{"id":2806,"date":"2010-06-27T22:38:06","date_gmt":"2010-06-28T02:38:06","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-06-27T22:38:06","modified_gmt":"2010-06-27T22:38:06","slug":"musicians-whose-key-value-to-band-is-their-look","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/musicians-whose-key-value-to-band-is-their-look\/","title":{"rendered":"Musicians Whose Key Value to Band Is Their Look"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Quaife, on left.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Let’s get deeper than answers like “Andrew Ridgely in Wham!” Think of musicians who don’t seem to display any particular, irreplaceable musical identity to their bands yet whose Look fuctions as their key value to their band.<\/p>\n

I’ve long thought this was Pete Quaife<\/a><\/strong>‘s main value to The Kinks<\/strong>. That’s not to diminish his playing, which is always solid, supportive, and energetic, but visually I thought he was the fulcrum for the ambivalent, explosive dynamic of Ray and Dave Davies as well as the squarely “working-class mug” aspect anchored by Mick Avory<\/strong>. His replacement, John Gosling<\/strong>, couldn’t pull together the visual aspects of the band, allowing Ray’s Dandy side to run rampant and leaving Dave without the necessary guiding hand that Quaife’s semi-tough\/semi-sensitive Look provided.<\/p>\n

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Which one would you trust to know what to do with California girls?<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Maybe the best example of a band member whose Look was his key value to his band is Dennis Wilson<\/strong>. His Look embodied much of what The Beach Boys<\/strong> sang about. Without his Look they likely would have been a footnote in rock history, or a well-regarded band of dorky hit-makers, like The Turtles<\/strong>. Brian Wilson<\/strong> could be replaced, but no one could replace Dennis, not even John Stamos<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Quaife, on left. Let’s get deeper than answers like “Andrew Ridgely in Wham!” Think of musicians who don’t seem to display any particular, irreplaceable musical identity to their bands yet whose Look fuctions as their key value to their band.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[77],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2806"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}