Byrds Beat Eagles On The Gibson.com List Of The Top 50 American Rock Bands
In honor of the long weekend of independence and celebration for the 4th of July, Gibson.com came up with a good idea. Make a list of the best American rock bands…the only problem – I think they got it wrong. They did good trying to get in different decades and genres of rock, but if you think the Byrds were better than Eagles then I have to disagree. They made that mistake on their list – Byrds with Tambourine Man and Turn,Turn,Turn not only beat Eagles…they alsom beat Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Doors, and Beach Boys! Here’s the top 25 and you check out all 50 at Gibson.com. Who do you think should have made the list but didn’t or should have been higher up? Leave comments below.
1.) Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band
2.) Aerosmith
3.) Nirvana
4.) The Ramones
5.) Metallica
6.) Van Halen
7.) The Byrds
8.) R.E.M.
9.) The Beach Boys
10.) The Allman Brothers Band
11.) Guns N’ Roses
12.) The Doors
13.) The Eagles
14.) Creedence Clearwater Revival
15.) The Stooges
16.) Lynyrd Skynyrd
17.) The Velvet Underground
18.) Pearl Jam
19.) Wilco
20.) Buddy Holly and the Crickets
21.) Sonic Youth
22.) Los Lobos
23.) X
24.) The Pixies
25.) Talking Heads