My number one vote would be Humble Pie....Steve Marriott and Peter Frampton.....smoking fo sho. Also Badfinger......excellent songs, great performance. Toad the Wet Sprocket to me are one of the finest bands to emerge during that era.....great guitar tones as well. The London Quireboys....out Black Crow'd the Black Crowes. The original Montrose.....that album changed my life...hahahahaha!!!!! Rock Candy baby!!!!!! There are plenty more but I'll shutup and let the collective lament.

Steelheart.
One of my favorite bands.

"The Outlaws"

The Shadows

David Lee Roth era Van Halen.

Randy Rhoads era Ozzie Osbourne.

UFO
(they used guitars if I remember correctly... )

Captain Beefheart's Magic Band(s)---both (1) the Trout Mask era version with Zoot Horn Rollo (Bill Harkleroad) & Jimmy Seimens and the Spotlight Kid era version with Zoot & Elliot Engber !
Then let's bring Hendrix & Lowell George back from the dead !

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Soundgarden. Superunknown is one of my favorite albums of all time.

I assume you don't mean classic bands like Zep and the Beatles, or else my post could go on for days.

I vote for the Fleetwood Mac lineup that had Bob Welch and Danny Kirwan (way before Buckingham and Nicks.) The Bare Trees album is a classic. Also Beck, Bogert, and Appice...

SOUNDGARDEN

Got to be Thin Lizzy.

And yes...early fleetwood mac would be nice right now....

Steve

"Appetite For Destruction" era Guns and Roses.

Late seventies era Heart w/Roger Fisher on guitar.

Aerosmith when they did lotsa drugs.

"Appetite For Destruction" era Guns and Roses & Thin Lizzy.
Since my wishes came true (Bruce and Adrian went back to Iron Maiden and Janick staid) maybe those will come true as well.

Yep Steve you an me both, one of my all time favourites also Focus, The Grateful Dead, Velvet Underground and David Bowies Spiders from Mars and Wild Horses.... to name a few.

Simon

gotta be---l.a. ersand a local band (sf,cali) -circa late 70s,early 80s-they all rocked the house real badd and the guitar flag was raised hella high in dem days!


rip d boon

SRV

The Wedding Present, Minutemen, SNFU, Dinosaur Jr., Quicksand, and (my fav) Hüsker Dü.

Jeff Buckley, although they've put enough of his stuff out post-mortem it's almost like he's still around.

I'm gonna give away my age.

Moby Grape.
Buffalo Springfield.
Allman Bros. (w/ Duane!)

According to his mother (who is in charge of his estate) there's still more live releases to come.

I hope so..... I still want to hear the thing he did with Liz Frasier.




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depeche mode
kraftwerk
ELP
donnie and marie
haircut 100

so many marshalls, so little time........ not.

-d. gauss

Cry Of Love, Arcangels, Tesla (who is touring once again).

Steve, you said it for me, Humble Pie and Badfinger! Woohoo! And yeah stanner, Husker Du et al did it for me too.

Wow, I feel fortunate, just thinking about this and realizing how many of my faves are still around.

--Lee

Actually, I'm Gene...no prob though hehehehehe

To repeat as stated before:
SOUNDGARDEN
OZZY W/RANDY
VAN HALEN W/DLR

Also: Skynyrd w/ Rossington/Collins/Gaines
Allmans w/ Duane/Betts and Haynes/Betts
Alice in Chains

If they'd do more music like their first albums, Vapors and Knack.

Man oh man, I miss Rockpile! They were rock AND ROLL!

Hey, no one's said Beatles. They were a guitar band at the start.

"...and in the end.." the Beatles were always guitar driven, alot of their psychedelic stuff was done with guitars that were heavily effected in the studio. Then they left us with that great three-way guitar trade-off on Abbey Road, what a great way to go...

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KJ
"...it's not that I'm lazy...it's just that I don't care."

How bout..

1. Lynyrd Skynyrd
2. April Wine
3.UFO w/Schenker
4.UFOw/Paul Chapman
5. Thin Lizzy
6. RATT
7. Boston,1st 2

The original Yardbirds

hey lisa thats a good answer but i'm thinkin you probably mean the and that was a smokin band if you listen to "five live yardbirds" yeow!! but ...the original band's first guitarist(before ec) was 'top topham' a well known guy back in the day-he had to quit the band to feed his kids or finish his education or something-anyway he was a tasty player if you've ever heard any of the real early stuff. ask me anything about this influential band(that is still around, tourin usa as we speak).

quintet of the hot club of france, the texas playboys

Ten Years After, The Dixie Dregs, Thirty Eight Special.

One I forgot to mention, the very legendary, imho Crowded House, what an awesome band..... Mmmmn much missed by me for one.

Simon

television- verlaine and lloyd
thin lizzy- 1 2 guitar punch
sex pistols- chris thomas made that record rock
ac/dc - with bon scott
frank zappa- just to have him around
georgia satellites -rawk!
ramones -look ma, no solos!
johnny thunders heartbreakers - 40 percent inspiration, 60 percent heroin
free -paul kosoff was the man
gene vincent w/ cliff gallup!

aw hell, let's just dig everybody up and have a great big zombie death jam....

-d. gauss

All of 'em!

Do u really think sex pistols or ramones are guitar players to be in the same list with frank zappa!!sure they were a revolution but for the guitar world....nothing much.this is my opinion so i dont want angry replies ok?

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sure why not? they all played guitar and i wish they were all still around. there's room for mounds and almond joys... 'cause sometimes you feel like a nut...sometimes you don't.

-d. gauss

Quote: Ten Years After, The Dixie Dregs, Thirty Eight Special.


Actually the Dregs still tour together with the original line up, just not as much as they used to. They just Played in Philly a shory while ago.

Thirty Eight Special is also still touring, the just played the "Southern Rock Woodstock" that was in my area. Don't know if it was the original lineup, though.

UK-Allan Holdsworth et al...
Journey BEFORE that Steve Perry guy-first 3 albums rocked...
David Lee Roth band-Steve Vai & co.

Sheehan is playing with Vai on tour now....


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Early Seventies Funkadelic.

Yeah, Soundgarden, definitely...though my first thought was The Smithereens. "Blood and Roses" - oh, man!