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Rock Music: Best Bands Ever - Top 15 List... and My Own Top 88 List! - Who Did I Forget? It's Amazing that there are So Many Bands Worthy of Mention!

The List from the Magazine... 
  • My List!
  • 1. Beatles
  • 2. Grateful Dead
  • 3. Pink Floyd
  • 4. Led Zeppelin
  • 5. Jefferson Airplane
  • 6. Moody Blues
  • 7. Country Joe and the Fish
  • 8. Canned Heat
  • 9. Jimi Hendrix
  • 10. The Who
  • 11. Creedence Clearwater Revival
  • 12. The Rolling Stones
  • 13. Crosby Stills Nash and Young
  • 14. Willie Nelson
  • 15. Santana
  • 16. Journey
  • 17. Emerson Lake and Palmer
  • 18. Kraftwerk
  • 19. It's a Beautiful Day
  • 20. Quicksilver Messenger Service
  • 21. Bob Dylan and The Band
  • 22. Peter, Paul and Mary
  • 23. Janis Joplin
  • 24. The Mamas and the Papas
  • 25. Traffic
  • 26. Cream
  • 27. Lothar and the Hand People
  • 28. Beach Boys
  • 29. Allman Brothers
  • 30. Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • 31. Fleetwood Mac
  • 32. YES
  • 33. Steve Miller
  • 34. Tangerine Dream
  • 35. The Doors
  • 36. The Kinks
  • 37. Frank Zappa
  • 38. The Eagles
  • 39. Enya
  • 40. Johnny Winter And
  • 41. Edgar Winter
  • 42. ZZ Top
  • 43. Queen
  • 44. Chicago Transit Authority
  • 45. Youngbloods
  • 46. Procol Harem
  • 47. Robert Crumb & the Cheap Suit Serenaders... 
  • 48. New Riders of the Purple Sage
  • 49. Linda Ronstadt
  • 50. Michael Jackson
  • 51. Doobie Brothers
  • 52. Tower of Power
  • 53. Black Sabbath
  • 54. Rush
  • 55. Chuck Berry
  • 56. Joni Mitchell
  • 57. Van Halen
  • 58. Root Boy Slim and the New Hope for the Criminally Insane!
  • 59. Steppenwolf
  • 60. Deep Purple
  • 61. Iron Butterfly
  • 62. David Bowie
  • 63. Billy Joel
  • 64. Peter Frampton
  • 65. The Tubes
  • 66. Boston
  • 67. Bachman Turner Overdrive
  • 68. Blue Cheer
  • 69. Bee Gees
  • 70. Sly and the Family Stone
    • 71. Heart
    • 72. Simon and Garfunkle 
    • 73. Buddy Holly
    • 74. John Denver
    • 75. Biff Rose
    • 76. Smothers Brothers
    • 77. Al Yankovic
    • and the beat goes on and on and on... 
    • 78. Sonny & Cher...
    • 79. The Animals
    • 80. Jackson Browne
    • 81. David Lindley
    • 82. James Taylor 
    • 83. Carly Simon
    84. NO NUKES!
    85. Tom Petty

    a slightly different genres but... Totally Worthy!
    86. Kitaro
    87. Vangelis
    88. Spinal Tap

    and then there are some Names I Remember but I Don't Care for Them... Kiss, Jeff Beck, Metallica, Nirvana, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Mott the Hoople, Foghat, ACDC, Aerosmith, Yardbirds, The Sons of Champlin, The Monkees, The Partridge Family, Alvin and the Chipmunks, Prince, Styx, REO Speedwagon, The Archies, Lou Reed, Todd Rungren, GO GOs, B-52s, Bangles, Spice Girls, John Mellancamp, U2, John McGlaughlin, Weather Report, Pat Metheney, Herbie Handcock, Billy Preston, Herman's Hermits, Talking Heads, Sopwith Camel, The Banana Splitz, J Giles Band, Leon Russel, Robin Trower...

    and then people suggested:
    Aerosmith, Metallica... 

    MP's List:
    Beatles
    Stones
    Eagles
    Who
    Pink Floyd
    Aerosmith
    Def Leppard
    Skinner
    Journey
    Queen
    ZZ Top
    REO
    Monkees
    Bee Gees
    Bon Jovi

    TD's List:
    -The Rolling Stones
    -Fleetwood Mac
    -Alica in Chains
    -Metallica
    -Aerosmith
    -Foo Fighters/Nirvana
    -The Beatles
    -Rage Against the Machine
    -Missy Elliott
    -Queen
    -Korn
    -Led Zeppelin
    Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
    -John Cougar Mellencamp
    -Michael Jackson
    <Honorable Mention: Tool, Sevendust, Powerman 5000/Zombie, Primus, Kid Rock (the old Kid Rock before Joe C's death), Pearl Jam, Bush, Marilyn Manson, Nine Inch Nails


    Grateful Dead Art by gvan42

    Grateful Dead Art by gvan42

    Grateful Dead Art by gvan42

    Grateful Dead Art by gvan42

    M.J. Hegar is running for US SENATOR from Texas against Evil John Cornyn... Young and Smart, she is an alternative to Old and Corrupt.

    She served as a Major in the US Air Force and the Air National Guard and was honorably discharged after completing three tours of duty in Afghanistan. https://www.mjfortexas.com/

    Air Force veteran MJ Hegar, who raised millions in an unsuccessful House race in 2018, announced Tuesday that she is taking on Texas Republican Sen. John Cornyn.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zi6v4CYNSIQ The Democrat garnered national attention last cycle with a viral web video “Doors” highlighting her background as a combat veteran. She was injured in Afghanistan and later sued the Defense Department over the barring of women from certain positions. In a nearly four-minute video released Tuesday, Hegar once again introduced herself to Texans, recapping her 2018 spot.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIYHz6fPAgo “Here’s the thing: I didn’t win that election,” she says in the video after highlighting her 2018 race. “But we won something much bigger: We didn’t just close the gap in my district by almost 20 points, we helped change the status quo.”

    https://www.rollcall.com/news/campaigns/texas-senate-2020john-cornyn-gets-senate-challenge-mj-hegar-texas

    Music Video: "Light My Fire" by Robbie Krieger of The Doors. Covered by Gregory Vanderlaan

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSjPwoVwrvU  

    "You know that I would be untrue. You know that I would be a liar. If I was to say to you... Girl we couldn't get much higher. Come on baby Light my Fire. Come on Baby Light my Fire. Try to set the night on FIRE! The time to hesitate is thru. No time to wallow in the mire. Try Now we can only lose and our love become a Funeral Pyre... Come on baby Light my Fire. Come on Baby Light my Fire. Try to set the night on FIRE!

    Great Book: "Island" by Aldous Huxley... ATTENTION said the little bird... also... "The Doors of Perception", "Heaven and Hell" and "Brave New World"

    https://www.amazon.com/Island-Aldous-Huxley/dp/0061561797/

    The final novel from Aldous Huxley, Island is a provocative counterpoint to his worldwide classic Brave New World, in which a flourishing, ideal society located on a remote Pacific island attracts the envy of the outside world. Later used by Timothy Leary to design his own Psychedelic Utopia in Mexico. 

    https://www.amazon.com/Doors-Perception-Heaven-Hell/dp/0061729078/

    Among the most profound and influential explorations of mind-expanding psychedelic drugs ever written, here are two complete classic books—The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell—in which Aldous Huxley, author of Brave New World, reveals the mind's remote frontiers and the unmapped areas of human consciousness. This new edition also features an additional essay, "Drugs That Shape Men's Minds," which is now included for the first time. 

    https://www.amazon.com/Brave-New-World-Aldous-Huxley/dp/0060850523/

    Aldous Huxley's profoundly important classic of world literature, Brave New World is a searching vision of an unequal, technologically-advanced future where humans are genetically bred, socially indoctrinated, and pharmaceutically anesthetized to passively uphold an authoritarian ruling order–all at the cost of our freedom, full humanity, and perhaps also our souls. “A genius [who] who spent his life decrying the onward march of the Machine” (The New Yorker), Huxley was a man of incomparable talents: equally an artist, a spiritual seeker, and one of history’s keenest observers of human nature and civilization. Brave New World, his masterpiece, has enthralled and terrified millions of readers, and retains its urgent relevance to this day as both a warning to be heeded as we head into tomorrow and as thought-provoking, satisfying work of literature. Written in the shadow of the rise of fascism during the 1930s, Brave New World likewise speaks to a 21st-century world dominated by mass-entertainment, technology, medicine and pharmaceuticals, the arts of persuasion, and the hidden influence of elites.





    How I meditate. I Lie down in a quiet room and close my eyes. I Look at what I see and pay attention to the patterns behind my closed eyelids.


    I Focus on my breathing. Breathe very deeply and constantly.
    This causes a great deal of oxygen in the body. Including my brain.
    I feel tingling on my extremities, my nose and cheeks.
    If they itch, I take a moment to scratch instead of paying attention to the itching...
    If I'm breathing thru my mouth, I pay attention to the wind on my tongue and lips.
    If I'm breathing thru my nose I can feel wind inside my nostrils and on my moustache.
    This technique requires that I pay attention to many things at once.
    My Eye-Closed Visuals, My Breathing, The Mantras and The Thoughts flowing thru My Imagination.
    In "Real Life", Multitasking does not work. Here it's a technique I use to free my mind...
    and visit altered states of consciousness...
    Silently say these mantras... changing them at will... Make up new ones as they appear...
    When I notice thoughts, I either pay attention to them if they are worthy and try to control their flow...
    OR...
    I ignore them, send them away and return my attention to my visuals, my mantras and my breathing.
    This technique is part of an Idea Mining Practice... Hoping to Harvest New Concepts for Art, Lyrics and Tales...

    [Inhale]...My Mind...[Exhale][Inhale]...is completely Relaxed...[Exhale]
    [Inhale]...My Body...[Exhale][Inhale]...is completely Relaxed...[Exhale]
    [Inhale]...I'm going deeper...[Exhale][Inhale]...and deeper...[Exhale]
    [Inhale]...I'm going deeper...[Exhale][Inhale]...and deeper...[Exhale]
    [Inhale]...Into a Hypnotic...[Exhale][Inhale]...Trance...[Exhale]{REPEAT}

    [Inhale]...I can fly... [Exhale][Inhale]...I can fly... [Exhale]
    [Inhale]...I leave my body [Exhale][Inhale]...and reach for the sky [Exhale]{REPEAT}

    [Inhale]...OOBE...[Exhale][Inhale]...Doobie...[Exhale]{REPEAT}

    [Inhale]...BE... [Exhale] [Inhale]... HERE... [Exhale] [Inhale]...NOW... [Exhale]
    [Inhale]...BE... [Exhale] [Inhale]... HERE... [Exhale] [Inhale]...NOW... [Exhale]{REPEAT}

    When thinking the words "Be Here Now" focus on the meaning of each words and experience them...
    For example: When focusing on them experience the experience of existing...
    Realize that I am Here, right Now.

    [Inhale]...When I Sleep...[Exhale][Inhale]...I will Dream...[Exhale]
    [Inhale]...I Will Visit...[Exhale][Inhale]...An Art Gallery...[Exhale]
    [Inhale]...I Will Remember...[Exhale][Inhale]...The Images...[Exhale]
    [Inhale]...and Use Them...[Exhale][Inhale]...In My Own Work...[Exhale]
    [Inhale]...I Will Read...[Exhale][Inhale]...An Imaginary Book...[Exhale]
    [Inhale]...I Will Remember...[Exhale][Inhale]...The Words...[Exhale]
    [Inhale]...and Use Them...[Exhale][Inhale]...In My Own Work...[Exhale]{REPEAT}

    Hare KRSNA, Hare KRSNA, KRSNA KRSNA, Hare Hare, Hare RAMA,
    Hare RAMA, RAMA RAMA, Hare Hare,
    Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas, Christmas Christmas, Merry Merry,
    Marijuana, Marijuana, Juana Juana, Merry Merry {REPEAT}

    The Doors of Perception are Opening to Reveal Enlightenment.
    Not Peppermint, Not Spearmint but Enlightenment...
    Zoom... Zoom... Zoom... in my four cornered room.
    Outer Space Whoosh Whoosh Music is the best.
    Why Not? What IF? Where can we go? What Exactly is Possible?

    [Inhale]...OM...[Exhale][Inhale]...OM...[Exhale][Inhale]...OM...[Exhale][Inhale]...OM...[Exhale]
    [Inhale]...HOME...[Exhale][Inhale]...HOME...[Exhale][Inhale]...HOME...[Exhale]

    [Inhale]...My Body...[Exhale][Inhale]...Will Feel No Pain...[Exhale]










    The Doors of Perception are Opening to Reveal Enlightenment. Not Peppermint, Not Spearmint but Enlightenment...

    Zoom... Zoom... Zoom...
    in my four cornered room.
    Outer Space Whoosh-Whoosh Music is my favorite...
    Zoom Gali Gali Gali, Zoom Gali Gali Gali, Zoom Gali Gali Gali... Zoom...
    Why Not? What IF? Where can we go? What Exactly is Possible?

    Try closing your eyes and focusing your attention on your breathing...
    Then say these words silently to yourself... For Example...

    [Inhale] The Doors of perception are Opening... [Exhale]
    [Inhale] to Reveal Enlightenment... [Exhale]

    repeat...

    make up new words as you go... It's Fun and Relaxing...

    My Mind is completely Relaxed...
    My Body is Completely Relaxed...
    I'm Going Deeper and Deeper into a Hypnotic Trance...

    Great Book: Amy Tan's "The Hundred Secret Senses"


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