Tygers of Pan Tang (with John Sykes)
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Y&T
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Krokus
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Here's a really interesting one...

Blue Murder (John Sykes) doing a song Sykes wrote and recorded while in some other band...
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...and one of their own songs.
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Riot (R.I.P. Rhett Forrester & Guy Speranza)...
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From a 1976 promo "movie" with the original Riot line-up...
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These guys are pretty cool - they've been around for over 20 years, this is from an album that came out in 2000 (with Graham Bonnett on vocals). This vid is post-Bonnett.

From Japan - Anthem!
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Hell, while we're talking Japanese Metal bands - the biggest of them all...

LOUDNESS!!!
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The Dictators

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MC5

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One of my all-time favorite bands....

Southern California's Finest - Armored Saint!
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(Semi Cheesy Video - GREAT song!)
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The Low-Fat Video (Hold the cheese)...
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Live...
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Legendary band that hardly anyone knew about (if that makes sense)...

Kick out the jams!

Going back a way, there! VERY influential band.

This has been done before:

http://forum.dvdtalk.com/showthread.php?t=264511

No, not quite.

Feel free to post a video link for a great, almost forgotten Hard Rock or Metal band and participate, though.

Well, we didn't have YouTube back then.

What happend to the guy's from Riot?

Budgie were just too pretty for rock godhood.
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Is that a woman singing?

Rhett Forrester was shot and killed by a carjacker in Atlanta in 2004 (the crime is, unfortunately, still unsolved), and Guy Speranza died from cancer in 2003.

Nope. And I've got to imagine that if they had a better singer that they just might have been a little more successful. Budgie was pretty ahead of their time musically.

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