"Thank God Sandy read that little tract I gave her."
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 31 July 2014 00:01 (nine years ago) link
Killer Rock started in 1972, so "Stairway" is safe I guess.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 31 July 2014 00:16 (nine years ago) link
I think my favorite thing about that particular Chick Tract (I used to collect them!) is how the guy that Bobby wants to marry seems to be Carmine Appice:
http://i60.tinypic.com/2lvg2uq.jpg
http://i62.tinypic.com/166azid.jpg
― PEOPLE LIVING IN COMPETITION (Sandy), Thursday, 31 July 2014 00:27 (nine years ago) link
why have i lost the ability to see gr8080's pix
― mookieproof, Thursday, 31 July 2014 00:34 (nine years ago) link
fuck i had to work today
51. Mountain – Mississippi Queen
my #2, could have been #1. you ppl are savages
― mookieproof, Thursday, 31 July 2014 00:37 (nine years ago) link
otm
― David Schramm (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 31 July 2014 00:41 (nine years ago) link
cosign
― SEEMS TO ME (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 31 July 2014 00:47 (nine years ago) link
for the sentiment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVSPripAc5Y
― Brad C., Thursday, 31 July 2014 00:53 (nine years ago) link
favorite Chick track could be (and probably is) a whole nother thread but I really am partial to the one with the truckers who boggle at the thought of a GOD-MAN so powerful he could WIN IN ANY FIGHT but he LET THE AUTHORITIES KILL HIM!?!??! For rock/counterculture type stuff, "Dark Dungeons" and "Party Girl" are the essential reads iirc. "Bewitched" has some hippie girl whose face melts off from LSD or something.
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 31 July 2014 00:57 (nine years ago) link
Fleetwood Mac - One-Winged DoveFunny they couldn't get Joan Jett's name right.― pplains
Funny they couldn't get Joan Jett's name right.
― pplains
irl lolled at this
Best poll ever already imo (wish I could read irt but I'm too busy visiting relatives)
― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Thursday, 31 July 2014 01:03 (nine years ago) link
A+ Chick tract.
It's all over. Everything's ashes. Bobby died of AIDS, Jim O.D.'d.
And Don is into vampirism.
― carl agatha, Thursday, 31 July 2014 01:06 (nine years ago) link
Listening to Peace of Mind again, and ffs Brad Delp was so great. He sang in those high registers but was never, ever grating like so many other high-pitched singers could be.
― PEOPLE LIVING IN COMPETITION (Sandy), Thursday, 31 July 2014 01:07 (nine years ago) link
as a kid i appreciated her shoutout to the pirates' third baseman with the line 'i'm a few years older than you . . . madlock'
― mookieproof, Thursday, 31 July 2014 01:10 (nine years ago) link
anyone else? looks fine on my end.
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Thursday, 31 July 2014 01:20 (nine years ago) link
Bill Madlock! There's a name that takes me back.
And that reminds me... earlier in this thread, somebody said that David Wells was the most Classic Rock major league sports star, but I'll rep for Dock Ellis, who pitched a no-hitter for the Pirates in 1970 while on acid.
― PEOPLE LIVING IN COMPETITION (Sandy), Thursday, 31 July 2014 01:23 (nine years ago) link
Ellis, D
― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Thursday, 31 July 2014 01:26 (nine years ago) link
ok here gr8080
― SEEMS TO ME (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 31 July 2014 01:32 (nine years ago) link
(xp) i'll rep for bill "spaceman" lee, who sprinkled marijuana on his pancakes, hated the establishment and is the title of an awesome warren zevon song.
― PORPOISE AND ME (fact checking cuz), Thursday, 31 July 2014 01:34 (nine years ago) link
and no matter which one you prefer, i believe we are in the midst of proving that starting pitcher is the most classic rock position in baseball.
― PORPOISE AND ME (fact checking cuz), Thursday, 31 July 2014 01:36 (nine years ago) link
Drummer = hockey goalie
― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Thursday, 31 July 2014 01:42 (nine years ago) link
Sandy and rogermexico, a relatively recent live version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63Ov0YOEry8
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 31 July 2014 01:59 (nine years ago) link
"Peace of Mind" is the highest-ranking thing on my ballot so far, I had it at 12. The only Boston song I voted for because it encompasses everything I love about any Boston song -- stratospheric melody/harmonies (Delp's voice and Scholz's guitar), crunchy power chords, a vague sense of lost and/or possible utopias.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 31 July 2014 03:01 (nine years ago) link
Four more of mine showed up today (MS Queen, Funk 49, La Grange, Back on the Chain Gang), 6 total now.
― rockist popist papist (WilliamC), Thursday, 31 July 2014 03:05 (nine years ago) link
"Funk #49" might've made my ballot if I made one, but I still wish "Funk #48" got one-tenth of its love
― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Thursday, 31 July 2014 03:18 (nine years ago) link
classic rock = full of mystery & wonder
This kind of sums it up for me. Mysterious from the making of it all the way down to the radio programming of it. It's a weird format.
― Josefa, Thursday, 31 July 2014 03:50 (nine years ago) link
um i just realized i never knew the Doobies long train runnin was called that
i thought it was Without Love Where Would You Be Nahnannanow
― SEEMS TO ME (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 31 July 2014 03:54 (nine years ago) link
I literally thought they were singing "Well now look/We're the Doobies now"
― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Thursday, 31 July 2014 04:02 (nine years ago) link
(When I was 12 and first heard it on lo-fi AM radio)
― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Thursday, 31 July 2014 04:03 (nine years ago) link
Oh, thank you Lord Alfred, that is so so lovely, THAT SONG DESTROYS ME.
8 of my songs made today's list, and now Peace of Mind is my highest ranking at #4. I have no hope whatsoever for #2 to make it (a write in that I knew nobody but me would write in but I had to just because they're one of my favorite bands ever, completely overlooked during the nominations and I did it just to give them silent props while at the same time thinking "stupid wasted vote here"), nor do I have any hope for #3 - it's so power-pop and hardly at all CR but I voted for it anyhow because it's one of my favorite songs ever and also SUCH A TRAGIC BAND (and yes I realize that I just gave it away as Badfinger).
But I will keep hoping for my #1 to still make the list because it's Tom Petty and hey, I was raised on promises...
― PEOPLE LIVING IN COMPETITION (Sandy), Thursday, 31 July 2014 04:05 (nine years ago) link
also loooooooool at "well now look/we're the Doobies now"
― PEOPLE LIVING IN COMPETITION (Sandy), Thursday, 31 July 2014 04:07 (nine years ago) link
a vote for badfinger is never a wasted vote.
― PORPOISE AND ME (fact checking cuz), Thursday, 31 July 2014 04:34 (nine years ago) link
and there is one tom petty song that is not "american girl" that i am still very much, um, waiting for.
― PORPOISE AND ME (fact checking cuz), Thursday, 31 July 2014 04:35 (nine years ago) link
i can't even remember what i voted for, except that my #1 and #3 have already placed :(
fingers crossed that 2 hits the bigtime
― SEEMS TO ME (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 31 July 2014 04:38 (nine years ago) link
Badfinger RULED and agreed that it was not a wasted vote. My #2 vote for a UFO song, however, feels wasted even though I LOVE THEM SO.
Also:
Sandy's last story makes me feel like a kid wishing "they'd lived in the Sixties," but, yknow, in the Seventies. Kinda Dazed & Confused like, seems like hell in some ways but everybody at least looks a lot better than when I was a teen.
― Doctor Casino
If you made a mashup movie of Dazed and Confused and Almost Famous, you would pretty much have my own personal biopic.
― PEOPLE LIVING IN COMPETITION (Sandy), Thursday, 31 July 2014 04:42 (nine years ago) link
And there are two Petty songs in my top ten that I am still waiting for. Like I said, I was raised on promises... and the waiting is the hardest part.
― PEOPLE LIVING IN COMPETITION (Sandy), Thursday, 31 July 2014 04:44 (nine years ago) link
oh hold on, I had No Matter What at #5! My number 3 still has a good chance of placing because it's a bona fide CR gem.
― PEOPLE LIVING IN COMPETITION (Sandy), Thursday, 31 July 2014 04:49 (nine years ago) link
well, there's at least 180 points right there for unnamed-tom-petty-song-about-not-being-able-to-do-what-you-want-to-do-right-now-even-though-the-lyric-seems-to-suggest-he-is-in-fact-doing-it-right-now.
come on, rest of ilm. give us the rest of those points.
― PORPOISE AND ME (fact checking cuz), Thursday, 31 July 2014 04:57 (nine years ago) link
man have I grown to love Joe Walsh since the Eagles thread― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, July 30, 2014 4:44 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink*cue C. Grissom*― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, July 30, 2014 4:44 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, July 30, 2014 4:44 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
*cue C. Grissom*
Sorry...work...stuff
Will that be
(A) Well, yeah.
or do we want an upgrade in the form of:
(B) DON: It was quite a novel idea to bring Joe in as a replacement for Leadon. We'd followed him from The James Gang up through his first solo albums, so we knew he could handle the responsibility that comes with being an Eagle. No one had succeeded in bringing an already established star into an even more famous group scenario, but we made it happen. Suddenly we had some overdue cred in the rock world, not to mention our biggest selling studio albums.
GLENN: And what a sport he is! He brought us "Funk's #50-52" as demos, and let us completely improve 'em into "Teenage Jail", "Learn To Be Still", and "Busy Being Fabulous" without even asking for credit! That's what I call teamwork!
DON: Well, yeah.
― Randall "Humble" Pie (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 31 July 2014 05:28 (nine years ago) link
My weirdest "brush with greatness" is someone at the local club in my college town calling us up at the college radio station and admonishing us for not picking up Michael Schenker at the bus station, like one of us had said we would.
I was the only one in the office with a car that afternoon, but who the fuck is Michael Schenker? So we found a bunch of UFO and MSG albums, found the guy on the sleeve. I picked him up, one of the other DJs faked his way through an unprepared interview, and then I took him to the club.
Quite honestly, I really didn't even need to look at the albums. The middle-aged German heavy metal guitarist standing in the middle of the Columbia, Mo., bus station parking lot was easy to pick out.
― pplains, Thursday, 31 July 2014 05:38 (nine years ago) link
Michael Schenker is one of the truly oddest people I have ever known. Looool that you had to pick him up at a bus station.
― PEOPLE LIVING IN COMPETITION (Sandy), Thursday, 31 July 2014 07:44 (nine years ago) link
Many Xposts but I remember curt kirkwood saying in an interview in musician magazine in about 1986 that billy gibbons got all those crazy squeal harmonics by playing guitar with the edge of a peso... Is that true?
It's a modified peso, filed down so it's pick-shaped:
http://kkguitar.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Billy_Gibson_ZZ_Top_holdi_470efc4239812.jpg
http://www.patobryan.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/billypeso.jpg
― john wahey (NickB), Thursday, 31 July 2014 08:23 (nine years ago) link
::BAP BAP::
Wake up, ILM, I think I've got some poll results for you.
http://i.imgur.com/R9NurZv.jpg
40. Rod Stewart – Maggie May1149 points, 19 votes, 1 first place vote
― some dude, Thursday, 31 July 2014 10:30 (nine years ago) link
My number 1. Unlike some dude and his mom, early Rod is one thing me and my old man agree on.
― g simmel, Thursday, 31 July 2014 11:26 (nine years ago) link
"It's late September and I really should be back at school"
That line always stressed me out. He's missed a lot of school! He probably can't start this semester at all!
― carl agatha, Thursday, 31 July 2014 11:28 (nine years ago) link
GROSS CANCEL POLL.
― Jeff, Thursday, 31 July 2014 11:38 (nine years ago) link
I like "Maggie May" but I gave my Rod vote to "Hot Legs" which'll surely get the shaft here (talk about gross)
― Euler, Thursday, 31 July 2014 11:43 (nine years ago) link
Some of you look a little hung over this morning. I've got something that'll cure what ails ya.
http://i.imgur.com/DDTECkg.jpg
39. Nazareth – Hair of the Dog1161 points, 17 votes
― some dude, Thursday, 31 July 2014 11:44 (nine years ago) link
TOO LOW both of these
― g simmel, Thursday, 31 July 2014 11:53 (nine years ago) link
A+ pic for maggie btw
― g simmel, Thursday, 31 July 2014 11:55 (nine years ago) link