Great Artists No One Tried To Emulate?

BaldFriede wrote: You are one of the few Burchard appreciators on this forum. I just read what you posted about Burchard's drumming in another thread. Let me quote: Embryo - Live Bremen (talk about a wild and almost transcendant live album! No guitars but violin, flute, bass and those caveman drums from <span ="highlight"="">Christian</span> <span ="highlight"="">Burchard</span>. He’s one of those who is impossible to play like. Ask any skilled drummer to play like Palmer or Peart and they get quite close..because it’s meters and counting and so forth...not so much with the likes of <span ="highlight"="">Burchard</span>....but man does it ever cook! and does things to the surrounding musicians that basically sets them free.) Yep, you nailed it. Here an excerpt from that album you mentioned: Be patient; for some reason there is no sound in the first 27 seconds.

I generally go for drummers that echo what Burchard was all about, which in effect was to breathe life into the music..not via the metronome route but through fluctuations within the beat and just sheer feel and intonation. I get that from Jaki and Leopold as well even if they sound completely different.
Personally I think it’s to do with jazz. A lot of these players either came from a jazz background and/or was vastly influenced by the new jazz-rock of the time. Also what gave a lot of 60s bands their ‘sound’.
When I see jazz drummers nowadays shifting genres, I often see them opting for metal - preferably the more technical side of things...but alas that often takes away ‘the freedom’ within their drumming, and instead of finding some compromise where this element doesn’t completely evaporate from the sound, I mostly hear the drummer conforming to the more ‘tick-tock’-like metronome style...which is a pity mho.

Edith because my phone wanted pity to be pitty

Edited by Guldbamsen - February 10 2020 at 11:00

I agree with everything you just said

Jim Morrison is one of the most emulated singers in all of rock
Common now...
Dead Can Dance, Echo & The Bunnymen, The Cult, Nick Cave and a whole slew of bands enamoured with new romanticism took their cue from Jim.
....and well he kind of borrowed his style from Frank Sinatra right

The Doors though as a whole is perhaps one of the most unique sounding bands of all time, and yes I have never heard another band come even remotely close to the sound of what a flamenco guitarist playing blues, a classically trained organist, a jazz drummer as well as a Caucasian medicine man achieved. Unique is perhaps an understatement with regards to The Doors

Edited by Guldbamsen - February 10 2020 at 02:06

There will only be one Allan Holdsworth. No copy will ever be the same.

Icarium wrote: Though people have said they are but i have yet to see a modern confident band trying to do whaever Gentle Giant did. It is a difficult task

Thoughts By Spock’s Beard is just a gentle giant ripoff

BarryGlibb wrote: MortSahlFan wrote: BarryGlibb wrote: Carmen I think the vocals are pretty bad, and sound very very different from Jim. ??? Don't quite understand what Carmen has got to do with someone called Jim...who I assume is of the Morrison variety. Carmen's vocals were absolutely superb with Roberto Amaral, David Clark Allen, Angela Allen and John Glascock all sharing lead vocals. The topic is "Great Artists No One Tried To Emulate?"...I'm stating that no artist ever tried to emulate Carmen...they were unique. Did you copy the incorrect quote?

One group for which I have never heard any imitators is The Residents.

BarryGlibb wrote: Carmen