Top 10 Classic Rock Bands

[W1RKW]

 Not necessarily in this order:

Some of my favorite punk stuff.
1. Flipper
2. The Cult
3. PIL
4. Circle Jerks
5. Ramones
6. The Stranglers
7. Jim Carroll Band
8. Black Flag
9. The D.K.'s
10. The Hangmen  (my old band)

And something completely different
1. Joe Satriani
2. Marillion
3. Camel
4. Gentle Giant
5. Rush

[Ed KB1HVS]

Not necessarily in this order:

Some of my favorite punk stuff.
1. Flipper
2. The Cult
3. PIL
4. Circle Jerks
5. Ramones
6. The Stranglers
7. Jim Carroll Band
8. Black Flag
9. The D.K.'s
10. The Hangmen  (my old band)

And something completely different
1. Joe Satriani
2. Marillion
3. Camel
4. Gentle Giant
5. Rush

 Great list!  I saw Jim Carroll at Nantasket beach. Dont know the venue or how I even got there but it was huge. It was when People Who Died was getting a lot of radio play. Ha Ha Flipper! My wife wont let me play any of their records!

[Glenn NY4NC]

You mean the Grand Funk comment?... Paul, I told you to stay away from the brown acid! 

WB6ACU's old band was "James Gang"..... Unless Mark Farner of Grand Funk is also a Ham with deep pockets who bids on expensive boat anchors. 

My old band got together at an outdoor jam this past weekend, upstate NY and we jammed-out
on "Funk 49".....

Yea, I saw that auction..  awful lot of money for black wrinkle! 

and..............Grand Funk Railroad!!! (huh?)

I see where you're going with that, Glenn.  You're hoping a certain guitar player out on the west coast reads that and is so happy you remembered his old band that he'll let you win the RCA ACT-40 auction on epay.    

[GEORGE/W2AMR]

Honorable mention.

Blue oyster cult
Rainbow
Van Halen
The Cars
U-2
38 Special
Bon Jovi
Cream
The Band
ZZ Top
CSNY
Jefferson Airplane/Starship
Boston
Journey

[GEORGE/W2AMR]

How About the worst?

1910 fruit gum company

Edison Lighthouse 

Ohio Express

The Captain and Telliel

Doctor Hook's medicine show

Bay City Rollers

KC and the Sunshine Band

Herman's Hermits

The Archies

Village People

Cowsills

 

[Paul, K2ORC]

"WB6ACU's old band was "James Gang"..... Unless Mark Farner of Grand Funk is also a Ham with deep pockets who bids on expensive boat anchors."

Oops. The brown acid must've affected my long term memory.  I think it did something else, but I can't remember what. 

[W1QWT]

Well I was gratified to see at least one person nominating Bob Zimmerman as a great. I also like Arlo Gutherie as a performer. I have been trying to learn his song, "Alice's Restaurant" but it is sooo long  and my mind isn't what it used to be.
How about the Bostown Sound?
Ultimate Spinach
Beacon Street Union
Orpheus
Then there was the local Surf Nantasket Bands
The one that was already menioned and
The Mods
The Ramrods
The Techniques
The Pilgrims
Utopia
Shanana



A similar venue was the Rexacana in Marshfield.


Regards Q W1QWT

[W8EJO]

"WB6ACU's old band was "James Gang".....

As a student at Kent Sate back in the late 60's early 70's,  I remember The James Gang  would occasionally play for free at the Student Union (at least I never paid). Don't know if WB6ACU was a student there or not.

[W8EJO]

Well I was gratified to see at least one person nominating Bob Zimmerman as a great.

I tried to do a list of what I think are his top ten tunes but the list just keeps growing.

In no particular order:

1) Don't Think Twice It's All Right
2) Forever Young
3) Like a Rolling Stone
4) Leopard Skin Pill Box Hat
5) It Takes a Lot to Laugh it Takes a Train to Cry
6) Ballad of a Thin Man
7) Masters of War (IMHO, the greatest anti-war song of all time - if that's what your in to)
Desolation Row
9) Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues
10) A Hard Rains a Gonna Fall
11) Positively 4th Street
12) It's All Right Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)
13) All Along the Watchtower

I could go on & on

[Glenn NY4NC]

A great Dylan tune for hams is "Everything's Broken" 

Well I was gratified to see at least one person nominating Bob Zimmerman as a great.

I tried to do a list of what I think are his top ten tunes but the list just keeps growing.

In no particular order:

1) Don't Think Twice It's All Right
2) Forever Young
3) Like a Rolling Stone
4) Leopard Skin Pill Box Hat
5) It Takes a Lot to Laugh it Takes a Train to Cry
6) Ballad of a Thin Man
7) Masters of War (IMHO, the greatest anti-war song of all time - if that's what your in to)
Desolation Row
9) Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues
10) A Hard Rains a Gonna Fall
11) Positively 4th Street
12) It's All Right Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)
13) All Along the Watchtower

I could go on & on

[Glenn NY4NC]

 

Oops. The brown acid must've affected my long term memory.  I think it did something else, but I can't remember what. 

[Paul, K2ORC]

Then there was the local Surf Nantasket Bands
The one that was already menioned and
The Mods
The Ramrods
The Techniques
The Pilgrims
Utopia
Shanana



A similar venue was the Rexacana in Marshfield.
Regards Q W1QWT

Hi Q.  I think we ought to include surf guitar pioneer Dick Dale.

[Glenn NY4NC]

Ultimate Spinach??   That's a new one on me!

I didn't know there was a Utopia besides Todd Rudgren's Utopia!

Thaks for the history lesson Q  

<snip>Ultimate Spinach

Utopia

Regards Q W1QWT

[Vortex Joe - N3IBX]

I have a bunch of Atomic Rooster I can put on CD if you need it.
Good for the ears...
Keith

Keith - I may take you up on that and greatly appreciate the offer. I used to LOVE them and could never figger out why they weren't more poopular.

[Vortex Joe - N3IBX]

 You're hoping a certain guitar player out on the west coast reads that and is so happy you remembered his old band that he'll let you win the RCA ACT-40 auction on epay.    

Paul - Do you remember the auction on epay a while ago where someone in the UK had a "ACT-20" and a National NC-200 with speaker? I took a chance and bidded on it and won the auction. I want a ACT-20 so bad I can taste it! Apparently the ACT-20 was put in storage in September, 1939, and the NC-200 a little after.

I got a tip from DeWitt, N4QNX about teh ACT-20 since I rarely cruise epay stuff. Since it was in the UK it paid off.

The seller stated he won't ship, but am making arrangements with him to get the stuff packed and shipped to me. I'll let you know how I make out.

I have no idea what shape it's in, etc other than the pics on epay. It looks like it's never been used on the outside.

[K6JEK]

The Grateful Dead for heaven's sake.

For the longest time they were the biggest drawing band by a country mile.  I bet they still hold the record.

Keep on truckin'

Jon

[GEORGE/W2AMR]

Damn, we left out one of the greatest. AC/DC

[Paul, K2ORC]

We forgot the late Marvin Pontiac. 
http://www.strangeandbeautiful.com/marvin/


Marvin penned a song Bring Me Rocks, with this line, 
"My penis has a face and likes to bark at Germans." 

 His influence was diverse and wide-ranging.

[Bill, KD0HG]

Then there was the local Surf Nantasket Bands
The one that was already menioned and
The Mods
The Ramrods
The Techniques
The Pilgrims
Utopia
Shanana



A similar venue was the Rexacana in Marshfield.
Regards Q W1QWT

Hi Q. I think we ought to include surf guitar pioneer Dick Dale.

Ya, what's with you easties?

Hardly mention of Grateful Dead, Beach Boys, yes, Dick Dale, the Doors, Carlos Santana, Janis Joplin, Creedence Clearwater, Jan and Dean, Steely Dan...Sheesh!

[w1guh]

Moody Blues
Pat Benatar
Country Joe
Lovin' Spoonful
Commander Cody
Quicksilver
New England


Could go on and on

[Glenn NY4NC]

Paul;

That photo looks like Osama Bin Laden with a guitar! 

We forgot the late Marvin Pontiac. 
http://www.strangeandbeautiful.com/marvin/


Marvin penned a song Bring Me Rocks, with this line, 
"My penis has a face and likes to bark at Germans." 

 His influence was diverse and wide-ranging.

[John Holotko]

A great Dylan tune for hams is "Everything's Broken" 

Well I was gratified to see at least one person nominating Bob Zimmerman as a great.

I tried to do a list of what I think are his top ten tunes but the list just keeps growing.

In no particular order:

1) Don't Think Twice It's All Right
2) Forever Young
3) Like a Rolling Stone
4) Leopard Skin Pill Box Hat
5) It Takes a Lot to Laugh it Takes a Train to Cry
6) Ballad of a Thin Man
7) Masters of War (IMHO, the greatest anti-war song of all time - if that's what your in to)
Desolation Row
9) Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues
10) A Hard Rains a Gonna Fall
11) Positively 4th Street
12) It's All Right Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)
13) All Along the Watchtower

I could go on & on

You can count me in on this. Here are a few more that I highly reccoment

1) Chimes of Freedom
2) Stuck Inside a Mobile with the...
3) Visions of Johanna
4) Rainy Day Women
5) Subterrainian Homesick Blues
6) Sad Eyes lady of the Lowlands
7) Tombstone Blues
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and, one of my all time favorites...

9) x = (Love - 0) / no limit

[Glenn NY4NC]

What's the alternate title for that one? 

4) Rainy Day Women

[Paul, K2ORC]

Paul;

That photo looks like Osama Bin Laden with a guitar!

Very perceptive of you, Glenn.  It's a little known fact that in the very early 1980s, Osama was frontman for a Marvin Pontiac tribute band.  His unique physical resemblance to Pontiac made him a logical choice to front the band which was called Morphin Panic-attack.   Osama went by the stage name Coupe deVille and the band used to travel to their gigs in a renovated Oscar Meyer Wienermobile. 

Then suddenly Osama got religion. After he demanded the band abandon the Wienermobile because it wasn't Halal, the other members kicked him out.  Osama has had it in for Americans ever since.   







 

[W8EJO]

You can count me in on this. Here are a few more that I highly reccoment

1) Chimes of Freedom
2) Stuck Inside a Mobile with the...
3) Visions of Johanna
4) Rainy Day Women
5) Subterrainian Homesick Blues
6) Sad Eyes lady of the Lowlands
7) Tombstone Blues
My Back pages


and, one of my all time favorites...

9) x = (Love - 0) / no limit

Ah yes, then there the humorous songs:

Bob Dylan's 115th Dream
Talkin World War III Blues
On the Road Again
Maggie's Farm
Motorpsycho Nightmare
I Shall Be Free
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