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Re: Classic Rock Song of the Day
« Reply #175 on: January 30, 2013, 12:43:57 AM »
Local radio here played the following Supertramp songs:

Bloody Well Right
Give A Little Bit
The Logical Song
Goodbye Stranger
Breakfast In America

And It's Raining for about six weeks after that album came out. Never once heard School on the radio. I guess we got Bloody Well Right as our earliest Supertramp song and learned to LIKE it.  :lol
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Re: Classic Rock Song of the Day
« Reply #176 on: January 30, 2013, 01:01:32 AM »
Supertramp - School

Magnificent song.  I am normally not a big fan of the harmonica, but it is pretty sweet in this song, playing that awesome intro.  Killer piano solo in this tune as well, and everything else around it is also killer.  This is a song I never get tired of.

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Re: Classic Rock Song of the Day
« Reply #177 on: January 30, 2013, 01:36:55 AM »
Didn't hear School a whole lot, but it's not a bad song.  Never one of my favorites by them, though - I reserve that for Fool's Overture.

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Re: Classic Rock Song of the Day
« Reply #178 on: January 30, 2013, 01:42:16 AM »
Love School, probably my favorite Supertramp song.

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Re: Classic Rock Song of the Day
« Reply #179 on: January 30, 2013, 02:54:49 AM »
That is very probably the reason that I thought for the longest time that Let It Ride was an early Doobie Brothers song.  :rollin

I've always felt that Let it Ride is a good companion song for the Doobies' Long Train Runnin'.
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Re: Classic Rock Song of the Day
« Reply #180 on: January 30, 2013, 06:42:18 AM »
Didn't hear School a whole lot, but it's not a bad song.  Never one of my favorites by them, though - I reserve that for Fool's Overture.

Well, Fool's Overture is on a different level for sure.

Definitely love the part from the instrumental breakdown on.  Great track
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Re: Classic Rock Song of the Day
« Reply #181 on: January 30, 2013, 06:49:04 AM »
Supertramp - School

Magnificent song.  I am normally not a big fan of the harmonica, but it is pretty sweet in this song, playing that awesome intro.  Killer piano solo in this tune as well, and everything else around it is also killer.  This is a song I never get tired of.
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Re: Classic Rock Song of the Day
« Reply #182 on: January 30, 2013, 07:14:26 AM »
Fool's Overture is my favorite of theirs as well; it's truly on a different level.

A lot of their early songs had that deep meloncholy to it.  School is one of them.

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Re: Classic Rock Song of the Day
« Reply #183 on: January 30, 2013, 10:13:35 AM »
Also: I hate Dreamer!  (sorry, just had to let that out)

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Re: Classic Rock Song of the Day
« Reply #184 on: January 30, 2013, 10:30:51 AM »
Yeah, Dreamer is kind of annoying. 

Jimi Hendrix - Purple Haze

Good song, but I have never been a big fan of Hendrix.  I recognize his influence (which is undeniable) and his greatness, but his music has just never appealed to me that much.  This song is probably one of the few by him that I actually enjoy enough to leave on.

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Re: Classic Rock Song of the Day
« Reply #185 on: January 30, 2013, 10:45:17 AM »
I was never a Hendrix fan. Purple Haze is alright, but always seemed kind of incomplete to me.
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Re: Classic Rock Song of the Day
« Reply #186 on: January 30, 2013, 10:58:05 AM »
Hendrix never really managed to get the sheer intensity of his live performances onto record, IMO. Live he was an unstoppable force, truly the finest guitarist the world has ever seen. In the studio, he was almost sedate. A lot of Hendrix songs, like Purple Haze, are missing something, and that's the fire of his playing live.
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Re: Classic Rock Song of the Day
« Reply #187 on: January 30, 2013, 11:39:46 AM »
I agree.  On stage, it's just him, the bassist, and the drummer, so everyone has to step up and the whole "power trio" thing takes over.

In the studio, you get "trio" without the "power" part.  For me, it's almost always disappointing.

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Re: Classic Rock Song of the Day
« Reply #188 on: January 30, 2013, 01:37:56 PM »
Also: I hate Dreamer!  (sorry, just had to let that out)

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Jimi Hendrix - Purple Haze

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Hendrix was the MAN.  It's also not hard to see how Jimi inspired many guitarists, including JY (James Young, Styx) and Stevie Ray Vaughan to name just two.  Purple Haze has never been my favorite of Jimi's, but it's still VERY good.

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« Reply #189 on: January 30, 2013, 01:55:25 PM »
Last two updates are awesome songs.  :tup

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Re: Classic Rock Song of the Day
« Reply #190 on: January 30, 2013, 02:04:08 PM »
'Scuse me while I kiss this guy

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Re: Classic Rock Song of the Day
« Reply #191 on: January 30, 2013, 02:11:21 PM »
Posting something just so Poison doesn't have a greater response than Jimi.

I never did get too deep into Jimi... mostly just the radio hits, which this obviously was one of the bigger ones.  Iconic is definitely a word to use with him, despite whether you like/don't like his music.  He influenced everyone that came after him.
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Re: Classic Rock Song of the Day
« Reply #192 on: January 30, 2013, 02:12:35 PM »
'Scuse me while I kiss this guy

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Re: Classic Rock Song of the Day
« Reply #193 on: January 30, 2013, 02:17:23 PM »
I really did think that's what he was saying for a long time.  It wasn't a homosexual thing.  I was in grade school, and I just thought the words "Acting funny, but I don't know why" and "'Scuse me while I kiss this guy" kinda made sense.  He's acting all weird, kissing other dudes and stuff.

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Re: Classic Rock Song of the Day
« Reply #194 on: January 30, 2013, 02:24:17 PM »
That's a really common misconception. :lol

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Re: Classic Rock Song of the Day
« Reply #195 on: January 30, 2013, 02:27:40 PM »
I'm not a fan of Jimi. He's pretty overrated to me.

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Re: Classic Rock Song of the Day
« Reply #196 on: January 31, 2013, 05:40:06 AM »
I'm not a fan of Jimi. He's pretty overrated to me.

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I can understand not liking his music, but over-rated?

Do you not understand how influential he was in the guitarists that followed him? Google some of the most popular/famous guitarist that followed him and a guarantee at least 75% list him as an influence
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Re: Classic Rock Song of the Day
« Reply #197 on: January 31, 2013, 07:54:01 AM »
Exactly.  He is easily the most influential electric guitar player of all time.

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Re: Classic Rock Song of the Day
« Reply #198 on: January 31, 2013, 08:23:35 AM »
The Allman Brothers Band - Jessica

IMO, this is THE definitive classic rock radio instrumental.  Great, great song, and is still one that I never turn off if it comes on. 

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« Reply #199 on: January 31, 2013, 09:21:29 AM »
Definitely one of the best rock instrumentals ever. I agree!

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Re: Classic Rock Song of the Day
« Reply #200 on: January 31, 2013, 11:28:23 AM »
Great song.

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Re: Classic Rock Song of the Day
« Reply #201 on: January 31, 2013, 11:32:24 AM »
Hendrix may have been over-rated 30 years ago, but now criminally underrated.  Blacks never took to him and whites have abandoned him for Bob Marley.

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« Reply #202 on: January 31, 2013, 12:08:28 PM »
Jessica isn't quite the definitive classic rock instrumental to me-the Edgar Winter Group's Frankenstein takes that title here-but it's one of the defining songs of the 70s. Shame the Allman Brothers Band never really reached the heights they got with Brothers & Sisters, the album that Jessica and Ramblin Man came from. Between this and In Memory of Elizabeth Reed, Dickey Betts sure could write instrumentals.
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Re: Classic Rock Song of the Day
« Reply #203 on: January 31, 2013, 12:21:22 PM »
I am way behind here.

Fat Bottomed Girls - Fantastic song, by the only band that could pull off such a gem. Great riffage.

Let It Ride - Good song I won’t change the dial on when I hear it on the radio but won't go out of my way to listen to.

School - Never a huge fan of Supertramp outside of their radio hits. No particular reason. Great song, though, haven’t heard this in ages *goes to Spotify

Purple Haze - Never listened to much Hendrix. I don’t get the ‘whites abandoned him for Bob Marley” statement at all. What does that even mean?
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Re: Classic Rock Song of the Day
« Reply #204 on: January 31, 2013, 12:23:24 PM »
Whites usually have a token black icon to enjoy; back when I was growing up it was Hendrix; now it seems to be Bob Marley.  Hendrix was a true innovator though, so not suggesting it was all about race.

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Re: Classic Rock Song of the Day
« Reply #205 on: January 31, 2013, 12:33:03 PM »
Jessica isn't quite the definitive classic rock instrumental to me-the Edgar Winter Group's Frankenstein takes that title here-but it's one of the defining songs of the 70s. Shame the Allman Brothers Band never really reached the heights they got with Brothers & Sisters, the album that Jessica and Ramblin Man came from. Between this and In Memory of Elizabeth Reed, Dickey Betts sure could write instrumentals.

When it comes to classic rock instrumentals, I just have to throw Electric Light Orchestra's Fire on High into the mix.

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Re: Classic Rock Song of the Day
« Reply #206 on: January 31, 2013, 12:35:01 PM »
Frankenstein and Fire On High, both of which WILL be featured in this thread, are the other instrumentals I thought of when the phrase "THE definitive classic rock radio instrumental" popped into my head.

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Re: Classic Rock Song of the Day
« Reply #207 on: January 31, 2013, 01:13:16 PM »
Jessica and Purple Haze are incredible. I know Fire on High and Frankenstein aren't up for discussion yet, so I won't say that they're incredible yet (though they are).

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Re: Classic Rock Song of the Day
« Reply #208 on: January 31, 2013, 01:16:43 PM »
Jessica is a great tune.  I'll always listen to it.  It also came out while I was in junior high, and there was this girl named Jessica who everybody loved.  She was pretty, nice, and smart.  Pretty much the ideal babe.  We never really hung out in school, but years later, she was in my group for driver's ed, and we ended up hanging out and talking a lot.  Dear Lord, she was beautiful.  To this day, when I hear the song, I think of Jessica the girl.

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« Reply #209 on: January 31, 2013, 01:22:11 PM »
Jessica is a song that always brings a smile whenever I hear those opening strums on the radio.  It's the kind of piece you want to listen to as you're driving down the open road in the summer.  I always wondered why I didn't like the rest of Allman Brothers as much as this considering how great I think this instrumental is.  I've tried.