What rock music are you listening to? Non-Jazz, Non-Classical.

[EKE BBB]

Random listening from my Spotify rock list, which contains over 3,400 tracks as of today.

 

[Dub Modal]

On 5/20/2025 at 5:45 PM, EKE BBB said:

Random listening from my Spotify rock list, which contains over 3,400 tracks as of today.

 

That's a helluva playlist 

[EKE BBB]

2 hours ago, Dub Modal said:

That's a helluva playlist 

Thanks! It started more than 10 years ago as a playlist for my long-run training when preparing for my first marathon, and it is been continously growing since then, as eclectical as possible. 

[Dub Modal]

8 minutes ago, EKE BBB said:

Thanks! It started more than 10 years ago as a playlist for my long-run training when preparing for my first marathon, and it is been continously growing since then, as eclectical as possible. 

Marathon in more ways than one 👍

[EKE BBB]

A few Neil Young classics to start the day...

[Holy Ghost]

Still working on understanding this dude. Deep.

 

[EKE BBB]

Neil Young-dude? Why? Surely I am missing something...

 

[felser]

6 hours ago, Holy Ghost said:

Still working on understanding this dude. Deep.

 

 

5 hours ago, EKE BBB said:

Neil Young-dude? Why? Surely I am missing something...

 

I get HG's point.  He is truly deep and contradictory in many ways - very human.  I have 80-90 % of his official recorded output, have seen him live three times.  His activity level at almost 80 is stunning.  And the musical diversity of his canon is amazing.  My favorite couplet by him remains

"A while ago somewhere I don't know when, I was watching a movie with a friend.  I fell in love with the actress, she was playing a part that I could understand.", though not far behind is "Don't feel like Satan, but I am to them".

[BFrank]

I always liked this album. There's a relatively recent remaster that sounds great, too.

[Simon8]

[HutchFan]

[BFrank]

"Oar On, Penelope!"
by The Minus 5

[seeing them on Wednesday]

[Kevin Bresnahan]

Van Halen - Van Heln II (MFSL). I picked up a copy of the SACD. I've never had a digital version of this before. I always loved their debut record & have the DCC gold CD of it, but their second wasn't nearly as good in my memory. Listening again and maybe my memory is being overly critical?

I saw Van Halen many times back in their early days, including their first tour when I saw them in a half-filled small arena. When I saw them during the tour for VH II it was at a packed Hartford Civic Center. I went with my girlfriend who is now my wife. I remember specifically that it was in late June or very early July, as there were fireworks going off inside the venue throughout the show. I also remember the show vividly as it ended abruptly after about 3 or 4 songs.

It ended because of several things, the main one being David Lee Roth did something really stupid. Apparently, someone was throwing coins at the stage during the opening song. Why? Who knows? Anyway, Roth killed the song, brought up the house lights and started raving at the crowd, demanding that the crowd "Pick up this pussy and throw him up on the stage so we can beat the shit out of him". Then he starts exhorting the crowd, saying, "C'mon you pussy! Throw money at us now! C'mon. Throw it now. I want you to throw money at us now!"

As you can imagine, a bunch of stoned and drunk Van Halen fans mistook the demand and most of the crowd began raining money down on the stage. Change was bouncing off everything & the band ran off the stage under a hailstorm of coins. They were gone for about a half hour, with the crowd going nuts, fireworks blowing off and in general getting rowdier & rowdier. Eventually they came back out, played maybe 2 more songs and Roth yelled, "Fuck you all" and the lights came back on. End of show.

I don't think my wife ever went to another rock concert with me again.  

[mjazzg]

I saw their first UK gig at the time of the first album, no coin throwing that I can remember 

[gvopedz]

3 hours ago, Kevin Bresnahan said:

Van Halen - Van Heln II (MFSL). 

I always loved their debut record & have the DCC gold CD of it, but their second wasn't nearly as good in my memory. Listening again and maybe my memory is being overly critical?

Your memory is doing fine.

[JSngry]

16 hours ago, BFrank said:

"Oar On, Penelope!"
by The Minus 5

[seeing them on Wednesday]

Is that Penelope?

[BFrank]

On 6/2/2025 at 2:47 PM, JSngry said:

Is that Penelope?

Actually, I don't know. Probably.