how in the world can you do a list like this and not have jim morrison and the doors on it. just look at their achievements in a few short years and you put phish and los lobos ahead of them ? are you kidding me.
Los Lobos: After the breakthrough of "La Bamba," the world
was waiting for Los Lobos to blow up. Instead, recalls Louis Perez, they went to
their record company's president, Lenny Waronker, and asked to make a record of
traditional Mexican music. "Lenny said, 'You guys really ... morewanna do this, right?
You go do it, let me figure out the rest.' Totally unheard of." It's that
freedom and willingness to follow their muse that makes Los Lobos a great rock
band ("By the Light of the Moon"), that can be both experimental ("Kiko") and
traditional ("La Pistola y El Corozon," that deservedly lauded Mexican gamble).
It was Los Lobos that Paul Simon turned to when creating the world-music album
that was "Graceland" (resulting in accusations that Simon stole songwriting
credit).
