Necromancer

Now you're insinuating I'm a troll and correcting my grammar Oriphiel.
Jesus God man, is there no end to your ranting and raving?

We seemed to be on the same page when you mentioned Bad Company and Aerosmith. And then you went off into the subject of southern rock for some reason.

Bad Company was the more blues rock orientated band out of the two. They were more mainstream during the early to late 70s also.

As Unknown Soldier and the Batlord like to put it, Bad Company was the Nickelback of the 70s.

Other than their earlier work, I will admit Aerosmith was more on the hard rock edge. And the better band of the two in my opinion. Steven Tyler's vocals and stage appearance/ presence alone is iconic.

At the same time I don't hold Aerosmith on the same level as one of the all time greats of blues rock like the Rolling Stones.

Were talking about a small window of time here. Around a 7 year period only. A lot of the good bands had either sold out or disappeared by 78 and 79.

Chula Vista

I was 13 when Aerosmith's first album hit. The reason why they got so big so fast and were highly regarded back then was that they were the first American ROCK band that could at least stand ringside along with all of the great British bands that had dominated here in the US from the late 60s up to that point.

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Necromancer

That's true, but there were other bands that held their ground like Blue Oyster Cult, Kansas, Journey, Chicago, and Styx to name a few.

Oriphiel

What are you talking about? By the time those bands arrived, Britain was going through it's glam rock phase, with acts like Slade, T-Rex, The Sweet, Suzi Quatro, etc. No clashing with the British Invasion bands there. And I really don't remember BOC, Kansas, or Chicago competing over the glam sound. By the time Journey and Styx became big, glam rock was winding down into hair metal and pop-metal anyway.

Look, I get it. You like Aerosmith. But please stop this madness.

Oriphiel

The Doors, Dion Dimucci, The Beach Boys, The Sonics, The Shadows of Knight, The American Breed, Tommy James and the Shondells. Pick one. They're all more influential than Aerosmith, and competed with British bands in the mid to late 60's. And believe me when I say that I have a thousand more bands like them that I can name. Now hush, before Gary US Bonds takes you to New Orleans and teaches you about real rock 'n roll.

Oriphiel

Now you're getting angry. Not fun being called a troll, is it? Anyway, who cares about that, let's move on. Please re-read the last sentence of your post. You claim that the late seventies were void of talent, but that was one of the great points of music. Heavy Metal, Punk Rock, Post Punk, Glam Rock, Hair Metal, all existing at once. It was a beautiful time to be alive. You had bands like The Ramones, Blondie, The Modettes, The Sex Pistols, Bad Company, all existing at once. Honestly, you could pick any one band from that time period out of a hat, and you'd find them to be more important to modern music than Aerosmith.

Oh yeah, and you also never followed up your claim that I "talked to myself in the general music forum", and had alternate accounts. I might be a jerk, but it seems that you are a liar. And I know which of those I would prefer to be.

Unknown Soldier

But we're talking about Aerosmith's influence on hard rock and heavy metal here and not other types of music. You know when people discuss influences on those genres the same type of bands like Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Kiss, Alice Cooper and Aerosmith, along with a selection of other bands is what usually comes up in any book or internet site. Maybe you should do some research....

Whether you like a band or not these are simple facts to understand. For example I really can't stand The Beach Boys but I'm not going to spend my time trolling around saying that they're not influential or there were a million other bands better than them.

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Oriphiel

You misunderstand. The bands I listed were influential on Hard Rock and Heavy Metal. Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple were very influenced by Garage bands of the 60's, borrowing the distorted guitar work, the slamming drumming, and the fun keyboard work (which Deep Purple in particular had a ball with) that Garage Rock and Psychadelia made popular. In fact, that's exactly where all of those bands you listed got their starts. Even Bob Seger was in a crazy garage band ("The Mushrooms"), you know.

If we're going to have a "who made who?" fight, you're going to lose this one.

Unknown Soldier

Well there doesn’t seem to be much point continuing with you here, as you’re constantly looking for every angle you can to skirt around the main point concerning Aerosmith's influence. Which to be fair is common knowledge to anybody into the type of music we're discussing here, whether you like the band or not.

Now normally three things happen on threads like this when they reach this point.

1) You’ll turn nasty and insulting to get your point across and get banned.
2) You’ll slink away with your tail between your legs to fight another day.
3) You'll continue to bleat on and eventually the mods will do everybody a favour and lock the thread up (which is usually the best option)

I’ve yet to see anybody in your position go for the fourth option and that is to admit that they’ve got things wrong, hold their hands up and at least try and investigate the opinions that the others are suggesting to them, instead of just saying that everybody else has constantly got it wrong.

You’ve joined a music forum which like a lot specialized forums, usually attracts people with a fairly expansive knowledge of the forum subject base. So to constantly challenge their opinions with your own narrow minded opinions, usually means you have a limited knowledge on the subject or that you’re just trolling around here.

I'll be interested to see which direction you'll take now.

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Oriphiel

Ah, taking the "White Knight" approach. Hard to counter without looking like a jerk, which is what makes the technique so effective. But if you're willing to be a gentleman, so am I. Consider the thread officially back on topic. Friends?