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What is the greatest American band?

― kevin franklin (tom cleveland), Friday, 2 January 2004 19:07 (twenty-two years ago)

whoever does that "Believe it or not, I'm walking on air" song.

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 2 January 2004 19:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Hot fuckin' Tuna.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 2 January 2004 19:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Goddy Rogers and the Seraphims

― tom cleveland (tom cleveland), Friday, 2 January 2004 19:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Led Zeppelin

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 2 January 2004 19:13 (twenty-two years ago)

The Banana Splits.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Friday, 2 January 2004 19:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Steel Breeze.

― udu wudu (udu wudu), Friday, 2 January 2004 19:20 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.satiche.org.uk/vinbb/phot1929.jpg

― tom cleveland (tom cleveland), Friday, 2 January 2004 19:20 (twenty-two years ago)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd600/d690/d69025236f3.jpg

― pete from the street, Friday, 2 January 2004 19:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Pete wins. We can lock the thread now.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Friday, 2 January 2004 19:30 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.twintone.com/gifs/replacements.jpeg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 2 January 2004 19:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Ooh. Just after the wire, we have a new winner.

― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 2 January 2004 19:39 (twenty-two years ago)

"The wild, shirtless lyrics of Mark Farner! The bong-rattling bass of Mel Schacher! The competent drum work of Don Brewer!"

― I quote Homer Simpson at every opportunity (nickalicious), Friday, 2 January 2004 19:39 (twenty-two years ago)

I thought we already agreed on CCR last year.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Friday, 2 January 2004 19:42 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.musicacc.com/images/hueylewisnews.jpg

― Bob Shaw (Bob Shaw), Friday, 2 January 2004 19:49 (twenty-two years ago)

eek that was supposed to be
http://www.musicacc.com/images/hueylewisnews.jpg

― Bob Shaw (Bob Shaw), Friday, 2 January 2004 19:49 (twenty-two years ago)

my real vote goes to the grateful dead though

― Bob Shaw (Bob Shaw), Friday, 2 January 2004 19:53 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.zulunation.com/SLY_STONE.jpg

― jed (jed_e_3), Friday, 2 January 2004 20:02 (twenty-two years ago)

The Famous Flames

― LondonLee (LondonLee), Friday, 2 January 2004 20:11 (twenty-two years ago)

and The JBs!

― LondonLee (LondonLee), Friday, 2 January 2004 20:12 (twenty-two years ago)

http://hem.passagen.se/berra3/wustorm.gif

for a couple of years, at least.

― fdsfsd, Friday, 2 January 2004 20:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Either the Mats or Ike & Tina.

― Kingfishee (Kingfish), Friday, 2 January 2004 20:24 (twenty-two years ago)

gah, try that again: http://hem.passagen.se/berra3/wmemmap.jpg

― jklfkjsf, Friday, 2 January 2004 20:26 (twenty-two years ago)

DAMNIT

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/pic200_web/drp200/p240/p24073bg9ta.jpg

― hfdsf, Friday, 2 January 2004 20:27 (twenty-two years ago)

oops - sorry about that, i was getting a bunch of red x's previously

*dies*

― hfdsf, Friday, 2 January 2004 20:29 (twenty-two years ago)

http://home2.inet.tele.dk/theboss/the_e_street_band_1.jpg

― Mark (MarkR), Friday, 2 January 2004 20:29 (twenty-two years ago)

http://jimjacobson.com/images/stooges.gif

But y'know, the band.

― Gloop (Gloop), Friday, 2 January 2004 20:35 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.sunraresearch.com/assets/images/sunra_italy_1980.jpg

― Rockist Scientist, Friday, 2 January 2004 20:36 (twenty-two years ago)

I mean.

http://jimjacobson.com/images/stooges.gif

― Gloop (Gloop), Friday, 2 January 2004 20:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Or maybe:

http://www.ralphmercadopresents.com/images/pictures/fania_2001/msg.jpg

― Rockist Scientist, Friday, 2 January 2004 20:39 (twenty-two years ago)

(How can anyone compete with the Three Stooges?)

Maybe best American rock band:

http://www.laweekly.com/images/ink/02/27/sm27warhol14.jpg

― Rockist Scientist, Friday, 2 January 2004 20:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Run-DMC first said a DJ could be a band.

― Rockist Scientist, Friday, 2 January 2004 20:46 (twenty-two years ago)

I still think the Beatles.

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 2 January 2004 20:48 (twenty-two years ago)

right now:

http://www.killrockstars.com/bands/deerhoof/photos/Color_small.jpg

― dan (dan), Friday, 2 January 2004 21:19 (twenty-two years ago)

During the past 20 years..

http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/wob/elisa/auditory/rem.jpg

― may pang (maypang), Friday, 2 January 2004 21:32 (twenty-two years ago)

That shot makes Michael Stipe look like Conan O'Brien.

― pete from the street, Friday, 2 January 2004 21:41 (twenty-two years ago)

...mixed with Morrisey.

― nickn (nickn), Friday, 2 January 2004 21:44 (twenty-two years ago)

http://ascendo.peterland.net.nz/Images/gband1.jpg

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Friday, 2 January 2004 21:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Actually.....

http://www.ramones.com/images/RobertMatheu06.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 2 January 2004 22:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Are we just supposed to be able to, like, magically automatically recognize who these people are?

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Friday, 2 January 2004 22:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Those are the Ramones (if the big banner behind them failed to tip you off).

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 2 January 2004 22:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, what are those R, A, M, O, N, E, and S letters? Some kind of code?

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Friday, 2 January 2004 22:21 (twenty-two years ago)

x-post

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Friday, 2 January 2004 22:21 (twenty-two years ago)

I have been ruined

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Friday, 2 January 2004 22:21 (twenty-two years ago)

I gotta go with the 1970-71 JBs (the lineup with Bootsy and Catfish Collins).

― Phil Freeman (Phil Freeman), Friday, 2 January 2004 22:24 (twenty-two years ago)

past: black flag

now: jackie-o motherfucker

― Ian Johnson (orion), Friday, 2 January 2004 22:31 (twenty-two years ago)

http://home.westman.wave.ca/~hillmans/sun4h2.jpg

― may pang (maypang), Friday, 2 January 2004 22:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Are we just supposed to be able to, like, magically automatically recognize who these people are?

Yes, of course, ideally. I can't say that I recognized a couple posted after mine.

Mine were: the Sun Ra Arkestra, a sign advertising the FANIA All Stars (who I really like more in their other projects than all together, so that's cheating), and the Velvet Underground; but everyonme probably knew mine.

― Rockist Scientist, Friday, 2 January 2004 22:33 (twenty-two years ago)

That's Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash and motherfucking Jerry Lee Lewis!

― may pang (maypang), Friday, 2 January 2004 22:35 (twenty-two years ago)

last twenty years

http://image.pathfinder.com/ew/features/010316/clinch/img/04.jpg

― dan (dan), Friday, 2 January 2004 22:37 (twenty-two years ago)

eternally

http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Towers/5752/w-group.gif

― dan (dan), Friday, 2 January 2004 22:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Some other contenders, if I was asked....

http://www.onethirtyeight.com/images/friedman6.jpg

http://www.artistdirect.com/Images/Sources/AMGPORTRAITS/music/portrait200/drp000/p036/p03610e7ijb.jpg

http://www.clubdevo.com/images/devophoto2Small.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 2 January 2004 22:45 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.artshack.com/iggy/stooges.jpg

And I'd be lying if I didn't include...

http://www.guitarworld.com/tuneups/art/2000/0004.kiss.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 2 January 2004 22:49 (twenty-two years ago)

At one time or another I'd have said one of these for whatever reason.

Royal Trux
Giant Sand
Ramones
Yo La Tengo
Social Distortion
Sleater-Kinney
Steely Dan
Low
Flaming Lips
The Sadies

now, however:
http://www.handsomefamily.com/bwlamplores.jpg

― Gear! (Gear!), Friday, 2 January 2004 23:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Hah! Gear!, I'm off to play some Handsome Family songs at the open mic here in Seoul. Expect Drunk By Noon, The Dutch Boy and A Beautiful Thing to cross your mind for no reason later on tonight.
And I'll say...too:

http://www.handsomefamily.com/HFlowres3-bw.jpg

― Barbarity Itself, Saturday, 3 January 2004 10:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Alex in NYC - pardon me, but who is the band sandwiched in between those Misfits and Devo pics you posted?

― Schwingung (Damian), Saturday, 3 January 2004 11:00 (twenty-two years ago)

That's the late, great Cop Shoot Cop.

http://www.thepolywog.com/copshootcop/index.htm

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 3 January 2004 11:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Thanks!

― Schwingung (Damian), Saturday, 3 January 2004 11:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Well done Barbarity =D

― Gear! (Gear!), Saturday, 3 January 2004 20:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Lynyrd Skynyrd. Period.

― chuck, Saturday, 3 January 2004 20:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Right now: Either the Gore Gore Girls, Montgomery Gentry, or the Ying Yang Twins probably. Unless I'm forgetting somebody.

― chuck, Saturday, 3 January 2004 20:41 (twenty-two years ago)

do people here hate the beach boys? is it hip to not like them now?

― MerkinMuffley (MerkinMuffley), Saturday, 3 January 2004 21:28 (twenty-two years ago)

It was only hip to like them until they started sucking with *Pet Sounds,* I think. (Metal Mike Saunders of Great American Band the Angry Samoans could tell you for sure, though.)

― chuck, Saturday, 3 January 2004 21:30 (twenty-two years ago)

i meant hip to dislike

― MerkinMuffley (MerkinMuffley), Sunday, 4 January 2004 02:26 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.counterpoint-music.com/specialties/images/shaggs.gif

― jack cole (jackcole), Sunday, 4 January 2004 02:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Some of the above bands fall short of being contenders for "greatest", surely.

― Sean (Sean), Sunday, 4 January 2004 03:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Blondie? Mercury Rev? The Doors?

― C-Man (C-Man), Sunday, 4 January 2004 03:35 (twenty-two years ago)

and then the eye of the beholder fell out of its socket.

― jack cole (jackcole), Sunday, 4 January 2004 03:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Lynyrd Skynyrd. Period.

-- chuck (cedd...)

Lynyrd Skynyrd not only make me ashamed to be American, they make me ashamed to be a member of the same species.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 4 January 2004 21:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Why?

― adam (adam), Sunday, 4 January 2004 22:14 (twenty-two years ago)

MX-80 Sound 'til they dropped the 'Sound'. Or else Velvet Underground 'til they dropped John Cale.

― Scott Bloomfield, Wednesday, 7 January 2004 01:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Kix.

― Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 02:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Not even Chuck Eddy goes that far!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 03:04 (twenty-two years ago)

i'll agree with Merkin on the beach boys and scott on the vu. More recently whiskeytown and the flaming lips.

― uzumaki (uzumaki), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 03:23 (twenty-two years ago)

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