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Posted by quick85 (My Page) on Thu, Jan 19, 06 at 19:03
I listened to two songs today that would have made any
beer-drinking, SS396 Chevelle-driving, long haired red
blooded American kid sing at the top of his (or her)
lungs while cruising with friends on a Saturday
afternoon: Grand Funk Railroad's "We're An American Band"
and "Walk Like Man".
What else is there?
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RE: rock anthems
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I was a Mopar guy!(and Canadian)
Schools out ~ Alice Cooper
Saturday Night ~ Elton John
Summertime Blues ~ The Who |
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Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody".
And I drove a Chevette. |
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My beer drinking, long-haired buddies cruising in my van would NEVER be singing at the top of their lungs. Rather we would cruise down the road sipping and toking while LISTENING to the Moody Blues, King Crimson, Emerson, Lake and Palmer, the Strawbs, Genesis, Yes, Jethro Tull etc. speak to us at massive volume!
Ric |
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A bunch of stoners in a van LISTENING to "artists" that
were much too full of themselves. How 1976. How BORING. |
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| When we cruised around in my friend Jim's 1969 Chevelle SS396, or Ken's 1968 Camaro 327, or Tim's 1967 Plymouth Sport Fury 440, we listened to Aerosmith "Toys in the Attic". Or The Beach Boys "Endless Summer" While drinking beer. Lots of beer. Usually cheap beer. Sometimes we sang, sometimes we didn't. It often depended on how much beer we had drank. It was fun. |
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I always found the intense listening best while in an unmoving object. The beanbag chair and shag rug was always my favorite place for me to be that full-of-myself "stoner", paying attention to the "artists". (Sheesh, Quick 85!)
The car, with competition from road noise and wind in the hair, called for some Springsteen or Stones. |
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Aruu, I'm afraid a couple of you missed what I was trying to get at, (and a couple knew exactly). Mine was a post
about having fun with music, having fun with you friends.
The are so many good-time songs out there that get people
moving and singing and you hit on it when you mentioned
Springsteen: Thunder Road and Born To Run. Roadhouse Blues
by the Doors or better yet, the live version by Frank Marino. Foghat's Fool For The City or My Babe, The Beatles'
Got To Get You Into My Life and a thousand other examples. I didn't say any of you were full of yourselves. I said
that the musical examples that ric mentioned struck ME that
way. I like ELP, Yes and some Moody Blues. I wouldn't pay
a dollar to see Genesis or King Crimson if they were playing
across the street, but that dosen't mean I'm spitting on
anyone's taste in music. I dig The Fabulous Thunderbirds,
Los Lobos, The Allman's, hell, I even admit to having three
Paul Revere & the Raiders discs. Does that make me some
sort of low-brow? By ric's standards I think it's supposed
to. I don't care what you like to listen to and I don't
care if you like to lose touch with reality, just keep it
away from my kids. Listen, go back thru some of the posts and read ric's
comments. He loves to be contary, he relishes the thought
that he is some sort of musical superior and his last
follow-up on this subject just got to me. They "would NEVER
be singing at the top of their lungs." Give me a break already. |
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Wow, Quick. I guess I read too much into your 21 word post. So sorry.
I did understand what you were trying to get at. I'm sure Ric did, too. He just happened to mention that he enjoyed things at a slightly mellower level.
What the heck do your kids have to do with this? We are talking about us in the past. Your offspring weren't even a twinkle in your eye at the time. I assume.
Peace.
Aru |
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| Hoo, boy, Quick. Stop pushing my buttons or you'll live to regret it! You're dissing the best music and loving the worst, but I guess that's your priviledge. It's not mild vs. wild either, Aruu. Yes, Jethro Tull, Genesis, King Crimson all have their very heavy moments. Many point to KC's 20th Century Schizoid Man as the beginning of metal. Some of us like to get out of the old 4/4 time, three chords per three minute song rut that infests much of rock and roll. Nothing wrong with that. |
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| (Inhale) Well, where do I start? Wait! Don't do it! Just let it go. (Exhale) Okay, I give up. |
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Don't give up, Quick. It's just opinions.
Hopefully we can exchange them without getting a friendly reminder from Spike.
Drygulch, I guess I didn't mean to say "mellower" when I referred to the more conceptual music like Crimson, etc. I meant to say that there was so much subliminal stuff going on in the tunes, anthemic or not, that they might take more concentration to really enjoy the whole piece.
Kinda hard to do at 55 m.p.h., but that would be MY opinion. |
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| Aaru - I appreciate the clarification, makes good sense to me. Quick - seriously, I was hoping you would respond (nicely of course!). I've always wanted to join an intelligent discussion of basic rock (Creedence, the Stones, etc.) vs. my favorite idiom, progressive rock (early Genesis, Yes, Gentle Giant, etc.). In the end, I guess it just comes down to what hits home with you as opposed to what doesn't. Plus, on the errata front, that should have been KC's 21st Century Schizoid Man. |
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I swore I wasn't going to fall into this trap, but here
goes: Drygulch, we don't know each other but I'm going to ask you
for a favor, and it's a simple one. Please just go to the
post on The Blues from 12/30/05. You'll see my original
post but I'd like you to read the follow-up. The writer
uses the words "fun" and "music" in the same paragraph, and
also mentions the Allman Brothers Band. |
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