Bands that are your Mt Rushmore, greatest bands ever.

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I will start with one that came about to me quite later in my musical life but will add some from my beginning days too.

Let me start off with one that is in my top 3 favorites. Stone Temple Pilots. Now I know this is not a vid with Scott Weiland, but I rather like what I have seen so far. Eric, Dean and Robert are as great as ever.


 
Dean DeLeo is one of my favorite Les Paul players ever. Just listen to his lead in Meatplow for one example.

I also think Silvergun Superman is one of my favorites both for guitar and bass.
 
Jethro Rocker said:
Triumph number 1. Favorite plus Rik Emmet is my biggest influence guitar wise.

Cheap Trick, too. So fabulous. Best stage performances were their earlier days.
Stage antics in first song alone. Rick Nielsen was the best. He has obviously slowed down now.


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Cheap Trick was my actual first concert.

Triumph later played a killer show at the same venue. Both in the Baltimore MD area in the early 80's

 
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TVvoodoo said:
jeez this is so hard for me. At different times of my life, i got fixated on different groups. First it was Foreigner, then AC/DC, Sabbath, The Who, Zep, Floyd, even Steely Dan.

Right now, wierd as it may seem bcz hardly any guitar, I can't get enough Morphine.
I find it almost hypnotic
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TVvoodoo, I am very similar but can lump a few of my top top ones into let's say top 5 then come the others.
 
I would have to say because of what they meant to me in my youth I would have to say ( In order )
- Kiss
- Van Halen
- Pink Floyd
- AC/DC
- The Scorpions
Now it's not like I listen to Love Gun or Destroyer on a loop but at the time, (say it like the man would ) Huge!
 
My Mount Rushmore….
Hmmmmmm :unsure:
Well there are 4 faces on it, so here are my 4.

Metallica, before I ever heard anything from them I wasn’t a metalhead. Then the first metal song I was ever exposed to hit my ears. “fight fire with fire” and a metalhead was born.

Judas Priest, saw them at the Brendon Byrne arena and I’ll never forget the electricity in the air.

AC/DC, so many bar memories listening to them on the jukebox …. So many drunken bad decisions!!

VanHalen, Eddie, David Lee Roth, MTV. they made joining a band in high school seem cooler than an Eskimo in an ice storm.

There is my mount rushmoore
 
C-Grin said:
I would have to say because of what they meant to me in my youth I would have to say ( In order )
- Kiss
- Van Halen
- Pink Floyd
- AC/DC
- The Scorpions
Now it's not like I listen to Love Gun or Destroyer on a loop but at the time, (say it like the man would ) Huge!
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Oooh jeez I forgot. I terms of guitar learning, KISS too. Big time.
Van Halen.
 
It's nearly impossible for me to narrow it down to just 4 bands but, I got to thinking: Mt Rushmore's presidents each represented a different aspect of America right? So, I'm gonna use that criteria and give 4 bands for completely different reasons. There may be bands I would rate higher if I was just naming favorite bands, but I wanted to list 4 of them with no real connection in styles but each having a unique impact on me

#1 AC/DC -for Simplicity
The band that both introduced to me to what power is in sound and made me want to play the guitar. They showed me that you don't need flash or wizardry to sound powerful and that without a solid rhythm, you got nothing. It might be 4 chords, but I'll be damned if anyone could ever do as much with so "little". My first love

#2 Iron Maiden- for Melody
While Judas Priest and Thin Lizzy were technically the first bands I discovered that used twin harmonies, it was Maiden's usage of the twin and later triple harmonies that pulled me in. They were the band that made me want to learn solos because they weren't frantic fretboard magic but soulful and complimenting each other. Plus they could teach you more value in history than even a text book by the lyrics and subject material

#3 Killswitch Engage- for Technical Prowess
This was the band that made me rethink my approach to playing the guitar and made me appreciate "newer"music ( though they are now 20 years old themselves) as well as a different style than I was used to.

In my later teens and early 20s, music was washed in the misery of Nu Metal and it was all about rap lyrics and bassy, overly distorted guitars. Then came this new movement called the New Wave of American Heavy Metal/Metalcore, where bands took inspiration from the harmonies of Maiden/Priest but expanded into the heaviness of Swedish Melodic Death Metal rhythms, yet had powerful, clear vocals supplemented with gutteral growls as well. It was a breath of fresh air and had me exploring newer bands and appreciating them

#4 Oasis- The "What!?" Factor!
Oh here's a controversial one perhaps that most people probably wouldn't assume I like lol. Remember how I said some bands would rate higher if just naming favorite bands? Here's a great example but I'm gonna argue my case!
While they are a simple British rock band and in most folks eyes, rate far lesser than a band like the Beatles or the Rolling Stones: remember my age ( I'm 40 for the record lol). This was a band that exploded when I was just becoming a teenager and they're to this day, the only band of my generation that I feel still stands the test of time. They weren't doing the Grunge thing, they were keeping it simple like the original British Invasion but with incredibly catchy lyrics and simple, nasty sounding guitars. Like the Beatles if they had the Stones rawer edge.


So there, that's my 4 Mt Rushmore and none are alike at all
 
These are my favorite bands and influences, my style and tones are somehow a mix of all these bands. At least in my head it is...

Tom Petty (everything)
REM (early stuff up to Green)
The Cult (Electric)
Metallica 1st 3 (and sometimes Justice)
Social Distortion (everything)
Rush (up to 2112)
Metal Church (almost everything, but especially Hanging in the Balance)
Priest (a lot of it, but Pain killer full album is holy grail)
Janes Addiction (everything)
 
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CSN&Y would most likely be my Mt Rushmore. Together. Duets. With other people like Stills and Judy Collins. Young and Crazy Horse. Byrds. Hollies. Buffalo Springfield. Combined I own more albums from these guys than any other group.

A distant second to them would be ELP.

Other than that. Depends on the day and the mood as to who else I might put up there.
 
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I am to the either side of center as it has been sung "going against the grain"
BeBop Deluxe is one of my favorite English bands of the 70's

Yes UFO is the other.
Bill Nelson and MS.
Of course never forget Zep. I cut my rock n roll teeth on Zep.

Progressing forward, I could just stay on bands from Europe but I'll get to that concept later.

What I call my trilogy Priest , Scorpions with Uli Roth. Iron Maiden but never forget Bruce's solo career. Halfords solo career. Uli is a guitar legend , at one point nearly morphing into Hendrix musically.

Once Rush emerged in the 70's and Neil joined the band. There is almost no other band on the planet that could knock them down. I know about Dream Theater .By the way "Tool" is playing right now about a mile from where I am parked but even though they are great musicians, just not in my wheel house.
I feel so connected to Rush.
Funny thing Geedy liked a post I made 4 years ago on Facebook. I showed my wife. I was a little shocked.
 
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fitz said:
Why I keep trying to learn how to play guitar...
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The Immigrant's song was my intro to Zep. Been on my Mt Rushmore ever since.

My friends who sowed the seeds circa 1978 when I was in 8th grade, fed me some of the best shiz.
Van Halen 1, Ted Nugent Double Live Gonzo, Alice Cooper, Zep 1 through Graffiti and beyond. Priest and Sabbath.

Pretty much laid the foundation on bedrock there. Of course I had been exposed to the likes of Deep Purple, GFR, Steppenwolf, and several other biggies before I got in deep.

Of course it all came on like a freight train once I put the needle down on side one of 2112.
 
Those days led me to decades of enjoyment of all manner of music, and in a roundabout way, led me to find friends such as Ramo who is now performing some madly talented axe slinging and song writing.
 
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