re: Most Important Artist/Bands of all time

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The old black men that were rocking clubs long before Elvis and Hedrix deserve credit.

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See, there is another very relevant argument to be made. The old blues guys were certainly originators of ONE of the popular seeds, but to overall music, you cannot understand the breadth of the influence that bigger acts have. Nobody would have heard those old delta blues songs if Zeppelin didn't elaborate on.

However, Jimi changed rock just as much as those guys. He played more than blues progressions, for starters. He also did things with feedback that those guys couldn't do. There were also huge jazz influences into popular music that most people understate. Those big acts, touching an exponentially larger audience, by its very nature makes them more influential.

I'm a guy that listens to a lot of obscure music, so it almost pains me to admit that...