1960's-2000's American Rock. Part 1: The Mainstream

In the 1950's Elvis Presley, a man from Tennessee, created Rock N' Roll. Since then it has been a very American genre, so here is the history of it.

1960's

In the mid 60's, the British Invasion struck, putting most American music at a stop. But at the same time, the San Francisco Hippy Movement was beginning and The Doors down in L.A. were starting up. The San Francisco Movement was truly a form of early punk. It was politically charged, the hippies were angry because of the Vietnam War and pollution (notice how little punk has changed.) The main bands were The Doors (not from SF though) Phish and The Greatful Dead.

The movement ended in 1969 when The Rolling Stones held a free concert at a race track called Altamont. They got the idea from The Greatful Dead. Nobody realized how many people would be there. The Stones hired security from the notoriuos Hell's Angels. During the concert The Angels killed a man and 3 others also died. It is often called the day the 60's died.

Also in 1969 a band named Led Zeppelin went on their first American Tour. These brits had 10 times the attitude of every other British group, Rolling Stones included. Immediatley after, the effect in America were felt.

1970's

In the early 70's, bands like Foghat and Chicago were Americas finest bands. But then three eastern bands changed that. Aerosmith were a Bostonian band with as much attitude as Zeppelin, and skills that could back it up. From New York, there was Kiss, they had incredible stage theatrics with heavy music like Aerosmith's and Zeppelin's. Those three (Aerosmith, Kiss, and Zep) were the best bands in the new type of music now called Classic Metal. Also from the Boston area was Boston. They had a softer sound but could rock just as hard as Aerosmith. In the mid-to-late 70's a Pasadena band with an incredible guitarist, called Van Halen hit the spotlight. They had a sound much like Kiss's but more complicated and musical.

In the late 70's Brit Punk became mainstream, once again leaving the american scene in the dust.

1980's

In 1982 a single called Cum On Feel The Noise by Quiet Riot went gold and there style of Sleazy Hard Rock/Metal became slightly popular. But when Motley Crüe released Shout At The Devil, the scene exploded. All the bands with that style of music from the So Cal area were signed to contracts many of them became mildly popular, like Ratt, Warrant, and Poison. In the mid 80's Metallica came out with Master Of Puppets. Their insanely popular metal was harder, faster, and more serious then that of Motley Crüe. In the late 80's another band became huge, Guns N' Roses. Their return to bluesy-Aerosmith-rock got them to the top. They were as serious as Metallica but as accessable as Motley Crue. The whole scene came to crash in the 90's with Nirvana.

1990's

In 1991 a single called Smells Like Teen Spirit by Nirvana changed music forever. The whole Seattle scene became like the L.A. scene of the 80's. Bands like Pearl Jam, Alice In Chains and Soundgarden became immensly popular. The change in music from the 80's to 90's mirrored the change in culture. Where-as in the 80's everything was about having fun, the new Grunge scene was very down. Many of the artists had a self-hating image. But in 1994 in a day, the whole scene died, along with Nirvana's frontman Kurt Cobain.

In the mid 90's a new album called Dookie by Green Day hit the mainstream. Green Day were from suburban San Francisco and had a fast, angry sense of Punk and a hooky, catchy, "light-wieght" style of Pop and thus, was dubbed Pop-Punk or Punk-Pop. Bands like Sum 41, Blink-182 and Good Charlotte followed.

2000's

Nu-Metal bands like Linkin Park, System Of A Down and Papa Roach hit the spotlight. They involved the increasingly popular Rap and Pantera like metal. The bands use hip-hop style rappers and DJ's. Along with drummers, bassist and guitarists. Althought this scene is popular, the Punk-Pop scene never lost any steam and is still goin with newer bands like Good Charlotte.

In 2004 and 05 we have scene a more funk-related music like Maroon 5 and The Killers.

It is hard to see the next major movement in Rock but if you look back there definatley is a pattern between Hard Rock based music and Punk based music. But with Nu-Metal and Punk-Pop music popular at the same time it is hard to tell.

Comments

[Maet]

Don't write another artcile.

[sturm]

who the hell gave this 4 stars??? worst piece of s*** i've read in a long time!!

[gonstathis]

That article was really poor.
Aerosmith,Kiss and LeD Zep weren't classic metal,they were hard rock.
I thought that Kiss were from Detroit.
Really lacking article,it's clear that you're young.You forgot many groups from 60s-70s

[gonstathis]

I agree with maet,don't write another one

[mikedeit]

Where's AC/DC?! Black Sabbath?! I cannot believe you left out OzzY OsbournE. He was the one that created Black Metal! Alice Cooper?! And the one, the only, guitar god that changed the world forever with a mixture of Blues and Rock, JIMI HENDRIX!!! How the heck did you leave him out! What about Eric Clapton, eh! He had many great songs! Dokken, Tesla, ZZ Top! Yngwie Malmsteen, Michael Angelo Batio, WhiteSnake, Steve Vai, Queen, Pink Floyd, and Bruce Springsteen, even though I don't like Bruce, he had some hits in the 70's and 80's! Blue Oyster Cult was a great band with the two hits practically everyone knows, "Godzilla" and "Cities In Flames, With Rock N Roll"! I can tell you choose your favorite bands and bands that you know a lot. Oh ya, and Bill Haley And The Comets. They were another band from the 1950's that made Rock N Roll Popular. You missed a lot of high lights in the your time periods of 1950's to Now.

[mikedeit]

Oh ya, and I almost forgot aboout Rush, Damn Yankees, and Ted Nugent. Three popular hard rock bands from the 70's and 80's.

[mikedeit]

This is my last post for this article. What about IRON MAIDEN? Another great Heavy Metal band from the 80's. I am sorry, but I could go on forever with great bands!

[dk2906]

Hey, could you imagine how hard it would be to actually write a comprehensive article on mainstream rock in America over 40 years?!?!? That's so insanely difficult, give him some credit.

[the_concierge]

Come on guys give the dude a break. You can possibly hope to document the complete list of major influences in rock from 1960 until today. An sure there are some mistakes. But it gave a generalised 'timeline' to rock which i thought was a good effort. How about some constructive criticism instead of 'dont you dare right again you peice of s***' or 'that was the most poor thing i've ever read'? Oh and who really cares if Led Zep arent actually classic metal and are in actual fact hard classic new old tech prog metalic neo wave rock? (Looks at site URL) Dumb question i guess...

[Slashfan#1]

The doors are so not punk

This is pretty terrible, consider putting your next one (if there is a next one) through the UG Contribution forum please.

[Super_Sexy_Owen]

you should've done a 4 part thing, with 10 years per part, and more information

[craigmileham]

please dont write another, you've missed out so many key bands im not even gona bother goin in2 it cos ill end up writin an article

[SMFar2112]

YOU FUCKING IDIOTS! please note that the guy said AMERICAN rock bands. mikedeit, most of those bands you are mentioning are not american and ozzy did not invent black metal.

[areguzanda]

nice job .. it was a valliant try

[Danno13]

terrible.

[Viscosity]

what about anything about hendrix and SMFar2112 i agree
(about 3 posts up)

[tHeAxEmAn]

AMERICAN ROCK? theres too much info for one article and so obviously you missed some major bands and major turning points in american rock history! Like someone said you should have divided the task by every 10 years. And ok this is part 1 and you have already covered the 40 years in which rock was developed, what are you going to write in part2? Also you should stick to your topic and write on american bands and maybe make another article on the british bands. Because both of them equally influenced rock. Ok just tryin to give some constructive criticism and not tryn to be a pain in the ***

[Nikk]

Phish didnt come around until the 1980's.

SMFar2112, yes he did say American Rock but you didnt say anything about him mentioning british rock bands such as Led Zeppelin and The Rolling Stones. Even though these bands and the ones mentioned by Mikedeit and others may have originated in England they were still a part of the American mainstream.

[guitarshark2099]

yeah just, fail 2 ever write n e thing again

[guitarshark2099]

its also scarey that its only part 1

[imagonaeatu]

Please don't write another article.

Thanks

[SethMegadefan]

You mentioned about 20% percent of all the bands that deserved to be mentioned. Why the hell did you try to sum up 40 years of American rock in one article? It'd be hard enough to try just one year. If you write another article, I'm not going to read it.

[Iluvpowerchords]

Dude, Foghat was british

[kanback]

American Rock. It mentions lot's of British Rock. Hmmm... Irony at it's finest.

[franksciante]

system of a down arent nu-metal. most nu-metal doesnt sound at all pantera-ish like you said. the killers - new FUNK BASED ROCK- as in the chilis never thought of that at any stage in the past 20 years?!

[metalnazi7]

hey guys, he's talkin about bands that are popular in america i think...that includes british bands...however, he left out a ton of bands, so the article still needs a ton of work...metal didn't die w/ the 80's btw...there was still pantera and bands like that

[lacey_the_crazy]

I'm not going to nit-pick here, but you did miss a lot of crucial information, and a lot of the points in your article just made me cringe. Wasn't too badly written though; I suppose that's worth a few stars.

[Jason212]

You should probably research more before you write.

[jeeba jaba]

I think this was a very poorly done article. You definitly didn't do your homework on this one. Elvis didn't create rock n' roll either...

[DisgruntledDuck]

Not enough detail, just seems like a Noob's/Young child's basic outline of the history of the popular song in America, only you left out some genres and bands. Put some effort in and do some homework. 2 Stars?

[s_fall20]

what a ridicolously over ambitous article. there have been so many bands over the years you can't possibly make everyone happy with what you wrote.

[SickMetal]

Poor article, but I found this comment to be hilarious:

I cannot believe you left out OzzY OsbournE. He was the one that created Black Metal!

[shifto]

um...what about the beatles:?

[shifto]

sorry i retract that comment, didnt see rock, the beatles were more pop..and british lol

but he did seem to mention a lot of british bands...

pretty poor article anyway, not enough detail

[HamBoy10]

well i guess it was a nice brief article that wouldn't take all day to read. i guess you didn't feel like writing a whole lot or something.

[thefinalcut]

...you did miss a lot of crucial information, and a lot of the points in your article just made me cringe...

I agree with that. As soon, as I read the first line to this article, I knew the comments were gonna shred it to pieces.

You should of thought out the article clearly then submitted it to the forums. Did you want to cover rock history or just American rock history? Well, the content of the aricle isn't consistent with the title, you include bands from the UK. What can part 2 really cover?

[DaveGilmour1189]

The Doors and Greatful Dead early punk? What are you smoking (probably the same stuff and Jerry Garcia) It looks like you went to the CD section of the library, took a sentece from all the albums in the Rock genere and them put them in semi-cronological order.

[Encore_God]

What a load of SHITE! The British saved rock n roll, certainly.

[folk_rocknroll]

what about 50s twang rock and blues?? u forgot the roots

[livewire666]

ya shit mate

[ThorMx]

This guys a fuking idiot. Dont try and act like you know what your talking about cause this was the worst article I have ever read and the doors early punk? Nu-metal is rap mixed with Pantera thrash metal?? stfu you fuking dumass and dont ever try and pretend like you know what your talking about and write another shitty article like this. Wheres Hendrix Clapton Beatles Sabbath some of the most important bands of their times. This sounds like you just looked up some shitty music timeline on google and copied and pasted it.

[Slashfan#1]

Well said. ThorMX

[psychodelia]

Alright well a terrible article you did no research. My comment on your mistakes is that you seem to have confused "Jam Bands" with "Early Punk Rock". Grateful Dead and Phish were jam bands, not punk, and Phish emerged years after Grateful Dead and the Doors started, at a college in Vermont.

[cpt_pimp]

i think he was emphasizing on mainstream bands, not the rgeatest bands in ur opinion

[sprkidjar]

Ok, all the people that are calling him an idiot for not including some important bands, did you notice that this is only Part 1? He'll probably have more info in part 2.

[Cookie Goes Moo]

It was an okay article, some misinformation, but well written and it did hit on a lot of important points. Don't whine just because he didn't mention your favorite band.

[FenderStrat206]

Elvis did not create rock. So I did not even bother to read the rest of it because I knew that is was false info.

[Bassist666]

You forgot The Beatles, you tool.

[isakke_mushroom]

lets see.....this article was crap really. you forgot CHUCK BERRY, JIMI HENDRIX, CREAM/ERIC CLAPTON, THE ALLMAN BROTHERS, VAN HALEN, IRON MAIDEN, THE CLASH, THE SEX PISTOLS, BLACK SABBATH, THE FRIGGIN BEATLES (i mean you could have at least mentioned the beatles) AND MANY MORE.....THE PICTURE NEXT TO THE ARTICLE IS OF ANGUS YOUNG AND YOU DIDNT EVEN MENTION AC/DC!!!.. i give it 1 star

[FlyingBeerman]

Looks more like a quick guide to the background of heavy metal to me with some punk and alternative thrown in at the end to top things off. Maroon 5 as an example of funk-based rock? Okay, I can live with The Killers, but hello, RHCP... Incubus... I can maybe live with no mention of Primus or Fishbone since they may have influenced the genre greatly, but they're more quasi-mainstream than mainstream. Hell, you talk about American Rock, and then don't mention a single blues band? What the hell is wrong with you?

[NowTheWorld]

Elvis created Rock N Roll? Ah... nah. If you're going to give credit for that to anyone (though I don't think any one individual was responsible for it) you could've at least said Chuck Berry.

The article was... brief and inaccurate. Next time, do a LOT more research, get dates and names right. Run it through a spellchecker and try to correct some grammar.
Also, attempting to do a comprehensive of 40 years of rock n roll is kinda, umm, ambitious (seeing as it's enough to fill a good few 1000-page textbooks). Aim lower, get used to writing articles.

One other thing: American rock is not the same thing as rock that is popular in America. American rock is rock played by american bands, who usually have a distinct, southern sound to them.
P.S.- An article on American Rock and the picture is one of Angus Young??!!

[kerrang]

no.


your first mistake was the part where you said it wasa a very american thing. clearly the most talented bands were british

[bluespunk57]

First off elvis didn't really invent rock n' roll, chuck berry was the more influential one there, elvis just helped it reach mainstream status. You forgot Jimi Hendrix, who completely changed music all over the world. You forgot to mention SRV's influence in the 80's, and please, next time you're gonna archive 40 years of music in an article divide it into 4 different articles for every ten years.

[Nirvana101]

He just said it was a very american genre. You forgot Judas Priest, they influenced metal a lot as well.

[therockdawg1138]

It's Grateful Dead not Greatful
that sucked dude. rock n roll is a lot bigger

And what about Chuck Berry.

[therockdawg1138]

The Beatles were the biggest british band of the sixties

[metaljunkie]

ok i must say this was the absolute worst, WORST, history of anything article. dont you know anything about anything? have you forgotten about the great Kinks? and even comparing Led Zepplin to Aerosmith and saying Aerosmith has more talent is so idiotic! you forgot about the true punk bands like Ramones, Sex Pistols and X. You forgot about the underground scene and...jeez.....this article should just have been deleted it was so crappy...you must know very little about the roots of rock....

[ibanez-gnr14]

He did miss alot of bands but guns n roses, metallica, motley crue are all great bands. You try writing something like this. It would take you forever to list every great band. I would say forgeting Jimi Hendrix was stupid.

[ibanez-gnr14]

this is only part 1, try and do better on part 2.

[metaljunkie]

he should have started small then gone big, a decade at a time, and the dont make it american specific because the most infulential(sp?) bands were the british bands, and it was very ballsy to go over THAT much music history in 1 article, although it is a split article the writer left out too much information to even consider writing on the same subject...

[Stevethegreat]

I love how you have abslolutely no grasp of punk at all

[Nikk]

Didn't Marty Mcfly create Rock n' Roll in Back To The Future.
All sarcasm aside the article was poorly written with tons of misinformation. 1 star

[JHguitarman22]

you suck you sound half retarded/half drunk i thought this was a joke anyone who listens to music knows everything you told us you named random groups. and did not give a point to this article. NEVER WRITE AGAIN!

[hardcoreatheist]

10 lines for 10 years? I'd at least hope your not in nursery now. Over ambititous and lazy

[excalibur672]

To cover Rock history would require a lot of time. Nice try, but i have to agree with the person saying focusing on decades.

[gnr8801]

Poor article... 'nuff said.

[shimaroller3]

AC/DC, Hendrix, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Who, Eric Clapton, all important influential bands you left out, among countless others. Very incomplete, opinionated, and useless article.

[SethMegadefan]

Did anyone else see the irony in having Angus Young's picture for an American rock article? Who the hell is responsible for that?

[IlikeTheSKA]

American Rock part 1?

Please, don't make a number 2.

[Jimi444]

That was pretty poor, i would go and do a bit more research before writing an article again.

[capsfan17]

two of the greatest rock bands ever neglected: The Clash and The Dead Kennedys, not to mention you overlooked Iggy Pop, this article blew one, no two, nuts, oh, you also forgot the Sex Pistols and the Ramons, god damn

[acdc101]

Aerosmith, Zep, Kiss, METAL? You left out Hendrix (Possibly the most influential guitarist of all time) for christs sake.

[Sqeeezie]

Damn man you missed alot...

[biohazardous59]

its not funk related

its called metrosexual rock

[alex_haeni]

wow...that was pretty bad

[Bmm386]

WHERE WAS WOODSTOCK????

you mentioned the stones festival but you missed the first one.

you missed acdc and sabbath and hendrix.

[Chris inman]

Green Day were from suburban San Francisco and had a fast, angry sense of Punk

no, they are not "angry" at all. u dont know real punk if u think green day is angry punk
u failed really bad, my 11 year old sister could write a better article
i think part 2 will be funny

[Chris inman]

Didn't Marty Mcfly create Rock n' Roll in Back To The Future

yeah dude, thats so true!
at least u mentioned led zeppelin
but still sucks

[Night_Lights]

[QUOTEisakke_mushroom:
lets see.....this article was crap really. you forgot CHUCK BERRY, JIMI HENDRIX, CREAM/ERIC CLAPTON, THE ALLMAN BROTHERS, VAN HALEN, IRON MAIDEN, THE CLASH, THE SEX PISTOLS, BLACK SABBATH, THE FRIGGIN BEATLES (i mean you could have at least mentioned the beatles) AND MANY MORE.....THE PICTURE NEXT TO THE ARTICLE IS OF ANGUS YOUNG AND YOU DIDNT EVEN MENTION AC/DC!!!.. i give it 1 star


too bad some artists you mentioned arnt even American rock you dumbass

[pirate]

Chuck Berry?

[pirate]

anyone?

[pirate]

bueller.....bueller.....bueller.....bueller?

[maroon5mustdie]

elvis did NOT start rock and roll. he heard a new sound in some club where some black people were playing, and began playing it himself. and the name rock and roll came from a dj that just threw out a name.

[bad beaver]

I'll hear your chuck berry and raise you ZZ TOP!!

[Diceman42]

far too general.

[poontastic]

i hate to join everyone else in saying that the article was bad, but i have to. It was bad, as was your spelling. Please learn, and get better before contributing.

[Clarkinator]

Um, where is everyone? I know you classified this as "The Mainstream" but there was a TON more mainstream stuff than this...

[VelvetÆnema33]

Nu-Metal bands like Linkin Park, System Of A Down

If this was suppose to be about American bands, well System of A down isn't an american band.

But if he wanted to get all of the American Mainstream in, he would of wrote an artical about each decade. But even then, I don't see him getting it right seeing as he's had enough mistakes already.

[loyd]

i'll give you 5 for effort but for the article, .5.. terrible

[elcapitanloco]

To your credit, the history of mainstream American rock is a very broad subject. But, if you are going to write another article (part 2, I'm assuming), make sure that (1.) its longer and much, much more detailed (2.) You mention the numerous important bands and musicians that you left out from this article. You especially should have mentioned the Beatles (they simply dominated the 60s, and were even more mainstream than the Rolling Stones).

[elcapitanloco]

Oh, and since only 1 other person has mentioned it in this article, Pink Floyd.

[waveofmutilaton]

pink floyd isnt american.

[verylittleluck]

i read the first sentence and knew this article was absolute garbage. since when did elvis presley create rock and roll? there was no "creation" of rock and roll... just an evolution from blues, country, soul, etc. i didn't bother to read the rest, but from the comments i gather that it was a good choice... not mentioning hendrix? unbelievable.

[Punk Poser]

Do some research before you write an article from memory.

[milk_it_good]

It's odd how the worst of human nature can emerge in groups. So, before you start hurling the ***in fireballs, look at what you have all just written and decide whether you would say the same to a music teacher that just gave the same exact speeches. You are really all arseholes, bar the very few ones that accepted the article and have been through puberty. Now go and look up some porn you cowards. Nice effort mate.

[Vinura]

thats an ok article....

but you left out Hendrix man...he is like God around here

and you left out the Mars Volta too man...

other than that...pretty damn good..il give you er...3 stars for tryin

[Vinura]

and how could i forget....you left out Maiden too....

[we_all_rock]

bcoz there were just too many great bands to tell so if he forgot to mention some of them like AC/DC etc, I wouldnt mind.

[we_all_rock]

n u wouldnt mind too coz its just a try.

[hardcoreatheist]

I dont know a lot about the history of rock because im only 16 and i have other things to worry about but I have the sense not to write articles about it. Your english is poor.

"notice how little punk has changed"

Unjust wars and bullshitting governments are still around so why would punk change if the man hasn't?

[hardcoreatheist]

Punk Rock is barely mentioned so you obviously haven't researched, Green Day are hardly punk, just because hippys were political doesnt mean they were early punks.

[hardcoreatheist]

How long did this take you to do? 20 minutes?

[GNR's Fan]

You MISSED THE BEATLES, JIMI HENDRIX
MAN YOU
MISSED SO MUCH
You shouldn't have attempted it dude

[Slashfan#1]

Man you really are getting your ass flamed!!!..

[SethMegadefan]

He deserves it, though, doesn't he?

[psychodelia]

milk_it_good:
It's odd how the worst of human nature can emerge in groups. So, before you start hurling the ***in fireballs, look at what you have all just written and decide whether you would say the same to a music teacher that just gave the same exact speeches. You are really all arseholes, bar the very few ones that accepted the article and have been through puberty. Now go and look up some porn you cowards. Nice effort mate.
[POSTED: 28 June 2005 - 03:47]|

Any music teacher who would give a speech identical to this article would not belong in the teaching profession, and would get fired or smarten up before he could get flamed to this extent. I personally would leave the classroom afterwards.

The writer has single-handedly put in enough glaring mistakes to offend hippies, punks, metalheads, nu-metalers, and classic rockers. It is almost an accomplishment in itself.

You really should not defend someone who pulls together a pile of crap in two seconds and does no research or work whatsoever.

[mariachi2487]

k, the fact that he mentioned some british bands in an American Rock article (Zep, Stones) is bad enuf. The fact that some of you idiots are coming up with suggestions of MORE NON-AMERICAN ROCK BANDS is even WORSE!! seriously, it doesn't take much to look at the title to realise...k, let's go thru the suggestions:

Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd, The Clash, The Sex Pistols, The Who, Eric Clapton, Whitesnake, Deep Purple: British (Oh yeh, whoever suggested the beatles as an improvement..should just jump off a bridge and die
Malmsteen: Sweedish
AC/DC: Australian

PAY ATTENTION!!!..

b.t.w concerning the article...it wasn't a bad effort, just try to put some more research in

[ibanez-gnr14]

i agree with mariachi2487.

[kirk_tremonti]

dude...what abt kilswitch engage, himsa, shadows fall and such bands??? nu metal is dyin thankfully and better bands are being formed!!

[coquet]

terrible
just terrible

[black_sabbath85]

Lies are filled with in this article. You dont know shit about rock history it seems. You didnt even mention some of the very important bands.
Extremely foolish articl. No stars for you sir.
Spare us your bullshit, dont write a second article.

[blinkjared2]

Shitty peice of shit. So much shit. Bullshit. Shit Shit Shit

[blinkjared2]

Phish isnt from the 60's, dip***!

[istandalone]

it cought my attention and kept it but its cause i dont know about rock as much as i would like to so my question is for someone to write a good piece on how rock got started

[Clarkinator]

Very bad, cuz you cant cover all that in one article. It would take multiple articles to truley legitimately cover one decade. No one ever try this again, although Id love to read like a 60's part one, part two, etc...

[boospookys30]

sorry, but it wasn't that good...nice try though

[griff1987]

The 80s was the best decade for music then it kinda died with Poison's hilarious MTV Awards set, that was funny haha. But the world would have been a better place if Kurt Cobain hadn't had started the whole grunge thing which killed music. Hair metal rules and deserves a comeback

[dangnabbit]

flame

[istandalone]

i agree with griff1987 hair metal rocks, well not just hair metal but all rock from the 80's great music, i would like to read an article for each of those decades it would be very interesting

[Xeus]

confusing...

[waveofmutilaton]

The 80s was the best decade for music then it kinda died with Poison's hilarious MTV Awards set, that was funny haha. But the world would have been a better place if Kurt Cobain hadn't had started the whole grunge thing which killed music. Hair metal rules and deserves a comeback

dude are you serius hair metal is a joke. the 60s was the time when music completely changed. distortion wasnt even used before then. there were so many different influences and variety in the music in the 60s...

[loserkid013]

whoever wrote this has way too much spare time. it's a very undedicated piece that would appeal to a ten year old with very limited music knowledge.

[sayspo]

sepultura created black metal. but, they arent even really well known. NOBODY did it before them. It all started with Morbid Visions, and Bestigial(sp?) Devestation, their EPs

[kbass9267]

A LOT more detail would have been good

[demez]

AC/DC arnt american but have influenced it greatly...
black sabbath???..

[altronataku]

you missed sooo.. many people. black sabbath, jimi hendrix, prince, pantera for the 90s. your writing skills blow. go back to grade school and pass this time.

[nirvanafuk23]

dude...if you named all those british bands you couldent have missed the beatles, and system came out in the 90's and nirvana came out in the late 80's you missed ac/dc, rush, hendrix, sting, clapton,the who...i mean seriously the who and zeplin were the 2 most popular bands of the 70's. the jocks listened to the who while the stoners listened to zep.
AND THE RED HOT CHILE PEPPERs/ramones. these are all bands that deserve respect for evolving maintreem music.

[nirvanafuk23]

at leasts this guys wrote 1 out of three good articles :P

[[NIN]_ROCK!]

Man,you forgot bands like:KoRn,Deftones,Incubus,P.O.D.,Slipknot,Mudvayn
e,Tool,The Offspring,Foo Fighters,Lenny Kravitz,Marilyn Manson,etc.....and they had much more success than The Killers or Maroon 5!

[dogsballs]

what a mindless piece of shit! In fact you've taken narrow-mindedness so far that all i can do is laugh. See you in hell, narrowminded boy.

[gmsje]

Usually I try to find something redeeming in an article no matter how bad it is. But, this one goes beyond the pale (how about Procol Harum too?). It is so superficial and error ridden it's pathetic. Psychodelia hit the nail on the head. The only accomplishment here is that every fan of every genre is offended by this shoddy effort. It's off by over a decade on Phish, and you knew it and left it in? Come on bro bro, that inbred. No one expected how many people would show up at Altamont? That's pure baloney. The whole point of rock festivals after Woodstock was to have as huge a throng as possible. Next time a thought occurs to you, run to an electro shock therapist!

[bassbloodbath]

you crazy ass bitch system of a down DOES NOT RAP. serj is really fast but DOES NOT RAP. YOU STUPID FUCK.
other than that you were a 3.

[bassbloodbath]

system of a down DOES NOT RAP. serj is very fast yes, but RAP HE DOES YOU DUMB S.O.B.

[bassbloodbath]

not. dang im just as dumb as him

[[NIN]_ROCK!]

Man,you made a BIG MISTAKE when you said that the whole Grunge scene died with Kurt Cobain!After his death,the best Grunge band ever was still "alive":Alice In Chains!

[MetalToTheEnd]

I hope you one day realized how big of a ***ing moron you are.

[Phonical88]

It seems that the 'author' of this article failed to establish exactly what his/her intentions were... to me it seems that he/she was was trying list influential bands in american music history which would explain the inclusion of various british bands into the topic of 'american music history'. but if this is the case then you really did f..k up because you left out numerous bands (eg. the beatles) who were probably the most influential rock n roll band in the 60's.

If your intention is to write another article then please use facts on the history of music and not just name the first big bands of the era that come to mind.

Please.

oh yes... Chuck Berry really was the true mastermind behind rock n roll

[MATRIXER05]

I agree with the article and you got the rock bands with the decades right and what not but Pantera?? Nu-Metal? Rap metal and nu metal are not the same thing but they are basically the same (whocares?). yes you forgto bands such as Deftones, KoRn and what not, my question is I didn't really get your point although you did a good job in relating or whtaver you wannacallit the bands to their corresponding decades adns "drawing" a picture or whateveryouwannacallit, AKA (uhhh......name all the nu-bands or whatever youwannacallit with compound word names e.g. shadowsfall or whatever? who cares? but anyway....really my point here is to follow up with the point that I was going to make, was that you didi a nice jobe in "drawing" a picture" or whatever the decline of rock /metal music

[Gilmour_Rocks]

I hope this was your first attempt.....

[firdaus125]

This article sucks. period.

[5:15_Whofan]

gonstathis-
zeppelin, aerosmith, and kiss were metal (it's just the fact that metal has gone through afew facelifts over the years)and still are the definitive acts of the genre. second, kiss is from New York, just cuz they sang a song from a movie doesn't mean they're talkin about their home-town.
second, i think the article was okay, but very curt (maybe even terse) the author just over-simplified things. 2 stars**

[5:15_Whofan]

i 'd also like to mention that the author left out an important monicker of bands such as Boston, Kansas, and the Eagles: ARENA ROCK

[Dark_Sanity]

what about slayer, or megadeth, or, venom..if you are going to talk about black metal...not ozzy....i would say venom and bathory helped make black metal...what about lynard skynard? or what abouut the misfits? and even though he is crap you left out marilyn manson....

[spaced]

YOU GOT SOME NERVE PLACING PANTERA IN THE YEAR 2000 YOU FUCK

[atomiclobsters]

yeah you people need to straighten out american bands vs. foreign.

also, Phish is from VERMONT, in the 80's

[Overrated]

lol, harshest reveiws ever...

[Steph Bets]

crap. and the killers arent funk.

[FloydFan89]

wow, the later the years the sh*tier the music

[Gothic_ed]

This guys an idiot. Nu-metals not the 2000s, its 90's and no its not really popular anymore. Oh and im not gonna be all 'mature' and say good article anyway cos its crap

[Metallica420]

Ok article man but The great and almighty genre of Rock can not be summed up- in to these tiny short paragraphs you have written man this is the kinda this you write a hard cover novel about man not a flimsy 11 paragraph article on the internet man
peace
P.S. The Killers suck ass all night and suck cock everyday!

[cantshreddave]

ver heard of a band called the beatles mate?

[hhamdy283]

This is the worst article on rock and roll I have ever read. I could write 10 times as much on each band that you mentioned. Kiss was from Detroit, Elvis did not invent rock, Buddy Holly did, how could you miss bands like CCR,the Beatles, Hendrix Experience, Clapton, the Guess Who, Bachman Turner Overdrive, Lynyrd Skynyrd, the Eagles, the Who and so many others, and the Doors are not punk, they are acid rock or stoner rock!!!

[watchurback]

you gotta love the rock article that leaves out AC/DC, complete crap.

hhamdy283 is totally right

[ChiliMan]

You had a go and well done-read up a bit more careful and have another go, I'd like to see another article written by you-a correct one. You had a go and unfortunatly you got a bad response-but don't leep trying!!!

Good Luck For Next Time

[DetroitRockCity]

Dude Phish started in the 80's. And way to go not mentioning Cream, Hendrix, The Allman Brothers Band, AC/DC, Sabbath, Clapton, Queen, the beatles, the Who, the White Stripes, Eagles, Lynrd Skynrd, Janes Addiction, etc. And for the people that say Kiss is from Detroit, SHUT UP!! They're from New York!

[moomin]

Man would you go hide your self Ozzy is for gods sake NOT black metal and hippies are NOT early punks.

[NilsNiiils]

I hate complaining, since this was a fair try, but newer forget Iron Maiden and AC/DC in an article about music that has been influencial.. But else it was pretty good

[crazygluedmybut]

...wat's your problem? next time you post something, make sure you've got the correct info. you didn't mention any real punk bands. and elvis didn't start rock 'n roll. it formed out of blues.

[trey-col89]

I stopped reading after your 60s comment. It couldn't be more wrong. First of all, the Doors weren't a hippie band, they weren't related to the hippie movement at all, they were a just an ordinary psychedelic band. Secondly, the members of Phish weren't even alive during the beginnings of the hippie movement. The hippie bands included such as the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, and Big Brother & Holding Company (I'm pretty sure).