"Classic Rock" ? What is YOUR "Classic Rock&q

[Hawk]

That which is 'classic" is different to each of us. Part of it is our age and what we grew up with.

To me the likes of Santana and Chicago are my "classic rock". Along with CSN&Y and Motown. Then Prog like Yes, Flash, Mahavishnu Orchestra, King Crimson & Emerson Lake & Palmer.

What is YOUR "Classic Rock" ?

[Hawk]

Okay, I edited 6 times and the title of the thread still comes out wrong.

What is your "Classic Rock" ?

[Banned]

What you have Bill, and I would have to add Cream, Led Zeppelin, Steppenwolf, Mountain, The Doors, Creedence Clearwater Revival, The Guess Who, The James Gang, and Grand Funk Railroad. But the Beatles, Beach Boys, Stones and Kinks are almost pre-classic rock.

[Drum-Wolf]

After some pondering on this subject I've come to the conclusion that classic rock to me is all rock music that was released before MTV came into existance. But after listening to the local oldies station, I'm not crazy about hearing music that I grew up with in the 70's & early 80's being considered "oldies". They play Foreigner on the oldies station! I find that hard to accept. I'm in my mid-40's. Isn't there a difference between "classic" & "oldies". To me, Elvis in the 50's is oldies. Classic is more like CCR. Maybe that could be a new topic, classic vs. oldies, is there a difference?

[moxham123]

Putting labels on music are radio and record industry tags to separate radio formats and it translated into live bands.

Classic rock radio stations usually cover about a 25 year period from the early 60s (Beatles) on forward to the mid 80s (Springsteen, Mellencamp, Bryan Adams) with the highest concentation of music from the late 60s through 1980. Oldies used to be early 50s through early 70s depending on the songs and included Bill Haley & The Comets, Do-Wop, Motown, Bubblegum, and 70s pop. Oldies radio stations now consider 80s oldies since 1986 was 25 years ago. Jessie's Girl is 30 years old already.

No matter what we call it, "It's Still Rock & Roll To Me"

[f.sciarrillo]

Great thread, Bill. I would pretty much agree with all that was listen. There are so many that would be mine. I think the one other one, besides the ones mentioned would be early Genesis, Pink Floyd, super tramp, Uriah Heep, Firefall, Free, Bad Company, Foreigner, and Journey to name a few. I could list 100 of them probably. There was a lot of great music back then.

[MistValkyrie]

In my opinion Classic Rock= Stuff that my dad likes from when he was young (i.e. 60's and 70's) and older. I like most of it too, though. It throws me off when "classic" rock stations play music from the late 80's and 90's. It makes me feel so old.

[bassist_25]

After some pondering on this subject I've come to the conclusion that classic rock to me is all rock music that was released before MTV came into existance. But after listening to the local oldies station, I'm not crazy about hearing music that I grew up with in the 70's & early 80's being considered "oldies". They play Foreigner on the oldies station! I find that hard to accept. I'm in my mid-40's. Isn't there a difference between "classic" & "oldies". To me, Elvis in the 50's is oldies. Classic is more like CCR. Maybe that could be a new topic, classic vs. oldies, is there a difference?

That's kind of how I always classified those two eras of music. To me, oldies generally constitutes early rock 'n roll, rockabilly, early surf music, do-wop, Motown, and the early to mid part of the Brittish Invasion. Classic rock consists of music post-Brittish Invasion to the MTV era. Although some artists who were made popular by MTV are still "classic rock" due to getting their start earlier than the 80s (e.g., Dire Straits). I generally consider The Beatles early career part of the oldies idiom and the later part of their career part of the classic rock era.

Some bands definitely straddle that line more liberally. CCR and The Byrds are two bands that come to mind.