Rock flashback: Steppenwolf and Foghat at Fraze
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- Rock flashback: Steppenwolf and Foghat at Fraze
- After seven long years The Shazam make their classic-rock opus
- Blog: Get your classic rock on at the Wisconsin State Fair
- 411 Music Ten Deep 8.6.09: Top Ten Songs by The Who
- KTLK turns to classic rock for the weekend
- Classic rockers to kick off Rib-ff
Rock flashback: Steppenwolf and Foghat at Fraze
Dayton Daily News
The latest installment on Saturday Aug. 8 offers a pair of longtime favorites — John Kay and Steppenwolf and Foghat. While both acts enjoyed their heyday decades ago the popularity of each groups’ biggest hits has never diminished thanks to classic rock radio and Hollywood. Here’s a quick breakdown of the current lineups and their original incarnations along with a few career highlights. Steppenwolf rigin: John Kay formed Steppenwolf in Los Angeles in 1967 after leaving Canadian band The Sparrow. Debut album: Steppenwolf’s self-titled debut was released by ABC-Dunhill in 1968. riginal lineup: John Kay (vocals) Michael Monarch (guitar) Rushton Moreve (bass) Goldy McJohn (keyboards) and Jerry Edmonton (bass).
After seven long years The Shazam make their classic-rock opus
Nashville Scene
And anyway who cares about masterpieces? Meteor is an unabashed pastiche—classic-rock tricks strung together by people who care as much about the moves as they do the meaning. Rotenberry’s songs aren’t shallow but they’re so genial as to be almost unreadable which makes this Nashville band an anomaly in a garrulous era. In case you care about significance it’s hidden under the shell of Reinhold Mack’s luxurious hard-candy production. The record turned out well but Meteor almost didn’t get made at all. The Shazam’s last collection 2002’s Tomorrow the World continued the British-American pop sound of their early efforts and was cut with Nashville producer Brad Jones.
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Blog: Get your classic rock on at the Wisconsin State Fair
Decider Milwaukee
This year I’m that fan. Nothing about this year’s lineup is cutting-edge and that’s sort of the point: It has such a strong populist appeal that I can’t help but get excited over a few of the acts. Some of it is nostalgia-based but most of my enthusiasm stems from the power of a good classic rock song. There is plenty to enjoy at this year’s fair—just leave your detached irony and disdain for all things popular at the door cool guy. Take Blue Öyster Cult. BC will be forever linked to Will Ferrell whose turn as the band’s cowbell player in a 2000 Saturday Night Live skit managed to both revive interest in the band and not-so-subtly poke fun at them. Yet there was nothing funny about BC in the mid-’70s when the band kicked serious ass.
411 Music Ten Deep 8.6.09: Top Ten Songs by The Who
411mania.com
After a little while the song does reach its end with drum cello and synthesizer all finishing in one last flourish. This is a tale of two songs with the first one being more great blues-style hard rock from The Who with Daltrey providing the swagger that the song needs. The second song is the instrumental towards the end and they both combine to make a legendary song that’ll be heard on classic rock radio for as long as there is classic rock radio. Plus it makes me want to watch CSI: NY. “My Generation”Rock music is supposed to be young loud subversive explosive and full of attitude.
KTLK turns to classic rock for the weekend
Pioneer Press
3 FM last weekend expecting to hear some talk radio got a surprise. The Clear Channel-owned station took Saturday and Sunday off from its usual lineup of weekend talk shows instead filling its airwaves with classic rock tunes. n Monday morning the station resumed its weekday lineup that includes Jason Lewis Sean Hannity Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck. “If our weekend ratings were fantastic would we have done it? Probably not” said KTLK program director Steve Versnick. But he says that’s not the primary reason for the switch. “We had so many people asking for the weekend off that it was a question of ‘How are we going to staff it what are we going to fill it with?’ ” said Versnick.
Classic rockers to kick off Rib-ff
Toledo Blade
The group in theory has been around for nearly three years born of a creative desire by its five members to quit playing cover songs and play music of their own. The group’s music was good enough to impress Foreigner which approved in theory as its opening act at the Rib-ff. “I’m a big classic rock guy” Konwinski said. “To open for somebody that has a fan base that huge and that they K’d us to open for them is pretty awesome. In theory performs at 7:30 – 8-30 p.
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