Best Rock Ever? Nominations, No Air Supply!

[J.R.]

Toy Talmadge Caldwell Jr. and the Marshall Tucker Band. Most of these guys started playing in High School, and most volunteered to join the military and go off to Vietnam. They reformed and became synonymous with the sub genre Southern Rock.

This 1973 live version of Can't You See was tight and better than the studio version. I would call this Blues based Rock. Amazing the lengths the guy in the song would go to get away from a woman.

Toy (real name), wrote most of the band's songs, sang some and played guitar and steel guitar. Unusually he played lead guitar, picking the strings mostly with his thumb. He did that his entire career. Gives a softer sound than a pick.

 

[JedidiahStolzfus]

Wife and I saw Peter Gabriel for his I/O tour lastnight in Pittsburgh. Amazing show, at 73, he's still getting up there and doing it. There was an opening boom to start Sledgehammer. That was the loudest thing I've ever heard at a concert, and I saw Metallica. It shook the area.

 

[Slaphappygamer]

I remember seeing Sledghammer music video on MTV. I was about 12 and it was one of the wildest videos I’ve seen. Love the song. Sounds like he still puts on a great show. I love hearing great artists that are still performing. I never got a chance to see Nirvana, and the closest to a Soundgarden show you can get is Audioslave.

April, next year, I’m heading to The Greek (UC Berkeley) to see Primus, Puscifier, and A Perfect Circle. Two of my top favorite drummers.

 

[Chargeride]

World in action, ground-breaking british investigative tv.

Started in 1963 and theme tune was simply hypnotic, even against the simple static intro image, you know you were watching something serious.
A fantastic bit of progressive rock I guess.
You will watch the first minute over again.

 

[JedidiahStolzfus]

Here's some nostalgia for you guys. This is the first song I learned all the words to when I was about 3. I even tried to learn the german parts even though I didn't realize it was in another language. I remember singing this at the top my my lungs around the house. We had it on the original LP, which my brother still has and is playable, in his collection.

 

[Taylor57]

Big Head Todd and the Monsters at Red Rocks. This is from 2008. Saw them this June at RR. What a venue. Gunna watch Todd again New Years Eve in Menlo Park CA at The Guild...

 

[JedidiahStolzfus]

Another one for you fogies.

 

[Losna]

OK

As Christmas is slowly crawling near, this Christian band playing an old Christmas song:

 

[Slaphappygamer]

Christmas is already here. Went to the store for Halloween candy and there is Christmas s*it everywhere, music and all.

Did I miss Halloween?

 

[dodgeman]

How about this one? It’s near Moab Utah.

Oh, sorry, wrong kind of rock.

 

[JedidiahStolzfus]

How about this one? It’s near Moab Utah.
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Oh, sorry, wrong kind of rock.

That rock is surrounded by Air Supply.

 

[Slaphappygamer]

How about this one? It’s near Moab Utah.
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Oh, sorry, wrong kind of rock.

Is that that rock that the Boy Scouts pushed over years ago?

 

[dodgeman]

Is that that rock that the Boy Scouts pushed over years ago?

I have no idea.

 

[Slaphappygamer]

nope, it wasnt.

Ex-Scouts Leaders Who Knocked Over Ancient Rock Get Probation

Glenn Taylor, 45, and David Hall, 42, pleaded guilty to lesser criminal mischief charges and will have to pay restitution for their October 2013 stunt.

www.nbcnews.com

 

[ElevenAD]

From the Legendary Court Tavern show!

Man if i could go back in time this would be one of the first shows i would see, they rocked the heck out of Court Tavern!

 

[Mr. Coffee]

Nah.

Foo Fighters. Times Like These.

Soundgarden. Before you ever heard of them.

REM. In anything before "Green" it was hard to find a song that wasn't awesome.

Mountain Song. Jane's Addiction had the official song in every snowboarder's head:

Foo Fighters. Times Like These is even awesome acoustic.

Steelheart. Probably the best Big Hair Metal Band that you never heard of.

Mother Love Bone Crown of Thorns. The 90's in one song.

Brad. Couch T-Bone.

My own opinion is that coming of age in the 1970s was the cultural equivalent of being raised by wolves. But they put out some good music as well as committed horrific atrocities against my ears:

Foo Fighters. Times Like These blows you away live.

You might say Dave Grohl is My Hero.

 

[Slaphappygamer]

Tickets for this year include….

Foo fighters in Colorado
Cali roots festival…..all 3 days in Monterey.
Primus with pucifer and a perfect circle in Berkeley.

This will be some of the best music.

 

[antboy]

Nah.
(snipped for brevity

Many of those pop up on my playlist, though for Soundgarden, it's just as likely:

It recently popped up on a gravelly ride sandwiched between Mountain Song and the following...

For Dave Grohl fans, it's worth checking out Killing Joke's 2003 self titled album, just because he goes back to his drumming roots on that
(a fitting end to the whole "Killing Joke sues Nirvana" story), and Killing Joke is a vastly underrated band IMHO.

I find the track "Asteroid" lyrically darkly humorous, and it rocks...

 

[Slaphappygamer]

FunFact: Nirvanas Incesticide album features Dave Ghrol using much disco beats because that’s what he was into at the time. He was new to the band on that album and he quickly got on board for Nevermind. The album “Bleach” had another drummer. You can easily tell the difference in these three albums. In Utero is one of my favorite albums. Specifically this song.

 

[Rome]

I might just play some grunge today.
It's monthly bike maintenance gotta have backup music.
I have chains, brake pads, sealant refresh and 3000 lumens forward looking lights to install bolts to inspect and re torque.
I gonna have a full day of relaxation !!!