Listening to Whos Next, and reliving the epic magnificence of Baba O Riley and The Song Is Over, then wondering what other songs out there would make the Top 100 Most Epic list?
Yours is No Disgrace - Yes
Axis Bold As Love - Jimi
Echoes - Floyd
Les Brers / Mountain Jam - ABB
Terrapin Station - Dead
....... etc?
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zep has a bunch: kashmir, No Quarter, Achilles last stand, stairway, in the light etc etc...
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Zappa: gumbo variations, king kong, the torture never stops, black napkins etc..
Radar Love
The ABB would have torn this up with Butch on drums, Warren singing, he & Derek tearing up the guitar parts and Oteil..... Man!
I saw a Motel 6 commercial the other night where everyone in the commercial is singing along (or playing Air Drums) to Radar Love. It's funny.
Not as long as some of the other choices, but I'm going to say "Dream On." Love the new Walmart ad with it
Green Grass & High Tides- The Outlaws
In no particular order and not including the ABB:
1. Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
2. Led Zeppelin - Stairway To Heaven
3. Jane's Addiction - Three Days
4. Guns 'N Roses - November Rain
5. Pink Floyd - Echoes
6. Marshall Tucker Band - 24 Hours At A Time (Live version from Where We All Belong)
7. Allgood - Trilogy (Live version from Kickin' & Screamin')
8. Alter Bridge - Blackbird
9. Black Country Communion - Song of Yesterday
10. Billy Joel - Scenes From An Italian Restaurant
11. Blackfoot - Highway Song
12. Daybreakdown - Dirty Sanford
13. Elton John - Funeral For A Friend/Love Lies Bleeding
14. Grateful Dead - Terrapin Station
15. Hollis Brown - John Wayne
16. Loggins & Messina - Same Old Wine
17. Molly Hatchet - Fall Of The Peacemakers
18. Molly Hatchet - Justice
19. Mother Love Bone - Chloe Dance/Crown Of Thorns
20. Ancient Harmony - Lay It Down
21. Rival Sons - Manifest Destiny (Parts I & II)
22. The Eagles - Hotel California
23. The Muggs - Doc Mode
24. The Parlor Mob - Tide Of Tears
25. Yes - Yours Is No Disgrace
Some obvious ones...Whipping Post, You Don't Love Me, Les Brers, Mt Jam, some special versions of Dreams & Jessica, bunch of stuff from the last lineup with Derek and Warren lighting it on fire.
The Dead and Jerry seem to have a bunch. Love the Help On The Way > Slipknot > Franklin's Tower combo. Also the Hard To Handle from 8-6-71. Jerry's After Midnight/Elanor Rigby. Feel like Jerry's Positively 4th Street from 12-21-79 is pretty epic. Lots of this stuff.
Ten Years After - Help Me from Fillmore East...the guitar solo that never ends!
CSNY 4-Way Street Southern Man.
Some cool Neil Cortez and Hurricane editions would qualify.
Stones - Can You Hear Me Knocking.
Grand Funk - Heartbreaker or Mean Mistreater
Vanilla Fudge - You Keep Me Hanging On
Issac Hayes - hyperbolicsyllabicsesquedalymistic
Wilson Pickett - Engine Number 9 Get Me Back on Time
Stevie Wonder - Living For the City
Funkadelic - Maggot Brain
Floyd played Shine On You Crazy Diamond parts I-IX all together as one on the 1974 tour rather than the two sections they recorded for the record or played on the 75 and 77 tours. Hearing it all as one start to finish is pretty cool.
Fleetwood Mac's Rattlesnake Shake editions from Boston Tea Party.
Guess I seem to think about longer songs in these terms, must be something about an extended journey that doesn't appear to be ending and takes you unexpected places. Can probably think about alot more.
Rock Bottom live.
Roy Buchanan - The Messiah Will Come Again
Couple few more:
Have You Seen the Saucers, Crown of Creation, Blows Against the Empire, the Jefferplane Kantner effect, mega-epic
Knights in White Satin - Moody Blues, Tuesday Afternoon, intro to and song Ride My Seesaw
Gimme Shelter - Stones
Neil young - down by the river
And out of the box
Coltrane - favorite things
Taj Mahal - ain't gonna whistle Dixie live
Side 3 of Exit Stage Left: Broons Bane, The Trees, Xanadu
A zillion prog songs!! Supper's Ready, Cinema Show
Zephyr doing The Creator Has a Master Plan
Heaven and Hell from Live Evil
Frank Marino & Mahogany Rush - Stories Of A Hero
Iron Maiden - Rhymne Of The Ancient Mariner
Thick as a Brick-Jethro Tull
LA Women- The Doors
Lazy-Deep Purple
Cities on Flame- Blue Oyster Cult
Firth of Fifth - Genesis. The way that Hackett takes Gabriel's flute melody into the stratosphere is magic.
And, cliche or not, Freebird is pretty epic. 😛
Freebird for sure.
Some contenders off Woodstock:
With a Little Help From My Friends - Joe Cocker
We're Not Gonna Take It - Who
Star Spangled Banner - Jimi
Nobody Knows as well as Back Where It All Began bear mention.
"Hold Your Head Up" by Argent.
"Child In Time" by Deep Purple.
the live versions of "Catch the Rainbow" by Rainbow
Layla - D&TD
The White Room - Cream
Blue Sky - ABB
War Pigs - Sabbath
Bridge Of Sighs - Robin Trower
Santana- Soul Sacrifice
Alice Cooper- Schools Out
Mountain-Nantucket Sleighride
Nailed it ! Nantucket Sleighride is IT!
The most epic song I can think of although it's been such an overplayed and beaten warhorse; Stairway to Heaven
2nd would be The Who off Quadrophenia; Can you See the Real Me....Doctor! DOCTOR!!!!
Nailed it ! Nantucket Sleighride is IT!
that was a great one; makes me want to throw "Theme From an Imaginary Western" into the mix
Indian Reservation - Paul Revere and the Raiders
Conquistador - Procol Harum
Allgood (Music Company) - Trilogy
Judas Priest - Beyond the Realms of Death
Styx - Suite Madame Blue
A brand new tune called The Truth by Kamasi Washington
Blackfoot - Highway Song
Danny Joe Brown Band - Edge of Sundown
Molly Hatchet - Fall of the Peacemakers
Outlaws - Green Grass & High Tides
Every Southern rock band worth their salt had that one epic tune.
No doubt, Marshall Tuckers Take the Highway jumps to mind on that angle.
Pretty much every song by Kansas, to pick one i'd go with Wayward Son.
And then there is the monumental profundity of Rock and Roll Creation by Spinal Tap:
When there was darkness
And the void was king
And ruled the elements
When there was silence
And the hush was almost deafening
Out of the emptiness
Salvation, rhythm, and light, and sound
'Twas the rock and roll creation
'Twas a terrible big bang
'Twas the ultimate mutation
Ying was searching for his yang
And he looked, and he saw that it was good
When I'm alone beneath the stars
And feeling insignificant
I turn within to see the forces that created me
I look to the stars
And the answers are clear
I look in the mirror and see what I fear
Tis the rock and roll creation
Tis an absolute rebirth
Tis the rolling of the ocean
And the rocking of the earth
And I looked, and I saw that it was good
Umphrey's McGee- Mantis
moe.- Silver Sun
Phish- Petrichor
[Edited on 7/11/2017 by IPowrie]
