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Here is the list of the top ten rock bands of all time.  Coincidentally it comes from the same group who brought you the TOP TEN MOVIES list awhile back.

Enjoy it.

1. Beatles
2. Led Zepplin
3. Pink Floyd
4. Jimi Hendrix
5. The Rolling Stones
6. The Eagles
7. The Who
8. Aerosmith
9. The Doors
10. Lynard Skynard

Where is DEVO?  ???

 What about The Cramps? [(http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2004/SHOWBIZ/Music/12/20/bestof.three/story.cramps.jpg)

...the eagles ,and lynard skynard,...as ROCK bands...hmmm...sk.

I don't care if you ARE a left-wing commie pinko, George, you're all right!  ;D

Seems like the criteria for bands/musicians making that Top 10 list is that they're either over 50 or they're dead. 

Or they look like they're dead!  Just take a look at Keith Richards!  :o :o

Kinda tells you something about todays music, doesn't it?

Thanks a lot John, I think.

Q: Are we not men?

A: We are DEVO!

I want to know what happen to the shit I used to listen to:

1) Ultimate Spinach
2) Chocolate Watchband
3) Thirteenth Floor Elevators
4) Fever Tree
5) EARLY Pink Floyd (with Syd Barrett before he overdosed)
6) The Groundhogs
7) Atomic Rooster
8) The "Bubble Puppy" - Could there have been a better song than "Hot Smoke and Sassafras"?
9) The "Peanut Butter Conspiracy"
10) "Love"
11) "Move" - yes Virginia, there was a band before "ELO"
12) The "Rainy Daze" - Remember "That Acapulco Gold"?
13) "Talk Talk"
14) The "Shadows of Knight"

I could go on and on. To me, the real heros were the Psychedelic and Punk Bands that were shooting stars, or burned out from too many months of staying "high", having wild sex, etc, etc (well, the Doors did make it).

I still have all of the stuff I used to listen to, and keep it in record racks in my basement. The problem is I haven't been able to access it due to a plethora of 1930's and 40's 6' rack transmitters that have been blocking the stuff so I can't get to it.

In the late 1970's I used to be a frequent guest on the "Mr. Monotone Show", a "punk" show broadcasted over WKDU from Drexel University in Philly. They had a pretty good coverage area considering their college station status (10W, I used to load the TX up to 100W+ when I was on). I used to play the obscure stuff nobody remembered or heard that much of. The listening audience absolutely loved it (bearing in mind the average listener at the time loved Iggy Pop - hi!).

Yes, it's true that your "classic rock" artists were great. There was definitely a reason why people liked them and still do. I could never understand why your so called "garage bands" (ie: the "Nazz", Elizabeth, etc) never made it big. Perhaps they just didn't have the promotion, or where on obscure little labels like "International Artists" out of Austin Texas (Thirteenth Floor Elevators).

To me, the obscure bands will always be tops, and when I (finally) move a few transmitters blocking their access, I'll be able to listen to them again.

Anyone wanna come over for a few spins of the above groups? You need not bring a "bong" to enjoy them!

I have a bunch of Atomic Rooster I can put on CD if you need it.
Good for the ears...
Keith

Top Solo:

Bob Dylan

You gotta love a band that wears oscilloscope traces:
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  I would replace Aerosmith & Hendrix with Credence Clearwater Alman Brothers, Bob Seger, Eric Clapton & Cream or any one of a dozen other GOOD groups. Never cared too much for Aerosmith or Hendrix. Just my opinion.

Where are The Monkees, The Partridge Family and The Cowsills? 

Blind Faith, Traffic

The old stuff is still great because all you hear today is compressed square wave monkey music.

What  about:

The Sex Pistols
The Clash
The Cars
Blondie
Patti Smith
The Beach Boys
Buddy Holly and the Crickets
Sam the Sham and the Pharoahs
REM
Bauhaus

The Mothers of Invention.






Lead singer Frank Zappa.

Where they should be.

Zappa holding court from his throne.

Frank was da man!!!!

King Crimson
Gentle Giant
Emerson Lake And Palmer
Genesis (Lamb and older)
Jeff Beck
Jethro Tull
Deep Purple
The Who
The Beatles (of course)
Frank Zappa

and..............Grand Funk Railroad!!! (huh?)  ???

..YARDBIRDS...


...btw,zappa's first appearance on television....1968...the monkees...friend of mike nesmith...sk..

I see where you're going with that, Glenn.  You're hoping a certain guitar player out on the west coast reads that and is so happy you remembered his old band that he'll let you win the RCA ACT-40 auction on epay.    

 Not necessarily in this order:

Some of my favorite punk stuff.
1. Flipper
2. The Cult
3. PIL
4. Circle Jerks
5. Ramones
6. The Stranglers
7. Jim Carroll Band
8. Black Flag
9. The D.K.'s
10. The Hangmen  (my old band)

And something completely different
1. Joe Satriani
2. Marillion
3. Camel
4. Gentle Giant
5. Rush

 Great list!  I saw Jim Carroll at Nantasket beach. Dont know the venue or how I even got there but it was huge. It was when People Who Died was getting a lot of radio play. Ha Ha Flipper! My wife wont let me play any of their records!(http://www.roir-usa.com/covers/flipper_lg.jpg)

You mean the Grand Funk comment?... Paul, I told you to stay away from the brown acid!  ;D

WB6ACU's old band was "James Gang"..... Unless Mark Farner of Grand Funk is also a Ham with deep pockets who bids on expensive boat anchors.  ;D ;D ;D ;D

My old band got together at an outdoor jam this past weekend, upstate NY and we jammed-out
on "Funk 49".....

Yea, I saw that auction..  ??? awful lot of money for black wrinkle!  ::) ::)

Honorable mention.

Blue oyster cult
Rainbow
Van Halen
The Cars
U-2
38 Special
Bon Jovi
Cream
The Band
ZZ Top
CSNY
Jefferson Airplane/Starship
Boston
Journey

How About the worst?

1910 fruit gum company

Edison Lighthouse 

Ohio Express

The Captain and Telliel

Doctor Hook's medicine show

Bay City Rollers

KC and the Sunshine Band

Herman's Hermits

The Archies

Village People

Cowsills

 :'(

"WB6ACU's old band was "James Gang"..... Unless Mark Farner of Grand Funk is also a Ham with deep pockets who bids on expensive boat anchors."

Oops. The brown acid must've affected my long term memory.  I think it did something else, but I can't remember what. 

Well I was gratified to see at least one person nominating Bob Zimmerman as a great. I also like Arlo Gutherie as a performer. I have been trying to learn his song, "Alice's Restaurant" but it is sooo long  and my mind isn't what it used to be.
How about the Bostown Sound?
Ultimate Spinach
Beacon Street Union
Orpheus
Then there was the local Surf Nantasket Bands
The one that was already menioned and
The Mods
The Ramrods
The Techniques
The Pilgrims
Utopia
Shanana



A similar venue was the Rexacana in Marshfield.


Regards Q W1QWT

As a student at Kent Sate back in the late 60's early 70's,  I remember The James Gang  would occasionally play for free at the Student Union (at least I never paid). Don't know if WB6ACU was a student there or not.

I tried to do a list of what I think are his top ten tunes but the list just keeps growing.

In no particular order:

1) Don't Think Twice It's All Right
2) Forever Young
3) Like a Rolling Stone
4) Leopard Skin Pill Box Hat
5) It Takes a Lot to Laugh it Takes a Train to Cry
6) Ballad of a Thin Man
7) Masters of War (IMHO, the greatest anti-war song of all time - if that's what your in to)
8) Desolation Row
9) Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues
10) A Hard Rains a Gonna Fall
11) Positively 4th Street
12) It's All Right Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)
13) All Along the Watchtower

I could go on & on

A great Dylan tune for hams is "Everything's Broken"  ;D

 ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

Hi Q.  I think we ought to include surf guitar pioneer Dick Dale.

Ultimate Spinach??  ??? That's a new one on me!

I didn't know there was a Utopia besides Todd Rudgren's Utopia!

Thaks for the history lesson Q  ;)

Keith - I may take you up on that and greatly appreciate the offer. I used to LOVE them and could never figger out why they weren't more poopular.

Paul - Do you remember the auction on epay a while ago where someone in the UK had a "ACT-20" and a National NC-200 with speaker? I took a chance and bidded on it and won the auction. I want a ACT-20 so bad I can taste it! Apparently the ACT-20 was put in storage in September, 1939, and the NC-200 a little after.

I got a tip from DeWitt, N4QNX about teh ACT-20 since I rarely cruise epay stuff. Since it was in the UK it paid off.

The seller stated he won't ship, but am making arrangements with him to get the stuff packed and shipped to me. I'll let you know how I make out.

I have no idea what shape it's in, etc other than the pics on epay. It looks like it's never been used on the outside.

The Grateful Dead for heaven's sake.

For the longest time they were the biggest drawing band by a country mile.  I bet they still hold the record.

Keep on truckin'

Jon

Damn, we left out one of the greatest. AC/DC

We forgot the late Marvin Pontiac. 
http://www.strangeandbeautiful.com/marvin/
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Marvin penned a song Bring Me Rocks, with this line, 
"My penis has a face and likes to bark at Germans." 

 His influence was diverse and wide-ranging.

Ya, what's with you easties?

Hardly mention of Grateful Dead, Beach Boys, yes, Dick Dale, the Doors, Carlos Santana, Janis Joplin, Creedence Clearwater, Jan and Dean, Steely Dan...Sheesh!

Moody Blues
Pat Benatar
Country Joe
Lovin' Spoonful
Commander Cody
Quicksilver
New England


Could go on and on

Paul;

That photo looks like Osama Bin Laden with a guitar!  :o :o

You can count me in on this. Here are a few more that I highly reccoment

1) Chimes of Freedom
2) Stuck Inside a Mobile with the...
3) Visions of Johanna
4) Rainy Day Women
5) Subterrainian Homesick Blues
6) Sad Eyes lady of the Lowlands
7) Tombstone Blues
8) My Back pages

and, one of my all time favorites...

9) x = (Love - 0) / no limit

What's the alternate title for that one?  ;D ;D

Very perceptive of you, Glenn.  It's a little known fact that in the very early 1980s, Osama was frontman for a Marvin Pontiac tribute band.  His unique physical resemblance to Pontiac made him a logical choice to front the band which was called Morphin Panic-attack.   Osama went by the stage name Coupe deVille and the band used to travel to their gigs in a renovated Oscar Meyer Wienermobile. 

Then suddenly Osama got religion. After he demanded the band abandon the Wienermobile because it wasn't Halal, the other members kicked him out.  Osama has had it in for Americans ever since.   



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Ah yes, then there the humorous songs:

Bob Dylan's 115th Dream
Talkin World War III Blues
On the Road Again
Maggie's Farm
Motorpsycho Nightmare
I Shall Be Free
I Shall Be Free #10

The Sonics 8)
MC 5  8)
Curved Air 8)
Captain Beefheart 8)
Pearls Before Swine 8) 
Fugs 8)
Stooges 8)
Velvet Underground 8)
Mothers Of Invention 8)
The Anamals 8)
**punk**
Bus Load Of Nuns 8)
Rash Of Stabbings 8)
Richard Hell and the Voidoids 8)
Klark Kent 8)
Flipper 8)
The No Saints 8)
The Cramps 8)
Slo Dive 8)
Killing Joke 8)
Black Flag 8)

 ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

That's quite a story!!!

Besides the guitar, I heard he also played wind chimes...

Ed, I forgot about the Stooges. Great call.  Iggy Pop one my alltime favorites.  Just heard an interview with him this afternoon on my way home from work on the local college station. They played aat least 30 minutes of the Stooges too.

Hey Paul;

A photo of the bass player for Morphin Panic-Attack.

Wow!  A suitable for framing picture of Mervis Maypo!  Wasn't that in Tiger Beat a few years ago?  You know Mervis taught Flea everything he knows. 

Yeah man, who can forget such Ultimate Spinach classics as "Hip Death Goddess" or "Mind Flowers". How about Porcupine Tree? Anyone listen to these guys besides me? Or who remembers "50 Foot Hose" or "Joe Bird and The Field Hippies" or "Blues Project"?

........Larry

Hey, JOE! I know you're reading this...What are *your* top-ten rock bands of all time?
C'mon, don't be shy.
LOL!

73,


-Bill/HG/Boulder Co

Good golly, Larry....Ultimate Spinach???
Anyone from that era that actually remembers them really wasn't there, so to speak.
I mean, I completely forgot about that band.

What about The Peanut Butter Conspiracy?  Ha? Ha?

Those easties forgot (I think), The Byrds. Not only were they great as a band (although not as huge a commercial success as some of the others listed), but they influenced (directly with former members forming/joining new bands and/or indirectly with their music), the like of the Flying Burrito Brothers, the Eagles, CSN, Rolling Stones, and even the Beatles. Their influence even went into country music (Emmylou Harris, Pure Prairie League, The New Riders Of The Purple Sage, Vince Gill, Merle Haggard, etc). They started the psychedelic rock thing with Eight Miles High way before the Beatles or Hendrix.

Scary.... I actually have the vinyl of the Ultimate Spinach, 2 lp's of the Beacon Street Union and a few Pearls Before Swine albums (anyone remember "Oh, Dear Miss Morse" ?  "dididahdit dididah ..." )  ;)

When I first heard that song I was in stitches. I mean that guy had literally put me on the floor laughing so hard I couldn't stand.

Wow! A 5 string bass. I don't see them too often. I know Fender makes them. I am not sure who the bassist is but he looks a little like a guy who played for the garage band, "The Chimes". :D



Regards
Q, W1QWT

Either that or the garage band "The Constitutions"  :o

............"jamming on the outside speaker..."

A top ten list of hits by the "Chimes"

1 "Maple Syrup On My Modulator Tubes"
2 "The Jesus and Jefferson Rag"
3 "My Name's Not Irwin!"
4 "Champion Of The Sky Pilot"
5 "You Only Love Me For My Outside Speaker"
6 "The No-Net Boogie"
7 "The Treason Tango"
8 "Liberty Corner Lament"
9 "Does your Chewing Gum Loose It's Flavor On The DX-100 Overnight"
10 "A Boy Named Splatter"

And who could forget....
11  "Celibacy & Syrup"
12  "How Much is That Doggy in the Pond?" 
13  "I'm Not Herb"
14  "The Night They Tore the Outside Speaker Down"

Now, THAT'S a good one! (apologies to The Band)
Thanks for the laff, Paul.

Maybe we should morph the conversation into all time greatest concerts we ever went to.  Recently my wife Patty overheard  the young butcher at the local Whole Foods wax poetic about Jimi Hendrix.  When it was Patty's turn at the counter she said "I saw him at the Berkeley Community Theater."  This young guy was in awe.  Isn't that great? 

Jon

Country Joe And The Fish?

My first concert and most memorable:
Pink Floyd Animals tour, Madison Square Garden.

I saw Hendrix in a fairly small standup Chicago venue. The two things I remember most about that concert are him setting his guitar on fire at the end of the show and the wall of Marshall tube amps...As he played you could see the tubes in the things flickering orange. Those amps were running b@lls to the wall. Like a K1JJ project.
Not designed to be part of the show, but a cool effect. I was prolly the only person there concerned about those tubes failing- LOL!

Another memorable one was seeing the Doors at the old Chicago hockey stadium. Remembered mostly because Jim Morrison was so drunk that he needed to hang onto a mic stand for dear life. Nevertheless, even in that state he put ona heckofa good show.

So much for dead musicians, I s'pose...

-Bill

I guess one could say Hendrix really had them singing for their supper?
I hear Labamba has been known to frequent that bar too. ;D

Hendrix' music has always been at the top of my list too. I measure how much I like a song by the ability to listen to it again and again and continue to feel the rush.

The Beatles music is another. They were around for such a short time, but changed the world more than any other.  The Moody Blues, some Chicago, Pink Floydd, Steely Dan, Todd Rundgrand is tops.  There's lots more, but I like music that has vocal harmony and a good blend of many instruments. I like a lot of the soul music from the late 60's/70's. The big band 40's sound is great. JAZZ is actually my favorite - there's so many good artists to listen to.  Woman vocalists singing skat or belting out the intro to jazz is outstanding.

Tuning the low end of the FM band at night looking for great jazz is my passion. I aim a VHF 32 el log periodick towards Boston or NYC and tune.  I'm amazed that more people aren't passionate about jazz.  I'm finding the jazz stations harder to find these days. [sigh]

T

Talking about sweet vocals...About at the top of my list are the Rev. Al Green, Marvin Gaye and the Temptations. Whatta set of pipes they all had in those recordings.

Tom, in a way, it looks like jazz isn't going to completely go away on the radio dial..The industry is rolling out digital ("IBOC", "HD") simulcasting and that gives stations the ability to program a whole second set of channels. A case in point is WNUA in Chicago, they're doing so-called smooth jazz on their primary and doing a commercial-free classic jazz format on their multicast digital channels. Kenny G. vs. Art Pepper and Coltrane. It sounds terriffic. I think the advent of digital FM broadcasting is going to generate a lot of very cool niche formats available on the dial over the next few years. Once you have digital capability in place, it costs almost nothing to add a second set of digital audio channels, it only cost me about $7,500 for the hardware to do that on our Boulder FM. That's really cheap to put a second signal on the dial and I'm really cranked about the possibilities..Underground FM is gonna make a comeback. Now the receiver and automobile manufacturers have to step up and start delivering tuners. It's sorta like the early days of color TV or stereo FM.

You're gonna need to get an HD FM tuner for your DXing, in a few years you won't believe what you're going to find on the dial.

..

Unfortunately there are no longer any REAL jazz stations in NYC. There is a station (CD101) that claims to be a "jazz" station but they play mostly elevator music like Kenny G which is not Jazz. The true jazz station in NYC was WRVR but they went off the air many years ago. The closest thing to a real jazz station is non-commercial WBGO (88) out of Newark NJ. It really is a shame that a big artistic center like New York is lacking in this area. I'm sure you do better pointing that yagi at Boston Tom.

...eric burdon/animals..some of their more obscure stuff is really great..sk..

Joe said:
"All across the country baby...."

I had Atomic Rooster IV. What an awesome album. Also whatever happened to King Crimson?

King Crimson is still alive and kicking...One of my all time favourite bands for sure...Love that mellotron playing especialy on the Alblum "In the Wake of Poseidon" Another great band was "Ten Years After"..

  I remember back in the late 70s, a friend and I were ridding our bikes along the Niagara River Parkway.  We were coming up too that great big Ionizer (ya know the one which causes some people too climb the rail and jump!!!). Well up ahead we spotted what looked like the Partridge Family bus, so we pulled up too its side the door opened up and 4 individuals got off the bus.. Well my friend looked at me and said What the F@#$% are these people..Ripped shirts, spiked hair, chains and boy were they stoned...Looked too the side of the bus and it read "Sex Pistols World Tour"  Well I guess it was their first and last..About two years latter the punk rock movement started in my High School...God Save the Queen...
73
VE3BEE

Mind you, I grew up in a small town called Sunbury, here in NEPA. It was turning into quite the 'Coal Town' retirement center. Imagine my surprise when I came home from leave from the Navy and there on the marquis of the Strand Theatre, "Live in Concert Wendy O. Williams and The Plasmatics!" What is even funnier is that one of the guys I work with was cruising into Sunbury for some kind of job and he came upon this weirded-out Cadillac stuffed with all kinds of band equipment. Sure enough, its Wendy O. at the wheel. She sees him staring at this contraption so she does what any good punker does: She flips him the finger. Not too many people can aspire to being flipped off by Wendy O. Williams ;D

A few years ago I was renting a sound system for the elementary school walkathon when I noticed some GIANT speakers in the warehouse where I was picking up the stuff.  What are those I asked.  "Oh, they're from the Fillmore.  When they closed it I got the speakers."  I stood in silent reverence for awhile.  I wonder how many dB of hearing I lost to those speakers -- Led Zepplin first album tour, same thing for the home town band, Santana, the Dead, of course, bands nobody remembers -- Moby Grape, for example, all this through the speakers.   

Where a lot of music came from.
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Yes, King Crimson is still making music. (My all time #1 favorite band) The band has gone through quite a few personnel changes over the years. Founding member/guitarist Robert Fripp is the only original member left from the old days. They're still doing the concert tour scene, they still sound incredible. Don't expect to hear their old material in concert though, they only play the more recent stuff. There is a band called "21st Century Schizoid Band" made up of previous members of King Crimson from the first 4 albums that play the old material on tour. They really do it justice!...

I love music that dares to be different!  8) 8) 8)


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Hmmm, last I knew Robert Fripp was doing sessions and fusion jazz stuff. That I got from the one guitar handbook I have. 20th Century Schizoid Man and Court of the Crimson King are my favorites. I'm kind of curious which direction Robert has them going. Its only Rock & Roll music.

If you have the Earthbound record, then you know just how loud King Crimson can be. A poorly recorded live album with the best version of 21st Century Schizoid man !(http://children.ofthenight.org/albums/images/13718f.jpg)

I don't recall Fripp doing any "fusion jazz" stuff, I guess the latest incarnation of Crimson might be labeled that way because it defys the record company catagory crap. Maybe the author was talking about his involvement with "The League Of Crafty Guitarists"

Their latest album is called "The Power To Believe" and it's incredible. Check out their website for the latest info....

http://www.king-crimson.com/

Oh yea, Earthbound certainly was an awful recording, was out of print for many years but now available again re-issued on CD.

My favorite live Crimson recording is the album "USA" recorded in Asbury Park NJ with the best all time Crimson lineup (IMO)

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Great Jazz..... man..... that's the ticket! WLIU 88.3 is a good 24/7 jazz station... too few buried among the EZ-listening stuff.... 88.3 BGO Newark might be a bit far, another super one.....in the car it's practically all CD listening., Fats, Dizzy, Lionel, Slam, Bird, Hinton, Zutty, Low Reed, they travels wid me allatime, ya....never lonesome :)

What's this "rock" schsschtuff everybody is into dese days? Time to git back to dem 12 string blues gitars......

Rock jazz swing folk all better than that square wave monkey noise no tune crap out there today.

How you gonna run from the man wit your crotch below your knees.
How you gonna shoot straight wit your gun sideways



BETTER DEAD THAN DISCO!  Wow that lasted.

Waddya mean? you homies aren't into hip-hop and rap??  :P :P :P :P :P :P :P :P :P

Glen said:
Rap is for people that can't carry a tune and just want to talk about having sex and knocking off cops. (Sorry, didn't mean to get politically carried away) BTW Glen, nice avatar. As Rich Measure says(sort of), "Tubes with handles rule!"

Technically, rap isn't music... it's poetry put to rhythms.... (sucks no matter how you define it)

Yea Mike, that YC-156 is a strapping tube indeed!  :D My first project after I move to NC will be to build a linear amplifier using that tube. (for amplifying AM of course!)

Ya wanna see a REAL manley linear amp using the YC-156? check this out....

http://www.wv7u.com/yc156amp/yc156amp.html

Best concert I know of, well, except for that "small event" in upstate New York in '69, would be the Moody Blues playing at the U. of Maryland in, I think, 1969.  I wasn't there, a fellow Moodies fan was there.  They played for 4:45 (hours) and played every song from every album to date.  And I know there's some of you who know what concerts in those days were like.

BTW (wouldn't be a true fan if I didn't promote)

Three of the Moodies, Graeme, Justin, and John, are still touring and sounding as good, maybe even better, than ever.  Ray has stopped (I hope for just a while).  Their Strange Times album is worth seeking out.

M.B. good parking music. I seem to remember a double date with a ham buddyand 2 girlfriends parking behind an old factory during a heavy snow storm. We were parking and partying then all of a sudden a train came chugging buy about 5 feet from the front of the car

Now there's a band that likes their Mellotron's! (Like Crimson, )  ;D ;D

Three days after I graduated from HS (1979) my brother and I went to "Music In The Meadowlands I."  (As far as I know there was no II or III, etc.)  On the bill in the hot sun at Giants Stadium were Poco, Todd Rundgren, The Outlaws and Boston.  We were there to see Boston.  (Sholz actually had a pipe organ on the stage!)

Poco came on for about a half hour at 12.30pm.  Then a stage change followed by Todd Rundgren.  Then it rained.  And rained.  And hell hath no fury like the rain cometh down upon those sitting on the field with no seats at Giants Stadium.  And then it rained.  Todd played for at least 2.5 hours in ever increasing rain.  It got to where folks were throwing things at him on the stage and yet he played. (It was apparent that almost nobody was there to see Todd.)  But there was ONE lonely banner hanging from the top mezzanine that said "Tood is God." 

Todd is not God.

After he played forever, we were roasted, then drowned, and beyond tired of Todd.  When he left the stage, the sun returned and we were subsequently re-roasted.  The Outlaws played a great show as did Boston.  But I will forever remember that banner.  And whenever I see or hear Todd Rundgren, my family will tell you to this day, I mumble "Todd is not God."

My top ten bands . . . hmmmm . ..

ELO
Pink Floyd
Zepp
The Who
ELP
Yes
Allman Bros
Marshall Tucker
Outlaws
Skynrd

and ok, Airplane/Starship too for #11.  I saw them at the 4H fair in Mobile in 87.

Todd Rudgren has been in my top ten favorites for a very long time.

Definately in my top ten concerts... I saw Todd Rudgren in concert just two years ago (PNC Center in NJ) What an excellent concert!, Incredible song writer and singer, great guitar player. It was a double bill with Hall and Oates. First Todd did his set, then Hall & Oates. Then the last hour of the concert Todd joined Hall and Oates on stage and they played and sang each other's songs! What a memorable night!  :D :D
 

 

What counts is that YOU  enjoyed it.  I'm glad you did. 

Ok, I'll even confess to REALLY liking "Hello It's Me."

Robert Plant and Steve Winwood have new CDs out and both are very, very good. Well worth buying.

Like Zeppelin or not, I don't think ther has ever been a rock vocalist that could wail like Robert Plant could in his prime. And no one any better at rock guitar than Page. Just a bunch of copycats of his riffs since.

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