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Classic Rock Tracks for Old Farts
Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2019 8:40 am
by Hipper
Greetings fellow fossils!
This, I hope, will be a music thread containing just Classic Rock tracks. You know the ones, mostly constructed in the late 60s, early to mid 70s, with a driving beat, catchy hooks - stuff that gets us old farts' feet tapping and bodies swaying. No ballads or other soppy stuff here please.
They can be studio recordings or live performances.
Here's a brilliant example:
Golden Earing - Radar Love:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zf53Pg2AkdY" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
(er, OK, the audience don't seem to get it on this one!)
Re: Classic Rock Tracks for Old Farts
Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2019 8:45 am
by Hipper
Here's another:
Joe Walsh - Rock Mountain Way
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0x4El47O8Zs" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Not to keen on his work with The Eagles but this solo song is a true classic!
Re: Classic Rock Tracks for Old Farts
Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2019 8:59 am
by Bop
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Re: Classic Rock Tracks for Old Farts
Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2019 9:39 am
by Steve1956
This
https://youtu.be/TRNhdzX-nnM" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Re: Classic Rock Tracks for Old Farts
Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2019 9:40 am
by Leisure
Bop wrote:2B3A5CA9-950D-430E-9135-250D55B17C87.jpeg
Andy - Behave!
Re: Classic Rock Tracks for Old Farts
Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2019 9:52 am
by houseboy
The Boys of Summer by Don Henley is one of my favourite 'driving' tracks.
Re: Classic Rock Tracks for Old Farts
Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2019 9:59 am
by Buxtonclaret
https://youtu.be/8Pa9x9fZBtY" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
A must for this thread.
Trust me.
Re: Classic Rock Tracks for Old Farts
Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2019 10:09 am
by RMutt
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RFDW9b_ejfI" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Daft as a brush, Hocus Pocus.
Re: Classic Rock Tracks for Old Farts
Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2019 10:13 am
by Bosscat
Now this my kinda non football thread ....
Cheers OP
Heres a belter (plus its the long album version)
https://youtu.be/FBnSWJHawQQ" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Re: Classic Rock Tracks for Old Farts
Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2019 10:18 am
by Bosscat
houseboy wrote:The Boys of Summer by Don Henley is one of my favourite 'driving' tracks.
Here you go house merry November 12th m8
https://youtu.be/QWT90HzLF3U" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Re: Classic Rock Tracks for Old Farts
Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2019 10:21 am
by Funkydrummer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWmD_HcOcfU" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
J.J. Cale - (have a guess
)
Re: Classic Rock Tracks for Old Farts
Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2019 10:28 am
by Hipper
That's brilliant. Heard the normal version. It says in the comments that they speeded up the 7 minute song into 4 minutes for TV!!!!!
Re: Classic Rock Tracks for Old Farts
Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2019 10:33 am
by Leisure
Long time since I put Focus on the old gramaphone player!
Re: Classic Rock Tracks for Old Farts
Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2019 10:37 am
by bobinho
Truly world class...
https://youtu.be/sAhZGjUdlQI" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Re: Classic Rock Tracks for Old Farts
Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2019 10:37 am
by Bosscat
Old Rockers never die .....
https://youtu.be/IXb3PP65cfM" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Re: Classic Rock Tracks for Old Farts
Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2019 10:43 am
by Hipper
Nils Lofgren - Cry Tough
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPt8HiElI2k" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Re: Classic Rock Tracks for Old Farts
Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2019 10:55 am
by Bosscat
Stop me now .... ffs am starting to trawl through my back catalogue of cassette tapes and unearthing long unheard music....
https://youtu.be/2X_2IdybTV0" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Re: Classic Rock Tracks for Old Farts
Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2019 10:56 am
by houseboy
Excellent track Boss (not sure I can say the same about the video). Was listening to Building the Perfect Beast from which this track comes recently and it really is a good album and not as much like the Eagles as one would expect considering he was one of the main writers and singers in that band. It's actually very political and critical of the 'American dream'.
Incidentally Henley has an amazing voice and delivers great vocals live despite being a drummer (a very difficult trick to pull off).
Re: Classic Rock Tracks for Old Farts
Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2019 10:59 am
by houseboy
Leisure wrote:Long time since I put Focus on the old gramaphone player!
Moving Waves was an incredible album with a sidelong track call Eruptions. Jan Akkerman is one of the finest guitarists around but never gets too much mention when people talk of 'guitar heroes'.
Re: Classic Rock Tracks for Old Farts
Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2019 11:00 am
by Herts Clarets
If you like good solid heavy rock, give Wayward Sons a listen. A band who I have seen a few times live and have both their studio albums - not a bad song on either of them. And from experience, they are all genuine nice blokes. I saw them support Black Star Riders and Stonebroken last month in Cambridge and all 5 came into the bar after to sign anything, pose for photographs and generally chat to fans about the band, plans etc.
Vocalist Toby Jepson is ex Little Angels, a band I discovered when I saw them support Marillion touring the Seasons End album, the first post Fish release. I don't much listen to Hogarth era Marillion now, but Little Angels and Wayward Sons all feature heavily on my most played list of songs.
https://youtu.be/w-tMXKSt2cc" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Re: Classic Rock Tracks for Old Farts
Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2019 11:06 am
by Firthy
Black Knight - Deep Purple
Silver Machine - Hawkwind
Re: Classic Rock Tracks for Old Farts
Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2019 11:06 am
by ICL
Brilliant! A music thread for an old fart like me! So many possible songs.
This from the first time I saw the mighty BOC at the Liverpool Empire in 1978
https://youtu.be/Dy4HA3vUv2c" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Re: Classic Rock Tracks for Old Farts
Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2019 11:09 am
by ICL
But a personal favourite from that time would be Astronomy
https://youtu.be/NzRVm65lNdU" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Re: Classic Rock Tracks for Old Farts
Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2019 11:17 am
by Bosscat
ICL wrote:Brilliant! A music thread for an old fart like me! So many possible songs.
This from the first time I saw the mighty BOC at the Liverpool Empire in 1978
https://youtu.be/Dy4HA3vUv2c" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Arrrrrgggghhhhh I love this thread ..........
INNIT BRILLIANT
Skipton Town Hall memories fan-bloody-tastic
https://youtu.be/e8Q-LY_x8tM" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Was Phil Lynott .... Dion Dublins dad????
Re: Classic Rock Tracks for Old Farts
Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2019 11:20 am
by Hipper
Sensational Alex Harvey Band - Amos Moses
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrA7RuinSnA" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Re: Classic Rock Tracks for Old Farts
Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2019 11:21 am
by Bosscat
Love this too top 10 guitar riffs...
https://youtu.be/Gvd9AvjHbJg" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Re: Classic Rock Tracks for Old Farts
Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2019 11:22 am
by Hipper
Iain Matthews - Mr Soul
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYQStgO ... rt_radio=1" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Re: Classic Rock Tracks for Old Farts
Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2019 11:33 am
by Bosscat
Betcha this gig had atmosphere
https://youtu.be/wbX2aQQ4uog" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Re: Classic Rock Tracks for Old Farts
Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2019 11:41 am
by RMutt
Space Staion #5 Montrose
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bjuUtCQNEPQ" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Re: Classic Rock Tracks for Old Farts
Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2019 11:47 am
by Steve1956
https://youtu.be/qzTZ76vhnKk" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Re: Classic Rock Tracks for Old Farts
Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2019 11:51 am
by Hibsclaret
You can’t beat a bit of BOC but then again there’s always the best band ever....
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iIGKlicb8n0" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Re: Classic Rock Tracks for Old Farts
Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2019 11:59 am
by Chobulous
The man Eric Clapton desperately wanted to be
Re: Classic Rock Tracks for Old Farts
Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2019 12:04 pm
by Steve1956
Hipper wrote:Greetings fellow fossils!
This, I hope, will be a music thread containing just Classic Rock tracks. You know the ones, mostly constructed in the late 60s, early to mid 70s, with a driving beat, catchy hooks - stuff that gets us old farts' feet tapping and bodies swaying. No ballads or other soppy stuff here please.
They can be studio recordings or live performances.
Here's a brilliant example:
Golden Earing - Radar Love:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zf53Pg2AkdY" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Moontan was one of the very first albums I bought,,I can remember going to the pub after i had bought it, in the pub was our football manager at the time,probably about 15 years older than me,he took the album out of the bag and proceeded to completely take the pisss out of the lyrics to "Radar Love"....funny the things you remember
(er, OK, the audience don't seem to get it on this one!)
Re: Classic Rock Tracks for Old Farts
Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2019 12:09 pm
by Bosscat
Heres another belting sing-a-long-a-track
https://youtu.be/I_2D8Eo15wE" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Re: Classic Rock Tracks for Old Farts
Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2019 12:18 pm
by Bosscat
How is this kid doing .......
Little Jimmy Page
https://youtu.be/B82R92GUVrI" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Then the real thing....
https://youtu.be/sOA9NEmw32A" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
And a singalong version
https://youtu.be/Nnu1E5Kslig" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Re: Classic Rock Tracks for Old Farts
Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2019 1:31 pm
by Sarum
Bosscat: did you spot the connection between your Argent and Kinks selections?
Re: Classic Rock Tracks for Old Farts
Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2019 1:34 pm
by Bosscat
Sarum wrote:Bosscat: did you spot the connection between your Argent and Kinks selections?
Jim Rodford m8 well spotted ...
Re: Classic Rock Tracks for Old Farts
Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2019 1:39 pm
by Hipper
Hears a real bunch of old farts who've been there and done it - Love to Burn:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7VMGBF_vlI" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Re: Classic Rock Tracks for Old Farts
Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2019 1:40 pm
by SalisburyClaret
Roll me away - Bob Seger
I should know better but it's a great driving track
Re: Classic Rock Tracks for Old Farts
Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2019 1:41 pm
by Sarum
Bosscat wrote: Jim Rodford m8 well spotted ...
YES AND WHO ELSE??
Re: Classic Rock Tracks for Old Farts
Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2019 1:42 pm
by Hipper
Eric Burdon & Jimmy Witherspoon - Soledad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2x9Vn9SZHYY" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Re: Classic Rock Tracks for Old Farts
Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2019 1:47 pm
by bob-the-scutter
If you want a track to last the entire journey.
https://youtu.be/IsxE53bBN8o" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Re: Classic Rock Tracks for Old Farts
Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2019 1:57 pm
by Bosscat
Sarum wrote:YES AND WHO ELSE??
Bob Henrit too (cheated had to google it lol.....)
The Kinks have had a heckuva lot of musicians down the years hence "The cast off Kinks*" ... mind you having a fueding set of Brothers up front must have made it hard work
*
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kast_Off_Kinks" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
At least it looks like they've sorted it out
https://www.google.com/amp/s/metro.co.u ... 65715/amp/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
More than can be said about the "Shameless" Gallagher Bros
Re: Classic Rock Tracks for Old Farts
Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2019 2:01 pm
by Steve1956
Bosscat wrote:Bob Henrit too (cheated had to google it lol.....)
The Kinks have had a heckuva lot of musicians down the years hence "The cast off Kinks" ... mind you having a fueding set of Brothers up front must have made it hard work
At least it looks like they've sorted it out
https://www.google.com/amp/s/metro.co.u ... 65715/amp/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
More than can be said about the "Shameless" Gallagher Bros
I'm going to see Liam on friday in Glasgow,sounds like the tour kicked off with a bang in Cardiff last night....cant wait,topman is Liam.
Re: Classic Rock Tracks for Old Farts
Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2019 2:07 pm
by Sarum
Bosscat: I saw the Kinks backed by the former Argent rhythm section back in 1981 and they continued to do so, on and off, for long after. The Davies brothers are big Arsenal fans as was Jim Rodford, who sadly died in 2018 after a fall at home.
Re: Classic Rock Tracks for Old Farts
Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2019 2:24 pm
by ICL
Rush! Top band, saw them first on their Farewell to Kings tour in Feb 1978 at the Apollo, Ardwick Green, Manchester. I’m going there again at the end of this month to see the superb Australian Pink Floyd Show.
TIME for another link
https://youtu.be/xTJdn2u9vkI" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Re: Classic Rock Tracks for Old Farts
Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2019 2:48 pm
by houseboy
ICL wrote:Rush! Top band, saw them first on their Farewell to Kings tour in Feb 1978 at the Apollo, Ardwick Green, Manchester. I’m going there again at the end of this month to see the superb Australian Pink Floyd Show.
TIME for another link
https://youtu.be/xTJdn2u9vkI" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
My daughter who lives down in Poole saw the APFS a few months ago and she loved 'em. There's about 6 of them I think. Apparently one of the guitarists pulled off the second solo from Comfortably Numb pretty much note perfect. Enjoy mate.
Re: Classic Rock Tracks for Old Farts
Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2019 2:53 pm
by Hipper
Bosscat wrote:Bob Henrit too (cheated had to google it lol.....)
The Kinks have had a heckuva lot of musicians down the years hence "The cast off Kinks*" ... mind you having a fueding set of Brothers up front must have made it hard work
*
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kast_Off_Kinks" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
At least it looks like they've sorted it out
https://www.google.com/amp/s/metro.co.u ... 65715/amp/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
More than can be said about the "Shameless" Gallagher Bros
Bob Henrit was IMs drummer at this period.
He's also written a book:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Banging-Bob-He ... oks&sr=1-1" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Re: Classic Rock Tracks for Old Farts
Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2019 2:54 pm
by Hipper
George Thorogood - Bad To The Bone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dt_8aDOJvtM" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Re: Classic Rock Tracks for Old Farts
Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2019 2:57 pm
by Steve1956
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Sorry couldn't resist