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    Joe Bonamassa (Official Thread)

    I do not understand why he would rather perform and release old material like this, when he could record his own modern greats with BCC. He would have to really go some to improve on Beck and Stewart's version of Plynth. Nicky Hopkins played the piano and I think he had a writing credit too...
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    Doobie Brothers (Official Thread)

    My favourite Doobies track:
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    Your top 10 Black Sabbath songs?

    Osbourne 1. Sleeping Village/ Warning (First Album) 2. Fairies Wear Boots (Paranoid) 3. After Forever (Master of Reality) 4. Snowblind (Vol 4) 5. Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (Sabbath Bloody Sabbath) 6. Killing Yourself to Live (Sabbath Bloody Sabbath) 7. Don't Start Too Late/ Symptom of the Universe...
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    Rock Royalty/playing cards

    King - Billy Idol, Freddie King, Albert King Queen - Either of the girls from Abba, Johnny Cash, Pete Townshend, Tina Turner, Johnny Rotten, Leslie West, Rob Halford, Andy Fraser, Bob Mould, Sonja Kristina Jack - Slash Ace - Paul Carrack, Lemmy, Fast Eddie Clark, Phil Taylor Joker - Viv...
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    Ozzy Osbourne vs. Ronnie James Dio

    Bob Daisley was a member of Mungo Jerry, Widowmaker and Rainbow before working with Osbourne. He went on to Uriah Heep, Black Sabbath, Gary Moore and lots of other people, including Bill Ward's solo work, Tyla Gang, and Yngwie Malmsteen. He was with Moore fairly consistently from the early...
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    One Band, One Song!

    Queen's Brighton Rock, the opening track on Sheer Heart Attack:
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    1st Album-1st Song-Great Debut

    Dancing Madly Backwards by Captain Beyond from their first S/T and only true album. This song could be in the one band, one song thread. The whole album is beyond brilliant:
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    One Band, One Song!

    I have several one songs for the Groundhogs (none of them are Cherry Red), but here is BDD from Blues Obituary. I like the simplicity of the lyrics and the way Tony McPhee winds up the intensity:
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    1st Album-1st Song-Great Debut

    How did I forget this? 21st Century Schizoid Man by King Crimson, from In the Court of the Crimson King, live at Hyde Park. The Rolling Stones' crowd must have wondered what hit them:
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    1st Album-1st Song-Great Debut

    Stranglehold by Ted Nugent from the first S/T solo album. He has struggled to match this ever since. The track shows the lineup and album should have had a band name. Derek St. Holmes and Rob Grange moved on to form the excellent St. Paradise. Tragically, Cliff Davies appears to have committed...
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    1st Album-1st Song-Great Debut

    Rock the Nation by Montrose from Montrose. This pointed towards the greatness yet to follow: I Can't Wait Much Longer by Robin Trower from Twice Removed From Yesterday. James Dewar wasn't just a great singer, he could play a heavy bass riff (at 2:45):
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    1st Album-1st Song-Great Debut

    A live version of People by Baker Gurvitz Army, from Elysian Encounter, with Steve Parsons on lead vocals:
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    1st Album-1st Song-Great Debut

    Poor Man by Nutz, from the first S/T album:
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    Ozzy Osbourne vs. Ronnie James Dio

    I don't doubt Iommi's entitlement to the name, E-Z, but with Dio, they became a different band. In his biography, Iommi says that several albums began as solo work, but were released by the record company under the Sabbath name. I suppose the band name was also signed to the company and was part...
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    Ozzy Osbourne vs. Ronnie James Dio

    They should have been Heaven and Hell from the H&H album, without the later contractual necessity. Deep Purple should also have changed their name by the time Bolin joined.
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    Ozzy Osbourne vs. Ronnie James Dio

    ^ Forbidden would take a lot of work. All the rap elements would have to be removed, including Ice-T's rapping, Tony Martin's rapping, Tony Martin's out of character swearing, the inappropriate production, and the strange drum sound. Underneath, there might be some salvageable material.
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    1st Album-1st Song-Great Debut

    Hurry On Sundown by Hawkwind from Hawkwind. It sounds like folk rock, but John Harrison's bass points to a future for the band that he did not enjoy (I wonder what happened to him?): Rocking Chair by The Groundhogs from Scratching the Surface is almost straight blues, with piano and...
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    Ozzy Osbourne vs. Ronnie James Dio

    Dio is the better singer, but Sabbath's first six albums with Osbourne are superior to the on-off Dio era. Ian Gillan, Ray Gillen and Glenn Hughes are all vastly superior singers to Osbourne, but the material did not match. My favourite Sabbath singer is Tony Martin, although only Tyr stands...
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    What Rock Songs Should Have Been Radio Hits?

    Good for you. I love La Grange, but have never heard it on our radio and probably never will. I heard Beerdrinkers & Hellraisers and Tush about once each. When ZZ Top did that stuff with synthesizers it was on the radio all the time, but only because it was very commercial and far removed from...
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    Covers, uncovers, remakes, etc.

    Definitely, yes. The Scorpions were always a less is more band, while Malmsteen's attitude was that more was never enough. It is difficult not to be impressed by his shredding though, which is super fast, and Boals is a fair singer. Testament are not my cup of tea and seem to have missed the...
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    Old rock songs which are nowadays politically incorrect

    I first heard this song a few years ago, not at the time it was released - it was not a hit single in the UK and was never played live. On first hearing, I took Alvin Lee's lyrics to be mocking the left, because the song is about those hippies who were saying they wanted to change the world, but...
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    Old rock songs which are nowadays politically incorrect

    More of Coverdale's poetry, recorded in 1983 and released in 1984. When criticised he replied he wasn't Billy Shakespeare: Slide It In (David Coverdale) From the album Slide It In by Whitesnake You talk too much, never saying what's on your mind, It's written on your face, I lead the world...
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    Old rock songs which are nowadays politically incorrect

    David Coverdale's lyirics (I assume they are his) for Lay Down, Stay Down were distasteful, even at the time. It was recorded in 1973 and released in early 1974. Many of his lyrics and his breathy delivery still make me cringe: Lay Down, Stay Down (Blackmore, Coverdale, Hughes, Lord, Paice)...
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    Covers, uncovers, remakes, etc.

    This is a part cover and part remake of Politician by Jack Bruce, Rory Gallagher and Brendan O'Neill. They should've formed a band:
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    What Rock Songs Should Have Been Radio Hits?

    I've been on forums where members often say, 'I got tired of such-and-such a record because it was overplayed on the radio.' That would never happen here because rock music could never be overplayed. They say never say never, but you can with absolute certainty in the context of rock music on...

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