70s Bands - Recommendations please

beed84

So, I'm currently on something of a 70s trip and have discovered some bloody awesome stuff by Styx, Kansas and Wishbone Ash - seriously, how have I not heard some of this material before?!

Anyway, without stating any obvious bands - e.g. Led Zep, Black Sabbath, Journey, Free, etc - what other 70s bands should I be listening to?

fields5069

Television, although I'm not sure they fit in with what you've mentioned so far.

Gagaryn

The Faces and Slade. :-) And the New York Dolls. And Suicide. And Joni Mitchell. And Alex Harvey. And Big Star, Pistols and the Clash. Stooges. Bowie. Heartbreakers. Roxy Music. John Martyn. et al

I could go on and on but will resist

fastonebaz

Acdc 1974 to 1979. Classic. 

bloodandtears

Love Styx...

Try Boston?

Philly_Q

Mountain.  Robin Trower.  Blue Oyster Cult.  Johnny Winter (rock period).  Rick Derringer.  Montrose.

Now my mind's gone blank... Gentle Giant?

Of course there's loads of prog, loads of obscure (and not so obscure) American AOR bands.

I'm a big Wishbone Ash and Kansas fan.  Not so familiar with Styx apart from their hits, although I was listening to some of their early stuff on Spotify a few weeks ago.

SimonC

70’s UFO stuff is excellent, as is 70’s Scorpions, and Thin Lizzy of course.

Lesser known stuff worth a listen such as Family / Streetwalkers, Derringer, Frank Marino, Pat Travers, James Gang, Back Street Crawler to name a few.

70’s Kiss always raises a smile as well.

Winny_Pooh

Little Feat - Dixie Chicken & Feats dont fail me now
Joe walsh - You can't argue with a sick mind.
Geordie - Dont be fooled by the name
XIT - Silent warrior

west

Steely Dan ......

EricTheWeary

Grand Funk ( aka Grand Funk Railroad).

Queen ( their 70's output being different to their latter stuff). 

Graham Parker.

Golden Earring

On a different tangent Peter Tosh's seventies albums as he had taken on a lot of rock influence. 

Aerosmith ( who were far more interesting in the seventies). 

Focus.

Philly_Q

EricTheWeary said:

Aerosmith ( who were far more interesting in the seventies). 

Oh so very true.

EricTheWeary

Philly_Q said:

EricTheWeary said:

Aerosmith ( who were far more interesting in the seventies). 

Oh so very true.

I've gone on about this before but albums in the 70s tended to be quite varied so you had an end to end listening experience ( Big Ten Inch Record off the 'Smiths Toys in the Attic for example) but by the mid 80s had become vehicles for singles ( Bon Jovi for example) or potential singles so albums started becoming more homogeneous, not then helped by entering the download period. 

Grocer_Jack

fields5069 said:

Television, although I'm not sure they fit in with what you've mentioned so far.

Have a bucketload of Wiz!  Definitely one of my top 3 bands ever - even if people think they don't like new wavey kind of stuff they ought to listen to Television. Seriously great guitar work from Tom Verlaine and Richard Lloyd and the sparkly sound of Jazzmasters, Jags and Strats into big Fender amps shows that the 70s wasn't all about Les Paul's into Marshall stacks. Try them!

beed84

Jesus, I’ve got my work cut out not to mention a potential hike in vinyl costs!

I’m just listening to Robin Trower now and once again, how have I not heard his music before? It’s right up my street!

Thanks guys, keep em coming 

Grocer_Jack

Talking Heads, The Cars, The Flamin' Groovies, Elvis Costello's first 3 albums, Mott The Hoople, Magazine, Joy Division, Dr.Feelgood, Richard Hell, The Buzzcocks, Siouxsie and The Banshees debut, The Sex Pistols, Patti Smith, Can, Neu, Kraftwerk, Cluster/Harmonia, Syd Barrett solo, The Pretenders debut, Joni Mitchell's 70s stuff, Sandy Denny, Brian Eno's first four albums, Rory Gallagher, The Clash first 3, Big Star, T-Rex, Tom Petty, Johnny Thunders, The Only Ones (great guitar from John Perry on these albums).

i could go on all day....

blobb

Camel, without a doubt Camel.

And early Caravan.

Man, Nektar, Hillage, National Health.

and

Here & Now.

Grocer_Jack

King Tubby, Lee Scratch Perry (anything involving either of these). 
Robert Wyatt, Bowie obviously, Chic, The Meters, Al Green, The Flys, The Saints, Lou Reed solo, Radio Birdman

lasermonkey

Another vote for Big Star and Television.

fields5069

Shuggie Otis. Strawberry Letter 23 and all that.

proggy

Groundhogs. If you haven't heard it, check out the album 'Split'. Brilliant old band.

Also, have a listen to Ten Years After.

EricTheWeary

fields5069 said:

Shuggie Otis. Strawberry Letter 23 and all that.

Oh yes. Great , great overlooked talent. I saw him play in a pub in Birmingham many years ago. 
For his more blues stuff there's Preston Love's Omaha BBQ and he did one of the Al Kooper albums ( Super Sessions Vol II). He also played on the Johnny Otis albums but that's going back into the sixties and more straight RnB. 

I'd also nominate some of the 70s funk bands like Sly and the Family Stone and Parliament/ Funkadelic. Think prog rock you can dance to rather than James Brown type funk. It was the 1970s, all music had guitar solos.