Band with highest success/talent ratio?

>>>"is it Elton John?? Someone needs to explain to me why he is so famous"<<<

Really? No raving fan here, but, are you serious? Ever seen some of his early playing, singing? Not arguing differing tastes in music, but his body of work is pretty compelling.

Same with the Dead. No talent? C'mon man. I don't listen to their music but they were undeniably talented.

Welp (i think this came up before), the hinge might be how "talent" is defined... could be:

-Ability to execute very complex and difficult stuff on an instrument, (making Yngwie, Dream Theater, EVH, Rush and a few others mentioned ineligible as targets for this thread).

-Ability to transport or emotionally impact an audience, (this gets a lot of otherwise pretty mediocre artists who were named off the hook ...R&R hall of fame (hack ... gag) provides many examples).

-Someone who has advanced an art form or expanded the vocabulary of an instrument, (probably puts Miles Davis, Beatles and EVH off limits).

Achilles,
I'm with you on all three.

Soundgasm,
I'm with you. Garcia's Dead, and I'm Grateful.

hey folks we're really looking for con-ten-ders on the scale from 1 to 10.
They're John Bon Jovi and Paul Simon. I'll give 'em 10/small fraction of one.