most underrated band ever
 

Badfinger.

No Matter What
Baby Blue
Day After Day

and they all ended up dead by suicide or dead broke :(

Bad Company.

REO Speedwagon

Nothing after Hi Infidelity was worth a shit, and High Infidelity doesn't hold up too well to the passage of time either. Everything before Kevin Cronin was cool. 'Golden Country' is an all time classic.

But they're not on Badfingers level.

Sorry I typed the wrong thing, my mistake.

I meant to say

Night Ranger

nah they always got their props.

of course
:1orglaugh

Bloodhound Gang.

Sometimes my hands are are the wrong keys..

I hate when that happens :1orglaugh :helpme

Voivod

any young whippersnappers here ie anyone under 35 do yourself a favor and dl Baby Blue or Day After Day

There WAS music before Nirvana!

Double Trouble.

Could play flawlessly and no-one had a fuckin clue who they were or that they were even there.

Chris Layton (drums) Tommy Shannon (bass) and Reese Wynans (keyboard)

back up band. You might as well say the Silver Bullet Band or the Heartbreakers.

Love em :thumbsup

Spirit was another very underrated band.

So very true... If they were so good they would have kept goin when SRV was gone.

I also forgot to name my fav:

Stryper

They did keep going.

Stryper?? WTF??

Christian Death Metal...always kind of confused me. Even today look at a Stryper search.

Stryper | The Official Website. Home >. Stryper.com | The Official Website of Stryper. Stryper will be at Disney World in Orlando Florida for a night of joy.


heh An evening of joy. How pleasant. :winkwink:

Sublime

I once saw Cheap Trick at a theme park. They ROCKED but it was still depressing.

Good, but gone too fast. Bradley wanted to die anyway. He would shoot heroin while he was doing radio interviews.

My understanding is that Sublime morphed to North Beach All Stars or something like that after Nowell died, they played a webmaster event and Andy Edmunds ended up punching the drummer in the ear.

Of course Sublime got popular after dude died. That's just to funny.

and it was long beach dub allstars

The worst concert i ever attended was a David Bowie concert and the best was a tie between Van Halen '84 and Judas Priest Defenders of the Faith.

The Priest concert i was only like 12 yrs old. Man talk about seeing the light. I instantly traded my schoolbooks in for e-strings after that..:1orglaugh

Dream Theater

worst = Quiet Riot

best = Todd Rungren or Squeeze

How about one of my all time favorites.

The Band.

Pure talent and pure dope. Great combination. My wife says YES. I think they both recieved some recognition but nowhere near what they should have (im not really a YES fan, guys voice bugs me)

They TOTALLY got props, they're considered one of the greats and Robbie Robertson as well. Can't say they're underrated.

YES got props as well, 'All Good People' is a Zeppelin-esque classic. When I say underrated I mean a band that has put out some kick-ass all-time hits and nobody knows their name now but everyone recognizes their music. Like Badfinger.

What about

The Damn Yankees?

:ak47: Ted Nugent

He never sang any of his songs but did his damndest to make everyone think he did, thus taking away all the props from the real singer Derek St. Holmes. Nugent is a prick, which is obvious since he's now a right-winger, where all hypocrites end up.

never heard

Definably exit44

A band by the name of Living Colour.

ehhhh they were ok....

who's exit44?

Great remake of Sunshine of Your Love. They really threw some metal into it.

They were a great band.

Living Colour


:1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

exit44 is my band sorry I'm a cheezball...

Seriously "Tool" comes to mind they are as talented as rush in my book.

What about

La Guns

Agreed about Badfinger.

I would add Streetheart, hands-down. Canada is actually full of underrated bands, but Streetheart tops them all. d/l tracks like "Action", their superb remake of "Under my thumb", and "Tin soldier" and anyone with a taste for good classic rock will agree... they should have made it huge internationally back in the late 70's and early 80's.

Sadly, due to certain managerial disputes and fuckups, they never did go huge south of the border.

Trooper would be another highly underrated band.

Yeah, they definately kickass. As far as musicianship and talent Frank Zappa and the Mothers never got nearly enough credit for the type of stuff they were doing musically, Frank Zappa was way ahead of his time and is still to this day one of the greatest all around musicians that has ever lived. Other bands that never really got the recognition that they deserve I think are Uriah Heep, Blackfoot, Spooky Tooth (Gary Wright, who wrote Dreamweaver, was in Spooky Tooth), Bread, Ten Years After, Traveling Wilburys (Tom Petty, George Harrison, Roy Orbison, Jeff Lynne (ELO), and Bob Dylan), Primus and Derek & The Dominoes (one of Eric Claptons projects), etc. The list goes on, that's just what I could think of off the top of my head. :2 cents:

Bread and Ten Years After definitely hit the mark.

Bread only made weepy love songs but MAN did they ever do it well. I still get teary-eyed listening to Diary lol

Triumph.

studio created band, just like New Kids on the Block

and it showed in their bland-rock music

Thin Lizzy

So far off the mark you are out in the middle of WherethefuckamI North Dakota.


But that's okay.

goooood one

:thumbsup

Phil Lynott is a fucking ROCK GOD and Jailbreak is a truly great tune and far, far from their only one.

I can keep them coming if you like!

I love music and follow it close!

eh that's just what I remember about them. Glossy arena rock pap with no heart and I remember reading about their creation but can't be arsed to look it up. I suppose I could be wrong.

I don't think you can do better than Thin Lizzy, that's about as good as it gets as far as underrated rock bands. Even better than Badfinger.

haha very true, they are one amazing band. I'll leave it at that

April Wine

Blue Cheer

Weren't they a Climax Blues Band type group? You might wanna include a song title with some of these you're naming.