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Da-Veed
Big Wall climber
Bigfork
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Dec 26, 2014 - 05:42pm PT
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Duh.
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujň de la Playa
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Dec 26, 2014 - 07:49pm PT
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DP&B
or Diddley Penniman Berry & Dixon. They didn't play at Woodstack.
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d-know
Trad climber
electric lady land
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Tool.
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Flip Flop
climber
Earth Planet, Universe
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 6, 2018 - 07:43am PT
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Tool has 4 studio albums
Just okay record sales
No sex appeal
Metal is not Rock n Roll. Zero sex, Zero roll. There is no sex, love or dancing in Metal. Just uptight angry white people music. Like Metallica. Good for little agro punks with lots of dude friends.
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Farzin
climber
San Diego, CA
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I can't believe nobody mentioned CCR.
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FRUMY
Trad climber
Bishop,CA
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Mothers of Invention
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Weird Al Yankovich!
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Caveman
climber
Cumberland Plateau
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Lots of great bands. I'll go with Zappa and the Mothers.
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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the idea was quality, lasting listenability and still reasonably main Stream,
Mothers Of invention, I looked for a cut, they might just make the grade.
As for Tool, ? well As good as Ween
but only a flash in the pan band with skills but. . .
I have looked, Actually seen their start, H Rollins ? that rapist? I don't think his opinion should count
[Click to View YouTube Video]
Live version , (not Woodstock)
https://youtu.be/20i7ycToA9g
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WBraun
climber
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Best American Rock Band?
Huh???
None of these guys know how to climb.
They're just monkeys pounding on drums and strings while screaming into the void.
Stonemasters were the real rock band .......
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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David Lee Roth, the frontman and singer from past and present for Van Halen, a heavy metal California band, has also done a bit of rock climbing. Any rocker who’s a metal freak has listened to Roth’s classic second album Skyscraper, a solo disc that came out in 1988 and features the hit single “Just Like Paradise.”
The album’s cover features Roth aid climbing on Half Dome, an iconic Yosemite Valley formation. If you look on-line you’ll find all kinds of stuff about David Lee Roth and rock climbing. But for the real story about the cover photo you have to go to the Forum on SuperTopo and read the tale by Werner Braun.
Werner Braun Tells Story of Cover Shoot
Werner Braun, a long-time Yosemite climber and member of the Yosemite Search and Rescue (YOSAR), tells the story about the album cover on Supertopo in 2005. The cover was shot by the great adventure photographer Galen Rowell.
Braun and Ron Kauk, another Yosemite climbing legend, were hired to work as riggers for the photo shoot on the top of Half Dome.
Ron Kauk and Braun Ride Roth’s Horse
The production group, including Roth, Rowell, Braun, and Kauk, went up the day before and camped at the saddle behind Half Dome. Werner Braun recalls, “His (Roth) production people got him a horse to ride to Half Dome along with all of the other equipment for this shoot. David decided he wanted to walk…so I asked if I could ride it. ‘Sure, go ahead,” he says. “I want to walk.” Kauk, running late, passed the group slogging up the trail and asked where Werner was. He’s riding David’s horse they said. So Kauk jogs up and jumps on the horse too. “As we approach towards the saddle, the horse became more and more tired, somehow it made it.”
Photographer Galen Rowell Finds Photo Location
The next day they all scrambled up to the summit for the album cover photo shoot. Werner recalls, “Galen is running around with his camera trying to figure out the best location. He spots his ace in the hole and tells Ron and me to set up David at the spot you see on that cover.” The site turns out to be “no-man’s land with very little features for anything that’ll hold. “I go, ‘WTF Galen, there’s nothing out there’ and he tells us to do the best we can. Ok man, whatever.”
Roth Scared by Bad Aid Placements
Ron Kauk lowers down and places a bunch of A4 pitons with the final piton a long medium Lost Arrow piton that sticks out about three-quarters of its length. “Ron tells me he hopes it holds David’s ass. Ha ha ha ha.” They get David Lee Roth on a rope and have him rappel down to the last piton. “He takes one look at that thing and says F*@%! I’m not hanging off that thing. It’ll pull out and I’ll die. He is now visibly shaking real bad and scared s—less.” Roth doesn’t know what to think since he has virtually no experience aid climbing.
Braun Tells Roth to “Have Faith”
Werner tells Roth that he has to have “faith in the rigger and the rigger will never lie to you.” He then tells Roth that the piton is one foot long and that seven inches of the Lost Arrow ”he’s looking at is buried in that horizontal crack to his total disbelief.” Ron, listening to the dialogue, rolled his eyes while Galen waited impatiently to start burning film. Finally David Lee Roth “gets on that thing shaking like s—.”
Roth Gives Braun and Kauk Gold-Plated Carabiners
Werner Braun remembers, “The shoot is on! David does his Hollywood mode. Smiles and all in between bouts of shakes and deep breaths. Galen shoots off his 20 or so rolls in record time and David gets his rope back from above and jugs out. I clean the piton he was on with one jerk of my hand. Kauk’s eyes roll again and we’re out of there.” After the shoot, Roth gave Kauk and Braun a gold-plated carabiner engraved with “Diamond Dave.”
Crazy and funny story. You just can’t make that stuff up! Thanks for sharing Werner Braun. – Stewart Green/climbing.about.com
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Donny... the OHHH!- Riginal
Sport climber
C:porn
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I'm sure we can all agree on "Fallout Boy"...the question is, who is the SECOND best American rock band?
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bit'er ol' guy
climber
the past
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Col "finger pickin' good" Sanders. Eddie Money and Black Flag.
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the Fet
climber
Tu-Tok-A-Nu-La
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Imagine Dragons is putting out a lot of rocks songs with good song writing. Can't quite compare with the old stuff, but still nice to know some youngin's still like to rock.
Greta Van Fleet is almost a Zep clone, but damn it still sounds good.
Reading this thread thru... rmuir for the win with the Grey Bands. That would be a good name for a band actually.. The Grey Band.
And I'm glad to see thoughts have evolved towards appreciating the Grateful Dead. I guess like most bands they weren't strictly rock though. Pure Rock I'd have to say Aerosmith or Van Halen. But best American band... Eagles based on popularity, song writing, musicianship, included country an other sounds. The Dead included country, psychedelia, folk, etc. But what other American band was around and important from the 60s to the 90s? They never had the mainstream popularity, record sales, or radio airplay, but they were always breaking new ground and doing their own thing successfully for decades. For years one of the most successful touring acts.
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