CLASSIC ROCK TRACKS POLL: THE RESULTS

i am bummed that work was too busy for me to fully rock along, i wanted so bad to CAPS LOCK ROCK as is my wont, but hey, shit was awesome no matter what

now occupies #2 spot in my heart right behind the legendary action movie poll for best poll ever

for those that don't know and those who just can't let the party go...

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

written by Paul Williams' brother(?)

Cannot overstate how much fun this has been. Obviously I am older than most of you (maybe all of you?) and I got to experience all of this music in the moment, but that also means that I've had many more years to grow weary of some of it. Everybody's enthusiasm, and Doc Casino's awesome reviews, made me remember how much I love so much of this music, and how lucky I was that I got to be around some of the people who made it. You people rock so hard.

Veg, your CAPS LOCK ROCKIN made me laugh so so hard, so many times, 'cause I am a CAPS LOCK ROCKER too.

i am a caps unlock rocker, but i caps locked by dn for this thread in tribute to the awesomeness of the two of you.

yeah what with some dude's hard work, gr80's images, the side thread w/Dr C's reviews of FCC's curveballs/Sandy's awesome anecdotes, and everyone's general enthusiasm ITT, this has really been a treat.

My first place was outside of the top 500: Robert Palmer - Sailin' Shoes/Hey Julia/Sneakin' Sally Through the Alley. Have to admit that it's definitely not the most "classic rock" of songs, but it squeaks in under Little Feat. I probably should have given more points to Skynyrd or something.

― love is how's life tonight (how's life)

Sailin' Shoes/Hey Julia/Sneakin' Sally Through the Alley was the last song I cut, and maybe the one that was the hardest for me to cut. Love it sooooo much.

my robert palmer vote was for "you're gonna get what's coming," though i understood it was hardly a top 500 candidate, never mind a top 100 candidate.

Hey guys, I heard that the owners of AORta are selling the station to some assholes who want to turn it into a Sports/Talk station with Limbaugh and Hannity and traffic on the 9s. But if we can throw a HUGE BENEFIT ROCK SHOW we might keep it blasting out the rock forever!

Oh ha, I've heard "Drift Away" a million times but didn't know the title or artist.

First time I heard "Drift Away" was when Bon Jovi did it in concert in '87 (final song of the encore)

In the late 80s/early 90s my sister owned a flat in Newlands (South Side of Glasgow) and her next door neighbour was Brian Robertson's mother - a 100% working class wee Glasgow wifie, except that her flat was packed with memorabilia, photos etc of Thin Lizzy, Motorhead and tons of other rock bands and celebs. In her toilet was a framed, signed picture of Rod Stewart and he had written on it "Thanks for the bacon sandwiches, love Rod".

― everything

Brian Robertson's ex-wife is Dee Harrington, who was Rod Stewart's live-in gf in the early-to-mid 70s. She's the one he dumped for Britt Ekland. Which makes that picture in the bathroom extra goofy to me.

The first show I ever worked as a production assistant was a Thin Lizzy show. They were playing a very old theatre (mookieproof, it was the Stanley), and the dressing rooms were up on the third floor. The backstage elevator was one of the old hand-crank types, and it was my job to bring them down to the stage. And it was my first day on the job and I was the only female who worked for the promoter, and the local stagehands were being quite mean to me all day, and nobody bothered to show me that there was a trick that you had to do to get the elevator door to open. So I have the band in the elevator, and I can't get them out. And we can hear everybody getting restless and the band were trying so hard to help me figure out how to open the door and I am almost in tears. We finally get it open, and my boss is right there waiting and he started screaming at me and Phil Lynott said "hey, I'm not going onstage until you apologize to her." And of course, the boss immediately apologized. Phil Lynott was such a gem.

awesome

Excellent

Love that BOC won this. I've been running around the house shouting "praise Balthazar!"

XP Oh wow. Great story (as always) Sandy!

man, they just helped you save face

so gr8080 tell us more about the pics

aloha friday
internet k-hole?
ship fam?

plz remind me to answer this on monday. don't have the time/not sure how i want to go about doing so until then.

i'm djing a wedding for two early 30's art professors tomorrow at a beautiful louisville mansion and despite the carefully curated playlist i've got ready to go, i'm totally fighting the urge to just let our top 100 rip all nite

omg sandy that is the best

that is just great.

sandy i don't know if i'll ever hear "kashmir" again without thinking of your friend tossing the PG 8track out the window, your friend otm

xxpost gr8080 you gotta!!

sandy, i seriously think you might be my spirit animal/ long lost cool older sister

omg phil

(mookieproof, it was the Stanley)

not the syria mosque?

so i'm still about three days behind on this thread, can't wait to read it.

for some reason "ride like the wind" makes me think of driving while having to go to the bathroom really bad

I was gonna suggest a Sandy Stories poll, but now I think it's pretty clear what would win. Holy shit.

via lyrics.wikia.com, i offer you the quintessential classic rock lyrics:

Woo!

Slow ride, take it easy
Slow ride, take it easy
Slow ride, take it easy
Slow ride, take it easy

I'm in the mood
The rhythm is right
Move to the music
We can roll all night

Oooh slow ride
Oooh

Slow ride, take it easy
Slow ride, take it easy

Slow down, go down, got to get your lovin' one more time
Hold me, roll me, slow ridin' woman you're so fine

Woo!

I'm in the mood
The rhythm is right
Move to the music
We can roll all night

Oooh
Slow ride, take it easy
Slow ride, take it easy

Slow down, go down, got to get your lovin' one more time
Hold me, roll me, slow ridin' woman you're so fine

Slow ride, easy, slow ride, sleazy
Slow ride, easy, slow ride, sleazy

Slow down, go down, got to get your lovin' one more time
Hold me, roll me, slow ridin' woman you're so fine

Slow ride, take it easy
Slow ride, take it easy

Slow down
Go down
Slow down
Go down

Come on, baby
Take a slow ride with me
Come on, baby
Take a slow ride

Oh, feel good
Mmmm, feels so good
I like it, yeah
I feel good
Oh, I feel all right

You know the rhythm is right
You know the rhythm is right
We've got to rock all night
We've got to rock all night

You know the rhythm is right
We've got to rock all night
You know the rhythm is right
We've got to rock all night
You know the rhythm is right
Woah, come all night

Slow ride!

i just gotta say, the guitar solo in "sultans of swing" is the absolute bomb.

both of em i mean

Slow Ride lyrics just don't convey any sense of how cool ''SLOW RIDE!!!'' sounds coming from them. There's like, extra H's in there or something. Can't be duplicated.

SLOOOOWWWWRRRIIIIIIIDE

everyone knows it's one word, not two

holy shit sandy!

not the syria mosque?

― mookieproof

No, DiCesare/Engler bought the Stanley a few months before I started working for them and they were doing all of their theatre-size shows there. Danny Kreske and some other smaller promoters still did shos at the Mosque until they tore it down. The Mosque was so beautiful, but the Stanley was pretty sweet other than the ancient backstage.

Veg, you are totally my rock little sistah.

I love that you guys enjoy these stories, I've thought about writing a book but I don't know. I have this weird thing about monetizing things that are so precious to me. We had this code back then. We were there because we needed to be around music, not because we wanted anybody's fame or money (although we didn't turn down Ahmet Ertegun's champagne lol). Almost Famous was so otm about that aspect of it.

My favorite Thin Lizzy-related experience: About a week after that show in Pittsburgh, I went up to see them in Cleveland. After the show, Brian Robertson got ahold of some PCP and he was a mess. He was a mess to begin with - a sweet, lost kid. He carried around a stuffed-animal dog for comfort. I'm always still surprised that it was Phil that died and not him. Anyhow, we were all taking turns keeping him occupied so he wouldn't get too disruptive, and it was about 4 AM, and it was my turn to babysit. I am the worst person in the world to put in a position of responsibility for another, nobody ever listens to me, lol. So within 5 minutes I had lost all control of the situation and he was out in the hall yelling and kicking around the room service trays that people had left for housekeeping to pick up. I'm trying to talk him into going back into his room and the man who was staying in the room across the hall came out of his room and yelled at us for making so much noise and called us motherfuckers. And that man was Mel Torme. He had also done a show in Cleveland that night and EVERYBODY stayed at Swingos, it was THE celebrity hotel. So yeah, the Velvet Fog called me a motherfucker.

bwahahah

omg

omg yesssssssssss

i am not one of ilm's fancy pants music writers, but if you wanted to write short stories/blog posts (toward writing a book or not) there are some such who might be interested, i dunno

omg

yeah i understand the reluctance, and the code, but at the same time i think your stories really deserve to be told sandy!

also i would buy you an imp + iron when i'm home for xmas

thanks again, some dude & gr8080. i already want to go back and read all three threads (noms, poll, and results).

cool stories!

It turns out I actually know very little about the genre, as has been fairly systematically shown, but I love the stuff I know (and have known since childhood, or possibly since before birth), and it's been a really great joy to a) get some educatin' (go to school!) from ILM and b) just revel in other people's joy and memories and unabashed excitement for music that, you'd think, we'd have all been just become totally inured to through ubiquity. It's infectious.

― Doctor Casino, Friday, August 1, 2014 5:35 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This is me m/l

Sandy, a book of your stories would make the world a better place, imo

An iron fist in a velvet fog.

Thanks to everyone for going all in on this. It's made this extra tedious work week much better.

And how have I gone my whole life without hearing Lido Shuffle?! This song is the best! I think I always thought Boz was some sort of heartland rocker, and not a guy who writes songs as amazing as Lido Shuffle.

yr gonna wanna listen to the rest of silk degrees too

Oh, no question! I think I'll probably spend much of tomorrow digging through his catalog.

mookie, I would be so up for having a beer with you at Christmastime (plz make it a Rolling Rock tho, Iron City is so horrible). We could meet up at the Lava Lounge on Carson Street, they have awesome rock karaoke. I am hungry to karaoke Lido Shuffle. And they sell Mad Dog in paper bags there, lol.

In her toilet was a framed, signed picture of Rod Stewart and he had written on it "Thanks for the bacon sandwiches, love Rod".

I can't begin to describe how bizarre that sounds to an American....

if this poll has taught me anything it's that ILMers don't love The Eagles nearly as much as they say they do.