What music have you "re-discovered" lately?

Copaup said:
King Crimson.
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Saw 'em live in Cambridge in 1973 (?). The Court of the Crimson King. Wow.

I also saw Genesis and the Pink Fairies in Cambridge at around the same time for 50p (~ $0.75)

You can't get there from here, unfortunately...

maximus otter
 
shaldag said:
any of you geezers remember Quicksilver Messenger Service?:D
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Most people remember their (Have another Hit of) Fresh Air single. Loved their early stuff off of QSM, Happy Trails, Shady Grove, and Happy Trails. They hooked up with Cold Blood at Winterland and the Filmore West a couple of times. They some excellent anthologies out.

How about It's A Beautiful Day??



Ahh....King Crimson. :thumbup: The heart of Emerson, Lake, and Palmer. In the Court of the Crimson King was their best album, IMO. 21st Century Schizoid Man (Including Mirrors) is a classic.
 
Here's another oldie I found on a tape in my truck: James Gang "Thirds". Man, Joe Walsh was a phreaking GENIUS!!!
 
shaldag said:
any of you geezers remember Quicksilver Messenger Service?:D
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Happy Trails was one of the greatest Rock and Roll albums of all time.

Ten Years After did an album in 1967 called Undead (nothing to do with bloodsucking rodents) that Rolling Stone called the hardest driving rock album ever back in the early '70s. Besides the first released version of I'm Goin' Home, it had a cut called Woodchoppers Ball (from an old Leadbelly song, I believe) that was about 15 minutes of the hardest electric blues boogie there is.
 
Speaking of boogie, how about "Fried Hockey Boogie" by Canned Heat? I dragged that old cassete out last week and gave it a listen...Damn, that's a GOOD one!
 
Speaking of boogie, anyone remember Catfish Hodge? They had a track called
the boogie man gonna get you that seriously kicked butt!
 
I dug out Who's Next recently and it is pure and Let It Bleed has been in heavy rotation.

But after years of classic rock I have done a 180 and have started to delve into old country (Hank Sr.) and a bluegrass (Flatt & Scruggs, Bill Monroe..etc.).

Maybe I'm getting soft living below the Mason-Dixon line for the last 10 years.
 
maximus otter said:
Saw 'em live in Cambridge in 1973 (?). The Court of the Crimson King. Wow.
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I saw King Crimson opening for Ten Years After in El Paso about the same time frame. Saw the freakiest guy I've ever seen at a concert there. I still remember him.

I dig Motown, too. James Jamerson may be the best bass player ever.

Jack
 
Did Anyone Mention The Authors Of Heavy Metal, "black Sabbath"?
When I Was A Little Ball Of Lint, I'd Get An Older Friend To Buy Me A Few Quarts Of Beer And I'd Hide 'em Outside And Late At Night I'd Scurry Down The Stairs And Retrieve The Wondeful (at The Time) Concoction. I'd Down A Quart And Set Up My Stereo.. I Had Good Stuff Since I Had An "in" With A Store That Sold Pretty Decent Stereo Equipment. On My 14th Birthday I Started Working At Lafayette Radio In Paramus, Nj (where The Coneheads Lived. Seriously. Watch The Movie!!)
I Had The Best Set Of Koss Headphones Made And The Best Pioneer Turntable Made And The Loudest Amp Lafayette Made So I Was Set. I'd But Black Sabbath On And Had A Great Time.
A Little Bit Of Trivia Here.. Just As Their Only Guitarist, Tony Iommi Joined The Band He Had A Meat Slicing Accident And Chopped Off The Top Joint Of His Third Finger. He Had A Rubber Rostetic Made Up And Played Fast As A Muthafo!
Now Ad Then I Catch "war Pigs" And Strt Asking Long Haired People If They Got Any Acid.
;-)
Anyways, They Deserve Mention Here Just Cuz I Liked 'em And Really Made Me A Better Guitarist Since I Saw Them Twice, Both Times Managing To Get My Arms Resting On The Stage. I Learned The Entire Black Sabbath Album In One Night Just By Watchin Tony. Funny Thing Was He Went Outta The Way To Use The Prosthetic Finger And Never Used His Pinky On The Fretboard. Still He Played As Fast Asif He Had 7 Fingers.!
Ok, I'm Done G'byebye.
I Am Vampire Gerbil Mannnnnnnnnnnn

edited to say i had an "in" with stores annd not sores, although the first version was funnier.
 
i AM SPEAKING OF GOLDEN EARRING, OF COURSE. I LOVED RADAR LOOVE AND WHEN THAT STARTS PLAYING ON THE RADIO I SAY A LITTLE PRAYER THAT ALL SQUAD CARS ARE GAZILLIONS OF MILES FROM ME. THEN LIKE 10 YEARS LLATER THEY CAME OUT WITHTWILILIGHT ZON AND WHEN THAT VIEO PLAYS I JUST PRAY NOBODY WALKS INYO THE ROOM WHEN THE CHICK IN THE NAZI ATTIRE STARTS CRACKIN' HER WHIP!
OFF TO PONDER MY LOST YOUTH AND SEX LIFE, I REMAIN, VAMPIRE GERBIL
 
You guys are sure taking me down memory lane. I hadn't thought of QMS in years. I got one for you. Anyone remember Goose Creek Symphony?
 
this thread has been a great trip (long strange trip, anyway) down memory lane.

Some of our students have never heard of the Byrds, much less QMS or Ten Years After. It's good to hang with folks that have a serious musical education.:D

I agree that Happy Trails was one of the best albums of all time.


Right up the with Sweetheart of the Rodeo.

And so I don't have any mad Hungarian Jerry Garcia lookalikes coming after me, American Beauty is right up there too. I just can't rediscover it; it was never lost.
 
shaldag said:
this thread has been a great trip (long strange trip, anyway) down memory lane.

Some of our students have never heard of the Byrds, much less QMS or Ten Years After. It's good to hang with folks that have a serious musical education.:D

I agree that Happy Trails was one of the best albums of all time.


Right up the with Sweetheart of the Rodeo.

And so I don't have any mad Hungarian Jerry Garcia lookalikes coming after me, American Beauty is right up there too. I just can't rediscover it; it was never lost.
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Ripple has got to be one of the great lyric poems of the 20th century.
 
Ten Years After: I'd love to change the world

Jefferson Airplane: Lather

Pink Floyd: Relics album

Focus: Hocus Pocus

and I have been listening to a lot of swing and vocalists from the 1940's too

and I am only 35...
 
Jefferson Airplane: Revolution "One generation got old, one generation got sold, but this generation got no destination to hold"
 
Guess I'm the freak in the crowd. Again. Still... No big deal.

Been diggin' out and listening to my the stuff from those angst driven years of yore. Black Flag, Fugazi, Dead Kennedys, Ramones, Bad Brains, Clash, Sex Pistols... Kids, those were the bands that legends can only hope to be as good as.

Rare are the bands of today that can hold a candle to the power buried the lyrics that rolled out of the punk movement. We raged back then, not entirely sure why, but looking back there was a lot more buried in the movement than safety pins and mohawks.

Ordin
 
Boston self titled and Rush Moving Pictures have been getting played a lot lately

I also just bought my girlthing Yes' BBC recordings
 
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