Your Favorite Ballads

**Togakure** · 06-21-2007, 02:26

What are some of your favorite ballads? If you would, post a link to a video clip of it if you can find one. Doesn't have to be of the band, I just want to hear the tune in a version you like.

Hmm ... so many ... here are some blasts from the prehistoric past for most of the younglings here:

Nazareth:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrSs7gfLDjc

Aerosmith:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtJu-0eTUSU

And for you SFTS, this is indeed a favorite ballad of mine, but only Skynyrd's version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3QCDd8UiMc
This homegrown video is rank, but it's Ronnie singing. The currently popular copycat should have his vocal cords surgically removed with a spoon--what utter suckage. There is simply no substitute for Ronnie Van Zant on this song.

Stalker's Delight, heh:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnejNGprm3I
These guys are reuniting for a show at the Garden. I read front row center tickets are being offered for $11,500 ...

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More later ....

**Strike For The South** · 06-21-2007, 03:34

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Pga0sS8qJU Masamune here is Ronnie

**Gregoshi** · 06-21-2007, 04:19

The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald - archival footage of "the Fitz" above and below the waters of the Great Lakes with a live version of Gordon Lightfoot's classic to accompany it.

The wind in the wires made a tattletale sound
And a wave broke over the railing
And every man knew, as the Captain did too,
T'was the witch of November come stealing

Haunting lyrics that paint a powerful mental image of the event.