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July 27th, 2007
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Your top 6 most influential albums of all time?
If you had to choose 6 to take to a desert island with you ... in order of preference, what would they be?
Mine:
Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd
Burn - Deep Purple
Moonflower - Santana
Crime of the Century - Supertramp
Led Zeppelin IV - Led Zeppelin
Aqualung - Jethro Tull
there are so many more ...
Ian
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July 27th, 2007
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Just as an afterthought - I wondered why I'd listed these particular albums and it occured to me that they all took me back to a certain happy time and place :-)
Ian
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July 27th, 2007
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This has been done before but what the heck, my selection usually alters each time anyway.
So at this moment in time, here are mine:
Frampton Comes Alive - PETER FRAMPTON
Van Halen - VAN HALEN
Hotel California - EAGLES
Led Zeppelin IV - LED ZEPPELIN
Wings Over America - PAUL McCARTNEY & WINGS
Kiss Alive - KISS
Bear in mind that these are selections according to the mood I'm in right now. But ask me the same question in a month's time and they could be entirely different.
"Good Music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and quits the memory with difficulty" Thomas Beecham
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July 27th, 2007
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My father suggest following six albums and I totally agree with him
Jimi Hendrix-Are You Experiance
Pink Floyd-Dark Side of The Moon
King Crimson-In The Court of the Crimson King
Deep Purple-Machine Head
Led Zeppelin-Led Zeppelin II
Santana-Abraxas
and I have to add four more
The Doors-The Doors
Janis Joplin-Cheap Trills
The Beatles-Abby Road
The Rolling Stones-Let it Bleed
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July 27th, 2007
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Back when I was in college and I wanted to blast the whole apartment buidling with my stereo, I used to crank up Rudy on Crime of the Century. The part starting at 4:00!
This is hard because this isn't meant to be a list of the best albums, but one that are particularly dear to my heart....
Genesis - Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
America - America
Don McLean - Don McLean
Gong - Gazeuse!
Peace Orchestra - Peace Orchestra
Brand X - Livestock
Influential in reference to my guitar goals is different. I'm wide open but currently...
Pink Floyd - most anything
Robin Trower - Bridge of Sighs
SRV - most anything
Bush - Sixteen Stone
Allman Bros
Santana
Pat Methany
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July 27th, 2007
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I think Neil and I could exist quite comfortably on that hypothetical desert island - we've got a lot of similar choices! Hard to narrow it down to just six, but mine would be (at least at the moment):
Frampton Comes Alive - PETER FRAMPTON
VH I - VAN HALEN
Led Zeppelin IV - LED ZEPPELIN
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road - ELTON JOHN
The B-52's - THE B-52's
Brand New Man - BROOKS & DUNN
They're not all the "most influential" - but all of them are great listening (for me), and as justinthyme said, they all take me back to some happy time/place.
A few that I'd have to try to sneak into my luggage because they'd be hard to leave out:
Tres Hombres - ZZ Top
Boston - BOSTON
The Cars - THE CARS
Spring Session M - MISSING PERSONS
Heart Shaped World - CHRIS ISAAK
Cracked Rear View - HOOTIE AND THE BLOWFISH
News of the World - QUEEN
Aja - STEELY DAN
5th Gear - BRAD PAISLEY
90125 - YES
Powder Keg - GUANABATZ
Unleashed in the East - JUDAS PRIEST
Friends - LARRY CARLTON
Moving Pictures - RUSH
Mac
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Here are some from me
Blood on the Tracks - Bob Dylan
Starsailor - Tim Buckley
Countdown to Ecstacy - Steely Dan ( Actually every Steely Dan Album)
Nightfly - Donald Fagen
2112 - Rush
Shamal - Gong
My life in the Bush of Ghosts - Brian Eno/David Byrne
Nevermind - Nirvana
Dookie - Green Day
London Calling - The Clash
Rum Sodemy, and the Lash - The Pogues
Desire - Bob Dylan
The White Album - The Beatles
Straightshooter - Bad Company
Heavy Weather - Weather Report
Sorry got a bit carried away but the list of Albums is endless, I used to have a huge Album Collection as a Teenager. Bit smaller now though but It's hard to narrow it down, I like a lot of the other Albums mentioned too. I just love music full stop.
You don't stop laughing when you grow old; you grow old when you stop laughing.
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LOL, I'd say the likelihood of Gong making any list twice is about the same as lightning hitting twice in the same spot.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by fly135
LOL, I'd say the likelihood of Gong making any list twice is about the same as lightning hitting twice in the same spot.
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Yes probably, while we're here do you remember The Flying Teapot, welcome to Planet Gong 
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I'm strictly a Allan (as in Holdsworth) Gong fan. Although I do have the Shamal album.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by WitchyWoman
At this moment in time:
Thunder - Laughing on Judgement Day
Michael Messer - King Guitar
Bon Jovi - Keep the Faith
Jimmy Cliff - The Harder they Come
EC - Sessions for Robert J
Eva Cassidy - Songbird
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Witchy Woman, you just made me feel "old", I didn't recognize a single band that is on your list except for Bon Jovi!!!
Rick
"If you spend all of your time trying to get even, you will never get ahead!"
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Can't Buy A Thrill - Steely Dan
The Captain and Me - The Doobie Brothers
The River - Bruce Springsteen
Greatest Hits - The Eagles
Madman Across the Water - Elton John
Greatest Hits - The Outlaws
"It breaks my heart to see those stars smashing a perfectly good guitar." - John Hiatt
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Thin Lizzy: Jailbreak
Rory Gallagher : Photofinish
Bob Dylan: Blood on The Tracks
Johnny Cash: American Recordings (1,2 or 3)
Blondie: Parallel Lines (or Best Of)
John Prine: Fair & Square (or Great Days)
Steve Forbert: Alive on Arrival
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Quote:
Originally Posted by fly135
I'm strictly a Allan (as in Holdsworth) Gong fan. Although I do have the Shamal album.
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Gong had so many different line ups, it was hard to keep track, Shamal was the last Gong Album I bought so I'll have to checkout Gazeuse as I haven't heard the Allan Holdsworth incarnation, the band consisted of a lot of highly skilled musicians over the years.
Thinking about a Desert Island I think I'd trade in the Albums for a couple of Guitars and just take Tabs of all the songs I like, a Desert Island would be the perfect place to practice 
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Holdsworth was I guess what you'd call a guitarist's guitarist. Awesome technical skills. Melodic shredding before the term shredding was ever used in popular vernacular. A lot of odd sounding diminished scales (I think).
He was my hero back in the 70's when I was a "wish I could be a guitarist" or any kind of musician for that matter. That particular album was very much jazz-rock fusion, and IMO some of the best work Holdsworth ever did. Or all least IMO his best style.. I bought it on a whim, listened to it, discovered him, and went on a fevered search to find anything he did.
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