On which band's nuts do you choose to die?

[AlexVonHaig]

I mean like p13 for poison, risingtard for ki$$, or such

Me RATT. They got into the game early, helped define a genre put out 3 great and 3 more good albums BITD. Bands have personality differences and that ended their run but all in all. I can go beginning to end on almost every album.

RATT and roll

[Gibsonite]

Led Zeppelin

They might have stolen stuff but every fucking thing they stole, they made better. All of it.

[Love_Industry]

Van Halen even if VH3 is impossible to defend.

[sirthx2]

Crue was the one. Loved every track, even the 'filler' on Theatre and Girls. In fact I often like that filler better than the hits. If they had bowed out after 'Decade of Decadence' they'd def be my 'Stones', but they're trying really hard the last 10-20 years to ruin it for me so.......not the Crue.

Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers maybe? Or for a band still putting shit out & touring, I'll die on the nuts of The Darkness unless they get fat & lazy.

[dmbrocker]

Two, of course: Rush and Aerosmith. They had their low points but they never made an indefensibly horrible song or album, IMO.

[HottKarl777]

If I have to die on another man's nuts if better be in the gladiator pit.

[Tommy]

Zeppelin
Floyd
GnR

[Psychobolia.com]

Steel Panther.

Their first 4 albums are bitchin, their last 2 are pretty damn good, I've only missed one of many Paris shows (always a fun time, despite the repeat jokes)...stellar musicianship, good to great songs, fun subject matter, killer videos, boobies, etc...

Oh yeah, and EXODUS, cuz they rule too.

[Mojo]

Two, of course: Rush and Aerosmith. They had their low points but they never made an indefensibly horrible song or album, IMO.

It has always been funny to me how we agree on Aerosmith but I can’t stand Rush. Instant channel change, when they come on. Personal tastes are a funny thing.

[Son_of_Sam_I_Am]

D-A-D, Rush, and, to a lesser extent these days, Ratt.

[daveg]

Collective Soul. One of the best catalogs of music out there. Still a pretty good live band, still putting out great music. The latest double album is fantastic.

Could say just about the same thing about Green Day.

For 80's bands, I'd say Bon Jovi. I liked almost every album up to and including the Circle...and they were a pretty damn fun live band that entire time.

[War_in_D]

Ratt

[Spongie]

Fuckin’ SLAYER, bro!!!!

[WolfgangVonPage]

Led Zeppelin

They might have stolen stuff but every fucking thing they stole, they made better. All of it.

This.

[SterileEyes1]

Musicians - Axl, Eddie, and Lars. They are often ripped, and I often defend them.

Bands - Queens Of The Stone Age and Royal Blood for being often underrated, Limp Bizkit for being really good players and a great and fun live show.

Agreed with daveg about Green Day. I think Revolution Radio and Father Of All… are their only two subpar albums in 30+ years.

[EuroJR]

Mentors

[Tommy2Tone84]

Pink Floyd

Gilmour > Clapton and Page

[Charles Bukaki]

Clutch first and foremost

Alice In Chains and Alice Cooper to a lesser extent.

[dmbrocker]

Two, of course: Rush and Aerosmith. They had their low points but they never made an indefensibly horrible song or album, IMO.

It has always been funny to me how we agree on Aerosmith but I can’t stand Rush. Instant channel change, when they come on. Personal tastes are a funny thing.

Yeah, my personal tastes are all over the map, though Rush and Aerosmith are definitely my top two.

[kytepunches]

Alice Cooper , Testament and Rush .

[Borges]

Maiden and Slayer

[Hellsinkey]

Mentors

Asiaa. Asiasta kolmanteen, oon muuten tulossa syssymmällä viikoksi Fugeen käymään.

[Tommy]

Zeppelin
Floyd
GnR

Should add whatever Josh Homme is doing to the list too.

[AlexVonHaig]

Zeppelin
Floyd
GnR

Should add whatever Josh Homme is doing to the list too.

I didn't like the stuff when he was beating Brody Dahl

[VinnieVincentsVag]

Marillion

[Hatchets Molly]

Going outside this genre. I am hard-pressed to name such a band anymore. From 76-96, it would have been KISS. I was a KISStard. Now, I like a lot of diversity in my music and enjoy many bands, past and present. As I've gotten older, I have come to appreciate the talent of bands I used to hate as a teen-20s: Tears for Fears, Hall and Oates, Toto (I didn't know how fucking great they were until I was an adult), many of the "yacht rock" artists like Christopher Cross. I'm not dying on their hills, I'm just saying I've come to appreciate what I used not to.

[Indy_Rob]

As I've gotten older, I have come to appreciate the talent of bands I used to hate as a teen-20s: Tears for Fears, Hall and Oates, Toto (I didn't know how fucking great they were until I was an adult), many of the "yacht rock" artists like Christopher Cross. I'm not dying on their hills, I'm just saying I've come to appreciate what I used not to.

Agreeance. Bands that I labeled as "f*ggots" as a younger man or teen, I've grown to like or at least appreciate.

[Brainy Lane]

Poison
They were awesome.
Bitching about Poison is like complaining about the nutritional value of cotton candy!

[Chip Z'Hoy]

I love the Replacements but if someone said "They suck," I don't have anything to say other than "Yeah, they kinda did."

I love Kiss but I'm not going to... die on their nuts, I guess? Again, if someone said they sucked--*shrug* "Yeah, they kinda did."

"Rush is annoying." I get that. If you don't like them, they would be pretty annoying to listen to.

Maybe Dio-era Sabbath. Beyond reproach.

[TommyBoy68]

Is Wild Boyz still a thing?!?!?!?!

There was a time where I might have said Judas Priest, back in the late 80's. Then they fell apart for a while and that was the end for me.
Might have said that for VH, until the Sammy years came to be. Still OK but not anywhere to the same level, IMO. There was also a brief Manowar phase, but they proved to be a little too simplistic and one-dimensional over time. Was a huge Richie Kotzen fan for a bit, but was actually sort of disappointed once Winery Dogs came to be, which is weird, as I was a huge Billy Sheehan/Talas fan from way back in the day. I could almost say Lizzy Borden, but then the latest release just didn't resonate for me to the same level that pretty much everything prior did. But that might be as close as I can get to an answer to the question.

Oh, maybe Paul Gilbert, and his various bands/solo career, that might be as much as I can say that I have not been let down at some point by. Honorable mention to Sweet, Virgin Steele, Great White, Mama's Boys, Saxon.

So I might just not be fanboy enough to have any band be THAT level of important to me.