Awesome song!! Definitely an S for me!! On a separate note, here's your first S++ LOL .... Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit. Probably too new for you guys to do maybe .... (1991) but what a banger!!! S tier for sure!!! Biggest band and song of the 90s by far. I'm sure there's younger folks listening to your channel that may never have heard it though. .... regardless awesome Banger, Cheers

Freddie Mercury called Paul Rodgers his favorite rock singer. Truth. No wonder Queen toured with him about 10 years ago.

If you like this tune I recommend you check out "Thirty Days in the Hole" by Humble Pie, which has a similar feel and is a great song in its own right.

It is worthwhile for you to check out Trapeze's Black Cloud, in the same year, around the same time. The guitar tone is very similar, with the song resting in the same realm. Worth comparing.

Ok, Andy and Alex. You are right there in 1970. It is high time for Trapeze's Medusa to follow Free!

and What were these guys doing a few years ago at the age of these artists. Rodgers and Fraser wrote it and they were 18 and 15 years old.

Wow..didn't know that! TY

Wow ! That’s crazy

I was very fortunate to see Free LIVE in 1970 at Brighton Dome. Ill never forget the huge bass of Andy Frazer, and of course Pauls vibrato guitar. Yep never forgotten

@@eillekeillek you have no idea how green with envy i just turned! You bloody lucky bastard!

TY for your kind words sir :)

Steve Marriott is the boss.

Amen. Paul Rogers= greatest vocalist ever!

@Norbert The Nark Yes.....that is 100% correct.

Rodgers superb. What a band . 1 lead guitar, 1 bass and drums. When bands were bands

& '60s music was so unique and creative, where it started!

​@@swimlaps1From about 63 to around 78, the absolute best era for incredible and incredibly diverse music! From Zeppelin to Abba, from the Beatles to the bee Gees, just unbelievable. The brits ruled this era!

Mr. Big

The Stealer. Free were certainly not a one hit wonder but their next single, The Stealer, inexplicably, sold very poorly. Imho, it is Free's best track. Andy & Alex would probably prefer the original single edit (also on the album Highway), but Kossoff fans should listen to the extended version discovered in the Island vaults many years later. Awesome!

@@graemepark5046 Blows my mind how young they were. Great group!

@@johnt7630 Well said. And when I was younger, Mr. Big (live) was my favourite Free track, with astounding bass solo by the youngest member Andy Fraser.

@@johnt7630 when naming the band the choices were Heavy metal death kids or free. Saw a show in Vegas called Raiding the Rock Vault that explained this.

Simon Kirke was the drummer for Bad Company also.

Sorry for your loss. I wish I knew your friend.

" defending a woman" That sounds like MY kind of guy - and so unlike too many of the stand-and-watch ladyboys these days. So sorry for your loss, Gayla !

@@kevinsim1514 Thank you, Kevin.

@@marvinc9994 Thank you.

I facepalmed so hard when he said one hit wonder that I have an image of my face burned into my palm.

Ahh, correction, one of THE ALL TIME greatest bands

Free vocalist - Paul Rodgers, still doing it about 2018 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/sJhyqsJ5rcW4ZJs.html. The whole band were teenagers when All Right Now was released

The late + great Paul Kossoff was the perfect guitarist for Free. I always believed that if he would have lived longer, that, he would have became another legendary guitarist like Eddie Van Halen.

I totally agree then go way back to The Stealer.

Wishing Well is my favourite free song total banger

@@simply_psi Kossoff was absent from that track. Rodgers played guitar.

Great for remembering the Queen stint!! His voice is amazing.

Queen + Paul Rodgers also released an album together, The Cosmos Rocks.

A lot of people don't bring up the Firm when they talk about Paul Rodgers. Though they only had two albums. Radioactive was probably their biggest hit in that band.

Y'all forgot one more band... this is a GREAT track with PR on vocals: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/j7ZxrKSArLqlpWQ.html

Oh, wow, I "forgot" about The Firm. It's a little esoteric for this channel, but great, great stuff.

Paul Rodgers is THE best voice in rock. I’ve had the good fortune to see hime live a couple of time in recent years, & his voice has only gotten better over the years.

RODGERS

Don't believe it's a cowbell, sounds like clavies to me

Blackfoot remade the song Wishing Well on their Strikes album.

Rodgers, Hagar, and Cummings are the top 3 rock vocalists imo.

He’s never been inducted to RRHOF!! He’s one of the best rock singers ever!!

Paul Rodgers is the greatest rock vocalist EVER

Indeed! He was born to sing. A natural.

Paul Rodgers is a treasure, to be sure, but don't overlook Glenn Hughes (Trapeze, Deep Purple, Black Country Communion), who still has the sauce.

@@ronforeman2556 Stevie Wonder called Glenn Hughes his favorite white singer.

Sorry but I disagree in some aspects. Rodgers definitely kept his voice but so did a few others. The first one that comes to mind is Jon Anderson. Saw them recently and he still sounds like he did back in 72 when I first saw Yes, performing the Close to the Edge tour.

@@stephaniethurmer5370 Anderson uses auto tune today.

Golden Earring are great! I only know Radar Love and Twilight Zone from them but both those songs make it hard for me to stay at the speed limit while I'm driving down the road.

@@LeannWebb61 oh yesss vroooom. Check out radar love with 1000 drummers its mental

@@LeannWebb61 Somewhere in a lonely hotel there's a guy starting to realize that eternal fate has turned its back on him. It's 2 AM.

Tyrone Tucker I’m gonna have to! I watched their video of “Learning to Fly” and hat to rewatch a few times before moving on.

@@joepegel Are those really the opening words? I never knew that. Nice!

Its sound was really before its time. Songs from the mid 70s still had this kind of feel.

Wild Bill……interesting last name. 😉

@@danattkisson962 Same to you. Not a common one for sure.

Maturity ? They were teenagers when they created this !!!

Not really underrated, everyone knows Paul Rodgers is a badass, recognized as one of the very best!

Haha underrated by who??? He's well known as one the greatest singers EVER

Not underrated at all Rodgers is considered the quintessential rock vocalist of all time

Especially Rock and Roll Fantasy. A CLASSIC.

Just Paula Your comment is almost identical to mine, Gr8 minds think alike, eh?😉

It's about damn time for some Bad Company!

"Can't Get Enough" "Bad Company" "Ready for Love" "Shooting Star"

This was short lived group that led to Bad Company. Listen to Bad Co

Yes!

saxworth Good song, but come on dude...

So much yes!

Very trippy feel to that song!!

Long version!

Sherri yes! It is totally a summer road trip song, isn’t it?

For years I thought it was"move before they raise the *effin rent". Lmao, one of the first lyrics I checked out on google!

@M 40 I had not heard the album version for a long time, and I agree, it does drag out. Radio edit version that you hear on classic rock station seems to be about the right length.

@M 40 Agree. That middle section with the great bass, the piano, the guitar building up -- it does a great job of raising the tension, but then fails (in my opinion) to capitalize on it. It sets the stage, but doesn't provide the emotional release. Still a great song, and Paul Rodgers is one of the great rock singers, not quite Daltrey or Plant, but just one level down.

I love that line too, and when he tells her to slow it down, make love last, huh and she says "love? Lord above, are you trying to put me in love", it so sounds like someone's real experience, especially in the 70's, can picture the movie Serpico, Midnight Cowboy, The 7 Ups, that gritty, hard 70's. Paul can sing ok, the boy has pipes, Peace ✌

He also took over for Freddie for awhile in Queen.

Bad Company had so many great ones, and the production values just kept getting better.

I didn't know it was him! He sounds too good to be in this song.

I once read him described as being so hirsute, he could go on stage clean shaven and come off with a full beard.

Lucie Melahn he had an uncanny ability to be able to record his vocals consistently in one take. Hence his nickname.

Kathy Thompson I think they’d really like Funk 49. Been recommending it for awhile.

I've been asking them to do Funk #49 for a while also Hymn 43 by Jethro Tull.

@@SHB59 And on that same theme, the lesser-known Funk #48 is killer too. I might actually like it better than #49.

Both of these are required listening, pay attention fellas, this is the good shit you are looking for!

Steve Bailen Maybe they’ve already heard it. I can’t imagine any guitarist not knowing who Joe Walsh is, but then again, I’m old and there are a lot of great guitarists out there. My apologies to the guys if they haven’t. I don’t mean to sound pretentious in any way. It’s just that there is no other guitar player like Joe Walsh. I think it’s the great playing combined with the facial expressions and the raspy voice.

That is a very trippy song!!!

Exactly...and Bang A Gong by T-Rex.

I remember those 70's compilation album commercials on TV! To this day I think I can play the songs in sequence in my head!

Also his band The Firm with guitar god Jimmy Page

It's a really amazing hit. My all time favorite song and I'm not even really an Outlaws fan.

I've thrown that one out there too. IMO, the greatest southern rock song ever.

@@mikeharris3733 I keep bugging them in hopes they'll notice. Fantastic song. So much energy, I feel wore out everytime I hear it.

I've been throwing this one out for months.....maybe someday.

Sorry dude, but there were only 3 lead guitarists in the band for the song, 'Green Grass and High Tides'. They were Hughie Thomasson - guitars, vocals(Died 2007,Heart Attack), Henry Paul - guitars, vocals and Billy Jones - guitars, keyboards, vocals(Died 1995,suicide), may they rest in peace. Hughie was the main soul of the band and the best guitarist. Hughie was nicknamed "The Flame" for his flaming fast guitar work and he is a member of the Fender Hall of Fame. In 1996 he along with Ricky Medlocke (an original Lynyrd Skynyrd band member before they got signed) and founder of the band, 'Blackfoot', joined and toured with Lynyrd Skynyrd for several years. Now that being said I completely agree with you about the song Green Grass and High Tides. It is a absolute bomb of a song and in my world the 2nd best rock guitar song ever written and played. The number 1 rock guitar song ever is Lynyrd Skynyrd's Freebird and the number 3 best guitar rock song ever was Ricky Medlocke's band Blackfoot's song 'Highway Song'. All three songs feature 3 great rock guitarists jamming like no other for the last 1/3 of each song in 3 part harmony. Totally hard core rock overdrive great guitar screaming arias. So Andy & Alex, when are going to do as these members of your youtube channel request and do all 3 of these songs. I think you might have done Freebird but you for sure have not done the other 2 songs. Webu reacts is the only music reaction channel that has done all three to date. So get with it boys because these 3 songs are 11's and tier 'S' entries. Kim Hellums

Or try Head East's "Man I Wanna Be" or "Jefftown Creek". "Never Been Any Reason" was the longest played song in the movie, Dazed + Confused, as well. (Shotgun!). Lmao!

And it has to be the album version!

I agree on Head East never been any reason another good Head East song would be love me tonight both are off of the album flat as a pancake

Ditto

One of my oldest sister’s favorite songs!!! And she loves Little Willy too!! She was the first one in my family to like the Cars too!! I Love both my sisters and my brother so much!! I really miss them right now with this Coronavirus crap going on!

Erik Harrison definitely on the same frequency

Aw, Hell yeah!

Omg YES. ALSO, check out some Humble Pie, 30 Days In The Hole.

That is a one hit wonder

Mmmm....that would be Mel Schacher from GFR. Inside Looking Out for instance.

Robert Wood Another great driving song.

@Luuk Hulsman There are a (very) few of us foreigners who have appreciated Golden Earring since the 70s. On the other hand I have always said that if they had been British or American they would have been international superstars. Also, don't forget about "C'est Soir", "Candy's Gone Bad", "Vanilla Queen"...they did indeed have so many great songs. One of the bands that I truly wish that I had been able to see live but sadly they don't have a chance to tour North America and I can't afford a trip to Europe to see them.

@Luuk Hulsman Yes " She Flies on Strange Wings" is a great song

My favourite Dutch band ☺

Twilight zone

PMSJL4809 Leo Lyons is my neighbour 🤘🏻🎸😊

Along with I’d love to change the world, I’m going home “Woodstock version”

Drumming Vulture Right up near the top IMO.👍

and paul rodgers was first one to stand in for freddie after his passing for queens front man.

@@cl8onj388: And I admire your loyalty to your band. Your opinion isn't mine, but that makes no difference in how you feel. You could do worse, that's for damn sure.

@@jerzeyguy71: I listened to Queen + Paul Rodgers. Gotta say, I was underwhelmed. It just didn't connect with me. But that's me, and I'm only one opinion out of, what, millions? LOL! I thinks it's cool that you got something you liked out of that pairing. Have you ever seen the Freddie Mercury Concert For AIDS Awareness? Bowie and Annie Lennox doing "Under Pressure"? Oh my lord, those voices with that band behind them.

Mott - 'All the Young Dudes', the glam anthem.

agree

I love Nazareth and if you haven't heard the live version of Telegram from 'Snaz this is a must hear live classic.

Also Try "LOVE LEAD TO MADNESS"!?! THE WORDS HIT HOME BRO'S?!?

Now you’re messing with a son of a bitch now you’re messing with a son of a bitch!!!

This and "Ooh La La" are absolute classics from the Faces, along with Pool Hall Richard, Cindy Incidentally, etc. Back when Rod Stewart was a tough rock and r&b singer...

Now that my friend is a great song!!!

Stay With Me is a TREMENDOUS song.

Exactly! Great suggestion. :)

Too wimpy...sugar the road by them instead

@@DENVEROUTDOORMAN Never mind. Lmao. I didn't know that was one of their songs!! Omg. Have a great evening. :)

@@DENVEROUTDOORMAN ... Good morning little school girl...lol

floydiannyc perfect choice always reminds me of spurious Agnew talking lol Alvin Lee has a lotta ballsey tunes to choose from but this was a good hit song I think A n A would enjoy and make em curious about some others Alvin Lee recorded. What a guitar player!!!

Yes! They really should check out Rock On!

Rock On I think is the most avantgarde rock song which peaked no.1 in UK.

@@edvinlaine Rock On by David Essex and Cars by Gary Numan remind me of each other. They are both one hit wonder songs, there's a lot of “coolness” in them (maybe TOO cool), they have infectious grooves, but are VERY era-centric. They existed, and well-represented, their times-and only their times. But I love them both on their own merits.

He's still known in the UK as an actor although he does tour sometimes. He started off on the stage and made movies back in the day but is mainly doing TV work. He was a looker back then 😉

@@ladyjane8855 I liked the movie Stardust with Dave Edmunds, Keith Moon, Adam Faith and Larry Hagman the sequel to That'll Be the Day with Ringo

Radar Love *has* to be on everyone's playlist for road trips!

"Twilight Zone" Is by Golden Earring so they're NOT a one hit wonder......

@@donalddixon6541 True enough, but the song is called "Twilight Zone".

@@WDRhine ok. 2hit wonder. Both bangers!

I agree. Love Radar Love.

live version

Yes, and Empty Pages.

Live version is the one.

Yup...make a bowl or two disappear and let Low Spark take you on a trip. Best 13 minutes you can spend.

George Wodicka Right? One legend replacing another. Bad Co. and Queen, 2 of my favorites.🤘

YES! YES! YES! MONTROSE!!! When Ronnie Montrose hooked up with The Red Rocker (Sammy Hagar), they took hard rock to the next level. EARTHQUAKE!!! "Rock the Nation," "Bad Motor Scooter," "Space Station #5," and as noted above, "Rock Candy." Can't go wrong.

Space age sacrifice is their best song ever.

Yes!

YES - I recommended Montrose last week!!! The whole album rocked!!! Listen to ALL the songs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1