Music Buffs, Axl Rose - 1983, Rapidfire newly discovered music (pre GnR)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzdCmbHdHb8 ^

[Scythian_Reborn]

Axl Rose in 1983, barely out of Lafayette Jefferson High School in Indiana, was in a band called Rapidfire. This music was very recently "rediscovered". Axl doesn't have his classic sound yet, he's very young here ... I love this song, what do you think?

Axl Rose, 1983, Rapidfire, Closure ...

[Vaden]

You should stop talking now. Please. There’s nobody more overrated than the Dead and their eternal “songs” that their drug-entranced fans slept thru with open eyes.

[wardaddy]

Great story man,

Windmilling with a cast!

I forgot that Tulls Aqualung stereo tour was pretty sharp too

Santana circa 72 or so not too shabby

Canned Heat 1971 with Its a Beautiful Day

Yes....I liked David LaFlamme and that girl

Alice Cooper Love it to Death to BDB years was always dependable

Edgar and Johnny with Derringer and the rest in early 1973 Hattiesburg MS when an older married women granted me that very first introduction to Ted Nugents Wang Dang Sweet P......g

Speaking of which. The Stranglehold tour in 1976 was very strong

And of course a zillion Dead and Marmaduke shows

But my early grade school shows in tiny old wooden venues like armories and college gymnasiums

Mid 60s to 1970/71

Animals

Vanilla Fudge

Monkees

Grass Roots

Gary Puckett and Union Gap

Percy Sledge and Mr Pickett

Tommy James

Those have faded but they mattered a lot to a 12 year old

[wardaddy]

Lou Reed deserved the hype just don’t do albums with Metallica
I listened to Sister Ray yesterday

It has stood up well

[wardaddy]

I hate to say my only Dylan show besides RTR was his religious era and that’s all he wanted to play

Not my favorite

At RTR I was interested in McGuinn cause I like the Byrds a lot especially the Untitled era

That’s made me an army of one

[wardaddy]

Yep were on the same page

This is much worse than Disco Sucks

But that was a harbinger

[wardaddy]

I’m on xfinity but I play YouTube on Apple TV

I’m on a quest

To get Kirwin Spencer Welch era Fleetwood Mac from say The period between Green Manalishi and Go Your Own Way exposed on Napster or iTunes

You can’t find it except on YouTube

I love that era when Christine McVie shined

Bare Trees and Future Games back to Kiln House

Manalishi is a great song though

And yet another harbinger you know?

[Gargantua]

"Well thank goodness we have you to tell us who is “worthy” and who isn’t! /s'

Keep listenin', kid... you'll catch on.

BTW, when someone posts a thread asking for opinions on rock bands, you should expect some responses in kind, and not let them upset you so.

;^)

[Gargantua]

"You should stop talking now."

What a fine, liberal debating point! Your folks must be so proud. LMAO!!!!

[wardaddy]

I’m a deadhead from pretty far back

I bought the first Warner Bros record with Trips in the Uncle Sam top hat in 7th grade which came with a glossy poster of that album cover and one of the Electric Prunes and Van Morrison and others....

I was intimately familiar with the legacy of Kesey and Bear and La Honda and Robert Hunter and Jerry and so forth to the point of having my own direct line to Nick Sand and TBOEL....I’m just i really lived that cultural era

I saw many shows from 71-78......all over the southeast and Texas....

I helped with a show at the Mississippi Arts festival in 78 where even though a smallish crowd in a cavernous coliseum they played over three and a half hours and were extremely considerate of the audience given it was their one show there ever

And I still listen to them.....I listened to Death Have No Mercy from Live just last nite while searching for their version of Just like Tom Thumb Blues on Napster

I prefer the Pig era and consider Workingmam and Beauty perfection

My interest wanes after Terrapin....really after Mars to be honest and I like the 60s to mid 70s archive.org shows best.....after Mars they got jazzier and less bluesy

That translates to more Phil .......

Anyhow....best fans ever but best Rock band ever I dont agree

They weren’t really a rock band......more Americana music ....psychedelic blues to start but then more folk blues and almost Leadbelly on acid music

Garcia loved country and bluegrass and Bob loved Marty Robbins storytelling country

If you only buy one dead album....toss up between Skull and Roses or Europe 72

One studio album.....has to be Beauty .....their most accessible work but Axomoxoa captures the uncle Sidney feeling better....St Stephen.....man I still recall that mood like a fall afternoon outdoor trip...peaking just like the leaves

I get it....trust me....my oldest boy gets it too

[Gargantua]

"...St Stephen.....man I still recall that mood like a fall afternoon outdoor trip...peaking just like the leaves..."

If you saw the goosebumps sprint up my arm as I read this, you'd laugh. That was a long time and several worlds ago, but it'll always be right...there! (long, wistful sigh...)

Trips in a Flag hat indeed. He always looked better with the beard. 71-78 means you saw the best of the best, as did I. Though I was all Northeast, and was around for Spring of '78 from Boston Garden through Ithaca... epic!!!! And you know what I mean when I refer to the musicality of the artists involved. Well done. Truly well done.

[Mr. Mojo]

Without a doubt the Dead’s album peak was ‘69 - ‘72 -— Live Dead, Workingman’s, Beauty, S & R, Europe ‘72. McKernan gave them a blues edge they haven’t had since. But still, they remained a formidable force on stage long after that era. Last time I saw them was in ‘87 in Ventura, and they still had it going on.

I agree with your characterization — Americana music, not rock. lol @ Leadbelly on acid. I recently burned a Leadbelly CD by using this YouTube to MP3 program: http://www.youtube-mp3.org

It’s easy. Just copy any YT URL, paste in it in field provided, and click on “convert video.” Only limitation is that the vid has to be under 20 min. in length. No problem if you download one song at a time.

[Mr. Mojo]

I saw Dylan’s “Saved” show as well (in ‘80). Didn’t appreciate that particular phase of his at the time, but did when I got older. There’s some amazing gospel there.

You went to RTR to see McGuinn? He and Hillman — legends. Sweetheart of the Rodeo is one of my all time favorite records. I’d also put Stephen Stills’ Manassas up there.

[Gargantua]

Oh, and if you buy only one, make it Europe '72.

FReep on!

[StoneWall Brigade]

Did you ever listen to Jerry’s bluegrass stuff? Boy that dude could pick a bandjo

[wardaddy]

Old and in the Way

I’m getting there myself

[Gargantua]

That a few musical savants/geniuses have managed to make one chord interesting does not change the fact that every aspiring songwriter invariably starts out life as a composer with some simple two-or-three chord progression.. which sucks.

After that, there is room for discussion, but not before.