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Kyuss are boss.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtrL4E9BVjE

QOTSA
Black Sabbath
Fu Manchu (saw them in concert years ago)
Nashville Pussy (ditto...the southern dirtbag ethic)

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Get on these doom metal stoners too. Electric Wizard

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWHplp10kQM

I finally got around to seeing QOTSA last summer when they were supporting the re-release of their debut. Great show.

Try the forum's own Vultures Await which features our friend Cletus on guitar. Pretty good stuff.

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Dopethrone, imo, is the heaviest album ever. Every one of their albums is great for fans of Stoner Rock.
Also, in 2000, I ran sound for them at a club and recorded their show. Yes, they were good with it and I sent them a copy. Nice to have my own Electric Wizard Boot!

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I love QOTSA. Saw them perform their debut album (plus more) this May. Awesome show!

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Other Stoner bands I like that aren't listed:
W.I.T.C.H.
Bongzilla
Kylesa
Sleep
and I recently got the red vinyl of the new Pelican What We All Come to Need, great album!

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Sleep
Asbestos Death
Om
High on Fire
Operator Generator
Fu Manchu
Most of what Mansruin Records put out in the 90s

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CLETUS must now, regretfully, dispose of the ones who refuse to alter their unmusical ways.
http://www.vulturesawait.com

Oh, I saw Acid Mothers Temple a few years ago, and it was hands-down the loudest show I've ever been to. I had earplugs in, and my ears were still a little messed up the next day. There can't be a guy left in the band who isn't deaf.

Pink Floyd the Grandaddy of them all...

Don't get me wrong, I love Pink Floyd, but they weren't prolific enough. And I don't mean prolific for the sake of it I mean prolific with variety, like FZ. I'm way too familiar with their better stuff. I listen more to King Crimson these days because there's more of it and it's less grooved into my brain. For example, I love the Wish You Were Here album, but I know it so well it drives me nuts.

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The way I see it Barry, this should be a very dynamite show.

Plook, Poly, It seems yer thinking of Psychedelic, not Stoner. Yeah, picky picky, hahaha

http://allmusic.com/explore/style/stoner-metal-d11953

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Dude we smoked tons of pot listenning to Dark Side of the Moonn thousands of times, I'm pretty sure it qualifies as stoner music...

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I hear what both of ya are saying. .the irony is alot of the musicians making this music don't even smoke weed. (happen to be friends with a few on the lists)

Also the band Neurosis was a huge influence on Sleep and the roots of the genre.

To define the genre would be difficult since so many bands cross over to other sub genres that metal (and really Black Sabbath) spawned. It usually contains very tuned down guitars and distorted bass, oversized drums and very repetitive guitar riffs. Green amps are common. The important thing would be the contrast that these bands and other bands had at the time were doing. LA Glam was huge..then suddenly Grunge. Stoner rock was not a genre and wasnt called by name for another 10 years. Sleep was the first band I heard (and shared the stage with) tune down and play so slow it sounded like a 45 on 78 (very slow and low). 15 minute songs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24pOo5htg9E (this is the recording that got Sleep canned from their label). Kyuss was also groundbreakers. Desert sessions and Fu Manchu and then QOTSA came from members of Kyuss. Black Sabbath Vol 4 has a sound and production quality similar to many of these bands…imo

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I smoked a joint when I listened to Pat Benatar one time. So I say Pat Benatar.

"Hit me with your best pot....fire away!" HAHAHAHAHAHA

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Sorry folks with my digressions. I know "Stoner Rock" is an identifiable sub genre of heavy metal as Cletus defined. Kinda of a slow-mid tempo, sludgy, bluesy, heavy thang.

When I think of Rock and Stoner I think the Grateful Dead. But I guess that was more of and acid/lsd kind of band.

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Earthless
Graveyard
Witchcraft
Leaf Hound
May Blitz
Bloodrock
Sir Lord Baltimore

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This 90's thing may be true, but that does not negate the fact that half the draw to listening to Frank Zappa, Pink Floyd, Yes, Deep Purple, Led Zepplin, David Bowie, and others suck as Kraftwork and the Tubes etc..in the 60's, 70's, 80's, and beyond..was you got stoned to enhance the listening experiance. All this other stuff is some sort of modernized rehash (which usually means "not as good") of an experiance that had come before.