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OzDigger said:
According to the experts Blues has influenced a lot of musicians, but sometimes difficult to attribute a single Genre to a Song let alone a Band, I guess that is why they seem to apply several Genres these days.

Some softer Blues/Rock tunes from my list:


John Mayer...Slow Dancing in a Burning Room



J J Cale...Magnolia



Alannah Myles...Black Velvet

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I have Black Velvet in my collection, great song. The only youtube JJ Cale I have is at Crossroads with Clapton, you can see the respect he has for Cale.


The Mayer track is new to me, again, really good, thanks Matt.
 
Matt - thanks for the wikipedia link, another interesting listing.

I liked a lot of 'melodic' prog rock (not too weird) and have records or cd.s from several/many bands on the list but of course, probably the majority I don't know of.

I would count as prog rock the likes of Genesis, Rennaissance, Camel, Pink Floyd, Yes, MMEB, Jethro Tull to name but a few and others on the list due to the degree of orchestration, diverse influences like jazz, folk and classical into rock and frequently in the seventies the use of electronic keyboards, but some of the others?

If you think back to the explosion of youthful diversity in the sixties and seventies .... Bands like Genesis, Focus, Pink Floyd to name but three were astonishingly different.



The 'why are you on the list' bands. I have several Queen cd's but never thought of them as prog rock, they are surely unique classic rock, nobody sounded like them. Did just Bohemian Rapsody do it?



I have a large Wishbone Ash collection, but again would not necessarily class them as prog rock, just really innovative song writers and really good rockers.


Is it, 'if you look at this wide list we might be able to flog you some other band?'
 
panda1gen said:
Matt - thanks for the wikipedia link, another interesting listing.

I liked a lot of 'melodic' prog rock (not too weird) and have records or cd.s from several/many bands on the list but of course, probably the majority I don't know of.

I would count as prog rock the likes of Genesis, Rennaissance, Camel, Pink Floyd, Yes, MMEB, Jethro Tull to name but a few and others on the list due to the degree of orchestration, diverse influences like jazz, folk and classical into rock and frequently in the seventies the use of electronic keyboards, but some of the others?

If you think back to the explosion of youthful diversity in the sixties and seventies .... Bands like Genesis, Focus, Pink Floyd to name but three were astonishingly different.



The 'why are you on the list' bands. I have several Queen cd's but never thought of them as prog rock, they are surely unique classic rock, nobody sounded like them. Did just Bohemian Rapsody do it?



I have a large Wishbone Ash collection, but again would not necessarily class them as prog rock, just really innovative song writers and really good rockers.


Is it, 'if you look at this wide list we might be able to flog you some other band?'
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Kev,

I do like orchestration but I only have a few prog rock songs on my playlist including Queen of course.


There's some great kettle drum and sax action in this Aussie 80's tune, this was back in the day when there were actual corner shops everywhere in Australia. Now gone, together with Milk Bars, usually owned by Greek immigrants, where you could get a Chocolate thickshake in an aluminium or thick glass tumbler to wash down your Aussie hamburger, with beetroot of course. One upside is that many were converted to Coffee shops where I can get my regular kick of caffeine ☕



Moving Pictures...What about Me.

 
Believe it or not, guys had chest hair back in the 70's, and weren't afraid to show it. Bad Company were officially a Supergroup back in the 1970s.


Bad Company...I Feel Like Makin' Love



Speaking of 'believe it or not', who remembers that wacky TV show, but I've heard worse theme songs ;)

 
panda1gen said:
Love Bad Compay and Free Matt, never heard of the TV show I am afraid, but recognise the blonde guy.

All Right Now – live TV

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Yeah, great groups Kev.



Don Walker wrote a lot of songs for the Aussie band Cold Chisel, the band covered the following song with Jimmy Barnes on vocals but for a change I'll use the version by Don Walker, with a Elvis Rockabilly angle.

Lyrics for foreigners ;)

'Well, its the last call at the f a g end Of the wrong bar at the bad end Of the wrong side of a dog town On a one way road that takes you down From a s h i t creek, and back again

The doors swing open and they all come in From the arse end of a sick world A bus load of Yakuza girls Yakuza girls, chicks of doom Fanning out to cover the room Smokin' Luckys, climbin the bar Drinkin' saki from an old fruit jar Yakuza girls, 12 o'clock high Fishnets all the way to Hawaii Playin' karioke and singin' along With the key words of a lock'n'loll song

Well, ya get to see 'em all comin' through this place Every household name then forgotten face Every fudgeed up, low down, pin tucked, rewound Siliconed, pillsucker has been that ever found Jesus in the bottom of a bottle, Yeah I reckon I'd seen it all, but I swear I never seen this much potential romance since Lovelace Watkins split his pants

Yakuza girls, climbin' the walls Chewin' on gum, grabbin' my balls And tellin' me to cough, seein' how far They can pole dance off the end of the bar Yakuza girls, doin' the dog With a yo-yo in and outa the bog Who's that haulin' on a rubber glove Yakuza girls, lookin' for love Well who's that haulin' on a rubber glove Yakuza girls, lookin' for love.'


Cold Chisel (Don Walker)...Yakuza Girls

 
OzDigger said:
Yeah, great groups Kev.



Don Walker wrote a lot of songs for the Aussie band Cold Chisel, the band covered the following song with Jimmy Barnes on vocals but for a change I'll use the version by Don Walker, with a Elvis Rockabilly angle.

Lyrics for foreigners ;)

'Well, its the last call at the f a g end Of the wrong bar at the bad end Of the wrong side of a dog town On a one way road that takes you down From a s h i t creek, and back again

The doors swing open and they all come in From the arse end of a sick world A bus load of Yakuza girls Yakuza girls, chicks of doom Fanning out to cover the room Smokin' Luckys, climbin the bar Drinkin' saki from an old fruit jar Yakuza girls, 12 o'clock high Fishnets all the way to Hawaii Playin' karioke and singin' along With the key words of a lock'n'loll song

Well, ya get to see 'em all comin' through this place Every household name then forgotten face Every fudgeed up, low down, pin tucked, rewound Siliconed, pillsucker has been that ever found Jesus in the bottom of a bottle, Yeah I reckon I'd seen it all, but I swear I never seen this much potential romance since Lovelace Watkins split his pants

Yakuza girls, climbin' the walls Chewin' on gum, grabbin' my balls And tellin' me to cough, seein' how far They can pole dance off the end of the bar Yakuza girls, doin' the dog With a yo-yo in and outa the bog Who's that haulin' on a rubber glove Yakuza girls, lookin' for love Well who's that haulin' on a rubber glove Yakuza girls, lookin' for love.'


Cold Chisel (Don Walker)...Yakuza Girls

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Never heard of him, would not have thought this would be my cup of tea, but I do like this.
 
Going back to a bit of prog ....

These are early the MMEB 1972 – 1974, in live performances, before their bigger hits (Davy’s on the Road etc), with the original line-up consisted of Mick Rogers (guitar and vocals), Manfred Mann (keyboards, Minimoog synthesizer and vocals), Colin Pattenden (bass guitar) and Chris Slade (drums and vocals).

This band looks like it is really having fun and seem to love playing together, in a fusion of prog rock and strong blues.

Captain Bobby Stout - Sweden 1973



Meat – Old Grey Whistle Test 1972

 
panda1gen said:
I have Black Velvet in my collection, great song. The only youtube JJ Cale I have is at Crossroads with Clapton, you can see the respect he has for Cale.


The Mayer track is new to me, again, really good, thanks Matt.
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As you may know, Clapton covered heaps of J J Cale songs, made a lot of money out of them.
 
panda1gen said:
Never heard of him, would not have thought this would be my cup of tea, but I do like this.
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Kev, I'm not surprised you haven't heard of Don Walker, same as the band he played in 'Cold Chisel'. They did not achieve success in the overseas market despite Cold Chisel being the most famous band in Australia, Cold Chisel are even more famous here than INXS and AC/DC etc. The band only spent Five weeks in America before giving up and returning to Australia, which would be the main reason for their lack of overseas success.


Don Walker wrote Cold Chisel's most popular song 'Khe Sanh', still huge in Australian Rock History:


 
Thanks Matt, that is a great song and the lyrics are brilliant. We didn't join in the Vietnam war, but I imagine this song would resonate much more if we had. I can see it might not have gone down too well with some sections in the USA.

You reminded me, I knew a vet from the WW2 Pacific as a kid, he was a prisoner at Singapore, he was a nice guy and I still remember being told by his wife how badly he slept. The way I was told made feel so sorry for him - I didn't know about PTSD then of course - I don't know if he or any other vets had any real support, so sad.

I found out that one of my favourite uncles went down in two destroyers in WW2 but survived, he never even hinted at it, but even as a kid I could tell he was affected too.

States don't seem to care enough about veterans after their service.

I need to lighten up a bit .....

Wishbone Ash



Ted Turner was terrific, but so was this guy who followed him – Laurie Wisefield - in Wishbone Ash. (It seems to me that the bass player and vocalist Martin Turner has already lost some vocal finesse – he would be later sacked from the banned he co-founded)



Wisefield – Night of Guitars

 
panda1gen said:
Thanks Matt, that is a great song and the lyrics are brilliant. We didn't join in the Vietnam war, but I imagine this song would resonate much more if we had. I can see it might not have gone down too well with some sections in the USA.

You reminded me, I knew a vet from the WW2 Pacific as a kid, he was a prisoner at Singapore, he was a nice guy and I still remember being told by his wife how badly he slept. The way I was told made feel so sorry for him - I didn't know about PTSD then of course - I don't know if he or any other vets had any real support, so sad.

I found out that one of my favourite uncles went down in two destroyers in WW2 but survived, he never even hinted at it, but even as a kid I could tell he was affected too.

States don't seem to care enough about veterans after their service.

I need to lighten up a bit .....

Wishbone Ash



Ted Turner was terrific, but so was this guy who followed him – Laurie Wisefield - in Wishbone Ash. (It seems to me that the bass player and vocalist Martin Turner has already lost some vocal finesse – he would be later sacked from the banned he co-founded)



Wisefield – Night of Guitars

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Yes Kev, it was mainly about the effects of that war on an Aussie Vet, being released 7 years after the majority of Aussie troops had left Vietnam. Not sure why Khe Sanh is featured as it was a US Marine controlled area, maybe to make the song more attractive to Americans as the band was trying to break into the US market around that time.

The following ballad 'I Was Only Nineteen' by Redgum, which was nearly as popular as 'Khe Sahn', is more relevant to the Australian involvement imo.

 
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