Red Mosquito

Matters wrote:

liebzz wrote:

Matters wrote:

liebzz wrote:I mean the discussion is of course ridiculous because it excludes individual artists and then plays this game where bands are eliminated because the name of the singer is up front. Dylan out despite playing with a number of bands over the years because. Bruce out because he was the driving force behind his band and his name is up front (basically same with Pearl Jam for 30 of the 32 years they existed but we’ll count them because they are not called Eddie and the Pearl Jams).

What Bob Dylan band ranks amongst the best American bands ever?

You could argue The Band, whose recording output was in upstate New York and who also recorded there while Dylan was holed up after his motorcycle accident.

I do think more attention should be placed on the Grateful Dead as the greatest American band. They lead an entire musical movement out of San Francisco in the mid to late 60s, a movement that has evolved and been reshaped both with the remaining living members and in other bands who have taken slices of their sound and built entire careers around them - some of which still fill arenas and stadiums in the US regularly. While they don’t have an extensive list of #1 hits, many of their songs are baked (pun intended) into the consciousness of American music history. They’ve also spawned an unbelievably rich amount of bands who exist just to play their music, and recently had a music festival devoted to that (Skull & Roses in Ventura, CA).

Jefferson Airplane > Grateful Dead

liebzz wrote:Jefferson Airplane is a profound waste of Grace Slick’s wonderful voice. Once it all fell apart and they built this city on rock n roll, they were eliminated from contention.

tragabigzanda wrote:Their most beloved album was largely performed by the wrecking crew!

…there’s no way The Beach Boys pass the test

Matters wrote:

liebzz wrote:Jefferson Airplane is a profound waste of Grace Slick’s wonderful voice. Once it all fell apart and they built this city on rock n roll, they were eliminated from contention.

I agree they aren’t in contention but “We Built This City” isn’t a Jefferson Airplane song.

Lounge Lizard wrote:My personal belief is that the White Rabbit was the absolute pinnacle of creation by Jefferson Airplane to the heights of which they'd never even come close neither prior to writing it nor at any later stage of their existence as a band.

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warehouse wrote:so we've got: E St Band, Heartbreakers, CCR, Alman Bros, REM, Talking Heads (i think), Beach Boys, The Doors and Toad the Wet Sprocket all battling for second. this is a great list.

The Band is Canadian or they would be #1. I would try to shoehorn DMB in the convo but dave was born and went to HS in south africa i think. The White Stripes could be in this conversation.

Spoiler: show

three dog night.

Ms Harmless wrote:Creed

liebzz wrote:

Matters wrote:

liebzz wrote:Jefferson Airplane is a profound waste of Grace Slick’s wonderful voice. Once it all fell apart and they built this city on rock n roll, they were eliminated from contention.

I agree they aren’t in contention but “We Built This City” isn’t a Jefferson Airplane song.

Starship.

liebzz wrote:

Lounge Lizard wrote:My personal belief is that the White Rabbit was the absolute pinnacle of creation by Jefferson Airplane to the heights of which they'd never even come close neither prior to writing it nor at any later stage of their existence as a band.

This would be correct. White Rabbit is really good. The rest I just haven’t been able to ever get into.