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I saw TS3 this weekend and enjoyed quite a bit actually. LouieB

How was Kevin Junior?? LouieB

Working at home for an hour. LouieB

Which to my mind is what is really "classic rock". LouieB

Not living in Japan I missed that. LouieB

Working at home for a change.... The Big Star Box set. LouieB

How scary is this....when I was 5 rock and roll was brand fucking new. I do remember some of it, but my radio days started more around the time I was a bit older (8-10) when top 40 was the rule and songs got played in rotation so often they were burned into ones brain. At 5 I was listening to 78s my parents had or had gotten me, such as Disney stuff or Tubby the Tuba. Getting box hi fi was a big step forward so we could play LPs such as folk music (Kingston Trio etc.) and show tunes (many of which I still can sing by heart.) There are some types of techo I like quite alot. What I don't lik

Someone on VC told me a few years ago that he only toured once, which honestly was a surprise to me. This was the Dark Horse tour which was not too long after Concert for Bangla Desh. When I was a kid (meaning college and directly after) my friends and I were George fans. One of my friends from out of Chicago made sure we went. it was pretty wild to say the least and very moving. As far as listing groups just to list them, none of those are on my list. If so I would have to list some of the VC buzz bands which I saw at fests which were totally underwhelming at the time. On that list

It was actually someone here who informed me I saw Harrison on the only tour he ever did, with Ravi Shankar opening (which was pretty moving...) LouieB

All of these experiences moved me...hell I actually still remember them. How could one not be moved by Dylan and the band or the really young and sexy Emmylou? The list of stuff that didn't move me.....is much longer than this.... LouieB

Is this really interesting? I have seen plenty of people, but not some of the greats. Oh well. But I have seen; Dylan and the Band. Helms/Danko Neil Young (Time Fades Away) George Harrison CSNY in the 70s EmmyLou on her first tour with the Hot Band Muddy Waters HoundDog Taylor Cecil Taylor Sun Ra Keith Jarrett (in the 70s) John Hartford Bob Marly Miles Davis (kinda late) Fairport Convention with Sandy Denny (not Richard Thompson) Jethro Tull (back in the day) Captain Beefheart Frank Zappa (with Flo and Eddie) Sonny Rollins (in the 70s) Rahsaan Roland Kirk (unbelievable) The Art Ensemble of

Mine too..but I don't think Parson's suit was there at the time. I enjoyed Merle Haggard's pardon too. LouieB

Well the best trilogy made for no money.... LouieB

All interesting points, but most music from the 70s and 80s wouldn't seem to be oldies, but then I suppose they are pretty darned old at this point. Rosie's show (actually on right now on WDBX.org) is called the Devil's Radio for that reason. Of course so much of the backlash regarding all youth oriented music (early jazz, some blues, swing, R&B, rock and roll, soul, rock, etc. etc) would certainly be considered devils music and yea, plenty on the list would seem to be about sex, etc. Even Wake Up Little Susie by the Everly Brothers could be considered questionable content, but then

Actually as far as I can tell the college radio stations are about all that is happening these days. LouieB

So is Elvis' gold Cadillac still there? LouieB

Me too...let's hope a few people show up in the audience. (And lets figure Nels may not even be in town...) LouieB

Not quite as hip, but if you need boots this is the place to go (other stuff as well...)Alcalas in Chicago Here are the embroidered shirts. LouieB

Exactly the same.... Oldies will always be stuff from the 50s and early 60s and classic rock will still be the later 60s to 70s to maybe early 80s.. They will have to come up for some other name for the so called genres that are being played now. There are alternative stations playing stuff from 70s and 80s and 90s and there will be stations that play old school hip-hop, etc, or more likely there will be NO more radio in a few years. Oldies was an instant type of music. As soon as things changed with the music industry in the 60s, the music of the 50s and early 60s instantly turned int

I have not been to the CMHoF for many years, but even in the old place it was a great place to go. LouieB

And while we are at it.... Lenny Bruce Blind Willie McTell LouieB

Agreed. There aren't even that many interesting "modern" drummers. LouieB

This is the second time they have done an article on him. They did one a couple years ago too. But then again they could one every month and it would be interesting. LouieB

The one thing about nearly all the songs listed here....they are really old. Ah for the good old days when rock and roll WAS kids music. Hell even I was a kid when some of these songs came out (and a teen when the rest came out.) LouieB

What was it Mark Twain said about his demise being greatly exaggerated. Yea more music is now being sold online than ever before and some bands can manage to get it out to the fans without going through the major labels. Many bands do that year in and year out, selling hundreds or if they are lucky thousands of copies of their work and more often than not hundreds or even thousands of downloads. But Thom crowing about the end of the music business seems more like bravado than anything else. The distribution of music, at least in physical, ties into a more complex system tham may meet that ey