What is Classic Rock?

[rayzor]

In my mind it's basically anything from rock bands in the late 60s and 70s (not including disco). But then I was born in 1970. 

I think most think it's anything rock that is older than 10 years...which is  pretty much what I considered classic rock when I first really started paying attention to it in the late 80's. My parents considered it to mean music from their youth (50 s - early 60s).

So maybe that's it...music from your youth (pre-teen years?) that you identify with. Going to be different for everyone. 

[Panthro]

This is why Lithium is the best station on Sirius but every now and then they still give me a wtf

[Zaximus]

I think rock that is 20+ years older is classic, and rock and roll can mean a lot of different genres.

If it's 40/50 years older, it's oldies.  So yeah, there's a lot of stuff approaching or already into oldies that are called classic rock :).

[cookinwithgas]

I always thought of it more as a state of mind - for example, "Welcome to the Jungle" is classic rock, but anything by Poison and their ilk is not to me, even though they are about the same time period (it has to be "classic!" and that does not necessarily mean old). For the most part this genre is from the late 60s to the early 80s.

[frash.exe]

Poison was terrible outside of maybe 2-3 moderately listenable songs 

[cookinwithgas]

my wife is a hair metal girl from the 80s and loves all that Motley Crue type stuff I never ever thought I would marry one LOL

[Anybodyhome]

Saw Don Felder (Eagles guitarist from 1974-2001) and his band, Kansas and Styx Wednesday night in Cary. Of course, Felder did all the Eagles songs he wrote all or part of, and Tommy Shaw joined him onstage to do Hotel California. 

Not a big Kansas fan, so we went and got some food from one of the food trucks around the Booth.

Styx was as tight as I've ever seen them, and I've seen them live probably 15 times. 

Good show.... 

Next up- Joe Walsh opens for Bad Company in Charlotte

[JPPT1974]

Not a heavy metal fan but the best music was in the 1980's.

[stirs]

I agree with ABH, mainly because we lived it.

Classic Rock to me was late 60's to about 1980

Disco, Punk, etc transitioned for awhile and then rock made a comeback of sorts with "hair bands"in the mid 80's

There was a long time in Charlotte when the "Q" was THE radio station, then, around 1980, they switched and started playing all kinds of punk crap like Men Without Hats, and Thomas Dolby.  I was a freshman in college and it hugely sucked.