Real Classic Rock Music Back In Mainstream?

I was never a big Stones fan either. Much more a fan of Zeppelin, but honestly, by the time I started getting into music, we were well within the 1980's and I was more into the AOR type of music and then heavy metal. The synthesizers, keyboards, crunching guitars, big hair, lol! But, always a sucker for a good guitar solo. A song could be just kind of meh, but if it had a tremendous guitar solo, it seemed to make the song great!

Led Zep vibe is putting it lightly, there are LZ cover bands that wish they sounded like that
+1 ,I was thinking for a min it was a dub over.

Did somebody say guitar solo? And metal?

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Straight to the guitar solo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzgGTTtR0kc&t=5m46s

I was never a big Stones fan either. Much more a fan of Zeppelin, but honestly, by the time I started getting into music, we were well within the 1980's and I was more into the AOR type of music and then heavy metal. The synthesizers, keyboards, crunching guitars, big hair, lol! But, always a sucker for a good guitar solo. A song could be just kind of meh, but if it had a tremendous guitar solo, it seemed to make the song great!



Being the old shit I am ,I pick and chose. A Stones fan early in their careers but not much after 1980 ,same with LZ like the early stuff. To me "old time R&R that is a consistent producer of things over time is the Who put there so much good stuff from when I was growing up in the late 60's,70's and yes I believe Springsteen, Bob Seeger ,Billy Joel and Tom Petty(RIP) has carried it on as well as some others.

Did somebody say guitar solo? And metal?

EzgGTTtR0kc&t=5m46s

Straight to the guitar solo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzgGTTtR0kc&t=5m46s

Yes!!! These are the guitar solos I'm looking for!

Being the old shit I am ,I pick and chose. A Stones fan early in their careers but not much after 1980 ,same with LZ like the early stuff. To me "old time R&R that is a consistent producer of things over time is the Who put there so much good stuff from when I was growing up in the late 60's,70's and yes I believe Springsteen, Bob Seeger ,Billy Joel and Tom Petty(RIP) has carried it on as well as some others.

While I do love Led Zeppelin, honestly, the bulk of 70's rock that I really enjoyed was Kansas, Boston, Queen, Styx, and Pink Floyd. Loved progressive rock. Loved Journey. Loved a lot of the 80's metal bands, but really started getting tired of some of the hairbands that came in toward the tail end of that era. Huge Billy Joel fan.

So, out of all of that, most of that stuff has deep roots in rock and roll. With music, today, being mostly electronic, it loses a lot of feeling with me. Loses the connection. I respect rap and hip hop artists, but that's just not my thing. Guitar driven rock has just been the music I migrate back to, time and time again.

So, with Greta Van Fleet, I guess whether if one is on the side of them being straight up copycats of Led Zeppelin and not original at all, or on the side of them bringing good 70's classic rock back to the mainstream even though their sound has been done before, the idea that a group of young dudes like them bringing classic sounding rock back into the mainstream can only be good for those of us who like classic rock. I mean, if top 40 radio is occupied by a band that sounds exactly like Led Zeppelin, a band that sounds exactly like Styx, Foreigner, or Journey, or an artist that sounds exactly like Billy Joel, is that really a bad thing? I don't think so. But, again, that's personal taste.

some great guitar work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIOKeU1dv7I

I would have killed to be at this show!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GirPp-OVQcU

Chico's Top Ten Classic Rock Style Albums

Im gonna leave out the Beatles(Psych-Pop-way to ahead of time), any punk reference (Velvet Und), and progressive (King Crimson)

1. Led Zep - Physical Graffiti (the arrangements on this album still give me goosebumps when listening)
2. Allman Bros - Live at the Fillmore East (greatest live album all time. the definition of masterful instrument musicianship)
3. Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited (or either Bringing it all back home) Dylan is folk, but these albums actually rock fairly hard.
4. Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers
5. Neil Young - Harvest
6. Black Sabbath - Master of Reality (you can go with any of their first four albums- this is my favorite)
7. Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon (I could replace this with Meddle, but go with the classic)
8. AC/DC - Highway to Hell (From my childhood, and this album still is fresh...if someone asked me what does Rock'N'Roll sound like? I hand them this first.)
9. Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street
10. The Who - Quadrophenia (Never a Who fan, but this album is simply amazing. Keith Moon style drumming on this is unlike anything I ever heard.)

albums which I love don't place on here Beatles White Album/Abbey Road...T Rex- Electric Warrior, King Crimson - Red, Hendrix - Axis and Live at Fillmore East, Led Zep Houses of Holy, Dylan- Blond on Blond, The Band, Neil Young - Zuma, ZZ Top- Tres Hombres...

Chico's Top Ten Classic Rock Style Albums

Im gonna leave out the Beatles(Psych-Pop-way to ahead of time), any punk reference (Velvet Und), and progressive (King Crimson)

1. Led Zep - Physical Graffiti (the arrangements on this album still give me goosebumps when listening)
2. Allman Bros - Live at the Fillmore East (greatest live album all time. the definition of masterful instrument musicianship)
3. Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited (or either Bringing it all back home) Dylan is folk, but these albums actually rock fairly hard.
4. Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers
5. Neil Young - Harvest
6. Black Sabbath - Master of Reality (you can go with any of their first four albums- this is my favorite)
7. Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon (I could replace this with Meddle, but go with the classic)
8. AC/DC - Highway to Hell (From my childhood, and this album still is fresh...if someone asked me what does Rock'N'Roll sound like? I hand them this first.)
9. Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street
10. The Who - Quadrophenia (Never a Who fan, but this album is simply amazing. Keith Moon style drumming on this is unlike any thing every heard.)

albums which I love don't place on here Beatles White Album/Abbey Road...T Rex- Electric Warrior, King Crimson - Red, Hendrix - Axis and Live at Fillmore East, Led Zep Houses of Holy, Dylan- Blond on Blond, The Band, Neil Young - Zuma...

Yeah, I will say, I have just never been able to get into the Beatles. A song here and there that I like, but nothing where I want to jump in the car and crank up.