It's just bewildering that, throughout this thread and through 115 posts, no one has mentioned Creedence, Three Dog Night, Elton John, or Bob Segar.
I'm more surprised nobody's brought up Tedeschi/Trucks. I'd wager than other than the Dead, T/T has been mentioned more times on the BY than any other band.
John Klemmer certainly fits into my fav artists of all time:
"Touch" was the sine qua non album for melting college girls into puddles. But it's ridiculously dated now.
As for my personal tastes, I think I'm mostly a power pop guy. I love well written tight songs with snappy chord progressions. "Go All the Way", "Baby Blue", "Alex Chilton", etc. Pretty much a lost art. Fountains of Wayne was maybe the last gasp. Still love a lot of stuff I grew up with - Beatles, Kinks, 60-early 70s Stones, Floyd, Zep (esp. PG), but cannot listen to classic rock stations (I was a hardcore WNEW-FM/WLIR listener). My favorite Radiohead remains The Bends, so that marks me as "an old".
That said, I'm all over the place. I have dozens of jazz CDs, along with a lot of classical. Have some 70s prog rock. Some funk, reggae, punk, and things like Black Grape that are all three. If I were to list favorite concerts by decade, it would probably be Golden Earring in the 70s (opening for The Who, who sucked), Springsteen and The Waterboys in the 80s, REM and P-Funk in the 90s, Prince in the 00s, and I can't decide on the 2010s between Larry Coryell or Kurt Vile.
