Some of my favorite songs from the 70s and early 80s (Doobies, Steely Dan, Chicago, Toto…) have been classified as “Yacht Rock.”
I don’t know whether I should be annoyed, offended or amused.
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A band that some may have not heard of, but they are pretty damn good.
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I truly believe that that is one of the greatest albums in its genre ever made. And yes, it sounds great on a yacht.
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We saw Billy Joel and Elton John together in concert in 1994. They filled the old Jack Murphy/Qualcomm Stadium. SO much talent!
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In 1991, a friend of mine got a tip that BB King would be dropping in to a hole in the wall blues bar unannounced to sit in with the house band. The place was called the Bacchanal. It was in a nondescript strip mall in Kearny Mesa. We went down there just in case.
Sure enough, BB showed up with Lucille and stayed until they shut it down for the night. There were 25 or so patrons in the place when he walked in. This was before anyone had cell phones, so everyone ran to the pay phone and the place was packed within 20 minutes. What a night!
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I saw him at Kingsbury in about 1973, in the “Live at Cook County Jail” era. It was one of the best shows I’ve ever seen.
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Phallic symbol, aside very hard rocking. Reminds me of Alvin Lee
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Saw BB at Kingsbury in the mid 80’s, he had an opening band that he must have been impressed with because he encouraged everyone to go check them out out at the Zephyr Club, being a bit tipsey after the show, my buddy and went there. BB showed up at the the Zephyr and slid to the back unnoticed, we walked up to his table to tell him how much we enjoyed his show and he said thank you young man ,have a seat! We actually drank a beer with The King! Was probably only 5 minutes but seemed like a half hour. A true gentleman. We still talk about it almost every time we speak
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Cactus was formed by former Vanilla Fudge members Carmine Appice and Tim Bogert. They originally were going to team with Jeff Beck (and later did) but Beck was in an auto accident. The other members were Jim McCarty and Rusty Day.
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I think we have very different definitions of “hard rocking”. 
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It’s an older version of hard rocking. These guys were comtemporaries of groups like the Carpenters and Bread. So, for their time, they were hard rocking.
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I know, just giving you old fogies some sh*t. 
I revisited some one of my favorite weird albums on this morning’s run, Hollenthon’s “With Vilest Worms to Dwell”. I don’t even know what you’d call this, tbh. Symphonic death funk rockabilly…maybe? Regardless, it’s a fun album.
Appreciate you giving us “Old Farts” s#!*, all in good fun. Can definitely hear some rockabilly in there but no funk. Why do all of the vocalist in Death Metal
A) Sound the same and
B) Sound like they’ve been constipated for 6 months
Now GET OFF MY LAWN!
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No, they all sound like Cookie Monster! 
It’s definitely a “love it or hate it” style. 99% of people (justifiably) hate it, but I’ve found the harsh vocal style fascinating ever since I heard Death’s “Scream Bloody Gore” on a bootleg cassette back in 1988. Speaking of old fogeys…
That was actually supposed to read “folk” and not “funk”. Stupid phone.
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Yes, Cookie Monster is a more apt description 
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I saw them open for Rod Stewart (I think) in Baltimore in the early 70’s. They were pretty good.
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I would highly recommend The Beach Boy’s “Party!” Record.
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I grew up listening to Beach Boys music, and was (at the time) not a particular fan, never bought their albums - had nothing against them, their style was just not toward the top of my list.
Some years ago, I started hearing some of the tunes that were not in the top 40, starting reading about Brian Wilson and listening to a broader array of their music, and have been a huge fan since.
It’s interesting also to learn about how much of the stuff they recorded, (particularly early) was done in the studio by other musicians. A bass player named Carol Kaye (a member of a group of studio musicians known as the Wrecking Crew), probably the most unknown/underrated (woman) bass player in all of popular music, did several of their early tunes. Here’s one that will resonate with some of the older crowd on the board:
Here’s another easily recognizable bass line from the period, that Carol came up with:
The remainder (and beginning) of each of the videos shows how remarkably versatile she was.
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I grew up listening to Glen Campbell’s Wichita lineman and his TV show. I didn’t realize he was a part of the Wrecking Crew and a superlative guitarist in his own right prior to the singing career.
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I loved these guys. No pretense, no oneupsmanship, just great musicians getting together and letting the beautiful tunes flow. The smiles tell it all.
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