In Which Doctor Casino Listens to Classic Rock Classics for the First Time

i gotta say this channel is pretty much classic rock heaven:

http://www.youtube.com/user/MainSqueezeMusic/videos

Looking back, I feel like this thread was a real turning point in my listening habits, and embracing the fact that a lot of what I most like to listen to is well-produced mainstream pop-rock from the 60s-80s. At home, it's the mellower and/or art-pop end of things, where I can just bask in the details of the recordings and the melodies. On the road, or maybe doing chores, I'm looking for the big riffs and fist-pumping hooks. I always liked all this stuff, but it's funny to think back to when a thread like this made sense for me! Thanks again, fact checking cuz, and everyone else for playing along.

Oh, and the Deacon Blues session was definitely a huge step towards me becoming a Dan fan, when previously I only really knew a few singles and the Yacht Rock show material.

thank YOU for playing along, doctor c! you taught me, and i assume plenty of others, quite a bit about songs we thought we knew. i loved this journey (your aversion to journey with a capital J notwithstanding!).

:D :D :D

"Roundabout" was another big watershed track... I bought a bunch of Yes albums in the months after that, and it helped open me up to a lot of other proggy records, like Meddle. I was also starting to explore jazz for the first time in the same years and in general my ears these days are much more interested than they used to be in specifically drinking in what the instruments are doing and how they're playing off each other as a "live" unit, even when they may not have actually been recorded that way.

Not pegging all of that to this thread... but still, something significant did happen here, amidst all my wordy and naive efforts to get ahold of these songs!

man I am so bummed that all of Sandy's amazing pix are lost to time, can anyone repost them by chance?