Most Influential Live Band

Peppermint4life · 11-01-2011, 01:31 AM

Who's the most influential live rock band? Personally, I think the Who kinda made the show interesting first. Before that, live music wasn't quite as entertaining. Yeah, you had Chuck Berry and the like, but really the Who gave rock the rock image in a live context. At least in my opinion. What about you?

RVCA · 11-01-2011, 01:37 AM

Definitely not the Beatles, oh deary

Peppermint4life · 11-01-2011, 01:43 AM

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Originally Posted by RVCA

Definitely not the Beatles, oh deary

Well since they were mostly a studio band... :P

Howard the Duck · 11-01-2011, 05:47 AM

The Stooges, I believe, primarily Iggy Pop, and the Doors, ditto Jim Morrison

if not for them, we really wouldn't have outrageous behaviour on stage

Ska Lagos Jew Sun Ra · 11-01-2011, 06:16 AM

The Who probably. They're one of the first to make rock n' roll a truly destructive art form.

Necromancer · 11-01-2011, 06:32 AM

I agree with everyone concerning The Who and The Doors. I believe The Who were like Sun Ra stated, maybe one of the first bands to ever resonate Punk on stage.

Mick Jagger is one of the most influential frontmen of rock, so I'll go with The Rolling Stones as well.

Ska Lagos Jew Sun Ra · 11-01-2011, 06:58 AM

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I believe The Who were like Sun Ra stated, maybe one of the first bands to ever resonate Punk on stage.

A lot of people will get confused if you just refer to me as 'Sun Ra'.

Necromancer · 11-01-2011, 07:02 AM

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Originally Posted by Ska Lagos Jew Sun Ra

A lot of people will get confused if you just refer to me as 'Sun Ra'.

I can see that actually becoming a problem for some people

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I'm sorry, its..Ska Lagos Jew Sun Ra.

blastingas10 · 11-01-2011, 01:40 PM

The Allman Brothers band. Live at Fillmore East has been called the greatest live album ever by some critics.

ThePhanastasio · 11-01-2011, 02:39 PM

I'll have to go back and say that the rock n roll of the '50s may have been the most influential, as far as the live performance.

While The Who and other such bands definitely brought about the more "rock and roll" aspects, this ultimately wouldn't have occurred without the mainstream success of acts of the 1950s who did those, at the time, inappropriate dances and such on the stage.

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Necromancer Divination Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 2,655	I agree with everyone concerning The Who and The Doors. I believe The Who were like Sun Ra stated, maybe one of the first bands to ever resonate Punk on stage. Mick Jagger is one of the most influential frontmen of rock, so I'll go with The Rolling Stones as well.

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blastingas10 Music Addict Join Date: Aug 2011 Posts: 2,126	The Allman Brothers band. Live at Fillmore East has been called the greatest live album ever by some critics.