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Nitram

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2. Paul Butterfield Band were fantastic bluesmen.

Reply to mimi85 (Original post)

Mon Dec 22, 2014, 09:18 AM

Dec 2014

As for Ringo, a drummer with a rock solid backbeat and a no-frills style is not B-grade. A drummer playing for a primarily vocal band would be B-grade if he tried to hog the spotlight and indulged in long solos.

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This guy is so far off base [View all] mimi85 Dec 2014 OP

Never heard of Kraftwerk, Chic or, say, the Germs or Black Flag. Scuba Dec 2014 #1

Kraftwerk -- probably the most commercially successful early 70's German band dogknob Sep 2015 #12

Paul Butterfield Band were fantastic bluesmen. Nitram Dec 2014 #2

SRV should've been in the first vote taken. mimi85 Dec 2014 #3

Chicago should be in demtenjeep Dec 2014 #4

For Me It's The Cars ProfessorGAC Jan 2015 #5

We saw them in 1980. mimi85 Feb 2015 #9

I Saw Them Twice ProfessorGAC Mar 2015 #10

Chic? Weren't they like a one hit wonder from the disco era? WhoIsNumberNone Jan 2015 #6

NOT in R&R hall of fame: Moody Blues, Kansas, Doobie Bros... Number9Dream Jan 2015 #7

The Butterfield Band brought the 'extended jam' to rock music. greendog Jan 2015 #8

Butterfield Band is pretty good leftofkant May 2015 #11

Paul Butterfield was popular in the late sixties ... Trajan Sep 2015 #13