Great R&R bands. This is of course strictly

Alvin Blaine · Post by **Alvin Blaine** » 2 Feb 2005 1:17 pm

Not to sound picky, but CCR were still around after 1970, thier last album (without Tom) was Mardi Gras from 1972, and in 1973 John did the Blue Ridge Rangers album of the same title where he played practically every instrument.

Yes, technically CCR was around in the early '70's, but they didn't seem to be a band after '71. Mardi Gras was mostly John and the rest of the band seemed to be tagging along. When they were playing and recording in the late '60's they sounded like they belonged together and it worked. That's why I said that I don't think of them as a '70's band, because they didn't sound or act like a "band" in the '70's.

I have that Blue Ridge Rangers LP, I think Fogerty does plays everything on it. That was the his last studio release till Centerfield(he played everything on this one also) in Jan 1985. So it took him 12 years to put out his next album.

Tony Glassman · Post by **Tony Glassman** » 2 Feb 2005 5:33 pm

Jimi Hendrix Experience

Dave Van Allen · Post by **Dave Van Allen** » 2 Feb 2005 7:35 pm

oh yeah, that guy

and how about that other little known group,

Led some-thing-or-other

Leslie Ehrlich · Post by **Leslie Ehrlich** » 3 Feb 2005 12:39 am

Bachman-Turner Overdrive.

Mike Winter · Post by **Mike Winter** » 3 Feb 2005 3:21 pm

Ronnie Hawkins and the Hawks, in the configuration that would later become The Band: Robbie Robertson, Rick Danko, Levon Helm, Richard Manuel and Garth Hudson. Back in Toronto in the early sixties, they tore up Younge St...by all accounts one of the best bar bands ever.

Geoff Brown · Post by **Geoff Brown** » 3 Feb 2005 10:49 pm

Mike, you're spot on

I wasn't even around when the Hawks were rippin' it up, but I've got the recordings. Some of Robbie's finest playing, and Hawkins' best music. Raw, soulful, great. Somewhere I've a got a 45 of Robbie and the Rave-Ons. I should dig that up. Robbie was also great on the sessions he did back in the day.

Jason Odd · Post by **Jason Odd** » 4 Feb 2005 7:56 am

Have you ever heard the Hawks/Levon & The Hawks behind Dylan?

The 1966 official live CD was a revelation, Robbie is a beast, like an evil James Burton.
Ronnie Hawkins once commented that when he heard the Band's debut was coming out, all the old Canadian rockers thought it was going to be like souped up rockabilly meets Howlin' Wolf or something to that effect.
No-one really knew about them kicking back in Woodstock, Robbie totally stripped back his guitar style through that period.

Steve Stallings · Post by **Steve Stallings** » 4 Feb 2005 9:28 am

AC/DC
Led Zep
ZZ Top (Rio Grande Mud is awesome!)
Humble Pie
Allman Brothers
Mountain (Leslie West was da man!)
Greatfull Dead
CSN
Boston
Van Halen

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God Bless,
Steve Stallings

Bobby Lee · Post by **Bobby Lee** » 4 Feb 2005 12:12 pm

The Grateful Dead are my all-time favorite band because of their experimental approach to music. The free-form jams in the the middle of the second set explored the very nature of what we call music at its outer edges. They were as rock as they were bluegrass, in my opinion. Rock was just commercial touchpoint to book the concerts. Their music didn't match what one normally expects from a "rock band".

Glenn Suchan · Post by **Glenn Suchan** » 4 Feb 2005 1:51 pm

b0b, you need to hear Little Feat's two newest live albums. Bill Payne (keyboards) rambles through everything from barrelhouse boogie piano, to Chick Corea-ish, latin-tinged jazz, to Bruce Hornsby-ish jazz-rock, to barroque classical piano stylings, to spacey Dead-ish synthesizer stylings and abruptly back to a barrelhouse boogie on Feat's "Dixie Chicken". And Fred Tackett plays muted trumpet (very Miles-ish, tho not as good...who is?), mandolin, and blistering blues/rock guitar; Paul Barier plays his usual guitar pyrotechniques on slide and regular guitar. Although Kenny Gradney isn't quite the experimentalist as Phil Lesh, his bass playing is still great. Richie Hayward is IMHO the best rock drummer today.

I think Little Feat embodies the "experiiment-as-you-go" philosophy the Grateful Dead had about their live shows. The big difference is Little Feat are incredibly TIGHT. They never lapse into the "uh-oh, what are gonna do next" predicaments that occasionally happened to the Dead.

Keep on pickin'!
Glenn

Webb Kline · Post by **Webb Kline** » 4 Feb 2005 6:35 pm

I cut my musical teeth on Handrix, Cream and Zepplin.

Probably my favorite was Little Feat who was the total embodiment of jazz, blues, funk, dixie, R&B, Americana, jamband, country rock and just about everything else you can think of all mixed together in one band. Billy Payne was my hero in the rockin' piano department.

ELP was another fav. Especially the Tarkus album--absolutely ingenious and they were just kids.

Yes was another. Fragile and Close to the Edge were amazing.

Earth, Wind and Fire's All n' all album was some of the best produced, best performances ever put to wax. Unbelievable work of art.

Any of the early Marshall Tucker stuff with Toy and Tommy was great material. Love those guys and miss 'em.

Weather Report's Heavy Weather album is another one of my all time favorites. How can you go wrong with guys like Jaco Pastorius, Joe Zawinul, Wayne Shorter and Alex Acuna? oops...guess they aren't rock, but they certainly made waves like rockers.

Allman Bros is another band with a special place in my heart.

Eagles--incredible songwriters, great vocals, great band.

The Band another great band.

Pink Floyd--Ingenious.

Don't forget Jethro Tull. Totally different than anything else when they came out.

How's that for a diversity of musical styles for one steel player to enjoy; especially comin' from a preachin' steeler? The way I look at it, music is one of the most amazing gifts God has ever given us and one does not have to be playing in front of a church to be using those gifts in amazing ways and entertaining us.

I am just grateful that I was able to live during an era where there was some new and refreshingly different music coming out every week. [This message was edited by Webb Kline on 04 February 2005 at 06:36 PM.]

Bobby Lee · Post by **Bobby Lee** » 5 Feb 2005 10:21 pm

Yeah, Little Feat is my second choice.

Weather Report was never considered to be a rock band, were they? I always thought they were jazz. I hear them on the local "smooth jazz" radio station now and then (which doesn't really mean anything, come to think of it).

David L. Donald · Post by **David L. Donald** » 6 Feb 2005 12:36 am

b0b at the time most jazz people thought Weather Report was a rock band for sure...

Glenn Suchan · Post by **Glenn Suchan** » 6 Feb 2005 9:48 am

b0b, about that time, I think a number of bands blured the distinction between jazz and rock. The artist/album that is generally considered to have started jazz-rock or "Jazz Fusion" was Miles Davis' "Bitches Brew". I Think John and Alice Coltrane as well as Pat Martino had early experiments in similar forms. Most of the jazz-fusion bands followed the leads of these musicians. I think a lot of the folks in the jazz community accepted jazz fusion as a growth of the genre because of the respect afforded to Davis, the Coltranes and Martino.

Jazz fussion bands along with Weather Report, included Herbie Hancock's work such as his "Crossings" and "Sexton" albums, Return To Forever with Chick Corea, Stanley Clark and Al Dimeola, John McClaughlin's Mahavishnu Orchestra, Jan Hammer and Jerry Goodman's collaborations, Tony Williams' Lifetime, Klaus Doldinger's Passport, The Section with Russ Kunkle, Lee Sklar and Craig Dorge and Carlos Santana's solo recordings. There are others that slip my mind at the moment.

In retrospect, the late 60's through the 70's generally produced some weak pop rock, but it was a time of real creative growth for rock n roll as a musical form. Evidenced by the development of "country rock", "jazz-fusion" (rock), "folk rock", "southern rock", "classical rock" (Yes, ELO, etc.), "psychedelic rock".... A rennaisance period, if you will.

Keep on pickin'!
Glenn

Webb Kline · Post by **Webb Kline** » 6 Feb 2005 5:23 pm

Ah yes, those were the good old days...

Drew Howard · Post by **Drew Howard** » 7 Feb 2005 6:57 am

AC/DC

CrowBear Schmitt · Post by **CrowBear Schmitt** » 7 Feb 2005 9:01 am

imo, them california bands wrap it up pretty good
be it,
Little Feat
Bonnie Raitt
the Doobies
Steely Dan
Ry Cooder

otherwise the Allman Bros
Redbone
Taj Mahal back then w Jesse Ed Davis
Jeff Beck
Rhinoceros
Traffic
last but not least
Jimi Hendrix Experience
Frank Zappa & the Mothers