Comanche County Posted June 28, 2014 Share Posted June 28, 2014 While on a recent roadtrip with a ZJ full of teen girls and after a couple of hours after being tortured by their teeny bopper pop music, I couldn't take it anymore. Normally when I'm cruising by myself I listen to Texas country and western and/or Americana type music from all sorts of artists from Canada to Mexico.....but none of that junk Nashville pop country crap, that stuff is worse than rap, I listen to real country and western nowadays, but years ago I used to rock out pretty hard. Anyway, I felt a need to educate these youngins on good hard rock n' roll but couldn't find anything good on the radio. All rock stations these days still play 90s grunge bands music, there's no good plain ole' rock nowadays. Besides for a few bands, there's nothing good nowadays. I guess all the record label money is in the rap genre.....I think its sad. So I tortured them with some of this for the next couple of hours, real hard rock, not metal,not punk, just good ole fashion hard driving rock!: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HOrnbrod Posted June 28, 2014 Share Posted June 28, 2014 Start out with some Seger A Then some George Thorogood B If they don't like A or B, forget about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Comanche County Posted June 28, 2014 Author Share Posted June 28, 2014 Heck yeah, if we don't teach these kids how to rock no one will! If left to current pop influence, the girls are being pacified and the boys are being feminized. Every kid needs good hard rock to grow up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ftpiercecracker1 Posted June 28, 2014 Share Posted June 28, 2014 EDIT: STILL TRYING TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO EMBED VIDEOS! :headpop: GOT IT! :thumbsup: It is pretty disgusting how far 'modern country' music has diverged from its roots. Its not even country anymore, its . . . just crap, wannabe rap music with a fiddle or slide guitar thrown in. :ack: I really like the older stuff from Alan Jackson, George Strait, Toby Keith, Brad Paisley and artists like them. There are a few newer songs that i like but i can just about count them on one hand. These two songs by Mr. Jackson really hit me in the heart and i am neither old nor married. Definitely like good ole classic rock and much of the 90s stuff too believe it or not. There are even some *gasp* rap songs that i really like, but most of them i just equate to unintelligible noise. Just remembered another fantastic song that really gets me going. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FU2ntUdbhxc Compared to how obsessed everyone else my age is with music, you would think i was an old scrooge that hated listening to music. I actually love music, my peers just like listening to garbage. :P FYI i have never owned an ipod, mp3 player or any other kind of music playing device and for the better part of the last 3 years i have not had a working radio in my vehicle. FPC, out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Comanche County Posted June 28, 2014 Author Share Posted June 28, 2014 My only son is 10, and surrounded by 3 teenage girls, I can't wait for the day he asks for a Mohawk or flattop haircut and a ticket to a Motörhead, Clutch or an Ozzy concert. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Comanche County Posted June 28, 2014 Author Share Posted June 28, 2014 Btw Don, when I was 18 I listened to the entire George thorgood set on cassette while on a motorcycle trip on my 84' Honda V65 through west Texas. Someone stole my helmet in Del Rio, then almost got myself killed in cuidad acuna on a late night trip across the border, but that's a story for another time. Mexico border towns 20 years ago were nicer back then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xjrev10 Posted June 28, 2014 Share Posted June 28, 2014 Sadly there isn't but a few real country artists still making music. Hick Hop is all they play outa Nashville now. It's too bad. A new radio company came into my area and axed the one and only classic country station too about 2 years ago.. Sux Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glundblad Posted June 28, 2014 Share Posted June 28, 2014 If you really want to get them acclimated (or indoctrinated), Who's Next by The Who is a sure bet. If they like that, make them listen to Quadraphenia. It may take them 2 states to like it but once they are used to it, I am sure they will love it. It's probably one of the best classic rock albums of all time. Great Lyrics, great bass and probably Keith Moon's greatest work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Comanche County Posted June 28, 2014 Author Share Posted June 28, 2014 Yeah The Who is some good rock for sure! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danbyrambler Posted June 28, 2014 Share Posted June 28, 2014 "Yeah The Who is some good rock for sure!" Squeeze Box isn't bad Country either My favorite place to stop by 1r2 times a week is mostly redneck wi some biker wanna bees thrown in - - New/pseudo Country blaring from the high tech box doesn't get it - - - Some Tull or The Doors - Such as Locomotive breath-L A Woman-Moonlight Drive - Usually gets things goin' - - Then something like Hank Snows cover of Millers Cave r A fool such as I - Hank r Elvis - calms it down - - Most of 'em know who Hank Sr & Jr are, but Thompson or Snow? Nah, ditto for Ferlin Huskey-Faron Young-LeRoy VanDyke-Cowboy Copas-Jim Reeves - - Unreal - Even the great stuff from the 80's is seldom heard - They all know the movie songs/themes like EB&D or EWWBL, but play sometnin' like Roll on Big Momma r You're the reason God made Oaklahoma & it's like "Wow, who dat?" - - - - The new boxes are great, but You can go through it at @ $2 a pop for the internet search songs - - Oh, well . . S'all fun :cheers: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fiatslug87 Posted June 28, 2014 Share Posted June 28, 2014 My only son is 10, and surrounded by 3 teenage girls, I can't wait for the day he asks for a Mohawk or flattop haircut and a ticket to a Motörhead, Clutch or an Ozzy concert.Boy do I feel old. I saw Motörhead in '81 during their Ace of Spades tour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ComancheKid45 Posted June 28, 2014 Share Posted June 28, 2014 The "Hair Era" of Rock is by far my favorite This is Walkers theme song. I agree the modern genre of Rock leaves alot to be desired. I however am a fan of todays style Country........To each their own :cheers: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimoshel Posted June 28, 2014 Share Posted June 28, 2014 Nobody mentioned Hank Williams, Hank Thompson, Lefty Frizel, Jimmy Dickens or even Gene Autry. Hey he was a country singer.I would just as soon listen to the Boston or Phiiadelphia Philharmonic as some of the noise being passed off for music today. :yes: .To each their own :cheers: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danbyrambler Posted June 28, 2014 Share Posted June 28, 2014 "Nobody mentioned Hank Williams, Hank Thompson, Lefty Frizell . . . . " The "Hanks" were noted " Most of 'em know who Hank Sr & Jr are, but Thompson or Snow? . . . . " Last I heard of Lefty he was stuck in Saginaw, Michigan & his little brother David still in Oaklahoma Anybody a Slim Whitman fan? Rock On :rock on: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimoshel Posted June 28, 2014 Share Posted June 28, 2014 Nobody could hit and hold a high C like Slim could. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpdriver1 Posted June 28, 2014 Share Posted June 28, 2014 kitty wells? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HOrnbrod Posted June 28, 2014 Share Posted June 28, 2014 Nobody could hit and hold a high C like Slim could. Minnie Pearl. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Automan2164 Posted June 29, 2014 Share Posted June 29, 2014 All this talk of rock... And no one posts up Zeppelin? Shame on you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQH3LtNePgI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cN3ABDzdLls Jack White (Think White Stripes) has some current rock... Although he pulls from a lot of classic stuff, making him not as 'Main stream' Also, The Strokes have some good jams. Deep purple anyone? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41qfIecwXFg As far as the '80's go, it's slim pickings... I cannot stand hair metal or any of that flashy crap. Rob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dasbulliwagen Posted June 29, 2014 Share Posted June 29, 2014 I like a lot of stuff. But pop country is just about the worst thing out there. I've never been much of a country fan. But after discovering Patsy and Johnny and the Hank 1, I've come to know there is a difference. Then I found Hank 3! Oh man! If you haven't heard any of him look him up. He sounds like his grand dad but I'd dirty and gritty. Good REAL music. This all comes from a guy who grew up with Metallica, Zeppelin, Sabbath. Got into 90's grunge and now love some Staind, Korn , Floyd, nuevo bluegrass like Crooked Still, The Wailin Jennys, and top it all off with Beethoven. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
87Warrior Posted June 29, 2014 Share Posted June 29, 2014 Rob, we have a similar taste in music. Although I do enjoy the 80's hair bands and early country as well. Whatever hick hop those urban cowboy wannabes pass as music these days just makes me shake my head. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
87Warrior Posted June 29, 2014 Share Posted June 29, 2014 Rob, we have a similar taste in music. Although I do enjoy the 80's hair bands and early country as well. Whatever hick hop those urban cowboy wannabes pass as music these days just makes me shake my head. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyav8r Posted June 29, 2014 Share Posted June 29, 2014 Gotta have some Southern Rock from bands like The Allman Brothers, Lynyrd Skynrd, The Marshal Tucker Band, ZZ Topp, Georgia Satelites, etc. Throw in Brooks & Dunn, maybe Cowboy Troy and Big & Rich, in the country mix. Add a little Jimmy Buffet for the "island rock" sound. Taking it back a little further to the R&B/Soul era you've got Otis Redding, Ray Charles, James Brown, Smokey Robinson, etc. 50's era had great groups like the Four Seasons and The Platters as well as some greats (not necessarily rock) like Sinatra, Dean Martin and Tony Bennett. That's the playlist on my iPod at the beach with the cold ones flowing. I know I missed some, but it's getting late for us Olde Pharts (tip of the hat to Eagle for the proper spelling). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HOrnbrod Posted June 29, 2014 Share Posted June 29, 2014 Agree with all the above occasionally, but my fav is the blues over all the other genres. Artists like Muddy Waters, B.B. King, Robert Johnson, John Lee Hooker, Stevie Ray, Eric Clapton (yes, Eric the Brit was a great blues singer), and others. Basically all I listen to now. It's timeless. Best beer drinking or long drive music there is. :cheers: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Automan2164 Posted June 29, 2014 Share Posted June 29, 2014 There was a video out I discovered on youtube awhile back where Jimmy Page, Jack White, and The Edge got together and just had a jam session... Turn up the speakers to 11 and close your eyes as Jimmy Page explains the riff for Kashmir. Hypnotic watching his hands move. Such a huge riff in rock history. Jack White also shows Seven Nation Army. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8R8puk3kImA Rob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
outlaw star Posted July 3, 2014 Share Posted July 3, 2014 "Nobody mentioned Hank Williams, Hank Thompson, Lefty Frizell . . . . " The "Hanks" were noted " Most of 'em know who Hank Sr & Jr are, but Thompson or Snow? . . . . " Last I heard of Lefty he was stuck in Saginaw, Michigan & his little brother David still in Oaklahoma Anybody a Slim Whitman fan? Rock On :rock on: How bout Bill Monroe or the Stanley Brothers? (Yes I know it's REAL country music and not rock) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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