Your favorite backing band?

The Band

 

The Blues Brothers...seriously. That lineup was incredible.

 

How exactly do you figure that they were 'a 'backing band'?

 

The Swampers aka The Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section: Barry Beckett, keyboards; Roger Hawkins, drums; David Hood, bass; Jimmy Johnson, guitar.

 

All the great house bands: The Funk Brothers, The Wrecking Crew, The MGs. The Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section. The Famous Flames, The JB's. The Band/The Hawks. The E Street Band, The Rumour. Crazy Horse. The Attractions.

 

I'm sure he's referring to their days backing Ronnie Hawkins (as The Hawks) and especially Bob Dylan.

 

i am not a big elvis fan these days , but i will tell you i saw the attractions in the am guessing late 70's and man did the smoke. the tension between costello and naive was obvious and the rhythm section was smoking.

 

Right, right on!

 

Quote from Wikipedia:

"Originally the backing band for Ronnie Hawkins and later Bob Dylan, the group released its debut album, Music from Big Pink, in 1968 to critical acclaim".

 

Glenn Miller

 

It's probably Motown's Funk Brothers for me, I guess 'cuz I was born in Detroit and grew up there.

L.A.'s Wrecking Crew collective are on equal footing, as are Philadelphia's 'M.F.S B.'
❨Mother Father Sister Brother❩

hon. mention goes to :

Muscle Shoals' Swampers,
and the Stax House Band

 

The Heartbreakers. Not only did their career with Tom Petty span 40 years, constantly putting out new, relevant music... But they were also all very prominent musicians on other peoples albums as collaborators and producers.

 

miles davis second quintet

 

The Funk Brothers

 

I been watching this one a lot lately and I think some of these guys (and girls) are pretty good.

 

Any band made up of Nashville studio players- they're got practically unbeatable chops when it comes to guitar based music. Jeff Beck was glad they weren't better known bc, in his words, 'I'd be out job.' I view a backing band as more than a sympathetic backdrop to the front person, that's not too hard once the band is played in bit. Being infinitely versatile and knowing half a million songs coupled with the ability to be fluent in many genres puts you right up at the top. Sorry Attractions and crazy Horse, you need not apply.

 

I probably thought about this in February and couldn't think of anything I'm excited about. Heartbreakers and E Street Band certainly have the talent and many moments, but sometimes they're uninteresting to me. I finally identified a favorite. The News. Yeah, Huey Lewis's band! They're not individually famous, but the prime years lineup was always lively, varied the style, showed off on every instrument, and could sing well also. Built from a version that was good enough for Elvis Costello.

 

The Bad Seeds
Joe Jackson Band
The Magic Band
Crazy Horse

 

Wings 1975-1976

Prince's 1987 Sign O The Times/1988 Lovesexy band (incredible!)

The Heartbreakers

Bob Dylan's band circa 1979-1981

Frank Zappa - the original Mothers

 

The Dixie Flyers

 

The Detroit Wheels.

 

X-Pensive Winos

 

isn't that the same on that backed every other jazz album made during that time?

kind of like the wrecking crew of jazz.

red garland
philly joe jones
mccaay tyner
elvin jones'

there were a few others, but not a whole lot.

 

Ozzy's first lineup (Randy Rhoads/Bob Daisley/Lee Kerslake/Don Airey)
Gary Moore's "Corridor Of Power" lineups (Neil Murray/Ian Paice/Don Airey and/or Tommy Eyre)

 

The Silver Bullet Band ( Bob Seger )
The Delaware Destroyers ( George Thorogood )
The Rumour ( Graham Parker )
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band

I also liked Ian Gillans backing band with Bernie Torme, John McCoy and Mick Underwood