Best Power Trio of all-time?

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Must be a strict trio...

― ruby louise cunefare (maliciouslogic), Thursday, 11 January 2007 03:08 (eighteen years ago)

Head sez Hendrix, heart says Sleater...

― If you fuck with Jimmy Mod, you call down the thunder (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Thursday, 11 January 2007 03:09 (eighteen years ago)

Cream!

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Thursday, 11 January 2007 03:12 (eighteen years ago)

The Wagemann Brothers

― Mike Dixn (Mike Dixon), Thursday, 11 January 2007 03:12 (eighteen years ago)

The Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.

― R_S (RSLaRue), Thursday, 11 January 2007 03:13 (eighteen years ago)

Rush, Duh!

― Matt Olken (Moodles), Thursday, 11 January 2007 03:45 (eighteen years ago)

Money Jungle

― Candy: tastes like chicken, if chicken was a candy. (Austin, Still), Thursday, 11 January 2007 03:47 (eighteen years ago)

shellac

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 11 January 2007 04:03 (eighteen years ago)

The Newbeats

― Rev. Hoodoo (Rev. Hoodoo), Thursday, 11 January 2007 04:11 (eighteen years ago)

thompson twins

― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Thursday, 11 January 2007 04:12 (eighteen years ago)

minutemen

― Michael J McGonigal (mike mcgonigal), Thursday, 11 January 2007 04:18 (eighteen years ago)

silberbart

― GOD PUNCH TO HAWKWIND (yournullfame), Thursday, 11 January 2007 04:32 (eighteen years ago)

Motorhead?

― Wingwalker (1977), Thursday, 11 January 2007 04:48 (eighteen years ago)

the dead c!

― be home by 11 (orion), Thursday, 11 January 2007 04:49 (eighteen years ago)

Hendrix Experience (maybe)

― Tim Ellison = NUMBER ONE ADVOCATE OF YOU-KNOW-WHAT ON NU-ILX!!! (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 11 January 2007 04:51 (eighteen years ago)

rush, of course.

can't be hendrix because noel redding was a non-entity. cream would be a better call, frankly.

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Thursday, 11 January 2007 06:47 (eighteen years ago)

Money Jungle

OTM

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Thursday, 11 January 2007 06:49 (eighteen years ago)

Lil Jon & the Eastside Boyz

― The Reverend Rodney J. Greene (R. J. Greene), Thursday, 11 January 2007 06:50 (eighteen years ago)

Hüsker Dü

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 11 January 2007 06:53 (eighteen years ago)

Red Snapper

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 11 January 2007 07:58 (eighteen years ago)

Budgie

― Matt #2 (Matt #2), Thursday, 11 January 2007 08:44 (eighteen years ago)

Evans, LaFaro and Motian. Quiet and subtle power.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 11 January 2007 09:07 (eighteen years ago)

The Minutemen, Hüsker Dü and the Meat Puppets make up the Holy Trinity of mid-80s power-trio alternative rock.

― MacDara Conroy (MacDara), Thursday, 11 January 2007 10:27 (eighteen years ago)

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― latebloomer da nutty tarkovsky (latebloomer), Thursday, 11 January 2007 10:35 (eighteen years ago)

A shout for Power Tools (Frisell, Gibbs, Shannon Jackson) since sadly no one else is going to...

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 11 January 2007 10:41 (eighteen years ago)

tie: Blue Cheer & DNA

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Thursday, 11 January 2007 11:30 (eighteen years ago)

Band of Gypsys.

Also, ZZ Top till about 1980.

― pdf (Phil Freeman), Thursday, 11 January 2007 11:32 (eighteen years ago)

OMG I FORGOT THE Dü

― If you fuck with Jimmy Mod, you call down the thunder (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Thursday, 11 January 2007 11:59 (eighteen years ago)

Fushitsusha.

― braveclub (braveclub), Thursday, 11 January 2007 12:11 (eighteen years ago)

Busted.

Les Rallizes Denudes.

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 11 January 2007 12:30 (eighteen years ago)

The Jam.

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Thursday, 11 January 2007 12:39 (eighteen years ago)

Screaming Blue Messiahs arrrrrg!

― Candy: tastes like chicken, if chicken was a candy. (Austin, Still), Thursday, 11 January 2007 12:48 (eighteen years ago)

Sometimes, I wish a certain band was called Sumner, Summers and Copeland.

don't forget ELP!

― veronica moser (veronica moser), Thursday, 11 January 2007 13:19 (eighteen years ago)

Motorpsycho.

― Marty Innerlogic (marty innerlogic), Thursday, 11 January 2007 13:47 (eighteen years ago)

Nirvana?

― Joe Grassby (sloejoe), Thursday, 11 January 2007 13:53 (eighteen years ago)

Mama's Boys

― EZ Snappin (EZSnappin), Thursday, 11 January 2007 14:03 (eighteen years ago)

uh, er, Trio!

― peepee (peepee), Thursday, 11 January 2007 14:13 (eighteen years ago)

man. hendrix, the minutemen and sleater-kinney sum it all up right there.

― Emily Bjurnhjam (Emily Bjurnhjam), Thursday, 11 January 2007 14:18 (eighteen years ago)

Groundhogs

― NickB (NickB), Thursday, 11 January 2007 14:19 (eighteen years ago)

I'd go for Nirvana.

― strom (strom), Thursday, 11 January 2007 14:34 (eighteen years ago)

If only Motorpsycho were still a trio ... [sigh]

Somewhere between the Minutemen, Rush and the Dead C. we have the greatest power trio of all time!

― myopic_void (myopic_void), Thursday, 11 January 2007 14:36 (eighteen years ago)

i don't know if they are the best of all time, but Dinosaur Jr. merits mentioning.

I'd go with Nirvana though.

― tk (tk), Thursday, 11 January 2007 17:32 (eighteen years ago)

I never heard anyone call This Heat a power trio, but they could be, and when they were, they are great (see also Massacre)

― Dominique (dleone), Thursday, 11 January 2007 17:35 (eighteen years ago)

Rush and ZZ Top.

― Bill Magill (Bill Magill), Thursday, 11 January 2007 17:36 (eighteen years ago)

Triumph.

Now...where the hell is my bong?

― kwhitehead (stephen schmidt), Thursday, 11 January 2007 18:23 (eighteen years ago)

Hands down, Rush?

― christoff (christoff), Thursday, 11 January 2007 18:56 (eighteen years ago)

I'm gonna vote Rush, in terms of just functioning right as three equally important musicians who connect and play off each other. Band of Gypsys might have clinched it if they'd released more. The Experience are great but I just don't get the same kind of three-guys-clicking thing out of them. (Look, I said they were great.) Cream's pretty boring when it comes to actual albums. Massacre are awesome though and I imagine I'd love Power Tools though I've yet to hear them. (Fushitsusha seems like too much of a Haino vehicle.) Husker Du had great moments.

― Sundar (sundar), Thursday, 11 January 2007 19:33 (eighteen years ago)

Groundhogs seconded.

― mucho (mucho), Thursday, 11 January 2007 19:34 (eighteen years ago)

I mean, Rush!

― christoff (christoff), Thursday, 11 January 2007 19:36 (eighteen years ago)

Why has no one mentioned Crosby, Stills & Nash?

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Thursday, 11 January 2007 19:44 (eighteen years ago)

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Seeing as Double Nickles and Money Jungle are my two favorite albums of all time, I'd have to agree with Hoosteen. If you're taking *power* literally though, I was shocked to find out that High On Fire was a trio. That some noise those boys make.

― bendy (bendy), Thursday, 11 January 2007 21:22 (eighteen years ago)

My vote goes to Minutemen, but Brotzmann/Parker/Drake should get a mention while we're just throwing out names.

― do i have to draw you a diaphragm (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 11 January 2007 21:24 (eighteen years ago)

High on Fire's a trio. What they do is beyond "power" though and into some other description.

― Bill Magill (Bill Magill), Thursday, 11 January 2007 21:28 (eighteen years ago)

Tony Williams Lifetime
Beck, Bogert & Appice (the studio album mostly blows, but the live-in-Japan double is killer)
Brötzmann/Van Hove/Bennink
Borbetomagus

― pdf (Phil Freeman), Thursday, 11 January 2007 21:39 (eighteen years ago)

Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, instrumentation-wise, y'know?

― Sang Freud (jeff_s), Thursday, 11 January 2007 21:42 (eighteen years ago)

Sir Lord Baltimore's debut remains unequalled in sheer lunacy (thanx especially to the maniacal singing/drumming of the incomparable John Garner) but blew it by adding another guitarist, going prog & breaking up after only a second (way-inferior) album. Cream were dull as hell outside the studio (and often inside as well.) The JHX (tho excellent) were basically the Jimi Hendrix Show (or the Hendrix-Mitchell Show at best.) Rush have been too powerless for far too long. Budgie have dozens of LPs I've never heard vs. only 4-5 I have heard. Ditto Groundhogs. Minutemen, Husker Du, Nomeansno and Meat Puppets achieved varying degrees of excellence but "punk" bands, no matter how powerful, can't be considered true "power trios". (Hey, I don't make the rules.)(Also, can't overlook the complete absence of wah-wah pedal abuse, a crucial ingredient, power trio-wise.) Same goes for The Jam, who I never liked anyways. Van Halen actually had four members. And ZZ Top, I can't think of any flip remarks about, not while my supervisor's lurking nearby.

Which leaves the three gentlemen known as Philthy Animal, Fast Eddie, and Lemmy - the ultimate lineup of the ultimate power trio, Motorhead! (Tho my favourite band mentioned above is more likely to be Minutemen or Nomeansno or something.)

― M. Agony Von Bontee (M. Agony Von Bontee), Thursday, 11 January 2007 21:45 (eighteen years ago)

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― M. V. (M.V.), Thursday, 11 January 2007 21:47 (eighteen years ago)

(...sorry for the pedantic rambling. Damn, it's great to have ILM back! Who won the bassist death-match?)

― M. Agony Von Bombastic (M. Agony Von Bontee), Thursday, 11 January 2007 22:01 (eighteen years ago)

Japanese psych-punks High Rise

― Ice Cream Electric (Ice Cream Electric), Thursday, 11 January 2007 22:20 (eighteen years ago)

Since no on else on ilm is going to say it (and since they've earned it)...

PRIMUS

― baron kickass von awesomehausen (nickalicious), Thursday, 11 January 2007 22:26 (eighteen years ago)

Although I personally prefer Morphine.

― baron kickass von awesomehausen (nickalicious), Thursday, 11 January 2007 22:27 (eighteen years ago)

OTHER GOOD 'UNS:

Reverend Horton Heat
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
Medeski Martin and Wood

― baron kickass von awesomehausen (nickalicious), Thursday, 11 January 2007 22:28 (eighteen years ago)

Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, instrumentation-wise, y'know?

Well if we're going to go down that road, the best power trio OF ALL TIME is The Who.

JSBX is a good one.

― do i have to draw you a diaphragm (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 11 January 2007 22:33 (eighteen years ago)

Another vote for Motorhead.

― Je4nn3 Fuhfuh (Je4nne Fury), Thursday, 11 January 2007 22:33 (eighteen years ago)

Also... Dinosaur ca. Yr Living All Over Me

― NickB (NickB), Thursday, 11 January 2007 23:18 (eighteen years ago)

Sicbay

― M@tt He1geson: Sassy and I Don't Care Who Knows It (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 11 January 2007 23:19 (eighteen years ago)

"(...sorry for the pedantic rambling. Damn, it's great to have ILM back! Who won the bassist death-match?)"

The honorable gent from Money Jungle.

― Candy: tastes like chicken, if chicken was a candy. (Austin, Still), Thursday, 11 January 2007 23:26 (eighteen years ago)

goddamn! could that woman have the most beautiful rack in rock?

If Mission of Burma didn't have such a shitty drummer, them! I think Green Day can be pretty damn thunderous when they put their mind to it…

The James Gang!

― veronica moser (veronica moser), Thursday, 11 January 2007 23:36 (eighteen years ago)

Parts & Labor have the potential, if they can keep up the quality level since Stay Afraid

― S- (sgh), Friday, 12 January 2007 04:01 (eighteen years ago)

feedtime and the ayler trio need to be mentioned.

― dan (dan), Friday, 12 January 2007 05:57 (eighteen years ago)

but what about:

Tony Williams Lifetime on "Emergency!" ?

Bob James Trio on "Explosion" ?

Moebius Roedelius Schnitzler on "Eruption" ?

Moebius Plank Neumeier on "Zero Set" ?

Czukay Wobble Liebezeit on "Full Circle" ?

all awesome trios you must admit . . .

― Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Friday, 12 January 2007 06:07 (eighteen years ago)

feedtime

― PAUL FUCKING ROBINSON (electricsound), Friday, 12 January 2007 06:09 (eighteen years ago)

Neu.

― Bear, is that you? (wolfwolfwolf), Friday, 12 January 2007 06:10 (eighteen years ago)

Trio (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trio_(band))

― Dan Heilman (The Deacon), Friday, 12 January 2007 16:11 (eighteen years ago)

mutantes
minutemen
this heat
slits
dna

new ones
times new viking
broadcast?
psychic paramount

― flavio pessoa (flavio pessoa), Friday, 12 January 2007 17:14 (eighteen years ago)

oh, and the band who played with gal costa on "fatal"

― flavio pessoa (flavio pessoa), Friday, 12 January 2007 17:14 (eighteen years ago)

Guru Guru? Not really, just thought I'd mention them as no-one else has.

― Tom D. (Dada), Friday, 12 January 2007 17:23 (eighteen years ago)

Nirvana.

― Luke Slater (Alan Bean), Friday, 12 January 2007 17:57 (eighteen years ago)

two years pass...

Phil posted this on his blog today:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUud1VvdQsU

It just freakin' rocks.

― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 5 August 2009 01:37 (sixteen years ago)

Expose.

― Anatomy of a Morbius (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 5 August 2009 01:40 (sixteen years ago)

i'm torn between budgie and fun boy three. or dust and bananarama. can't decide.

― scott seward, Wednesday, 5 August 2009 02:19 (sixteen years ago)

These guys certainly deserve a mention.

http://www.smileysmile.net/uncanny/media/users/djm/death.jpg

― leavethecapital, Wednesday, 5 August 2009 02:31 (sixteen years ago)

way upthread: Money Jungle as in the Ellington, Mingus & Roach album? I'd agree.

About the Slits: I read that that tight rhythm section wasn't even them! Corroborate? I hope someone shoots this down, because I felt so deflated when I read it.

― bamcquern, Wednesday, 5 August 2009 03:09 (sixteen years ago)

It's not exactly a power trio because there's pedal steel on a couple of songs, but Dylan's band on John Wesley Harding (Charlie McCoy and Kenny Buttrey) is an acoustic power trio---and not just because there are only three players. This thread never settled what's meant by "power" in "power trio" but I think Dylan's band meets the description despite being acoustic, which is why I mention them here. I don't think I'd vote for them over others on this list, but they deserve mention.

― wide swing juggalo (Euler), Wednesday, 5 August 2009 06:53 (sixteen years ago)

Supergrass

― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 5 August 2009 08:36 (sixteen years ago)

I was scrolling down this thread hoping that someone would post the James Gang clip and EZ S did! Thanks!

― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 5 August 2009 08:37 (sixteen years ago)

― sonofstan, Wednesday, 5 August 2009 14:31 (sixteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhQJE7AUdxI

― nicky lo-fi, Friday, 7 August 2009 21:32 (sixteen years ago)

big star!

― Henry Frog (Frogman Henry), Friday, 7 August 2009 21:34 (sixteen years ago)

the Jimi Hendrix Experience

― nicky lo-fi, Friday, 7 August 2009 21:35 (sixteen years ago)

Melvins

― Alex in SF, Friday, 7 August 2009 21:40 (sixteen years ago)

Although I think they have a second drummer now.

― Alex in SF, Friday, 7 August 2009 21:40 (sixteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zj9IAvv32wE

― （　´_ゝ˙） (Dr. Phil), Friday, 7 August 2009 21:40 (sixteen years ago)

I'll have to agree with Blue Cheer, but that James Gang clip is like 20 years ahead of its time! wtf??!?

― Fetchboy, Friday, 7 August 2009 21:47 (sixteen years ago)

i always wish i like robin trower more than i do. great guitarist but the singing never does it for me on bridge of sighs

― moonship ay to bay bay (M@tt He1ges0n), Friday, 7 August 2009 22:13 (sixteen years ago)

Considering Jimmy Dewar was one of the best singers in blues rock for that kind of material, I can understand you not getting Robin Trower if Bridge of Sighs doesn't appeal. Trower definitively owned stadiums ca. that period. One of the better shows I saw was him with Rush opening at the
Spectrum. Two power trios, both smoking.

but that James Gang clip is like 20 years ahead of its time! wtf??!?

No, more like right in time for upgrade in voltage from psychedelic hippie music to hard rock.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qetmhNCxB18

Grand Funk around '69. Some of the YouTube clips from '72 are pretty clip but, technically, they had Craig Frost off to the side doing keys.

As they moved into the Seventies, Grand Funk got more concise and wrote pop songs. Early, the huge numbers of fans came out for the OTT long and screeching jams. You either loved it or hated it. The former for me.

― Gorge, Friday, 7 August 2009 23:44 (sixteen years ago)

Some of the YouTube clips from '72 are pretty clip

That'd be pretty hip...

― Gorge, Friday, 7 August 2009 23:46 (sixteen years ago)

Surprisingly, Grand Funk kept a lot of the hippie music attitude when they were under Terry Knight. When they started getting radio pop hits post Knight, they left it behind.

― Gorge, Friday, 7 August 2009 23:48 (sixteen years ago)

Blue Sheep, girl trio, doing an exact version of Grand Funk's "Got This Thing On the Move."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7N7fXEj6XM

Bravo! I'd buy an album of that.

― Gorge, Friday, 7 August 2009 23:59 (sixteen years ago)

another vote for high rise

― moonship journey to baja, Saturday, 8 August 2009 00:06 (sixteen years ago)

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