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Stu stated in the Zep thread that ,IHO, they had the best rhythm section. That stirred-up this thread. Again, only opinions, no right/wrong. Bands from the 70's...I'm giving my nods to Little Feat. When Richie and Kenny laid down a rockin bottom and Billy added another layer of tempo on the keys...Well..you HAD to march, sway and just plain old dance your b*tt off. Remember, this is only for opinions. Thanks, Cathy
John Paul Jones/John Bonham
Jack Bruce/Ginger Baker
Tommy Shannon/Chris Layton
Danyel Morgan/Marcus Randolph
Dusty Hill/Frank Beard
Levon and Rick (The Band).
Jim Keltner and just about anyone.......(God of Drums so it doesn't really matter).
Ringo and Paul.
Abe and Paul ( from Macca's recent line-up).
But.............
..............Ladeeeeezzzzzzzz an' Gentlemen.....I give you.......
...........Bogie Bowles and Carmine Rojas!!!!!!!!! 
Noel Redding/Mitch Mitchell
Jack Bruce/Ginger Baker
Tim Bogert/Carmine Appice
Tommy Shannon/Chris Layton
John Entwistle/Keith Moon
Geezer Butler/Bill Ward
John Paul Jones/John Bonham
Bill Wyman/Charlie Watts
Andy Fraser/Simon Kirke
Dennis Dunaway/Neal Smith
kenny kramme,
eric czar.
All above are graet but my pick em
Entwisle.Moon
Bonham.Jones
Thain Kerslake
Lee Peart
Andy Fraser/Simon Kirke
Mike Levine/Gil Moore
Geddy Lee/ Neil Peart
James Dewar/Bill Lordan
Eric Czar/Kenny Kramme
I'm gonna say Rojas/Bowles, before Capt. Roy does. There's a mess of them out over the years, but Carmine & Bogie definitely rank. Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
Merry Xmas,
J Dawg
The rhythm section from Princes Musicology tour.
But I am willing to go on the record and say that Prince has consistently had the tightest band in the world for all his shows. I think no one is as well rehearsed as a Prince band
If I had to pick another one...
Sugar Sim Cain/Melvin Gibbs
Hands down, Double Trouble. You don't know they are there, but anytime someone plays with them, you feel like you are seeing their best performance.
Dennis Dunaway/Neal Smith
Excellent! RIP Glen Buxton. What a band...
How could I forget!!!???
Brewer/Schacher
All Excellent but HMMM...
weighing in for the R & B guys anyone? OK, me then.
My man Bob Babbitt or James Jamerson (RIP)...on Bass with
Benny Benjamin(RIP), Uriel Jones & "Pistol" Allen(RIP) on Drums. All the FUNK BROTHERS!
Give up? Motown in the 60s. Where Blues, Jazz & Funk merged to give us what we have today. AND THEN...James Brown...Bootsy?
Down to Memphis at Stax there was Duck Dunn, Booker T. Jones & Al Jackson Jr. who not only backed Otis Redding, but they were the pocket for none other than Albert King who didn't much like anybody. Boy, could he talk ****....But they changed the face/sound of Electric Blues forever.
I think there might've been some Clapton guy who lifted just a few of Albert's licks, too.
And who pulled all that together into the crossover Hard Rocking stuff we love today? After John Paul Jones (a most underrated musician, let alone bassist) with Bonzo (RIP) (who was gonzo) came...SRV (RIP) & Double Trouble. Yes Tommy & Whipper.
Carmine Rojas & Bogie Bowles have raised the bar again. I admit to being partial to that duo. What makes them great is the emotion that pours out of them. Why Joe is special to me is even with that Hard Rock British influenced sound they have (which will sell) there is the raw soul that pours off his Cd's and the stage. That takes me back to when blues meant just that...even the dancing stuff. I want to feel.
Albert King once told Little Stevie that he was better than most because he had that soul, not just fast. And if the Big A said it, it was Gospel as far as he was concerned.
Man, am I having fun. Blues History 101...There's more. We gots to go back.
AND at Stax with Booker T and the MGs, Steve Cropper...sorry Steve, it was late last night.
If you float on down to the big Easy there was the one & only Meters...NAWLINS!
And more... 
BigJeff the redbone Jones from the fried chicken eating, watermelon seed spitting, cornlikker drinking, backporch picking bottoms. Not no mo...giving my age away.
LMAO Much Love y'all.
Russ Kunkel and Lee Sklar who backed many seventies acts such as James Taylor, Carol King, Linda Ronstadt, Paul Simon and performed on my favorite BB King album Indianola Mississippi Seeds.
Oh yes and Mick Fleetwood and John McVie.
Come on out of the swamp boys......
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epjiqDXZdso
then get your "chicken dance" movin'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2lVstO7K8E
and just for some bluesy fun
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-n8pKlpaJio
pattyluvsjoe
P.S. I literally could not walk after seeing John Fogerty.....testament to the rhythm section....it puts a spell on you ?
You guys took a bunch of my others, especially the hotshot hot salsarito dude...
Sly & Robbie
Carol Kaye & Hal Blaine
Rock On & Keep the Faith,
Rocket
"Hey Jim,
Very good one: Russ Kunkel and Lee Sklar.
They were in a (studio?)band called : The Section and made one of the best Lp's ever: Forward Motion in 1973 on Warner Bros records. Inc., I put the LP it on CD myself, but if anyone of the forum can get the Cd now I would be very, very happy! If it is on CD now of course.Danny Kortchmar,great producer afterwards, plays guitar and Craig Doerge on piano,moog,organ.
The song Get Down,Piltdown has the best basssolo ever recorded, one solo, one song. If I'm right , not sure,both were on tour last year with Phil Collins.
Lee Sklar is the best studiobassplayer there is. He's on thousands recordings by hundred of artists. Russ Kunkel is a studiomusician as well.
Andre Wittebroek.
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