re: Most Important Artist/Bands of all time

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Led Zeppelin
Pink Floyd
Jimi Hedrix
The Beatles
Micheal Jackson
Elvis
Tupac
Biggie

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Ehhh, I was afraid to click on this too see these bands listed... And low and behold they were all right in the OP.

In some ways these are the most important bands of all time, but it really depends on what perspective you take.

Led Zeppelin copied almost all of their material. There is a nice youtube video somewhere that shows it.. they stole many old time folk songs, they stole the beats and rhythms from music before their was a music industry.

I think a more appropriate thread title would be most important music in the industrial music age.

Take Elvis for example, he was copying the black guys he was watching in the old clubs.

The Beatles, I may throw up.

The old black men that were rocking clubs long before Elvis and Hedrix deserve credit. Guys like a Lightning Hopkins, Mississippi John Hurt. I'm no expert on this, but anytime this argument gets brought up to real music people, they laugh at the bands you listed as being the most important of all time, because they know they all were greatly influenced by someone that was doing it before them. There is this myth that bands like the Beatles started pop rock and roll, but it's so far from the real truth.

I say Woody Guthrie must make this list. He is the seed to almost everything american songwriters have made.