Greatest transfer portal pick up in rock history?
Greatest transfer portal pick up in rock history? 21 votes
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Joe Walsh to The EaglesReally the answer could be

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Joe Walsh to The EaglesGreat list from guys who saved bands to guys who improved them like my vote
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F.O. Row Peter Puffer, you left off...Travis Barker to Blink-182
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Neil Peart to Rush
Most of these fall into the "improve" bucket, with Sammy and Brian, being portal moves to save bands from implosion.RaceBannon said:Great list from guys who saved bands to guys who improved them like my vote
I'm a huge Joe Walsh fan, but I can't think of another guy who did more than Neil Peart to take a band to the next level.
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Neil Peart to Rush
Can't believe we haven't mined this topic yet @RaceBannon in the 6 years my shoppe has been in bidness.RaceBannon said:Great list from guys who saved bands to guys who improved them like my vote
But with all the transfer portal hawt talk, now is as good as time as any. -
Neil Peart to RushI would say when Chevy Chase left Leather Cannary is a close Portal second.
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Mick Taylor to The Rolling StonesAgree about Neil P...A great list for sure, I've gotta go with Mick Taylor because the Stones were about to go into free-fall, IMO. "No Jones No Stones" had checked out well before, and Mick was a key component to their four greatest albums. I don't think he "reinvented" the Stones, but inspired them to what could be going forward.
Also, Rod and Ronnie took theSmallFaces in a different direction than Mariott... -
Neil Peart to Rush
I don't view Mick Taylor as "saving" the Stones, per se. They had already started the GOAT 4 Album run with Beggars (Ry Cooder helped that one a bit) and Mick's contributions to Let it Bleed were minimal. But what he did do was enable them to get back on the road (Brian was done as a player and had too many legal issues) and enable them to take things to their greatest ever work with Sticky Fingers and Exile.Fishpo31 said:Agree about Neil P...A great list for sure, I've gotta go with Mick Taylor because the Stones were about to go into free-fall, IMO. "No Jones No Stones" had checked out well before, and Mick was a key component to their four greatest albums. I don't think he "reinvented" the Stones, but inspired them to what could be going forward.
Also, Rod and Ronnie took theSmallFaces in a different direction than Mariott...
The first album with Ronnie and Rod was still under the "Small" Faces title by the way. Imagine a world where Rod doesn't want to go solo and is content as the leader of a band called the Faces. Ties Buffalo Springfield staying together and adding Nash and Crosby in the portal as my all time favorite band that could have been. -
Neil Peart to Rush
Ry Cooder is massively underrated. His sessions on Begger's were spechul!YellowSnow said:
I don't view Mick Taylor as "saving" the Stones, per se. They had already started the GOAT 4 Album run with Beggars (Ry Cooder helped that one a bit) and Mick's contributions to Let it Bleed were minimal. But what he did do was enable them to get back on the road (Brian was done as a player and had too many legal issues) and enable them to take things to their greatest ever work with Sticky Fingers and Exile.Fishpo31 said:Agree about Neil P...A great list for sure, I've gotta go with Mick Taylor because the Stones were about to go into free-fall, IMO. "No Jones No Stones" had checked out well before, and Mick was a key component to their four greatest albums. I don't think he "reinvented" the Stones, but inspired them to what could be going forward.
Also, Rod and Ronnie took theSmallFaces in a different direction than Mariott...
The first album with Ronnie and Rod was still under the "Small" Faces title by the way. Imagine a world where Rod doesn't want to go solo and is content as the leader of a band called the Faces. Ties Buffalo Springfield staying together and adding Nash and Crosby in the portal as my all time favorite band that could have been. -
Neil Peart to Rush
I've got 3 Ry Cooder LP's in my collection, plus the Taj Mahal stuff he played on.RTD said:
Ry Cooder is massively underrated. His sessions on Begger's were spechul!YellowSnow said:
I don't view Mick Taylor as "saving" the Stones, per se. They had already started the GOAT 4 Album run with Beggars (Ry Cooder helped that one a bit) and Mick's contributions to Let it Bleed were minimal. But what he did do was enable them to get back on the road (Brian was done as a player and had too many legal issues) and enable them to take things to their greatest ever work with Sticky Fingers and Exile.Fishpo31 said:Agree about Neil P...A great list for sure, I've gotta go with Mick Taylor because the Stones were about to go into free-fall, IMO. "No Jones No Stones" had checked out well before, and Mick was a key component to their four greatest albums. I don't think he "reinvented" the Stones, but inspired them to what could be going forward.
Also, Rod and Ronnie took theSmallFaces in a different direction than Mariott...
The first album with Ronnie and Rod was still under the "Small" Faces title by the way. Imagine a world where Rod doesn't want to go solo and is content as the leader of a band called the Faces. Ties Buffalo Springfield staying together and adding Nash and Crosby in the portal as my all time favorite band that could have been.
Love me some Ry.
Paradise and Lunch is a GOAT album.


















