Music's finest performer or group from the 60s

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

A bit of a cheat on this one because many bands / performers began at the twilight hours of the 60s and hit their stride in the 70s. For instance, Led Zeppelin's first album was released on January 12, 1969, and the second on October 22, 1969. Many fans consider them to be the band's best two albums...but I'm saving them for the "Music's finest performer or group from the 70s" poll...

[bobthedrummer]

1. "Are you Experienced?"

JIMI!

[zacho]

2. The Rolling Stones

Gimme Shelter will never be defeated.

[bobthedrummer]

4. "Third Stone from the Sun" has no rivals even in the 21st Century.

:hi:

[catbert836]

20. ...And... you'll never hear surf music again...

[teach1st]

3. Four-way tie

Dead, Beatles, Hendrix, and Stones. There ain't no best. Just a fantastic period for music.

[teach1st]

5. By the way, there's one more group not on there...

..the Incredible String Band. I'm probably one of the few who would rate them as high as I do.

[AntiCoup2K4]

6. Where are "The Doors"??

Not saying that's my vote, but Jim and the boys should be contenders for what they accomplished from 1967 - 1971. Creedence should be considered as well.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

7. That's why I had to do "other"...

...and I was also a big, big fan of John Cippolina's work with Quicksilver Messenger Service, especially the first album, so they're on the list too. Not to mention The Byrds...

And sooner or later a Velvet Underground fan will step up and be counted, too...

:toast:

[GreenArrow]

8. Bob Dylan?

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[Bush_Eats_Beef]

11. Absolutely...the 60s wouldn't be the 60s without him

This is arguably the first "punk rock" album, pre-dating anything by Iggy & The Stooges but every bit as in-your-face and brutal. A clearly pissed off Bob Dylan and the Band, RIPPING through "Like A Rolling Stone" in defiance of the constant booing from an audience that didn't "approve" of their "going electric."

I know "Highway 61" and "Blonde On Blonde" (among many others) constitute his best in the STUDIO, but the Bob Dylan "defining moment" can be heard HERE:

[Deja Q]

9. The Mamas and The Papas

n/t

[coreystone]

10. I decline to vote! There were so many....listed and unlisted....

They all had their identity of being great musicians!

:-)

[toddaa]

12. Jazz masterpieces

Let's see.

John Coltrane - Love Supreme
Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
Eric Dolphy - Out to Lunch
Albert Ayler - Spiritual Unity
Roscoe Mitchell - Sound
Ornette Coleman - The Shape of Jazz to Come
Cecil Taylor - Unit Structures

And those are just off the top of my head. Sorry, but the greatest performers of the 60s were jazz musicians. The only rock albums that came close to being mentioned in the same breath as the above recordings were Captain Beefheart's Trout Mask Replica and VU's White Heat/White Light.

[Alisa]

13. The Doors were great, and what about Janis Joplin and Santana too!?

Yes, this is a hard period to choose the best - I might, if I had too vote for Hendrix because, because. :-)

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

14. Santana squeaks in under the wire...

The first Santana album ("Santana") was released in August 1969, the second ("Abraxas") in 1970, so I'd save him for the "Best of the 70s" poll too (although he exploded at Woodstock in 1969, so I guess he could go either way)...

I've been playing a mix CD in the car for the last two weeks which is a compilation from "Welcome," "Moonflower," and "Lotus"...my three favorite Santana albums. I like the pop stuff too, but on these three, he was about as dangerous as dangerous gets...

:toast:

[Toby109]

15. Dylan. Then The Beatles,

All else follows. The Stones just mimicked the Beatles who mimicked Elvis, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, etc. Dylan made the lyrics cool. John and Paul changed the melody.

[GCP]

18. The Beatles started out "mimicking" Buddy Holly, mainly

Then they just went nuclear after "Rubber Soul" and no other band should even be considered in their league.

[Toby109]

19. I SAID etc. Sheesh!

And I agree. The Beatles played music "outside the box". Kinda like Mozart. Who's next, I wonder?

[Crunchy Frog]

16. What about the Beach Boys?

They're a quintissential sixties group. Their Pet Sounds album was hugely influential on both the Beatles and The Who, as well as others.

Dylan should be on there as well.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

17. Agree on both

:toast:

[bobthedrummer]

21. Kick

:dem:

[Phillycat]

22. Of course, Jimi. But it pained me to vote against the Stones.

[212demop]

23. Best musician- Jimi, best, most indelible songs- Dylan, bar none