Favorite Classic Rock Group

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Grandpa said:
I like lots of classic rock bands. I'm a prog rock guy, so ELP and Moody Blues come instantly to mind. Boston, the first album. Allman Brothers. I appreciate the Beatles and Stones more than enjoy them (and I particularly appreciate the way the Beatles invented whole new ways to make rock music). The Who before they got silly. Santana is really a guy around whom various groups revolve and take his name, but his music has never gotten old.

But far away above the crowd, like a diamond rises far above the others on the Mohs scale, for longevity, for creativeness, for sheer power of lyrics, is Pink Floyd. In my musical enjoyment and appreciation, they're a class unto themselves.
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Do you mean ELO? If not, who's ELP? Not meaning to be picky. The Moody Blues is one of my favorite Classic Rock bands (...as I tend to define the term; I suspect I define "Classic Rock" in a very personal way, meaning including only a certain, limited historical period. When I read what GNT posts about the term I realize, due to his professional expertise, that my definition and what the term actually means are probably very different from each other.)

GNTLGNT said:
...Classic Rock is indeed a radio format-that grew out of the old "AOR" or Album Oriented Rock designation....and has become a classification for a disparate collection of artists...my faves?:
-AC/DC
-Aerosmith
-Kiss
-ZZ Top
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KingAHolic said:
that's a good question.... Classic Rock is actually more of a "radio format" than a music genre (e.g. Metal, Rap etc.) .... still I figure if it is played on a CR station, someone considers it "Classic Rock" - the bands, like Rage Against The Machine, that are up for debate in the CR category also include NIRVANA, PEARL JAM, STONE TEMPLE PILOTS (and more, but you get the general idea....)
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The problem I have with calling Nirvana, Pearl Jam, and The Stone Temple Pilots Classic Rock is that the word "classic" starts losing meaning for me, not that I dislike those groups, they're just still too recent. I'd probably need to incorporate "Old Classic Rock" vs "New Classic Rock". But see how personal it can be? I quit listening to radio and most music for a period of time which was unique to my experience in the world, so didn't grow up listening to AC/DC, ZZ Top, and a host of great bands of the time, whenever that was.

Anyway, to the point, most everyone on the Board already knows that my favorite band of all time is Procol Harum, which also happens to be a Classic Rock band.
 
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blunthead said:
Do you mean ELO? If not, who's ELP? Not meaning to be picky. The Moody Blues is one of my favorite Classic Rock bands (...as I tend to define the term; I suspect I define "Classic Rock" in a very personal way, meaning including only a certain, limited historical period. When I read what GNT posts about the term I realize, due to his professional expertise, that my definition and what the term actually means are probably very different from each other.)



The problem I have with calling Nirvana, Pearl Jam, and The Stone Temple Pilots Classic Rock is that the word "classic" starts losing meaning for me, not that I dislike those groups, they're just still too recent. I'd probably need to incorporate "Old Classic Rock" vs "New Classic Rock". But see how personal it can be? I quit listening to radio and most music for a period of time which was unique to my experience in the world, so didn't grow up listening to AC/DC, ZZ Top, and a host of great bands of the time, whenever that was.

Anyway, to the point, most everyone on the Board already knows that my favorite band of all time is Procol Harum, which also happens to be a Classic Rock band.
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...ELP=Emerson, Lake and Palmer...
 
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The Giant is correct. Emerson Lake & Palmer, particularly for "Tarkus" and most particularly for "Pictures at an Exhibition." There were some other albums that had decent stuff here and there, and their share of crap, but I still liked them. And Keith Emerson just did things that no other keyboard guy could do. Savant.
 
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Grandpa said:
The Giant is correct. Emerson Lake & Palmer, particularly for "Tarkus" and most particularly for "Pictures at an Exhibition." There were some other albums that had decent stuff here and there, and their share of crap, but I still liked them. And Keith Emerson just did things that no other keyboard guy could do. Savant.
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...Greg Lake's voice is one I would term "interesting"...just not sure how it sounded without studio enhancement though...none of us can sound like we have some reverb in our voice naturally....
 
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hundreds of them ;-D so, I'll go with who I've been listening to the past 2 or 3 weeks

Led Zeppelin (just finished a book called Whole Lotta Led Zeppelin and it put me in a Zep mood plus I've bought all the new remastered re-releases - Physical Graffiti was the last one released )
Black Sabbath
Jethro Tull
Frank Zappa
David Bowie
 
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