Best Band EVER!

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Okay, best Metal Band Ever!













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[mokawanis]

1. and to think

I turned down free tickets to one of their shows just cuz I can't stand their music.:headbang:

[Tuesday Afternoon]

2. best band ever --

John Cipollina, Greg Elmore, David Freiberg, Gary Duncan, and Jim Murray were the founding members of the San Francisco psychedelic rock band known as Quicksilver Messenger Service. During the 1960's, Quicksilver Messenger Service was one of the most popular and well respected bands playing in the acid rock scene. The band played alongside the other top legendary San Francisco bands such as Janis Joplin with Big Brother and the Holding Company, Jefferson Airplane, the Grateful Dead, and many other great acts. During his years of playing with Quicksilver Messenger Service, John Cipollina developed his trademark guitar style and sound. John's sound was defined by the technique of his guitar playing and the equipment he used to play the music. John Cipollina's guitar playing and his advanced ideas in equipment and special effects, helped make Quicksilver Messenger Service a great influence on many musicians.

John Cipollina developed his own unique style of guitar playing that relied on the use of finger picking, while pulling on the vibrato bar of the electric guitar, and his own custom amplifier stack and controls. Wearing two plastic finger picks that were custom filed to shape, he picked and/or plucked the strings with his thumb and index finger. His finger picking style was initially developed in classical guitar training that he was provided in his youth, as well as his study of the style of finger picking employed by Chet Akins. As John became interested in studying blues guitar players, he brought together finger picking techniques from all the genres he had played to create his own unique style. John's finger picking style was married to his use of the vibrato bar, and then broadcast via his custom sound system.

more at link: http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=&imgrefurl=http://www.johncipollina.com/quicksilver.htm&h=295&w=300&sz=37&hl=en&start=11&tbnid=UiAOjjmaFPRwwM:&tbnh=114&tbnw=116&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dquicksilver%2Bmessenger%2Bservice%26hl%3Den%26rlz%3D1T4ADBF_enUS243US243

[Initech]

3. Saw Iron Maiden twice this weekend, they kicked much ass!

[MilesColtrane]

4. Zeppelin

They were metal before metal existed.

Hey, they had Led (sic) in the name, and rocked harder than most bands associated with the genre since.

[Bennyboy]

5. Just when you thought a band couldn't suck any harder........

http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=97623

[flvegan]

6. Great, yes. The best? Uh, no.

Not even close.

I could name 10, easily that makes Maiden look totally stupid. Caveat: in these days.

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9. I dunno - These songs are effin' great.

I love older metal, Sabbath, for example, newer metal, Arch Enemy and Lamb of God, for example. Metallica, sure. Testament too. On and on.

But I just listened to several Maiden songs in a row, and damn, I just don't know another metal band with excellent song after excellent song like this.

Aces High
Number of the Beast
Powerslave
Hallowed be thy Name
Two Minutes to Midnight
Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner
The Trooper
Run To The Hills
Wasted Years
Where Eagles Dare
Flight of the Icarus
Fear of the Dark

Really, really good shit.

Imho.

[bluesbassman]

7. Really depends on your flavor of "Metal".

For my taste (old school) Black Sabbath would be the "best". Saw Tommy Iommi, Ronnie James Dio, Geezer Butler and Vinny Appice (Heaven and Hell) a few months back and they still kicked ass! Iommi BLISTERED the guitar and I thought Butler was going to break his bass in half he played so hard. While Dio's sustain was a little weak, he still has a singularly unique voice and presence.

BTW, took my 15yr old son, and he was blown away by these "old dudes" on the stage!

[dana_b]

8. so I take it you're not a big Sharon Osbourne fan?

me either.

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10. ugh

What a classless thing she is.

[dana_b]

11. yeah, that was pretty bad.

Not only that, but why would she want to piss off the fans who PAID to see the festival with her husband's name on it? Or was that last year when it was free.. i forget but anyway, she seems a bit batshit.

Do you know what airline Bruce worked for? I thought that was great. It would have been great to be on a flight and hear him come over the PA as the captain. LOL

[newmajority]

13. British Airways, I think.

at least that's what I remember hearing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBY9Q39C1bs

[Mezzo]

12. U2

[bbernardini]

14. You forgot about Dethklok.

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Couldn't find a picture of the live version of the band.