OT: Your All-Time Favorite Rock "Anthems"

[Hope]

And everybody's favorite, that's right, "I'm Eighteen" by Alice Cooper.

Now some people will argue that Alice Cooper was really a guy, but Joe Walsh, my great uncle, says it just ain't so---and he has the pictures to prove it.

 

[wire chief]

I suppose I should've actually watched the video

Shiri Appleby.

Yup, that helps. Glad to run into another rare fan of that show.

 

[rvwsleep]

No mention of "Free Bird", "Baba O'Riley" or "Thunderstruck" ?
( On the phone, difficult to attach a performance)

A thank you to Milford Husky for posting video's of the first two. Here's the third.

 

[meyers7]

Can't find one with the original cast (Leslie West, Felix Pappalardi, Corky Laing) that has a decent sound track, so you get West & Peter Frampton with anonymous backups.
This isn't an anthem, but a concert at the Fillmore East in the very early 70's was my first appreciation of make-your-ears-bleed heavy rock.
And Mr. West is a helluva guitarist, which unfortunately didn't show on his studio recordings.

Oh, the music starts at 1:25, but I don't know how to set the playback start there.

Here's one before he lost his leg.

 

[meyers7]

One of my all time favorites.

 

[meyers7]

Oh yea, and of course who could forget

 

[CTyankee]

Ohhh... Add Queen... Bohemian Rhapsody

 

[MilfordHusky]

One of my all time favorites.

Mick looks about 60 years younger. I guess that's because he was. And Keith looks 100 years younger.

 

[Replicant]

I am going to add another to my list. Guitar lead is classic.

 

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That's well done, but it's too bad that they are not on the same stage. I guess that's what having artistic differences does.

Here's "Comfortably Numb" plus three others as a bonus with Waters and Gilmour together (before Richard Wright died). As the fan's sign reads, "Pigs Have Flown."

 

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[JordyG]

One of the biggest regrets on my life... missing Woodstock for summer classes.

One of my biggest regrets: Going to Woodstock, losing all of my money, all of my friends, my ride home, all my food, getting to the concert site for all of 15 mins, hitchhiking home on Sunday to see the first Jets/Giants regular season game and missing that as well. Fun times.

 

[Intpseeker]

You all have me digging out old music and loving it.

 

[Phillyconn]

 

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[jimazee]

Joined the party late but lots of good ones both posted and left (isn't that great?) ...I just cruised the long list for the first time. If I missed this one (possible...I'm old) , I'll add another...there are plenty more.

 

[Replicant]

One of my biggest regrets: Going to Woodstock, losing all of my money, all of my friends, my ride home, all my food, getting to the concert site for all of 15 mins, hitchhiking home on Sunday to see the first Jets/Giants regular season game and missing that as well. Fun times.

At least you maintained your sense of direction!

 

[JordyG]

At least you maintained your sense of direction!

As luck would have it at about 1 pm Saturday morning (I'd lost my friends/ride/companions at about 7 pm Friday), as I was sitting gloomily on a car with a blanket (from where who knows) wrapped around me, I heard someone calling my name. It was my second closest friend who just happened to be in Woodstock without my knowledge. How he found me among 1/2 a million people was the best of serendipity. He, two other young girls and I stayed together until my Sunday hitch/ride home. The most forgettable/unforgettable days of my life. All too true.

 

[Shenandoah]

I can't believe that there are 4 pages of songs (great ones at that) with nary a mention of...The Allman Brothers Band...

 

[Scud49]

A song I have always loved:

 

[jimazee]

CCR has a long list that could qualify: Most obvious as an 'anthem' for me is Proud Mary - Most memorable lyrics include

Big wheel keep on turnin',
Proud Mary keep on burnin',
Rollin', rollin', rollin' on the river.​

but my favorite is Lodi (which was a flip "B" side) whose memorable lyrics include:

If I only had a dollar
For every song I've sung
Every time I had to play
While people sat there drunk
You know, I'd catch the next train
Back to where I live​

Both showed CCR's (mostly John Fogarty) great guitar, lyrics, vocals, and pacing. At it's peak, CCR really rocked...including at Woodstock. I recall playing these two songs and frequently often singing along when I and three buddies impulsively drove from PA to LA and back for Mardi Gras...a few years ago

 

[meyers7]

Another I really like.

 

[Zorro]

Wooly Bully. (Sam the Sham) Mabeline. (Chuck Berry) Tutti Frutti and Long Tall Sally (Little Richard) Blue Suede Shoes (Carl Perkins) Be Bop a Lula (Gene Vincent)

 

[MilfordHusky]

Another I really like.

There's a line about Geno, actually: "His hair was perfect."

 

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A song I have always loved: