Hmm...sax is usually really cheesy, but the exceptions are enough to make me vote NOT CRAP, with a pretty high waffle factor. Most of these have already been mentioned, but:
The Pop Group
The Stooges: Fun House
The Contortions
Roxy Music
The Cure, on occasion
Bowie: "V2 Schneider", a lot of other stuff
The Residents (early stuff)
But, yeah, usually when I hear a sax bleating its way through a rock song, it sounds ridiculous:
Springsteen
"The Heat is On"
"Baker St"
Some Bob Seger stuff, I think
It's always stupid when they try to make it sound all "sultry"...
instrumentation: sax-clarinets in rock music
15in addition to roxy and stooges, there's the first couple of psych furs records
by the third record, the sax playing was becoming a detriment
also x-ray spex. that's a big one. if you like x-ray spex. and i do.
joel r.l. phelps is a shit-hot sax player, incidentally. my friend joel phelps. he can play the sax, like a crazy man, and he is not crap doing so w/in the context of 'rock music.'
by the third record, the sax playing was becoming a detriment
also x-ray spex. that's a big one. if you like x-ray spex. and i do.
joel r.l. phelps is a shit-hot sax player, incidentally. my friend joel phelps. he can play the sax, like a crazy man, and he is not crap doing so w/in the context of 'rock music.'
instrumentation: sax-clarinets in rock music
16tmidgett wrote:in addition to roxy and stooges, there's the first couple of psych furs records
by the third record, the sax playing was becoming a detriment
also x-ray spex. that's a big one. if you like x-ray spex. and i do.
joel r.l. phelps is a shit-hot sax player, incidentally. my friend joel phelps. he can play the sax, like a crazy man, and he is not crap doing so w/in the context of 'rock music.'
Right! Psychedelic Furs. Chicago's (the city...not the band) Mars Williams did some of those recordings. In fact I saw a CD the other day by a local band and ON THE COVER it said 'featuring Mars Williams of the Psychedelic Furs". It was part of their cover art! HOT!
instrumentation: sax-clarinets in rock music
17The aforementioned Morphine, and I believe JRLP's Downer Trio EP is the one with sax on it. The first song. It is beautiful.
David Bowie plays(ed) sax, too...can't remember the songs though
David Bowie plays(ed) sax, too...can't remember the songs though
instrumentation: sax-clarinets in rock music
18mattw wrote:The aforementioned Morphine, and I believe JRLP's Downer Trio EP is the one with sax on it. The first song. It is beautiful.
David Bowie plays(ed) sax, too...can't remember the songs though
I always heard it was Bowie on 'Walk on the Wild Side' but I think that is an untruth. A little help?
instrumentation: sax-clarinets in rock music
19Songfacts.com wrote:The sax solo at the end was played by Ronnie Ross, a Jazz musician who lived near Bowie in England. When Bowie was 12 years old, he wanted to learn the saxophone and begged Ross to give him lessons, which he eventually did. When they needed a sax player for this, Bowie made sure Ross was booked for the session, but didn't tell him he'd be there. Ross nailed the solo in one take and Bowie showed up to surprise his old friend.
instrumentation: sax-clarinets in rock music
20Mayfair wrote:I always heard it was Bowie on 'Walk on the Wild Side' but I think that is an untruth. A little help?
I'm pretty sure that the sax on "Walk on the Wild Side" was Ronnie Ross.
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