who's the greatest band??

Seriously, shut up already. What are you trying to do here? Are you trying to prove that you know more about music than everyone else by simply posting song lyrics and the names of various bands while you insult others? You haven't proven yourself to be a music expert but rather an annoying asshole.

 

fuck off too

 

i quite like george formby( does that count)?. seriously tho people /who"s the greatest band/ wtf is that all about .

 

The Breeders

 

Do I have to wait until I'm older for my parents to let me watch it? Oh, you seem so naive right now. It's rather amusing.

And, just for the record, yes, actually, it was way off topic.

 

She is young... yet more mature than you...

Such irony.

 

the little kiddy gang up what a joke.

 

ummm.. lets see
Led Zepplin of course
rusted root
madison greene
blind melon
These are just some of the best but there are plenty more!

 

Yes

 

zeppelin or Marley

 

I think that you're jokin' ...the music was specially adventurous in the same time that all rock bands were more or less into drugs ...specially lsd or pot... so there you came with your clean idea of life...dont forget that psychedelic drugs often help you to push the creativity button...

 

Hey you're a real strange man...you listen only psychedelic records ...you're a fan of Barrett and you don't smoke joint???
Ok you don't need this to love them...but you miss a lot of things....a lot of dimensions in every good psychedelic band that you ear...

Apart from this...Nobody talk bout the Byrds trilogy(66-68) as one of the best things made by stoned american freaks......strange ...whatever i'm in a strangeland with strange people all around...i need Doors to place myself in an anotherLand called ... "third dimension landscape"

...ok ...i'm sure that everybody things that i'm under drug influence...but no...i'm clean as the water who run down those green hills

 

i like the long version of Eight Miles High .

 

Beyond

I think most of you never heard of them.

They are a wonderful band in HOngkong , Chinese.
About ten years ago the coryphaeus of the band died in a vocal concert.

 

Limp Bizkit....

 

Zeppelin, 70's Yes, 70's Floyd, 70's and 80's Rush, 70's Who, 70's Aerosmith, The Stones with Mick Taylor.
Take your pick... when they were at their peaks they were all the best bands.

 

Yeah it's a classic and very experimental for early 66... even the beatles where impressed... it's sad that Clarke leave the boat

 

Fans Remember The Byrds

KENTON ADLER ---

I was eleven years old when I first heard The Byrds. I was literally playing in a garage band with Tim Headrick, Gary Geisinger, and Sam Houston when Gary first brought his copy of 5D over so we could learn Hey Joe. We also talked about learning The Learjet Song. Gary was in high school (the rest of us were all between fifth and sixth grade) and he was all into electronics. He built his own fuzz box for his guitar, and had HAM radio gear all over. He and Roger would probably have gotten along great.

I listened to that whole album a BUNCH of times while it was at my house, and then started working my way back through other Byrds records. I'd been a Beatle fan from '64 on, but these guys were Americans and that meant we could do it too.

McGuinn's guitar sound, and his vocal style influenced me very heavily over the years, and you can still hear traces of it in my music today. Nothing rings like a 12 string Rick.

It was a real highlight of my life to get to work with Roger McGuinn putting this website together, corresponding often, and eventually getting to talk with him and Camilla in Memphis in February of 2002. Two very nice people indeed.

GEORGE RICHARDSON ---



When I was 16 and a junior in high school I got the chance to meet my musical idols.

The Byrds were always it for me. I liked the Beatles and the Stones but Byrds were what I would buy. I saw them at a WKBW AM event in Buffalo when I was only 14. By then the line up had changed considerably and John York was playing bass. My older brother bought every album. When I was 16 I met the fine men who composed the Byrds at that time. Roger, Gene Parsons and Clarence White agreed to accompany a bunch of friends and I from the Batavia, New York Holiday Inn to a house about a mile away. Skip Batten played bass at that time and had a broken foot so luckily (for him) he had a valid excuse to weasel out of having breakfast with a bunch of star struck loyal fans for life who were about ten years their junior. Our mothers cooked for them and Clarence liked his eggs cooked hard. I suspect he didn't really like eggs at all but cooked hard was the way he had them and the way I have ordered them ever since. These men impressed our mothers with their fine manners and demeanor almost as much as they had impressed us with their music.

Over the years I have seen Roger, and whoever is playing with him, time and time again. I'm still impressed. I mourned when Clarence White died and again when Gene Clark passed. I had a chance to shake Gene's hand at a performance in Houston once. I told him he was my favorite vocalist ever. He really was, and still is. The Byrds will live on because people like myself will never let them die. Thanks Roger.

MATT KOWALSKI---



As a six year old kid, I sat under a chair while my older brothers and sisters watched these guys on "Hullabaloo". When the guy with the square glasses started singing "take me for a trip upon your magic swirling ship" I thought, "Wow, that guy's cool".

There is no better way for a modern American to start learning about our great folk music tradition than to take a look at the substantial collection of music done by the Byrds and their many, many offshoots. And of course it's more than folk too.

As a teenager, I started buying Byrds albums for $2.88 from cutout bins. This was about 1977. Almost twenty years later I still listen to them all, now of course on tape or CD. There is no better entertainment value than the boxed set.

BILL LEE ---



In 1991 through a series of events too long to recount here, my wife and I met Roger and Camilla McGuinn. Since that time we have become close personal friends. The Roger McGuinn that I know is not the stage persona, or the "rock star". The Roger that I know is a very funny, intense, intellegent, warm, emotional, inquisitive man of deep faith and dedication to his beliefs. He wears his heart on his sleeve and he loves and appreciates his fans.

Since the relationship between the McGuinn's and the Lee's is personal we would prefer it remain private however I don't think that Roger would mind if I recounted the "8 Miles High Over Cuba" story.

A few years ago my wife and I were vacationing for a few days in southern Florida with Roger and his wife, Camilla. Since we all like adventures and since I have a Lear Jet, we decided to go to Grand Cayman for dinner. It's only about a 40 minute flight if you cut across Cuba. As we entered Cuban airspace it was obvious that we were all a little nervous since the Cubans had been vacillating on giving us clearance, and a Lear has the radar profile of a fighter jet! As we approached Cuban airspace, we reached an altitude of 42,000 feet at which point Roger broke into an A Cappela version of "8 Miles High". It broke the tension and we all got a good laugh.

JOE NEWMAN ---



I was in high school and college during the sixties and found that no other music touched me like the Byrds' music. I still get a feeling from their songs that I get from nowhere else. There is such an innocent, fresh quality to their work. Most of us need that at times. I had the pleasure of seeing and hearing Roger perform live at the Pensacola Spring Festival in 1993. What a treat. He comes across as positive, friendly, and glad to be alive! He signed an autograph for my lady friend and me. At that time I looked like a slightly younger version ofJerry Garcia, and I think my appearance accounted for the smile I sawwhen he signed the program. His music, as you might expect, was at once old and new--from Mr. Tambourine Man to King of the Hill.http://www.lyon.edu/webdata/users/kadler/public_html/rmcguinn/fannotes.html

 

So what are you trying to prove? Because you have a bunch of albums, you know everything about classic rock. I have dozens of cd's and records of a bunch of classic rock artists but that doesn't make me the classic rock connoisseur. I will have to say that Led Zeppelin is the greatest band though.

 

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