What do you think? Because I always attached the term to a sound, a general rock 'n' roll that didn't vary too far from the standard rock template (guitars, drums, vocals, bass, occasional keyboard, sitar or horns, synthesizer is pushing it). The next for me would be a time period because most of the bands called classic started in the late 60's and got poular in the early 70's, or started based on influence from those bands and got popular in the late 70's or early 80's.
But appears that classic rock is just anything popular that fits underneath the infinitely broad term "rock" and is in a broad time period ranging from the 60's to the 80's. I mean how else could Rush, Led Zeppelin, Bowie, Steppenwolf, the Kinks, the Who, and Lynyrd Skynyrd all be shoved into one subgenre? Plus, here's a list of bands with the straight forward rock sound from the time period that aren't considered classic:
T.Rex, the Stooges, Sonics, Easybeats, the MC5, Pretty Things, Paul Rever & The Raiders.
2007-11-10
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