I am not sure there is any weighted argument.
First two albums are so fine.
Live they were fire.
I wish there were more like them.
First two albums are so fine.
Live they were fire.
I wish there were more like them.
The Black Crowes - Last Great American Rock Band
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Weak. They’re average at best. Foo Fighters, Shinedown, and several others are much better
They played a great song at Louisville Gardens. A song. One song.
On the bright side, the Jayhawks were awesome
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Sorry @TexasTimCat but you got owned. I did see the Black Crowes again at that one music festival they had at Churchill Downs that one time but it didn't make up for them walking off stage. The Jayhawks were good for free though.
The crowes are indeed the last great rock n roll band. OP you're 100% correct. The other suggestions that people have made don't hold a candle to the Crowes catalog of music, not even close. I lile Foo Fighters as well, but they are not on the level with the Robinson boys. Shinedown being compared to them is laughable.
Ive seen the Crowes 20 times and OP you're spot on.
Ive seen the Crowes 20 times and OP you're spot on.
I like the Black Crows music. That said , I saw them at the Louisville Palace about 10-12 years ago and it was the worst concert that I have had the displeasure to attend. Chris Robinson just mumbled lyrics and did a stupid bare foot hippie dance on a prayer rug all night. The band purposely cranked their amps to drown him out. It was a complete crap show. I heard that they broke up again shortly thereafter.
Guns and Roses were popular about the same time as the Black Crows. They were bigger, better and more impactful than the Crows.
Guns and Roses were popular about the same time as the Black Crows. They were bigger, better and more impactful than the Crows.
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It pains me to say this but Eric Clapton up in Indy about 15 years ago. If he didn't want to be there (which he clearly didn't) then cancel. He played maybe an hour with barely more energy than a corpse, ended with Somewhere Over the Rainbow with no encore, and got into an argument with someone as mad as me when he walked off. If he didn't want to be there than he just should have canceled. That would have pissed me off less.
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I consider myself a Crowes fan in the sense that I celebrate about 65% of their catalog. Saw them live twice and both were perfectly decent rock shows.
But the Brothers Grim had to go and eff it all up...on multiple occasions. No doubt the Crowes could have had a much more successful career if not for the ridiculously unconscionable egos of those two idiots.
But the Brothers Grim had to go and eff it all up...on multiple occasions. No doubt the Crowes could have had a much more successful career if not for the ridiculously unconscionable egos of those two idiots.
I like the Crowe's, good band, but they did not move the needle, innovate, or change any direction. It's a sound we've heard before. To call them great is an overstatement.
I snuck in backstage at Forecastle or whatever music festival it was in Louisville about ten years ago and drank some BBCs with them. Good dudes. Got kicked out shortly after, but it was a fun time.
I'm a huge Crowes fan but they ain't the last great american rock band. Just because rock doesn't get "radio" play anymore doesn't mean it isn't out there.
Shinedown and KOL both suck. I do have a funny story about KOL, though. My college roommate is a lighting rigger that has worked with several big bands over the last 20 years and about 6-7 years ago, he was working for KOL and I went to meet him in Louisville for opening night and we were hanging outside the buses smoking when the tour manager came up to us. After he introduced us, she asked if I'd like to go on the bus and meet the band. I looked at her and said "I'm here to hang out with Ken, not to meet a band that sucks. But I wouldn't mind meeting Gary Clark Jr." He was opening for them on that tour but wasn't available right then.
Shinedown and KOL both suck. I do have a funny story about KOL, though. My college roommate is a lighting rigger that has worked with several big bands over the last 20 years and about 6-7 years ago, he was working for KOL and I went to meet him in Louisville for opening night and we were hanging outside the buses smoking when the tour manager came up to us. After he introduced us, she asked if I'd like to go on the bus and meet the band. I looked at her and said "I'm here to hang out with Ken, not to meet a band that sucks. But I wouldn't mind meeting Gary Clark Jr." He was opening for them on that tour but wasn't available right then.
Very true but all bands could be described like that. There is always an influence that is borrowed. Music, especially pop music, doesn't happen in a vacuum. A 'new' band has absorbed many different influences before they ever release the first song.
I saw Gary Clark Jr at forecastle once and he tore it up something fierce.
I mean, they're good, but never got the major hype from a lot of people on this board. Just going for bands contemporary with them or more recent:
Black Keys >>> Black Crowes. Give me any of Foo Fighters, RHCP, REM, Rage Against the Machine, Soundgarden, The White Stripes, The Flaming Lips...
Black Keys >>> Black Crowes. Give me any of Foo Fighters, RHCP, REM, Rage Against the Machine, Soundgarden, The White Stripes, The Flaming Lips...
Yeah if you're including solo artists he's way up there and I'd throw in Beck as well. If Alabama Shakes will get their asses back together and make a couple more albums they'll move up.
Agree but they did nothing new with what they were influenced by. Still a good band.
I've seen The Black Keys twice. Once at the former Southgate House opening for Sleater-Kinney and once at an instore signing at CD Central in Lexington. They are great but are HUGE ********. Like seriously wanted to punch them in the head. They were so freaking full of themselves, and they weren't even popular then.
I love Beck and was still shocked at how great his show at Forecastle was.
I like the Black Crowes but there are many other American bands that were better. Foo Fighters, Guns and Roses, Green Day, Shinedown, and many others I would put ahead of the Crowes.
This is objectively false. Foo Fighters, The Black Keys, and The White Stripes are all very large bands that are great and more enjoyable than The Black Crows.
I've seen The White Stripes and Jack White on his own. Jack White is better with a full band.
Hoptown's own Steve Gorman was their drummer for a long time.... Great guy
GotSA and Foo Fighters are hands down better than the Black Rowes, IMO. Though there are a lot of bands I enjoy more than the BCs.