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R.I.P.

Stevie Ray Vaughn

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The All Time Greatest The One And Only Mr B.B King

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so many replies here and i am so glad that no one has mentioned wham or take that or spice girls or any other manufactured pop nonsense that has dominated the charts in the past 10 -15 years,  <img src="images/smiley_icons/icon_lol.gif" border=0 alt="Laughing">


seems like a good crowd on this forum, people know good music, even if others do not like ones that are mentioned,  <img src="images/smiley_icons/icon_lol.gif" border=0 alt="Laughing">


Ken

ye get some that are cut out for the job and others just get by from pretending

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It has always been hard to choose best because the times change so much as Dylan said, now he has risen again in the charts and done something that no one else has yet again. Guess you can't call him a band??

What about the Chieftains or Planxty they must rate up there!!

Even now there is a band rising to stardom in Australia they are great and well worth a listen. I mentioned them before in this forum and I think from the taste of the members responding so far, the majority would be impressed see what you think

www.augie-march.com

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Without a doubt it is all the campfire jammers, back-porch pickers, and aspiring garage bands the world over.  The 'Best Band Ever' is when people gather to make some music, share a few laughs, and have some fun.

"That darn Pythagorean Comma thing keeps messing me up!"
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Hey, right on Brother. But have you heard me sing!!?? <img src="images/smiley_icons/icon_eek.gif" border=0 alt="Shocked">


I'd also just like to add in S Club 7 in here just to annoy Ken. <img src="images/smiley_icons/icon_lol.gif" border=0 alt="Laughing">

Is anything really made up of zeros and ones??

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Howl it out, dude  . . . you are the only one in the world who can sing like you do.  If you just belt it out with gusto and smile in your eyes - it'll sound exactly like it should.  Hey - if Joe Cocker could make an entire career out of singing, then there is room in this world for your voice too!


To restate my point - the 'Best Band Ever' is whenever people get together to make music, have a few laughs, and actually "do" music rather than "consume" music.

"That darn Pythagorean Comma thing keeps messing me up!"
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very true james,

the reason I love going to folk festivals mainly on the western isles of scotland, people jamming constantly thru the day and night, even when they are asleep in tents you still here guitars and singing.


and thanks alvee. S 7 club thingy are really good arent they? pmsl.

but ye canny forget ........ yep, I forgotten, so ye can forget them


ken

ye get some that are cut out for the job and others just get by from pretending

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Well said upyerkilt - the 'Best Band Ever' is always playing somewhere on the planet . . . it might be singing in different languages using strange instruments - - - but it is always playing something somewhere.

"That darn Pythagorean Comma thing keeps messing me up!"
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I guess that makes Chordie the best band ever so who's second best? <img src="images/smiley_icons/icon_biggrin.gif" border=0 alt="Very Happy">

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Music shouldn't be a competition. Save that for sports. What's is beautiful about music is that different music has different values to it and different things to be appreciated. True, some music is better than other music but that kind of value judgement can only really be made based on technical skill and the integrity with which the musician goes about it. To identify any band as the best band would destroy everything that made them good. Such competitiveness makes us forget that music is supposed to bring people together.

peaces

a(J)

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Quite right, although positive competition for example listening to segovia or Adrian Legge or Pete Townsend wondering how they did that bit and then finding a bit that they probably can't do is always fun!

I wish I could be 102 nd best <img src="images/smiley_icons/icon_rolleyes.gif" border=0 alt="Rolling Eyes">

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Its the mindset of competition is the problem though learning how great musicians did things and try to do better is a good way to learn. I don't think that's competition. The first thing I do when I learn a new riff is try to figure out all the variations of it sound good and one will always sound better. Some people are better musicians than others and you are right in that it is so fun to be able to play a really great muscians song better than they can.

peaces

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as david bowie has been quoted for saying

"if you write a song and you like it, then someone somewhere in the world will like it also" ( or something along those words)


meaning, it doesnt matter what you do, what you sound like, if you like it yourself, keep playing it and dont listen to negative comments


If anyone has the david bowie cd with the extra songs on it, i.e the demo version of ziggy stardust, you will know what I am talking about, it is a terrible demo for a record company but some producer saw the potential and went withit and created a superb classic.

ye get some that are cut out for the job and others just get by from pretending

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you are right it isn't competition to learn and also the competative mind set has probably brought us all into unfortunate circumstances.<img src="images/smiley_icons/icon_redface.gif" border=0 alt="Embarassed">

I guess watching two gutarists (or a jazz band) riffing madly thay are not trying to impress themselves or others but are flowing and taking there music as far as they are able at the time.

Still can't help feeling a bit jealous while I am trying to figure out how Richard Thompson plays Vincent Black Lightning 1952. I guess I take comfort in that he would find it difficult to play it the way I am.

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<font face="Century"><font color="deeppink">I sort of agree with you but, yet if you think about it what about middle of the road, greenday or even the greatest of all, kiss??? for me they are very inspirational, even though i'm a girl with a very high voice my friends think i can sing greenday songs really good! </font></font> <img src="images/smiley_icons/icon_razz.gif" border=0 alt="Razz">

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The bands I like the most are : The Beatles and Nirvana, but I like Bob Dylan and Eric Clapton too.

Does anybody know Toto ? I think they're pretty good too. (I'm belgian, so if my English isn't perfect, I'm sorry <img src="images/smiley_icons/icon_redface.gif" border=0 alt="Embarassed"> )

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I see with this thread people are just typing in their favourite band and not really thinking of success that bands have had or still having, i.e. SLIPKNOT??? come on, do they sell out thousands upon thousands worldwide??? no, I dont think so, so they cannot be included as well as a few more mentioned here, might be good or great bands but not the best of all time.

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Nah.  Greatness has absolutley nothing to do with how many albums you sell or how many people you can pack into a stadium.


True greats like Bella Fleck and Shawn Lane stand heads and shoulders above populars like Michael Jackson and Poison, groups who regularly sold out at one time.


Greatest band ever?  Marine Corps Drum and Bugle Corps, followed up by the Flecktones.  <img src="images/smiley_icons/icon_smile.gif" border=0 alt="Smile">

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lmao

I have no idea who any of those bands are you mentioned apart from poison, a band I used to love but "one of the greatest" ????? nah, no way, they may have sold venues out but not stadiums, they may have been good musicians but not fantastic.


Although Michael Jacko, even though I dont like his stuff apart from the earth song ( at a push) he would have to be in the greatest as fans and album sales and sell out concerts for years upon years.


Ken

ye get some that are cut out for the job and others just get by from pretending

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lmao

I have no idea who any of those bands are you mentioned apart from poison, a band I used to love but "one of the greatest" ????? nah, no way, they may have sold venues out but not stadiums, they may have been good musicians but not fantastic.


Although Michael Jacko, even though I dont like his stuff apart from the earth song ( at a push) he would have to be in the greatest as fans and album sales and sell out concerts for years upon years.


Ken
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That's kind of my point.  If you don't know who Shawn Lane is, or Bella Fleck, you should look them up.   Both are phenomenally tallented players that had they taken up a more "popular" style would regularly be ranked amongst the greates of all time.  Lane is dead now, so his legacy will have to be carried on through his fan base, but Fleck and the Flecktones are still playing, and you should get out and see them if you can.  Check your small venue listings.


Lane, I think, is worth special note, as he was a child prodigy, and played with Black Oak Arkansas when he was like 14 years old.  Then he became a legendary blues player in the Memphis area, and finally carried himself off to Inda to study carnatic music with his contemporaries over there.


An example of his melodic and technical genious.  <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoqRENuuLrs" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoqRENuuLrs</a>


Point being, he could have quite easily played contemporary rock, become a shred monkey and made a gazillion as a rock star.  But he didn't.  He followed his interests, and played what he wanted to, and the result is truly great, even though I'm probably the only person in a 10 block radius that's heard of him.


So compare that to Jackson.  "Thriller" was, at one point, the highest selling album of all time.  The album it knocked off for the #1 spot?  The sound track to "Saturday Night Fever."   I've see Poision, and they filled the stadium in the mid 80s.


So what I'm saying is that "greatness" has little to do with "popularity."  The popular tide sometimes brings up a bit of sewage now and again.

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Wow, there's a lot of great answers here.  Some seem a little under-represented.  For example:


The Band - Bob Dylan's "back up" band.

Cheap Trick - not really my style, but pretty influential.

The Grateful Dead/Jerry Garcia - if you haven't heard live recordings, you haven't heard them at all.

Allman Bros.



If you want to hear a great blues guitarist, check out Duke Robillard when he was with Roomful of Blues.


And, another lesser-known east coast band, NRBQ.  A funky little group with a fire-breathing guitarist named Al Anderson.  He's left the Q, but check out their old stuff, or better yet, see them live.


And where, oh where is any reference to Bad Company?  Ditto on The E Street Band.


Just my two cents.  And for me, it's not about ticket sales or album sales.  It's about the music, and more importantly, the live performance.

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So much of this depends on what your definition of a band is. One guy who jams his butt off with a few mates may be an incredible musician, but not a great band.


I would have to say the Beatles are number one with the Grateful Dead in second. The Stones and Pink Floyd come in third.

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jerome yer right.

A band should be based on it's live performances ( it was you that said that  wasnt it?, never mind, great sentance anyway whoever it was)


Yes poison did fill arenas in the mid 80's but never held on to that status like the eagles, rod stewart, the who, pink floyd the stones, rem etc. But I have all their albums and still listen to them now and again.


I will check out those people you talked about, I always like to hear something new, especially if I think " I have not heard anything like this before"

or if it is not totally original, as long as there is good tunes with a good voice behind it.


Cheers

Hanx


Ken


p.s. I consider ( as I have said) the stiff little fingers are one of the best bands, as is the alarm, but they never sell out arenas, hmm, I should think forst sometimes,lol

ye get some that are cut out for the job and others just get by from pretending

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jerome yer right.

A band should be based on it's live performances ( it was you that said that  wasnt it?, never mind, great sentance anyway whoever it was)

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It wasn't me that said that, but it's certainly something I've said before, and believe.  Great bands play great shows.


Some bands are simply better live.  ZZ Top and Jane's Addiction both come to mind as bands who's live shows completely blow their studio stuff away.


Some bands simply suck live, and that takes away a whole lot from their studio stuff.  It tells me that the studio sound is a result of great sound engineering, rather than great musicianship.  Depeche Mode and Mars Volta are some of the worst live shows I've ever seen, and while I never really liked DM, I did like Volta.


What makes a great band, to me, is great musicians.  That's why Zepplin and Floyd and Rush are still great, and always will be.  Jimmy Page, David Gilmore, and Lee/Peart are all great musicians and songwriters.  Any band they play in could be great.

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