what is everyone's opinion on these new garage rock bands that are bringing a 70's revival?

Eh, they can't get it right. I mean, cmon, atleast play decent guitar solos...

What's with all of the topic changes? I don't like changing topics this much :(

topic changes keep people posting! it's like a real conversation. If the topic never changed (which it always does), then people would run out of things to say.

[QUOTE=Perverted Pixie Nudist Colony]what is everyone's opinion on these new garage rock bands that are bringing a 70's revival?[/QUOTE]

I've been wanting to make a band similar to that since before all these wannabe 70s groups started popping around.

However, it wouldn't be so much a 70's revival group, but more of a varied (progressive, heavy, ballad) rock band utilizing many sounds and styles of the classic rock era but making our own sound.

I've written over 40 songs for this band I will eventually become part of (it only exists in my mind sadly), and we will take over the world.

i think the Doors debut album had some amazing songs, but as an album it wasn't as strong as Strange Days.

I haven't heard a lot by Eddie Vedder, and i've never thought of comparing him to Morrison, but i heard Vedder can do a pretty good Morrison with the Doors of the 21 Century or whatever they are called.

and garage bands....well some of them arent bad, but they lack what the original garage bands had. back in the late sixties and seventies, all garage bands had something different to offer. Early Alice Cooper is a great garage band, in my opinion, because they had something unique, plus obvious talent (of course later Cooper became less garage and more...i dunno what to call it).

[QUOTE=rock not roll]Eh, they can't get it right. I mean, cmon, atleast play decent guitar solos...

What's with all of the topic changes? I don't like changing topics this much :([/QUOTE]
We lasted a good while talking about the Dead.

Too many modern garage bands (where I live, at least - we call them garbage bands) just want to play death metal and nothing else. It's refreshing to see band that doesn't sing about Satan and rotting corpses every once in a while.

[QUOTE=unclebobscircus]Too many modern garage bands (where I live, at least - we call them garbage bands) just want to play death metal and nothing else. It's refreshing to see band that doesn't sing about Satan and rotting corpses every once in a while.[/QUOTE]
I hate it when people make very ignorant comments about metal.

[QUOTE=unclebobscircus]Too many modern garage bands (where I live, at least - we call them garbage bands) just want to play death metal and nothing else. It's refreshing to see band that doesn't sing about Satan and rotting corpses every once in a while.[/QUOTE]

there's a difference between Garage Rock, and Garage Bands. Garage bands mean that they aren't successful enough to play big venues, and get big record deals and stuff. Garage rock bands usually can play big venues, and have big record deals, its just the type of music they play.

Garage rock is best described as the opposite of Prog Rock, very simple chords and chord progressions and lyrics, usually nothing too virtuoistic (if that's a word). Kind of like punk music, how it's simple and to the point, except rock, not punk.

edit- guitrguy, don't you go to school or anything? i'm at school right now, but my class is ending and i can't come on during math.

Im in pascal class, im about to go to physics, so yes I go to school.

I just find it bland sounding to me.

[QUOTE=Medopalis]Garage rock, off the top of my head is stuff like The Hives, The Vines, The Strokes, and all those sort of bands. Like a lot of people, I don't really mind listening to it, but I don't really get what the fuss is. Especially with bands like The Strokes, who may be the most critically overrated band I've ever heard, where they seem to have one song, that they just re-release every now and again. It's a generalisation, but a lot of the music is very repetitive.[/QUOTE]
I agree, all those bands' music does sound the same. I dont realize how people can't recognize that, let alone the record company producing them.

Random:

"[I]Taurus[/I]" by Spirit really does have the intro to "[I]Stairway To Heaven[/I]".

[QUOTE=Schyma000]Random:

"[I]Taurus[/I]" by Spirit really does have the intro to "[I]Stairway To Heaven[/I]".[/QUOTE]

ya, well jimmy page did admit he used the same chord progression and basic idea. so i wasn't suprised when they sounded quite similiar.

edit- some people call him a riff stealer for that, but really how is it stealing when he admits to it? i've heard lots of bands do that. example: april wine - i like to rock, it uses the riff from day tripper. no one gets mad at april wine for that, they just target jimmy page.

I like Eddie Vedder. Plus, he's from Chicago :).

[QUOTE=Badmoon]I like Eddie Vedder. Plus, he's from Chicago :).[/QUOTE]

are you from chigaco?

what are all the guys from pearl jam up to these days? i know Eddie was doing the Doors thing at one point of time.

Yes.

[QUOTE=thickasabrick]are you from chigaco?

what are all the guys from pearl jam up to these days? i know Eddie was doing the Doors thing at one point of time.[/QUOTE]
I'm pretty sure they're still together. They just plsyed on some late night talk show. I think it was Jay Leno.

I lose interest in Pearl Jam very quickly whenever I hear one of their songs. Didn't they cover Baba O'Riley?

pearl jam is bland 90s alt. although im from that generation, i never liked it. just about ever song i listen to is just as old as i am, if not older, besides the thrash and death metal.

I hate Pearl Jam...they're like Neil Young, only much worse.

[QUOTE=Disconnection Notice]I hate Pearl Jam...they're like Neil Young, only much worse.[/QUOTE]

I do hate Pearl Jam but dont flame Neil Young.

[QUOTE=Disconnection Notice]I hate Pearl Jam...they're like Neil Young, only much worse.[/QUOTE]
Neil young is awesome, I ahven't heard enough pearl jam to have an opinion on them.

Paul Simon if he counts is really great and so is supertramp.

Neil Young is amazing. There is no way you could have listened to his best songs and not at least respect the guy.

[QUOTE=KARMAPOL1CE]Neil Young is amazing. There is no way you could have listened to his best songs and not at least respect the guy.[/QUOTE]

Agreed. Rep points for you. :thumb:

skynyrd>>young

sweet home alabama>>southern man

The only pearl jam song i half respect is Jeremy. I really cant stand them, and really think there popularity today is based on the fact theyve been around for a while

[QUOTE=Distant Echoes]The only pearl jam song i half respect is Jeremy. I really cant stand them, and really think there popularity today is based on the fact theyve been around for a while[/QUOTE]
Well if thats why they are popular then how did they stay for so long?

i think their popularity revolves around the uprise of alt in the 90s

[QUOTE=Kreator2112]skynyrd>>young

sweet home alabama>>southern man[/QUOTE]

Youve most likely never even heard of Neil Young and what does Skynyrd have to do with anything? Neg. Rep for you. :angry:

Lynyrd Skynyrd is in my pick for one of the top ten best of all time. I really cant stand their southernish songs, but i love their other ones, like Saturday night special, That Smell, The Last Rebel, and who couldnt include freebird?

But their guitarist is fantastic, but too overated on his freebird solo. Just listening to his guitarwork in any other song is amzing to hear...especially blues melody, which i dont think is better then freebird, but more impressive

oh nooo!!! not negative rep (what ever that means). Dear God Not Negative Rep!!

oh nooo!!! not negative rep (what ever that means). Dear God Not Negative Rep!!

I'm reviewin' a Chris Robinson album :cool:

Neil>>>>>>>Skynyrd.

[QUOTE=lunch998]Neil>>>>>>>Skynyrd.[/QUOTE]

'tis true

[QUOTE=lunch998]Neil>>>>>>>Skynyrd.[/QUOTE]
No doubt about it.

I like Pearl Jam...

I love the version of My Generation on Live at Leeds(*is listening to it now)

Entwhistle>All.

I never really enjoyed listening to pearl jam. Although the cd I am listening to now, it brilliant, Blow by Blow by Jeff Beck.