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Poll Question: Which band was best backing Paul Rodgers
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    Posted: June 03 2006 at 05:38
As the rock vocalist often called the best in the 70's by peers and fans alike, I have to ask which band or combination of musicians supported  Paul Rodgers best
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I'm not familiar with all the bands you listed, but I voted for Free, which I think were much better than Bad Company.
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I voted for Bad Company, not too familiar with all the work he did with Free.
Steve Walsh considers Paul Rodgers the ultimate vocalist.
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Tough is decide between Free and Bad Company, very little in it. I went for Bad Co in the end.
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Got to be Free.
 
Interesting to think that Uriah Heep were nearly on that list at one time.
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1. Free
2. Bad Company
3. The Firm (cause there he played with Jimmy Page and I like him as well)
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Free for me.
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Paul Rodgers in Uriah Heep...yes, now that would have been interesting!LOL It was more a case of who WASN'T considered for David Byron's replacement- David Coverdale (who called Ken Hensley 'very nice' yet Hensley still felt the audition was a 'horrendous mismatch'- interesting, as John Lawton, the eventual replacement sounds very like Coverdale anyway, imo), Gary Holton (of the classic TV show 'Auf Wiedersehen Pet' where he played Wayne, and excellent Mott The Hoople esque-Heavy Metal Kids; bit of Free related trivia- Heavy Metal Kids was initially the name Alexis Korner had given Free- there is no relation between the two bands though...) and Ian Hunter (who said 'they weren't my kind of music...Ken sent me demos of new songs, but they were worse than the ones I already knew' and also made comments about why Trevor Bolder joined...).

 
Anyway...LOL- Paul Rodgers is ultimately going to be remembered most creatively for Free. Although I'd argue the first 2 Bad Company albums were more coherent than any Free album, Free were the more distinctive and influential band. I remember having The Firm's debut and being underwhelmed by it a great deal, and have only heard snatches of the Muddy Water Blues project. I think he did an admirable job in Queen and certainly managed to eradicate my cynicism when I heard him in them. All in all though, it has to be Free.
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Wouldn't call Free a backing band, but it was my choice
 
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Athough the firsty two albums of Bad Company were good, I never really liked the band's toooooo obvious aim for top 40 singles
 
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Originally posted by Sean Trane Sean Trane wrote:

Wouldn't call Free a backing band, but it was my choice
 


Because of the hoopla elsewhere about the best vocalist for Queen, I could not resist- especially thinking about Queen playing Free or Bad Company hits backing PR.
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Among listed I'm familiar only with Free and Bad Company; between these two, my vote goes to Free. My fav is their bluesy entry album 'Tons Of Sobs' where Rodgers' vocal fits perfectly to the whole album tune.
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FREE, though I'm not a big fan.
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I grew up on the music of Free and later was quiet disappointed about Bad Company for their more commercial leaning. No more and I admit that their tighter and better crafted arrangements deserved the recognition and success.
I still listen to both bands with much joy and Paul Rodgers has remained one of my fave lead vocalist over a number of decades.
The "Tribute to Muddy Waters" is a great solo album by him, worthy of any collection, alnd his first one "Cut Loose" on which he plays all instruments himself is an enjoyable offering.
 
His Hendrix renditions are not bad either while both the "Firm" and The Law" contain some remarkably nice pieces, but overall weak and directionless.
 
I haven't heard him with Queen and call me conservative, I am simply not interested.
 
OK, Bad Company is for me.
 
 
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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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I'll go for Free.... Bad Co. only had 2 very good albumm.
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My vote goes to Free.  I feel they were much more musically diverse than Bad Company. 
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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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bad company. but I liked the return of the champions dvd with queen.
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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 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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