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Post by The Ocean on Jan 15, 2021 22:21:30 GMT
I'd say "Classic Rock" started around the cusp of the 70's, after the SF psychedelic bands had exploded, and The Allmans and Southern Rock was beginning. The British Invasion, of the 60's, and the US Pop rockers around them just missed the category, but it gets fuzzy. I'd include the 80's bands of the genre. Funny to think at the end of the '80's, BOC had been artists for 18 years. In the 90's, rock had begun to crap out as a form, with exceptions of course. The ig classic rock station in Philly plays Smells Like Teen Spirit. It's surreal.
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Post by Buck on Jan 15, 2021 23:51:42 GMT
It gets fuzzy. But that's ok, I'd hate to see "classic rock" relegated to what used to be called "oldies." It's probably inevitable.
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Post by marty on Jan 16, 2021 20:42:43 GMT
It gets fuzzy. But that's ok, I'd hate to see "classic rock" relegated to what used to be called "oldies." It's probably inevitable. It does get fuzzy. Lots of overlaps. I separate oldies from Classic Rock, by genre, as much as era. Oldies are 50’s and 60’s top 40. Occasionally, a classic rock act had a top 40 hit, like House of the Rising Sun or Hendrix All Along The Watchtower, so we hear those songs on both types of radio stations. A dividing line, to me, is that Classic Rock music is a derivative of AOR, so, Boston, BÖC, Bad Co - yes...Beach Boys, Billy Joel, Bon Jovi - not so much.
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Post by edog40 on Jan 16, 2021 21:17:05 GMT
It’s all perception.
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Post by Alessandro on Jan 16, 2021 23:35:41 GMT
I'd say "Classic Rock" started around the cusp of the 70's, after the SF psychedelic bands had exploded, and The Allmans and Southern Rock was beginning. The British Invasion, of the 60's, and the US Pop rockers around them just missed the category, but it gets fuzzy. I'd include the 80's bands of the genre. Funny to think at the end of the '80's, BOC had been artists for 18 years. In the 90's, rock had begun to crap out as a form, with exceptions of course. The ig classic rock station in Philly plays Smells Like Teen Spirit. It's surreal. consider The Cure has become a Classic Rock band in terms of mere existence. starting in January 1977 and still going, their 45-year career is actually four times as long as the Beatles'. which is scary indeed, come think about it. (also entered the R&R HOF - now find a time machine and go tell a 17-yr old Robert Smith about it)
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Post by The Ocean on Jan 17, 2021 1:03:57 GMT
The ig classic rock station in Philly plays Smells Like Teen Spirit. It's surreal. consider The Cure has become a Classic Rock band in terms of mere existence. starting in January 1977 and still going, their 45-year career is actually four times as long as the Beatles'. which is scary indeed, come think about it. (also entered the R&R HOF - now find a time machine and go tell a 17-yr old Robert Smith about it) I love the Cure so damn much. The news of them working on new material makes me so happy!
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Post by marty on Jan 17, 2021 16:46:31 GMT
Another passing...Phil Spector
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Post by frog on Jan 17, 2021 16:49:49 GMT
Another passing...Phil Spector
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Post by luxexterior on Jan 18, 2021 12:31:11 GMT
Shame he went mad & murdered his PA. He was a musical & production genius pity he is now likely to be remembered for the crime as much as the music.
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Post by The Ocean on Jan 18, 2021 13:51:03 GMT
Shame he went mad & murdered his PA. He was a musical & production genius pity he is now likely to be remembered for the crime as much as the music. From the stories I've read throughout the years about him, it seemed like it was only a matter of time before he killed somebody. The Ramones were scared of him.
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Post by sirrastus on Jan 18, 2021 16:30:10 GMT
It gets fuzzy. But that's ok, I'd hate to see "classic rock" relegated to what used to be called "oldies." It's probably inevitable. When CBS-FM played Only The Good Die Young as an "oldie" I gave up.Of course they were trying to get a younger generation to listen but it wasn't working for me.If I heard Chumbawumba as an oldie my head might explode.
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Post by sirrastus on Jan 18, 2021 16:36:14 GMT
Shame he went mad & murdered his PA. He was a musical & production genius pity he is now likely to be remembered for the crime as much as the music. From the stories I've read throughout the years about him, it seemed like it was only a matter of time before he killed somebody. The Ramones were scared of him. Buck had talked about it before but the girl he killed Lana Clarkson was the sister of BOC guitar tech Garrett who my friends and I met at the 2001 BB Kings gig.NIce guy he threw us a few drinks. My own experience with Spector was sitting with Brill Building songwriter Ellie Greenwhich at a show in Jersey and Ellie telling me that hs whole family was nuts(Phil,his mom and his sister).He was always a powderkeg. (Buck knows this one)The funniest story I ever heard about Spector was Bert Berns wrote Twist and Shout and wanted it done the way the Isleys eventually did it with the La Bamba chords.Spector instead did it as an uptempo R&B screamer with the Top Notes.So he sends the finished record to Berns and asks "Bert how do you like it" and Berns goes "You fucked up my record Phil".LOL Berns then did it with The Isleys.:
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Post by Alessandro on Jan 18, 2021 17:25:31 GMT
Shame he went mad & murdered his PA. He was a musical & production genius pity he is now likely to be remembered for the crime as much as the music. From the stories I've read throughout the years about him, it seemed like it was only a matter of time before he killed somebody. The Ramones were scared of him. he aimed a gun at Leonard Cohen's head during the sessions of "Death of a Ladies' Man", no less
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Post by luxexterior on Jan 18, 2021 17:36:22 GMT
It gets fuzzy. But that's ok, I'd hate to see "classic rock" relegated to what used to be called "oldies." It's probably inevitable. When CBS-FM played Only The Good Die Young as an "oldie" I gave up.Of course they were trying to get a younger generation to listen but it wasn't working for me.If I heard Chumbawumba as an oldie my head might explode. Having met the Ramones a couple of times I can't imagine them being scared of anything. Phil must have been REALLY scary!
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Post by zenman on Jan 23, 2021 1:54:54 GMT
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