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Give me your 3 favs as of this moment.

In no particular order my choices are...

1) Grand Funk Railroad
2) Motorhead
3) Mountain

*special mention to Buddy Holly and the Crickets as one of the first power trios...to show that it actually could be done.

die Ärzte
Alkaline Trio
Beck, Bogert & Appice
Ben Folds Five
Biffy Clyro
blink-182
Blue Cheer
Budgie
Cream
The Cribs
Dinosaur Jr
Divlje Jagode
Emerson, Lake, and Palmer
Everclear
Feeder
Glass Harp
Goo Goo Dolls
Gov't Mule
Grand Funk Railroad
Green Day
Guster
Hot Tuna {when electric}
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
The Jam
The James Gang
Jawbreaker
Keane
King's X
The Living End
Los Lonely Boys
Manilla Road
John Mayer Trio
Melvins
Minutemen
The Mods
Motörhead
Mountain
Morphine
MxPx
Muse
Nirvana
The Police
Placebo
Primus
Robin Trower
Rush
Silverchair
Sublime
Stereophonics
Stray Cats
The Subways
Taste
Three Dirty Birds
Triumph
Violent Femmes
We Are Scientists
West, Bruce and Laing
Wolfmother
ZZ Top

Tell me you love 3!!!

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Rush, ZZTop and ELP. Those are the ones I've listened to the most. I think Rush is the most musically gifted.

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Blue Cheer, Cream, Hendrix. All day long.

uhm... Mountain was never a trio, I don't think.
They had a keyboard player, whose name was Steve Knight. He never got any solos to speak of, though...

Anyway, my favs:

1. Jimi Hendrix Experience
2. Cream
3. Groundhogs

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"bit of nostalgia for the old folks."

I always think of the Chili Peppers as a trio, since they only have 3 instrumentalists. Most trios fill the space with bombacity, or have a dominant guitar player. I like the Peppers because they do it with RHYTHM, which I think is pretty unique.

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At least 2/3rd's of those bands are shite. Pick some good trio's, for Christ's sake.

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Good pun. Father...son...and holy spirit. One of the first tri-partite groups though I don't think they could get their collective act together for a single gig.


That's just a generic list to get the ball rolling. No rights/ no wrongs.

Can't even name 3 from such a lousy list??

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Stevens, Levin & Bozzio

ProjeKct III Fripp, Gunn, Mastelloto

ProjecKct II Fripp, Gun, Belew

Tonny Williams Lifetime (Williams, McLaughlin & Young)

Crosby, Stills and Nash (?)

Zappa, Cuccurullo and Colaiuta (immortalized While You Were Out)...

Zappa, O'Hearn and Bozzio (immortalized the ocean and filthy habits)

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Hi, my first post here.

1: Stanley Clarke, Al Dimeola, Jean-Luc Ponty Rite Of Strings Trio.
2: Johnny Winter, Jon Paris, Tom Compton.
3: John McLaughlin, Al Dimeola, Paco Delucia.

hey spacebro
nice trios

i like

beck boggert appice


or

charlie angels

Actually it was Dave Parlato who played on "Filthy Habits". He would have been on "Ocean" too but then Partick O'Hearn brought his upright bass to FZ' studio and the rest was history.

Primus, Rush and Hendrix.

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Gee, I dunno if Buddy Holly and the Crickets qualify as a power trio.
Just because there are only three members doesn't exactly qualify a band as a power trio.
If it did, by that logic you'd have to throw in Jonny Cash & The Tennessee Two

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"If Frank Zappa cut a fart and mixed it to stereo, I'd buy it!" - jimmie d

I'm thinking of checking out Massacre (avant). Fred Frith was in it. Anyone familiar with that avant power trio?

Here is a few more.

1: John McLaughlin, Trilok Gurtu, and Jonas Hellborg.
2: Steve Morse, Dave LaRue, Van Romaine.
3: Alvin Lee and Ten Years Later.

Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, Tony Williams

Eric Bell, Philip Lynott, Brian Downey (Thin Lizzy)

Jan Hammer, Neal Schon, Colin Hodgkinson (Schon/Hammer - Untold Passion)

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Herbie Hancock, Jaco Pastorius, Harvey Mason

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TB -

One of my fave trios.

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"Listen to that noise! It's like Barry White eating wasps."

THE WHO*

*for the instruments anyway.

Spinal Tap was not a power trio, was it ? what about all the drummers (that died? ) ..

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Rory Gallagher & Band (Gerry Mc Avoy, Ted McKenna)

Johnny Winter & Band (Mark Epstein, Tom Compton)

The Jam

I liked ELP when I was much younger in the 70's.

And I liked Die Ärzte in the 80's. Now my daughter is listening to them and I must say they are still good.

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Yes, I don't think a singer changes the basic fact of a power trio. Given that the thread title specifically says "Power Trio", I always thought that was Lead Guitar, Bass Guitar and Drums. So Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath would have to get a look in there.

I kind of grew out of power trios a long time ago when I started getting into FZ and 20th C classical, but I still have a soft spot for them. Historically I think The Band of Gypsys are the definitive power trio. My sister bought that for me when I was a kid and it was the best present she's ever bought for me.

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The way I see it Barry, this should be a very dynamite show.

Hahaha they were a Trio, thats good enough for me!

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