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Renew Deal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-12-10 12:25 AM Original message |
Has "classic rock" always been called "classic rock"? |
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RandomThoughts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-12-10 12:28 AM Response to Original message |
1. Great question. |
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Joe Fields (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-12-10 12:33 AM Response to Original message |
2. When demographics changed. |
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RandomThoughts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-12-10 12:44 AM Response to Reply #2 |
3. So, the question would be how did the name get there. |
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jobycom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-12-10 01:01 AM Response to Reply #2 |
5. That's about what I remember. There was Southern and British Rock |
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tigereye (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-12-10 08:34 PM Response to Reply #2 |
19. yeah, I don't think they called it "classic rock" in the 70s - it was just the |
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DBoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-15-10 03:07 PM Response to Reply #2 |
36. I'd agree with that |
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jobycom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-12-10 12:50 AM Response to Original message |
4. Knew a preacher who called it "Music from the Pit." |
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Kat45 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-13-10 01:09 AM Response to Reply #4 |
23. I agree with you on the rock/ rock and roll distinction back then. |
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MiddleFingerMom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-12-10 01:36 AM Response to Original message |
6. It COULDN'T have been classic rock until some time had passed... |
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CBGLuthier (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-12-10 08:02 AM Response to Original message |
7. Just a marketing term. As valid as "Olive Garden" or "New Age" |
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old mark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-12-10 08:40 AM Response to Original message |
8. It used to be called "Old Shit", but that didn't sell well....thanks to marketing |
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Dr Morbius (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-12-10 08:49 AM Response to Original message |
9. One thing is certain: the meaning of "classic rock" has changed. |
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SteppingRazor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-12-10 10:17 AM Response to Reply #9 |
12. Hell, at this point it even includes stuff from the late 80s and early 90s. |
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bif (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-12-10 09:46 AM Response to Original message |
10. In the late 60s it was called "underground" music |
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eShirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-12-10 10:11 AM Response to Original message |
11. In the 70s it was just called "rock" or "rock & roll;" 50s rock & roll was "oldies." |
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Iggo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-12-10 10:40 AM Response to Original message |
13. Classic Rock radio stations made it up in the 80's. |
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melman (233 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-13-10 08:08 PM Response to Reply #13 |
27. This is the right answer |
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meegbear (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-12-10 04:24 PM Response to Original message |
14. It's a label, like the 90's being "alternative" and the 80's being "totally fucking shitty" |
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EOTE (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-12-10 04:54 PM Response to Reply #14 |
17. Not all of the 80s was shit. |
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mkultra (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-12-10 04:25 PM Response to Original message |
15. at one point.....it was called Rock |
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EOTE (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-12-10 04:52 PM Response to Original message |
16. I'm seeing more and more later rock being labelled "Classic Rock" |
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tigereye (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-12-10 08:32 PM Response to Original message |
18. well, there was album-oriented rock - AOR and there was simply |
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DBoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-15-10 03:13 PM Response to Reply #18 |
37. Cool thing about AOR Radio Stations |
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Art_from_Ark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-12-10 09:33 PM Response to Original message |
20. In my neck of the woods, in the '60s |
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kwassa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-12-10 10:18 PM Response to Original message |
21. "Classic rock" is an oxymoron |
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WinkyDink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-12-10 11:33 PM Response to Original message |
22. Made-up-later name. |
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6000eliot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-13-10 06:41 AM Response to Reply #22 |
26. You mean like "classical" music? |
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Quantess (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-13-10 01:41 AM Response to Original message |
24. "FREEDOM ROCK" |
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Iggo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-13-10 10:53 PM Response to Reply #24 |
28. Turn it up, Dude! |
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Quantess (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-14-10 03:42 AM Response to Reply #28 |
30. Hell yeah! |
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Iggo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-14-10 10:21 AM Response to Reply #30 |
32. I'm about 10 years older than you and I remember that commercial well. |
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myrna minx (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-15-10 03:14 PM Response to Reply #24 |
38. My friends and I *still* reference this commercial. |
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orleans (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-13-10 03:32 AM Response to Original message |
25. i think the name "classic rock" came about as a necessity |
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eridani (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-14-10 03:38 AM Response to Original message |
29. In the late 50s and early 60s, the term "oldies" |
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Iggo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-14-10 10:19 AM Response to Reply #29 |
31. Thanks. I was wondering when that caught on. |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-14-10 03:46 PM Response to Original message |
33. To me Classic Rock means anything pre-Grunge but after the British Invasion. |
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Dr Morbius (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-14-10 11:53 PM Response to Reply #33 |
35. For mer personally, the classic rock era ended in 1975... |
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-14-10 04:29 PM Response to Original message |
34. Not in the 70's or 80's |
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