String sections in rock songs.
Nope. You're allowed string bass, of course. You're allowed a fiddle, if you're Camper Van Beethoven. More than that, you can't call it rock.
Oh, come on Dave, listen to this (and not just quip. "Like I said, not rock.")
That's a mellotron initially, but a string section takes at 3:25 over and then melts into one gorgeous terse Blackmore solo at 4.05.
That's not rock?
And if you say this ain't rock, Scott of Thunder will drop by your house and have a word with you:
T. Rex songs were
simply loaded with strings, on a good day even you might qualify them as rock, right?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iChp8bipBVE&feature=relatedAnd while this might not be rock, it's a darn good pop (?) song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7a6hu6Z7Pkg&feature=relatedI rest my case and will not mention Kashmir or Rainbow's Gates of Babylon ...
Lest I forget: Macca's Live and let die and John Miles' Music:
The Promises get honorary mention too (man, those suspenders did hard work on her, errrm, upper register
):