Barking Spiders

I play guitar and drums as well as bass and viz guitar I really like a lot of post-punk/New Wave players such as Will Sergeant, John McGeoch, James Honeyman Scott etc and a whole bunch of acoustic fingerstyle, bluegrass and country Tele players e.g. Leo Kottke, Scotty Anderson, Brent Mason, Tommy Emmanuel, Tony Rice...there's loads. As for drums there's a lot from greats from the heyday of jazz e.g. the Jones's (Jo and Elvin), Gene Krupa , etc to funkers like Dennis Chambers, Ziggy Modeliste, Mike Clarke, Jabo Starks,. Clyde Stubblefield etc. Away from drums and guitar big faves are Dobro meister Jerry Douglas, bluegrass banjo players Earl Scruggs and Bela Fleck, loads of jazz trumpeters like Lee Morgan, Freddie Hubbard, Donald Byrd and Randy Brecker. My first instrument was alto sax so I've loads of time for the great jazzers from Coltrane, Parker, Rollins to Michael Brecker. Here's a clip of Randy and Michael Brecker doing their thing.. BTW check out the ace bass playing (James Genus) and drumming (Dennis Chambers)

Just gone through the list again and checked out many unfamiliar players and have revised my opinion. Actually it's a pretty rubbish list. I lean towards jazz and funk drumming but I've a lot of respect for metal and proggy drummers, many that are not included or are rated lowly: Tomas Haake, Marco Minnemann, Mike Portnoy, Charlie Benante, Chris Adler, Mario Duplantier, Joey Jordison and Matt Garstka. I'd kick out all of the 'indie rock' drummers and many who happen to be in famous bands included to make space. From the jazz side there's no Louis Belson, Jimmy Cobb, Art Taylor, Joe Morello, Chico Hamilton, Roy Haynes anxd Kenny Clarke. Ay caramba. Be good to hear what other drummists in the BC community think. I think it's a readers choice list which would explain it.

I hadn't forgotten him as I could've easily had him in there too plus many more jazzers and funakateers so I tried to limit myself to just 10

You beat me to it. Southern rock isn't really my bag but GG&HT is a cracking number with fantastic soloing. I've also got a bit of time for Molly Hatchet, mainly Flirtin' With Disaster and the track Boogie No More plus the live album which includes a cover of Freebird , which is the mutts nuts.

This is one I've been working on for a while now and it's a bvgg3r to nail down. Here's the man himself playing it solo in a bass store, Julian Crampton of Incognito, The Pasadenas, Sunburst Band, Down to The Bone, Heaven 17, George Benson, Donna Summer and Paul Young among others.

yeah she comes across as a good sort so I feel a bit uncomfortable not liking her vocals either

Drums is/are my main instrument so i was casually interested to see it, though not expecting much after the bobbins that was the greatest 250 guitarists. That Meg White's in there didn't fill me with hope. Actually as far as lists go it's not bad, though no way would I include Bonham, Moon and Mitchell in the top 10. My top 10 , in no order; Gene Krupa, Buddy Rich, Max Roach, Art Blakey, Billy Cobham (ridiculously low on the list), Jo Jones, Tony Williams, Jack de Johnette, Bill Bruford, Dennis Chambers. Yeah it's heavily geared towards jazzers but IMO the great jazz drummers are a breed apart.

I don't mind Queen but radio overplays to death I want to break free, Don't stop me now, Kind of magic, Radio gaga , Somebody to love, You're my best friend. Not even BoRap gets as much airplay

Sign of the Times is that rare thing, a double album that works and isn't just 3 or 4 good songs and a load of padding out. It was the peak of his recording output methinks.

They sure get overplayed on the likes of Heart, Smooth and Absolute. Back in the day it was kinda heretical to profess a dislike of the Eurythmics. As well as There Must Be...equally turnoffable IMO are Sweet Dreams, Who's That Girl, Right By Your side and Thorn In My Side. ABBA i don't mind. Can't think of any of their songs have me booting the radio out through the window

White Rabbit is def among the worst tunes that get regular spins on PR. Just whizzed through the playlist of the last week and I surprised myself with the realisation relatively few songs actually bug me enough to turn off the radio including Werewolves of London (just extremely repetitive), Crazy Nights/Strutter/ Love Gun by Kiss, Ol Rag Blues by Quo, Small Town by John Mellencamp, Blue Collar Man by Styx, Love is a battlefield by Pat Benatar and Radioactive by The Firm. Come to think of it White Rabbit might be worse than any of these.

there's a slew of cod-operatic warblers in the metal world including RJ Dio, Rob Halford, Nightwish and the like. When I was a teen I quite liked the first two Iron Maiden albums but that was it when BD came along

It's just downright horrible hippy shyt3, mainly due to the monotonous female vocal. This is what you get when people avoid the draft. Some people talk about (Jefferson) Starship as if it was several steps below its predecessor. I'd rather have We Built This City.

I was at secondary school in Liverpool. Whatever instruments there might've been had probably been nicked to fund someone's crack habit

Not been able to get enough of the fantastic Hybrid, an epic electronica band that usually feature live orchestration along with drums, guitars, bass as well. They also write a lot of music for films and video games.