Top 5 musical groups
 

What musical groups do you consider as the top five you have ever heard (not necessarily in person). Mine are - The Eagles (THE best ever), The Moody Blues, Fleetwood Mac, Chicago, and Led Zeppelin.

Considering how are taste change as we grow, I will give the names of groups when they were at their prime. It do not necessarily mean I'd listen to them as much as I did then.
The Beatles
Four SEasons
Doors,
Eagles
Billy Joel- Is he a group?

This is soooooooooooooooo hard - only 5?

The Beatles, The Eagles,
The Beach Boys, The Four Seasons,
The Rolling Stones.

Sorry - had to add.
(Cream, Zep, Chicago, Blood Sweat & Tears, Drifters, Platters, The Crests, Skyliners). So many more. :shrug:

In person:

1. Peter Paul and Mary
2. The Eagles
3. The Brothers Four
4. The Four Seasons
5. The New Christie Minstrals

The Beatles-The Eagles- Led Zeppelin-Journey & Aerosmith...in no particular order!

Lots of love for Don Henley and Glenn Frye.

The Monkees
The Rolling Stones
The Who
Styx
Elvis!!!!!

The Beatles are the greatest, by any measure, of any act in popular music history. Everyone else is a distant second.

WE all know that The Beatles are far ahead of everyone else, but there has to be other music you listen to. With you nbeing a musician I'm sure your bands have played songs other than those by the Fab Four. How 'bout giving the next four groups.

1. The Beatles
2. The Beatles
3. The Beatles
4. The Beatles
5. The Beatles

:)
also: The Who, The Eagles, The Moody Blues, Chicago

Jefferson Airplane
Beatles
Stones
Grateful Dead
Cream

The Association
Tommy James & The Shondels
Jay & The Americans
The Four Seasons
The Beach Boys

1A: Creedence
1B: Animals
1C: Cream
1D: Benedictine Monks
1E: Blues Brothers
1F: Santana
1G: Hall & Oates
1H: Mamas & Papas
2: Yardbirds
3: Traveling Wilburys
4: Sha-Na-Na
5: Police

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I played drums in a band back int he 60s and along with in addition to performing and recording our original material we covered pretty much all of the great bands from that era . For the past twelve years or so, I've played guitar and sang in Beatles tribute bands. I have done some solo acoustic stuff doing a wide variety of material from the 50s and 60s and even a few modern things like Bruno Mars and Train and even a Britney Spears song.

I guess my favorite after the Beatles is Eric Clapton. I don't think I've ever heard any one play and sing with so much emotion and sincerity except for perhaps BB King who would probably be next on my list.

It's really difficult for me to pick out a few bands and say that they are the greatest or best or my favorites because I like so many of them. I guess that I feel that after the Beatles and maybe Clapton they are all tied for third.

1. The Beatles
2. The Eagles
3. Rolling Stone
4.B.B. King
5.The KingstonTrio
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5 favorite bands
 

I'm one of those who have to answer in 2 ways. Depends on what music I happen to be into at the time. Before I started to play rock music, I played quite a bit of folk, so that's what my lists would look like. I'm also just listing bands, because if we included solo acts, the list would be much longer. So here we go:

Rock:
1. Beatles
2. Beach Boys
3. Eagles
4. Blood Sweat and Tears
5. Crosby Stills and Nash (and Young)

Folk:
1. Peter Paul and Mary
2. Brothers Four
3. Kingston Trio
4. New Christy Minstrels
5. Limelighters

Seen Bette Midler, Eric Clapton and band, Styx, Yes, BB King, Billy Joel with then (1984) girlfriend Christie Brinkley in concert. She just walked around Joel a little bit when he sang Uptown Girl.

BB King and Eric Clapton were extremely good and would make my Top 5 musical groups. The Police, the Rolling Stones, and Chicago would probably be my list.

Too many groups really to narrow this down very easily.

beatles
simon and garfunkel
jefferson airplane
moody blues
stones

You took the words out oy mouth. :smiley:

Also: Chicago, The Four Seasons, Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey.

Of course The Beatles, but
 

I like these the best:
Rolling Stones
Credence Clearwater Revival
The Eagles
Santana
ZZ Top

1) The Beatles (of course)
2) The Hollies (Allan Clarke was untouochable on vocals)
3) The Byrds (first five albums)
4) The Rascals (P**s poor crowd for Felix at the Savannah Center)
5) The Spoonful (and Sebastian as a solo act)

All five in the R&R Hall of Fame!

I agree. A ****poor crowd at The Savannah Center...for both shows. Felix was great and didn't deserve the humiliation. Through it all he gave a great performance and smiled throughout. Hey, what did you think of his version of "How Can I Be Sure?" Eddie sang the original but I'd bet 90% of the audience didn't know the difference. A great show. A shame so many people missed out.

Hey Bill. Does your band do any BS&T with only three guitars? How are things going with the band? I'll be back in January. Keep me posted on where you are playing.

OOPS - How could I forget?

In addition to my other favorite bands, I MUST add CCR and Santana.

:oops:

The Beatles
Billy Joel
Rolling Stones
Rod Stewart
The Moody Blues

musical groups
 

Platters,Skyliners,Marcels,Little Anthony and the Imperials,Kenny Vance and the Planotones

Right! During "How Can I Be Sure" I had to keep reminding myself that Eddie sang lead on that one. It does make me wondeer how many shows are not playing the Savannah Center because of the poor attendence for Fexlx. There was a better crowd for the Association, and they stunk up the place.

Bands
 

Hey Tommy. We are very busy! 6 gigs in December (Cody's Evans Prairie and Bonifay). Nothing in January yet but will let you know. You can keep track of us on the 3 For The Road Facebook page. No, haven't added any BS&T songs yet, but don't be surprised! Our lead player Gary has a guitar synthisizer that can sound like a horn section, so watch out! Actually working on "I Feel Good" as a possible add in with the brass sound!

B.

By James Brown? That will sound interesting. Good luck. Catch up with you early next year. Maybe I can bring Captain John with me. He is interested in seeing/hearing the band

I agree with you. I actually sent Felix an apology via Facebook and asked him to return. I felt, the lack of advertising and the way Felix was advertised didn't do him justice. Okay, nuts like you and I know every band member of every band, but I'd guess 70% of the average public know The Rascals/ Young Rascals as a group and don't know who "Felix" is. Or Eddie, or Gene or Dino.

Everybody knows who John, Paul, George and Ringo are but most people don't know the band members of other groups.

Don't forget The Lovin' Spoonful selling out also. How can there even be a Lovin' Spoonful without John Sebastian?

The Eagles, Byrds, The Beatles, The Doors, Jethro Tull

Oh, I forgot about the "Spoonful" (with Butler on lead AND autoharp!). I saw them once and it was sad. Considering the advertising for Felix, the "New Rascals" (with Gene and Dino) would probably be a better draw.

:agree:

(but leave out the also part)

After seeing the Young Rascals on the Ed Sullivan Show for the first time, Dino Danelli became my favorite drummer. I tried to emulate him in my playing. He is really overlooked when people are discussing the best drummers in rock history.

Another person that often gets overlooked in these discussions is Stevie Wonder. His body of work is absolutely incredible.

I think that's the case with the majority of bands throughout history. Most people know the lead singer and in a few cases some of the other members are known. The Rolling Stones are another case where all members are pretty well know, but how many people can name all of Herman's Hermits, The Dave Clark Five, The Kinks, The Animals, Bill Haley's Comets. Buddy Holly's Crickets etc., etc., etc.
That's one of the things that contributed to the greatness of the Beatles. They had close to equal fame. People had their favorites. That was not the case with any other groups that I can think of.
Quick name the other Four Seasons.

Without looking it up Mike Smith, Dave Clarke, Lenny Davidson. Ric Huxley Denny Payton. Aside from the Stones, with Brian Jones, Mick Taylor, I don't know of the band members the other you spoke of except for the lead singers and maybe a full others. I read the "Happy Paper" advertisements and I could see how many people missed the Felix ad.

The Four Season without looking it up- Frankie Vali, Bob Guadio, Nick Massi and Tommy DeVito. Guadio by the way was a great songwriter and his talents were never appreciated.

Not being a drummer I always liked Dino but wondered if he was more flashy (twirling his drum sticks) than good. Another drummer who I always felt never got the recognition was Don Brewer of Grank Funk Railroad. I thought he was great.

Aside from "I'm so Happy Now" what is Gene going to sing? And yes, Dino was a good drummer but without Felix, the Young Rascals don't work. I saw a recent video of Eddie Brigatti singing at some show. Bad news. What ever happened to Dave Brigatti? He had a better voice than his famous brother and aside from "Once Upon A Dream Album" (Hawaii) he hasn't been heard from again.

Felix! Come back. Give the Village People a second chance. Let me do the advertising and I guarentee a full house.

Dino was an outstanding drummer. He cut his teeth by moving to NYC when he was a teenager and sleeping in clubs just to watch the greatest drummers in the world like Elvin Jones and Tony Williams. I would say that at the time, he was a lot more knowledgeable than most rock drummers.