70s Bands - Recommendations please

ICBM

MagicPigDetective said:

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. 

Get the third one as well - Long Live Rock'n'Roll - it's the best one in my opinion. It also has a brilliant cover with a caricature of Blackmore that's just perfect - makes him look shifty and devious .

I also like Down To Earth with Graham Bonnet... although more accurately I like the half of it that's on The Very Best Of Rainbow. After that... meh.

As a bit of trivia, Rainbow weren't the first band to cover Since You've Been Gone - South African girl band Clout were.



They also recorded the first single I ever bought (along with Marshall Hain's Dancing In The City) - Substitute.

beed84

“Hey Ben, what did you do in 2018?”

“Listened to the 70s.”

Mega snowed under here guys.

Mickeyji

Did we have these guys yet? I listened to their first album a lot in 1973/74:

Jimbro66

A current thread on here about LAB Series amps reminded me of these guys. A great live band on the pub circuit in the seventies. This vid from OGWT:

57Deluxe

Groundhogs 70s stuff is epic. Tony TS McPhee was the arbiter of the first Guitar Synth and can be heard to good effect on this 74 classic from the LP Solid - Light My Light

rustneversleeps

The Family
Jetho Tull
Steve Miller band
Ten years after
early Santana
Hall and Oates 

smogmonster

Has anyone mentioned the Skids yet?

Shrews

A very young Robert Smith, singing one of The Cure's finest

I love the comment from YouTuber Sandes Doc  "Back in the days when Robert Smith didn't look like your dishevelled aunt."  

Shrews

Up The Junction.  1979 one of the great years for music

Shrews

Holidays in the Sun.  Raw energy to get the juices flowing.  There's a great cover version instrumental below.  One of my guitar ambitions is to play guitar like Steve Jones, or even that cover band!

boogieman

57Deluxe said:

Groundhogs 70s stuff is epic. Tony TS McPhee was the arbiter of the first Guitar Synth and can be heard to good effect on this 74 classic from the LP Solid - Light My Light

Good grief, did we really miss the Hogs off the list? Their 70s output was amazing. Quite how Tony McPhee doesn’t get the recognition he deserves is a bit of a mystery, he was doing some incredible experimentational stuff with guitar and synths back then but not many people would recognise the name nowadays. He’s still around and playing but sadly a couple of strokes have left him severely limited in what he can do with the guitar. He’s still got a wicked sense of humour though and his memory is incredible, some of his stories about playing with John Lee Hooker are hilarious. 

Mark1960

Steve Gibbons Band - Rockpile - Dave Edmunds - Dr Feelgood - Pirates.

fields5069

Television. Tom Verlaine and Richard Lloyd = amazing.

Reverend

boogieman said:

57Deluxe said:

Groundhogs 70s stuff is epic. Tony TS McPhee was the arbiter of the first Guitar Synth and can be heard to good effect on this 74 classic from the LP Solid - Light My Light

Good grief, did we really miss the Hogs off the list? Their 70s output was amazing. Quite how Tony McPhee doesn’t get the recognition he deserves is a bit of a mystery, he was doing some incredible experimentational stuff with guitar and synths back then but not many people would recognise the name nowadays. He’s still around and playing but sadly a couple of strokes have left him severely limited in what he can do with the guitar. He’s still got a wicked sense of humour though and his memory is incredible, some of his stories about playing with John Lee Hooker are hilarious. 

AS far as I know he has had to knock the guitar on the head as well now. 

I've seen Ken Pustelnick's version a couple of times and they are great. 

boogieman

Reverend said:

boogieman said:

57Deluxe said:

Groundhogs 70s stuff is epic. Tony TS McPhee was the arbiter of the first Guitar Synth and can be heard to good effect on this 74 classic from the LP Solid - Light My Light

Good grief, did we really miss the Hogs off the list? Their 70s output was amazing. Quite how Tony McPhee doesn’t get the recognition he deserves is a bit of a mystery, he was doing some incredible experimentational stuff with guitar and synths back then but not many people would recognise the name nowadays. He’s still around and playing but sadly a couple of strokes have left him severely limited in what he can do with the guitar. He’s still got a wicked sense of humour though and his memory is incredible, some of his stories about playing with John Lee Hooker are hilarious. 

AS far as I know he has had to knock the guitar on the head as well now. 

I've seen Ken Pustelnick's version a couple of times and they are great. 

Good to hear about the KP version, I’ll have to look out for them.

Tony still plays a bit, he pops up on Facebook clips now and then at some open mike nights near where he lives. I get the feeling it’s because people remember him as the great player he was though, cos he’s certainly very limited now. He seems to play more slide than anything else and he hasn’t been able to sing for years. Such a shame when this kind of thing happens to decent players but at least he still has some playing ability : Larry Miller and Jerry Donohue both can’t play at all now.