Bad Company...

[glocke]

any fans here?  https://youtu.be/4UcSYx6zEAY


great band...i've been talking about these guys to other musicians and am surprised at the amount of dislike and indifference I am running into with regards to them..great basslines and overall great rock n roll..

[elwoodblue]

I have fond memories of them on the jukebox at the local pinball dive (in the 70's).


I might listen to them on an LP, the toyota commercial on youtube spoiled any
chance of me seeing that video you posted. Do they still have that great brown sound?

[glocke]

i havent heard the toyota commerical...


video is from a 2008 show...check it out..Paul Rodgers sounded better than ever.

[elwoodblue]

Those toyota commercials start LOUD,and wake the cats and spoil any vibe.
I would have watched but for whatever reason, youtube likes to give me those
ads...I used your link, and the cat woke up...I'll just have to take your word.


 I remember Paul Rogders forgetting the words to The Beatles "Money" when
playing an encore while in the band "The Firm" with Jimmy Page.
That was an interesting show.

[pauldo]

I used to air drum to their first album all the time . . . . then I realized I was meant to be a bassist.

[jalevinemd]

I've always been a fan. Paul Rodgers has one of the greatest voices in rock and, unlike so many of his contemporaries, sounds as good (if not better) than he did back in the day.

[dead_head]

I was a big fan of theirs back with their first 3 albums, as well as with Free and Mott The Hoople at about the same time. They seemed to go in a different direction after that, though, IMHO.......

Rob     

[edwardofhuncote]

Always makes me think of the local roller-skating rink... that was my first exposure to rock and pop music on a 1970's jukebox. Mom kept an easy-listening radio station on (still does), and Pops was deep into the 2nd generation bluegrass scene. (still is) Bad Company, Fleetwood Mac, Steely Dan, The Band, Dire Straits... all gifts from that hotbox with a parquet floor.

[kenbass4]

Love the band.


Might be a little known fact, but their Bass player, Boz Burrel, was the singer for King Crimson. Robert Fripp approached him after their actual bass player quit, and asked him "Could you play the bass?", to which he replied "But I don't know how to." and Fripp responded with "I'll teach you!"


He learned pretty well, I'd say...

[hieronymous]

I tried to get into Bad Company when I was in high school (mid-'80s) - I LOVED Free - especially Andy Fraser & Paul Rodgers - the Bad Co. LP I picked up (Straight Shooter) was too mellow. I wanted to like them so much since it was basically half of Free, but even though I found it listenable the album I had didn't do it for me. I lived in Japan too, so never heard them on the radio and was actually saved from their songs being ruined by constant rotation on classic rock radio - I think it would be worth it to investigate their catalog, with an ear on the bass of course!



The King Crimson connection is interesting - I believe Boz Burrell was only on one album that I had for a while but never got into (Earthbound). With Bad Co. I picture him playing a fretless Ampeg bass with Bad Co. but I think he played a variety of basses.

[hankster]

Yup. Paul Rodgers is just a great rock singer. He could sing the phone book and i'd pay to hear it. Mind you, i recognize that paying to hear music makes me a dinosaur...

[cozmik_cowboy]

Yup. Paul Rodgers is just a great rock singer. He could sing the phone book and i'd pay to hear it. Mind you, i recognize that paying to hear music makes me a dinosaur...

I guess I had it backwards; I thought the dinosaurs were the ones expecting to get paid to play music.....

Peter

[hankster]

Ha!  That too, brother!