Who is on your Mount Rushmore of Rock?

[cynic]

yeah, cause my goal was to offer blistering commentary on Morrison

[MCChris]

3 minutes ago, cynic said:

yeah, cause my goal was to offer blistering commentary on Morrison

Then you achieved it, my friend!

My Mt. Rushmore of rock would simply have a bust of the Maestro Alex Gregory in quadruplicate. 

[LucSulla]

Little Richard, Little Richard, Little Richard, and Little Richard. 

There are a few people before and a score after who I also think are VERY important, but...
 

That fella gets the mountain all to himself. 

[cynic]

7 minutes ago, MCChris said:

Then you achieved it, my friend!

as did you

[Sugartune]

Hulk Hogan, Eddie Murphy, Rick James, Rick Springfield.

[unfun75]

17 minutes ago, MCChris said:

Blistering commentary.

By nature, Muse Cafe "Pitbull" Chris disagrees with everything I post. Don't let it ruin your perfectly acceptable Morrison-bashing. The guy's voice was worse than Robert Plant's and that's saying something! And for the record, I like Zep and The Doors. Well, I sorta like The Doors. Krieger was great.

[it's me HHB]

Pitbull!  he is very cantankerous 

[Biz Prof]

3 hours ago, MCChris said:

Then you achieved it, my friend!

My Mt. Rushmore of rock would simply have a bust of the Maestro Alex Gregory in quadruplicate. 

At the very least, correctly identify his HFC-approved formal title: 

Douchebag Maestro Alex Gregory, or DMAG. 

😆

[Steve Haynie]

Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Elvis... Those 50's guys that set it all in motion for The Beatles and The Rolling Stones are deserving of a place on a monument.  The art that came along later has its own place, too.  Jimi Hendrix went somewhere no one knew you could go with music, but it took those 50's guys to build Jimi's launch pad. 

[JohnnyB]

9 hours ago, jwhitcomb3 said:

John, Paul, George, and Ringo. 

FIFY

[mudshark]

Rock guitar Mount Rushmore
Berry

Wray

Clapton

Hendrix
 

[BubbaVO]

Berry, Hendrix, EVH, Satriani

[FGJ]

Ginger, Mary Ann, Jeanie, & "Elvira, mistress of the dark"

[diablo175]

Okay, I'll take a legitimate stab at this:

Guitar Mt. Rushmore-

Hendrix, Gilmore, Van Halen, Iommi

[Hbom]

3 hours ago, diablo175 said:

Okay, I'll take a legitimate stab at this:

Guitar Mt. Rushmore-

Hendrix, Gilmore, Van Halen, Iommi

I'm pretty sure Gilmore & Iommi lost their shot at a spot on Rushmore in 1776. Maybe they can carve their initials on Stonehenge

[gorch]

Whitesnake would make it nicely, David sounding like an old rock already.

[JohnnyB]

Mentions of Fats Domino, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Buddy Holly, Elvis...all good. But maybe the George Washington of rock would be Ike Turner. He and his Kings of Rhythm were behind 1951's "Rocket 88," often considered the first rock'n'roll single. It even has distorted fuzz guitar sound (the speaker cone had torn).

19-year-old Ike wrote (or cowrote) the song and played piano on the recording. The band including sax soloist were Ike's Kings of Rhythm. The artist of record was Jackie Brenston. It was recorded at Sun Studios in Memphis and Sam Phillips sent the recording up to Chess Records, where they made the artist(s) of record Jackie Brenston and his Delta Cats.

[JohnnyB]

11 minutes ago, gtrdaddy said:

As for seriously naming only five that shaped rock, I would suggest that there are many more than five that took the music in different directions helping to shape things to come; I couldn't pick just five. It would slight too many others.

 

You may be confusing Deep Purple with Mt. Rushmore, which has only 4 presidents' heads.

 

Point well taken, however. It's not too hard to find four presidents who rise above the insignificant (William Henry Harrison, Zachary Taylor, James Garfield, etc.), the placeholders (Tyler, Chester Arthur, Millard Fillmore, Gerald Ford, etc.), and the clowns, compared to trying to find four rockers who moved the needle when the candidates include Ike Turner, Fats Domino, Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, Hank Marvin, Dick Dale, Brian Wilson, Lennon/McCartney, Clapton, Hendrix, Jagger/Richards, Moody Blues, Santana, Roth/Van Halen, Led Zeppelin, etc.

That's about 20 candidates on my list alone. There are definitely not 20 presidents--or anywhere near that number--who belong on Rushmore.

[Armitage]

Ace, EVH, M.Schenker, G.Moore

[unfun75]

3 hours ago, gtrdaddy said:

Who suggested Morrison for the list? I must've missed that; while I wouldn't have him on my list, I was merely stating he has some redeeming qualities as an artist.

No one here did. I was commenting on the photo in the original post.

[Brooks]

i made this a few months ago for a similar thread elsewhere;

 

[Biz Prof]

Can someone with Illustrator splice The Victim into that image?

[JohnnyB]

47 minutes ago, gtrdaddy said:

OK, I get the others, but why Robert Duval?

John Scofield. Brooksie has a well-placed streak of jazz and fusion in him.

Here he is flanked by drummer BIll Stewart and electric bassist Steve Swallow. They used to be in vibist Gary Burton's quartet, which was doing fusion years before Miles ever thought of--and claimed credit for--fusion. Burton has quite a track record of spotting future jazz/fusion guitar stars. Other previous guitarists include Larry Coryell and Pat Metheny.

[JohnnyB]

1 minute ago, gtrdaddy said:

I was JOKING LOL! 😂

I had a hunch you were. I just couldn't resist an excuse to talk up Sco, Metheny, and Burton, musical heroes of mine ranging from 20 to 47 years (can you tell?).

[The Shark]

Can't come up with just four.