Posted on 08/26/2014 9:30:44 AM PDT by Squawk 8888
It seems everyone has an opinion about the Calgary radio station’s choice to adopt the new QuickHitz editing program, writes G&B writer Vanessa Azzoli.
We certainly can’t forget the rock songs we love (and sometimes love to hate) that need to be listened to in their full length in order to be awesome. I’ve put together a list of some of my favourites. There are some obvious choices on here – I think every person I asked said “Stairway to Heaven.”
But, there are some on here that I think most of us forgot about. What are your favourite lengthy rock tunes?
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A few more suggestions that had both Top40 cut-down versions and long, extended versions...
I Don't Need No Doctor---Humble Pie
Roll Over Bethoven---ELO
And some more that were strictly FM ("...WMMR, Philadelphia...THE radio station..." ...as the promo said...)
Glad---Traffic
Had to Cry Today---Blind Faith
Peace of Mind/Fruit & Icebergs/Honey Butter Lover---Blue Cheer (I had the album version where they rolled right onto each other...)
See My Way---Bloodwyn Pig
The Grateful Dead, Live, no albums, just sound boards or audience tapes of actual concerts.
1970 was a very good year. Google “grateful dead archive by year” and listen to Feb 12, 1970 and September 19, 1970. The sheer quantity and quality of their work is sublime. Some of the best is for sale, which is fair, but you can listen to thousands of concerts for free. May 19, 1977 (Barton Hall) is a good concert for a free first listen, as are hundreds of others.
Phish - A Live One
Oops, feb 11, 1970 is what I meant to type; Peter Green (original founder of fleet wood Mac) and Duane allman jammed with Garcia and the boys; unbelievable Dark Star, Spanish Jam, turn on your love light; nothing like it.
Peter Green - Green Manalishi, Man of The World, Albatross.
Also, the author and first performer of Black Magic Woman.
If as you say, he played live with Gerry and Duane, I gotta find that.
Saw McClaughlin on the Boston Common, probably ‘71. I think it was called The Sunset Series.
His sound made me think that the air was full of electricity.
Although, Peter was probably pretty well fried by 1970.
Google “grateful dead archive by year”
Go to 1970
Go to 2-11
Green plugs into second set Dark Star, but don’t miss Not Fade Away from first set, epic; allman plugs in his guitar somewhere later in Dark Star and there is a complete meltdown through Spanish Jam and Lovelight;
No, Peter was fine in February; unfortunately he learned to use LSD Blind Faith. The entire album.and later was given an overdose of LSD on a commune in Germany. Drug abuse has horrible consequences. The music was so good; who needed drugs ? Foolish, foolish
They think he got slipped something that night at that commune in Germany. Fascinating and tragic story. All credit to Santana for bringing him onstage, when Carlos was inducted into r&r HoF, for a rendition of Black Magic Woman.
Yes, agreed; why have the last two generations not learned the lesson about drug abuse from the generation of Peter Green ? Heroin, Meth, etc. are a plague and marijuana legalization is sweeping the country. It seems we are caught in a downward cycle. And the music just keeps getting worse.
Many rock songs take way too long to end. Case in point was the rock band Oasis. If they had chopped 90 seconds off the end of their ponderous songs and tightened the arrangements up a bit, they would have been as big as The Beatles.
Maybe if more people knew about Peter Green sitting in an “institution” for thirty years drooling on himself. Ironically, at the castle in Germany, his band mates went inside to find Peter high as a kite playing guitar for these very very rich Germans who had virtually kidnapped him as there own pet Rock God. They said it was the worst music they ever heard him play. Peter thought it was the best music he’d ever played.
But, it is hard to apply the lessons of the ‘60s to the last two generations. The drugs today are big and bad and powerful and pervasive and I don’t see much parallel to the ‘60’s. You’ll recall the mantras “sex drugs and rock ‘n roll” and “turn on, tune in, drop out”. I guess today that has been reduced to “drugs, sex and drop out”.
The shit storm of today definitely had its first big surge in the ‘60s. But that is a whole topic unto itself.
In Memory of Elizabeth Reed
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