New Wave/Punk Musicians who were serious players

Gassage

Just musing- a lot of the punk/New Wave era was about not being able to play, supposedly. Yet some amazing musicans came out of it.

The Police for one- 3 virtuosoes.

The Stranglers- JJ is one of the truly great bassists, Jet and Greenfield superb players.

Elliot Easton- one of the greats of picking...

Who else?

viz

SLF drummers Brian Faloon and Jim Reilly

Gassage

Oh yeah- drummers- the sublime Clem Burke.

And James Honeyman-Scott- Pretenders guitarist.

boogieman

Steve Jones wrote some magnificent riffs. I don't know if that makes him a serious player or not but he obviously knew his way round a guitar.

randomhandclaps

John Honeyman-Scott. 

LOL, was struggling to right that on my phone whilst Gassage had already posted him.

Paul_C

all of the musicians in The Ruts were pretty good, same goes for The Attractions.

paulads

boogieman

randomhandclaps;549595" said:

John Honeyman-Scott.

James?

Gassage

Simon Gallup and Porl Thompson- the latter is an astonishing guitarist.

paulads

Glenn Tilbrook of Squeeze...great guitarist, great singer and a great songwriter too

and Nicky "topper" Headon of The Clash was a fantastic drummer

Gassage

So I was just posting about Polr Thompson, a stunning guitarist....amazing...

I knew he'd fallen out hugely with the Cure and flogged everything...now it appears he's about to have a sex change!

Gassage

paulads said:

Glenn Tilbrook of Squeeze...great guitarist, great singer and a great songwriter too

and Nicky "topper" Headon of The Clash was a fantastic drummer

Gilson Lavis and Jools of course.

randomhandclaps

boogieman said:

randomhandclaps;549595" said:

John Honeyman-Scott.

James?

Yeah James was good too but his brother John was a genius! :-\"

randomhandclaps

Porl is now Pearl Thompson.

Gassage

randomhandclaps said:

Porl is now Pearl Thompson.

When he sold his entire Cure gear I was torn between bidding on the Cornish board or the latex clothing ensemble.

paulads

pearl's a minger

Gassage

paulads said:

pearl's a minger

I see what you did there.

RocknRollDave

Lots of great suggestions above, pretty much agree with all of them. Thread full of win, IMO

Gassage

John Perry - the Only Ones. Another Girl is still one of my fave songs ever.

paulads

some great thought-provoking lyrics, too...that was perhaps the most important thing about it...though i did used to appreciate being kept informed of where Supertramp were having their Breakfast or whatever...but Strummer, Weller, Costello and many more gave me something I'll always appreciate

Gassage

One punk lyric that always sticks with me\

"Although I'm young
I got a job to do
there's a microfilm in the lining of my shoe!!"

(Blondie- Contact in Red Square)