Music That Matters: Classic Rock: Pop Gallery eBooks, #14
By Marc Platt
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“Music That Matters: Classic Rock” (Includes 11 Video Notebooks at the End of the Manuscript)
Whether or not you are a fan of Classic Rock, it certainly is an important part of the history of Pop and Rock music. A lot of these bands were staples of both AM and FM radio and are still played throughout the world to this day. Bands like Led Zeppelin and Steely Dan Are revered by generations of fans. Heart, Black Sabbath, Bachman Turner Overdrive, Pink Floyd, Peter Frampton, Bad Company and Foreigner are still out there creating their music some sort of incarnation.
This eBook will focus on the contributions that these acts made and the impact they had on acts that followed.
For me personally, these were all acts I grew up with because I was a teenager during their heyday. Some of them I followed. Others, not so much, but I have an appreciation for all of their contributions.
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Music That Matters - Marc Platt
Music That Matters: Classic Rock
Intro
Led Zeppelin
Pink Floyd
Black Sabbath
Peter Frampton
Heart
Santana
Bachman Turner Overdrive
Bad Company
Steely Dan
Foreigner
And There’s More...
©2015 Marc Alan Platt
Intro
There was a fantastic Cameron Crowe-written/directed movie called ‘Almost Famous’ released in 2000 about a fictitious band covered by a fictitious young wannabe rock writer named William Miller, that was loosely-based on Crowe’s own childhood and experiences.
This great film covered the beginning of Corporate Rock
and the Rolling Stone Magazine era of excess and the end of the innocent era of rock and roll. Lester Bangs is brilliantly portrayed by the late Phillip Seymour Hoffman and he laments the degradation of what he considered the art of rock and roll.
Cameron Crowe really captured the essence of what really had happened to pop and rock music from Elvis-to-Mop Tops-to-Led Zeppelin.
The Lester Bangs character guides young William to the promised land by encouraging the Lad to tell the truth. He tells him not to befriend the bands he needs to cover and to be brutally honest. The band Stillwater
does everything in their power to endear themselves to William, who has been tasked by Rolling Stone to do a cover feature. William had (fictitiously) faked Rolling Stone into believing he was an adult writer and so he sails off with the band to write an in-depth article.
The brilliant lead guitarist Russell Hammond from the fictitious band Stillwater
is savvy and knows William is The Enemy.
So, why is this guy blathering on and on about a movie that was released a generation ago about late-1960s/early-1970s rock and roll bands?
Because...It is brutally truthful and honest about what those times were really like. Cameron Crowe lived through a lot of it as a young wannabe writer. Crowe actually WAS a teenage writer for Rolling Stone in those days. He toured with Led Zeppelin, Lynyrd Skynyrd and The Eagles among other bands and had first-hand knowledge and new where all the skeletons were hidden regarding groupies and drugs, etc...
Whether or not you are a fan of Classic Rock, it certainly is an important part of the history of Pop and Rock music. A lot of these bands