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Top Ten Rock & Roll Bands?

Posted on 07/27/2008 3:26:41 PM PDT by Bobarian

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To: Lonely Are The Brave

Two on that Rolling Stone list I don’t recall seeing mentioned are Nirvana and the Clash. Nirvana has to be on the list, even though when I first heard them I thought they just sounded like rehashed Replacements. But they introduced a whole wing of rock (though they didn’t invent it) and an approach to songs that you still hear all over the place. And they still rock for kids who weren’t even born at the time.

And the Clash...yeah, well, I guess so. Never seemed that special to me, but I guess they did to a lot of other people.

And I know we separated guitarists from bands a while back, but I still have to mention my personal favorite guitar hero: Jeff Beck. Check out him and SRV tearing up “Goin’ Down:”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UIptI2rcjg


261 posted on 07/28/2008 8:19:37 AM PDT by Ha Ha Thats Very Logical
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To: Bobarian
MINK DEVILLE

Ooooh, dat some good stuff, yeah sha!


262 posted on 07/28/2008 8:46:56 AM PDT by sinclair (I'm a radical constitutionalist.)
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To: Bobarian

The list begins and ends with The Sex Pistols..and maybe Metallica


263 posted on 07/28/2008 9:33:51 AM PDT by Paddyboy
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To: sinclair
One of my favorites. Check out The Willy Deville Acoustic Trio In Berlin.
264 posted on 07/28/2008 9:53:46 AM PDT by Ha Ha Thats Very Logical
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To: Bobarian

Bubble Puppy...Hot Smoke and Sassafras. Video with original drummer at his home studio. Nice....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGG3DtAq6dI


265 posted on 07/28/2008 10:07:10 AM PDT by gathersnomoss (General George Patton had it right.)
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To: author

1. The Spiffys

2. Moulty and the Barbarians


266 posted on 07/28/2008 11:14:00 AM PDT by DPMD (~)
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To: All

Skippy Dynamo and the Ragtops

Love Snot


267 posted on 07/28/2008 11:15:41 AM PDT by DPMD (~)
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To: Bobarian

My favorite of all time, three guys from Canada (I don’t mean Triumph), RUSH. My top 5 would look like this (today):

RUSH
Dream Theater
Tool
Led Zeppelin
Fates Warning


268 posted on 07/28/2008 12:19:48 PM PDT by fightin bronco (Play Like A Champion Today)
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To: fightin bronco
Guns and Roses - Best Live Performance Ever, Crank it up boyz and crack open a bottle of night train ...
269 posted on 07/28/2008 12:28:56 PM PDT by Scythian
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To: God luvs America
And they're best song ....

Zep -> The Battle of Evermore
270 posted on 07/28/2008 12:31:36 PM PDT by Scythian
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To: Bobarian

Can't forget about these guys, this is what Power Pop should be.

271 posted on 07/28/2008 12:38:21 PM PDT by dfwgator ( This tag blank until football season.)
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To: mad_as_he$$

****OMG make me feel old and ask myself what the he$$ were we thinking all in one shot!!!! ****

I recently saw a Jimi Hendrix movie and it really showed how stupid the liberal hippie mentality is.


272 posted on 07/28/2008 12:45:52 PM PDT by ResponseAbility (Government tends to never fix the problems it creates in the first place)
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To: 4yearlurker
Saw Foghat three times in the early 1970s. No special effects or bullsh!t. Just 4 guys who would rock the place down!

I saw them twice and they were in the pocket all night both times. Nothing fancy, no laser shows, just straight forward bluesy rock n roll.

They rocked the house both times I saw them (1977 and 1979).

274 posted on 07/28/2008 1:11:25 PM PDT by Skooz (Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us)
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To: mad_as_he$$
Here's something from the wayback machine... The Standells from the movie Riot on Sunset Strip
275 posted on 07/28/2008 1:11:31 PM PDT by ResponseAbility (Government tends to never fix the problems it creates in the first place)
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To: Clemenza
The Ramones. In a class by their own. Nobody else comes close for REAL rock and roll.

Exactly.

276 posted on 07/28/2008 1:20:43 PM PDT by Skooz (Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us)
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To: mad_as_he$$
Here's some early bubble gum rock...EasyBeats - Friday on my mind
277 posted on 07/28/2008 1:52:25 PM PDT by ResponseAbility (Government tends to never fix the problems it creates in the first place)
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To: FredZarguna

Good list for sure, I might take away a few add a few . For some reason today I’m voting for AC/DC, Roxy Music, and Pink Floyd


278 posted on 07/28/2008 4:19:56 PM PDT by nkycincinnatikid
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To: FredZarguna

And you mentioned seeing The Who recently. I saw them at Riverfront Coleseium in 1975. Even young, trashed and rowdy, I knew when people were being pressed through plate glass windows at that concert it wasn’t good. They didn’t return until 1979 and I’m so glad I was married and settled down by then.


279 posted on 07/28/2008 4:40:18 PM PDT by nkycincinnatikid
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To: nkycincinnatikid
At that time my wife and I hadn't met yet--luckily, as I would've been 20 and she 13 (we didn't meet for another ten years; much more respectable). She was living in Covington, KY in 1975 and was glad she and her older brother didn't go to that event. Looking back on my last Who concert, I see that it's already been five years. Entwhistle had just died and Plant was promoting 66 To Timbuktu.

-- "and no matter how I try, the years, just roll by, like a broken down dam." John Prine. Maybe we should do a best solo list as well. Can't really be a very complete compendium without Dylan, Joni, Bonnie, Winwood, etc, etc, etc. ...

280 posted on 07/28/2008 11:17:05 PM PDT by FredZarguna (Triage doesn't deal with people who successfully defend themselves with guns.)
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