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Psychedelic Paul
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Rush replaced Todd Rundgren's Utopia in the poll, who probably wouldn't have received any votes anyway. It's a good thing I replaced Utopia with Rush as they're currently leading the poll. I'm not sure what a "Mick-poll fail" is.
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richardh
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I voted for Rush as they are one of my favourite bands but if you ask me the best 'Arena band' in terms of my actual attendance and experience it would easily be the subject of my avatar , namely Muse. They put on a spectacular show at Ashton Gate Stadium earlier in the year and basically have the whole large stadium/arena nailed down tight with a dance troupe , giant Iron Maiden style 'puppets' , video screen back projection , giant custom built speakers .. basically the dog gonads. After the then actually Iron Maiden are the second best with Rush third in my experience.
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moshkito
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Thank you ... was about to write that ... but this generation of folks posting here, has absolutely no idea what Pink Floyd and Grateful Dead did on stage, to compare ... so they can choose a simpler band in their music. Nothing against Boston or Kansas, but the musicianship levels, don't even come close to a proper comparison! AND, the Grateful Dead, had the biggest and the best sound system EVER on any stage of the world, and sometimes you could swear it was way better than your own stereo system. PF even when through that and the clarity of DSOTM was a perfect example of them perfecting their "quadraphonic sound" ... that no one here remembers or can relate to!
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I disagree because Rush is a lot more prog than those bands (except maybe Kansas), and when I think of a band filling up an arena, it's the mighty Halen.
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AFlowerKingCrimson
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It was actually my suggestion to have Van Halen on here(even though I didn't actually vote for them). However, if they are on here then you could also make a case for Aerosmith and then Motley Crue and then Kiss and then ZZ Top and on and on. I see Def Leppard is on here at least. The bands that most seemed to typify that arena rock sound though seemed to be REO Speedwagon, Journey, Boston, Styx and maybe Kansas(late seventies).
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verslibre
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^Those bands were nowhere near as consistent when you compare heydays, though. VH cut a huge swath for a decade, upstaging headliners and spawning myriad wannabes (some, like Extreme, became successful).
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Psychedelic Paul
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Grateful Dead are in my second Psychedelic Rock poll and they were around long before the era of the typical 1980's Arena Rock sound of bands such as Journey, Foreigner, Toto & REO Speedwagon. I was born in the 1950's so I've been around even longer than the Grateful Dead and I'm grateful to still be alive.
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TOTO - Falling in Between - Live in Paris (2007)
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MEAT LOAF - Bat Out of Hell 3 Tour
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Toto.
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Your avatar reminds me of Robert John Godfrey of The Enid. Edited by Psychedelic Paul - December 04 2019 at 02:30 |
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Well, either Kansas or Rush of course, because they’re Prog. Rush of course will win. Why mix Prog and non-Prog? Take off the couple Prog ones and put ZZ Top in. They were the top crowd draw in one of those late 80s years.
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of the ones on the poll, ELO.
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