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Will classic rock last for all eternity?
Oak Lawn (IL) Reporter ^
| 4/17/03
| Michael M. Bates
Posted on 04/15/2003 4:46:52 PM PDT by mikeb704
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To: God luvs America
Anyone who can recite zep off the collar like that is a friend of mine. I gotta learn OTHAFA on my 6-string; along with Tangerine.
To: Billthedrill
"I just love Oldfield, an unsung genius, but I think the only two copies of Hergest Ridge he sold were to you and to me" He's a superstar in Europe, especially Germany and Spain.
Here in L.A., his Tubular Bells II tour was unable to fill the Greek Theatre and was moved to the (much smaller) John Anson Ford theater. He no longer tours in the U.S. because there is no profit in it.
I thought him lost after "Songs of Distant Earth" but his recent release, "Tres Lunas" still shows some Oldfieldian promise.
Nevertheless, I think him the finest composer since Gershwin.
A brief list of my faves, in no particular order:
Tubular Bells I
Tubular Bells II
Hergest Ridge
Ommadawn
Five Miles Out
Incantations
Platinum also released as Airborn
The Songs of Distant Earth
The ones that leave me cold include:
Earth Moving
Guitars
Voyager
Orchestral anything
I can listen to Crises but it is just not 'it'. Although the Oldfieldian web group is called "Amarok" I don't particularly enjoy the album by the same name. I characterize it as "occasional moments of sheer brilliance interspersed with gobs of filler."
When Mike is on he is ON and he hooks into the alpha rhythm like old papa Bach.
--Boris
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posted on
04/15/2003 8:34:32 PM PDT
by
boris
(Education is always painful; pain is always educational)
To: mikeb704
Rock is dead they say.
To: 103198
Whoops, I mean I saw them in 1975. I might have been in a time warp back then.
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posted on
04/15/2003 8:36:12 PM PDT
by
103198
To: patriot5186
Rock is dead they say.Drat. I'm always the last to hear stuff.
To: mikeb704
I know rock will last forever. I had on a hard rock station the other day and my mother started singing a Lynard Skynard tune. I just about keeled over and died... Meanwhile, whenever these pop/rap artists make a tune, she almost always tells me oh that's an old song. Rock is universal, and totally immortal and far reaching.
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posted on
04/15/2003 8:37:29 PM PDT
by
cyborg
To: 103198
"The Song Remains the Same"Got it on vhs - amazing how young the boys look. the footage of plant's home/farm/ranch is beautiful - I don't remember too much more. wished many times i was at one of those shows on the video - they say bonzo pounded the sticks like nobody's business and page ripped out tunes on his guitars.
To: stainlessbanner
Just found Houses of the Holy in the Stainless Music archives and played my fav tune: "Over the Hills and Far Away" Yes that's excellent. And I especially like "No Quarter" on there too, although the live version on The Song Remains The Same is the one I listen to more often.
To: patriot5186
Long Live Rock!
To: 103198
I'll jump in here with a Zep ping as well. At 42, Led Zeppelin is still my favorite band of all time.
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posted on
04/15/2003 8:48:32 PM PDT
by
MCH
To: tame
ping
To: Burr5
Good post. A small disagreement, however.
Joe Satriani will be remembered as a pioneer, like Django reinhardt. Maybe not well known, but still appreciated. The others, good as they are, will fade.
You may be right about Chrissie Hynde. I shudder to think of this dolt remembered, when Tull masterpieces may be forgotten.
To: mikeb704
"The Locomotion." The song was a giant hit in 1962.I began conjecturing if "The Locomotion" will still be listened to in yet another 40 years.
If you were a teenager in 1962 - let's say you were 15 - then in 2043 you will be 96. If you were 12 in 1962, then you will be 93 in 2043.
Sorry, but that music is likely to die out with the last of that generation.
Some people will always be attracted to retro music, but it will only be a small minority - certainly not a majority of people.
To: BMeyer8622
Good "Who" catch BMeyer!
To: TruBluKentuckian; ffusco
The Allman Bros. played my high school graduation dance.
Lakeside H.S., DeKalb Co. Ga. class of '70
Duane was alive.
For a brief time they were the best Rock & Roll band on the planet.
Duane died.
They were never the same.
Not even close.
To: mikeb704
Rock is dead they say. Drat. I'm always the last to hear stuff.
That's ok..I heard it on CNN so it's likely not true. I think they were doing a story about Keith Richards.
To: eddie willers
Allman Joys!
To: stainlessbanner
Glad they changed their name when they left Florida.
To: billorites
LOL...that was Timothy McVeigh's favorite group.
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posted on
04/15/2003 9:33:01 PM PDT
by
Kenno
To: Burr5
Put Ronnie James Dio in the second column.
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04/15/2003 9:36:15 PM PDT
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Kenno
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