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11-05-2010, 12:45 PM
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11-05-2010, 12:46 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Ontario, Canada | | | Muse |
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|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Georgetown, IN (Louisville KY) | | | Black Stone Cherry |
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11-05-2010, 12:47 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Baltimore,MD USA | | | Define 'band'.
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11-05-2010, 12:50 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Jessup, MD | | | Everyone's opinion is going to be different based on what style they are into.
Personally, I think there are a ton of amazing underground bands with great bass players. There are probably even more great bands that no one has heard of.
In my area alone, there are a lot of 'local legends' and 'the next best things'.
+1 for Muse.
and +1 for the Baltimore rock scene.
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11-05-2010, 12:52 PM
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11-05-2010, 12:55 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: NJ | | | Porcupine Tree/Steven Wilson. Yes they're current |
11-05-2010, 12:58 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Baltimore,MD USA | | | Does the ability to pack any venue with no advanced notice make a band great? Or is it what the band says in its music? Or is it the band's level of virtuosity in its playing?
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11-05-2010, 12:58 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Dallas, TX | | | oh, gosh. grizzly bear, dr dog, spoon, fleet foxes, felice brothers, radiohead, flaming lips. i could go on. all current.
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11-05-2010, 01:00 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Tampa | | | "great"?
Radiohead |
11-05-2010, 01:01 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Baltimore,MD USA | | | It's small, but it's inconvenient too.
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Originally Posted by Lazarus.Bird  Hail Maryland! | It's a BIG small place.
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11-05-2010, 01:03 PM
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Originally Posted by DiabolicLow B Muse | +1. Muse destroys live.
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11-05-2010, 01:11 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Washington, DC | | | i was going to go muse which made me think of doing this, but i didnt want to influence anyone. |
11-05-2010, 01:11 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Miami Florida | | | Funny, I was thinking about this towards the end of my run, which was made excellent by In Rainbows.
It's Radiohead by a mile. No band like that before... and a bunch like them after... including Muse. If they're the last great band you might as well give it to Kings of Leon. Come back in four records and see if either band has evolved and set trends like Radiohead.
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11-05-2010, 01:16 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Tampa | | | in addition to Radiohead as a "last great band" (rock and pop) I'd say My Morning Jacket, Wilco, Drive-by Truckers and, yeah, Kings of Leon on that list somewhere, too. Maybe Umphrey's McGee.
But I'm in agreement with Basskababble - no band "has evolved and set trends like Radiohead." |
11-05-2010, 01:17 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Georgetown, IN (Louisville KY) | | | I forgot Clutch too. They are pretty dang amazing. |
11-05-2010, 01:22 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Boulder Suburbia, Colorado | | | High on Fire has been at the top of my list for a couple years now. |
11-05-2010, 01:23 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Meisenheim, Germany | | | The mars volta is the latest great[TM] band I got to know. I'm also a big Radiohead and a Tool fan.
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11-05-2010, 01:25 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada | | | I agree style will dictate a lot of the responses.
I don't think packing the house means anything at all. Baloney outsells steak, popularity doesn't mean your any good at all. do we consider Ashley Simpson great? she can pack a house, so can Tila Tequlia.....
Me, I would choose Weather Report. The sheer number of overacheivers that played in that group make it stand out, guys were rotating in and out all the time and the quality of musician was just fantastic.
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