Your Favorite Classic Rock Bands

[Belligerent]

I'm sure there are plenty of CR lovers on here so let me hear your Fav's.

My top 10 would be(no particular order except 1st two)
Led Zeppelin
Pink Floyd
King Crimson
UFO
Black Sabbath
Cream
The Animals
Moody Blues
The Beatles
Robin Trower

I could go on for days about classic rock and I'd like to think I have tons of knowledge about it.

 

[Vimana]

Led Zeppelin, The Who, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Pink Floyd, Cream, The Doors, Emerson Lake & Palmer.


Amazing keyboardist and drummer and vocalist. Great band (Emerson, Lake & Palmer). I'm surprised not many people know about them.

 

[Belligerent]

^They're ok.
"From the Beginning" is an amazing song.

 

[wfrazerjr]

Pink Floyd
Led Zepplin
Cream
The Allman Brothers
The Who
Queen
The Eagles
Boston
ZZ Top
Rush

I don't know why I have such a hard time thinking of The Beatles as classic rock, but I just don't. They'd obviously be top 10 if I was including them. Same thing for Blood, Sweat & Tears, although they'd be top 20.

 

[Belligerent]

Holy shit how did I forget the Allman Bros??:zombie:
I absolutely love their Live at The Fillmore album.
"In Memory of Elizabeth Reed" is downright

 

[Brozeth]

Zep ftw!
Pink Floyd
Aerosmith
Yes
Rush
Queen

 

[razoredge]

if you could go on forever about "classic rock" you would know theres no fucking genre called "classic rock" ARGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG !!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Vimana]

 

[Tallerthanatree]

Kansas, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Moody Blues, Pink Floyd, Rush, Yes, and Boston.

 

[razoredge]

Kansas, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Moody Blues, Pink Floyd, Rush, Yes, and Boston.

Like your list but never got the moody blues thing. Still this is exactly what Im talking about, lumping those bands into the same catagory is like forgetting there are seasons to the year.

 

[Belligerent]

Nights in White Satin is possibly the saddest song I've ever heard...but so fucking good it hurts.
Also Tuesday Afternoon. The Moody Blues have some great tunes.

 

[Tallerthanatree]

Like your list but never got the moody blues thing. Still this is exactly what Im talking about, lumping those bands into the same catagory is like forgetting there are seasons to the year.

I dont consider Moody Blues to be like those other bands. I was just naming a few of the 'classic rock'(if such a genre exists) that I like.

 

[Jimm O)))]

Yes
Pink Floyd
Led Zeppelin
Rush
Camel
Boston
Moody Blues
Cream
The Beatles
The MC5

 

[Human=Garbage]

Raised in the south which explains my choices:

Lynard Skynard
Allman Bros.
SRV
Floyd
Led Zepp
Foghat
Mountain
Boston
Grand Funk
Steve Miller Band
Jethro Tull (best hard rock my asshole, but still like him)

 

[tao88]

Following on from the last guy:
Marshall Tucker Band ("Can't You See" is insane)
I thought i'd list an album each from my favourites, so you can check them out if you want:
Bruce Springsteen - Darkness On The Edge Of Town
Neil Young - On The Beach
CCR - Willie And The Poorboys
David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
Tom Petty - Hard Promises
The Beatles (well, no need for an album here)
The Who - Who's Next
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV

 

[razoredge]

I dont consider Moody Blues to be like those other bands. I was just naming a few of the 'classic rock'(if such a genre exists) that I like.

I prefer to think of them as "the old bands" and leave the "classic rock" term for the radio stations to use as some kind of self promotion because they were too cheap to expand their library through the last 2.5 decades.

Bands I bought new music from back in the 70's and still have on vinyl were... in no particular order

Led Zeppelin
Cream
Uriah Heep
Rush
Queens first recording
Deep Purple
Rainbow
James Gang
Tommy Bolin
Aerosmith
Hendrix
Crack the Sky
Mountain
Steppenwolf LIVE !
CCR

most of which were HARDROCK, PROGRESSIVE HARDROCK, or ALTERNATIVE HARDROCK... not fucking "CLASSIC ROCK"

then rock in general got chezzy with the likes of Kiss, Foreigner, Foghat ect. and I started listening to

Kansas
Dixie Dregs
Billy Cobhams Spectrum
Al DiMeola
ect. in the mid/late 70's

you Southern folk forgot to mention
The Outlaws !
Molly Hatchet !
Little Feat !

what about mid western ? I still like my
Headeast - Flat as a Pancake
Firefall - had a few great songs though their commercial stuff was whimpy, check out "Mexico" and "Cinderella"

Old - Doobie Brothers (over played but great when new)

I was and am also a big fan of Billy Joels early work, before he too went more "pop"

 

[Human=Garbage]

you Southern folk forgot to mention
The Outlaws !
Molly Hatchet !
Little Feat !

"

Dammit, ya got me on Molly and Feat, but I'd consider The Outlaws more country...Outlaw country if you will:Smug:

 

[razoredge]

I will try to understand but Country was Patsy Cline. Charly Pride, Tammy Wynett, ect. the Outlaws were not country.

I'll tell you what... they were both decent guitar players but the one guitar player was awsome, if you listen close, to not only his solos but the stuff he played behind the other guys solos and behind the vocals was excellent. The Outlaws and Charlie Daniels were as much a part of the Southern Rock movement as Skynard and Hatchet. The Outlaws even toured with Skynard. I saw them with a third band that I just cant think of now around '74 or'75. Outlaws, Skynard & ____ "freebee concert" at Saratoga, the place was packed and jammin, great day, great music.

TAKE NOTE : Thats SOUTHERN ROCK not fucking "CLASSIC ROCK" !

 

[mdmatt4ever]

good lord. i listen to a ton of classic rock.
the rolling stones (my favorite band ever)
led zeppelin
the beatles
grateful dead
the doors
cream
bruce springsteen
ccr
blackfoot
lynyrd skynyrd
the allman brothers
van halen
david bowie
aerosmith
hendrix
deep purple
rush
queen
the who
tom petty

the list goes on

 

[Tallerthanatree]

I prefer to think of them as "the old bands" and leave the "classic rock" term for the radio stations to use as some kind of self promotion because they were too cheap to expand their library through the last 2.5 decades.

Exactly. It wasnt called "classic rock" then and shouldnt be called that now.