Category Archives: Classic Rock

God Rock

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December 12, 2021Classic Rock, Pop Music, Radio, Religious Music, Rhythm and Blues, Rock and Roll1960s, 1970saceofspadespdx

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Revisiting the late 60’s to early 70’s religious phenomenon in popular music.

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Before The Rhapsody

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November 30, 2021Classic Rock, Glam Rock, Hard Rock, Rock and Roll1970s, AIDS, Freddie Mercury, HIV, LGBTQ, Queenaceofspadespdx

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Just days before the third annual World AIDS Day in 1991, 30 years ago, one of Rock’s most iconic front men, Freddy Mercury, died of the disease. This show revisits the time just prior to their worldwide success, when they were breaking out of the Glam Rock ghetto into becoming legendary. #AIDS #WAD2021 #HIV #LGBTQ #HardRock #GuitarRock #GlamRock #1970s

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Flash, Cash and Trash

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October 31, 2021Classic Rock, Hard Rock, Heavy Metal, Rock and Roll1980s, glam metal, hair metal, halloween, los angelesaceofspadespdx

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For my final show of Rocktober 2021 on it’s final day, Halloween, another act, much like the first three featured this year, that laid the foundation for their respective sub-genre of Rock and Roll: Glam Metal. Today we revisit the first decade of band that just won’t die, Motley Crue. #glammetal #hairmetal #heavymetal #motleycrue

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The New Wave Tsunami

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October 30, 2021Alternative Rock, Classic Rock, Dance, Hip Hop, Independent Music, New Wave, Rock and Roll, Women in Music1970s, 1980s, CBGB, independent music, women in musicaceofspadespdx

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For our third show for Rocktober 2021, a band that seemed to do something only The Beatles did a decade prior: absorb all of their influences so well as to create their unique but highly recognizable sound that proved the leading light of a new form of Rock and Roll in the late 70’s and early 80’s, American band Blondie. #blondie #newwave #debbieharry #altrock #CBGB

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Sha-la-la-la Roll You Over

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October 16, 2021Classic Rock, Hard Rock, Heavy Metal, Rock and Roll1970s, Europeanaceofspadespdx

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Our second program for Rocktober features a band that achieved some mainstream success in the U.S., but remain a cult favorite and one of the most influential acts that would spawn not only the New Wave of British Heavy Metal but also the American Thrash Movement, English and German heavy rock/metal act UFO. #UFOband #heavymetal #hardrock #1970s #guitarrock

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