CLASSIC ROCK TRACKS POLL: THE RESULTS

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?

― before you die you see the rink (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, July 30, 2014

the trail of tone-blarney Gibbons leaves in his wake is legendary. it's a good story and it might even be true. brian may is known to play with a sixpence.

playing guitar with a thick piece of metal is just o_0

I remember reading that Robbie Krieger switched from fingerstyle to using a quarter in the early 80s when Versions came out. (Might not have lasted, I dunno.)

Gibbons definitely a legend, both in the authentic and the self-styled sense.

Do pesos have serrated edges like American quarters or are they smooth like a nickel?

jimmy buffett plays guitar with the shard of a conch shell he found lodged in his arm when he woke up passed out on a beach.

I'm trying to find that kirkwood interview but stuff from Musician is not easy to find online. I remember he also talked about his love for Steve Miller and Jerry Garcia's use of heavy processing as well. It was after mirage and before huevos.

The most fun thing about SATANIC ROCK MUSIC was Chick Tracts. So excited I found this one online in its entirely, it's my all-time favorite:

http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0034/0034_01.asp

Billy G plays with really thin strings, so if he also picks with a lump of metal then I dunno he must have the touch of an angel's breath.

"Thank God Sandy read that little tract I gave her."

Killer Rock started in 1972, so "Stairway" is safe I guess.

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

why have i lost the ability to see gr8080's pix

fuck i had to work today

51. Mountain – Mississippi Queen

my #2, could have been #1. you ppl are savages

otm

cosign

for the sentiment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVSPripAc5Y

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.

Fleetwood Mac - One-Winged Dove

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)

A+ Chick tract.

It's all over. Everything's ashes. Bobby died of AIDS, Jim O.D.'d.

And Don is into vampirism.

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.

Fleetwood Mac - One-Winged Dove

Funny they couldn't get Joan Jett's name right.

― pplains

as a kid i appreciated her shoutout to the pirates' third baseman with the line 'i'm a few years older than you . . . madlock'

why have i lost the ability to see gr8080's pix

anyone else? looks fine on my end.

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.

Ellis, D

ok here gr8080

(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.

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.

Drummer = hockey goalie

Sandy and rogermexico, a relatively recent live version:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63Ov0YOEry8

"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.

Four more of mine showed up today (MS Queen, Funk 49, La Grange, Back on the Chain Gang), 6 total now.

"Funk #49" might've made my ballot if I made one, but I still wish "Funk #48" got one-tenth of its love

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.

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

I literally thought they were singing "Well now look/We're the Doobies now"

(When I was 12 and first heard it on lo-fi AM radio)

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...

also loooooooool at "well now look/we're the Doobies now"

a vote for badfinger is never a wasted vote.

and there is one tom petty song that is not "american girl" that i am still very much, um, waiting for.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.