bpalmer

I agree with those that say Billy Sheehan (to keep up and be able to hang musically with Steve Vai??!!!) Oh yeah, he's considered for sure. Love "Ex" Van Halen bassist Michael Anthony. Great grooves and a great set of lungs and "pipes" too!! I think one guy that gets a bad rap (although he's considered more "pop") would be Mike Porcaro from Toto. So many people (especially in the United States) give Toto a rough time that they don't consider the LARGE amount of talent in that band!!! Simon Phillips, David Paich, Porcaro and Lukather?? That's an All-Star Session band right there!!! Their 25th Anniversary Live DVD is highly recommended, especially for showing those young musicians out there.

Looking for websites that have sheetmusic available to print out. My brother and I want to do songs with a new band we are putting together that aren't your typical "Mustang Sally", "Sweet Home Alabama" type bar band music...some of the same groups, but just not the same songs you hear OVER AND OVER AND OVER again!!!! 70's and 80's mostly: Sammy Hagar, David Bowie, Duran Duran, Journey, Billy Idol, Bryan Adams, Bon Jovi, Supertramp, Inxs, The Cars, Billy Squire, etc. stuff like that. Anyone have suggestions??? Needing lyrics, licks, chords. I have a good ear for picking stuff up, but doing some "unconventional" songs from some of these artists, I don't want to guess at what it "might" be. Thanks.

I'll have to agree with Saxon. I'm a big 80's fan too, since I was in my early teens in '82 and '83. Before I really had enough money to go buy cassette tapes, I thought it was the coolest to be able to take my "BoomBox" and record songs off the radio. Stuff like Survivor, Loverboy, The Knack, Rick Springfield, Asia, Missing Persons, The Tubes, etc. great rock stuff from those back then. I remember (and probably still have tapes) where I recorded music off of WBBM (a.k.a. "B-96") in Chicago, growing up. HaHa....Thought I was getting away with something illegal!!! HaHa. I figured I owed royalties or something!!! (I was only 11 or 12 remember) Even songs from synth-pop groups like Human League, Kajagoogoo, The Motels, Duran Duran (pick up their new Live From London DVD!!! They still sound great, if not better!!!) "A MAJOR LEAGUE Recommendation!!!" - Always go through the bargain bin stuff at record stores, or discount stores!!! One of my favorite albums...to this day...is Loverboy VI put out in 1997, I believe, before their bassist died. It's soooooooooooo great to find a really cool rock record that was never really well received in the midst of all the "pop" and "rap" out today!!! Cheap Trick's "Woke Up with a Monster" was another one I took a chance on, I LOVE it too!!!