TOP 5 Classic rock bands

frosty wrote: Guns N Roses - a band that just had to self-destruct. I have included them in my top 5 for the great Appetite For Destruction, and one of the most breathtaking live performances I have ever seen at the Monsters Of Rock festival at Donnington Park 1988.

don`t be sad, now you have Velvet Revolver...

The Who had everything - they could rock as hard as Zeppelin but they could also deliver hit singles that didn't make you cringe, rock movies that were actually pretty good and masive concept albums you could talk about with your non proggy mates. All this, plus they looked like the gang everybody wanted to join, as did the almost equally brilliant

Led Zeppelin - Jimmy page was a better axeman than Pete Townshend, but in the never ending Who versus Zep debate I alwayswent with the 'oo. Zeppelin had a kind of dark, satanic mystique to go with the immaculate riffs, plus their policy of no interviews and no singles (in the UK at any rate) made them remote from parents and teachers. They were great fans of

Dr. Feelgood, a band from Essex who played short, brutal bursts of high octane, high energy rivvum an blooz. Like any bunch of classic rockers, they also looked as hard as nails - you could be forgiven for thinking that the bouncers had chucked the band out and picked up their instruments. The fightingest band in rock was

Thin Lizzy, fronted by a stick thin black Irishman and boasting almost as many axe heroes passing through the ranks as the Yardbirds. Phil Lynnott's bass had a mirrored scratch plate that was cooler by itself than every poodle rock band in the 80s put together - add the twin axe attack and some of the truest lyrics ever penned and the combination was irresistible. The last of the true greats was

The Clash - they may have started out as 3 chord towerblock amphetamined boredom, but by 1979 they had turned into serious contenders for the greatest rock and roll band on the planet. They showed how rock and reggae could be mixed convincingly (Sting? Who he?) and absorbed  The American Experience in a way that made later pretenders like U2 look like the pale excuses for rock that they truly are.

There's been some great stuff since, but only Nirvana have come close to the swaggering pirate, rampaging viking charisma that marks out the truly great rockers.

My 5 favourite 'Classic Rock' bands would be:

1. The Doors
2. Led Zeppelin
3. The Black Crowes
4. The Beatles
5. The Who

Jimi Hendrix, Cream, and U2 (their old stuff) could be added to this list on any given day.


Edited by Cluster One

1. The Beatles- What can I say, they made me enjoy Rock Music. I grew up on them as well.

2. The Who- Very consistent with their sound (although it did change), and each album sounds different and original.

3. Cream- Clapton is one of my biggest influences... so obviously

4. Led Zep- What everyone else said.

5. Then a tie between Primus and GnR.

1. The Beatles - they experimented with backwards tape loops on Revolver.

2. The Doors - Jim Morrisons lyrics were dark and the organ sounds created by Ray Manzarek were eerie.

3. The Who - Tommy was the second Rock Opera after the Pretty Things SF Sorrow.

4. Cream - Imagine three of the best musicians of their time soloing at the same time.

5. The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Influenced a lot of guitar players with his unorthodox upside down guitar playing and bending of the strings etc. because he was a lefty playing a righty guitar.

 

I'll give you a #1 LED ZEPPELIN