Mystery Tour is a great follow up to Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band . A few other good follow ups to monster sellin...
by CrankerBait
Sun Aug 17, 2025 4:23 pm
Forum: The Original Gossip Board
Topic: Best follow up to a 10 mil plus selling album.
Replies: 16
Views: 1228

Re: Best follow up to a 10 mil plus selling album.

Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here is a great follow up to The Dark Side of the Moon . A close second for me is Houses of the Holy , a great follow up to Led Zeppelin IV . Magical Mystery Tour is a great follow up to Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band . A few other good follow ups to monster selling...
by CrankerBait
Fri Aug 15, 2025 4:25 am
Forum: The Original Gossip Board
Topic: Worst albums you've ever heard
Replies: 59
Views: 4224

Re: Worst albums you've ever heard

LurkingAtWork wrote: Fri Aug 15, 2025 3:28 am This thread brought to you by Quiet Riot.
That happens to be right! I was already thinking of possibly my worst music purchase ever when I was buying cassettes: Condition Critical. I never listened to any of them, but apparently the albums that followed were significantly worse.