Still Crazy After All These Years.

[mhardy6647]

Bruce Cockburn might qualify... I quite liked his last studio album ("Breakfast in New Orleans, Dinner in Timbuktu"), and he's been at it (in recorded form) since at least the early 1970's.

Sometimes his output is a little too surly, but his best stuff is great IMNSHO.

Plus, he is a heck of a guitarist.

 

[ForeverAutumn]

That lil ole band from Texas. Better known as ZZ Top. The longest running band, still performing, with the original lineup.

Rush would fall into that category too. If you don't count their first CD, before Neil Peart (John Rutsey on drums). They haven't changed members in 30 years. They are still putting out great music and great performances. :yes:

 

[clint e.]

Recruit the dreams that sing to thee.

Patti Smith.

November 2005 marks the 30th anniversary of the release of Patti Smith's debut album, Horses (Produced by John Cale), a groundbreaking rock & roll masterpiece which continues its unparalleled influence on rock music, style and culture. :thmbsp:

AN HONOR IN FRANCE :yes:

On July 10, at a ceremony in Paris, the French Minister of Culture decorated Patti Smith as a Commandeur of the Order of Arts and Letters. Commandeur is the highest rank of the Order, which is bestowed on eminent artists and writers who have contributed significantly to furthering the arts in France and throughout the world. Previous laureates with the rank of Commandeur include William Burroughs and Susan Sontag.

clint.

 

[fropiler]

I'll second that.

chicago and earth wind and fire. they are doing a combined tour. i saw the show on hi-def tv a couple of months ago and it rocked! just got the 2-disc dvd set the other day. sounds wonderful!

This DVD has kept me up past my bedtime many times since I got it. Really good.

 

[Mike Bama]

I'm huge fan of "The Long Bearded Men".
Tejas,Eliminator and Antena are great albums. :thmbsp:

clint.

Their shows back in the 70's were great! They had bulls, rattlesnakes on stage, and of course they wore those sharp looking Porter Wagoner suits. My favorites are Tres Hombres, (actually one of my all time top 5 albums), Fandango, ZZ Top's First Album, and Rio Grande Mud.
The albums you listed are good, but to experience the very best of ZZ Top, you should check out the albums I listed. To me they kinda lost that bluesy, down home edge, after Fandango.

PM me with yer snail mail address, and I'll make you compilation CD.

 

[clint e.]

Southern Simpathy.

Hey Mike,
Muchas Gracias. :thmbsp:

clint.

 

[clint e.]

They Got A Right.

Hey boys ,The Stooges are back in town
Oh Yeah!
The Asheton brothers,who have essentially stayed home for 30 years,seemed untouched by time only waiting for reactivation and still sound like punk's goon originators.
The Stooges still have something to say. :yes:
Muscle,sweat,and blood.
No,it's not a bullfight.It's Rock'n'Roll!! :thmbsp:

clint.

 

[Mike Bama]

Patti Smith.

November 2005 marks the 30th anniversary of the release of Patti Smith's debut album, Horses, a groundbreaking rock & roll masterpiece which continues its unparalleled influence on rock music, style and culture. :thmbsp:

AN HONOR IN FRANCE :yes:

On July 10, at a ceremony in Paris, the French Minister of Culture decorated Patti Smith as a Commandeur of the Order of Arts and Letters. Commandeur is the highest rank of the Order, which is bestowed on eminent artists and writers who have contributed significantly to furthering the arts in France and throughout the world. Previous laureates with the rank of Commandeur include William Burroughs and Susan Sontag.

clint.

I have that copy. It's mint, and only played once.

 

[clint e.]

Soul Sourvivors

What can we say about The Stones...?!
The Greatest Rock'n'Roll Band of the world...?!
In the seventies when Punk arrive Keith said: "We're The Rolling Stones.No one tells us what to do.We'll stop when we feel like it." Well...Punk came and go and in 2005 The Stones have a new album in CD or Vinyl,and a new Tour.
What can we say about The Stones...?!
What can we say about Keith Richards,the heart and soul of The Rolling Stones?
It's been a full life,to say the least.You name it.He's survived it:Altamont, punk,OD's,drug busts,lawsuits,jail threats,stage invasions.Fall from graces
falls from ladders...Factor in the deaths of his band mates Brian Jones and Ian Stweart,his friend Graham Parsons and his ten week old son Tara.It's a wonder he's still standing. :thmbsp:

Long LIve The Rolling Stones. :yes:

clint.

 

[Tubejunke]

I saw Boston a year or two ago and they were as good or better than ever. Same with the Doobie Brothers. I'm no big fan but I saw them the same year and they tore it up.

To go back a little further Steppenwolf normally puts on a powerfull show. I have never seen the Vanilla Fudge but evidently they are out and about on tour.

Rush
ZZ Top
Allman Brothers
Mountain
Cream
Blue Cheer
The list goes on and on. And inevitably gets shorter and shorter. The guys like Mick Jagger who were kicking it in 64 are getting on up there but music is their work, their art. There is no age limit to art. Should an artist stop his work because of his age or apearance? Granted the Rock Legends of Rocks infancy based their art on youth, and everything great about being young in a lot of ways the true art is the MUSIC you know SOUND. Sound doesent age. To me if the artist can still do a decent recreation of what made them great it doesent matter if their 90.

Now some of the bands I mentioned like Boston, Rush, or say AC/DC are a lot younger than Mick. They were coming into the picture in the early-mid 70s. Still they are around 50.

I think it is a bad idea to worry about the age or era of a Rock band or album. Just listen. If it rocks, it rocks! Most of the ground rules were laid down by the early guys so they pretty much always remain relevant.

I think its really cool this young band Parchaman Farm is getting a little praise. They are very heavilly rooted in the really heavy psychedellic sounds of just a few years in the late 60's. Particularly Blue Cheer and their legendary Vincibus Eruptum album of 68. The bands like Cheer, Mc5, The Stooges, and The Groundhogs that played this style were really too heavy for the average listener of that time. So they were more or less underground and through the years are largely forgotten. The only band that once played that heavy and loud and actually ended up going commercial with a bunch of hits is Grand Funk Railroad. They almost caused the upper grandstands at Shea Stadium to collapse due to the weight of the crowd head banging. I have seen footage. Its almost unbelievable to see but the whole thing is swinging up and down to the beat of the music. The show was almost stopped.

Anyway, its good to know that at least some younger people are interested in keeping a good thing alive. Roudy, Raw, ASS kicking Rock And Roll

Rock On

 

[theodoric]

I think its really cool this young band Parchaman Farm is getting a little praise. They are very heavilly rooted in the really heavy psychedellic sounds of just a few years in the late 60's. Particularly Blue Cheer and their legendary Vincibus Eruptum album of 68.

Anyway, its good to know that at least some younger people are interested in keeping a good thing alive. Roudy, Raw, ASS kicking Rock And Roll

Rock On

I'll tell Eric (Parchman Farm vocalist) that you like their deal.

EP now available: http://www.jackpinesocialclub.com/parchman_farm.htm

 

[gonzo]

Ian Anderson,CS and N look like a slim fast commerical the boys from Pink Floyd still look good and Clint,Ted Nugent can still get after it.

 

[clint e.]

Unity and Harmony

Santana.
Carlos Santana.So much to say about this 58-year-old Mexican-born virtuoso
guitarist who stole the show at Woodstock,introduced Latin rock to the masses,
made arty records with John MacLaughlin,Alice Coltrane and Wayne Shorter, covered The Zombies,then hit it really big collaborating with such talents as Rob
Thomas,Michele Branch and Placido Domingo.
Someone said in a moment in time,that Clapton was God. For me, Santana for a moment in time was like God.There is only good vibrations when Santana plays,
even now. :yes:

Viva Santana. :thmbsp:

clint.

 

[Bogframe]

Alice Cooper is still alive and rocking. His new album Dirty Diamonds is yet another reinvention for Alice. He's stripped away the theatrics and orchestration and morphed into a lean, mean garage rocker. It suits him.

 

[clint e.]

Besides his theatrics BS , i always liked Alice Cooper.I still have School's Out and Billion Dollars Baby , in vinyl. :thmbsp:
Great stuff,with the great Dick Wagner on guitars.

clint.

 

[kdlsoft]

The Moody Blues!..still touring half the year....and drawing huge crowds too......formed in 64..and never did a farewell tour..or a comeback tour....

Brief side step on the thread. Several years ago, I was in the Austin airport heading somewhere. Heard some English voices behind me. Saw 3 gentlemen with carryon bags. Immediately recognized them as Moody Blues members who had played in Austin the night before.

When they toured in the 60's/70's at the top of their world, they traveled in private jets (that cost a lot!). Now that they were having a 2nd (3rd/4th?) go around, they were saving their bucks and flying Southwest Airlines.

Flo of Flo and Eddie (Turtles) said "We never knew they were taking the cost of those plans out of our record sales! Our manager was supposed to handle that stuff!".

Aerosmith is back on top and this time they're straight and saving their money.

Some of these old group that are touring, you wonder which of the band members ran out of money and HAD to get back on the road!

 

[clint e.]

Kim Fowley _ Anti-Hero Underdog.

For those totally oblivious to the historic work and cult legend of Kim Fowley, two things are instantly apparent. Firstly, the guy is totally off his trolley and secondly, he has managed to record and produce some brilliant songs in a long a distinguishable career.Singer, songwriter, producer who had worked with Phil Spector, Gene Vincent and Jonathan Richman amongst others... Rev Ola records, the Creation off-shoot re-issue label followed up their previous Fowley release 'Outrageous' with another Fowley retrospective called 'Mondo Hollywood'. Twenty tracks that cover Fowley's solo work from 1966 to 1969.

It's not easy listening all the way through, after all this is an experimental album produced by a real maverick with a roving, or should that be raving, :scratch2: eye to try something just a little bit different.

This and the previously released 'Outrageous' compilation are essential purchases for the curious and the perverse!

"Phil Spector may kill people but I still make new recordings" - Kim Fowley.

clint.