Guess again.
I just lump all that 70s/early 80s corporate hard rock/wimp rock/cock rock together - Boston, Journey, Foreigner, REO Speedwagon, Styx (have they been mentioned yet? They should have), Boz Scaggs, Sammy Hagar,Kansas, etc. etc. - and dismiss them as a single unit. Oh, and has anybody mentioned Iron Maiden yet? Whatta fucking joke. A 14-minute song based on “Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner”? Are you guys sure you’re not Iron Butterfly?
Getting back to the late 60s/early 70s, let me throw in my nominations for such nonentites and shoulda-been nonentities as Vanilla Fudge, Jethro Tull, Emerson Lake and Palmer, the aforementioned Iron Butterfly, Black Oak Arkansas, and more of that ilk. Thank god I wasn’t going through my formative years at that time.
I concur with the above. Although I mentioned several names, there was only one of them that I said I didn’t like (O.K. I hate). If I mentioned anyone (BG’s) that aren’t rock then it was ignorance not intent. I can understand crossing over and dissing Madonna or Michael Jackson, but not Ella, B.B. and Garth. It is not that I am defending any one of them**, but that wasn’t what this thread was about. I am amazed that someone didn’t come up saying they can’t stand Pavarotti.
I’m an old gizzer that has lived thru all of rock, although the last few years I’m not up to date (all teenagers have left the nest). I imagine that you realize that I have a different take on some of these rockers than you do, because for instance I watched The Beatles on their Ed Sullivan appearance. There was something that took me awhile to understand. My sons would moan and bitch about a radio station that played the same songs over and over. It didn’t make sense to me. Then it came to me. When I was a teenager, we didn’t have Golden Oldies. We had a new type of music (rock) and we wanted to hear the new tunes and not that stuff from last week: month or year. We wore ourselves out with a new song and went on to another. We had the beginning of rock, before we knew what an album was (or stereo) and singles were the big seller (stacks of them). That’s your history lesson for the day, [sub]sorry[/sub].
**hint I hate the one that was a marketing major in college and used it to promote himself (I’m such a good guy that I’m going to retire so you don’t have to pay high prices for my concerts).