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camper88One is a solo artist, two is a duo, three is a trio, four is a quartet, and five is a quintet, and so on. Beyond the solo artist, they're all groups. That's why the AMA allows them all to compete in the same category.
Group, n. two or more figures forming a complete unit in a composition.
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camper88
Buy yourself a dictionary or learn how to use google. But stop being an idiot.
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camper88
One is a solo artist, two is a duo, three is a trio, four is a quartet, and five is a quintet, and so on. Beyond the solo artist, they're all groups. That's why the AMA allows them all to compete in the same category.
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camper88
I hope that's not blowing stoner's mind but that's about as hard as this concept gets: a duo is also a group (of two), like a square is also a rectangle, like a dolphin is also a mammal.
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slew
What about the Kinks?
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Wry Cooter
This thread is an effin' mess!
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camper88
I know . . . mind blown
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camper88
I know . . . mind blown
Not quite.
You seem to like wiki as an authority, so here's one for you:
"Because of [Hall & Oates'] chart success, Billboard magazine named them the most successful duo of the rock era, surpassing The Everly Brothers."
Hmmm. Why not just compare them to The Beatles or Jimi Hendrix Experience--could it be that a duo is in a class of its own.... as a opposed to a group or a band?
Let's read on....
"In 2003, Hall and Oates were inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Billboard magazine had Hall & Oates at No. 15 on their list of the 100 greatest artists of all time and the No. 1 duo."
Number 1 duo? That should also make them no. 1 above all groups/bands, but no, they're just a duo.
Know why they're just a duo? Because they had groups of musicians playing behind them, the Hall & Oates band, the Simon and Garfunkel band, the Everly Brothers band.
When on stage they feature a group behind them, because if you are just two, you are just a pair, a duo, and not a band or a group.
Two's company, three's a crowd.
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NoCode0680
I don't think Billboard keeps a separate chart for duos
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stonehearted
And since we're discussing bands with stringed instruments, it takes 3 to make a group, because this is what it takes to form a band:
According to the above illustration, 2 as a duo does not a group make.
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Spodlumt
ZZ TOP - SAME LINEUP SINCE 1969!
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NoCode0680
Bands don't have to have any stringed instruments. Or drums for that matter.
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NoCode0680
Bands don't have to have any stringed instruments. Or drums for that matter.
That may be well and good in today's computerized, super-sampled, technotronic Millenium, but the title for this thread begins with "1960s bands", and I can't name any off-hand that didn't have all of the above included in their set-up--that being guitar, bass, and drums. Even The Doors used a bass player to record all their albums. But maybe you know something about 1960s bands I don't.
And by the way, every 1960s act mentioned in this thread was a band, a group, except Simon and Garfunkel, who were a duo, a pair, and had to have a group of musicians playing behind them, otherwise it would just be one acoustic guitar and two voices.
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camper88
Q: Who won the 2013 Brit Awards for Best International Group?
A: The Black Keys.
Not bad for a duo
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Wroclaw
The Shadows and the JImi Hendrix experience (*)
* can all unite at the next world.
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tatters
The Rascals reunion tour has me wondering if there are any other groups that released records in the 1960s who are still touring with ALL of their original members. I came up with only one:
Crosby, Stills and Nash
Any others?
Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young?
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NoCode0680
Bands don't have to have any stringed instruments. Or drums for that matter.
That may be well and good in today's computerized, super-sampled, technotronic Millenium, but the title for this thread begins with "1960s bands", and I can't name any off-hand that didn't have all of the above included in their set-up--that being guitar, bass, and drums. Even The Doors used a bass player to record all their albums. But maybe you know something about 1960s bands I don't.
And by the way, every 1960s act mentioned in this thread was a band, a group, except Simon and Garfunkel, who were a duo, a pair, and had to have a group of musicians playing behind them, otherwise it would just be one acoustic guitar and two voices.
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tatters
Lots of times a band's original lineup is not the same thing as its best-known lineup. For example, all five members of Genesis's best-known lineup are still very much alive, and Genesis did release an album in 1969, but not all of those five guys were on it. So it gets a bit tricky.
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2000 LYFH
I forget which thread title I am responding to but the:
Vanilla Fudge - very good Long Island band from the 60's (managed by reputed Lucchese crime family member Phillip Basile).
Tim Bogert is now retired, but Mark Stein, Vince Martell and the great drummer Carmine Appice are still touring.
For those that do not know Bogert and Appice teamed up with Jeff Beck around 1973 for a short lived group - Beck, Bogert & Appice. Bogert & Appice were also in a band called Cactus...
I saw them in 2011 on their farewell tour. They said they were retiring--have they changed their mind?
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treaclefingers
Remember, I'm here to help.
And you're doing a hell of a job, Brownie. :-)
Please consider these entries from Wiki:
The White Stripes were an American rock duo, formed in 1997 in Detroit, Michigan. The group consisted of drummer Meg White (drums and occasional vocals) and songwriter Jack White (vocals, guitar, and keyboards).
The Black Keys is an American rock band formed in Akron, Ohio in 2001. The group consists of Dan Auerbach (guitar, vocals) and Patrick Carney (drums).
Tenacious D is a . . . well you know the rest.
I hope that's not blowing stoner's mind . . .
. . . but that's about as hard as this concept gets: a duo is also a group (of two), like a square is also a rectangle, like a dolphin is also a mammal.