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    Posted: June 30 2008 at 18:40
Ill blaze a new trail and i will vote for the firm...gotta love paige's guitar and the awesome fretless bass work...a band that truly sounds like few others
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Originally posted by Hawkwise Hawkwise wrote:

Shakes Head How can any one choose Bad Co over Free  Shakes head again , i am thinking people who never really listen  to very Much Free, Shakes Head again , and wonders of to Bed thinking  that Just cant be Right , Also thinking Bad Co made it bigger in North America  and thats why this Pole is so so so Wrong Free the Greatest Rock Blues Band of  All Time !!!!   Every Album they Made is a Winner


Free seemed to only be quite popular in UK, Europe, and Japan. Somehow they skipped us in the US except for the overplayed "All Right Now" song. Which clearly isn't the best representation of the great work that Free put out. Clapton wished he had the vibrato skills of Kossof. Rodgers was still a great rock and roll singer and writer when he was in Free.
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Bad Co direction is classic rock with pop influences. Free is hard rock/soul/blues rock. I really Free cause sometimes remind me to Trapeze with Glenn Hughes.
 
He-He!! Glenn Hugues again????? seems like this singer  has a strong effect on youLOLWink
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No difference between FREE and Bad CO......like both of themBig%20smile
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Originally posted by Hawkwise Hawkwise wrote:

Shakes Head How can any one choose Bad Co over Free  Shakes head again , i am thinking people who never really listen  to very Much Free, Shakes Head again , and wonders of to Bed thinking  that Just cant be Right , Also thinking Bad Co made it bigger in North America  and thats why this Pole is so so so Wrong
Free the Greatest Rock Blues Band of  All Time !!!!   Every Album they Made is a Winner
 
Relax and  wander off to bed knowing that Free waxes Bad Company's ass EVERY TIME.  (and I try not to use shouting caps often unless I don't notice that the key is stuck...)
 
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Shakes Head How can any one choose Bad Co over Free  Shakes head again , i am thinking people who never really listen  to very Much Free, Shakes Head again , and wonders of to Bed thinking  that Just cant be Right , Also thinking Bad Co made it bigger in North America  and thats why this Pole is so so so Wrong
Free the Greatest Rock Blues Band of  All Time !!!!   Every Album they Made is a Winner
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Free but I also like Bad Co.. Didnt like the Firm that much and never heard the others.
I like Tons of Sobs the debut of Free a lot. Sounds really heavy. Certainly influenced a lot of heavy metal bands like Led Zeppelin and Uriah Heep
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Bad Company, 'till the day I die.
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I really love Free. Bad Company were good too but not as consistantly good as Free IMO.
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Free! Mostly because he was younger then and Paul Kossof was a beast of a guitarist.  Also Bad Company and his later projects were pretty lame.
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Bad Co direction is classic rock with pop influences. Free is hard rock/soul/blues rock. I really Free cause sometimes remind me to Trapeze with Glenn Hughes.
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Oh man, Free and Bad Company have like, one epic riff each, that's it, but the riff to All Right Now is more epic than Feel Like Makin' Love, so Free gets the vote.
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Free by a country mile, although Bad Company's early stuff was pretty decent.  The Firm were, on the whole, ghastly, and the whole business with Queen is simply an embarrassment.

If I recall, wasn't Paul Rogers touted as Richie Blackmore's desired replacement for Ian Gillan in Deep Purple back in 1973?  That would have been worth hearing, though I can understand Rogers' reluctance to work with a guitarist who's quite so renowned for sacking everybody around him...
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Bad Company have few decent tracks but are a bit too poppy for my taste.

I think The Firm's album is unlistenable (I hate the production, but the non-album track Star Trekking is an interesting change of direction Wink).

I haven't heard the Muddy Waters tribute. I'm not a big fan of Beck, Slash or Rabin but I reckon the combination of Rodgers and Gilmour would be pretty good.

As for Rodgers fronting Queen? I'm still waiting for someone to tell me it was all a joke.

My vote goes to Free. I still find it hard to believe the maturity and depth these youngsters brought to Tons of Sobs.
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I know quite a bit of Bad Company, and not much outside of the radio tracks from Free, but I'll still have to go with Free because BC tended to repeat themselves a lot.  I really liked what I saw of Free from Isle of Wight, the guitarist had excellent tone and of course Rogers was in peak form.
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bad company. but I liked the return of the champions dvd with queen.
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another for Free... Frazier was a beast... a young one.. but a best of a player.. not to mention Kossoff
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My vote goes to Free.  I feel they were much more musically diverse than Bad Company. 
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I'll go for Free.... Bad Co. only had 2 very good albumm.
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As much as i always liked Free, i always found their early music beautiful, very moody and dark. When the band split and Paul Rodgers formed supergroup Bad Company i found their music much more upbeat and accessable. I followed the group for the few years they were together, i have all their albums up to "Rough Diamonds", but didn't follow up any reunion material. Liked "The Firm" and saw them live, and he made a good blues album "Muddy Water Blues: A Tribute to Muddy Waters" then I heard Paul had joined Queen,  i heard a few tracks from "Return of the Champions" but i think he is not really suitable for Queen, he should remain a blues vocalist.
 
 
 
 
 


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