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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Black Oak Arkansas
Graham Nash, British (Former member of The Hollies)
Australian.
Spoken by someone obviously not familiar with their repertoire.
The Swampers
Double Trouble
Delaware Destroyers
(I know...all pretty much back-up bands, but better than most full-up bands.)
David Lee Roth is from Indiana
Sammy Hagar is from California
Edward and Alex are naturalized citizens and consider themselves Americans. Check out this video and see of you think Ed considers himself a foreigner. Pay particular attention to the title https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yb26D8bBZB8
Michael Anthony is from Chicago
They are very much the greatest AMERICAN rock band!
I’ve seen Soundgarden mentioned a couple of times. I might not agree that they’re one of the best, but Kim Thayil could play guitar circles around most who did make the list.
If you haven’t seen the movie - do it today.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wrecking_Crew_(2008_film)
You cannot understand rock and roll history without this historical background.
Those 2 are like comparing apples and oranges to me. I liked ‘em both however. Banner Thomas and Dave Hlubek both passed away last year.
The Kinks?
As English as you can get.
True dat, but they are a good band.
IMHO Alice in Chains was the best of the Seattle bands.
Opened for them at the Brevard Seafood Festival. Good times.
Have we all forgotten KISS....or are we all trying to forget? lol
Or at least it SEEMS like a long time... LOL
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