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Robert wrote a big chunk of their big hits. Interstate, plush, dead and bloated, vaseline, big bang, lady picture.
Recent interview of him on Beato's YT channel.

But I digress.. I think Sean Kinney and Starr/Inez deserve a nod. Much more bass heavy than STP was.
Example grooves; Would, Dirt or No Excuses.

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Love them too but if you listen back to the STP albums there's a ton of great bass work in there that I don't remember hearing when they first came out. Seeing them live really clued me in to how incredible they are.

Know Your Enemy said:

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62strat said:

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Robert wrote a big chunk of their big hits. Interstate, plush, dead and bloated, vaseline, big bang, lady picture.
Recent interview of him on Beato's YT channel.

But I digress.. I think Sean Kinney and Starr/Inez deserve a nod. Much more bass heavy than STP was.
Example grooves; Would, Dirt or No Excuses.

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Love them too but if you listen back to the STP albums there's a ton of great bass work in there that I don't remember hearing when they first came out. Seeing them live really clued me in to how incredible they are.

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Absolutely, looking at DeLeo alone, he was far more innovative and creative than most of his peers.. but Kretz doesn't stick out in my mind (I'm a drummer). So as a 'rhythm section', they don't stick out as much... only Robert does. The drum part that comes to mind when I think of Kretz is that off beat china swell during main lick of plush. But not much else.

Keney on the other hand was underrated in my mind even back in the 90s as a teenager; then combined with starr/inez, a true rhythm section was present.

lol.

well I learned guitar first right at 20 years ago.. a whole 8 months or so before drums!

Jamming Badmotorfinger now, specifically Jesus Christ Pose, and Ben Shepherd & Matt Cameron are so ****ing sick too but at least Cameron gets a lot of props so I'm not sure as a rhythm section that they're underrated too much.

HtownAg92 said:

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John Taylor and Roger Taylor of Duran Duran.

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What have they released in the last 35 years? They has some great **** in the 80's for sure.

Big Cat `93 said:

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Robert DeLeo is amazing. Great musician all around. His interview with Rick Beato is highly recommended.

My vote goes to Doug Pinnick and Jerry Gaskill of King's X.

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Most underrated band ever.

62strat said:

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lol.

well I learned guitar first right at 20 years ago.. a whole 8 months or so before drums!

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Change your username to Alex Van Halen

HtownAg92 said:

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John Taylor and Roger Taylor of Duran Duran.

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John Taylor and Tony Thompson.

Philip Selway, Johnny Greenwood, Colin Greenwood

Johnny Greenwood, Tom Skinner

Sting and Stewart Copeland

Big Cat `93 said:

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My vote goes to Doug Pinnick and Jerry Gaskill of King's X.

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I was surprised to learn recently that they were back together and doing stuff again.

Also, in a related post, that Doug believes he was abducted by aliens as a child and the recovered memory made much of his life make sense to him.

Bruce Almighty said:

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Tim Commerford and Brad Wilk from RATM.

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Came here to post this.

this thread is about underrated.

RATM is hardly overlooked.

62strat said:

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this thread is about underrated.

RATM is hardly overlooked.

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I disagree. Tom Morello and Zach de la Rocha aren't overlooked, but nobody ever talks about their drummer and bass player.

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HtownAg92 said:

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John Taylor and Roger Taylor of Duran Duran.

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That bass goes hard in "Rio"

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Yes, totally slams. Don't know where the arbitrary 35 year cut off came from, they are playing a reunion tour this year so they count.

HtownAg92 said:

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double aught said:

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HtownAg92 said:

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John Taylor and Roger Taylor of Duran Duran.

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That bass goes hard in "Rio"

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Don't know where the arbitrary 35 year cut off came from,

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It think the OPs idea was to include only bands starting at roughly grunge era.

62strat said:

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HtownAg92 said:

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double aught said:

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HtownAg92 said:

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John Taylor and Roger Taylor of Duran Duran.

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That bass goes hard in "Rio"

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Don't know where the arbitrary 35 year cut off came from,

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It think the OPs idea was to include only bands starting at roughly grunge era.

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Yep

Another one that gets overlooked is 311.

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62strat said:

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this thread is about underrated.

RATM is hardly overlooked.

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I disagree. Tom Morello and Zach de la Rocha aren't overlooked, but nobody ever talks about their drummer and bass player.

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Maybe because Tim is always just copying whatever Tom is playing. It's not a real well defined rhythm section, because it rarely strays from the guitar riff, which I assume Tom probably wrote most of.

Juxtapose that against DeLeo or Starr/Inez.. those guys are often doing their own thing behind melodic and/or dissonant chords

Bruce Almighty said:

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62strat said:

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this thread is about underrated.

RATM is hardly overlooked.

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I disagree. Tom Morello and Zach de la Rocha aren't overlooked, but nobody ever talks about their drummer and bass player.

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I didn't pay them much mind for the reason Strat said above, but after seeing them live as Audioslave I realized both guys are beasts and deserve way more recognition than they get.

Rich Robinson, Steve Gorman, Johnny Colt.

Double Trouble with SRV

just made the cut-off

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HtownAg92 said:

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John Taylor and Roger Taylor of Duran Duran.

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John Taylor and Tony Thompson.

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Duran Duran are still putting out albums. And Roger joined back with the group about 10 years ago. Not sure if great would define anything they have done since then though.

John Taylor and Steve Ferrone were pretty awesome on the Notorious album.

Regarding Power Station… yes! John and Tony Thompson were awesome. I love playing Get It On and Sone Like It Hot on my drums. And I think Roger actually played the beginning part of Some Like It Hot.