Greatest rock and roll band?

[twobone]

Post on the poll

[masraum]

Yes.

Come on, this is like deciding who the hottest chick is. There are several greats, but I don't think there can be a single greatest.

[andyt11]

I'm an ACDC fan myself.

[vash]

acdc..

and i dont even understand the grateful dead.

[Flieger]

Ac/dc!

[12own911]

The Doors

[AFC-911]

Queen.

[Burnin' oil]

The Who, of course. LZ has a few good songs but otherwise suck. The Beatles were an annoying boy band. Rolling Stones were pretty good, but not as good as The Who. Grateful Dead were really good at what they did, but I don't think of them as rock and roll.

[Flieger]

Yeah, I have favorite songs from lots of bands/singers. The Who, Heart, Pat Benatar, Dire Straits, etc.

But I think AC/DC is the top.

I like lots of songs by Boston (ducking head now).

[IROC]

Ac/dc

[Shaun @ Tru6]

Pink Floyd

[VINMAN]

The Who!

[mikesride]

Stones for sure...Like old AC/DC but everything from back in black and beyond is not my thing at all. When I really want to rock out early Megadeth and Pantera get the job done!

[steve185]

The Who
Bruce Springsteen with the E Street Band

[osidak]

Pink Floyd

[David]

Pink Floyd

[genrex]

Chuck Berry is generally acknowledged as the creator of the rock 'n' roll sound. I think all of the bands mentioned above have deviated so much from that sound that their music can't be described as rock 'n' roll.

Which band can do the best rock 'n' roll if they have a mind to? The Stones.

No, wait....

[tabs]

Now comes the DEFINATIVE opinion.

U can just guess which Band I think was the GREATEST R&R Band ever...and for almost all of the last 40 years they have absolutely su(ked the big one...the Rolling Stones hands DOWN. I will base it upon 5 albums and ONE Tour....

1. Beggars Banquet
2. Let It Bleed
3Get Yer YA YA Out..Live 69 Tour
4. Sticky finger
5. Exiles on Main Street

The 1969 Americas Tour...which ended at Altamont, CA


Simply put, put the 69 Live "Get Yer Ya Ya Out" album on, put your headphones on and crank it up loud. First of all they were playing so tight it sounds like a sewing machine, the interplay between Keith and Mick Taylor was master full, Jagger's voice was a growl from he!!...the content of the music was nasty, profane, sublime, poignant and all and all just a Hellacious howl from he11. two other things that put it beyond just regular R&R...they were playing for REALS, they meant every word and note of it..they were artists and not just entertainers (after that 69 Tour and Altamont they became just entertainers) Finally in the songs Jumpin Jack Flash, Stray Cat Blues, Midnight Rambler and Sympathy for the Devil Jagger was treading the line between sanity and madness switching back and forth from line to line..complete DUALITY. The music that they played on that Tour was so hypnotic that it put audiences into a trance like state (which at Altamont resulted in murder by the He11's Angels).Even Jagger commented on it when he said, "When we play Sympathy weird things start happening with the audience." .Now that is the edge Baby...and that is R&R

Who do we compare the RS's with

1. Grateful Dead...a 40 year Acid Trip of laid back countrified Bay Area Stoners...known for there long meandering jams

2. The Who. never has a band played with such abandon and energy..but the content just wasn't quite up with the RS's

3. The Beatles..The content was there but when they hit their stride the energy wasn't

4. The Zep for the most part was a thump thump band of limited imagination and range. They played big riffs but when they got artsy fartsy they were turgid...

5. ACDC..loved its a long way to the top....First Album was great...but they became repetative.

6. The Doors....U mean the guy who was out there beyond the doors of perception. Morrison had 2 speeds schmaltzy and full blown madness. Just listen to the Soft Parade and the switch up when he says, "The Monk ate lunch" The Doors had their moments of shiniing brillance but in the end were erratic

7. YES...To Sacrine. polished and or cerebral. Never could even listen to them.

8. Pink Floyd...an Art Band gone commercial

9. Bruce...Time Magazines boy of the year...over wrought and over hyped...only song I ever liked was 500 chnnels and nothing on...

10. Jimi Hendrix...WAS OFF THE CHARTS GENIUS...He was in a league of his own..and I think of him more as a solo aritst..

11. Traffic...Steve Windwood...a jazzy rock fusion by the master of blue eyed soul

12 Clash....London Punk meets Reggae...

13, Bowie...calculation...Panic in Detroit and the Gene Jeanie..thats the edge..

14. Cream..a foot stompin head trip that carries you away on long jams. Spoonfull

15 The Band..Dylans boys on the Basement Tapes Album..a corucopia of American musice.

16. U2...a wall of big open sound..

[911Freak]

Top 3 any order:
Beatles - Led Zeppelin - Rolling Stones

Yes, there are many other epic bands (as so eloquently listed above), but for me, if you removed any of my top 3, R&R would not be what is is today (or rather what it was back in its hey day). R&R's DNA would have be changed and thus what you would have left is a less diverse, rich, challenging and certainly less effective version of itself...

anyway...I figured most would vote for RS, personally I think they were a little over hyped.....

YMMV

btw- I voted LedZeppelin

[imcarthur]

It is all relative. Relative to your teen years & when you 'got into it'. We can all personally identify with the music that we partied to/with when we were walking bundles of testosterone.

It is also relative to where you are now & if you have succumbed to numb radio or if you lock in golden 60s/70s/80s on your sat radio etc. Their playlist becomes your favorites.

500 years from now, only Elvis, the Beatles, The Stones & Michael Jackson will be in that 'Rock & Rock Era "highlight" column for music of our particular space in time. Everything else will be a footnote.

Ian