[grateful4booze]

Grateful Dead
The Who
Rush
Black Crowes
ABB/Haynes/Mule etc.

[d-v-s]

Grateful Dead
Rage Against the Machine
old Clapton groups (Derek & the Dominos, Cream, Blind Faith, etc)
Allman Brothers
Sublime

[germfisk]

In no particular order

Dead and all incarnations
Phish
YMSB
Wilco
Dylan
Beatles
Stones
Marley

Ok, I couldn't stop at five...

[lostsailor8782]

Okay I am going to answer with bands that actually STILL play .... The Grateful Dead will ALWAYS be my favorite band ... but the reincarnations as well as Phil and Friends and so forth ... well blah blah blah Heres who I like who is out there now ...

Yonder Mountain String Band
Railroad Earth
Honkytonk Homeslice (No String Cheese Trance Set for me, and they wonder why Billy is leaving the band)
Split Lip Rayfield
Hot Buttered Rum

RRE was by far the tightest band at Wakarusa I thougth .. listen to the Warhead Boogie and the space that comes out of it on archive from wakarusa 07, NOBODY hits space like that since the one and only's !!!
Panic absolutely annoys me, Molly Hatchet on acid...
There are a ton of bands out there they call jam bands that all seem the same to me, particle, tea leaf green, motet, perpetual groove, they are all a bunch of wah wah pedal riding wana be George Clintin type I hope I never hear again kind of bands ... not saying there is no talent, but I want melodies and emotion in my music

[hesgone95]

Dead
Dylan
Zappa
The Cure
Pearl Jam

[jdasa]

1. Grateful Dead
2. Bob Marley
3. Allman Bros.
4. Pink Floyd
5. CSN&Y

[mutant_dan]

Okay I am going to answer with bands that actually STILL play ....

Split Lip Rayfield

Are they still playing? I wasn't sure if they were going to keep going after Kirk Rundstrom passed.

[BuddhaG]

Grateful Dead/JGB
Pink Floyd
Allman Bros
CSN and or Neil Young
Pearl Jam

close behind...
Nirvana, Alice in Chains, Bob Dylan, The Band, Stones, Led Zep, Blind Melon, NRPS

[lostsailor8782]

Okay I am going to answer with bands that actually STILL play ....

Split Lip Rayfield

Are they still playing? I wasn't sure if they were going to keep going after Kirk Rundstrom passed.

Umm opps .... yes they are actually but the new guitarist has not been named publicly as of yet, I kinda got an inside on that ... some gigs coming up in Lawrence it looks like, we will be there !!!

[LazyLightnin]

Grateful Dead
Beatles
Bob Dylan
Led Zeppelin
Tom Waits
Ween

theres too many jazz and reggae artists to mention....

[jck_strw]

Fine Young Cannibals
Air Supply
Celine Dion
Mr. Mister
Captain & Tennille (that's two I know, but how can you separate the Captain and Tennille?)

I could go on, but I'll stop for now.

[bobbybobbob]

TOP 5 BANDS
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Grateful Dead (and the spawn of)
String Cheese Incident
Allman Brothers Band
The Band
The Flaming Lips (they put on an amazing show at Bonnaroo this year)

TOP 6 PEOPLE
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NICK DRAKE!!!
Bob Dylan
Dave Matthews (as a songwriter, 10 years ago)
Paul Simon
Bob Marley
Neil Young, DUH!

[bodiddley]

Crazy 9.5 Fingers wrote:
No particular order, and these are bands, not individuals like a Bob Marley or a Miles Davis.

Grateful Dead
Pink Floyd
The Who
Led Zeppelin
Stones

Those are the big guns. Can you really put any other 5 up ther

Ya, you forgot the Beatles.

[shakedown_04092]

Ya, you forgot the Beatles.

And Phish

[amyjared]

Stones
Lou Reed/Velvets
Allman Bros
Hendrix
Dead