Favorite band or artist of all time?

I listened to a live video of the Jimi Hendrix Experience on NY Eve. 
Bach is a g_d of composition of course. John Coltrane opened my eyes to jazz (a pathetic word for an undefinable type of modern music).
But Jimi had something that completely blows me away. Three guys-
that's all it took. Usually it takes a whole bunch of guys playing together,
but not the "Experience". They take me through a "worm hole" like in the movie "Contact". Past the speed of light. Maybe Elvis is still alive somewhere, but I am SURE that Jimi is still very much alive. 

BDP24, I agree with what you like, too. A lot. But... well my connection to the JHE was immediate and like a force of nature (so to speak).  I have never tired of listening to them- like great jazz or Mozart my appreciation just gets better all the time.  Some like fireworks (I do too), but I can "hear" the lights and the colors when I listen to those live concert tapes. 
And a lot more. P.S.- The Beatles were "okay" too!

THE subject at hand was not to tear down musicians and composers but to pay a (little) homage to an art form that touches your soul. I can mention names (even though my memory is not the greatest) of deserving people who have populated a planet with an abundance of mediocrity (I include myself). But I don't get the point in being cynical.  Beethoven even wrote a few pieces even he would have admitted weren't that great. Bach wrote some easier pieces for his wife so she could practice.
Someone wrote "Jingle Bells" which does not put me in the holiday mood yet I hear jazz renditions of it anyway. I would hope that we might all agree that some music makes some of us Really Truly Happy.