Average White Band - the 15th most sampled act in history!

[ska invita]

Agree vocals weak but very, very few could and prob ever will, come close to J Brown Esq re vocal skills

Was jsut about to say JB wasnt a good comparison really...not sure who they sound like most, in terms of song structures...Isley Brothers probably a better match...

 

[ska invita]

Average White vocals ;-)

Just got them up on Spotify and theres a few tunes that sound quite Mick Hucknallish!

 

[lefteri]

Just got them up on Spotify and theres a few tunes that sound quite Mick Hucknallish!

 

[lefteri]

guardian feature on pick up the pieces: Average White Band: how we made Pick Up the Pieces

 

[lefteri]

guardian feature on pick up the pieces: Average White Band: how we made Pick Up the Pieces

really quite tragic

 

[editor]

guardian feature on pick up the pieces: Average White Band: how we made Pick Up the Pieces

a lot of it was down to our drummer, Robbie McIntosh. If the music wasn’t funky, he wouldn’t play. He was an absolute groove-master, which was strange for a guy from Dundee.

So Robbie didn’t live to see Pick Up the Pieces go to No 1 in America a few months later. He was such a character, the magnet that brought us together – everyone wanted to play with him. It took us years to get over losing him. We were literally picking up the pieces. It went from being a song about being skint to being a song about Robbie.

He does a little fill at the end of that song which is fucking sensational.