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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Real Floridians preferred Molly Hatchet over Skynyrd. (If for nothing but their album covers)
The greatest American rock band ever is the mighty Van Halen.
CCR #1. Really?
Where is Boston? Journey? ZZ Top? Alice in Chains? Soundgarden? Steely Dan? Foo Fighters? CSNY? Guns & Roses?
Nirvana has no business on this list.
I was waiting for someone to put Grand Funk in there. The greatest garage band of all time and better than any band on their list.
1. Grateful Dead
2. Doors
3. Van Halen
Of course it’s a matter of individual taste
Most overrated band, ever.
According to wiki:
Sammy Hagar Born October 13, 1947 (age 71)
Salinas, California, U.S
David Lee Roth Born: October 10, 1954 (age 64 years), Bloomington, IN.
Your correct about the Van Halen bros. however.
Terry Kath-era Chicago
The absolute best live kick-ass pure R&R performance my ears ever witnessed was a 1972 Alice Cooper concert.
Glad to see Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers on the list, but I would have put them higher than number four.
The Doors were the worlds most overrated band until U2.
Jimi Hendrix Experience
Be-Bop Deluxe
Agree with Cheap Trick
Ramones should be on the list
The Cars
The Kinks
Didn’t look at the List but I assume The Eagles were in the top 3.
I would add these to the list:
Metallica (only Lars is foreign)
Blondie
REM
The B-52’s
Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band
Little Feat
Kenny Rogers and the First Edition
The Smithereens
Fleetwood Mac had two American singers/songwriters who contributed many of their best songs, but the rest were British. The Pretenders had American Chrissie Hynde but the other members were British.
No Allman Brothers Band on that list? Unconscionable.
Band of Gypsies...now you got Hendrix in an all-American outfit.
Black Crowes
Buddy Holly & the Crickets
Gene Vincent & the Blue Caps
Buffalo Springfield
The Byrds
CSNY
Govt Mule
Mountain
SRV
ZZ Top
Alice in Chains
Soundgarden
Corrosion of Conformity
Danzig
James Gang
Anything Mark Lanegan does
Anything Josh Homme does
Smashing Pumpkins
Minor Threat
The Meatmen
Andrew Bird
Morphine
...many others...
CSNY, NEIL YOUNG CANADIAN
Whoops! I was just thinking Rock Band.
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