Bigger Rock Influence

[Evil Bastard (aka Chris_L)]

Almost added The Who to the list.

 

[PCLoadLetter]

Of those two it's Zeppelin, easily. And I'm more of a Clash fan. I'd definitely put The Who above The Clash.

 

[KillYoSelf]

What kind of rock?

 

[spikechiquet]

Elvis, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins...Sun Records in general. I guess it depends on where you want to start with a very loose term like "rock".

 

[Jake_Taylor]

Robert Johnson, Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly.

 

[dooley_womack1]

Chuck Berry, Carl Perkins and Elvis influenced the Beatles. Brian Wilson through the Beach Boys influenced modern music production. And of course there's Sugarhill Gang getting the rap ball rolling

 

[Jake_Taylor]

Buddy Holly & The Crickets were such an influence on Lennon and McCartney they decided to give their band a bug name too.

 

[EStreetJoe]

Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly, Muddy Waters all hugely influential on all the bands of the British Invasion and by extension the bands they influenced.Other highly influential artists before the ones you've listed would be Dylan, Hendrix, and Springsteen.

 

[Starman]

I can't remember who came up with the line first, but in the middle-to-late 1970s, just when punk was going big and heavy metal starting to develop, I remember reading, "Every English-speaking pop-rock band is either trying to be like -- or unlike -- the Beatles."

 

[jr/shotglass]

I wonder how much the development of rock would have been changed without Elvis, Chuck Berry or Buddy Holly. I'm thinking history would have been altered considerably.

 

[93Devil]

Pixies
Joy Division
Velvet Underground
Sex Pistols
Grand Master Flash and the Furious Five

 

[Steak Snabler]

Little Richard also was a huge influence on the Beatles. Listen to their early records. Paul does the Little Richard "woooo" in almost every song.

And I'd add KISS to the master list. Their music itself wasn't all that great or hugely influential, but Ace Frehely made more kids pick up a guitar for the first time than anybody other than Jimi Hendrix and maybe Chuck Berry.

And the Clash? C'mon. I'm sure they influenced a bunch of hipster music critics, but no way did they have the reach of the Beatles, Stones, Zeppelin or 10 other bands I could name.

 

[Huggy]

Little Richard also was a huge influence on the Beatles. Listen to their early records. Paul does the Little Richard "woooo" in almost every song.

And I'd add KISS to the master list. Their music itself wasn't all that great or hugely influential, but Ace Frehely made more kids pick up a guitar for the first time than anybody other than Jimi Hendrix and maybe Chuck Berry.

And the Clash? C'mon. I'm sure they influenced a bunch of hipster music critics, but no way did they have the reach of the Beatles, Stones, Zeppelin or 10 other bands I could name.

I've said it before on here: Ace's solo on "Rock and Roll All Nite" caused more kids to pick up guitars in the 70s than anyone this side of Eddie Van Halen.

 

[jr/shotglass]

And the Clash? C'mon. I'm sure they influenced a bunch of hipster music critics, but no way did they have the reach of the Beatles, Stones, Zeppelin or 10 other bands I could name.

Yeah, I believe The Clash's impact on music history is criminally overrated.

 

[Huggy]

And the Clash? C'mon. I'm sure they influenced a bunch of hipster music critics, but no way did they have the reach of the Beatles, Stones, Zeppelin or 10 other bands I could name.

Yeah, I believe The Clash's impact on music history is criminally overrated.

I am a huge Clash fan but the Pistols and Ramones would be far bigger influences.

 

[YankeeFan]

The thread is "bigger" rock influence, not "biggest" rock influence.

It's not a bad pairing. Very different bands; both very influential in different corners of the rock universe.

I'd probably go with Zep, but could argue in favor of the Clash as well.

 

[KillYoSelf]

Black Sabbath

 

[EStreetJoe]

The thread is "bigger" rock influence, not "biggest" rock influence.

It's not a bad pairing. Very different bands; both very influential in different corners of the rock universe.

I'd probably go with Zep, but could argue in favor of the Clash as well.

YankeeFan - if the only choices were Zep or The Clash, the vote would be for Zep. But when "other" is listed, then it opens the conversation up to every other rock act.

 

[Jake_Taylor]

Lonnie Donegan, UK's King of Skiffle, should be mentioned. A good number of the Brittish pop and rock stars who came of age in the 50s and 60s started out playing skiffle. The Beatles, Who, Zeppelin, Hollies, Stones, Van Morison, CSN(&Y), Jackson Browne all evolved from skiffle. Many of the folk artists that inspired Dylan either played skiffle or were influenced by it.

Some quotes from Donegan's Wiki page:

"He was the first person we had heard of from Britain to get to the coveted No. 1 in the charts, and we studied his records avidly. We all bought guitars to be in a skiffle group. He was the man." — Paul McCartney

"He really was at the very cornerstone of English blues and rock." — Brian May.[2]

"I wanted to be Elvis Presley when I grew up, I knew that. But the man who really made me feel like I could actually go out and do it was a chap by the name of Lonnie Donegan." — Roger Daltrey

"Remember, Lonnie Donegan started it for you." — Jack White's acceptance speech at the Brit Awards.

 

[Big Circus]

Your mom.