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Premise:
There was and is only one great female Rock & Roll Band-HEART.
If you examine the body of work through the years-no question-Rockers, and great ones.
Nancy Wilson has one of, if not the greatest rock pipes drawing breath. Her sis plays mean guitar and Rocks.

Anecdote:
101, one of Direct TV,s music channels did special this year w/Heart performing 'Dreamboat Annie' album. HOT, HOT.
Kicker, after performing album -They looked beat up. BUT, for encore, thought they would let the new generation in on what music influenced them (they were always influenced be Led Zepplin.
This is how the real Rockers ended their program:
1. 'Good -by Blue Sky'-Pink Floyd
2. 'Black Dog' Led Zepp.
3. 'Misty Mountain Top'- Led Zepp.
4. 'Rain Over Me'-The Who

..and they 'kicked it',-BLEW IT UP.
Contrary (uniformed) opinions?

Ok Todd...enough!!! Thinking of young ladies in "jeans with a size in the single digits" is always a recipe for shop accidents.

Now...step away from your bandsaw and go take a cold shower!

I, myself am playing a round of golf to purge my mind of such distractions.

BTW...she was always a fav of mine as well!

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JJ
Napa, CA
http://www.DonohueGuitars.com

[QUOTE=ToddStock]I'm thinking August 1977 for starters.[/QUOTE]

Yeah, as long as you can set the machine to arrive AFTER Stephen Bishop's opening set. I don't think I could take hearing "On and On" again.

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Scott Thompson
Port Townsend,WA

"In a perfect world we'd all sing in tune
But this is reality so give me some room"
-Billy Bragg

[QUOTE=bob J]
Nancy Wilson has one of, if not the greatest rock pipes drawing breath. Her sis plays mean guitar and Rocks.

opinions?[/QUOTE]

I think you have it kind of backward there...
Ann Wilson has the pipes, and Nancy is the guitar player. But Nancy is no slouch when it comes to vocals either. I was a Heart FREAK when I was a teenager.
Dog & Butterfly was on of the best albums made in that era, period.

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"I want to know what kind of pickups Vince Gill uses in his Tele, because if I had those, as good of a player as I am, I'm sure I could make it sound like that.
Only badly."

Jeesh Hesh, here i was thinking about tight little jeans and good rock and roll and you had to bring up disco.

I find it amazing that even today the commercials are playing classic rock oh my era in their commercials and classic rock radio stations are still alive and doing quite well. Some of the moody blues, Jethro Tull, Pink Floyd, James Taylor, Cat Stevens, CSN&Y (the list goes on and on) were some of the best composed and performed songs ever. Some of the music theory that went into their music is still astounding even today.

If I had to pick one or two who were my greatest influences (musically, not politically), they would be James Taylor and Cat Stevens. Both excellent guitarists and singers.  Ian Anderson with Tull is probably one of the most complex musicians of my generation. His music still astounds me. You certainly have to add Heart to the list somewhere along the line. They pumped out hit after hit.

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Reguards,

Ken H

MEA CULPA -Greatest Rock pipes, EVER!

"Why do you need new bands? Everyone knows rock attained perfection in 1974. It's a scientific fact."
-- Homer Simpson

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Jonathan Kendall, Siloam Springs AR

[quote]I hated Heart - you guys probably dug disco - come on admit it. Who here had a fro????????[/quote]

You saw this coming!



I was always into Metal! Sabbath, BOC, Closeted Priest... but Heart was one of the top 40 bands I had some regard for! Except barracuda

If there's a hell, barracuda's on muzac right now!

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Billy Dean Thomas
Covina, CA

"Multi famam, conscientiam, pauci verentur."
(Many fear their reputation, few their conscience)

Ken,
I hear many of the earlier rock hits selling many more of the products sponsors wish to convince us we need.
If many of those artists knew that their songs were, today being used for advancing ideas, products, etc. that were an anathema to them and the times, the anger and sadness would overwhelm.

[QUOTE=Billy T] [quote]I hated Heart - you guys probably dug disco - come on admit it. Who here had a fro????????[/quote]

You saw this coming!



I was always into Metal! Sabbath, BOC, Closeted Priest... but Heart was one of the top 40 bands I had some regard for! Except barracuda

If there's a hell, barracuda's on muzac right now![/QUOTE]

He's a complicated man and no one understands him but his woman....

They say this cat Hesh is a bad mutha..shut yo' mouth...

Sorry Hesh couldn't resist.

Todd, Todd, Buddy,
Some good groups, lyrics and ideas But:
Pink Floyd, Cream, Blind Faith, Janice, Ten Years After, the Animals, Kinks, Santana, the Dead, Stones, Beatles, Black Sabbath, Heart, Allman Brothers, Humble Pie, Joe Cocker, Leon Russell, Butterfield, Dire Straits, Doors, Dylan, Baez, Jefferson Airplane, the Who Annie Lennox, Nicks, Moody Blues, Tom Petty, JJ Cale, CLapton, Raitt, Cat Stevens, Led Zep.,Jackie D' Shannon,----off the top of my head. Also the concomitant protest, folk explosion of great music--

NOT TO MENTION, the freedom created at this time for all a great black musicians to finally perform and invent music and to receive their due from the USA, who had prior to the Brits handled the situation by ignoring it.
Hooker, BB King, Albert King, Albert Collins, Ellmore James, Muddy, Howlin', Big Bill Broonzy and those ready to make their break now, with their new music, 4 Tops,
Miracles, Tempations, Supremes, Martha and the Vandellas, Sherrels ,on and on-and the new solo r&b artists: Arethia, Tina, Marvin Gay, Sam Cook, Otis Redding, Tammie Tyrell, Mary Wells,....Hust of the to of my head
Please, very carefully lay today's R&R next to the music of this age if you wish to do so for comparisons, because the R&R of the era will, with very few exceptons,BLOW IT ALL AWAY

[QUOTE=ToddStock]But seriously, Ken - a little classic rock is nice to keep my friends at the party when we have something on the deck or the porch...I even turn the volume up so that no one has to adjust their hearing aids . I throw in some Motown and EW&F for my wife...gets her and her friends dancing, and hobbling around the next day. .[/QUOTE]

 

Ahhhhhh Motown... almost forgot it. Some of the motown stuff is second to none. good ol sly and the family stone...

now youre gonna have me singing "papa was a rolling stone" all day long.

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Reguards,

Ken H

MEA Major Culpa
Buffalo Springfield, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young-as group and individuals;
Leonard Cohen- hey used words like Dylan Thomas

'Papa was a Rolling Stone'

Lest we forget, we hippies experienced an explosion of the great music; never duplicated since.
And, I fear, we will never be apart of again. The amount of freedom that will be need to be pry, from the 'Powers that be', to launch this era, will be resisted with a passion that made 'our time' very tame indeed.

Todd, I apprehend your concern.
The thrust of my statement is not who now gets paid for commercial use but the use itself.

Those great rock songs were about anger with the system, fat cats, police, conservatives and others and what they Rockers had to say about these things. They were not created to perpetuate a system they wished to change or destroy. Now, to hear their songs of anger, protest and hope used to sell greed, capitalism, and 'one up on the Jones', truly makes me weep.