Hey what's up Rock and Rollers here on Gather?....Got a question for ya? And by no means is my list the definitive one. So please don't spend your time telling me who I left out, who I forgot, or who you think I don't like... The rest of this is up to you....Either agree with me, or make your own list. By all means add your version of the "Letterman Top Ten". I want to hear from you....Who's your "Top Ten"....Go for it Gather!!!
10. Sweet Child Of Mine... Guns N Roses
9. Rockin In The Free World...Neil Young
8. Imagine...John Lennon
7. Sweet Home Alabama...Lynyrd Skynyrd
6. Hotel California...The Eagles
5. Carry On My Wayward Son... Kansas
4. Baba O'Reilly...The Who
3. Comfortably Numb...Pink Floyd
2. Stairway To Heaven...Led Zeppelin
1. I changed my mind...Instead of Paranoid, it needs to be "War Pigs"...Black Sabbath/Ozzy
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These are all goodies
Clapton, Areosmith, Stones, Heart, Hendrix
Guns N Roses? Classic? hmmmm (good, tho)
JANIS JOPLIN - definately classic and definately top ten!!
Queen - Play the Game
Beth - KISS
Children of the Sun - Billy Thorpe
Steppenwolf - Born to Be Wild
"Bad Moon Rising" - Creedence Clearwater Revival
"House Of The Rising Sun"- The Animals
"The Times They Are a-Changin'" - Bob Dylan
ZZ TOPP..." Tush " " Waitin' on the Buss " " Just Got Paid "
Great article and great discussion! Keep up the great work brother!
Aerosmith's ' Sweet Emotion'
Bad Company's ' Burning Sky'
One more for me: 3 Dog Night - Joy to the World!! (written by Hoyt Axton, by the way) ;)
Hendrix. All along the Watchtower
#9 Rolling Stones _ Satisfaction
#5 Bob Dylan Knockin on Heaven's Door
#4 Don McLean - American Pie
#3 Rod Stewart - Maggie May
#1 Dobie Gray - Drift Away
But....You have have all continued to come up with wonderful alternatives...Don't stop now!!!!
Holiday in Cambodia - The Dead Kennedy's
TV Party - Black Flag
Night Prowler - AC/DC
Blue Sky -- Allman Brothers
Peggy Sue - Buddy Holly
Many Cat Stevens tunes -- my favorite is Father and Son
Surrender - Cheap Trick
25 or 6 to 4 - Chicago
London's Burning - The Clash (NOT London Calling)
Ohio - CSNY
Changes - David Bowie
Smoke on the Water - Deep Purple
Jocko Homo - DEVO
Light My Fire - The Doors
Call Any Vegetable - Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention
Supper's Ready - Genesis
All Things Must Pass - George Harrison
Uncle John's Band - Grateful Dead
"I Used to Love Her," and "Mr. Brownstone" - Gun's n Roses
Piece of My Heart - Janis Joplin
Instant Karma - John Lennon (Also Imagine)
California - Joni Mitchell
Louie Louie - The Kingsmen
Immigrant Song - Led Zeppelin
F**k and Run - Liz Phair
California Dreamin' - The Mama's and the Papa's
Cinnamon Girl - Neil Young
Dark Side of the Moon (Whole Album) - Pink Floyd
Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen
I Wanna Be Sedated - The Ramones
Satisfaction - The Rolling Stones
My Old School - Steely Dan (You could choose many others)
Hello It's Me - Todd Rundgren
With or Without You - U2
Hot For Teacher - Van Halen
You Really Got Me Now - The Kinks
Brown Eyed Girl - Van Morrison
Behind Blue Eyes - The Who
Anything by the Beatles -- :-)
Ben Harper-Alone
Bad Company-Shooting Star
Bob Serger-Turn the Page
Buddy Miles-Down by the River
Cream-Strange Brew
CCRevival-Heard It Though the Grapvine
Foghat-I just wanna Make Love to you
Steppenwolf-The Pusher
ZZTop-I'm Bad, I'm Nationwide
Of course, I am 55 years old and have different tastes - and some of these bands just don't do it for me.
Where's The Stones? The Beatles? This list is pretty mellow for a rock list. I'd add more but I'm really an alternative/indie music fan. Post a list of them!
"Godzilla" and "Don't Fear the Reaper" - Blue Oyster Cult?
"I love Rock 'n' Roll - Joan Jett & the Blackhearts?
"Cat Scratch Fever" - Ted Nugent?
"White Wedding" - Billy Idol?
"Whip It" - DEVO?
"Born to be Wild" - Steppenwolf?
Don't get me started!!
"Barracuda" - Heart
"Joy to the World" - Three Dog Night
"Iron Man" - Black Sabbath
"Stray Cat Strut" - Stray Cats
"Cocaine" - Eric Clapton
"Can't You See" - Marshall Tucker
"Enter Sandman" - Metallica
"Crazy Train" - Black Sabbath
"Norwegian Wood" - The Beatles (George on the Citar is f***in' AWESOME!)
"Wanted Dead or Alive" - Bon Jovi
Whole Lotta Love - Led Zeppelin
All Along The Watchtower - Jimi Hendrix
Free Bird - Lynard Skynard
Paint It Black - Rolling Stones
Frankenstein - Edgar Winters Group
Smoke On The Water - Deep Purple
Stop, Hey What's That Sound - Buffalo Springfield
Eight Days A Week - The Beatles
Bennie and the Jets - Elton John
Hotel California - The Eagles
Money - Pink Floyd
The Wall - Pink Floyd
Hello, I Love You - The Doors
Tell Mama - Janis Joplin
American Pie - Don McLean
Horse With No Name - America
Magic Carpet Ride - Steppenwolf
Mama Told Me Not To Come - Three Dog Night
Panama - Van Halen
Sharp Dressed Man - ZZ Top
Rebel Yell - Billy Idol
Back In Black -AC/DC
Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For - U2
Misunderstanding - Genesis
Does Anybody Know What Time It Is? - Chicago
I could go on and I know it's more than 10, but I get excited!
Hey, thanks for letting me know. At least we know Gather Essentials (Music) still has impeccable taste...LOL...
Hey everyone,
Great lists and great songs....Keep'em coming!!!!
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Trivia: Can anyone tell me who's guitar Clapton is playing in the video above?
( I need a singer songwriter category and a roots of R&R category )
Anyway: here are 16 American Favorites, followed by 16 Brittish /European Favs..
Aerosmith- Dream On
Allman Brothers- Ramblin' Man
Blue Oyster Cult- Don't Fear the Reaper
Bob Dylan -Like a Rolling Stone
Bruce Springstein- Born in the USA
C S N Y- Suite : Judy Blue Eyes
Creedence CR - Bad Moon Rising!
The Doors- Light My Fire
Fleetwood Mac- The Chain
Foreigner- Waiting for a Girl Like You
Kansas- Carry On
Joni Mitchell- Woodstock
Roy Orbison -Oh Pretty Woman
REM- Losing my Religion
Steely Dan- Reelin in the Years
James Taylor- Fire and Rain
Beatles- She Loves You!
Eric Clapton/ Cream - Sunshine of your Love
Elton John- Madman Across the Water
Derek and the Dominos/Clapton- Layla
Genesis- Land of Confusion
Kinks- You Really Got Me
Led Zeppelin- Stairway to Heaven
Moody Blues- The Story in Your Eyes
Pink Floyd- Dark Side of the Moon
The Police- Every Little Thing She Does is Magic
Queen- We Will Rock You
The Rolling Stones- Satisfaction
Cat Stevens- Wild Word
U2- Still Havent Found What I'm Looking For
Van Morrison- Moondance
The Who-We Won't Get Fooled Again!
so many great tunes!
Good guess...and close!
The Legend According to
"Professor Ed MCarthy".
"George Harrison after commissioning the paint job, gave the original guitar to his buddy Eric Clapton who used it on "Crossroads" and all throughout the 60's "Cream" era. We see this guitar slung on Eric throughout all his different hairstyles, hair colors, radical outfits etc. Eric was very cool when he was rockin'.
Eric loaned the Guitar to "Jackie Lomax" a songwriter known mostly for the song he wrote for my favorite singer of all time "Eric Burdon" of "The Animals". The song was covered by another great group "Grand Funk Railroad" Grand Funk had the hit with it 10 years later "Inside Lookin' Out". I'm not sure just how long Jackie had the guitar in his possession but in 1972 he SOLD the guitar to "Todd Rundgren" for an undisclosed sum of money. (Remember Eric never gave him the guitar he just loaned it to him).
Todd has had the guitar for more than 28 years. He has used it on a lot of studio tracks.
One day about 20 years ago, Todd strolled into my shop totally unexpectedly. (He was looking for a Wah Pedal) I casually attempted to broach the subject of the guitar but Todd was very closemouthed. "I think Clapton wanted the Guitar back and Todd was not in the mood to give it up". That is just a theory based on hear say, I really don't know. Anyway I attempted to blab about it a little more and I mentioned that I would gladly give $10,000.00 for the guitar. I did not get very far with my offer. Todd just clammed up and changed the subject again. (Oh Well). Today that original guitar would easily bring half a million dollars. (That far back $10,000.00 was a reasonable offer)"
http://www.edroman.com/guitars/gibson/fool.htm
House of the Rising Sun - the Animals;
'Stop, Hey What's That Sound' - Buffalo Springfield;
'China Grove' (I remember songs but not always groups so just bear with me here!)
Grand Funk Railroad- 'Locomotion'
' Thrill's a Thrill' - Long John Baldry
"Bad Moon Rising" - Creedence Clearwater Revival
'Who were You Thinking of' - Sir Douglas Quintet
'Midnight Special' - Roxy Music
"Let's spend the Night together" - Stones (?)
"Me and Bobbie McGee" - Joplin
"Friend of the Devil" - Grateful Dead
"Sunday, Bloody Suday" - U2
"If I should Fall from Grace with God" - The Pogues
"Wild Thing" -- Fancy(?)
"Only the Lonly" -Roy Orbison
"Angie" The Rolling Stones
"Money" - Pink Floyd
"Dead Flowers" (I only know Steve Earle's version)
'Jail House Rock' - Elvis Presley
'Oyo Como Va' Santana
"Light My fire" - Jose Feliciano
'Wasted Days and Wasted Nights' - Freddy Fender
Guess Who - 'American Woman'
yikes! Way more than ten here... there was a lot of good music then and now!
The Moody Blues
Bad Company
Led Zepplin
Cream
Traffic
Genesis
Santana
Eric Clapton
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Jethro Tull
Bryan Ferry and Roxy Music
Foreigner
Journey
Fleetwood Mac
Pink Floyd
The Rolling Stones
The Police
Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young
Steely Dan
The Eagles
Aerosmith
The Who
The Beatles
If I listed them it means I like or love most or all by them!! My list goes on forever.
From a fellow music lover of all genres. E.~
The most surprising part of the whole Clapton guitar thing is that Farner/GFR didn't write "Inside Lookin Out", that is my favorite GFR song of all time, I remember that "Red" album cover like it was yesterday. Cool story about the guitar, now that you mention it I do seem to remember hearing that in the distant past.
By the way, Ed Roman has a bad-ass guitar site huh?
"By the way, Ed Roman has a bad-ass guitar site huh?"
You bet yer (coon) ass! I got to lookin' through that sumbitch last night and it got so late I couldn't comment on anything - I had to hit the rack, as I get up at 4:30a.m. to go to work.
Pick a song..... Eighteen, Under My Wheels, Billion Dollar Babies, No More Mr. Nice Guy, School's Out, Elected.
But I must admit, it is a lot of fun to hear what everyone thinks....