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Which band IS really America's Greatest (rock & roll band)?

When I consider my priorities for this category, I cannot come up with any other than CCR.

Their output as a band was short compared to others, yes..

When I say America's greatest rock & roll band, this = the output or even the basis on which a band formed, had in their DNA, America's roots! It doesn't even matter that we now know CCR formed in California, their DNA as a band transformed their birthplace but it more importantly brought forth the (soul) of get down and dirty) Rock & Roll in it's raw form!

HELL YEAH!
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Sly and The Family Stone...
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eyecallshotgun, good call. I forgot about Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention. A very underrated band and guitar player too.

Can we add the James Brown band since he influenced so many rockers from Mick Jagger of the Stones to John Bonham of Led Zep?

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Good folks, I had never even heard of this band before. They were
out of Detroit and became a ’group’ in 1964. The group was is called MC5. Check out their tune ’Motor cities burning’ and others on you tube. They were punk long before the Ramones and Iggy Po who also is from Detroit. It must be a Midwest thang.



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Speaking of rock and roll, Mother’s Finest with that Southern rock aint bad either. And the band was really from the south, not like CCR who played a heap of blues but was from Frisco. Although I have to admit, more classic rock, funk, soul, blues, r&b, psychedelic, classic and anything else in music came out of the Bay area.

By the way, is ’Rocket 88’, which was recorded in 1951 by Ike Turner and his band the first rock and roll song?

Thanks y’all.
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