Who are your true music Icons?!

Question:

Who are your true music Icons?

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I am not talking about fads or one hit wonders...I am talking about heavy weight muscial geniuses without whom the music world would be very different.

Mine are;

Frank Zappa - above every single person who has commited sound to tape ever..!
Steve Vai who came from Zappa
Devin Townsend who came from Vai
Trent Reznor
Mike Patton (Faith No More, Fantomas, Tomahawk, Mr. Bungle)
Steve Smith (founder of Iron Maiden)
Simon Phillps (Drummer for Toto)
Mike Portnoy (Drummer and visionary behind Dream Theater)
James Hetfield & Lars Ulrich
Neil Hannon (songwiriter and founder of The Divine Comdey)
Jim Morrison
Billy Joel - one of the greatest American songwriters to sit at a piano in the last 40 years!
Tori Amos - (the best live gig I have ever seen)
Bono & The Edge
Vince Clark & Andy Bell of Erasure
Robert Smith of The Cure
Tom Waits

Answers: Mick Jagger
Kieth Richards
John Lennon (ok all 4 beatles)
Led Zeppelin
Pete Townsend
Ozzy
Perry Ferrell
Jim Morrison
Jimi Hendrix
Stevie Ray Vaughn
Trent Reznor
Kurt Cobain
Freddy Mercury Roger Waters, David Gilmour, Jimmy Page, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton< Patti Smith Led Zeppelin
Mike Oldfield
Mick Fleetwood and John McVie
Stevie Nicks
Clannad ~ brought Gaelic music into the mainstream It seems like all of my favorite acts were influenced by:
the Beatles (all 4)
the Velvet Underground (with the icon being Lou Reed)
the Beach Boys (with Brian Wilson at the center)
and/or the Who (I'd go with Townsend) Jimi Hendrix
Freddie Mercury & Brian May
Ozzy Osbourne
Tom Waits
Willie Nelson
Hetfield & Ulrich
John Lennon
Roger Waters & Dave Gilmour
Matthew Bellamy
David Coverdale & Cozy Powell
Slash & Axl - I have to include Axl simply because he is a great lyricist although Ive no love of the man himself
Bob Dylan
Joe Strummer David Guilmour (he is incredible, especially on The Division Bell)..
Jimmy Page (my all-time favorite guitarist and composer)
Robert Smith (a true musical genius, who is very versatile)
Freddy Mercury (there will never be another Freddy)
John Lennon/Paul Mccartney (an incredible team before things went wrong)
Elton John (my idol because of his piano playing, and his wonderful ballads)..

These are my true music icons Tony Iommi - for creating that toned down "heavy metal" sound

Jimmy Page - for having enough sense to rip off all the great blues musicans and make it popular

Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, and all the other great blues musicians - for giving Jimmy Page something to rip off

the clowns who left their grease paint in the club before the first Kiss gig - without them, who knows?

Lennon, McCarrtney, Starr, and Harrison - for being who they are

Jagger and Richards and the rest of the band - for being The Beatles with a bad boy edge

Mark Slaugter, Dana Strum, and all the members of Trixter - for making me laugh

Jeff Beck - for creating an amazing guitar sound

Ace Frehley - for ripping off Jeff Beck

Slash - for ripping off Ace Frehley

whoever's idea it was to put Eddie on the Maiden covers - for putting Eddie on the Maiden covers

Sam Phillips - for Elvis, Johnny, Jerry Lee, and Carl.... Sun Records rocks





NP: "Bluebird Cafe" - John Waite The Beatles
Freddy Mercury
Elton John
Elvis Presley
Cat Stevens
Bob Dylan
The Who

In addition to others. The Beatles!!!
John Lennon is God!!!!!! Matt Pike (Sleep, Kalas, High On Fire) and Scott "Wino" Weinrich (The Obsessed, Saint Vitus, Place of Skulls)- both brought doom metal to a higher level than it was
John Garcia, Josh Homme, Brant Bjork, Al Hernandez, etc.. members of the band Kyuss. They were the forerunners of stoner rock and greatly influenced every stoner rock band out there
Ronnie James Dio- one of the best performers and song writers in metal, he's influenced almost every heavy metal and power metal band

And Steve Harris, he is the founder of Iron Maiden and an excellent song writer.

You wrote in your question that Iron Maiden was founded by a guy named Steve Smith. That is wrong. Steve Harris is the bassist and founder of the band. There was never a Steve Smith in Iron Maiden. Maybe you mean Steve Harris or Adrian Smith? Korn
Deftones
Tool
13 Days
Breaking Benjamin
Limp Bizkit the rolling stones the greatest rock in roll band of all time
they been doing it for over forty years and still going strong
that got to say something has any other band been together for that long i cant think of any if you can let me know A four Beatles, Jim Morrison, and Robert Smith.

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