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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Really can't quarrel with that. Although the McDonald era did produce some tasty efforts like "Losing End". In the early 80s I saw Johnston with his own band in the Bay Area a couple of times and they were great. I still don't know why they didn't catch on.
The Mothers
Grateful Dead
B-52’s
Love
Blue Oyster Cult
Dead Kennedys
The Residents
Mountain
New York Dolls
Eagles are one of my all time favorites, but to each his own.
Hear! Hear! Saw them at a KofC Hall in Davidson a long time ago ...
FWIW, the band died with Ronnie. There’s been a tribute band since 1987.
Kinda wonder about these bands from the 70s and 80s touring again under their original name but have only a couple (if any) original members...a bit of a misrepresentation IMO.
Yep. I saw them a couple of years ago without Scot
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