Rollin' Down The Blogroll

Kinks reference here..."You Really Got Me."

Dave at classicrock.about.com wrote about our favorite subject, classic rock. What a cool idea to review our friends online, read their blogs and find out what the real buzz on the street is. Thanks, Dave!

So I'll call this...Rollin' Down The Blogroll...

One of our favorite weblogs is Electric Guitar Review...Cary just reviewed thirty days of signature guitars, giving us a close-up look at the gear some of our favorite bands are playing and what we are hearing on record.

The Hits Just Keep On Comin' flashed back to 1966 and named alot of our favorite classic rock songs from radio forty years ago. When WKNR in Detroit was the TOP Top 40 station in the market, and developing regional hits in their Top 10 playlist with The Rationals paying "Respect" to Otis Redding. Jerry Wexler of Atlantic Records was inspired by their cover version and persuaded Aretha Franklin to record it a year later.

66' was also the year Eric Clapton played in John Mayall's Blues Breakers and then made "Fresh Cream." Jimi Hendrix Experienced "Hey Joe," The Beatles were "Nowhere Man," the Rolling Stones had their "19th Nervous Breakdown," and the Monkees took the "Last Train To Clarksville."

Jeff at Imagine Echoes provides an extreme close up concert review of The Who at the Virgin Music Festival. Standing twenty feet from the stage, he was close enough to watch Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend rock out to their classics for over an hour, and even got to hear a few songs from their new album.

Earvolution.com clued me in this week about the first ever Robert Plant music DVD to be released on October 24th, which will include classic Led Zeppelin tunes, and Plant's solo material. I've always liked the middle eastern flavor on some of his songs, especially when he teamed up with Jimmy Page years ago. The Eastern influence was felt back as far as 1975 when Zeppelin recorded their Kashmir album.

And Layla's Classic Rock Faves highlight the new Peter Frampton album and brings us full circle by linking back to Dave's review of Fingerprints at classicrock.about.com. Frampton teams up with an awesome guest list of musicians on his new album including the Stones' Charlie Watts and Bill Wyman; Pearl Jam’s Matt Cameron and Mike McCready; original members of The Shadows, Hank Marvin and Brian Bennett; and Warren Haynes from the Allman Brothers Band.

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