Having gone through this thread.... My picks: Early years--Glenn Miller Orchestra Middle years--Eagles Present/recent years--To Be Determined Don't have any particular criteria. These are what spring to my mind when I think of great American bands. I don't know if there is a current band that has earned the title of Best American Band (yet), so I'll leave that one up to history/others for the time being.
Sorry, not quoting your post. I put quotes sometimes for emphasis, but that is not a correct use for them, and is confusing for grammar minders. That's why...
I can understand that... no more from me. As pittance a little fairly interesting, to me anyway as I was the one there, and it brings me back to a time, story about Grand Funk. Before they were at all known I was at a show at The Fillmore East; where I could usually be found back in those days; I believe was headlined by Jethro Tull in support of This Was. As I'm milling around out front before the show as we always did... so many of us were a "family" back then, most of us knew each others from The Fillmore and the scene and were at just about every show... these guys walk come walking up the block carrying black guitar cases with Grand Funk Railroad amateurishly stenciled in white paint that looked like chalk and just politely excusing themselves... walk in the front door. I think I remember someone asking "who are they?" and someone responding "they're the opening act". Then from about 10 feet away, from another small group of people congregating waiting for the show, I heard "yeah I know them, they suck! I'm not going in until Tull's on". Silly little story I know... but it was a moment. I don't remember a thing about their performance... I guess it left me unmoved or I was in a cove, a stairwell or a bathroom doing something else during their set.
It's only a handful as I stated, and the Who are nowhere near as big as the other five. No, it isn't.
Here are my favorites: Ramones Soundgarden CCR The White Stripes The Doors Spoon Queens of the Stone Age (however, only one consistent member) The Black Keys Stone Temple Pilots The Strokes
I don't like The Beach Boys at all so they are not even on the radar for me in this - all a matter of personal taste obviously - off top of my head I would have to go with Lynyrd Skynyrd.
Yes, that's why I put them last. Where do you see the analogy as flawed? Again, it's like saying "once you get past San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, and Sacramento, California is largely a rural state."
There are several US bands that are much bigger than the Who. There are at least another 10 British bands bigger than the Who. As kick@$$ as they are, they're not that big. No. It is not flawed. And no, it not the same.
Yes, Chuck certainly ain't a band and by at least one metric Chuck Berry isn't either. By the metric I outlined, Chuck Berry is a band.
I was working earlier so I didn't get to give this the thought that it needed. The Beatles are the biggest band of all time and by your analogy, they would represent the biggest city on earth. But that doesn't make Metallica (for example) some little Podunk town out in the middle of nowhere.
And you need to get your head into my metric (to understand how Chuck Berry can be viewed as a band).
