who are the second greatest band off all time after the fab 4?

The Wrecking Crew
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wrecking_Crew_(music)

"I Get Around" The Beach Boys
"Help Me, Rhonda" The Beach Boys
"Good Vibrations" The Beach Boys

The music was played by The Wrecking Crew.
The Beach Boys sang.



... more by The Wrecking Crew

"Mr. Tambourine Man" The Byrds
"California Dreamin'" The Mamas & the Papas
"Strangers in the Night" Frank Sinatra
"Wichita Lineman" Glen Campbell
"Mrs. Robinson" Simon & Garfunkel
"Everybody's Talkin'" Harry Nilsson
"Close to You" The Carpenters
"Bridge over Troubled Water" Simon & Garfunkel

I thought The Beatles where nicknamed the fab 4?

Got to be the Stones, and that is if they are 2nd in the first place.

What classics you have listed kincsem

hard to argue with Horatio on longevity and quality however my personal faves in no particular order because it changes with time

SLF
James
Abba
Joy Division

changes depending on if you want to listen to shyte music or really shyte music?

die laughing......not

Fleetwood Mac 

Stevie Nicks 

# GYPSY # 

Renee & Renato

Fleetwood Mac is a great shout!

Stones ……

No Contest ffs and i aint joking.

Ninties onwards the industry has been plagued with squawking noise…..

https://youtu.be/qGd7SkdETro?si=uZMLvrpiSRiMCj3S

F@nny Be Tender Classic ffs.

"Ninties onwards the industry has been plagued with squawking noise….".   I am 73, You must be really really old

aceys song was stuck in his mind 10 mins after he met the missus.

Genius Cru.

I’m not really old blackbarn…..under 70……the music industry fell apart when the boy and girly bands appeared….

Sitting on a chair squawking rubbish all looking the same,couldn’t strum a note…..

Simon Cowell and Co almost destroyed the game tbh…..check the difference between west life and the likes compared to Steve Ellis Love Affair……you couldn’t make it up

Moodie Blues…

Gary Puckett, now there’s a voice who doesn’t scream from the rooftops…..quality,natural singer….

I could name 50 quality performers….

Pentangle. They had the two best guitarists in any group, Bert Jansch and John Renbourn.

Clerkmore - and the best Bass Player!

Thanks for the reply "form of the ace" Moody Blues ffs. You (and I) could have done far better with your apparent argument. I don't want your 50 performers just like you dont want my Radiohead, Stone Roses, Oasis, Blur, Joy Division, Muse, Killers, Foo Fighters, Coldplay, Strokes, Stripes, Eminem oh and a couple of Welsh bands that weren't bad. I think you are old!

This "oldie" thread just reminded me.  Did anyone on here go to the National Jazz and Blues Festival at PLUMPTON Racecourse in 1969 and 1970. Yes really!!! They are recreating it with tribute bands in August this year.  I may go, especially if Steamhammer and Caravan are represented. I do not intend to walk there this time.

Fwiw most of the bands could hardly play their instruments.
When The Byrds "recorded" Mr Tambourine Man the producer would only let Roger McQuinn play.
Most bands toured and at the same time "their" music was recorded in the studios in their absence (The Beach Boys an example).
They later added vocals.

These two (session musicians) were on most hit records recorded in Los Angeles.
Hal Blaine (drummer): 35,000 recording sessions; 6,000 singles; 40 USA No 1 hits; 6 USA No 1 hits in a row.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal_Blaine
Carole Kaye (bass guitar): hundreds of records, also TV themes (MASH; The Streets of San Francisco; Mission Impossible)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Kaye

The session musicians did more than play.
They could read music, do arrangements, suggest improvements.

Glen Campbell was a session musician before he became a star. He was an incredible guitarist.

Shaddapayaface

I was merely comparing boy bands to performers with a voice Blackbarn….

My favourites growing up were David Bowie,Eric Clapton,E.L.O. and the Stones…..plus countless other class performers….

Coldplay for me would be like an Iraqi torture chamber…..

Yes, Fleetwwod Mac a vreat shout. Rumours one of the greatest albums & better than anything the fab four did.

Stones, Dire Straits, Pink Floyd

The Moody Blues were vastly underrated in the UK. The seven "core" albums are still brilliant.

What about THE DRIFTERS.

In 1967 THE MONKEES outsold the THE BEATLES and THE STONES

Roxy Music a shocking omission so far.

The one and only. PINK FLOYD

The War On Drugs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DozKK7HW_RA&list=RDDozKK7HW_RA&start_radio=1

KINKS

Miles Davis, Bill Evans, John Coltrane, Cannonball Adderley, Paul Chambers, Jimmy Cobb.                   

The Miles Davis Sextet.

Ray Manzarek, Robbie Krieger, John Densmore, Jim Morrison.

The Doors.

So distinctive, never really heard anyone else like them and Jim was one of the most charismatic (and certainly enigmatic) frontmen ever.

Loper. Class selections. I'm not aware of Paul Chambers or Jimmy Cobb. I could add Art Blakey To your list. Well done.