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Born from the Psychedelic Rock of the 60s , the genre is still alive and well today, as guest author Paul Rhodes shows us in today's lesson in Prog Rock 101 . (classicrock.about.com....ck-101.htm)
A look at San Francisco bands who didn't gain lasting fame, but who nonetheless were part of the formation and development of the San Francisco Sound in 60s rock music. (classicrock.about.com....ck_101.htm)
Have a great weekend. The featured even this weekend is Worldfest at MacArthur Park in Little Rock on Friday, September 16. Worldfest is always fun with multicultural exhibits and crafts. The zoo is always there too (littlerock.about.com....rock-2.htm)
It's getting to be the time of year when we start documenting the "year's best" of everything imaginable. Here are your Guide's picks for the standouts among a bumper crop of Classic Rock DVDs in 2005. Read all About our Top 10 Classic Rock DVDs of 2005 . (classicrock.about.com....f-2005.htm)
Once in a while a GRAMMY is awarded in the category of Best Rock Vocal Performance, Solo in lieu of separate male and female awards. This GRAMMY was been awarded five times: in 1988, 1992, 1994, 2005 and 2006. Here's a look at the winners of the Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance GRAMMY (classicrock.about.com....8-2006.htm)
Three of the five new inductees into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame are the closest thing to rockers that were among this year's nominees: Dave Clark Five, Ventures and John Mellencamp. Non-rockers Leonard Cohen and Madonna are the other two (classicrock.about.com....s-2008.htm)
6th BEST ALBUM PERFORMER AMONG 1960s ACTS (Joel Whitburn57;s Top Pop Albums) with 33 charted in the decade, 16 of them Top 40. 4th BEST 1960s ALBUM PERFORMER AMONG ROCK-RELATED ARTISTS after Elvis, the Beatles , and Ray Charles . Among the first rock acts to sell albums on a style and sound, not needing hit singles on the albums (classicrock.about.com....s-2008.htm)
196557;s Play Guitar with The Ventures first musical instrument instruction album to chart. Thousands, including future rock stars, learned to play from this. / Walk Don57;t Run, Surfing, and In Space are also all considered essential Ventures album (classicrock.about.com....s-2008.htm)
Granted, it should never be a popularity contest, but come on. Look at the entire body of work, longevity, and impact on rock and roll as a whole. There are far more worthy bands than 60;The Dave Clark Five.61 (classicrock.about.com....s-2008.htm)
when will the rock and roll hall stop putting in idiots like maddonna. I can name 5 bands that deserve to be in: deep purple ,grand funk railroad,blue oyster cult,bad company and chicago . oh well another year that classic rock bands are ignored. I refuse to visit the hall until some claic bands are inducte (classicrock.about.com....s-2008.htm)
Jann Wenner should remove himself from the Rock and Roll Hall Nominating Committee. He has single handedly taken what should have been a place that honors rock and roll artists and turned it into his own private popularity contest (classicrock.about.com....s-2008.htm)
Rock Hall Foundation voters - 600 in all - voted for five of the nine nominees. The four who were nominated but not selected were Chic, Dave Clark Five, The Stooges and Joe Tex (classicrock.about.com....f-2007.htm)
I can no longer take the Hall of Fame seriously. This year57;s inductees are a joke. Until the real Rock and Roll legends are inducted, it57;s just a politcally correct list, nothing mor (classicrock.about.com....f-2007.htm)
When MTV came about, bands forgot all about having an individualistic sound and focused on making 60;music61; that appealed to the program director at MTV. MTV ruined rock and roll as far as I57;m concerned (classicrock.about.com....f-2007.htm)
I think in todays world we kind of have to acknowledge that many forms / styles of music may fall under the term, 60;rock roll,61; much to the dismay of many of us old young!) rock fans (classicrock.about.com....f-2007.htm)
I57;m sure the arguements / complaints will long continue as to who warrants inclusion into the rock roll HOF of course if it was based purely on commercial / sales success, Kiss should57;ve been in there many moons ago (classicrock.about.com....f-2007.htm)
Always wanted to go a ROCK 56;N57; ROLL Hall of Fame70;.but not this one! Too many selections and some of them not the right ones!70;By the way WHERE the Dave Clark Five (classicrock.about.com....f-2007.htm)
the fact that hes not in the rock and roll hall of fame and people like grandmaster flash and the furious five are even being CONSIDERED for a NOMINEE is disgraceful (classicrock.about.com....f-2007.htm)
The rock hall bases their inductions on how influential bands were. Kiss was not influential in the least bit. Cheap Trick and Foreigner were not influential (classicrock.about.com....f-2007.htm)
Magic 105's Tommy Smith was fired today. His fellow Little Rock DJ, Corey Ditz from the Edge 100.3, has a small article about the firing . Apparently he was fired because of Clear Channel's indecency crackdown. (littlerock.about.com....-fired.htm)
The Best Rock Album GRAMMY has been awarded each year since 1995. Only one solo artist (Sheryl Crow ) and one group (Foo Fighters ) have won the award more than once. Neither of those have ever won the Best Rock Song GRAMMY. In fact, only three Best Rock Album winners have also won Best Rock Song: Alanis Morrisette, U2 and Bruce Springstee (classicrock.about.com....ock_album/)
Which five will be inducted? We won't know that until January. The list of nominees for the Rock Hall's Class of 2007 will now go out to the 500 or so folks in the music industry who will vote on the five whose time has come (classicrock.about.com....ounced.htm)
"We need to keep rock and roll in the forefront before it disappears forever," says the post that started the conversation . "Rock will never die," began the first response (classicrock.about.com....ck-die.htm)
But there was a (not Breezy -specific) issue with OSD display, forcing you to restart acpid once logged into X to make OSD messages work. I tend to reboot only for kernel upgrades, so I didn57;t take notice of this problem. Thanks to Edward Mendelson for pointing this ou (www.jkraemer.net....-breez-y-e)
Prior to a European tour in 1973, the Rolling Stones Keith Richards went to Switzerland to have his blood removed and replaced with a supply that was devoid of drugs and alcohol (classicrock.about.com....yths_2.htm)
He did undergo a procedure that removes impurities from the blood, but it was a far cry from having his entire blood supply replaced. Richards eventually admitted that he got tired of answering questions about the procedure and made up the story himself. (classicrock.about.com....yths_2.htm)
Simmons tongue is abnormally long, and he has learned to use it in ways that draw abnormal attention to it. The fact is that '70s medical technology didn t extend to successfully attaching animal parts to humans, and a cow s tongue looks nothing like Simmons or any other human (classicrock.about.com....yths_2.htm)
This also means that if you have business or anything to do along the course route, you better allow extra time and maybe some walking. I'd just do it early or put it off another day (littlerock.about.com....thon-2.htm)
Is one of your New Years' Resolutions to get fit? Try running the Little Rock Marathon. It will be March 7 in downtown Little Rock and training is already underway. Beginners are encouraged to participate. It may be too late to start training for that first place finish, but it can't hurt to try to up your endurance. They even have a training schedule for you to follow (littlerock.about.com....thon-2.htm)
According to the training schedule this week, we should be able to walk 18 miles. Saturday's walk is an 8 mile walk. I have to admit, the longest walk I've done lately is about 3 miles but I will attempt an 8 mile walk on Saturday (littlerock.about.com....week-2.htm)
Next week's schedule: 3 miles on Monday, 4 on Tuesday, 3 on Thursday and then a 10 mile walk/run on Saturday. It doesn't sound at all bad when you put it like that! At this point, it's much the same for the half but Saturday's walk will only be 5 miles (littlerock.about.com....week-2.htm)
Speaking of Hendrix, his heirs have filed a second lawsuit against Britain's Purple Haze Records in an effort to stop them from selling bootleg Hendrix performances. Earlier this year, a London court ruled that Purple Haze illegally sold recordings of a 1969 Hendrix concert in Sweden (classicrock.about.com....ndup-3.htm)
Aerospace Education Center Family Night (July 18) Everyone gets in for the Child's rate of $5.00 and that includes a small Coke and Small Popcorn!Aerospace Education Center 7,8 & 9pm 501-376-IMA (littlerock.about.com....rock-4.htm)
It's important to get the right shoes if you plan to run and it's probably best to train at least a little in them. They say you need to buy new shoes every 300-500 miles and you should never run a race with brand new shoes (littlerock.about.com....week-4.htm)
I suggest going to a store that specializes in running shoes like Easy Runner in the Bowman Curve Shopping Center (400 North Bowman Rd., Ste. 3, 501-221-0017). Those guys will watch you run and tell you what shoes you need. (littlerock.about.com....week-4.htm)
Get up close and personal with a Chilean Rose Hair Tarantula , the Rainforest Bird Eating Tarantula . They're also having cockroach races! Sounds gross but it's bound to have your kids excited (littlerock.about.com....rock-5.htm)
Amerie is playing this weekend but with our without a concert, Magic Springs sounds fun to me! The show is free with park admission (or a season pass). Have fun (littlerock.about.com....rock-5.htm)
196257;s 2,000 Pound Bee first single ever to chart using the fuzz tone on the electric guitar. The Ventures had a customized fuzz box created as Maestro was designing a commercial model. / 1963s Surf Rider Nokie Edwards oft-covered original surf classic (classicrock.about.com....s-2008.htm)
The RnR HOF shouldn57;t induct so many acts every year. Its ludicrous. As most folks have already pointed out, the nominations are a joke. There are so many bands that can be added that it can57;t be taken seriously toda (classicrock.about.com....f-2007.htm)
What about a band that started in 1968 and is still going today and continues to sell out crowds in Europe as well as the US. I57;m talking about Yes. If nothing else Rick Wakeman as a solo artist should be inducted (classicrock.about.com....f-2007.htm)
My Hall would definately include the DC5, The Moody Blues, John Lee Hooker, Canned Heat, Donovan, Genesis , Procol Harum, Ten Years After, Tull, Yes, Richie Havens , Joe Cocker and The Small Face (classicrock.about.com....f-2007.htm)
I love music and I try to listen to everyone and everything at least once, but either I was sheltered, or heard and just ignored, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five. (classicrock.about.com....f-2007.htm)
Tull needs to be in before Kiss, the Flash Five, and Rush. Tull came along when bands took pains to sound different from everyone else. That period of time spawned the best rock and roll music ever. I57;m sorry to see that so much of it is being used to sell burgers and Cadillacs, but it goes to show that the music nowadays, by and large, ain57;t what it used to m (classicrock.about.com....f-2007.htm)
Aha, I57;m hearing / reading so many valid statements above can57;t argue with most of them I 100% agree about the statement / reference, 60;It57;s the Rock Roll Hall Of Fame,61; not rap, jazz, house, etc, although followers of those 70;, erm, 60;sounds61; makers would say, 60;so where would our music57;s success be recognized then?61 (classicrock.about.com....f-2007.htm)
There57;s also another side to that as well, completists could say that the likes of Van Halen , Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath , Kiss, etc, are not rock roll anyway that true rock roll, was say the likes of Buddy Holly, Elvis, Little Richard , Jerry Lee Lewis, etc, see what I57;m saying 70;, but57;s that57;s really not me 70;., as I understand recognize rock rolls many guises 70; (classicrock.about.com....f-2007.htm)
Hey Ron 70;, you must either be from Canada or the UK! You mention Status Quo should be inducted! Ha! I57;d agree with you for anywhere but the States success 70;. (classicrock.about.com....f-2007.htm)
BTW I57;m not certain, but is Peter Frampton already inducted? He has the best selling Live album ever, Frampton Comes Alive 70;, shouldn57;t that warrant inclusion 70;? Here begins / begs another question why 70;, huh? (classicrock.about.com....f-2007.htm)
Correction: The ORIGINAL Grand Funk Railroad had 10 consecutive Platinum albums, under the leadership of Mark Farner. This 60;museum61; will finally have some credibility in my opinion, when they recognize the ORIGINAL Grand Funk Railroad and especially Mark Farner (classicrock.about.com....f-2007.htm)
Jann Wenner can only be embarrassed that NEIL SEDAKA and most of the Brill Building participants are not in the Hall of Fame while Donna Summer and Afrika Bambaattaa are being considered for induction this year (classicrock.about.com....f-2007.htm)
By the way, the money raised by Neil at Avery Fisher Hall last friday Oct.26th was sent to Elton Johns AIDS Foundation. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation, with $12 million in assets, gives no money to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum in Cleveland other than to maintain its own archives. It also donates around $150,000 a year to indigent musicians, but pays its own director upwards of $300,000 a year. Just in case you forgo (classicrock.about.com....f-2007.htm)
Serious fans will recall that before they were Heartbreakers , the band began life in Gainesville FL as Mudcrutch . The original members of Mudcrutch (Petty, Mike Campbell, Benmont Tench, Tom Leadon and Randall Marsh) have recorded an album that is expected to be released shortly (classicrock.about.com....e-road.htm)
Styx and REO Speedwagon will again be tour mates for the US shows, with Whitesnake appearing at the band's UK gigs. Here's the Def Leppard (and company) tour schedule (classicrock.about.com....e-road.htm)
Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band resume touring February 28 in Hartford CT. A swing through Europe has been added to the tour, which will wrap up (as Springsteen tours always do) in his home territory, New Jersey (Giants Stadium) at the end of July. Here's The Boss's itinerary (classicrock.about.com....e-road.htm)
The album reached #3 on the US album chart. Four tracks were released as singles. The album was co-produced by Brian Eno, who had also produced the group's two most successful albums, Achtung Baby and The Joshua Tree (classicrock.about.com....behind.htm)
The album reached #10 in both the US and UK. Although the album was considered somewhat experimental, five singles charted successfully and received significant radio airplay (classicrock.about.com....o_lose.htm)
North Little Rock is proposing a new ordinance that would prohibit playing loud music in a house or car. Music that can be heard from 20 feet away would be subject to fines. Horns honked in any non-moving vehicle would also be subject to fines. The noise in a residential areas would need to be below 55 decibals after 11 p.m. They are going to hold public hearings about the ordinance at the next city council meeting so you can go sound off about the issue. Just don't sound off too loudly (littlerock.about.com....volume.htm)
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