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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..