Whats your favorite Rock Band Options

[Shinnok]

Just curious about peoples favorite rock bands my personal Favorite is Black Sabbath

[stargelman]

I must say I find it most peculiar what people will call "Rock" these days. To me, a band like Iron Maiden is metal, while Metallica is trash and Black Sabbath is proto metal. But oh well.

Basically, I like most of the classic rock bands including but certainly not limited to Foreigner, Yes, Queen, The Beatles, The Who, Uriah Heap, T-Rex, Police, Pink Floyd, Janis Joplin, Led Zeppelin, Genesis, Jimi Hendrix, Cat Stevens, David Bowie, Dire Straits, The Stones, The Doors, The Animals, Billy Idol. Just the ones I can think of the top of my head.

[Ethelle]

I must say I find it most peculiar what people will call "Rock" these days. To me, a band like Iron Maiden is metal, while Metallica is trash and Black Sabbath is proto metal. But oh well.

My thoughts exactly as I was reading the first few posts. Those bands mentioned were not exactly rock. I have to disagree with you on Metallica, though. Metallica used to be trash metal, back in the day that they still lived off the riffs written for them by Dave Mustaine after they kicked him out. Later, when they ran out of riffs, they became what they are now. No more than a rock/pop band, in my opinion. Nothing wrong with that of course.

Anyway, I don't listen to rock much, but I like Uriah Heep, David Bowie, Rainbow and Deep Purple. So basically old school stuff. I'd mention Ronnie James Dio as well, though his music officially belongs to the metal genre when he went solo after Rainbow and Black Sabbath. Which brings me to the band Heaven and Hell (= Black Sabbath with Dio on vocals instead of Ozzy since Sharon Osbourne sued them) which I also like.

As for metal, I like a lot from regular heavy metal to progressive and death metal. In no particular order, I listen to:
Iced Earth, Blind Guardian, Demons and Wizards, Megadeth, Iron Maiden, Bruce Dickinson, Running Wild, Gamma Ray, Symphony X, Ayreon, Grave Digger, Savatage, Ensiferum, Thyrfing, Falconer, Dark Tranquility, Savatage, Virgin Steele, Agalloch, Evergrey and Therion. I've probably missed a few.