gotta love lb's heart

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GN2kpBoFs4

group effort

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4T0Dq_SXaWc

your Anthems?

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This probably sounds stupid, but back around 1990 I picked up Argent's greatest hits on CD. At that time, I was going through a very difficult time in my life. I credit this song with at least helping me get through it ... cheesy, I know, and I am not sure if that even makes the cut as an "anthem".

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Saw this band at the Oxford New Theater in Fall of 74, it was after Russ Ballard left the group and this was the album they were touring with these changes in the line up.

Circus is the seventh album of Argent, released in 1975 by Epic and distributed by CBS. Argent was an English band started by Rod Argent, previously of the Zombies, drummer Robert Henrit, bass player Jim Rodford and guitar and keyboard player Russ Ballard. Ballard was replaced in 1973 by John Grimaldi and John Verity, who also play in this album.

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you can save the world with your guitar one love song at a time it's just better, more fun, easier with a fender solid body electric guitar or electric bass guitar.

How was the show?

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the show was amazing, they played the "Circus" material, and, original line up material. I was 2nd row just left of center. Grimaldi was an original shredder but woefully unrepresented on the internet, this was Argent ,minus Rod :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jg_x-XJAbRc

seems like seventies bands wrote anthems deliberately, if you didn't see a sea of bic- lighters it wasn't a hit song, here is Argent anthem that K.I.S.S. covered
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsG5V-o6uxY

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I remember a Russ Ballard tune called "On the Rebound" I don't remember exactly how it goes but seems to me I liked it quite a bit.

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my anthem, the song in my name of course

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Frank Marino's guitar work on World Anthem by Mahogany Rush is quite impressive and the song is truly a World Anthem-worth checking out- it simply sounds majestic.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Xmrb0TmGNU

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Wow, awesome vid Solid Body! Liked and saved on my youtube page. Never heard this before. Plus, that is one awesome looking guitar!!!!!

Present anthem: "Let Me Hear You Scream" by Ozzy Osbourne. Crazy vid, but blast this when feeling down.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5JJy8Z4dNM

Past anthems:

Jimi Hendrix's rendition of "The Star Spangled Banner." I still believe if you gave him a cardboard box with rubber bands on it, he'd still make it scream.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1J5rEVB-dE

Cinderella: "Don't Know What You Got Until It's Gone."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i28UEoLXVFQ

I know there's more, but can't think of it.

EDIT: "Nobody's Fool"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCOrtJMQmVs

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"While My Guitar Gently Weeps."

My dad said, "I'm going to miss you."
I said, "Well, now that I broke that sight off your rifle..." (Emo Philips)

here is mine.....great riff...Mr Speed

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4ApHGoQBl0



Cheers
Bill

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Thanks for posting the link for Frank Marino SBLS,I first saw Mahogany Rush in 1972 on a French Saturday morning music show from Montreal and had to get the Maxoom album that day(he does a fabulous tribute to Jimi called Buddy on it) I've been a fan ever since.BTW Jimi did a stdio version that was on the original Rainbow Bridge album and it is just out of this world,it's a full scale Strat Symphony and just a taste of which musical direction he was headed for before his tragic death.It has many tasteful overdubs and the harmony is just flawless,that version should be the official National Anthem -it's that outstanding.
edit:That studio version I mentioned is of The Star Spangled Banner- simply majestic.

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surprised no one posted this one first

Free Bird

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkTQUtx818w

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Californication.

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I'm very lukewarm on the subject of rock anthems. For the most part, I think of them as those bloated, self-important songs with massive choruses of the type perpetrated by Meat Loaf and Jim Steinman.* Some rock anthems are merely schmaltzy, but at their worst, some are are absolutely vomit-inducing. Some examples:

Meat Loaf: "Paradise by the Dashboard Light"
Meat Loaf: "I Would Do Anything for Love"
Bonnie Tyler: "Total Eclipse of the Heart" (Jim Steinman's turgid style at its overblown worst)

Other crappy/insipid examples:
Mike & The Mechanics: "The Living Years"
Don McLean: "American Pie" (which proves even a relatively quiet song can also be an anthem)

However, I will concede that there are some good ones as well. In addition to "Free Bird," "Hold Your Head Up" and "Tusk," I like these:

Queen: "We Will Rock You" / "We Are the Champions"
Pink Floyd: "Another Brick in the Wall Part 2"
Gary Glitter: "Rock 'n' Roll Part 2"



* And, yes, I realize that most people like Meat Loaf. But I just can't stand him.

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