Posted on 05/02/2015 8:51:26 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
I saw The Doobie Brothers and Don Felder (Eagles) last night and they still sound great.
Eagles are my all-time favorite. I never get tired of listening to them. I'm a believer in rock keeping us young!
Kinks...Art Lover is an amazing song. Sounds totally pedo-pervy until you realize what he’s talking about.
Edit...”Almost the SAME thing...”
The Who
I’m not sure I’d put it in their top 10, and I don’t think I’d put them in the top 10. He does have a great rock voice, though.
They also aren’t in the top 10 concerts I’ve seen (and yes, I did see them on the Agent Provocateur tour.) As someone else said, I thought that song was more in the adult contemporary mold rather than rock, and Foreigner sounded better as a rock band. I know that song was their biggest hit, but I think that was because that genre was more commercially viable.
My Foreigner Top 10:
1. Juke Box Hero
2. Long Long Way From Home
3. Cold As Ice
4. Hot Blooded
5. Head Games
6. Double Vision
7. Urgent
OK, I guess it’s going to make it.
8. Waiting For a Girl Like You ()
9. I Want to Know What Love Is
10. Feels Like the First Time
On another day, these might move up:
11. That Was Yesterday
12. Say You Will
13. Dirty White Boy
YES! Still very listenable to this day.
Stones. I love so many bands but the Stones never fail me.
I’ve loved so many bands over the more than half century I’ve been involved with music that it is hard to say who my absolute favorite is. If pressed, I would have to say Dire Straits/Mark Knopfler’s solo work. I’ve had 2 musical epiphanies in my life. The first was hearing Elvis in about 1962. The second was hearing Dire Straits’ first album in 1978. Knopfler’s guitar can still bring tears to my eyes!
The Clinton/Gore usurpation of "Stop Thinking About Tomorrow" kind of ruined Fleetwood Mac for me.
My screen name is also my answer.
“Over the hills and far away” by Led Zeppelin: Hey Lady, you got the love I need, ...
I try not to think about that...but I do tend to skip over “Don’t Stop” when playing Rumours.
Cream, The Doors, The Who, and The Jimi Hendrix Experience are head and shoulders above all the rest. I’ll put Jethro Tull in at 5th and Traffic at 6th. Doesn’t musical ability apply to picking the best bands??? It doesn’t seem so here. Other musicians that are up there include Page and Bonham of Led Zep, AND Jeff Beck. 2 of the best all-time rock singers are Paul Rodgers and Eric Burden, plus Janis as the best female rock singer.
RE: “J. Geils. Club/garage band sound. Tons of energy and showmanship”
Yep. Amazing concerts during their prime.
I always though this video did a great job capturing the feel of their live performances.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5h0A1u-XsE
Led Zeppelin baby!!!
“Buddy Holly and The Crickets
Elvis Presley and his band
Dick Dale and the Del-Tones
Chuck Berry and his band”
This is more like it, I like the earlier rock and roll better, Fats Domino, Sam Cooke, Gene Vincent and the Blue Caps.
It’s pure and it’s innocent and there is a ton that people do not know. Like Bunny Paul: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsZKbK4tm7U or Ben E. King and the Drifters. A lot of the early rock and roll too had as much reliance on piano and sax as on guitar.
The Who
Moody Blues
Yardbirds
Zombies
The Smithereens
Dire Straits
Traffic
Full House has been, and still is, one of my favorite albums. Saw them live back in the mid-70's at a small club in Asbury Park, NJ. One of the best shows evah.
I am finding that even the classic rock stations are hard to listen to. They seem to play looped archives that are the same redundant songs. I'd like to hear a station with a format like the early FM stations had where they played tracks from billboard groups that weren't necessarily hits on their own.
I saw them in New Haven at the coliseum - bigger venue, but they had a section of the sage that was shaped like a T so they could come out among the crowd. It was amazing how many people they allowed to come up on stage.
Steve Miller. He is still touring and still sounds and plays incredibly well. We have tickets to see him in July, caught him 2 years ago too. Great concert.
I also have a couple of really old favorites - Little Feat comes to mind.
Didn’t type the others, Fleetwood Mac and Tom Petty and John Fogarty
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