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DrMaddVibe

10-26-2006, 04:20 PM

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061026/en_nm/arts_duranduran_dc&printer=1

British band Duran Duran said guitarist Andy Taylor has left the group ahead of the U.S. leg of a world tour -- five years after the chart-topping 1980s band got back together.

A statement on the group's Web site said the relationship with Taylor had become unworkable.

"The four of us have dissolved our partnership and will be continuing as Duran Duran without Andy," said the statement.

"We have reached a point in our relationship with him where there is an unworkable gulf between us and we can no longer effectively function together," it said without giving any further details.

Duran Duran was one of Britain's biggest acts of the 1980s, with synthesizer-driven hit singles such as "Rio" and "Hungry Like the Wolf" and experimental music videos.

Its five original members -- frontman Simon Le Bon, Nick Rhodes, John Taylor, Roger Taylor and Andy Taylor (none of the Taylors are related) -- reunited about five years ago after the band went through line-up changes.

The band will continue its tour with the remaining four members, playing eight U.S. cities over the next two weeks starting with Chicago on Thursday.

They said Dom Brown would stand in as guitarist until the tour ends on November 11. Then the band will return to the studio to continue recording, following a recent collaboration with U.S. singer Justin Timberlake and producer-rapper Timbaland. A new album is expected out next year.

It is the third time that the London-based Brown has stood in for Duran Duran. He performed with the band in late 2004 and again in March 2005, according to Brown's Web site.

Brown has worked as a session player with major-label artists such as Elton John and Rod Stewart in addition to Duran Duran, the Web site says.

Ellyllions

10-26-2006, 07:10 PM

This place constantly surprises me. Happily I might add.

Duran Duran has decided to jump on the Timberlake bandwagon. They've solicited Justin Timberlake and Timbaland to help produce the forthcoming release.

The Durannies are in a complete tizzy and this is touted to be the reason that the gutarist has decided to split. Andy Taylor is rumoured to be saying that he's not working with the Hip/Hop R&B genre. He'd rather help his son's rock band Electric City get their first release than ride the popular train to a wreck.

One might say this is the true beginning of the end of Duran Duran.

C'est La Vie. Some have sold their soul for much worse.

PumpedUpMidget

10-26-2006, 08:38 PM

Andy Taylor was much better than Duran Duran, they held him back...his work on the only Power Station LP shows it

Terry

10-26-2006, 09:22 PM

Gotta forgive me for chuckling at this one a bit....

Like DD well enough. Have their Greatest Hits CD, still have a bunch of their 1980s vids, but it wasn't really earth-shattering the FIRST time Andy Taylor left the band in the mid 1980s, so I have to laugh at the thought that DD believes they had to even release a statement for the second departure by Taylor twenty years later.

There ain't a producer in the world that's gonna make them a sensation again. Why bother recording a new album that nobody is gonna buy? Go out on the road, flog the 80s catalog, and be happy with that.

Mr. Vengeance

10-26-2006, 10:14 PM

If you want to hear what Andy Taylor is really about, listen to BOTH Power Station albums, (yeah there were two), his guitar work on Rod Stewart's Out of Order, and his solo album, Thunder.

FORD

10-26-2006, 10:42 PM

Losing Andy Taylor was where Duran Duran went wrong in the first place, but I can't blame the guy. Who wants to be a guitarist in a band where synthesizers are the lead instrument?

Oh, wait a minute..........

http://www.killerisme.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/04/evh.jpg

... yeah, maybe Van Hagar's former guitarist could replace him?

Jérôme Frenchise

10-27-2006, 07:43 AM

Is it just me, or is there really only one riff that you can hear in every DD song?
You know, "dah dah dah dah dah dah, dah-dah-dah"... :D

DrMaddVibe

10-27-2006, 10:26 AM

I think its just you.

Planet Earth...Rio...Ordinary World...they don't sound anything like each other.

Jérôme Frenchise

10-27-2006, 10:29 AM

Originally posted by DrMaddVibe
I think its just you.

Planet Earth...Rio...Ordinary World...they don't sound anything like each other.

Oh, sorry. In fact I've never heard those tracks. All I know is the singles - you couldn't escape them in the mid-80s.
In retrospect, it didn't sound that bad, at least compared to today's pop. :cool:

DrMaddVibe

10-27-2006, 10:36 AM

Taylor is an amazing guitarist. He'll pop back up somewhere.

Ellyllions

10-27-2006, 10:51 AM

I'm falling in love.

It impresses me how open you guys are. Back-in-tha-day, it was sacreligious for a rock fan to admit appreciating anything Duran Duran did.

Sincerely, this makes me more comfortable being a member of this forum than anything else could have.

Donating now.

Jérôme Frenchise

10-27-2006, 12:32 PM

FORD

10-27-2006, 02:24 PM

FORD

10-27-2006, 02:29 PM

FORD

10-27-2006, 02:36 PM

FORD

10-27-2006, 02:40 PM

BITEYOASS

10-27-2006, 03:44 PM

Guess Duran Duran will have to give a call to Warren "Gay Porn star" Cuccurullo. LOL :D

Steve Savicki

10-27-2006, 03:51 PM

Electric Barbarella from '97 was the last good memorable song. Warren Cuccurullo did his best.

Aside from that, it was all beginning to about '85.

'87s "notorious" was okay, but not as memorable.

Nitro Express

10-27-2006, 04:11 PM

Andy Taylor was the only one in that band who wasn't a fag. Good guitar player. Shit, now he doesn't have to hang around Nick Roads any longer and that right there was worth quitting the has been band.

Nitro Express

10-27-2006, 04:12 PM

Andy Taylor was the only one in that band who wasn't a fag.

Diamondjimi

10-27-2006, 04:14 PM

Never could stand D.D.
Always thought they sucked major balls. Had to laff when the singer and Princess Diana had the same hairdoo's......
For a brief spell Warren Cuccurullo actually seemed to give them an edge. Don't tell me he's a poofter as well !?

Terry

10-27-2006, 09:17 PM

Warren was at his best with Missing Persons.

He's kinda like Vivian Campbell to me, in that both of them went on to join bands with higher name recognition, but they fucked up the timing; both Duran Duran and Def Leppard were already past it by the time those dudes hooked up with them, and both guitarists went on to be totally underused.

Jack68

10-27-2006, 09:34 PM

Originally posted by FORD
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Power Station - from the album that you never heard of

(and in a creepy side note, everyone in this video is dead now, except for Andy Taylor)
didnt know that.Tony thompson is dead?

Jack68

10-27-2006, 09:42 PM

So?

Seshmeister

10-27-2006, 10:04 PM

Originally posted by DrMaddVibe
Taylor is an amazing guitarist. He'll pop back up somewhere.

I'm not saying you are wrong but he definitely never used to be.

Fuck it on second thoughts I am calling you wrong because I saw him live on TV last year...:)

Andy Taylor was always a rock guitar fan trapped in Duran Duran. There is a funny bit in their shitty performance at Live Aid where if you watch you will see fat Simon Le Bonbon shout at the crew to turn AT down.

This is all fine and I have the guilty secret of actually liking the Power Station CD.

That said after he left DD Taylor tried to set himself up as a hard rock solo artist and crashed and burned.

I remember a review at the time putting it pretty well.

If you want to set yourself up as a guitar hero first learn how to play...

I agree DD got a lot worse after he left but if Andy Taylor was half as good as he thought he was he would be twice as good as he is.

Mediocre at best with a bit of CC Deville thrown in...

Cheers!

:gulp:

indeedido

10-27-2006, 10:35 PM

Andy Taylor rocks. He's a great rock guitarist. His solo album, but the soundtrack work on Miami Vice and American Anthem was good. I'd like to see him flex his guitar muscle and deliver a new album.

FORD

10-28-2006, 12:42 AM

The "unofficial" second Power Station album......

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Rod Stewart
Andy Taylor
Bernard Edwards
Tony Thompson

Probably the last thing Rod Stewart did that was worth even half a shit (but obviously nowhere his work with the Faces.)

BITEYOASS

10-28-2006, 09:31 AM

Originally posted by diamondjimi
Never could stand D.D.
Always thought they sucked major balls. Had to laff when the singer and Princess Diana had the same hairdoo's......
For a brief spell Warren Cuccurullo actually seemed to give them an edge. Don't tell me he's a poofter as well !?

No, he just posed for a gay porn mag by himself. He just did it for the cash! LOL

Ellyllions

10-28-2006, 09:56 AM

Yes, Thompson has passed away.

Quite eerie indeed.

Ya'll know the bass player, John Taylor, tried a solo career as well?
Talk about sucking! Holy shit. I can't sit through more than a couple of seconds of Taylor's solo work. But DAYUM he really works that bass with Duran Duran.

I've seen him play Rio on a fretless bass. If you're not impressed, take a second to listen to Rio and pay attention to the bass line. He'd only been playing bass for 3 years when he wrote that song.

DrMaddVibe

10-28-2006, 10:54 AM

Originally posted by Terry
Warren was at his best with Missing Persons.

I'd have to add that I thought that was a good flash in the pan band with a live gritty edge, but I thought Warren, Terry and Dale were at their peak with Frank Zappa!

FORD

10-28-2006, 07:58 PM

Panamark

10-28-2006, 10:56 PM

Originally posted by FORD
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Andy w/ Steve Jones on guitar and Terry Bozzio on drums. Not bad at all

The only thing interesting about this thread is Steve Jones !!
FORD !! whats the story behind this clip ? I never knew
a Duran Duran minion collaborated with such a legend ???

Ellyllions

10-31-2006, 08:42 AM

Duran Duran have a lot of suprises for those who wrote them off as being a "boy band".

Do an Amazon search and look at how many recordings they've done. There's like 12 albums and 6 unreleased album compilations.

indeedido

10-31-2006, 08:49 AM

steve jones played on his solo album and produced it.

Diamondjimi

10-31-2006, 06:57 PM

Originally posted by BITEYOASS
No, he just posed for a gay porn mag by himself. He just did it for the cash! LOL

By himself or not , it's rather gay. Jeezus !
Did it for the cash? WTF does this guy blow his ca$h on, steroids?:D

Panamark

10-31-2006, 10:59 PM

Originally posted by indeedido
steve jones played on his solo album and produced it.

Thanks for the info !

FORD

11-01-2006, 05:08 AM

Actually TWO Duran Duran members have worked with Steve Jones.

John Taylor played bass in Neurotic Outsiders, the mid 1990's supergroup which also featured Steve Jones and Duff McKagan & Matt Sorum from GnR.

At the time, Duff & Matt were still supposedly on decent terms with Axhole Rose, but Slash wasn't, so rumors actually circulated that Steve Jones was replacing Slash in GnR.

That never happenned, but the Neurotic Outsiders album sounded more like GnR than Velvet Revolver or any of the demos I heard from "Chinese Hypocrisy"

ppg960

11-11-2006, 11:25 PM

Originally posted by Ellyllions
I'm falling in love.

It impresses me how open you guys are. Back-in-tha-day, it was sacreligious for a rock fan to admit appreciating anything Duran Duran did.

Sincerely, this makes me more comfortable being a member of this forum than anything else could have.

Donating now.

Welcome ,we are glad to have you here!

Andy Taylor is a great musician. He made DD in many ways. He really controlled the stage in his own way.
Power Station was great as well. Still listen to that CD. :xmas

Coyote

11-12-2006, 01:06 PM

Originally posted by Ellyllions
It impresses me how open you guys are.

That's the thing that pulls people here.

Back-in-tha-day, it was sacreligious for a rock fan to admit appreciating anything Duran Duran did.

There must've been a couple of closet cases concerning that... :D

twonabomber

11-12-2006, 06:02 PM

Originally posted by Ellyllions

Ya'll know the bass player, John Taylor, tried a solo career as well?

a few of the songs on JT's solo album ended up on the Neurotic Outsiders disc too.

twonabomber

11-12-2006, 06:04 PM

Originally posted by FORD

Power Station - from the album that you never heard of

i have it...

i also have Andy Taylor's MTV New Year's Eve set somewhere in a box. Dweezil Zappa joined in for When The Rain Comes Down.

DrMaddVibe

11-07-2007, 03:38 PM

I have an advanced copy of "Red Carpet Massacre"...its pretty bad. No redeeming qualities. This makes Britney Spears appear like a legitimate musician.

I wish they hadn't sent this to me.

Ellyllions

11-07-2007, 04:09 PM

It's bad. And by bad I mean that my ears will never forgive me.

I wanna tell them all that men in the midst of a horrible mid-life crisis usually just by a sports car and get young girlfriends. Not torture innocent folk with seriously bad music.

Oh well, they had their 15 minutes.

Nitro Express

11-07-2007, 10:38 PM

Originally posted by PumpedUpMidget
Andy Taylor was much better than Duran Duran, they held him back...his work on the only Power Station LP shows it

Andy and John were the true musicians in that band. John is a good bass player and seemed like a nice enough guy when I met him a few years back.

I still listen to The Power Station CD. Good stuff.

Come on though. I would be on stage for a few more months with Nick Rhoads for the big money. LOL!

Ellyllions

11-08-2007, 07:39 AM

Big Money with Nick Rhodes?
Not this time around. This is the horrible sound of a band in it's death throes.

Have a listen...

http://www.vh1.com/artists/az/duran_duran/2073935/album.jhtml?popThis=playIt

Andy Taylor

03-02-2009, 09:31 PM

Andy Taylor

03-02-2009, 09:35 PM

I'm not saying you are wrong but he definitely never used to be.

Fuck it on second thoughts I am calling you wrong because I saw him live on TV last year...:)

Andy Taylor was always a rock guitar fan trapped in Duran Duran. There is a funny bit in their shitty performance at Live Aid where if you watch you will see fat Simon Le Bonbon shout at the crew to turn AT down.

This is all fine and I have the guilty secret of actually liking the Power Station CD.

That said after he left DD Taylor tried to set himself up as a hard rock solo artist and crashed and burned.

I remember a review at the time putting it pretty well.

If you want to set yourself up as a guitar hero first learn how to play...

I agree DD got a lot worse after he left but if Andy Taylor was half as good as he thought he was he would be twice as good as he is.

Mediocre at best with a bit of CC Deville thrown in...

Cheers!

:gulp:

Holy crap, you sure have some strong opinions even if you're easy on the facts. I take it you haven't really heard him play much. He's not a virtuoso (Cuccurullo is) but he can do anything a hard rock guitarist can.

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kwame k

03-02-2009, 10:37 PM

Holy crap, you sure have some strong opinions even if you're easy on the facts. I take it you haven't really heard him play much. He's not a virtuoso (Cuccurullo is) but he can do anything a hard rock guitarist can.

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I agree Andy had all the talent in the band.......sadly, that is not saying much.