Ace_O_Spades

What do you guys think is the most TALENTED group ever?

My nomination: Dream Theater

James LaBrie - Vocals
John Myung - Bass
John Petrucci - Guitars
Mike Portnoy - Drums
Jordan Rudess - Keyboards

Petrucci and Rudess combine with Portnoy to make my ears orgasm... i mostly ignore LaBrie, and listen to everything else

Liquid Tension (also featuring Portnoy) is also rad

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Derwood

I don't know about most talented ever, but Praxis comes to mind:

Vocals: None
Guitar: Buckethead
Bass: Bootsy Collins
Drums: Brain
Keyboards: Bill (?) Laswell / Bernie Worrell

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God of Thunder

Lotta talent in Dream Theater, I agree.

It depends on what type of talent you are talking about. Musical talent, I'll giva DT, writing/creativity, The Beatles, hands down.

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GuttersnipeXL

Any one of Frank Zappa's bands in the 70's....particularly the Grand Wazoo Orchestra.

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Ace_O_Spades

I think that the Liquid Tension Experiment - Paradigm Shift is a showcase of possibly the best guitar, keyboard, and drums ever

might as well throw acid rain in there as well

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absorbentishe

IMHO, there are two bands that really stick out in my head.

Rush... 'Nuff said here, if you can get past some of Geddy's vocals.
The Police. Great songs, talent out the wazoo, what more can you say.

God of Thunder

/nods head in approvement

And just because everyone would be dissapointed if I didn't mention it here, I feel that KISS's talents go greatly un-noticed. Namely Bruce Kulick's guitar playing and Paul Stanley's vocals.

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Derwood

Geddy's vocals, the terrible songs, the overly complicated drumming, Geddy's nose, Geddy's mullet, di I mention the terrible song?

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SinisterMotives

I feel the same way about Journey. Neal Schon is totally underrated, and Steve Perry's voice (before he got cancer) was nothing less than spectacular. Too bad a lot of hard rock snobs can't get past their bubblegum material and recognize the band's awesome musical talent.

KWSN

Oysterhead.

Guitar - Trey Anastasio
Bass - Les Claypool
Drums - Stewart Copeland

Though I dont like Phish or Anastasio I can't deny his talent. However, I love Primus and like the Police and Copeland and Claypool are easily among the best ever for their respective instruments.

Primus themselves are pretty damn talented as well.

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skinnymofo

Primus
if youve been to one of their concerts or seen their music videos youll know what i mean
Les has amazing musical talent in writing songs and performing with his collection of bass(s'?)
Tim Alexander one hell of a drummer although a little less talented when compared to Les
and Larry LaLonde.
Larry on the Guitar is a trip, awesome solos crazy sounds and mucho talent.

choskins

I am looking to their individual members' success or accomplishments away from the band.

While I am not a huge fan, the Eagles come to mind. The Yardbirds and Allman Brothers also.

Even though they were more of a collaberation, The Traveling Wilburys definitely make any Top 5 list.

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pan6467

Alice Cooper always has the best when on tour or cutting an album. His original band was extremely underrated.

I think most talented pound for pound is early Van Halen.

Eddie playing guitar like noone ever had, probably the greatest frontman EVER in rock and roll, DLR,. Alex a very underrated drummer and Micheal Anthony a damn good bassist.

If not for DLR's and Eddie's shadows Alex and Micheal would have been named in all lists of great drummers and bassists.

The KINKS had a great band from beginning to end (?), their problem is they were too self destructive and would have a great concert one night and the very next night suck.

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optik_nerve

I would have to say Opeth.


Mikael Åkerfeldt-Guitars, Vocals. Pretty decent singing voice and has really fucking awesome guitar work and harmonies
Peter Lindgren-Guitars. He too has good guitar works and great solos
Martin Lopez-Drums. Who can double bass as fast as he can but than throw a jazz beat right after it?
Martin Mendez-Bass. Awesome bass work to go along with the gutiars.

Good examples: Masters Apprentice, The Drapery Falls

roachboy

not sure what folk understand by talented in this thread---are you talking about virtuosity on the instruments?
if so, then zappa's bands are amazing--captain beefheart's magic band even more so....but there is also a world of classical players or jazz players or people working in spaces that do not sepaerate music from other modes of living whose technical skills are extraordinary.


are you talking about organizing pieces or compositional sophistication?
then i dont understand why you would talk about pop music really (with some exceptions) as the form is so rigid.

in terms of organizing sounds, then there are lots of folk whose work demonstrates a remarkable listening ability, especially in what you might call experimental electronic music, where ones listening is pushed to the front.

are you talking about the range of a particular person, the number of different things someone can do well and/or publically? i admire brian eno in this respect, but am sure there are loads of people who do more than one thing really well.

or if talented is used as another way of making a thread about stuff we really like, then the question is different yet again.....

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skinnymofo

i thought about this some more, and id also have to add Motorhead to this list of talented artists. They are simply the original and kings of speed metal. The reason we have metallica and the like. Lemmy is a god. Ugly as sin, but a goddam god

Jadedfox

Agreed. And throw "The Leper Affinity" and "The Moor" in there as well!

--jaded

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thespian86

For the past I would say The Eagles... great song writers and musicans

For right now, I would say either Outkast (although I hate rap) and Dashboard Confessional (Chris is a poet, amazing guitar player and the emotion in the songs make me shiver)

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