[QUOTE=FrailandBedazzled1979]The Black Crowes were a huge suprise in 1990. Sounding like a early 70's hard rock act, with modern technology, and a unique sound that was completly against what was big at the moment (glam rock, thrash metal, grunge). The Black Crowes were musically one of the most important bands of the last decade.[/QUOTE]
Actually, I always felt grunge was as close to a real rock revival as we've gotten in the past couple decades (other than a few bands here and there like the Crowes.) You can hear a huge classic rock influence in bands like Smashing Pumpkins, Soundgarden, Alice In Chains, Pearl Jam, etc. Not to mention the stoner rock genre spawned by it, bands like Kyuss and so forth. Both of these genres were heavily influenced by Zeppelin, Sabbath, Beatles, MC5, Blue Cheer, and the like.

Anybody here dig Queens of the Stone Age?

Hey Morbid, you like Ween too?! I think they are an awesome band. Their sence of humor is legendary. Haha. Me and my friend used to pretend were Gene and Deen [/sad, true, emberasing, and lame]. Anyway, do you worship Boongish? Hehehe. What's your favorite albums. Mine are [I]Pure Guava[/I] and [I]The Mollusk[/I]. And I guess Ween is a bit like Phish, only a bit. They are also a bit like The Flaming Lips and/or Primus. Anyway, share your love of Ween.

[QUOTE=badmoon349]Okay, here I'm going to list bands that are lesser known in today's Classic Rock craze. Everyone who's favorite Classic Rock bands are The Beatles, The Who, Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, The Doors, The Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, Deep Purple, Kiss, Pink Floyd, and Aerosmith, should read this. I'm not going against them, I'm just trying to add introduce some more fabulous Classic Rok bands to widen horizons. Rock Not Roll, Rock n Roll, Frailed, Voodoo, DVG, and B0nzo can add on to these.

[B]The Grateful Dead[/B] - A band that is famous for adding many genres to a mellow saphisticated arragment including intertwining guitars, dual drumming, and so forth. In each album you can sense a different influence, though they usually stick to Country, Bluegrass, and Psychedelia. A good portion of their songs are old covers, or written with references involving old literature and stories. They have been known to do long jams, with fantastic improvisation. Time period = Mid 60's - Mid 90's.

[B]The MC5[/B] - A band based on the ideas of a man named John Sinclair, who used the Detroit band as his voice. Their main purpose other than music was to preach the idea to rebel for peace. They music is fast, edgey, and sharp edged. The greatest portion of their albums are live, which they are known for. They supposibly greatest album [I]Kick out the Jams[/I] shows influence of R&B. The album titled song also opens up with the famous "Kick out the jams mother*****r!!". Time period = Late 60's - Early 70's.[/QUOTE]

Nice post (Van Halen could of... should of gone in the first paragraph).

The Grateful dead are awesome. I love any band who has many different sounds (no I don't mean death/black/speed/thrash/melodic/powerful destroyokilling midevil killerguy metal or any of that foolishness). I'm going to get deep into the Grateful dead as soon as my dad burns me those records.



Ok well anyway I live in Calgary Canada and it's a pretty boring city but a large one. We recently got a new classic rock radio station which is good. And get this... my dad could be working for them soon, programing songs :D. I'll post it if he gets the job or not.

[QUOTE=badmoon349]Okay, here I'm going to list bands that are lesser known in today's Classic Rock craze. Everyone who's favorite Classic Rock bands are The Beatles, The Who, Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, The Doors, The Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, Deep Purple, Kiss, Pink Floyd, and Aerosmith, should read this. I'm not going against them, I'm just trying to add introduce some more fabulous Classic Rok bands to widen horizons. Rock Not Roll, Rock n Roll, Frailed, Voodoo, DVG, and B0nzo can add on to these.

[B]The Grateful Dead[/B] - A band that is famous for adding many genres to a mellow saphisticated arragment including intertwining guitars, dual drumming, and so forth. In each album you can sense a different influence, though they usually stick to Country, Bluegrass, and Psychedelia. A good portion of their songs are old covers, or written with references involving old literature and stories. They have been known to do long jams, with fantastic improvisation. Time period = Mid 60's - Mid 90's.

[B]The MC5[/B] - A band based on the ideas of a man named John Sinclair, who used the Detroit band as his voice. Their main purpose other than music was to preach the idea to rebel for peace. They music is fast, edgey, and sharp edged. The greatest portion of their albums are live, which they are known for. They supposibly greatest album [I]Kick out the Jams[/I] shows influence of R&B. The album titled song also opens up with the famous "Kick out the jams mother*****r!!". Time period = Late 60's - Early 70's.[/QUOTE]


Interesting that you brought up the MC5...I'm actually old enough to remember when they first came out (which shows you how old I am). They were definitely wild and unique, to say the least. John Sinclair was a radical poet/activist in the Ann Arbor - Detroit area...was behind a lot of student protests at the University of Michigan (and if I remember right, was one of the organizers of the original "Hash Bash" on the UofM campus back in the early 70's). He spent more time in jail than Courtney Love. And "Kick out the Jams" was like a national anthem for radicals. When he yells, "Kick out the jams, mother*******!", let me tell you, it didn't go unnoticed by the powers that be.

John Sinclair is still around...toned down somewhat but still kicking major butt when he has a reason to.


Anyway, here's my list - well a partial one anyway

The Beatles, The Band, Dire Straits, The Who, Bob Seger, Little Feat, Tom Petty, the Traveling Wilburys, Pink Floyd, Skynyrd, The Moody Blues, Creedence, early Stones, Warren Zevon, and Emerson, Lake and Palmer...

As I said, that's only a partial list...

Mind if i add two bands?
Velvet Underground- Combining a very interesting sound, with guitars working well, and the singer has a pretty unique sounding voice. Some nice Rhythms, probably one of my more "funky" sounding Classic Rock bands, a bit of a pop influence and jazz influence if you ask me... there songs differ quite a bit [I]You will like it if you like (in my opinion)[/I]: [B]The Who[/B]

Yardbirds:
Probably best known for their many famous guitarists that have been in there bands and the fact that Led Zeppelin were orginally going to be called "The new yardbirds", there lineup had at time Jeff Beck on guitar, Eric Clapton on guitar and Jimmy Page on guitar (not all at once mind you), Chris Dreja on Rhythm Guitar and then bass, Keith Relf with soothing vocals and Paul Samwell Smith on bass. Definetly worth checking out! [I]You would like the Yardbirds if you like:[/I] [B] Led Zeppelin, perhaps even Van Halen (but then again maybe not)[/B]

My 2 cents, sorry quite rushed if there is any mistakes.

EDIT: Anyone who read my post before my edit, sorry. I wrote in 2 minutes, got band names wrong, and therefore wrote a review for a totally different band which was wrong for it as well. Ok its partially corrected, sorry about that guys.

Um....I haer that that new band "The Darkness" is trying to revitalize the whole classic rock thing. It isn't working.One song that gets airplay on VH1 or MTV is not, i repeat, NOT, going to be seen again after people get tired of it's pop value. The only modern band i'm into(the White Stripes) had an awesome song(Seven Nation Army)and once it lost it's popularity with the people who only like the flavor of the week, it was never seen again. I'm fourteen, a classic rock fan to the end, and pretty sure our music world is on the road to be dominated by rap and bad emo guitar bands. :confused: :angry:

I think some overlooked classic rock songs are

Edge of Sundown-Molly Hatchet
The Cowboy Song-Thin Lizzy
Holy Water-Bad Company

[quote]Um....I haer that that new band "The Darkness" is trying to revitalize the whole classic rock thing. It isn't working.One song that gets airplay on VH1 or MTV is not, i repeat, NOT, going to be seen again after people get tired of it's pop value. The only modern band i'm into(the White Stripes) had an awesome song(Seven Nation Army)and once it lost it's popularity with the people who only like the flavor of the week, it was never seen again. I'm fourteen, a classic rock fan to the end, and pretty sure our music world is on the road to be dominated by rap and bad emo guitar bands.[/quote]

Perhaps, but its not just, the Darkness, its the general vibe, i mean, take the movie school of rock for example, i havnt met one person who didnt like that movie, and Guns N' Roses released a new greatest hits album (not officially sanctioned, but what the hell), Velvet Rovolver may well revive the hoards of Gn'R fans out there if they make it big, Hell, Jimi Hendrix's cousin is releasing a new CD sometime in the next year or so, and i've heard him, he can really play (although i dont expect too much, after all, whats in a name?)

But you get the drift, i can even see it happening, alot of me frineds (girls in particular) are turing to stuff like Metallica and Led Z. Wehter they do it because its the 'cool' thing to do? i dont know. But the fact is, i think its happening, and i hope it does.

DVG.

^ And Ziggy Marley.

[QUOTE=rock not roll]Nice post (Van Halen could of... should of gone in the first paragraph).

The Grateful dead are awesome. I love any band who has many different sounds (no I don't mean death/black/speed/thrash/melodic/powerful destroyokilling midevil killerguy metal or any of that foolishness). I'm going to get deep into the Grateful dead as soon as my dad burns me those records.



Ok well anyway I live in Calgary Canada and it's a pretty boring city but a large one. We recently got a new classic rock radio station which is good. And get this... my dad could be working for them soon, programing songs :D. I'll post it if he gets the job or not.[/QUOTE]

Add some more lesser known Classic Rock bands :)

Remember to describe them if you do.

MMM yes Velvet Revolver are good, as you said i liken them to gun's n roses. You guys have a classic rock station! In perth we dont even have a rock station. We have an alternative one, but its pretty crap :( One thing im starting to notice about classic rock compared to nowday rock and music with guitars in, is that guitars used open chords and bar chords when they play. Nowdays all you see in most genres in power chords, which have NOWHERE near the same "feeling" to them as open chords. Also, you dont see many songs not involving a girl, and certainly none in the likes of "Kashmir" or "Hey Joe" I think the reason is partially for a lack of creativity, and for the worry that they won't sell records.

I think the main thing that is needed for music nowdays, is the ability to sell. It also needs to have a "good" videoclip, usually a provocative one. This generally means, that it needs to be catchy, usually repeditive, and most music that is sold is by recognized artists. Not many people are prepared to listen to a new artist, or expand there horizons.

Would you guys Consider Bon Jovi classic rock?

Over and Out,
Dave

Buffalo Springfield.

Best known for having Neil young in it this band is what Neil sort of modeled his sound from. It's not a really loud hard rock band but not that laid back, good guitar solos. They had an album or two and then broke up to do other things.

[QUOTE]Best known for having Neil young [/QUOTE]

Sadly enough, yes.

Neil had little input in that band, but gets most the credit. The main input was Stephen Stills, and in my opinion can blow Neil out of the water, guitar wise, and vocally. That's just my opinion though. Good input Rock :thumb:

Keep in mind I like Neil Young though :)

[QUOTE]Would you guys Consider Bon Jovi classic rock?[/QUOTE] Not completey, but I'd just like to add that they are a great band, but get a bad rap because of their look.

Alot of people say Bon Jovi is 'Hair Metal' *shrug*

DVG.

yea, i'm 15 and i've been listening to classic rock for my whole life, i personally hate all those newer bands that are trying to sound all classic rock like and retro, because it just isn't the same.
my favorite bands are the early Zep, Skynyrd, Allman Bros, Grateful Dead, Pink Floyd, The Doors, Cream, CCR, Frank Zappa/The Mothers, The Who, Neil Young, some Kansas, Jethro Tull, ZZ Top, Steppenwolf, Beatles, the Stones, and i could go on and on, but thats all i feel like writing

Ok , pardon my explinations (heh, because i'm a french student i almost said explications, and then realized that's nto a word in english.) I'm not so good at describing music but i shall do my best.These aren't the HUGE bands but they weren't unheard of either so many of you may know them already, but maybe i'll post some good old canadian secrets later.

Supertramp: absolutely amazing band. Incorporate more than your average rock band, more orchestral/jazz instruments are used. Good for vocals and lyrics, but be prepared for nice long instrumentals and good song structure. Best knwon for their hits "the logical song" and "Dreamer". My recomendations (albums) breakfast in America, Crime of the century. (their music doesn't really sound like sopme will expect from the name)

Steeppenwolf: Here's a great sounding rockband, canadian too. Best known for their hit born to be wild. I really like the vocals with this band, not the most technically demanding but they sound great and fit the music perfectly. In terms of style there's nothing too standoutish about them, but their sound really is a nice one, band molds together well. Not hard rock, but also not as light as alot of stuff the band finds a good, mellow, yet exciting middleground (sorry if you didn't understand that last bit).

BTO (Bachman Turner Overdrive) - here's some nice upbeat music for you, somewhat reminiscent of the guess who (surprise surprise (hint: take a look at the name)). The guys have been described as relatable, just your average guy wearing their blue jeans, except they can make great music. And the relatibility really comes through in their sound, which is a bit on the lighter side, more upbeat, not soft, but light. I'd say it's some good easy listening, good picker upper songs. Biggest hits include Taking care of business, You ain't seen nothing yet and Let it Ride.


Hey, has santana been mentioned in this thread? his old stuff was great, not so much a fan of his new stuff, some if it's good but some is not, great guitarist though.

and just to see how big these guys are outside of ontario anybody heard of david wilcox or april wine?

[QUOTE=badmoon349]Sadly enough, yes.

Neil had little input in that band, but gets most the credit. The main input was Stephen Stills, and in my opinion can blow Neil out of the water, guitar wise, and vocally. That's just my opinion though. Good input Rock :thumb:

Keep in mind I like Neil Young though :)[/QUOTE]

Yeah funny how that is... I probably like Neil solo a little better than Buffalo Springfield but he played a very minor roll. He just played guitar right? (taking nothing away from his guitar playing :thumb: ).

[QUOTE=DVG]Alot of people say Bon Jovi is 'Hair [B]Metal[/B]' *shrug*

DVG.[/QUOTE]

:confused: I'd say he's hair something but not metal.

[QUOTE=rock not roll]Yeah funny how that is... I probably like Neil solo a little better than Buffalo Springfield but he played a very minor roll. He just played guitar right? (taking nothing away from his guitar playing :thumb: ).[/QUOTE]

Yeah, he usually played rythem, but whenever he wrote a song he'd played lead on it.

[QUOTE=DVG]Alot of people say Bon Jovi is 'Hair Metal' *shrug*

DVG.[/QUOTE]

say what you will about the band and Jon, but Ritchie Sambora is a very accomplished guitarist. If you havent heard his solo albums (ex: stranger in this town) i suggest checking them out, for good Bon Jovi songs have a listen at "homebound train" and "klay your hands on me", very well laid out leads and a great strat tone.

Thanks Frailand, so good having a thread to share my love of classic rock in :)

What other genres do you guys enjoy? I like most metal that isnt to heavy, basically megadeth, iron maiden, black sabbath, metallica, catchy rap and catchy hip hop (its catchy!), old pop and soul, some dance etc, some folk, classic etc

Im open to most types of music, what else do you guys fancy?

To frial: nono, i got no problem with Bon Jovi, Good solid music, nice to listen to.

Sillydave: I some trash (Anthrax, Megadeth... Metallica dont do it for me), Melodic Death (Kalmah, Children of Bodom), Oasis, Streetlight Manifesto, Dropkick Murphys, Some Swing (Brian Setazar Orchestra, Stray Cats, Blue Borthers), Matchbox Twenty, And old punk (Sex Pistols, Exploited, Bad Religion). Yea, i reckon i got a pretty wide range right there.

DVG.

[QUOTE=sillydave]Thanks Frailand, so good having a thread to share my love of classic rock in :)

What other genres do you guys enjoy? I like most metal that isnt to heavy, basically megadeth, iron maiden, black sabbath, metallica, catchy rap and catchy hip hop (its catchy!), old pop and soul, some dance etc, some folk, classic etc

Im open to most types of music, what else do you guys fancy?[/QUOTE]

no prob, i listen to classic rock as much as anything, but i also listen to alot of "symphonic european power metal", "thrash metal, "black metal" and basically any metal from the 70's-90's. I listen to Iron Maiden more than anything though lol.

Folk, Bluegrass, Blues, Country, Jazz, Reggae, some alternative,

Metal that is actually good- Black Sabbath, Metallica, Dream theater... Country- Johnny Cash, Steve Earle, Brooks and Dun... Old school rap, BLUES!, Jazz, motown.

I guess that's it.

[QUOTE=badmoon349]Not completey, but I'd just like to add that they are a great band, but get a bad rap because of their look.[/QUOTE]

No, I think they get a bad rep because of their cheesyness. I couldn't care less about how they looked, I just don't like their music.

What's everyone's favorite Yes album? I was just listening to "Close To The Edge" today and it reminded me of how good Yes were\are. That album pretty much defines the Progressive rock genre for me. There's not one dull moment IMO.

other stuff, a bit of jazz, blues, some classical, and some folk.

Jazz and blues are closely related to classic rock so most people who like classic rock like those.

ok sorry i haven't been here lately, been really busy. so anyway what have u guys been discussing. and are there any Sly and the Family Stone fans here?

i love Sly. "everyday people," "thank you (falletinme be mice elf agin)," "hot fun in the summertime," "m'lady," "dance to the music," "i wanna take you higher," etc.