Any Old-Time Rockers?

[Lacey Lynne]

Okay, like, so am I the only one?  Anybody else around here majorly get off to that old-time rock and roll ... not metal ... but, rather, flat-out, balls-to-the-wall rock and roll?   Like what?  Like this:





Turn it UP until the glass shakes in your house, play mean air guitar and rock on!  Keef Riffhard for Vice President!  Who better to be president of vice?!?   

Peace Out       Lacey Lynne

[Cindy]

Hi Gorgeous,

How have you been?

Yes I had Pink Floyd playing full blast, I did see the stones when I was 18 , I'm not sure how they have managed to live this long. I think KR is just preserved in drugs and booze.

Cindy

[Jamie D]

The first record album (yes,vinyl, for the kiddies out there) was Sgt Pepper's.

The family had a huge piece of furniture in the living room, with a Dual brand turn table, and gigantic speakers.

My second album was Are You Experienced?

Purple Haze (live)

(I think even Tekla would approve.  )

[justmeinoz]

Count me in!  My vinyl and CD collection has some classics, and some brilliant but obscure artists too.  Bob Seeger, Hot Tuna, Jefferson Airplane, The Masters Apprentices, Madder Lake, Deep Purple, Foreigner. My first LP was the Stones' 'Beggars Banquet'.
I like a wide range  of modern artists too, but mainly listening to female acts at the moment.  The Bangles and Pink are current favourites.

Karen.

[kelly_aus]

I grew up on a steady diet of great 60's and 70's rock.. And I wouldn't consider my music collection complete without it..

[justmeinoz]

I saw the Masters in their last show before they disbanded.  They deserved far more success than they had. 
Almost forgot to mention Thorpie too. Also saw his last gig, before he went to the US.

Kaz.

[tekla]

Well, even though you're old - like around when they named dirt old - Dr. Kat tells you to take great consolation in the fact that you did get to see the good bands.  Today's bands for the most part don't sound like crap because you're old, they sound like crap because they suck.  If you heard Pink Floyd tour DSotM, or the Stone tour Exile then you could have pretty much quit at that point and not missed anything much.

[Michelle G]

so so many excellent Bay Area rockers!!

it is a long list for sure!

Santana, Elvin Bishop, Cold Blood, Grateful Dead, Sammy Hagar, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Janice Joplin called SF home, many many more!

and I have a relative who was a member of one of the biggest bands in the 70s, they are getting back together for a tour as well (dont wanna give away the same last name we share)

[tekla]

Not to mention the genuine original cowboy King-Of-The Truckers, Commander Cody himself,  It's a Beautiful Day (were was White Bird on the one hit wonder list, perhaps one of the most awesome and unique of them all), Joy of Cooking, Y&T - perhaps the best Bay Area band to never make it, and the guys from Quicksilver, and all them other bands have keep on gigin in the area, I see old Dave Nelson from The New Riders of the Purple Sage all the time, often playing with Pete Sears, and the great, great - one of the best ever - Larry Graham of Sly and the Family Stone whose Graham Central Station gigs are a local legend.  I still have a real soft spot for Cold Blood and Ms. Pense,  And of course, Jello and the entire DK/Flipper/PopOPies, FabMab bunch.

[Michelle G]

Tekla,
ran into David LaFlame up in Occidental a year or so ago at Negri's at an "Electric Flag" reunion...I swear Bloomfields spirit was in the room    also see David Nelson sitting in with with bands around the area...and I had the biggest crush on Lydia Pense back in the day! so nice to see she is still out there,,,such a voice!

And no Bay Area music discussion can leave out "Hot Tuna" and Jefferson Airplane

[peky]

zzTop, CCR, Canned Heat, Steppenwolf, Boston, Deep Purple

[tekla]

Yeah, I've been the chief at the Fillmore for the last week so all those ghosts were wandering around at the edges of my vision.

[Lacey Lynne]

Hi Gorgeous,

How have you been?

Yes I had Pink Floyd playing full blast, I did see the stones when I was 18 , I'm not sure how they have managed to live this long. I think KR is just preserved in drugs and booze.

Cindy

CINDY!!!   Yay!!!   Hot damn!!!  Babes, I'm doing GREATLY, thank you very much for asking!  I've really and truly missed this place, but a while back when they first adopted that "popularity feature" and Susan wanted to keep it, I bagged it.  To me, it ruins the whole tone and tenor of any forum.  Ironically (besides certain staff and management members who got an automatic 100 popularity points back then), I was actually tied with YOU and Jenny and one other person for the lead.  Heck with that popularity feature!   I left, because that feature made the forum too much like high school and, I believe, inhibited free communication. 

Awesomely, our very own TEKLA and you pulled way out ahead of the pack on that one, girl!  No surprise there!   Whoowee!!!   

DANG, girl!  It's GREAT to see you again!   How ARE you?!?

Oh, yeah:   Old-Time Rockers!

AAALLLRRRIIIGGGHHHTTT !!!!!!!

No surprise at the crew who has shown up on THIS thread, baby!   Like, sheeuttt!!!   Okay, Cindy, fly to the states sometime, and we're (those of us on this thread) gonna invade TEKLA in Frisco, crash her never-ending party and she's gonna take us around to the major rock-out venues and to check out the scene.   

Like, if only this was 1967, 1968 or 1969 !!!!!!!

Heck, I would have been just a tad too young (just a little bit!) to get in to The Fillmore and/or The Avalon!    Owsley Blues, anybody ... hee hee!   Heck, TEKLA still gets flashbacks!   Wahoo!   

"Purple haze is in my eyes ... 'scuze me while I touch the sky!"

Lacey Haight-Ashbury Lynne               Peace & Joy

Note:

All of your answers are so cool!   Thank you!   Hopefully, a few other hard-core old-timers will rock on in.   Great to see you all again!   Dang!

Flashback to my senior year in high school ... sigh ... those were The Days!



Everybody's replies are SOOO excellent!   Thank you! 

[Lacey Lynne]

Tekla,
ran into David LaFlame up in Occidental a year or so ago at Negri's at an "Electric Flag" reunion...I swear Bloomfields spirit was in the room    also see David Nelson sitting in with with bands around the area...and I had the biggest crush on Lydia Pense back in the day! so nice to see she is still out there,,,such a voice!

And no Bay Area music discussion can leave out "Hot Tuna" and Jefferson Airplane

Michelle:

It's a Beautiful Day!   Electric Flag!   Cold Blood!   

Oh, my God!   Fantastic bands!   Yeah, I had a crush on Lydia Pense too!   Lots of us did!

[tekla]

I've run into her every couple of years at one of those old-time redos, she still has pipes, and still has lots and lots of people who love her and that sound.  She was robbed really, she should have been a huge star.

And funny, I'd read the love/hate deals once a year or so, there never seemed to be a reason to read them right away, besides it just confirmed that the ones that got smites were far better than the ones that got the love.

[V M]

You betcha     Love that old time Rock 'n Roll

[Joelene9]

  I still got some vinyl on Led Zepplin, Beatles, Steppenwolf and some of those others mentioned above.  Sorry, no Presley.
  Joelene

[justmeinoz]

Forgot to mention another favourite, The Kinks. And let's not forget locals Cold Chisel, Chain, Company Caine, Spectrum, Doug Parkinson or Max Merritt and the Meteors.

[Jamie D]

Tekla,
ran into David LaFlame up in Occidental a year or so ago at Negri's at an "Electric Flag" reunion...I swear Bloomfields spirit was in the room    also see David Nelson sitting in with with bands around the area...and I had the biggest crush on Lydia Pense back in the day! so nice to see she is still out there,,,such a voice!

And no Bay Area music discussion can leave out "Hot Tuna" and Jefferson Airplane

Dan Hicks and his Hot Licks
(ex-Charlatan)

[RachaelAnn22]

Hendrix,Mountain,Cream,Yardbirds,The Animals,MC5 and Aerosmith