Classic Rock Song of the Day (Deep Cuts now being featured!!)

[Jaq]

Local radio here played the following Supertramp songs:

Bloody Well Right
Give A Little Bit
The Logical Song
Goodbye Stranger
Breakfast In America

And It's Raining for about six weeks after that album came out. Never once heard School on the radio. I guess we got Bloody Well Right as our earliest Supertramp song and learned to LIKE it. 

[Zydar]

Supertramp - School

Magnificent song.  I am normally not a big fan of the harmonica, but it is pretty sweet in this song, playing that awesome intro.  Killer piano solo in this tune as well, and everything else around it is also killer.  This is a song I never get tired of.

Love this song! When the whole band comes in, it just goes from great to awesome. Can't get enough of this song.

[DebraKadabra]

Didn't hear School a whole lot, but it's not a bad song.  Never one of my favorites by them, though - I reserve that for Fool's Overture.

[lonestar]

Love School, probably my favorite Supertramp song.

[Pols Voice]

That is very probably the reason that I thought for the longest time that Let It Ride was an early Doobie Brothers song. 

I've always felt that Let it Ride is a good companion song for the Doobies' Long Train Runnin'.

[jingle.boy]

Didn't hear School a whole lot, but it's not a bad song.  Never one of my favorites by them, though - I reserve that for Fool's Overture.

Well, Fool's Overture is on a different level for sure.

Definitely love the part from the instrumental breakdown on.  Great track

[Lolzeez]

Supertramp - School

Magnificent song.  I am normally not a big fan of the harmonica, but it is pretty sweet in this song, playing that awesome intro.  Killer piano solo in this tune as well, and everything else around it is also killer.  This is a song I never get tired of.

Supertramp rules.

[Orbert]

Fool's Overture is my favorite of theirs as well; it's truly on a different level.

A lot of their early songs had that deep meloncholy to it.  School is one of them.

Also: I hate Dreamer!  (sorry, just had to let that out)

[theseoafs]

Also: I hate Dreamer!  (sorry, just had to let that out)

[KevShmev]

Yeah, Dreamer is kind of annoying. 

Jimi Hendrix - Purple Haze

Good song, but I have never been a big fan of Hendrix.  I recognize his influence (which is undeniable) and his greatness, but his music has just never appealed to me that much.  This song is probably one of the few by him that I actually enjoy enough to leave on.

[Pols Voice]

I was never a Hendrix fan. Purple Haze is alright, but always seemed kind of incomplete to me.

[Jaq]

Hendrix never really managed to get the sheer intensity of his live performances onto record, IMO. Live he was an unstoppable force, truly the finest guitarist the world has ever seen. In the studio, he was almost sedate. A lot of Hendrix songs, like Purple Haze, are missing something, and that's the fire of his playing live.

[Orbert]

I agree.  On stage, it's just him, the bassist, and the drummer, so everyone has to step up and the whole "power trio" thing takes over.

In the studio, you get "trio" without the "power" part.  For me, it's almost always disappointing.

[DebraKadabra]

Also: I hate Dreamer!  (sorry, just had to let that out)

THANK YOU!

Jimi Hendrix - Purple Haze

'scuse me while I kiss the sky *geetar*

Hendrix was the MAN.  It's also not hard to see how Jimi inspired many guitarists, including JY (James Young, Styx) and Stevie Ray Vaughan to name just two.  Purple Haze has never been my favorite of Jimi's, but it's still VERY good.

[ColdFireYYZ]

Last two updates are awesome songs. 

[Orbert]

'Scuse me while I kiss this guy

[jingle.boy]

Posting something just so Poison doesn't have a greater response than Jimi.

I never did get too deep into Jimi... mostly just the radio hits, which this obviously was one of the bigger ones.  Iconic is definitely a word to use with him, despite whether you like/don't like his music.  He influenced everyone that came after him.

[DebraKadabra]

'Scuse me while I kiss this guy

'scuse me while I kiss this fly "Oh help me, help me"

[Orbert]

I really did think that's what he was saying for a long time.  It wasn't a homosexual thing.  I was in grade school, and I just thought the words "Acting funny, but I don't know why" and "'Scuse me while I kiss this guy" kinda made sense.  He's acting all weird, kissing other dudes and stuff.

[DebraKadabra]

That's a really common misconception.

[Lolzeez]

I'm not a fan of Jimi. He's pretty overrated to me.

FLAME WALL

[wkiml]

I'm not a fan of Jimi. He's pretty overrated to me.

FLAME WALL

I can understand not liking his music, but over-rated?

Do you not understand how influential he was in the guitarists that followed him? Google some of the most popular/famous guitarist that followed him and a guarantee at least 75% list him as an influence

[KevShmev]

Exactly.  He is easily the most influential electric guitar player of all time.

[KevShmev]

The Allman Brothers Band - Jessica

IMO, this is THE definitive classic rock radio instrumental.  Great, great song, and is still one that I never turn off if it comes on. 

[masterthes]

Definitely one of the best rock instrumentals ever. I agree!

[Lolzeez]

Great song.

[rogerdil]

Hendrix may have been over-rated 30 years ago, but now criminally underrated.  Blacks never took to him and whites have abandoned him for Bob Marley.

[Jaq]

Jessica isn't quite the definitive classic rock instrumental to me-the Edgar Winter Group's Frankenstein takes that title here-but it's one of the defining songs of the 70s. Shame the Allman Brothers Band never really reached the heights they got with Brothers & Sisters, the album that Jessica and Ramblin Man came from. Between this and In Memory of Elizabeth Reed, Dickey Betts sure could write instrumentals.

[Cool Chris]

I am way behind here.

Fat Bottomed Girls - Fantastic song, by the only band that could pull off such a gem. Great riffage.

Let It Ride - Good song I won't change the dial on when I hear it on the radio but won't go out of my way to listen to.

School - Never a huge fan of Supertramp outside of their radio hits. No particular reason. Great song, though, haven't heard this in ages *goes to Spotify

Purple Haze - Never listened to much Hendrix. I don't get the 'whites abandoned him for Bob Marley" statement at all. What does that even mean?

[rogerdil]

Whites usually have a token black icon to enjoy; back when I was growing up it was Hendrix; now it seems to be Bob Marley.  Hendrix was a true innovator though, so not suggesting it was all about race.

[lonestar]

Jessica isn't quite the definitive classic rock instrumental to me-the Edgar Winter Group's Frankenstein takes that title here-but it's one of the defining songs of the 70s. Shame the Allman Brothers Band never really reached the heights they got with Brothers & Sisters, the album that Jessica and Ramblin Man came from. Between this and In Memory of Elizabeth Reed, Dickey Betts sure could write instrumentals.

When it comes to classic rock instrumentals, I just have to throw Electric Light Orchestra's Fire on High into the mix.

[KevShmev]

Frankenstein and Fire On High, both of which WILL be featured in this thread, are the other instrumentals I thought of when the phrase "THE definitive classic rock radio instrumental" popped into my head.

[theseoafs]

Jessica and Purple Haze are incredible. I know Fire on High and Frankenstein aren't up for discussion yet, so I won't say that they're incredible yet (though they are).

[Orbert]

Jessica is a great tune.  I'll always listen to it.  It also came out while I was in junior high, and there was this girl named Jessica who everybody loved.  She was pretty, nice, and smart.  Pretty much the ideal babe.  We never really hung out in school, but years later, she was in my group for driver's ed, and we ended up hanging out and talking a lot.  Dear Lord, she was beautiful.  To this day, when I hear the song, I think of Jessica the girl.

[nicmos]

Jessica is a song that always brings a smile whenever I hear those opening strums on the radio.  It's the kind of piece you want to listen to as you're driving down the open road in the summer.  I always wondered why I didn't like the rest of Allman Brothers as much as this considering how great I think this instrumental is.  I've tried.