Jayhawks
Bruce & E Street
Black Crowes

Ta

NickB

Surprised nobody mentioned Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young.

Also wanted to mention Blind Melon..

I'd throw in Los Lobos, maybe the best US band around today, and Sonic Youth who are still making a lot of good noise. The Blasters were a terrific live band, and played a song called "American Music".

Regarding The Band, they certainly played "American" music, which they learned in the Southern US (with all due respect to our fine neighbors to the North).

THE BAND - sadly missed, the late and only Richard Manuel

Keep on rollin'
Gangster

Van Halen
Aerosmith
KISS
Alice Cooper
Doors
Cheap Trick

Plus tons of others but these come to mind immediately.

The Staple Singers
Blondie
Talking Heads
Weezer
The Toadies
White Stripes

E-Street
Cheap Trick
CCR
Skynyrd
Allmans
Silver Bullets
70's Aerosmith

lots of others

alice cooper (original pre-solo band)
pixies
grateful dead
aerosmith (1rst 5 cds only)
skynyrd (ronnie van zandt days)
the cars
patti smith band
royal trux
rage against the machine
talking heads
utopia/todd rundgren
bullet lavolta (boston-based, broke up after their major label debut in 1992)
mission of burma
little feat
allman bros

Jimi Hendrix
The Doors
Bob Dylan
J. Geils
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Prince
Robert Cray
Fats Domino
The Greatful Dead
Lee Michaels
Santana
Chuck Berry
Buddy Guy
CCR
Willie Nelson
The Pretenders
John Lee Hooker
Muddy Waters
The Temptations

Gazza Wrote:
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> electric-duane Wrote:
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> -----
> > Canadians are Americans. Last I heard Canada
> was
> > still located in North America.
>
>
> have you ever seen a North American passport?
>
> Using that logic, you may as well call Brazilians
> "americans" as well as theyre from the American
> continent.
>
> with the exception of Levon Helm, The Band arent
> from the US.


Yup Gazza, but ole Levon has more true Americana in the dirt under his fingernails than most of the other groups mentioned put together. Are you a fan? They never made a bad album - I even like Islands. The "recent" 3 (sans Robbie Robertson) are totally underrated I think. Jubilation in particular. When I listen to "If I should fail" it sounds like Rick Danko is saying goodbye to us all. So sad that two thirds of the "voice" of the Band have now departed. Did you read Levons book? Its a pretty good read. Anyway, maybe this should be a thread of its own!

Gangster-of-love Wrote:
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> THE BAND - sadly missed, the late and only Richard
> Manuel


let's not forget the soulful Rick Danko..man what a voice (and not a bad bass player either!)...he too, is missed

Hound Dog Wrote:
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> Surprised nobody mentioned Crosby, Stills, Nash &
> Young.
>
> Also wanted to mention Blind Melon..


Aren't both Stills and Young Canadians? ;-)

of the current bands out there:

incubus - is it only me who likes them>? their old stuff blows my mind, but i like the hard stuff.

of the past, of course:

dead
doors
ramones (used to be my fav along with the stones)

Neil is Canadian despite living in the US most of his life, Stills is American, from Texas to be exact, he has quite the southern accent.

What really galls me is that the USA has a great blues heritage.....and without looking nobody but nobody has mentioned any house bands such as Booker T & The MGs or Willie Dixon's band or Muddy's band or BBKings band.

All you lot have mentioned is some fly by nights like F**kin Aero F**kin Smith. Woop de F**kin Doo!!!

Get A Grip folks........do you see what I did there????

NickB

Nick B, each to their own - As Tom Waits said..."Come down off the cross, we could use the wood". You have no more integrity than anyone else here!



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part uno:

The Rascals
The Byrds (Clarence White era)
James Brown & The Famous Flames
Steve Earle & The Dukes
The New York Dolls
Aerosmith
The Chambers Brothers
The Ramones
Joey Dee & The Starlighters
The Upsetters
Elvis' road band (w/james, glenn, jerry and ronnie tutt)
& any band Hal Blaine played in.
and, oh yes, The Doors...



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Buddy Holly & The Crickets

are there more bands ???????????

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PEARL JAM
Alice Cooper
Aerosmith
ZZ Top

White Stripes
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Foo Fighters
Kyuss
R.E.M.

Hey NickB. Aerosmith "Fly by Night"?? They've been around 34 years and have sold just as many albums in the States as the Stones have. Just saw them in December and they still rock as hard as ever.
As far as the bands you mentioned like Booker T and Muddy, I'm sure most on this board like them but wouldn't consider them their favorite.
Also, the USA has a great country music heritage but no one has mentioned Patsy Cline, Willie Nelson or Hank Williams, etc.

?

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5 gooduns.....


Louis Armstrongs Hot Five



Bob Wills & The Texas Playboys



Muddy Waters Blues Band



Little Richard and The Upsetters



Clifton Chenier Band



ROCKMAN

Easy choice for me --today, that is -- the E Street Band.

However, for musical pedigrees, you'd also have to include The Band, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, and most definitely everyone who's been part of the Funk Brothers.

Time for a confession. I don't think I've ever (actively) heard a single song from The Band. I also couldn't name one! Where shall I start?


Belgrade-Bucharest-Budapest-Brno

First 2 albums...

Music From Big Pink
The Band



ROCKMAN

Lorenz Wrote:
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> Time for a confession. I don't think I've ever
> (actively) heard a single song from The Band. I
> also couldn't name one! Where shall I start?

Oh, Lorenz, you HAVE led a sheltered life. Start with getting a copy of "The Last Waltz" on DVD.

nrbq

Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band
The Eagles
Aerosmith
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band
Sammy Hagar
Ted Nugent
Tommy Bolin
Styx (shoot me,I like styx)

"It's just some friends of mine and they're busting down the door"

i think when all is said and done the body of work the grateful dead left makes them my choice for favorite american band....

the dead are the most quintessential of american bands drawing from all types of american music...from chuck berry to jazz fusion...