The greatest band/performer?

[Bren]

Another one-hit wonder band. Catapulted to "fame" per virtue of an unfortunate plane crash. Regrettably their one hit has been flogged to death ever since by radio station "music directors" devoid of imagination, who treat the egregious Steve Miller hit "Take the money and run" in the same manner. Please, make it stop.

You are right in the fact that Sweet Home Alabama was their biggest single, but they also had another song that hit big, and was released a year before "Sweet Home Alabama"...In my opinion "Free Bird" is a much better song, but it does not receive much airplay because the song is quite a long one at over 10 minutes.


What needs to stop is Kid Rocks awful song that is based around Sweet Home Alabama....


Oh, and dont forget "Simple Man", which has been covered by Shinedown to a great degree of success

[Skyryder]

Always like this guys music.


http://video.google.com/videosearch?...S:official&hs=


Skyyrder

[Kevnz]

Best live performance would have to be Split Enz or Talking Heads around 1982 at Sweetwaters. Saw the Rolling Stones at Wembley in 1990 but to commercial for my liking. The Who in London 1989 was good,Pete did the smash up the guitar thingy, yer

[Iggy]

I've seen or heard them all:

Jimi Hendrix
Lou Reed
The Animals
The Band
Jefferson Airplane
The Rolling Stones
Talking Heads
UB40
AC/DC
Bob Dylan
Neil Young
Cream
Eric Clapton
The Yardbirds (Go on, you've never heard of them, have you)
Banana Mouse-cry (just joking, google Nana Mouskouri)
The Who
Split ENZ
Moody Blues
America
Dire Straits
Elvis Presley
The Cure
Journey
Roy Orbison
And thousand and thousands more









And the winner is................................................ .................................
.................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. ................Fuck me, The Beatles!

I agree there man, am a huge beatle fan, was never old enough to see any of their concerts but been to liverpool to see places where the boys made history. Been to the Cavern niteclub to see a band called The Mersey Beetles, brilliant atmosphere. Went to places like Penny Lane, Strawberry Fields, Forthlin Road ( Pauls home ), Mendips ( Johns home ), Arnold Grove ( Georges home ) and finally Admiral Grove ( Ringos home ). Bought plenty of momentos at the Beatles Museium down the Queens docks by the river Mersey. An absolutely awesome experience, want to go back and stay at the new Hard Days Night Hotel in a couple of years.
THE BEATLES ARE THE GREATEST BAND EVER

[Big Dave]

THE WIGGLES!!!!

Now you're talking.

How come nobody has mentioned Celine Dion?

Yes Ratfn - I am kidding. Who is the greatest has no empirical measure and will only ever be a matter of conjecture.

Personally my favourite performer is Bruce Springsteen.
Obscure faves are Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes. Same genre.

If forced to nominate a greatest it would be Beatles or Stones. The extra 30 years means I'd probably favour the glimmer twins.

[noobi]

at the moment, i feel there ar'nt many bands that can compare to Muse, their concert was amazing, any one who has seen H.A.A.R.P. their live dvd will concur
i only say this as atm there are few bands which are as good as their records and even less which are better than their records

although definately not the best band or performer ever, at the moment, as in 2008, they are definately up there

[wbks]

I've heard they are one of if not the best live bands, what makes them so good?

[Pussy]

Another one-hit wonder band.

Gotta disagree with you there, Hitcher!
The list of Lynyrd Skynyrd hits is long and distinguished.
Some of my personal favourites:
Gimme three steps
What's your name?
Tuesday's gone
Call me the breeze
Freebird
etc etc

[MisterD]

Gotta disagree with you there, Hitcher!
The list of Lynyrd Skynyrd hits is long and distinguished.

Yet, IMHO, Blackfoot were much better and Ricky Medlocke shouldn't have canned them to go be Skynyrd's frontman.

Having watched "Heavy - the story of Metal" on C4 last night, I'd like to timetravel and see both Kiss and Alice Cooper in their heydays (not to mention Sabbath and Zeppelin, but they were on my list before). Looking forward to next week's edition which looks like it will feature the whole NWOBHM thing first up...

[noobi]

I've heard they are one of if not the best live bands, what makes them so good?

lots of things, their not like anyone else, its very clever music some people dont get it, the singer can actually sing very well infact, the live shows are epic
if you can get to youtube any live shows are good
and if you cant, this has all the awards they won, mostly best band and best live act
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muse_(band)

[HenryDorsetCase]

Another one-hit wonder band. Catapulted to "fame" per virtue of an unfortunate plane crash. Regrettably their one hit has been flogged to death ever since by radio station "music directors" devoid of imagination, who treat the egregious Steve Miller hit "Take the money and run" in the same manner. Please, make it stop.

You've actually LISTENED to some Skynrd back catalogue, right?

Which "one hit" do you refer to: Freebird, Gimme Three Steps, Sweet Home Alabama. Simple Man?

Without Skynrd there would be no Drive By Truckers, and the world would be poorer for it.

Though no one would miss Steve Miller.

[HenryDorsetCase]

Yet, IMHO, Blackfoot were much better and Ricky Medlocke shouldn't have canned them to go be Skynyrd's frontman.

Having watched "Heavy - the story of Metal" on C4 last night, I'd like to timetravel and see both Kiss and Alice Cooper in their heydays (not to mention Sabbath and Zeppelin, but they were on my list before). Looking forward to next week's edition which looks like it will feature the whole NWOBHM thing first up...

Its a repeat. Its quite good for a "once over lightly" approach.

[MotoGirl]

Having watched "Heavy - the story of Metal" on C4 last night, I'd like to timetravel and see both Kiss and Alice Cooper in their heydays (not to mention Sabbath and Zeppelin, but they were on my list before).

I agree. We went to Rock2Wgtn earlier this year and saw both Kiss and Alice Cooper perform. To say I was disappointed is a huge understatement – they sucked! Don't even get me started on Ozzy the decrepit old man. It’s pretty sad when he gets an excited and is only able-bodied enough to jump up and down on the same spot.

I’m absolutely gutted that I was too young to see my favourite bands perform (G’N’R, Led Zep. and Pink Floyd). The best live performance I’ve seen was U2.

[Big Dave]

Though no one would miss Steve Miller.

I have sentimental memories of Greatest hits. Mainly because of the Chinese 10 - bar girl from the Hilton - I was with in Honkers where I bout the vinyl for 25c in 1978.

[Pwalo]

Yep U2 were pretty good the first time they came here back in the 80s. We saw them in a small room at the old Winter Show Buildings.

Ian Drury was pretty impressive live. Boomtown Rats were good. But the worst live concert I attended was Dire Straits at Athletic Park (that old stand sure did bounce). They were possibly the most boring moments of my life.