The Best Three-Piece Bands Ever

mf14 · 09-03-2011 4:53pm #1

hey peopole

just wanna know who u tink ar the best three piece bands ever?

i know, random :P

Thanks guys!

BizzyC · 09-03-2011 5:25pm

Rush

Savman · 09-03-2011 5:42pm

Sugababes.

JBnaglfar · 09-03-2011 6:54pm

I have to say Rush aswell.

rockintothebone · 09-03-2011 6:59pm

greenday

Revolution9 · 09-03-2011 7:03pm

From the top of my head the only bands I can think of are Nirvana, Green Day, Blink-182 and Two Door Cinema Club

Malice · 09-03-2011 7:27pm

mf14 wrote: »

hey peopole

just wanna know who u tink ar the best three piece bands ever? i know, random :P

Thanks guys!

mf14: Please proofread your posts before submitting and don't inflict txt spk on the rest of us. You've got a full keyboard, please use it.

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DrGonzo111 · 09-03-2011 7:41pm

nothing comes close to The Band Of Gypsys, Buddy Miles on drums/vocals, Billy Cox-bass and Hendrix! that live album recorded at the fillmore east NYC new years eve/day 1969/1970 is so good it still scares me. esp the versions of Message of Love and Machine Gun. pure genius and funky as ****! its the only live hendrix concert (that ive heard) where the audience is totally silent during the songs, i.e. you dont hear idiots calling out for "Play Purple Haze Man" , the crowd are just stunned at what they are watching, a man totally possessed, and a band as tight as a mosquito's asshole!

mike65 · 09-03-2011 7:44pm

Cream or Rush or Burning Tree or, ah one of them. The Jam were pretty damned good.

DailyBlaa · 09-03-2011 8:07pm

I would have to say Nirvana or REM. Two very different groups but none the less very good.

Android 666 · 09-03-2011 9:00pm

My votes are for

Husker Du:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1sYN0PuRs4

Ben Folds Five:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7-jiEbWUUc

Cream:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fLn9Z1G_LE

NoMeansNo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppR6LcGnkUY

Grant Lee Buffalo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I79n15-EleM

Beastie Boys:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhqyZeUlE8U

Fandango · 09-03-2011 9:09pm

Muse

Mr. Presentable · 09-03-2011 9:12pm

The Supremes

MickShamrock · 09-03-2011 9:45pm

Nirvana
Therapy
The Fall Of Troy

lordgoat · 09-03-2011 10:41pm

Pixies.

Also REM are not a 3 piece band.

Android 666 · 09-03-2011 11:00pm

lordgoat wrote: »

Pixies.

Also REM are not a 3 piece band.

They are since Bill Berry left.

Also Pixies are not a 3 piece band.

JerryHandbag · 09-03-2011 11:00pm

Jimi Hendrix Experience.

As for todays bands, I like Band Of Skulls

09-03-2011 11:04pm

Nirvana, green day (back in the day before they were, what, a seven piece?!) Therapy?, kerbdog and throwing muses.

Btw, I would not categorise beastie boys as a three piece either. I'm sure there's a dj in there somewhere!

Edited to add: yes it's the jimi hendrix trio. I doubt anything will ever come close.

ricero · 10-03-2011 12:15am

for me its between muse and green day

Hannibal · 10-03-2011 1:38am

Jimi Hendrix Experience without a doubt
difference with the likes of Muse who have addittional live members so they arent a true three piece

Dudess · 10-03-2011 1:44am

Babes in Toyland sprang to my mind immediately.

Shield · 10-03-2011 1:49am

The Police*

*yes, I realise the irony

Nailz · 10-03-2011 9:15am

John Zorn's Moonchild, of course not including John Zorn himself, who's the composer.
Morbid Angel were awesome when they were a three-piece.
Fun Lovin' Criminals, love their stuff.
Tomahawk are currently a three-piece.
Primus, of course!
Immortal.
Taste (Rory Gallagher's first record releasing band, for those who don't know)
The Beastie Boys too.

delbertgrady · 10-03-2011 11:40am

+ 1 for Rush.

I'd also nominate the original three-piece Elton John Band, with Elton on piano, Dee Murray on bass and Nigel Olsson on drums, as best heard on the live album 17-11-70.

Poor Craythur · 10-03-2011 7:19pm

Ash.

I know they became a four-piece, but they were at their best as a three-piece.

wandatowell · 10-03-2011 8:41pm

Early Rory Gallagher band perhaps? Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double trouble?? Jimi Hendrix???

How about Motorhead, they are a three piece if memory serves

newspower · 10-03-2011 8:48pm

Has to be Taste, Hendrix Experience and Cream - in that order. Rory Gallagher and Taste has be top of the list.:)

Cole · 10-03-2011 9:48pm

A lot of three-piece bands with great guitarists mentioned here, so it's only appropriate to add another great to the list, Jeff Healey.

Here he is with his band.

rcaz · 11-03-2011 2:02pm

The Flaming Lips

Alright when they play shows there's five of them, and I think Kliph's been a 'proper' member since Embryonic, but when they made Zaireeka, The Soft Bulletin and Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots, it was just Wayne, Steven and Michael.

RayCon · 11-03-2011 2:57pm

Rush.

Thread can be locked now.;)

Superbus · 12-03-2011 11:24am

The Shaggs

adamokeefe · 18-03-2011 11:03am

Dirty Three

smokedeels · 18-03-2011 1:38pm

The Minutemen - I love the sound of Mike Watt's dexterous Bass playing against D Boon's treble heavy guitar, Watt's still a total legend and Boon's dead, which is a shame.

Nomeansno

Shellac - When people think of drumming, Todd Trainer deserves to be floating around their mind too. Albini are Weston and well... themselves, I don't need to "big-them-up", but these lads play so well together, listen to this for example. They do silence really well.

Mclusky

Lysol era Melvins, w/ Joe Preston

InTheTrees · 18-03-2011 8:01pm

dude...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vppbdf-qtGU

InTheTrees · 18-03-2011 8:04pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lG0L86DRuC8

Choochtown · 19-03-2011 9:08am

The original PJ Harvey band that toured "Dry" were feckin' awesome!

AwayWithFaries · 19-03-2011 3:05pm

I'll have to go for Cream, Nirvana and Muse in that order.
Also gonna mention Crosby, Stills & Nash (CSN) since no one else has. Although I'm sure someone will have a go at me for it :rolleyes:

Cole · 19-03-2011 8:25pm

Supergrass were pretty good.

Although I've always been familiar with them, they kind of passed under my musical radar at the time. I got a compilation album a while ago, only appreciated then just how good some of their stuff was.