Hey, I'm looking for older/classic rock recommendations

[dyst0pia]

All I know is that I have been jamming to Ram Jam - Black Betty for the past 2 days straight. That song rocks...especially at the end of BASIC.

[MarkM]

Originally posted by Jeffy-CanCon
The Kinks
The Yardbirds
Manfred Mann
Martha and the Vandellas
Buddy Holly
ELVIS!

Not a single ROCK act in that list at all Jeff, come find me at Skyball and I will explain the difference to you
I do realise that you have a difficulty with your radio stations and their percentage play of Canadian music but seriously none are ROCK in your list. Yardirds at a stretch but only 'cos Eric is on guitar.

[Mateo]

Butch Walker
Tom Petty
Queen
Journey
Cheap Trick
Boston
Chicago
Cat Stevens
Billy Joel
The Who
The Strokes
The Doobie Brothers
Styx
The Eagles
U2

*Yes I know alot of 80's but we can't forget the decade that everyone hated lol*

[chizle97]

The kinks
sex pistols(not really but they are old)
the guess who
the who
elton john
pink floyd (of course)
led zeplin (not as cool as floyd)
Frank Zappa
stevie ray vaughn
steve vai
Mot the hoople]
iron butterfly

[cannedheat]

Not a single ROCK act in that list at all Jeff, come find me at Skyball and I will explain the difference to you

"Rock" is an exremely wide catagorie.

[MarkM]

True, but then to some extent we would appear to be just argueing semantics but what the hell.
Rock is a big range when you go into a record store...but try and tell a Def Leppard fan that the Beatles are a Rock act...big differences from both a musical sound and look...if you were to put Dance into a catagory then your list would be enourmous...the trade is known as Rock and Roll but in reality is much more diverse. There is nothing record companys like more than to relaunch Acts as the latest trend...to the extent that you get recordings that 2 years ago were just dance but now they are put on the lastest trend album. It has no right being there at all but it happens all the time.
Nu Metal has something going for it as a description but then under the same heading you could include Thrash and Death Metal...where would you put Marylin Manson...me personally in a rubbish bin (american version = trash can) but thats me but you see the problem...some of his "music" you could include in any of the three sections I just mentioned, cue a Manson fan telling us/me that he is a different one altogether but you get my point?
Rock in the probable truest sense would be the big/long haired screaming guitars and spaced out sounds...not melodic Boy Bands from the sixties who bothered the charts frequently and certainly not All Girl Harmony groups.
BTW not saying I dislike any of those but when selecting where they go in a musical genre I do have stronger feelings about them

[dave_p]

deep purple(cant believe i saw rainbow and elf but no DP)
pat travers band
robin trower
scorpions
cream
small faces
michael shenker group
king crimson(bruford, levin, fripp, belew)

[Zygote]

Bob Dylan after he went electric
Van Morrison
The Pogues
The Clash!

[daveymag]

The Doors.

[Mateo]

Steve Miller Band?

[ZAust]

minor threat
gorilla biscuits
youth of today
bold

[Pullman]

Ramones DUH!!

I dunno if they are "classic rock". They definitely rock. They are considered the Granddaddys of punk rock for obvious reasons. Mostly they just made rock uncomplicated again in a decade that seemed to favor way too much wanking. Personally I don't wanna listen to a song longer than 3 minutes no matter how good the guitar solos are. I don't really like guitar solos frankly. If you can find a copy of "All The Stuff (And More) Volume II" you will be pretty happy.