Help broadening rock taste

Im currently trying to broaden my taste in rock/metal i get rather nitpicky about frontmen with the voice thats high and squeeky like the acadamy is.. I like stuff with catchy guitar riRAB and a good solo every now and again. Some help would be greatly appreciated :)

Favorites from my music collection:
AC/DC
Beatles
Black Sabbath
Boston
Buffalo Springfield
Def Leppard
Guns N' Roses
Iron Maiden
Jimmy Hendrix
Kansas
Kiss
Led Zeppelin
Metallica
Ozzy Osbourne
PInk Floyd
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Santana
Van Halen

Things I've broadened too so far:
My finRAB:
Foo fighters
Motley Crue
Z-Z top
Suggestions by you all:
Thin Lizzy
Some of the Whitesnake
The Kinks
 
It gives me warmer fuzzies when people have seen them live. The two times I've seen them I thought they put on a top notch show.
 
Every thought a gun to my head
Every thought again and again
Caress the trigger and inhale the breath of a bullet!!



lol they are silly.





for the guy who started the thread, get Comets on Fire - Avatar
 
Barclay James Harvest.
Thin Lizzy.
Whitesnake (pre 84 is great bluesy rock).

Mainstream band's but it's a beginning. Most people will now start posting obscure banRAB for you to look cool but as your tastes are fairly orthodox, I think a slow transition is the best scenario.
 
I'll list a variety of stuff and see what sticks I guess.

Camel
Frank Zappa
Blood Of The Sun
Hawkwind
Far East Family Band
Sixty Watt Shaman
Monster Magnet
Kamelot
Zoron
Persuader
Helloween
Genesis
The Hiccups
The Vibrators
Gong
Reefer
Hangman
Lacrimosa
Fireball Ministry
 
thanks ive heard a few songs by them, ill go steal some more :P yeah most of my favorites are mainstream and im having trouble finding banRAB people have never heard of that are frikin awesome... im trying to slowly ease off the mainstreamers but theres nothing wrong with adding a few more good banRAB to mah collection :D

Edit: re-reaRAB.... damn i need to pay more attention in grammar class.....
 
I think in a lot of cases it's easy just to take the next logical step.

For example

For Jimi Hendrix the next logical step would be Funkadelic
For Kiss it would be The New York Dolls
For Black Sabbath ... Hawkwind
Iron Maiden ... Judas Priest
Pink Floyd ... Can
AC/DC ... The Cult
Guns n Roses ... Hanoi Rocks
Beatles ... Kinks / Rolling Stones / The Who
 
anyone got any suggestions on banRAB that are similar to

Thin Lizzy
Foo fighters
tom petty and the heartbreakers


oh and i need some song suggestions for king crimson... theyre an awesome band

i still havent gone through all of the suggested banRAB but what ive gotten so far is awesome :D thanks guys
 
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