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After all the March Madness whatnot, I decided to do a bracket with bands. People vote in their posts for who they want, and after a certain amount of posts, I will redo the bracket.

Here we go!

1. Pink Floyd vs. The Doors

2. Metallica vs. Iron Maiden

3. The Jimi Hendrix Experience vs. Led Zeppelin

4. Cream vs. Queen

5. AC/DC vs. Black Sabbath

6. The Who vs. The Eagles

7. Van Halen vs. Lynyrd Skynyrd

8. The Rolling Stones vs. The Grateful Dead

my votes are
1. Pink Floyd
2. Metallica
3. Led Zeppelin
4. Cream
5. Black Sabbath
6. The Who
7. Van Halen
8. The Rolling Stones

And how would we know who wins?

1. The Doors

2. Metallica vs. Iron Maiden <---Don't know; Don't care

3. The Jimi Hendrix Experience

4. Cream

5. Black Sabbath

6. The Who

7. Van Halen

8. The Rolling Stones

I'll do my rock'n'roll duty;

1. The Doors
2. Metallica
3. Led Zeppelin
4. Queen
5. AC/DC
6. The Eagles
7. Van Halen
8. The Rolling Stones

1. Pink Floyd
2. Metallica (very hard choice though)
3. Led Zeppelin
4. Queen
5. AC/DC (another hard choice though)
6. The Who
7. Van Halen
8. The Rolling Stones

1.Pink Floyd

2. Metallica

3. Led Zeppelin

4. Queen

5. AC/DC

6. The Who

7. Van Halen

8. The Rolling Stones

(I think the Who versus the Eagles is the tough one, because Hotel California is hard to beat).

1. Pink Floyd vs. The DoorsThe Doors are less overrated, so I'll go with them.

2. Metallica vs. Iron Maiden Metallica.

3. The Jimi Hendrix Experience vs. Led Zeppelin JHE is less overrated, so I'll go with them.

4. Cream vs. Queen Cream is overrated across the board, but Queen is only overrated by British people, so I'll go with them.

5. AC/DC vs. Black SabbathBlack Sabbath.

6. The Who vs. The Eagles Ick. The Who, I guess.

7. Van Halen vs. Lynyrd Skynyrd Ick. Van Halen, I guess.

8. The Rolling Stones vs. The Grateful Dead While the Stones are overrated, The Dead suck, so I'll go with the Stones.

[QUOTE=Breitenburg]After all the March Madness whatnot, I decided to do a bracket with bands. People vote in their posts for who they want, and after a certain amount of posts, I will redo the bracket.

Here we go!

1. Pink Floyd vs. The Doors

2. Metallica vs. Iron Maiden

3. The Jimi Hendrix Experience vs. Led Zeppelin

4. Cream vs. Queen

5. AC/DC vs. Black Sabbath

6. The Who vs. The Eagles

7. Van Halen vs. Lynyrd Skynyrd

8. The Rolling Stones vs. The Grateful Dead

I vote for:
1. The Doors
2. Iron Maiden
3. Led Zeppelin
4. Queen
5. AC/DC
6. The Eagles
7. Van Halen
8. The Rolling Stones.

1. Pink Floyd

2. Iron Maiden

3. Led Zeppelin. Tough choice.

4. Queen

5. Black Sabbath

6. The Who

7. Van Halen

8. The Rolling Stones

1. Pink Floyd vs. The Doors

2. Metallica vs. Iron Maiden

3. The Jimi Hendrix Experience vs. Led Zeppelin

4. Cream vs. Queen

5. AC/DC vs. Black Sabbath

6. The Who vs. The Eagles

7. Van Halen vs. Lynyrd Skynyrd

8. The Rolling Stones vs. The Grateful Dead

And how would we know who wins?

after a certain amount of posts, I'll tell everyone to hold ther votes, calculated them, and go on to the next round. Also, if anyone wondered, the Beatles are not on here because if they were, no one would stand a chance.

1. Pink Floyd

2. Hopefully "neither" is an option...

3. Led Zeppelin

4. Queen

5. Neither

6. The Who

7. Neither

8. Neither

1. Pink Floyd

2. Metallica

3. The Jimi Hendrix Experience

4. Cream

5. Black Sabbath

6. The Eagles

7. Van Halen

8. The Grateful Dead



2, 3, 4, and 5 are without question... but how come Status Quo never get a look in these kind of things? they rock! just a thought

okay, at this point I will tally the votes for this round. no more posts until then.

1. Pink Floyd

2. Iron Maiden

3. Led Zeppelin

4. Queen

5. Black Sabbath

6. The Who

7. Van Halen

8. The Rolling Stones

And the winners are....
Pink Floyd vs. The Doors- Pink Floyd
Metallica vs. Iron Maiden- Metallica
Jimi Hendrix Experience vs. Led Zeppelin- Led Zeppelin
Cream vs. Queen- Queen
AC/DC vs. Black Sabbath- Black Sabbath
The Who vs. The Eagles- The Who
Van Halen vs. Lynyrd Synyrd- Van Halen
The Rolling Stones vs. The Grateful Dead- The Rolling Stones

Next round is...


Van Halen vs. Metallica
Black Sabbath vs. Led Zeppelin
The Who vs. Queen
Pink Floyd vs. The Rolling Stones

my votes are
1. Metallica
2. Black Sabbath
3. The Who
4. Pink Floyd

let the rock continue!

1. Metallica
2. Black Sabbath
3. Queen
4. The Rolling Stones

1. Floyd
2. Metallica
3. Zep
4. Cream
5. Sabbath
6. Who
7. VH
8. Stones

Van Halen
Black Sabbath
Queen
Pink Floyd

Van Halen vs. Metallica
Black Sabbath vs. Led Zeppelin
The Who vs. Queen
Pink Floyd vs. The Rolling Stones

How the fuck could Metalliwank beat Iron Maiden? I mean, seriously. That's disturbing.

Van Halen vs. Metallica
Black Sabbath vs. Led Zeppelin
The Who vs. Queen
Pink Floyd vs. The Rolling Stones

1. Van Halen
2. Led Zeppelin
3. The Who
4. The Rolling Stones

The last round, for the hell of it:

Pink Floyd vs. The Doors
Metallica vs. Iron Maiden
Jimi Hendrix Experience vs. Led Zeppelin
Cream vs. Queen
AC/DC vs. Black Sabbath
The Who vs. The Eagles
Van Halen vs. Lynyrd Synyrd
The Rolling Stones vs. The Grateful Dead

1. The Doors
2. neither
3. Led Zeppelin (my favorite and third favorite bands)
4. Cream
5. AC/DC
6. The Who
7. Lynyrd Skynyrd
8. Grateful Dead

1. Pink Floyd vs. The Doors - Jimmy had the better voice, the Floyds the better guitar player. David Gilmour takes the point for Pink Floyd.

2. Metallica vs. Iron Maiden - Crap. I mean, not to be difficult about it, but c'mon, now. Bruce Dickinson is either laughable or unlistenable or both; Metallica is pompous, mannered overproduced sputum. Nil-all.

3. The Jimi Hendrix Experience vs. Led Zeppelin - Tough call. I'm going with Jimi on this one, though. I think he was far and away the better guitarist; From whhat I know of each act's live performances I'd say Jimi gave more sheer entertainment value, dollar for dollar, than Zeppelin ever did. And, let's face it, Hendrix picked a good age to die prematurely under slightly mysterious (or at least tawdry) circumstances. Hendrix:1, Zeppelin:0.

4. Cream vs. Queen - I shouldn't even dignify this one. For all of those who missed growing up or living in the 70s, here's a freakin' HEADS-UP: Queen was radio-filler. Always was. By that I mean, there was a roster of heavy international, touring rock groups throughout the 70s. Between album releases by these heavies, radio stations needed fresh tunes to play between the big hits by the big bands. Queen was one of those bands producing fresh tunes to stick between the Stones cuts and the new Zeppelin LP. I could go on about this all night, but I won't. Point for Cream.

5. AC/DC vs. Black Sabbath - Sabs take it with Ozzy, lose it with Dio. AC/DC takes it with Bon Scott, loses it back to Sabs with assist from Ian Gilliam, and in a surprise twist, both bands call it even match.

6. The Who vs. The Eagles - No. Fucking. Eagles. If you ever drew breath in the 70s, you'd know why I'm saying this. Lemme put it this way, what's worse? The first few thousand times you have to listen to 'Hotel California' or the next few thousand times?

This makes two really good bands that I really, really like that you've paired up with bands I wish people would forget ever existed. This is totally messing with my head. Pete Townshend, Roger Daltrey, John Entwhistle and Keith Moon are some of my favourite Rock & Roll performers ever.

Point (obviously) to the Who.

7. Van Halen vs. Lynyrd Skynyrd - Who cares? No, really. Who does? I sure as Hell don't. Van Halen reached its' "best before" date sometime around 1983, and the other is a regionally-popular pobucker band. Nil-all.

8. The Rolling Stones vs. The Grateful Dead - The Stones suck live, they've always sucked live, the Dead were at their best live... the Stones had buckets o' radio hits, and have been in the public eye since before I was born... the Dead have a (very) small handful of hits, but I had to endure Grateful Dead-immersion while I lived in a communal flat in college. Tough one.

Hmm.

Point goes to - ah, what the Hell: Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention!!

1. Metallica
2. Led Zeppelin
3. Queen
4. The Rolling Stones

Edit: You might want to edit the updated bracket into the OP so people don't keep answering your first question.

Okay, round 2 pics;

1. Metallica
2. Led Zeppelin
3. Queen
4. The Rolling Stones

1. Pink Floyd (duh)

2. Metallica (not recently though, have to go back a while)

3. Led Zeppelin (another duh)

4. Queen (no contest)

5. Black Sabbath (OZZY!!!!!!!!)

6. The Who vs. The Eagles (geez that one is too tough.......)

7. Van Halen (not that I like them, but they were the lesser of two evils)

8. The Rolling Stones (yeah.)

Van Halen vs. Metallica
Black Sabbath vs. Led Zeppelin
The Who vs. Queen
Pink Floyd vs. The Rolling Stones
!


Metallica

Black Sabbath

Queen

Pink Floyd

Next round is...


Van Halen vs. Metallica
Black Sabbath vs. Led Zeppelin
The Who vs. Queen
Pink Floyd vs. The Rolling Stones

let the rock continue!

1. Van Halen
2. Black Sabbath
3. Queen
4. Pink Floyd

eeeeasy choices.