Interesting numbers, though Facebook “likes” have other lurking variables in there, including how active the band (or, more likely, their publicity management people) is on Facebook. If a band posts frequent FB updates (particularly if the posts are interesting or relevant to their fans), their posts more likely to be liked / shared / reposted by their current followers, and thus, more likely to pick up more likes for the band.
Of course, absolutely! Which is why I call it a “first approximation.” Still, even accounting for that, I’m surprised by the numbers.
No one mentioned steppenwolf. born to be wild, pusher man. magic carpet ride!:smack:
They aren’t American, are they? John Kay is German, yes?
They were formed in Los Angeles but John Kay has German ancestry.
They’re also not remotely a contender for the title of “greatest American rock band ever” even if every single member was a direct descendant of an unbroken line of Americans dating back to the Mayflower. Just because they had a few very good songs doesn’t put them in the company of the other bands being discussed here.
what about van halen formed in Pasadena the brothers halen were born in Holland??
Absolutely correct. Here is the true answer to this puzzlement… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xt6QnGxBeLw
Joe Strummer counters ;).
Formed in LA, but all former members of Jack London & the Sparrows, A Canadian band.
Wikipedia calls Steppenwolf a Canadian-American rock band.
Oh, fuck yeah! Thanks for that!!
Joe Strummer: you couldn’t put a cigarette paper between one song ending and the next one starting…the record types didn’t know what to do with the piledriver of sound.
And Johnny Rotten afraid he might get beat up. Perfect.
Any questions?
Naturalized US citizens. Eddie was 7 and Alex 8 when they moved to the US. They’re an American band.
Nah. Americans as kids. You’re confusing them with the incredibly badass Dutch-Indo rock n’ roll band, The Tielman Brothers: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wKvlSlXl8c8
(I swear, I’ve spent a bit of time on this rock n’ roll stuff. I’m not just posting randomly when I have something to assert).
Oh yeah, that’s the stuff.
By the way, there is more energy in this 2:22 than there is in the Grateful Dead’s entire recorded output combined.
Say, WordPerson, didn’t you make an offhand comment that you have a nomination for this thread?.. A band that Wikipedia calls “…the greatest band of all-time, not just because of its musical impact, but its societal impact as well, bolstering relations between nations and facilitating contact with extraterrestrial life (including Martians)”.
Maybe a toss-up between Bubble Puppy 
and Immolation.
Funny, it just reminds me of Wang Dang Doodle by…why, the Grateful Dead, of course.
Anyway, I’m most certainly not here to slag off anyone else’s musical taste. I still do it, just not here. I can dig almost anything that’s ever been recorded. I draw the line at Ed Sheeran though.
Joe Strummer being, of course, the main Pistol. :rolleyes:
The Pistols were around for 2 years before that concert (1 year with Lydon) and gigging for 6 months, with the Bromley Contingent already in existence.
I’ve been *very specific *that the statement I take exception with is the stronger “No Ramones, No Sex Pistols”, not the weaker “The Ramones were a strong influence on UK punk bands”, which I absolutely agree with.
I’ve also said they weren’t a strong influence on the South African punk scene, just as a data point as to their supposed universality.
The Sex Pistols were probably more overall influential to punk than the Ramones, absolutely. But the Ramones perhaps played a role in making it more palatable to people who might otherwise be turned off by the concept of punk rock. This isn’t to minimize their impact, but they maybe played a similar role that Elvis did in introducing “black” music to “white” Americans; introducing “angry lower-class British people” music to Americans, in a way that seemed more fun than scary.