Best Classic Rock song

[creekster]

Originally Posted by PaloAltoCougar

Upon further reflection, can anyone name a better song that includes a kazoo riff than Hendrix's Crosstown Traffic?

A good friend in high school composed "Moonlight O'er Milpitas" that our stage band performed in faux tribute to a neighboring burg. The trumpet section stood and performed the bridge section with kazoos. Other than that possible exception, though, I think Hendrix wins.

I think there is a song on Clapton's unplugged that features a kazoo solo and I also think that Harry Chapin's live album has a kazoo in a couple of places, including the "Yes, we have no bananas" song. I know, these may not be better, but we're tlaking about kazoos here, so give me a break.

[PaloAltoCougar]

Originally Posted by Indy Coug

Good old Milpitas. I only remember that name because of this really cool mini golf place they had there in the 80s.

That place, Golfland, complete with three 18's and an arcade the size of Rhode Island, is operated by our ward's HC representative. He often hosts ward activities gratis, and for this we forgive him his soporific Sacrament Meeting talks which seem like one of those multi-hour Politburo crop reports.

[il Padrino Ute]

Seriously now -

My list would include:

70s
Foghat - Slow Ride
Kansas - Wayward Son
Frampton - Do You Feel Like We Do (the live version)
Boston - Long Time
Deep Purple - Smoke On The Water
Ted Nugent - Cat Scratch Fever
Jethro Tull - Aqualung
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
REO Speedwagon - Roll With The Changes

60s
Stop Stop Stop - The Hollies
Cream - White Room
The Kinks - All Day And All Of The Night
Jefferson Airplane - Somebody To Love
Them - Gloria


That's off the top of my head (I believe that it was DDD who said this list could be huge) and I too didn't include The Beatles or Zeppelin because both bands have far too many songs.

[creekster]

Originally Posted by il Padrino Ute

Seriously now -

My list would include:

70s
Foghat - Slow Ride
Kansas - Wayward Son
Frampton - Do You Feel Like We Do (the live version)
Boston - Long Time
Deep Purple - Smoke On The Water
Ted Nugent - Cat Scratch Fever
Jethro Tull - Aqualung
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
REO Speedwagon - Roll With The Changes

60s
Stop Stop Stop - The Hollies
Cream - White Room
The Kinks - All Day And All Of The Night
Jefferson Airplane - Somebody To Love
Them - Gloria


That's off the top of my head (I believe that it was DDD who said this list could be huge) and I too didn't include The Beatles or Zeppelin because both bands have far too many songs.

Some worthy additions but, with all due respect, putting REO Speedwagon in this pantheon of greats is like putting Madelaine Albright in a beauty contest.

I was just coming back to add Frampton, btw, but you beat me to it. If it's the 70s remebered, you gots to have Frampton with pink hair.

[TripletDaddy]

Originally Posted by creekster

I think there is a song on Clapton's unplugged that features a kazoo solo and I also think that Harry Chapin's live album has a kazoo in a couple of places, including the "Yes, we have no bananas" song. I know, these may not be better, but we're tlaking about kazoos here, so give me a break.

2 kazoo parts off the top of my head:

1. Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Collegiana
2. Pink Floyd, Jugband Blues

Also, there is a sweet kazoo part in the song "He's the Wizard" on the soundtrack to the movie, The Wiz. (Anyone who claims that he woke up today and just knew he was going to hear a reference to The Wiz is a liar).

The most famous kazoo reference in classic rock: "Willy goes into a dance and doubles on kazoo." Down on the Corner......one of the best songs ever written by the pen of man. Dang, I love CCR....but I hate CC&Rs, especially when they are overly restrictive and illegally prohibit my having a dish.

[il Padrino Ute]

Originally Posted by creekster

Some worthy additions but, with all due respect, putting REO Speedwagon in this pantheon of greats is like putting Madelaine Albright in a beauty contest.

I was just coming back to add Frampton, btw, but you beat me to it. If it's the 70s remebered, you gots to have Frampton with pink hair.

I would only have that one particular song by REO Speedwagon. Everything else they do is worthy of mocking, but that song rocks, IMO.

Yes. Pink-haired Frampton is the best.

[TripletDaddy]

Originally Posted by il Padrino Ute

I would only have that one particular song by REO Speedwagon. Everything else they do is worthy of mocking, but that song rocks, IMO.

Yes. Pink-haired Frampton is the best.

If we are talking about quasi-pantheon......I threw it out earlier and nobody complained, so let me just reiterate.....ELO is cool. Really cool. Catchy tunes and great music for sitting back in your bean bag, putting a small square of acid under your tongue, and then watching all the walls in your bedroom melt away to reveal a magical window that leads to a land of rainbows and unicorns.

Of course, the window is actually your bedroom window and when you go through it, you accidentally jump to your death.

[il Padrino Ute]

Originally Posted by TripletDaddy

If we are talking about quasi-pantheon......I threw it out earlier and nobody complained, so let me just reiterate.....ELO is cool. Really cool. Catchy tunes and great music for sitting back in your bean bag, putting a small square of acid under your tongue, and then watching all the walls in your bedroom melt away to reveal a magical window that leads to a land of rainbows and unicorns.

Of course, the window is actually your bedroom window and when you go through it, you accidentally jump to your death.

I like ELO and am not ashamed to admit it.

[Jeff Lebowski]

Originally Posted by il Padrino Ute

I like ELO and am not ashamed to admit it.

First REO and now ELO?

Say it isn't so.

[il Padrino Ute]

Originally Posted by Jeff Lebowski

First REO and now ELO?

Say it isn't so.

ONE REO song.

And yes, ELO. I can't help it. It's just one of those things. Like how otherwise cool people root for BYU, ya know?