re: What are your Top 10 favorite bands?

Grateful Dead
ABB
Moe.
Sublime
The Band
Umphrey's McGee
Pink Floyd
Widespread Panic
Metallica
Rage Against the Machine

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The Smiths
Neutral Milk Hotel
The Cure
The National
Misfits
Belle and Sebastion
Dylan
Joy Division
Nick Cave
Dead Kennedys

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10 most influential bands on my music in no particular order:

Pink Floyd
King Crimson
Steely Dan
Led Zepplin
David Bowie
Allman Bros
The Who
The Kinks
Dire Straits
Rush




the massive honorable mention list:

Graham Parker and the Rumor
The Doors
Traffic
CSNY
Genesis (Gabriel/Collins)
Stones
Echo and the Bunnymen
Dylan
Styx
Head East
Jethro Tull
Jaco Pastorius (Weather Report)
Frank Zappa
Return to Forever
Clapton
Jeff Beck
REM
U2
Talking Heads
Govt Mule
Tom Petty
John Mellencamp
Stanley Clarke
Van Morrison
The Band
CCR
Robert Palmer
Mott the Hoople (Ian Hunter)

in the fold and can't be ignored

The Moody Blues
The Beatles
Hendrix
Elton John
INXS
Marshall Tucker
Chuck Mangione
The Cure
Psychedelic Furs
ZZ Top
The Smithereens
Lynrd Skynrd
The Dead
Jefferson Airplane
Santanna
Kiss
Spirit
Aerosmith
Metalica
Rare Earth
The Police
REO Speedwagon
Ted Nugent
Warren Zevon
Charlie Daniels
The Cult
Lords of the New Church
Joy Division
Supertramp
Chicago
Iron Maiden
Doobie Bros
3 Dog Night
Grand Funk Railroad
The Guess Who
Fleetwood Mac
Peter Frampton
Guns n Roses
SRV
Joe Walsh(James Gang)
Cheap Trick

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Moody Blues

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lol, saw your avatar and thought i left off The Dead for a second,, I did leave out(among others, no doubt) Brand X, another project that included Phil Collins.

Yea Long Distance Voyager really resurrected the Moodys career, that's a concert tee I still have.