Or is it tromboners?
Anyway, in the spirit of the other threads on superlative drummers & bassists, I’d like to those sassy, brassy musicians who make rock n’ roll what it is today.
Foremost, of course, is Oingo Boingo’s Dale Turner, whose solo in “Who Do You Want To Be” really sells the whole song.
Honorable mention for… well, any other nominations?
Sure, why the hell not 
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Bruce Fowler, who used to play with Frank Zappa.
You beat me to it, Tamerlane. Bruce Fowler is awesome.
Your shitting me right? Can there be more than 3 or 4 rock and roll trombonists in existence?
James Pankow - Chicago no need to describe this band to musos
Dick Halligan - Blood sweat & tears, hear him best on the album Child Is Father To The Man
Mick Gillete - Tower of Power, this lot have been going donkeys years, something like 20 albums, actually they have had plenty of seesion men and other trombonists in all that time so it isn’t fair to pick out just one.
Fred Wesley - He was part of James Brown’s horn section, ok so it’s not rock music but JB’s music is allegedly the most sampled of all time, so it has plenty of influence even today.
Don Lusher - CCS(Collective Consciousness Society) Headed by Alexis Korner they had a massive brass sound, I’ve still got a copy of “Hey Brother”, this you really need to hear withte sound turned way up, it really gets the hearbeat going, in fact go out and get some of their stuff, as a tryout go for the “Best of CCS”
Depends what you consider rock 
. Not a lot of trombonists in Heavy Metal, I grant. But areas like Ska and Jazz-rock have their share.
The fellow with The Mighty Mighty Bosstones is pretty decent as well.
Incidentally, Bruce Fowler also augmented Dale Turner’s horn playing for a number of Oingo Boingo engagements.
Fowler’s also credited with a trombone cover of “Superfreak” featured in Batman Returns.
Hasn’t Aerosmith used horns (including trombones) in several songs? The liner notes for Permanent Vacation (first Aerosmith CD I grabbed) credit Bob Rogers for trombone on “Dude (Looks Like a Lady)”, “Rag Doll”, and “Girl Keeps Coming Apart”.
Yes Philip,he is.
George Lewis on the album “Memory Serves” by Material.
Is it just me, or does the title of this thread sound like a category on Jeopardy?
“I’ll have 'Best Rock ‘n Roll Tombonists’ for $200 thanks, Alex” …
Do you find something humorous about the phrase ‘tromboner’, Lisa?
I have nothing else to add.
Glen Pine from The Slackers is really amazing.
I have to go along with Bruce Fowler…
Discography:
(credits are for trombone unless otherwise specified)
1973 Frank Zappa- Over-Nite Sensation
1973 Various Artists- All Singing - All Talking - All Rocking
1974 Frank Zappa- Roxy & Elsewhere
1974 Frank Zappa- Apostrophe
1975 Frank Zappa- Bongo Fury
1975 Various Artists- The Works
1975 George Duke- I Love The Blues, She Heard Me Cry
1977 Meighan, Bob Band- Mr Hun
1977 Stallion- Stallion
1978 Captain Beefheart- Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller)
1978 White, Michael [Violin]- X Factor
1978 Frank Zappa- Studio Tan
1979 Frank Zappa- Sleep Dirt
1979 Frank Zappa- Orchestral Favorites
1979 Various Artists- Pumping Vinyl
1979 Watson, Johnny Guitar- What the Hell Is This (Trumpet)
1980 Captain Beefheart- Doc at the Radar Station
1981 Siberry, Jane- Jane Siberry (Synthesizer)
1981 Robert Williams- Buy My Record
1984 That’s the Way I Feel Now: Tribute (Arranger)
1984 Watson, Johnny Guitar- Strike on Computers
1985 Ridgway, Stan- Big Heat
1985 Fowler Brothers- Hunter
1985 Tribute to Kurt Weill: Lost in the (Trombone, Arranger, vocals)
1986 Frank Zappa- Apostrophe/Over-nite Sensation
1987 Oingo Boingo- Boi-ngo
1987 Frank Zappa- The Guitar World According to Frank Zappa
1988 Frank Zappa- You Can’t Do That on Stage Anymore (Sampler)
1988 Fowler Brothers- Breakfast for Dinosaurs (Trombone, Vocals)
1988 Ed Mann- Get Up (3-song cassette demo)
1988 Ed Mann- Get Up (full length LP and CD)
1988 Oingo Boingo- Boingo Alive
1988 Frank Zappa- Broadway the Hard Way
1988 Frank Zappa- You Can’t Do That on Stage Anymore, vol. 1
1988 Fields, Brandon- Traveler
1989 Slack- Bigger Than Breakfast
1989 Oingo Boingo- Skeletons in the Closet (Best of)
1989 Ridgway, Stan- Mosquitos
1989 Frank Zappa- You Can’t Do That on Stage Anymore, vol. 2
1990 Oingo Boingo- Dark at the End of the Tunnel
1990 Mann, Ed- Perfect World (Trombone, Orchestration)
1990 Bruce Fowler- Ants Can Count
1990 Pacific Heights- Pacific Heights (Orchestration)1990 Mateos, Miguel- Obsession
1991 Childs, Billy- His April Touch
1991 Fowler, Steve- Last Blue Sky
1991 Sellers, Joey- Pastels, Ashes
1991 Arthur Barrow- Music For Listening
1991 Golia, Vinny- Commemoration
1991 Frank Zappa- Piquantique
1991 Frank Zappa- Unmitigated Audacity
1991 Frank Zappa- You Can’t Do That on Stage Anymore, vol. 4
1991 Frank Zappa- The Best Band You Never Heard in Your Life
1991 Frank Zappa- Make A Jazz Noise Here
1991 Rippingtons- Curves Ahead
1991 McIntosh, Ladd- Bulbous Garlic Blues
1992 Fields, Brandon- Other Places
1992 One O’Clock Lab Band- Best of One O’Clock
1992 Cmpler 2- Cmpler 2
1992 Fowler, Tom- Heartscapes
1992 Fibonaccis- Best Of: Repressed
1992 Golia, Vinny- Decennium Dans Axlan
1992 Oingo Boingo- Best O’ Boingo
1992 Lawrence, Doc- Doc Lawrence
1992 Morris, Jim Brass Plus- Montage
1993 Bruce, Jack- Somethin’ Else
1993 Ross, Annie- Short Cuts
1993 World of Contemporary Jazz Groups
1993 McDonald, Michael- Blink of an Eye
1993 Connick, Harry Jr.- When My Heart Finds Christmas
1994 Weisgall- Six Characters in Search of an Auth
1994 Setzer, Brian- Brian Setzer Orchestra
1994 Duke, George- Three Originals
1994 Orchestra of the Americ- Wild, Wild Westerns (Orchestration)
1994 El Rey Leon- El Rey Leon (Vocal Arrangements, Orchestration)
1994 Preston, Don- Vile Foamy Ectoplasm
1995 Lofgren, Bruce- Heart of the Night
1995 Band From Utopia- Music of Frank Zappa (Trombone, Vocals)
1995 Bruce Fowler- Entropy
1995 Bruce Fowler- Synthetic Division
1995 Frank Zappa- Strictly Commercial
1996 Hollywood Bowl Orchestr- Always and Forever: Movies Greatest (Arranger)
1996 Frank Zappa- The Lost Episodes
1996 Frank Zappa- Läther
1996 Fan- Fan (Orchestration)
1996 Divididos- Divididos
1996 Barrow, Arthur- Eyebrow Razor
1996 Goldfinger- Goldfinger
1996 Rimitti- Cheika
1997 Duke, George- Is Love Enough
1997 Frank Zappa- Have I Offended Someone?
1997 Frank Zappa- Strictly Genteel
1997 Connick, Harry Jr.- To See You
1998 Robert Williams- Date With The Devil’s Daughter
1998 Frank Zappa- Cheap Thrills
1998 Various Artists- Rykodisc 15th Anniversary Sampler
1999 Neil Sadler- Theory of Forms (with Walt Fowler, Albert Wing, Mike Keneally, Kurt McGettrick)
(can be heard on Radio Free Kansas- http://www.tafcommedia.net/music.htm- show 8a)
1999 Frank Zappa- Son of Cheep Thrills
1999 Captain Beefheart- The Dust Blows Forward
1999 Matthew Sweet- In Reverse (reverse trombone, trombone, euphonium)
1999 Randy Newman- Bad Love
2000 Frankly A Cappella: The Persuasions Sing Zappa
2000 Captain Beefheart- I’m Going To Do What I Wanna Do: Live At My Father’s Place 1978
CMPler- Cmp-Ler
Bruce Fowler- Ants Can Count
“Drop Dead Gorgeous”- orchestrator/conductor, music by Mark Mothersbaugh
So what you’re saying is, If you look in the Yellow Pages under “Rock Trombonists,” Bruce Fowler will have a full-color ad?
So what you’re saying is, If you look in the Yellow Pages under “Rock Trombonists,” Bruce Fowler will have a full-color ad?
And, like Bruce Fowler, a slide-horner named George McMullen has also played with Oingo Boingo, Brian Setzer Orchestra, and Vinny Golia (who I gather is more of a jazz act).
So it follows that, among this elite class of musicians, anyone in the club is very close to being the best.
Dennis Brockenborough. Excellent trombonist. I believe he has left the Bosstones, though.
Adam Birch of The Specials deserves a mention, as well.
By the way, Davy Jones’ publicist called. He wants to know when we’re going to start a “Best Rock ‘n’ Roll Tambourinist” thread.
Punk Rock rather than Rock ‘n’ Roll, but how about Dan fron the gloriously irreverent Snuff?
And hey! When do the thrash metal kazoo players get the thread and respect they deserve?
milo.