I joined a band about fifteen years ago as lead singer having never been in a group before.Emley White wrote:Come on guys, Abba are one of THE greatest groups ever.
I can't play anything, but was a DJ and worked in a record shop so why the heck not, right ?
It really opened my eyes to a whole different side to music and your statement reminds me one of the first conversations my band-mates and I had about the "rules" of being in a group.
One of them was about the stuff you could - and more importantly - could not play.
Remember that scene in Wayne's World where they go into a music store and there's a sign up by the guitar section with "NO STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN" on it ?
That song came up along with anything by The Beatles, Elvis and Deep Purple's Smoke On The Water.
Abba are unquestionably one of the best bands of all time, certainly one of the most commercially successful (remember the event that was the movie coming out in cinemas ?) and also one of the most influential, albeit in an indirect way given they latched on to the disco thing in the same way, say, that The Rolling Stones channelled the blues through their own sound.
... BUT I wish I could have had a sign saying "NO DANCING QUEEN" when DJing a wedding :ugeek: