The Long And Anxiously Awaited Return Of The Friday Night Cage Match/Fondue Party/Evolving Conversation/Dancing About Architecture
Well, we haven’t tried this in earnest for quite some time.
Perhaps we’ll get some input from the old school regulars and hopefully some curious newbies.
The topic is…
Best Southern Rock Band Other Than The Allman Brothers Or Lynyrd Skynyrd?
The impetus for this foray past the Mason-Dixon line was this piece about an upcoming BBC documentary about southern rock that is bound to stir up some controversy. When the BBC dusts off a music genre in this manner it usually starts the ball rolling for a “revival”. People can you hear it?
We’ll see how this goes and if we get some players maybe we’ll crank it up regularly again…
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Pribek At Zazzle
The post to blame: Most Peculiar Mama (Don't Eat Your Cat)
ZZ Top….before they became Sharp Dressed Men…
I’m going with Black Crowes because they never stopped touring for close to 10 years straight. Work ethic and kick ass rock.
Arc Angels had the sound but lasted as long as their egos would allow.
I saw Black Oak Arkansas coupla’times…tore it up.
My own band The Livin’ Ends was headed for Filmore but we went CPA, PhD, AIA and GRE cause Mom and Dad said they didn’t mind us being ridiculous but if we kept it up we’d have to live on that ‘Monkey fightin’ door take
and buy our own food. Whoa!!
Yep, Black Crowes…make it look easy.
hmmm…help me out guys, if my geography is correct…the chick from Georgia picked the band from Texas and the dude from Texas picked the band from Georgia…is this correct?
well played, both of you
Georgia Peach and Texas Pecan Cracker!!
I humbly submit: http://pribek.net/2009/09/11/friday-night-cage-matchfondue-partyevolving-conversationdancing-about-architecture-vol-64/comment-page-1/#comment-11985
… as the trouble it can cause out here in no-mans’-land of wrinkle rocker-ville, to bring up the rolling records of past… I happily greet the return of the evolving conversation; but, why now?
So for grins I throw out the ‘Displaced motor-city borne mad man, ultra-conservative drug free, primal scream over-the-top guns-God-venison, war bird, eat what you kill, Waco resident: Ted Nugent and entourage…’
Let the talons of discussion come out.
PDaF
@Article: [referring to Southern Rock] ” … but Skynyrd’s singer Ronnie van Zant wanted it both ways: to be both a bourbon-chugging rock rebel and the Yankee-baiting bigot that [Neil] Young was decrying. …”
Why now? just seemed a natural part of the flow.
So, Ted Nugent eh?
Is this evidence that Ted has now been formally adopted and embraced by the Lone Star State?
Of so…..the Nuge doing a revved up
“Big Balls In Cowtown” would be a great way to celebrate the occasion, yes?
Wet Willie and Atlanta Rhythm Section get a nod, but I’m wondering if Grand Funk Railroad would qualify as a Southern Rock band since Mark Farmer is part Cherokee and the band got its start at the Atlanta Pop Festival. I also like Charlie Daniels Band in this category. Years ago, I saw Goose Creek Symphony open for Chas. Daniels et. al., now they were a trip! Hot Dog Daddy!
Spot on J…the ARS…I saw those guys open for the Ozark Mountain Daredevils under the Arch at the VP Fair, long ago. I like the Daredevils and all, but…let’s just say this much, I wouldn’t have wanted to follow the locomotive that was the ARS that day.
Wet Willie brought a bunch of other stuff to the table, fine band.
CDB seemed more cool to me before they became huge for the summer of the Devil and GA…I liked ‘em more jammy…Saddle Tramp and all that.
Goose Creek hmmm maybe the Moody Blues of hillbilly music.
and oh yeah…if Nugent is on the table Farner has a seat.
She flamed-out but Janis left us shakin’!!
Port Arthur, yes? Johnny Winter too…Gatemouth?
I’m putting these guys up for a warm nod and a potential smackdown…
I’d never heard of Blind Melon until recently. I’m not sure they even made it across to the UK before Hoon jumped on the one-way sky-ride.
Impulsively, I bought their first two albums “Blind Melon” and “Soup” after seeing a how-to guitar video on their US hit “No Rain” then reading reviews.
Very impressed. To my mind they sit musically between the ABB and Little Feat in a way, yet bringing something unique to the mix. Don’t know whether anyone would classify them as Southern Rock, but there’s a sensibility to the music that, to me, sits well in the genre… There’s some clever, rewarding and challenging stuff in there. It’s not hook-laden, but it’s satisfying.
After Soup, Hoon jumped planet and, as I understand it, that was that as far as the purists were concerned.
Kenski!…pleasant surprise…
So…Blind Melon…I guess I missed the boat on these guys. I probably dismissed them on the basis of “No Rain” (which was pleasant and poppy to me at the time but a bit too much hippie for me to look further) and the publicity push around the Hoon/Axl Rose connection.
However, your comment inspired me to stream the first record which sounds dang neato right now this morning.
And, it brings to mind another band of the era that I truly dug…Screaming Cheetah Wheelies!