Revisiting Full Classic Rock Albums from the 60s and 70s

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X-Roughneck Strike 3

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I am not a musician, although I think I played a mean air guitar back in my youth, so wanted to share a 39 minute good vibe with the board.

Pre-Internet days of my youth was filled with scanning Circus magazine reading about these mythical acts that were coming to Plug into a Stack of Marshall Amps and set our Hair on Fire at a Coliseum or Football stadium near us. Then taking off down the highway to go see our heroes in the flesh.

I Love listening to old Classic Rock albums from my Youth while scanning the IP brain washer.

One of my All time Favorites full albums.

Foreigner (1977)


JD
 
Tom,

I should have just Have named it Share Music Albums that Make You Smile Inside, Classic Rock, Etc and just left it to interpretation. Rock goes way back to the origin of the Blues so, equating "Classic" Rock -vs- Cars, .. Got'cha.

My Sisters (twins) are both 72. I remember being young and impressionable as to what they were doing and listening to at the time. Vietnam War going on. They are both artists, and at the time the Beatles were a Huge influence on their lives.

That is the best thing about music, is finding New Gems, or a Old ones that you totally forgot about, bringing you back your youth.

Thought to Self: Sure hope there are not any 19 year old actively following this thread...LOL.

I find myself getting into County From the 80 and 90s that I never stuff I never listened to in my life. I was like OK, Travis Tritt? Who is that? Etc, Etc.

I Find Country somewhat calming actually. Good for the soul.

I am going break my own topic of thread. Here is a link to a Great Hank Williams Jr. Album: The Pressure Is On. The only country album (vinyl) I actually have ever spent money on in my life. Here is a YT Share. Enjoy.


If you got a good album (Anybody) link please feel free to share.

JD
 
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99dart said:
The Doobie Brothers are my all time favorite. "The Captain and Me" & "Toulouse Street" runs a close 2nd. I must have a "couple years on you" Graduated 1974, turning 65 in April.

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Last month I bought the Rhino Records Quadio release of the four best Doobie Brothers albums, Toulouse, Captain, Stampede and Vices all remastered in glorious 5.1 surround sound. And they all sound fantastic.


In 1979 I got to have a private concert in Santa Cruz and I got to meet them.
 
The Court of the Crimson King by King Crimson is one of my all time favorites. Maybe the most unique rock music ever IMO. It will really show off good speakers. As I get older the Blue Oyster Cult song "Don't Fear the Reaper" keeps getting more relevant for some reason :)
 
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TheBar said:
The Court of the Crimson King by King Crimson is one of my all time favorites. Maybe the most unique rock music ever IMO. It will really show off good speakers. As I get older the Blue Oyster Cult song "Don't Fear the Reaper" keeps getting more relevant for some reason :)
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Has kind of a Jethro Tull type sound to it. Love the Quote...LOL

Cheers,

JD
 
99dart said:
The Doobie Brothers are my all time favorite. "The Captain and Me" & "Toulouse Street" runs a close 2nd. I must have a "couple years on you" Graduated 1974, turning 65 in April.

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Dart,

I have a 40 year old son today, but I would have graduated in 1979, :)

Getting close to 60 btw myself, the Doobies came to Abilene, Taylor County Coliseum, a couple months before my very first concert I ever attended. They were definitely Hot and Smoking, back in the day.

I love seeing Live Rock and Roll Acts.

My first show ever, Styx, Legs Diamond in January 78.


Texas Jam #1 happened 1 July 78, and that was my second one ever, so right off the bat it was hard not to get caught up in the wave of Rock and Roll acts coming close enough to my one horse town where in a few hours you can be there at the Front of the stage.

Gas was dirt cheap back then. $0.49 Gal

We were Lucky Enough to see the Big Shows at the Cotton Bowl. Pay for it in blisters to the face. Full face and shoulder molting the next days after. All in the name of Rock and Roll!

I was still seeing live concerts when I could up until a few years ago when we were living in San Antonio. San Antonio has some great venues to catch a live act or play, BTW. The Majestic Theater, Tobin Center great places to catch a show! AT&T Center off IH 35 would have some Bigger drawing Shows there also.

JD
 
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X-Roughneck Strike 3 said:
Dart,

I have a 40 year old son today, but I would have graduated in 1979, :)

Getting close to 60 btw myself, the Doobies came to Abilene, Taylor County Coliseum, a couple months before my very first concert I ever attended. They were definitely Hot and Smoking, back in the day.

I love seeing Live Rock and Roll Acts.

My first show ever, Styx, Legs Diamond in January 78.


Texas Jam #1 happened 1 July 78, and that was my second one ever, so right off the bat it was hard not to get caught up in the wave of Rock and Roll acts coming close enough to my one horse town where in a few hours you can be there at the Front of the stage.

Gas was dirt cheap back then. $0.49 Gal

We were Lucky Enough to see the Big Shows at the Cotton Bowl. Pay for it in blisters to the face. Full face and shoulder molting the next days after. All in the name of Rock and Roll!

I was still seeing live concerts when I could up until a few years ago when we were living in San Antonio. San Antonio has some great venues to catch a live act or play, BTW. The Majestic Theater, Tobin Center great places to catch a show! AT&T Center off IH 35 would have some Bigger drawing Shows there also.

JD
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Hey JD, I went to Texxas Jam in '79. UFO, Sammy Hagar, TKO, Van Halen (Van Halen was THE hot group then...just after the release of their second album), Heart, Blue Oyster Cult (and I think I'm missing one). Awesome weekend. What I can remember of it. I caught the tail end of the Hippie years, then joined the Air Force in 1980. I've been waiting (for a girl like you) by Foreigner became "our" song for me and my wife when I met her back in 1982. Anyway, here's one I have always liked and I think was always so underrated, but really good stuff.


 
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I attached the second link just because I thought it was funny.


thirtyhertzrumble.com

80’s Flashback: Romancing the Stone - Thirty Hertz Rumble

Joan Wilder: You're the best time I've ever had. Jack Colton: I've never been anybody's best time. Romancing the Stone Elevator Pitch Romance novelist fish-out-of-waters through the Columbian wilds as she attempts to ransom her sister from smalltime schemesters by delivering the map to a jewel...
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edjunior said:
Hey JD, I went to Texxas Jam in '79. UFO, Sammy Hagar, TKO, Van Halen (Van Halen was THE hot group then...just after the release of their second album), Heart, Blue Oyster Cult (and I think I'm missing one). Awesome weekend. What I can remember of it. I caught the tail end of the Hippie years, then joined the Air Force in 1980. I've been waiting (for a girl like you) by Foreigner became "our" song for me and my wife when I met her back in 1982. Anyway, here's one I have always liked and I think was always so underrated, but really good stuff.


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Ed, I was there didn't you see me? Right at the Front in the sardine can, Mosh Pit, in the Mix, or what ever it was called. We camped out the First three shows, in line and were some of the first people inside once they opened the gates.

I remember year one, Day 2 Willie Nelson was headlining that event. We were limping back to San Angelo, in Sam's Mother's Station Wagon, Big old Battle cruiser of a Vehicle don't remember alot of the drive home.

Year 1, 1978 (I went to Texas Jams- 1,2,3 and Year 86). Fair Park, the property the Cotton Bowl Sits on, was open and alot of Circus and Fair type activity there prior to the events kicking off, Battle of the Bands, and the Winner got to Kick off the show as the opening group.

Year 1 they ran Rain gutter and 1" PVC pipe around the 4 ft concrete wall with holes for water. They had a huge metal water tank at the other end of the football field as the water source it was circulating from. That PVC at about waist high that ran around the perimeter of the football field flowing back into the rain gutter. People climbing down onto the floor stepped on and broke the PVC and water was pumped into the floor of the Cotton bowl for hours. We were standing in 6" of water and once the sun came out...it was brutally hot and you were getting baked.

That first year they did not have the Speaker poles approx 5 on each side of the field Greased (Following years Axle Grease Smeared on those poles so people would not climb. 1st year people climbed them and sat on the speakers on the poles about 30 ft above the crowd on the floor. I saw a guy almost fall when the speaker hinge folded from his weight sitting on it. Crazy times.

12 bucks... I think I paid for that ticket. I found this photo of the crowd by Vernon Gowdy, famed Rock Photographer. I found myself in the crowd and had a poster blown up and keep it on my wall.

I will say in 78, when Edward Van Halen Plugged in and set the Cotton Bowl on Fire before lunch time, I have never been in a more electrically charged situation in my life. Skin Crawling When they Played the Entire First Album. Nothing beats the Frenzy of 100,000 chanting the Corus and raising those youthful Fists in the Air in unison.

Photographer had the flawed view as he was snapping pics from the side of the stage. I am in Front. My Mother Saw me on CBS news Walter Cronkite getting sprayed with the fire hoses. Called my Sister in Ft Worth. Me and my friends were at her house when the phone rang. I was not suppose to be there. Anyway. Save that story for never. LOL

JD

 

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jackiemac said:
My first album was Rumours. This is another I really loved...

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Jackie,

Now your talking. In 86 Dio (I love Last in Line) was Fronting this same band I believe. Not sure of the bands history, but I love a few of these tunes, going to listen and maybe find another that brings up that that memory from the past.



Tom, I wear out that Lynyrd Skynyrd video on the tread mill. Never got to see them before their fated day in that airplane. I read that that Charter Service that ran that air lines, that was Aerosmith's same transport company and they quit using them because of plane problems. Now if Steven Tyler backed out on the Company for being unsafe then you know they must have been dangerous, LOL.

JD
 
Nice to see somebody besides me knows King Crimson.
I use to love Van Halen(Not Van Hagar!), however they were the worst concert I ever attended. DLR was so wasted he forgot a lot of the words and the crowd was way unruly.
My all time top 2 concerts were Pink Floyd and The Who.

 
Tom55555 said:
I figured anyone following this thread is a music buff.

Two versions below of Pachelbel Canon. I normally like more pieces but I actually like the two piece version better. Just curious what others think.



History: Pachelbel's Canon - Wikipedia
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Tom,

I actually listened and the first video I could almost image that Lady in the Red Dress, playing that violin was almost the Re-Incarnation of the Late Great Edward Van Halen himself. RIP Eddie!

2nd seems somber for sure. Paints a picture of Gray in my mind. Relaxing though. I kind of like it.

To be honest once I saw that David Gilmore Link that Wally posted I wanted to immediately Click on it, I love The Floyd and all their Stuff, most of it I should say.

The Initial Stuff with Syd some of it is just too out there for me to Enjoy, but some of the most Long Lasting, Timeless Music of the 1900s - 2000s for sure.

Saw Bryan Adams three times and one of them was the Bare Bones Tour. Him and his Piano Player. Saw them actually on the San Antonio River Walk prior to the show, near Tony Roma’s a restaurant that serves what they call BBQ here in TX.

 
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