Best Power Trio

[LowRyter]

I got motivated after reading the double album thread that devolved into any record whether 1 or 3 disks.  So, since you pissed me off, I'll start a new thread. 

I am sure many will say that Cream was the best power trio.  No doubt we'll have some Grand Funk fans.  Certainly the Hendrix Experience will be tops.  Blue Cheer?   Groundhogs?  Rush?  Buddy Holly?

You can't have a singer and 3 piece band, so no Who, Zeppelin, Nazareth, Jeff Beck Group (w/Rod Stewart)- NO!  That won't count.

The best trio:



One album. Live.  The Band of Gypsies.

[kingoffleece]

Cream.
I agree though Band of Gypsies is phenomenal but there are way too many horrible Hendrix shows recorded to hand them the crown.
For SINGLE performance no contest, though.  B of G is the King.

Holy crap, is that opinionated or what!?

[oldbike54]

 Little Stevie Vaughn and Double Trouble .

 Dusty

[Shorty]

Depends on your mood.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQpsUzPYCco

 These guys have been around for years. Glenn is in the Chicago Blues Hall of fame. AND he runs a 500 bed shelter for homeless and drug ridden people in the Windy City. Teaches them a trade. Makes his own guitars and amps. Does a little preachin, too. 

[John A]

Little Stevie Vaughn and Double Trouble .

 Dusty

Very good!

[Moparnut72]

I got motivated after reading the double album thread that devolved into any record whether 1 or 3 disks.  So, since you pissed me off, I'll start a new thread. 

I am sure many will say that Cream was the best power trio.  No doubt we'll have some Grand Funk fans.  Certainly the Hendrix Experience will be tops.  Blue Cheer?   Groundhogs?  Rush?  Buddy Holly?

You can't have a singer and 3 piece band, so no Who, Zeppelin, Nazareth, Jeff Beck Group (w/Rod Stewart)- NO!  That won't count.

The best trio:



One album. Live.  The Band of Gypsies.

I was a student at a small university in New England. We had Jimi perform in April or May of 1968. He put on two shows. The first show's audience consisted of all the BMOCs and their dates. The second was all the rest of us freaks who got in for $5 a head with no reserved seating. A buddy attended both shows, he said the first one was ok. The second one was something else. He and the audience played off each other and things went nuts. It was one of the best concerts I have ever been to. It didn't hurt that the auditorium held only 900 so it was pretty much very intense. I will also add that his recordings don't do him justice he had a very melodious voice that his recordings don't capture.
kk

[slowmover]

Emerson, Lake & Palmer
West ,Bruce & Laing

[PJPR01]

Me, Myself and I....De la Soul!   

[cliffrod]

Little Stevie Vaughn and Double Trouble .

 Dusty

X3  plus a lot more....

[Don G]

ZZ TOP 

[PJPR01]

ZZ TOP 

Winner!   Little town of La Grange, just down the road...   

[LAV3CL]

Taste/ Rory Gallagher as a trio. Especially the early seventies with Wilgar Campbell on drums and Gerry McAvoy on bass.

Pete

[kingoffleece]

The Paladins are right up there.
Paul mark and The Van Dorens, too.  "The Drinks are on Me" is a good a song in the blues idiom as you'll ever hear-not a 3 chord mess but a simply fantastic story in a song.
Tal Farlow's trio was simply god like, too.  And the Bob James trio.  And The Police-it's never ending.

[oldbike54]

 Peter , Paul , and Mary ?

 Dusty

[John A]

Peter , Paul , and Mary ?

 Dusty

Watcha been smoking now?
Pass it on over

[PJPR01]

Peter , Paul , and Mary ?

 Dusty

Crosby, Stills and Nash (after Young)...

[oldbike54]

Crosby, Stills and Nash (after Young)...

 Great musicians , well Stills anyway , although maybe not a power trio 

 Dusty

[jwinwi]

The Kingston Trio? NOT!
For me it's Rush, followed closely by Cream.

[Moto Vita]

The Kingston Trio? NOT!
For me it's Rush, followed closely by Cream.

 I think of Cream as a supergroup more than a power trio. I certainly can't argue against Rush, but George and the Destroyers should be considered.

[Antietam Classic Cycle]

https://www.discogs.com/artist/999536-Johnny-Cash-The-Tennessee-Two

Johnny Cash, Luther Perkins, Marshall Grant

https://youtu.be/w-f_p204yHI

[knockerjoe]

The James Gang.

[flip]

ZZ TOP 

 

[screamday]

Atomic Bitchwax

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h97Go2xHUOw

[oldbike54]

 Samantha Fish and the Fishtones . Or whatever she calls her band 

 Dusty

[Ncdan]

Three person you say, one word one group, the greatest of all time..... The Begees👍👍👍

[screamday]

Three person you say, one word one group, the greatest of all time..... The Begees👍👍👍

[PJPR01]

Oh...so what's the definition of a Power Trio then? 

[oldbike54]

Oh...so what's the definition of a Power Trio then?

 Well , the first thing is the guitars have to be plugged into a great big stack of Marshall amplifiers 

 Dusty

[Guzzistajohn]

Phil Dirt and the Dozers 

[Siamese]

Dino, Desi, and Billy! 

But seriously, put me down for Hendrix.