Posted on 10/26/2017 8:31:58 AM PDT by Red Badger
I listed to a bunch of their youtube stuff, including some covers. It’s very reminiscent of Led Zep, and a couple of times it was very Geddy Lee-ish, too. All simple straight-forward 70’s and 80’s rock. Nothing that made me want to rush (hah) out and get their iTunes material, or even download the songs from Youtube, but there is potential there.
Pink Floyd, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Eagles, Jethro Tull, ELO, Chicago, etc. Serious American rock is coming back to life.
One opinion: Top 100 Classic Rock Artists
Long may it live.
My 19 year old son and all his friends/school mates listen to the same classic rock I grew listening to in the 1970’s & 1980’s. The big difference was I was listening to it on vinyl, 8 track and cassette. He is listening to it on his phone or computer.
I visited my moms this past summer with my son. I showed him the Meatloaf Bat out of Hell album(he has this on this downloaded on his phone) I had in my old bedroom on 8 TRACK. Unfortunately, we could not get the Panasonic 8 Track stereo with Thruster speakers to function. The radio still works. Like Marty Mcfly says: “All the best stuff is made in Japan”.
I remember my son playing The Cars’ first album almost non-stop for about a month.
Maybe just throw 15 minutes of solos into each song.
Their Not bad...Flashbacks to when I was doing that at 22 yrs old.
Another young’n with original chops, 15 year old Griffin Tucker from Dallas, TX.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffwkQC3UdBo
It’s like young Robert Plant’s singing voice was cloned.
Pure slop
Classic Rock Bookmark.
Plant was basically doing an imitation of Janis Joplin on those early Zep records.
I'm more into Gentle Giant.
While listening to some obscure rock radio station in the NH mountains, they referenced it to sex or drugs -
I definately prefer your facts.. and I take back my “eeeew”.
5:42PM BST 20 May 2014
To celebrate the release of Pink Floyd’s remastered 1979 classic The Wall, we have a live stream of tracks and demos. Today is the last day of our online exclusive.
1. Pink Floyd’s most successful single Another Brick In The Wall, Part 2 (1979) - selling more than 4 million copies worldwide - was written as a protest against rigid schooling, and boarding schools in particular.
2. Roger Waters came up with the concept for The Wall album in a moment of disgust when, on tour in Canada, a fan made his way onto the stage and spat on him.
3. Roughly one in every 12 people in the world are estimated to have a copy of Pink Floyd’s top selling album Dark Side Of The Moon (1973)
4. In 1975, ex-band member Syd Barrett turned up at the recording of ‘Shine On You Crazy Diamond’ at Abbey Road studios. According to reports, he was balding and fat, and looked so terrible that Roger Waters and David Gilmour cried.
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5. Some unusual extra hands went into the making of The Division Bell album, their last album, made in 1994: Douglas Adams, the author of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, named it, and the scientist Stephen Hawking makes a guest appearance on it.
6. Syd Barrett was born Roger Keith Barrett. He got the nickname ‘Syd’ from his friends when he was 15, after a local drummer named Sid Barrett.
7. Before they were Pink Floyd, the band called themselves The Pink Floyd Sound. It gets worse: before that they were The Tea Set, and The Abdabs. And before that? Syd Barrett and David Gilmour played together in a band named Jokers Wild.
8. Pink Anderson and Floyd Council, the two Americans who inspired the band’s title were both early blues singers. Both musicians died within a year of the release of Pink Floyd’s seminal album, Wish You Were Here (1975). Anderson’s son ‘Little Pink Anderson’ is a bluesman too, and he’s still alive.
9. The title for their fifth studio album, Atom Heart Mother (1970), came from a newspaper heading about a woman who was receiving the first (atomic) pacemaker. The album saw the band experiment - mostly unsuccessfully - with prog rock.
10. When Sir Bob Geldof appeared in the 1982 film of Pink Floyd’s The Wall he had to improvise as he wasn’t given a script to work from.
The old “obscure radio station” defense.
Don’t worry I have traveled the country and heard plenty of absurdities on small radio stations.
I watched a documentary on Pink Floyd and they talked about Syd showing up at the studio.
I think it was Waters who said they didn’t recognise him: balding, fat and dressed in corduroy pants, long sleeved white shirt and a sweater.
It was about fifteen minutes before Syd spoke and they recognised him by his voice.
In another interview David Gilmour talked about visiting Syd.
They wouldn’t really talk, there was a lot of silence.
Gilmour said he spent many days wondering what could have been if Syd could have retained his hold on sanity.
I was playing a live album in the car recently (Ricky Skaggs and Bruce Hornsby), and one of my sons mentioned how long the tracks were because of all the instrumental noodling.
“Everyone knows rock attained perfection in 1974, it’s a scientific fact”
Grand Funk Railroad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXKmsvRXE4A
Yeah, after ‘Stairway to Heaven’ it all went downhill................
I don’t think any band will ever be able to even come close to Iron Maiden.
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