The Doors and The Ramones made the list and Smashing Pumpkins didn't.
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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KISS definitely had the best marketing. The music, meh, not so much.
I miss Pat :(
Named after his maternal grandfather,[8] Samuel Roy Hagar was born in Salinas, California, United States, on October 13, 1947,[1] but his family soon moved to Fontana, where his father worked at the Kaiser Steel Mill.[9] Sammy Hagar graduated from Fontana High School.
May as well add Queen to the list, then.
Add that to the funk brothers in Motown. Standing in the shadows movie.
Actually more Scottish-Australian. Bon and the Young brothers emigrated to Australia from Scotland.
English.
Grateful Dead...Best.Band.Ever.
These lists are subjective and put together by so-called critics. Thus I never agree with them. But ... Credence as no.1? I mean Jeez.
Duh @ me!
Parliament!
Funk is just rock and roll “on the one”.
(Maggotbrain, anyone?)
The Band
You’re quite likely correct. I complain that this is an “old guy” list. There are a lot of greats still making music.
Too familiar, I'm afraid. My roommate in college played them far too much.
Agreed. And Chris Cornell (RIP) had one of the greatest voices in rock and roll.
The lead singer of the rock band named QUEEN was gay.......never saw that coming.
Stray Cats.
The man who Hendrix claimed was the best guitar player he has ever heard.
When I think of the best rock vocalist performances, I think of the late Layne Staley on “Rooster”.
The Doors and The Ramones made the list and Smashing Pumpkins didn't.
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