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I admit I switched Lone Star off after 30 seconds - but I did go back and listen to a few more 10 second snippets of the rest.
I guess it it would be different if you were there at the time maybe...although that said even the album name is cheese.
Decent music survived punk - Dire Straits being the classic example.
Despite the negative reaction here, I'm a fan of Lone Star. I bought that album very cheap in an HMV sale nearly 40 years ago - drawn by the shiny silver cover - and I still love it. The first album is great too.
Great Welsh band.
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And I admit to being the owner of an ELP album .
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Like you, I'm still a fan of the band and love Firing On All Six which IMHO is a real lost gem.
I do agree that Punk was the enema that the music scene needed though, especially back in 76 after a mate of mine took me to see a Rick Wakeman concert. After watching that 'spectacle' , Wakeman with his cape, a bass player with his triple-neck bass and a singer dressed up like a bad extra from a medieval drama, I did wonder what the hell was happening to rock music as it seemed to be crawling up its own arse.
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I liked punk - in fact in 1976-1978 I liked just about everything in the top 40, including disco, because that period was the very beginning of me becoming obsessed with music. But the idea that punk somehow swept everything else away is nonsense, without looking it up I'd guess the biggest albums in 1977-78 were Abba, ELO, the Saturday Night Fever and Grease soundtracks... and Boney M!
But there was room for everything. Prog included. I wasn't particularly into prog at the time and I'm not particularly into it now, but looking back at those Bob Harris-period OGWT programmes, prog was brilliant and prog was fucking cool. I don't care what anyone else thinks.
Pretty much every genre of pop/ rock has it's five minutes of fame and settles into a niche. Trad jazz in the 50s ( Acker Bilk was the first UK artist to achieve a number 1 single in the USA), 60s Blues Boom, Disco, Punk, New Romantics,etc,etc, all of which are niche and/ or nostalgia now. By 1977 Prog had it's day. I coped with the first two minutes of the Lonestar video and it isn't to my taste but I suspect what really did for them was that they just arrived on the scene a little too late ( and a band name that made them sound like a country band [ indeed there is a current country band called Lone Star]).
Mind you I wish Britpop could have sounded the death knell for boy and girl groups in the 90’s.
Yes! And 40 years later bands like The Jam are still influencing the likes of me buying a Rickenbacker.
Thank God for the punk (and following scenes) to blow away that kind of 'music'...
A big part of the punk myth is NME journos congratulating themselves for inventing something that had already started 8 years previously across an ocean.