Best Band Ever!!!!!!! You choose and share you're thoughts!!!!! (Page 5 of 10)

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

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

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">

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

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">

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">

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.

<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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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
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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.

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.