Top Five Bands from Back in the day

[MichaelB]

Doesn’t matter when “back in the day” was. What were your top five bands? Mine were (in random order)

Cream
Jethro Tull
Led Zeppelin
Santana
The Jimi Hendrix Experience

 

[golfnut]

Beatles
Stones
The Who

After those 3, gets difficult:

Allman Bros
Led Zep

 

[Purron]

Gotta have 7 at least

Cream
Jimi Hendrix Experience
Doors
Grateful Dead
Mothers of Invention
Rolling Stones
Beatles

 

[73ss454]

Crystals
Ronetts
Johnny Maestro and the crests, later the Brooklyn Bridge
Dion and the Belmonts
Paragons


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[Cruisinthru]

Beatles
Rolling Stones
CCR
Eagles
Beach Boys

 

[bbbamI]

Boston
Eagles
Beatles
Doobie Bros
Alice Cooper

....and the Stones.

Here's a pic of DH with Tim Ries in March of 2009. They played some music together and had a great time. Tim plays with the Stones now...he's the one on the left.

 

[unclemick]

Buddy Holley
Ricky Nelson
Chuck Berry
The Beach Boys
The Beattles

And Linda Rostadt with whoever - partial to the Eagles also.

 

[Ronstar]

Beatles
Stones
Eagles
Chicago
Guess Who

 

[tangomonster]

Beatles
Doors
Stones
The Who
Cream

The Doors' music still blows me away, even today! There was something very unique about Jim Morrison's voice and the keyboards. Amazingly, I get to hear Riders On The Storm at the gym----sounds like the original with some hip hop mixed into it. Not sure if Jim Morrison is turning over in his grave or whether he would like it....

 

[FIREd]

The Police
U2
Queen
Telephone
Dire Straits

 

[Midpack]

Some clearly don't qualify for "back in the day" but using iTunes > Excel > Pivot Table - ain't technology grand! Number of songs isn't necessarily same as favorites, so I included honorable mentions beyond the top 20...

Rank	Band	# songs
1	The Beatles	143
2	Billy Joel	95
3	Sheryl Crow	84
4	Radiohead	82
5	Sting	63
6	James Taylor	56
7	The Who	52
8	Jimmy Buffett	40
9	Green Day	36
10	The Rolling Stones	35
11	Led Zeppelin	30
12	The Police	30
13	Elton John	27
14	Jason Mraz (DW)	24
15	Foo Fighters	23
16	Sarah McLachlan	23
17	Queen	22
18	Van Halen	22
19	Fleetwood Mac	21
20	Neil Young	18
32	Nirvana	17
33	Pearl Jam	17
36	The Beach Boys	17
38	The Doobies Bros	16
44	John Lennon	14
47	CSN&Y	13
75	The Doors	10
77	The Eagles	9
110	Bob Dylan	5
	377 Artists	2,588

 

[Helen]

Aerosmith
Rush
Queen
REO Speedwagon
Sex Pistols

 

[Free To Canoe]

Jimi Hendrix
Doors
Led Zep
Allman Bros
Beatles
This is really hard!


Are these bands?
Janis Joplin
Gordon Lightfoot
Neil Young

 

[harley]

Beatles
Grateful Dead
Blue Oyster Cult
Pink Floyd
Allman Brothers

 

[Nuiloa]

Beatles
Stones
Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show
Paul Revere and the Raiders
The Dave Clark Five

 

[mh]

These were the first that came to mind --

The Dixie Dregs
King Crimson
Talking Heads
Jean Luc Ponty
Anything on ECM records in the early eighties

 

[robls]

Chicago
Elvis Costello
Steely Dan
Beatles
The Young Rascals
Bonus band recently found: Tegan and Sara. Love their stuff.

 

[chinaco]

+1 on every band listed.

They all had their day... back in the day!

 

[bruce1]

Early top 5
Stones
Freddy Cannon
Dave Clark 5
Hermans Hermits
Animals

Later
Black Sabbath
Alice Cooper
Credence Clearwater revival
Doors
Steppenwolf (right from earsplittenloudenboomen and when they were known as ?)

Trivia Question What was the name of John Kays band that had most of the Steppenwolf members before they formed Steppenwolf?


Still Later
Ian Drury and the Blockheads
Hawkwind
Heart
Meatloaf/Jim Steinman
Springsteen

 

[Midpack]

The Sparrows - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[MichaelB]

Beatles
Grateful Dead
Blue Oyster Cult
Pink Floyd
Allman Brothers

Bruce Dickinson: “I got a fever and the only prescription is more cowbell”

Are these bands?
Janis Joplin
Gordon Lightfoot
Neil Young

Yes

The Sparrows - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Good call

Steppenwolf (right from earsplittenloudenboomen and when they were known as

?)

Trivia Question What was the name of John Kays band that had most of the Steppenwolf members before they formed Steppenwolf?

For Steppenwolf fans

When I was 14 and a real PITA at home we were all sitting around the living room after dinner – I was there by paternal executive order. They were watching tv and I was listening to my records with earphones on and speakers off. Steppenwolf, “The Pusher” was playing and without knowing it, I was singing the lyrics aloud. That is, until I saw everyone staring at me…

 

[Midpack]

Bruce Dickinson: “I got a fever and the only prescription is more cowbell”.

This always makes me laugh...
SNL-More Cowbell-Will Ferrell - YouTube

 

[frayne]

Beatles
Stones
DC5
Who
Animals

 

[harley]

+1 on every band listed.

They all had their day... back in the day!

Hey, I'll have you know that the Allman Bros are still an incredibly kick-ass band. Possibly better than in "the day". Warren Haynes and Derek Trucks are two of the greatest guitar players extant, and they each also have their own band too. As a matter of fact, I'm going to see the Tedeschi/Trucks Band this Saturday. It may be better to burn out than to fade away, but it's even better to keep on trucking.

 

[eytonxav]

Beatles
CCR
Chicago
Santana
Fleetwood Mac

Also loved Carly Simon, Carole King, Joni Mitchell and Janis