📽 /🎵 Two questions in one. Is there a band that carries a bigger fan base than the Dead and Rush?

[TerryP]

I know some will say "The Beatles," but I gotta say no to that. I'll give them third, maybe somewhere around Elvis.

Is "R.E.M." in this group?

 

[TerryP]

BTW, this is what brought the question to mind...

 

[PurlJam]

Gotta believe The Eagles are up there with them.

 

[TerryP]

Gotta believe The Eagles are up there with them.

I've heard the 'Stones' mentioned when I asked someone earlier. I don't see the same fandom. Do people follow the Eagles from town to town? Camp out for weekends? My Dead experience was a multi-day event in ATL.

 

[It Takes Eleven]

I've heard the 'Stones' mentioned when I asked someone earlier. I don't see the same fandom. Do people follow the Eagles from town to town? Camp out for weekends? My Dead experience was a multi-day event in ATL.

In short, yes.

There's a difference between a fan base and traveling deadheads. Parrotheads numbered in greater numbers in Buffet's heyday, but the dead edge him in overall ticket sales. Some traveled, but most were unique attenders who attended local shows.

For domestic paid concerts, George Strait supplanted them and now holds the number one and three records for a single show attendance, then Garth Brooks. In terms of overall attendance for a tour, the Dead isn't in the top 40. They sit at number 10 for career ticket sales, behind Kenny Chesney and just ahead of Trans-Siberian Orchestra. TSO may have passed the Dead by now. Who is ahead of Chesney? Billy Joel, Bon Jovi, Metallica, Elton John, Bruce Springsteen, Rolling Stones, Dave Matthews and U2.

So, it all goes to longevity.

 

[rick4bama]

I'm not like a lot of you that have a favorite band. To me it mostly about the song a group sing.

 

[TerryP]

a favorite band.

....a thought I just don't get. My band at the minute is Genesis listening to Collins play the drums.

 

[Bamabww]

I know some will say "The Beatles," but I gotta say no to that.

Did Rush win a Grammy this year?

 

[rick4bama]

....a thought I just don't get. My band at the minute is Genesis listening to Collins play the drums.

It's just the way I am about music. I sometime would rather listen to the music then the words of the song.

 

[24and7]

Taylor Swift

 

[It Takes Eleven]

It's just the way I am about music. I sometime would rather listen to the music then the words of the song.

I'm now more about the lyrics, probably why I'm drawn to Americana and Classic Country.

 

[PurlJam]

My youngest and his buddies use to go to most of the concerts for Widespread Panic whenever they were anywhere in Alabama and a few in Nashville and Atlanta. They were Spread Heads.

 

[TerryP]

They were Spread Heads.

Sounds like something on a Southern Baptist bulletin for a pot luck.

 

[alabama mike]

Sounds like something on a Southern Baptist bulletin for a pot luck.

That is hilarious! ROTFL!