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Plus Focus, Gong, Van der Graaf Generator, Bill Bruford, BeBop Deluxe, Brand X, Egg, Ekseption ...
... but most of all, first and foremost Camel. Andy Latimer is a wonderful musician.
Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
@Phil_aka_Pip are you planning on going to see the Moonmadness tour? I would love to see that, too far away for me though.
I once saw Nucleus, in St Albans, I think. Isotope were on the same bill. Must have been early-mid 1970s. Mindblowingly agile and complex music.
Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
The Sweet
Boomtown Rats. Seriously under-rated band. Albums - A Tonic For the Troops and The Fine Art Of Surfacing.
Blondie. If you're only familiar with the singles, you'll be amazed how great most of the other tracks on the albums are. Parallel Lines and Eat To The Beat are the best albums.
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A lot have been mentioned.. I quite like Supertramp...
Hmmm, how about Rainbow... Cant beat a bit of Dio
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On a Blondies related note check out The Nerves (Jack Lee's band - he wrote Hanging On The Telephone and Will Anything Happen on Parallel Lines)
The Who - Who's Next, Quadrophenia and Who By Numbers.
Mighty Baby might appeal on the rustic-Eastern-psych front.
Velvet Underground - Loaded
Gene Clark - No Other
Slightly surprised you didn’t suggest 1970’s Déjà Vu by Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young or any of the seventies Neil Young albums ( I’d be good with Harvest from 1972 although neither that or Déjà Vu are very rock’n’roll).
Lots of mentions for Johnny Winter so I’ll go off at yet another angle and say Hard Again and I’m Ready by Muddy Waters, produced by Winter. There’s quite a lot of unsympathetically recorded blues in the 70s ( like the awful London Howling Wolf Sessions and Albert King’s attempts at sub disco) but these are very much the exception. Not an obvious next point from the OP listening to Styx but a rare opportunity to hear a blues great recorded on modern era equipment.
Ooh, I should probably shut up but also much better than you might think ( and probably more relevant to an OP who likes Kansas,etc): Chicago. Best known in the U.K. for Chicago 16 in 1982 and a slew of sickly ballads the original line up with original guitarist Terry Kath ( on everything up to and including Chicago XI I believe) is much more experimental than their hits might ever suggest; effectively a completely different band.
The original line up had some U.K. success in 1970 but Kath apparently said “Fuck you England, you motherfuckin’ teabag faggot motherfuckers!”at a press conference so they weren’t welcomed back for a long time and hence largely unknown here for another decade. Kath met his end because he couldn’t work out that heavy drinking and cleaning a gun didn’t really mix so maybe not the brightest spark in some ways. Anyway, early Chicago worth checking out
Theres also a little known band called Fanny... One of the first ever all female rocks bands.. Not particularly inspiring in musical terms but a cool side note to 70s rock .. And I get to legitimately say Fanny without being sexist or rude
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All of this reminds me of some of the first sort of rock music I got in to.. Not cos I knew so much but they had these albums out called Soft Metal, Pure Soft Metal etc They had all of this music on it and more....
Anyone ever listen to those albums?
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I tell you another great 70s album which I only really started listening too much later on..
Jeff Beck Blow by Blow
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The only one I remember we had as kids was Axe Attack. On the K-Tel label.
I just googled it and there is not a duff track on it.
Ohh nice, I just went and looked it up.. VERY similar to Soft Metal... I remembered the name of the other ones in the soft metal range which was Precious Metal and Red Hot Metal.. Imaginative names huh
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