B5Erik

This is another topic that came up in another thread, and I thought it deserved its own thread.

Forgotten, or lesser known, 70's Rock Bands.

Like these....

Starz:
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Legs Diamond:
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(This one is GREAT! "Stage Fright")


ANGEL:
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Gotta love the 70's!

There was a band from the 70's called Rex that I've never heard, but read about. Pretty obscure stuff (Rex Smith was the lead singer, and he became a total Pop guy a couple years later).

wendersfan

I remember Angel. Probably the cheesiest band in history.

Anyone remember the Dwight Twilley Band?



Or how about The Motors?

JOE29

If you ever want to try out Starz get the remastered cd of Violation. I have a few others from them but they don't compare to Violation.
As for Angel On Earth As it is in Heaven was good and Live Without A Net was ok also.
I used to have these on 8- track back in the day.
Everyone remembers 8-track right?
Another 70's band that was pretty good was Detective. They had a great debut album by the same name. I don't have a video for you of them and yes, I also had their 8 track when they first released it.

Geofferson

Wishbone Ash comes to mind.

Leather Face

I also have the remastered Violation and Joe is right.It is awesome!
I was never into Angel too much.I once had one of their albums (White Hot or something like that)and didn't really think too much of it.
Do any of you older guys remember when there was a rumour that Angel was actually Kiss without make-up?
Pretty stupid looking back at that now.
I'll add a few:
-Black Oak Arkansas
-Teaze
-Suzi Quatro

Here's one of my fave Cdn bands,Goddo:
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rw2516

They're still around. In an older thread somebody said they had 50 or so cds by them in their collection.

Cactus
Atomic Rooster
Mahogany Rush
Silverhead
Bloodrock
Mason Proffit
Ross
Crawler
Jo Jo Gunne
Baby

macnorton

My uncle has seen Angel a bunch of times and I think he is friends with the band.

I vote for Focus...remember those guys.

Also extra points to Geofferson for mentioning Wishbone Ash!

auto

Anyone else get the feeling that B5Erik just learned to post YouTube videos this week?

Flashback

Actually, though, I do appreciate it since it saves me the time to look them up on youtube for some that I am interested in checking out.

JOE29

Actually, though, I do appreciate it since it saves me the time to look them up on youtube for some that I am interested in checking out.

I agree. It's fun to see these old bands again. Espescially the bands that I have forgotten about over the years.
Mahogany Rush was cool also, as rw listed. Frank Marino thought he was the re- incarnation of Hendrix

rw2516

Anybody else remember The Buoys ? Had a hit around '71 or so called "Timothy". About a some miners trapped in a mine. They eat their mule(Timothy) to stay alive. There was some controversy at the time that Timothy was one of the trapped miners and the song was about cannibalism.

Breton

Rupert Holmes wrote "Timothy," and later went on to have a solo hit with "Escape (The Pina Colada Song)" in the late '70s. He also claimed he wrote "Timothy" in hopes it would get banned. The record company made up the story about it being a mule; it is about cannabilism.

Leather Face

Here is a classic clip of The Sensational Alex Harvey Band.
Check out the very underated guitar playing of Zal Cleminson.
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B5Erik

Dude, where have you been?

I've been posting vids like that for a couple of years now...