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neone6

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starkers

Join Date 05/2004

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No Small Faces set is complete without this....

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One of Pocol Haum's lesser known songs, The Milk of Human Kindness, featuring Robin Trower on guitar.

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Wishbone Ash, started out about 12 miles from where I lived in Devon England... managed to see them a few times before migrating to Oz.

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Somebody else whose beginnings were not far from me In Devon..... Snowy White, who played with such greats as Thin Lizzy, Pink Floyd, Peter Green of early Fleetwood Mac fame, and former Rolling Stone, Mick Taylor...

These days he's primarily a blues player, but he can still wield a pretty mean rock axe as well.

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Quoting starkers,

reply 77

No Small Faces set is complete without this....

one of the all time greats...

my two fave Jim Croce....

1972/3 were very good years... amazing how music takes you straight back to them....

& I've Got a Name... and Operator... great talent...

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JuniorCrooks

Join Date 12/2009

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One of Canada's all time great Folk singers who unfortunately was taken way to soon in an airline crash in 1983.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Canada_Flight_797

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Jafo

Join Date 03/2001

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[that's 1976]

Yay...off to see Akka Dakka in December [and it may be their last tour]...

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starkers

Join Date 05/2004

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Quoting Jafo,

reply 85

Yay...off to see Akka Dakka in December [and it may be their last tour]

Personally I wouldn't bother.... not the same band without Bonn Scott.... and Brian Johnson isn't even a 6th or 7th next best... grates my nerves like chalk dragged across a blackboard.

A bit like the Strolling Bones, really... should have quit before arthritis and dementia set in.

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Jafo

Join Date 03/2001

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Well...Scott was once called the greatest rock voice of all time...so it's a hard act to follow but Johnson does a pretty good job of it.

...and a squillion others agree...the first concert at Etihad stadium sold out in less than 30 minutes...so we're going to the second...

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starkers

Join Date 05/2004

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Each to his/her own, I guess, but Johnson's vocals are grating and distinctly off-putting for me. I don't care how many agree, he sounds like a dying duck in a thunderstorm, as my dear old dad used to say... like somebody's strangling the cat.

Hehe, I wonder if he 'sings' in the shower... and whether his neighbours called the RSPCA.

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Almost had a chance to be there that day in history, but instead i elected to start my new job

it was my high school graduation summer!! Damn WTF? Was i thinking...LOL

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starkers

Join Date 05/2004

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Quoting Jaroepz,

reply 89

Almost had a chance to be there that day in history, but instead i elected to start my new job

it was my high school graduation summer!! Damn WTF? Was i thinking...LOL

Yeah, WTF in Hell were you thinking?

I had no chance of making it to that most memorable concert - being on Oz n' all - but I have watched the video numerous times [first on VHS then DVD, now BluRay] and wished I could have been. With Van Zant on vocals, 3 lead guitars wailing, and Artimus Pyle on drums, like WOW. Superb doesn't even do it justice, given the quality of that performance.

A band that impresses me, with its ability to cover Lynyrd Skynyrd songs well, not to mention Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple, etc, is Gov't Mule. If you ever get the chance, go see them, they're quite good and know how to put on a great show... IMHO, given all the live clips on You Tube I've watched.

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Quoting starkers,

reply 90

Quoting Jaroepz,

reply 89

Almost had a chance to be there that day in history, but instead i elected to start my new job

it was my high school graduation summer!! Damn WTF? Was i thinking...LOL

Yeah, WTF in Hell were you thinking?

I had no chance of making it to that most memorable concert - being on Oz n' all - but I have watched the video numerous times [first on VHS then DVD, now BluRay] and wished I could have been. With Van Zant on vocals, 3 lead guitars wailing, and Artimus Pyle on drums, like WOW. Superb doesn't even do it justice, given the quality of that performance.

A band that impresses me, with its ability to cover Lynyrd Skynyrd songs well, not to mention Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple, etc, is Gov't Mule. If you ever get the chance, go see them, they're quite good and know how to put on a great show... IMHO, given all the live clips on You Tube I've watched.

What an ass i was hahaha...one of many asshat decisions i've made in my days..lol...but i absolutely love the old skynyrd holy shit the guitars were second to none (imho) Gaines,Collins,and Rossington were unstoppable! back in a time when music was just that, music.. no pitch correctors harmonizers ect..just raw playing great time for music as a whole... great taste in music starkers!

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starkers

Join Date 05/2004

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Couldn't find the Gov't Mule version of Freebird, but here's a fair representation from Molly Hatchet....

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Another Great version...

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More Molly Hatchet

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Quoting starkers,

reply 92

Couldn't find the Gov't Mule version of Freebird, but here's a fair representation from Molly Hatchet....

Quoting starkers,

reply 93

Another Great version...

both are awesome like the hatchet version better tho.. thx..

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starkers

Join Date 05/2004

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Tammy Van Zant's tribute to her father, Ronnie Van Zant... who died in the tragic plane crash that took 3 members of Lynyrd Skynyrd way too early and deprived the world of 3 enormous talents.

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JuniorCrooks

Join Date 12/2009

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Quoting starkers,

reply 88

Each to his/her own, I guess, but Johnson's vocals are grating and distinctly off-putting for me. I don't care how many agree, he sounds like a dying duck in a thunderstorm, as my dear old dad used to say... like somebody's strangling the cat.

Hehe, I wonder if he 'sings' in the shower... and whether his neighbours called the RSPCA.

I actually agree with you starkers. I was a pre-Johnson AC/DC fan but cannot listen to them now. I feel the same way about Bob Dylan, he might be able to write songs but he cant sing worth shit.

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JuniorCrooks

Join Date 12/2009

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One of my top 3 bands of all time and Plant still has the voice. Some say at 66 he is a better vocalist than he was 35 years ago.

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starkers

Join Date 05/2004

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Quoting Jaroepz,

reply 91

Quoting starkers,

reply 90

Quoting Jaroepz,

reply 89

Almost had a chance to be there that day in history, but instead i elected to start my new job

it was my high school graduation summer!! Damn WTF? Was i thinking...LOL

Yeah, WTF in Hell were you thinking?

I had no chance of making it to that most memorable concert - being on Oz n' all - but I have watched the video numerous times [first on VHS then DVD, now BluRay] and wished I could have been. With Van Zant on vocals, 3 lead guitars wailing, and Artimus Pyle on drums, like WOW. Superb doesn't even do it justice, given the quality of that performance.

A band that impresses me, with its ability to cover Lynyrd Skynyrd songs well, not to mention Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple, etc, is Gov't Mule. If you ever get the chance, go see them, they're quite good and know how to put on a great show... IMHO, given all the live clips on You Tube I've watched.

What an ass i was hahaha...one of many asshat decisions i've made in my days..lol...but i absolutely love the old skynyrd holy shit the guitars were second to none (imho) Gaines,Collins,and Rossington were unstoppable! back in a time when music was just that, music.. no pitch correctors harmonizers ect..just raw playing great time for music as a whole... great taste in music starkers!

Yeah, if it had been me and that concert was anywhere within striking distance, I'd have pulled a sickie, put on a hippie hat, false beard and sunnies and turned up ready to rock n' roll the day/night away.

The hippie hat, false beard and sunnies? Just in case the boss saw footage on the 6 O'clock news... and saw me... not sick.

I agree with you on when music was music. With a handful of exceptions, there's not a lot beyond the 80's I bother with anymore. Apart from a few older bands and artists continuing in the old vein, and some of the newer acts sticking with older, more traditional styles, I have little to no interest in the so-called music of the 2000s. Nope, I'm stuck back in the 60's 70's and earlier 80's

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starkers

Join Date 05/2004

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Quoting JuniorCrooks,

reply 97

I actually agree with you starkers. I was a pre-Johnson AC/DC fan but cannot listen to them now.

Yup, Johnsons vocals ruin otherwise perfectly good music. Talking about strangling the cat... that's moments after you've applied thumbscrews to its nuts and poured hot treacle on its arse.

Quoting JuniorCrooks,

reply 98

One of my top 3 bands of all time and Plant still has the voice. Some say at 66 he is a better vocalist than he was 35 years ago.

Led Zeppelin IS my favourite band of all time, with Ten Years After a close second and Black Sabbath tying with Pink Floyd for 3rd place. I have a long list of artists and bands after that, though, and I'd be here for a month of Sundays going through it.

As for Robert Plant's vocals being better nowadays, I always thought he was awesome, right through his career with Led Zeppelin, The HoneyDrippers and hs solo period.... when he reformed with Pagey. Thing is, he STILL has it, without doubt, though he's more mature with it and better portrays a himself as a singer with great passion and feeling. I saw Robert Plant at Festival Hall Brisbane in the mid-80's and came away awestruck... he was phenomenal.

I love this performance of Black Dog with Alison Krauss...