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Classic rock fans...
Anyone ever listen to Greta Van Fleet? A new band with a classic 70's sound. The lead singer sounds a lot like Robert Plant.
One of the songs from the debut album.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=black+smoke+rising
One of the songs from the debut album.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=black+smoke+rising
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Adam J. McCleod
Adam J. McCleod
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Being of the appropriate age, the first time I heard these kids I thought I had died and gone to heaven. This is the FIRST music that I have purchased "digitally". I have a ton of music on my phone and saved on an external hard drive, but it is only because I have put it there from CDs or vinyl turned MP3. They are refreshing in today's day of crap rock.
I hafta agree with this. First time I heard them, I never would have guessed they were so young.
Adam J. McCleod
Not even close. Not even close to close.
Just my own humble opinion.
But to each his own.
Mike
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Mike
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Please tell me you are not referring to Ronnie Van Zant...
Adam J. McCleod
I don't think they are an LZ imitation. Yeah, the lead singer sounds like Plant, but they also have a Rush, Doors, and Bad Company thing going musically.
Adam J. McCleod
Well, yeah, but more than that. The Eagles had finished Hotel California and never hit their stride again. Eric Clapton, Imho, peaked with "Slowhand", and Fleetwood Mac was practically finished. Even the MoTown sound was changing.
I got out of boot camp in Jan '78, and from about that time on it was all about the BeeGees, Donna Summer, and disco. Not saying there weren't some very talented musicians/groups still around, but it just wasn't the same. Disco and the glamour hairbands of the Eighties killed what most of us at that time considered rock.
Mike
Edit: While I hold disco primarily responsible for the death of classic rock, I'll freely admit drugs and alcohol contributed greatly too. Way too many highly talented individuals of that era went out that way.
N454casull
Thanks for the clarification. I thought you might be talking about the dawn of disco.
I'm a child of the 80's and like(d) the metal bands. I viewed the "New Wave MTV" music era the same as kids from the 70's viewed disco. It sucked.
Adam J. McCleod
Lol. I had a GF in '85 who thought Twisted Sister was the "it", while I was wondering what happened to Badfinger.
We were 5 years apart in age, and that sure can make a huge difference in pop music tastes.
Mike
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They really caught my ear a couple months ago, enough that I looked them up on you tube and I checked their touring schedule, they would be great to see in a bar/club venue. Did you download the whole album and give it a listen yet? I have not gotten that off my list her of late.
Okay, I wasn't talking about glam metal bands. More like Metallica, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, etc.
However...attending glam metal concerts was awesome for checking out/hitting on the female fans. Not nearly as many scantily clad women at a Maiden show
Adam J. McCleod
I checked out their concert dates as well. They are playing Coachella at the same time as my family reunion in Texas.
I haven't downloaded the album, but I ordered the vinyl copy for my daughter. She's recently interested in records and bought a player. All of my vinyl has been absorbed into her collection.
Adam J. McCleod
Yes; good band with evident Zeppelin influences. Liked them since the 1st. time I heard their songs played at a local Rock radio station (The only one left).
Priest is going to play in a Minneapolis armory this year, no sitting, standing only, might have to check that out.
I bought a turntable Dec 2016. As I type this I'm listening to Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon.
A couple weeks ago I was in Cracker Barrel that sold vinyl. I ALMOST bought The Allman Bros. Fillmore East album. Glad I didn't though. I don't like that version of Whipping Post.
I heard JP is touring. How old is Rob Halford?
Adam J. McCleod
Play Green manalishi at 78 speed :cool2:
Watch the volume if you try it.
We accidentally time warped to the next day once.
Make alot a trouble when yer a teenager.
1965 to 1977.
Now..
Define classic music.
There.
Mike
N454casull
That is Ancient Rock...........
Gotta be in his 60's.
Up until I turned about 25 years old.
Probably about the same way you'd describe it.
Or most of us, for that matter.
Mike
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My walker has a built in chair.
I'm not sure I like you anymore.
Mike
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It is going to take me some time to put this system together and try this now, thanks a lot, hey. I love the intro to Green Manilishi on Unleashed In The East
I was in the grocery store a bit ago, and they were playing Dio’s “Holy Diver” on the Muzak system. That’s how I know I’m old
-Mikhail Kalashnikov
No. Foo Fighters and Pearl Jam are crap. They were when they were new, and still are now.
-Mikhail Kalashnikov
Fogerty rock......now, that is rock. I saw him last year at Fiddlers Green in Denver. It was him doing CCR's 1969 concerts.
Oh...you poor 80's raised kids.......Whitesnake and Def Leppard are poor....really poor substitutes.
Mike
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