A lot of good ones on there--surprisingly good. Many would fit right in on the 70s albums. Of course, many of them were largely written in the 70s, so that makes sense.

Interesting take. "1983...A Merman I Should Turn to Be" is my favorite Hendrix tune of all time, oddly enough.

I just started playing the bass a few months ago (after nearly 3 decades on the guitar) and I freaking love it.

I type this as 'Sparks Will Fly' off Voodoo Lounge blasts from the Marantz receiver behind me :

as cliché as it sounds at this point, there's really no arguing that The Rolling Stones are actually the world's greatest rock and roll band.

Don't care who likes 'em or not, what anyone's opinion is; no one has done it better for longer. Their 'worst' album is better than most band's best, period.

Keith singing 'The Worst'...oh, irony.

Not fair really, that they've found a way to continue touring even though Keith has been clinically dead for like 20 years...

Hendrix was pretty good.

I've seen worse:

Puddle of Mudd, Nirvana, Disturbed?

Nickelback
Creed
Limp Bizkit
Good Charlotte
Lifehouse

I had a Facebook friend make that same argument last week.

To be fair, Hendrix hit it big fronting a bunch of white guys and it's debatable whether it was ever really a "band".

That was basically the entire playlist at Z-92.

Air Supply
Dr. Hook
The Little River Band
Captain and Tennille
Debbie Gibson

Honorable mentions:
Abba
Bread
America
The Beach Boys







LMAO



;)



Seriously, for me:

1. Stones
2. Zepplin
3. The Who
4. AC/DC-Aerosmith (tie)
5. U2-REM (tie)

Honorable mentions: CCR, Doobie Brothers, Boston, The Clash, Pink Floyd, Def Leppard, Talking Heads, REM, the Kinks, the Pretenders, RUSH, Foriegner, Judas Priest, Tom Petty, The Eagles, KISS, Van Halen, ZZ Top, The Police, The Cars, Clapton, INXS, YES, Eurythmics, Guns and Roses, Lenny Kravitz, Sublime, Collective Soul, and many others.

Contenders I'd admit to friends, but not to strangers list: (and some you may not consider "bands"): KC and the Sunshine band, the Gap Band, Parliament, Earth, Wind, and Fire, ELO, Fleetwood Mac, Styx, Queen, REO, Journey, Cheap Trick, The Scorpions, Jefferson Starship, Triumph, Nirvanna, Pearl Jam, Elton John, Prince, Michael Jackson, Madonna, The Cure, New Order, and Bon Jovi. Today, Nickelback, Linkln Park, Eminem, Nelly, Pink, and others.

that's Jimi on bass (a lot of Electric Ladyland was - Noel is on Crosstown Traffic, Little Miss Strange, Voodoo Child (Slight Return) and Burning of the Midnight Lamp. Jack Casady played on Voodoo Chile, there's no bass on Rainy Day Dream Away or Still Raining Still Dreaming, and Jimi did the rest himself - Mike Finnegan plays a walking bass on the Hammond Organ on Raindy Day and still Raining, and he's actually in the studio w/Trampled Under Foot right now, a little KC connection, fyi)

But that awesome ass bass solo in 1983 is totally Jimi.

Noel Redding was a hack.

Hells yes - I had never really played much before we started DW, and the original plan was for me and Ryan to play guitar, but we couldn't find a bass player, and we were writing songs and gigs were booked, so...crash course.

It's a different mentality than guitar; much more rhythmic, and subtle. The big thing for me was how to not attack a bass the way you might a guitar, like letting the notes breathe and be full. especially in a trio.

But Noel Redding, he seemed to never really make the switch from guitar to bass. He thought he was a star in his own right, equal to Hendrix, and that he would quit and be the lead guitar and vocal of his own band, Fat Mattress.

How many Fat Mattress records you own??

Only because it's really the truth.

I can't say I disagree with it.

:spock:

Me too. Huge Velvets fan. Me and Lou Reed share a birthday and similarly macarbe outlook.

Indeed.

The infamous 1975 concert at Wembley is on YouTube. I'm not posting any of it here, lest I get perma-banned.

Yeah, I have the old Gene Simmons demos and the Cherokee Studios tracks from '75 - they pretty much improved each song, except for Beats Working and She's A/The Woman, I like the original lyrics to each one better. And in She's The Woman, the old one had the bridge from Mean Street in it, so the new one has a twist in it.

But musically, they're on top of their game. Never sounded better, and really don't miss ol' what's his name at all.

But Keith's the only one who can make being dead for so long look so damn cool.

Stones win.

I know, that's why I added the "oddly enough" at the end of the comment. ;)

I was always into different music outside of my core hard rock/metal tastes, whether it was classical or jazz or whatever, and we were always adding funk, reggae, and blues (anything you could toke to really :D) elements to the stuff we were writing.

Over the years, I developed a certain somewhat percussive, hybrid rhythm/lead style on the guitar and never did really develop my lead "chops" because I'm just not dexterous enough. Ironically, I've found that this Neil Young-style hackjob guitar style translates really well to the bass.

ROFL

:thumb:

Top Five for me, really depends on my mood. Different tunes for different moods.

I think that dead man line in Start Me Up was inspired by Keith....

Nine Inch Nails
Sublime
Stone Temple Pilots
Alice In Chains
The Doors

I freaking love this song. TV on the Radio is the shit. "Wolf Like Me" is probably my favorite song by them.

God.....I hate the off season.......

Facepalm

Troll. Jesus Christ.

You forgot Simple Plan.

CCR
Beatles
Queen
Eagles
Rolling Stones

ROFL

it would probably get you banned quicker than scat-porn!

fyp

As others have said it depends on my mood. These 5 are ones I can listen to at any time.

Neil Young (especially with Crazy Horse)
Allman Brothers Band
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Pink Floyd
Beatles

Pearl Jam, Fleetwood Mac, Nirvana, Elton, Prince, Parliament and the Gap Band - yes. Those are all great artists and you shouldn't be ashamed to like them; even to strangers.

The early Jefferson Starship, sure.

I LOVE Fleetwood Mac. One of my all-time favorite bands, every single era. Peter Green, to the Kirwin/Spencer-fronted ensemble, then to Christine McVie/Bob Welch era, Stevie/Lindsey, Billy/Rick, Becca/Billy, back to Stevie/Lindsey (sans-Christine).

Fleetwood and McVie are SICK - everything they play has giant balls. Even You Make Loving Fun and Dreams, all the played out shit from Rumours still sounds amazing.

Nothing wrong with a whole buncha Mac at all.

I can narrow down 5 if we're talking heavy metal:

Lamb of God
Pantera
Devildriver
Whitechapel
Opeth

Yeah, Fleetwood Mac I shoulda put with honorable mentions...the other stuff kinda of TIC, because I really love a lot of that stuff regardless of how great the artists were--it's the music that just takes me back to some great, great times.

gotchya. You'd be surprised at how many people think that the Experience were a 'real band'; it was all Jimi and, to a lesser extent, Mitch, aided by Kellgren and Kramer.

Jimi MADE Eddie Kramer's career.

that's a good way to be; I've found that there is inherently good and bad examples in everything - those who create, and then the imitators. It's pretty easy to seperate the good from bad.

damn skrate.

who you play with??


I can totally see that - I'm a Neil disciple myself, and the apreggiated chords and the way he staggers notes lends itself to transferring to bass, that mode of playing. At least, it lends a fundamental working knowledge of the fretboard - Neil is def an atypical guitarist, not exactly a 'guitarists' guitarist' but totally created his own unique and identifiable styles.

Neil is one of my absolute favorites in everything he does; he's one of the truly rare 'rock' guitar guys who uses a completely different approach for acoustic playing as opposed to electric.

do yourself a favor and just assume they suck for the rest of your life.

Trust me.

The Reverend Horton Heat. /List

The Beatles
Journey
The Police
AC/DC
Pink Floyd

At least we have a new douchy music snob to snicker at.

There's always at least one in these threads :shake:

Nobody now. I haven't been in an actual band for over a decade.

I'm currently working on recording an album where I actually do all of the parts myself.

ROFL

horrible mental image though!!

****ing AWESOME. I wish I had the time and patience to do something like that.

I'd be down to check that out. All my favorite new stuff is like, all my friends' records and shit. Like The Steepwater Band's new record, Lions Of Hazelwood, Tender Bone, Headley Grange, Daryl Hance, TUF, etc.

If you're referring to me, I'm actually quite the opposite of a 'music snob'.

There's very little that I won't listen to. Sorry that they're your favorite bands. But my aunt had an 8-track player and I got my fill of bland, by-the-numbers 70's AOR Arena Rock. It's probably the soundtrack to your youth, nostalgia, etc.

It's just not very good, sorry.

I don't really have either.

But I do have boredom in abundance, so there's that. :D

This list excludes solo artists.

The Beatles
Pearl Jam
The White Stripes
The Decemberists
Led Zeppelin

Sure thing, Omaha. Everybody's wrong but you. :whackit:

the mother of invention!!

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No love for Boston?!?!

They are one of the best rock bands ever!

No, you just listen to crap.

Sorry. I won't fault anyone for their music, but out of everything ever recorded or played, the last thing anyone should ever choose to listen to would be Foreigner, Styx, REO, Boston, and especially Journey.

They've been mentioned several times.

With all of the classic rock and metal listed, I'm a little surprised that more people didn't list Deep Purple or Judas Priest.

I agree, you just listen to a radio full of dick in crap...

****ing terrible.

Every single ****ing song sounds the same.

Even with the other guy singing.

I can never in my life fathom someone actually choosing to listen to Boston.

Like, 'I'm gonna take this CD or whatever, out of the case, put it IN the tray...and press play.'

I'm just gonna say, if you actually DO that...then you get what you deserve.

Are you in high school?

Most people grow out of the "people who don't like exactly what I do don't know anything about music" stage by their early 20's when they discover that they don't know everything.

Deep Purple - now THAT is a band.

Made In Japan, In Rock, Machine Head, Burn, Come Taste The Band...

Deep Purple brought the goods.

It's not about 'liking what I like.'

It's about getting drive-thru music vs. good organic non-GMO music.

It's like, good vs. evil.

Personally, I don't give a **** if someone's favorite band is Nickelback. People like what they like for a lot of different reasons and coming across like a self-appointed musical expert douchenozzle isn't going to "save them".

Hell yes. Big Purple fan here.

Haha so true.

I refuse to do list like this. Its like naming my favorite book, just to many choices and to many moods.

Seriously, **** you. People like you should have their fingers chopped off so they cannot infect the internet.

First off, to me Rock is Rock, not Pop. Therefore bands like the Beatles are out.

1. Led Zeppelin
2. AC/DC
3. Guns n Roses
4. Black Sabbath
5. Kiss

I wanted to nominate people like Chuck Berry, the Stones, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Pink Floyd, the Kinks, the Clash, Lynard Skynard, and others but they are either more pop or just not the top 5. I also love Ted Nugent but he is never taken seriously as one of the greats

To me when you hear great rock you have to wanna head bang and jump around and press the gas pedal all the way to the floor and run real fast and get whipped into a frenzy.

it's actually funny if you don't take any of it so seriously.

duh.

read with sarcastic tone; there isn't a sarcasm font yet.

How could anyone NOT be???

The Mark II version...I love the Coverdale years, too. Glenn Hughes is a beast, and so is Roger Glover.

Hot damn, luzz me some Purp.

Do you whine this much in real life??

Wait...you listen to Journey, Styx, REO, Boston, and Foreigner.

You're a female, and it's your time of the month??

Change tampon, maybe???

Well, what I'm not is a sniveling little twat with an overblown sense of self-importance. Was your ex-boyfriend from Boston or something? Sorry about that.

Didn't come across as whining to me.

Perhaps you should step down from your "Good vs Bad" music pedestal....and GFYS with a rusty shovel

Deep Purple is tough because they went through so many line-up changes and some of them were flat AWFUL.

Judas Priest loses out to Motorhead and even Maiden in my list.

Meh.

Deep Purple without Ritchie Blackmore isn't really Deep Purple.

Dude, he's just sarcastically calling your favorites crap. Can't you tell?

And of course, he means no offense by it. LMAO

Yeah, that's where I fall, too. For instance, I like Steve Morse, but not in Purple.

Was very sad to see Jon Lord pass a few months ago.

I used to really like XTC. But alas Drivingwheel says they are Driv-Thru British Pop.
So I am throwing that shit out TONITE!

I don't really care for Judas Priest. I had "Hellbent For Leather" in high school and I still like that album but am not a big fan otherwise. My son now has almost all of their albums, so I get to hear them a lot. Yay (sarcasm).

I liked Rainbow more than Purple. I saw Rainbow in '81 (with Joe Lynn Turner instead of Dio, unfortunately) and it was a great show.

I was just surprised more people hadn't mentioned them.

I like Rainbow, too. Again, because of Blackmore.

I know I'm purging my iPod tonight. Only non-GMO music for me from now on! :thumb:

True, but like the Tommy Bolin-era didn't have the greatest studio output, but those live shows from back then were stunning.


Saw Steve Morse-led Purple with Don Airey on keys...decent show, but yeah, not the same.

Jon Lord was the man.

Be sure to luzz you some purp, too. You'll be lol-ing with the coffeehouse crowd in no time!

Have you heard any of Blackmore's Night? I'm a real sucker for that kind of stuff and think it's pretty good stuff.

1 - sabbath
2 - metallica
3 - led zeppelin
4 - Sublime
5 - jimmy hendrix

My top 5 in no order

Bon Jovi
Whitesnake
Motley Crue
Def Leppard
Ratt

I don't really like David Coverdale, so that colors my opinion a bit.

Part of it is that I really became "musically aware" and started to develop tastes distinct from my Dad's (he was a hippy :D) in the 1983-1986 timeframe, about the same time that Whitesnake hit it big. I wanted to see the guitar/rock mags cover Dio, Twisted Sister, and the like and they were covering Whitesnake and Poison instead.

Add to that that Vivian Campbell was in Whitesnake and I can't stand Campbell.

I ****ing hated Whitesnake and by association, David Coverdale.