| I love classic rock, the great superbands like Queen, Led Zeppelin and their like. Like this: (not necessarily in this order except for Freddie and Queen) Freddie Mercury  Freddie Mercury (5 September 1946 – 24 November 1991), born Farrokh Bulsara, was a British rock musician of Parsi (Indian) descent, best known as the iconic lead singer and pianist of the rock band Queen. He is remembered for his vocal abilities and charisma as a live performer. As a songwriter, he composed many international hits, including "Killer Queen", "Bohemian Rhapsody", "Somebody to Love", "We Are the Champions", "Don't Stop Me Now" and "Crazy Little Thing Called Love". Mercury died of complications from AIDS. more... [via FoxyTunes / Freddie Mercury]
Queen  Queen are a seminal English rock band, formed in 1970 in London by Brian May, Freddie Mercury, and Roger Taylor, with John Deacon joining the following year. Britain's most successful band of the past three decades, the band rose to prominence during the 1970s and still retains a large international fan base. more... [via FoxyTunes / Queen]
Jimi Hendrix  James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix (27 November, 1942, Seattle, Washington – 18 September, 1970, London, England) was an American musician, songwriter and guitarist, widely hailed by fans and music critics as the most influential electric guitarist of all time. more... [via FoxyTunes / Jimi Hendrix] Led Zeppelin  Led Zeppelin was a British rock band that became one of the most popular and influential rock groups of all time. more... [via FoxyTunes / Led Zeppelin]
Deep Purple  Deep Purple is the name of a British rock group, and is also the name of a song composed by Peter De Rose, from which the band may have borrowed its name. They are one of the first and most famous hard rock bands, and are considered pioneers of heavy metal. more... [via FoxyTunes / Deep Purple]
Rainbow  Rainbow was a British hard rock band that formed in 1974. The band originally consisted of former Elf lead singer Ronnie James Dio, guitarist Ritchie Blackmore (of Deep Purple fame), bassist Craig Guber, drummer Gary Driscoll, and keyboardist Mickey Lee Soule. The band's debut album, "Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow", was released in 1975 and featured the minor hit "Man on the Silver Mountain". more... [via FoxyTunes / Rainbow]
ZZ Top  ZZ Top is a rock band, most prominent in the 1970s and 1980s, from Houston, Texas. The band members are Billy Gibbons (vocals and guitar, of Moving Sidewalks), Dusty Hill (bass, of The American Blues) and Frank Beard (drums, of The Cellar Dwellers, The Hustlers, and The American Blues). more... [via FoxyTunes / ZZ Top]
The Beatles  The Beatles were a British pop and rock group from Liverpool, England. The group shattered many sales records and charted more than 50 top 40 hit singles, including 20 #1 hits in the USA alone, becoming arguably the most famous musical act of the 20th century. EMI Records estimates that the band has sold over a billion records worldwide. The band's songs covered many genres, from ballads to reggae, and from psychedelic music to blues to heavy metal, and opened the door for many new musical styles. The Beatles influence extended beyond music into the social and cultural revolutions of the '60s. more... [via FoxyTunes / The Beatles]
Stevie Ray Vaughan  Stevie Ray Vaughan born in Dallas, Texas (October 3, 1954 – August 27, 1990) was an American blues guitar legend, known as one of the most influential electric blues musicians in history. more... [via FoxyTunes / Stevie Ray Vaughan]
Aerosmith  Aerosmith is a long-running classic rock band, originally forming in Boston, Massachusetts in the early 1970s. It enjoyed major popularity in the mid-1970s, but fell into decline and into temporary disunion. Nevertheless they would go on to enjoy a later resurgence in popularity starting in the late 1980s and continuing, at various levels, through the early to mid 2000s. more... [via FoxyTunes / Aerosmith]
Bon Jovi  Bon Jovi is a rock band from New Jersey that has sold more than 100 million albums in the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s, and played live concerts in major cities in Asia, Europe, Australia, Canada and South America, in addition to a large number of cities in the USA. Bon Jovi has sometimes been classified as hair metal — sometimes even regarded as the form's prime shapers — but has proved much more durable than most groups so labeled. It has been a band which inspired lots of today's bands, and also created the "Unplugged" style of performing on a MTV award show. more... [via FoxyTunes / Bon Jovi]
Jeff Beck  Geoffrey Arnold ("Jeff") Beck (born June 24, 1944 in Wallington, Greater London, England) is a guitarist and songwriter. Though he played in several influential bands in the 1960s and 1970s (notably in The Yardbirds) Beck has maintained a sporadic solo career over the last 25 years. Despite never attaining the commercial viability of his contemporaries, Beck has gained widespread critical acclaim, especially in the guitar playing community. Never one to be tied to one particular genre, he has experimented with blues rock, heavy metal, and jazz fusion. Most recently, he has absorbed the influence of techno, creating a blend of heavy guitar rock and electronica. more... [via FoxyTunes / Jeff Beck]
U2  U2 is an Irish rock band featuring Bono (Paul David Hewson) on vocals and guitar, The Edge (David Howell Evans) on guitar and pianos and vocals, Adam Clayton on bass, and Larry Mullen Jr on drums and vocals. more... [via FoxyTunes / U2]
The Fratellis  The Fratellis are an award-winning indie rock band from Glasgow, Scotland. more... [via FoxyTunes / The Fratellis]
Flogging Molly - IMG_3928_r1 b+w  [via FoxyTunes / Flogging Molly]
Flogging Molly They have released three major studio albums, Swagger, Drunken Lullabies, and Within A Mile Of Home, as well as an independent live album entitled Alive Behind the Green Door. They have toured with the Warped Tour and Larry Kirwan's American Fléadh Festival. They also contributed to the Rock Against Bush project. Also, as of late they have done extensive touring with the self proclaimed Gypsy punk band, Gogol Bordello, which is also signed under SideOneDummy Records. more... [via FoxyTunes / Flogging Molly] |