Members New Trail Posted August 9, 2011 Members Share Posted August 9, 2011 My Opinion: 40's Glenn Miller50's Elvis60's The Beatles70's Led Zeppelin80's Van Halen90's Nirvana00's Nickelback10's Lady Gaga Based not so much on sales as influence & perception. YMMV Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Rezrover Posted August 9, 2011 Members Share Posted August 9, 2011 Who was the top act in 1890? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members New Trail Posted August 9, 2011 Author Members Share Posted August 9, 2011 Who was the top act in 1890? Rudy Vallee?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Dessalines Posted August 9, 2011 Members Share Posted August 9, 2011 Sorry New Trail, but Rudy was a creature of the 1920's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Dessalines Posted August 9, 2011 Members Share Posted August 9, 2011 Who was the top act in 1890? Gee, I don't know. I think Jelly Roll Morton came a little later and he wouldn't have crossed over anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members New Trail Posted August 9, 2011 Author Members Share Posted August 9, 2011 Sorry New Trail, but Rudy was a creature of the 1920's. Oh, I know, but he was just the oldest guy I could think of from the recording era! Post-recording era I have NO idea! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members FitchFY Posted August 9, 2011 Members Share Posted August 9, 2011 My Opinion:90's Nirvana Ehhh... they got famous after Cobain died, really. In the `90s, in the rock world, Metallica was selling out stadiums all over the world, as was Guns `n' Roses. Nirvana never compared to the other bands you listed on the commercial "epic-ness" of what they did. Other thoughts on the biggest band of the `90s? U2 was everuwhere... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Flogger59 Posted August 9, 2011 Members Share Posted August 9, 2011 My Opinion:80's Van HalenBased not so much on sales as influence & perception. YMMV I'd venture Michael Jackson. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members wardjames Posted August 9, 2011 Members Share Posted August 9, 2011 40's Bob Wills 50's Hank Williams 60's Ray Price 70's Merle Haggard 80's George Strait 90's Garth Brooks 00's Toby Keith 10's Zac Brown Band I mean...is this even debatable? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members weareasmallaxe Posted August 9, 2011 Members Share Posted August 9, 2011 40s ledbelly50s les paul60s beatles70s led zepplin80s michael jackson90s nirvana00s radiohead or tool Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members TrickyBoy Posted August 9, 2011 Members Share Posted August 9, 2011 40's and 50's... ehhhh60's - The Stones70's - Led Zep80's - Prince90's - Counting Crows2000's - Cold Play These are my fav's.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ChordGirl Posted August 9, 2011 Members Share Posted August 9, 2011 80's - Prince That's what I was going to say. After the mention of Michael Jackson, I'd probably go with that, although I personally like Prince more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members tlbonehead Posted August 10, 2011 Members Share Posted August 10, 2011 40's and 50's... ehhhh60's - The Stones70's - Led Zep80's - Prince90's - Counting Crows2000's - Cold PlayThese are my fav's....pretty close to what I would think. Maybe Pearl Jam for the 90s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Roy Brooks Posted August 10, 2011 Members Share Posted August 10, 2011 Oh, I know, but he was just the oldest guy I could think of from the recording era! Post-recording era I have NO idea! Don't you mean pre-recording era? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Hegmatronicon Posted August 10, 2011 Members Share Posted August 10, 2011 Maybe Pink for the 2000's.Nirvana is a good fit for the 90's - i mean they were HUGE in the grunge scene and that scene pretty much killed 80's hair metal.Metallica were also huge around the black album - stadium tour wise.....so were GNR as was mentioned. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Shaster Posted August 10, 2011 Members Share Posted August 10, 2011 Off the beaten path.... 30's - Charlie Christian (no Eddie Van without Charlie)40's - Charlie Parker50's - Sun Records60's - The Wrecking Crew (LA studio cats)/Beatles/Pet Sounds70's - Hendrix80's - Eddie Van Halen for guitar/Donald Fagen for raising the recording and album bar (Nightfly)90's - Alanis Morrisette - the start of profitable "indie rock", 30+ million albums sold recorded on three ADATs. 00's - Amy Winehouse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Richard King Posted August 10, 2011 Members Share Posted August 10, 2011 40's and 50's... ehhhh 80's - Prince .... It's nice to see my old customer make the list. He had been a customer for a while when his engineer (Susan Rogers) asked for a project. She said that Prince wanted a temporary studio system in his rehearsal warehouse for a single project. So, I designed, wired and installed a 24 track system for him. I had hardware delivered from Otari, Soundcraft and a few other manufacturers to where I worked. I spent Thursday - Sunday wiring things to the design Susan and I came up with and delivered on Monday morning. All worked well and he was successful in using the system with a MINIMAL of training. He ended up using the studio system in his rehearsal warehouse to develop a lot of the the Purple Rain material which sold over 13 million copies. He, of course, was smart enough that he required no training on the material, although I spent a few minutes with him trying to train him, he pretty much ignored me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Flogger59 Posted August 10, 2011 Members Share Posted August 10, 2011 ^^^This right here is cool^^^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Richard King Posted August 10, 2011 Members Share Posted August 10, 2011 ^^^This right here is cool^^^ Thank you. It was cool and it was quite a challenge getting things done in his requested time frame. I believe that Susan was quite surprised that it got done and delivered on time. I pretty much stayed at the shop wiring Thursday - Sunday. The system had pretty much everything he needed with everything going through a 192 point patch bay. Speaker wise it was JBL 4430's, the same speaker model that I have in my living room (silly me). I've had those since pretty near the day they were first built. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members pickinatit Posted August 10, 2011 Members Share Posted August 10, 2011 Someone could probably make a pretty good argument in favor of the Bee Gees for the 70's. Not me, but somebody:lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members New Trail Posted August 10, 2011 Author Members Share Posted August 10, 2011 To Clarify: My OP was based on the idea of "Which Musical Act defined their Decade" and maybe I should have phrased it that way. In other words, what musical act to you think of when someone says "The 50's", "The 60's: etc. etc. BTW I was HOPING that someone OTHER than Nickelback and Lady Gaga defined their decades! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Blackbird 13 Posted August 10, 2011 Members Share Posted August 10, 2011 40's Bob Wills 50's Hank Williams 60's Ray Price 70's Merle Haggard 80's George Strait 90's Garth Brooks 00's Toby Keith 10's Zac Brown Band I mean...is this even debatable? I'm with Ward! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members MikeyParent Posted August 11, 2011 Members Share Posted August 11, 2011 Someone could probably make a pretty good argument in favor of the Bee Gees for the 70's. Not me, but somebody:lol: Or ABBA? Elton John? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members pickinatit Posted August 11, 2011 Members Share Posted August 11, 2011 I dunno, when I think of the 70's I personally think Skynrd / Eagles. When I think 60's it's Beatles hands down for me. I mentioned the Bee Gees because, although they didn't "invent" disco they certainly have to get a lot of the credit for spreading it's popularity into the "general public", making it "mainstream". And, whether you like disco or not, it was a pretty huge musical phenomenon of the 70's. You could argue that disco defined the 70's in the end. I won't argue that...but you can. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jwlussow Posted August 11, 2011 Members Share Posted August 11, 2011 70's is tough. It can be anyone from Barry Manilow to Led Zeppelin to Chicago to Eagles to Genesis to Ian Dury to Nick Lowe to Sex Pistols to Simon & Garfunkle to Rare Earth to... and that is totally ignoring Disco which is probably in the running for defining a generation... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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