That's easy....The Doors from the great City Of The Angels....Followed closely by the Grateful Dead....
I went to a Dead concert doing 2 hits of acid and fell asleep in the middle of one of Garcias long solos . Love the Doors especially the Soft Parade
I agree with your assessment but think Jimi Hendrix was a huge influence on change. I think grunge was started by Soundgarden but Nirvana got the credit and then there's Yngwie Malmsteen who I believe could've changed the direction but very few could play like him so he changed music away from metal/hairband styles to grunge lol. I blame Poison and Yngwie for the fall of the 80's hairbands.
Malmsteen was and incredible player, TECHNICALLY, maybe the best, but his playing was all about quantity (speed), and not quality (feel). He played so very fast there was no room for feel, or emotion. Listening to him was like taking a relentless ass-beating from a pissed off swede with a baseball bat. You end up just wishing it would stop. No one could do what he did, but that didn't make him great. He was a player's player, but almost no one other than players have even heard of him. An excellent contrast to him would be Alex Lifeson. If you listen to his iconic solo from "La Villa Strangiato" It starts off really quiet and basic, full of feeling, and builds to a crescendo of technical awesomeness. The kind of guitar work that makes the hairs stand on end. Malmsteen could easily play it, note for note, but he never wrote anything with feel like that. That sort of feel comes from Hendrix and S.R. Vaughn and those sorts. The guys who could just close their eyes and lay their head back and let their soul flow out of them through their instrument. They didn't have to think about what they were playing, because their instrument became a part of their being. Back in the day, Malmsteen was the mathematician, the Einstein of guitarists, whereas, these guys were like the Picasso, the Rembrandt. As far a grunge goes, I was so very happy the first time I heard Nirvana. For me, it represented a return to the basics; bass, drums, guitar, vocals. Turn it up to 11, and that's all you need. Soundgarden came along later for me, so I give Nirvana the credit. I was so happy to be done with the synthesizers, and the soupy reverbs of the 90's.
I agree for the most part with Yngwie, he did play fast but the feel is there. I've heard this from other people but I think it is just hard for people to hear it because it is so fast, being a guitar player I found the emotions within his music incredible. My issue with Ynwie was the harmonic minor scale that I think he over played. He never passed up the major 7 note which got old and I agree that fast without slow gets old quick. I could listen to Yngwie for 20 mins then done lol. Also, I think poor guitar solos hurt hairband music. Once the grunge scene was underway I got tired of not having guitar solos I missed them but only a good or great solo is needed not just garbage filler. I really like Paul Gilbert, he didn't revolutionize anything but was one of my big guitar heroes. My guitar teacher was a Gilbert student so I got attached to him early through learning his licks. I'm no Gilbert but sure enjoy Mr. Big and Racer X.
Heh, I'm a drummer from back in the day, what do I know. Haven't picked up a stick since 1996. I play guitar a bit, not good enough to do it on stage. I play some banjo and fiddle, since I've gotten old and expanded my horizons a bit. I have some buddies in a bluegrass band who have rubbed off on me. But, I play everything like a drummer would.
Awesome! I've gone from 80's hairband style to playing mostly country on acoustic. Growing old changes everything lol. I still teach guitar and have 3 students with another one soon I think. At times I've had 6 but most don't last when they see how much work it takes. I like teaching it keeps me playing the basics.
Because Magic Man is one of the best songs ever. Totally innovative, exciting, interesting, slightly disturbing, pure art.
Talent wise it's definitely some kind of progressive, or power metal band, which are very complex, and difficult to play, like Dream Theater, or Pathfinder. [video=youtube;SGRgAULYgWE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGRgAULYgWE&list=PL8cZ4VKxosU4Gg3DYFRDSKa-KjgwimKl-[/video] [video=youtube;mf2fCD1hrow]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mf2fCD1hrow[/video]
Poland's classic rock scene is clearly vastly underappreciated. Had they wrote in a more popular language, I'd imagine some of these bands would've been huge. [video=youtube;MB0-8U_dWCk]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MB0-8U_dWCk[/video]
I only speak good English, I only know few words in Polish, Spanish, Hungarian, or German. But, this Polish band Kult made a good song, and video against Communism. [video=youtube;yia6Y_ST7IY]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yia6Y_ST7IY[/video]
Like South Americans many roman Catholic are Communist. In Europe: Poland, Suiss, Italy, Germany and Spain many are Communist. I known.
1) Beatles 2) Doors 3) Led Zeppelin 4) Eagles ... my first concert: the Hotel California tour at MSG in NYC (February 1977). 5) Moody Blues (saw them in 1981 and 1995)
You can argue Hall and Oates, they sold more records than any other duo in history. Maybe the Eagles, who sold more copies of their Greatest Hits record than any other IIRC.