Scotch Sampler

[scotchandcigar]

I'm just gonna keep going here, since I'm backed-up with all this old music.

More favorites from rock legends

Traffic – Empty Pages


Cream – Crossroads (live)


James Gang – Funk #49 (live)

 

[scotchandcigar]

My favorite Doors songs

Doors – Roadhouse Blues (live audio)


Doors – L.A. Woman


Doors – Riders on the Storm

 

[scotchandcigar]

My favorite Stones songs

Rolling Stones – Brown Sugar (live)


Rolling Stones – Gimme Shelter


Rolling Stones – Sympathy for the Devil

 

[sadchild]

Neil Young: never been able to get into him.

Jimi Hendrix: much respect but I don't go out of my way to listen to him. And I found this: Why No Hendrix on YouTube?

Traffic: know OF them, but don't know their stuff.

Cream: aside from "White Room", "Strange Brew" and "Sunshine Of Your Love", I don't really know them.

Walsh: I've loved "Space Age Whiz Kids" since, well, since I was one... playing games in the arcade downtown at 12 years old! I also like "Ordinary Average Guy", "Life's Been Good", "All Night Long" and "Life Of Illusion" - but that just makes me a casual fan of the radio hits.

Doors: probably my most hated successful band of all time. I really can't stand them.

Stones: I agree they are one of the best bands in rock (certainly the most enduring!) but I pick and choose my RS songs - I'm not a fan of all their work. I've got 12 of their songs in my MP3 collection but I could add 12 more I like. The songs I like from them span various eras of the band, but I cherry-pick those songs and ignore the rest. From "Satisfaction" to "Brown Sugar" to "Undercover Of The Night" to "Rock And Hard Place" to "Out Of Tears". I also have one of their songs coming up on my 333 list...

 

[sadchild]

PS Who is John Barleycorn, and why must he die?

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

James Gang – Funk #49 (live)

Saw him do this with the Eagles at their concert in 2018. Of all the bands I have seen, his performance on guitar was one of the best I have seen. He/they also did Life's Been Good and that was also fantastic.

 

[scotchandcigar]

PS Who is John Barleycorn, and why must he die?

Not sure, but I think he used to hang out with Jethro Tull.

 

[Aaron]

I was a classic rock fanatic when I was in college. Traffic was one of my favorite bands.
Dear Mr. Fantasy
Feelin' Alright
Freedom Rider
Empty Pages
John Barleycorn
Low Spark of High Heeled Boys
Rock and Roll Stew

John Barleycorn sounds so violent lol, but here is what Wikipedia says...
"The character of John Barleycorn in the song is a personification of the important cereal crop barley and of the alcoholic beverages made from it, beer and whisky. In the song, John Barleycorn is represented as suffering indignities, attacks and death that correspond to the various stages of barley cultivation, such as reaping and malting"

 

[HecticArt]

Neil Young: never been able to get into him.

He has some fun ones, but I can't get past the voice.
(Yet, I'm a Rush fan..... Go figure.)

Jimi Hendrix: much respect but I don't go out of my way to listen to him.

I used to listen to a lot of Jimi.

Doors: probably my most hated successful band of all time. I really can't stand them.

I can still listen to the Doors.

Stones: I agree they are one of the best bands in rock (certainly the most enduring!)

I get em. But have always been more into the Beatles.

 

[scotchandcigar]

Continuing to catch up to the mid 70's, here are my early (up to mid-70's) favorites from David Bowie

David Bowie – Space Oddity


David Bowie – Suffragette City


David Bowie – Diamond Dogs



This is a great alternate version, with a hard rock edge, that Bowie did for Howard Stern
David Bowie – Fame (live at Howard Stern Birthday show)


David Bowie – Stay (live, Earl Slick on guitar)

 

[HecticArt]

Good stuff right there. Bowie was great in the way that he kept evolving and didn't stagnate. He kept it interesting, and if he did something you didn't like, you knew you could probably get into something on the next album.

 

[sadchild]

Much respect to 70s Bowie but I don't listen to it much. But these are my picks from that era:
David Bowie - Changes.Mp3
David Bowie - Rebel Rebel.Mp3
David Bowie - Suffragette City.Mp3
David Bowie - Young Americans.Mp3

Is it blasphemy if I liked "Fame 90" (and most of the soundtrack it's on)?

 

[HecticArt]

I like Fame 90.
I think it's great that Bowie could revisit his work like that.

 

[scotchandcigar]

While we're on the subject of classic southern rock, here's my favorites list for that category.

Let's start with Lynyrd Skynyrd. They had a bunch of hits. Free Bird is one of the great songs of the classic rock era. It was played at the end of every junior high dance. I also like Call Me the Breeze, Gimme Three Steps, Saturday Night Special, You Got That Right, and this one

Lynyrd Skynyrd - I Know a Little


The Allman Brothers were a fusion of blues and southern rock, and one of the early jam bands. They had a ton of great songs, but I'm picking this one, so take a long drive and listen

Allman Brothers – In Memory of Elizabeth Reed (live)


Another song for your drive, by the Outlaws - a classic rock staple

The Outlaws – Green Grass and High Tides (live)


While these guys are from California, they made songs about the south. One of the best bands out there

Creedence Clearwater Revival – Born On The Bayou (live Woodstock)

 

[sadchild]

I think I'm about 5-10 years off from you. While I have a lot of respect for the 70s songs you're posting (these people can jam!), they aren't my go-to's, and the longer ones lose me halfway through (except "Free Bird"). When I think southern rock, I make a playlist of 38 Special, Mellencamp, ZZ Top (80s mainly), Georgia Satellites, Black Crowes... I'm willing to bet you were finishing high school when I was in junior high? I was Class of 88.

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

I think I'm about 5-10 years off from you. While I have a lot of respect for the 70s songs you're posting (these people can jam!), they aren't my go-to's, and the longer ones lose me halfway through (except "Free Bird"). When I think southern rock, I make a playlist of 38 Special, Mellencamp, ZZ Top (80s mainly), Georgia Satellites, Black Crowes... I'm willing to bet you were finishing high school when I was in junior high? I was Class of 88.

I graduated high school in 1980 and I think scotch is pretty close to my age.

 

[Aaron]

I graduated in 1994, I just spent most of my life listening to songs that were 'before my time'.

 

[scotchandcigar]

I graduated high school in 1980 and I think scotch is pretty close to my age.

More than pretty close, based on that.

I think I'm about 5-10 years off from you. While I have a lot of respect for the 70s songs you're posting (these people can jam!), they aren't my go-to's, and the longer ones lose me halfway through (except "Free Bird"). When I think southern rock, I make a playlist of 38 Special, Mellencamp, ZZ Top (80s mainly), Georgia Satellites, Black Crowes... I'm willing to bet you were finishing high school when I was in junior high? I was Class of 88.

Mrs Scotch loves Mellencamp, I like him but he's a bit too pop for me. The Black Crowes will make an appearance someday, when I get to the 90's (probably around the holidays).

ZZ Top was good for our partying and speeding-around days. Like this

 

[HecticArt]

While we're on the subject of classic southern rock, here's my favorites list for that category.

Let's start with Lynyrd Skynyrd. They had a bunch of hits. Free Bird is one of the great songs of the classic rock era. It was played at the end of every junior high dance. I also like Call Me the Breeze, Gimme Three Steps, Saturday Night Special, You Got That Right, and this one

Lynyrd Skynyrd - I Know a Little


The Allman Brothers were a fusion of blues and southern rock, and one of the early jam bands. They had a ton of great songs, but I'm picking this one, so take a long drive and listen

Allman Brothers – In Memory of Elizabeth Reed (live)


Another song for your drive, by the Outlaws - a classic rock staple

The Outlaws – Green Grass and High Tides (live)


While these guys are from California, they made songs about the south. One of the best bands out there

Creedence Clearwater Revival – Born On The Bayou (live Woodstock)

CCR is the only one I can get into anymore. Like Sad said, the other guys could jam, and they wrote a ton of monster songs, they just don't hit the spot for me.

When I think southern rock, I make a playlist of 38 Special, Mellencamp, ZZ Top (80s mainly), Georgia Satellites, Black Crowes

Those are about the closest I can bring myself to southern rock these days.

I was Class of 88.

I'm pretty close to that.

 

[sadchild]

Chris Rock explained it best:

"Whatever music was playing when you started getting laid, you gonna love that music for the rest of your life."