Posted by dino27 on 6/19/2018 1:24:00 PM (view original):
wow about allen freed.....and i hate rap too...i call it crap.....it also shrunk the pool for great jazz.

When I first started listening to him it was called "race music". Also it was confined to the extreme left of the radio dial. no idea what the significance of that was but considering how my political views matured it would be entertaining to think on

if i was a program manager of a radio station in 1976 this would be my top 40 artist rotation...with deep cuts for all.

1. beatles/solos
2.rolling stones
3. who
4. kinks
5. bowie
6. ny dolls/johnny thunders
7. neil young/csny
8. bad company
9. graham parker
10. iggy pop/stooges
11. t rex/mark bolin
12. roxy music
13. patti smith
14. bruce sprinsteen
15. tom petty
16. the doors
17. ccr
18. slade
19. alice cooper
20. led zepplin
21. sweet
22. mott the hoople/ian hunter
23. pink floyd/syd barett
24. janis joplin
25. the ramones
26. bob dylan
27. steely dan
28. yes
29. the monkees
30. aerosmith
31. j geils
32. black sabbath
33. maria muldaur
34. james taylor
35. eno
36 jimi hendrix
37 frank zappa/mothers of invention
38 elton john
39. badfinger
40. jackson brown

I agree totally with your list. I am just a bit more of a Rolling Stones fan then Beattles maybe

they are definitely not in order except that the beatles and the stones are the top 2 in any list....in 1977 the new wave/punk explosion happenned and that would change my rock and roll station.

all time rock and roll baseball lineup

1. elvis presley - 1b
2. bob dylan - ss
3. the beatles - cf
4. the rolling stones -lf
5. david bowie - rf
6. led zepplin - 3b
7. springsteen -c
8. the clash - 2b

Dire Straights for DH. One of the truly great ax men

i think for dh i would pick either elvis costello or pink floyd but dire straits would be on the overall team.

The Kingsmen for PH'er. You know they've got one hit in them.

Posted by dino27 on 6/19/2018 12:35:00 PM (view original):
yeah but 6 dollars then was like 30 dollars today.
there is a great scene in the thor rakovak movie with thor in action against a great led zepp song.....amazing charismatic music video scene.

yeah...the Immigrant Song. when my kids were younger they loved that song!

Posted by crazystengel on 6/19/2018 12:55:00 PM (view original):
Aqualung! I loved that song. I wore that album out on my record player. Now I can't bring myself to listen to Tull, it sounds so cheesy and heavy-handed to me.

I beg to differ. Aqualung is still a great album. Better than most of what is produced today.

I played drums in a crappy band as well. I was a halfway decent drummer. Kept a steady beat but didn't get too fancy. Our main claim to fame was we shared a few stages with Twisted Sister. I thought we were actually better than them, but we didn't stick cucumbers (personally a cucumber would have been redundant for me) down our pants or wear makeup.

Posted by dino27 on 6/19/2018 3:45:00 PM (view original):
i think for dh i would pick either elvis costello or pink floyd but dire straits would be on the overall team.

love Dire Straits! Mark Knopfler may be my favorite guitar player of all time! (I also highly recommend Richard Thompson..different style of guitar playing, but the man can play)

YES! Mark Knopfler a truly GREAT guitar player

Posted by wylie715 on 6/19/2018 4:26:00 PM (view original):

Posted by crazystengel on 6/19/2018 12:55:00 PM (view original):
Aqualung! I loved that song. I wore that album out on my record player. Now I can't bring myself to listen to Tull, it sounds so cheesy and heavy-handed to me.

I beg to differ. Aqualung is still a great album. Better than most of what is produced today.

I played drums in a crappy band as well. I was a halfway decent drummer. Kept a steady beat but didn't get too fancy. Our main claim to fame was we shared a few stages with Twisted Sister. I thought we were actually better than them, but we didn't stick cucumbers (personally a cucumber would have been redundant for me) down our pants or wear makeup.

No doubt Aqualung is better than most of what is produced today. Just not my cup of tea anymore. But "Aqualung" (the song) and "Locomotive Breath" are good hard rock, I can't deny that. It's their more over-the-top rock opera stuff that really turns me off.

Also, Ian Anderson was the inspiration for the Ron Burgundy flute-playing gag in The Anchorman. Have to give him some credit for that.

Ian Anderson is/was a very strange dude. Saw Tull in concert a few times and he always acted somewhat bizarre.

I saw them once, around 1983-84. They weren't at their peak, and that was around the time I stopped buying their records altogether. It was an okay concert, though. They played what people wanted to hear.