OK Best band Ever ??

[kenmyfam]

Just one choice please. No multiples or and's and if's
Mine is
Electric Light Orchestra.

 

[QC]

Re: OK Best band Ever ??

Other than asking to define "Best" this is not debatable. If the criteria is "band", then The Beatles. All else stems from them.

BTW, I love ELO, but ELO would say "The Beatles" . . .

 

[DECK SWABBER 58]

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LED ZEPPELIN Just "BLEW" ELO right off the stage.

 

[gonefishie]

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^^^^^^ I'm torn between Zeppelin and Floyd. I don't wanna have to choose. Just like choosing between a blond Brooke Burke or a brunnette Brooke Burke.

 

[ziggy]

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The Beatles.

 

[kend301]

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Time to fire this thread up ... Being an old school rocker and defining best as the best in concert ... "you wanted the best , you got the best the hottest band in the land KISS " (original members)

 

[JB]

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Hmmmmmm. It is quite common, but completely false, to believe that "ever" only began when you started listening.

In my "ever" is Glenn Miller.

 

[thurps]

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Got to be Flat and Scruggs.

 

[dingbat]

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As the son of a professional musician I was privileged enough to access to the Who?s who when it comes to music.

I have no one favorite.
Best Live Performance ? Rolling Stones
Best Studio Band ? Mike Oldfield
Best sound system ? Emerson Lake and Palmer
Best session Guitarist ? Neil Lofgren
Best Female Guitarist ? Bonnie Raitt
Best virtuoso Guitarist ? Jimi Hendrix

Had back stages passes for Canada Jam in ?78?. Was anyone else there?

For JB,
They have pictures of Stan Kenton holding me as a baby while conducting his orchestra. Dad was a friend of his.

 

[mike64]

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I'd have to go with Led Zeppelin for a "desert island" pick for sheer versatility-- from mellow acoustic to the hardest of hard rockin'. Celtic music to blues to country to R&B influences. And originality-- yeah, you can argue they ripped off a lot of blues artists, but they took those blues tunes and made them totally their own. They're only one of a couple bands I bought a compilation CD set of all their albums years back, and I've enjoyed the heck out of it.

 

[FBPirate95]

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I can't answer this one. I'm torn between genres and ages. Although I'm relatively young I still love a lot of big band era music. But if I had to pick from rock and roll/alternative I would have to go with these:

The Who
Rolling Stones
Beatles (early years)
Led Zepplin
Leanard Skynard
Bon Jovi
Poison
Def Leapard
Nirvanna
Smashing Pumpkins
Foo Fighters
Lincoln Park
Dave Mathews

 

[HANGEYE]

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Hmmmmmm. It is quite common, but completely false, to believe that "ever" only began when you started listening.

In my "ever" is Glenn Miller.

I agree. Thanks to the memories I sit here with a smile and my foot tapping. All I need now is a cold beer and my girl at my side.

 

[QC]

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I have no one favorite.
Best Live Performance ? Rolling Stones
Best Studio Band ? Mike Oldfield
Best sound system ? Emerson Lake and Palmer
Best session Guitarist ? Neil Lofgren
Best Female Guitarist ? Bonnie Raitt
Best virtuoso Guitarist ? Jimi Hendrix

This list does not meet the OPs rules and has resulted in you receiving an infraction. Plus they're all wrong

Well I might go with the ELP choice, and I understand the Hendrix deal, but "virtuoso"? Maybe artist, but virtuoso heads me towards Eddie or Ritenour or DiMeola, kind of more that direction.

Studio Band . . . uh, Steely Dan?

 

[Huron Angler]

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I've gotta second gonefishie's pick...Led Zeppelin

 

[Aviator5]

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Uriah Heep

 

[HVAC Cruiser]

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Hmmmmmm. It is quite common, but completely false, to believe that "ever" only began when you started listening.

In my "ever" is Glenn Miller.

Hummmm if you want to say EVER!!!! IT has to be the Band/Jam that was The Benny Goodman 1938 Carnegie Hall Concert With all the Greats

For Rock I say Led Zeppelin

 

[roscoe]

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Founded in 1798 by an Act of Congress, ?The President?s Own? United States Marine Band

 

[mike64]

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I've gotta second gonefishie's pick...Led Zeppelin

Actually, you fourthed Deckswabber_58's pick, after gonefishie and me, but who's counting?

...oh, yeah, I guess I am

 

[Howard Sterndrive]

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best at what?

It's a boating forum so I'll have to assume fishing...

That would be The Tubes. They fished up a storm on "The Fishing Musician" with John Candy back in SCTV's heyday

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcFXdLY6Z-0

 

[dingbat]

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This list does not meet the OPs rules and has resulted in you receiving an infraction. Plus they're all wrong

I?ve been called a lot of things in my days but conformist has never been one of them.

Well I might go with the ELP choice, and I understand the Hendrix deal, but "virtuoso"? Maybe artist, but virtuoso heads me towards Eddie or Ritenour or DiMeola, kind of more that direction.

Ok, I've give you that one on a technicality but I'd have to go with Julian Bream since he's the only which I've seen live.

Studio Band . . . uh, Steely Dan?

I like SD but was never really a fan. Canned pop band. Good sound, mediocre musicians. I thought about Pink Floyd, not the same band live, but kept coming back to Mike Oldfield just by nature of his recordings.