Who are the best teams in drum 'n' bass?
Who do you want driving yr band along?
Any genre, any period in history.
I'll show my hand : Robbie Shakespeare & Sly Dunbar
Let's Groove people....

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Robbie Shakespeare & Sly Dunbar

...from which band?

Mike Watt and George Hurley from the minutemen are incredible. powerful, funky and so tight. probably the perfect rhythm section..

lightning bolt are amazing as a drum and bass combo, but you cant really imagine them as a rhythm section with other instruments playing.

Sly and Robbie have been playing together since the early '70s as back up to some of the greatest names in music.
Peter Tosh
Black Uhuru (which was their band I guess)
Grace Jones
Bob Dylan
Herbie Hancock
and many reggae/dub outfits still

They are powerful, tasteful, groovy and innovative.

I agree with the Minutemen boys and Lightning Bolt...both fantastic acts.
I mean, think of Wyman/Watts-Stones
Moon/Entwistle-Who
or maybe you like the guys from TV on the Radio (names escape me).....

There will be dozens of names thrown around in this thread, but it really comes down to Entwhistle/Moon vs. Bonham/John Paul Jones. Nobody else really comes close.

Colin Greenwood and Phil Selway. 'Nuff said.

Though Joe Lally and Brendan Canty are a close second.

The Funkmasters. Those who served in James Brown's rhythm section throughout the '60s & '70s. To name a few: Bootsy Collins, Fred Thomas, Jabo Starks, Ray Brundidge and Clyde Stubblefield.

John Bonham and JP Jones are big.

I quite like Bloc Party's boys.

The Funkmasters are absolutely fantastic indeed.
They had never been given the recognition they deserve as being central to the development of late 20th century music, until the great doco Standing in the Shadows of Motown.

I think John Bonham and John Paul Jones have to top the list. Honourable mention, though- Jeff Ament and Dave Abruzzese of Pearl Jam.

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Originally posted by 1080tele:
I think John Bonham and John Paul Jones have to top the list. Honourable mention, though- Jeff Ament and Dave Abruzzese of Pearl Jam.

Thats like saying "The best baseball player ever is Babe Ruth, with honorable mention to Chipper Jones."

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Originally posted by Ishmaelscoffin:
The Funkmasters are absolutely fantastic indeed.
They had never been given the recognition they deserve as being central to the development of late 20th century music, until the great doco Standing in the Shadows of Motown.

I think you're confusing the Funkmasters and the Funk Brothers. The Funkmasters backed James Brown, the Funk Brothers backed Motown peformers.

And my vote would go to the Funk Brothers. James Jamerson + any of their drummers was lights out. Also aside from the obvious JPJ/Bonham and Entwistle/Moon combos, I've always liked The Dismemberment Plan's rhythm section.

yeh, yr right, I didn't read the whole post. Just saw the word funk and raced to write.
Shocking on my part...cos I did mean Jamerson and Benny Benjamin and all that great work they did for The Temptations et al.
Another great pair were the guys Bowie used for his Berlin Trilogy..Dennis Davis..and damn, I cant remember the other guys name, and all my Bowie cd's are in another country...sheesh, i'm going well here....

Nothing competes with the great rhythm sections that Miles Davis and even John Coltrane surrounded themselves. Coined as the "great quintets," they featured immensely significant musicians. On bass, Davis would recruit Paul Chambers, Charles Mingus, Percy Heath, and/or Ron Carter to name a few. On drums Art Blakely, Philly Joe Jones, Jimmy Cobb and/or Tony Williams are just a few more that would play with Davis' quintets. That's not even mentioning that a true rhythm section includes a piano player and Davis would get Herbie Hancock, Bill Evans or TheloniousMonk (again to name a few) to play. Any of these flawless musicians were nothing less than excellent and as close to perfect as possible. Having any of these in your rhythm section would be the perfect way to go and there are few musicians—if any—that are comparable to any of the aforementioned.

I think the rhythm section for Bob Dylan's band has contributed substantially to the greatness of his last three albums, (particularly Time Out Of Mind).

While I agree with the Entwhistle/Moon combination I think that Dave Grohl/Krist Novoselic come very close to the top.

The Herbie Hancock assembled Head Hunters. Just listen to Headhunters and tell me that is not bliss.

Headhunters is groooooooove central, brothers and sisters.
They ARE rhythm on that album.

John McVie (bass) and Mick Fleetwood (drums) - Fleetwood Mac. Listen to "Go Your Own Way" Perfect!