1st Annual M triple A awards

Okay, since everybody is doing awards lately, I'm going to do some too. The first annual MAAA (Michard's Awesome achievement Awards.) The MAAA will be held every October and also every April, so there will be an MAAA every fall and spring. The fall category for 2006 is....Bands. I am doing the greatest bands of all-time. This is going to be set up kind of weird. There will be four total parts to this thing. First part, this post, the three beginning nominees. Next, another post with four nominees. 3rdly a post with three nominees. The final post will announce the first MAAA ever. It might be decided by me or you, I'm not too sure yet.
Here are this fall's nominees.

Led Zeppelin.
Of course. One of the most successful rock and roll bands. They were the "definitive" metal band. These guys transformed the blues into a new kind of music. Not many bands can be credited with practically creating a new sound.

The band was an all star line up. Jimmy Page, arguably the one of the best guitar players of all time, Robert Plant, who in my opinion is the greatest singer of all time, John Bonham, the greatest drummer of all time, no questions asked, and John Paul Jones. Jones kind of was a standout, put he still could play the bass very well.

This was one of the only bands that you could not name all of their hits. They must have had at least dozens. These included songs like Black Dog, Heartbreaker, Stairway to Heaven, Kashmir, D'Yer Mak'er, The Ocean, Bring it On Home, Over the Hills and Far Away, the list goes on forever. These songs were not all early metal though, it was a range of minor, rock and roll, blues, metal, almost a regge type of sound in D'Yer Mak'er, and major. I think that Zeppelin was the only band having this much range in their stuff, and actually having it all be great.

Stevie Ray Vaughn.
Oh Yeah! You knew this was coming. My favorite guitarist of all time. The greatest blues guitarist ever. Some might say that this can't be a topic because he is a solo artist. Well to those people, you are idiots. He did it with Double Trouble. This consited of drummer Chris Layton and bassist Tommy Shannon, (the ex-bassist for Johnny Winter.)

He dropped out of high school to focus on his music career at the age of 16. This is the biggest risk anyone could ever take, he could have wound up with nothing. But instead it payed off. After a brief stint with the Cobras, SRV and Double Trouble was formed. His first album, Texas Flood, was amazing and received great critical reviews, as did his fourth album In step, the the second and third were good and went gold like the 1st and 4th. Unfortunately, the music world came to a shock after the announcement that Stevie Ray Vaughn was killed in a plane crash that took place on August 27, 1990. He was 45 years old.

He was a genius. There were many accounts from Stevie's wife saying that she could not sleep because Stevie played guitar in his sleep. So think about it, there really was not one point through out the day where he was not playing guitar, and it really showed. Some of his greatest hits included songs like Texas Flood, Couldn't Stand the Weather, Pride and Joy, Crossfire, I'm Cryin', Testify, Tightrope, and some other solo songs like Lenny and Rude Mood. As people in Chicago would say, he's, da best.

The Beatles

Voted the greatest band of all time. Paul McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrsion, and Ringo. Four of the biggest names in music history. This band is a definition of a superband. Although Paul, (or was it George?) said, "We're not great musicians. We're just a bunch of guys singing and playing music." Yeah, I kind of think differently. All of them had to be decent musicians if they were voted as the greatest band ever.

Earlier I said that Zeppelin is a band where you can't even count all of their hits, but it is even more true with the Beatles. Elanor Rigby, Help!, Penny Lane, Yesterday, Let it Be, Hey Jude, Get back, Yellow Submarine, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Come Together, Here Comes the Sun, Hello Goodbye, and these are only a couple. I almost guarantee if you listen to a classic rock station, you'll hear at least a half a dozen Beatles songs by the time the day is done. These guys were awesome. If you search Google images for The Beatles, you'll almost get 400,000 results, Zeppelin, almost a tenth of that, 43,500.

Okay, that does it for the first part. Until the 2nd, Peace.