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RE: Classic rock - cherelann - 01-10-2013
Okay, please let me have the last word...
RE: Classic rock - midnightblues - 01-10-2013
Wait wait what happened here I did post crossroads by cream and somehow Chicago pops up.WTF one more try
(01-10-2013, 08:11 PM)cherelann Wrote: Okay, please let me have the last word...
you get a big cyber hug for that one that's right it's still rock 'n roll. So let's not get caught up on a technicality and just enjoy music whether it's classic rock or Billyand the beaters blues band it's still rock 'n roll to me smooch to you.
RE: Classic rock - Tusk - 01-10-2013
(01-10-2013, 08:11 PM)cherelann Wrote: Okay, please let me have the last word...
Billy Joel is the Piano Man....LOL I doubt that would count as rock and roll according to midnight either even though that's the subject of the song
How about some Irish Rock and Roll (and I don't mean U2 either....no, really. I reaaaaallly don't mean U2
)Thin Lizzy..."Jail break"
The Boys are Back in Town
RE: Classic rock - My Alter Ego - 01-10-2013
^^Tusk, thank you! I'd agree: "I'm a Man" sounds like rock to me -- of course, there were no horns in it. Instead, the horn players are playing various percussion instruments (and doing a mighty fine job of it). I remember my favorite professor in college (the undergrad years) mentioning how good the drum solo was (my favorite professor was a drummer, although at that point he was playing vibes more than drums. I think I mentioned the solo in LDH's "Drum solos" thread.)
But, over the years, as I listen to this song again (and again), there is nothing about it that doesn't work. Everything about it comes across as an infinitely well done jam session! (I think I may have read somewhere that it was a jam session.)
Midnight, you're doing Chicago a disservice -- and, perhaps, yourself -- if you haven't really listened to its (their?) first album. "Beginnings" (my fave of that album) was the only/closest thing to "soft rock" on that LP -- and, as I listen again, I'm not sure it's "soft" (Danny Seraphine, the drummer, was a beast! Will -- the professor mentioned earlier was right about this guy).
And, it was just so musically good that to dismiss it because it wasn't "hard" or "classic" rock, is just another disservice. You have a right to your opinion, it's true, but to dismiss Chicago as "not rock" because it had a horn section, is to simply not recognize what this group of musicians was capable of.
RE: Classic rock - midnightblues - 01-10-2013
1968 oh hell yeah Now how do wee all feel? Undisputably the Shit Real Cream A great Robert Johnston cover
RE: Classic rock - cherelann - 01-10-2013
Okay, this is my last attempt at settling this, rock and roll is like a box of chocolates, not everyone likes dark chocolate with coconut centers, but it doesn't ruin the entire box...
RE: Classic rock - Tusk - 01-10-2013
(01-10-2013, 08:18 PM)midnightblues Wrote: 1968 oh hell yeah Now how do wee all feel? Undisputably the Shit Real Cream A great Robert Johnston cover
As a peace offering, here's that song performed LIVE with a VERY young Eric Clapton
Cream - Crossroads live at Royal Albert Hall, London.
November 26th, 1968
RE: Classic rock - My Alter Ego - 01-10-2013
(01-10-2013, 08:21 PM)cherelann Wrote: Okay, this is my last attempt at settling this, rock and roll is like a box of chocolates, not everyone likes dark chocolate with coconut centers, but it doesn't ruin the entire box...
Yes, but only dark chocolate is REAL chocolate -- for chocaholics!
RE: Classic rock - midnightblues - 01-10-2013
(01-10-2013, 08:17 PM)My Alter Ego Wrote: ^^Tusk, thank you! I'd agree: "I'm a Man" sounds like rock to me -- of course, there were no horns in it. Instead, the horn players are playing various percussion instruments (and doing a mighty fine job of it). I remember my favorite professor in college (the undergrad years) mentioning how good the drum solo was (my favorite professor was a drummer, although at that point he was playing vibes more than drums. I think I mentioned the solo in LDH's "Drum solos" thread.)
But, over the years, as I listen to this song again (and again), there is nothing about it that doesn't work. Everything about it comes across as an infinitely well done jam session! (I think I may have read somewhere that it was a jam session.)
Midnight, you're doing Chicago a disservice -- and, perhaps, yourself -- if you haven't really listened to its (their?) first album. "Beginnings" (my fave of that album) was the only/closest thing to "soft rock" on that LP -- and, as I listen again, I'm not sure it's "soft" (Danny Seraphine, the drummer, was a beast! Will -- the professor mentioned earlier was right about this guy).
And, it was just so musically good that to dismiss it because it wasn't "hard" or "classic" rock, is just another disservice. You have a right to your opinion, it's true, but to dismiss Chicago as "not rock" because it had a horn section, is to simply not recognize what this group of musicians was capable of.
Come on please don't say I'm doing a discredit to myself I think those are the wrong words yes this is my story and I'm sticking to it it is my opinion I'm not dismissing them and think everybody's reading this wrong so why don't we all have another sip of hundred and 50-year-old Scotch and enjoy the music
RE: Classic rock - My Alter Ego - 01-10-2013
(01-10-2013, 08:27 PM)midnightblues Wrote: Come on please don't say I'm doing a discredit to myself I think those are the wrong words yes this is my story and I'm sticking to it it is my opinion I'm not dismissing them and think everybody's reading this wrong so why don't we all have another sip of hundred and 50-year-old Scotch and enjoy the music
Well -- OK -- but I'd rather have the (dark) chocolate!