Woops. I forgot the Rebel's Wild Weekend . This song kicks ass, and it is totaly sax driven.

John Fogerty stole it to make Rock And Roll Girls.

Daniel Ash plays some saxaphone with Love and Rockets. Some of it is crap, but some (It Could Be Sunshine) is used to good effect.

Von LMO.

Not Crap.

the rock music with sax that sucks i think would suck anyway, with or without the sax.

that damned fly wrote:the rock music with sax that sucks i think would suck anyway, with or without the sax.

Agreed.

Not a big fan of the Sax to begin with, but I absolutely adore the clarinet family. Though I don't care for the idea of them in a band being overpowered by guitars and drums. They sound much better left unamplified.

This is the greatest piece of music ever written for clarinet

In rock music: Totally dependent. Perhaps NOT CRAP?

The people that typically know how to write, perform and record rock music with it's instrumentation of the last 30-40 years (drums, guitars, vox) aren't consistently skilled at writing for, performing, or recording the saxes or clarinets. It's always hit or miss, usually miss with the saxes just sounding embarrassing. I've been in sessions where everything is sounds great and was deliberately made so...and then they get me in there and all they know is that they want saxophone. No parts, no idea, no nothing.

Most of the saxes playing beside Little Richard make me want to explode with glee. Funhouse is good too, but the sax could be better. Sonny Rollins' solo on that Rolling Stones song shifts the song from annoying to awesome in the final moments.

Oh yea, Sonny Rollins is the best thing to blow through a conical-bored instrument ever made. Period. PERIOD.

I like that sax scene in the movie Lost Highway.

I'd rather get stung by a wasp than have to listen to Beefheart pretend to play the saxophone.

Morphine.

burun wrote:Von LMO

Also "Hiroshima Mon Amour" by Ultravox!

Generally, saxophones suck because they are the antithesis of subtle. When they're squawking it's all you hear.

not crap: stooges, birthday party, big black, :not crap

The sax can be used in rock to great effect, but other reeds are in question.