Here's to modern-day Classic Rock, including all the great bands yet to form, and all the great bands who just came out this year (whatever year you are reading this!).
Whether or not you're a jam band from New England.
Classic Rock is forever young!!!
This page originally was a reference to Green Day, but I changed it to Phish because I went to listen to 'Wake Me Up When September Ends' for comfort and the art-film opening of the video got me more depressed. ((*usually I love that opening, though)) (That and I don't know where Fleet Foxes is from^, so I chose Phish.) Sorry, Green Day- you're still a great Classic Rock band!* ^(I now know it is Seattle)
I ended up turning to The Who, Live At Leeds- Yeah! That felt good!!!
*maybe a week later- I would change it back, except now it has Three great modern-day Classic Rock bands in it!
(And three very different bands at that!)
**And a special thanks to the bands carrying on the spirit of bands like the Dead, Jefferson Airplane and Cream, including the rootsy, spiritual side, with huge ever-changing setlists and huge underground communities of fans: thank you Warren Haynes and Gov'ment Mule, Widespread Panic, Pearl Jam and Dave Matthews Band among others, you are a very important creative life-force in our civilization!
And though Phish isn't part of the rootsy side, they're part of carrying on that legacy, especially as humorists.
Thank you, Phish!
***And a special thanks to Chris Cornell and Soundgarden. Seattle, and especially Soundgarden and Pearl Jam, were responsible (along with the rediscovered Dead and the re-formed (in 1989) Airplane and Allmans) for bringing back Classic Rock, and represented the frustrations and hope for salvation of millions of people. Whether they knew it or not, Black Hole Sun is the best description of the yearning for the true Messiah I have ever heard. Like Rimbaud, Chris Cornell understood Jesus much better than the church he questioned. Know that you helped many millions. RIP Chris Cornell