If You Could Choose One Band…

[WTF Cat]

Then you don't interact with people < age 30.

A few weeks ago, Taylor Swift was in Denver for a couple of nights. On the first night, John Fogerty was playing at Red Rocks. I asked one of my young (25-28), female coworkers if she was going to TS's concert. She said 'of course' and asked if I was going. I said I'd much, much rather go see Fogerty. Blank stare. 'Who'? I said, John Fogerty. Creedence Clearwater Revival. Blank stare. Absolutely no clue whatsoever. This person could probably sing every hit song in the past 12 years but had no idea who CCR or John Fogerty was.

For me, it would be Mick Taylor-era Rolling Stones.

Imagine seeing the Brussels Affair shows... live.

 

[WTF Cat]

Hearing Van Halen's opening 1-2 punch of Running With the Devil and Eruption would be pretty intense.

I can still tell you exactly where I was when I first heard that 8 track... the other "Stopped me in my tracks" recording was Black Sabbath "Black Sabbath". Even the cover scared this then 7 year old.

 

[Tskware]

Radiohead,barely heard of them until my daughter went to college, think they have some great stuff

 

[warrior-cat]

After a little more thought, I'm gonna add Boston. When my hot babysitter played the first album for me in the summer of '77, I was like, what is that??? It sounded like outer space rock to my young ears, and the album cover drove it home even more.

I was hinging on Boston, Kansas, and Queen.

 

[warrior-cat]

Queen

Beat me to it. Was actually listening to Queens Greatest Hits on Youtube as I come across this thread.

 

[warrior-cat]

1a. Pink Floyd, circa 1977-78 Animals tour but, before Roger's famous "spitting incident".
1b. Stevie Ray Vaughn, at the El Macambo.

Another classic band.

 

[BlueThruAndThru]

Chopin

 

[christophero]

Those reaction videos are great. People hearing The Carpenters for the first time, or Eddie Van Halen play the guitar, or the Thriller video. Almost any popular song will have a reaction video to it.

 

[augustaky1]

The Wrecking Crew.

I know, they were behind the scenes. 😁

 

[bigbluedon]

Traveling Wilburys and Led Zeppelin.

 

[kywildcatsfannumber1]

Led Zeppelin

 

[SkyPrince1]

Still amazed that Hendrix' Voodoo Child(Slight Return) is 55 yrs old.
He was way out in front of everyone else.

 

[CastleRubric]

Pink Floyd

This

Count me in for Pink Floyd. I had my chance to see them in 1980 (?) in Chicago but opted to wait until they played closer to home. Dumb. Never forgive myself. Frank Zappa would be another. My friends said he put on one hell of a show.

Ohhhh that was the Wall tour
Bro, they only did like 5-6 cities worldwide

I had a chance to see reunited Sabbath while stationed in GER & missed it

Regret not seeing Rush too

 

[CastleRubric]

Led Zeppelin

And them

Saw Page/Plant twice tho - Amies, IA & Frankfurt, GR -

Excellent shows - both roughly 3 hours

 

[CastleRubric]

Alice in Chains easily.

saw STP in Tucson but it was with their replacement singer - he was good enough but would have loved to have seen their Red Rocks concert around 2002-2003

Joe Bonamassa too

 

[CastleRubric]

I know who they are, but their heyday ended 5 years before I was born. They never had a gold or platinum album and their highest charting single reached 10 in Canada and only 25 in the US.

I know of their immense influence on other artists, but couldn’t name five of their songs. My point is, people of a certain age aren’t going to know every famous artist in music history. Every music fan experiences this. I guarantee I could tell you more about 90s metal or hip hop than someone who is 70, just like that 70 year old with have more knowledge of 50s and 60s music than I will.

My formative music years were about 1986-99 That’s my wheelhouse. I couldn’t tell you much about anything released after 2010 or before 1980 or so outside of the legends like the Beetles, Stones, Aerosmith, Skynrd, CCR, Zeppelin, etc.

I was never a big fan of their sound but read a biography on them and enjoyed it

It's rare to see a band release their debut album and already be as seasoned & established as they already were

Didn't care for Brians guitar tone at all -

And the two keys / pianos was odd to me

Levon's drumming was melodic though - kind of unique

 

[Kooky Kats]

The Quintette of the Hot Club of France.

I know many of you would rather get The Clap than listen to jazz, but this isn't just jazz. It's Django.

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Look up Stephane Wrembel.

 

[Kooky Kats]

Editors
Bonobo
Lucinda Williams
The Beautiful South
St Paul & The Broken Bones
The Budos Band
Charles Bradley
Marcus King
Charlie Crockett
The Dip
Stephane Wrembel
Pinegrove

(You’re welcome in advance)

 

[DreadLox]

Look up Stephane Wrembel.

Opa!

 

[UK82]

This


Ohhhh that was the Wall tour
Bro, they only did like 5-6 cities worldwide

I had a chance to see reunited Sabbath while stationed in GER & missed it

Regret not seeing Rush too

No, I stand corrected. It wasn't The Wall tour. It was 1977. Had to look it up. Only off by 3 years.

 

[barton keyes]

coltrane quartet or mc5

 

[CastleRubric]

No, I stand corrected. It wasn't The Wall tour. It was 1977. Had to look it up. Only off by 3 years.

And I clearly failed to follow the "one band" rule

think they called that tour the "In The Flesh Tour"

The songs on Animals were created around 1974 and played live as loose instrumentals pieces I believe - they recorded that one in their newly built personal recording studio -- "Britannia Row"

And the entire tour escalated to arenas

Little to no input or material fm keyboardist Rick Wright by that point --

Damnit -- THIS is what human cloning technology should be used for --- regeneration of former Rock legends who return to writing and ....possibly glitching on stage

 

[CastleRubric]

George Benson is another guitarist/performer I wish I'd caught

Ok - I will stop now

 

[UK82]

George Benson is another guitarist/performer I wish I'd caught

Ok - I will stop now

I played the hell out of his Breezin' album. Might throw it on the turntable tonight.

 

[DreadLox]

Editors
Bonobo
Lucinda Williams
The Beautiful South
St Paul & The Broken Bones
The Budos Band
Charles Bradley
Marcus King
Charlie Crockett
The Dip
Stephane Wrembel
Pinegrove

(You’re welcome in advance)

"A little bit of dirt mixed with tears."

 

[Bluewest]

Blue Oyster Cult is incredibly underrated. Buck Dharma is a great guitarist!

 

[Kooky Kats]

George Roeser was the father of BOC bassist and my HS history teacher

 

[Lexie's Dad]

For me it would be Megadeth.

I heard Rust In Peace when I was 10 and it blew mind. I’d never heard precison guitar playing like that before. Yes, the vocals are a polarizing force. I was familiar with them when I was younger, but deep dived the catalog in about 2004 and became a massive fan.

I have no clue who "The Band" is. I love heavy music. I like Mega's answer, but I might choose Slayer, or Slipknot, or Sabbath, or Ozzy.

Looking forward to Megadeth at LTL in September.

 

[HerrosHeroes]

The Who at the Marquee Club or the Goldhawk Club, London, 1965.

You may not have made it out alive!

 

[HerrosHeroes]

The WHO

 

[chroix]

Zeppelin for sure. I’ll add Cream. Wish they had produced more albums.