CLASSIC ROCK TRACKS POLL: THE RESULTS

elvin bishop does sing, but not on everything.

I think '90s and early '00's comedies are informing about 50% of this list.

― Darin, Thursday, July 31, 2014 1:24 PM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

several of the votes for "Sweet Home Alabama" referred to it as simply "that song named after the Reese Witherspoon movie"

several of the votes for "Sweet Home Alabama" referred to it as simply "that song named after the Reese Witherspoon movie"

i resign from ilm.

in my email I forgot to erase the phone number for Sultans of Swing escort service :/

omg I had no idea Mickey Thomas sang on Elvin Bishop's song

well that's pretty damn cool

is mickey mad that it has Elvin's name on it though? how does that work

i think there's EVERY reason to get excited about result number twenty eight:

http://i.imgur.com/mGEd6BL.jpg

28. The Jimi Hendrix Experience – All Along The Watchtower
1332 points, 18 votes, 2 first place votes

AKA the Battlestar Galactica song.

fuckin so great!

love the opening, it melts my face every time

at the time it came out I didn't really have an opinion on U2's cover of this and now I want to kill them with fire, how dare they

is mickey mad that it has Elvin's name on it though? how does that work

i was going to say "ask david lee roth." and then it occurred to me mickey would have been a better singer for van halen than either sammy hagar or gary cherone. and then i remembered i have recently resigned from ilm.

is mickey mad that it has Elvin's name on it though? how does that work

― SEEMS TO ME (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, July 31, 2014 1:47 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I think it was a case of Elvin realizing, "fuck, I'm no singer; I'm a guitarist! Get that Thomas kid in here to add some razzle-dazzle!"

(see also: Rod Stewart as lead singer of the Jeff Beck Group)

xp I kind of feel that way about Dylan's

xp to vg

DEAL WITH IT

http://www.webtvwire.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/bono-from-u2.jpg

all he's got is a red guitar, three chords, and the truth...and some nifty tax shelters, iirc.

that's a (red) guitar.

...a house for my collection of sunglasses.

I cannot stand this song in any of its forms. It's like it just tips over the border into a territory that is too rennfesty for me. I'd bet that it's the most played Hendrix song on crr too.

lol tarfumes

Stairway is the renfestiest cr

The 3 distinct sections of the "Watchtower" solo...god, I get emotional just thinking about the fact that Jimi Hendrix once walked the earth.

Prob Hendrix's most played, it's his only song to reach the Top 40.

Me Re: "Jane" from the Doctor Casino listening thread

It's my Platonic ideal for Classic Rock Cheese.

― Incident At Spanish Harlem (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, July 5, 2014 1:10 AM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I can't relate to any view of Hendrix's Watchtower as renfesty.

xp to some dude -- His Watchtower solo is truly one of his best. A lot of his solos have that sectional structure where he demonstrates a few different techniques (e.g. his intro to Little Wing)

The 3 distinct sections of the "Watchtower" solo....

I was always puzzled that Jimi himself thought the record's high point was Gypsy Eyes

Jokers, thieves, princesses, vibraslap. It's like goddamn Dungeons and Dragons in there.

I'm not seeing the problem

Jimi otm re: Gypsy Eyes

xp: it's undoubtedly my personal hangup. don't worry about it too much.

You think so? On a record with 1983, both versions of Voodoo Chile, and Watchtower?
(xp)

1983 is sooooooo good.

I mean Gypsy Eyes is a good song without a doubt but there is a wealth of great stuff on it...on the other hand, why choose?

watchtower was my #1. probably my favorite track ever by anybody. the rhythm is awesome, the atmosphere is spooky, and of course the guitar solos. It makes me thinking of riding into a stormy valley (either on horseback or in like a chevy nova)

aiui he heard the original at a party and right there was all 'we gotta record that, I gotta do that', like he'd envisioned it all in his head instantly

I was slagging off Brit Blues bassists earlier, but Noel Redding is pretty solid I think

He didn't play bass on that track, though, Jimi did!

According to Hendrix’s regular engineer Eddie Kramer, the guitarist cut a large number of takes on the first day, shouting chord changes at Dave Mason who had appeared at the session and played guitar. Halfway through the session, bass player Noel Redding became dissatisfied with the proceedings and left. Mason then took over on bass. According to Kramer, the final bass part was played by Hendrix himself.

You think so? On a record with 1983, both versions of Voodoo Chile, and Watchtower?

I think Gypsy Eyes is one of his underrated classics that could have been a big hit in an alternate universe. I can see why Hendrix thought it had more potential. Plus, I prefer Jimi in fast mode vs. slow blues mode.

Haha! That reminds me that Andy Rourke's basslines were actually written by Johnny Marr.

yeah gypsy eyes is killer

speaking of inventing chords, did Jimi invent the chord fingerings that start out castles made of sand? it also shows up on little wing.

Pretty much the video version of gr8080's awesome thread images:

― pplains, Thursday, July 31, 2014 12:23 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ha! swear to god i haven't seen those opening credits in over a decade.

that's Cooper Black though, the classic rock of typography.

Out on the road today I saw a "deadmau5" sticker on a Cadillac.

No Idea what the heck "deadmau5" is, so here's our next result:

http://i.imgur.com/gdmOKb6.jpg

27. Don Henley – Boys of Summer
1347 points, 25 votes, 1 first place vote

aiui he heard the original at a party and right there was all 'we gotta record that, I gotta do that', like he'd envisioned it all in his head instantly

― Ismael Klata, Thursday, July 31, 2014 2:15 PM ( minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

nah Jimi was obsessed with the whole John Wesley Harding album, also covered "Drifter's Escape"

This was my #2! So classic.

"1983" is my OPO from EL.

xpost "All Along the Watchtower" was my #2, not "Boys of Summer".

lol

oh man we need C. Grisso now

"Boys of Summer" -- one of my favorite synthesized backing tracks ever. Love that seagull sound before the last verse, interrupted by Mike Campbell's little three-second solo.

Boys of Summer shockingly too high

as a kid i swore this song was called "Poison Summer"

In an interview with Knoxville.com, Neil Giraldo, Pat Benatar's guitarist and husband, says that Henley came in the studio while he was in the process of recording the song "Love Is a Battlefield" using an up tempo beat, and asked Giraldo if he could steal the sound for use in his song, "The Boys of Summer", to which Giraldo gave his permission.[7]