Posted on 10/22/2018 9:20:40 AM PDT by rktman
Like baseball, apple pie, and pickup trucks, rock and roll is considered quintessentially American. Sadly, many of the "best of" lists ranking rock bands are dominated by bands from the UK. Sure, there are some great bands from across the pond, but there's something special about the great rock bands from this country — something rebelliously robust. American rock bands are the teeth of our communities and they aren't afraid to get messy. So, my list is comprised of bands that formed in America and whose majority of members are American (sorry, that means The Jimi Hendrix Experience is disqualified).
Before the list, a note of explanation may be in order: readers will notice the conspicuous absence of The Beach Boys as well as Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band. As far as the E Street Band, and this is probably not fair, but the music is so identified with the Boss as to basically reduce the E Street Band to his backing band (they were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a backing band). The Beach Boys, on the other hand, while producing one of the greatest albums of all time in Pet Sounds, are not a great band. In fact, the band barely played on Pet Sounds. The famed Wrecking Crew provided the music for the album, as they did for many of our most beloved albums from that time period. I even considered including the Wrecking Crew on the list.
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Ssholes the Beach Boys mainly used the wrecking crew in the mid60s. They were great live in the 70s especially.
Allman Brothers
Lynyrd Skynyrd
The Cars
Dio
11. Lynyrd Skynyrd??????????
HERESY!!!!!!!.....................
Grateful Dead....don’t necessarily agree with their politics...but a true American band.
Invalid list if the Allman Brothers are lot listed.
AC/DC
FREEBIRD!!!
Uhh, they're from Australia.
Van Halen
The Doors
Jefferson Airplane
Ted Nugent
ZZ Top
Jimi Hendrix.....still not gettin’ it.
Ed and Alex were not born here.
So how do we define rock and roll?
Are the Beach boys considered rock? Simon and Garfunkel?
What about the BeeGees?
Pantera (my hometown peeps)
But, whenever conversations of great rock groups come up I like to jump off track a bit and see what people think about a band not from America; the Beatles. A lot of their music was fun to listen to, but I never considered them a rock and roll band.
BeeGees, also from Australia.
Grand Funk Railroad
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