Comus

Similar to Ethans best artist thing, but for the genres listed above.

The limitations are:

1. Have to have released an album before 1980.
2. 5 bands/artists will be excluded: The Beatles, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd; this is to stop this being a one sided competition, and to educate, or promote more less well known bands.

The nominations and seeding procedure will be as follows:

Each member may nominate 10 new bands, if a band has already be nominated they may add extra support to other nominated bands to increase their chances in seeding. There is no limit to this. If you nominate another band that is already nominated it will count as one more vote of support.

For the seeding, each band will be put into one of 5 tiers, the most nominated bands will be in the first and so on.

Round one will comprise of many polls of 5 bands, each poll will run for 2 days simultaneously with 4 other polls. The bands chosen for each poll will be one from each tier.


Example of seeding/support:

Post one:
Nominates:
King Crimson
Jethro Tull
Frank Zappa
Magma
Mountain Ash band
Comus
Wishbone Ash
Gentle Giant
Rush
Camel

Post two
Nominates:
Genesis
Eagles
Goblin
Titus Groan
Fleetwood Mac
Bodkin
Room
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Mahavishnu Orchestra
Grateful Dead

Support:
Wishbone Ash
Jethro Tull
Gentle Giant
Rush

A note on “folk artists” while Bob Dylan has been excluded as with the other 4 bands straightforward folk artists such as Nick Drake won’t be able to be nominated. To be nominated they have to be generally considered, prog, psych or classic rock, many often consider Dylan to be one of the Classic Rock artists because of his influence on the genre and some albums being very much of the sound.

NOTE:
More Rules Will Be Posted About the Group Stages once we reach it, main rules will be:
5 bands per group, single choice poll, two bands progress, 5 tier seeding process, and the number of nominated bands will be limited to a multiple of 5 or the highest supported groups will automatically get to round 2 if we have an uneven number.

5 Tiers:

1st: The Bob Dylan Bracket
2nd: The Led Zeppelin Bracket
3rd: The Pink Floyd Bracket
4th: The Beatles Bracket
5th: The Ethan Smith is Rolled and Stoned Bracket

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Comus

My nominations:
Frank Zappa
Comus
Jethro Tull
Magma
Bodkin
Room
Goblin
Titus Groan
Mountain Ash Band
The Yardbirds

Note: You can have two posts of approval in this thread.

Ie; you can have your first post to nominate and approve what has been nominated so far, and then another later to approve more bands that have been nominated since.

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Son of JayJamJah

I suggest you call the four brackets The Dylan, Zeppelin,Beatles and Pink Floyd brackets

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Comus

What about the fifth bracket?

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sleepy jack

The Ethan Smith bracket.

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Comus

You can have the least popular bands

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sleepy jack

That's so indie of me

Nominations:
The Kinks
Syd Barrett
The Pentangle
T. Rex
The Zombies
The Left Banke
Big Star
The Doors
Jefferson Airplane
Fairport Convention

Support:
Frank Zappa
Comus
Jethro Tull
Magma
Mountain Ash Band
The Yardbirds

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Son of JayJamJah

So we can pick as many bands as we want as long as no more then 10 have not been nominated?


Nominate:

The Allman Brothers
The Velvet Underground
Procol Harum
Bob Segar and the Silver Bullet Band
Crosby Stills Nash and Young
Big Brother and the Holding Company
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Queen
Donovan
Cream

Support:

Comus
The Yardbirds
Mountain Ash Band
The Kinks
Jefferson Airplane
Capability Brown

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Son of JayJamJah

If not that maybe the Rolling Stones Bracket and exclude them too?

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My Van Morrison Discography Thread

Comus

Yeah, pretty much. You can nominated 10 bands and support as many as you want.

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