Hard rock

Hard rock is a loosely defined genre of rock music which has its earliest roots in mid-1960s garage, blues rock and psychedelic rock. It is typified by a heavy use of distorted electric guitars, bass guitar, drums, pianos, and keyboards. Read more…|Edit this Artist photo: Nonpoint

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Sunday 19 February 2012
The Darkness Foxy Shazam Sunday 19 February 2012	House Of Blues (Sunset Strip) West Hollywood, Los Angeles CA, United States 34.095001 -118.373663	5 going 1 shout
Saturday 25 February 2012
Warrant Warrant, White Lie Saturday 25 February 2012	The Coach House San Juan Capistrano, Los Angeles CA, United States 33.482176 -117.671455	Add shout
Saturday 10 March 2012
Andrew W.K. Saturday 10 March 2012	The Glass House Pomona, Los Angeles, United States 34.057602 -117.751915	8 going 1 shout
Saturday 24 March 2012
Michael Schenker w/ guest Robin McAuley Michael Schenker, Robin McAuley, Union Of Saints, 7th Sons Saturday 24 March 2012	The Coach House San Juan Capistrano, Los Angeles CA, United States 33.482176 -117.671455	Add shout
Tuesday 27 March 2012
Avalanche Tour Shinedown, Adelitas Way, New Medicine Tuesday 27 March 2012	The Grove of Anaheim Anaheim, Los Angeles CA, United States 33.803079 -117.88624	1 going Add shout
Friday 1 June 2012
Van Halen Friday 1 June 2012	Staples Center Los Angeles CA, United States 34.043634 -118.267385	2 going Add shout

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maplejet wrote:
Monday afternoon

Anyone that thinks GNR and Scorpions are not hard rock needs to get their heads examined.

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Oslojed wrote:
last month

Uriah Heep, Deep Purple, Scorpions- Still Loving You!!

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Pedrodoon wrote:
December 2011

Hard Rock é um termo bem abrangente.. desde final dos anos 60 até hoje variou bastante na sua forma.. Hard Rock is a very broad term .. since the late 60's until now varied greatly in form ..

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veyita_88 wrote:
December 2011

Yeah i like them much more.

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aos16ie wrote:
December 2011

Scorpions, anyway.

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veyita_88 wrote:
December 2011

And both great hard rock bands.

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Gabriel_Loki wrote:
December 2011

Yes they are [3]

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Ritual_Suicide wrote:
December 2011

Yes they are. [2]

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veyita_88 wrote:
December 2011

Yes they are.

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DonMajesto wrote:
December 2011

G n R and scorps are not hard rock

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veyita_88 wrote:
December 2011

"How about grunge and hard rock both blow donkey balls." You blow donkey balls. Anyway some grunge bands,had crearly hard rock elements,like Soundgarden or AiC.

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Socialidiot wrote:
November 2011

Scorpion

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DJBlaqk wrote:
November 2011

How about grunge and hard rock both blow donkey balls.

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aos16ie wrote:
November 2011

not really.

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somemusicdude wrote:
November 2011

Hard rock is a lot more general than grunge is.

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aos16ie wrote:
November 2011

right, but post-grunge still isn't grunge. you get where I'm going with this.

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somemusicdude wrote:
November 2011

Seether could correctly be called "post-grunge" because they play grunge influenced music. Nickelback do have hard rock songs, so I don't think it would be incorrect to call them hard rock, just like it wouldn't be incorrect to call them pop rock.

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aos16ie wrote:
November 2011

I wasn't implying that all alt. rock is soft (or poppy), but Nickelback certainly are. sometimes alternative actually means alternative, but let's face it - most bands labeled as alt. rock nowadays sound exactly the same on ever single song, and that's pretty much Nickelback in a nutshell. they have a few songs here and there that are clearly influenced by hard rock, but that doesn't make them a hard rock band. that's like calling Seether grunge just because they have some elements of it in a few songs.

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somemusicdude wrote:
November 2011

"alternative rock is just a name for poppy or soft sounding rock bands" No it's not, you obviously know nothing about the history of the term. Nickelback is hardly soft in contrast to AC/DC. Riffs such as this are definitely on the relatively hard side of rock http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-VBAFsrf4k . Sure Nickelback has their poppy moments, but you can't deny their hard rock elements.

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Darth_Onoma wrote:
November 2011

Nickelback is pop-grunge.

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