Greatest transfer portal pick up in rock history?
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Neil Peart to Rush
Lawd I’m a cigarette.YellowSnow said:
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.
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Neil Peart to RushFantastic topic
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Brian Johnson to AC DC
People thought AC/DC peaked with Highway to Hell and they were done for. Then they had their biggest album and one of the biggest in rock history.
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Neil Peart to Rush
it’s a feat of transfer portal brilliance that on one has ever matched.
Different scenario than my Peart vote though.
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Joe Walsh to The Eagles
I wanted to hate Brian Johnson but the Young brothers really stepped it up with irresistible hooks and power chords
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Mick Taylor to The Rolling Stones
What about Ed King in Skynyrd?
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F.O. Row Peter Puffer, you left off...
Bruce Dickinson - Iron Maiden
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Neil Peart to Rush
Ed was in Skynyrd though before they released their first album.
Maybe if Steve Gaines doesn’t sell the couch and they have a late 70s or early 80s album on par with Pronounced or 2nd helping. -
Mick Taylor to The Rolling Stones
Does John Frusciante count either time?
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Neil Peart to Rush
yes, but I don’t think of this example as being as momentous as the others.
