What side of the pond do you like your Classic Rock

we turned the brits on to the blues, they turned it into 60s rock and roll! my choice is over there.
 
I would have watched "That Metal Show" but Nugent was on so I gave it a miss. As for the question, given that America has Brian Wilson, and England has the Beatles, I'd call it a wash.
 
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The other side by far.If it wasn't for Hendrix it would almost be a sweep.
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Indeed, and considering who The Experience was and where they got their start, they could be considered majority Brit. Love me some Doors and Little Feat though.
 
I'm pretty well split. I always liked the West Coast psych but recently I've been listening to Krautrock and Canterbury groups. To me, music is music and it isn't that important what country it came from.
 
Both.

Since this is skewed to UK I will take the other side.

The North American side has many bands not mentioned. Just in California alone: The Dead, the Airplane, The Doors, The Byrds, Buffalo Springfield, Santana, Eagles, Zappa, Zevon ....

Canada: Neil Young, The Band, Joni ....

Let's not forget Texas: Janis, ZZ Top, Johnny Winter, Stevie Ray ...

Let's not forget the roots music like 50's and early 60's rock n' roll and Mississippi Delta Blues, Chicago Blues, all of which inspired the British Rock movement to begin with.

Some of the best US stuff was based on folk, and blues, and country ... this was widely copied in the UK (early Rod Stewart, Joe Cocker, Eric Clapton).

Some of my favorite stuff from the UK was prog rock like Early Genesis, Yes, ELP, Pink Floyd, and King Crimson. US bands could never really get this stuff although Americans invented jazz and its many forms.

Cheers, Bob
 
Like the Tassie said I do believe the "Poms" won that revolution.... only fair..
We did catch up some after a bit.... and gave them back MacDonalds and JP Morgan Chase.... It all comes out in the wash.

MJ
 
Hendrix has been mentioned here a few times in this thread. It's funny because even though he is American, I've always considered Jimi Hendrix & The Experience a British act.

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trhee said:
Hendrix has been mentioned here a few times in this thread. It's funny because even though he is American, I've always considered Jimi Hendrix & The Experience a British act.

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Your right . He went to Britain and broke as an artist there .
 
For me, which side of the pond or otherwise doesn't impact my preferences. If it sounds good I listen to it.

The best concert....by far was Deep Purple in the early 80's in Nurenburg, Germany.
 
I take a deep breath, remind myself that I have long legs, and do a big split right over the big pond! I can hardly imagine life without the music from BOTH sides of the Pond (and a few other places, too!).


Let's not forget that those early Brit bands were all inspired by American roots (by their own admissions); America is where Rock was born. Neither can we foget how the British bands took hold of that inspiration and made more of it, how they in turn re-inspired yet more American artists. I don't think either side would or could have produced what they did, without influence from the other side. At least, it's highly questionable whether the Brits would or could have evolved in the directions they did without American imported discs. Yet what they did with those influences was special, by any account. The Beatles, The Stones, The Who, Led Zeppelin --Rock just wouldn't be he same thing without such Juggernauts.

Fortunately, the rock era encompassed a time when not only recordings but also groups themselves could travel, too, and did so where the common language and cultural roots made bigger markets possible. The Beatles toured America. Hendrix went to Britain. There was a lively cross-pollination and many groups had hits in both markets. I see the two markets as inter-linked and inter-related.

Oh and I take it "America" includes Canada, too. What would rock be even with The Who, if it didn't also have The Guess Who?! :D
 
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I take a deep breath, remind myself that I have long legs, and do a big split right over the big pond! I can hardly imagine life without the music from BOTH sides of the Pond (and a few other places, too!).


Let's not forget that those early Brit bands were all inspired by American roots (by their own admissions); America is where Rock was born. Neither can we foget how the British bands took hold of that inspiration and made more of it, how they in turn re-inspired yet more American artists. I don't think either side would or could have produced what they did, without influence from the other side. At least, it's highly questionable whether the Brits would or could have evolved in the directions they did without American imported discs. Yet what they did with those influences was special, by any account. The Beatles, The Stones, The Who, Led Zeppelin --Rock just wouldn't be he same thing without such Juggernauts.

Fortunately, the rock era encompassed a time when not only recordings but also groups themselves could travel, too, and did so where the common language and cultural roots made bigger markets possible. The Beatles toured America. Hendrix went to Britain. There was a lively cross-pollination and many groups had hits in both markets. I see the two markets as inter-linked and inter-related.

Oh and I take it "America" includes Canada, too. What would rock be even with The Who, if it didn't also have The Guess Who?! :D
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Well said. :thmbsp:
 
trhee said:
Hendrix has been mentioned here a few times in this thread. It's funny because even though he is American, I've always considered Jimi Hendrix & The Experience a British act.

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Perhaps it's accurate to say The Experience was UK but Jimi was totally US.
 
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