Rock on! Rock on! It's Tim's '70s rock connections thread.

Yes I am.

how much U like Queen

A lot.

and if U like Queen so much why not Boston, too, man????

Not enough Gilbert & Sullivan, duh.

Are you ready to rock?

Yes and neither band SOUNDS anything like Boston or the Knack.

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"Never In My Life" is the best Mountain cut.

The Quick's album has never been reissued, but there's a CD of other recordings that came out a year or so ago. A friend of mine burned me a copy and, honestly, I haven't even gotten to listen to the whole thing yet, but what I have is very cool. I put their version of the Four Seasons' "Rag Doll" on the mix I made for ddb.

"The Fixer" from Smokin' is my pick to click. The first two albums on Immediate kind of rule pretty hard too, I've decided.

that Legend of a Mind comp looks kinda cool. there are a lot of pretty popular bands on there, but some other's i've been meaning to hear. is is worth picking up?

the Uriah Heep track is "Walking in Your Shadow". i have that record. it's pretty great. i heard somewhere that most of the Vertigo stuff (besides being pretty expensive) has like one good track and the rest is kinda blah. hmmm... There is that new Vertigo boxset that looks pretty tempting. and while looking for that i saw a 5cd Harvest box. fuck i wish i was rich.

To be honest, I think I like my favourite Boston songs a lot more than any individual Queen track, even though I can see how Queen was the better band (and obv I listen to Yes and Rush more than either although Queen was possibly better than either of them too in a way). It's not something I'd argue for very long. I don't think Queen's melodies and song structures sound much at all like Boston's (maybe this is the G&S thing you were getting at). Even the arrangements aren't that close a lot of the time. (Yes, or maybe Genesis, would probably be a much closer comparison.) The guitar timbres and vocal harmonies might be sort of similar on Queen's more straight 'rock' tracks. I don't know if it's just that I don't have as much feeling for camp of the variety in which Queen dealt... Now I'm trying to figure out why I don't like Queen as much as I like Boston (though I do like Queen)!

Boston are pretty worthless after the second album, mind you.

I should clarify that I'm saying this without having actually listened to any of the later albums. It's just that when I saw them in concert every song they played that wasn't from the first two was dull. I would leave to get drinks or go to the washroom when they played something from the last album. They did do some cool things like bring out a pipe organ and do this delay-treated guitar instrumental thing.

also, not rock per se, but i am listening to Sly & The Family Stone "Stand" now. Maybe my fave sly.

what are the good 70s james brown albums? "hot" and "superheat" are mediocre to poor.

No, you know, I actually never owned the albums. I never really thought too much about Boston. Increasingly, though, when I would hear their songs on the radio, I just started really digging the sound of those records (I had known a little bit about Scholz and all that, but had never read too much about it) and realizing how good some of those songs are.

I've never been a big metal guy. That "blues free environment" thread came about because I'm realizing that my main problem with it has always been its use of blues harmonies. I think I just see it as a cliche; like when I listened to that Kix album the other day, it was like, oh man, they just HAVE to use those chords in every song in order to be badass.

Even Led Zeppelin - I think some of their songs ("Dazed and Confused," "Whole Lotta Love") are a cool use of blues as this kind of post-psychedelic psychodrama music. But a lot of times I hear Led Zeppelin and I don't think it goes beyond hard rock/blues cliches.

I also really like some badass early metal when they were doing it as a tight, singles oriented music: stuff like "Paranoid," "Bad Motor Scooter" by Montrose, and "Walk Away" by the James Gang. But when you get into eighties metal and the return to a singles oriented music w/ Motley Crue and hair metal bands - seems like there's too much phony posturing and reliance on badass musical cliches. I seem to prefer hearing pop stuff like Def Leppard. (I changed the station on the car radio today when a Scorpions song came on, though.)

Jaxon, I just ordered that Vertigo mix a few days ago and I can't wait to hear that. Has anyone heard that 3 disc veritgo box set? (btw I live in Topanga so it's no wonder I have the same taste in music as your mom!)

http://s32.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1O52WTYYOAFRQ0ZFU9UUNL1NPW

I didn't even know about that Harvest box ... looks pretty good, but if anything that one seems to have a lot of more common stuff and kind of repeats the artists a lot. This Legend of a Mind thing has a bunch of dudes I'd never even heard of before. And most of it is pretty darn good. I recommend it.

i've been meaning to re-buy all the Hendrix albums i had in highschool that i sold because i became a "cool" indie rocker in college. the only one i have anymore is Band of Gypsys that i fucking LOVE.

... and while I do tend to enjoy ponderous progressive rock albums if there are some nice bits here and there and they've got a good singer and the guitar player is certainly pretty fucking excellent, I ended up just listening to side one of that and side one of the first Boston album and can u guess which of these sides TOTALLY PWNZ?

Hint # 1: One of these albums is one of the greatest sounding things of all time (and I heard the guitarist in this particular band recorded it IN HIS BASEMENT? ... My, my) while one of them KINDA SOUNDS LIKE CRAP, FRANKLY.

Hint # 2: One of these sides is this ponderous prog rock STUFF while the other starts off with two of the most absolutely kickass rock and roll songs of all time that just keep burning into massive frontiers for almost five minutes each.

(P.S. That "TAKE A LOOK AHEAD!!!" bit in "Peace of MInd" is more intense than anything Black Sabbath ever did, surely.)

They're pretty blatantly theatrical and music hall-influenced, yes. You don't like anything from Jesus Christ Superstar?

NO.