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Favourite 70s classic rock
The Boston thread got me thinking about the great music from the 70's, and I remembered one of my hot favourites:
The first album from Montrose was amazing! Great songs, great vocals from a young Sammy Hagar, and absolute rip your face off guitar playing!
What did it for you?
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Led Zeppelin
Thin Lizzy
Doobie Brothers
Nazareth
Curved Air
Wishbone Ash
Slade(yes them)
Golden Earring
The Warner Bros 59p sampler - had Montrose, Little Feat and a load more - brillant album
Free
T Rex Electric Warrior
John Kongos
Eric (Slowhand, Backless etc), Derek & The Dominoes, Blind Faith
Bowie - Ziggy - Mick Ronson at the height of his swaggering powers
Hawkwind
Rory Gallagher
Aerosmith (saw them at 1976 Reading Rock)
Alex Harvey
....
Lord we were spolit, and this is all pre-punk 1970-1976
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Focus
Camel
Soft Machine
Mahavishnu Orchestra
Budgie
Groundhogs
Black Sabbath
Genesis
Weather Report
I saw most of the above play live, plus a few off Jal's list. It makes me realise the 70s was a superb time to be growing up, listening to genuinely exciting new music and going to gigs.
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Camel
Deep Purple
Wishbone Ash
Groundhogs
Rick Wakeman
Strawbs
plus I listened to a lot of acoustic stuff incl
James Taylor (first & foremost)
Jonathan Kelly
Cat Stevens
Simon & Garfunkel
and, because of people I respected who were a bit older than me told me about them (60s acts still popular in the early 70s):
Beatles
Rolling Stones
Cream
John Mayall's Bluesbreakers
Jimi Hendrix
Bob Dylan
Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
Great instrumentalists hamstrung by dreadful lyrics and histrionic caterwauling.
Why the fuck does any band need David Coverdale and Glenn Hughes?
IMO the early 70s was one of the finest periods for rock music- not only were bands like Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath and the like setting the template for mainstream rock and metal for the next 30 years, but you also had more progressive bands with major label budgets and distribution being given the opportunity to make all manner of innovative, challenging (self-indulgent, unintelligible) music and a wide audience to hear it.
The albums from that period that get the most play in my house are probably Yes's "holy trinity"- The Yes Album, Fragile and Close To The Edge, John Martyn's Solid Air, King Crimson's In The Court Of The Crimson King and Red and Led Zeppelin IV, which is as close to a perfect rock record as you can get IMO.
Don't talk politics and don't throw stones. Your royal highnesses.
Frank Zappa
Caravan
Atomic Rooster
Chicken Shack
Bad Company
Jethro Tull
Deep Purple
and many more
Indeed, but Gillan was every bit as prone to thoroughly unnecessary squealing (and laughter, which is quite endearing).
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I was born in 1986, but can I still play?
Rush, Genesis, Jethro Tull, Kansas, Rainbow.
Also
Bang
Sir Lord Balintore
Dust
Mayblitz
My Solid Ground
Gravy Train
Dark
Aphrodites Child
Captain Beyond
Titanic
Blood rock
Granicus
Boulder Damn
Nightsun
Coverdale would have ruined that song. But then he probably never would have written it like that.
Don't talk politics and don't throw stones. Your royal highnesses.
Have we prodced such great music over the years because the alternative was to listen to the shite that's pumped out across the airwaves?
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