re: Who were the Nickelback and Creeds of the 60s/70s

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Basically it wasn't cool if you liked them

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Well first of all, "cool" depends on the group you're in. Plenty of people thought/think hair metal was/is cool. Arena rock bands like Journey, Boston, Foreigner, REO Speedwagon, Styx... etc were very popular. I presume their fans considered them cool.

There is an episode of American Bandstand from early 1967 where Dick Clark goes into the audience and asks what they think of the Beatles. I recall one guy saying "they're getting as bad as The Monkees". Which tells you how the Monkees were thought of during their existence, and how some people thought of The Beatles as of the end of 1966.

Then Clark played this clip, which seemed to knock everybody for a loop.

Today The Monkees are "cool" with rock & roll fans. The bands that were uncool with me in the '80s -- the aforementioned arena rock acts and hair metalers, redneck metalers, pretty much anybody who can be described as metal, plus Van Halen, Queen, The Eagles with their various ex-members and indeed the entire L.A. yacht rock scene* including Fleetwood Mac... Presumably were cool with somebody.




*Not including Warren Zevon

I went and saw Cheap Trick in concert about ten years ago and I remember thinking to myself that they seemed like the Nickelback of their time.

KISS

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I went and saw Cheap Trick in concert about ten years ago and I remember thinking to myself that they seemed like the Nickelback of their time.

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This board is so taste-challenged it's absolutely absurd.

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Black Sabbath

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Wow!!! I typically try not to go here on this board but what a dumbass!

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Sabbath was cool...until your nuts dropped and you started to grow short and curlies.

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And then the double down on the stupidity.

fricking fool.

Actually Grand Funk Railroad caught a lot of shite... The Mark Farner - shirt off act gave many the douche vibe. In the 60's The Monkees were considered the Milli Vanilli of the day. To be called a "Bubblegum band" in the 60's = Douchebags now. Get caught listening to Herman's Hermits might get your arse kicked, caught listening to Bay City Rollers in the 70's GUARANTEES your arse will be kicked. And of course who else but Bon Jovi would be the Nickelback of the 80's....

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Every answer in this thread is terrible

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I threw one out there. I don't think it can be answered.

I don't think there was pop fluff back then that was to the extent of Nickelback. And certainly not bands.

Any TV show act. That could be an answer. Partridge Family. Sean Cassidy. Brady Bunch had an album I believe. Leif Garrett? I don't think he had a TV show, but he was certainly going after the teen girl demo.



Creed, I disagree with. They had about a year to 18 month window where they were pretty good. The song "What If" was their peak to me. That dude (Stapp) wailed in that song. I did not fully appreciate it until I saw a bar band do it in a cover. The singer actually pulled the vocals off! Watching him sing it live in a small bar made me appreciate how hard it was. Everybody in that bar certainly couldn't have been a Creed fan, but they all put their beer down, stopped talking, and said "fricking listen to that dude!"

Then Stapp got really drunk and really full of himself and they imploded. But for a brief time they actually were good. More of the one album wonder variety. IMHO

Buckinghams/Poco

Styx

Maybe Chicago or the Little River Band, but ONLY if you took away their earliest body of work...unlike Nickelback who have always sucked, at least those two bands have some awesome albums to hang their hats on.