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Originally Posted by Julia Dream
People always debate which band is better. Who do you think is the greater rock band?
Personally, I'm always for the Stones. I haven't heard any songs by Aerosmith that represented the culture of the time they were composed like "Satisfaction" and "Mother's Little Helper". While Aerosmith is known for guitarists who are technically good, Richards creativity goes a lot further than Perry's. In fact he proves that great rhythms are more important than showoff guitar leads. Bill Wyman was the first to use a fretless base. Though Watts doesn't smash the drums to bits, he pushes his band forward. I don't think it's much of debate that he's better than Kramer. Plus I find that the Stones have much more variation and that Aerosmith owes a little too much to them, Tyler especially. As for Aerosmith being harder, it's really not a legitimate argument in the first place since the Stones came a decade earlier at a time when they were considered quite loud.
I'm wondering if anyone can make a really good argument to say that Aerosmith is the better band.
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I would`ve said that the Rolling Stones undoubtedly would be the band that most people on here would choose. Personally though, I far prefer Aerosmith and can listen to them anytime (I am talking soley about their 70's output here)
I always loved their far more in your face musical delivery, whereas the Stones admittedly covered far more musical territory that originated out of their early R&B sound, into a very authentic sounding country blues sound that typified their golden era of the late 60`s and early 7o`s. My problem with the Stones is, that I have listened and listened over the years to most of their albums and they just don`t do it for me. I don`t really like Mick Jagger`s voice but love Steve Tyler`s. I think "Toys in the Attic" and "Rocks" to be two albums that really define what 70's hard rock is all about and rank right up there with Led Zep`s output.
Aerosmith`s whole image, largely became tainted as they went down the commercial road from the mid 80`s onwards. Also, practically every hair metal group of the 80`s modelled themselves on prime 70`s Aerosmith, none of these groups though had a singer that could match Steven Tyler.
I often read that both Slash and James Hetfield amongst others, were greatly influenced into either picking up an instrument or forming a band after hearing "Rocks" as well.