Who is on your Mount Rushmore of Rock?

[Sugartune]

Best guitarist Mt. Rockmore? 

Nick Jonas x 4

Seriously though, all the classics are great. They never affected me directly, though.

Since this has already derailed a little bit, I'm going International, but still 50% American. These guys make me try harder.

Jonny Greenwood, Omar Rodriguez Lopez, Mike McCready, Joel Plaskett

Mic smashed. Ruined it for everyone.

[Steve Haynie]

How about Kanye West getting his own mountain carving instead of Crazy Horse?

[Hamerica]

My Mount Rushmore of Rock would be the "Four Kings with an Army Strong" and it is not Kiss. 

Hamerica

[cynic]

Tony Iommi, EVH, Chuck Berry, and Rosetta Tharpe

[Never2Late]

On ‎5‎/‎17‎/‎2016 at 3:58 PM, JohnnyB said:

American rock'n'roll was on the decline in the early '60s. Pop music had become a mish-mash of R&B, doo-wop, crossovers and novelty songs. The British Invasion pretty much saved rock'n'roll, based it more firmly on Delta blues and rebooted it for the next decade.

Meh, an American Band "saved" Rock and Roll - they were called THE RAMONES.

P.S. Disco sucks....unless you were getting laid inside Studio 54.

[JohnnyB]

1 hour ago, Never2Late said:

Meh, an American Band "saved" Rock and Roll - they were called THE RAMONES.

P.S. Disco sucks....unless you were getting laid inside Studio 54.

Rock didn't need saving in the '70s. By then the Baby Boomers created a market so huge that rock/pop diversified into a musical smorgasbord:  Black Sabbath (dark rock), Punk (Ramones, Elvis Costello, Sex Pistoles ), Disco, Power Pop (Cheap Trick), New Wave (Police, The Cars), Glam Rock (Bowie, New York Dolls), and '60s rockers turning into living legends, many as soloists: e.g., Robin Trower, Beach Boys, Elvis P., McCartney, Lennon, Rod Stewart, plus the old folkies morphing into the laid back California sound (Eagles, Jackson Brown, Linda Ronstadt), the rise of Heavy Metal and shredding (Van Halen 1977), Theatrical rock (KISS, Zappa, Alice Cooper), etc.etc. It's hard to call them niche markets when most of them were filling stadiums.

As for Disco, it enabled MILLIONS to get laid every weekend, everywhere. Yes, Disco sucked ... and blew and licked and swallowed and slid and pounded and pumped. 

[LucSulla]

18 hours ago, gtrdaddy said:

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

Dude, thats Dr. Phil.  Jeez. 

[JohnnyB]

6 minutes ago, gtrdaddy said:

If you were getting laid to disco music inside Studio 54, chances are you wouldn't be here today to talk about it.

In 1975 I got a job at a stereo store in SoCal when the disco thing was really taking off. The store manager had a side business of disco installations and mobile disco for parties. The names of some of his client disco clubs were pretty blatant about what it was about. One was Filthy McNasty's and another was The Trojan Shield. This was a 2,774 mile drive from Studio 54.

[JohnnyB]

33 minutes ago, gtrdaddy said:

That crap was never my thing. You could catch me on a train to MSG on a regular basis for some big shows, or the Stone Pony and Big Man's West at home.

Never said it was. I was quoting you, but your and my responses were both in reference to Never2Late's post.

[JohnnyB]

1 minute ago, gtrdaddy said:

I knew that; just opining...

It was never my thing either, but I knew people who'd had 40 or more sex partners just from the disco scene, even in Cincinnati, a town notorious for not getting laid.

[JohnnyB]

25 minutes ago, gtrdaddy said:

That's not my thing either.... :-/ LOL

Reminds me of the joke: 

Q: What's the Russian term for venereal disease?

A: Rotchacokov

[Brooks]

On 5/19/2016 at 4:27 PM, LucSulla said:

Dude, thats Dr. Phil.  Jeez. 

well, dr phil DID go to the U of north texas...

[BruceM]

I just ignore these types of threads until they reach 4 pages, and I then I peruse them for the insults and indignant responses.

I love this place!

How about the Mt. Rushmore of dreamy hair? Where's Pam when you need her?