Frazz by Jef Mallett for January 07, 2016

I listen to the same ol’ artists, but I like to check out the songs I missed the first time around, and some new stuff from them. At the moment, I’m having my first listen to Robin Trower’s “Playful Heart” album. Then maybe a re-listen to “Roots & Branches”.

I admit I agree with him, though I DO like the B sides (when they’re played, of course, which isn’t often). On the other hand. I start playing Christmas music on Thanksgiving day. Go figure … :-)

Classic rock rocks!!

He is not criticizing class rock music. I think his problem is the repetition. There’s a local station in my city that claims (at least 100 times a day) “We play everything” which really means “we play anything that made the top 40 in the last 35 years.” It is mostly good music, but still too many repeats.

“Dominick the Italian Christmas donkey”

@MS72 “hee haw hee haw, the famous Christmas donkey” Thanks for getting that one stuck in my head now : )

Its amazing to me that a good portion of the artists that classic rock stations play are still making new music but you have to seek it elsewhere. Whats the idea behind that?

@diminished you hit it right. there’s such a plethora of great classic rock recorded that, if utilized, you would barely need to repeat any song for a years time.

One of our local stations had the same repetition problem. It was to the point that you knew it was 3:45 on Thursday because “Iron Man” was on.

At one time or another I’ve listened to just about every genra you can find in the US.Most of it i like.At this point in my life its mostly Classical and older Americana.

I heard this one Saturday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8b4y03fREGE while listening to this show:http://www.hotrodradio.com/index.cfm/page/ptype=results/category_id=4/home_id=4/mode=cat/cat4.htm.

Last Sunday I heard “I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night”by The Electric Prunes, which somehow reminded me of Moby Grape so i listened to albums by both. I preferred MG.

It may be the loose definition of “classic rock” many stations use. It seems to mean to many “20 years ago”.

How can you get through your day without “Runaround Sue” from the 50s?

Query: Quo Q?

I don’t mind Classic Rock stations. I just suspect there’s an equally long list of rocking songs of yore that don’t get played because they didn’t make the A-list.

Classic rock is my favorite—especially the Eagles. I can’t hear too much …

Please note that he said “the classic rock station”, not classic rock. I love classic rock (I saw the Doors on their first national tour; I saw Hendrix on the Electric Ladyland tour; my first rock concert was the Beach Boys in ‘64). However, I can’t listen to classic rock stations because they play the same few songs by all the same artists. Much of the time you can predict what they are going to play: e.g. if they say they’re going to play Van Morrison, it’s about 85% certain that you’re about to hear “Brown-eyed Girl”. Steve Miller?Prepare to hear “Jet Airliner” or “Rockin’ Me”. Eagles? Get ready for “Hotel California”. Nothing wrong with these songs (in moderation), but these guys have literally dozens of albums with equally great songs that you never hear on the radio. Do you remember the scene in “Wayne’s World” where he was forbidden to play “Stairway To Heaven” in the music store? there’s a reason for that. It was a great song the first couple of thousand times, but after the next few thousand it started to pale a bit. If you like Led Zep, but only listen to them on commercial radio, there are still plenty of songs you have possibly never heard. What one of our local stations refers to as “lost classics” is the better known end of my own personal play lists.