Brad

I'm not going to say they were the best because I don't really listen to them all that much. But their influence is universal.

I think it was Darth Porn or something that said that they are untallented. That is wholly not true. When you can get up and play music for 12 hrs straight while on LSD let me know. When you become one of the top selling artists of all time let me know. These guys invented shit, tell me who mixed western music with eastern influence before the beatles, or who was editing and using the studio as an insturment. It is just such an uneducated opinion that you have shared I felt the need to call you out on it. Besides, you listed Pink Floyd...do you think that they rose to fame because of the number of sober ppl coming to the shows and buying their albums? no, most of their supporter were stoned too, and most likely on more potent drugs too.

Anyways, my is vote Pearl Jam. They survived the grunge era, took on ticketmaster, and avoided all media for a decade, yet managed to sell out shows all across the world, and Eddie Vedder has the best live voice in rock no matter what generation you are looking at (don't agree, check out their performance of "Black" from their DVD from New York). Almost forgot, they are the only band with balls enough to release all of their live shows from their last three tours. Most bands today can't put together one 1.5 hr show to release and these guys kill it for 3 hours almost every night.

I doubt that most of these Rock pussies these days would survive a day in the music industry if they didn't get on MTV or in People or RollingStone or whatever other media outlet the kids go to now.

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