Will classic rock last for all eternity?

Oak Lawn (IL) Reporter ^ | 4/17/03 | Michael M. Bates

[contributor]

Jim Morrison and the Doors were overrated (not bad, just overrated).

Death was Jim's best career move.

[mikeb704]

Only in the condos and cabanas overlooking the Lake of Fire.

Condos and cabanas? Really? And here I thought that, at best, Lake Of Fire souls would be treated to a Carville-esque trailer park filled with Demos and other big time sinners.

[Hatteras]

"Won't Get Fooled Again" is the perfect rock song."

Nah, last year VH-1 had the top 100 countdown and I gotta tell you, in the classic sense, I gotta go with their number one pick, "Satisfaction". Pure rock.

[Wolfie]

You don't need Tony and Vinnie when you've got Yngwie.

[headsonpikes]

Well, sure, it's a trailer-park, but marketing likes 'condos', 'cabanas', 'ranchos', and 'estates'..

What The Big Red Guy says, goes, eh?

[okiesap]

Who's got the money for that brand new car? The people who bought the classic rock albums when they were new 30 and 40 years ago. BIG RADIO apparently have data showing those same people want to hear the same hits every day for the rest of their lives.

I'm 36 and I used to love such songs as "Behind Blue Eyes", "Sweet Home Alabama" and "More Than a Feeling" but the joy was played out of those songs years ago. Its like eating the same dish each and everyday.

[archy]

Good grief, so that's what happened to Sam...something about that is just so doggone cool...thanks!

Betcha him and the guys don't wear their old outfits through airports nowdays....

[discostu]

Nils Lofgren heads up the list of truly amazing musicians/ songwriters whom no one knows. You, me, Niel Young and Bruce Springsteen I think are the only people that have ever heard of him.

[archy]

Led Zepplin is classic in the sense of the AMC Pacer.

Party on, Wayne! Party on, Garth:

http://pacer.members.easyspace.com/Limo.jpg

[archy]

Joe Satriani
Tony MacAlpine
Vinnie Moore
Yngwie Malmsteen
John Petrucci

Ahhhhhhh!! Rock Guitar snob alert!!!

Shawn Lane
Buddy Guy
Marc Ribot
Robert Quine
Steve Morse
Steve Cropper

[archy]

Nils Lofgren heads up the list of truly amazing musicians/ songwriters whom no one knows. You, me, Niel Young and Bruce Springsteen I think are the only people that have ever heard of him.

And anybody that ever heard the group *Grin* back in the late '60's- early '70s.

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[archy]

Nah, last year VH-1 had the top 100 countdown and I gotta tell you, in the classic sense, I gotta go with their number one pick, "Satisfaction". Pure rock.

We managed to give a local minister a near stroke when he heard and recognized the opening chords for House of the Rising Sun coming from his church's mighty Wurlitzer at a wedding ceremony he was performing. His sigh of relief when the vocalist acompanied it with the lyrics to Amazing Grace was visible, but he still had the look of a pole-axed steer.

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[VANHALEN2002]

Yes! Paul Rodgers is the best British voaclist ever!

[archy]

There's something out there WORSE than rap.

Knowing how rebellious kids can be (I sure was), you might be right, something worse is coming. It'll probably be a combination of disco and rap. What a sound... we can call it discrap.

The sad thing about rap is that it's essentially disposable music from throwaway performers. You don't hear rap oldies very often, certainly not on the rap video channels.

But I've come across examples of it being shoehorned into other music as a fill or bridge where it doesn't work too bad. Check this Olga Tanon offering out.

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[Reaganwuzthebest]

Paul Rodgers is the best British voaclist ever!

What do you think of Jon Anderson of Yes? I always thought his voice was one of the best too, very easy to listen to.

[Liberty Valance]

What the heck is goin' on here.
Stevie Ray Vaughn and ZZ Topp(America)
Django and Grapelli and the Beatles(Old Europe)

Liberty :o)

[Charles Martel]

We managed to give a local minister a near stroke when he heard and recognized the opening chords for House of the Rising Sun coming from his church's mighty Wurlitzer at a wedding ceremony he was performing. His sigh of relief when the vocalist acompanied it with the lyrics to Amazing Grace was visible, but he still had the look of a pole-axed steer.

Dammit, archy, it's tough to stifle laughter here in the office. Gives me a runny nose every time! (*sniff*) ;-)

[Future Snake Eater]

Interestingly, Bono is good friends with Jesse Helms, too.

[discostu]

Cool, thanks for the tip. I love Nils and am always looking for more.

[archy]

Finally - where's Elvis in all of this? It's not that I'm a raging Elvis fan or anything, but did you notice that references to Elvis pop up in your life nearly every day? So if you're talking about living forever.... I think the guy's already there, as he's the icon of our times.

He's immortalized, don'tchaknow. A lil' girl wrote a song about him, and it did okay on the charts itself. So long as people sing that song about him and those songs he did, he'll never fade away.

Mississippi in the middle of a dry spell
Jimmy Rogers on the Victrola up high
Mama's dancin', there's a baby on her shoulder
The sun is settin' like molasses in the sky
The boy could sing, knew how to move, everything
Always wanting more, he'd leave you longing for

Black velvet in that little boy's smile
Black velvet with that slow southern style
A new religion that'll bring you to your knees
Black velvet, if you please

Up in Memphis the music's like a heat wave
White lightening, bound to drive you wild
Mama's baby's in the heart of every schoolgirl
"Love me tender" leaves them cryin' in the aisles
The way he moved, it was a song, so sweet and true
Always wanting more, he'd leave you longing for

Black velvet in that little boy's smile
Black velvet with that slow southern style
A new religion that'll bring you to your knees
Black velvet, if you please
Every word of every song he sang was for you
In a flash he was gone, it happened so soon
What could you do?

Black velvet in that little boy's smile
Black velvet with that slow southern style
A new religion that'll bring you to your knees
Black velvet, if you please