Few bands more American than Sly and the Family Stone. GC MM. [video=youtube;tWdVClbOYwI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWdVClbOYwI[/video]
Fleetwood Mac, not "great" but good. Mothers of Invention, damn, that's a blast from the past. You know, I think someone might be arrested now if they produced a song with lyrics like Brown Shoes Don't Make It.
I think Fleetwood Mac would fall under British and not American. The band was founded there, and the only original member is English. Good, good band though
Stevie Nix is American. Side note, she went to high school with a former coworker of mine. She was then Stephanie Nickerson. The two of them were in constant trouble at school, smart but major hippie misbehavior. Both turned out OK. My coworker left when another company sought him out for top management and Nix is doing just fine, thank you. My coworker said they still send each other obscene postcards.
No I missed it. I didn't even realize they were there until after the show. Shows you how much attention I pay to concerts these days.
There is no Beatles of American Rock Band history (or even Beatles and Stones) to have a clearcut no. 1. And me, I don't have a no. 1 fav. If you define "band" as: not a single artist (no Dylan) or duo (no Simon & Garfunkle) or dominat front man (no Prince, Springstein) They write most of their own songs (no Motown) They performed live a lot Then, some Top 10 candidates off the top of my head from the last 20 years: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Nirvana Pearl Jam Metallica REM Red Hot Chilli Peppers Foo Fighters Rage Against the Machine Green Day Soundgarden Jane's Addiction Alice in Chains
Pretty good definition, Masbee. I'd also include that at least some of them play instruments. (For example Four Seasons all sang but no one played, so I'd call them quartet or singing group, not band.) I would leave out performed live a lot because it would mean the Beatles stopped being a band after 1966! BTW, not yet mentioned, Black Eyed Peas.
My guess is they haven't been mentioned for a reason. They're not really Rock n Roll (but hip-hop), and to me personally, longevity plays a HUGE role. yes, they've been pretty successful for a while not, but realistically they've been around since 2003 (their first album, I believe, with that girl from Kids Incorporated).
In my travels and having played in cover bands I’d have to put the Eagles in my he mix as one of the most famous American rock bands and they covered so many styles of music but their radio play is global and everywhere. CCR would probably predate them
The Grateful Dead. One of only a couple American bands out of the mid-60's that made it more than a decade without fully breaking up, kind of helped invent the concept of hippie, hugely influential among many of the bands we now consider giants, a group with lots of songwriters, and I hear they performed live a lot. They hit all three of the Sex, Drugs, and Rock n Roll trifecta, were a blues band the way Zeppelin was in the beginning, and where British bands mined Britain for progressive rock explorations, the Dead explored Americana for the same purposes. Consistently one of the top grossing acts in the 70s, 80s, and 90s (thru 1995). Plus they're not the fucking Eagles.
Prince , Tower of power, Little Feat, Earth Wind and Fire. On and on there are great American bands but they are not as popular as the Eagles around the globe. people don’t even know who the Dead are outside the US
