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love all of their songs and until today, their music still influence many other musicians. Jets is one of it I guee because their sounds are really similar to Beatles sometimes

Jet sounds a lot like a mix between the Kinks and AC/DC.

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Hard call between Berry and the Beatles for most influential. Chuck Berry, to a great extent, founded Rock 'n roll, but the Beatles are what everybody since them has listened to.

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if you want the most influential person ever i think you gotta at least mention Robert Johnson...well maybe he doesnt' have to be in the poll...but i'll just quote what some people said

"Robert Johnson, to whom we all owed our existence, in some way." Robert Plant (Led Zepelin)
"the most important blues musician who ever lived" Eric Clapton
The Rolling Stones, Hendrix, Cream, Allman brothers, Bob Dylan always mentioned him as their greatest influance...

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if you want the most influential person ever i think you gotta at least mention Robert Johnson...well maybe he doesnt' have to be in the poll...but i'll just quote what some people said

"Robert Johnson, to whom we all owed our existence, in some way." Robert Plant (Led Zepelin)
"the most important blues musician who ever lived" Eric Clapton
The Rolling Stones, Hendrix, Cream, Allman brothers, Bob Dylan always mentioned him as their greatest influance...

I love Robert Johnson, in fact I'm listening to Stop Breakin Down Blues right now. But He is WAY overrated as far as blues men go. And that is really saying something. He got a lot of his style from Son House, Charlie Patton, and Willie Brown. Johnny Shines was just as great.

A lot of people put him on a pedestals because he's shrouded in mystery. I, personally, am a Blind Willie Johnson/Son House man.

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it's more like we're going further and furher in history cos R. Johnson was influenced by Son House...

but i didn't know he was thought as overrated...yeah i guess the mystery contributed to (i think there was also talk bout missing song or something, or was it just that movie crossroads...dunno)...

when i first read bout Blind Willie Johnson's life...man it's sad

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We might never know who the "most influential" actually is/was.....

Artist A may have been influenced by Artist B, who was in turn influenced by Artist C.... and it just keeps going back through history.... before rock&roll, reggae, blues, folk, classical, tribal....etc.

It might be better to ask which artist/band influenced you/your style/your tastes rather than asking who was the most influential to the industry or specific genre.

I don't listen to Beatles, Led Zep, Pink Floyd, John L. Hooker, Hendrix, Billie Holiday, John Digweed, Ken Ishii, etc because they were influential.... it's because I like their work and the tastes I have since developed thanks to them have enabled me to appreciate other stuff, regardless of whether it is directly related to these artists or not. (Example: Mozart, Metallica and Progressive House have more in common than you realize)....

Yes, I first started listening to Hendrix/Jimmy Page because I heard they were 'legendary".... but I continued to listen to them because I liked the music.

Just my $0.02.... sorry for ranting.

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I voted The Beatles but I got to thinking that maybe Rolling Stones should be counted among the influential ones. In general I think all the groups mentioned have been influential, only in different ways and genres of music. It's hard to say which one is actually the msot influential, I think it all depends on the preferences of the listener.

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There aren't that many choices up there, so let me list a few.

Queen: Had the best rock vocalist of all time.
Kiss: Four jews in make up singing dirty for the girlies.
Aerosmith: Walk This Way w/ Run DMC. Enough said.
Journey: Arena Rock at it's best.
Bob Seger: I love him, and his love of old time rock and roll.

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Gotta be the Beatles. It has to be someone that everyone knows about.

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I voted The Beatles but I got to thinking that maybe Rolling Stones should be counted among the influential ones. In general I think all the groups mentioned have been influential, only in different ways and genres of music. It's hard to say which one is actually the msot influential, I think it all depends on the preferences of the listener.

You know The Rolling Stones got their name from a Muddy Waters tune, right?

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