Forgotten rock bands of the 70s

Subject: RE: Forgotten rock bands of the 70s
From: Jayto
Date: 22 Feb 10 - 01:35 PM

Skid Row was formed in 1987.

Subject: RE: Forgotten rock bands of the 70s
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 22 Feb 10 - 02:11 PM

Spooky Tooth

Subject: RE: Forgotten rock bands of the 70s
From: GUEST,Qwjwj
Date: 22 Feb 10 - 02:13 PM

Nah jayto the original skid row was fromed in 1967.

Subject: RE: Forgotten rock bands of the 70s
From: Acorn4
Date: 22 Feb 10 - 02:17 PM

Weeley - I was at that one - I think they should strike a medal - about the time the frisbee became popular!

Subject: RE: Forgotten rock bands of the 70s
From: glueman
Date: 22 Feb 10 - 02:27 PM

Ah, Stackridge. Has anyone mentioned Focus?

Subject: RE: Forgotten rock bands of the 70s
From: michaelr
Date: 22 Feb 10 - 02:37 PM

Sminky - wow, what a lineup! What year was that?

Subject: RE: Forgotten rock bands of the 70s
From: glueman
Date: 22 Feb 10 - 02:39 PM

I'll guess 1974.

Subject: RE: Forgotten rock bands of the 70s
From: Nick
Date: 22 Feb 10 - 02:49 PM

Saw Focus a couple of years ago (unfortunately without Jan Akkerman - though he also played locally last year).

The only thing is that it's a bit like the philosophical question (once also raised in Only Fools and Horses) as to at what stage a (say) broom ceases to be the same broom as you replace and renew the original bits. 60s/70s/80s bands are much like that.

Subject: RE: Forgotten rock bands of the 70s
From: Murray MacLeod
Date: 22 Feb 10 - 03:00 PM

I do believe nobody has mentioned Family yet, fronted by the egregious Roger Chapman, whose specialty was lobbing tambourines into the audience. Health & Safety wouldn't stand for that these days.

Curved Air was another seventies band, memorable for the gorgeous Sonja Kristina ...OHH YESSS ... Also memorable because they were one of the few rock bands at the time to feature violin in the line-up.

Subject: RE: Forgotten rock bands of the 70s
From: glueman
Date: 22 Feb 10 - 03:04 PM

I find watching 60s and 70s bands faintly depressing. They want to do new material, we want our youth back and old standards. Sometimes it's irresistible but there's a bit of grave robbery involved. You need a damn good reason to play rock music over 40 years of age. That's what folk is for.

Subject: RE: Forgotten rock bands of the 70s
From: Nick
Date: 22 Feb 10 - 03:49 PM

"You need a damn good reason to play rock music over 40 years of age. That's what folk is for."

What a ludicrous view.

Why have an unaccompanied cake when you can have a multi-course banquet?

Let's look at this week...

SATURDAY: Played a mix of songs - folk jazz and pop at a pub gig
SUNDAY: Learned new material for Tuesday and new songs for Wednesday...
TUESDAY: Audition with new band playing bluesy rock (think Cream - Free - Jonny Lang - Whitesnake - ZZ Top)
WEDNESDAY: Practice for acoustic gig with singer songwriter friend, then onto weekly Folk/acoustic evening in local pub
THURSDAY: Try out of another new band playing covers current and last 20 years (average age of band except me 20 something)
FRIDAY: Gig in hotel in Harrogate with current rock/pop band
SUNDAY: Acoustic gig in afternoon in pub

Managed to get my folk in as well!

And I get my bus pass in 4 years.

Subject: RE: Forgotten rock bands of the 70s
From: glueman
Date: 22 Feb 10 - 04:41 PM

Pensioner rock certainly puts us in uncharted waters. It's more difficult to sing about love, sex and freedom when there are the grandchildren to consider, though I'll admit it's a trick a few old bluesmen might pull off.
Perhaps I'm a musical conservative at heart - now that would be a turn up.

Subject: RE: Forgotten rock bands of the 70s
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 22 Feb 10 - 04:41 PM

Gentle Giant themselves have had a few partial reunions (including one as Rental Giant!).

I downloaded an excellent recording of them only this weekend:

Gentle Giant
Orpheum Theatre
Boston, MA
25 February 1977

Master audience recording taped by Dan Lampinski

01 The Runaway/Experience
02 On Reflection
03 Just The Same
04 Playing The Game
05 Memories of Old Days
06 For Nobody (end cut)
07 Funny Ways (spliced)
08 Free Hand


Nakamichi 550 Tape Recorder
Two Nakamichi CM-300 Microphones
Maxell cassettes


Mastered and FLAC'ed by Carl Morstadt ([e-mail])
        
Master Cassette ->
Nakamichi CR-3A cassette deck with azimuth correction ->
M-Audio Firewire Audiophile 2496 ->
CDWAV 24-bit/96-KHz wav files ->
Goldwave (normalizing and crossfades) ->
CDWAV (track breaks) ->
dBpowerAMP Audio Converter (24-bit/96-KHz wav files converted to
16-bit/44.1 KHz wav files) ->
FLAC Front End (FLAC 8 with sector boundary alignment)
FLAC files tagged with Foobar2000 Live Show Tagger

No EQ'ing.

A 24-bit/96-KHz flac24 version of this recording is also available.




Dan Lampinski recorded over 100 concerts in the Providence/Boston area, mostly between 1974 and 1978. His earliest recordings were made with an internal microphone deck, and though they are somewhat lo-fi compared to his later work, some very great moments in rock history were captured for posterity. In late 1974 he bought a Sony TC-152SD tape recorder, a Sony ECM-99 stereo microphone, and began using Maxell cassettes. He was also fortunate enough to have a friend who provided excellent taping seats for many shows, resulting in high quality recordings. In 1977, he switched over to a Nakamichi 550 tape recorder, two Nakamichi CM-300 microphones, and continued using Maxell cassettes.

He recorded many of the major 70's bands: Yes, Genesis, Pink Floyd, Queen, Blue Oyster Cult, Frank Zappa, Jethro Tull, ELP, Kiss, Black Sabbath, The Who, Al Stewart, Alice Cooper, Jeff Beck, Bruce Springsteen, Supertramp, Jean-Luc Ponty, Moody Blues, Neil Young, The Faces, Rush, Rick Wakeman, Kansas, as well as several "under the radar" acts.

Since Dan never traded copies of his recordings, they are all essentially uncirculated. Some copies were made for friends, but these releases are the first time most of these recordings have ever seen the light of day, and are direct from his master cassettes. No EQ'ing has been done to any of the transfers. Feel free to EQ, matrix, patch, etc and re-post if you like, just give Dan credit for the original recording.

Dan was very meticulous about taking good care of his tapes and is very pleased that these recordings will now circulate among the trading community. Please honour his kindness and generosity by sharing these recordings freely.

The transfers are available as 16bit/44.1KHz flac files suitable for CD burning, and also as 24bit/96KHz flac files for those who prefer the higher resolution.

Always remember - the more generous you are with your music, the more it comes back to you.

Subject: RE: Forgotten rock bands of the 70s
From: GUEST,eric the viking
Date: 22 Feb 10 - 04:49 PM

Chase..............scottish band. John Pettigew is an excellent guitarist, blue, rock, heavy you name it.

Subject: RE: Forgotten rock bands of the 70s
From: Nick
Date: 22 Feb 10 - 04:59 PM

Gentle Giant also in Wolfgang's Vault

Pensioner rock indeed. 60 is the new 32 if you hadn't heard

Subject: RE: Forgotten rock bands of the 70s
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 22 Feb 10 - 06:30 PM

Some of the above are really not in the "forgotten" category.

However, I have to say

1. I was once invited to join the Sweet - as roadie!
2. Someone not wholly unassociated with Sonja Kristina (not her) still owes me money

Subject: RE: Forgotten rock bands of the 70s
From: Pierre Le Chapeau
Date: 22 Feb 10 - 06:49 PM

I was a roadie with John Coughlan Diesel Band Marquee 1979. Coughlan being the drummer of Status Quo.
I got off me me Tits with Andy Bowen keyboarder, Ronnie James Dio,Later to vocal with Rainbow and Rick Parfitt.
My sister worked for

Subject: RE: Forgotten rock bands of the 70s
From: Pierre Le Chapeau
Date: 22 Feb 10 - 06:50 PM

Polydor Records.

Subject: RE: Forgotten rock bands of the 70s
From: Phil Edwards
Date: 22 Feb 10 - 07:04 PM

I got off me me Tits with Andy Bowen

For a moment there I thought that was the name of the band.

Thanks to Brakn for mentioning the Hatfields, and let's not forget National Health. As for Family, Entertainment is permanently etched on my aural memory, but for my money Bandstand is the only good album they made after that. Some bands hit on a sound without choosing to or even wanting to - what goes down as their 'classic' sound may not be what they wanted to sound like at all. The members of Family thought Entertainment was over-produced, and re-recorded several tracks off it later. But then, Joy Division apparently hated the sound of Unknown Pleasures - it's still a great album.

Subject: RE: Forgotten rock bands of the 70s
From: Murray MacLeod
Date: 22 Feb 10 - 07:05 PM

Gentle Giant seem to have attracted several mentions on this thread.

Let it not be forgotten that they started life as "Simon Dupree and the Big Sound " ...

Subject: RE: Forgotten rock bands of the 70s
From: Brakn
Date: 22 Feb 10 - 07:09 PM

Toe Fat?

Subject: RE: Forgotten rock bands of the 70s
From: Murray MacLeod
Date: 22 Feb 10 - 07:10 PM

I've also just remembered that Juicy Lucy were unique in having a pedal steel guitar in their line-up, but the steel guitarist played it rock style, standing up IIRC, no way would he ever have made the Nashville Hall of Fame.

Subject: RE: Forgotten rock bands of the 70s
From: Gavin Paterson
Date: 22 Feb 10 - 07:29 PM

Thank god for punk in 76/77.

To each his own and all that but holy crap - most of these guys are forgotten for good reason.

I've read that we all love the stuff that we heard when we were between 14-18 years old. All that early 70's stuff is just before my era and I hated it then and I haven't changed my mind since.

Basically, for me, there were few decent songs. It was all about technical ability. But I await the pointers in the right direction.

Subject: RE: Forgotten rock bands of the 70s
From: GUEST,Spooky Tooth
Date: 22 Feb 10 - 08:30 PM

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Subject: RE: Forgotten rock bands of the 70s
From: mousethief
Date: 22 Feb 10 - 08:41 PM

It was all about technical ability.

While punk was all about lack thereof, judging by the sound.

O..O
=o=

Subject: RE: Forgotten rock bands of the 70s
From: GUEST,Number 6
Date: 22 Feb 10 - 10:06 PM

Egg

biLL

Subject: RE: Forgotten rock bands of the 70s
From: Jayto
Date: 22 Feb 10 - 11:34 PM

I am going to have to check them out I thought you meant the 80's hair metal band. Sorry never heard of the other one.

Subject: RE: Forgotten rock bands of the 70s
From: glueman
Date: 23 Feb 10 - 01:34 AM

You're not wrong Jorrox, I slept my way through many a prog gig, nicely propped up at the back while someone indulged in a twenty minute keyboard solo.
However we must remember punk was as dead as mutton by 1977 and for every Sex Pistols there were half a dozen Slaughter and the Dogs and for every Buzzcocks a stack of Eaters. Real talent, as opposed to virtuosity or loud noises, is rare wherever you care to look.

Subject: RE: Forgotten rock bands of the 70s
From: glueman
Date: 23 Feb 10 - 01:40 AM

...there were some decent pub rock bands between prog and punk but few translated well onto record. Dr Feelgood never did a bad show.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rViBFgjChH0&feature=related

Go Wilko!

Subject: RE: Forgotten rock bands of the 70s
From: glueman
Date: 23 Feb 10 - 01:50 AM

Roogalator

Subject: RE: Forgotten rock bands of the 70s
From: michaelr
Date: 23 Feb 10 - 01:50 AM

I've read that we all love the stuff that we heard when we were between 14-18 years old.

Too true! Funny how that works -- that stuff was the shit, and what came before and after, not so much. I happen to think that 71 - 75 were the best years ever in popular music, not just for the prog stuff but Joni, Jackson and all that Californie hippie country rock as well.

Subject: RE: Forgotten rock bands of the 70s
From: Roughyed
Date: 23 Feb 10 - 02:39 AM

Anyone else see Trash supporting Curved Air at the Free Trade Hall in Manchester around 1975? One of the best performances I ever saw, they blew Curved Air off the stage I thought. Pierre(?) Van Der Linden was on keyboards. He was the brother of the drummer in Focus, Rick Van der Linden as I recall.

Tonto's Expanding Headband did an album of electronic music around 1971 the like of which would not be heard for another 10 years. How about Comus? Featured Viola, wierd vocalist and even weirder lyrics. A bit later Sad Cafe had a couple of nice singles but never quite made their potential. How about Wally?
And what is egregious about the marvellous Roger Chapman. He was pretty rough with microphones as well as tambourines.

Subject: RE: Forgotten rock bands of the 70s
From: Brakn
Date: 23 Feb 10 - 02:41 AM

G T Moore and The Reggae Guitars.


Skid Row had Gary Moore and Brush Shields and someone else.

I'm nearly that Phil Lynoott started off with them before Thin Lizzy.

Subject: RE: Forgotten rock bands of the 70s
From: glueman
Date: 23 Feb 10 - 03:01 AM

Wings. Abba. Baker Gurvitz Army. Saxon

Subject: RE: Forgotten rock bands of the 70s
From: glueman
Date: 23 Feb 10 - 03:09 AM

Okay, not Abba.

Subject: RE: Forgotten rock bands of the 70s
From: Smedley
Date: 23 Feb 10 - 03:27 AM

Okay, not Abba.

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No, they made great records (and some stinkers), unlike 90% of the fusty crusty old fools celebrated on this thread!!

But the key point is the one about age. When you get nostalgic for the music of your youth, what you are really pining for is not the actual music but the time in your life that it soundtracked. In other words, that state of not-being-nearly-as-old-as-you-are-now (there is probably one word for that in German).

Subject: RE: Forgotten rock bands of the 70s
From: GUEST,oggie
Date: 23 Feb 10 - 03:31 AM

Sutherland Brothers and Quiver
Jack the Lad
Caravan
Brewers Droop

Almost every punk band except for the top ten.

Steve

Subject: RE: Forgotten rock bands of the 70s
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 23 Feb 10 - 03:48 AM

Apparently when Jan Ackerman left Focus he said it was because he felt like a clog in a machine...

(Old NME Joke)

DeG

Subject: RE: Forgotten rock bands of the 70s
From: glueman
Date: 23 Feb 10 - 03:55 AM

Abba were decommissioned from the thread for a ) not being rock, b ) not being forgotten. They were the popular soundtrack for an era, plus all that stuff about the potency of cheap music. Great hair and dresses too even if they look like a period porn intro these days 'you hef come to fix my plumbing meester?'
Agnetha Faltskog started out as a folk singer. I think you can tell.

Subject: RE: Forgotten rock bands of the 70s
From: Smedley
Date: 23 Feb 10 - 04:07 AM

I think the Abba men also started out as Swedish folkies. But we shouldn't clog up this thread with Abba info, we need to reserve space for.....

Piblokto !

Jo Jo Gunne !!

Dumpy's Rusty Nuts !!!

Subject: RE: Forgotten rock bands of the 70s
From: GUEST, Sminky
Date: 23 Feb 10 - 04:15 AM

Sminky - wow, what a lineup! What year was that?

August 1971. It was originally going to be a fund-raiser for Clacton Round Table, and they planned for 10,000. Then Isle of Wight was cancelled, so all eyes turned to Weeley.

They hastily re-organised and upped the capacity to 100,000. Nobody knows how many actually turned up - they tore the fencing down and declared it a free concert - estimates vary between 120,000 and 200,000.

I was a hardened rock freak in those days, but I can still remember Anne Briggs' voice........

Subject: RE: Forgotten rock bands of the 70s
From: Jack Blandiver
Date: 23 Feb 10 - 04:34 AM

Joy Division apparently hated the sound of Unknown Pleasures

Curtis loved it; Barney is at best circumspect - but all (?!) Joy Division did here was provide the songs, it was Hannett who took them apart & put them together again. All will no doubt revealed as Hooky takes the stage in his Unknown Pleasures show which we've got tickets for at the Lowry on May the first.

I had a dream last night that Hooky hit Number One with his acoustic reworking of Love Will Tear Us Apart on the thirtieth anniversary of Curtis's untimely passing. Still, we're nudging awkwardly into the eighties here...

*

If there are any Hatfield fans out there check these out: http://www.hatfieldandthenorth.co.uk/

They still make me smile: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGjRhhggSFo

Subject: RE: Forgotten rock bands of the 70s
From: GUEST,Steamin' Willie
Date: 23 Feb 10 - 04:46 AM

remember some time in the late '70s / early '80s going to watch Judas Priest at Sheffield City Hall.

That alone fits the threads, but the support band were some lads from Northern Ireland (I think) called Mamas Boys. They played jigs & reels hard rock style and I remember thinking that summed up my life at the time. (I was in a punk band on, say a Saturday night, and rattling off traditional folk in the same pub on a Sunday night.....)

Subject: RE: Forgotten rock bands of the 70s
From: Stu
Date: 23 Feb 10 - 04:58 AM

Splinter (although I've only got one of their records, George Harrison was involved)

His Holiness Lord Roy Wood of Hall Green

Subject: RE: Forgotten rock bands of the 70s
From: RamblinStu
Date: 23 Feb 10 - 05:28 AM

Barclay James Harvest,

(not sure you could call then rock, but hey, I liked them. At the time..)


Stuart Pendrill

Subject: RE: Forgotten rock bands of the 70s
From: GUEST,'70's remembered
Date: 23 Feb 10 - 05:33 AM

From: GUEST,punkfolkrocker said
Date: 21 Feb 10 - 06:25 PM

Best early 70's UK rock band rarely ever remembered


"Rare Bird" !!!

Interesting thread this one and on a Rare Bird intro ....what about..

Capability Brown

Subject: RE: Forgotten rock bands of the 70s
From: Hamish
Date: 23 Feb 10 - 05:47 AM

Jody Grind. Fabulous album called Far Canal. (Say it with a Dick Van Dyke Cockerney accent). There's a lovely jazzy number on it which I still play from time to time on the acoustic.

Subject: RE: Forgotten rock bands of the 70s
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 23 Feb 10 - 07:46 AM

Are Nazareth sufficiently forgotten yet?

I loved the Pretty Things when they started out ("Hey! Mama! Keep your big mouth shut") but by the mid 70s they were sort of sub-Led-Zeppelin.

Subject: RE: Forgotten rock bands of the 70s
From: Acorn4
Date: 23 Feb 10 - 07:54 AM

On of my all time favourites:-

Brinsley Schwarz

Included Nick Lowe and some band member who became part of Graham Parker and the Rumour.

Subject: RE: Forgotten rock bands of the 70s
From: GUEST
Date: 23 Feb 10 - 08:13 AM

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