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Which band IS really America's Greatest (rock & roll band)?

When I consider my priorities for this category, I cannot come up with any other than CCR.

Their output as a band was short compared to others, yes..

When I say America's greatest rock & roll band, this = the output or even the basis on which a band formed, had in their DNA, America's roots! It doesn't even matter that we now know CCR formed in California, their DNA as a band transformed their birthplace but it more importantly brought forth the (soul) of get down and dirty) Rock & Roll in it's raw form!

HELL YEAH!
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n80
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I just thought of R.E.M. Hugely successful, unique, totally, completely and inescapably American.

They're one of my favorite bands. I can't speak for their concerts after they got big but I saw them right after they released Life's Rich Pageant. Best live show I ever saw.
n80
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Steve, the topic is American bands. U2 appropriated an American feel....but Tull could hardly be more British.
maskmann
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Oingo Boingo!  The Fighters of Foo. STP.  great live bands. 
kacomess
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I suppose it depends on the definition of "rock 'n roll" but assuming it includes psychedlic rock, I think the 13th Floor Elevators (from Texas, no less!) almost created the genre. Certainly though, ZZ Top and CCR are/were great American straight-ahead rock music. If you expand the definition to folk and folk-rock, Bob Dylan certainly set the standard.
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jafreeman
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The Doobie Brothers were/are as great live as in the studio, with hit songs inseparable from American pop culture.  
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