Hendrix, Cobain, McCartney...  Why?
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No, not until now, but I have noticed most musicians have a heroin habit at some point in there career, oddly enough everyone you just listed did.
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The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and the Eagles
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Regarding The Beatles and Zep, both became HUGE, way beyond big, way before merchandising, marketing and publicity became standard practice in the music industry. The Beatles and Zep were 'grass roots' as we call it today. That means in the early days, they put out a record, toured, put out another record toured, showed up for press, radio, and retail events. All of this in hopes of selling more and more records, with the utmost minimum dollars being put into, marketing, promotion, and merchandising. All success for these two and bands like them came from blood sweat and tears - hard work. Recognition was the end result. Today, most record companies looks for a band thats like ANOTHER band. No more individuality or sounding different, or even being unique. My point being that the record companies will spend millions on press, publicity, and marketing in hopes you will see it everywhere, hear it everywhere, and want to buy it. The harsh and unfortunate reality is 'cash rules everything around us'. MTV is pay for play. Radio is the same. You need to have sold LOTS of records, or show significant sales increases daily, to even get airplay on major radio or mtv. So to sum it up, it's all marketing and promotion. - not so much the band (remember Paula Abdul? She can not sing). Let me know if I can help further.
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There are a lot of classic rock bands like The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, THe Who, The Eagles, The Grateful Dead, Led Zeppelin, Aerosmith, Jefferson Airplane, Jimi Hendrix, The Clash, The Ramones, The Monkees and Kiss, Journey, The Kinks , Queen , Jethro Tull \n\nalso look at  http://pages.prodigy.net/cousinsteve/rock/classic.htm\ntheres a lot of them
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How can you possibly put Queen aginst such crap artists as those?!\nAC/DC maybe, due to them being classic rock\n\nBut the other three will have been forgotten by the end of the decade, I'm sorry, but that's just how it is
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Eric Clapton, for sure.  Maybe AC/DC, Aerosmith, Boston, Bad Company, jeez you might want to make more than one CD. :-).
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There will NEVER EVER be a band like the Beatles, again.  I was a teenager when they were famous.  If I told you that every single day there was something about them in the newspapers, would you believe me? They were the first band that wrote their own songs.  That was unheard of back then.  They did a few songs, early on, that were not original but after a short while they only did their own songs, because their own songs were fabulous!!!   Listen to the harmony on "Nowhere Man."  Listen to Paul's bass on "Something," especially in the middle paart where there is no singing.  Listen to the beauty and sorrow in "For No One."  They are also credited for having the FIRST music video.  It was about "Penny Lane" and "Strawberry Fields Forever."  Everything they did and said and recorded was different from anything else anyone had ever heard.  They were truely a once in a lifetime event.  You had to be there to understand all of this .  I WAS there, I even went to a concert of their's in 1964! I still have the ticket and program and a few photos I took.  You could not hear them and they said later that they could not hear themselves.  You know why?  Because every single person , girl AND boy, was screaming their head off.  We knew that we were witnessing history.  It was a wonderful time to be a teenager.
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Yes. They really didn't get into the LSD era until "Revolver" in 1965. Best Beatles album ever! Well, except for "Abbey Road".
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classic rock is the best. Beatles, Hendrix, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin...i also like some psychedelic stuff. some Cream and Jefferson Airplane type stuff, you know?  some folk music like Bob Dylan. the only country i can tolerate is Johnny Cash.
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Id say they where probly both very influentual (and still are) in their own ways. They influenced two different musuc era's. In my opinion john Lennon projected peace and harmony and Kurt Cobain projected aggressiveness and individuality. And since i believe in the peace to all thying i'd like to say that Lennon gets my vote.
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AND I ASK MYSELF Y PEOPLE WASTE TIME ON ASSASINATING PRESIDENTS WHEN THERE ARE PEOPLE LIKE THAT OUT THERE.  SOME PEOPLE HAVE LITTLE INTELLIGENCE AND OTHERS ARE JUST RETARTED TO THINK COBAIN IS TO BE MATCHED.
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Hmmm, this is a very good question. If I personally had to pinpoint one group in particular that should be recognised, it would be Linkin Park. They have jumped tremendous heights in a very short period of time, influenced alot of people with their lyrics, and are just downright good musicians. I owe them alot because their overall essence is absolutely amazing. It must be a pleasure to know them. I am honored that such young men like themselves are indeed worthy of my attention. They've gotten a bad rap at times, but I say that's crap. They deserve better.
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INXS, although they are kind of a 1990s band too... now they need to have a tv show to find help!  Also The Clash, Blondie, and Cyndi Lauper.  Isn't it funny how sometimes you haven't heard some of those songs for 15 years, but when you do, you can sing along all the words like it was yesterday?  Getting old, I guess.  Thanks for the opportunity to reminisce.  Oh, yeah, the Little River Band too.
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40's: Modern musical culture did not exist\n50's: Elvis\n60's: The Beatles\n70's: Pink Floyd\n80's: Madonna\n90's: Nirvana\n00's: Too early to say.\n\nPlease note that I in no way consider these the BEST musicians of their decades (except the Beatles). Simply the most influential.
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Page is amazing. He didnt copy blues masters. He took what they did and put his own spin on it. He made it his own. For someone to say he copied them is like saying all new metal bands copied off of sabbath. its not true. He loved that music and made it his own. Hendrix was just famous for being an adequete guitarist who was a druggie. No comparisson
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No one even comes close to Jimi Hendrix\nNO ONE!!!!!!
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Elvis\nThe Beatles\nJimi Hendrix Experience/Cream\nP Funk\nDavid Bowie/T Rex\nThe Who\nMarlyn Manson\nPoison\nNirvana\nRed Hot Chili Peppers