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[blackhorseoffroad]

No Road? No Problem! 

ATLAS Roll Bar | RB-BA1B

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[forestduck]

Jan 20, 2025 - #aesthetic #blackhorse #landscape #onthehorse #horseplanet

[talking-about-horses]

ZOTRICO

JAZZ x SAMBER

Gender stallion

Birthdate 2004

Height 1.68m

Colour black tobiano

Breed Dutch Warmblood

[qico-designs]

Saya and Shadow met the cloud dragon... 🐲

[animals-etcetera]

HORSES

[pleiadianlight]

𐂃𓂀

[elizaneilande]

[chusaengsri]

A black horse stands amidst ruins with pink light filtering through broken walls, surrounded by fallen stones and creeping vines.

[blissandbusiness]

"There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way." - Morley 🎨 Black horse on the way to the black sand beach...

[blackhorseoffroad]

From the city streets to off-road adventures, stay protected with Black Horse Off Road’s Bull Bar! 🚛🔥

Bull Bar | BB030709A-SP

[equestriangypsymonique]

𝒩𝑜 𝒷𝒾𝓉, 𝓃𝑜 𝒷𝑜𝓊𝓃𝒹𝒶𝓇𝒾𝑒𝓈—𝒿𝓊𝓈𝓉 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓌𝒾𝓃𝒹 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝓂𝓎 𝒽𝑜𝓇𝓈𝑒 🌬️🐎💫 🪽🪄

[talking-about-horses]

Diëgo

NEGRO x DON GREGORY

Gender Stallion

Birthdate 2008

Height 1.70m

Colour Black

Studbook KWPN

[qico-designs]

Spring is almost here... 😌🌸🌿

So Saya and Shadow are off on another journey to the unknown...

[animals-etcetera]

[animalstime]

Black Horse to the Rescue: Saving Cow & Farm Animals from Wild Tiger Attack! Animal Rescue Adventure

[vinylspinning]

Creed: Creed (1978)

When I learned there was a southern rock band named Creed active in the '70s, some 20 years prior to the corporate Christian ("No we're not!") rockers who later ruled the airwaves, filled arenas, and paid my salary at Wind-up Records for a year, I simply had to check them out.

But many questions remained unanswered: would they take me higher? Would I embrace them with arms wide open?

All kidding aside, this Memphis-based quintet issued their first and final full-length 45 years ago through Asylum Records -- although I'm pretty sure David Geffen's fabled artist haven had turned into a madhouse after his departure in 1975.

Hey, at least they didn't have to change the company name!

But where was I?

Oh yeah, Creed's eponymous LP, which fits the late '70s definition of southern rock by migrating ever northward, swapping country elements for urban ones like hard rock and mainstream AOR along the way, and thankfully resisting the urge to rewrite "Free Bird."

Indeed, the only semi-epic cut here is the closing "Time and Time Again," but its spacey synths and quasi-prog arrangement fly closer to Rush than Skynyrd, while the "smooooth music" of "Firecracker" recalls contemporaries like Molly Hatchet or .38 Special.

But these are sophisticated exceptions to Creed's dominant, analog hard rock rule, which pumps kinetic offerings like "We're Gonna make It" and "Too Proud to Cry" full of snarling guitar riffs, ripping solos, twin harmonies, piano and organ, backed by a dynamite rhythm section.

And though Creed's songwriting is never groundbreaking, it's also pretty timeless, because the urgent "You Never See it that Way" could almost be a Raging Slab song, and first cut "Keep On Rockin'" rides a bucking bronco of a riff the likes of which would ironically crop up on countless New Wave of British Heavy Metal singles, a few years later.

Go figure, but it's "only rock 'n' roll," now isn't it?

And Creed's self-titled LP, too, was only human, though I personally found it more enjoyable than some of the era's better-selling southern rock albums, even if it clearly wasn't distinctive or hit-filled enough to push the band over the top.

No thanks to Asylum, which quickly dropped the group and left them to their own devices until three out of five original members could rustle up the cash to record and release a last-gasp four-track EP named Believe It! in 1983.

After the break-up, vocalist Hal Butler played keyboards behind Jimi Jamison of Survivor fame, guitarist Steve Ingle joined the Delta Rebels, and latter-day bassist Jimmy Rusidoff (he played on the EP) landed with sleaze rockers Lord Tracy, also featuring erstwhile Pantera singer Terry Glaze.

I just love rock history's tangled web ...

More importantly, the original Creed generously relinquished their -- let's face it -- crappy-ass moniker so that future rockers Scott Stapp, Mark Tremonti, and those other two could soar higher and higher and, yes "Higher," to multi-platinum stardom, two decades later.

More Obscure Late ‘70s Hard Rock & Southern Rock: Alkana’s Welcome to My Paradise, Axe’s Axe, Axis’ It’s a Circus World, Bandit's Partners in Crime, Billion Dollar Babies’ Battle Axe, Blackfoot’s Strikes, Blackhorse’s Blackhorse, Blackjack’s Blackjack, Bow Wow’s Signal Fire, The Boyzz’s Too Wild to Tame, Brownsville Station’s Motor City Connection, Bull’s It’s a Rock ‘n’ Roll World, Contraband's Nothing to Hide, Crawler’s Crawler, Diamond Reo’s Dirty Diamonds, Goddo’s Goddo, The Godz’s Nothing is Sacred, Helix’s Breaking Loose, Legend's Fröm the Fjörds, Legs Diamond’s Fire Power, Molly Hatchet’s Flirtin’ with Disaster, Moxy’s Moxy II, Nokemono's From the Black World, Nutz’s Hard Nutz, Point Blank's Second Season, Quartz’s Deleted, Quiet Riot’s Quiet Riot II, Ram Jam’s Ram Jam, Riot’s Rock City, The Rockets’ Love Transfusion, Rough Diamond’s Rough Diamond, Rose Tattoo's Rose Tattoo, Starz’s Violation, Survivor's All Your Pretty Moves, Talas’ Talas, Teaze’s One Night Stands, Trigger’s Trigger, Trillion’s Trillion, Two Guns’ Balls Out, Urchin’s High Roller, Winterhawk's Electric Warriors, Yesterday and Today’s Struck Down.