Episode 10: NIT Tournament (Classic Rock Bracket)

Episode 10 begins our NIT Tournament to determine the greatest rock music artist that didn’t make our original 64 “team” NCAA Tournament (see episodes 1-8).

Classic rock matchups for this episode:

(1) Eric Clapton solo + Derek and the Dominos (gets bye for first 2 rounds)

(2) Grateful Dead (gets bye for first 2 rounds)

(3) Santana vs. (10) Bob Seger

(4) Rod Stewart (also includes the early Jeff Beck Group + The Faces) vs. (9) ZZ Top

(5) Journey vs. (8) Lynyrd Sknyrd

(6) Steely Dan vs. (7) Chicago

Notes for this episode:

The great back-to-back songs on Live Bullet are "Travelin' Man" (not "Travelin' Band") and "Beautiful Loser." These songs were meant to be played together.

The great Rod Stewart song is "Mandolin Wind" not "Mandolin Rain" (that's a Bruce Hornsby song).

Neal Schon joined Santana on their excellent third album, the aptly titled Santana III, not their great fourth album which was called "Caravanserai." Also we mentioned "Moonflower" but we want to especially single out the gorgeous instrumental "Europa."

Scott blatantly cut off Matt a couple of times late in the episode for which he would like to belatedly apologize.