Who is the toughest band?

[Soundhog]

Who would you guys say is the toughest band of all time?Some bands have had a hard life and keep on going through adversity.Maybe their fan base is a little rough around the edges?

 

[Miroslav L]

Do you mean in a bar fight...or the sound of their music?

 

[Soundhog]

Do you mean in a bar fight...or the sound of their music?

Toughest guys in the music business.Bands that you wouldn’t want to mess with.

 

[charliechitlins]

Little Walter, Howlin Wolf, RL Burnside, Leadbelly, Pat Hare.... Some of the aforementioned were convicted murderers.
That's pretty tough.

 

[Miroslav L]

Led Zeppelin was tough...their manager Peter Grant was someone not to mess with.

 

[mikebat]

Man-o-war!!!

I mean...loin cloths!!!

 

[ArkGuy]

Little Walter, Howlin Wolf, RL Burnside, Leadbelly, Pat Hare.... Some of the aforementioned were convicted murderers.
That's pretty tough.

I’ve read both Jerry Lee Lewis and Albert King were known to carry and Jerry Lee would occasional whip out his pistol and put it above the keyboard if this got a little dicey looking at the club.

 

[ripgtr]

Little Walter, Howlin Wolf, RL Burnside, Leadbelly, Pat Hare.... Some of the aforementioned were convicted murderers.
That's pretty tough.

My first thought was Pat Hare.
A lot of those guys carried knives and guns.
Little Walter died from the results of a bar fight from what I have read. He didn't get that scar on his forehead playing a rowdy game of Monopoly, I'd bet

 

[Eddie-Applegate]

Wu Tang

 

[Blackmore's Hat]

I read LS's road manager's book. Ronnie Van Zant broke Allen Collins' jaw with a punch and was apparently quite the bad ass.

Roger Daltrey used to rough up people in the early days of The Who.

 

[Toby Krebs]

I’ve read both Jerry Lee Lewis and Albert King were known to carry and Jerry Lee would occasional whip out his pistol and put it above the keyboard if this got a little dicey looking at the club.

I have first hand knowledge of Jerry Lee Lewis toughness meanness and general nastiness.
The metal guys would run away from him with the Bro Country toughs in hot pursuit!

 

[FusionRock]

Ronnie Van Zant supposedly got into physical fights with everyone in Skynyrd. Maybe not with Artimus (ex-Marine)

 

[Tom Gilman]

 

[pondcaster]

Paul.

 

[Cody]

“Yeah, but can they fight?”

 

[ozraves]

That would be the Cab Calloway Orchestra.

"In 1941 Calloway fired Dizzy Gillespie from his orchestra after an onstage fracas. Calloway wrongly accused Gillespie of throwing a spitball; in the ensuing altercation Gillespie stabbed Calloway in the leg with a small knife."

The Cab Calloway Orchestra - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[twoheadedboy]

Mayhem comes to mind. Maybe not the best in a street fight, but I would not want to mess with them.

 

[phillybri]

Don't sleep on Wilson Phillips...

 

[Soundhog]

Mayhem comes to mind.

Definitely the sickest band.

 

[iSeamas]

Led Zeppelin was tough...their manager Peter Grant was someone not to mess with.

Peter Grant and John Bonham were tough.

The others? not so much.