Classic Rock

Let's just chat about music's golden age of classic rock, shall we?

I don't know where to start.  Different big rock bands strike me at different times.  I used to just get the radio, which provides a warped view of music, because it's all based on commercial interests, I gradually understood. I love that there is YouTube now where I can think of any big old song and have it played without any fuss or waiting.  But I basically just know the hits for almost all of them.

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I got a question! I bet you guys can help, maybe?  I'm not sure who to ask, and my google search has failed.

So, from lame radio stations in the 1970s, there is some song, and I thought it would be easy to find by googling for 'claire', but there are too many other results for that which are getting in the way.  I only thought of it because I was trying to think of the other word that could be made with the same letters in 'lacier' (it is 'eclair', which is a pastry.)

I looked at the best 100 rock bands from the 70s and the first one that I had heard of that seemed like it might be likely is Paul McCartney, by the sound, but my judgements of what band makes what sound has been found to be very unreliable.

It sounds like this (heehee)

 'And claire, you were the only [barista lady], [suffer again] woo-oo-oo-woo-oo-oo, [so fair a gent], woo-oo-oo-woo-oo-oo'

Now I am sure someone will be able to tell me the band and the title and a link on youtube :)

Thank you!!!!!!

P.S. If you do not know I will have to ask on Yahoo

ask on yahoo

I figured it out! It's not about Claire. It's about something called Jet.  It IS by Paul McCartney!  It is a very weird-sounding song -

It sounds like he's singing about Bart Schlader. There was a kid named that in my class.  (Actually Bart Schlicter I realized.) Once he told a story about how he had won a prize from the radio station three times in a row.

I found it by googling for 'wooo ooo'.  That shows that Google is as silly as I am, at least.

Ah Google...

Let's take a poll:

1. Beatles vs Stones

2. Queen vs Led Zeppelin

3. Guns n Roses vs Metallica

It's a ridiculous poll, Camberfoil, as all those bands are quite essential, and a person can not live without any of them, except Guns&Roses or Metallica are expendable.  I think they came a little later.  Were they from the 70s at all?  I easily could have just missed it.   But I would like to add that Jet by Paul McCartney is available on youtube, and you can find the lyrics, and you can lip-read Paul McCartney on the Youtube video practically for free if you paid for your Internet connection and electricity.  None of that was possible before.  The lyrics are very hard to comprehend without lip-reading. I was armed only with my parents' stereo and a small allowance for most of the critical years.  It was true poverty.  Now that it's easy to get the music the hot chicks my age (sorry my chauvanistic terminology, that isn't how I should talk) I are past their prime years of hotness so it adds a poignancy to the overall tragedy.

I doubt that this thread has anything at all to do with intellectuality.  Does awesome 70s rock have anything to do with figuring out the truth of the human experience?  I don't see how.  The lyrics are very silly - it's about a labrador puppy.

I heard someone say Jethro Tull has deep lyrics once.  For example in Aqualung, he said.  Maybe I could follow up on that.  He thought he would not understand those lyrics until he reached a more advanced age, 40 or 50 he thought.

People in countries that aren't the U.S. will have been marketed to quite differently, no?

Also, what "golden age" did you mean?  The roots of rock were before the 70s. For example, Elvis, Buddy Holly, etc.

I'm uncertain if it was intended that way, but that post seemed a bit confrontational. Perhaps I misinterpreted it, but I was merely attempting to initiate an informal poll.

It most certainly was not confrontational!  Sorry for calling your poll ridiculous though. 

No prob. Sorry for the misinterpretation.

Camberfoil, you are a gentleman! I think we have different approaches to attempting to discuss the wide field of old rock music. 

I have read a good book about music recently (at least part of the book). It is by David Byrne (from the Talking Heads) and it is called "How Music Works".  It explains how music changes to fit the venue.  Music changed when recording was invented, and radio.  If the music is recorded it can be polished up, but then when people see the band live they expect the band to sound like the recording that they heard!  This eventually led to lip-synching, I guess (it didn't say that in the book).  Also, Gregorian chants were designed for cathedrals, where everything echos for a long time, so the sounds are in chords.

I've been rocking out to Zeppelin again lately and I am convinced that John Bonham is in a class of his own as a drummer. The tone he can get out of a drum set, and the fact the doesn't even have to be doing a solo or some fancy fill to impress you. His solid rhytmic presence in the songs is enough to engage me as a listener. I think Lars Ulrich is an increidble drummer and I love to hear him play but there is indescriable quality of Bonham that I have never heard anywhere.

looking at the poll

Metallica vs Guns N Roses...

I can't choose here. When GNR was in its prime they were force of nature. When I hear what Kirk Hammett puts into his guitar solos it makes a lot of other music pale in comparison.

Thanks for starting this thread.