I will renew my complaint: The saxophone is the lamest addition to rock music ever!

[LostInAnomie]

Accept it, losers!

[idgiehkt]

1. But what about Quarterflash?

:(

[WritingIsMyReligion]

2. Clarence Clemons.

I rest my case. :P

[idgiehkt]

3. You are correct. Jungleland.

8 minutes of pure heaven with that heartbreaking sax solo in the middle, that I have memorized note for note cause I've listened to it so many times and can now hear it in my head. :)

[LostInAnomie]

4. Thanks for backing me up.

;)

[mcscajun]

12. Well-rested.

:)

The big man Rocks.

[mykpart]

5. It's not an addition. It was an integral part of early Rock n Roll.

What if someone said electric guitars were a lousy addition to Rock music?

[LostInAnomie]

6. They would be a damn fool!

:grr:

[mitchum]

8. Ah, but early rocknroll didn't become great until the electric guitar...

replaced the sax as the dominant instrument

[ForrestGump]

9. If you look at the Sun studios pioneers, their output was very electric-guitar based

No saxophones. Guitars, baby!

Elvis' Sun lineup, until right before he went to RCA, was his own acoustic rhythm guitar, an acoustic bass, and Scotty Moore's electric guitar. That was it, and the fullness of their recorded sound led a lot of venue managers to wonder where the rest of the band was when these three Memphis cats showed up. He didn't use a saxophone at all on his recordings until he had Boots Randolph play on his 1960 Nashville sessions, after Elvis got out of the Army. And when he started getting out of the movies and going back to live performing in 1969, and tended to more of a country-rock sound in his studio work, he once and for all ditched the sax (though he did have a full orchestra in his live work and horns and strings were overdubbed on his studio output.

To me, saxophone in rock 'n' roll or pop music is either a sound I associate with 'happy' songs (again, using Elvis as my most familiar example, a lot of his movie soundtrack work in the '60s, though Boots Randolph's lengthy tenor sax solo on Elvis' 1960 blues "Reconsider, Baby" is very down-and-dirty) or one that goes with the kind of rock 'n' roll that seems most obviously derived from 'jump' blues, or whatever it was called...Little Richard used it well, for example, as did Ray Charles and many others.

I'm guitar-biased to the max, but the sax has a place in blues, soul, rock 'n' roll, and pop.

[mitchum]

11. Indeed. Just last week a friend of mine told me that it was impossible...

to rock without drums. I agreed, but told him that the exception was Elvis, Scotty and Bill. Those cats undeniably rocked.

[MonkeyFunk]

7. nuh uh

Young Americans rocks.

[driver8]

10. Listen to the band, Morphine...

that'll change your tune!

[KG]

13. amen, brother.

i don't a damn about no sax playing band, it ain't what i call rock n roll. :hi: