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cooby classic Apr 23 2016 02:11 PM

Born of my endless day at the car dealership getting new brake pads. I heard Feel Like Making Love, Night Moves, Slow Ride, some tuneless thing that I think might have been REO Speedwagon, tons of stuff I didn't even know. I thought things were looking up when they played Streets with No Names, but no, back to the crap stuff. As I said, I heard Ramble On twice. There are plenty of Led Zepplin songs I would be willing to hear twice in one setting, but Ramble On is not one of them. But I do have a funny Klassik Rock story from this past week! I was at Walmart looking for a pink picture frame for my granddaughter and they were blaring out Whole Lotta Love. That place was jumping and it looked like everyone was enjoying it, even us little old ladies. Suddenly right about at the climax part, the music went dead and there was this "aangh aangh aangh" horn, like an Emergency Management signal right before a tornado or something. Just lasted a couple of seconds, then the music came back, but it was funny.

d'Kong76 Apr 23 2016 02:32 PM Re: Klassik Rock

I heard this one yesterday morning... [youtube:14cobrdj]eVdpMN3xkWo[/youtube:14cobrdj]

Frayed Knot Apr 23 2016 03:11 PM Re: Klassik Rock

cooby wrote: Suddenly right about at the climax part, the music went dead and there was this "aangh aangh aangh" horn, like an Emergency Management signal right before a tornado or something. Sounds like WalMart's auto-censor kicked in.

Ashie62 Apr 23 2016 06:04 PM Re: Klassik Rock

"Sounds from a bedroom."

Mets Guy in Michigan Apr 24 2016 02:11 AM Re: Klassik Rock Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Apr 25 2016 01:11 AM

The Indians played a lot of klassic rawwk at the game last week. I was surprised to hear two different Kiss songs!

d'Kong76 Apr 24 2016 02:43 AM Re: Klassik Rock

This is how I remember Twisted from the 'club' days... [youtube:1ewwhyqe]wPklZuIcqBQ[/youtube:1ewwhyqe]

John Cougar Lunchbucket Apr 24 2016 01:47 PM Re: Klassik Rock

Frayed Knot wrote: Suddenly right about at the climax part, the music went dead and there was this "aangh aangh aangh" horn, like an Emergency Management signal right before a tornado or something. Sounds like WalMart's auto-censor kicked in. Fun Fact: Walmart actually replaced their muzak recently -- actually was a series of prerecorded mix CDs -- with dedicated "live" radio including associate/DJ's that broadcast to all its stores. At some level I'm sure this was an efficiency program disguised as a worker/customer benefit, but apparently the employees much prefer this setup.

Mets Guy in Michigan Apr 25 2016 01:10 AM Re: Klassik Rock

d'Kong76 wrote: This is how I remember Twisted from the 'club' days... [youtube]wPklZuIcqBQ[/youtube] Awesome! Dating myself here, but I was able to see Twisted in the bars a number of times -- Hammerheads! We used to record radio concerts on cassette before we actually had real vinyl of the band.

d'Kong76 Apr 25 2016 01:22 AM Re: Klassik Rock

It was The Gemini in No Westchester for me. They blew the doors off the place many times.

Mets Willets Point Apr 28 2016 12:10 AM Re: Klassik Rock

I don't think I could recognize two Kiss songs if I heard them. The makeup creeped me out as a kid, so I never paid attention to them.

Mets Guy in Michigan Apr 28 2016 02:21 AM Re: Klassik Rock

Mets – Willets Point wrote: I don't think I could recognize two Kiss songs if I heard them. The makeup creeped me out as a kid, so I never paid attention to them. I loved them. My first concert -- Kiss at MSG on the Dynasty tour! They're coming to Grand Rapids in August and I might check them out again. Might have trouble getting someone to go with me ...

Frayed Knot Apr 28 2016 03:13 AM Re: Klassik Rock

KISS was never really part of the 'Classic Rock' radio format. By the time 'CR' got going as a full-time format it was aiming itself at aging R&R fans -- those in their '30s or even 40s who were still digging the music of the '60s & 70s even though by then it was the '80s & '90s -- and radio programmers thought of KISS fans as as too young for that target audience. As I've said before, my brother was a real big KISS fan ... and then he turned 14.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Apr 28 2016 02:47 PM Re: Klassik Rock

Klassik Rawk Comes Alive! http://www.npr.org/2016/03/17/470807870 ... sk-concert

Fman99 Apr 29 2016 02:35 PM Re: Klassik Rock

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Klassik Rawk Comes Alive! http://www.npr.org/2016/03/17/470807870 ... sk-concert That first Frampton song, "All I Wanna Be (Is By Your Side)," is my favorite of his. This rendition is crisp.

John Cougar Lunchbucket May 23 2016 02:55 PM Re: Klassik Rock

Tom Petty's pre-Heartbreakers band Mudcrutch (Petty, Tench, Campbell, etc) is back again. Singing on this one is drummer Randall Marsh: [youtube:3btvnzxj]j6iOE9GWPvg[/youtube:3btvnzxj]

Edgy MD May 23 2016 03:50 PM Re: Klassik Rock

Peter Frampton is seemingly on a promotional offensive, trying to secure his legacy through acoustic/interview appearances on different programs across the old fogie spectrum. I even heard on the Village Folk Show Sunday morning. Perhaps his management is trying to raise his profile to push him for R'n'RHoF induction. It almost seems unbelievable in retrospect that in 1987, Frampton, in his late 30s, putting together ambitious tracks to make one last attempt to re-enter the pantheon, instead bagged it all to accept an invitation from David Bowie to be his lead guitarist on Bowie's biggest tour ever. The album When All the Pieces Fit, got delayed until 1989, but Bowie had heard some pre-release tracks, invited Frampton to dinner to (or so Frampton thought) talk shop, and instead offered him the gig. Frampton said he wouldn't have said yes to anybody else, but he knew Bowie could have had any guitarist in the world, and so took the job simply because he was so flattered.

batmagadanleadoff May 23 2016 04:38 PM Re: Klassik Rock

[fimg=666:10sdbf1a]https://carlyheartsmovies.files.wordpress.com/2015/11/pepperwha.jpg[/fimg:10sdbf1a]

Ashie62 May 23 2016 04:47 PM Re: Klassik Rock

d'Kong76 wrote: This is how I remember Twisted from the 'club' days... [youtube]wPklZuIcqBQ[/youtube] Ever see Annie Golden and the Shirts on the loop?

d'Kong76 May 23 2016 05:40 PM Re: Klassik Rock

That name doesn't ring a bell. Someone posted a flyer from the early 80's on our community fb page and I wish I saved it. Rat Race Choir, Crystal Ship are two that come to mind as regulars. Dr Dirty John Valby was fun.

Mets Guy in Michigan May 23 2016 06:40 PM Re: Klassik Rock

batmagadanleadoff wrote: [fimg=666]https://carlyheartsmovies.files.wordpress.com/2015/11/pepperwha.jpg[/fimg] At what point, do you think, did the four people realize that they had made a very, very bad career move?

batmagadanleadoff May 23 2016 06:50 PM Re: Klassik Rock

Mets Guy in Michigan wrote: batmagadanleadoff wrote: [fimg=666]https://carlyheartsmovies.files.wordpress.com/2015/11/pepperwha.jpg[/fimg] At what point, do you think, did the four people realize that they had made a very, very bad career move? I dunno, but a few years ago, that movie was on HBO and I watched it, or tried to anyways, having never seen it before, or having never seen all of it. It was totally, I mean totally, unwatchable.

Edgy MD May 23 2016 07:15 PM Re: Klassik Rock

The movie may be Sgt. Pepper, but Frampton's face says "Help!"

Frayed Knot May 23 2016 07:34 PM Re: Klassik Rock

Edgy MD wrote: Bowie ... invited Frampton to dinner to (or so Frampton thought) talk shop, and instead offered him the gig. Frampton said he wouldn't have said yes to anybody else, but he knew Bowie could have had any guitarist in the world, and so took the job simply because he was so flattered. I also heard Frampton once claim that he had been offered (or was on the short list to be offered) the Rolling Stones gig to replace Mick Taylor but turned it down to pursue his solo career. So either he didn't hold the Stones is as high regard as he did Bowie or, more likely, it was just at a different point of his life with different priorities. And, of course, it was just shortly after that his career did indeed 'Come Alive' with lots of millions to follow so I'm guessing he didn't regret passing on the offer (assuming the whole story is accurate in the first place).

Edgy MD May 23 2016 07:45 PM Re: Klassik Rock

Those are hard to pin down. I've heard any number of stories about guys offered the Brian Jones chair after Mick Taylor quit, from the figures themselves or their aficionados. Johnny Thunders, Dave Edmunds, Wayne Perkins... even Rory Gallagher. The version I heard Mick Jagger tell is that Mick Taylor quit at a party and he simply walked across the room and found Ron Wood and begged him to join. That's probably not Jagger's only version, though.

Mets Guy in Michigan May 23 2016 08:40 PM Re: Klassik Rock

Edgy MD wrote: The movie may be Sgt. Pepper, but Frampton's face says "Help!" Brilliant! I had the album as a kid. (My sisters got the Grease soundtrack, I got this.) What could go wrong? George Burns singing "Fixing a Hole," Donald Plesance singing "I Want You (She's so Heavy)" and Steve Martin singing "Maxwell's Silver Hammer." I do remember the Aerosmith version of "Come Together" was OK, and the Earth, Wind and Fire version of "Got to Get You into my Life" was pretty good, especially considering the other options. I might have been the only junior high kid in Massapequa to not have "Frampton Comes Alive." But I did like his song "Breaking All the Rules" that came out in the early 1980s. Check it out!

cooby May 23 2016 11:26 PM Re: Klassik Rock

Poor PF. first this film, then he lost that pretty hair

Edgy MD May 24 2016 01:00 AM Re: Klassik Rock

Probably not unrelated.

Mets Guy in Michigan May 24 2016 01:36 AM Re: Klassik Rock

Edgy MD wrote: Probably not unrelated. Edgy is on fire!

Edgy MD May 24 2016 02:36 AM Re: Klassik Rock

[list]I'm sorry that I doubted you I was so unfair You were in a bad film Then you lost your hair One day you're a superstar The next, a BeeGee fourth Just one more Beatle wannabe And your career ain't heading north! Don't pass me by Don't Humble Pie Don't "I'm in You"! 'Cuz you know, Frampton I feel like you do! I want you, show me the way! When I hear your Talkbox play! Don't pass me by ... Don't Humble Pie ... Don't "I'm in You"![/list:u]

sharpie May 24 2016 02:06 PM Re: Klassik Rock

Very nice. PF was in Ringo's All-Starr Band for a time in the mid-90's. I saw him as an opening act before "Frampton Comes Alive" when he and his band were called Frampton's Camel. Humble Pie was my first rock concert but he had left the band by then.

themetfairy May 24 2016 02:28 PM Re: Klassik Rock

When I think Frampton, my only thought is that Frampton Comes Alive was recorded at the Commack Arena.

sharpie May 24 2016 02:33 PM Re: Klassik Rock

Part of it was recorded there and part of it was recorded at Winterland in San Francisco, which was where I saw him as an opening act. Many of my friends saw the "Frampton Comes Alive" concert (or at least the part that was recorded there).

seawolf17 May 24 2016 02:47 PM Re: Klassik Rock

themetfairy wrote: When I think Frampton, my only thought is that Frampton Comes Alive was recorded at the Commack Arena. Also the site of The Who's first-ever US show.

John Cougar Lunchbucket May 24 2016 02:50 PM Re: Klassik Rock

Bowie and Frampy attended the same high school, so they were prolly buddies 'fore that. I agree that PF is burnishing a HOF campaign, he lives in Nashville & doing a bunch of stuff demonstrating his versatility. Every once in a while I try to stream his pre-FCA studio albums and they're okay, but man do those songs go slow.

Frayed Knot May 24 2016 03:10 PM Re: Klassik Rock

I remember liking the slower, pre-FCA version of 'LINES ON MY FACE' ... tho it's been years since I've heard it so I'm not sure how it holds up. And old-timers were realize that this discussion, complete with Commack Arena references, is just an updated version of a thread which took place at least 15 years ago.

Edgy MD May 24 2016 03:20 PM Re: Klassik Rock

sharpie wrote: Very nice. PF was in Ringo's All-Starr Band for a time in the mid-90's. I saw him as an opening act before "Frampton Comes Alive" when he and his band were called Frampton's Camel. Humble Pie was my first rock concert but he had left the band by then. Interestingly (if horrifically), like the unfaithful lover in "Don't Pass Me By," Frampton was in a (near-fatal) car crash around the time his hair started going. Also interestingly, his first solo album, Wind of Change, featured guest appearances by Ringo and RSASB mainstay Billy Preston. Wind of Change is kind of strange name for a debut album, isn't it? It's kind of the name that 40-year-old rockers use for their, "After all the partying and human wreckage, I've got a new perspective and attitude towards life" album.

cooby May 24 2016 03:27 PM Re: Klassik Rock

PF was a Scorpion?

d'Kong76 May 24 2016 03:44 PM Re: Klassik Rock

Edgy MD wrote: It's kind of the name that 40-year-old rockers use for their, "After all the partying and human wreckage, I've got a new perspective and attitude towards life" album. Or, ya know, The Big Wall coming down. I know they meant well, but that song is hauntingly bad.

John Cougar Lunchbucket May 24 2016 09:00 PM Re: Klassik Rock

Frampton's DIMT http://archives.thecranepool.net/9700/f2_t9751.shtml We are so boring!

cooby May 25 2016 02:29 AM Re: Klassik Rock

While we're at it... https://youtu.be/l1QihWLLKGY?list=SRcre ... eel%20free

Ashie62 Jun 02 2016 12:09 AM Re: Klassik Rock

John Cougar Lunchbucket Jun 02 2016 01:54 AM Re: Klassik Rock

Rod's great. Everybody knows it, and yet nobody knows it. Probably his own fault. But got-damn.

Ashie62 Jun 02 2016 02:05 AM Re: Klassik Rock

Saw him at MSG during the "Do You Think I'm Sexy Tour." He opened with Hot Legs and blew the roof off.

Frayed Knot Jun 02 2016 02:55 AM Re: Klassik Rock

Can't see mention of old Rod the Mod on this forum without thinking of former poster 'Swan H' who was a big music guy with a wide variety of tastes and absolutely detested Rod Stewart.

d'Kong76 Jun 02 2016 03:25 AM Re: Klassik Rock

I have no patience for Rod Stewart post Maggie May. We've talked about this before, he was almost the front man for Led Zeppelin. [Rod]Hey, hey mama, said the way you move, gonna make you sweat, gonna make you groove Unh nh child, way you shake that thing, gonna make you burn, gonna make you sting Hey, hey baby, when you walk that way, watch your heart-ache drip, can't keep away[/Rod]

batmagadanleadoff Jun 02 2016 05:30 AM Re: Klassik Rock

We've talked about this before, he was almost the front man for Led Zeppelin. Never heard that one. I'm aware of several links between LEdZ and the Rod Stewart version of Jeff Beck's group: - they were both managed by Peter Grant; - Beck and Page were bandmates on the Yardbirds until Beck left to start his own group - both groups covered Willie Dixon's You Shook Me on their debut albums; - LZ I was undoubtedly infuluenced by Beck's Truth album. But Stewart as a possible LZ singer is a new one to me. Interesting.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Jun 02 2016 11:28 AM Re: Klassik Rock

I'm in Arkansas for the walmart meeting. They carted out Rod for a song last year, hoping for Frampy this time!

cooby Jun 02 2016 11:53 AM Re: Klassik Rock

Ashie62 wrote: Saw him at MSG during the "Do You Think I'm Sexy Tour." He opened with Hot Legs and blew the roof off. Ha! I had a rod Stewart cassette tape way back when...the last song on one side was 'I Was Only Joking'... Very quiet...and then about ten minutes of blank tape before it auto flipped the tape. I had it turned up while I was getting dressed one morning and forgot it was even on during that blank spot. First song on the other side was Hot Legs. Rod starts out with WOOOO! real loud and almost blew my husband out of bed. I chuckled all morning.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Jun 02 2016 01:58 PM Re: Klassik Rock

One of the greatest voices in rock history. Hell, maybe THE best voice. Absolute shit-- I mean, SHIT-- taste in how to employ it, though, when left to his own devices.

d'Kong76 Jun 02 2016 02:10 PM Re: Klassik Rock

batmagadanleadoff wrote: But Stewart as a possible LZ singer is a new one to me. Interesting. May be folklore, I'll have to google. But I do remember it coming up here in some discussion some time ago. When I think of Peter Grant I immediately zone into him dressing down a tee shirt vendor about bleeding every stinking nickle out of LZ at MSG in The Song Remains The Same. [youtube]4m2FhRv8xF0[/youtube]

Fman99 Jun 02 2016 02:17 PM Re: Klassik Rock

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: One of the greatest voices in rock history. Hell, maybe THE best voice. Absolute shit-- I mean, SHIT-- taste in how to employ it, though, when left to his own devices. I'm with you on this (not THE best, to me, but surely in a top 10 conversation he's merited a spot). His early Jeff Beck era stuff is really lights out. This is probably my fave. [youtube]DxGAdEVSCpk[/youtube] He ended up being a shitty lounge act cashing a check. There but for the grace of God go I, I say.

d'Kong76 Jun 02 2016 02:22 PM Re: Klassik Rock

Old Rod Stewart deserves his own thread!

Edgy MD Jun 02 2016 02:31 PM Re: Klassik Rock

One of Lunchie's book reviews pointed out how he was working three jobs, simultaneously fronting the Jeff Beck Group and the Faces, while kickstarting his own career, and so sang lead on something like six killer albums in 18 months. One of the big wedges between my wife and me is that she can't hear what I hear on "Every Picture Tells a Story." "Here, Honey, let me see if I can make it louder. Come closer to the speakers..."

RealityChuck Jun 02 2016 03:42 PM Re: Klassik Rock

Fman99 wrote: One of the greatest voices in rock history. Hell, maybe THE best voice. Absolute shit-- I mean, SHIT-- taste in how to employ it, though, when left to his own devices. I'm with you on this (not THE best, to me, but surely in a top 10 conversation he's merited a spot). His early Jeff Beck era stuff is really lights out. This is probably my fave. He ended up being a shitty lounge act cashing a check. There but for the grace of God go I, I say. Agree wholeheartedly. He just didn't know how to pick a good song, and often chose things that really didn't showcase his talent. This was probably his best post-Beck vocal: [youtube]IvUEzrQBSeo[/youtube]

sharpie Jun 02 2016 04:06 PM Re: Klassik Rock

Saw him with the Faces around the time of Long Player for Faces and Never a Dull Moment for Rod-solo. Great, really sloppy, show. Also love the first two Jeff Beck Group albums. After that period I really can't abide him. I did read that Rod Stewart memoir. Pretty terrible. Lotta stuff about his art collection.

Mets Guy in Michigan Jun 03 2016 03:47 PM Re: Klassik Rock

I read once that Rod and Bob Seger have a feud because Seger was supposed to record "Downtown Train" and somehow Rod got wind of this and got a version out first. I don't know if Seger ever did record one, but it does seem like a good song for him. It's a great song, and probably the last Rod song I've purchased. Not much into the Americsn Songbook stuff. I do think "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy" is the guiltiest of guilty pleasures. Stupid song. I love it.

sharpie Jun 03 2016 03:57 PM Re: Klassik Rock

Prefer the original Tom Waits "Downtown Train" to Rod's but it is one of his better later career efforts.

seawolf17 Jun 03 2016 04:03 PM Re: Klassik Rock

RealityChuck wrote: This was probably his best post-Beck vocal A song I discovered through another British band: [youtube]cpK4Zdeep-g[/youtube]

Edgy MD Jun 03 2016 04:31 PM Re: Klassik Rock

I read once that Rod and Bob Seger have a feud because Seger was supposed to record "Downtown Train" and somehow Rod got wind of this and got a version out first. I don't know if Seger ever did record one, but it does seem like a good song for him. It's a great song, and probably the last Rod song I've purchased. Not much into the Americsn Songbook stuff. Seger did eventually release "Downtown Train." He's done a handful of Waits songs. About the time he was re-making himself into a Waits cover act, Kenny Rogers was re-conceiving himself as a Seger cover act. it was a weird time, the George H.W. Bush era. Nobody knew who they were anymore. At least among the scratchy-voiced set, anyhow. Waits Songs Covered by Seger [list][*]"Blind Love" (The Fire Inside, 1991)[/*:m] [*]"New Coat of Paint" (The Fire Inside, 1991)[/*:m] [*]"16 Shells from a Thirty-Ought Six" (It's a Mystery, 1995)[/*:m] [*]"Downtown Train" (Ultimate Hits: Rock and Roll Never Forgets, 2011)[/*:m][/list:u]

John Cougar Lunchbucket Jun 04 2016 04:54 PM Re: Klassik Rock

I'm all about "Morning Dew" and love Rod through "Fancy Free." I don;t know whatever you mean by saying Rod made bad career choices. Anyway, shocking lack of Klassik Rawk in Bentonville this year. Instead we got Andy Grammer (who I only heard of because he's en route to Citifield this summer, but he was actually pretty entertaining); a fat young Christian pop singer (who basically karaoked Queen's "Somebody to Love"); soul artist Maxwell (not bad); one of the Jonas Brothers, and some chick singer Katy Perry. (Boy does she have some well rounded offerings).

Edgy MD Jun 04 2016 11:28 PM Re: Klassik Rock

Bentonville without Klassik Rock isn't Bentonville!

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Jun 06 2016 04:36 AM Re: Klassik Rock

"Ghetto Blaster." Jeez.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Jun 10 2016 02:52 PM Re: Klassik Rock

Klassik Rawk Platter of the Day: ELECTRIC WARRIOR by T-Rex. Holy shit is this record great. Psychedelic, goofy, mellow and rockin'. All at once. Get it on. [youtube:15h8gn7t]s3bRl5fx8Eo[/youtube:15h8gn7t]

d'Kong76 Jun 10 2016 05:57 PM Re: Klassik Rock

I have the record buried in the basement, haven't heard the whole shabang in ages. Will listen during the game later. I think Jeepster was one of the first guitar songs I used to mess around with as a yute or maybe the beginning of Stairway.

TransMonk Jun 10 2016 06:11 PM Re: Klassik Rock

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Klassik Rawk Platter of the Day: ELECTRIC WARRIOR by T-Rex. Holy shit is this record great. Psychedelic, goofy, mellow and rockin'. All at once. Get it on. A severely underrated album, IMO.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Jun 11 2016 07:00 AM Re: Klassik Rock

"Jeepster" was my morning alarm for most of college. So, so good.

d'Kong76 Jun 15 2016 04:36 PM Re: Klassik Rock

[youtube:2bgqipia]4fTibXwYCds[/youtube:2bgqipia]

d'Kong76 Jun 21 2016 10:12 PM Re: Klassik Rock

This song gets me all emotional for some reason and I have no idea why. Must remind me of something I can't remember or something, some repressed memory? Weird, don't mock me, my throat gets all tight and twingey and my eyes well up. [youtube:3c032ru1]t-iJ47in9YQ[/youtube:3c032ru1]

Frayed Knot Jun 21 2016 10:59 PM Re: Klassik Rock

I never got all weepy over it, but it is my favorite Klassik Moody's song.

cooby Jun 22 2016 12:18 AM Re: Klassik Rock

Oh I love it too! Moody Blues songs do that to me.

Fman99 Jun 22 2016 07:25 PM Re: Klassik Rock

I like this plugged in version, starring Leslie West (who, like Fdad, attended Forest Hills High School in Flushing, NY) of Mountain on lead guitar and Pete, not Roger, on vocals. [youtube:1ctn1nkb]CN5JsTxA9_M[/youtube:1ctn1nkb] Album version, for comparison (also great): [youtube:1ctn1nkb]0IEaobS9O4A[/youtube:1ctn1nkb] For my money, by the way, Roger Daltrey is the greatest front man of all time. Sorry, Robert Plant, Mick, etc.

Edgy MD Jun 25 2016 12:15 AM Re: Klassik Rock

From the IGT: Zvon wrote: Centerfield wrote: Edgy MD wrote: Loney is the Knight 1b I think Edgy is trying to see how many Klassick Rock Songs he can get stuck in my head in one week. This one I don't mind stuck in my head. Listen to that guitar! "Loney is the night" da-deh-na "when you find yourself aloooooone." Is this actually classic or klassik rock? I tend to think of klassik as defined by the LP-dominant era and think we need a different name for the cassette-dominant era, still populated by krunchy blues chords and dick-swingers, but largely losing the folk influences and replacing them with crossover sounds from punk, nu wave, reggae, and even disco (in Van Halen's case). I think this should be called Rewind Rock. Or Reagan Rock. It's got a lot of fraternal fealty with klassik rock, but if you listen to that top 500 klassik kountdown that Lunchy follows every year, there's only perhaps 15 songs released after John Lennon (and John Bonham and Keith Moon and Bon Scott) died, half of them by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. There's a related but different ideology in ascendence during the cassette period.

Fman99 Jun 26 2016 09:57 AM Re: Klassik Rock

Satellite radio has them pretty clearly divided into the "classic vinyl" and "classic rewind" channels. Though they also split off entire sub-genres into other channels - "the Bridge" for mellower 70's stuff like Steely Dan and the "yacht rock" type stuff, and "Ozzy's Boneyard" for the heavier stuff (AC/DC, Sabbath, etc.), and others.

d'Kong76 Jul 01 2016 03:35 AM Re: Klassik Rock

This song was in the news today, so I thought I'd dig it up. [youtube:1hgzdki8]UI4-r8Vx8qM[/youtube:1hgzdki8]

Ashie62 Jul 09 2016 12:54 PM Re: Klassik Rock

In another kind of klassic rock Peter Perret of the 70's-80's The Only Ones, is in the studio. can't hardly wait.

Fman99 Jul 10 2016 02:27 AM Re: Klassik Rock

d'Kong76 wrote: This song was in the news today, so I thought I'd dig it up. [youtube]UI4-r8Vx8qM[/youtube] David Gilmour is probably my favorite living guitar player.

Edgy MD Jul 10 2016 11:07 AM Re: Klassik Rock

Dead guitar players don't impress me at all.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Jul 20 2016 04:50 PM Re: Klassik Rock

Kurt Loder making an appearance here in the KR thread to announce that Klassik Rawk radio stalwart WMMR in Philadelphia has been acquired by Beasley Media as part of its acquisition of parent Greater Media (also collecting Klassikrawker The BONE is Boston) MMR is famous for helping to launch the careers of Billy Joel, Springsteen, George Thorogood and the Hooters. Its DJ roster has included NPR's David Dye, John DeBella & "Mark the Shark", Carol Miller, Dave Herman. Hippie Grateful Dead fan Pierre Robert still does middays, I think he's the dinosaur of that station. I hard them over the weekend and they're less Klassik and more shitty contemporary rock than they used to be, but I gather, still a big name in old-school radio.

cooby Sep 01 2016 07:46 PM Re: Klassik Rock

Has anybody ever heard of Firehouse?

Edgy MD Sep 01 2016 08:15 PM Re: Klassik Rock

Oh, yeah. Pretty standard late-eighties pre-grunge hair band that never quite had their moment, before Nirvana landed and declared no hair bands would ever have any moments again ever. They sold some records but were 1 1/2 hits short of being Warrant. Alt-rock and grunge also hurt them by introducing a contemporary act to the marketplace called fireHose—destined to forever be confused with them among consumers, radio programmers, and catalog-ordering record store owners. Seawolf knows every song they ever released ever.

Rockin' Doc Sep 02 2016 01:01 AM Re: Klassik Rock

cooby wrote: Has anybody ever heard of Firehouse? I have to admit I bought (and still have) their self titled debut on CD. The band had moderate success with the single "Don't Treat Me Bad" and then had their one top 10 hit with the obligatory power ballad "Love of a Lifetime". I believe they were up for the "Best New Hard Rock Band" at one of the music award shows (Grammys, American Music Awards, or MTv Music) following their debut album. I never really heard much from them after that first year or two. As Edgy said, the "Seattle Grunge" sound buried most of the hard rock acts and I guess Firehouse was just another casualty of explosion of grunge.

cooby Sep 02 2016 01:05 PM Re: Klassik Rock

I suddenly thought of them the other day. I grew up with the lead singer, Carl Snare. The first time I saw them as a group I about split a gut laughing at their hair, because in our Confirmation picture, he looks like Woody Allen. I never liked their music (Carl's voice kinda grates on my nerves) but he is (or at least was) a very nice person.