# Musicians in the wrong genre **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 12, 2018, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musicians-in-the-wrong-genre/810448 "2018-03-12T20:35:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2018, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musicians-in-the-wrong-genre/810448/41 "2018-03-13T17:10:13Z")
> [@Shakester](#): > > **Gram** Parsons. > > His first name was Ingram, shortened to Gram. I blame autocorrect. That’s my story, and I’m sticking to it. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2018, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musicians-in-the-wrong-genre/810448/42 "2018-03-13T17:23:30Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Tom Waits. Put him in a genre, and I’ll explain why he doesn’t belong there. > [@drad\_dog](#): > > Songwriting? _What’s He Building In There_ (not a song) ---
**Author:** ![SykoSkotty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@SykoSkotty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SykoSkotty)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2018, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musicians-in-the-wrong-genre/810448/43 "2018-03-13T18:51:40Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > I think Jack White and Jack Black would together make an excellent classic rock band. Called “Black & White” ?? I think we might have something here… ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2018, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musicians-in-the-wrong-genre/810448/44 "2018-03-13T20:17:20Z")
I always thought King Diamond would have made an awesome opera singer. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2018, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musicians-in-the-wrong-genre/810448/45 "2018-03-13T20:30:41Z")
Freddie Mercury was very versatile. ---
**Author:** ![Yorkshire\_Pudding](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/59ef9b/32.png) [@Yorkshire\_Pudding](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorkshire_Pudding)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2018, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musicians-in-the-wrong-genre/810448/46 "2018-03-18T18:46:06Z")
However massive Metallica may be, however well regarded they may be by metalheads, I shall continue to maintain that Kirk Hammett is a country-tinged blues player who somehow wound up in a thrash outfit. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2018, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musicians-in-the-wrong-genre/810448/47 "2018-03-18T22:05:20Z")
I always imagined what Hendrix could have done with modern rack effects, digital processors, etc. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2018, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musicians-in-the-wrong-genre/810448/48 "2018-03-18T22:27:11Z")
> [@Les\_Espaces\_Du\_Sommeil](#): > > I’m pretty sure that the overwhelming majority of flamenco or classical guitarists don’t use picks or electric guitars. Speaking of which, Charo might have made something of herself [if she’d kept up with the guitar.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXnYQd6cqEc) ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2018, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musicians-in-the-wrong-genre/810448/49 "2018-03-18T23:24:58Z")
[Matt Berninger, lead singer of [URL=“https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prW-qgEQxBI&list=PLiN-7mukU\_RE\_Ym\_q5deAZk5zR6vh0DGV”]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5iXSBQKh2A&list=PLVKXUV0dJqqmO-Sac6-4Dl1myCMDGGTAx&index=9](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5iXSBQKh2A&list=PLVKXUV0dJqqmO-Sac6-4Dl1myCMDGGTAx&index=9) I linked to my favorite album of theirs). He has an amazing, timeless voice. Listening to him sing, I see myself in a swanky, smoked filled bar late at night lamenting wistfully about life. Oh yeah, and this would be in the 1950’s too. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2018, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musicians-in-the-wrong-genre/810448/50 "2018-03-18T23:29:17Z")
Ugh. Missed the edit window. I fucked that link up. it was supposed to be The National, a song from one their albums. I’ll get the right post up. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2018, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musicians-in-the-wrong-genre/810448/51 "2018-03-18T23:41:55Z")
[This](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5iXSBQKh2A&list=PLVKXUV0dJqqmO-Sac6-4Dl1myCMDGGTAx&index=9) is the song that most closely resembles what I was describing above. Swanky, classy, a bit sad and from a different era. Great music though. ---
**Author:** ![Billdo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/billdo/32/315_2.png) [@Billdo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Billdo)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2018, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musicians-in-the-wrong-genre/810448/52 "2018-03-20T02:08:40Z")
Before he was a Country mega-star, Glen Campbell was a session musician for damn near everybody in the 1960’s, including a stint with the Beach Boys. From [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glen_Campbell#1960%E2%80%931966:_Early_career). > [@](#): > > Campbell played on recordings by the Beach Boys, Bobby Darin, Ricky Nelson, Dean Martin, Nat King Cole, the Monkees, Nancy Sinatra, Merle Haggard, Jan and Dean,[16] Frank Sinatra, Ronnie Dove, Phil Spector and Elvis Presley.[20][17] He befriended Presley when he helped record the soundtrack for Viva Las Vegas in 1964. He later said, “Elvis and I were brought up the same humble way – picking cotton and looking at the north end of a south-bound mule.”[10] . . . > > From December 1964 to early March 1965, Campbell was a touring member of the Beach Boys, filling in for Brian Wilson,[16] playing bass guitar and singing falsetto harmonies. . . . > > Campbell played guitar on the Beach Boys’ 1966 album Pet Sounds, among other recordings. In April of that year, he joined Rick Nelson on a tour through the Far East, again playing bass. He hit it big in Country, but if the cards had played out differently, he could have wound up anywhere on the Rock/Pop/R&B spectrum. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musicians-in-the-wrong-genre/810448.md?page=2)