Just have to get this off my chest - or out of my head???

[K-fab]

I wanna ROCK! [smilie=rockout3.gif] [smilie=rockout3.gif]
ROCK! [smilie=rockout3.gif] [smilie=rockout3.gif]

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I wanna ROCK! [smilie=rockout3.gif] [smilie=rockout3.gif]
ROCK! [smilie=rockout3.gif] [smilie=rockout3.gif]

Don't mix Ketel One Vodka and Grape Propeller Juice (Propel Fitness (HA!) Water). *

It makes you stupid and you hear old Big Hair '80's tunes in your head for some reason... *

I think I'll go upstairs, crank up the guitar and annoy the neighbors. *[smilie=evilgrin.gif]

You guys have a great evening! * [smilie=blowkiss.gif]

[Doug Heim]

K-Fab buddy.... I love that big hair 80's shit. Call it whatever but yeah I know what you mean. Anytime Twisted Sister or Quiet Riot is on the radio at work the guys and I crank it!!!

I do like the hard shit now a days too though. Hell I listen to it all! I think its just that that music brings me back to that era when I was just a whipper snapper and had now worries. All we cared about is where we were riding our pedal bikes to. My dad was a DJ so I grew up with alot of music around.

[Andy_1972]

You guys hear that Quiet Riots singer Kevin Dubrow OD'd?

[sparky]

Yeah. *Cocaine overdose in Vegas. *He was 52 years old. *

-Loved the big-haired 80's (and early 90's). *Van Halen's "Eruption". *"Whitesnake's Still of the night", Scorpion's "Rock you like a hurricane". *And of course - Quiet Riot. *"I wanna rock" and "mental health" (bang your head *[smilie=banghead.gif] ) were anthems of the day... and I still love 'em!!! *-Rock on everybody.

I wanna ROCK! *
ROCK! *

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I wanna ROCK! *
ROCK!

[renegadespec1]

Whats' the 80's












Don't foerget honeymoon suite, axe,motley crue and the still pounding matalica [smilie=rockout3.gif]

[renegadespec1]

I was just out to the Landing...DOG DAYS Riding area...to see if it was buggyable...poundin through a foot and a half of snow...in my crappy brown jeep HEADBANGIN TO MATTALICA...Some thing about EXIT LIGHT and I hit a tree................Just kidding...as soon as I got a camrera man i'll get some vids...then it's part it out time...

[K-fab]

I grew up with an old Zenith Transistor AM radio stuck to my head listening to the good ol' Top 40 from the early 70's on. *Anyone of that era was exposed to all sorts of styles and genre of music and I think it gives us a great, broad canvas to base our likes and dislikes on.

You didn't find the specific styles of music on each channel like you do now. *The station played everything from The Jackson 5 to Deep Purple to Donna Summer (oh God, the Disco Era! *) to Frankie Valli to Led Zep. *The variety was fantastic.

Down in South Texas (where I grew up) it was Top 40, Country, Mexican Radio from across the border or the Farm Report until I was about 18 and then we got a rock station that I could pick up on occasion if I was lucky. *99.5 KRIX. *Man - still remember the call sign - wow...

No Metallica or Van Halen for me... * I never could stand either of those bands.
OOohh *Eruption. *
Scales. *Fast scales, but scales and BORING... * David can't sing worth a crap either. [smilie=banghead.gif] *I still remember the first time I heard VH (I was at a skating rink, speed skating) and people were all going "Wow - listen to this stuff" - I wanted to know why we had to!

Don't get me started on "The Mighty Met".... * *- I will admit that I like ONE song - "So What" - and I recently discovered that it's a cover song! *Not even theirs, which makes sense as to why I like it. (beside the fact that it's funny as Hell)

I like bands that can write a wide variety of music. *Usually I'm more drawn to a band that has a guitarist that does this versus the other members being the writers:
Paul Gilbert from Mr. Big - now there's a guitarist and musician! *
Brian May from Queen - one of the original Guitar Gods
Michael Schenker - MSG & UFO
Nuno Bettencourt of Extreme
Gary Hoey
Blues Saraceno
Dave Mustane - Megadeth
Devo!
Dweezil Zappa
Rush*
Richie Blackmore of Rainbow
Rik Emmit from Triumph
Mike Oldfield - he did Tubular Bells - first release on the Virgin Label and known as the theme to The Exorcists. *Dude's an amazing guitar player and has a very funky style of picking.

I never did follow the "popular" groups. * I liked a lot of them up until they became popular. *Scorpions was killer up through Animal Magnetism and then they started getting air play and came out with Blackout. *Everyone thought that was wonderful, but it was just another formula album that sold like the rest of the formula albums of the 80's. *Bored the hell out of me. *Can anyone say Bon Jovi? *"We all wanna sound like this!"

Def Leppard's first two discs were great. *Rough, raw and still new. *Then, darn it all, they got on that same band wagon that MTV caused. - Some of Pyromania was okay, though. *Still had a different, raw edge to it.

*Rush - ah, the classic band. *First two albums were terrible, but they were just getting into it. *Caress of Steel - YIKES!!! *Then they found their groove and were killer up through Moving Pictures. *That's when they too became "popular" and started sounding formulaic. *It was the last Rush album I purchased too. *Signals? *What was up with that???

Honeymoon Suite - good call! *Different and fun.

Don't forget the classic guys:
Foghat
ZZ Top
Heart (ah, Nancy - yea baby! - ya know, she's still hot!)
Old AC/DC - Bon Scott years. *Brian's okay, but I liked the older stuff.
Blue Oyster Cult - even though Buck Darma's head is huge.
Aerosmith up through Permanent Vacation. *Heck one of their sleeper albums - Done with Mirrors - is one of the best they did. *The old stuff when they were on drugs (lots of drugs) was their greatest work. *Toys in the Attic, Rocks, Draw the Line * It's amazing that a) the band still has all the original members and b) all the original members are still alive!
I do admit that I could do w/o ever hearing Dream On again - my god that's been over played. (like ALL Led Zep & Pink Floyd - I'm worn out on them)
Cheap Trick - first album is still my favorite from them. *He's a Whore - fun song, fun to play.
Fleetwood Mac

There's some newer stuff that I really like too:
Offspring
Greenday
My Chemical Romance
Disturbed (their cover of the old Genesis Land of Confusion is killer)
Avenged Sevenfold - amazing guitarist - and to get TWO of them to play in sync as well as they do is impressive.
Faith No More - while an older band, they're sort of new to me and I like them a lot.
Some of Filter's stuff just plain kicks arse.
Weezer

I have a weird collection of stuff and am always looking for more.

There's something about music that's amazing. *Totally intangible, yet can touch you about as deeply as anything.

There are a couple styles, that no matter how hard I try, I cannot embrace: *Country, that American Idol crap and Hip Hop - I just don't get it. *Rap - not even music. *Stolen "sampling" of everyone else's stuff with some idiot huffing and puffing some sort of rhyme into a microphone. *Nah, not for me in a thousand years.

MTV sort of ruined the music industry in a sense. *Back before MTV, to make it big the entire band had to have talented MUSICIANS. *Then the era of video stepped in and it became a visual media. *Look funny, look different and you had a hit. *Not bashing at all - some of the best videos were by some really great bands - Devo (yea, they were killer musicians) had some of the most interesting videos around. *Their cover of the Stones' Satisfaction is still one of my favorite songs, but I don't care for the original version one bit.

Who can tell me the first TWO songs played on MTV? - name of the song and band, please.

Sorry, I'm rambling!

[hero_saku39]

sledgehammer was one

[K-fab]

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sledgehammer was one

Nope.

[Pacman]

"Video Killed the Radio Star" by the Buggles .......and......"You Better Run" by Pat Benatar........I was 21 years old at the time.......ah the good ol'days! Heck I remember when Saturday Night Live was actually funny!