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Post by kds on Mar 28, 2020 20:13:37 GMT
Like Van Halen, Black Sabbath and Deep Purple had multiple singers, and each band tweaked their sound for each vocalist, but the trademark sound remains.
But, I think you could play a Peter Green era Mac song for someone only familiar with the Rumours lineup, and they wouldn't even know it was FM.
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Mar 28, 2020 20:33:38 GMT
You wanna talk about an artist, not necessarily a band, with a split personality. Can I include Bob Dylan? After playing folk music for a few years, he assembled some great musicians to "go electric", and the rest is history. Well, not really, he then hooks up with The Band for The Basement Tapes. And then he goes to Nashville to record a country album. And on and on. While Dylan's musical direction basically came from him, I have to think the musicians he assembled had some influence over the finished product, including some of the producers. Bob Dylan, the ultimate musical split personality.
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Post by Kapitan on Mar 28, 2020 22:08:27 GMT
You wanna talk about an artist, not necessarily a band, with a split personality. Can I include Bob Dylan? After playing folk music for a few years, he assembled some great musicians to "go electric", and the rest is history. Well, not really, he then hooks up with The Band for The Basement Tapes. And then he goes to Nashville to record a country album. And on and on. While Dylan's musical direction basically came from him, I have to think the musicians he assembled had some influence over the finished product, including some of the producers. Bob Dylan, the ultimate musical split personality.
I think Dylan is a great one. Another relatively severe shift came with either Time Out of Mind or (in my opinion) Love & Theft, where suddenly he was entirely anachronistic, some kind of country-meets-pre-rock, gravelly voiced sage. It's not that those elements hadn't existed before, but suddenly things focused differently.
(Speaking of focused, that's why I point to Love & Theft. While its predecessor was sometimes hazy, L&T was up-front, clear, clean, present, and focused.)
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Post by kds on Mar 29, 2020 0:41:28 GMT
I just thought about Motley Crue. After parting ways with Vince Neil in the early 90s, they released a self titled album with John Corabi on vocals that sounds absolutely nothing like Crue. Crue were one of several 80s hard rock bands who attempted to change their sound in a clumsy attempt to keep up with the grunge scene, but I don't think any band had more of a departure than them.
And, it really didn't get any better when Vince returned, and the band released the very industrial sounding Generation Swine in 1997. If not for Vince's voice, one wouldn't think this was Crue either.
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Post by kds on Apr 18, 2020 13:53:21 GMT
Whitesnake - Most fans, particular in the States know Whitesnake for their slickly produced late 80s hard rock with the Tawny Katain music videos.
But, from 1978-1982, the band was a different beast all together. David Coverdale, fresh off a stint fronting Deep Purple, wanted to assemble a band that mixed the blues and rock, with a dash of soul. With core members Bernie Marsden, Mick Moody, Neil Murray, and later Ian Paice and Jon Lord from DC's former band, he did just that. This version of Snake released five albums. But, they had trouble really finding an audience.
So, Coverdale with the help of Geffen and A&R man John Kalodner reinvented Whitesnake for the 80s. They released a transitional album, Slide It In, in 1984, with two versions. The UK version sounded more like the old school Snake, while the US version had more polish.
The reinvention was complete with the massively successful self titled album in 1987, and the old Whitesnake was left in the dust. Although, re-recorded versions of three classics - Here I Go Again, Crying in the Rain, and Fool For Your Lovin - were huge hits in the late 80s.
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Post by Kapitan on Apr 18, 2020 14:01:02 GMT
Great choice. I remember when, around the height of Whitesnake's popularity, I began buying back-catalog albums. I'm pretty sure I started with Lovehunter--I can't for the life of me imagine why and am sure it had nothing whatsoever to do with the cover --and was amazed and initially disappointed. To the 12-year-old me, it was just corny old music.
But I really came around on that early Whitesnake, and that album especially. Coverdale was (as always, obviously) a great rock singer. But some of these songs were also really good! Tell me this isn't a good chorus in the album opener, "Long Way From Home."
(I had no idea there was a video until just now. I'll be honest, it could use a little Tawny Kitaen.)
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Post by kds on Apr 19, 2020 0:22:35 GMT
I was pretty unaware of the pre Geffen Snake until I was in my early 20s.
I think the Lovehunter sleeve inspired Spinal Tap's ill fated Smell the Glove. And we all know Tap started as a British Invasion rock / pop group well before their heavy metal hey day.
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Post by jk on May 27, 2020 12:40:54 GMT
Two stellar albums where you can hear a band shifting from more poppy stuff to EDM are New Order's Power, Corruption and Lies and The Shamen's In Gorbachev We Trust. By way of example, here from the less familiar second album are "Adam Strange" and the sample-heavy "Transcendental": en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Gorbachev_We_Trust
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