dugitman: I still remember the first time I heard that opening riff at a smoky college bar. Went right up to the hippie DJ to get the band/album name (which I wrote on my arm) and bought it the next day. Saw them live a few times. Robinson was a GREAT frontman before he started getting too stoned to go all boogie-spastic. IMO they blew it when they jumped on the jam-band wagon. Sure liked their first 2 albums though.

/good simple video too

What he said. They started out rocking, then turned into a bunch of unlistenable damn dirty hippies.

good song and the first album is pretty good. for some reasons however, lost interest and never really listened to any other ones

I saw them opening for Aerosmith back then. Had no idea who they were yet, but I liked them. Later found out the two days before they filmed the footage for the Hard to Handle video.

I thought they peaked with "Keep Your Hands To Yourself"

/I only got my music from Napster
//and never changed the tags or doublechecked them

iamrex: My dad drove us (all the way to Seattle) where they played the Paramount theater.

ah nice :) Actually there's a first show I ever saw tie in with when I saw them too. The first show I ever went to was Aerosmith in 86. Bonus, the soundcheck footage in Hard To Handle was filmed at the place where I saw that Aerosmith show, Alpine Valley in Wisconsin.

/why yes I do retain tons of useless trivia, why do you ask? ;)

LA Guns? Man, what happened to them?

As far as the Crowes go, - shoulder shrug.

They're ok, but I grew up on the Stones, the Faces and Humble Pie and when you hear a group trying to rock like those bands it almost always sounds pale in comparison, as this does to me.

Just sayin'...

dugitman: I still remember the first time I heard that opening riff at a smoky college bar. Went right up to the hippie DJ to get the band/album name (which I wrote on my arm) and bought it the next day. Saw them live a few times. Robinson was a GREAT frontman before he started getting too stoned to go all boogie-spastic. IMO they blew it when they jumped on the jam-band wagon. Sure liked their first 2 albums though.

/good simple video too


i agree with you. saw them record the video to she talks to angels at Center Stage in Atlanta. They were amazing. Saw them again about 3 years ago at the tabernacle. Yawn.

One of my first concerts was the Crowes. And I remember being 8 years old and rocking out to this not knowing what the hell it was but loving it.

And for those of you who hate them, they put out 4 incredible albums in a row, then a weak 5th album, then they faded, came back with a standard album, and I haven't heard their most recent yet so no comment.

fark me I am old.

This band's first two albums were absolutely amazing. Saw the show in Houston where they biatched about the security, then saw the free one where they did the Stones Altamont thing-minus the dead guy.

Add me to the list of people who love their first two albums. Amorica started the downhill spiral...I can't name a single song of theirs I like from that disc onward.

strothgar: I thought they peaked with "Keep Your Hands To Yourself"

/I only got my music from Napster
//and never changed the tags or doublechecked them

lol, you must've had their song "Copperhead Road" too.

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I have never heard a song by them that didn't completely bore the pants off me, this included. I don't care for Talks to Angels and consider Hard to Handle to be a so-so version of a really great song. I guess it just isn't my thing.

People, you must be crazy. This is the best live rock band there is today, & the best American rock band of the last 20 years. You folks who only listened to the 1st 2 albums don't know what you've missed. I see them every time they come around. The band is awesome.

This sucks. Had they changed the chord once it might've been a good song.

The Crowes can bite my willy.

I saw them opening for the ZZTop Recycler tour in New Orleans. The bands together were great. The Crowes with their stuff and ZZ played plenty of old and new tunes. Great times, great music with good friends.

So we all bought tickets to see them in Lafayette. The tour got real big by that point (being a few months later) and Lite beer started some promotion. Robinson decides that he can't support this sell. Like he had not sold out already. Whatever ass.

But the VERY worst part is that to replace them as opener was this band call Ball of Fire, Hall of Fire, Balls on Fire or some such crap. That was the worst band I have ever had forced upon my ear drums. I will never forgive the Crowes for setting up that sequence of events that led to me being subjected that awful mismash of electronic bobcat death.

The best thing the Black Crows got into


/now don't leave disappointed

Saw them with ZZ Top in '90, before the Bearded Wonders kicked them off the tour. They kicked some serious ass that night.

I had Shake Your Money Maker on cassette. Southern Harmony was the first CD I owned. I loves me some Black Crowes.

I get the feeling that Rock music died with the Black Crowes. Not because they were good or anything, but because the playlist of my local classic rock station hasn't been updated since their second album came out/

My favorite Crowes moment is them being kicked off the Miller Beer sponsered ZZtop tour for sayin' Miller tastes like piss. Right when our local boy Eddie Harsch joined the band on keyboards.

.. Smithereens playing BB KINGS NYC in a few days ... need to get me some tix!
Loved them in "Class of Nuke 'em High."

Dancin_In_Anson: Southern Harmony and Musical Companion is one of my favorite albums and a great followup to Shake Your Money Maker. I wish the momentum would have kept up.

THIS. These 2 CDs are brilliant.

Right out of the box they had the potential to be the biggest ever, but couldn't get past their own self destructive behavior. a shame, really. Jonathon Swift was right, mankind is limited by its own nature.

/drugs are bad, mkay?

Southern Harmony is their best album, but Amorica is a GREAT road album. Fantastic to drive to with the windows rolled down.

They're a great rock band, but they've lost me with their last 3 albums. Just not that interesting.

The Lost Sessions (Tapes?) double album from material they did around Amorica and 3 Snakes is terrific.

Oh and here's a pretty sweet performance of Twice As Hard with the Stereophonics and Jools Holland.

WhyteRaven74: I saw them opening for Aerosmith back then.

Me too. Chris Robinson got PISSED when the audience didn't spaz over them like they later would for Aerosmith. Still a good show, and you can't blame the crowd - all they had was their first single at the time.

TheBitterest: Oh and here's a pretty sweet performance of Twice As Hard with the Stereophonics and Jools Holland.

If you have nothing else to do all day just Youtube "Jools Holland".
I swear there in no greater collection of kickass live performances around.

wile.e.coyote.genius: The best thing the Black Crows got into


/now don't leave disappointed

Heather Graham thread?







/All are very hot
//Can you tell I don't really care about the Black Crowes?

I had a cassette tape with Shake Your Money Maker on one side and Nevermind on the other. With that single cassette tape, my musical collection peaked.

/First crush was on Chris Robinson. Boy, he sure did look good on MTV in those leather pants....

amorica is a top-10, desert island kinda album for me, and my favorite from their catalog. the best and most mature songwriting of all their albums. rich was really writing some original guitar lines at that time.

This band is worthless without Marc Ford.

My wife is really into the Black Crowes. They played here in Iowa a couple years ago; good set, but they did NO encores and pretty much ran off the stage onto the bus.

I really don't feel one way or another about them, so I just thought it was a decent show.

/awesome live album
//great job covering for plant's vocals