Epic Rock Songs

[Jesper Hvid]

Bottom post of the previous page:

Pre-Speed Metal with a Queen-inspired intro.

[PTRACER]

Good start, but then it gets all generic and dated.

Similar to the epic intro on this, which only leads to a really standard punk track:

[Andy]

I prefer Judas Priest over Turbonegro ... LOL

[Jesper Hvid]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2112_(song)

[erwin greven]

Vitesse - Steady Rollin' Man.

[PTRACER]

XYZ - Hungry is about one of my favourite 80s rock albums atm.

There's something really familiar about these tunes. I feel I wanna say Dio/Sabbath.

[Jesper Hvid]

Post-Dio Sabbath, Tony Martin-era, with a twist of US melodic metal. In the style of, say, Malice or Warriors. At least 5 years too late, but v. good stuff, nonetheless. First rate musicians.

First one, tho... I do "Beg to Differ"... (0:40--->).



I would forward the theory that this song made Prong, and that particular riff was their trademark. Sort of a grooveless version of Helmet. At least one year ahead of XYZ. Hailed at one point as a potential supergroup. It's nothing short of the exact same riff. But glad you like it, tho, as it's great. Borrowed laurels, tho. But then again, they say the same now about the Zep.

[caneparo]

[Jesper Hvid]

This was John Wetton's prog. band for a little while, I have a live vinyl album by them, never heard studio tracks. This one's pretty good.

[caneparo]

John wetton made that ban with eddie jobson who had been the violinist in the last king crimson incarnation at the time. He asked former kc drummer to be part of the band and bruford brought in allan holdsworth who had played the guitar on his debut album. The result is a really good jazz rock album. There was a follow up album which is more prog hard rock oriented as a trio with terry bozzio on drums. Bruford left the band and brought with him holdsworth torecord his second solo album which features eddie jobson as a guest on one song

[Jesper Hvid]

The Dylan Thomas-epic with Wetton in the old KC days. Not Sinfield-style fantasy lyrics, but more psychological, more personal, though not necessarily realism, and this was a very significant change in KC. William Palmer-James wrote them. He and Sinfield are geniuses worlds apart. But with an outfit like KC, you could make anything work. I don't know why, but Wetton seems to me to have added a sort of working-class masculinity to the band. "Red" is also their hardest album, in rock terms. Wetton's stint with Uriah Heep is insignificant, and Asia was pop music, or prog. AOR, at best. Well, I think "Red" is Wetton's finest effort of all. Fucking killer album, Bruford is amazing, Fripp is Fripp, the record is absolutely excellent. Very few times in one's life one encounters something that's just quite incomparable to anything else, and KC is one of those things. Just one of those things handed down directly from God.

[caneparo]

Great band. When I was 18 I thought Robert Fripp was ahead 30 years its times, but in reality they were 60.

[PTRACER]

Post-Dio Sabbath, Tony Martin-era, with a twist of US melodic metal. In the style of, say, Malice or Warriors. At least 5 years too late, but v. good stuff, nonetheless. First rate musicians.

The only Sabbath I ever paid attention to was with Ozzy so this sort of music is a surprise! Way too much reverb and the style really doesn't suit Iommi.

[Jesper Hvid]

Tony Martin even tries to look like Glenn Hughes. Saw this lineup on several occasions, not v. good live, at all. Dio was the only real frontman they ever had. Iommi suffers from the Blackmore Syndrome. Truth is, Black Sabbath were somewhat overrated.

[Jesper Hvid]

Better band, this.

[Jesper Hvid]

Oh, yeah, and BTW, just about everything with Cozy Powell in it, abso rules. Drummers' Union, or no.