What is your Rock Band Triumvirate?

[MrScorpio]

1. Led Zeppelin

2. The Rolling Stones

3. The Doors

[Iggo]

1. Off the top of my head:

Black Sabbath
Judas Priest
Metallica

[Swede]

10. Ditto

:toast:

[Iggo]

14. Back atcha.

:toast:

[Maestro]

40. Can't complain with these three.

:headbang:

[Aristus]

2. Mine:

The Beatles
The Doors
Concrete Blonde

[Tommy_Carcetti]

3. My three:

1. Smashing Pumpkins
2. Tori Amos (if solo artists count)
3. Nine Inch Nails

[Jetboy]

4. My fave 3 bands:

1. New York Dolls
2. Rolling Stones
3. Hanoi Rocks

I like the stuff that doesn't wander too far from the Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis original formula for rock-n-roll. So many bands rock, so few roll. I gotta have the roll part.

[rucky]

5. In no particular order:

The Clash
Led Zep
Bowie

This is in terms of the bands that influenced the music I dig.

[Ohio Joe]

6. Mine

1 - Black Sabbath
2 - Pink Floyd
3 - Rush

[HopeHoops]

7. Genesis, King Crimson, Heart

Yeah, I know that's a weird mix.

[NYC_SKP]

21. Early or late Genesis?

With or without Peter Gabriel, or both?

I'm far more fond of early.

I even had an early vanity plate for a 59 Jaguar MkI sedan: "HOGWEED"!

:hi:

[HopeHoops]

22. Early of course, although up until the Duke album it was pretty good stuff post-Gabriel.

Oh, and Pennsylvania (where I live) has a Department of Hogweed Eradication. Heracleum mantegazzianum is illegal to cultivate in the state and it practically takes a flame thrower to kill it. The song is a ballad based on fact, not mythology.

If you haven't found the European band "Musical Box", check out http://www.themusicalbox.net/ and look for an upcoming show. They hit the US about every two years so they should be here next fall or so. They are the only tribute band blessed by all current and former members. Three years ago I saw the Lamb tour - the entire thing, slides, costumes, everything. They use all vintage equipment (see exception noted below). A year ago I saw the Selling England tour - same deal, but the "Tony Banks" guy did have a small video display in and amongst the keyboard equipment.

They not only reproduce the entire tour as closely as possible, but the musicians LOOK like the original musicians. The Steve Hackett guy even uses a left-handed double-neck 12-string/base and all the foot-pedal base things.

So, in a nutshell, if you like that stuff, go see them. Some of the other audience members had seen the original tours and were amazed at how close they came to recreating them. It is like a time machine.

A flower?

[Tikki]

8. The Quakes, The Meteors and Peacock.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbpQqo2jvuE
"Quakes"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ey8E5UPP-4M
"Meteors"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8qfGDRzVyY
"Peacock"

Tikki

[abq e streeter]

9. Springsteen,The Clash, Dylan ( ok, Dylan isn't a band, but can't leave him out of top 3)

The Doors and The Beatles are just a shade behind ...

[MrSlayer]

11. Slayer, Zeppelin, Stones.

Followed by AC/DC and Judas Priest.

[Urban Prairie]

12. I'll do homestate for something different

older:

1) Grand Funk RR

2) Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band

3) Tie: MC5/Iggy & The Stooges (RIP Ron Asheton)

Bite me, Ted!!


newer;

White Stripes

Sponge

Romantics

[abq e streeter]

15. Good to see a mention of Sponge

I was thinking of them as my primary example of underrated 90's bands in that thread, maybe I'll go back and list em...I'm 57 years old ( just for the record) ,and think they're a great, great, rocknroll band

[SalmonChantedEvening]

13. Mine

1 - Lynyrd Skynyrd
2 - Rush
3 - Van Halen Lee Roth

[EastTennesseeDem]

16. Beatles, Moody Blues, Pink Floyd

Though I have to acknowledge Radiohead and Wishbone Ash.

[charlie and algernon]

17. 1. The Stones 2. The Beatles 3. The Who

[GReedDiamond]

18. SST bands...

The Minutemen, Hüsker Dü, Black Flag

[ghostsofgiants]

31. Hell yes.

[Jetboy]

38. Yup, best label of the 80s bar none.

Meat Puppets II

Black Flag- Damaged

Minutemen- Double Nickels on the Dime

Husker Du- Pick 'em- my fave is Flip Your Wig but most people like New Day Rising or Zen Arcade

These were the best records of the decade IMO along with with Let it Be, Appetite for Destruction and a few others.

[alsame]

19. Beatles, Stones, Led Zep. n/t

[ghostsofgiants]

20. Velvet Underground, The Clash, Joy Division

[dembotoz]

23. kate bush, who, david bowie

[Radical Activist]

24. For classic rock

1. Rolling Stones
2. Led Zeppelin
3. Ike & Tina Turner

More modern Rock
1. Beck
2. U2
3. Rage Against the Machine

[taterguy]

28. Are bands that peaked 20 years ago "Modern"?

Interesting definition of that term.

And hasn't Rage been defunct about 15 years?

[Radical Activist]

32. I debated putting

U2 in the classic rock category but a band whose first album was in 1980 and is on modern radio stations for their album due this year doesn't belong in the same classic rock category with the Rolling Stones.

I saw Rage in concert last year, and their respective members are hardly defunct. Their sound is still influential and relevant.

[Iggo]

43. That's the way it works.

That music will always be called "Modern Rock" by its adherents in the same way certain music is still called "New Wave"...even though that wave crashed sometime in the mid-80's.

[taterguy]

25. Snatches of Pink, Del Fuegos, Tribe After Tribe

My answer will constantly change

[Condem]

26. Too many to name, MrScorpio.

If push came to shove, Springsteen would be one. After that, I admire so many.

[Twillig]

27. I have a soft spot in my heart for

1.Van Halen

2. Aerosmith (up to 'pump')

3. Led Zep


I'm into Dream Theater, Joe Satriani, and Hanson now.

[DevonRex]

29. Neil Young/CSNY, Tom Petty, Del Amitri.

[Taverner]

30. It changes day to day

Right now its

1 - David Bowie

2 - Iggy Pop

3 - Lou Reed/VU

[flying rabbit]

33. Zep, AC/DC, Floyd with

The Doors and Stones nipping at their heels

[old mark]

34. If it had to be only 3, Led Zep, Ramones, Stones.

But there are so many more.....

mark

[ACTION BASTARD]

35. The Big 3

1. Gary Moore

2. Journey

3. Pink Floyd

[livetohike]

36. 1) Jimi Hendrix

2)The Doors

3)Led Zeppelin

[AngryAmish]

37. According to Jim Anchower:

Styx, Reo Speedwagon and Cheap Trick.

[Rabrrrrrr]

41. OMG - Anchower! I miss him.

Haven't seen a reference to him in about 6 years.

:rofl:

And yeah, totally REO, Styx, and Cheap Trick for the guy with the tricked out ... ah, hell, I can't remember the car he drove. Nova?

[RoyGBiv]

51. Ford Fiesta ...

It's compact awesomeness.

[Rabrrrrrr]

52. Ah, that's it!

I knew it was a silly car, and so thought the Nova wasn't right.

:rofl:

[Runcible Spoon]

39. NiN, Interpol, The Pixies.

That is all.

[Rabrrrrrr]

42. Pink Floyd, Rush, and probably Yes, though maybe Led Zeppelin

instead of Rush, but then sometimes I go for early Genesis.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

44. U2, R.E.M. and The Cure

been that way since the 80s, too

[Broken_Hero]

45. Metallica, AC/DC,

and Dio....:D

[pokerfan]

46. The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin & Pink Floyd

[XemaSab]

47. Woody Guthrie, Lead Belly, Pete Seeger

:headbang:

[jobycom]

48. Old: Skynard, Queen, Floyd. New: Serge Tankian, Black Keys, Raconteurs.

Though really that could change depending on my mood. Fleetwood Mac and Van Halen, The Mars Volta... And that's just rock, not counting R&B, soul, funk, country, hip hop, jazz... One should not be limited.

[PVnRT]

49. The Rolling Stones, The Clash, Pearl Jam

[harmonicon]

50. that's a tough one....

just thinking right now:

The Clash
The Cure
Echo and the Bunnymen

maybe? Fuck if I know.

[Forkboy]

53. Nomeansno, Melvins, Sun City Girls.

Not rock, but I don't really listen to rock. :)

[Resuscitated Ethics]

54. the Clash- Dead Kennedys- Rolling Stones

[Strong Atheist]

55. In no particular order

The B52's
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
The Ramones

[ceile]

56. Pixies, Catherine Wheel, U2 n/t