Looking for suggestions on expanding my classic guitar rock library

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

in the general genre including such groups as Little Feat, Head East, Molly Hatchet, Uriah Heep, Blackfoot, Marshall Tucker, etc.

Suggestions of any righteous groups not listed would be appreciated. I'm looking for music with the sound of (as an example) Jefftown Creek by Head East, Dreams I'll Never See by Molly Hatchet, and so on.

Hope the DU Tune Squad can be of soivice to me (and you)!

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[painted_black]

1. tell ya what...

I'm just gonna flat out ignore your examples and tell you what I like:P

AC/DC-Highway to Hell

Lynyrd Skynyrd-Thyrty

Clutch-Robot Hive/Exodus

Metallica-Ride the Lightning

Mastodon-Leviathan

Motley Crue-Shout at the Devil

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

2. Sorry, not looking for metal rock.

I want the classic guitar sound. Mellow is the key to me.

I'll put Little Feat up against Metallica any day of the week. :evilgrin:

[painted_black]

3. *groans and calls you a pussy*

Ok...mellow huh? How bout these?

Grateful Dead-American Beauty(fuckin hippies)

Rolling Stones-Goats Head Soup

The Cure-Disintegration

The Cure-Bloodflowers

Ya know what...just get anything by The Cure

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

4. *sigh* Childlike music for children

REAL music means groups such as Golden Earring, Bachman Turner Overdrive, Canned Heat, Captain Beefheart, Dave Mason, Humble Pie, Johnny Winter, Laura Nyro, Moby Grape, Montrose, Ken Hensley, Harry Nilsson, Uriah Heep, Toad The Wet Sprocket, Zebra, and that's just to get into the mood.

[painted_black]

6. *takes swig of beer and cranks Back in Black*

maybe, but it's tons more fun

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

7. Riding a bicycle is "fun"

Riding a Harley is REAL.

Same difference.

:boring:

[darkstar]

5. I digs me some Heep now and again

That's a fairly wide ranging list, but I'll take a stab or two:

Joe Walsh

Mountain

Guess Who (esp, Live at the Paramount)

[carpetbagger]

8. I'll teach you how to fish.

One thing I find useful is amazon.com. Choose the most obscure album of a group of albums/artists, then go to "explore similar items", and repeat until you find something you don't know about.

I went forward from a Uriah Heep album, and landed on Cactus and Sir Lord Baltimore, both bands I remember mostly as names only. Cactus seems to be pretty basic hard rock, Sir Lord Baltimore proto-metal. Ran through Wishbone Ash, Captain Beyond, Spooky Tooth, and a few others I've already heard of or have some of.

Another example: Molly Hatchet...Warriors of the Rainbow Bridge...similar items included Deep Purple "Rapture of the Deep". Since that seemed closer to what you're looking for than some of the more metal-dominated items, I went there, and found "The Endless Jam Continues", covers by a mixed group under the name "Schenker-Pattison Summit". Proving the inbreeding, this band includes the bassist from Cactus.

PS. Don't go through life without listening to Trower-dominated Procol Harum (Broken Barricades album comes to mind, although Shine On Brightly has an interesting album-side-long track that actually got covered by Transatlantic once).

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

9. Procol Harum is great

A Whiter Shade Of Pale is practically an anthem. Robin Trower also did some great stuff aside from the Harum.

Molly Hatchet is a group that stands apart, they were so freaking good. And although Deep Purple was more hardcore than the classic guitar rock I'm leaning toward, they were also above the atmosphere, in their own special orbit. My faves by them include Highway Star and my own lifelong anthem- "Lazy". :evilgrin: Space Truckin' is also special.

Thanks for the other names- I'll be sure to track them down.