Most Influential Band Of All Time - ?

I have to go with the rubber band. Could you imagine the chaos in the world without the billions of those used?

Check yo head. The Grateful Dead. End of thread.

seattle prattle wrote:

but who influenced them wrote:

In past interviews members of both the Beatles and the Stones have said they were greatly influenced by the Beach Boys.

The Beach Boys were influenced by the Beatles as much as the Beatles were influenced by the Beach Boys. They were contemporaneous and had a mild rivalry.

And i've heard the Stones go on and on about all their influences in the Delta Blues area, but the Beach Boys? Really? Seriously?

It was more Brian Wilson’s work as songwriter, arranger and producer that influenced every musician working then and now. There are several documentaries about Brian on YouTube. He is absolutely revered, from Tom Petty to David Crosby, Elvis Costello to George Martin. He inspired musicians to write better songs.

Roger Daltrey has said Keith Moon was such a fan, The Who would cover Beach Boys music just to keep him happy. Apparently Moon told everyone he would have left The Who in a second if The Beach Boys had asked him to join them.

Seriously +1. Pet Sounds was as least as innovative as anything the Beatles ever did.

I read "Mick: The Wild Life and Mad Genius of Jagger Hardcover – by Christopher Andersen", I'd be afraid to be left alone in a room with

Mick as he's unpredictable.

Most influential, I'd put Led Zeppelin on the list.

As the band since the early sixties were already

session musicians in the United Kingdom.

Jimmy Page, was the lead guitarist on the muted pickup and

bridge of the guitar on Herman's Hermits "Mrs. Brown You've Got

A Lovely Daughter." Of course his Yardbirds material with Clapton,

by 1969. And to mention John Paul Jones as a first class arranger,

employing both "John Bonham and Jimmy Page" on Donovan's,

Hurdy Gurdy Man. Stuff like that. Jimmy Page was so prolific

in the mid sixties that collectors are still deciphering his U.K.

recording sessions.

The Beatles? I like. Their transitions from album to album,

are schizoid.

The Rolling Stones, pity its founder Brian Jones was snubbed out.

No Shortcuts wrote:

Seriously +1. Pet Sounds was as least as innovative as anything the Beatles ever did.

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The Beach Boys didn't even record 'Pet Sounds.' It was supposedly done by a group of studio musicians named The Wrecking Crew. Leon Russell and Glen Campbell were members for a while. Not sure if they were still in The Wrecking Crew when they did 'Pet Sounds.'

You may want to credit Brian Wilson for the Beach Boys sound, but not the Beach Boys themselves. Did you ever hear them live? They were terrible.

Easily. People are listing their favorites here. But the answer is the Beatles, by a very wide margin. Nearly every influential mainstream musician in the past 50 years has sited The Beatles - particularly their Ed Sullivan Show appearance - as the moment that inspired them to make music.

Not so sure that it makes much sense to talk about the 'most' influential band. Music has taken several very different directions, and the influences on each are different.

The more i think about this, the more sense it makes to talk about several bands that influences different sounds.

My comments were geared towards mainstream rock bands and maybe a little more to the left side of the dial, so to speak.

Renato Canova and the Syringes

Not bands, but these three influenced just about everything that came after them:

Chuck Berry

Bob Dylan

Jimi Hendrix

The Velvet Underground

the Beatles

My Bloody Valentine

qz wrote:

Chuck Berry

+1

I should have added him the my list. Good call.

lollerama wrote:

qz wrote:

Chuck Berry

+1

I should have added him to my list. Good call.

I will also add Willie Dixon to the list.

old guy 72 wrote:

You may want to credit Brian Wilson for the Beach Boys sound, but not the Beach Boys themselves. Did you ever hear them live? They were terrible.

Because the Wrecking Crew were the studio musicians with Brian Wilson and then there was the touring band, 2 separate groups. Did you ever listen to their recordings?

Sand Dunes wrote:

Black Sabbath, basically created the metal genre.

Uh, ever heard of Ritchie Blackmore and Deep Purple?

Kraftwerk - they're a German band from the 70's that popularized the use of electronic instruments. Think synths, vocoders, custom designed keyboards. They ended up influencing a ton of genres from pop to hip hop to techno to house.

The Beatles were pop crud.

The Monkees sound better than them in retrospect...,

Go to Woodstock.

Watch that 4hour concert filmed evocatively.

You’ll observe when music changed.

Richie Havens ‘Freedom’

Hendrix

Santana ‘Soul survivor ‘

Get busses out of Monticello, everything is cool, everything is real cool.....

It’s Egun wrote:

The Beatles were pop crud.

The Monkees sound better than them in retrospect...,

Go to Woodstock.

Watch that 4hour concert filmed evocatively.

You’ll observe when music changed.

Richie Havens ‘Freedom’

Hendrix

Santana ‘Soul survivor ‘

Get busses out of Monticello, everything is cool, everything is real cool.....

LOL. If the Beatles were pop crud, the Beach Boys were their B-side, opening act.

Funny how you remember (sorry, i happen to be listening to Bob Seager right now, so name that song...), but Woodstock they say was not so big a deal at the time as they made it out to be in retrospect, largely to promote the album. But in that those bands strike deep to my heart, it doesn't get much better than the performances (besides the ones you mentioned) of The Who, Joe Cocker, Jefferson Airplane, to name others.

Joe Cocker - not sure if how groundbreaking and influential he was in the big picture, but there's never been another like him. Never.

Cheers.