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Greatest California Rock Band of All Time?

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  • digits
    digits Member Posts: 1,848
    The Beach Boys
    Just blared 'Diver Down' on the system. Neighbors hate me. Same as it ever was.
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  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,724 Founders Club
    Grateful Dead
    digits said:

    Just blared 'Diver Down' on the system. Neighbors hate me. Same as it ever was.

    Where have all the good times gone?
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  • huskyhooligan
    huskyhooligan Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 6,019 Swaye's Wigwam
    The Beach Boys
    I hear good things about this Lagoon place.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lv89vHZwrSI
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  • MikeDamone
    MikeDamone Member Posts: 37,781
    Stillwater
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  • Fenderbender123
    Fenderbender123 Member Posts: 2,989
    edited January 2022
    The Beach Boys
    YellowSnow said:

    Fenderbender123 said:

    The Beach Boys and it's not even close.

    It's complicated with the Beach Boys.

    In many respects they are the most influential and important group in this list. No offense to my hatchet packer BFF @Swaye .

    They were really the first self contained rock group to write their own songs who make it big in the US (pre-dating the Beatles by a bit). And they were the only US group to challenge the Beatles artistically speaking, albeit for a very brief period in 1966.

    But, alas, their hey day was relatively short (i.e., 1963- 66) and they collapsed right as the classic rock era kicked off. Imagine the Beach Boys is Mike Love wasn't a square. The Beatles had two genius songwriters who weren't mentally weak. The Beach Boys had one who was a full on headcase.
    The way I see it, the albums and singles they did from 1962 through 1966 have a better collection of songs than any other band on the list. Their subsequent decline is irrelevant to me.

    Their recordings are really good, too, especially for the era. I also like how they have several instrumental surf songs (mostly covers) in their early albums. Gives them more diversity.

    And keep in mind, their good years may have not been many, but the Beach Boys were putting out 2 sometimes 3 albums a year, along with some singles. So the overall number of years doesn't mean much either.
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  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,724 Founders Club
    Grateful Dead
    Fenderbender123 said:

    YellowSnow said:

    Fenderbender123 said:

    The Beach Boys and it's not even close.

    It's complicated with the Beach Boys.

    In many respects they are the most influential and important group in this list. No offense to my hatchet packer BFF @Swaye .

    They were really the first self contained rock group to write their own songs who make it big in the US (pre-dating the Beatles by a bit). And they were the only US group to challenge the Beatles artistically speaking, albeit for a very brief period in 1966.

    But, alas, their hey day was relatively short (i.e., 1963- 66) and they collapsed right as the classic rock era kicked off. Imagine the Beach Boys is Mike Love wasn't a square. The Beatles had two genius songwriters who weren't mentally weak. The Beach Boys had one who was a full on headcase.
    The way I see it, the albums and singles they did from 1962 through 1966 have a better collection of songs than any other band on the list. Their subsequent decline is irrelevant to me.

    Their recordings are really good, too, especially for the era. I also like how they have several instrumental surf songs (mostly covers) in their early albums. Gives them more diversity.

    And keep in mind, their good years may have not been many, but the Beach Boys were putting out 2 sometimes 3 albums a year, along with some singles. So the overall number of years doesn't mean much either.
    Obviously, they were a singles band up until Pet Sounds which was really their only front to back great record. But the sheer volume of those classic 1962- 66 singles was astounding. And I agree with you that their best collection of original songs bests anyone on this list. The production quality of their hits with the wrecking crew was leaps and bounds ahead of most other bands at the time too. So what if they sucked at instrumentalists.
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  • MikeDamone
    MikeDamone Member Posts: 37,781
    YellowSnow said:

    RaceBannon said:

    You can replace California with American

    Basically. Almost all the real contenders are California groups.
    Hi Harv!
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  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,724 Founders Club
    Grateful Dead
    MikeDamone said:

    YellowSnow said:

    RaceBannon said:

    You can replace California with American

    Basically. Almost all the real contenders are California groups.
    Hi Harv!
    Harv is a digital fag as I understand it.

    That's not me.
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  • El_K
    El_K Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 1,528 Swaye's Wigwam
    Van Halen
    Imagine if VH didn’t pop out Diver Down in a hurry and took their time and used the originals on DD on 1984. Choose three of the four.

    Hang’em High
    Full Bug
    Little Guitars
    Secrets

    instead of
    1984 intro
    Jump
    I’ll Wait

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