February 2nd-Graham Nash-Two time hall of famer; the Hollies and Crosby Stills and Nash-Axl Rose-Given name William Bruce Rose Jr.-Axl was raised as William Bruce BaileyPeter Gabriel-Peter once sold hats on street corners and one of his customers was Keith RichardsRandy California of Spirit-Randy drowned in 1998 while saving his son from the same fateGeorge Harrison-His Sister Louise has lived in America since before the "British Invasion"Enjoy The List.
February 2nd-Graham Nash-Two time hall of famer; the Hollies and Crosby Stills and Nash February 6th-Axl Rose-Given name William Bruce Rose Jr.-Axl was raised as William Bruce Bailey February 13th-Peter Gabriel-Peter once sold hats on street corners and one of his customers was Keith Richards February 20th-Randy California of Spirit-Randy drowned in 1998 while saving his son from the same fate February 25th-George Harrison-His Sister Louise has lived in America since before the "British Invasion"
Barry Fey's new book is called "Back Stage Past." Pick it up and journey through more than 40 years of memories from the man who brought all the greats to town! This week Barry joined me on The List to share some of his own lists from the back of his book (I'm sure he stole the idea from me!) It's hard to argue with Barry's selections for his Top 5 Guitarists;
On day two with Barry Fey, we delved deeply into Barry's top 5 rock and roll songs. Keep in mind; this is the man who met all these rock icons who populate this list. He has some fantastic insights and stories to tell. The List;
5-Born to Run-Bruce Springsteen
4-Satisfaction-The Rolling Stones
3-Hey Jude-The Beatles
2-Freebird-Lynyrd Skynyrd
1-Stairway to Heaven-Led Zeppelin
Look at all of those epic tunes! Barry and I talk them up on The List-
If you grew up in this part of the country, Barry Fey was a part of your life. Live music memories come flooding in. The Doors at The Family Dog--The Final appearance of The Jimi Hendrix Experience at the Mile Hi Pop Festival in 1969--Colorado "Sun" Days--The annual Summer of Stars--The Stones at Folsom Field--U2 "Under a Blood Red Sky" at Red Rocks--The Rainbow Music Hall--It's a lifetime of live music along the front range. Barry has new book out called Back Stage Past and it is a huge peek behind the rock and roll curtain with the "Near Mythical" concert promoter! It's available at bookstores everywhere and at www.barryfey.com this week Barry joined me on The List and shared some of his lists. So, let's us start with Barry Fey's Top 5 Rock Bands;
5-Pink Floyd
4-Led Zeppelin
3-The Who
2-The Rolling Stones
1-The Beatles
A table in which the chemical elements are arranged in order of increasing atomic number. Elements with similar properties are arranged in the same column (called a group), and elements with the same number of electron shells are arranged in the same row (called a period).
Periodic Table of Rock An edition of The List on which the five rockin' tunes are arranged by increasing numbers of beats per minute. Oh, and they each have an element in the title. -Iron Man-Black Sabbath
-Silver, Blue and Gold-Bad Company
-Power of Gold-Dan Fogelberg
-Love is Like Oxygen-Sweet
-Somebody to Love-Queen (Freddie Mercury)...get it!
Hey, I'm trying here. Enjoy the audio overview of The List.
I have selected my 5 choices for "the most underrated" intros in rock today on The List. There is one tune that sits firmly at number one due to it's inventive use of crazy rock star screaming. The others are equally as astounding for subtler reasons.
Eminence Front-The Who-The rhythm section of John Entwistle and Kenny Jones make this songs one of the catchiest tunes to air drum to...I've got it down
Runnin' with the Devil-Van Halen-Big, fat American car horns for the intro...now that's thinkin outside the rock and roll box. VH1 named the tune the 9th best hard rock song ever.
Time-Pink Floyd-Clocks from an antique clock shop and Nick Mason on the rototoms create an expansive wall of Floyd sound. It was Alan Parsons idea (album engineer) to use the antique clocks. The soung started as an experiment in quadrophonic sound.
Are You Going My Way-Lenny Kravitz-Listen to Lenny play that guitar!
Periodic Table
