MIA - heavy bands from the 70s

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Here's where you can dump all the great unknown and underappreciated bands from your 60s and 70s trippin days that you think the rest of us should finally get around to digging too.

Dust



Toad - Vic Vergeat!



Open Mind



Budgie - Tony Bourge!





Captain Beyond





Edgar Broughton Band



The Pink Faries



Captain Beefheart



Lucifer's Friend

 

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Good timing my friend just got that Dust album on CD only days back and we listened to it at work!

 

[Retro Hound]

Thanks, I'd never heard of most of these. I really liked Dust and Open Mind.

 

[syo]

Alright, here are three (somewhat) lesser knowns that were a regular part of my 70's rotation...

Gentle Giant


Be Bop Deluxe


Van Der Graaf Generator

 

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Dust were one of my faves from long ago. They were fresh out of high school when they recorded their first LP and didn't go anywhere as Dust, by '72 they were gone. But besides having two of the best album covers ever, the drummer Marc Bell, became Marky Ramone and bassist Kenny Aarronson, having been a top NY session player for decades was also with Derringer in the later 70s and is doing the current reunion tour w/Rick. He was also in Brian Setzer's Radiation Ranch band that played the first Live Aid. Guitarist Ritchie Wise teamed with producer Kenny Kerner for the first few Kiss LPs then vanished.



Iron Claw



Necronomicon



Valhalla


Truth And Janey



Alkana



Flax



Zior



Tear Gas



Gift (w/stupid but funny gore film)



Epitath



Atlantis



Headstone



Tarkus



Black Cat Bones w/Paul Kossoff



Liquid Sound Company



Babe Ruth



Murphy Blend



Ancient Grease



Writing On The Wall



Brainticket



Amon Duul II - my most favorite German band. Sadly, the great guitarist Michael Karoli passed away last year.

 

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From So. Africa no less - Suck



Buffalo



John Robinson - Keep your eyes on the hands...



Flied Egg



From Japan - Food Brain



Fraction



Warhorse w/Ritual - on bass Nicky Simper from Deep Purple Mk 1



Speaking of DP, God I wish Ritchie was still into tearing it up!
Note the 1/2" vibrato bar. He kept breaking them and asking his tech to make them sturdier. The guy made this and said "if you break this one I don't want to know".



Rare to see him ripping on a 335.



More rare Mk1 material with the II line-up. Idiot producers with their artsy crap messin up Ritchie's craziness.



Tucky Buzzard



Steamhammer



The Gun w/the Gurvitz brothers, Adrian (guitar) & Paul (bass).



The Human Instinct



John Kongos - I always dug this heavy pop ditty.



Groundshaker





Mariani w/Eric Johnson



Peacepipe



Virus



Heaven



Eternal Elysium



Corpus



German Oak



Schizo



Sweden's Baby Grandmothers



And here they are recently, still pretty crunchy.



Poe



Captain Marryat



Can't forget Bo Hanson - I've loved this guy's music from day 1, and this is the first LP's premier cut. Jimi did too and wanted to work with him.

 

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One of the great hidden gems off the first LP by Second Hand



One of my faves by a fave band, Golden Earring



Hawkwind

 

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Straight ahead into the past...

Time to rock with Highway Robbery





Truth & Janey had some REAL promise





London's via Canada... Thundermug



German engineering... Jeronimo



I have no clue about :applause Steeplechase



You know 'em, you love 'em, Brownsville Station

RIP'r Cub



...figure it out yourself, yes Paris, this is hot!



Fuzzgasm with the Ron Wray Light Show



Praying Mantis... ?



Jerusalem



Viva le France - Variations



This is cool too

 

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From Peru! Pax



Brainbox - Akkerman pre-Focus





Vintage JA ...sounds like a hit to me



Stretch'n the time line with this 1980 wonder... Raven THEY ROCK!



I'd hate to follow them



Fanny Adams - Australia's answer to FREE



their frontman steps out...



More Aussie power - Buffalo



Rare ELOY



Sludge on with Jex Thoth