70s Bands - Recommendations please

Phil_aka_Pip

MagicPigDetective said:

Creme Brulee 

Would you be allowed to start a band called that? I think you might have legal trouble, similar if you tried to start one called Disaster Area, or Dennis and the Dinmakers ...

MagicPigDetective

Phil_aka_Pip said:

MagicPigDetective said:

Creme Brulee 

Would you be allowed to start a band called that? I think you might have legal trouble, similar if you tried to start one called Disaster Area, or Dennis and the Dinmakers ...

Yeah, the bastards would probably stop you. It's a shit business.

blobb

boogieman said:

I think Man have been mentioned a couple of times. If you do get around to listening to them, go for the live stuff, it’s infinitely better than any of their studio albums. There’s a very good double album called Man Alive that has some of their best 70s material. 

And another vote for Focus and Budgie. 

Maximum Darkness - Live stuff, 3 guitar players (John Cipolina guested with them)
Whinos, Rhinos & Lunatics - studio stuff, she's the Whore who will open the door....

Also check out The Neutrons for a great MAN band spin off.

I like to eat Bananas...'cos they got no bones....I like Mari-juana...'cos it gets me stoned.

Philly_Q

MagicPigDetective said:

Phil_aka_Pip said:

MagicPigDetective said:

Creme Brulee 

Would you be allowed to start a band called that? I think you might have legal trouble, similar if you tried to start one called Disaster Area, or Dennis and the Dinmakers ...

Yeah, the bastards would probably stop you. It's a shit business.

I'd imagine the League of Gentlemen would be quite amused if someone started a band called Crème Brulee, although it might not be their decision whether or not to take action over it.

When I was a kid I saw a band in Swansea called Slartibartfast.  I realise that's not quite the same as calling your band Disaster Area... and they didn't attract attention by going on to international stardom.  They didn't even go on to local stardom.  For local people.

Jimbro66

Roland said:

King Crimson. Emerson Lake and Palmer. CapabilityBrown. Edgar Broughton. Sensational Alex Harvey Band. Atomic Rooster. .....

Good call. Capability Brown was a pretty amazing band, pioneering three-guitar rock and powerful harmony vocals. Sadly short-lived in the very early seventies, some of the members went on to form Krazy Kat but the latter did not have the same impact. Unfortunately there is no You Tube video of CB other that album tracks accompanied by still photos.

scrumhalf

Man Live at Reading from 1993 is a good live album. There are some good bootlegs out there as well as some not-so-good ones.

Another Man spinoff is Deke Leonard's Iceberg. Deke's vocals may be a bit of an acquired taste but I've loved this track for decades:

artiebear

frank1985 said:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhwLl4lPY54

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMXeZWv6AS0

So sad to note that Mike Harrison of Spooky Tooth left us for a far better gig over the previous weekend . RIP

Phil_aka_Pip

@artiebear so sorry to learn that. did a google, found this:
http://dmme.net/mike-harrison-of-spooky-tooth-passed-away/

flyingv

https://youtu.be/Ndnidos5HRU?t=93 Awesome band' light years ahead of their time!

hywelg

Just skim read the first 4 pages and I didn't see anyone mention Free.

FFS..

FREE were THE best rock band of the 70's.

Oh @ICBM , you missed off Dog of Two Head......Quo were brilliant in those early years. Saw them many many times.

MagicPigDetective

Free are covered in the opening post.

What’s the opinion on Rainbow? I’ve always dismissed them based on my opinion of Since you’ve been Gone being shite. But last night on Planet  Rock I heard Man on the Silver Mountain - what a great tune! As good as Deep Purple.  Are they worth further listening? 

Rabs

MagicPigDetective said:

Free are covered in the opening post.

What’s the opinion on Rainbow? I’ve always dismissed them based on my opinion of Since you’ve been Gone being shite. But last night on Planet  Rock I heard Man on the Silver Mountain - what a great tune! As good as Deep Purple.  Are they worth further listening? 

Yes..   The thing with Rainbow is they went through many changes..  The Dio era is as far as im concerned well worth a listen.... Their other stuff, some of its ok..  If not a bit middle of the road.

Rainbow (also known as Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow or Blackmore's Rainbow) is a British rock band led by guitarist Ritchie Blackmore, active from 1975 to 1984, from 1993 to 1997, and from 2015 to the present. They were originally established with Ronnie James Dio's American rock band Elf, but after their first album, Blackmore fired the backing members and continued with Dio until 1979. Three British musicians joined in 1979—singer Graham Bonnet, keyboardist Don Airey and then-former Deep Purple bassist Roger Glover—and this line-up gave the band their commercial breakthrough with the single "Since You Been Gone". Over the years Rainbow went through many line-up changes with no two studio albums featuring the same line-up. Other lead singers Joe Lynn Turner and Doogie White would follow, and the project consisted of numerous backing musicians. A pioneer to power metal, the band's early work primarily featured mystical lyrics with a neoclassical metal style, but went in a more streamlined, commercial direction following Dio's departure from the group.[1]

AlexC

As an aside - I’ve played guitar with Doogie White about ten years ago. Well, he was singing... you know what I mean. I was trying to get Blackmore stories out of him, but he was very loyal and wouldn’t give anything away. Haha!

EricTheWeary

Rabs said:

MagicPigDetective said:

Free are covered in the opening post.

What’s the opinion on Rainbow? I’ve always dismissed them based on my opinion of Since you’ve been Gone being shite. But last night on Planet  Rock I heard Man on the Silver Mountain - what a great tune! As good as Deep Purple.  Are they worth further listening? 

Yes..   The thing with Rainbow is they went through many changes..  The Dio era is as far as im concerned well worth a listen.... Their other stuff, some of its ok..  If not a bit middle of the road.

Rainbow (also known as Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow or Blackmore's Rainbow) is a British rock band led by guitarist Ritchie Blackmore, active from 1975 to 1984, from 1993 to 1997, and from 2015 to the present. They were originally established with Ronnie James Dio's American rock band Elf, but after their first album, Blackmore fired the backing members and continued with Dio until 1979. Three British musicians joined in 1979—singer Graham Bonnet, keyboardist Don Airey and then-former Deep Purple bassist Roger Glover—and this line-up gave the band their commercial breakthrough with the single "Since You Been Gone". Over the years Rainbow went through many line-up changes with no two studio albums featuring the same line-up. Other lead singers Joe Lynn Turner and Doogie White would follow, and the project consisted of numerous backing musicians. A pioneer to power metal, the band's early work primarily featured mystical lyrics with a neoclassical metal style, but went in a more streamlined, commercial direction following Dio's departure from the group.[1]

In the recent come back shows about half the set was Deep Purple stuff, maybe that shows a bit of lack of faith in the depth of the Rainbow catalogue. I’ve got a Best Of cd somewhere and it’s like being jerked between about three different bands. Certainly the Dio period stuff is the stuff that sounds on the whole sounds less like A.N.Other rock band. 

Rabs

EricTheWeary said:

Rabs said:

MagicPigDetective said:

Free are covered in the opening post.

What’s the opinion on Rainbow? I’ve always dismissed them based on my opinion of Since you’ve been Gone being shite. But last night on Planet  Rock I heard Man on the Silver Mountain - what a great tune! As good as Deep Purple.  Are they worth further listening? 

Yes..   The thing with Rainbow is they went through many changes..  The Dio era is as far as im concerned well worth a listen.... Their other stuff, some of its ok..  If not a bit middle of the road.

Rainbow (also known as Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow or Blackmore's Rainbow) is a British rock band led by guitarist Ritchie Blackmore, active from 1975 to 1984, from 1993 to 1997, and from 2015 to the present. They were originally established with Ronnie James Dio's American rock band Elf, but after their first album, Blackmore fired the backing members and continued with Dio until 1979. Three British musicians joined in 1979—singer Graham Bonnet, keyboardist Don Airey and then-former Deep Purple bassist Roger Glover—and this line-up gave the band their commercial breakthrough with the single "Since You Been Gone". Over the years Rainbow went through many line-up changes with no two studio albums featuring the same line-up. Other lead singers Joe Lynn Turner and Doogie White would follow, and the project consisted of numerous backing musicians. A pioneer to power metal, the band's early work primarily featured mystical lyrics with a neoclassical metal style, but went in a more streamlined, commercial direction following Dio's departure from the group.[1]

In the recent come back shows about half the set was Deep Purple stuff, maybe that shows a bit of lack of faith in the depth of the Rainbow catalogue. I’ve got a Best Of cd somewhere and it’s like being jerked between about three different bands. Certainly the Dio period stuff is the stuff that sounds on the whole sounds less like A.N.Other rock band. 

Well I think we have all heard tales of how hard Blackmore was to work with....  And as mentioned above they had a different line up for every album after Dio... Which just says it all really 

Philly_Q

Rabs said:

Well I think we have all heard tales of how hard Blackmore was to work with....  And as mentioned above they had a different line up for every album after Dio... Which just says it all really 

They also had a different lineup for pretty much every album with Dio, so it was nothing new.

Rainbow was the first heavy rock band I really got into as a 15 year old, and Down to Earth was the first of their albums I bought (on clear vinyl).  But the Dio-era albums have stood the test of time much better than the later ones, I think.

Phil_aka_Pip

MagicPigDetective said:

Free are covered in the opening post.

What’s the opinion on Rainbow? I’ve always dismissed them based on my opinion of Since you’ve been Gone being shite. But last night on Planet  Rock I heard Man on the Silver Mountain - what a great tune! As good as Deep Purple.  Are they worth further listening? 

IMO yes, Mr Blackmore is the guitarist and it's his band. You may or may not like the singer but the vocals are not why I like Rainbow. I loved the live version on MOTSM it had loads of energy, the studio version struck me as dull.

Fretwired

Phil_aka_Pip said:

MagicPigDetective said:

Free are covered in the opening post.

What’s the opinion on Rainbow? I’ve always dismissed them based on my opinion of Since you’ve been Gone being shite. But last night on Planet  Rock I heard Man on the Silver Mountain - what a great tune! As good as Deep Purple.  Are they worth further listening? 

IMO yes, Mr Blackmore is the guitarist and it's his band. You may or may not like the singer but the vocals are not why I like Rainbow. I loved the live version on MOTSM it had loads of energy, the studio version struck me as dull.

Rainbow are ace if you get the right albums with Dio ... channelling some Deep Purple ...

HarrySeven

Hmmm...70's bands, you say? Suspend all disbelief and give the following a spin...

Ultravox: Ultravox!
Ultravox: HaHaHa
Ultravox: Systems of Romance
Television: Marquee Moon
X-Ray Spex: Germfree Adolescents
Devo: Q: Are We Not Men?
The Cars: The Cars
The Cure: Three Imaginary Boys
The Cure: 17 Seconds
The Specials: The Specials
David Bowie: Scary Monsters
Joy Division: Unknown Pleasures
The Jam: All Mod Cons
Japan: Quiet Life
Richard Hell and the Voidoids: Blank Generation
The Buzzcocks: Singles Going Steady
Radio Birdman: Radios Appear
Stranglers: No More Heroes
Stranglers: Rattus Norvegicus
Wire: Pink Flag
Sniff ‘n’ the Tears: Fickle Heart
Gang of Four: Entertainment
Kraftwerk: Radioactivity
Kraftwerk: The Man Machine
The Ramones: The Ramones
The Clash: London Calling
Neu!: Neu! '75
The Ruts: The Crack
The Ruts: Grin and Bear It
Bauhaus: Bela Lugosi's Dead (12")
Bill Nelson's Red Noise: Sound on Sound
Be-Bop Deluxe: Axe Victim
Be-Bop Deluxe: Sunburst Finish
Be-Bop Deluxe: Modern Music
Skids: Days in Europa
Killing Joke: KIlling Joke
Magazine: Real Life
The Damned: Machine Gun Etiquette
The Saints: I'm Stranded

Voila!

MagicPigDetective

Thanks for the Rainbow advice; I’ve downloaded the first two albums with Dio and it’s good stuff. Shows that you shouldn’t judge a band based on one song.