Yeah I forgot about some great bands in my own backyard. I came to like the Grateful Dead much later in life. Also CCR in general and John Fogerty specifically. A couple more:


Lynyrd Skynyrd
Blue Oyster Cult
Fleetwood Mac
Metallica

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

NickB Wrote:
-------------------------------------------------------
> 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

Next time instead of "not looking" you should look and you might get educated a little. Plenty of blues bands in my postabove yours.

Yeah I see what you did, you just made an ass out of yourself.

Bob Dylan
Jimi Hendrix
The Doors
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Allman Brothers
ZZ Top
The Blasters
X

In no particular order.....

Lynyrd Skynyrd
Allman Brothers Band
Grateful Dead
The Band (ok so they were Canadian but they had one American...Levon Helm...plus their music was pure Americana)
Bob Segar and the Silver Bullet Band


I assume we're talking about rock bands here because if I include country bands, its' gonna be a long list....

I've got to add the Stooges and Patti Smith Group here, they're so ancient I forgot they're still active (even tho I saw Patti's gig only two years ago) until I read some of the posts.
Someone mentioned the Blues heritage, and I think these two punk-originators are equally important in mutating the Blues into something new, a fact that just isn't appreciated, or even quite clear yet.
For pure American rocking fun, the new New York Dolls are excellent, even if their bassist is Finnish and Sylvain is from the Middle East.

Johnny Thunders % The Heartbreakers
New York Dolls
Ramones
Iggy & Stooges
Velvet Underground

2 1 2 0

Red Hot Chili Peppers, Iggy & Stooges and the J. Geils Band

Lorenz Wrote:
-------------------------------------------------------
> 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?


Every Band album is great...Rock Of Ages is the 2nd best live album of all time (tied with Waiting For Columbus)...try it

Oh yeah, Little Feat must be considered as a GREAT American band

The Sicilian Wrote:
-------------------------------------------------------
> NickB Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > 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
>
> Next time instead of "not looking" you should look
> and you might get educated a little. Plenty of
> blues bands in my postabove yours.
>
> Yeah I see what you did, you just made an ass out
> of yourself.

Like your attitude Sicilian. By the way it's Arse not ass. No need to be so rude. I was wrong but no need to leap down my throat.

Ta NickB

Aerosmith, Hendrix, Doors, Chili Peppers, The Old Jefferson Airplane, Fleetwood Mac, Janis and The Holding Company,& Eagles.

Iggy Janis
The Lazy Cowgals
Doors Velvet
Dead Kennedys (Americans, right?)
Ol' Neil Leo Cohen
Elvis' & Chuckster's bands
Alice Cooper
X-pensive Winos War
Electric Prunes Canned Heat
Lil Feat Steve Miller Band
Leon Russel (various) band(-s)
The Runaways
(will fill in more - see also above)

NickB Wrote:
-------------------------------------------------------
> Like your attitude Sicilian. By the way it's Arse
> not ass. No need to be so rude. I was wrong but no
> need to leap down my throat.

Nick their is no "r" in ass in the USA. I was responding to your rudeness considering you F-bombed everyone. But no offense taken for passion. I can see where your coming from, just that your post comes off a somewhat harsh. Anyways no big deal rock on dude.

Yeah, Dolls of course.
MC5. Talkin Heads.
Cheap Trick. Nirvana.
Metallica. Bachmanturneroverdrive.
Dr Hook. Beaste Boys. Zappa.
Grandmaster Flash, Africa Bambaataa.
Ramones.

Thanks, Bro, for mentioning the Lazy Cowgirls. And I forgot to list J. Geils. Booker T. and the M. G.'s too.

The Sicilian Wrote:
-------------------------------------------------------
> NickB Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Like your attitude Sicilian. By the way it's
> Arse
> > not ass. No need to be so rude. I was wrong but
> no
> > need to leap down my throat.
>
> Nick their is no "r" in ass in the USA. I was
> responding to your rudeness considering you
> F-bombed everyone. But no offense taken for
> passion. I can see where your coming from, just
> that your post comes off a somewhat harsh.
> Anyways no big deal rock on dude.

Nice one mate. See you hopefully on the road this summer.

NickB

Ramones
Supersuckers
Metallica
Crue
Captian Geetch and The Shrimp Shack Shooters

1. Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band
2. Grateful Dead

_



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2007-02-08 21:46 by Tumblin_Dice_07.

Cn Beefheart & well, yeah, Springsteen & E-Street.
Pearl Jam. Soundgarden. RHCP.
Ike & Tina. Sonny & Cher.
Henry Rollins (his radio [indie1031.fm] ) .

Sly & Robbie!

Kiss.

B.B.Kings band. Otis Redding's ditto.
Jimi Hendrix Experience. Band Of Gypsys.
Lil Richard's ditto. Jerry Lee's.
Muddy Waters. Tom Petty.

Savage Rose were operating from the US the last decade.

There's only one mention of REM. How can that be? Nor does anyone mention John Hiatt. Nor T-Bone Burnette.

For me the list would also include
Talkin' Heads
CCR, of course
Spear Head
Flaming Lips, sometimes
The Doors
Velvet Underground

That's what I can think of at the moment.

Yeah I forgot to mention the mighty J. Geils Band

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

Thanks, Bro, for mentioning Tom Petty's underrated Heartbreakers.

Oh thier ain't nothing underrated about the Heartbreakers. I mentioned them on one of many posts on this thread. In fact I have been listening the Tom Petty box set all week. Here's a line from an obscure Petty song that I've worn out the last few days.:

" Wherever you are tonight,I wish you the best of everything,in the world and I hope you find, whatever you were looking for"

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

Iggy and the Stooges
CCR
The Black Crowes
The Black Keys
The Raconteurs
The Doors
DYLAN
The Greatful Dead
Allman Bro's
Black Rebel Motocycle Club
The Blind Boys of Alabama
Stevie Ray Vaughn
Jimi Hendrix
The James Gang
J Giles (pre Love Stinks!)
Aerosmith (Pre Done with Mirrors)
Chuck Berry
Little Richard
James Brown
Janis Joplin with Full Tilt Boogie Band
Howling Wolf (his band was on fire)
Elvis (pre Army)
White Stripes
John Lee Hooker with Canned Heat!



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2007-02-09 03:41 by whitem8.

charmed, I really don't think they get their due when compared to, say, the E Street Band. Mike, Belmont, etc. have a great versitility as well as gobs of talent. I know I'm preaching to the choir with you, but some out there don't know.

Yeah your right Elmo. I don't know what the numbers are. But I'm sure Petty's sales figures can hold their own with many a big name artist. His last album was pretty good. At least he finally got a couple songs played on FM radio for the first time in years. I unfortunatly did not catch last summer's tour. But he managed to sell out 3 nights at a 20,000 seat local ampitheatre. So it look's like he's "back". I hope he comes back around again this summer.

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

ohno sent me a boot of TP at Bonnaroo - good setlist and show. Saw him a few years back and he was excellent. Mike Campbell had a fall near the end of the show and played the encore (American Girl) sitting down!

Elmo Lewis Wrote:
-------------------------------------------------------
> ohno sent me a boot of TP at Bonnaroo - good
> setlist and show. Saw him a few years back and he
> was excellent. Mike Campbell had a fall near the
> end of the show and played the encore (American
> Girl) sitting down!



Speaking of ohno. I got a package in the mail from him myself today. Zeppelin,last show with Bonham in Berlin '81. Good shit. Man if this keeps up,we may have to start, an ohno is a nice guy thread..................(oh) NOOO!!!!!!!