Posted on 07/30/2015 10:25:43 AM PDT by the scotsman
'If you wish to launch a humdinger of an argument – and one you might win – sidle up to just about any 1960s rock fan and offer the opinion that it was not the Beatles, the Stones, Pink Floyd, Hendrix, the Velvet Underground or the Byrds who were the key sonic inventors of the decade.
Nope: wasn't any of those collectives of aural innovation who did quite what the Yardbirds did in terms of overhauling sound, never mind that they couldn't keep a steady lineup and were pretty much unclassifiable, save as the dudes who influenced everybody else and basically birthed blues rock, garage rock and heavy metal.'
(Excerpt) Read more at rollingstone.com ...
It’s a darn shame that I won’t read Rolling Stone because that looks like an interesting article. I simply have a hard time patronizing people who openly and unapologetically hate my country.
Jeff Beck has always been very special.
Sorry. Will not click the link and give them hits.
Rolling Stone is trying to make up for past stupidity...the self anointed “authorities on rock and roll” did nothing but berate and destroy the mighty Led Zeppelin in the 70’s as the band roamed the earth, kicking butt and taking names...
the past 20 years they’ve changed their tunes and finally realized what everyone else has known about the mighty Zep...
RS is complete and utter garbage....they even suck at their “specialty”- rock and roll...
"The power chording throughout just about makes your loins vibrate, too."
Eric Clapner has always been my fav.......................
yep... sorry will not give them a click..
too bad... love the Yardbirds... always did, always will. “Shapes of Things”... amazing song... “Becks Bolero” blew my mind as a young boy... that was the one that opened it up for me.
add in The Kinks.. and the Hollies... those were bands I was going crazy over.. over course the Stones and Beatles go without saying..
I prefer Eric Clapton myself.
I think he had more influence on modern rock than anyone else.................
Still boggled that any band would call themselves “The Chickens” essentially. Guessing they had no idea that’s what a “yardbird” is.
Note to the people with the leaking brains at Rolling Stone:
Leave politics to sentient adults, people with IQ’s higher than 30, and other people who actually understand what they're talking about.
While a lot of my friends were going crazy for the Beatles in the mid 60s, I was listening the Yardbirds. With Clapton, then Jeff Beck, then Jimmy Page on guitar with Page and Beck together in the band at one point. Their music still sounds fresh today. They led me to the Bluesmen like Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, Howlin Wolf, etc. whose music they covered. The Yardbirds were so much more than a top 40 group. Their versions of “Train kept a rollin” and “Smokestack Lightning” will still rock the house.
I get it that the band Rush is not everybodys cup of tea, but it took them over 40 years and 10s of millions of record sales to finally get on the cover of the Rolling Stone(June 2015), for what is worth.
I'm sure the reluctance was still high to put a marginalized artist on the cover, but at least Rush has a measurable amount of success.
The following month, they had the tramp Kim Kardashian on the cover. Perhaps Rush should have declined.
Huh?
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See post #16..........8^)
Love the Yardbirds, but the Kinks need some mention too. ‘You Really Got Me’ was released August 1964 and sounded way different than most of the other rock/pop songs at the time. It kind of set the tone for a lot of the hard rock bands that followed.
Rolling Stone came to believe their own hype. They went from being anti-establishment to a mouth organ for the Democratic Party. If the 60 and 70’s writers knew the current writers were such suckups to the White House, they would be appalled.
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