Best of Classic Rock?

Wong Fei Hong · Post by **Wong Fei Hong** » 2004-11-09 12:04am

What bands do you consider embody the best of classic rock?

Jimi Hendrix Experience - Jimi Hendrix was a master at guitar

Led Zeppelin - So was Jimmy Page, excellent composer too.

Aerosmith - Catchy songs like "Walk This Way" and "Sweet Emotion".

The Eagles - Melodic Songs

The Who - See above, I like "Baba O'Riley" very much

Black Sabbath - Ozzy. 'Nuff said.

Iron Butterfly - Who doesn't like a band who can have a fifteen minute drum solo?

Steppenwolf - Catchy songs again. "Magic Carpet Ride" and "Born To Be Wild"

Deep Purple - Awesome hard rock, "Smoke On The Water" is a must hear.

I've also begun to listen to Boston. They're a pretty good example of good classic rock.

Feel free to add or dispute this list. These are my opinions.

Damaramu · Post by **Damaramu** » 2004-11-09 12:41am

Hmmm, I'd have to add:

CCR
Pink Floyd
Steve Miller Band
Queen
The Doors
Cheap Trick
Cream
Kansas

Oh, and the band in my signature!

The Cleric · Post by **The Cleric** » 2004-11-09 01:04am

Alright, you asked for it.
Some of these are going to be duplicates, but I'm just browsing my library.

AC/DC
Aerosmith
Alice Cooper
Allman Brothers
Autograph
B52's
Bachman-Turner Overdrive
Bad Company
Billy Idol
Billy Squire
Bob Dylan
Bon Jovi
Bruce Springsteen
Cheap Trick
Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young
David Bowie
Dead Or Alive
Def Leppard
Dexy's Midnight Runners
Dire Straights
Dobie Gray
Don McClean
The Doors
Emerson Lake and Palmer
Eric Clapton
Foreigner
Four Seasons
Frankie Goes To Hollywood
Gary Newman
George Thourghgood
The Grateful Dead
Guess Who
Guns N' Roses
Heart
INXS
J Geils Band
Jefferson Airplane
Jimi Hendrix
Joan Jett
Joe Walsh
John Cougar Mellencamp
Journey
Judas Priest
Kansas
Kiss
Led Zeppelin
Lou Reed
Lovin' Spoonfull
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Men Without Hats
Milky
Molly Hatchet
Morris Day And The Time
Motley Crue
Otis Redding
Ozzy Osbourne
Pat Benatar
Pink Floyd
Pirates of the Mississippi
The Police
Prince
Queen
Quiet Riot
The Ramones
Ratt
Robert Palmer
The Rolling Stones
Sammy Hagar
Scorpions
The Sex Pistols
Sparks
Stealers Wheel
Steppenwolf
Steve Miller Band
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Styx
Survivor
Talking Heads
Tears For Fears
Thin Lizzy
Three Dog Night
Tom Petty
Tone Loc
Toto
Twisted Sister
Van Halen
White Snake
The Who
Wild Cherry
ZZ Top

Frank Hipper · Post by **Frank Hipper** » 2004-11-09 01:29am

StormtrooperOfDeath wrote:B52's
Billy Idol
Bon Jovi
Dead Or Alive( )
Def Leppard
Dexy's Midnight Runners
Dire Straights
Frankie Goes To Hollywood ( )
Gary Newman
Guns N' Roses
INXS
J Geils Band
Joan Jett
Men Without Hats ( )
Morris Day And The Time
Motley Crue
Pat Benatar
Pirates of the Mississippi
The Police
Prince
Quiet Riot
The Ramones
Ratt
Sammy Hagar
Scorpions
The Sex Pistols ( )
Talking Heads
Tears For Fears
Tom Petty
Tone Loc
Toto
Twisted Sister
White Snake

Not ONE of those is a classic rock band!

The Sex Pistols? Classic rock? What the hell is wrong with you?
Frankie Goes to Hollywood? Are you unsane? They weren't even a rock band in the fisrt damned place!

Just because it's more than fifteen years old does NOT mean it qualifies as classic rock!
I mean, fer fuck's sake, THE RAMONES?

*weeps for today's youth, then screams and jumps out window*

irishmick79 · Post by **irishmick79** » 2004-11-09 01:32am

Country Joe and the Fish
MC5
Savoy Brown
Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen
Van Morrison
Joe Satriani
The Yardbirds
Janis Joplin
The Doobie Brothers
Linda Rondstadt
Carly Simon
Nancy Sinatra
Chuck Berry

Stoormtrooper has a pretty fuckin' good list. Hard to find holes in it.

Equinox2003 · Post by **Equinox2003** » 2004-11-09 02:04am

Did nobody mention The Beatles?

Chardok · Post by **Chardok** » 2004-11-09 07:11am

three words:

Air

Row

Smith.

That's it.

HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2004-11-09 07:32am

I'd love to change the world...but I don't know what to do...so I leave it up to you...

Alvin Lee.

Col. Crackpot · Post by **Col. Crackpot** » 2004-11-09 10:09am

Chardok wrote:three words:

Air

Row

Smith.

That's it.

HEY! That reminds me. Chardok, I met Steven Tyler a few weeks ago at a medeval festival on Cape Cod. He was really cool. We bullshitted for a few minutes while he gnawed on a turkey leg and waited for his wife.

Chardok · Post by **Chardok** » 2004-11-09 11:32am

Col. Crackpot wrote:
Chardok wrote:three words:

Air

Row

Smith.

That's it.
HEY! That reminds me. Chardok, I met Steven Tyler a few weeks ago at a medeval festival on Cape Cod. He was really cool. We bullshitted for a few minutes while he gnawed on a turkey leg and waited for his wife.

Great job, Col! You've actually found something ELSE I can put on the list of reasons to HATE YOU!!! FUCKERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!

ENJOY YOUR FUCKING SUPERBOWL TROPHY AND YOUR BLESSED MEMORIES OF CHATTING WITH THE GOD OF MODERN ROCK, YOU FUCKSTICK!!!

The Cleric · Post by **The Cleric** » 2004-11-09 12:39pm

Frank Hipper wrote:The Sex Pistols? Classic rock? What the hell is wrong with you?
Frankie Goes to Hollywood? Are you unsane? They weren't even a rock band in the fisrt damned place!

Just because it's more than fifteen years old does NOT mean it qualifies as classic rock!
I mean, fer fuck's sake, THE RAMONES?

*weeps for today's youth, then screams and jumps out window*

I went through my library and pulled all the names of bands they played on my classic rock station (before it turned into Smooth Jazz

). I know they aren't technically "classic rock" but they are the same era. Sort of. Not really. Dammit.

Wong Fei Hong · Post by **Wong Fei Hong** » 2004-11-09 01:44pm

Frank Hipper wrote:
*weeps for today's youth, then screams and jumps out window*

Haha, I am today's youth.

Although the 80s did produce a bunch of kickass bands. Like Van Halen.

Mlenk · Post by **Mlenk** » 2004-11-09 02:40pm

My favorites?

Hendrix
Black Sabbath
Pink Floyd
King Crimson

Falkenhayn · Post by **Falkenhayn** » 2004-11-09 03:34pm

Chardok wrote:three words:

Air

Row

Smith.

That's it.

Your daddy works in porno
now that mommy's not around,
She used to love her heroine,
but now she's underground.
So you stay out late at night
and ya do your dance for free,
driving your friends crazy
with you life's insanity.

Axel Rose makes Steven Tyler his bitch any day of the week. Aerosmith's greatest contribution to music was lamenting over Ben Affleck's lost boner.

If you could combine AC/DC, Van Halen and Led Zeppelin, you would have the hardest rocking band that could ever be.

Brother-Captain Gaius · Post by **Brother-Captain Gaius** » 2004-11-09 03:54pm

Jimi owns all.

Though I do also like Deep Purple, The Kinks, Rare Earth, Count Five, CCR, and the Rolling Stones.

Frank Hipper · Post by **Frank Hipper** » 2004-11-09 05:34pm

Wong Fei Hong wrote:
Frank Hipper wrote:
*weeps for today's youth, then screams and jumps out window*
Haha, I am today's youth.

Although the 80s did produce a bunch of kickass bands. Like Van Halen.

Yes! But 80's bands are not classic rock!

I didn't mean to bite your head off, either, Stormie. But Yeeearggghhh! Frankie Goes to Hollywood on a classic rock station? What were they thinking!?

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2004-11-09 07:45pm

James Douglas Morrison
Ramond Manzarak
Bobby Krieger
John Densmore

d00rs

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2004-11-09 07:49pm

radio's playing some forgotton song, revierie comming on strong
the road has got me hypnotized and I'm staring into a new sunrise.
we've got a name and we call it radar love
we've got a voice up in the air....

low-ride-er
ride a little lower.
the lowrider is a fine flyer

and I think my spaceship knows which way to go
tell my wife I love her
she knows

Post by **Dalton** » 2004-11-09 07:54pm

How about BTO?

Frank Hipper wrote:
StormtrooperOfDeath wrote:Joan Jett
Not ONE of those is a classic rock band!

Joan Jett isn't classic rock?

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2004-11-09 07:54pm

Wong Fei Hong wrote:
Frank Hipper wrote:
*weeps for today's youth, then screams and jumps out window*
Haha, I am today's youth.

Although the 80s did produce a bunch of kickass bands. Like Van Halen.

Van Halen hit it big in the late 70's, actually.

darthdavid · Post by **darthdavid** » 2004-11-09 07:59pm

The Eagles
Jimi Hendrix
The Beatles
Deep Purple
Aerosmith
Led Zepplin
Black Sabbath
ELO
BTO
CCR
Pink Floyd
various others that i can't think of at this point in time...

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2004-11-09 08:03pm

Dalton wrote:How about BTO?

Frank Hipper wrote:
StormtrooperOfDeath wrote:Joan Jett
Not ONE of those is a classic rock band!
Joan Jett isn't classic rock?

hmm Runaways (jailbait punk rockers) was a 1970's band

with Jett, Smith, Benatar and the Drummer from Bananarama.

Captain Kruger · Post by **Captain Kruger** » 2004-11-09 11:32pm

I love pretty much anything from the 70s that was loud and had attitude. Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, and AC/DC would be my faves.

The 80s mostly blew cock...

The Cleric · Post by **The Cleric** » 2004-11-10 12:05am

Frank Hipper wrote:I didn't mean to bite your head off, either, Stormie. But Yeeearggghhh! Frankie Goes to Hollywood on a classic rock station? What were they thinking!?

Frank. Relax. Don't do it.

Gotcha

.

Post by **Zaia** » 2004-11-10 12:28am

Anyone here other than me know Quicksilver Messenger Service?